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OSI Board Meeting Minutes, Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Quorum reached and meeting called to order at 08:06 am PDT.
Mr. Michael Tiemann, President
Ms. Danese Cooper, Treasurer
Mr. Harshad Gune, Director (only via IRC)
Dr. Fabio Kon, Director (joined at 8:19)
Dr. Martin Michlmayr, Director
Mr. Russell Nelson, Director (joined 8:15)
Mr. Andrew Oliver, Asst. Treasurer
Mr. Simon Phipps, Director
Ms. Alolita Sharma, Secretary
Dr. Tony Wasserman, Director (joined for first hour only)
Guests and Observers
Mr. Ken Coar, Board Observer
Ms. Nnenna Nwakanma, Board Observer
Mr. Mark Radcliffe, General Counsel
Expected, but Not Present
Sent Regrets
Minutes Review and Approval
Motions for Consideration by Board
Next Board Meeting
Please review the following minutes as edited for public posting.
May 5, 2010 - Monthly board meeting minutes
Ms. Cooper moves that the board review and approve the May 5, 2010 minutes. Mr. Tiemann seconds. The board approves unanimously.
President's Report:
At around the time of our last Board Meeting, Steve Jobs made news by asserting "All video codecs are covered by patents. A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other 'open source' codecs now. Unfortunately, just because something is open source, it doesn't mean or guarantee that it doesn't infringe on others patents. An open standard is different from being royalty free or open source," and such a statement should really focus the agenda of the OSI on topics that matter greatly right now: the defense of open source projects against patent aggressors and the continued promotion of the idea that any standard that precludes an open source implementation cannot be considered an open standard. Into this fray, Google has announced that it will be providing a video codec that comes with a patent promise, but which as yet does not use an OSI-approved license. It is my hope that the OSI can constructively engage both the standards community and the commercial community to understand the equal importance of open source and open standards, and to come up with solutions that strengthen both for the benefit of all.
I have been invited to the CONSEGI conference in Brasilia (Aug 18-20) where I will again represent the OSI and Red Hat. It will represent another opportunity for me to meet with both government officials (from around the world) and to speak directly with leaders in the FLOSS CC (free/libre/open source competency center) community.
I have also taken on a leadership role to promote the BRIC Summit Think Tank at the Open World Forum in Paris (Sept 30), representing OSI and Red Hat. The goal of that Summit is to discuss and define the role that open source should play in the larger role of economic development and trade in BRIC countries (and other emerging economies).
Secretary's Report:
Ms. Sharma reports:
The following minutes have to be reviewed by the Board for approval.
May 5, 2010 - Meeting minutes for May 5, 2010 board meeting.
The following approved minutes have been posted on opensource.org.
April 21, 2010 - Meeting minutes for April 2010
Treasurer's Report:
Ms. Cooper reports:
Taxes and Corporate Status:
-Received mail from the IRS (via DLA only), indicating a penalty. This was unexpected. OSI's accountant will contact the IRS for clarification and report back to Ms. Cooper.
Funds:
-No change since last report
-We still expect reimbursements from tax authorities and our former accountants
-One check received.
Expected Expenditures:
-Remaining expense reports for Raleigh F2F
-Possibly payment of current penalty (see above), which will then be added to our request for reimbursement.
-Russ travel to OSCON, other OSCON travel?
-Open World Forum
Change of Banking Institution: We are in the process of changing banks. This should be done by next month.
PayPal: Mr. Phipps and Ms. Cooper corresponded with Eve Mahler several months ago on this issue, and in response to recent queries about blockage to initiate a new account, Ms. Cooper has sent another email to her to follow-up.
Requested Reports: Per email discussion thread last month, Ms. Cooper has requested the reports from OSI's accountant and expects to receive them shortly.
Mail: See details on OSI wiki.
General Counsel's Report:
Mr. Radcliffe reports -
Concern about WebM / Google approach: Mr. Radcliffe mentioned that Google's strategy on WebM is not acceptable to the open source community and should not be acceptable to the OSI. Mr. Radcliffe would like to urge Google to submit the license through the open source process. Mr. Radcliffe suggested that if the OSI wants to stay relevant, it should take a tough stand on this issue. In the board discussion, Mr. Phipps reported that he had contacted Mr. DiBona at Google about WebM concerns. Mr. DiBona responded to him stating that Google will submit the license to OSI if needed in the future. Mr. Tiemann made a point about all constituents playing a part in the open source ecosystem and each participant holding a responsible role. Mr. Oliver outlined his unsuccessful efforts with Mr. DiBona. Ms. Sharma suggested that the board work with Google as an organization to better understand Google's official position. The OSI board should work with Mr. DiBona as well as others at Google.
Mr. Radcliffe reported on the German court decision. He also reported on the Bilski decision. DLA will release a statement to report ALI impact on open source and not being best practices. The OSI could link to DLA statements and Mr Radcliffe's blog posts on the matter. The OSI could also host some of the white papers on this discussion.
Mr. Radcliffe reported on the Werner case in California. The lawsuit in progress is about enforceability of EULA. Is the copy of software a sale or a license? This may affect open source distribution, restrictions and sale implications.
License Committee (Mr. Nelson)
Mr. Nelson reports on the current set of licenses under discussion.
Title: Nameless license
Submission: http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:1005:201004
License: In the submission
Recommend: Prompt license-review to discuss this proposed license.
Prompt submitter to name the license.
Title: KLLSD License
Submission: http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:980:201004
Clarification: http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:msn:992
Comments: Submitter suggests that Apache is "too wordy". Bruce suggests that the change documentation makes the license un-approvable.
Recommend: More discussion. Commentators are uniformly dubious of the value of this license. Simpler isn't necessarily better when it comes to legal documents.
Title: BSD+1 License
Comments: Many, all of them negative.
Recommend: Return to the submitter for clarification on exactly what constitutes "commercial use" and "made public". Bruce suggests that a lawyer be involved.
Title: The BlackBox Component Builder Open Source License
Submission:
http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:887:200911:nlcjlommcajfndpfkoni
License: In the submission and http://www.oberon.ch/BlackBox.html
Comments: As Cowan says, it's sleepycat with redundancies removed and the names replaced.
Recommend: Approval when resubmitted as a template.
Title: Robot Open Source Hardware and Software License Version 1.0
Submission: http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:962:201001:kalegncbjnbmnmcmmaag
Recommend: Move it over to license-discuss to see if we want to get into open hardware licenses (even if, yes, combined with a software license).
The board reviewed the license committee report. Mr. Tiemann asked Mr. Radcliffe if Bilski will affect hardware. In Mr. Tiemann's estimation, it probably won't. In Mr. Radcliffe's opinion, it won't. The open hardware licenses have copyrightable components (like product plans). There is also debate on when chip design is protected by copyrights or not. Mr. Oliver suggested forming a committee to discuss this.
Ms. Sharma asked Mr. Nelson whether it makes sense to have a timeout for licenses being introduced, named and followed-up. Mr. Oliver suggested this be discussed on license-discuss and not interfere with reporting. Mr. Tiemann inquired if there is enough participation on license-discuss by board members. This could be discussed on license-discuss but Mr. Phipps made a good point - that the board should only participate as needed not en-masse as Mr. Perens had suggested.
Ms. Cooper suggested that since there exists an Open Hardware committee. Mr. Nelson and Ms. Cooper will follow-up with these folks.
Membership-Governance Committee (Mr. Oliver)
Mr. Oliver reports -
Mr. Oliver has tried to write the formal charter but seems to have a very difficult time of this type of writing. This is the worst case of writer's block he's ever had. He's trying to recruit others. Chris DiBona turned down Mr. Oliver's offer to allow him to help (or supply help). Mr. Oliver found the tone of his correspondence difficult.
Ms. Cooper asks why Mr. Phipps can't do the writing since he does this all the time. Mr. Oliver said Mr. Phipps did not have the time to do the membership report. Mr. Tiemann suggests that if Mr. Oliver has looked at other governance documents and used them as references so that he can get a framework for the document setup.
Education Committee (Ms. Sharma)
Ms. Sharma reports -
Ms. Sharma continued contacting deans and professors in computer science departments in local Bay Area universities, colleges and high schools to invite faculty members to participate in OSI co-sponsored POSSE program to be held in Mountain View from next month July 6-10. She met with Dr. Wasserman to further work on framework for OSI education programs. She participated in bi-weekly IRC meetings for POSSE California coordination with Red Hat team members from teachingopensource.org.
IT Infrastructure Committee (Ms. Sharma)
Dr. Michlmayr did substantial work on the web site: he upgraded the site to Drupal 6, fixing various serious problems recently seen on opensource.org. He also made a lot of clean-ups: comments were disabled on all pages except for the blogs (since most comments were spam and since discussions should take place on the mailing list anyway), OpenID was enabled, and the "create an account" link on the front page was removed (since most users don't need an account and since the majority of user accounts on opensource.org are used for spam).
Ms. Sharma worked on updates to Press and Announcements as well as removal of dated information from opensource.org. She also worked on look-and-feel mockup for the new design of opensource.org.
Communications Committee (Mr. Michlmayr)
Dr. Michlmayr reports -
The OSI Board responded to the majority of inquiries and questions addressed to it since the last Board meeting. We have not been able to adequately answer a number of questions and requests related to our trademarks and logos (although we responded saying that we'd get back to them soon with an answer). Dr Michlmayr will add a point to the agenda so we can discuss how to resolve trademark and logo related issues. Finally, the news section on opensource.org was continuously populated with fresh news.
OSI at OWF (Discussion)
Dr. Wasserman requests that the board finalize face-to-face meeting dates in June meetings in order for board members to finalize travel schedules for Open World Forum.
Mr. Tiemann asked for a board member to take the responsibility of coordinating the details of the next face-to-face meeting. Ms. Sharma offered to do the work and follow-up with Mr. Michlmayr on the venue.
Mr. Tiemann approved funding of board members travel for the face-to-face meeting since he expects about 50 percent of the board or fewer will require assistance. Currently, it is expected that Mr. Tiemann, Mr. Phipps, Dr. Kon, Dr. Wasserman and Ms. Cooper will have the expense coverage from work or the conference. Ms. Sharma will put together a draft budget and coordinate with Ms. Cooper. Dates for the face-to-face meetings are now set for October 2 and 3, 2010.
OSI response to patent assertions against open source (Discussion)
Discussion canceled.
OSI T-shirt status (Mr. Oliver)
Mr. Oliver also reports on OSI's t-shirts. Mr. Oliver's son has inventoried many of them before leaving for the summer. Mr. Oliver will transfer the shirts to the new office for storage. His son will complete the counting and help transfer these when he's back.
Election of Committee Chairs for Next Year (April 1, 2010 - March 31, 2011):
OSI's committees are listed below in alphabetical order. Also, please refer to http://www.opensource.org/committees for more details.
Infrastructure Committee
Legal Affairs Committee
License Review Committee
Policy and Economic Development Committee
New Projects / Outreach Committee
Board members who have expressed interest in chairing committees are as follows:
Martin Michlmayr: Chair for Communications Committee
Simon Phipps: Chair for Governance/Membership Committee
Alolita Sharma: Chair for Education Committee, Infrastructure Committee, New Projects/Outreach Committee
Michael Tiemann: Chair for Fundraising Committee, Policy and Economic Development Committee
Russell Nelson: Chair for License Committee
Danese Cooper: Legal Affairs Committee
The slate of chairs for this election is:
Mr. Phipps moves the motion to vote the slate of chairs. Mr. Tiemann seconds. The board approves the slate unanimously.
Legal Affairs committee: A discussion ensued on trademark law and patent discussions being necessary for understanding patents and trademarks better especially in context of open source and OSI. It would be good to have a committee on this issue in which Mr. Radcliffe could participate.
Question for the treasurer about donations
Mr. Michlmayr requests that that the Network for Good account information be verified for opensource.org. Ms. Cooper suggested that Mr. Nelson can provide more details.
Question for our treasurer about our address
Mr. Michlmayr mentions that the wrong address for OSI is listed on Guidestar and should be corrected. Mr. Tiemann will follow-up.
Question on how to handle trademark and logo inquiries
Mr. Michlmayr requests that pending logo inquiries be addressed by a knowledgeable board member. Mr. Tiemann offered to follow up.
Motions for consideration by the board
Approval of minutes
The next OSI BOD meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 8AM PDT / 11AM EDT / 3PM GMT.
Mr. Tiemann moved to adjourn the meeting. Ms. Sharma seconds. Meeting adjourned at 10:00 am PDT.
Meeting Adjourned at 10:00 AM PDT.
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Workers in Renfrew and Arnprior deliver strike vote
November 1, 2018 - 3:02 pm
Renfrew – Developmental services workers in Renfrew and Arnprior have given a strong strike mandate to their bargaining team in their fight for a decent wage offer.
Members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) Local 472 have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike. Their bargaining team has filed for conciliation.
OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas says the strike vote sends a clear message to their employer.
“Our members haven’t been given an exemption from inflation, the cost of living hasn’t stood still for them,” said Thomas.
“If this employer or anyone else thinks that they have a free ticket to short-change our members because Doug Ford is talking about cutting deficits they have another thing coming.”
OPSEU Local 472 represents workers who provide residential services, community support and respite to people with developmental disabilities. The collective agreement for the 87 full- and part-time workers expired March 31, 2018.
OPSEU Local 472 President Shannon Waddell says the employer is ignoring a historic wrong.
“For years, our members’ pay was frozen, causing them to fall behind developmental services workers in other parts of Ontario. That can’t continue. It’s just not right.
For more information: OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas, 613-329-1931, OPSEU staff representative Nelson Ross Laguna, 613-324-4174
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The philosophy of Plotinus: part four
Posted on October 26, 2019 by philstanfield under Mysticism, Neoplatonism, Plotinus, the aesthetics of self
Movement and rest in ‘thought’, the most intense activity and stillness in unity
The One or The Good1 is the First hypostasis of the divine triad. It is logically the One, morally the Good. Plotinus also referred to it as The Formless Form, The Father, The Simple, The Absolute, The Infinite, The Transcendent, The Unconditioned, The Fountain and Principle of Beauty. Plotinus stressed its transcendence of that of which it is the source – existence, essence and life. It is the greatest of all, not in size, but in reality2 and power. Before all else, it is pure will,3 an undifferentiated power4 beyond comprehension, and is boiling with pure activity, the first of which is its goodness. Free from substance and being, it is the principle of substance and being in the intelligible world and ultimately of the becoming of the physical universe.5 It is everywhere, yet is beyond space, time, state, quantity, quality and extension – it is the source of all these.
Transcending the need for thought, the One is pure thought beyond knowledge. It can know neither itself nor anything else. Unthinking (since thinking is movement), but the cause of thinking, it exists before movement and rest, which pertain to being and make being multiple.6 Above all existence, it is not the Creator but is the source of life and generates that which creates in its image – Intellect or Divine Thought. To be precise, it is beyond even naming. Language and discursive reasoning are inadequate to it.7 Self centred, it is self-determined and self-sufficient because it is complete and has no parts. It is the goal to which all and everything aspires. Even those who have never entered the Good must acknowledge its existence because of the presence of its weak images in this world.
To find the One, we must turn inwards through silent contemplation, transcend morality, difference, and the form of intellect, and seek perfect unity with him, at the centre of our souls. Yet we are in Him and all souls find unity there. In reaching for the Good, Soul is reaching for its essence. On attaining its goal, it is beyond being and is truly (knows beyond knowing) itself. Since vision requires shape and desires its acquisition, unity with the One is the shedding of vision and a merging of seer, seeing and seen.
‘The First has no self-awareness; there is no need. It is no duality – or rather, no manifold consisting of itself, its intellective act distinct from itself, and the inevitable third, the object of intellection. No doubt since knower, knowing, and known are identical, all merges into a unity: but the distinction has existed and, once more, such a unity cannot be the First; we must put away all otherness from the Supreme which can need no such support; anything we add is so much lessening of what lacks nothing.’8
The attainment of this unity gives a unique experience higher than possible through the thought of Intellect. It is ‘an immediate intuition, self-directed.’9 Plotinus asked ‘But what if one be deceived?’ (regarding whether The Good has come to him). He answered: ‘In that case there must be some resemblance to account for the error: the good will be the original which the delusion counterfeited and whenever the true presents itself we turn from the spurious.’10
The Good is infinite productive power extending throughout creation. It is of eternal duration.
‘All derives from this: it (the Good) is the origin of the primal movement which it does not possess and of the repose which is but its absence of need; for neither rest nor movement can belong to that which has no place in which either could occur; centre, object, ground, all are alike unknown to it, for it is before all. Yet its being is not limited; what is there to set bounds to it? Nor, on the other hand, is it infinite in the sense of magnitude; what place can there be to which it must extend, or why should there be movement where there is no lacking? All its infinitude resides in its power: it does not change and will not fail; and in it all that is unfailing finds duration.’11
Like a sun before shape, it generates Intellect – its light12 and most perfect possible image.
Part four/to be continued…
1. Compare ‘“…the highest form of knowledge is knowledge of the form of the good, from which things that are just and so on derive their usefulness and value.’” Republic VI,505a, and ‘Knowing of The Good or contact with it is the all-important…’ VI,7.36. For Plato, the Good is a special Form synonymous with beauty and truth. “The truth of the matter is, after all, known only to God. But in my opinion, for what it is worth, the final thing to be perceived in the intelligible realm, and perceived only with difficulty, is the absolute form of Good; once seen, it is inferred to be responsible for everything right and good, producing in the visible realm light and the source of light, and being, in the intelligible realm itself, controlling source of reality and intelligence. And anyone who is going to act rationally either in public or private must perceive it.’” Republic Bk VII, 517b-c. Plotinus also drew on Aristotle’s definition of the Good as that ‘to which everything aspires’ (Nicomachean Ethics I.1094a3) and his Unmoved Mover, which moves all things as the object of desire (Metaphysics A7.1072a-b). Plotinus clearly parted from Aristotle on the latter’s rejection of a transcendent Good. ↩
2. ‘…you may not hope to see it with mortal eyes, nor in any way that would be imagined by those who make sense the test of reality and so annul the supremely real. For what passes for the most truly existent is most truly non-existent – the thing of extension least real of all – while this unseen First is the source and principle of Being and sovran over Reality.
You must turn appearances about or you will be left void of God.’ V,5.11. ↩
3. ‘So he was all will, and there is nothing in him which is not that which wills – nothing, then, before willing. So he himself is primarily his will. So then he is also as he willed and of the kind he willed, and what follows upon his will, what this kind of will generated – but it generated nothing further in himself, for he was this already.’ VI,8.21. ‘Neither can it have will to anything…’ VI,9.6. ↩
4. ‘Power, There (in the Good), is no producer of opposites; it is that steadfast constant which is most decidedly power by inability to depart from unity: ability to produce opposites is inability to hold by the perfect good…’ VI,8.21. ↩
5. ‘For the trace of the shapeless is shape; it is this which generates shape, not shape this, and it generates it when matter comes to it. But matter is necessarily furthest from it…If then what is loveable is not the matter, but what is formed by the form…one must assume that the first nature of beauty is formless.’ VI,7.33. ↩
6. ‘The Unity is none of all; neither thing nor quantity nor quality nor intellect nor soul; not in motion, not at rest, not in place, not in time: it is the self-defined, unique in form or, better, formless, existing before Form was, or Movement or Rest, all of which are attachments of Being and make Being the manifold it is.’ VI,9.3. ‘That which can make all can have, itself, no extension; it must be limitless and so without magnitude…’ VI,7.32. Sources for these negations include the Parmenides 138b5-6 (on motion and rest), 139b3 (on place) and 141a5 (on time); also the Symposium 211b1. ↩
7. ‘strictly speaking, we ought not to apply any terms at all to It; but we should, so to speak, run round the outside of It trying to interpret our own feelings about It, sometimes drawing near and sometimes falling away in our perplexities about It…’ VI,9.3. ↩
8. VI,7.41 ↩
9. VI,7.38. Also ‘Since the Supreme has no interval, no self-differentiation, what can have this intuitional approach to it but itself? Therefore it quite naturally assumes difference at the point where Intellectual-Principle and Being are differentiated’ VI,7.39. ↩
10. VI,7.26 ↩
11. V,5.10. Note that Plotinus associated movement with lack. ↩
12. ‘The only reasonable explanation of act flowing from it lies in the analogy of light from a sun…the One shines eternally…’ V,3.12. ‘A circle related in its path to a centre must be admitted to owe its scope to that centre; it has something of the nature of that centre in that the radial lines converging on that one central point assimilate their impinging ends to that point of convergence and of departure, the dominant of radii and terminals: the terminals are of one nature with the centre, feeble reproductions of it, since the centre is, in a certain sense, the source of terminals and radii impinging at every point upon it; these lines reveal the centre; they are the development of that undeveloped.
In the same way we are to take Intellectual-Principle and Being. This combined power springs from the Supreme, an outflow and as it were development from That and remaining dependent upon that Intellective nature, showing forth that, so to speak, Intellect-in-Unity which is not Intellectual-Principle since it is no duality. No more than in the circle are the lines or circumference to be identified with that centre which is the source of both: radii and circle are images given forth by indwelling power and, as products of a certain vigour in it, not cut off from it.
Thus the Intellective power circles around the Supreme which stands to it as archetype to image…’ VI,8.18. Intellect cannot exist in the Good – to do so (adapting from Nietzsche on virgin birth) would make the One maculate. ↩
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2 thoughts on “The philosophy of Plotinus: part four”
guymax
Nice post. Plotinus is wonderful, and sharp as a knife. .
Hello guymax, thank you for your comment. I agree that Plotinus is wonderful. And Stephen MacKenna’s translation of The Enneads does him justice.
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O U T S I D E L E F T stay i n d e p e n d e n t
Michael Alarcon: Morrissey is Dead
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by Alarcon, for outsideleft.com
originally published: July, 2014
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Release date: 15 July, 2014
Don't blame Morrissey for the banality of "World Peace is None of Your Business." Blame the people he chooses to surround himself with.
Let me explain-let's go back to 2006...
In early 2006, I predicted Morrissey was leading us to a middling album like "World Peace" when he unleashed the hit-and-miss "Ringleader of the Tormentors." My prediction was confirmed the following year when he ordered his musical director Boz Boorer, to sack guitarist, Alain Whyte. (Whyte was-and still is-arguably the best songwriting partner el hefe ever had since Johnny Marr.)
After the first few listens of "Ringleader," I told anyone who cared, "He's transforming himself into a Marc Almond-esque torch singer." The dirge-like ballads, the over-inflected cabaret vocals, the subject matter, the lyrics-oh the lyrics: "There are explosive kegs, between my legs." All signs pointed to furrowed brows and wringed hands. (He found love in Italy, but did he have to be crass about it?)
When Morrissey had Whyte fired on the first day of the "Years of Refusal" sessions and subsequently hired the hawk-nosed Jesse Tobias-a pedigree of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Alanis Morissette-he lost the yin to his yang. The peanut butter to his jelly. The Ashford to his Simpson.
Whyte was responsible for the lightest touches and catchiest melodies of Morrissey's best solo moments. Pundits and fans alike criticized Whyte for following too closely to Marr's forged path, but the Morrissey/Whyte partnership worked. Whyte wrote to Morrissey's aesthetic, and for the Smiths apostles. Exciting days, indeed.
Sadly, there is no evidence of fleet fingers or hummable hooks on "World Peace." The whole affair sounds like Morrissey singing (as brazen as ever, mind you) over a bar band for the most part, made up of members from the Black Crowes, the Gipsy Kings, and occasionally the trumpeter of an overeager quinceanera band.
Will "World Peace" be the record you dust off in 10 years when you want to relive the glories of Morrissey's solo career? No. You'll still go to "Vauxhall and I" for that task. Will "World Peace" come up in the decision making process? No. Morrissey has 6 better offerings in his current catalog and I'm including "Malajusted."
So why buy this album? For me, there are two reasons. First, I'm a completest. I own every Smiths and Morrissey release, either in vinyl or CD form-and usually both. I own the promos, the white labels, the Book, - even the bootlegs.
Secondly, (and I think a lot of fans fall into this category) I accept the fact that an album by this season's Morrissey will be, for the most part subpar, yet I cling to the fact that there will be one beacon of hope on the tracklist that tells me he still has "it."
For this effort, for all intents and purposes, 'The Bullfighter Dies' is that flicker of hope. It's energetic, well-structured, and clocks in at a trim and tidy 2 minutes. It sounds a lot like something we'd find on the b-side of a "Viva Hate" single. It has the same playfulness and bounce that Stephen Street gave 'Hairdresser on Fire' and 'Sister, I'm a Poet.'
Unfortunately, the rest of the LP is just... OK. Not horrible, but not the masterstroke you hoped and prayed for. It will always rank in the bottom third of his work.
When "World Peace" works best, the music is stripped of the fat-no fancy studio hokum-'Oboe Concerto' gets close. It reminds me a bit of David Bowie's 'When I Live My Dream.' Just soft, simple guitar patterns; understated drum patter, and a loping bass with a few flourishes in the outro. It's an ode to dead friends-I think-and it functions brilliantly as the album closer.
One of the album's major flaws is its song order. Listeners are immediately led off with four slow- to mid-tempo songs: the title track, 'Neal Cassidy Drops Dead,' 'I'm Not a Man,' and 'Istanbul.' Lyrically, these 4 songs all come off like poems Clint Eastwood's bitter Walt Kowalski in "Gran Torino" might have written, had he been inclined to write prose after skimming over sensational headlines in World News section of 'USA Today.' Musically, they're almost waltz-like. Not the ideal way to say, "I'm back after 5 years of recorded silence, world!"
Yes, I know-"Vauxhall" started off with a slow-burner of a song as well, but that tune was based on a hopeful crescendo with the promise of a good fight.
It's not until track number 5 ('Earth is the Loneliest Planet') that purists will start to furrow their aforementioned bushy brows--although fans of Spanish folk music will scoot toward the edge of their seats. Lyrically, it's the same old Morrissey: If you think you're going to find love and compassion on this big blue marble, you're in for a lifetime of disappointment, Bucko.
Musically, 'Earth is the Loneliest Planet of All' might be one of Morrissey's bigger mistakes committed to record. It begins with a forced flamenco-guitar lead riff and never recovers. It's one of the two songs tellingly written by the untested and unproven keyboardist, Gustavo Manzur.
If the aforementioned 'The Bullfighter Dies' is the jewel of this crown, track 6 ('Staircase at the University') is the lesser, yet still cherished gem. The song tells the tale of an overworked schoolgirl struggling with her college studies and the shame her failing grades are bringing to her father. Really. The song could have been funny in the same way Morrissey made physical abuse in relationships funny in 'Girlfriend in a Coma.' Yet with, 'Staircase,' we never get that wink or nod that 'Girlfriend' gave. Fortunately, 'Staircase' still thrives, thanks to Boorer's rubbery melody, it's even a contender to become a single if someone edits out the last minute of the song when that pesky flamenco guitar sneaks its way back into the recording booth again. (You'll notice that Manzur's flamenco guitar tends to diminish more than a few songs on the album.)
The final 5 songs (minus the aforementioned 'Oboe Concerto') of the 12-track "World Peace" are hard to get through all the way. I listened to them at least a dozen times each over the past week, hoping that the album truly is a "grower" as some have plead with me, but nothing sticks.
Again, this album isn't horrible, it's just average with very few splashes of excitement. I believe it all goes back to the departure of Alain Whyte. The melodies just aren't there-neither is the guitar artistry that Whyte brought to the studio. Jesse Tobias, Whyte's replacement, relies on ham-fisted, over-the-top power chords to compensate for his lack of detail. It all adds up to clumsy workmanship--especially in concert.
But it goes deeper than Tobias' lack of ability. Morrissey just doesn't care as much as he used to. Where he once took precious care of every record-from cover art to cardstock, now he just allows whichever record company he's with to take over the design reigns. The result is a shoddy record campaign led off with poorly Photoshopped cover art (note the clumsy clone stamps on the album's cover).
Ultimately, if Morrissey doesn't care, why should his fans?
If you're as much of a fan of Morrissey as I am (was?), take a look at my concert reviews of old Misery Guts in Bakersfield, Pasadena (nights One, Two, and Three); his record reviews of Live at Earl's Court and Who Put the M in Manchester, and Ringleader of the Tormentors; and his short interview with Alain Whyte.
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Venom 29.7
Posted on October 3, 2013 by wildbow
It wasn’t the most comfortable journey. I could handle uncomfortable. Uncomfortable was better than being upstairs and staring down the bastard that was exterminating humanity.
The opening of the tunnel had ridges, bumps and uneven edges that scraped past me with enough speed and force that I worried it would damage my costume. Probably intentional, giving traction to the ones who weren’t digging. But we passed that area and we hit smoother metal. Traction was harder to come by, the tunnel almost a winding waterslide.
I slid, as the others were doing, bracing my feet against the sides to slow my descent. The bugs I’d planted on my teammates let me track the turns and drops, angling and bracing myself as I ran into steeper drops, sharp turns and outright ten foot drops.
It reminded me of an anthill, in a way. Winding tunnels, irregular, exploratory, treacherous and impossible to navigate.
Cuff slid down and hit the end of the tunnel. A dead end, with a person there. She didn’t slow, instead using her power to hammer her way through, splitting the steel apart and driving herself and the individual at the end through the resulting hole.
The instant Cuff was through into the room on the other side of the tunnel, she and the individual she’d collided with were attacked. Lung was the next in line, followed by Canary, and they were ambushed as well. Lung was pinned against a wall, Canary liberally tossed back into a crowd that waited to disable her.
With Golem behind me, I didn’t want to stop and get my bearings, but I was plunging towards a situation I couldn’t fully grasp. Bugs I’d planted on my allies spread out, but it was too few to get a good picture of who and what was waiting for us.
I didn’t have Defiant’s knife. Floret had encased it in crystal. I could drag it here, maybe, or use relay bugs and wait for the crystal to expire before carting it my way, but that didn’t help me here. I called for my bugs to bring the knife anyways.
Rachel had paused before entry, getting herself sorted out with her pets, meaning she was only just arriving. Her reactions were fast, the commands to her canines quick and efficient.
They swelled as they put themselves between her and the waiting group, growing in size and manifesting their natural weapons. It was fast enough I suspected she’d been starting their growth as she approached the literal light at the end of the tunnel. Bastard’s changes were more fluid, faster, and more symmetrical than Huntress’, but he was younger, just a little smaller.
A group advanced on the canines without fear. Two people to Huntress, two to Bastard. Young men, if my swarm-sense was correct. The animals weren’t as big as they could get, but they were about as large as a couch. Yet the men didn’t show any fear.
They moved fluidly as the animals lunged, snapping and biting. Confident movements. Two caught Huntress’ head, wrenched it to the side, while the others avoided snapping jaws to catch Bastard’s forelimbs, bodily hauling him up and then throwing him to the ground.
The two animals were brought down in as many seconds. Pinned, as inexplicably as Lung was pinned. Except this wasn’t sheer strength. They were strategic, targeting body parts, one of the young men leveraging his whole body between Bastard’s forelimbs, forcing them apart in a way that the dog’s musculature couldn’t combat.
It was like holding a crocodile’s mouth shut. Jaw strength aside, the crocodile wasn’t built to force it’s mouth open. The wolf wasn’t built to draw its legs together against its chest, but couldn’t get feet under it to stand without dislodging the offending attacker. The other had his head caught and twisted to one side.
Huntress, for her part, was caught by the head alone, which had been forced down. The woman who had Lung pressed up against the wall had one foot on the dog’s muzzle, and was holding it down.
They made it look so easy it was almost effortless. A fifth boy approached Rachel, now disarmed of her dogs.
I forced myself to slow down as we approached a flatter spot. Theo’s heavy metal boots hit my shoulders.
We were still sliding down, but slower. Only seconds before we were through.
“Ambush below,” I managed.
No response. Whoever had dug the tunnel had been digging down when they reached the edge of the room. I supposed they’d stopped when they reached a layer made of a different material, going up to check. Our entry was a straight drop into one end of the room, and I landed flat on my back, nearly colliding with Rachel.
A boy. A teenage boy, clean-shaven, if he even needed to shave, wearing a white dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up the forearms, his blond hair slicked back, and black suit pants. He backed away a step as Golem and I appeared.
His appearance, the way they’d fought… like Contessa?
Each of the boys were identical.
Lung and Huntress were pinned by Alexandria. Or by Pretender wearing Alexandria’s body, in a way. Lung was changing, the canines swelling in size, and yet she didn’t look worried. Bastard was still on the ground, one of the boys looking as unconcerned as one could look while holding down a half-ton animal.
Behind the boys, a small crowd had gathered.
Doctor Mother, a Manton with the Siberian… or a Manton clone with the Siberian, a claw pressed to Gully’s throat. There were three more case fifty threes, all burly, all bound with heads hanging. Rounding out the group was the Number Man, who had a pen pressed tight against Cuff’s jugular, her costume already torn open at the throat to expose flesh. His foot was propped up on a sphere.
I could see the resemblance between the Number Man and the boys in dress shirts. Twenty or more years of difference, and the Number Man was dressed in a full suit, which somehow made him more imposing, pocket protector or no, but they were too similar to be anything but related.
Was Cauldron cloning? Another contingency plan?
At the very back of the room, separate from the group, were two pale young men, laid out on desks that sat on either side of a reinforced door. A twenty-something guy with flat skin stretched over where his eyes should be, and a guy that was maybe ten years older, with enough bloody bandage around his head and face that I couldn’t make out his features. Doormaker, I could assume, based on what I’d heard upstairs, along with the clairvoyant the Doctor had mentioned in the past.
The boy in the suit closed the distance, and Rachel struck out. He batted her fist aside. She kicked, and he casually caught it and leveraged it to throw her off balance, tossing her to the ground.
Maybe a little harder than he had to.
I saw how she fell, saw her back arch, the way she held her arm as she rolled over. She didn’t cry out, didn’t make any sounds of pain, but the degree of pain was clear.
A lot harder than necessary. Had she broken something?
He turned his head towards Golem and I, and he smiled a little. A tight, narrow, mocking smile.
“I’m not your enemy,” I said.
“You came out fighting,” Alexandria-Pretender said. She looked down at Rachel. “Or she did.”
“Bastard was acting like there was fighting going on, ears, hackles up. You attacked us.”
The Number-Man clone kicked her. Casually cruel.
I tensed, but I didn’t act. The fall had knocked the wind out of me. Catching my breath, then-
“Disable her,” the Doctor said.
The young man closed in. Still smiling. Fuck me, was that smug smile irritating. I felt a moment’s sympathy for people who’d had to face down Tattletale. I sicced my swarm on him.
He moved through the incoming insects, eyes open and unblinking as he closed the distance to me. Only a few landed, and they landed in spots where they couldn’t target more vulnerable areas.
That he wasn’t closing his eyes was telling. I used my bugs to try and blind him, to keep him from seeing how I was moving, and I reached behind my back, going for the pepper spray.
He blocked my wrist with his palm, keeping me from aiming at him. Not just sight. Or his sight was more acute than I’d realized. Hearing? Something else?
Be unpredictable.
Pepper spray killed bugs. I didn’t aim for him, but for the pair of us, spraying into open air, into my swarm.
I’d hoped to make him back off, but he didn’t. He ducked low, simultaneously bringing one foot up, catching me in the chest. In the same movement, he rolled to one side, getting away from the mist of pepper spray that was still hanging in the air and simultaneously avoiding Golem’s reaching hand of concrete.
For just an instant, my feet left the ground. I landed, but I landed with one foot on Rachel’s calf. I fell.
Too much like fighting Contessa. Everything winding up positioned just right. Damn it.
On my back, I was vulnerable, but Golem was covering me. This kid with the dress clothes was slippery, efficient, but the way his movements played out… maybe not quite on Contessa’s level. Contessa would have found a way to attack and defend at the same time, instead of being stuck evading Golem’s power.
I tried to haul air into my lungs and coughed instead. If they killed us before we got far enough…
Stupid, all of this, so stupid.
“Stop,” I spoke through my swarm.
The kid drew knives from his pockets. Small knives, with blades no longer than a finger.
Still confident, still sure of his victory.
A connection formed in my head. I knew, in an instant. Harbinger.
Cauldron had collected some of the remaining clones from Jack’s army.
The Number Man used to be in the Slaughterhouse Nine?
No, couldn’t get distracted. I was up against a kid with an analysis power that was off the charts, he’d dodge whatever I threw at him.
I used my pepper spray again. This time, I aimed at the two boys who had Bastard pinned. Opponents who couldn’t dodge, not without giving up an advantage. They moved out of the way, and in the process they let Bastard climb to his feet. He was half-again as large as he had been, a ridge of stegosaurus spikes along his spine, more spikes and barbs framing his face. He growled, and it wasn’t a dog sound. It wasn’t a wolf sound either.
Bringing two more of the kids into the fight, but now I had Bastard for backup.
Up until Alexandria-Pretender grabbed Huntress and hurled her at us. Me, Golem, Rachel, and Bastard were slammed into the far wall by Huntress’ bulk.
Lung was still growing, still changing, and his throat was broad enough now that she couldn’t do more than dig her fingertips into the front of it, but he still couldn’t break free of her grasp.
He opted for a second option, leveling a hand at the Doctor, Manton, the Number Man and the crowd of boys. Fire erupted forth. A half-second’s worth, before Alexandria threw him down and kicked him full-force into the wall beside us.
No use. The Siberian had saved them with her ability to grant her own invulnerability effect. Thankfully. If he’d torched them, all of this would have been for nothing.
Had to account for Lung’s behavior. Keep it in mind. He had a kind of pride, and it had nearly fucked us on two occasions so far.
“We’re-” I started to speak.
But Lung roared, drowning me out as he pulled free of Alexandria’s grasp. Not breaking her grip, but rending his own throat, tearing jugular and vein, windpipe even, in his furious attempt to get free.
Alexandria turned as Lung fell into a fighting stance. Less a martial artist’s stance than an animal, low to the ground, chest heaving to pull air through the gushing wound in his throat, a glare leveled at his opponent.
“Stop!” Imp called out.
It took me a second to place her. Behind the Doctor, a knife pressed against the Doctor’s throat. She pulled the Doctor back, away from Siberian. “If any of you move, I cut. This is-”
The Number Man fired something from hip level. A spark marked the bullet’s contact point at the mouth of the hole we’d come through. The weapon flew from Imp’s hand.
“-pointless,” Imp finished.
The Siberian crossed the distance, then stopped beside the Doctor. She put a hand on the Doctor’s shoulder.
More fighting. I clenched my fists. Stupid.
“Scion’s here,” I said, taking advantage of the momentary pause in the fighting.
Two and a half words to cut through the tension. I could see the change in the Doctor’s demeanor, the Number Man, even the Manton clone. One of the most powerful groups in the world, in every sense of the word, in raw powers, in political power, influence, knowledge, and they were spooked.
I hadn’t wanted to win, only to buy a chance to talk. Now this was it, and I had to get them to listen. Simpler was better. Straight to the point.
“We don’t have reason to trust you,” the Doctor said. “We’ve interacted, Weaver, I have a level of respect for you, but that doesn’t extend to equal measures of trust. You’re dangerous, and I can’t rule out that this is an assassination attempt.”
Translation: pure denial. You don’t want to believe me.
“He’s upstairs and he’s coming now,” I said.
“That-” the Doctor started. She paused, as if reflecting, taking in the implications, then shook her head a little. “That doesn’t change anything. I still can’t take your word for gospel.”
That sounded less like pure denial and more like outright suspicion. A step forward, I was pretty sure.
The whole structure rattled. I felt things sway a touch.
The Doctor looked up, then looked down at me, her gaze level, eyes narrowed slightly. It was the first time I’d seen her with her hair down, rather than pinned up with chopsticks or some ornate pin.
“I don’t know what to say, except that things are pretty fucking dire,” I said. “Satyr’s dead, for one thing.”
Alexandria flinched as though I’d slapped her and she had felt it.
I looked at her. “His team, dead. The prisoners you guys had on the second, third and fourth floors, all dead or dying as we speak. Read my expression, use Alexandria’s power, tell me I’m wrong.”
When Alexandria replied, the voice wasn’t quite Alexandria’s. “I’m afraid I haven’t had the chance to study that in depth to the degree she did.”
“It’s fine,” the Doctor said. “I’m willing to believe it, if this is an assassination attempt, I’ll take the risk.”
“If it was an assassination attempt,” Imp said, appearing at the far end of the room, “I’d have offed you.”
The Doctor glanced her way. “And you are?”
Imp sighed.
“We’ll make our way downstairs,” the Doctor decided. “William, please rotate the column while our… guests pick themselves up.”
Manton approached a computer terminal set into the wall and began typing.
Pick ourselves up. As if they hadn’t just bludgeoned their way through us.
Manton’s work at the computer produced results. The swaying feeling I’d experienced a moment ago hit me again. Everything I could see was still, but for people trying to catch their balance, but my non-parahuman senses told me we were moving.
It faded. Rachel ordered her dogs to stand, and the pile of us got ourselves sorted out. Lung was just at the midway point between human and monster, covered head to toe in overlapping metal scales, his neck a little too long, his shoulders too broad, had a claw pressed to the bleeding throat wound. By all rights, he should have been dead, but regeneration and an inhuman constitution went a long way.
Huntress got out of the way, and I made my way to my feet. I could feel the dull pain where bruises would emerge. If I lived that long.
There was another rumble, and a feeling like I was swaying, my sense of balance not quite right. Not Manton, so it had to be Scion. Had the steel column moved a fraction? Had it been intentional on Scion’s part, or a result of the action upstairs?
The Number Man gave Cuff a hand in standing, and she began folding up the metal around her neck, repairing the armor. She withdrew the wickedly sharp spikes at the knee and the base of her wrist, where she’d been shaping weapons in case she needed to fight her way free of his grip.
He only smiled, tapping one spike with his pen before it slipped into her costume. Cuff’s expression, where her lower face was visible beneath the layered visor she wore, wasn’t the slightest bit amused.
The boys with suits tended to the three prisoners and the two wounded. Alexandria tore off a thick metal table leg and wound it to bind Gully’s hands behind her back, before hoisting the unconscious case fifty-three up, carrying her.
“I’m sorry,” the Number Man said, to Rachel. “For the behavior of my clones. They’re inaccurate, based on hearsay and speculation more than fact. I was more polite, back then, more efficient.”
Rachel just gave him a funny look and shrugged her way past him.
I was tense. It wasn’t just the fight we’d left behind. Here, we had answers available, but so little time.
I held out my hands. Floret’s crystal with my knife inside dropped from the hole in the ceiling.
The Doctor typed a code into a keypad at the end of the room, and the Siberian opened the door beside it, turning a wheel to unlock it, then pushing the thick metal door open with a disconcerting ease. Clone or not, she was still the Siberian in power.
With the door now open, we were faced with a corridor, wide enough for my group to walk side by side, the Doctor’s group leading the way in front of us. Vials lined the walls around us, set into an arrangement of metal wires that kept them lined up, multiple vials of the same color lined up beside another arrangement of vials. Except nearly every vial was empty. There was only glass, no fluid inside. Where fluid did exist, the light filtered through and cast dark blotches of color on the gray walls behind.
But if I counted them, if I used my bugs to note the ones that had contents…
One or two hundred, maybe, with fluid still inside.
“Our stock,” the Doctor said. “Nearly depleted. We gave the formulas out for free, in hopes of turning out parahumans that could do damage to Scion. We retained only the volatile ones.”
“Volatile can be good,” I said. My eyes noted the sheer number of vials. Tens of thousands, even, virtually covering the walls on either side of us.
“Volatile can kill three quarters of the people who ingest it,” the Doctor said. “Or generate case fifty-threes we can’t use.”
“Right,” I said. “Nevermind, then.”
Each was marked with a combination of letters and numbers, and a title. I read the names of the ones that still had fluid inside.
Abel. Abbatoir. Access. Ace. Aegis. Air. Alchemy. Alias. Alpha. Amaze…
“So many,” a voice said.
The ball with Sveta inside.
“Quite a few,” the Doctor said.
“All tested on people?” Sveta asked.
“Yes,” the Doctor said.
“I remember, you know,” Sveta said. “I dream of home. I was a fisherman’s daughter. There were these beautiful little huts with flat roofs, orange clay brick against gray mountains, with green-blue grass and ocean. It was cramped, and I had to share space with my family, my siblings… but I was okay with it. There weren’t any boys my age to marry, and I didn’t want to move to another town to look for a husband, so I just stayed by myself. I’d draw, and there was a peace in it. I still like to draw, I find it helps me relax… but it’s hard because my tendrils break the brushes and pencils. And then I don’t feel relaxed anymore.”
“We’ve caused you difficulties,” the Doctor said, not even looking at Sveta. She walked quickly, her eyes roving over the rows and columns of vials.
“I can’t remember my mother tongue, Doctor. I can’t remember my daddy’s face, or my mommy, or either of my brothers. I’ve just got the faces I see in dreams. Every morning I was in the asylum, I would wake up and I scramble to draw something, to put words in a diary, and I’m so excited and panicked and desperate I’d break things.”
The Doctor wasn’t reacting.
“I know I used to draw, but I can’t find the style I used to draw in. I dream about the night you took me, you know.”
“Not me, surely. I sent others.”
“You sent people like me to take me. Case fifty-threes. Branded. Abominations. Demons. There’s names for us all over the world. It was storming, I was delirious, and they came, they grabbed me, and I all I could think was that the old stories were true, and I said something I can’t remember. You took me to a lab and you unraveled me with that drug of yours, and then you dropped me in the middle of nowhere, with just enough memories to know that I should be human.”
“We gave you a second chance.”
“I didn’t ask for one.”
“It’s very possible your town stood to be destroyed by a storm-”
“If you’d asked, I would’ve wanted to weather it.”
“Or by plague, starvation. It could be the cause for your delirium.”
“I would’ve stuck it out. You’re not listening to me, Doctor.” A flare of anger. The ball bucked with the movement inside.
“There are more immediate problems to focus on,” the Doctor said. “I understand where you’re coming from, but this isn’t the time to play ‘what if’.”
“I’m not playing,” Sveta said, and the anger was gone, just as fast as it had appeared. “I’m- I’m telling you that if you’d asked, at any point along the way, I’d probably have told you I’d rather be dead. I’d rather be dead than live this new life you gave me, where I spent years killing people by accident, unable to sleep, killing stray animals for food because my body decides when I eat, not my mind…”
“I understand,” the Doctor replied. She sounded a little impatient. “Then damn me. Curse me. Tell me I will go to hell for what I did. At the end of this, I will face any and all punishment that I’m due, alive or dead. For now, we see our way through this.”
“You don’t get to do that. You don’t get to get off with… words and sentiment. Gully told me she’d break down in tears all the time, because moving her arms, being strong enough to break things, it reminded her of what she is, every time she did anything. Her power reminded her, being constantly aware of the ground around her. Weld… he told me once that he felt like he was going crazy. All he had was music. It was the only human thing he could enjoy, because he couldn’t taste. He couldn’t feel, even when I squeezed him hard enough to dig into him. And Gentle Giant-”
“Are you going to run down the entire list?” The Doctor asked. Her voice was a little harder. “Do you want an apology? You said you don’t want words. Would a gesture do? Should I take a scalpel to my face? Carve myself up so I could experience what you have?”
“It wouldn’t even be a fraction of what any of us have experienced,” Sveta bit out the words. “Because you’d have had the choice, Doctor. The choice to do that to yourself. Because we’re all going to die when Scion comes down here and you would live minutes like that, instead of years.”
“Then what do you want from me?” the Doctor asked, and the hardness in her voice had become anger.
The structure rumbled.
The rumble was followed by a heavy crash. With my bugs, I could tell it was in the room we’d just vacated. A virtual waterfall of debris, of metal slag and concrete.
There was no order, no signal, but we broke into a run.
“I want my name, Doctor,” Sveta said. She wasn’t running, so her voice was level, free of panting or anything of the sort. “Not even my old name, from before you wiped my memory. Tell me the name you gave me, after you sent me to the fourth floor. Because you do that for the ones you think are worth studying, right? Or tell me the name I took after you released me into the wild, as some kind of smokescreen for Scion. It starts with ‘S’, if that helps.”
We should be strategizing, I thought.
But I didn’t interject.
“You wipe our memories when you send us down to the third floor, Shamrock told us, so I just had a number for a while. Tell me you remember my number, even. Tell me that what you did to me had some merit, that you did all this for some purpose, and turning me into a killer with a triple-digit body count mattered enough for you to remember!”
The Doctor huffed out the words, panting as she ran, “You can’t have any successes without failures. There was nothing of use in your case, nothing memorable but your durability, but it was one formula we could rule out.”
“That’s not good enough!”
The Number Man spoke, “He-”
“Not you!” Sveta hissed. “You remember, probably, but-”
“He’s here,” the Number Man said, talking over her.
We stopped, turning.
A golden light at the entrance to the corridor. A figure stood in the middle of it, darker in contrast to the light surrounding it..
Scion.
He advanced on foot. One step, then another.
His eyes moved to the vials.
He touched one, gentle, almost inquisitive.
“Oh fuckballs,” Imp whispered the word.
We backed away, slowly.
Scion reached out and cupped his hands around the vial. I could see fragments of the wire that held the vial upright falling to the ground, glowing gold where his power had burned through the edges.
He cupped the vial in his hands, staring down at it.
“What are they?” Golem asked. “The vials?”
“Powers,” the Number Man said, unhelpfully.
Scion stared, his eyes roving over the rows of vials. He reached out for a patch of empty vials, without any color behind them, but he didn’t touch them.
Sensing the traces of what they’d once contained, maybe?
Nowhere to go. Gully might have been able to dig an escape route, but she had a hole in her shoulder I could have put my arm through, and she wasn’t conscious, let alone coherent. Either the impact with Cuff or the fight with the Doctor’s people had disabled her.
She’d been with the group that had tried to lynch the Doctor, so maybe taking her out of action had been a preventative measure.
The Doormaker, none of it worked.
“Doctor,” I said. “You don’t have powers, right?”
“I don’t,” the Doctor said. “But I have a corona pollentia.”
“What do you mean?” I asked. “You have the potential for power?”
“I do. I could theoretically trigger. If someone has the potential and takes the dose, there is a higher chance of deviation.”
“But you were fine with doing it to others,” Sveta murmured.
“Natural powers tend to fall more in line with the subject’s nature,” the Doctor said, ignoring Sveta. “Complimentary to their personality, their needs, and so on. Better to leave that door open, in case it comes down to it, or to retain the ability to take a vial at a crucial juncture.”
“I believe,” Lung growled, his voice strangely thin despite his size, with his partially healed injury, “this would be a good time.”
“He’s not moving,” Canary said.
“His attention is consumed,” the Number Man said. “We’re insignificant, compared to… this.”
“A healing power,” I said. I watched as Scion reached out for another vial. He held it next to the one he’d already retrieved.
I could almost sense something from him. Confusion?
“There aren’t any healing powers,” the Doctor answered. We continued backing away. “When they crop up, it’s a fluke, pure chance, an extension of another ability with a different focus.”
“A tinker power,” I said.
“A tinker power would take time,” Cuff said.
“A tinker power would be flexible enough to cover multiple bases,” I said. “One of which could potentially get us out of here.”
“Perhaps,” the Doctor said. “But I would like to remind you all what happens when someone undergoes their trigger event, natural or induced. You would be rendered comatose.”
“My dogs can carry us,” Rachel said.
“Point conceded,” the Doctor replied. We were moving faster now, with Scion not making a move. “But there is another concern. The trigger event might draw his attention.”
Which would spell out our deaths, I thought.
“Let us put some distance between ourselves and the being,” the Doctor said. “One thousand feet seems like the safest bet.”
A thousand feet, I thought. “Is this safehouse even that big?”
“Certainly,” the Doctor said. “William.”
“Doctor,” Manton said.
“I’m going to ask you to position Siberian up here. We’ll see if she can do any damage.”
“Yes,” Manton agreed.
The Siberian stepped forward.
Manton leaned over and gave her a kiss on the cheek.
Out of sync. Doesn’t fit. Like Number Man was complaining about with his clones.
But I was happy to have someone expendable standing guard.
We turned to leave, and I used my bugs to watch the scene, perching them around the Siberian, turning their cloudy, distorted senses on the golden man.
I could infer, rather than see, that he dropped a vial. It hit the ground and shattered, the contents splashing out onto the ground and the walls. He reached for another.
He held it for only seconds before letting both of the vials in his hands fall and shatter on the concrete floor. He rose in the air to float over the mess, reaching out for more vials.
“Here,” the Doctor said, as we reached the next floor. “These were the vials we were trying to find. I sent Contessa to find recipients for each of them. I kept only three.”
There was a table with the vials set in what appeared to be a centrifuge. The liquid inside was nearly black..
“Why these?” I asked.
“There is a foreign agent in them. The entity altered each power he granted to give them certain restrictions. No power would be able to truly affect him, no power would cross the boundaries he set in dimension, or in affecting other powers. There are no alterations to the elements in these, only to the accompanying abilities, or complimentary powers. The powers granted from these vials don’t cause the recipients to forget the visions they see. Eidolon was one such case. The extreme deviant cases on the special containment floor make up much of the remainder.”
“Extreme deviants,” Sveta said.
“I’ll need to dilute this, or I’ll be no use to anyone. The Balance formula, Number Man?”
“Where?” he asked.
“The fridge,” she said. She leaned over the table, gazing at the vials. “Extreme deviants. Some had only a trace of the foreign element, which we discovered later, others had known quantities. Others… perhaps they received some and we weren’t aware or able to check after the fact. Deviants like our friend in the ball here-”
“Sveta,” Sveta said. “Garotte was the name you gave me, when I refused to take one for myself. I was recipient one-six-one-six. And I’m not your friend, Doctor. I like to think the best of people, but I think you’re far, far gone.”
“-Sveta,” the Doctor said. “Deviants like Sveta are a rare thing, particularly with the Balance formula in the mix. Extreme deviants form a subset within a subset, with physical mutations that go well out of bounds of any solid reference point we have here on Earth.”
“Why?” Golem asked.
The Doctor took the vial from the Number Man. It was clear. She used a funnel and tongs to pour the contents of the clear vial into the darker vial. Though both vials were nearly full, the mixture didn’t cause any overflow. The color found a middle ground. A deep red.
She turned it around, then clamped it in between two rubber bumpers. She hit a button on the side of the table, and it began shaking, like a paint machine. “Two minutes. Best freshly shaken, so the layers don’t separate. William? Status?”
“He’s floating down the hallway, knocking the vials to the ground.”
“Rate he’s traveling… I’d say a few minutes. Three or four.”
“We’ll finish the mixing and then run,” the Doctor said. She stared at the vial. “This may be the closest you get to your revenge, Sveta. I’m left with no choice, and chances are good I’ll change physically, even with the Balance formula.”
“You keep referring to that,” I said. “What is it?”
“I’ve come to believe it’s the opposite of what we had with the foreign agent. One power, or a collection of powers, calibrated in advance by the entity, with humans in mind. By mixing it into other vials, we borrow this particular quality, at the cost of having more physical changes with any such power we grant. We retain humanity more easily, safeguarding against deviant cases.”
“You found a way to collect powers,” Golem said.
“In a sense,” the Doctor said. She sighed heavily. “You came for a reason.”
“I did,” I said. “We did. For answers, for insights on the entity, and because we need Doormaker if we’re going to win this fight against Scion.”
The Doctor looked at Doormaker, who was being held by two Harbingers. “We’d hoped to use Doormaker in conjunction with Khonsu, for a mobile force that could safely pressure the entity. A last measure.”
“You had an awful lot of plans,” I said.
“We did. I can tell you about them, or I can answer your questions. What information do you desire, Weaver? What insights on the entity could win this for us?”
I swallowed.
“Second Triggers,” I said.
The Doctor frowned. “Too many people have come to me about that. It’s a promise of more power that manifests just often enough to tantalize, infrequently enough to leave countless disappointed.”
“What is it?” I asked.
“When powers manifest, they come with safeguards. The same programmed safeguards that I seek to circumvent or ignore with these foreign agents.” She tapped the desk. “The agent, the power, seeks to protect the host, so it prevents the host from harming itself. It’s a crude measure, one the agent applied with broad, general strokes. Not every agent can receive individual attention, and the ones that do, I believe, were more hampered than not. With the second trigger, the agent reaches out, makes contact with others, networks and draws on collective information to refine the restrictions and save its host.”
“Is it always around other parahumans, then?”
“Not always, but frequently. Circumstances tend to mirror the original trigger event. The resulting power ignores restrictions that were previously set.”
The shaking of the machine began to slow.
“You’re involved with a lot of powerful parahumans,” I said. “Do you have a means of causing second triggers?”
“We’ve done it for several clients in the past, with varying degrees of success. Because of the time it takes, and the arrangements involved, we put a high premium on it. We’ve had more clients die trying to collect the funds for this premium than we’ve had clients go through with the procedure,” she said.
“A catch twenty-two, if you will,” the Number Man said. “If you’re powerful enough to have the necessary funds, then you don’t need a second trigger to thrive. If you need a second trigger, you lack the funds.”
“I get the feeling you didn’t devote much attention to this,” Golem said. “Why not?”
“Because reducing the restrictions that are in place only gives us a power that has less restrictions, when we need powers with none. We needed to luck into a formula that had an applicable power as well as a whole, untainted foreign power within, and we needed it in a vehicle we could use, an individual without crippling mental, psychological, emotional or physical deviations. Eidolon was that, and Eidolon had a fatal flaw in the end.”
I nodded, biting my lip.
“We should go,” the Doctor said. “Where is Scion?”
“Still upstairs,” Manton said, pointing at the ceiling, off to the right. “He’s gone still. He’s got vials in his hands again.”
The Doctor nodded. “This way. Just a little further down, and I’ll ingest this. With luck, we’ll have a weapon or a way out.”
“What about these vials?” I asked.
“The powers wouldn’t help.”
“If they’re special, if they could give us an answer-”
“The powers are poor,” the Doctor said. “Foreign, yes, but poor. When we tested these, we got a defensive power utilizing warped space and a power that allows one to take over a nearby parahuman’s mind, body and powers automatically on death. The one I hold should have attack or mover capabilities, if not both.”
She input a code by the door, and William Manton set about opening it. Another wheel-lock.
“What would happen if a person with powers drank one?” I asked.
“Nothing at all,” the Doctor said. “Believe me, we’ve tried hybridizing natural and Cauldron capes. You might as well drink water, for much the same effect.”
I nodded, but I didn’t take my eyes off the table.
“You hoped for a way to increase your powers? Or the powers of everyone here?” The Doctor asked.
“Yes,” I said.
“Downstairs,” she said. “We’ll see.”
I nodded. I used my flight pack to travel down the stairs more quickly.
Ever downward. Descending.
“He’s coming,” Manton said. “There’s nothing left between us to slow him down. I’m- the Siberian will fight now.”
The Doctor nodded.
I could sense the two meeting. The Siberian dashing forward. Scion apparently uncaring.
The Siberian cleaved deep. The way her body intersected Scion, it was like ghosts fighting.
Tattletale says he closes wounds as fast as they appear, so fast our senses can’t perceive it.
If that was so, the Siberian was doing horrific amounts of damage. She passed bodily through him, and glowing motes followed her as she emerged on the other side, landing and wheeling around.
“Intersect him,” I said. “It’ll burn through his reserves.”
Manton nodded.
“Number Man,” the Doctor said. “The-”
“EM readers?”
“EM readers.”
The Number Man ducked into a side corridor.
“This is it,” the Doctor said. She pointed down. “The last room. Lowest room in the complex.”
I could see it, a flight down. A heavy door, vaultlike.
“Then it is a dead end,” Lung rumbled.
“Fuck,” Imp said. “Fuck it, fuck damn shit.”
We reached the door, and Lung set his claws on the wheel to open the door. He’d just started turning when the Number Man appeared, a paddle-like wand in each hand.
Manton took one of the paddles.
The Siberian was standing in the middle of Scion, their bodies overlapping. If her presence tore into him, then every passing fraction of a second was a good one-hundred and some pounds of flesh being eaten away. Depending on how fast he regenerated, it could be vast quantities. Turning a strength into a weakness.
But he didn’t seem to care. He floated there, his back turned to the doorway we’d used to travel to the next floor down, staring at the rows of vials. Uncaring about the Siberian’s sustained assault.
“He doesn’t care,” I murmured.
The Doctor and the Number Man looked up from the paddle the Number Man had in hand. He was apparently calibrating it.
“Scion doesn’t care that Siberian’s tearing him up,” I clarified.
“Of course he doesn’t,” the Doctor said. “He’s alien. He doesn’t have human feelings.”
“He’s a force of nature,” Number Man said.
I shook my head. “No. Human feelings are why he’s a danger. Without them, he’d be some nebulous threat, three hundred years in the future. But he’s lashing out, trying to find himself, and that’s why he’s dangerous.”
The Number man waved the wand around my head, then frowned. He waved it around his own head, read the digital display, then tried the Doctor. He tried waving it at Lung, but Lung swatted at it.
“He’s alien above all else. Abstract.” the Doctor said. Her eyes fell on the vial. “It’s through alien, abstract methods we’ll defeat him, if it’s even possible.”
“The door is stuck,” Lung said.
“The way the column has settled may have put undue stress on this part of the architecture,” Number Man said. “If you’d let me-”
“I know,” the Doctor said. “If I’d let you have a hand in designing this… but you were new to the team. I didn’t yet trust you with sensitive matters.”
Number Man nodded, taking it as something matter-of-fact.
Lung heaved on the door, putting all of his superhuman strength behind it. It barely budged.
“Take her,” Alexandria said.
Lung took Gully’s body.
Alexandria pushed. A crack appeared in the ceiling, dust showering down on top of us.
“Structural,” Number Man said. “If we open it, it’ll cave in on us.”
“This does not concern me,” Lung said. “Stand back, and I will push my way through.”
Golem shook his head. “Eventually, but what about the time it takes to burrow through? We can’t afford it.”
The Doctor was looking down at the vial.
“If we’re going to win this,” I said, “I want it to be because of our strength, not an abstract one. And I know that sounds corny.”
“A nice sentiment,” the Number Man said. “But I’m afraid that power you’re digging for is out of your reach, Weaver.”
I looked at him.
“Or it’s already in your reach. You can’t have a second trigger because you already had one,” he said.
I blinked.
“Given the signature, it’s very possible you had two trigger events in quick succession. Not uncommon. The horror of manifesting your power, it prompted another trigger.”
“No,” I said. “There’s got to be something.”
“If there is, a second trigger event isn’t it,” the Number Man said. “I can check your allies, but we can’t do much more. We used to rely on Contessa’s power to determine the exact event needed for a second trigger.”
I nodded numbly.
“I’m sorry,” Imp said.
I shook my head. I’d staked hopes on this, despite promises to myself that I wouldn’t.
Beside me, the Doctor removed the black rubber cork from the vial.
The Siberian appeared beside us in the same instant. Manton spoke, “He finally took action and struck my Siberian.”
I could sense Scion above. Staring at the corridor with the vials.
He reached out, and a golden light flared. It was like a flicker of the lights, and it was so vivid I thought for a second I was seeing it with my own eyes.
The vials each shattered simultaneously.
Glass and fluids rained down onto the floor. My bugs were swamped all along the corridor.
Scion moved, killing my bugs on contact as he headed down to the next floor.
With my bugs, I could sense Number Man letting the wand go. It clattered to the stairs below him. “Broken.”
Broken?
Lung created flame for us to see by.
The Doctor stood there, her hands mangled where she’d been holding the vial, bleeding wounds at her throat.
“Your hands,” Manton said.
She shook her head. “S- superficial.”
“Did you drink any?” I asked.
She shook her head. “Barely any.”
I looked down at the stairs. Lap it up?
No. Something Skidmark or Newter had said, once upon a time. My first introduction to the vials.
And she’d said she needed a whole power. Would a partial dose only give half a power? A distorted one?
I could only guess.
“Okay,” I said. “Siberian… make us a path around the door.”
Manton nodded, as if I’d talked to him. Siberian walked into the wall, her power crushing stone. The rest of us moved up the stairwell, closer to Scion.
“Guys,” Imp said.
Lung had to move to cast the light on her.
She held Sveta’s sphere. Fractures marked the entire surface, and they spread with every passing second.
I withdrew my crystal-encased knife. “Lung?”
He took hold of it with one hand, nearly singing me with the heat of the flame that had surrounded the limb moments ago. He crushed it, winced as the knife ate through the claw at the end of his thumb.
I gingerly took hold of the knife, switched the settings to remove the disintegration effect, then started it up again.
It took a full four seconds. The calibration was off, stuff clogged. Not a big surprise.
“Halfway,” Manton said. “No sign of collapse.”
Scion appeared at the top of the stairs.
Leaving us without a place to even run to.
“A third trigger event,” I said. “Is it-”
“No,” the Doctor said.
“There has to be a way.”
“There isn’t one,” she said. “You have the power you have, nothing more.”
“Okay,” I answered.
“Hey,” Imp said, “Your power isn’t the only one that’s shit in this circumstance.”
The orb bucked, the fracturing doubling in quantity.
Then it broke.
Sveta hit the ground, and then unfurled. Tendrils extended up the stairs, encircling Scion.
“Focus on him,” she said. “Oh god. Focus on him. It’s him and me, we’re the only people here.”
The others were disappearing into the tunnel. Rachel, Imp, Canary, the Doctor’s group…
“Can’t…” Sveta said.
The Doctor headed into the tunnel.
A tendril encircled one of the Doctor’s ruined hands.
The Doctor screamed. I could hear bone breaking, see blood welling around the thin tendril of living razor wire.
Sveta’s tendrils continued to extend, stretching out.
Each one chose the Doctor as the mark.
“Had to pick someone,” Sveta whispered. “Couldn’t focus on him alone. I’m sorry, but you’re the best choice.”
The tendrlis found points closer to the Doctor’s midsection, crushing.
The Doctor’s screams became strangled.
Sveta coiled around the Doctor, burying the woman beneath overlapping tendrils, until there was a cocoon and a girl’s face, curled up on the stairs. Blood pooled beneath them.
Scion continued his approach.
I held my ground, forming swarm-decoys. They hadn’t worked last time, but-
Nothing. He walked past them.
I held my knife, waited as he closed the distance, standing in his way. I slashed at his throat, dragged the blade along his chest.
Smoke rose, billowing in quantities I couldn’t have imagined.
He pushed me aside.
Walking towards the door.
I realized what was about to happen. My mind was all noise as I screamed out a warning using my swarm, telling the others to get away.
I reached out and grabbed Sveta’s face, the point from which all the tendrils extended. An action carried out in panic. I felt a tendril or two wrap around my forearm. Hand and arm obliterated.
I just got a new one, I thought, almost dazed.
Scion pushed his way past the door. The door that was bearing the load of the ceiling above us.
Sveta dropped the doctor, and I felt the tendrils brush past me, ensnaring bugs. Then they snapped out, grabbing the door at the top of the staircase.
In the next instant, we were pulled to the door, virtually thrown. I used my flight pack to try and break the fall, to stop from being turned into a smear, but Sveta caught the brunt of the impact, webbing out to ensnare our surroundings.
The ceiling came down. A whole section of the substructure, apparently damaged, cracked by the fall or by some native impurity.
The dust settled.
And I saw what Scion had come for.
His partner.
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363 thoughts on “Venom 29.7”
wildbow on October 3, 2013 at 00:01 said:
Cut it pretty damn close with finishing this one. Wanted to expand the end, but I’m sort of okay with it being damnably vague, on a level.
Thanks for your support, guys. Just yesterday, Worm broke 26,000 views. Beat 23,000 for the first time, by a considerable margin.
And thanks for reading. Please vote on Topwebfiction, if it’s no trouble.
En on October 3, 2013 at 04:21 said:
That’s a lot of hits. Congratulations.
C’mon Wildbow, take a screenshot of some stats and publish it somewhere. You’re allowed to gloat some more 😉
Don on October 3, 2013 at 14:49 said:
I, ehmmm… I have a confession to make. I’ve been voting for “A Grey World”, since it’s much newer than Worm and needs the support – and it’s an amazing story too. Wish topwebfiction allowed multiple votes, or tiered votes even. Every time I see you mention topwebfiction I’m reminded to go vote for him.
BUT I only do that because you have hundreds and he usually has like 10 votes. Which I think is a crime; it’s such a good story, it deserves better. (He had 30 today, so I voted for you.) Otherwise, you’re first in my heart. ^_^
acediamonds on October 3, 2013 at 16:25 said:
Rejoice Don, for topwebfiction does in fact allow multiple votes. Now you can support all the cool webserials you read.
I know for a fact that this wasn’t true a month ago. I voted for ‘A Grey World’, then for Worm. A Grey World went UP one vote, then DOWN one vote.
You might be able to do it now (I haven’t checked yet) but as of september topwebfiction only counted your latest vote.
eduardo on October 3, 2013 at 19:14 said:
I vote for Worm, Legion of Nothing, Starwalker and Tales of the Big Bad Wolf. You can do multiple votes.
Psycho Gecko on October 4, 2013 at 00:32 said:
Well, hell, if anyone wants to toss a vote my way…well, if they can even find it on there. I think it’s supposed to be eligible over there, but I wouldn’t be surprised if certain people award me negative votes for every joke regarding the human anus. Butt maybe I’m just over anal-yzing things in assuming they’re that cheeky.
Jerden on October 4, 2013 at 18:29 said:
I’d vote for you if it were on there.
But it isn’t, although I do keep checking. I worry that your jokes may have rectal your chances of getting on the site though, they may feel that they’re a little crude.
(What? Am I supposed to let him have all the fun with butt jokes? Heh heh. Fun with butt jokes.)
agreyworld on January 15, 2014 at 11:41 said:
A (very) late thank you for voting for me, haha
Charles Borner on October 3, 2013 at 00:02 said:
This is the typo thread.
Drop typographical errors and instances of awkward grammatical usage in here.
randomsoul2 on October 3, 2013 at 00:18 said:
“I saw how she fell, saw her back arch, the way she held her arm as she rolled over. She didn’t cry out, didn’t make any sounds of pain, but”
Line cuts off.
Sengachi on October 3, 2013 at 01:26 said:
“Pinned, as inexplicably as Lung was pinned.”
Is it supossed to be “as inexplicable as it was”?
quintopia1 on September 20, 2014 at 13:08 said:
“I called for my bugs to bring the knife anyways.” I’ve been willing to ascribe previous uses of “anyways” to the idiolects of the characters who were speaking it, but this one isn’t in dialogue. I’d like to think that Taylor is well-educated enough that she’d used the more standard “anyway” when writing down her story, but maybe her hatred of her english teacher led her to hate standard grammar as well?
Pinkhair on October 3, 2013 at 05:12 said:
“Canary liberally tossed ” Literally? Though the mental image of her being liberally tossed in a nice vinaigrette IS hilarious…
“a Manton with the Siberian” Should that be just “Manton” and not ‘a’ Manton, since she corrects herself?
Matt Nordhoff on October 3, 2013 at 07:37 said:
> “Because reducing the restrictions that are in place only gives us a power that has less restrictions, when we need powers with none. …
*twitch*
Philippe Saner on October 3, 2013 at 08:25 said:
Every morning I was in the asylum, I would wake up and I scramble to draw something, to put words in a diary, and I’m so excited and panicked and desperate I’d break things.
I think that “I’m” should be in the past tense. “I’d be” or something like that.
Asmora on October 3, 2013 at 16:49 said:
Or Garotte is slipping tenses because the memories of those frantic mornings are so vivid they seem like the present.
grinvader on October 13, 2013 at 17:35 said:
“and I all I could think was”
Adaon on May 10, 2014 at 17:50 said:
“Jaw strength aside, the crocodile wasn’t built to force it’s mouth open.”
Should be ‘its mouth’.
Mister Tulip on June 6, 2014 at 18:49 said:
“I’m willing to believe it, if this is an assassination attempt, I’ll take the risk.”
The first comma should be a period.
“The Number man waved the wand around my head”
“man” should be capitalized.
irrevenant on August 18, 2014 at 23:19 said:
He floated there, his back turned to the doorway we’d used to travel to the next floor down, staring at the rows of vials. Uncaring about the Siberian’s sustained assault.
Uncaring –> he doesn’t care feels a bit repetitive. Maybe “Ignoring the Siberian’s sustained assault.
para on March 10, 2015 at 08:09 said:
*fewer*, not less
Olivebirdy on July 11, 2015 at 17:17 said:
The liquid inside was nearly black..
-extra period
Skitter, really. I’m pretty sure you’ve beaten out Anakin Skywalker for number of limbs lost at this point.
Also, I find the dynamic between the various Cauldronites to be lovely.
Also also, Sveta is awesome.
theant87 on October 3, 2013 at 00:30 said:
Just the thought that runs in her head as she loses the arm was funny. Damned it not again! Forget biological, go with Defiant cyberware. Cyber up.
negadarkwing on October 3, 2013 at 08:11 said:
Or hell, let Riley give you the good stuff. It can be here Christmas gift if she’s a good girl.
Someguy on October 3, 2013 at 00:33 said:
Heh. The Doctor died for the same reason she chose people to experiment on, Wildbow really like to give characters ironic fates.
chrnno on October 3, 2013 at 08:08 said:
Indeed, I wonder if that thought crossed her mind.
flame7926 on October 3, 2013 at 13:12 said:
And why would she actually be dead?
Because Sveta doesn’t grab people just a little bit. By the time Wildbow’s talking about a “cocoon” of tendrils, DM’s long dead. Her only way out would’ve been to trigger, and there was no vision, so she’s dead.
greatwyrmgold on October 3, 2013 at 09:03 said:
Let’s see…I count four limbs Taylor has lost. Maybe three, if we’re not counting limbs lost multiple times. Did I miss any?
Landis963 on October 3, 2013 at 09:12 said:
I think that’s right. She lost two or three from the oil rig fight (the narration gets a little confusing there), and lost a third (or fourth) here from Scion.
She lost her legs and one arm. Well, about half of one arm and about half of her torso, but I’ll call that a whole arm to save on the bookkeeping.
So yeah, four limbs.
She also lost all the bonus limbs she got at the oil rig if you want to count those…
Reveen on October 3, 2013 at 17:04 said:
Okay, Taylor has no excuse whatsoever for not getting a cool cyborg arm this time.
throwaawy on October 3, 2013 at 00:23 said:
ding, dong, the Doctor’s dead~
the Doctor’s dead, the Doctor’s dead. Ding dong the Doctor Mother’s Dead~
notes on October 3, 2013 at 00:27 said:
Clearer than ever that brute force won’t answer.
DM’s comment that an abstract means is the only way to victory; Taylor’s comment on Scion’s human emotions; Taylor’s comment that she wants to win with what they have; DM’s comment that they already have whatever power they’ll have – all fragments of foreshadowing, clearly laid out to be tessellated into elegant sense. The shape formed is hauntingly familiar, but beyond my comprehension thus far.
Remain tentatively convinced that this will end with a proposal, possibly a suicidal action, mirroring the Scion interlude.
The vials, specifically the three critical vials, are seemingly off the board. Won’t be certain they truly can’t come into play for some time.
Inutterably delighted by the Number Man’s fussy yet sincere regret that Bonesaw’s reliance on rumor led to impolite Harbinger clones.
DM’s story arc – if this is its end, a fact of which I am in no way certain – closed well and indeed poetically; the conversation with Sveta and the finish both were fitting. Still… her natural trigger potential plus the exceedingly stressful situation she’s presently in, the bits of formula she drank, some further contingency… any or all of these could put her right back into this.
Echinda 2.0? It’s an answer every rpg player knows. How do you kill an eldritch abomination? Another eldritch abomination.
Or a spike formed from nanites programmed to go all grey goo on the thing they get stabbed into.
fghjconner on October 3, 2013 at 00:41 said:
If Siberian mass obliterating Scion didn’t do anything, I doubt that will do much better.
The difference is exponential growth. Siberian’s badass, but she doesn’t have that.
fghjconner on October 11, 2013 at 01:00 said:
If you can get the nanites to leak over into his real body, then you’ve got a chance. As it is, I’m pretty sure Siberian was doing as much damage as is possible against Scion’s golden boy body.
Paranoid Android on October 3, 2013 at 00:44 said:
The only thing is no matter who wins you still haven’t solved you eldritch abomination problem.
You have, if you can’t kill the winner while it is weakened from the fight create another eldritch abomination and drop upon it. If whoever winner is weakened enough then kill it if not create another one, at one point you gotta get lucky. Or horribly unlucky.
Or the other RPG Players answer. Figure out how to turn a couple of low level spells and a harmless item into a city destroying nuke. I see a contrast here. Doctor Mother is looking for that one big abstract power that will stop Scion. But Taylor is someone who finds ways to use powers in unexpected ways, and combinations. Doctor Mother is hoping for someone who is a high end nuker wizard. But what we may need is a bard or thief with the right support.
Nah, the former is too straightforward and the latter is rather boring. I prefer my Eldritch Abomination infinite spawn.
thehiddensage on October 3, 2013 at 14:11 said:
Ohh, Mass Eldritch Abomination wins points for style without a doubt. But I’m frankly not sure the Wormverse can handle too many more giant monsters running around.
Besides, didn’t we already try throwing the Simurgh at Scion, to no effect?
AMR on October 3, 2013 at 14:25 said:
Well we still have to see what tha blowgun did. Somehow I doubt that it only ruffled Scion’s hair.
Jurily on October 3, 2013 at 14:26 said:
Nethack players would start dipping bugs into vials at this point.
Vials went ker-splodey, remember? Scion shattered them all.
Grant Moxham on October 3, 2013 at 16:08 said:
something similar to a bomb of barrakuada’s design, detonated in whatever demiplane of exodimensional location zion’s REAL body occupies? all anyone’s been able to do is fight his/its projection. tinker tech or Doormakers ability, set something and catastrophically distorts reality right next it? makes up down and north upwards, green purple and gas vaccume? i figure no matter how bizarre your environment is by the standards of baryonic life, something distorting the livening shit out of the bit of space-time ( or equivalent) you occupy would HAVE to be distracting ,especially if you’d never had anyone actually attack your actual BODY before..
I’m not sure they can get to Scion’s dimension. He specifically limited powers so that they couldn’t break through to where his body was. Their best bet may be the portals that were Part of Eve’s body, but its unlikely that the two entities have their bodies in the same location.
I suspect their best link to the core body is through Scion somehow.
I don’t think she drank enough formula to become Oliver 2.0, let alone Echidna 2.0
senevri on October 4, 2013 at 11:24 said:
Maybe we’re lucky and the formula got directly into the bloodstream via the injured hand?
I doubt it. Most would have splashed over the floor. Besides, if DM got a power, she would have used it.
heart on May 10, 2019 at 03:26 said:
She’s too fascinating to die now, we barely know anything about her or what she wants… damn. I don’t really like her but she seemed interesting.
So Sveta just killed the doctor, maybe. So Skitter DID have a 2nd trigger and that’s why she looked so powerful to Chevalier. The Vault doesn’t sound that big, so I’m guessing his partner is a projection like Scion’s body. Still find it odd that the number man can dodge bugs as a baseline human. Contessa I could believe it because she could just portal away if surrounded, but in this situation the bugs should have encircled and swarmed him. He can see it coming, but he has human reflexes, and there shouldn’t be any space to dodge. But other than that good chapter and we can add more sadness to Sveta and the case 53’s. I don’t think we added both of Cuff’s parents being killed either to the tropes page.
tieshaunn on October 3, 2013 at 00:32 said:
I totally called Taylor having had a 2nd trigger event back in the locker several arcs ago X-P
So sad though for all the other predictions. No turning into a swarm or monster, no ironic Tinker power, no thinker power, no giant bugs, no lazerbreath, or freeze vision.
Oh god, Taylor as a bug tinker. Come to think of it, if Taylor got a chance to really sit down and get some help from Bonesaw or Panacea she could be even more fucking terrifying.
Naeddyr on October 3, 2013 at 01:37 said:
“If [something], she could be even more terrifying” is basically what every discussion about Taylor’s development as a cape turns into. Especially with Panacea.
Taylor + Panacea inevitably devolves into “And now Skitter is the Queen of Blades!”
will408914 on October 3, 2013 at 11:04 said:
Isn’t that what Bonesaw tried to do?
Skychan on October 3, 2013 at 11:18 said:
I have to say that Taylor already is a Thinker. Maybe not a high end one but she’s definitely a thinker. She can controll every bug in her range individually. She reads books how fast? The PRT even classed her as thinker 1 I believe. It’s fairly obvious she’s already a thinker, the only question is if shes a really really powerful one or not.
@will: I think so, but I think she also tried removing Skitter’s free will. And that just won’t fly.
Skitter just needs to get Panacea to work on patching up a few of her weaker areas. FIre-proof bugs, bugs capable of dealing heavier hits (big bugs? explosive bugs? containment foam bugs?), EMP bugs (take that tinkers), capsaicin-producing bugs…
JN on October 3, 2013 at 01:53 said:
I’ve always hated Number Man/Harbinger’s power. Eventually if you throw enough numbers at him, he should have to divide by zero. I didn’t like Contessa’s, but at least she was basing what she needed to do on advance warning through foreknowledge, as opposed to present knowledge and really good predictions.
And what’s to say he can’t divide by zero? Using alien space-maths?
hitherbydragons on October 3, 2013 at 02:37 said:
> Still find it odd that the number man can dodge
> bugs as a baseline human.
I suspect that as long as there’s a relatively unfeeling person nearby like Doctor Mother or the Siberian, he’s going to be inherently resistant to bug stings and irritants in general, which gives him more leeway. Because as cold to human emotion as Doctor Mother might be, and as physically unfeeling as the Siberian is, he is, of necessity, number.
Jesus Christ. That is the worst pun. The worst pun in the world. I am suffering because I read that.
And since you’re here…I used some panels from your webcomic in a video I made. You okay with that?
PS: I’m pretty sure that the Number Man can’t actually dodge bugs very well. He can run through a swarm to attack Taylor, but if he ever got attacked properly by a full-size swarm that’d be it for him.
I had to read that twice to get the pun.
*smacks hither*
Nobody can dodge bugs for very long.
*a bunny pops out of the ground near Cauldron, chewing on a carrot* Eeeeeh. What’s up, Doc?
tiffuh on March 27, 2018 at 00:53 said:
This. This was a work of art.
It brought me to tears. /applaud
Wut What?
just… blown away, kind off.
I hope this isn’t the last we get to see of Doctor Mother. And I still hope that Contessa shows up again
Considering Contessa’s power this is one occasion where I won’t believe it till we see a body despite Wilbow’s fondness for offscreen death. Doctor Mother could go either way.
In the butt.
I knew you would make that joke.
At least I’m not the butt of this joke.
endgame on October 4, 2013 at 15:42 said:
Can I butt in on this conversation?
Butt of course
you’ve become predictable, PG
your reign of terror and disgust is finally over!
As anyone who follows said reign of terror and disgust can tell you, it’s a chocolate reign.
ShawnMorgan on October 3, 2013 at 01:03 said:
and when you mix that sentence with one about Butts, it;s time to break out the Immodium…
dragonus45 on October 3, 2013 at 02:48 said:
Please, i’ve only been here a month and even i saw that one coming.
And I think we can all agree the whole setup was nothing but a load of…salsa.
Arcman on October 3, 2013 at 00:34 said:
Damn it Sveta.
Hey, it’s not like she wanted to. Her body just went for the person that stressed her most, and she went with it as it was the best way to keep from murdering everyone.
Even if she did it on purpose, can you really blame her?
And frankly, better D-M than, well, anyone else there.
Except Scion, but what’s the chance that would do anything?
She was already attacking Scion, and her tentacles couldn’t focus on just one person. So she diverted some of them to D-M and hoped that would suffice. (Apparently it did, at least for long enough that the others could get away).
She could’ve grabbed Alexandria. I guess the Siberian was out of reach, and Lung would’ve been unhealthy to grab, but Alexandria should’ve been able to take it.
True, but I doubt she was thinking that clearly.
Alex on April 22, 2018 at 10:39 said:
Hey, it had to be someone! Doc would agree, I’m sure.
Perfect time for Scion to pick out Shatterbird’s power of all things.
MisterTeatime on February 2, 2016 at 14:37 said:
Sometimes you really need to kick some glass.
Damn, so my mentioning of “The perfect is the enemy of the good” and that fallacy where people don’t even try because it’s not the perfect solution had something to do with all this after all.
And Dr. Mother’s utter discounting of human emotion says a hell of a lot more about why they’re all in this situation. She doesn’t realize by now that she’s the alien abstract being with no conception of human emotion, and she’s failed against Scion while being such. And the thing about the powers is her entire schtick write miniature. She does something contradictory to her stated goals by watering down the closest thing to absolute power even though she thought 2nd and 3rd triggers were useless to purse as only powers with less restrictions instead of no restrictions. She waits fucking forever to use her plan and it gets wrecked easily by Scion when he wasn’t even intending to mess with it. And she gets her ass attacked because of her human experimentation.
I’m more curious about how she simply doesn’t get Taylor’s point about how different Scion is because of emotion. Did they not check the former most powerful man in the world? Or why the apocalypse is happening 300 years early?
They are Cauldron. Taylor’s silly questions are of no consequence when compared to their grandiose master plan! Because they are Cauldron: the smartest people in the graveyard.
In the face of Cauldron’s actions and consequences throughout the entire story so far, that makes perfect sense.
Scolopendra on October 3, 2013 at 15:59 said:
And then Scion manifests Grey Boy’s power and hits her with it.
Well, that was weird. I was responding to an entirely different comment with that post.
In light of this chapter’s friendly tendril-monster woobie getting some revenge, I say we dedicate a song to the event!
“Doctor, Doctor, give me the noose, I’ve got a bad case of crushing you!”
Hell, Doc Mom was so out of touch with her own emotions, she didn’t even trigger while being crushed to death.
Well that was bad noose for her wasn’t it?
No noose is good noose as far as she’s concerned.
Well we could find out next chapter that DM did trigger… And that her power is that she can’t no matter how badly injured she is. Unfourtunatly she can’t heal either.
No vision: no trigger event.
Trigger events were specifically Scion handing out shards, though. (well, lobbing them at people to hit at moments of emotional stress, but you get the picture). I’m fairly certain that ship has sailed.
Trigger events are when shards Scion previously handed out find a hoast. He doesn’t need to send out new ones, they are already in play. Untill all the Shards he spread get used the potential for more triggers exists.
Point, but I’m still fairly certain that ship has sailed.
Trigger events happen when a person with a latent shard reaches a moment of appropriate stress. DM just finished talking about the fact that she knows she has a latent shard. She had the potential to trigger right up until Sveta squeezed her into sociopath juice.
Maybe Doctor Mother should have been less skilled at staying calm in stressful situations.
He handed stuff off in the past. He hasn’t been handing them off ever since he’s been seen on Earth in the 80s. They still have been hitting, though, so it’s possible, just unlikely.
If people triggered from mere mortal peril, there would be a lot more capes.
And it’s also possible that Scion has the ability to exert some control over when shards are handed out.
I think it’s been mentioned before that people do trigger from mere mortal peril. The vision either stalls them enough or the power is insufficient to actually get them out of mortal peril, though. If a car’s about to hit you, all the super freezing powers in the world aren’t going to save you if your face gets planted halfway through the radiator while you’re daydreaming about giant space jellyfish.
I think the trigger would happen after the car crash, though. I’m specifically thinking of Chevalier, here, as it specifically stated that he triggered while left alone in the car.
Tom_D on October 3, 2013 at 00:43 said:
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnggg!!!!!!!
Things just got worse….. Again.
Are you surprised?
This…. Is…… WORM!!
Worm: It gets wetter…with blood.
Incidentally, I was just reminded of a clip somewhat reminiscent of Scion’s take on Cauldron, humans, parahumans, pretty much most groups.
youtube.com/watch?v=C3Ks59XGThg
chungsim on October 3, 2013 at 00:47 said:
OK, I think the Doctor’s dead now. It’s not as poetically just as a death as I expected. All the requirements are there and there’s a nice explanation but it’s not exactly awe-inspiring author cruelty on the level of the Slaughterhouse 9 (and Darkfriends in the Wheel of Time, Galina and Carridan were fun). I can’t expect much when they’re in a combat zone and everything is ending, however.
Well, Doctor Mother was taken out by a Case 53 (strike one) with a truly horrific transformation (strike two) who would have turned it down had they asked in the first place (strike three). Anything poetically just-er would have involved that formula. And Scion wouldn’t allow that to happen.
Moreover, she was killed as the result of a (somewhat) impersonal decision in which someone had to be picked, and logic dictated that she would be the ideal candidate. Just like picking Sveta to become a test subject because she was probable to die anyway, Sveta picked DM because her tendrils had to hit someone and DM was the only one there without powers that might have helped against Scion.
Veloren on October 4, 2013 at 13:30 said:
I suspect she’s only mostly dead. She did get a sip of that vial, after all. Who wants to bet she didn’t get any balancing agent?
One ironic death and one ginormous cliffhanger ready to be served! I bet next chapter is an interlude.
My god, Doctor has lost any complete understanding of human behaviour. She was as alien as Scion here. Maybe even more, seeing how Scion is killing because he’s trying to emulate humans. And I think Sveta killing her, without even being malicious about it, is very fitting.
Nothing else to say except that Number Man apologising for his clones’ behaviour because they were built on hearsay was hilarious. It’s always Bonesaw’s fault.
Number Man is cool dude.
Were I less modest I’d point to you my ode to Number Man in the comments to 29.1. As I said modesty prevents me from doing so 😉 .
* we’re not were. Stupid autocorrector.
Fixed. 😀
I love that your typo-fixing sprees extend to the comments.
Althalus on October 3, 2013 at 01:18 said:
Hopefully the warranty is still good on her arm, though Amy might get fed up and get Bonesaw to fix it just to give Taylor further incentive to not get it mangled again.
“I don’t remember this much chitin being on my arm before…”
taliesinskye on October 4, 2013 at 19:06 said:
*tweaks* There, now you remember it being that way. All fixed!
TinkerTailor on October 3, 2013 at 02:02 said:
There are some chapters of Worm that literally get me at the edge of my seat, leaning right into my monitor. The end of this was one such moment. Dayum, can’t wait until saturday.
Anyway, I’m not feeling the “Yay~ the Doctor’s dead~” vibe others seem to be getting. It was a horrific way to go that I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
I wonder what Taylor’s power was in the few seconds she had before she triggered again? Presumably it was the multitasking Thinker ability that got added during the second, brought about by the sensory overload. Maybe her original power was like Aidan’s, broadcasting general directions rather than absolute control.
Oh sure it’s a horroble way to die but if the Doctor had showed some sympathy for Sveta, made, I dunno, a heartfelt spology or something, instead of going ” I don’t know you, I don’t care”, then maybe Sveta epuldn’t have gone all “I’m sorry but someone will die for sure so it might as well be you”.
*wouldn’t not epuldnt (?). Typing from the smartphone is a pain inthe ass.
I agree with you there, although in with Sveta’s mental state I doubt that would have really stopped her from picking the Doc.
Also, that would have given us some vestige of sympathetic emotion for D-M as opposed to the *checks threads* fourth thread being a filk rendition of “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead.”
It’s not so horrible.
Being crushed by super-strong razor tentacles doesn’t seem any worse than being shot or stabbed or run over by a bus to me.
It’s a quick violent death like any other quick violent death. There are much worse ways to go.
Honestly my reaction to Doctor Mothers death? Goddammit Cauldron, you fucked up again!
packbat on October 3, 2013 at 09:44 said:
Mine is similar, but more, “Goddammit, she was about to spill the beans!“
Same here, combined with “Argh! What would her power have been?!?”
Kyte on October 3, 2013 at 02:03 said:
So does the 2nd Entity have a spear through its chest? :V
Terminal Dogma?
TanaNari on October 3, 2013 at 10:38 said:
Neon Genesis Evangelion.
You’re either very old, or very young.
Or very not into watching anime. Or Gainax anime. Or just never got around to watching that one. Eva is hardly a universal experience for persons of a certain age. It’s not Star Wars or something.
Asmora got it right. Not a big anime fan.
I’m old… and feeling it when i remember I saw Star Wars and before it got retitled A new Hope at that…
I had far younger friend introduce me to anime and like everything else there are good bad and meh ones. Liked NGE until the ending…
same friend can’t stand star wars…at all.
Dripping formula down into a bit pool? I could see it.
Evangelion reference?
Wouldn’t be the first time parallels were drawn =P
Reminding me of Eva… Thanks for depressing me. Sigh, why did I have to be a Shinji/Rei shipper.
Oedipus complex?
No, I started Shipping before that particular plot twist. And every damn version they keep leading you on, giving you a sense of hope before taking… Fuck Jack Slash is on the writing staff.
slider214 on November 19, 2014 at 00:38 said:
Yes agreed. Until 4.0 comes out I refuse to admit that Rei from 2.0 is gone. That was an amazing example of love by the end. Damn 3.0 for utterly corrupting it!
You are not alone friend. I also ship Shinji and Rei. Asuka is toxic. Misato is okay but slightly squicky and really too broken to be good for him. Rei while biologically partly his mother does not have her soul and also is one of the only people to show a legitimate amount of feeling for Shinji. Plus he was ultimately the person who pulled her out and brought her to action both when she was half a soul and when she was complete. Rei and Shinji are one of the only healthy relationships in that entire show. Which is exceptionally weird and sad.
storryeater on May 4, 2015 at 18:04 said:
Seriousy?you read Worm and NGE depresses you?lolwut.
slider214 on May 4, 2015 at 23:27 said:
Worm may be mega dark (ESPECIALLY now) but at least the characters mostly still have a sense of humor. The only humor present in NGE was…um…Pen-Pen? Maybe…yeah…I’ve having a hard thinking of anything funny in that series honestly lol.
With the mention of Cauldrons experiments with 2nd Triggers is it possible that Grey Boy was the result of them and is the reason why they written it off because of the inherent mental instability seen in all 2nd trigger capes along with the lack of restraints needed to fight someone like Scion?
Hold on, what?
I think Gray Boy was a Cauldron cape, but either way their reason for not using him on Scion was one part “It doesn’t work when Scion cares” and 3-5 parts “Both the original and the clone are quite firmly dead”.
I think he’s speculating that Grey Boy was some sort of Caudron’s experiment that went wrong ( they do say they sold him powerS, plural) and that they stopped pursuing that lead when they saw what they had created.
Cauldron’s plan is kind of odd.
If I’m following it right, it boils down to “The only plan that could work is to throw all kinds of stuff at Scion and hope something sticks. We are the best at throwing all kinds of stuff at Scion, so we’re in charge. There’s no point in planning for everybody dying, so when we’re not coming up with new stuff to throw at him, we’ll plan on how to rebuild.”
It’s not even . . . *bad,* really, for a God-killing plan, I mean, aside from “maybe try it with less atrocities?” I can’t actually think of a better one myself.
But usually for someone so certain they should be in charge you’d expect them to have a *thing* that they expect to work.
Alathon on October 3, 2013 at 03:11 said:
The thing that’s always struck me as profoundly shortsighted about Cauldron’s conduct is that they even felt a need to go to involuntary experimentation. Every one of those kidnappings could have been serviced in some less evil, coercive, and enemy-making fashion. People will do that shit for free just hoping for powers, never mind powers-and-maybe-my-cancer-is-cured. Shit, as many people as die of cancer every year, Cauldron could have serviced their needs out of that pool of desperate humans alone.
I dunno. Maybe with the way powers worked, Cauldron figured secrecy was the only defense that could ever work, keep their organization intact over the years? But that’s mighty thin.
Robert on October 3, 2013 at 03:22 said:
They did, at least partially, draw from dying people: Newter was a war casualty, for instance, recovered by Alexandria and gave at least an uninformed agreement. The problem is they (imperfectly?) wiped their memories so no-one remembered agreeing to the process, or what they were saved from (and according to Sveta not everyone even agreed).
Reading this chapter? They drew wholly from dying people and volunteers (sometimes dying volunteers). I don’t know if Daniel has caught up yet, but he’s convinced me: the problem with Cauldron is that they weren’t nice, not that they were evil. Doctor Mother monofocus on defeating Scion distracted her from the fact that she needed allies, not assets.
Shit, all she had to do was provide support for the Case 53s instead of dump them like garbage, whether they wipe their memories or not. That angry mob that came after her? That could have easily been a loyal army.
And to build on you two, the best armies are those that are voluntary rather than those who are conscripted. Even if they agreed in sound mind, and it doesn’t sound like Sveta did, then erasing their memory keeps them from knowing it was voluntary to any degree to be worth a damn.
This update is kind of like if the general who was behind their conscription was in the field alongside his involuntary soldiers and one of them fragged him while the North Vietnamese attacked.
Correction: *one of them fragged him (for cowardice in the face of the enemy) while the North Vietnamese attacked.
nohat on October 4, 2013 at 12:03 said:
The problem is: they had Contessa. They had who knows how many other thinkers and precogs. What’s more they actually used them well. So we really can’t criticise anything Cauldron did because the alternative was apparently worse.
Pandemonious Ivy on October 4, 2013 at 12:13 said:
Also, if you recall, Weld tried the “loyalty and respect to the 53s” thing. They ripped him apart.
The problem with saying that anything else they did would have been worse is that part of their plan was getting random powers. Ones that they did not know what would occur. If Countessa was really THAT powerful she would know which vial and formula exactly needed to be given to who, when where and how. There wouldn’t have been any guessing.
In regards to the Case 53’s that means the only ones out there would have been intentional. In fact it makes everything every single itty consequence of Cauldrons actions an intentional effect. But because Cauldron hasn’t known what might work, what will come of their efforts etc, that means that Countessa’s power is inherently limited.
If she really is dead as seems likely, then thats one more piece of evidence that she has not seen clearly the path to victory, that other powers do affect her even if she would like to think or claim that they do not. We already know that her abilities can come with drawbacks.
The conversation convincing Eidolon to stop taking power up shots. Yes, the ‘path to victory’ there was for her to remain silent and she knows that. But even Eidolon knew that another path would have been for Contessa to talk to him and convince him. Still a victory, but with negative long term results.
Victory can come in many forms. Phyric being one of them. Who is to say that her power leads to the ‘best’ victory, not just the easiest or even a random one. How well can she choose to define just what victory is before seeing the path?
Skychan:
Good points about the restrictions on Contessa’s power. It’s definitely odd that should could see around the blindness caused by the endbringers and scion and still pull off her victories (some of which only come about because of what those blind spots do eg bonesaw handing over control keys). It seems like Mantellum might have a better blindness power than Scion. It actively forces powers to ignore him, so they can’t route around the damage so to speak. The fact that her power worked at all when mantellum existed, and his influence radiated outward causally… well perhaps it just indicates some other limitation on Mantellums power, or perhaps that the only path to victory included her death, or that she hid so she would survive scions attack. Regardless we know she can choose victory to mean a pretty wide range of things, and apply it to far in the future. So Cauldrons choice to mind wipe case 53’s seems pretty secure.
I’m pretty sure the big problem is limited to the imperfect mind wipes.
That, and the general secrecy.
Lets face it as much as most Case 53’s lives suck, they would have had a number turn on them. Sure we see them grabbing dying people and asking them if they want to live. But a lot of Case 53’s would probably aurgue afterwards they would have rather died then live these sucky freak lives, and then gone revenge anyways.
But hell a lost of issues are cropping up with Cauldron’s methodology.
I was referring to specifically the major issue with Cauldron’s 53-management policy.
Actually, there’s kind of a beautiful moment here re: the mind-wiping and all that. I don’t even think that the problem is whether they were nice enough, or whether they imperfectly mind-wiped people or had too much secrecy going.
The problem is a bit of a loop.
Imagine the following:
Extra-Dimension Conspiracy Auditor #1:
“Okay Dr, thank you for joining us. You’re dealing with a class Purple-Z threat, so tell me about your plans for fighting back”
Dr. Mother: “Well, it’s multi-pronged and relies on precognition, pericognition, petercognition, experimentation, hope and . . .stuff. We’ll prepare several approaches for dealing with the apocalypse, some of which involve setting up redundant societal infrastructure and others which will ensure the continued existence of the human species”
#1: “Interesting, let me make a note here. You mentioned experimentation?”
Dr. Mother: “Yes. We need to unlock the properties of powers, so we’re using human experimentation to gradually tests which powers work and provide us with abilities to fight the Entity. As a side note, we’ve discovered that the the powers we provide give a certain meta-physical defence against discovery, aiding us more.”
#1: “Excellent. You are dealing with a creature that appears to be nearly omniscient, secrecy is important. Human experimentation is a bit of an ethical problem, though – it skirts some guidelines”
Dr. Mother: “Not to worry, Auditor! We’re relying on informed consent. Our formula provide small bits of host optimization when they take root, and many people suffering will accept the aid when stacked against death or suffering”
#1: “Huh, indeed. Good call. But how will you preserve secrecy, if many people know you’re handing out vials?”
Dr. Mother: “There’s a bit of a lucky break there. We’ve got the ability to selectively remove memories, so after the subjects agree to our procedure, we’ll remove their memories if neccesary”
[Auditor tilts head gradually, blinking in confusion]
#1: “I’m sorry, could you repeat that?”
Dr. Mother: “It obviously will not do for multiple cases of deviant parahumans running around providing clues to our general existence, so removing the memories of our involvement offers us the greatest long term protection”
#1: “Removing their memories include, say, removing the memories of their lives prior to Cauldron intervention?”
Dr. Mother: “Naturally. They would die otherwise. We offer them a chance to live”
#1: “Indeed. Would I be correct in surmising that you would also remove their memories of granting informed consent along with the natural circumstances that lead them to granting you this?”
Dr. Mother: “I’m not sure where you’re going with this, Auditor”
#1: “Just wondering out loud.”
Dr. Mother: “It provides us the best chances and protection”
#1: “Mhmhm, yesyes. Say, once this rag-tag band of deviant parahumans gather in a horde and demand vengeance for you twisting them into demented mockeries of nature, would you have an answer for them?”
Dr. Mother: “Obviously. They granted consent to our procedure–”
#1: “I’m just going to interupt, sorry, look – they granted consent based on circumstances, events and lives they no longer remember”
Dr. Mother: “We’ve all given more than just memories in this fight”
#1: “Possibly, but I’m going to think it’ll be a little hard to convince an angry group of parahumans who no longer remember giving you permission to experiment on them that you explicitly asked for permission first. It’s also probably going to be harder to explain why their lives prior to their memories being removed is more important than all the suffering and despair they’ve gone through afterwards. Pain caused in part by your experiments, those experiments being the only mutual thing they all clearly remember as a traceable root for their present agony. ”
Dr. Mother: “They gave us their lives. We gave them continued life, a new existence, a new identity, a motive for fighting.”
#1: “They might still be upset?”
Dr. Mother: “No, we’re relying on the honour system to ensure they don’t do something rash. I’m a believer in the graciousness of the human spirit. I’m sure their gratitude will win out over any latent animosity. People are basically inclined to forgive incredibly violations of their very humanity based on spurious reasoning they don’t remember consenting to, yeah?”
#1: “I’m absolutely certain that will not possibly backfire in some hideously ironic way what-so-ever. I’m green-lighting this plan. Go ahead.”
slider214 on June 29, 2015 at 20:57 said:
I think you’d be hard pressed to find someone accusing Doctor Mother of being intelligent lol. There are many words for that woman but the “i” one is not normally mentioned in her orbit. Well, an “i” word is…but not that one ;).
stevebot7 on October 3, 2013 at 03:18 said:
Also, whatever happened to Smurf’s dartgun? Didn’t she hit Scion with it, or did he deflect it or something?
I like that Lab Rat apparently is a more practical evil scientist than Doctor Mother is. He at least prepared for plans going awry, whereas DM completely dropped the ball. But I guess, even at the end of it, she was only human after all. It would have been too convenient for there to be a handy big red button to hit and automatically blend a martini as soon as the golden fool showed up.
She hit him with it alright. We just haven’t seen any effect yet. But it’s the Smurf; long term sneaky planning his her thing.
John Campbell on July 9, 2015 at 17:01 said:
It was her hair dryer, apparently. She was protecting it because it’s a vital part of the hair-care routine that keeps her looking like a shampoo commercial.
a power that allows one to take over a nearby parahuman’s mind, body and powers automatically on death.
Pretender or Glaistig Uaine? Or someone else entirely?
peter o on October 3, 2013 at 05:56 said:
Butcher, with out having to share.
Ooh yes, that fits. I was thinking “on others’ death” not on your own.
My first thought was Butcher, too.
Regent maybe
Regent is a known natural cape.
Nardia Kelly (@indigodecay) on October 3, 2013 at 14:19 said:
Cauldron’s powers are taken from the Thinking Entity(?), right? While natural powers are given by Scion. Both of them retain many of the same shards in their whole forms, with some adjustments to orient them to their specific tasks as partners. So it’s entirely possible similar powers could have emerged from both, but with different spins on them.
Regent could jump to another body, but ultimately the host still has freedom of the mind. Whereas a cape like Butcher was able to influence the mind, but not the body. (Small detail though because after sharing a headspace with Butcher most seemed to merge with that personality and the new/old “Butcher” would come to agreements about how to use the body.) Same power for both entities, or something like that, just geared to different purposes.
At any rate it’s well known Imp had no problems sharing her body with him so jumping into it would have been easy for him at a dire moment, IF that was a logical progression of his talents.
Perhaps all the clues pointing to his potential survival are nothing but teasing coincidences, but I feel we’d be remiss as readers to dismiss the possibility completely.
Natural powers are not limited to Scion. There is at least one known instance of a natural-powered cape with a Counterpart shard: the first cape ever.
Regent didn’t have the ability to jump bodies ala Pretender, he had the ability to remotely take control of another person and push their consciousness into the background.
I second the people who say this sounds a lot more like Butcher’s schtick…
Of course this is useless. Without limitations it couldn’t possibly cause someone to merge with Scion and if not gain control of him at least temper his actions with the morality and or knowledge and experience of a fully grown person.
Emotion seems to be key here. Scion is looking for it and DM doesn’t have it and so discounts it. What if all we really needed was a way to bridge that gap between ignorance and knowledge in Scion and getting someone who drank that killed with Scion the only recipient has a potential to do that.
“Useless” she calls it. While I see at LEAST one possible path to success through it. That’s avoiding the possibility that it could recreate an Eidolon through attrition as the new ‘butcher’ could run at scion, die, pick up more powers and a new body, run at scion die, lather rince repeat until we have a new worm. A being with just as many shards as scion does.
Doctor Mom is quite blind.
Eh… there was a LOT of stuff in this one.
Dr. Mother is … not exactly a parahuman. Or at least not yet. In theory it should be the candidate for an howdyshard, except Contessa does not have one, nor a zombieshard.
I guess we’ll have her in a desperate situation to trigger. Like having every plan of her shattered, Scion confronting the counterpart, dying of serious injury. Something like that.
Good job not even remembering Sveta’s serial number btw, how very human of you.
Skitter already got her second trigger, this answer an important question: why Aidan’s shard sucked so much compared to hers. It was not because he was separated from her.
I guess the administration shard was really crippled a lot btw.
As a side note, Wildbow did promise no new second triggers for main characters.
You know what’s a good way to boost nanites? Have other kinds of nanites helping them, they’re very synergistic if you know what you’re doing.
You know what’s a good way to deliver nanites? With an air gun.
Sure, to get the synergy just right you probably need to see the future or something…
Things are picking up. The last few updates were a little… tired? This one is much more lively.
*** You know what’s a good way to boost nanites? Have other kinds of nanites helping them, they’re very synergistic if you know what you’re doing.
Sure, to get the synergy just right you probably need to see the future or something… ***
That’s a VERY interesting theory.
Has Simurgh spent any significant amount of time near Bonesaw, by chance?
Because I was just thinking, what if Scion’s human side was sufficiently vulnerable to some sort of bacteria capable of getting into a human brain and messing with its ability to recognize people and allowed someone else to masquerade as the second entity as far as Scion knew?
@EN
You’re thinking THIRD trigger aren’t you?
Patrick Reitz (@dreamfarer) on October 3, 2013 at 10:22 said:
You know, there is one thing that strikes me as odd about Taylor’s shard – Scion “cripples and largely destroys it”, meaning (I presume) functionality is flat out lost from it, irretrievably so. My question is wouldn’t Scion eventually kinda need those Administrator abilities again once he re-merged with his partner?
In fact crippling any of the shards is a little odd in that the reason for passing them out is, ostensibly, to let them gestate and grow more powerful. I can see suppressing some of the functionality so the hosts can’t use it against you, but destroying it seems counterproductive (unless its functionality you have no interest in retaining anyways).
If a shard is too scary to let into the hands of a host because they might work around the suppression then the answer would seem to be “don’t give it out in the first place”.
That may also point to one of the limitations in the entities. They don’t take risks. Scion selected a reality where he couldn’t see any chance of the “hosts” defeating him, but that had to come at the expense of realities where there was a tiny chance the hosts could defeat him and a larger pay off in terms of shard growth if they didn’t.
Presumably, the shards can all be un-crippled when they get them back. Maybe they end up with the equivalent of the flu when they get all the shards back.
Un-cripple, maybe, but un-“largely destroyed”? That seems much tougher.
Unconceivable!
You’ve committed one of the classic blunders, only the most famous of which are never get involved in a land war in Asia and never go in against a Scicilian when Death is on the line. Slightly less well known is that you should never engage with Psycho Gecko in a battle of wits.
To ^AMR:
Unless you’re me. Check the last time Gecko tried to snark me. Or the one before that, or the one before that… My favorite – Don’t know where it was at in the chapters, but my comment was something about villainous monologues. He cut in and tried to roshambo, I cut off his hand. He grew it back, clearly, but I wasn’t out for blood anyway so I’m fine with just collecting style points.
That said, endgame’s comment was, I think, misapplied. If he *is* going to step up to p. gecko, I hope he’ll at least try to use his memes correctly – if I were Gecko, I wouldn’t even bother with this, it’s like beating up a kitten trying to chew your Playstation power cord.
I read that as “cripple a lot”.
Well. The Entities can *uncripple* the shards as well. So there’s nothing irretrievable. Except with Scion blasting them all. That’s fatal *even to shards* as shown by GU’s losing of powers thanks to him.
He’s still using something to control himself. Presumably there are aspects unique or primary to the administrator shard (mass-control, fine-control, or something similar) and aspects not unique (control of shards, or perhaps interdimensional range). Mass fine-control of shards is too dangerous, so he removes the ‘shards’ part and can reintroduce it later (after the shard has improved/reproduced) by copying from another similar shard.
We know the ‘controls shards’ part isn’t unique due to Glaistig, Grue and whatever Scion himself is using, but I don’t think we’ve seen anyone with Taylor’s level of mass simultaneous control and precision. Even Glaistig could only summon three simultaneous shades, and Eidolon could hold about as many powers.
This would also explain why he could cast off Taylor’s shard, and why he did it last: he needed it to control his full body, but not the smaller (a ten-thousandth of a percent of their original size, according to Scion’s interlude).
Of course Aiden’s copy is a bit weird in that respect, but there’s a chance he didn’t inherit everything from the original shard as they were separated so quickly and for so long.
Loki-L on October 3, 2013 at 04:23 said:
So after everyone in the comments has clamoured for Taylor to get bigger powers through a second trigger event for ages, we finally get word that not only won’t she ever have one, but also that perhaps no amount of powers, natural or otherwise will be the key to defeat scion.
They will need to come up with a clever solution targeting the parts of him that are human. Perhaps influencing him with words or something.
On a different note, Scion coming face to face with his partner, feels a lot like an Angel breaking into Terminal Dogma to come face to face with a crucified Adam/Lilith.
Also I just got a new one upon having your arm crushed says a lot about the character and the situation they are in.
I’ve wondered that maybe the only way to beat Zion may not be powers, but words since those seem to be the only things that humans have that can affect and influence him, look at Norton & Jack, their words shaped his outlook and actions. So maybe Taylor talks him into committing suicide?
Curtis on October 3, 2013 at 10:56 said:
It was mentioned at some point that the existence of healing powers changes the way people (capes more specifically) think about their injuries. Taylor is now a great example of that.
I’d like to take a moment here and deny your heinous accusations. I NEVER pushed for a second Skitter trigger (I did inquire, but more out of a fatalistic dread.)
I’ve always wanted Skitter to just get more creative with her sciencing. So many things bugs can already do… she’s yet to use the power of termites, for example, and their so many and myriad symbiotic affiliations with fungi and bacteria and all the wonderful hair-raising horror-movie-inspiring chemist-boner-inspiring things some termites do to fuck up the day of anything that crosses their path… and that’s just ONE example.
Another one: I think Wildbow has been conservative in his estimates of how quickly and efficiently insects can strip a creature to its bones if they’re really trying – in real life, I’ve estimated that a horde of insects the sizes he’s describing could strip a fully grown man in less than 10 minutes. (Comparison: a colony of army ants 1/100th the size of one of Taylor’s swarms can do it to a 400-lbd. animal in 10 minutes… and the rest the foliage for yards around, for that matter… credit where it’s due though, army ants are horrifying.) I get that he’s going for believability, but sometimes insects are just flat-out unfuckingbelievable. Add Taylor’s ability to coordinate and trade out full insects for hungry ones at a near-perfect efficiency, and you have a recipe for a truly awe-inspiring display of insect-themed disintegration, a la The Mummy scarabs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSkC2Pjj-pE
I think, honestly, that Taylor is capable of more than she’s given credit for, and she’s given credit for a LOT by this point. Just by virtue of the fact that, despite everything, the insect kingdom is STILL being underutilized and underrepresented. She could create clouds of poisonous gas AT WILL if she knew the science… she could heat up an area for acres around into a blast furnace with the right bugs (some generate ridiculous amounts of heat) or use hive-bugs like termites, roaches (yes roaches – look up their closest entomological relatives), bees and wasps to create her own ‘containment foam’ practically instantaneously…
As an in-story example, with the number of bugs she was supposed to have access to, she could have rendered Jack Slash and Bonesaw into bone fragments and newly-homeless cybernetic implants, or rendered she could move earth at a rate faster than a bulldozer, hell almost as fast as Golem can create one of his giant hands… but for purposes of plot, the real-world capabilities of bugs have been downplayed. I’m okay with that, but it needs to be recognized, she does not and never has NEEDED a second trigger.
Bugs are just really that fucking dangerous already.
Hell, I think with the right plan she could have held her own against an Endbringer DIRECTLY. Think: if she ever figured out that she could breed LOCUSTS… anybody remember how fast those fuckers breed, and just how dangerous they are? They’re in the Bible for a reason, Chuckles.
Loki-L, your allegations against me are baseless and libelous. That is all. ^_^
Well if she survives this Taylor could get a degree in entemology. Oh wait, their probably aren’t any colleges or entimoligests left.
TeaSpoon on October 3, 2013 at 04:51 said:
Didn’t Noelle have three triggers in sequence right after she took her potion? Oliver did too, I think, and he drank from the same vial. Maybe Cauldron was working on a formula that granted multiple trigger events. Or maybe drinking only part of a vial has weird effects.
the13thversifier on October 3, 2013 at 09:34 said:
no clear description if Noelle got more than one trigger event(s), all we know back then was a very lengthy mumbo jumbo alien sight, so lengthy Krouse had to hold ground for them before they teleport somewhere safer
Patrick (@patbrry) on October 11, 2013 at 04:41 said:
i think the vial had seperated – the balance formula spillting from the stuff that Noelle drank.
Oliver got a tiny bit of the transform power and a full dose of balance, hence his very subtle ability.
The Sandman on October 3, 2013 at 06:52 said:
I think I just figured out what Cauldron’s problem really is.
They’ve spent all this time following Contessa’s “path to victory”, right?
Well, apparently they never figured out that the one whose victory this was a path to was Scion.
Not Scion’s. The Third Entity’s. It has been my personal headcanon since we’ve found out that Contessa’s shard is alive and unknown to Scion.
I’m sorry, I’ve not been keeping up with the comments: what’s the basis of the Contessa-is-a-third-entity’s-power theory?
It’s this line from the 26.x Interlude:
“It looked at the female, and it saw a shard that wasn’t its own, but wasn’t dead.”
That was in reference to Countessa. So her shard isn’t from Scion (its own) or his partner (dead) that doesn’t leave a lot of other viable sources aside from the 3rd Entity. At least not that we’ve been introduced to.
*checks*
Aha! Thanks muchly!
Aaand that freudian typo (CoUntessa) now gets us a Harbinger->Contessa connection. 😛
Unmaker on October 3, 2013 at 10:41 said:
Scion’s episode. He identifies Contessa as having a living shard that is not his. By inference, since the partner is dead, this leaves the third entity.
Thanks! Yes, Contessa being a third-entity shard seems probable. I’ll go edit TV Tropes.
The other possibility is that not all of the second entities shards died. It could have begun the process of releasing them and some died, some lived, and some were warped. At least that’s the impression I got. It is Sions lack of recognition that makes me supportive of the third entity theory.
Reworded the TV Tropes page to be less speculative, but that makes sense.
Teruzi on October 3, 2013 at 07:01 said:
Oh Sveta, you are sweet even as you mangle and crush the people all around you. What a great chapter. Did all the others that went into the chamber were crushed by the ceiling? Did only Taylor and Sveta survive the collapse? Also, the other entity lives! or is a dead body or something, next chapter may be as trippy as Scions interlude.
I wonder if a dead space-worm can have an interlude…
Alternatively I’m going either with Pretender (to understand what the heck the Vegas team was talking bout) or Contessa (she ain’t dead until they find her corpse and Lung rips her head off her shoulders to be sure).
Maybe it’s only mostly dead. (Big difference between mostly dead and all dead. If they’re all dead there’s only one thing left to do.)
any1 notice where shadow stalker have gone out to? KIA??? Out of commission?
last time she’s just barely said goodbye to taylor, has she??
She ran last chapter. Little miss crossbow (as PG put it) bolted for the exit once Taylor made it clear there was no exit further down.
Of course, the fact that she ran doesn’t mean that she made it … or that she didn’t turn around and come back….
I vote “didn’t make it”. Scion is not known for mercy.
Scion is also so close to his counterpart that he probably wouldn’t give a damn about some fleeing low-level cape.
I don’t think he noticed said counterpart at the time. I’m not sure, though.
They were in the middle of a facility that was part of multiple dimensions at once with some sort of column there that caused Doctor’s room to swap to another dimension as well.
Who knows where Shadow Stalker wound up by now?
In a more traditional story Shadow Stalker would pull a Han Solo and turn around to play cavalry at the decisive moment and they would be friends ever after. In a slightly darker story she would still turn around and make a difference but gain her redemption through sacrificing her own life.
Here? She probably got killed offscreen either running away or to the rescue, but in either case she died alone knowing that nobody would ever know or care about her fate despite what she had been told earlier.
So. A thought occurred to me today.
What happens to the stuff shredded by the nano-thorns? Doesn’t it sever all atomic bonds, leaving behind a bunch of carbon, hydrogen, etc atoms?
farmerbob1 on October 3, 2013 at 15:06 said:
If it shreds all atomic bonds, anything it touched would explode with energy equal to mc^2. It does seem to shred all chemical bonds though.
Atomic bonds as in bonds between atoms not bonds within nuclei. Not breaking the nucleus of a atom just the chemical bonds between the atom and its neighbor.
Possibly it only shreds covalent bonds (or their counterpart in non-polar molecules). I think that’s what he was going for.
Shredding covalent bonds still creates a lot of free atoms, seeing as that is pretty much all that holds together most of the human body, molecules in the air, etc.
Sveta’s body count is in the triple digits? Damn, I figured a few dozen. I guess the PRT did just keep sending them in. Also her body decides what she grabs to eat, so she ended up eating a lot of things that she never would have. And I imagine a lot if not all the case 53’s have problems like that. And the women (or men) of kleenex issue is in full force for them. And Doctor Mother is completely indifferent to it.
She wasn’t based in America at the outset, so the PRT had no involvement for some time.
Okay, that makes sense. Man I can imagine the horror that must have been. To the people in whatever area Sveta was in, this terrifying monster comes through, just killing anything that gets near it. It seems to be made of razorwire, with this girls face stuck in it, begging them to run. And poor Sveta… You know I can see her body sometimes after dealing with a mob or something deciding it’s time to eat, and there’s some freshly squeezed right at hand….
Thank god, if the PRT were handling things her body count would be in the quadruple digits.
DasNiveau on October 4, 2013 at 05:24 said:
Or a lot lower. Sveta vs Glory Girl or Alexandria … a cought Sveta.
I’ll give you Alexandria. But Glory Girl? She’d probably try to handle it like a normal supervillain fight and end up punching Sveta into a crowded office or something.
Not to mention Glory Girl’s invulnrabilty wasn’t so good. Remember, a good hit and it briefly goes down. Something Crawler was able to exploit to horrific degrees.
Yup yup. Sveta has a *lot* of good hits handy…
sarah penguin on October 3, 2013 at 12:53 said:
Oh wow. This is going to be interesting.
Drakeneisen on October 3, 2013 at 13:08 said:
To summarize much of the dialog in this chapter:
Dr. Mother: “For you, the day when mutated parahumans kidnapped you from your village and brought you to our extradimensional base where you were turned into a monster was the most important day of your life.
For me, it was Tuesday.”
After that, is anyone surprised by the ironic supervillain death?
Bison was way cooler than Dr Mother (and the only good thing in that film).
For us, the day we saw Raoul Julia play M. Bison was just another day watching a bad videogame-based movie.
But for him, it was what he let his kids pick out as his last film role while his health was failing.
Well, let’s see. Plans inside plans inside plans. How planned were the events leading to Doctor Mother’s apparent death.
Let’s see, she happens to carry a special container of the potentially unlimited power juice with her down to the one place in all of existence where Scion might actually be counted on to perhaps lose himself in thought, or perhaps even waste some absurd amount of energy to try to resurrect his mate.
He’s been expending a lot of power, but not too much. But he can’t use his predictive powers against his mate, or he would never have been surprised about her no-show, or confused in any way about where she was.
So here he has been using all this power to defeat the humans, and there is his mate. How much power to resurrect her?
How much of this is planned? Who planned it?
And now for the fridge logic moment.
Where did Doctor Mother drop the dose? On the stairs. Where did Sveta to the boa constrictor trick with constantino wire on Doctor Mother? On the stairs.
So, Doctor Mother is being sliced and diced and crushed to death while being asphyxiated and probably going into brain death due to blood loss. This is at the same time that her blood is pooling and mixing with the contents of the vial.
It appears as if Doctor Mother has access to the entire vial despite Scion’s actions. Additionally, it appears as if she gets to absorb the vial’s contents at the same time that she would be highly likely to be experiencing a “natural” trigger.
So what happens when a natural trigger occurs at the same time that an induced trigger happens? She had already started to be exposed to the artificial trigger’s effects before Sveta gave her a good excuse for a natural trigger.
So… First trigger event, exposure to a vial with few limits. Second trigger event reduces limits even further. The second trigger event is a physical brutalization, a mind altering event due to blood loss in the brain, and even a sensory deprivation event due to being cocooned, so the chances of physical resilience, mental abilities, and travel power manifestations are extremely possible.
And she is allowed to have this potential double trigger event at the one time when Scion might not be paying close attention to everything occurring around him. This might have been part of the plan, but I doubt she was expecting the “opportunity” to double-trigger via Sveta.
So what DO you have hidden in that fridge anyway, Wildbow?
dpara on October 4, 2013 at 15:20 said:
Well if we are in the WAG field.
Who says Doctor Mother did not pick the “take over a cape after death” vial?
(and Dr. Mother is now Sveta…)
to slow.. should read all the comments before posting xD
The problem is that we didn’t have one of those trippy sequences that happen when someone triggers around other capes.
Stop on October 3, 2013 at 16:44 said:
*croak*
“Hello, my baby
Hello, my honey
Hello, my ragtime gal
Send me a kiss by wire
Baby, my hearts on fire
If you refuse me
Honey, you’ll lose me
Then you’ll be left alone
Oh baby, telephone
And tell me I’m your own”
what I was thinking at the end.
“So that’s why Scion was so sad. His partner…she croaked.”
Did he have the soup or the special?
Clearly he had the special soup.
Roths on October 3, 2013 at 16:46 said:
I’ve caught up at last! Now I’m in the same boat as everyone else with waiting for updates.
If Taylor triggered twice in quick succession what is the extension to her power? I was expecting her to trigger further down the line and unleash her full administrator potential.
Wildbow, I’ve spotted minor typos throughout but I’ve enjoyed the story too much to bring them up. Going to go back over and pick them all out if that’s ok? It depends how polished you need/want this to be.
I think that bug control is the original power, and the second one was the ability to perceive their senses. If she hadn’t triggered twice in the locker she would probably have had to play everything by eye and wouldn’t be able to order the really precise tasks.
Wartooth on October 3, 2013 at 19:28 said:
That…makes entirely too much sense.
I agree with Reveen on this one, especially in light of Wildbow just saying “Aiden”
This. Me too.
I agree, but the other way around.
The way I see it “being able to sense bugs without controlling them” seems more terrifying than “controlling bugs without sensing them”.
I sighed, “It’s hard to explain what it’s like, having a new sense open up, but you can’t understand it all. Every sound that they heard was bounced back to me at a hundred times the volume, with the pitch and everything else all screwed up as if they wanted to make it as unpleasant and painful to listen to as possible. Even what they were seeing, it’s like having my eyes open after being in the dark for a long time, but the eyes weren’t attached to my body, and what they were seeing was like looking into a really dingy, grimy kaleidoscope. Thousands of them. And I didn’t know how to turn any of it off.”
Taken from 4.3. So I think she had her second trigger from the stress of sensory overload from sensing all the bugs and got multitasking/processing powers to be able to handle it.
I think her multitasking isn’t a second power per-se, but a side effect to make using the power easier like Rachel’s thing with dogs. Second triggers usually give an extension of the power rather than something needed to properly use the original.
letseveryonemorality on October 3, 2013 at 22:44 said:
Which makes me suspicious that we either haven’t seen what her second trigger actually did yet, or the effect has been so subtle that it’s hard to actually notice it.
I’m thinking it’s either going to be related to Taylor’s ability to control insects even while unconscious, or it’ll be related to her ability to assess the properties of powers.
If it’s the first option, it might actually be flat out control of shards, she’s just never been close enough to one to know she has this control, while her connection to her own shard would bypass some of her range limits, giving her limited control of it in this way when her normal control fails.
All I’ll say is, ‘Aiden’.
I’m not sure if this means that we should look at the differences between Taylor’s shard and Aiden’s (and why would Taylor’s shard pass on restrictions it no longer had?) or if Aiden’s shard is Taylor’s second trigger (and DM/NM don’t quite understand second triggers as well as they think).
Hrm wasn’t there a mention at one point that a passenger, when it learns enough, can either reproduce if the host is not stressed OR trigger a second event in the host if the host is stressed sufficiently? Taylor never had a real second trigger, her passenger simply reproduced, and the child passenger is capable of controlling more complex animals than Taylor.
There was also a mention, by Scion I think, that the child and parent passengers can learn from each other? He seemed a bit disappointed that Taylor’s passenger and her passenger’s offspring were not in proximity to each other.
Kessler on October 4, 2013 at 11:14 said:
I wonder if Weaver can control Aiden’s birds, like he is a relay. Or anything that Shards split from hers can control.
Welcome to the boat. Try to mind the rum while you’re here. You’re not alone. There be many a crewman and crewwoman aboard. We take anyone who makes the crew cut. It’s a slow-moving ship, but it’s nearing the end of its voyage as we follow along our route.
While you’re here, perhaps we can tie you to a mast and force you to listen to us sing? Not because we’re sirens and will drive you onto the rocks, no, we’re just not very good singers.
Or mayhap you’d like to sit and watch the ships? We’re in a very active shipping lane. According to other people around here, the USS Taylor works well with just about any other vessel you could find. Even the USS Imp, which is best known for its association with the Regent until the Regent was lost to lightning in a storm on the Indian Ocean.
If all you want to do is go over the manifest and critique the spelling errors, that’s fine too, but know that we’re all up here, partying away, sharing the booty *points to a treasure chest with the word “Bootay!” written on it* and waiting to see who next gets their spotter yanked out of the crow’s nest and their cargo gutted by a sharp-witted administrator.
Welcome, Roths, to the comments section.
In that case just show me where the rum is and I’ll be on my merry way! Glad to be aboard! It’s been a hard swim.
That’s right kiddies, it’s time to play…
GUESS. THE. POWER!!!!
To start the ball rolling, here’s what they suggest to me:
Abel: Presumably as in “Cain and…”. “Cain” in this context would suggest some power that fed off of ferocity, while “Abel” could be any number of things having to do with being the victim. Regeneration, to aid in shrugging off stab wounds. Danger sense, to aid in knowing how to evade an attack. Presumably breaker-esque powers.
Abbatoir: Something to do with cutting or blood. Was Crimson a Cauldron cape or a natural trigger? Striker or brute.
Access: Mover or shaker a la Shuffle (or the guy who can change the rooms of a building around. Maybe also a lockpicking tinker.
Ace: Definitely Blaster-style. Maybe Gambit-style object empowerment?
Aegis: We’ve seen this one before, as a protective measure on Sundancer’s power.
Air: Mover – blaster, having to do with wind. That hypothetical power that Weaver gave that one kid who complained about getting bad luck.
Alchemy: Tinker power, possibly having to do with chemistry. NEXT!
Alias: ability to disconnect one’s name from one’s actions? Definitely sounds stranger-ish.
Alpha: My mind immediately jumps to “Alpha male” connotations, which presumably means its a Master power. Possibly like Bitch, possibly like King, possibly something along the lines of “attention control.”
Amaze: Blaster, possibly Leonid’s formula.
Any other takers?
Abel: something about working with animals or directing them in some way, maybe even like Bitch with strengthening them. Able was a shepherd.
Abbatoir: powers where you have to kill someone for it, like Moord Nag (however it’s spelled) or Glaistig.
Access: Stranger powers that allow you to influence people.
Ace: Trump stuff where you could wind up with a really good power, or a really bad power.
Aegis: yeah, probably protective or a shield.
Air: One-fifth of the powers necessary to summon a benevolent Scion-like creature with blue skin and green hair who claims to want to protect the planet. Alternatively, something involving gas like the Slaughterhouse Nix or Nyx or whatever, or that guy who turned into smoke from the gang of mighty whiteys.
Alchemy: The ability to turn lead into gold, or the ability to alter metals. Possibly changing one substance to another.
Alias: the ability to fuck up a decent spy drama by relying on Nostradamus-style gizmos and mythology. Alternately some ability, like Stranger or shapeshifting, to alter what one looks like. Could refer to something like what Vista could do where it distorts things given its use with digital imaging. Possibly some projection as well given the term’s use in computing.
Alpha: The ability to go “ayayayayay!” while a robot. Can’t think of many powers having to do with being first.
Amaze: something to shock and stun people, make people unable to react, or to construct a confusing layout, perhaps in some sort of cornfield as Halloween approaches.
Vial names aren’t for one classification of powers. They are a summarization of what is in common in all cases where that vial has been taken. A vial named “Jupiter” produces: 1) powerful blackhole esque effect that can be applied to different surfaces, 2) freezes everyone within range, I.e. prevents them from moving, 3) case 53 that is basically a core with a loose amalgam of “parts” orbiting it, can touch something and subsume it into the orbit /shoot things accurately from it, 4) switches the effects of gravity between two objects (gravity treats a stick as if it were as heavy as a tree, for example). Just made up examples, so yeah, recognize that the titles represent the core of each result, and major deviances can be found in everything else.
But puzzling out the common denominator is kind of the point.
Sooooo, is it bad that I imagined Looney Tunes sound effects while Frau Doktor was getting splattered? Pfftt, no of course not!
That said, there are going to be a few problems now that she’s gone. First thing is that we don’t know if the Number Men and Pretendria are going to be co-operative, or if they can figure out how to use Doorman to get the hell out of dodge. Sveta loose will be a problem but they might be able to use the Number Kids to play patty-cake with them until they find out a way to keep her calm. Oh, and the giant dead inter-dimensional monster thing, that’s somehow the least of their problems.
Is there some kind of fucked up anthro-centrism going on with Cauldron? She seemed pretty adamant that the Case 53s could not be part of their main plans.
There’s a lot of f**ked-up things with Cauldron. Starting with the anthrocentrism and ending somewhere along the lines of “kept an eldritch abomination in the basement for years and neglected to tell anyone because ‘It’s classified’ or ‘You didn’t ask.'”
We never did actually find out if Eidolon created the Endbringers. Also, assuming this is the final confrontation (it seems that way, since this is the last arc), the Endbringers aren’t actually relevant in said confrontation, with the possible exception of the payoff of whatever the Smurf did with her puff of air.
Why in the hell did Contessa allow all these formulas to be stored in GLASS? When you have an incredibly important liquid, you store that shit in a nigh-impervious container, not one that’s vulnerable to dropping. Unless, of course, the path to victory required all those formulas to spill and mix together on the floor?
No, there were 30 arcs in Wildbow’s original plan, which may or may not have changed since Drone, IIRC.
And as for the glass vials, it’s probably a matter of mass production. Any tinker-made material would be difficult to mass-produce, especially on the kind of scale Cauldron requires (well, required).
My bet is that Cauldron made and released them to give Eidolon the challenge that Scion said he needed. The sacrifice of millions of civilians would be worth it, in Cauldron’s eyes, if Eidolon figured out his power and was able to fight Scion effectively, saving what’s left of humanity in the process.
We know this isn’t possible thanks to the Doctor Mother Interlude. She didn’t know bupkiss about the Endbringers or how they think before she used the capes Teacher provided.
Also, there’s an INCREDIBLY important question still unanswered, which we could totally still get an answer to: How jiggly are invincible boobs? When you see most invincible people getting hit, their flesh usually doesn’t react at all. Cheeks and noses and other soft tissue remains just as undisturbed as muscular areas. Yet every instance I can think of where we see this, it’s a male character. Superman, Juggernaut, etc. What about Alexandria? We know she can’t actually be HARMED by most physical force, but does that invlunerability result in the world’s strongest breasts being stiff and unmoving, or can they be moved by incidental forces? Does her costume have built-in support? Were there websites (before the internet was blown up) devoted to gifs of footage of her jiggling in response to impacts from Endbringers?
Inquiring minds want to know!
And the award for my favorite comment goes to Asmora. You may pick up your award after the ceremonies conclude, in the alley in the back. There will be a Gecko in a trenchcoat. Beware the Grues that will eat you in the dark, unless you’re into that sort of thing.
Who’s to say it wasn’t Gorilla Glass or some other incredibly hard variant. Shatterbird power doesn’t care.
Should have used a plastic bag, clearly. Or, just metal.
Stephen R. Marsh on October 3, 2013 at 19:29 said:
So, thirty arcs, we are at about the end of 29.
We know that second trigger = breaking limits set by the worms on powers. That is interesting. Wonder what limit Taylor broke.
The dead worm’s body is a perfect cliff hanger. I gather the first time DM saved the world was when Cauldron killed the first worm. Wonder if that was with or without help from the third entity. Lots of questions there. But with Worms as a plague spreading through space you have to wonder if someone is trying to contain them.
Nope. As I understand it, the entities really crippled some shards, but the second triggers are not the shards healing themselves.
When a shard bonds with a human trough a passenger the new power must have restrictions that avoid it from damaging the host. This previously programmed restrictions are quite generic and a second trigger is a refinement, it is the shard doing a fine tuning and eliminating unneeded restrictions.
You are probably right.
Stephen M (Ethesis) on October 3, 2013 at 22:35 said:
Amazing that DM did this without powers and from a virtual zero start point.
Also wondering where the capes from India are. Was it all just smoke about another war?
Some of the Indian capes were presumably with the Elite when they got wiped out by Leviathan, since they were noted as working with “some of the less savory Thanda”. Likely most are minding their own portal / refugee world.
I think he was referring to the “bad” Thanda (or better the ones that opposed Phir Se’s Thanda), the ones that disappeared into a portal after Contessa talked with them, as soldiers in another war whot will never be seen in Bet ever again.
Something else I noticed about Cauldron vs. Taylor as far as mindset is that Taylor’s staying very much true to how she’s been ever since the beginning. Thinking up new and creative uses for limited power, making use of allies, strategy, and tactics. Cauldron, though, seems to believe that you’re only ever going to get as much power as you’d ever get.
You know, that’s kinda why they’ve been so far behind here. Sure, they’re getting traditionally strong powers in people who can predict all kinds of crazy shit or generate an army or whatever, but they bank too much on power alone being useful.
Just think about the Slaughterhouse 9000 mess. The biggest parahuman conflict not involving Scion or the Endbringers involved Jack Slash (communication and transmission of knifeblade powers) versus Weaver (bug control).
That was who made such a powerful group possible that Cauldron had to steal his leftovers and that’s who found a way to assemble a small army of Endbringers. Yeah, sure, the power you have is all the power you’ll ever get? Cauldron, feel free to die if you haven’t been paying attention.
Just some random thoughts.
There aren’t any healing powers. When they crop up, it’s a fluke, pure chance, an extension of another ability with a different focus.
Then what the heck is Panacea? OK, she can change others in addition to healing them, but does that mean that her living-being-warping power is somehow perverted when it is used to heal?
I think it is pretty obvious at this point, based off of Doctor Mother’s comments on second triggers, but I never believed second triggers were the same as the shards reproducing.
a defensive power utilizing warped space and a power that allows one to take over a nearby parahuman’s mind, body and powers automatically on death
The first sounds vaguely like Gray Boy, but the second is a dead ringer for Butcher.
Doctor Mother, after surviving a vicious group of deviations that wanted to kill her, was killed by a deviation that didn’t actually want to kill her. Irony, anyone? Actually, Asmora said this even better.
Given the title of the series, does the counterpart look like a mass of worms? I guess we will find out. That would make the formulas worm juice.
Still wondering why the heck the Simurgh parted Scion’s hair with the air gun. En has an interesting idea on this, but the better way to deliver nanites is in massive quantities, not in doses so small they are not visibly different from air. Although … is the link to Scion’s regenerative reserve two way? If it is, then Simurgh may be trying to infect Scion’s reserve, which might be the only way to kill him. The only other time we have seen similar tubes is cloning chambers, but those were filled with nutrients, not air.
Interesting theory farmerbob1. Technically, Doctor Mother did get her close encounter with the contents of the vial she had chosen, just a bit differently than she had planned. But I am still betting on dead – no-one but Weld (or an equivalent invulnerable) could survive Sveta’s full intentions for more than a second. Her tendrils break bone immediately so it only takes one tendril through the skull to whip brains into a useless mush.
And now for the completely off-the-wall thought: Taylor tells Scion to make her into another worm so that Taylor can become Scion’s mate.
The glass tube in the Simurgh’s air gun wasn’t a part of the guns mechanism, she was hiding it in there. The point of the air gun was to distract Scion. The glass tube is for something else.
We should be worried, did the Smurf make that with Bonesaw & Lab Rat nearby?
Bonesaw, yes. As far as I recall, Lab Rat is missing, presumed dead after the oil rig debacle, but Taylor *did* help him get his mystery device over the edge of the cliff, so who knows…
That is an interesting read on it. Thanks.
Yes, Panacea’s healing power is not ‘healing’ so much as ‘complete biological control and inherent understanding of biology’. Much like Bonesaw’s biological tinkering, it can be used to fix or to warp. I wouldn’t call it ‘perverting’ it when it’s used to heal, but it’s not completely accurate to call it a ‘healing power’ either.
Lizardtail is an actual Cauldron-source healing power (we never saw him do anything else, did we?), and so might be more interesting than Panacea. I wonder what kind of power that elixir is normally associated with. Something to do with area effects, I expect.
Lizardtail’s power is probably some sort of temporal or dimensional manipulation that just happens to close/heal/remove wounds rather than anything like a devoted healing power, because apparently shards don’t do healing powers.
Actually both Panacea and Bonesaw’s both explicitly have biological-manipulation powers that can also be used to heal. Now Lizardtail is interesting since his only power seems to be wide-area regeneration.
“a defensive power utilizing warped space” sounds more like Vista than Gray Boy to me.
DM took the death-body-swap formula, and is now inhabiting Sveta. You’re welcome.
Except there was no “freeze every para humans nearby” trigger vision.
That may be different with both vision sources virtualy “next door”.
Hmm, the dead entity MAY change something but everybody still got the vision when Clubs second-triggered fighting Scion.
And one of Dr Mother’s reason to not take the vial was that all the others would be rendered comatose.
It looks like the resident troll Axel is back at it. He’s creating alt accounts on TV Tropes and other forums to generate reviews. I have no idea why he has worked up such a vendetta here.
Really i think at this point it’s just better if we have a laugh at his antics and ignore him.
You’re probably right, but at the same time, I have trouble wrapping my mind around why he is doing this. That’s what vexes me.
Figured out who the troll actually is irl. It’s hilarious. This explains so much.
wait, you actually know him? Small world…
No, I don’t know him, and as much as I dislike the guy’s posts, I’m not about to post any personal information on him. About the only thing I’ll reveal is this: hilariously bad neckbeard.
Don’t worry, I wasn’t asking you to reveal personal info.
As for the neckbeard the only guy that comes to mind is Alan Moore. But while it would make SOME sense, I don’t think thats it.
No, Alan Moore’s beard is a sapient entity all on its own. I dare not criticize it for fear it may actually come after me. That said, I do not fear that the scruff on this guy’s thick neck will be coming after me. It looks to be firmly glued into place.
I don’t think they are all sockpuppets. I think it’s more that my readership has increased a great deal in a short period of time, 31,000 views/5k unique views yesterday) and a lot of these readers are coming from the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality community. I won’t say that the people in that community are bad people – they most definitely aren’t -, but it’s a community built around picking one popular story to pieces and figuring out a better way to do things in that story. On a level, I suspect it’s a community where finding possible flaws in a work (and being willing/able to argue your point) is more meaningful than being accurate in identifying those flaws.
Ergo, a lot of new people going through Worm’s comments, and among them are a few people like RMCD or Daniel or whoever else that go through the comments with what appears to be atrocious reading comprehension. Too busy looking for stuff that’s wrong to actually see where the answers are provided, or jumping to conclusions. They’re finding plot holes that were filled from the get go and barreling through, arguing with everyone that responds to them. And with any influx of new readers, you also get the people who aren’t the intended audience, but are entitled enough/shortsighted enough to miss that fact, expecting the story to cater to them/their tastes explicitly, and deeming it a failure when it doesn’t get that far.
Which isn’t to say Worm’s perfect. It’s not. I wrote it, in the end, to be the kind of story I’d want to read. I’m validated to see that there’s this many people who have similar tastes. But it’s first draft stuff and it’s niche-ish. Some people won’t like it. That’s fine.
Here’s the thing. I’m going to start deleting comments that reference the more problematic guys. I’ve been cleaning up comments where they go overboard, being overlyvulgar or vitriolic in their criticism, or where arguments aren’t going anywhere and it’s causing more negativity than good for the community. Comments from loyal readers get the same treatment.
If you want to combat the ‘trolls’ (and I don’t think they are trolls – or only one of them are) then support worm. Post reviews if you haven’t already (TV tropes, webfictionguide), rate the story (webfictionguide), vote (Topwebfiction), and don’t respond to their reviews (it brings it to the top of the page in TV tropes) unless it’s to mark it as unhelpful, provided you view it that way. I don’t want to push you guys to give any particular rating or review, except the one you feel is accurate.
Some people won’t like the story. Some people won’t like the story to unreasonable, irrational degrees. That’s fine. I think it’s a decent-ish story, and I know that there’s more people who like the story, and more people who like it to unreasonable, irrational degrees. So long as you guys speak up and make your voices heard, Worm will get the visible reviews it deserves, and the ratings will average out to put it in a decent spot.
I’d appreciate it if you didn’t pay attention or give mention to any of these individuals, unless it’s by email or such to let me know of something particularly problematic. If any of them are trolling, then it’s only validating them. It’s negative, affecting the mood of the comment section, and I’m going to start deleting comments for that reason (which takes time and energy I’d rather devote to writing).
I’ll probably post something on the subject after tomorrow’s chapter.
Wildbow, if I may, while I have no doubt that your readers are becoming more numerous and that this means that criticisms will, if only because of statistics, also increase, there are certain posts that are so similar up to the exact wording and of so coincidental timing, that they can’t really be anything else but sock-puppets. Daniel, who at least, from what i’ve seen, tends to be polite in his criticisms is almost certainly not a sock-puppet, kikallin (who only appeared to post about “Triumph’s rape”), well…
It is the same guy, actually. I don’t really care.
That’s hilarious. Per your advice, I won’t inadvertently bump the reviews he has been posting on TV tropes, but I would like to point out that the last exchange I had with him had him vehemently denying using alts as sock puppets, saying I had no proof. Thanks for validating what we all already knew, but could not conclusively prove. Both of his reviews are flagged for moderation, but I don’t know how long it will take for TV Tropes to deal with them.
Censored parts of emails and IP addresses to protect everyone involved, but it’s telling enough.
…are you freaking kidding me? I cannot facepalm hard enough at that. That’s the laziest effort at creating a sockpuppet ever. I mean, he could have taken 5 minutes to set up a throwaway email at least, but he couldn’t even be bothered with that. Does this guy have any idea how the internet even works? But then again, he does seem to have some sort of obsession with that username everywhere he posts.
Wait, he din’t change his email? Hahhaha. I’m one of the less savvy people around internet-wise and even I know not to make that blunder.
I’m not touching you-know-who with a ten foot pole anymore, but I think the mindset behind this sort of thing is a knee-jerk reaction against a perceived attack against the genre. You see this every so often with an “edgy” or or critical superhero comic like the Boys or half of Mark Millars work or such. If something breaks the moral “rules” or is negative about superheroes some people will probably rush in to act outrage over that.
Not to say that there aren’t good reasons to not like the Boys or Millar (ESPECIALLY), but some people just get huffy when something doesn’t treat the superhero genre the way they think it should be treated. Which annoys me because let’s face it, superheroes as a concept are problematic as fuck, and I’m grateful to WIldbow for embracing that fact.
Too bad the Internet wasn’t around when Watchmen first came out. It would be interesting to see the resault.
RazorSmile on October 4, 2013 at 09:32 said:
Any second now, Chekov’s Airgun will reveal its true colors and it will be hilarious.
Still waiting for Saturday.
I have a question: Which is more fatal to a character in Worm: having an interlude written from their PoV, or having Krustacean draw them? If you look at the list of interludes in the table of contents, you’ll notice that the vast majority of the list are about characters who met gruesome ends.
The fact that Krustacean didn’t draw DM is enough to make me suspect that she is still alive.
coming soon, scion interlude 2 the drawn by Krustacean version and touted to be played in alive action film by Eddy Murpy… that should end the bugger…
Nourjan on October 4, 2013 at 19:41 said:
I finally decide to not give My Worm reading a sabbatical and ending up so busy in real life that I miss an entire week worth of Worm episodes(and I blazed through the first 26 arcs of Worm in under 6days!).I even failed to participate in my own conversation lines(even the ones that I started.) How typical!
BTW, wasn’t this Siberian Projection supposed to be a male with stripes on his body?
I think there’s one clone that has a male projection but the rest of the Manton clones had female projections.
Reread Interlude 26b. Jack must have either switched Siberian after leaving Ellisburg or that particular Manton is capable of both projecting both the male and the female Siberian(not at he same time, obviously)
Took a peek at Interlude 26b, the Siberian in that chapter is mentioned as female. The one Jack left Ellisburg is male. I guess I wouldn’t be surprised if that Manton can switch between male and female Siberians.
Rhodesian on October 4, 2013 at 21:52 said:
random thought. Eidolon from the greek means (Phantom, Spirit) and Glastig Uaine now has his spirit or phantom. That worked out nicely.
Other possible meaning for that name is that he doesnt really have a personality outside of his powers and so he’s similar to an extremely powerful spirit.
Also meant to add that word in greek also implies deception or trickery which is interesting in regard to eidolon being “dead”
Daniel on October 5, 2013 at 17:25 said:
” I’m telling you that if you’d asked, at any point along the way, I’d probably have told you I’d rather be dead. I’d rather be dead than live this new life you gave me”
Then you really should just ask to be killed or kill yourself if you can.
The good Doctor DID give you a choice. One where you had none before. Before you were doomed to die, now you can choose to die or to live as a monster.
I hope someone mentions this argument at some point, it’s obvious enough.
She can’t kill herself, or she would have, it’s obvious enough. Her body would react and destroy external threats, even ones she’s trying to leverage against herself.
I meant to say “please delete my long winded post about Taylor’s second trigger” not my much much earlier post.Sorry for all that.
Syphon on December 23, 2013 at 14:13 said:
Taylor really likes pointing out how Bastard’s transformation is my fluid and symmetrical than Bitch’s other dogs. Every single time.
Also, tags are missing.
Dev Null on January 2, 2014 at 10:36 said:
Hi! Since this is my first comment, I should say that I’m just working my way through the whole story now, having discovered Worm when HPTMOR linked it awhile back. Very much enjoying the story; excellent work.
I don’t know how much you’re interested in editorial suggestions, but for what its worth, I had trouble following the transition to talking about second triggers at the end of this chapter, at this line:
‘”You can’t have a second trigger because you already had one,” he said.’
I had no idea why he was bringing them up. Then I went back and re-read the previous few bits and remembered the EM readers. So I’m guessing that he actually brings this up in response to something he reads on the device? A quick transition – something like “Number Man finished waving the EM reader around my head and said ‘Actually Weaver,…” would have made it more clear.
But again: minor quibble; great story.
greatwyrmgold on January 30, 2014 at 22:46 said:
…Why wasn’t Cauldron cloning people?
The Siberian had saved them with her ability to grant her own invulnerability effect.
Even the Manton clone? Who can’t be given invulnerability?
The Doctor glanced her way. “And you are?” Imp sighed.
Man, for such an awesome power, it sure must be annoying.
And since I’m here…is it odd that I’ve always pictured The Number Man as being ambiguously brown?
(Reference: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AmbiguouslyBrown )
Vernon on October 11, 2014 at 18:56 said:
Typo: tendrlis instead of tendrils
Okay so is it bad that I have a bit of a sentimental attachment to that knife? It’s a physical symbol of the advances in communication and attachment that Colin and Taylor have both made both apart and together. I feel like she shouldn’t lose the knife because it’s like losing a part of the humanity that is still left in this craptastic situation. I’m glad she managed to get it back. And yes I know the knife isn’t intended to mean any of that but that’s how it feels to me.
Also I find it rather funny how the Number Man is rather annoyed that his clones are sadistic assholes.
“Not me, surely. I sent others.” God I can’t believe this woman is on humanities side. There is simply being unfeeling and then there is lacking any capacity for empathy whatsoever. Regent fits the former mostly while this woman is a glaring example of why humanity sucks so much. I definitely see why she never triggered. The dumb bitch has no concept of the despair and terror needed to naturally trigger.
Huh so no natural native healing powers; all healing is just a secondary required power made into the primary effect due to its usefulness. Interesting. Makes sense I guess, healing isn’t really all that useful for conflict purposes besides Panacea’s potential offensive “healing”.
The Balance formula makes much more sense now. Sweet. It’s also very interesting to find that second triggers are basically networking assists between the shards who then fine tune their settings. So Taylor has canonically second triggered either in the locker or the hospital. That is both awesome and sucky. Lends a lot more credence to my earlier guess that Aiden was what Taylor would be without a second trigger; able to either experience or move bugs but not both at once.
It is also entertaining to see Imp descending back into less than stellar vocab when she gets really upset.
Doc finally got what she deserved. About time. I’m amazed that Sveta survived her brief conflict. Good for her? I mean yeah I like her but the poor girl really doesn’t have all that much of a life to be perfectly honest. And Taylor going up against Scion with a disintegration knife…um…um…I’m trying to decide whether this counts as a last ditch attempt at a third trigger, a suicidal depression fueled last stand, an attempt to distract him from her friends or some combination of all of the above. Either way…um…
Sigh, oh Cauldron. Locking up dead giant Multi Dimensional Entities really doesn’t ever end well. Of course the partner is going to come looking for her at some point. Sigh.
LittleSallyDigby on November 23, 2014 at 02:07 said:
Cauldron, you are the worst at tactical intelligence.
Locking up one of the entities and using it to make powers? Fucked up, maybe, but a good idea for protecting humanity.
Not telling anyone you did that, when the other entity turns on you? Moronic, and hardly justifiable. Sharing that secret isn’t going to make you any more enemies than you already have. Keeping it is going to lead to… this happening.
Ok,if Contessa’s planis not to either manipulate Cauldron,or,in a way,requiring all that shit,then they might have been better without her power.
MisterTeatime on January 28, 2016 at 14:13 said:
Hmm. Didn’t Shatterbird say something about “the men who bought my power” in Hookwolf’s interlude? I know the Nine are hardly trustworthy, but if she’s a Cauldron cape, then her powers are from the dead entity, not from Scion.
So then… maybe he’s approximating the other entity’s trick instead of reusing it? And that’s why his version is accompanied by light instead of sound?
In any case, the dawning horror/awe upon realizing that the good guys just got screwed over by a move from almost twenty arcs ago was fantastic. Excellent work.
Quinn on November 15, 2016 at 16:22 said:
I just devolved into shouting random curses and otherwise incoherent things. THIS is why the entity’s companion went missing?! FUCKING CAULDRON.
At least that’s what I’m getting from the last sentence.
hopefwlyanonymous on April 9, 2017 at 08:24 said:
The entity2 died before arriving on Earth. It’s in Scion’s interlude.
It might have died because the third entity took too many of its shards when it passed them before arriving on Earth.
I think of Doctor Mother as the greatest hero in the story so far. She’s the only one who abandoned all selfish interests and values in order to save humanity. She did what maximised their chances, and she was hated by all for it. RIP.
Letouriste on January 29, 2018 at 09:09 said:
She was a secretive asshole who didn’t managed to do anything at all and caused massacres,torture and horrors for billions of sentients being.her goal was worthy but she is worst than scion.all her actions were pointless at the end because All will depend of people not related to cauldron.her only achievement is the creation of monsters
Dread Pirate on August 5, 2017 at 17:42 said:
And at last I am freed from the cliffhangers and tension requiring me to continue reading. Not because this wasn’t a cliffhanger or tense of course. It is simply a cliffhanger so epic it *demands* I stop reading and sit in agonized tension for awhile, a level of tension epic enough I can be content to wait.
Wow the doctor has been even more useless I thought she would be.
I wonder if Taylor didn’t miss an opportunity here:I would have asked if bugs could have powers,if bugs could drink parts of the vial on the ground.they would die in a few month at most so the after effect would not matter on the bugs.she could controle a little army of power not limited by scion
Blub on December 21, 2018 at 21:49 said:
“By mixing it into other vials, we borrow this particular quality, at the cost of having more physical changes with any such power we grant. We retain humanity more easily, safeguarding against deviant cases.””
Seems contradicting….
And did they now go into the doorway what the Siberian made or not? There is no description about that. Only that suddenly Weaver is alone.
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Which is more effective in managing rapid ventricular rate in atrial fibrillation, diltiazem or metoprolol?
June 29, 2017 November 27, 2019 FA Manian MD, MPHAtrial fibrillation, Diltiazem;, Metoprolol;, Rapid ventricular rate;Leave a comment
Overall, diltiazem may be more effective than metoprolol in the acute management of AFib with RVR without increased side effects based on a few small but randomized double-blind studies.
A systematic review1 based on 2 trials2,3 comparing IV diltiazem with IV metroprolol in patients with atrial fibrillation seen in emergency departments has reported better acute rate control with IV diltiazem (RR 1.8 [95% CI, 1.2-1.6]). In these studies, the onset of rate control was faster and the percentage decrease in ventricular rate at each time point was higher with IV diltiazem. In general, 0.25 mg/kg of IV diltiazem (max 25 mg) and 0.15 mg/kg of IV metoprolol (max 10 mg) were used.
Exclusion criteria in these studies included severe congestive heart failure, hypotension, acute coronary syndrome, and use of either class of drugs within the past five days.
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Demircan C, Cikriklar H, Engindeniz Z, et al. Comparison of the effectiveness of intravenous diltiazem and metoprolol in the management of rapid ventricular rate in atrial fibrillation. Emerg Med J 2005;22: 411-414. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1726824/pdf/v022p00411.pdf
Fromm C, Suan SJ, Cohen V, et al. Diltizem vs metoprolol in the management of atrial fibrillation or flutter with rapid ventricular rate in the emergency department. J Emerg Med 2015;49:175-82. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25913166
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When evaluating for an esophageal perforation, is a water-soluble contrast agent such as Gastrografin a better and safer alternative to barium swallow study?
June 27, 2017 June 27, 2017 FA Manian MD, MPHAspiration;, Barium;, Esophageal perforation;, Gastrografin;, Mediastinitis;, Peritonitis, Pulmonary edema;, Tracheoesophageal fistula;, Water-soluble contrast agents;Leave a comment
Water-soluble contrast agents (WCAs) (eg, meglumine diatrizoate or Gastrografin) are often ordered as the initial radiographic test for evaluation of esophageal perforation or leaks, followed by barium swallow if the test is negative because small leaks are better detected with the more radiopaque barium1. Such practice, however, is based on extrapolation of data on the deleterious effect of barium when extravasated into the peritoneal cavity, not the mediastinum1. In fact, clinical evidence linking mediastinitis to extravasated barium is lacking, and even in experimental studies, injection of barium into the mediastinum of cats have failed to cause clinically significant mediastinitis2.
When ordering a contrast swallow study, no medium should be considered totally safe or effective in detecting esophageal perforations or leaks and WCAs are no different. Potential disadvantages of WCAs include: 1. Inferior sensitivity (as low as 50%)—due to decreased radio-opacity—when compared to barium3; 2. Risk of pulmonary edema—occasionally lethal— when aspirated into the lung due to high osmolality (analogous to salt water drowning) and intense inflammatory reaction4,5; 3. Contraindication in the setting of tracheoesophageal fistula,6; 4. Risk of serious allergic reaction due to reabsorption of iodinated compounds1; and 5. Added exposure to radiation and cost of testing when the swallow study is repeated with barium. For these reasons, the standard practice of an initial WCA followed by a barium swallow`study if the former is negative, has been questioned, with some centers foregoing the WCA study altogether in favor of barium swallow in certain patients 1,6.
In short, when evaluating for esophageal perforation, WCAs should not categorically be considered a “better” or “safer” alternative to barium; in certain situations, barium may be the preferred agent. When in doubt, input from a thoracic surgeon is recommended.
Gollub MJ, Bains MS. Barium sulfate: a new (old) contrast agent for diagnosis of postoperative esophageal leaks. Radiology 1997;202:360-62. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9015057
James AE, Montali RJ, Chaffee V, et al. Barium or gastrografin: which contrast media for diagnosis of esophageal tears? Gastroenterology 1975;68:1103-1113. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1126592
Berry BE, Ochsner JL. Perforation of the esophagus: a 30 year review. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1973;65:1-7. http://www.jpedsurg.org/article/0022-3468(73)90248-0/abstract
Trulzsch DV, PenmetsaA, Karim A, et al. Gastrografin-induced aspiration pneumonia: A lethal complication of computed tomography. South Med J 1992;85:1255-56. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1470976
Tuladhar R, Patole S, Whitehall J. Gastrografin aspiration in a neonate with tracheoesophageal fistula. J Paediatr Child Health 2000; 36:94-6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10723703
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A previously healthy young man with chest pain is admitted to my service with the diagnosis of spontaneous pneumomediastinum. He doesn’t look ill at all. What causes should I consider?
June 22, 2017 FA Manian MD, MPHCocaine;, Ecstacy;, Illicit drugs;, Marijuana, MDMA;, Pneumomediastinum;, Valsalva maneuver;Leave a comment
Spontaneous pneumomediastinum (SP) is defined as the presence of mediastinal free air in the absence of an obvious precipitating cause and should not be confused with pneumomediastinum occurring in the setting of gross trauma or positive-pressure mechanical ventilation in intubated patients, or catastrophic events such as blunt or penetrating trauma, infection due to gas producing organisms, retropharyngeal perforation or esophageal rupture1,2.
SP frequently occurs in young men (Figure) and is associated with a variety of factors, most commonly illicit inhalational drug use (eg, marijuana, cocaine) and performance of a Valsalva-type maneuver causing alveolar rupture2. Ecstasy (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine –MDMA) ingestion is also associated with SP, possibly related to its attendant physical hyperactivity (eg dancing, sexual activity) or a contaminant that may predispose to alveolar rupture3,4. Other causes not related to illicit drug use include childbirth, forceful straining during exercise, straining at stool, coughing, sneezing, retching/vomiting, pulmonary function testing, and inflation of party balloons1!
SP should always be distinguished from complicated pneumomediastinum (eg, in the setting of perforated viscus, trauma, gas-forming organisms), as it usually follows a very benign course with patients recovering without specific intervention1,2,5.
Figure: Spontaneous pneumomediastinum due to vigorous exercise in a young male
Newcomb AE, Clarke CP. Spontaneous pneumomediastinum: A benign curiosity or a significant problem? CHEST 2005;128:3298-3302. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16304275
Panacek EA, Singer AJ, Sherman BW, et al. Spontaneous pneumomediastinum: clinical and natural history. Ann Emerg Med 1992;21:1222-27. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1416301
Gungadeen A, Moor J. Extensive subcutaneous emphysema and pneumomediastinum after ecstasy ingestion. Case Rep Otolaryngol 2013; http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/79587
Stull BW. Spontaneous pneumomediastinum following ecstasy ingestion and sexual intercourse. Emerg Med J 2008;25:113-14. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18212154
Kelly S, Hughes S, Nixon S, et al. Spontaneous pneumomediastinum (Hamman’s syndrome). Surgeon 2010;8:63-66. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/articles/20303884
What is the mechanism of anemia of chronic disease in my patient with rheumatoid arthritis?
June 22, 2017 June 12, 2019 FA Manian MD, MPHAnemia of chronic disease;, Cytokines, Ferritin;, Hepcidin;, Inflammation, Iron deficiency, Transferrin;Leave a comment
Anemia of chronic disease (ACD)—or more aptly “anemia of inflammation”— is the second most common cause of anemia after iron deficiency and is associated with numerous acute or chronic conditions (eg, infection, cancer, autoimmune diseases, chronic organ rejection, and chronic kidney disease)1.
The hallmark of ACD is disturbances in iron homeostasis which result in increased uptake and retention of iron within cells of the reticuloendothelial system, with its attendant diversion of iron from the circulation and reduced availability for erythropoiesis1. More specifically, pathogens, cancer cells, or even the body’s own immune system stimulate CD3+ T cells and macrophages to produce a variety of cytokines, (eg, interferon-ɤ, TNF-α, IL-1, IL-6, and IL-10) which in turn increase iron storage within macrophages through induction of expression of ferritin, transferrin and divalent metal transporter 1.
In addition to increased macrophage storage of iron, ACD is also associated with IL-6-induced synthesis of hepcidin, a peptide secreted by the liver that decreases iron absorption from the duodenum and its release from macrophages2. TNF-α and interferon-ɤ also contribute to ACD by inhibiting the production of erythropoietin by the kidney. Finally, the life span of RBCs is adversely impacted in AKD due to their reduced deformability and increased adherence to the endothelium in inflammatory states3.
Of interest, it is often postulated that by limiting access to iron through inflammation, the body hinders the growth of pathogens by depriving them of this important mineral2.
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D’Angelo, G. Role of hepcidin in the pathophysiology and diagnosis of anemia. Blood Res 2013; 48(1): 10-15. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3624997/pdf/br-48-10.pdf
Straat M, van Bruggen R, de Korte D, et al. Red blood cell clearance in inflammation. Transfus Med Hemother 2012;39:353-60. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3678279/pdf/tmh-0039-0353.pdf
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My patient with cirrhosis has been admitted to the hospital several times this year with bacterial infections. How does cirrhosis increase susceptibility to infections?
June 12, 2017 FA Manian MD, MPHBacterial translocation;, cirrhosis, Complements;, CRP, Immunodeficiency, Kupfer cells;, Peyer's patches;, Reticuloendothelial system;, SepsisLeave a comment
Bacterial infections are a common cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with cirrhosis, affecting about 30% of such patients either at admission or during their hospitalization, with an attendant risk of mortality that is twice that of individuals without cirrhosis1.
Two major mechanisms may account for the observed immune dysfunction in cirrhosis: 1. Compromise of the immune surveillance function of the liver itself through damage of the reticulo-endothelial system (RES) and reduced synthesis of innate immunity proteins and pattern recognition receptors (PRRs); and 2. Dysfunctions of circulating and intestinal population of immune cells2.
Damage to the RES in cirrhosis leads to portal-system shunting, loss/damage of Kupffer cells (specialized hepatic macrophages) and sinusoidal capillarization, all hindering blood-borne pathogen clearance. Cirrhosis is also associated with a defect in hepatic protein synthesis, including complement components, decreased PRRs and acute phase reactants (eg C-reactive protein), which may in turn lead to the impairment of the innate immunity and bacterial opsonization.
Cirrhosis can also cause reduction in the number and function of neutrophils (eg, decreased phagocytosis and chemotaxis), B, T, and NK lymphocytes, and decreased in bacterial phagocytosis by monocytes. In addition, damage to the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (eg Peyer’s patches and mesenteric lymph nodes) may facilitate bacterial translocation.
Pieri G, Agarwal B, Burroughs AK. C-reactive protein and bacterial infections in cirrhosis. Ann Gastroenterol 2014;27:113-120. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3982625/pdf/AnnGastroenterol-27-113.pdf
Albillos A, Lario M, Alvarez-Mon M. Cirrhosis-associated immune dysfunction: distinctive features and clinical relevance. J Hepatol 2014;61:1385-1396. http://www.journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S0168-8278(14)00549-2/pdf
My patient with cirrhosis and suspected infection has a normal serum C-reactive protein (CRP). Does cirrhosis affect CRP response to infection?
June 10, 2017 November 12, 2019 FA Manian MD, MPHBacteremia;, C-reactive protein;, cirrhosis, CRP, Cytokines, E.coli;, End-stage liver disease;, IL-6;, Liver disease;Leave a comment
CRP is primarily synthesized by the liver mainly as a response to IL-6 production in inflammatory states1. Lower CRP production may then be expected in cirrhotic patients with significant infections and several studies support this view2.
In a particularly convincing study involving E. coli-infected patients with bacteremia, the median CRP level in cirrhotic patients was about 40% that of non-cirrhotic patients (62 mg/L vs 146 mg/L)3. In another study involving bacteremic patients with or without liver dysfunction, median CRP level was about 60% that of patients with preserved liver function (81 mg/L vs 139 mg/L)4.
Some investigators have reported a cut-off CRP value of 9.2 mg/L as a possible screening test for bacterial infections in patients with cirrhosis with a sensitivity and specificity of 88% (AUROC 0.93)5.
Collectively, these data suggest that although CRP response may be diminished in patients with advanced liver disease and acute infection, its synthesis is still maintained.
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Pieri G, Agarwal B, Burroughs AK. C-reactive protein and bacterial infection in cirrhosis. Ann Gastroenterol 2014;27:113-20. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3982625/pdf/AnnGastroenterol-27-113.pdf
Ha YE, Kang C-I, Joo E-J, et al. Usefulness of C-reactive protein for evaluating clinical outcomes in cirrhotic patients with bacteremia. Korean J Intern Med 2011;26:195-200. http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC3110852/pdf/kjim-26-195.pdf
Park WB1, Lee KD, Lee CS et al. Production of C-reactive protein in Escherichia coli-infected patients with liver dysfunction due to liver cirrhosis. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2005 Apr;51(4):227-30. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15808312
Mackenzie I, Woodhouse J. C-reactive protein concentrations during bacteraemia: a comparison between patients with and without liver dysfunction. Intensive Care Med 2006;32:1344-51. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16799774
Papp M, Vitalis Z, Altorjay I, et al. Acute phase proteins in the diagnosis and prediction of cirrhosis associated bacterial infection. Liver Int 2011;603-11. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22145664
Should I be concerned about piperacillin-tazobactam nephrotoxicity in the absence of vancomycin?
June 1, 2017 FA Manian MD, MPHAcute interstitial nephritis;, Piperacillin-tazobactam;, Vancomycin;Leave a comment
Nephrotoxicity associated with piperacillin-tazobactam (PT) combined with vancomycin (V) has been increasingly reported1,2, with some recommending that an alternative to V be used when PT is also on board 2. However, there are several reasons why the nephrotoxic potential of PT either alone or with antibiotics other than V also deserves further study before such recommendations can be widely embraced3.
First, most studies of VPT combination do not include comparative V or PT alone arms making it difficult to assess the relative contribution of these 2 antibiotics to kidney injury when used in combination. A small study that did include a PT-only arm reported a similar rate of acute kidney injury (AKI) in PT and VPT arms ( 15.4% and 18.8% , respectively), both significantly higher that than of V-only group (4%).4
Other reasons not to readily dismiss PT as a cause of nephrototoxicity include the lack of association between higher V trough levels and AKI in patients receiving VPT2, the association of PT with lower rates of renal function recovery in critically ill patients when compared to other selected β-lactams5, and higher magnesium and potassium renal tubular loss with the use of PT compared to selected cephalosporins and ciprofloxacin6. As with other penicillins, PT-associated acute interstitial nephritis may also occur7-8.
In short, even in the absence of V, nephrotoxic potential of PT should not be automatically dismissed.
Disclosure: Ref 3 was also authored by the creator of this pearl.
Hammond DA, Smith MN, Chenghui Li, et al. Systematic review and meta-analysis of acute kidney injury associated with concomitant vancomycin and piperacillin/tazobactam. Clin Infect Dis 2017;64:666-74.
Navalkele B, Pogue JM, Karino S, et al. Risk of acute kidney injury in patients on concomitant vancomycin and piperacillin-tazobactam compared to those on vancomycin and cefepime. Clin Infect Dis 2017;64:116-123.
Manian FA. Should we revisit the nephrotoxic potential of piperacillin-tazobactam as well? Clin Infect Dis 2017; https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix321
Kim T, Kandiah S, Patel M, et al. Risk factors for kidney injury during vancomycin and piperacillin/tazobactam administration, including increased odds of injury with combination therapy. BMC Res Notes 2015;8:579.
Jensen J-U S, Hein L, Lundgren B, et al. Kidney failure related to broad-spectrum antibiotics in critically ill patients: secondary end point results from a 1200 patient randomized trial. BMJ Open 2012;2:e000635. http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/2/2/e000635
Polderman KH, Girbes ARJ. Piperacillin-induced magnesium and potassium loss in intensive care unit patients. Intensive Care Med 2002;28:530-522.
Muriithi AK, Leung N, Valeri AM, et al. Clinical characteristics, causes and outcomes of acute interstitial nephritis in the elderly. Kidney International 2015;87:458-464.
Soto J, Bosch JM, Alsar Ortiz MJ, et al. Piperacillin-induced acute interstitial nephritis. Nephron 1993;65:154-155.
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Just one month to go to Bloodstock 2018
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With just a month to go, BLOODSTOCK has chosen the last of its New Blood bands, added some more to the Jagermeister stage, revamped entertainment both after hours on the Sophie Lancaster & New Blood stages and in VIP too, bought a Hawaiian shirt ready for Cannibal Corpse, and is still working on a few final tricks!
A limited amount of adult day tickets remain available priced £65 (+ booking fee) and child day tickets at £20 (+ bkg fee) over at http://bloodstock.seetickets.com. You can still also pick up four-day ‘weekend tickets with camping’ for £145 (+ bkg fee), with children’s weekend tickets only £35 (+ bkg fee). Kids under 4 years go free! Weekend tickets are selling faster than ever and just like last year, are looking likely to sell out in advance, so don’t delay if you want to guarantee entry to the UK’s best metal weekender!
Without further ado, here’s the final batch of results from BLOODSTOCK’s top talent-seeking Metal 2 The Masses finals! Added to the New Blood stage on Friday, are Northants victors GARSHKOTT (www.facebook.com/Garshkott), a five piece groove/speed metal band who love Pantera, Lamb of God, KsE, and a bit of Parkway Drive. Joining them are Lincs winners SERTRALINE (www.facebook.com/WeAreSertraline), who are all about crunchy riffs, colossal grooves and huge on-stage energy, plus death metal Bristol champions BODY HARVEST (www.facebook.com/BodyHarvest.Official). And finally for Friday’s New Blood, Birmingham’s top dogs TRIVAX (www.facebook.com/trivaxband) join the bill, an interesting black/death metal project originally formed in Iran, before frontman Shayan moved to Birmingham and updated the line-up in pursuit of non-restrictive live shows and the metal lifestyle we all love.
BLOODSTOCK was so impressed by the range of talent across this year’s competition, we can reveal two additional bands landing spots on Saturday’s New Blood line-up – grinding hardcore crusters THE BROOD (www.facebook.com/TheBroodUK) and progressive death metallers LUNA’S CALL (www.facebook.com/LunasCall). We’re also pleased to welcome Hobgoblin’s video upload contest winners, EARTHBOUND (www.facebook.com/EarthboundMusicUK), a blend of melodic death riffs with big choruses and some progressive elements!
Two more bands join the New Blood family on Sunday. Smashing first place in the Oxford final, IMMINENT ANNIHILATION (www.facebook.com/ImminentAnnihilation) promise to bring some face-melting riffs of the heavy and metal kind. Last but certainly not least, kings of London’s competition DEAD BEFORE MOURNING (www.facebook.com/metalDBM) might just be your new favourite thing, if you’re a fan of Megadeth, Suicidal Tendencies, or Exodus.
There’s also more treats in store over on the Jagermeister stage! Here’s five more bands to tempt you into an ice cold shot. Friday brings thrash beasts DAMAGED REICH (www.facebook.com/damaged.reich), down-tuned stoner/thrash sludgers CALLUS (www.facebook.com/Callus.band), and metal lovin’ headbangers UNTAMED (www.facebook.com/Untamedrock). Breaking heads & ears on Saturday are death metallers CRANIAL SEPARATION (www.facebook.com/CranialSeparation). Sunday welcomes Nottingham lads DEF GOLDBLUM (www.facebook.com/defgoldblum); three skinheads and one MC on a mission to save the soul of rap metal.
BLOODSTOCK also recently revealed their brand new entertainment plans for the Sophie Lancaster stage after the bands finish. The big top tent will transition into ‘The Lock In’, a fully immersive club night presented by Old Blue Last Beer and hosted by comedian Andrew O’Neill. Each night features a different DJ, celebrating a decade of metal! Thursday sees DJ Krusher unearthing tracks from the ‘70s, Friday rocks out to the ‘80s with The Dark Lord Alexander Milas, on Saturday, everyone’s favourite metal encyclopedia Dom Lawson brings you the best of the ‘90s, and Metal Hammer editor Merlin Alderslade rounds out Sunday’s fun with top tunes from the ‘00s. Not only that, there’s world record attempts, games, prizes, a giant can sculpture(!) and plenty more. Nabbed yourself a VIP ticket? Head over to the BLOODSTOCK VIP Facebook page at www.facebook.com/BloodstockVIP to see full details of this year’s exclusive entertainment. And if you want to have your say in which movies should be screened each night at the New Blood stage after the bands end, cast your vote at: https://www.facebook.com/events/215185702446013/.
If you missed out last month, BLOODSTOCK’s cranking up the fun with their remaining club nights for July! Don’t miss a great night out at one of the clubs below for the chance to win weekend tickets, associated prizes, and hear blistering tracks from BLOODSTOCK bands, old and new.
Fri 13th July – Portsmouth Edge of the Wedge
Fri 13th July – London Electric Ballroom (Project Mayhem)
Fri 20th July – Leicester Firebug
Fri 27th July – London Elektrowerkz (Voodoo Summer Ball Rodeo)
Sat 28th July – Dublin Fibber Magees
Sat 28th July – Birmingham Eddie’s Rock Club
Sat 28th July – Sheffield Corporation
Want to meet like-minded metalheads who’re going to BLOODSTOCK? Got tips to share, want a camping buddy, or just to chat about bands? Maybe you want to find out if you’re not the only one taking a Hawaiian shirt for Cannibal Corpse’s set (https://youtu.be/8dM_TN7I5m8)!! Join these fan-run Facebook groups – Bloodstock Metal Forum 666 at www.facebook.com/groups/bmf666/ and/or the BLOODSTOCK Camp Loners & Newbies at www.facebook.com/groups/171715506329753/.
With Friday night headliners JUDAS PRIEST, Saturday headliners GOJIRA and Sunday’s bill toppers NIGHTWISH, as well as EMPEROR, AT THE GATES, CANNIBAL CORPSE, DEVILDRIVER, WATAIN, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, WEDNESDAY 13, JASTA & FRIENDS, FEED THE RHINO, FOZZY, COMBICHRIST, BLOODBATH, ALESTORM, VENOM INC., MR BIG, ORPHANED LAND, KAMELOT, POWER TRIP, CONJURER, DORO, ORDEN OGAN, SEPTICFLESH, EXHORDER, PALLBEARER, MEMORIAM and many more, we’re counting down the final days ‘til BLOODSTOCK 2018!
BLOODSTOCK will take place at Catton Park, Derbyshire on 9th-12th August 2018. Get additional information at www.bloodstock.uk.com.
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#MH17: Boeing 777 airplanes should NOT be shot out of the sky
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July 17, 2019 marks the 5th anniversary of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 by a Russian BUK, killing 298 passengers and crew on-board. Dutch officials have confirmed 3 Russians and 1 Ukraine face murder charges in connection to MH17 with the trial expected to begin 5 months from now in December 2019.
Never in a million years did I ever expect that I would be writing another article about a Boeing 777 airplane falling out of the sky. Ridiculous, right?
Photo Credit: Taken on July 28, 2013, at Shanghai Pudong Airport, by Steven Richardson, aviation analyst at FlyersPulse.com, of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200, Registration Number 9M-MRD, which is reported by Malaysia Airlines as the crashed aircraft of Flight 17 on July 17, 2014.
All contact with Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was lost on the early morning of July 17th at 13:20 Zulu (9:20 ET), when the transponder radar data became unreliable at 13:18 Zulu (9:18 ET) into what was supposedly was a routine flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
MH17 was cruising along at 33,000 feet (10,000 meters) in the safest phase of flight with 298 souls aboard. Suddenly, the aircraft exploded. An advanced computerized Russian Buk-M2 SAM missile slammed into the cabin of the Boeing 777-200ER and blew the airliner right out of the sky.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a vehicle-mounted advanced computerized Russian-built Buk missile system, say defense experts.
MH17 crashed immediately over eastern Ukraine near the Russian border on Thursday, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board. The Boeing 777-200ER, which was carrying 298 passengers, was on route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed on Thursday.
Emergency workers have found 196 bodies at the site, where Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER airliner operating as flight MH17 crashed on Thursday, according to the most recent reports from Breaking Travel News (BTN).
It fell between Krasni Luch in Luhansk region and Shakhtarsk in the neighboring region of Donetsk, after being reportedly hit by a missile over the rebel-held territory, says BTN
The use of an advanced computerized Russian-built Buk missile to shoot down a passenger airliner is a criminal act of liability and terror to the international flying public, all commercial airlines, and The Boeing Company.
Both sides in the Ukrainian civil conflict have accused each other of shooting down the jet with a missile, BTN said.
Something MUST be done to stop this immediately from ever happening again. Period.
This is endangering and imperiling commercial passenger air travel. It poses to the public an international aviation stability breach. This incident is absolutely intolerable to public safety and security of world travelers and those whom benefit from international trade alike.
In addition, the world’s thoughts and prayers go out to the MH370 crew, passengers, and their families and friends, now united with those families and friends of the passengers and crew on board MH17, undergoing their deepest grief in facing this international aviation disaster and tragedy. May peace be with you, as we all continue to move forward in getting to the bottom of this MH17 incident, just as we are about to re-launch our international search for MH370 in August.
As I said on March 15 to The Washington Post and on Fox News Hannity on March 14, “There are two things missing here: the plane and patience.”
We are now missing two planes, MH370 and MH17. Sadly, patience has run out among us, as it rightly should.
Collectively, we all believe this MH17 aviation disaster, so soon in the wake of the MH370 aviation tragedy, is outrageous and preposterous.
Given both the MH17 disaster and MH370 tragedy hitting us in over four months, it is incomprehensible we should have to also deal with this MH17 apprehensible nuisance to common law. It undermines the public trust in and integrity of international aviation safety and security.
Where has the implicit promise of safety and security to the flying public gone at this point? Something must be done to end such aviation safety and security breaches for now onward.
The loss of 537 lives on MH17 and MH370 in four months has now reached into the realm of absurdity.
I believe this senseless loss, specifically of 239 souls on board MH370, and now a horrible loss of 298 souls on board MH17, is a ludicrously extreme event. The flying public should not have to endure this type of military ballistic weaponry risk and unsafe commercial passenger airliner mishaps in our digital-age of aviation safety and security.
State of international commercial passenger air travel faces a crisis of integrity and trust.
What has happened to our previously stellar world of commercial passenger flight safety?
Will this nonsense of safety breaches cause the flying public to seriously question, “Why We Love and Loathe Flying?” (see my article featured on LinkedIn Pulse Airlines & Aviation and Customer Experience Channels)
As an aviation enthusiasts, I am appalled, dismayed, horrified, and outraged by the destroyed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17’s Boeing 777-200ER, Registration Number 9M-MRD on July 17, 2014, and the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, also a Boeing 777-200ER, which disappeared on March 8, 2014.
Photo Credit: Donetsk (Ukraine) Wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200, Registration Number 9M-MRD is reported by Malaysia Airlines as the crashed aircraft of Flight 17. Source: Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news agency, headquartered in Paris. AFP is the oldest news agency in the world and one of the largest.
Just as much, it is unfortunate such a superb aircraft from The Boeing Company should be faced with such a nuisance of an extreme accident of no fault of their own on such a fine engineering marvel as the Boeing 777-200ER that regularly travels the globe.
The Boeing 777 program represents 20 years of proven technology with a stellar safety record. The safety record of the Boeing 777 has been exemplary without incident for two decades until the Asiana Airlines crash landing in San Francisco on July 6, 2013. The Asiana incident was a result of pilot error, human factors historically being the cause of 9 out of 10 aviation safety mishaps, including the Asiana Airlines flight 214 crash, according to the final report by the United States National Transportation Safety Board. Remarkably, all passengers were able to escape the burning aircraft within seconds, largely due to United States federally-mandated “16-G-force” bolted seating that allowed safe avenues of exit for the passengers on board Asiana 214.
I reported on Fox News then that “Boeing teaches us not only how planes fly, but also how planes should crash in saving hundreds of lives” in the Asiana Airlines flight 214 San Francisco Airport crash landing.
Remarkably, exactly 18 years ago from Thursday on July 17, 1996, a similar international aviation safety breach happened with the downing of Trans World Airlines flight TWA 800, due to an explosion of the Boeing 747-200 center fuel tanks, shortly after takeoff over Long Island Sound, off the coast of New York.
From Seattle, The Boeing Company issued a statement on July 17, 2014 on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 saying, “Our thoughts and prayers are with those on board the Malaysia Airlines airplane lost over Ukrainian airspace, as well as their families and loved ones. Boeing stands ready to provide whatever assistance is requested by authorities.”
“Borat with a Buk?”
Any airliner cruising at 33,000 feet is now vulnerable. Thursday’s aviation safety breach of a Boeing 777-200ER is ridiculous for the public’s flying security in the 21st century. This video below shows What Can We Do With a Buk? – an advanced computerized Russian missile launcher.
When one looks at this video and also looks at the aftermath of the MH17 unsecured crash site, one cannot help but to think about Borat with a complex piece of machinery that he does not really understand how to use, as he is trying to take down a small fighter jet.
“Borat with a Buk” immediately and suddenly realizes he has made a huge catastrophic blunder using the Russian military launcher. When he looks over and sees a piece of wreckage that says Malaysia Airlines and another piece of wreckage that says 9M-MRD (as indicated in the above wreckage photo), “Borat with a Buk” now comprehends he has mistakenly taken down a commercial Boeing 777-200ER airliner with a Buk!
If “Borat with a Buk” sounds like a Hollywood trailer of a comedy movie, it would be humorous at this point, if we were observing this inside a movie theater.
Except “Borat with a Buk” is not our Hollywood imagination in the aftermath of the MH17 disaster on Thursday, July 17. This is because Borat alone cannot operate a Buk. It takes a number of people skilled in advanced computerized ballistic weaponry (as the above video clearly reveals to us, as we take a closer look inside a Buk).
On the contrary, nonetheless, we all observed Thursday the ridiculous and ludicrous comic strip was actually happening, right before our eyes in completeness of a horribly real aviation disaster of an engineering marvel, like a Boeing 777-200ER, being shot down out of the sky.
What is most troubling is this aviation safety incident may have been an accidental misfire, as Russian-backed rebel and separatist groups, or Russian forces based in eastern Ukraine, or some other hidden national interests with an agenda in the region, allegedly may have been performing practice runs with the Buk missile launcher, shooting at fighter planes or helicopters in the sky.
Earlier in the week, Russian forces may have been allegedly responsible for shooting down a Ukrainian jet.
The Buk, which Ukrainian interior minister Anton Gerashenko has blamed for the attack, has a range of up to 25,000 meters, and can easily down an Boeing 777-200ER airliner cruising by at 10,000 meters, says The Guardian (U.K.). Defense experts believe this may have allegedly happened on Thursday afternoon, as Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 flew her route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
Igor Sutyagin, a Russian military specialist at the London-based Royal United Services Institute, said he believed that either Russians or Russian-supported groups in eastern Ukraine were responsible. He said they had been shooting at Ukrainian aircraft over the last week, reports The Guardian (U.K.).
The Guardian further suggests, Kalashnikov-carrying Russian sympathizers in Ukraine would not have had the expertise to use the Buk system and would have needed either specialist, who had “volunteered” their services from Russia or locally recruited experts. Russia is alleged to have infiltrated special forces into Ukraine in the guise of rebels.
Sutyagin, who monitors social media in Ukraine, said a Ukrainian rebel force had been spotted just hours earlier with a Buk system at Torez, a village close to the site where the plane came down.
He added that a Ukrainian transport plane had been flying overhead close to the time that the missile was fired at the Malaysia Airlines plane, suggesting that may have been the original target. The transport plane had been trying to relieve a beleaguered Ukraine garrison, says The Guardian (U.K.).
Like for the MH370 aviation tragedy, who really knows anything for sure at this point with Thursday’s MH17 aviation disaster?
To save fuel, but not lives?
Why then was the Ukraine airspace even open for commercial passenger airline use in the first place? Are we kidding? These are very dangerous air travel routes, as these maps below chart out for us.
First and foremost, in this digital-age of aviation, what in the world was MH17 or any commercial airliner doing flying over a war zone? These quite revealing New York Times (Europe) pictures speak a thousand words.
The Associated Press reports, “the Malaysian jetliner that went down in war-torn Ukraine did not make any distress call,” Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Friday, July 18, adding that “its flight route had been declared safe by the global civil aviation body.”
MH17 was taking the shortest most economic route, for what? To save gas, but not lives, ludicrous!
MH17 was traveling on routes that were closed at lower elevations. Referring to the New York Times, “Flight MH17 was flying on a route that had remained open and active at higher elevations throughout the conflict in Ukraine. It had been closed up to 32,000 feet, but the Boeing 777-200ER airliner was traveling 1,000 feet above that. Hours before the crash, Russia had announced its own airspace restrictions near eastern Ukraine, closing below 32,000 feet the route Flight MH17 would have taken through Russia.”
Path of Flight MH17. The plane was on Airway L980 (shown below in red), which has remained open at elevations above 32,000 during the conflict in Ukraine. Before Flight MH17 took off, Russia closed more than a dozen airways at various elevations. The A87 route (shown below in black) that Flight MH17 would have followed was only open above 32,000 feet. The MH17 crash site location near the Russian-Ukraine border is shown below.
Sources: Eurocontrol, Federal Aviation Administration, Restricted flight areas before the July 17, 2014 crash by the United States Federal Aviation Administration (shown directly above in red) and Eurocontrol (shown directly above in blue).
Before MH17, some airlines avoided Ukraine. “A survey of flights to Asia from Europe in the last week found that some airlines had been flying over eastern Ukraine and some had been avoiding the area,” reports the New York Times.
Source: Flight path data near Ukraine (shown as indicated in white in the middle of each figure) from flightradar24.com, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to Kuala Lumpur (top left – flew over Ukraine), Air France Flight 166 to Bangkok (top right – avoided the area), British Airways Flight 9 to Bangkok (middle left – avoided the area), KLM Flight 809 to Kuala Lumpur (middle right – flew over Ukraine), Lufthansa Flight 772 to Bangkok (bottom left – flew over Ukraine), Thai Airways Flight 931 to Bangkok (bottom right – largely flew over Ukraine).
Where the MH17 wreckage fell. “Witnesses reported that Flight 17 broke up in the air near the village of Grabovo, Ukraine. The wreckage from the crash was strewn across farmland in an area as large as six square miles,” the New York Times shows.
Source: Satellite image by DigitalGlobe via Google
Crash site and missile launch within area of rebel activity. “Eastern Ukraine has been roiled for months by a violent pro-Russian separatist uprising. A United States official said the missile that shot down the plane was launched from a region near the towns of Torez and Snizhne,” said the New York Times.
Source: Ukrainian Council of National Security and Defense. Show the approximate area (in red square) of the advanced computerized Buk missile launch.
Path of MH17. The plane was headed from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when radar trackers lost it. The last know location of MH17 was at 4:21 pm local time.
Source: Flight-path data from flightradar24.com
Many more lives could have been lost, if for example, this was a full Airbus A380 operated by Malaysia Airlines from London Heathrow Airport to Kuala Lumpur, or any other such carriers that could possibly be flying an Airbus A380 or Boeing 777 aircraft over the same Ukraine airspace, including operators, such as KLM, Thai Airways, Lufthansa Airlines or Singapore Airlines (although this writer does not know, if Singapore Airlines either flies over Ukraine or avoids the area).
This horrible MH17 safety incident was completely avoidable.
CNN International on Saturday, July 19 said the MH17 crash site is “the largest crime scene in the world.”
This is absolutely an international call-for-action for the commercial passenger airline’s trade group, International Air Transportation Association (IATA), and the United Nation’s commercial passenger airline’s policy group, International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to counsel, to advise, and to warn sovereign states to establish clearer commercial passenger risk management policies and guidelines, like those of British Airways, for restricted flight paths over known war zones by commercial passenger aircraft.
Sadly, Eurocontrol had the Ukrainian war zone open to commercial air travel at the time MH17 was tragically thrown out of the sky. Malaysian officials said ICAO had approved the route the doomed MH17 airliner took. However, this appears to be a misreading of what exactly the ICAO does. ICAO issues advisory only, based on civil airline business decisions taken by delegates, rather than mandating to its members what to do in commercial passenger airline travel.
What we don’t know much about as of July 19, 2014 is three alarming concerns: (1) commercial airlines flying over war zones, (2) an unsecured MH17 crash site, and once again, at the risk of sounding like a red-herring, (3) “It’s Time to Put the ‘Black-Box in The Cloud.’
How can we secure the flight data recorders (known as the ‘black-boxes’) not only in remote oceanic regions, as we have seen with the MH370 disappearance. But also now, as we see with the MH17 safety disaster and chaotic unsecured crash site, the black-boxes are misplaced once again. Now, this time somewhere inside a war zone.
We just do not know right now whether the precious flight recorder data inside black-boxes are being tampered with or being compromised to destroy the chain of evidence of what was happening on board moments before a Russian Buk exploded next to the Boeing 777-200ER cabin sending shrapnel through it. Remarkably right now, the black-boxes may be allegedly up for grabs among rebels or separatists in an unsecured crash site inside a known war zone.
Avoiding Russian-Ukraine War Zone Anarchy with a Buk!
The Telegraph (U.K.) reports, “A rebel leader in Ukraine has this morning said that the pro-Russian fighters will guarantee the safety of international monitors at the Malaysian jet’s crash site, if Kiev agrees to a truce.”
“We declare that we will guarantee the safety of international experts on the scene, as soon as, Kiev concludes a ceasefire agreement,” the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic’s deputy premier Andrei Purgin said in a statement.
It is very hard to get the whole truth about what exactly is going on inside the Russian-Ukraine War Zone. It is an anarchistic “black-hole” nowadays. Any facts held onto firmly too long are probably not correct.
Three major questions of international security now have a direct bearing on aviation safety and security:
First and foremost, what is happening in the Russia-Ukraine region? Revolution? It is a revolution that is now the most important revolution of our lifetime! United States and United Nations national security community and NATO think-tanks are trying to find its bearings after Thursday’s MH17 aviation disaster, including the ongoing MH370 aviation tragedy.
International security interests are also re-thinking their approach in the region, as a result of the world changing so fundamentally in such a short time of four months. These extreme events are happening so fast that we do not have time to be astonished nowadays.
The Russian-Ukraine revolution is analogous with the 18th Century French Revolution. Only now the actors and players are armed with an advanced computerized missile called a Buk! In such revolutionary situations, radically different things can happen, like the downing of a Boeing 777-200ER packed with 298 civilians, cruising at 33,000 feet from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Such revolutionary disaster events cause discontinuous and radically different change.
Above all, the MH17 loss should NOT have happened. The human story irrevocably tied to this newest aviation disaster is how to bring closure to the grieving families for lost loved ones aboard MH17, as well as, for the lost loved ones disappeared aboard MH370.
Let me tell you how I felt, as an airlines and aviation enthusiast about this aviation tragedy yesterday. First of all, like everyone watching the extreme outrageous nature of this MH17 incident unfold, I felt just awful for the 298 people lost on board. Also, I just have not forgetten the 239 people that vanished on board MH370.
Yesterday, as a caring human being, I, along with many others around the world, grieved for all 537 of their souls.
Finally, I thought about the dozens of AIDS researchers who perished, and what the world has been denied in scientific contribution and medical knowledge. We probably lost a potential cure for AIDS on MH17, as dozens, perhaps a hundred top AIDS scientists and attendees to an international AIDS conference were on-board that Boeing 777-200ER.
*Correction, July 20, 2014: This article originally misstated that about 100 passengers killed on MH17 were flying to the International AIDS Conference, an estimate that was widely reported before the release of the passenger manifest. After more information was released, the International AIDS Society reported that six delegates were among those killed.
Video Credit: The Telegraph (U.K.). Leading members of the AIDS research community pay tribute to colleagues who were traveling on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, when it crashed in Ukraine.
In this October 2008 photo provided by AMC Amsterdam on Friday, July 18, 2014, former president of the International AIDS Society Joep Lange is seen. A large number of world-renowned AIDS researchers and activists heading to an international AIDS conference in Australia were on board a Malaysian jetliner that was shot down over Ukraine, officials said Friday, as news of their deaths sparked an outpouring of grief across the global scientific community. Among them was Joep Lange, a well-known researcher from the Netherlands (AP Photo/Peter Lowie/AMC).
Next, what will happen inside the Russian-Ukraine nations? Alternative Futures? Thursday’s downing of a Boeing 777-200ER airliner by an advanced computerized Russian-built Buk is the most serious threat to the international security community. The Russian-Ukraine conflict is not a ‘black-box‘ rather a ‘black-hole‘ that has suddenly blown-back and exploded into our faces much to our astonishment.
The actor and players with an interest in this conflict had two choices: (1) they could make a Buk for billions of dollars, or (2) they could buy it. The Russian-Ukraine region is now the “Home Depot” for buying a Buk!
We all must now be interested in any sovereign state that proliferates these advanced computerized weaponry (including nuclear, biological, and chemical weaponry of mass destruction). The downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is clear and irrevocable evidence of how a Buk can be a weapon of mass destruction in a moment of five minutes.
When we now think of the Russian-Ukraine region, we must think of three main aspects of alternative courses of action going forward.
First, a reformist Russian-Ukraine resolution, as a result of the stunning shock of the MH17 aviation disaster. Here, Russia-Ukraine muddles along in a discontinuous fashion with potential to reach a flash-point of firing all over again, including downing a Boeing 777-200ER. Remember, the Russian-Ukraine governments are facing deficits, hyperinflation (well over 100%), high unemployment, and slow GDP growth.
Second, a revisionist Russian-Ukraine, under extreme revision of nationalist politics, faces a significant drop in quality of life for its people, a substantial constraint on the Russian-Ukraine economy, and globally-observable anarchy within its military-industrial complex. Thursday’s MH17 extreme event disaster undermines the region’s authority and control of its advanced computerized military ballistic weaponry.
Third, a collapsed Russian-Ukraine state is a highly-likely scenario for a regional conflict that has fallen into a ‘black-hole‘ that has erupted into the downing of a Boeing 777-200ER near Donetsk (Ukraine). “Borat with a Buk” is incapable of performing minimum state functions. It has no borders, no law and order, no economic stability, or no legitimate commerce or trade. Most of all, “Borat with a Buk” brings about military anarchy and unrest to civilians and international aviation safety and security.
Finally, why should we care about the Russian-Ukraine conflict? Loose Buks? After Thursday’s downing of MH17, it is all about international interests in safer and secure skies.
We witnessed “What can we do with a Buk?“
What we learned on Thursday was how a Buk can ruin your whole afternoon. It sure ruined mine.
What matters most now is everything matters in the Russian-Ukraine region going forward.
We also learned that some things matter more relative to others – like a five minute launch of a Buk!
We also must focus on what matters most. That is, how we globally aviate, navigate and communicate across safer and secure skies of international aviation. That is, safer skies over Asia, safer skies over Australia, safer skies over Africa, safer skies over Europe, safer skies over The Americas, and most of all, safer skies over the Russian-Ukraine region.
Consequences are extraordinary in the aftermath of the MH17 disaster and MH370 tragedy.
The Boeing 777-200ER airliner debris field is massive along the 15 kilometer spread along the Ukrainian-Russian boarder.
A “black-box” once again needs to be recovered to establish any chain of evidence and facts in this latest MH17 aviation disaster on July 17, much as in the ongoing MH370 aviation tragedy on March 8.
Like in the Hollywood movie “Ground Hog Day,” the MH17 Déjà vu aviation disaster is analogous to the June 1, 2014 “Five-Year Anniversary of AF447: MH370 Déjà vu” aviation tragedy.
The international watchdogs, safety experts, and aviation trade organizations (IATA and ICAO) as well as, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)need to be placed front and center in order to now step up and vigorously perform their essential tasks of determining the forensic circumstances and a cause of what happened. Most of all, these essential groups must ensure that we have no more MH17 Déjà vu aviation disaster, as well as, no more “Five-Year Anniversary of AF447: MH370 Déjà vu” aviation tragedy.
Human lives are at stake. Henceforward, patience in stating, speculating and storytelling of the truths is prudent now more than ever. Why? Because international aviation safety and security community is now working in crisis mode to recover public confidence, I firmly believe.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, in which 298 souls have been bombed out of the sky, and Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, in which 239 souls have vanished out of the sky, now ranks as the largest air disaster in total lives lost at 537 souls, in aviation history, since American Airlines 587 crashed into a New York suburb back on November 12, 2001, where 260 souls perished.
Malaysia Airlines is now in the fog of the greatest dual-crisis in international aviation safety and security history,” I said recently on Reuters.
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Anatomy of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner Vertical Takeoff (VIDEOS)
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Boeing teaches us not only how planes fly like an eagle horizontally, but also how they takeoff like a rocket vertically! A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner performed a near “S-vertical” takeoff, on Friday, June 12, 2015, as Boeing and Vietnam Airlines crew teamed up to put the airliner through its paces over Moses Lake, Washington.
This test run was completed in preparation for its performance at the 51st International Paris Air Show, held June 15-21, 2015 at Le Bourget Exhibition Centre a few kilometers from Paris.
Spectacular pictures and Boeing video released Friday exhibit the groundbreaking Boeing 787-9 airliner’s state-of-the-art digital “glass cockpit” aviation, navigation, and communication systems, alongside its “rocket science” maneuvers.
It appears the jet is heading straight up, like a rocket, so we aim to discuss in this article, the scientific and technological anatomy of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, as it performs a near vertical takeoff for the benefit of laypersons watching this stunning video below.
In other words, consider this piece an easy-to-read primer breakdown for laypersons to understand how a commercial aircraft takes off like a rocket! In anticipation of the 2015 Paris Air Show, this brief primer is “jet propulsion and rocket science for laypersons!”
Boeing says the above company video “spotlights technical maneuvers that showcase some of the airplane’s many capabilities.”
In all fairness to the Boeing-Airbus global commercial aircraft manufacturing competition, Friday’s near vertical takeoff performance of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner is not the first one by a large commercial airliner of this jumbo size class. The video below is an equally remarkable “S-vertical” takeoff performance of an Airbus A380 at the 2013 Paris Air Show.
Two French Navy pilots teamed up with Airbus to display a stunning near vertical takeoff and near vertical flight maneuver at the 2013 Paris Air Show on empty fuel tanks and extremely light weight, mainly because the Airbus A380 had previously performed a short maneuver presentation nearby the Le Bourget Exhibition Centre outside of Paris.
CNN prompted Boeing to “share specifics about the takeoff and banking angles during the flight.” A company spokeswoman told CNN “we unfortunately aren’t sharing specifics about the profile such as bank angles at this time.”
“Some of what you’re seeing on takeoff is a trick of perspective,” said Boeing 767 pilot Patrick Smith, who blogs on aviation at AskthePilot.com. “It looks like the takeoff is at a near vertical 90 degree angle — trust me it’s not.”
“A 20 degree pitch-up on takeoff is pretty strong,” said Smith, describing what passengers inside the cabin may feel during takeoff.
What a competitively strategic “marketing bonanza move” for the American airplane manufacturer to enhance the Boeing 787 Dreamliner brand after its dubious market launch a few years back.
That news is ancient history now after Friday’s remarkable takeoff of the Boeing 787-9, spiraling up as a viral technological phenomenon across social media.
As of May 2015, 509 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft (amounting to 46 percent of all 787 orders) have been ordered by 30 airlines around the world.
Smith further comments on the video: “If they’re pushing the envelope and having fun, they might be going a bit past what the command bars are showing, but just temporarily — again, it’s the Paris Air Show!”
Friday’s trial run of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, undergoing a near “S-vertical takeoff” to be performed at the 2015 Paris Air Show, further highlights the company’s technologically innovative capabilities in aviation safety and critical flight performance. Remarkably displayed are critical flight maneuvers at subsonic flight envelop extremes akin to a “military fighter.” Most of all, what is displayed is a more extraordinary extreme takeoff requirement of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner performing nearly as a “vertical rocket” propulsive system.
It is this latter extraordinary extreme, where it appears the jet is heading straight up, like a rocket, that we wish to discuss in the next section, the simple scientific and technological anatomy of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner near vertical takeoff for the benefit of laypersons looking at the stunning pictures.
Anatomy of a Boeing 787-9 “S-Vertical” Takeoff
“Presumably the plane was very light because it wasn’t carrying any passengers, probably had a very light fuel load, no freight, so it would have been able to perform a steeper than normal ascent — but not to the extent the video seems to show,” Boeing 767 pilot Patrick Smith said.
“But for demonstration purposes, under lightweight conditions, it’s perfectly natural for this airplane to do that. It’s nothing dangerous.”
A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner without its payload and fuel weighs about 117,617 kilograms (or 259,301 pounds) equal to about 29 elephants. The maximum payload takeoff weight is designed for 227,930 kilograms (or 502,500 pounds). The airliner’s wing span is 197 feet (or 60 meters), the aircraft’s length is 186 feet (or 57 meters), and the air vehicle’s height is 56 feet (or 17 meters).
The commercial airliner is designed to fly subsonically at Mach 0.85 (relative to the speed of sound), that is, about 650 miles per hour.
Forward thrust of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner at horizontally level flight is “rearward ejection of air flow” through a high-intake engine (taking in a ton of air per second) mounted on the wings with the condition that the air flow in the engine exhaust jet (creating the thrust) originates from the airliner’s forward flight design speed (topping at Mach 0.85).
Essentially, the two air-breathing turbofan propulsion systems of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, operating at level flight, are fundamentally converging-diverging flow stream nozzles with a sonic plenum of combustible heat input in the middle, wherein fuel-air mixture propellant is burned (in other words, these turbofans are basically horizontally-directed “ideal” rocket motors, sort-of-speak, attached to wings). The exhaust jet is a characteristic velocity dependent on how well the flow stream (calculated using advanced three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics) through the engine device is designed.
As the Vietnam Airlines crew kept close tabs on the climb rate, airliner vehicle speed, and “glass cockpit” command bars, the near “S-vertical” takeoff momentarily shifts the Boeing 787-9 in an aggressive flight takeoff performance mode akin to a rocket propulsive system.
Fluidic momentum suggests the near vertical thrust needed to achieve the rapid climb equals a large air intake mass flow through the engines multiplied by an even larger engines’ exhaust jet velocity, due to the high vehicle speed of the Boeing 787-9 vertically upward, as seen on the company video.
Hence, the near vertical thrust readings on the “glass cockpit” command bar of the Boeing 787-9 airliner is essentially a non-dimensional ratio of two characteristic velocities — one, which is an exhaust jet dependent on how well the engine flow stream is designed, over another, which is a characteristic velocity about 40 percent higher than the speed of sound inside the combustion chambers of the engines.
This near vertical thrust is one measure of performance of the Boeing 787-9 near “S-vertical” takeoff, as seen on the company video.
Another consideration is how effectively or usefully do the engines burn fuel. This requires next-generation engines, having a sufficiently large overall pressure ratio, so as to have sonic flow at the throat of the engine flow stream design.
It is useful here to consider three additional figures of merit — fuel burn (or specific fuel consumption), specific impulse, and engine thermal efficiency — in terms of various Boeing 787-9 vehicle parameters from the perspectives of the Boeing aircraft design and the General Electric GEnx-1B and/or Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine designs adopted.
Both of these adopted engines “represent nearly a two-generation jump in propulsion technology used on the Boeing 767,” whereby the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner uses 20 percent less fuel than any other airplane of its size, according to Boeing (see Appendix on the 787 Dreamliner Facts below).
Back in 2002, Boeing foresaw increased market demand for its Boeing 767 class twin-aisle airplane flying over significantly larger range. The company believed the airline industry was evolving from a “hub-and-spoke” to a “point-to-point” lower-fuel cost operational model.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is an outgrowth of the challenge to meet this airline industry demand for making significant advances in overall airplane design requiring greater advances in propulsion system innovation.
Boeing Commercial Airplane alongside General Electric and Rolls-Royce aircraft engine manufacturers approached this challenge by “improving fuel burn (that is, “specific fuel consumption” and/or “specific impulse”) of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner engines in three traditional performance areas,” according to the aircraft manufacturer:
Higher propulsive efficiency through increased bypass ratio (which measures a ratio of the engine front fan diameter to the engine core diameter, see Appendix for looks inside the 787 Dreamliner ultra-high bypass ratio aircraft engines). [Note: an engine’s propulsive efficiency = 1 / [ 1 + 0.25 (Cd)(Aw / Ain) ], wherein Cd is the drag coefficient of the airliner, Aw is the airliner’s wing area, and Ain is the air flow area at the aircraft engine inlet). Thus, monitoring increases in the propulsive efficiency unites the Boeing aeronautical engineer (Cd) and Boeing structural engineer (Aw) with the General Electric and Rolls-Royce propulsion engineer (Ain)].
Higher engine thermal efficiency through increased overall pressure ratio and improved component efficiencies, exclusively involves the General Electric and Rolls-Royce propulsion engineer. [Note: an engine’s thermal efficiency measures a ratio of the increase in kinetic energy through the engine to heat input into the engine from fuel burn. The increase in kinetic energy through the engine is a half of the difference between the engine exhaust jet velocity squared and the aircraft’s forward velocity squared].
Improved thrust-to-weight ratio through the application of advanced materials, brings together the Boeing structural engineer (weight, advanced materials, wing-tail-section-fuselage lift-to-drag ratios) and Boeing aeronautical engineer (thrust-to-weight) with the General Electric and Rolls-Royce propulsion engineer (thrust).
According to Boeing, the following facts are the conditions for the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner’s near vertical takeoff using either General Electric GEnx-1B or Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines: Bypass ratio = 10; Fan diameter = 111-112 inches; Overall pressure ratio = 50; Thrust = 53,000-74,000 pound-feet; Specific fuel consumption (SFC) = 15% lower than the Boeing 767 class engines.
To achieve the near “S-vertical” takeoff mode, the propulsion engines must generate momentarily an enormous amount of near vertical thrust. The amount of fuel needed to produce such thrust must momentarily balance the weight of the Boeing 787-9 airliner. Hence, General Electric and Rolls-Royce propulsion engineers must consider a figure of merit, called specific fuel consumption (SFC), to characterize the engine’s fuel efficiency.
Specific fuel consumption (SFC) measures “how much fuel the engine burns each hour,” normalized by mass or weight, or in this case, “per pound (Newton) of thrust.” In other words, specific fuel consumption is the mass of fuel burned by the Boeing 787-9 engines in one hour divided by the thrust that the engine produces.
Putting this another way, by definition, specific fuel consumption is a ratio of the engine fuel mass flow rate to the amount of thrust produced during fuel burn. When we normalize this ratio by the engine air mass flow rate, we obtain another form of specific fuel consumption (which measures fuel burn efficiency) in terms of a ratio defining the fuel-to-air mix to the specific thrust (that is, the engine thrust normalized by the air mass or weight through the engine device).
The units of specific fuel consumption are mass per unit time divided by thrust force (in English units, pounds mass per hour per pound; in metric units, kilograms per hour per Newton).
Research experts and officials at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, working from the standpoint of producing clean efficient turbofan engines, consider figure of merit tradeoffs between specific fuel consumption (SFC) versus nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions. The key source of NOx emissions is the combustion of fuels inside the burner chamber of the aircraft engine device. This brings into consideration the multidisciplinary science of aero-environmental propulsion engineering.
However, we can also define another figure of merit, called the specific impulse, as directly related to the overall efficiency of the engines of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner in performing the near “S-vertical” takeoff. The specific impulse in performing this takeoff is a ratio of the near vertical thrust divided by the temporal rate of change of the Boeing 787-9 weight.
Naturally, of course, we do also have equilibrated lift-to-drag force ratios of the wings, tail section, and fuselage. However, such resultant equilibrated lift-to-drag forces are momentarily vectorially-directed at sharply inclined angles relative to the Boeing 787-9 airliner’s center of mass, as the near “S-vertical” takeoff flight maneuver of the airliner is being performed.
The overall (propulsion system) efficiency may be approximated as a product of the propulsive efficiency and the thermal efficiency. (Note: an engine’s overall efficiency measures a ratio of the engine’s thrust power (or “useful propulsive work”) to available fuel burn energy).
When we take the Boeing 787-9 near vertical takeoff speed, Uo, multiplied by the specific impulse, Isp, we get a measure of the engines’ thrust power. The available fuel burn energy is a ratio of the heating value of the fuel, H, to the gravitational constant, g.
Thus, the overall efficiency, Neff, of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, performing as a near vertical takeoff rocket propulsive system, is Neff = (Uo)(Isp) / (H/g).
In summary, these seven (7) performance figures of merit — (1) fuel burn energy,(H/g), (2) specific fuel consumption, SFC, (which measures engine fuel burn efficiency), (3) specific impulse, Isp, (4) engine thermal efficiency, (5) overall (propulsion system) efficiency, Neff, (which is highly dependent upon the closely-monitored airliner’s takeoff flight speed and near vertical flight speed, Uo), (6) engine thrust power, (Uo)(Isp), and (7) nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions (for aero-environmental propulsion engineering design considerations) — are altogether central to the Boeing 787-9 aviation achievements exhibited at the 2015 Paris Air Show on June 15-21, 2015 at Le Bourget Exhibition Centre outside of Paris. This article serves to describe for laypersons what really matters most in the anatomy of a near “S-vertical” takeoff of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
APPENDIX: Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Facts
First flown in December of 2009, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is the company’s “technological marvel” designed by hundreds of aeronautical, structural and propulsion engineers, invoking a concept called “virtual manufacturing” pulling together the aircraft’s design and manufacturing from around the world.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is also an aviation innovation in how it uses advanced technology, according to the company,
to improve the cabin experience (including a “High-Efficiency Particulate Air” (HEPA) filter to “remove bacteria and viruses, and additional gaseous filtration system also removes odors, irritants and gaseous contaminants, some of the primary contributors to throat, eye and nose irritation”);
to enhance the cabin eco-friendliness (which implements “scalloped chevrons on the engine casings to lower noise both inside and outside the cabin, making the airplane quieter for passengers, ground crews and communities”);
to fully incorporate advanced lightweight carbon-fiber materials throughout the aircraft’s structural configuration (that is, “composite materials make up 50 per cent of the primary structure of the 787, including the wings and fuselage”), which for the composite fuselage allows higher cabin pressures that contributes considerably to passenger comfort;
to fully integrate state-of-the-art digital “glass cockpit” avionics and navigation and advanced computerized communication systems located throughout the airframe (including “Smoother Ride Technology,” a Boeing-designed system that “senses turbulence and commands wing control to smoothen the ride in moderate turbulence, so that passengers enjoy a more comfortable flight, including reduced motion sickness”).
The Boeing 787-9 is powered by new high-bypass ratio engines from General Electric’s GEnx-1B, which
Leverage the highly successful GE90 composite cold-stream front fan blades with the latest swept aerodynamics;
Incorporate an entirely new composite fan case for significant weight savings;
Incorporate state-of-the-art titanium aluminide (Ti-Al) blades in the last two stages of the seven-stage low pressure turbine. Hot turbine blades made of titanium aluminide (Ti-Al) material achieves significant weight savings over traditional nickel alloy turbine blades.
and Rolls-Royce’s Trent 1000, which
Incorporate the latest swept aerodynamic cold-stream hollow-fan-blade technology evolved from the predecessor Trent 900 engine;
Utilize the proven benefit of the Trent three-spool engine architecture. In the case of the Trent 1000, the three-spool design affords intermediate pressure power off-take with demonstrated benefits in engine operability and fuel consumption;
Design the Trent 1000 with the latest computational fluid dynamics-enabled 3D aerodynamics for high efficiency and low noise.
The latest Boeing 787-9, which is longer with a farther range than its predecessor Boeing 787-8, first rolled off the assembly line in Everett, Washington, in 2013. Its first customer, New Zealand Airlines, received its order the next year. The new Boeing 787-10 commercial launch is anticipated in 2018.
Some additional cool facts about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner as an engineering marvel are available here.
Photo and Video Credits: The Boeing Company, General Electric Aircraft Engines, Rolls-Royce Aircraft Engines
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Boeing, Airbus Win $107B of Aircraft Orders at Paris
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High-stakes flying over Paris’ Le Bourget field is a strategic bet on innovation, as $107B of aircraft orders was won by Boeing and Airbus. Photo Credit: Vietnam Airlines crew performing a “near vertical takeoff” of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner at the 2015 Paris Air Show.
Successful business strategy is about actively shaping the game you play, not just playing the game you find.” – Adam M. Brandenburger, Professor at Harvard Business School, and Barry J. Nalebuff, Professor at Yale University School of Management
Game on at Paris’ Le Bourget Center, because as summarized in this piece, if Boeing and Airbus did not make their top-line revenue targets and customer orders, as the 2015 Paris Air Show today closes an exciting week, then it is challenging for these advanced transportation technology juggernauts to make their annual bottom-line earnings targets for their shareholders and Wall Street and Euro-Asian market analysts. Fortunately, they did!
Photo Credit: British Airways crew landing at Le Bourget field in an Airbus A380 during the 2015 Paris Air Show.
European Airbus’ Competitive Strategy at Paris’ Le Bourget Center.
During the 51st International Paris Air Show, held June 15-21, 2015 at Le Bourget Exhibition Centre a few kilometers from Paris, European Airbus won US$57 billion worth of business for a total of 421 aircraft, according to the multinational aircraft manufacturer. “The deals consist of firm orders for 124 aircraft worth US$16.3 billion and commitments for 297 aircraft worth US$40.7 billion” (see company press release, summarizing Airbus’ aircraft orders (Appendix A) obtained in Paris).
All eyes were on the Airbus A350 XWB – Airbus’ competitive response to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner technology – during its flight presentations at the Paris Air Show. This video clip takes you inside the next-generation jetliner for one of the A350 XWB’s exciting flying displays, with special commentary provided by the pilot.
Correspondingly, in response to Boeing’s 787-9 “near vertical takeoff” preemptive performance gone viral on social media prior to Paris, Airbus decided to go with its Airbus A350-900 (reinforcing its leading position as the world’s most modern, advanced wide-body aircraft). Or better still, Airbus also decided to go with focusing on its market leading Airbus A320 Family, which garnered an impressive 366 endorsements (comprising 103 firm orders and 263 commitments) worth US$41.4 billion.
Airbus took in 31 orders for A350-900s at the 2015 Paris Air Show. At an average list price of about US$305 million in 2014, Airbus took in about US$9.5 billion (or nearly US$10 billion) for its 31 orders of A350-900s at Le Bourget Centre with air carrier, Garuda Indonesia (in Jakarta), requesting 30 A350-900 orders and the other one going to Air Lease Corporation (NYSE:AL), based in Los Angeles.
John Leahy, Airbus’ Chief Operating Officer, Customers said: “Our latest forecast for 32,600 planes in the next 20 years is being proved correct. The orders and commitments at this year’s Paris Air Show demonstrate three things; Asia is powering the growth, we are leading in single-aisle and wide-body and our A321neo is the aircraft of choice in the middle of the market.”
Photo Credit: Vietnam Airlines crew, landing a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner at Le Bourget field during the 2015 Paris Air Show.
American Boeing’s Competitive Strategy at Paris’ Le Bourget Center.
Rival aircraft manufacturer Boeing won US$50.2 billion worth of new business for a total of 331 Boeing commercial passenger airplanes. A summary of the American airplane producer’s business windfall is posted on the Boeing Orders & Deliveries website, including 21 Next-Generation 737s for unidentified customers (see company press release, summarizing Boeing’s aircraft orders (Appendix B) obtained in Paris).
Boeing also took in 30 orders for 787-9 Dreamliners at the 2015 Paris Air Show. At an average list price of about US$257 million in 2014, Boeing raked in about US$7.7 billion (or nearly US$8 billion) for its 30 orders of 787-9 Dreamliners at Le Bourget Exhibition Centre with air carrier, Garuda Indonesia, based in Jakarta, amounting to all 30 of the Boeing 787-9 orders.
Boeing Test Pilot Chad Lundy steps us through the breathtaking Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, “near vertical takeoff” and flying display at the Paris Air Show on June 15, 2015. Lundy explains how Boeing’s expert crew positions the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner to “best show off its maneuverability and grace, highlighting the operational and environmental benefits” of the technological innovation built into this extraordinary airliner.
“Innovation is the heart of our strategy,” said Boeing Vice Chairman, President and Chief Operating Officer Dennis Muilenburg.
“It is what differentiates us not only from existing competitors but also from the competitors of the future. We have more research, development and capital projects underway and are bringing innovation to market faster than at any time in our history. That innovation is helping to drive our customers’ success and we were able to demonstrate that with the products we brought to the show.”
Boeing has also released a follow-up to its popular 787-9 Dreamliner demonstration video, gone viral on social media last week, but now bringing the public into the flight deck as Boeing’s expert crew rehearsed for the 2015 Paris Air Show (see Appendix C below).
The new video offers the full flight routine and a new experience. “Viewers can choose between camera angles to seamlessly see the full airplane and the pilots inside the flight deck. Boeing is among the first to use YouTube’s experimental technology, known as Choose Your View, which provides a more immersive and interactive video experience,” according to Boeing.
“Our first 787-9 demonstration video was extremely popular and we’re pleased to allow viewers around the globe to experience the exciting performance of the Dreamliner,” said Sean McCormack, vice president, Communications, Commercial Airplanes. “Boeing is proud to be among the first companies to partner with YouTube on this innovative new technology.”
Photo Credit: British Airways crew taking off from Le Bourget field in an Airbus A380 during the 2015 Paris Air Show.
Choosing a Competitive Strategy in the Boeing-Airbus Duopoly at Paris’ Le Bourget Center.
In the global market for commercial passenger aircraft, the lone producers – Boeing and Airbus – are actually in the “small numbers” circumstances relative to the scale and scope of these huge manufacturers, competitively speaking, where relatively small scales (of US$7.2 billion) separated the tens of billions of dollars in total aircraft orders, secured by Boeing and Airbus at the Paris Air Show. This has huge economic consequences on the aircraft manufacturing firm’s bottom-line and Wall Street and Euro-Asian market analysts’ projections of the close race between these two juggernaut advanced transportation technology firms.
In these “small number” scenarios, a crucial aspect of executive decisions is anticipating how these two rivals may react this year and in the next few years, particularly in pricing, investments in advanced technologies and “know-how”, sunk costs into new facilities, capital reserves, and so forth.
A penetrating way in which the Boeing and Airbus boards and executives decide and make strategic judgements in this high-stakes game is to “get inside the minds” of each other, figure out what is in their “self-interest.” And then, maximize economic profit for their company’s shareholders accordingly.
Boeing and Airbus boards and executives, nonetheless, are extremely smart at making choices in this multibillion dollar game. Boeing’s optimal choices will oftentimes depend on their assessments of Airbus’ expectations of what Boeing intends to do, which, in turn, depend on Airbus’ assessment of Boeing’s reassessments about what Airbus intends to do next.
Photo Credit: Steep takeoff from Le Bourget field of a Bombardier CS300 during the 2015 Paris Air Show. Montreal, Quebec Canadian Bombardier CS300 is a single-aisle 160-seater, which sold no planes at the 2015 Paris Air Show, is a direct competitor to single-aisle Boeing 737s and Airbus A320 Family of airliners.
Putting the huge aircraft orders and billion dollar amounts aside for the moment, high-stakes competition took to the sky over Paris, as Boeing and Airbus strategically maneuvered their Boeing 787-9 and Airbus A350 aircraft innovations through stunning near vertical takeoffs and flight maneuvers over the Le Bourget field in Paris to pull airline customers to the contract order table.
Among the various tools Boeing and Airbus corporate board and executives have to gauge their competitive rivalry and strategy, economic scenario analyses and decision games are most beneficial in obtaining insights into the way Boeing and Airbus interact in specific events, like the 2015 Paris Air Show. Conducting revenue and economic profit analyses and assessing “win-win” or “win-lose” decision games are required in anticipation to establishing each company’s annual earnings and shareholder value for the year.
The board must be willing and able to recognize whether or not the company has a winning strategy – and, if not, to urge corrective actions … depending on the particular circumstances of the company and the industry in which it is operating.” – National Association of Corporate Director’s Blue Ribbon Commission on The Role of the Board in Corporate Strategy.
Pulling all of this together differently, Boeing and Airbus needed to decide whether the aircraft manufacturers are going with either technical innovation and “know-how”(Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner vs. Airbus A350-900) or market stronghold (Boeing 737 vs. Airbus A320), as their competitive promotional advantage at the 2015 Paris Air Show.
Naturally, both Boeing and Airbus prefer going with their market strongholds, since this strategic move has the greatest amount of potential customer orders for their aircraft products.
However, Boeing and Airbus prefer not to go head-on against each other by both choosing to go with market stronghold or technical innovation and “know-how” only, since that strategy in the Boeing-Airbus duopoly game would then create really higher pricing pressures on each aircraft manufacturer to stay committed to the competitive game of efficient aircraft manufacturing economics.
Photo Credit: Steep takeoff from Le Bourget field of an Airbus A380 during the 2015 Paris Air Show.
Appendix A: Airbus win US$57 billion in aircraft orders in Paris
“During the 51st International Paris Air Show, held June 15-21, 2015 at Le Bourget Exhibition Centre a few kilometers from Paris, Airbus won US$57 billion worth of business for a total of 421 aircraft. The deals consists of firm orders for 124 aircraft worth US$16.3 billion and commitments for 297 aircraft worth US$40.7 billion.
In the wide-body market, Airbus kicked-off the show with the announcement of the first operator for the new A330 Regional, with Saudi Arabian Airlines taking 20 on lease from IAFC, a leading lessor in the Middle East. The A330 Regional will enable airlines to serve fast-growing domestic and regional routes at least cost and maximum efficiency.
The A350 XWB continues to attract new business with commitments for 31 A350-900s, reinforcing its leading position as the world’s most modern, advanced wide-body aircraft.
Airbus’ most modern, comfortable, efficient and reliable range of wide-body aircraft won 55 orders and commitments worth US$15.6 billion, comprising 31 A350-900s, 20 A330 Regional and four A330-300s.
In the single-aisle sector, the market leading A320 Family garnered an impressive 366 endorsements (comprising 103 firm orders and 263 commitments) worth US$41.4 billion. Of these, 323 are NEO’s, taking total orders and commitments for the A320neo Family beyond 4,000 since launch in December 2010.
Boosting the longevity of the best-selling A320 Family, Airbus announced a new freighter conversion program in partnership with EFW and ST Aerospace. This broadens Airbus’ portfolio of innovative solutions, meeting the requirements of customers in all market segments.
Airbus is the world’s leading aircraft manufacturer of passenger airliners, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats. Airbus has design and manufacturing facilities in France, Germany, the UK, and Spain, and subsidiaries in the US, China, India, Japan and in the Middle East. In addition, it provides the highest standard of customer support and training through an expanding international network.”
Photo Credit: Vietnam Airlines crew, performing a steep turn above Le Bourget field in a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner during the 2015 Paris Air Show.
Appendix B: Boeing wins US$50.2 billion in aircraft orders in Paris
“At the 2015 International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Exhibition Centre, Boeing won US$50.2 billion worth of new business for a total of 331 Boeing commercial passenger airplanes. A summary of the business windfall is posted on the Boeing Orders & Deliveries website, including 21 Next-Generation 737s for unidentified customers.
Boeing and the government of Qatar announced the signing of an agreement to purchase four more C-17 Globemaster III airlifters. These aircraft will join the Qatar Armed Forces’ (QAF) existing fleet of four and help meet their ongoing airlift requirements.
Boeing’ newest commercial jetliner, a 787-9 Dreamliner for Vietnam Airlines, was a highlight of the flying display. A video featuring air-to-air footage of its air show rehearsal has received nearly 10 million views on YouTube alone.
Also on display at the show were a Qatar Airways 787-8 and a China Airlines 777-300ER with its award-winning cabin interior. A virtual 3-D tour of the airplanes powered by a Google Box 360 application attracted many visitors.
The U.S. Department of Defense corral featured a P-8A anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare aircraft (shown for the first time in Le Bourget), CH-47F Chinook and AH-64 Apache helicopters and an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter.
Boeing is focused on execution and remains on track to deliver between 750 and 755 airplanes in 2015, a new industry record. Upcoming commercial development program milestones scheduled before the end of this year include factory rollout of the 737 MAX and firm configuration of the 777X.“
Appendix C: Interactive Video Experience of Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner “Near Vertical Takeoff”
“Performed by Boeing test pilots to prepare for the air show, the routine showcases the many capabilities of the 787-9 in Vietnam Airlines’ livery and demonstrates maneuvers never seen in typical flight. The first video from the practice sessions, which received well more than 10 million views worldwide in less than a week, included a condensed version of air-to-air footage. Today’s release includes the full 7.5-minute routine and answers the questions so many viewers have noted in their comments about what it is like in the flight deck during a demonstration flight. This video is best experienced from a desktop/laptop computer. Mobile users may have limited functionality.
“We’re thrilled to see what Boeing has created using the multi-angle technology from YouTube. The video gives viewers a unique perspective into a flight demonstration, creating a viewing experience that’s incredibly interactive and immersive for fans,” said Mike Miller, director, Business & Industrial Markets, Google.”
Photo and Video Credits: The Boeing Company, Airbus, 2015 Paris Air Show
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Business Must Play The Right John Nash Game
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Commercial passenger aircraft business of Boeing and Airbus is a high-stakes “duopoly” game of competitive strategy, a sinning business approach that is examined inside. Without bankrupting each other, each player is aiming to solely dominate the other’s board strategy in business, as the world’s largest most profitable aircraft manufacturer.
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Borrowing language from the military, sports, or even politics, such observers would say both of these aircraft manufacturing business duopoly players are “in it to win it” at all costs.
With annual business economic profits in the billions of dollars, this duopoly game is neither about winning or losing, nor how well Boeing and Airbus play the game. Rather, each of these firms’ successes interdependently reside in their ability to ensure the competitive rivals are “playing the right John Nash game” to maximize business economic profits for each firm’s shareholders.
Successful business strategy is about actively shaping the game you play, not just playing the game you find.” – Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff, authors of “The Right Game: Use Game Theory to Shape Strategy,” Harvard Business Review, July-August 1995.
High-stakes competition took to the sky over Paris’ Le Bourget Exhibition Center, June 15-21, 2015, as Boeing and Airbus strategically maneuvered their Boeing 787-9 and Airbus A350 aircraft innovations through stunning near vertical takeoffs and flight maneuvers over the Le Bourget field to pull airline customers to the contract order table.
Here, the duopoly game was on, as a strategic bet was placed on innovation with US$107 billion in aircraft orders on the table. Eventually, this was narrowly parsed between Boeing (at US$50.2 billion) and Airbus (at US$57 billion).
Prior to publication of the 1944 classic, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, by Nobel Laureate mathematician, John von Neumann, and Nobel Laureate economist, Oscar Morgenstern, corporate boards and executives did not have the tools to make proper analyses of the strategic interaction between firm rivals, characterized by the Boeing-Airbus duopoly. Neumann-Morgenstern game-theoretic contributions were primarily applicable to industries composed of either many rivals for which interactions do not matter (as in perfect competitors), or no rivals at all (as in monopolies).
Modern theories of games and economic profit equilibria has now expanded to industries, having low numbers of strategically-interdependent rivals (or oligopolies), such as the Boeing-Airbus duopoly.
Later in this piece, we touch upon the remarkable conceptualization of a Nash general equilibrium game of economic profits, as Boeing and Airbus boards and executives are rudimentary simulated in making their strategic economic choices simultaneously, as well as, fundamentally illustrated and explicated as choices made sequentially (given associated factors of rivalry assessment and judgment during the game, like strategic commitment and credibility).
Invented by the late Princeton professor and Nobel Laureate John F. Nash Jr. (1928-2015), his game-theoretic equilibrium contributions have been applied to fields as far-reaching as industrial business, litigation, evolutionary biology, and political science.
Below we also go deeper into specifically addressing the economics behind the competitive strategy of these huge global businesses. Together, we discuss how do Boeing and Airbus know they are playing the right game with competitive bets on technological innovation and “know-how” (in Boeing’s 787s vs Airbus’ A350s) alongside market strongholds (with Boeing’s 737sMax vs Airbus’ A320s), displayed to airline customers in Paris. This competitive game becomes especially critical as the rivals are strategically interdependent upon each other in the global marketplace.
Photo Credit: Airbus’ A350 Family rollout answer in 2014 to Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner Family in 2013.
Choosing a Competitive Strategy in the Boeing-Airbus Duopoly Challenge
America’s Boeing and France’s Airbus have duopolistic control of the international aviation industry with Airbus having a slight edge on market share over Boeing.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 Boeing announced CEO Jim McNerney (shown left photo above) would be stepping down. Replacing McNerney would be current president and COO Dennis Muilenburg (shown right photo above), Forbes, CNBC, and Reuters confirmed.
McNerney, who the aircraft manufacturer said in a statement has held the CEO post for the past 10 years, will remain the chairman of the board. Muilenburg will assume his new role on July 1, and McNerney will continue as an employee until February “to ensure a smooth transition,” according to a Boeing statement.
“It’s a little bit of a generational shift,” McNerney told CNBC on the day of the announcement. “This is a very long cycle business, where living with your decisions is important.”
“The source of reassurance that they can draw on is that we have crafted that strategy together, and in many ways there’s not going to be a change except generationally, and it’s time for that,” he added.
For his part Muilenburg reiterated that the company is sticking to its plan crafted under McNerney. “We have a strong strategy in place, and we’re going to continue to execute that with pace and confidence,” he said.
“The transition comes amid a historic boom in the commercial jet market and as Boeing faces tough challenges to build its defense business amid shrinking defense spending. Boeing is preparing to celebrate its 100th anniversary next year,” CNBC reports.
“McNerney oversaw a near doubling of revenue to a record $90.8 billion in 2014, and focused on improving Boeing’s profit margins by pressing suppliers to cut prices. He also secured long-term contracts with unions.”
Boeing is also most noted for its longstanding family of “Triple Sevens,” deeply penetrated in the airline marketplace. Airbus is most known for its A320 and A380 families, and its most recent A350 released in 2014, as a response to Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner released in 2013.
Notably, Boeing introduced “virtual manufacturing” innovations in pulling together the 787 aircraft assemblage from around the world (including Japan (wing trailing edges, wing boxes, fuselage sections), Australia (wing flaps), Sweden (cargo doors), France (passenger doors), South Korea (wingtips, tail cone), China (wing-to-body panel, leading edge of tail-fin, rudder), Italy (horizontal stabilizers, fuselage sections), Canada (landing-gear doors, fairings), United Kingdom (engines, landing gear), and United States (wing leading edges, engine mounts, tail-fin, nose section), altogether as shown below). Component sources for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner draw from Japanese firms (35%), Boeing (35%), Vought/Alenia (26%), and other partner firms (4%).
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Variants of these competitive Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 innovative airliners are differentiated by fuselage length and Breguet range of the aircraft (as determined by factors of lift-to-drag ratio, payload-to-weight ratio, and propulsive fuel-burn efficiency).
Photo Credit: Airbus, Boeing, AFP, chiongtheskies.blogspot.com
Among the various tools Boeing and Airbus corporate board and executives have in order to gauge their competitive rivalry and strategy, economic scenario analyses and decision games are most beneficial in obtaining insights into the way Boeing and Airbus interact in specific events, like the 2015 Paris Air Show. Conducting revenue and economic profit analyses and assessing “win-win” or “win-lose” decision games are required in anticipation to establishing each company’s annual earnings and shareholder value for the year.
A crucial aspect of executive decisions is anticipating how these two rivals may react this year and in the next few years, particularly in pricing, investments in advanced innovative technologies and “know-how” (in modern research and developments as composite commercial aircraft for airframe weight reduction, engine fan size expansion for increase engine thrust power, specific fuel consumption, fuel efficiencies and cost savings, emissions and noise reduction), sunk costs into new facilities, capital reserves, and so forth.
A penetrating way in which the Boeing and Airbus boards and executives decide and make strategic judgments in this high-stakes game is to “get inside the minds” of each other, figure out what is in their “self-interest.” And then, maximize economic profit for their company’s shareholders accordingly.
Boeing and Airbus boards and executives, nonetheless, are extremely smart at making choices in this multi-billion dollar matchup. Boeing’s optimal choices will oftentimes depend on their assessments of Airbus’ expectations of what Boeing intends to do, which, in turn, depend on Airbus’ assessment of Boeing’s reassessment about what Airbus intends to do next.
So, here’s a question:
How do Boeing and Airbus boards and executives rationally analyze economic decision-making without falling irrationally into observable judgments inside predictable groupthink?
Boardroom and C-suite games that map out Boeing-Airbus strategic interdependent scenarios is most valuable in precisely such situations of securing billions of dollars of commercial passenger aircraft orders. Such high-stakes economic choices among Boeing-Airbus rivals are concerned with examining optimum decisions, when all decision-makers are presumed to be rational, and each is attempting to anticipate the actions and reactions of its Boeing-Airbus rival counterparts.
In the next section, we discuss the remarkable conceptualization of a Nash general equilibrium game of economic profits, as Boeing and Airbus boards and executives make their strategic economic choices simultaneously.
We also discuss factors (such as strategic commitment and credibility, entry deterrence, and asymmetric information) of a sub-game “backward induction” of economic earnings, as Boeing and Airbus boards and executives make their choices sequentially.
Photo Credit: The Essential John Nash, edited by Harold W. Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar, author of “A Beautiful Mind.”
How Nobel Laureate John F. Nash Shaped the Boeing-Airbus Duopoly Game at Paris’ Le Bourget.
According to modern industrial game-theorists, Harvard Business School professor, Adam M. Brandenburger, and Yale School of Management professor, Barry J. Nalebuff, the Boeing-Airbus duopoly is a complex mix of two types of gaming – (1) “rules-based“, wherein the firm’s rules of engagement on how they interact are changed (such as technological innovation exhibitions, social media preemption, contracts, loan covenants, or trade agreements), and (2) “jazz-based“, wherein the firms interact in unstructured improvisational styles without any external constraints on creating value for their shareholders.
Photo Credit: Vietnam Airlines crew performing a “near vertical takeoff” of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner at the 2015 Paris Air Show.
Last week, Boeing decided to pre-empt the 2015 Paris Air Show with a pre-release of its flagship 787-9 Dreamliner, performing a “near vertical takeoff”. But also, at Paris’ Le Bourget, Boeing needed to decide whether to go all out with focusing on its best-selling Next-Generation Boeing 737s as its promotion aircraft to its customers.
Airbus took in 31 orders for A350-900s at the 2015 Paris Air Show. At an average list price of about US$305 million in 2014, Airbus took in about US$9.5 billion (or nearly US$10 billion) for its 31 orders of A350-900s at Le Bourget Centre, again with Garuda Indonesia (in Jakarta) requesting 30 A350-900 orders and the other one going to Air Lease Corporation (NYSE:AL), based in Los Angeles.
Pulling all of this together differently, Boeing and Airbus needed to decide whether the aircraft manufacturers are going either with technical “know-how” (Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners vs. Airbus A350-900s) or market stronghold (Boeing 737MAXs vs. Airbus A320s), as their competitive promotional advantage at the 2015 Paris Air Show.
Naturally, both Boeing and Airbus prefer going with their market strongholds, since this strategic move has the greatest amount of potential customer orders for their aircraft.
However, Boeing and Airbus prefer not to go head-on against each other by both choosing to go with market stronghold or technical “know-how” only, since that strategy in the Boeing-Airbus duopoly game would then create really higher pricing pressures on each aircraft manufacturer to stay committed to the competitive game.
So, what is the solution of the game?
Imagine the competition at the 2015 Paris Air Show in which Boeing and Airbus move simultaneously in the sense that each rival firm reaches a decision of what new innovative technology to exhibit without knowing what the other is doing.
Below is a simulation matrix of estimated order sales, in billions of US dollars, Airbus and Boeing (A,B) obtained from each strategic choice and emphasis in the customer orders game at the 2015 Paris Air Show:
“Stronghold” “Know-How“
(B737s) (B787s)”
(49,40) (49,50)
“Stronghold (A320s)”
“Know-How (A350s)”
In the context of the technological innovation game, the Nash equilibrium is the pair of order sales strategies (one for Airbus, one for Boeing) such that:
Airbus’s (A-series emphasis) strategy maximizes its order sales, given Boeing’s (B-series emphasis) strategy;
Boeing’s (B-series emphasis) strategy maximizes its order sales, given Airbus’s (A-series emphasis) strategy.
The Nash equilibrium solution is (“Know-How”, “Know-How”), that is, Airbus and Boeing each invest in technological innovation and “know-how“. When Airbus invests in innovation and “know-how“, Boeing’s best choice is to similarly make such investments (finally yielding US$57 billion sales for Airbus and US$50.2 billion sales for Boeing).
The choice to invest in technological innovation and “know-how” maximizes order sales no matter what competitive strategy decision either Boeing or Airbus makes. In this case, we determine that investments in “know-how” was the dominate strategy at the 2015 Paris Air Show.
First, note that no strategic decision by Boeing or Airbus dominates another. If Boeing decides on technical “know-how“, Airbus would rather decide on market stronghold. Since above all, Boeing wants to avoid a head-to-head competition, because that would cause a price war seen by airline customers. However, if Boeing were to decide on market stronghold, Airbus would rather go with technical “know-how“.
In the language of game theorists, this Boeing-Airbus duopoly game is not “dominant solvable“, that is, the game is not solved through the elimination of dominated strategies.
When Boeing and Airbus each have a dominate strategy, that strategy held by each is not only reasonably good each for Boeing and Airbus acting alone, but also rationally good for the duopoly game too. This is the essence of a Nash equilibrium, named after its originator, the late Nobel Laureate mathematician John F. Nash Jr. (1928-2015).
Nash equilibrium is a pair of strategies such that Boeing and Airbus can do no better by unilaterally shifting strategies. Putting it another way, at Nash equilibrium, Boeing and Airbus each makes the best response to the other aircraft manufacturer’s strategy. Nash equilibrium is the most compelling solution of the Boeing-Airbus duopoly game, perhaps because it is the most self-interested and self-enforcing solution among the rival commercial aircraft manufacturers competing for the airline customer orders at the 2015 Paris Air Show. At Nash equilibrium, Boeing and Airbus expectations equals outcomes. In other words, expected market behavior and actual market outcomes converge.
In the Boeing-Airbus duopoly game, the Nash equilibrium does not necessarily maximizes the aggregate outcomes each aircraft manufacturers’ bottom-line. Boeing and Airbus would perhaps in some circumstances be better off refraining from pushing the technological innovation envelope out too far. However, their rational pursuits of shareholder value-maximizing self-interest, risk-aversion, and prudent uncertainty (innovation) management leads each firm to pursue a strategic action that may ultimate destroy joint value of the Boeing-Airbus duopoly.
This big business conflict between “collective-interest” and “self-interest” is known as the prisoners’ dilemma, perhaps but not generally, somewhat underlying somewhere underneath the Boeing-Airbus duopoly game. The prisoners’ dilemma (Appendix A) arises when Boeing and Airbus are pursuing their own self-interests, they each in turn, impose a cost onto the other that is not taken into account. In the technological innovation and “know-how” game, Airbus’ added investments hurt Boeing, and vice-versa, because such incremental investments drive down the market price. The prisoners’ dilemma is an essential characteristic to consider in equilibrium pricing and output decisions in the Boeing-Airbus duopoly game.
A notable big business game of an analogous structure to the “battle of the sexes” dilemma (Appendix B) is “standards setting“. This occurs when two oligopolistic firms, like Boeing and Airbus, aim to coordinate on one technological innovation or “know-how” standard, but each aircraft manufacturer prefers to adopt its own technology as the standard, as they have different preferences on where they want to coordinate to reach such a standard.
How Commitments and Credibility Underpin the Sequential Moves in the Boeing-Airbus Duopoly Game at Paris’ Le Bourget.
Up to now, we have discussed how Boeing and Airbus won their US$107 billion high-stakes game by making their moves on technological innovation and “know-how” simultaneously in the sense that each aircraft manufacturer reached a decision “somewhat” without knowing what the other was doing.
The duopoly chess move of deciding if the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner or the Airbus A350-900 is going to be showcased at the 2015 Paris Air Show, brought out the fact that one rival (in this case Boeing) preempted the other rival (Airbus) by moving first on going viral on social media through Boeing’s collaboration with the Vietnam Airlines crew in performing a rehearsal of a “near vertical” takeoff last week prior to the 2015 Paris Air Show. Such preemptive moves are the essence of the sequential game being played in the Boeing-Airbus duopoly.
Backward Induction as a Sequential Response Move. To solve this style of sequential game, game theorists use “backwards induction”. Here, Airbus first observes what Boeing did in pre-releasing its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner “near vertical” takeoff last week. Then, Airbus decides what is best to do at Le Bourget, given what Boeing is doing in anticipation of the 2015 Paris Air Show. Airbus elected to focus most on its stronghold A320 Family, while exhibiting in all its grand style, jumbo size and scale, its British Airways A380 alongside its A350-900s.
The bottom-line takeaway here is: Boeing knows that when they moved first last week, which was their preemptive best choice in the “near vertical takeoff of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, Boeing also made a strategic commitment with huge credibility by immediately showcasing with 10 million views across social media that the aircraft manufacturer is first in the world in technological innovation and “know-how”.
Strategic Commitment and Credibility. In response at the 2015 Paris Air Show, Airbus most certainly showcased their global stronghold through their A320 Family of airliners, while sequentially responding with their technical “know-how” in their A380s and A350-900s – Airbus’ technological innovation response to the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
Looking at this through the lens of less-rational inefficient behavior economics, Princeton University professor, Avinash K. Dixit, and Yale University professor, Barry J. Nalebuff, suggests a number of non-technical game-theoretic approaches in which Boeing and Airbus can commit irrationally in advance to each others sequential actions after the rivals have made their preemptive moves. Dixit-Nalebuff outline such irrational moves as writing contracts, building a reputation for never backing down, or burning bridges and making decisions that make it impossible to back down.
Entry Deterrence into the Game. Still, another example of a sequential Boeing-Airbus duopoly game is entry deterrence, where an entrepreneurial aircraft manufacturer, like China or another southeast Asia deep pocket entrant, decides whether or not to crash the Boeing-Airbus duopoly game.
Four things are essential for success of any new entrant with Boeing and Airbus in the aircraft manufacturing industry, hyper-competitively speaking: (1) technical “know-how” (especially in aircraft virtual manufacturing, aviation maintenance, and advanced pilot engagement with digital glass cockpits), (2) sunk cost controls (including fixed costs controls of aircraft engine fuel efficiencies), (3) deep pockets and capital reserves, and (4) niche market strongholds (particularly in the southeast Asia region, where point-to-point air carriers flying across islands are expected to see an explosion is passenger loads in the coming decade).
Any new entrant knows that the Boeing-Airbus incumbents are most likely to accommodate the entrepreneurial aircraft manufacturer once it is widely seen in the market that the new entrant is committed and credible. Then, the problem facing the Boeing-Airbus incumbency is how to credibly commit to a strategy they know will not be optimal down the line (such as lowering prices into a deepest price war after the entrepreneurial aircraft manufacturer enters the industry). This would be designed to shift the entrepreneurial aircraft manufacturer’s strategy in the deteriorating value of the industry, and perhaps even under search threats, deter the entrant from entering the industry in the first place.
Think of the Boeing-Airbus duopoly game of entry deterrence analogous to that of the “nuclear deterrence game”, largely introduced in the late 20th century between the United States and the USSR. The United States needed to credibly commit to a strategy that was clearly irrational, such as blowing up the world within minutes for any minor invasion in Western Europe. If the United States could strategically commit itself in such a deep fashion, it could avoid a preemptive first-strike invasion in Western Europe by the USSR.
President Reagan went even further by strategically committing to a credible new entrant threat of developing a first-strike arsenal of nuclear weaponry from space in order to deter the USSR with national economic bankruptcy in any attempts to strategically respond. Remarkably, this US-USSR duopoly game of entry deterrence ended the Cold War.
The power to constrain an adversary may depend on the power to bind oneself.” – Thomas Shelling, “The Strategy of Conflict” (1960).
Asymmetric Information to Make the Market Inefficient. One deceptive sequential move is to raise the uncertainty and increase the inefficiency in the market regarding: (1) where are the Boeing and Airbus rivals at each quarter period of time in the marketplace, (2) will each rival back down, and (3) will Airbus believe Boeing’s preemptive release of a “near vertical takeoff” of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner prior to the 2015 Paris Air Show.
Modern game-theoretic research is devoted to classical economist John Hicksian behavioral economic aspects of “asymmetric or incomplete information” about “win-lose” payoffs to rival oligopolistic firms, competing in inefficient markets, increasingly having enormous complexities of structured finance, derivatives, and Black-Scholes risk options in the sequential business game.
Bottom-Line Business Takeaways.
The Boeing-Airbus duopoly game at the 2015 Paris Air Show has only one business solution: the rival firms won US$107 billion in aircraft orders for their top-line revenues.
If a business can’t make its top-line revenue targets, it’s hard for the firm to make its bottom-line earnings for its shareholders.
Nonetheless, the Nash equilibrium simultaneously moves and its sub-game sequential moves in the Boeing-Airbus duopoly game are not designed to produce exact numerical answers. This is because solutions of such high-stakes games are highly dependent on the assumptions made about the timing of the sequential moves in particular, along with the asymmetric information available to Boeing and Airbus that affect either the rationality and efficiency or the irrationality and inefficiency of the business decisions of their boards and executives.
The extent to which Boeing can be assumed to have information about Airbus’ irrevocable decisions before taking Boeing’s decision to Le Bourget, crucially affects the outcome of the Boeing-Airbus duopoly game at the 2015 Paris Air Show.
The bottom-line business takeaway from this piece in assessing the Boeing-Airbus duopoly is game theory’s greatest utility in obtaining a deeper understanding about the economic structure of the competitive strategic interactions between Boeing and Airbus. This is essential not only to learn what the right way to play the Boeing-Airbus duopoly game is, but also to understand existing possibilities and consequences of legitimately breaking the rules of the game to achieve breakthroughs in technological innovation and “know-how” in the aircraft manufacturing business.
Most of all, if Boeing understands that its price competition with Airbus is a prisoner’s dilemma game of simultaneous moves or even a “battle of the sexes” game of standardization in their moves, it can change the rules of the game to remove the motivations and incentives both Boeing and Airbus have to engage in such price wars.
For readers interested in further study into the strategic topics of this piece, Transforming The Ivory Tower, How Scenarios of Possible Futures Provide Real Growth for Academic Organizations, discusses how to combine modern game theory with scenario planning to (1) anticipate and adjust core strategies as society’s actual future unfolds, and (2) develop a decision-making tool for complex strategic interactions in oligopolistic industrial organizations, such as Boeing and Airbus, as well as, governmental and academic institutions alike.
Appendix A: Prisoners’ Dilemma
Commonly seen on the long-running NBC drama series, Law & Order, produced by lawyer Dick Wolf, this situation involves two criminals who are arrested for committing a serious crime. The police have no proof of their involvement, except for a minor infraction. The prosecutor offers them a deal, whereby the one who implicates the other escapes all punishment, and the other gets a heavy prison sentence. If both criminals implicate the other, both end up in prison for a long time. The dominant strategy (or Nash equilibrium) is for each criminal to implicate the other. Consequently, they both end up getting relatively heavy prison sentences.
Appendix B: The Battle of the Sexes
Perhaps nowadays a “politically-incorrect” manner to describe this Nash equilibria game, a husband and a wife want to coordinate their choice for an evening out having fun on the town. The husband prefers to go to a night football game, and the wife wants to go to the theater. But, they both prefer to do together any of the two activities than to do their preferred one alone. This is coordinating to set a standard of fun for each during their evening out on the town.
Oliver McGee is professor of mechanical engineering at Texas Tech University. He is an aerospace, mechanical, and civil engineer, and author of seven books on Amazon. He is former United States deputy assistant secretary of transportation for technology policy (1999-2001) in the Clinton Administration, and former senior policy adviser in the Clinton White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (1997-1999).
MH370 Year 2: Debris Washes Up At Mozambique Near Second On La Réunion Island, Experts Unsure
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UPDATE: Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) Operational Update
“A South African citizen reported finding debris, suspected to be from an aircraft, in Mozambique. Arrangements are being made for the debris to be transported to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) laboratories in Canberra,” the ATSB said in an operational update, “along with the debris that was found in Mozambique by an American citizen last week. Both items will be examined by investigators from Australia and Malaysia, as well as specialists from Boeing, to confirm if they come from an aircraft and establish their origin.”
Officials from Malaysia are continuing discussions with French authorities about debris found on La Réunion.
“Current advice is that it is unlikely to be from an aircraft,” the ATSB says and NBC News confirms.
UPDATE: Meeting To Determine Way Forward For MH370
Malaysia Ministry of Transport
“Authorities from Malaysia, Australia and China will hold a meeting to determine the next step in the search for missing flight MH370, as the deadline for halting the hunt for the plane approaches, according to a brief press release by the Malaysian Transport Ministry on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, marking the second anniversary of the missing Malaysia Airlines Systems (MAS) flight MH370’s Boeing 777-200ER, and becoming the greatest mystery in the history of commercial international aviation safety and security.
The Australian-led hunt for wreckage from the flight is expected to finish its high-tech scanning of a designated swathe of sea floor in the remote Indian Ocean by July 2016.
Speaking on the two-year anniversary of the disappearance of the plane, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says “he still holds out hope of finding the Malaysia Airlines aircraft,” which crashed en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, including six Australians.
The Malaysian Prime Minister said today that “a meeting would be held to determine the next step, if the plane is not found by mid-year. So far, only a piece of wing, known as a flaperon, discovered in July last year has been confirmed by authorities to belong to the missing Boeing 777.”
Earlier, Australian Transport Minister Darren Chester said “finding the aircraft would give answers to the world, in particular the families of missing loved ones.”
Mr. Najib said the discovery of debris – the flaperon – on the island of Reunion last July 29, 2015 provided further evidence that “flight MH370 tragically ended in the southern Indian Ocean.”
Provided in Appendix B is the MAS MH370 Second Interim Statement on the investigation on the second anniversary of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH370, prepared by the Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team for MH370. Click here for MAS MH370 First Interim Statement and Factual Information.
Video Credit: Joint Center Coordination Agency (JACC). This ‘Search for MH370’ video posted November 17, 2014 aims to explain the activities and complexity of the international search effort to date on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, the second anniversary of missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370, for families affected by the aviation tragedy, and the general public.
UPDATE: MH370: Head Of Search Says Plane Will ‘Very Likely’ Be Found
PETALING JAYA: “The Australian official in charge of the two-year search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 says the plane will be found this year, The Guardian reported.
Martin Dolan, head of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), was quoted as saying that the plane would “very likely” be found in the next four months, as search efforts entered its final phase.
Four ships had scoured more than 85,000 square kilometers of a long but narrow “seventh arc”, totaling 120,000 square kilometers of seafloor.
“We’ve covered nearly three-quarters of the search area, and since we haven’t found the aircraft in those areas, that increases the likelihood that it’s in the areas we haven’t looked at yet,” Dolan told The Guardian.
MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people onboard, mostly Chinese.
It is thought to have crashed after diverting from its course but a huge undersea hunt in the southern Indian Ocean, led by Australia, has so far found no sign of it.
A wing fragment was discovered on an island thousands of kilometers from the search area last July, 29, 2016 and later confirmed to be from MH370, the first proof that the plane went down. Two new pieces of debris have been found in the past week, but it is not yet known if they are from MH370.”
Photo Credit: Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH370, a Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, registered as 9M-MRO
Malaysian Transport Minister, Liow Tiong Lai, says to Reuters there is a “high possibility” that an aluminum-alloy honeycomb or carbon-fibre composite airliner horizontal stabilizer debris of an airliner tail section wing washed ashore on Saturday, February 27, 2016 on the east coast of Africa between Mozambique and Madagascar, near second debris found on the eastern shore of La Réunion Island on Thursday, March 3, 2016, could allegedly be from a Boeing 777 jet, pending further assessment and examination by Australian and United States safety investigators and Boeing engineers. Still, experts remain cautious and unsure until the next few days.
Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai, nonetheless, confirmed in a press release on Wednesday, March 2 that “the Mozambique horizontal stabilizer debris would be sent to Australia, but added that it would remain under Malaysian custody.”
THIS JUST IN: A resident on the French Indian Ocean island of La Réunion Island, who last year found a “flaperon” part from Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH370’s Boeing 777-200ER, said on Sunday, March 6, 2016 to French news service, AFP, and The Associated Press, “he had come across a second possible piece from the missing plane,” reports The Star, NBC News, Sydney Morning Herald, and The Guardian (U.K.).
Johnny Begue, who found the “flaperon” part, while cleaning a beach on July, 29, 2015, told AFP “he handed over the new suspected object to police immediately” after finding the debris on Thursday, March 3, 2016.
He said “he was out jogging by the eastern sea shore of La Réunion Island, when he found the object measuring about 40 by 20 centimeters (or 15 by 8 inches), which had a blue mark on the surface and was grey underneath.” Begue added: “it was of the same lightweight “honeycomb” construction as the flaperon piece.”
Photo Credit: Zhang Chuanshi/Xinhua Press/Corbis “Another piece of debris, which could be related to MH370 has been found on the eastern coast of La Réunion in the Indian Ocean,” The Guardian (U.K.) reports.
The flaperon Begue found on July 29, 2015 remains the only piece of debris identified and confirmed as a part of MAS flight MH370’s Boeing 777-200ER.
Begue said, “he has been combing the island’s shores ever since.”
Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s (ASTB) Martin Dolan said on Sunday, March 6, Australian safety investigators welcome all debris found by anyone anywhere and that once found should be turned over to authorities immediately for further examination and potential identification and determination as to whether or not any such debris found is in fact a part of the MH370 airliner.
Meanwhile, Montreal Convention mandates any legal tribunal action to claim damages from a commercial airline must be made within two years from the date the aircraft arrived or should have arrived. In the case of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370, the Boeing 777-200ER vanished from military radar en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing two years ago on March 8, 2014, carrying 227 passengers and 12 MAS crew aboard. International Business Times reports, “the families of 12 passengers aboard missing MAS flight MH370 filed suits against the carrier on March 4, 2016 in a frantic rush to pursue claims before a [Montreal Convention] two-year deadline for legal action expires.”
Five defendants, MAS (the now asset-free holding entity), MAB (Malaysia Airlines Berhad, the new “value-based” carrier emerging, which is discussed at the end of this piece), Ketua Pandaran Jabatan, DCA (Department of Civil Aviation), The Royal Malaysia Air Force and the government of Malaysia,” said the lawyer representing the families, Sangeet Kaur Deo.
Sangeet said, “the families were seeking unspecified damages for negligence, breach of contract and breach of statutory duty,” reports International Business Times.
MAB holds that “it has no liability on MH370, since it was set up eight months” after MAS’ Boeing 777-200ER vanish, which has been officially declared as an accident and all lives lost.
Flight MH370 is the only missing Boeing 777 airliner in the world, since the aircraft was launched by Boeing back in 1997, which does feature manufactured carbon-fibre composites and Alcoa-developed aluminum-alloy tail section wing control surfaces to reduced the overall structural weight of Boeing 777 aircraft, which is specifically described in more detail below in this piece.
Photo Credit: AFP, NBC, University of Western Australia/JACC/ATSB/Malaysia Airlines/Boeing/Australian Government/Imarsat
Malaysian transport investigators, working alongside United States aviation safety officials and Boeing engineers on Wednesday, March 2, have examined online photos of the debris and they have suggested the possibility that it is an aluminum-alloy honeycomb or carbon-fibre composite jet horizontal stabilizer perhaps from a Boeing 777 airliner’s tail section wing, reports NBC News and The Telegraph (U.K.).
Australian Transport Minister Darren Chester said to The Associated Press on Thursday, March 3, “the location of the debris in Mozambique matches investigators’ drift modeling and would therefore confirm that search crews are looking in the right part of the Indian Ocean for the main underwater wreckage.” Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai also said “the location of the debris lines up with investigators’ predictions.”
Photo Credit: American Blogger Blaine Gibson
Photos of the debris appear to show a jet part (shown above) “made of fiberglass composite on the outside, with aluminum honeycombing on the inside,” a U.S. official has said to The Associated Press, who spoke on condition of anonymity, because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly, reports Fox News, and the part also “appears to show the fixed leading edge of the right-hand tail section of a Boeing 777.”
The new Mozambique horizontal stabilizer debris found has markings “NO STEP,” which has prompted experts to speculate it could be from a Boeing 777’s horizontal stabilizer, allegedly attached to the tail section wing of the missing MH370 airliner, particularly given the close proximity in which this new debris was found in relation to a barnacle-encrusted flaperon wreckage of MH370 washed ashore off La Réunion Island last year on July 29, 2015.
Photo Credit: NBC News
However, Mr. Lai added “it is yet to be confirmed and verified” that the new Mozambique horizontal stabilizer debris was from Malaysia Airlines’ flight MH370, missing now for two years next Tuesday, March 8, 2016, while it was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing that ill-fated early morning when it suddenly vanishes from military radar and satellite in space. Carrying 239 passengers and Malaysia Airlines crew on board, the Boeing 777-200ER is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean off the western coast of Australia near Perth, and about 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) to the east of Mozambique.
Is the Mozambique Debris from MH370?
At the moment, experts remain cautious and officials are unsure the part is from missing flight MH370’s Boeing 777-200ER, largely because three large jets are known to have crashed in the past off the east coast of Africa between Mozambique and Madagascar near La Réunion Island.
According to the Australian News Service, “the object, believed to be from the horizontal stabilizer of an aircraft, was found by American blogger Blaine Gibson (shown above), 58-year-old lawyer from Seattle, who is conducting a private investigation into the plane’s disappearance.”
“Mr. Gibson, according to the Australian news service, upon discovering debris on Saturday, February 27, 2016, “had invited a handful of investigators to privately view images of the part on his Facebook page over the weekend, but news of the find only became public overnight,” Gibson said in an interview with The Associated Press. Gibson added: “he had wanted no publicity about his discovery until after the piece was assessed by investigators, but that news of the finding leaked.”
“The part, which has been described as a “fibre glass skin aluminum honeycomb cored panel” with no identifying features other than the printed words ‘NO STEP’,” a marking typically seen near the exit door of a commercial jet wing.
The consensus of MH370’s Independent Group (IG), including Dr. Victor Iannello (U.S.), Mike Exner (U.S.) and Don Thompson (Ireland), appears to be that it is unlikely that the Mozambique horizontal stabilizer debris found came from the missing MH370 Boeing 777.
“The found item is an aluminum honeycomb panel and, as such, is not a construction that is consistent with composite components employed on a B777,” MH370 IG member Don Thompson (Ireland) posted to Reddit.
“Neither did it look like it had been in the ocean for two years, or even lying on a sandbar where allegedly found as there was no sign of sand filling the honeycomb structure.”
“I was struck by the condition of the part,” another MH370 IG member, Dr. Victor Iannello (U.S.), wrote.
”It had no barnacles, little or no algae, and no water line. The condition of the part was nothing like the flaperon that was recovered. As (Don Thompson) said, the construction is composite skin with aluminum honeycomb core, which leads me to believe it is not from a B777.”
Dr. Iannello added: “I have not been able to identify a part on the B777 of similar construction, but I don’t have access to all the drawings of a B777, so I can’t say for certain that it is not from a B777.”
Carbon-Fibre Composites and Alumimum-Alloy Structural Design of Boeing 777 Aircraft
To fill in more specific technical structural specification to MH370’s Independent Group speculation on the Mozambique debris, let’s consider the following details to shed further light on the mystery debris find, acknowledging my consultation of longstanding civil aviation expert, Philip Birtles’ finely illustrated reference treatise on the Boeing 777.
Carbon-fibre composites and Alcoa-developed aluminum-alloy tail section wing control surfaces reduces the overall structural weight of Boeing 777 aircraft.
Only about ten percent of a Boeing 777 airliner structure is non-metallic, namely composites largely in the tail surfaces and the wing trailing edge control stabilizing surfaces, flaperons, spoilers, fixed wing leading edges, engine nacelles, wing to fuselage fairings, and main undercarriage doors.
The major portion of the Boeing 777’s primary structure is manufactured using composites in the tail assembly. The main assembly box of the fin is a carbon-fibre-reinforced structure, consisting of front and rear spars and ribs. The fin skin panels are also made from carbon-fibre composites.
The main and front spars are manufactured using carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic with only the rear auxiliary spar manufactured using aluminum. The all-important rudder, containing a pair of spars and ribs, are constructed from carbon-fibre composites covered by carbon-fibre epoxy sandwich skins.
Only the small dorsal din is typically manufactured from aluminum frames and skins. Use of composites on the Boeing 777 is intended to save about 2,595 pounds (or 1,180 kilograms) of structural weight.
Photo Credit: American Blogger Blaine Gibson/NBC News
In addition to this, an advanced lightweight aluminum lithium alloy material is used to construct the primary structure of a Boeing 777, which includes the front and rear spars, upper and lower spar chords, webs, skin panels, stringers and ribs of the airliners’ overall structural design.
More specifically, an Alcoa-developed aluminum alloy, 7155T77, is typically employed for construction of the upper wing skin for enhanced compression load capacity. The Alcoa aluminum alloy is also used to construct the upper wing stringer systems to stiffen the skin panels.
In similar fashion, the lower wing skins are typically manufactured using a 2,000 series aluminum alloy best designed to carry higher tension loads on the Boeing 777 wings.
Use of advanced lightweight aluminum lithium alloy is intended to save an additional 3,190 pounds (or 1,450 kilograms) of weight of the airliner.
Speculatively speaking, it appears that the Mozambique debris has breakage of the metal around fasteners on the aluminum-alloy honeycomb construction, but this isn’t quite enough just yet to definitive conclude the debris is a Boeing 777 wing or tail stabilizer.
What’s in the Oceanography Science Supporting the La Réunion Island and Alleged Mozambique MH370 Debris Finds?
Fox News says, “authorities have long predicted that any debris from the plane that isn’t on the [southern Indian] ocean floor would eventually be carried by currents to the east coast of Africa.”
“The possibility of debris washing up on La Réunion island [and now nearby Mozambique] is a scientific possibility. Although the currents today are significantly different to those seen 16 months ago, the Indian Ocean Gyre could move debris from the southern Indian Ocean in a counterclockwise direction towards Africa, spitting it out near the island of Reunion [and now nearby Mozambique],” Mashable reported back in early-August 2015.
On whether it was possible for either a flaperon or tail section wing horizontal stabilizer to have floated on oceanic water for over 4,000-6,000 kilometers before ending up on La Réunion Island [and now nearby Mozambique], Zaaim Redha said it was plausible based on sea current modeling by oceanography experts.
“Going by how the earth rotates, it’s highly possible that the piece of debris could have floated (over a long distance), because the ocean current can be really powerful.”
Australian oceanic science investigators of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization reported on Tuesday, August 4, 2015 that the Boeing 777-200ER flaperon discovery “matches with predictions from updated debris flow computer models.”
“Their drift model computer simulation was run from March 8, 2014 to July 30, 2015, to see if the flaperon could have drifted to La Réunion [and now nearby Mozambique] from the search zone somewhere along the 7th arc.”
The debris flow modeling below does show consistency with the 7th arc theory established by the British satellite firm, Inmarsat, which has and will further assist investigators in making adjustments to their current search area as the hunt for the Boeing 777-200ER airliner continues.
Photo Credit (via Mashable), Australian national science agency, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO).
Bottom line in MH370 Search: Good facts, good law of scientific plausibility; Bad facts, bad law of scientific plausibility.
Malaysia’s Ministry of Transport has published a 47-page article, containing hundreds of lines of communication logs between the jetliner and the British company Inmarsat’s satellite system, and detailing how the U.K. firm Inmarsat helped to pinpoint the southern corridor flight path taken by MH370.
The 47-page article reports that Inmarsat informed Malaysia’s Ministry of Transport on March 13, 2014 that routine automatic communications between the Inmarsat satellite and MH370 could be used to determine several possible flight paths.
The United Kingdom (U.K.) Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) then presented Inmarsat’s findings on March 24, 2014, indicating the southern corridor as the most likely flight path of MH370.
Based on the analysis of data communicated to the ground station by the Inmarsat satellite moments before the Boeing 777-200ER airliner’s oceanic crash, investigators concluded that the flight had ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
Be that as it may, a nearly $150 million dollar search lead by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) initially covered 60,000 square kilometers (23,000 square miles) of sea floor before being subsequently extended to another 60,000 square kilometers, a deep sea search area expected to be completed by July 2016.
French, Australian and Malaysian officials have confirmed in mid-August 2015 only a barnacle-encrusted flaperon wreckage debris (shown below) coming from the missing MH370’s Boeing 777-200ER has been found on the shore of La Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean off the southern coast of Africa at Madagascar on July 29, 2015.
Shortly thereafter, on August 5, 2015, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, upon affirming that the maintenance record seal on the flaperon provided the definitive proof, announced the debris found on La Réunion is from MH370’s Boeing 777-200ER. He said,
“An international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370. We now have physical evidence that, as I announced on 24th March last year, flight MH370 tragically ended in the southern Indian Ocean.” — Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak, August 5, 2015
Following the above announcement, Malaysia Airlines stated in a press release: “We expect and hope that there would be more objects to be found, which would be able to help resolve this mystery.”
So far, search teams have scoured more than 80 percent of the priority “hot-spot” search of the southern Indian Ocean sea bed in the area, where MH370 is predicted to reside.
As the full French report has yet to be released, persistent open questions remain surrounding the search for MH370, now including radar anomalies, as the ATSB’s latest “hot-spot” search analysis has so far found no wreckage of the missing airliner hull at the bottom of the southern Indian Ocean off the western coast of Australia near Perth. If no trace of any new evidence of the jet has been found in the latest “hot-spot” area, the ASTB and Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC) have announced they expect to continue its search for MH370’s Boeing 777-200ER until July 2016.
Members of the respected MH370 Independent Group, working with ATSB officials, say in contraction to the French and Malaysian officials, “damage to the flaperon will allow us to estimate the speed and angle at which the plane entered the water and whether or not it was controlled by a pilot as it descended. The barnacle species and its level of growth may provide a more precise ‘splash-point’,” reports the Australian News Service.
Several questions in particular raised by MH370’s Independent Group stand out, regarding the aircraft forensics of the La Réunion Island flaperon:
“Has the barnacle species attached to the flaperon been definitively determined? What is the habitat for this species? Is it consistent with a part that has drifted from the southern Indian Ocean to La Réunion Island?”
“What does the failure analysis reveal regarding how the flaperon became separated from the wing and how it sustained the damage to its trailing edge?”
Official findings of Malaysia are highly anticipated inside its United Nations (UN) International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) mandated MH370 progress report, due out next week timed upon MH370’s Second Anniversary on Tuesday March 8, 2016.
Voice 370, a group representing MH370’s ‘next-of-kin’, issued a statement accusing the Malaysian government of denying them “existing rights in law, including also access to justice mechanisms, for the benefit of a private business, namely Malaysian Airlines System Berhad (MAS).”
“The egregious behavior of the Malaysian government has gone mostly unnoticed by the world press, but it deserves to be highlighted, investigated and broadcast far and wide,” Sarah Bajc, the partner of American MH370 passenger Philip Wood, said in an email accompanying the statement.
“After almost two years we still know nothing concrete about what happened to MH370, though we are SURE there is information that has been withheld. Besides the terrible crimes of negligence and obstruction, for allowing the plane to disappear, then impeding the investigation of the disappearance of 239 people, the Malaysian government has also prevented the pursuit of reparations by affected families,” Bajc added.
Photo Credit: Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER, Registration #9M-MRO
MH370 Search Continues Along the ATSB’s Priority “Hot-Spot” in the Southern Indian Ocean
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared from military radar early morning on March 8, 2014 en-route to Beijing International Airport from Kuala Lumpur International Airport with 227 passengers and 12 MAS crew members, becoming the greatest mystery in the history of commercial international aviation safety and security for two years on March 8, 2016.
Australian investigators of the Australian Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC), and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) coordinates a massive undertaking of several huge sea vessels (shown below) scouring the southern Indian Ocean floor for the missing airliner, resting therein, ATSB and JACC officials confidently believe.
Australian authorities, including deputy prime minister Warren Truss (shown below) speaking to reporters in Canberra, Australia on Thursday, December 3, 2015, confirmed two new search vessels had arrived in the “hot-spot” search area.
Photo Credit: ATSB/JACC
Three-quarters of a “hot spot” search area that is within the well-known “priority search area” (shown above) has been scoured during November coming into December, deputy prime minister Warren Truss (shown above) says to numerous media outlets now widely reporting.
The ATSB and JACC have confirmed this new ‘Gentle Landing‘ analysis exist, but says “the highest probability” that the Boeing 777-200ER will be found within a 700 square kilometer “hot-spot” inside the “priority search area”, comprising a 120,000 square kilometer arc in the southern Indian Ocean off the western coast of Australia at Perth, nonetheless, is not explicitly supported by evidence of a “controlled ditching scenario” the ATSB discusses in a December 3, 2015 report that describes in detail the “hot-spot” as “an arc running southwest, roughly 700 square kilometers,” The Guardian (U.K.) reports.
According to the ATSB report, investigators of the Australian Defense Science and Technology (DST) Group have penned an upcoming Springer-Verlag book entitled, “Bayesian methods in the search for MH370,” detailing their complete analysis in establishing the 700 square kilometer “hot-spot” search area.
Specifically, “a probability density function (PDF) defines the probable location of the aircraft’s crossing of the 6th arc models of the British firm Inmarsat satellite communications data and a model of aircraft dynamics. These results were then extrapolated to the Inmarsat-based 7th arc (at 08:19 (24:19 GMT) shown below along with all seven time signatures handshakes from the Inmarsat satellite on the early morning of March 8, 2014). The analysis indicated that the majority of solutions only contained one significant turn after the last recorded radar data,” the ATSB report summarizes, which is “inconsistent with a controlled ditching scenario,” the agency argues.
Photo Credit: Inmarsat, Boeing, Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB)
The bureau said that “a controlled ditching scenario requires engine thrust to properly control the direction and vertical speed at touchdown and to provide hydraulic power for the flight controls including the flaps.”
MH370’s Boeing 777-200ER flew early morning March 8, 2014 for 7 hours and 38 minutes, as “fuel exhaustion was probable,” ATSB concludes.
“It is likely that the right engine flamed out first followed by the left engine,” ATSB said in the report, adding that the left engine “could have continued to run for up to 15 minutes after the right engine flamed out.”
Still, a ‘Gentle Landing‘ hypothesis of some experts allegedly supports a scenario that the massive Boeing 777-200ER rests on the deep sea floor of the Indian Ocean largely intact.
Else, where are the numerous floatable devices washing ashore from a lone broken-apart Boeing 777-200ER airliner hull resting on the deep sea oceanic floor known to exist worldwide?
Led by former head of the Australian defense and retired Air Force Chief Marshal, Sir Angus Houston, the over $150 million dollar international search effort has involved more than two dozen countries contributing planes, ships, submarines, satellites, Bayesian probabilistic search methodologies, oceanic current and debris drift models (shown below), and aircraft forensics of barnacle-encrusted flaperon debris.
Photo Credit: CBS News/NASA/Australia Maritime Safety Authority
As confidence now runs high on the probability of finding the Boeing 777-200ER wreckage laying in the “hot-spot” search area of the southern Indian Ocean floor, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said China has provided 20 million Australian dollars of additional funds to complete the MH370 search.
Malaysia Airlines Downsizes From B777 Long-Haul to B737 Short-Haul Carrier in MH370/MH17 Dual-Crisis Aftermath
The last Boeing 777, performing as a Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) flight, took off Monday, January 25, 2016 at noon (local time) from Amsterdam en route to Kuala Lumpur. This marked an end of four decades of this signature scheduled flight in the Southeast Asia region operated by the Malaysian flag carrier. This also was an end to 19 years of service for the carriers original fleet of 15 Boeing 777-200ER airliners before the loss of two from the 2014 dual-crises of the missing MH370 aviation tragedy on March 8, 2014 and the shot-down MH17 aviation disaster on July 17, 2014.
Also at noon Monday, January 25, 2016, another Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) Boeing 777-200ER flew into Kuala Lumpur International Airport from Guangzhou in China. As the new Malaysian flag carrier maintains this flight schedule, the Boeing 777-200ER airliner “is being downsized to a Boeing 737-800 – a predominantly short-haul jet with about half the capacity,” reports The Independent (U.K.) on Monday.
As a new “value-based” air carrier, Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) aims for profitability by 2018 in the lucrative southeast Asia air travel market in the next 5-10 years, according to Boeing-Airbus international airline industry projections. MAB’s downsizing towards profitability is a focus of this section, as we also say so-long here to MAB’s fallen MH370 Boeing 777-200ER, Registration #9M-MRO and also goodbye to the Grand-Ole Lady of MAB — its two-decade cash-producer, formerly 15 Boeing 777-200 large-capacity passenger airliner fleet.
Turning back to civil aviation historian Philip Birtles (1998), “in early 1996 Malaysia Airlines Systems (MAS) ordered a total of 15 B777s, including five of the stretched B777-300s, with options on two more B777s and a commitment to acquire 35 further aircraft as required. The first MAS B777 – designated B777-2H6 – was WA064, Registration #9M-MRA, and made its first flight on March 26, 1997 [nearly seventeen years prior to MH370’s ill-fated early morning on March 8, 2014]. On delivery flight this aircraft broke the great circle distance record, when it flew non-stop from Seattle to Kuala Lumpur, a distance of 12,457 miles (or 20,044 kilometers). The opportunity was then taken to continue around the world, back to Seattle, beating the eastward round-the-world record with an average speed of 553 miles per hour (or 889 kilometers per hour), covering the 23,210 miles (37,345 kilometers) in a time of 41 hours, 59 minutes.”
Four months after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370’s Boeing 777-200ER international search initially commenced, another Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 was shot down. According to a final report, flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was downed by a Buk surface-to-air missile fired from war-torn Hrabove, Ukraine on July 17, 2014, in which 283 passengers and 15 crew members died on board.
The October 12, 2015 MH17 crash final report by the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) of The Netherlands, headed by Chairman Tjibbe Joustra, followed a previously released preliminary MH17 investigation report on September 9, 2014, sketching out the causes of the aviation disaster that has impacted Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB).
Video Credit: about the Dutch Safety Board’s investigation into the causes of the crash of flight MH17 on July 17, 2014 in the eastern part of Ukraine and the Board’s investigation into flying over conflict zones. The video was based on the Dutch Safety Board’s investigation reports, which were published on October 12, 2015.
DSB chairman Joustra said the warhead that downed MH17 fits the profile of a Russian-built automatic computerized Buk ground-to-air missile. However, Russian officials who participated in the investigation said “it was not possible to confirm the warhead or type of system,” according to Joustra (via CNN).
The new air carrier has been operational, since September 1, 2015, with a new RM6 billion (or US$1.9 billion) business model and management team, led by Christoph Mueller, CEO of Malaysia Airlines Systems Berhad (MAS) and CEO-Designate of the new “value-based” airline, Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB), aiming for profitability estimated by 2018 (which is briefly reviewed now as one says goodbye to Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) Boeing 777 fleet here).
Execution of a New Competitive Business Plan
By way of background, Malaysia Airlines on Thursday, August 28, 2014, released a new business plan, asking for nearly 6,000 staff cuts, curtailed long-haul routes, and a US$1.66 billion dollar restructuring strategy, as it reported a 75 percent wider loss in April-June 2014 second-quarter earnings, as operations further stalled from passenger bookings continuing to slide in response to the air carrier’s dual-crisis from the loss of 537 souls on board MH370’s aviation tragedy and MH17’s aviation disaster in the past nearly 15 months.
The April-June 2014 second-quarter earnings reflected the impact of the MH370 aviation tragedy on the Malaysia air carrier’s income and cash financials. Malaysia Airlines further forecasted poor second-half earnings, signaling the air carrier’s “average weekly bookings had declined 33 percent, with numerous flight cancellations immediately after the shooting down of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July 17, 2014,” reports Reuters and the New York Times.
On Friday, August 29, 2014, Malaysian officials and Malaysia’s sovereign wealth investment company, Khazanah Nasional, announced that top-level management for the Malaysian flag carrier would then remain in place, whereupon later a significant shakeup of the senior management was put in place.
The Malaysian cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Najib Razak, on Wednesday, August 27, 2014 approved the air carrier’s business restructuring plan, which also called for focusing the airline’s core southeast Asia regional routes, while retaining a number of its historically profitable international flights to China and Australia to help feed traffic to its routes pulling in and out of its hub at Kuala Lumpur, a person familiar with the plan said on Thursday, August 28, 2014 to the Financial Times.
The flag-carrier’s workforce transition follows as Malaysia Airlines at the end of April 2015, supposedly in reconsiderations of its business assets, has offered for sale or lease all six of its Airbus A380s, its two Boeing 747-400Fs, four Airbus A330-200Fs, and four Boeing 777-200ERs (then at that time leaving just only nine such Boeing airliners assets (now retired as of Monday, January 25, 2016 and downsized to Boeing 737-800 short-haul airliners) – excluding the loss of the MH370 and MH17 Boeing 777-200ERs – among the Malaysian national air carrier’s fleet), reports respected aviation industry site Leeham News, as the flag-carrier seeks to restructure its daily operational losses that reach as high as US$1.6 million in the first half of 2014. Leeham News’ Scott Hamilton says liquidating the freight airliner fleet – encompassing two Boeing 747-400Fs and four Airbus A330-200Fs – essentially “wipes out MASCargo (Malaysia Airlines Cargo).”
Prompted by inquiries from Australian Business Traveller, Malaysia Airlines issued a statement saying the airline “is currently still working to finalize the Business Plan. Exploring fleet options to enhance viability of long-haul sectors is one area being looked into.”
However, the airline “refused to confirm or deny that it plans to sell or lease any Airbus A380s” (shown below).
Incoming Malaysia Airlines Berhad CEO Christoph Mueller has added “recent speculations on the airline offering some of its fleet for sale or lease is too premature, when nothing concrete has been achieved.”
Mr Mueller has recruited a former easyJet and Flybe executive, Paul Simmons, as Chief Commercial Officer, The Independent (U.K.) reports.
Malcolm Ginsberg, Editor of Business Travel News, said to The Independent (U.K): “People have short memories. If the management can be allowed to manage, then Air Asia and Singapore Airlines might quickly find they have real competition on their hands.”
I made a similar southeast Asia airline industry competitive strategy assessment as Mr. Ginsberg several years back on August 30, 2014, appearing on Al Jazeera English, Inside Story, asking “Malaysia Airlines: Can It Survive?”
“Malaysia Airlines needs to operate and utilize its fleet at an optimum level besides maximizing revenue on the route it flies. The market needs to give Malaysia Airlines room to explore various options in determining the most viable strategy,” Mueller counsels.
Why, because managing airlines and airplanes is big global business.
MAS, emerging into the new company MAB, is swimming through deep sea waters of crisis management recovery in partnership as a government, a sovereign wealth fund, and a global business enterprise. Mueller and the MAB senior leadership is expecting escalating hyper-competitive strategic engagement among airlines operating in the southeast Asia region.
And, the MAB team is preparing for heightened market and operational risks, and even some innovation risks, particularly in the areas of flight routes management, workforce transition and redevelopment, pilot training and certification, aviation safety and security regulatory oversight, crash investigation and crisis management expertise, fleet assets utilization, and customer experience and brand loyalty outreach and engagement, rapidly emerging in the coming 5-10 years among the airline industry players in the southeast Asia commercial passenger air travel marketplace.
The Malaysian air carrier said the MH17 aviation disaster halted “all the hard work and effort” to regain market confidence the top-level crisis management team had put in place upon the onset of the missing MH370 aviation tragedy still ongoing. The dual-crisis has been devastating to the flag carrier’s business, as passenger loads in the first half of 2014 dropped from over 80 percent to 74 percent, although good recovery of passenger loads has been achieved in 2015. Meanwhile, in the first half of 2014 moving into 2015, the air carrier’s operating expenses rose 2 percent on higher fuel costs, maintenance costs, and labor costs. However, substantial staff cuts from about 19,000 to around 13,000 has considerably dropped the flag carrier’s fixed operating costs, which makes profitability more easily reachable in the near future, perhaps even aggressively by 2018.
However, the flag-carrier’s restructuring steps have been slowed, most likely from favorably lower oil prices in the last half of 2014 going well into 2015, which have provided some relief of the air carrier’s daily cash burn and direct operating expenses.
Maybank aviation analyst Mohshin Aziz recently expressed concerns to CNN Money about this relief in the face of advancing through the last half of 2014 the overall restructuring of Malaysia Airlines. Aziz believes “there are few signs yet that Kazanah is following through on the hard decisions. And, there may be one simple reason for that: the plunging price of oil.”
“Oil prices have just about halved and right now just about every route is making money. The momentum on the need to reform in a great hurry is definitely not there anymore,” said Aziz.
What is generally known by experts about the airline business, nonetheless – it’s a five days of working cash business.
The air carrier lost US$360 million last year in 2013, amounting to three times its losses in 2011, and the flag-carrier lost $260 million, burning nearly US$2.16 million in cash a day in the first half of 2014, while at the same time losing US$1.6 million a day in its operations.
“The company hadn’t turned a profit since 2008, and in the three years to 2013, cumulative losses totaled US$1.3 billion,” CNN Money confirms.
Malaysia Airlines has been losing nearly one million dollars a day well before the MH370 and MH17 aviation crises hit the ailing firm. The Malaysian government has been significantly subsidizing the air carrier to keep it afloat.
Historically, the Malaysian air carrier has been one of Southeast Asia’s safest and most secured airlines. However, escalated competitive rival forces in the region have put a squeeze play on financials and 2-5-year market declines of Malaysian Airline Systems BHD securities.
The company has not made an annual profit since 2010. Unfortunately, the firm became trapped in the 1990s between high-end premium Singapore Airlines, and low-cost entrepreneurial Asian air carriers. like AirAsia, and its long-haul business, AirAsia X, both having hubs operating from inside Malaysia.
Shares in Malaysian Airline Systems BHD fell sharply right after the first moments of the MH17 aviation disaster, down 11% on July 17 by the mid-day break in volume trading in Kuala Lumpur, as already negative investor sentiment deepened, acknowledged CBCNews.
In all, unadjusted stock price has dropped by 35 percent during 2014. In fact, Malaysia Airline’s unadjusted stock price has fallen more than 36 percent, since August 2013.
Since the disappearance of MH370, the stock price has continued to slide sharply.
Moments after the MH17 aviation disaster occur on July 17, 2014 Malaysia Airlines stock fell a dramatic 13 percent in just moments of trading on the Malaysian stock market.
Continuing to strategically restructure past the 2014 dual aviation safety and security crisis of MH370/MH17, and to settle the flag carrier’s legal liabilities, the new “value-based” airline, Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB), aims for profitability estimated by 2018, says Mr. Mueller.
Liow: MH370 families advised to file their claims under Montreal Convention before March 8
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 was officially declared on Thursday, January 29, 2015, an accident and all lives presumed lost on the southern Indian Ocean floor, authorities said, after history’s largest and costliest oceanic airliner search for nearly eleven months as of Monday, February 9, 2015. Officially, this cleared the way last year for Malaysia Airlines (MAS) to pay compensation to victims’ relatives, while the search for the massive Boeing 777-200ER airliner continues, reports Reuters.
“We officially declare Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 an accident … and that all 239 of the passengers and crew on board MH370 are presumed to have lost their lives,” Malaysian Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) director-general Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said in a statement.
“The announcement is in accordance with standards of annexes 12 and 13 of the International Civil Aviation Organization,” said the Malaysian DCA director-general. “It will allow families of the passengers to obtain assistance through compensation,” he said.
In a Malaysia Ministry of Transport statement (shown full below), Transport Minister Liong Tong Lai cautioned, “as we approach the second anniversary of this unfortunate [flight MH370] event, I have been informed by Malaysia Airlines System Berhad (MAS) that less than 60 compensation claims have been settled in relation to the 227 passengers and 12 crew on board the flight, whereas to date, 169 families have commenced final compensation process.”
The next-of-kin remain considerably concerned about the status of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) assets and operations transferred to Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) under the restructuring plan reviewed above.
“Multiple suits have been filed in the United States, Australian and Malaysian courts in the past few weeks and more are expected, as the two-year deadline [on Tuesday, March 8, 2016] approaches,” according to International Business Times adding, “International convention states that families are automatically eligible for around £113,000 ($160,000) in compensation per passenger.”
Malaysia Airlines (MAS), as the national flag-carrier, last year reached an “out-of-court” settlement of the first legal claim by the family of a gentleman, who was a passenger on flight MH370, a lawyer handling the claim said to the French press service, AFP, on Tuesday, June 2, 2015.
Jee Jing Hang, an online web-based business owner, was one of 227 passengers and 12 Malaysia Airlines (MAS) crew aboard. In October 2014, Mr Hang’s family brought a lawsuit, benefitting his two living sons, aged 11 and 14 when the lawsuit was filed, against Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and the Malaysian government, including its Department of Civil Aviation and Department of Immigration, and the Royal Malaysia Air Force Chief, agencies altogether involved in investigating the missing MH370 flight. The premise of the plaintiff’s lawsuit argued “for negligence and breach of contract,” against the air carrier, as it “failed to bring its passengers to its destination,” according to AFP.
“The court was informed that all the parties in the suit had come to an amicable settlement,” Gary Edward Chong, a lawyer for Mr Hang’s family told AFP, of which “terms of the settlement could not be disclosed.”
YB DATO’ SRI LIOW TIONG LAI, MINISTER OF TRANSPORT, MALAYSIA
MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT (MOT), PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA
Friday, March 4 2016
“It has undoubtedly been a difficult and trying twenty-four months for the families and loved ones of the passengers and crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
As we approach the second anniversary of this unfortunate event, I have been informed by Malaysia Airlines System Berhad (MAS) that less than 60 compensation claims have been settled in relation to the 227 passengers and 12 crew on board the flight, whereas to date, 169 families have commenced final compensation process.
With regard to the passengers of MH370, according to Article 35 of the 1999 Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air (Montreal Convention), the right to damages against MAS shall be extinguished if an action is not brought within a period of two years from the date on which the aircraft ought to have arrived in Beijing, that is on 8 March 2014.
Therefore, as previously stated by MAS, the limitation period under the Montreal Convention ends on 8 March 2016. This right to claim damages under the Montreal Convention is available to the families and next-of-kin of the passengers of MH370.
Hence, I urge all the families and next-of-kin, regardless of nationality, to file their claims under the Montreal Convention against MAS by March 8, 2016 to preserve their legal rights as provided under the Convention.
The Government of Malaysia remains ever conscious that the families and next-of-kin of the passengers and crew of MH370 need to be accorded their legitimate rights as provided under the relevant international instruments and domestic laws.”
Second Interim Statements on MH370 Safety Investigation
Provided below is the MAS Flight MH370 Second Interim Statement (Footnote 1) on the investigation on the second anniversary of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH370, prepared by the Malaysian ICAO (Footnote 2) Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team for MH370. Click here for MAS Flight MH370 First Interim Statement and Factual Information.
“1. This 2nd Interim Statement1 has been prepared under Chapter 6, paragraph 6 of ICAO2 Annex 13 to provide information on the progress of the investigation on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH370, a Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, registered as 9M-MRO, pending the completion of the Final Report as required under ICAO Annex 13. A Final Report will be completed in the event wreckage of the aircraft is located or the search for the wreckage is terminated, whichever is the earlier.
2. The Beijing-bound international scheduled passenger flight, with a total of 239 persons (227 passengers and 12 crew) on board, departed KL International Airport (KLIA) at 1642 UTC on 07 March 2014 [0042 MYT on 08 March 2014]. Less than 40 minutes after take-off, radar contact with the aircraft was lost after passing waypoint (Footnote 3) IGARI.
3. As a Contracting State of ICAO and in accordance with Annex 13 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation, and under Regulation 126(1) (Footnote 4) of the Malaysian Civil Aviation Regulations 1996 (MCAR), on 25 April 2014, Malaysia established an independent international Air Accident Investigation Team, known as ‘The Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team for MH370’ (the “Team”) to investigate the disappearance of flight MH370. The Team, headed by the Investigator-in-Charge, comprises 19 Malaysians and 7 Accredited Representatives of 7 safety investigation authorities (Footnote 5) from 7 countries.
4. On 08 March 2015, the 1 st Interim Statement and the Factual Information on the Safety Investigation for MH370 were released (Footnote 6) to the public on the first anniversary of the disappearance of MH370.
5. To-date, the MH370 wreckage has still not been found despite the continuing search in the South Indian Ocean. However, a flaperon was recovered in the French island of Réunion on 29 July 2015 and was determined to have been a part of the MH370 aircraft.
6. At this time, the Team is continuing to work towards finalizing its analysis, findings/conclusions and safety recommendations on eight relevant areas associated with the disappearance of flight MH370 based on available information. New information that may become available before the completion of the Final Report may alter these analysis, findings/ conclusions and safety recommendations.
7. The eight areas being reviewed by the Team are as follows:
Diversion from Filed Flight Plan Route;
Air Traffic Services Operations;
Flight Crew Profile;
Airworthiness & Maintenance and Aircraft Systems;
Satellite Communications;
Wreckage and Impact Information (following the recovery and verification of a flaperon from the aircraft);
Organization and Management Information of the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA), Malaysia and MAS; and
Aircraft Cargo Consignment.
The Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team for MH370″
“Footnote 1 If the report cannot be made publicly available within twelve months, the State conducting the investigation shall make an interim statement publicly available on each anniversary of the occurrence, detailing the progress of the investigation and any safety issues raised.
Footnote 2 ICAO – International Civil Aviation Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations charged with coordinating and regulating international air travel. The Convention establishes rules of airspace, aircraft registration and safety, and details the rights of the signatories in relation to air travel. Today, there are 191 Contracting States in ICAO.
Footnote 3 Waypoint – A specified geographical location used to define an area navigation route or the flight path of an aircraft employing area navigation. Waypoints are identified as either: Fly-by waypoint – A fly-by waypoint requires the use of turn anticipation to avoid overshoot of the next flight segment; or Fly-over waypoint – A flyover waypoint precludes any turn until the waypoint is overflown and is followed by an intercept maneuver of the next flight segment.
Footnote 4 For the purpose of carrying out an investigation into the circumstances and cause of any accident to which these Regulations apply, the Minister shall appoint persons as Inspectors of Air Accidents, one of whom shall be appointed by him as a Chief Inspector of Air Accidents.
Footnote 5 Air Accident and Incident Investigation Organizations:
Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) of Australia,
Civil Aviation Administration of the People’s Republic of China (CAAC),
Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses pour la sécurité d l’aviation civile (BEA) of France,
National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) of Indonesia,
Air Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) of Singapore,
Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) of United Kingdom, and
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) of United States of America.
Footnote 6 The 1st Interim Statement and the Factual Information remain available on the MH370 Safety Investigation websites of the Ministry of Transport (MOT) Malaysia and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC): “
http://mh370.mot.gov.my
http://www.mh370.gov.my
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20 Pearls Of Wisdom After #Mizzou Fallout: What It Takes To Be The College Boss
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“The University of Missouri system’s president, Timothy Wolfe, resigned Monday morning in the face of growing protests by black college students, the threat of a walkout by faculty, and a strike by football players, who said he had done too little to combat racism on campus,” reports USA Today and the New York Times moments ago.
Photo Credits: Harvard University and Yale University Commons
Further still, after President Wolfe announced his resignation, R. Bowen Loftin, the chancellor of the University of Missouri’s flagship Columbia campus, will resign at the end of the year, the Associated Press reported alongside the New York Times late Monday afternoon.
President Wolfe and Chancellor Loftin faced increasing pressure to resign their leadership posts after what critics said “was a sluggish and inadequate response to a string of racially charged incidents on the overwhelmingly white college campus,” according to TPM LiveWire Breaking News.
This is now a tsunami crisis in stakeholder management and presidential and chancellorship succession in higher education and its coordinated response to diversity and inclusion on campus (alongside other pressing issues of college affordability, student learning and assessment, internationalization and globalization on campuses, cash management and investments, fundraising and endowment growth, strategic partnerships, joint venturing and alliances, and board governance).
Students, faculty, staff, and alumni stakeholders’ anger and frustration is real about how the value of diversity and inclusion on modern college campuses matters most in the modern age of demography shift and heightened engagement across government, industry, philanthropy, and “The Ivory Tower.”
So, given at the end of this piece are 20 strategic lessons on what does it take to be the college boss through the lens of several university presidential titans, who may have or who may have not weathered the storms of raising the value of diversity and inclusion in “The Ivory Tower.”
Inside this piece also are some pearls of wisdom that may be relevant to the challenging constituent events taking place on the modern college campus in the age of demography shift in heightened communications through “smart” technology, whereby a simple “Tweet” about a racial incident can go viral and eventually cause the resignation of a university president, lacking some historical perspective of these 20 pearls of wisdom on how to #BetheBoss on a modern college campus.
Photo Credit: Isaac Stanley-Becker for The Washington Post. Students rally at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., on Monday, November 9, 2015.
Above all else, essentially, college presidents have basically three powers: to sign, to appoint, and most of all, to persuade.
Yale University’s president, Peter Salovey, spoke Thursday, November 5, 2015 to minority students in a closed-door meeting, saying the university had “failed” them. Salovey later said on Monday, November 9, 2015 at a Yale student rally on campus that he welcomed students’ efforts to improve Yale University and clarified his view that Yale has failed its minority students, as later that afternoon tsunami events out west were unfolding surrounding the presidential and chancellor leadership succession of the University of Missouri System.
“What I said on Thursday is if there are students who don’t feel welcome here, we need to accept that as an area where we can do better,” Salovey said in a brief interview to reporters, including The Washington Post. “And we must do better.”
“People really have to feel like they can express themselves, whatever their views are, in an environment that is open to them,” he said.
College politics of prolific public perception is profoundly at play now in the age of social media and advances in wireless communications technologies on campus.
Jonathan Holloway, the dean of Yale College, (shown above via The Washington Post, and Yale’s only black dean, who is also the Edmund Morgan Professor of African American Studies), also said recently in The Washington Post, he has been in touch with the university’s general counsel’s office about several videos created via smartphones during a recent confrontation between students and administration, as “there is a university rule that prohibits filming without prior permission within Yale’s gates,” Holloway said.
On Thursday, November 5, Yale University students gathered to protest over faculty members’ e-mails regarding culturally sensitive Halloween costumes. One student confronted Nicholas Christakis, the master of Silliman College. Several video clips of the encounter at Yale’s Silliman College were immediately posted on YouTube by the nonprofit Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). Filmed by FIRE organization’s CEO and president, Greg Lukianoff, who spoke in Silliman on Thursday evening on the topic of free speech on college campuses, the videos have garnered hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube.
“I honestly don’t know what to do in our smartphone culture with this,” Holloway said. “And so I’ve posed that as a question to the attorney to figure out what can we do.”
Spokesman, Nico Perrino, said FIRE has not been contacted by Yale’s attorneys.
Meanwhile, the social impact of our smartphone culture continues on modern college campuses, as marches and walkouts across the nation are taking place this week by students, faculty, staff, and alumni in protest of “what they see as officials’ lenient approach to racial abuse in schools,” according to Reuters.
In recent related series of event, Reuters reports Hunter M. Park, “a 19-year-old white Missouri man (also a sophomore computer science major at Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T) in Rolla, which is part of the University of Missouri System) is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday, November 12 charged with making threats on social media to shoot black students at the University of Missouri’s flagship Columbia campus, just days after the school’s top two administrators resigned after protests over their handling of racial incidents at the school.
In the nation’s capitol, “messages were posted online threatening to murder students at the historically black college Howard University in Washington on Thursday, November 11,” says Reuters. School officials, which had an “all hands on deck” high-level meeting Thursday morning, decided not to close the campus, but have increased security around the DC-metropolitan campus.
“Sympathetic gatherings have taken place at Yale University, Ithaca College in New York, Smith College in Massachusetts and Claremont McKenna College in California,” according to Reuters. “At Yale on Wednesday, November 11, more than 1,000 students, professors and staff gathered to discuss race and diversity at the elite Ivy League school. The forum was held two days after about 1,000 students briefly shut down traffic around the university in a rally to protest an alleged Halloween incident in which a fraternity turned away black students from a party.”
#Mizzou Fallout Forces Resignations of a University President and a Flagship Campus Chancellor
Monday, November 9, 2015, the Missouri Students Association released a letter submitted to the University of Missouri System Board of Curators, seeking University of Missouri President Timothy Wolfe’s “immediate removal,” saying that “the University of Missouri met the shooting of Mike Brown with silence … our students were left stranded, forced to face an increase in tension and inequality with no systemic support. Over the last sixteen months, the quality of life for our students has only worsened” and that Missouri President Wolfe had “enabled a culture of racism.”
“His resignation was just one of many demands from students, who say the university isn’t doing enough to handle racism and discrimination on the campus in Columbia. Another demand is to increase black representation among University of Missouri-Columbia staff and faculty members to 10 percent by the next academic calendar year. The school would have a lot of hiring to do to comply: It would take around 400 more black faculty or staff members to get representation that high,” reports FiveThirtyEightPolitics on ESPN. “Black students are less likely than students of other races or ethnicities to stay enrolled in the university after one year and are ultimately less likely to graduate,” according to data provided to FiveThirtyEight by the university.
What we are learning from the resignations of Missouri president, Timothy Wolfe, and of Missouri’s flagship Columbia campus chancellor, R. Bowen Loftin, on Monday, November 9, is that responsibility and accountability for diversity and inclusion now clearly resides at the top inside the campus administration building.
Photo Credit: Supporters of the student protest group, “Concerned Student 1950 (named after the first year black students were allowed at the school),” form a perimeter of 1,950 students in locked arms (above), as students stage a “sit-in” protest (below) on the University of Missouri’s flagship Columbia campus.
Sit-ins by activists African-American students, supported by students, faculty, staff, and alumni from all walks of life, in the age of “#BlackLivesMatter“, “#SportsLivesMatter“, and the “clash of generations” (between Millennials aged 18-24, Generation Ys aged 25-34, Generation Xs aged 33-44, Baby-Busters aged 45-54, Baby-Boomers aged 55-64, and Greatest Generations aged 65 and older), alongside Saturday afternoon boycotts by college football and basketball players and marching bands, are dramatically affecting college brands and reputations, institutional advancement, communications and public relations, annual donor-giving campaign dollars, and lucrative sports television revenues given to campuses.
Moreover, such protests are voicing loudly that racism, sexism, even ageism is not tolerated on the modern campus by any groups of constituents and stakeholders. And that no longer is “just talking diversity” inside college brochures enough. But now, “actually walking diversity” is the real measure of the social, technological, educational, economic and political (S.T.E.E.P.) value of diversity on campus.
Football is big money and some change on modern college campuses.
“The Missouri athletic department’s annual operating revenue grew nearly 10 percent to $83.7 million during the 2014 fiscal year, but outstanding debt climbed by nearly $60 million and expenses also increased,” according to data obtained by The Star that is submitted annually by Mizzou to the NCAA.
Had thirty-two black football players just boycotted one game this weekend against Brigham Young University, “it would have cost the school almost $1 million,” reports The Root.
“Thirty-two black men just ousted the head of a system that employs 25,000 people and educates over 77,000 students, just by saying, “No”,” writes activist, Michael Harriot, inside The Root.
Harriot adds: “Harvard Law-degree-wielding president of one of the largest and most comprehensive universities in the country [resigning clearly says] … what should be scary to the status quo is the possibility of the pervasive rage becoming as focused and united as what just happened in Columbia, Missouri, by just saying “No.” “
“And, all it took was 32 black men.”
By the way, have you seen a Texaco Star sign anymore lately?
Diversity and inclusion matters now under the corporate seal. And, it’s not only affecting huge government and industrial interests, but also economic interests inside “The Ivory Tower.”
“Mizzou’s student-athletes just put every university president across the nation on notice,” writes Jason Johnson, professor of political science at Hiram College in Ohio, inside The Root.
“Thousands of influential Mizzou alumni couldn’t care less about social justice, racism or the protection of African-American students. They like football and tailgating every Saturday. And, if firing Wolfe and addressing some racism gets them back in the parking lot with a beer and a brat watching black men run up and down a field this Saturday, so be it,” Johnson argues.
Professor Johnson goes on further to conclude: “At the end of the day, there are lots of people who can serve as a college president, but there aren’t nearly as many who can break four tackles for a score on third and 7. Let’s just hope that other prominent college football teams see the power that was shown by the Missouri Tigers today: that if you stay organized and unified, you don’t have to just run the field; you can run your school.”
Strategic knowledge leadership among the world’s best colleges and universities reflects modern presidential and board responsibility and accountability of making a real difference in diversity and inclusion with integrity and trust of self-expression and generosity amongst all stakeholders across the campus community.
Photo Credit: Columbia University Graduation Ceremony
Diversity and Inclusion is Strategic Leadership and Intent of the Modern College Presidential Boss
Strategic competitive positioning in academic and research capacity building and knowledge production and depositories among the world’s top-ranked colleges and universities stack up along four primary fronts:
Brokerage creates knowledge and value, including identifying the relative difference among ourselves that distinguishes an institution and trading on it under a powerful university seal in the global marketplace;
Cohesion delivers knowledge and value, involving establishing an academic environment of diversity and inclusion that attracts and retains extraordinary faculty united with a continuous supply of exceptional students;
Branding, reputation, and trust transfers knowledge and value, allowing a climate of innovation to flow freely throughout the physical and online learning spaces and diverse culture of the university in the advancement of a general liberal education for the benefit of agriculture, industry, commerce, and The Arts;
Partnerships sustain knowledge and value, allowing diverse strategic contracts of alliances, joint-ventures, acquisitions, warrants, options, and philanthropic giving to feed both organic and inorganic investments and growth of the university and its endowment steadily and soundly through perpetuity.
Photo Credit: Duke University
A Vision for the Value of Diversity and Inclusion on the Modern College Campus
Altogether, the above attributes properly balance and uniquely prepare modern college presidents for this strategic leadership opportunity in three essential ways:
To honor the faculty, staff, students, and alumni and their history inside the college as a sound institution and community of learning;
To manage the college’s education integrated with research capacity building and growth, as one of the country’s top research organizations – particularly given the college’s strategic leadership inside the federal directorates, as one of the nation’s most valuable integrated education and research assets – and finally,
To position a college education and research enterprise with a strategic vision for making the often challenging choices amongst competing stakeholders required in interdisciplinary teaching and research oversight in modern higher education.
Furthermore, strongest most enduring college presidents are eager to participate in the collaborative and cross-cultural governance of a growing higher education and research enterprise, while helping the university build its social, technological, economic, and political value to the college’s local region, the nation, and the world.
Photo Credit: Stanford University
Hence, what it takes to be the servant college boss is sound stewardship of a longstanding institution of excellence, whose intent is to empower and enable faculty, staff, students, and alumni, to generate and fulfill new possibilities and purposeful living.
A modern college stewarded by a sound presidential boss creates new knowledge and provides academic programs and services that produce extraordinary learning and results not only for its stakeholders and constituencies, but also for the ascent of humankind.
Upon examining the compelling case for the college’s mission, what is revealed to us, as taxpayers and/or college donors, is the power of one’s transformation through combined education and leadership preparation for the college’s students, faculty, staff, and alumni, and for the surrounding local community, the nation and the world.
Photo Credit: University of Notre Dame
The college presidential boss proposes to advance the college’s educational and service-oriented enterprises out of values shaping deeply what we believe the college is, as a transformational academic unit of distinguished teaching, research, outreach and engagement, innovation, and technology transfer to a good society:
Colleges have a profound privilege of causing transformation of students as global leaders, the transformation of its faculty as conversation leaders and knowledge producers, the transformation of its staff as facilitators of quality service, and the transformation of its alumni in protection and as shapers of society, humanity, and our world.
Self Expression and Generosity:
Colleges are historical places of fundamental freedom of intellectual thought; giving of itself abundantly in duty and service to community and the nation and to students from all walks of life.
Creation of Knowledge:
Colleges generate potential from promise itself, shaping society today, and most of all, respecting its legacy of shaping thought in America with the ultimate purpose in the development of future leaders for a global duty and citizenry through the creation and dissemination of knowledge.
Responsibility and Accountability:
Colleges are leadership communities of excellence with an inherent responsibility and unconditional accountability to ensure the potential and promise, and ultimately, the success of its students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
Integrity and Trust:
Colleges are whole and complete organizations of duty and quality service of higher education that must be true to its purpose to accomplish with integrity its academic and training mission, to function consistent with its values, and to manage the trust in service to its students, faculty, staff, alumni, governance, society, humanity, and the world.
Photo Credit: One Hundred Years of Harvard-Yale Football
20 Pearls of Wisdom and Lessons on College Presidential Leadership
Below are 20 additional strategic lessons on what does it take to be the college boss through the lens of several university presidential titans, who may have or who may have not weathered the storms of raising the social, technological, education, economic, and political (S.T.E.E.P.) value of diversity and inclusion inside “The Ivory Tower.”
Photo Credit: Nicholas Murrary Butler
1. A Different Kind of Captain
“The college president is “a captain of the army of faith in the Republic.” These captains “are a characteristic product of American life and of American opportunity … Rules and formulas cannot be devised to produce them … The history of American higher education for well-nigh a century is written largely in terms of the personality, the strivings and the accomplishments of these Captains. Strike them from our record … and the history of American Higher Education would be meaningless.”
– Nicholas Murray Butler, 1919, Nobel Peace Laureate (1931), 12th President of Columbia University (1905-1945), President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1925-1945)
2. The Multiversity President
The president must be “a friend of the students, a colleague of the faculty, a good fellow with the alumni, a sound administrator with the trustees, a good speaker with the public, an astute bargainer with the foundations and federal agencies, a politician with the state legislature, a friend of industry, labor and agriculture, a persuasive diplomat with donors, a champion of education generally, a supporter of the professions …, a spokesperson to the press, a scholar in his own right, a public servant …, a devotee of opera and football equally, a decent human being, a good husband and father, an active member of a church … No one can be all these things. Some succeed at being none.”
– Clark Kerr, 1963, 12th President of the University of California (1958-1967), First Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1952-1957)
3. The Presidency as Illusion
“[The academic presidency is] a reactive job, a parochial job … [It is] important to the president [but] the presidency is an illusion … Important aspects of the role seem to disappear on close examination … It is probably a mistake for a college president to imagine that what he [she] does in office affects significantly either the long-run position of the institution or his [her] reputation as president.
Presidents occupy a minor part in the lives of a small number of people. They can act with a fair degree of confidence that if they make a mistake, it will not matter much.”
– Michael Cohen and James March, Leadership and Ambiguity, 1974, 1986
Photo Credit: Harvard University Cross Country Team
4. The Presidency Today
“It has probably always been too simple a matter to think of the president as a pilot … Still … the allegory of the captain, the ship, the sea, the voyage, remains appealing. There is romance in it, and danger; uncertainty and possibility; change and challenge; and fortune good or bad …
“That old voyager, Charles W. Eliot [21st President of Harvard University,(1869-1909), known as the “grand old man” of Harvard University – its transformer, if not its founder], might well conclude today that the office he did so much to develop has been greatly modified since his time. It is more difficult, more daunting, and a good bit less powerful … But, surveying the greatly altered scene, Eliot might still discern … some substantial room to maneuver, some significant role for the pilot. He might join with [William Rainey Harper, First President of the University of Chicago (1891-1906), “Young Man in a Hurry“] now … in saying of the position that “the satisfaction which this brings no man [or woman] can describe.” He could find convincing reasons to avow again that the presidency – despite everything and whatever one’s choice of metaphor – is still unique, still a job that demands a leader, still an office that makes a difference, still a profession that has no equal in the world.”
– Joe Crowley, “No Equal in The World,” 1994
5. The President of Grey Towers (Chicago)
“The university has become a place of “cold desolateness,” headed by a president who is “absurd … an absolutist [and] a grotesque little man.”
– Anonymous, 1923
6. The President “Presides Over a Tropical Jungle”
“The president, critics say, is “an autocrat, a dollar-making capitalist, a great mogul, a grand seigneur, a mikado, and hetman all combined in one. He [She] is viewed as an austere figure sitting on a throne behind closed doors and summoning now and then the trembling vassals of his [her] realm … He [She] watches for heresies with the sleepless zeal of the Holy Inquisition, and without mercy brings vengeance on the head of the unfaithful.”
In reality, he [she] “presides over a tropical jungle … full of queer animals … Some run about, seeking whom they may devour. Others sit quietly in corners, shrinking from observation, searching curiously for unknown things … It is a vast magnificent, and historic tangle. About all that the mighty gentleman … can do, is to stand on a height above it and squirt perfume on the ensemble.”
– Somnia Vana, 1922
Photo Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7. “Last Words of a College President”
“I walked and sat erect for thirty years, A proud merchant of correct ideas, Cold gladness and unsullied decorum, I fashioned cautious men without souls, And brittle women with measured passion. Behold a traitor, To his Creator.”
– “American Mercury,” 1948
Photo Credit: The Ivory Tower
8. The Mystery Novel President
“In academic detective novels, presidents are customarily portrayed as: “Academically, intellectually, socially, legally, and morally rotten, [and as] encyclopedias of corruption.”
– Wister Cook, “Death by Administration: Presidents, Deans, and Department Heads in Academic Detective Novels,” 1988 [via, Joseph N. Crowley, “No Equal in the World: An Interpretation of the Academic Presidency,” 1994]
Photo Credit: Princeton University Nassau Hall
9. The Spirit of J. Thoreau Marshall Reigns
“As acting president of fictional Washagon University inside Robert Grudin’s novel about life among that peculiar new breed of faculty … , J. Thoreau Marshall “emerges as neither decent nor much of a mover.” Nonetheless, his rise to power was inevitable:
“Terrified of being at a loss for words, he wrote out his lectures which, sauced with redundancy, seasoned with non sequitur and served up at metronomic pace in a pained nasal monotone, induced narcosis in all who heard them.
“In committee meetings, he was notably inarticulate, dead to nuance and phobic to original ideas.
“His other relationships were of a similar ilk, To his students he was autocratic and unfair, to his advisees distant and obtuse, to his colleagues earthbound and hollow.
“It was eventually apparent that these characteristics, displayed consistently and noted by all, ideally qualified Marshall for academic administration, and before long he was welcomed into a confraternity whose members by and large, shared his talents and propensities.
“When he was appointed Washagon’s provost, Marshall demonstrated “the timeworn obligations of his profession: bullying his subordinates and cringing before his superiors, stifling talent and rewarding mediocrity, promoting faddishness and punishing integrity. It is no surprise that Marshall is given the acting presidency, when the president becomes ill.” “
– Robert Grudin, “Book,” 1992 [via, Joseph N. Crowley, “No Equal in the World: An Interpretation of the Academic Presidency,” 1994]
Photo Credit: Andrew Dickson White
10. “No Cessation of Duties”
“This is a dog’s life … no cessation of duties, which have always been most irksome … rebuffs — the cold shoulder — unsuccessful pleading and unheeded begging … A year or two more of this life as president will break my health hopelessly.”
– Andrew Dickson White, 1871-72, First President of Cornell University (1866-1885), 16th United States Ambassador to Germany (1879-1881), First President of the American Historical Association (1884-1885)
Photo Credit: William Rainey Harper
11. “The Bigness of the Task”
“There were “times of great depression, when one contemplates in all its details the bigness of the task … the demands made … the number and magnitude of the difficulties involved. So numerous are the affairs of a great university; so heavy are they … so delicate and difficult … so arduous … so heart engrossing and mind disturbing.”
– William Rainey Harper, First President of the University of Chicago (1891-1906), “Young Man in a Hurry“
12. Presidents On The Press
“Twenty years ago I began my official connection with Cornell University by answering defamatory attacks … in your columns, and now I seem fated to end it in the same way.”
– Andrew Dickson White, in a letter to the New York Times, 1885, First President of Cornell University (1866-1885), 16th United States Ambassador to Germany (1879-1881), First President of the American Historical Association (1884-1885)
“I wish very much that there could be enacted a law in the state of Illinois inflicting the death penalty upon irresponsible reporters for the misleading way in which they misrepresent the truth … We are helpless in the hands of the press …”
– William Rainey Harper, First President of the University of Chicago (1891-1906)
Photo Credit: Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro (right) and World-Renowned, Distinguished Ballet Artist, Mikhail Baryshnikov (left)
13. Unwise Fate Awaiting The New President
“Consider that “cruel … unnecessary … unwise fate awaiting the new president, who must make his peace with malcontents, … be patient under opposition, … explain misunderstandings, … contradict misstatements, … supplement the inefficiency of others, and … furnish enthusiasm enough not only to carry himself over all obstacles … but to warm blood in the veins of others, whose temperature never yet rose above thirty-four degrees.”
– “One of the Guild,” 1900
Photo Credit: The Ohio State University Oval
14. Presidential Complaints and “The Wailing Wall”
“The university president is “one of the most burdened … harassed … put-upon people in American life.”
– William H. Cowley, 1949, Correspondence of William H. Cowley, 11th President of Hamilton College (1938-1944)
Photo Credit: Dwight D. Eisenhower
“My schedule “for the first months … has grown to appalling proportions. If current indications provide any index of what my future life there is to be, I shall quit them cold and go to some forsaken spot on the earth’s surface to stay.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1948, 13th President of Columbia University (1948-1953), 34th President of the United States (1953-1961)
“The picture of the president emerging from presidential descriptions is of a “small, lonely, Chaplinesque figure.”
“Annual presidential meetings are like “a convocation of morticians” gathered at a “wailing wall.”
– Frederic Ness, “An Uncertain Glory,” Professor of English, United States Naval Academy, 1971
Photo Credit: Charles M. Vest
15. A Model of Leading the Value of Diversity Through The Presidency is Here
“I grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia and attended public schools there where I learned many valuable things. I learned that every human being is important, has something to offer, and can be a friend and colleague.” Read more here.
– Charles M. Vest, 2006, 15th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1990-2004), President of the National Academy of Engineering (2007-2013)
Photo Credit: University of Pennsylvania
16. The Presidency According to the Presidents and the Press
“An impossible job” (1913)
“Why college presidents wear out” (1945)
“The [presidential] race is extinct” (1956)
“The reeling presidency” (1976)
“The impossible job of the college president” (1988)
“The most difficult job in the world” (1990)
“The short unhappy life of academic presidents” (1990)
“The hardest job in California” (1991)
“The terrible toll in college presidents” (1994)
“Wanted: Miracle workers” (1991)
“The hunt for water walkers” (1990)
“[The job needs] someone who can walk on water.”
“[The job needs] someone who doesn’t only walk on water, but who can skip on it.”
“[The job needs] somebody who can walk on water, but who can do so without scaring the fish.”
“[The president needs an] ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound.”
Photo Credit: Charles W. Eliot reading with his grandson (1910)
17. The Rule of Seven
“The best number of members for a university’s principal governing board is seven; because that number of men [women] can sit round a small table, talk with each other informally without waste of words or any display or pretense, provide an adequate diversity of points of view and modes of dealing with the subject in hand, and yet be prompt and efficient in the despatch of business. In a board of seven the different professions and callings can be sufficiently represented.”
– Charles W. Eliot, 1908, 21st President of Harvard University (1869-1909), Known as the “grand old man” of Harvard University – its transformer, if not its founder.
Photo Credit: H. Patrick Swygert (right) and then-U.S. Presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) (left), 2007
18. The Raison D’etre for The Institution
“Its mission, transcends everything, because without that you’re simply just raising money but for no good purpose. And by the way, don’t think you’re going to be successful at it, as well, if you cannot articulate some form of vision … And I think historically black colleges and universities at large are still about two things: opportunity for youngsters who might not otherwise have an opportunity for education, post-secondary education, and secondly, to be about the business of the greater African Diaspora. What are those issues affecting us? Whether it’s health care disparities, whether it’s environmental issues, whether it’s traditional civil rights issues, human rights issues, that’s what they should be about – what we are about.”
– H. Patrick Swygert, 15th President of Howard University, 2008
Photo Credit: Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (right), former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and then-U.S. Senator (D-New York) (left)
19. More of a Politician Than a Corporatist
“The course of a university president’s day is never the same twice in a row; no tired bureaucrats need apply … A university president has to be more of politician than a corporate leader.”
– Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, “Big Man on Campus: A University President Speaks Out on Higher Education,” 2008, 15th President of The George Washington University (1988-2007), 3rd President of the University of Hartford (1976-1987)
Photo Credit: Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (left) poses next to his official George Washington University presidential portrait (right)
20. A Titan
“Angry now the breakers are: Gleam their white teeth in the sun, Where along the shallow bar, Fierce and high their ridges run.
But the pilot-captain, lo! How serene in strength is he! Blithe as winds that dawnward blow, Fresh and fearless as the sea.
Now the shifting breezes fail, Baffling gusts arise and die, Shakes and shudders every sail, Hark! the rocks are roaring nigh.
But the pilot keeps here keel, Where the current runneth fair, Deftly turns the massive wheel, Light as though’t were hung in air.
Hark! the bar on either side! Hiss of foam, and crash of crest, Trampling feet, and shouts – they glide, Safely out on ocean’s breast.
Then, the Pilot gives his hand, To his brother, close beside: “Now, ’tis thine to take command, I must back at turn of tide.” “
– Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887), American poet and educator, 1875
Photo Credit: Edward Rowland Sill
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Fuel Leak Causes Engine Fire on Boeing 767 Prior to Takeoff in Florida
A Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7R4D left turbofan engine burst into flames on a taxiing Dynamic International Airways Boeing 767-200ER, carrying 101 passengers and flight crew, just prior to its departure at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (in Dania Beach, Florida USA) en route to Caracas, Venezuela.
Photo Credit: Flicker.com, Dynamic Aviation Group Boeing-767-300ER, Registration Number N251MY
The 29-year-old Boeing 767-200ER airliner, Registration Number N251MY, operating as flight 2D-405 on Thursday, October 29, 2015, was taxiing on the ground before departure at about 12:34pm ET, holding short of Fort Lauderdale Airport’s runway 28R after contacting the local air traffic control tower.
Suddenly, the flight crew of another aircraft, taxiing behind Dynamic International Airways flight 2D-405, advised the flight deck of the Boeing 767-200ER airliner that there was a massive Jet A-1 fuel leak from the left Pratt & Whitney turbofan engine (JT9D-7R4D).
Pratt & Whitney developed the first high bypass ratio turbofan engine (JT9D-7R4D) to power a wide-body airliner, originally designed for application to the first Jumbo Boeing 747-100 airliner.
Immediately, the flight deck of the Boeing 767-200ER airliner acknowledged the fuel leak and then requested to return to the ramp.
That was when the other advising flight deck airliner, taxiing behind flight 2D-405, alerted the Boeing 767-200ER flight deck that the new condition of their aircraft was their left turbofan engine was now on fire!
According to Reuters, at 12:34pm ET the Boeing 767-200ER airliner was evacuated via slides in about 3 minutes.
Luis Campana, a 71-year-old rancher, along with his wife and sister, were three of the 101 passengers and crew on-board Dynamic International Airways flight 2D-405 traveling to Venezuela’s Guarico state.
“It was a real scare,” Campana told Reuters at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. He said, “he had been sitting near the front of the plane, as the pilot put the thrust on to taxi up the runway.”
“The engine exploded. As we were getting out of the plane down the chute, the smoke was beginning to enter and the engine was in flames,” he said.
Twenty-one people were injured, one seriously, most of whom were treated at a hospital and released, said Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue spokesman Mike Jachles.
Don Dodson, the director of operations for Dynamic Airways, said airline officials had set up a crisis center, flown in additional airline representatives to help passengers and arranged for a relief flight to take passengers to their final destinations.
Emergency services responded in two minutes at 12:36pm ET, according to Mike Jachles of the Boward County Fire Rescue, upon which firefighters extinguished the fire using foam seven minutes later at 12:41pm ET.
The National Transportation Safety Board has initiated its investigation of the Boeing 767-200ER fire that injured several passengers on the tarmac at the South Florida airport Thursday, according to Greg Meyer of the Boward County Aviation Department.
The plane had no previous incidents or issues, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The Boeing 767/269 — manufactured in 1986 and owned by Utah-based airplane leasing company KMW Leasing in Salt Lake City — lost 45 to 50 gallons of fuel, damaging the asphalt. Taxiway repairs should be complete later Friday or Saturday, Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport Director Kent George said (via Fox News).
“More than 100 passengers had to evacuate using emergency slides. Some ran from the plane into the terminal as fire crews rushed to put the fire out,” Fox News reported.
Kent George, Director of the Broward County Aviation Department, said (via Fox News), “the flames never entered the cockpit.”
Dynamic International Airways, according to the limited liability company founded in 2008, is a certified Part 121 Carrier, operating fleet of seven Boeing 767-200ER aircraft that typically carries up to 250 people. The air carrier is based in Greensboro, North Carolina that connects Fort Lauderdale, New York, Venezuela and Guyana.
In past Dynamic International Airways operated mostly for other carriers and tour operators under their wet lease agreements.
In 2014 the airline started its own passenger service on multiple international markets including China, Saipan, Guam, Hong Kong, Guyana and Brasil.
Only recently, Dynamic International Airways announced it has launched its low-cost service between Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Caracas, Venezuela.
“For Venezuelans hoping to travel abroad, the options have been severely reduced to little-known carriers such as Dynamic or domestic carriers, which due to the country’s economic crisis, have struggled to import replacement parts,” according to Fox News.
Photo Credit: AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee. “Firefighters walk past a burned out engine of a Dynamic Airways Boeing 767, Thursday, October 29, 2015, at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Dania Beach, Florida. The passenger plane’s engine caught fire Thursday as it prepared for takeoff, and passengers had to quickly evacuate on the runway using emergency slides, officials said. The plane was headed to Caracas, Venezuela.”
How we all can relate to this Dynamic International Airways Boeing 767 engine safety breach?
Immediate question among the flying public is whether it is indeed safe to fly given today’s rare engine safety circumstances, surrounding the departure of Dynamic International Airways flight 2D-405.
For air and space transport (including air taxis and private flights), the National Safety Council (NSC) says the relative risks of flying are extremely favorable odds of 1 in 7,178 for a lifetime against one receiving death or injury as a result of flying in a commercial passenger airliner. These relative risks of flying are compared by the NSC to the odds of dying in a motor vehicle accident at 1 in 98 for a lifetime, the USA Today reports.
Be that as it may, my father was a firefighter. He impressed upon me that firefighters and ground crews at these airports must work fast to put such hot fires out, as a result of exploding Jet A-1 engine fuel, having a flash point greater than 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit), with an autoignition temperature of 210 degrees Celsius (410 degrees Fahrenheit).
Dynamic International Airways Boeing 767-200ER’s engine fire today on the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport runway was an extremely hot Jet A-1 engine fuel fire at burn temperatures reaching as high as 2,500 degrees Kelvin (2,230 degrees Celsius, or 4,040 degrees Fahrenheit), including open air burn temperatures climbing as high as 1,030 degrees Celsius, or 1,890 degrees Fahrenheit.
Moreover, fast cabin evacuation inside the Dynamic Airways’ Boeing 767-200ER of all the 101 passengers and crew was remarkably achieved in three minutes or 180 seconds – about twice the 90 seconds mandated by FAA regulations – that fortunately saved the lives of all passengers and flight crew on-board flight 2D-405.
So today, congratulations goes out to the Dynamic Airways 2D-405 flight crew for their fine execution of passenger evacuation of the cabin at the moment of the flight deck determination of a fire inside the left Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7R4D turbofan engine.
Additional salute goes out to the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport ground crews and controllers, as well as, some heads up eyewitness warning on the ground (from the flight deck of a nearby taxiing airliner) of leaking Jet A-1 fuel from that Boeing 767-200ER’s left turbofan engine causing this massive fire and thick black smoke bellowing high into the sky (shown via Reuters below).
Photo Credit: REUTERS/MIKE DUPUY. A still image from a handout video footage by Mike Dupuy, a passenger in another airplane, shows Dynamic International Airways’ Boeing 767’s engine on fire in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 29, 2015.
We can all emotionally recall, we had seen a similar massive fire with thick black smoke bellowing high in the sky, resulting from extremely hot Jet A-1 engine fuel inside the World Trade Center fire fourteen years ago on 9-11-2001.
Therein, that tall building’s constructed steel melted, when it reached a temperature of 800 degree Fahrenheit, as a result of forced mixing with a highly flammable Jet A-1 engine fuel, which burns at an extremely hot temperature approaching 2000 degrees Kelvin.
When Jet A-1 fuel burns uncontrollably, it induces a thick bellowing cloud of black smoke.
Photo Credit: “It is an easily verifiable truth that Flight 175, as the Boeing 767 that it was, carried two Pratt and Whitney JT9D-7R4D turbofan engines run on hot Jet A-1 engine fuel. “Flight 11” struck the North Tower –as seen above– at 8:46 AM. “Flight 175” struck the South Tower at 9:03 AM. At that moment upon hitting the South Tower, the flaming Pratt and Whitney JT9D-7R4D engine fell onto the street below landing broken apart at the corner of Church and Murray Street in lower Manhattan.
Unfortunately, fast evacuation from tall buildings is much tougher and slower, than fortunately, the faster evacuation from commercial aircraft – mandated by FAA to be under just 90 seconds!
So, air passengers please read those seat-back cards in front of you that the flight attendants are instructing you to do during pre-flight safety procedures.
Most of all, do determine in your mind your nearest route to an exit, including your emergency evacuation plan.
Those passengers seated at the exits are federally-required by law to assist all passengers and flight crew in the event of an emergency evacuation of all commercial passenger aircraft.
An additional truth about rare sudden aircraft turbofan engine fires is that we are extremely lucky the Dynamic Airways Boeing 767-200ER’s Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7R4D turbofan engine fire did not occur later upon takeoff.
Therein, the turbofan engines could perhaps have further encounter deeper combustion instability, and even more critical, axial flow compressor instability, resulting in “engine surge” – an engine air flow reversal pre-induced by “rotating stall” – an engine thrust reducer, altogether leading to a rare catastrophic turbofan engine fire during airborne takeoff (see a brief detailed explanation for laypersons of these rare catastrophic turbofan engine instabilities in the Appendix section).
The pilots would then immediately have to shut off the left turbofan engine, and immediately attempt to land the Boeing 767 with the single right turbofan engine in functioning operation. This is how these massive jumbo commercial airliners are designed, manufactured, and tested to do fortunately.
Still, experts present another scenario of truths associated with the Boeing 767-200ER’s Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7R4D engine safety breach of an undetected fuel leak prior to takeoff.
The accident could have been catastrophic had the jet taken off with a fuel leak, Greg Feith, a former crash investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, told Reuters.
“Once the aircraft is airborne, it becomes a flying blowtorch,” Feith said. “The fire intensifies and you don’t know what system or structure it’s going to burn through.”
Fire could damage a wing and fuselage, or cripple hydraulic and electronic control systems, Feith said, potentially making an emergency landing impossible. It could also ignite fuel tanks in the wings, especially if fuel vapor were present, he said.
Air enters the Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7R4D turbofan engine through the fan section (indicated in the photo below) at a mass flow rate of about a ton of air per second.
From here air then continues to flow into the combustor (where it is mixed with fuel for combustion).
Here is a cut-away of an actual Pratt and Whitney JT9D-7R4D turbofan engine in a museum, marked it up to help us see where the main engine components of the fan, compressor (including the air-fuel combustion chamber), and turbine sections are (including the identified portion that landing on Church and Murray Street, below the World Trade Center fire on 9-11):
Surge is primarily a one- dimensional instability of the entire pumping system (compressor, ducts, combustion chamber, and turbine). It is characterized by axial pulsations in annulus-averaged mass flow, including periods of flow reversal through the machine.
An experience-based approach for avoiding such performance loss is to operate the compressor at a safe range from the point of instability onset (i.e., imposing a stall margin). The stall margin ensures that the engine can endure momentary off-design operation. The margin also reduces the available pressure rise and efficiency of the machine (see Fig. 2).
It is proposed here that incorporating tailored structures and aeromechanical feedback controllers, locally-sensed by unstable compressible perturbations in annulus pressure, and actuated by non-uniformities in the high- speed flow distribution around the annulus, can be shown to inhibit the inception of a certain class of modal (long wave) stall of high-speed compressor devices. As a result, the stable operating range will be effectively extended allowing higher compressible performance and operability.
McGee, O. G., and Coleman, K. L., 2013, “Aeromechanical Control of High-Speed Axial Compressor Stall and Engine Performance—Part I: Control- Theoretic Models,” ASME J. Fluids Eng., 135, March 2013. Coleman, K.L., and McGee, O.G., 2013, “Aeromechanical Control of High-Speed Axial Compressor Stall and Engine Performance—Part II: Assessments of Methodologies,” ASME J. Fluids Eng., 135, May 2013.
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Dutch Say Buk Warhead Downed MH17, As Carrier Aims for Profits by 2018
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Crash investigators of the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) in its final report today confirm a Russian-built Buk ground-to-air missile downed MH17. The DSB released its findings at 1:45 pm local Dutch time, 7:45 am ET on the causes of the Boeing 777-200 crash in war-torn Hrabove, Ukraine on July 17, 2014, in which 283 passengers and 15 crew members died on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17’s Boeing 777-200 en route from Amsterdam, The Netherlands to Kuala Lumpur.
Today’s MH17 crash final report by the DSB of The Netherlands, headed by Chairman Tjibbe Joustra, follows a previously released preliminary MH17 investigation report on September 9, 2014, sketching out the causes of the aviation disaster that has impacted Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB).
The new air carrier has been operational, since September 1, 2015, with a new RM6 billion (or US$1.9 billion) business model and management team, led by Christoph Mueller, CEO of Malaysia Airlines Systems and CEO-Designate of the new “value-based” airline, aiming for profitability estimated by 2018 (which is briefly reviewed at the end of this piece).
Photo Credit: Taken on July 28, 2013, at Shanghai Pudong Airport, by Steven Richardson, aviation analyst at FlyersPulse.com, of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200, Registration Number 9M-MRD, which is reported by Malaysia Airlines as the crashed aircraft of Flight 17.
A total of 193 Dutch nationals and 38 Australian nationals were on board Flight MH17. Besides 44 Malaysians, nationals from the Netherlands, Australia, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, the Philippines, Canada and New Zealand were among the 283 passengers and 15 Malaysia Airlines crew on board MH17.
Our thoughts, prayers, and sympathies still remain with the families, friends, and loved ones of those 298 persons lost, as they continue to wait in deep anguish for the most complete closure to their lingering questions in search of the most definitive answers and justice surrounding the MH17 aviation disaster.
After more than 15 months of searching and waiting for those answers, this history-making aviation safety and security breach is still raising even more questions, as to why this MH17 aviation disaster happened on the morning of July 17, 2014 to this particular Southeast Asia air carrier in the wake of a little over four months after the stunning disappearance of the Boeing 777-200ER airliner that frames the ongoing mystery of the MH370 aviation tragedy on the morning of March 8, 2014.
Scope of Dutch Safety Board (DSB) MH17 Crash Investigation.
The DSB investigation is operated in accordance with the standards and recommended practices in the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Annex 13.
The largest number of 193 passengers on board flight MH17 were Dutch. As a result of international protocols and norms in aviation crash events, involving safety and security breaches, The Netherlands has taken the international lead in the overall safety investigation and findings report of the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
The nation-state (Ukraine) in which the Boeing 777-200 airliner safety breach occurred has delegated the investigation to the Dutch Safety Board, which is leading the investigation and coordinating the international team of investigators. The group of international investigators consists of aviation safety and security representatives of The Netherlands, Malaysia, Australia, United States, Russia, and Ukraine.
This MH17 causal report contains the complete circumstances surrounding the aircraft hull “high-energy” foreign object impact and explosion, a comprehensive technical analysis of the airliners’ flight data recorders (or “black-boxes”), an investigation into the decision-making process with regard to flight routes over war-torn Hrabove, Ukraine on July 17, 2014, and a scientific forensic analysis of the remains of the 283 passengers and 15 Malaysia Airlines crew members.
The final report also contains factual information obtained from safety investigative teams having accessible evidence of the MH17 crash site, including on-board flight records and radar stations, MH17 black-box flight data, as well as, satellite imaging and other visual sources.
The following areas of interest substantiate the wealth of factual information and recommendations (quoted in the Appendix Section of this piece) inside the massive final report regarding:
detailed analyses of data, including black-box flight data recorders and other sources, recorded on-board the Boeing 777-200 airliner;
detailed analyses of recorder air traffic control surveillance data and radio communication;
detailed analyses of the meteorological circumstances;
forensic examination of wreckage, if recovered and possible foreign objects, if found;
results of the pathological investigation;
analyses of the in-flight break up sequence;
assessment of Malaysia Airlines operator’s and State of Occurrence’s management of flight safety over a region of conflict or high security risk;
detailed analysis of eleven (11) aviation safety and security recommendations to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and International Air Transportation Association (IATA);
any other areas that are identified during the ongoing MH17 crash investigation.
The MH17 crash findings released today builds the most complete picture of how the Boeing 777-200 airliner, Registration Number 9M-MRD, was brought down on the morning of July 17, 2014 over war-torn Hrabove, Ukraine.
The DSB’s main objective is to establish the causes of the MH17 crash and to offer recommendations for safety of international commercial passenger flights.
In addition, DSB stresses inside its preliminary and final reports that the safety council does not have any authority to “apportion blame” and to “place blame, liability or responsibility for the tragedy” on any nation or specific group or persons. The Board further adds such issues must remain within the scope of the Dutch prosecutorial authorities.
A critical overarching question addressed inside the DSB preliminary and final reports is:
What happened exactly? Why was Malaysia Airlines’ Boeing 777-200 airliner performing its flight MH17 precisely across the much-troubled war-torn Harbove, Ukraine region, where an armed conflict was being fought? What extent the occupants of flight MH17 consciously experienced the crash?
Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai has said Malaysia would continue with its own safety investigation and criminal probe into the MH17 aviation disaster through the Malaysian Department of Civil Aviation (DCA), alongside the Dutch team of safety investigators, including further assessments into the preliminary and final reports of the Dutch Safety Board.
“We hope the final report can help in obtaining sound evidence to bring the criminals to the international court,” Lai has said.
Main Conclusion – Preliminary findings of “high-energy objects” now concluded by DSB as a Buk ground-to-air missile downing MH17.
Based on the preliminary findings to data, no indications of any technical or operational issues were found with the aircraft or crew prior to the ending of the black-box flight data recording of MH17 at 13.20:03 hours UTC.
The damage observed in the forward section of the Boeing 777-200 airliner appears to indicate that the aircraft was penetrated by a large number of high-energy objects from outside the aircraft. It is likely that this damage resulted in a loss of structural integrity of the aircraft, leading to an in-flight break up.
“High-energy objects,” as suggested in the preliminary findings of the DSB on September 9, 2014, penetrated the aircraft as it flew over war-torn Hrabove, Ukraine.
It has been determined by the DSB in their preliminary report that a Boeing 777-200, operated by Malaysia Airlines as flight MH17, broke up in the air, as the result of structural damage caused by a large number of “high-energy” objects that penetrated the airliner’s fuselage from outside. The Board found no indications that the MH17 crash was caused by “a technical fault or by actions of the crew.”
“The cockpit voice recorder, the flight data recorder and data from air traffic control all suggest that flight MH17 proceeded as normal until 13:20:03 (UTC) after which it ended abruptly. A full listening of the communications among the crew members in the cockpit recorded on the cockpit voice recorder revealed no signs of any technical faults or an emergency situation. Neither were any warning tones heard in the cockpit that might have pointed to technical problems. The flight data recorder registered no aircraft system warnings, and aircraft engine parameters were consistent with normal operation during the flight. The radio communications with Ukrainian air traffic control confirm that no emergency call was made by the cockpit crew. The final calls by Ukrainian air traffic control made between 13.20:00 and 13.22:02 (UTC) remained unanswered,” the DSB preliminary report concluded.
The Dutch preliminary report added: “The pattern of wreckage on the ground suggests that the aircraft split into pieces during flight (an in-flight break up). Based on the available maintenance history the airplane was airworthy, when it took off from Amsterdam, and there were no known technical problems. The aircraft was manned by a qualified and experienced crew.”
The DSB went on to summarize the findings of the crash site debris field: “The pattern of damage observed in the forward fuselage and cockpit section of the aircraft was consistent with the damage that would be expected from a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside” … “The fact that there were many pieces of aircraft structure distributed over a large area indicated that the aircraft broke up in the air.”
Photo Credit: Dutch Safety Board (DSB), The warhead, points 1-3 mark the parts of the warhead recovered on the crash site.
Nearly a year later on August 11, 2015, the DSB took possession of parts recovered from the MH17 crash site in Hrabove, Ukraine, that the DSB preliminarily determined could possibly have originated from an advanced computerized BUK ground-to-air missile. Upon further investigation by the DSB to determine the cause of the crash, and by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), which conducted the criminal investigation, the final MH17 causal report definitively links the discovered parts to an advanced computerized Buk warhead ground-to-air missile. The MH17 final report further concludes that the discovered parts of the Russian-built Buk ground-to-air missile was indeed the “high-energy” impact which caused the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 17, 2014.
Extent of Flight MH17 Boeing 777-200 Hull Damage on the 298 Passengers and Crew.
Damage observed on the forward fuselage and cockpit section of the Boeing 777-200 airliner appears to indicated that there were impacts from a large number of high-energy objects, now concluded by the DSB as originating from a Russian-built Buk ground-to-air missile, from outside the aircraft.
The pattern of damage observed in the forward fuselage and cockpit section of the aircraft was not consistent with the damage that would be expected from any known failure mode of the Boeing 777-200 airliner, its engines or systems.
The fact that there were many pieces of aircraft structure distributed over a large area, indicated that the aircraft broke up in the air.
The DSB concluded that “pre-formed fragments” or “high-energy objects” from the warhead explosion at the forward fuselage and cockpit section killed three crew members instantly. In the aft section of the Boeing 777-200 airliner no such damage was placed upon the other occupants in the cabin section.
“As a result of the impact, they were exposed to extreme and many different, interacting factors: abrupt deceleration and acceleration, decompression and associated mist formation, decrease in oxygen level, extreme cold, strong airflow, the aeroplane’s very rapid descent and objects flying around,” the report said.
“The Dutch Safety Board did not find any indications of conscious actions performed by the occupants after the missile’s detonation. It is likely that the occupants were barely able to comprehend the situation in which they found themselves.”
Brief summary of the Dutch Safety Board Preliminary and MH17 Crash Final Report findings are quoted below for reader convenience in the Appendix and on the Safety Board’s website.
Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) sheds staff, routes and planes in US$1.9 billion restructuring and recovery to profitability by 2018.
Malaysian wealth fund, Khazanah Nasional Berhad (Bhd), has appointed formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Dato’ Mohammad Faiz Azmi, as Administrator of Malaysian Airline System (MAS). On August 30 2014, Khazanah Nasional Bhd, MAS’s lone shareholder, unveiled a restructuring plan to recover MAS from being “technically bankrupted,” according to incoming Christoph Mueller, CEO of Malaysia Airlines and CEO-Designate of the new airline.
The restructuring plan called for job cuts, a capital infusion of nearly RM6 billion (or US$1.9 billion), and the creation of a new firm to recover the airline from its dual crisis as a result of the MH370 aviation tragedy of March 8, 2014 and the MH17 aviation disaster of July 17, 2014.
Under the MAS Act, the Administrator serves in the essential capacity of oversight in the transfer of selected assets and liabilities to the new company, MAB, which replaces MAS, as Malaysia’s new flag carrier, as of September 1, 2015 with a new business model and a new management team.
The hyper-competition amongst low-cost “value-based” air carriers in Southeast Asia and the Middle East is projected to escalate rapidly in the next 5-10 years. These emerging market changes has also yield some current reductions in routes and plane assets, as part of the restructuring and recovery of the new Malaysian air carrier.
According to the Center for Asia-Pacific Aviation over the past year between September 1, 2014 to September 1, 2015 (via Bloomberg), one of every ten MAB routes have been eliminated for a global reduction of 16 percent in passenger load capacity, amounting to about one million less passengers flying on MAB jets, since September 2013 peaks prior to the flag carrier’s dual aviation crises in 2014.
Specifically, six MAB routes has been cut to just five to Australian cities for a reduction of 39 percent passenger load capacity; one of every five MAB routes have been cut across North-South Asia for a reduction of 42 percent passenger load capacity; one of every four MAB routes removed across Europe (routing only to London, Paris, and Amsterdam) for a reduction of 26 percent passenger load capacity. Only Southeast Asia has a one percent increase in passenger load capacity on MAB. In April 2014, a month after the MH370 aviation tragedy and three months before the MH17 aviation disaster, the lone North American MAS flight to Los Angeles was cancelled permanently.
In addition, MAB has made commitment to lease out two of its wide body Airbus A380 airliner assets, and on October 9, 2015, MAB signed capital leases for external asset utilization of four smaller Airbus A350 airliners expected to be delivered by 2017 a year before MAB management’s planned profitability by 2018, according to Bloomberg.
MAS has also terminated its entire staff and re-employ two-thirds of the 20,000 workers under new conditions, amounting to 6,000 in staff cuts for a now leaner flag carrier of the size of its premium deep-pockets competitor in the region, Singapore Airlines.
“When Singapore separated from Malaysia in 1965, the airline became a bi-national airline and was renamed Malaysia-Singapore Airlines before both partners went their separate ways in 1972 and Malaysian Airline System (MAS) took to the skies on October 1 of that year,” reports Malaysia Chronicle.
According to the labor force reduction crafted by Khazanah, “those who were offered and accepted employment at MAB will be paid a sign-on payment of two months pay with their first month’s salary at MAB and another two months upon completing 18 months service at MAB as part of its retention payment.”
Brief Summary of the Dutch Safety Board MH17 Crash Final Report Findings
Aircraft Type and Registration: Boeing 777-2H6ER, 9M-MRD
Number and Type of Engines: 2 x Rolls-Royce Trent 892B
Location: Near Hrabove, Ukraine
Date and Time (UTC) 17 July 2014 at 13.20 hours
Type of Flight: Scheduled passenger flight
Persons on Board: Crew = 15 (4 flight deck crew, 11 cabin crew); Passengers = 283
Injuries: Crew = 15 (fatal); Passengers = 283 (fatal)
Nature of Damage: Aircraft destroyed
According to the information received form Malaysia Airlines the crew was properly licensed and had valid medical certifications to conduct the flight.
According to the documents, the aircraft was in an airworthy condition at departure from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, there were no known technical malfunctions.
MH17 Black-Boxes
No evidence or indications of manipulation of the recorders were found.
No aural alerts or warnings of aircraft system malfunctions were heard on the Cockpit Voice Recorders. The communication between the flight crew members gave no indication of any malfunction or emergency prior to the occurrence.
The engine parameters were consistent with normal operation, during the flight. No engine or aircraft system warnings or cautions were detected.
No technical malfunctions or warnings in relation to the event flight were found on the Black-Box Flight Data Recorder data.
Air Traffic Control and Airspace
At the time of the occurrence, flight MH17 was flying at a flight level of 33,000 feet in unrestricted airspace of Dnipropetrovs’k in the eastern part of Ukraine. The aircraft flew on a constant heading, speed and altitude, when the Flight Data Recording ended. Ukraine air traffic control, then immediately, issued an emergency that restricted all access to the airspace below flight levels of 32,000 feet.
The last radio transmission made by the crew began at 13.19:56 hours and ended at 13.19:59 hours UTC.
(Note: Ukraine local time – Central European (Summer) Daylight Saving Time – was 2 hours ahead of UTC, that is UTC+2).
At 13.19:53 hours, radar data showed that the aircraft was 3.6 nautical miles north of centerline of airway L980, having deviated left of track, when Dnipro Control directed the crew to alter their route directly to waypoint RND due to other traffic. The crew acknowledged at 13.19:56 hours. At 13.20:00 hours UTC, Dnipro Control transmitted an onward air traffic control clearance to proceed directly […], no acknowledgement was received.
The last radio transmissions made by Dnipropetrovs’k air traffic control center to flight MH17 began at 13.20:00 hours UTC and ended at 13.22:02 hours UTC. The crew did not respond to these transmissions.
No distress messages were received by the Dutch air traffic control.
According to the radar data, three commercial aircraft were in the same Control Area as flight MH17 at the time of the safety breach occurrence. All were under control of Dnipro Radat. At 13.20 hours UTC the distance between the closest aircraft and MH17 was approximately 30 kilometers.
Causes of MH17 Crash
“On July 17, 2014, at 13.20 (15.20 CET) a Boeing 777-200 with the Malaysia Airlines nationality and registration mark 9M-MRD disappeared to the west of the TAMAK air navigation waypoint in Ukraine. A notification containing this information was sent by the Ukrainian National Bureau of Air Accident Investigation (NBAAI) on July 18, 2014, at approximately 06.00 (08.00 CET).
(Note: Ukraine local time – Central European (Summer) Daylight Saving Time (CET) – was 2 hours ahead of UTC, that is UTC+2).
The NBAAI was notified by the Ukrainian State Air Traffic Service Enterprise (UkSATSE) that communication with flight MH17 had been lost.
A signal from the aeroplane ́s Emergency Locator Transmitter had been received and its approximate position had been determined.
The aeroplane impacted the ground in the eastern part of Ukraine. The wreckage was spread over several sites near the villages of Hrabove, Rozsypne and Petropavlivka. Six wreckage sites were identified, spread over about 50 kilometers.
Most of the wreckage was located in three of these sites to the south-west of the village of Hrabove. This is about 8.5 km east of the last known position of the aeroplane in flight. At two sites, post-impact fires had occurred.
All 298 persons on board lost their lives.
The in-flight disintegration of the aeroplane near the Ukrainian/Russian border was the result of the detonation of a warhead.
The detonation occurred above the left hand side of the cockpit. The weapon used was a 9N314M-model warhead carried on the 9M38-series of missiles, as installed on the Buk surface-to-air missile system.
Other scenarios that could have led to the disintegration of the aeroplane were considered, analyzed and excluded based on the evidence available.
The airworthy aeroplane was under control of Ukrainian air traffic control and was operated by a licensed and qualified flight crew.”
Flight route over conflict zone
“Flight MH17 was shot down over the eastern part of Ukraine, where an armed conflict broke out in April 2014. At first this conflict took place mainly on the ground, but as from the end of April 2014 it expanded into the airspace over the conflict zone: Ukrainian armed forces’ helicopters, transport aeroplanes and fighters were downed.
On July 14, the Ukrainian authorities reported that a military aeroplane, an Antonov An-26, had been shot down above the eastern part of Ukraine. On 17 July, the authorities announced that a Sukhoi Su-25 had been shot down over the area on 16 July.
According to the authorities, both aircraft were shot down at an altitude that could only have been reached by powerful weapon systems. The weapon systems cited by the authorities, a medium-range surface-to-air missile or an air-to-air missile, could reach the cruising altitude of civil aeroplanes. Consequently they pose a threat to civil aviation.
Although (Western) intelligence services, politicians and diplomats established the intensification of fighting in the eastern part of Ukraine, on the ground as well as in the air, it was not recognised that as a result there was an increased risk to civil aeroplanes flying over the conflict zone at cruising altitude. The focus was mainly on military activities, and the geopolitical consequences of the conflict.”
Ukraine’s airspace management
“With regard to airspace management Ukraine is responsible for the safety of aeroplanes in that airspace. On 6 June 2014, the airspace above the eastern part of Ukraine was restricted to civil aviation from the ground up to an altitude of 26,000 feet (FL260).
This enabled military aeroplanes to fly at an altitude that was considered safe from attacks from the ground and eliminated the risk that they would encounter civil aeroplanes, which flew above FL260. The authorities automatically assumed that aeroplanes flying at a higher altitude than that considered safe for military aeroplanes, were also safe.
On July 14, 2014, the Ukrainian authorities increased the upper limit of the restricted airspace imposed on civil aviation to an altitude of 32,000 feet (FL320). The exact underlying reason for this decision remains unclear.
The Ukrainian authorities did not consider closing the airspace over the eastern part of Ukraine to civil aviation completely. The statements made by the Ukrainian authorities on July 14, 2014 and July 17, 2014, related to the military aeroplanes being shot down, mentioned the use of weapon systems that can reach the cruising altitude of civil aeroplanes.
In the judgment of the Dutch Safety Board, these statements provided sufficient reason for closing the airspace over the conflict zone as a precaution.”
Choice of flight route by Malaysia Airlines and other airlines
“Malaysia Airlines assumed that the unrestricted airspace over Ukraine was safe. Thesituation in the eastern part of Ukraine did not constitute a reason for reconsidering the route. The operator stated that it did not possess any information that flight MH17, or other flights, faced any danger when flying over Ukraine.
Not only Malaysia Airlines, but almost all airlines that used routes over the conflict zone continued to do so during the period in which the armed conflict was expanding into the airspace. On the day of the crash alone, 160 flights were conducted above the eastern part of Ukraine until the airspace was closed.”
Other states and the state of departure (the Netherlands)
“The Chicago Convention provides states with the option of imposing a flight prohibition or restrictions on airlines and issuing recommendations related to the use of foreign airspace.
Some states, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany, use this option with regard to their resident airlines.
Although flight MH17 took off from Dutch soil the Netherlands did not bear any formal responsibility for the flight, because it concerned a non-Dutch airline. The fact that Malaysia Airlines was operating the flight as KLM’s code share partner did not provide any legal authority either.
During the period in which the conflict in the eastern part of Ukraine expanded into the airspace over the conflict zone, from the end of April 2014 up to the crash of flight MH17, not a single state or international organization explicitly warned of any risks to civil aviation and not a single state prohibited its airlines or airmen from using the airspace over the area or imposed other restrictions.
At the Dutch Safety Board’s request, the Dutch Review Committee for the Intelligence and Security Services (CTIVD) examined whether the Dutch intelligence and security services possessed any information that could have been important for the safety of flight MH17.
The services had no indication that the warring factions intended to shoot down civil aeroplanes. The services did not have any information that the groups that were fighting against the Ukrainian government in the eastern part of Ukraine possessed medium or long-range surface-to-air missiles.”
Possibilities for improvement
“The crash of MH17 demonstrates than an unrestricted airspace is not, by definition, safe if the state managing that airspace is dealing with an armed conflict. The reality is that states involved in an armed conflict rarely close their airspace. This means that the principle of sovereignty related to airspace management can give rise to vulnerability.
In the Board’s opinion, states involved in armed conflicts should give more consideration to closing their airspace as a precaution. More effective incentives are needed to encourage them to do so.
Airline operators may not assume in advance that an unrestricted airspace above a conflict zone is safe. The fundamental principle currently adopted by operators is that they use the airspace, unless doing so is demonstrably unsafe. In their risk analyses, operators should take greater account of uncertainties and risk-increasing factors, such as when a conflict expands into the airspace. The current regulations do not stipulate that operators shall assess the risks involved in overflying conflict areas.
Operators themselves should gather more information to be able to perform an adequate risk assessment. This information can largely be acquired by consulting open sources, but in the case of conflict zones operators also need confidential information from states with intelligence capabilities.
Vital in this respect is the sharing of information between states, between states and operators and between operators. Not only the gathering of information, but also combining information in the fields of safety and security, as well as on developments on the ground and in the air proves important. In this regard, international regulations (the Chicago Convention) are currently too divided across these different fields. It was established that there are gaps between the various responsibilities, for which a solution should be found.”
Summary of MH17 Crash Final Report Recommendations
Level 1: Airspace management in conflict zones
To ICAO:
1. “Incorporate in Standards that states dealing with an armed conflict in their territory shall at an early stage publish information that is as specific as possible regarding the nature and extent of threats of that conflict and its consequences for civil aviation. Provide clear definitions of relevant terms, such as conflict zone and armed conflict.
2. “Ask states dealing with an armed conflict for additional information if published aeronautical or other publications give cause to do so; offer assistance and consider issuing a State Letter if, in the opinion of ICAO, states do not sufficiently fulfil their responsibility for the safety of the airspace for civil aviation.
3. “Update Standards and Recommended Practices related to the consequences of armed conflicts for civil aviation, and convert the relevant Recommended Practices into Standards as much as possible so that states will be able to take unambiguous measures if the safety of civil aviation may be at issue.
To ICAO Member States:
4. “Ensure that states’ responsibilities related to the safety of their airspace are stricter defined in the Chicago Convention and the underlying Standards and Recommended Practices, so that it is clear in which cases the airspace should be closed. The states most closely involved in the investigation into the crash of flight MH17 could initiate this.
Level 2: Risk assessment
To ICAO and IATA:
5. “Encourage states and operators who have relevant information about threats within a foreign airspace to make this available in a timely manner to others who have an interest in it in connection with aviation safety. Ensure that the relevant paragraphs in the ICAO Annexes concerned are extended and made more strict.
6. “Amend relevant Standards so that risk assessments shall also cover threats to civil aviation in the airspace at cruising level, especially when overflying conflict zones. Risk increasing and uncertain factors need to be included in these risk assessments in accordance with the proposals made by the ICAO Working Group on Threat and Risk.
To IATA:
7. “Ensure that the Standards regarding risk assessments are also reflected in the IATA.
Operational Safety Audits (IOSA)
To states (State of Operator):
8. “Ensure that airline operators are required through national regulations to make risk assessments of overflying conflict zones. Risk increasing and uncertain factors need to be included in these assessments in accordance with the proposals made by the ICAO Working Group on Threat and Risk.
9. “In addition to actions already taken, such as the website (ICAO Conflict Zone Information Repository) with notifications about conflict zones, a platform for exchanging experiences and good practices regarding assessing the risks related to the overflying of conflict zones is to be initiated.
Level 3: Operator accountability
10. “Ensure that IATA member airlines agree on how to publish clear information to potential passengers about flight routes over conflict zones and on making operators accountable for that information.
To operators:
11. “Provide public accountability for flight routes chosen, at least once a year.”
More extensive detailed summary findings of the massive DSB’s MH17 final report may be seen at Aviation Herald.
Photo Credits: Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200, Registration Number 9M-MRD, which is reported by Malaysia Airlines as the crashed aircraft of Flight 17.
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Indonesian Trigana Air Flight Crashed Carrying 54 People
An Indonesian Trigana Air turboprop with 54 people on board crashed in remote mountains near the Indonesian-Papua New Guinea border. Trigana Air Service flight IL267 ATR 42 turboprop (Registration Number PK-YRN, shown in the photo below), carrying 54 people, lost contact with Indonesian air traffic control just before 3pm (0600 GMT Indonesian local time) shortly after taking off from Sentani airport in Indonesian province of Papua’s capital Jayapura on a flight en route to the village of Oksibil, an extremely remote mountainous region at the Indonesian-Papua New Guinea border.
Performing as Trigana Air flight IL267, the turboprop aircraft departed Jayapura about half an hour before it disappeared from Indonesian air traffic control. The 45 minute flight carried all Indonesians, including 44 adults, 5 children, and 5 Trigana Air crew, and including 5 people on board from parliamentary staff traveling to Oksibil to attend an annual ceremony of Indonesia’s independence. Flight IL267 was expected to arrive at its destination about 7 hours and 30 minutes ago local time, according to the Indonesia search and rescue agency via social media.
“The plane was totally destroyed and all the bodies were burned and difficult to identify,” Henry Bambang Soelistyo, Indonesia Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) Head, told The Associated Press on Tuesday, August 18, 2015. “There is no chance anyone survived.”
“Rescuers have so far recovered 53 bodies from the wreckage of the Trigana Air Service turboprop plane,” Soelistyo added. “The remains will be transported by helicopter to the province capital of Jayapura for identification.”
An infant is the one remaining passenger still missing, Transportation Ministry spokesman Julius Adravida Barata told Reuters.
Soelistyo said “searchers had recovered the (first) black-box, which investigators hope will provide clues as to what caused the accident.”
On August 20, 2015, BASARNAS reported the second black box has been recovered and turned over to aviation crash investigators of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Council. All 54 victims have been recovered from the crash site. The remains have already been identified and have been handed over to their families for final arrangements with all of our collective heartfelt prayers and sincere condolences.
In Jakarta, Indonesia on Tuesday, August 18, 2015, Indonesia president, Joko Widodo, express his deepest sorrow for the 54 passengers and Trigana Air crew lost on flight IL267.
“According to the information, the Trigana Air aircraft that lost contact was found at Camp 3 of the OK (Oksibil) Bape District in the Bintang Mountain regency. The information provided by the local residents said that the flight crashed into Tangok mountain. The detail of this finding is still under investigation.” – Indonesia air transportation official, Director General Suprasetyo Air Transportation reported in Sunday’s news conference (via Reuters)
Transport ministry spokesman J.A. Barata confirmed the plane had lost contact and said it was supposed to arrive at Oksibil airport just after 3pm (0600 GMT Indonesian local time).
“We are not sure what happened to the plane yet and we are coordinating with local authorities,” he told the French new service AFP on Sunday, August 16, 2015.
“The weather is currently very bad there, it’s very dark and cloudy. It’s not conducive for a search. The area is mountainous,” Indonesian transport spokesman Barata added.
“Nearby villagers in Indonesia’s Papua have reported a crash,” Trigana Air official says after plane went missing on Sunday. Trigana Air Service Operation Director Beni Sumaryanto said, “the airline had received reports of a crash from a village in the forested and mountainous district of Oksibil, adding that search teams would check that area in the morning,” Kompas and Detik portals earlier reported (via Reuters).
On Monday, August 16, 2015, Indonesian Air Force initiated construction of a helipad and helicopter services through Freeport-McMoRan, a mining company, says CNN International, to assist in the evacuation of Trigana Air flight IL267 victims from the rough crash site found in the heavily forested remote area (seen below) in the Bintang highlands village of Oksibil in the Papua province in eastern Indonesia, according to Bambang Soelistyo, the head of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency.
“Officials deployed two ground teams to the site, which is at an altitude of 2,600 meters (8,500 feet), but suspended efforts to get there because of thick fog,” CNN International reports on Monday.
Photo Credit: Remote Crash Site of Trigana Air Service flight IL267 ATR 42 turboprop (Registration Number PK-YRN), near Oksibil, Indonesia
Officials do not know either if any of the 49 passengers and 5 Trigana Air crew have survived and are waiting for rescue below, or if any detection the ATR 42 aircraft’s black-boxes pings can be confirmed for immediate recovery.
“If it collided into a mountain, there has never been a case of survivors. But who knows, let’s wait,” said Major-General Heronimus Guru, operations director at Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency (via Reuters on Monday, August 17).
Due to nightfall currently at the crash site and limited visibility in the mountainous area, Trigana Air search and rescue operations for the 54 people on board is now suspended and will continue tomorrow morning at 6am local time.
Trigana Air crash site is a remote mountainous region, making search and rescue challenging.
Turning now towards a brief look at the impact on “people over the devices” surrounding Sunday’s aviation safety incident, Oksibil airport is near an extremely mountainous village of Oksibil at about 1,400 meters (4,600 feet) above sea level with about 4,087 villagers living in the remote area, according to the 2010 Indonesia Census agency. The Oksibil airport is the Indonesian Papua province villagers’ lifeline, mainly because there are no transportation roadways and railways in the remote regional border between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Photo Credit: The Village of Oksibil, Indonesia, courtesy of southeast Asia voyager and traveler, Blogger Wahyu Wijanarko
A security flashpoint currently exists along the border, as a result of Free Papua Movement separatists groups having low-level resistance with Indonesian security forces. Such frontier-like aviation transportation conditions are extremely unusual in relation to the diversity of Indonesian aviation service, as seen in the island of Java which includes Jakarta or the island of Bali which includes Denpensar.
Photo Credit: Oksibil Airport, Oksibil, Indonesia, courtesy of southeast Asia voyager and traveler, Blogger Wahyu Wijanarko
Transportation into the village of Oksibil is governed under the Pegunungan Bintang regency, which operates through a development fund that is typically deplete in fully covering for airline services, the only link to the outside world in the Oksibil area. To subsidize transportation development funding for Oksibil airport, as well as all four remote airports in the area along with an estimated couple dozen airstrips to the most remote villages, having 200-300 inhabitants spread throughout the surrounding area, Pegunungan Bintang regency budgeted US$62 million for transportation services in fiscal year 2013.
Although now a confirmed point at the moment, yet an interesting media depiction of the extreme remoteness of the exclusivity of Trigana Air Services to the Oksibil Airport flight destination, Indonesia’s postal office has told the BBC News that Trigana Air flight IL267 was allegedly carrying four bags of cash, totally nearly 6.5 billion rupiah (which is about US$486,000 or £300,000 British pounds), as part of the post office’s regular periodic delivery to keep the household management and economy running for local villagers living in the remote places in and around Oksibil of the Papua province.
“The government cash for poor families was to help offset a spike in fuel prices, and was to be distributed to about 6,000 impoverished residents during a celebration marking Indonesia’s independence,” Franciscus Haryono, the head of the post office in Jayapura, said Monday, August 17, 2015.
“Our colleagues carry those bags to be handed out directly to poor people over there,” the head of Jayapura’s post office, Franciscus Haryono, told BBC News.
Four postal workers were on Trigana Air flight IL267 to protect the funds during its journey into Oksibil Airport.
Although villagers concerns continue to persist about receiving adequate telephone and fax services, the people of Oksibil can access free online web services for virtual transportation communications using Bappeda connection.
Southeast Asia voyager and traveler, Wahyu Wijanarko, who lives in Yogyakarta in Java, Indonesia, and works at PT Global Intermedia Nusantarasay, blogs:
“Central Papua region can (be) accessed only by airplane, there is no way to reach it using car, even more (using) a ship! The problem is lack of infrastructure and (flying into) extreme topographic conditions (of) mountains.
“The consequence of this transportation system is the price(s) of commodities (are) extremely high compared with their price(s) in Jayapura. For example, in some region(s) in Central Papua gasoline price(s) can reach (as high as) IDR 50,000 per liter, or about US$15 per gallon … the biggest (airliners able to land in the surrounding region) (are) Boeing 737-300s operated by Trigana Air Service.”
“The one thing that (Wahyu Wijanarko) likes (in visiting) Oksibil is the people. (Pegunungan Bintang regency) focuses on infrastructure development … including improvements of the (Oksibil) airport and runway … the local government also gives electrical power (still using a generator) to the people of Oksibil from 18.00-23.00 GMT+9 hours (that is from 6-11pm Indonesian local time plus 9 hours to U.S. standard time).”
A dicey aviation safety record for Trigana Air Service.
Trigana Air has had 14 serious aviation safety incidences, since the airlines’ inception in 1991. In 2007 the European Union prohibited Trigana Air from operating in the European Union due to aviation safety concerns.
A dramatic safety incident most recently was on February 11, 2010, when according to Aviation Herald, a Trigana Air Service Aerospatiale ATR-42-300, registration PK-YRP, performing flight TGN-168 from Berau to Samarinda (Indonesia) with 46 passengers and 6 crew, experienced the failure of the left-hand engine (one of two Pratt & Whitney PW120 turboprops, like those on Trigana Air Service flight IL267 ATR 42 (Registration Number PK-YRN) crash early Sunday morning, August 16, 2015), which prompted the Trigana Air Aerospatiale ATR-42-300 crew to divert to Balikpapan.
The crew however was forced to land gear up in a field at Bone village, about 41 road kilometers from Balikpapan along the Balikpapan-Samarinda road about 18 nautical miles from Balikpapan’s Sepinggan Airport.
One passenger received serious injuries (fractures), all other persons on board escaped without injuries, as shown inside the roped-off area surrounding the saved Aerospatiale ATR-42-300 airliner in the crash site photo above.
Several months later on April 21, 2010, the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Council released their preliminary report stating, “the airplane was on final approach to Samarinda’s runway 04, when the left-hand “Engine Control Unit” (ECU) light illuminated, followed by low torque and low engine oil pressure indications.
“The captain decided to shut the engine down, (then) initiated a “go-around,” and (finally) decided to divert to Balikpapan.
“The airplane was about to climb to 4,000 feet and reached 3,800 feet (at) about 16 nautical miles from the Balikpapan airport, when the right-hand ECU light illuminated, followed by low oil pressure and low torque indications.
“The right-hand engine subsequently failed.
“The crew radioed a “MAYDAY” and decided to perform a forced landing in a clear field 16 nautical miles from Balikpapan.
“After the airplane came to a stop, the crew initiated an evacuation. One passenger received serious injuries.”
“The airplane received substantial damage,” Aviation Herald reports (see photo below of the damaged interior of the ATR-42-300 airliner), “the main landing gear received substantial damage, the nose gear penetrated the cabin and was found in the passenger cabin. Mud was thrown through(out) the cabin, and the 4 propeller blades of the right-hand propeller were substantially damaged.”
Generation-old airliner fleet for performing challenging flight terrains to remote villages.
Trigana Air flight IL267 equipment model employed for Sunday morning’s 45 minute ATR 42 turboprop flight, is nearly a generation old (about 30 years in service), and was delivered to its first operator back in 1988.
Reuters reports, in fact according to the airfleets.com database, Trigana Air airliner fleet “includes 10 ATR aircraft and four Boeing 737 Classics. These have an average age of 26.6 years, according to the database.”
Such remote mountainous route airlines, such as Trigana Air Service, that tackle these challenging flight terrains to small villages, such as Oksibil, Indonesia, typically deploy older aircraft to perform their flights, purchased on the secondary markets at lower costs. Flying in remote Indonesia is challenging, because of complex terrains, monsoon thunderstorms, thick fog, and isolated airports with limited facilities.
A key scientific and technological innovation that is possible at this stage of aviation safety and security, not only in the exploding southeast Asia commercial passenger air travel market, but also across transatlantic, transpacific, and transpolar commercial, in general, air travel centers upon Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), a precise satellite-based surveillance and airliner positioning system, which is already being implemented by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration at various U.S.-based international airlines around the world.
ADS-B system needs to be mandated by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) with the system extended to tracking aircraft worldwide through satellites, rather than just relying on conventional air traffic control ground stations, largely non-existent in remote regions, like Oksibil, Indonesia. This would absolutely give the fullest coverage over transatlantic, transpacific, and transpolar oceans and remote regions of the world, like the Brazilian Amazon, the Sahara Desert, and the southeast Asian mountainous terrains and jungles.
Of course, others like myself, have called for streaming limited flight data and aircraft performance conditions, literally putting “The Black-Box in The Cloud,” while being mindful of certain information classified to airlines and aircraft manufacturers, so we can immediately know within hours where lost aircraft are crashed and the location of their black-box flight data.
Is flying in Southeast Asia becoming risky?
One of my thousands of followers on Twitter, Kerry Barrett (@Kerry Barrett) poignantly brought to my attention a very relevant question on what non-pilots and air transportation consumers think, when they hear breaking news about another airliner lost in the ocean or remote regions of the world or about another airplane stalling or encountering an ‘engine flameout‘.
And, what does an airliner lost or an aircraft stall actually mean to the flying public, as they try to understand the stunning pictures of the TransAsia Airways flight GE235 crash into the Keelung River in Taipei, Taiwan on Wednesday, February 4, 2015, the extraordinary final three minutes of the AirAsia flight QZ8501 crash into the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia on Sunday, December 28, 2014, or today’s Trigana Air flight IL267 ATR 42 turboprop loosing contact with Indonesian air traffic control over a remote mountainous terrain or jungle in Indonesia.
Such extreme events in rapid succession begs the question “is flying in Southeast Asia becoming risky?”
According to USA Today: “It turns out flying in Asia is actually riskier than in any other region but Africa. Why? Regulatory regimes there are less advanced than in the United States and Europe (Japan is considered as safe as the west). Another factor is that international regional airlines, such as TransAsia Airways (or even Trigana Air Service), tend to use less-experienced pilots than major airlines.”
“It’s not like they’re the wild west, like you might get in some African countries, but they are 10 to 20 years behind,” said Justin Green, a New York aviation lawyer with Kreindler & Kreindler. “If you’ve never heard of the airline that your travel agent is booking you on, you should do some research.”
Unfortunately, the airliner crash case studies are slowly stacking up in the last year. Recapped in the appendix section below are several instances tangential to today’s Trigana Air aviation safety incident that raises some concern among aviation experts about the critical state of aviation safety in the most essential southeast Asia region for international air travel.
Countries and regions with the highest number of fatal civil airliner accidents from 1945 through November 30, 2014 (excluding MH370, MH17, AirAsia QZ8501, and TransAsia GE235) are:
United States, 773; Russia, 326; Canada, 177; Brazil, 176; Colombia, 173; United Kingdom, 103; France, 101; Mexico, 96; India, 94; Indonesia, 94; China, 74; Italy, 67; Venezuela, 61; Philippines, 60; Bolivia, 60; D.R. Congo, 60; Germany, 58; Peru, 56; Spain, 51; Australia, 48.
In just the past year (2014-15), we have lost the lives of over 788 international passengers and flight crews in Southeast Asia (including 54 lives allegedly missing on Trigana Air IL267 lost on Sunday, August 16, 2015, which amounts to about three times more than all fatal civil airliner accident in the last 68 years between 1945-2013) on five compelling global aviation crash events.
the oceanic loss of a Boeing 777-200ER airliner, flown as Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on March 8, 2014;
the shooting down over a war-torn eastern Ukraine region of a Boeing 777-200 airliner, performing as Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 17, 2014;
a crash in the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia of an Airbus A320-200 airliner, operating as AirAsia flight QZ8501 on December 28, 2014;
a crash in the Keelung River in Taipei, Taiwan of a French-built ATR 72-600 (72-212A), flown as TransAsia Airways flight GE235 on Wednesday, February 4, 2015;
and now a Trigana Air flight IL267 ATR 42 turboprop (Registration Number PK-YRN) that has lost contact with Indonesian air traffic control on Sunday, August 16, 2015.
Photo Credit: Trigana Air flight IL267 ATR 42 turboprop (Registration Number PK-YRN)
According United States Department of Transportation; Federal Aviation Administration (Office of Aviation Policy and Plans), statistics show average estimated annual growth in passenger traffic to and from the United States transported by U.S. and foreign flag air carriers between 2014 and 2034, by region.
During this time period, passenger U.S. air traffic to or from Latin America is estimated to grow by around 4.7 percent per year. Passenger air traffic in the Asia-Pacific region is predicted to grow by about 4.2 percent per year. The Atlantic Oceanic air traffic is projected to grow by nearly 4.1 percent per year. And, the Canadian trans-border is believed to grow by about 3.8 percent per year.
Forecasts are based on historical passenger statistics from the United States Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) and Transport Canada, and on regional world historical data and economic projections from Global Insight, Inc.
International commercial passenger air travel is expected to explode in the next decade (according to both federal government, and Boeing and Airbus industry projections), particularly in Southeast Asia. This region is highly dependent upon air travel across deep seas and remote oceans for millions of people in the Southeast Asia and Oceania region.
Role of human factors in automated flight management efficiency and decision-making.
Human factor errors are typically the result of ninety percent of catastrophic aviation accidents, according to years of research by the United States Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.
Taiwanese Aviation Safety Council’s (ASC), Factual Data Collection Group Report reveals that TransAsia flight GE235 Captain Liao Jian-zong “failed the simulator check in May 2014, when he was being evaluated for promotion. Assessors found he had a tendency not to complete procedures and checks, and his “cockpit management and flight planning” were also found wanting,” according to Reuters.
Instructors commented that Captain Liao Jian-zong was “prone to be nervous and may make oral errors during the engine start procedure” and displayed a “lack of confidence”, the ASC report cited.
Reuters added: “issues cropped up again during training for the ATR 72-212A in November, when an instructor said Liao Jian-zong “may need extra training” when dealing with an engine failure after take-off.”
“After the crash, Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration put TransAsia’s 61 ATR pilots through oral proficiency tests on how to handle an aircraft during engine failure.”
“All but one of the pilots passed the tests, although some needed more than one attempt. The lone failure was demoted in rank to vice captain from captain,” Reuters reports.
During a press conference on Thursday, July 2, 2015, TransAsia president Fred Wu said “the airline would buy an ATR flight simulator, bring in outside experts to evaluate pilots, and launch a safety improvement program with Airbus.”
Photo Credit: French-built TransAsia Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72-212A, registration B-22816 and Manufacturing Serial Number MSN 1141
It is essential to have pilots involved in the flight management automation design. “Humans aren’t good monitors of rare events, and monitoring can be a boring job especially for a long haul flight. In some cases pilots have wanted to remove just part of the automation and utilize the remaining features, but are unable to do so, because ‘all or nothing’ are the only options,” says the longstanding authority in the field of human factors in modern aviation, Orlady, H. and Orlady, L. (1999) in Human Factors in Multi-Crew Flight Operations.
A very real problem involved with the almost complete automation present is pilot complacency and over-reliance upon automation. This pilot response occurs in normal operations and also is reflected in the pilot’s reliance on the system to automatically make the correct response during abnormal operations and flight management efficiency inside the crisis of a crash event. Flight crews tend to rely upon the automation to the point that the normal checks that are inherent in good manual operations are sometimes disregarded (Orlady and Orlady, 1999).
Now is the time for consensus on recommendations on the future of international aviation safety and security.
With a deeper integrated focus on “the people just as much as the devices,” in a year and a half (over 17 months), since March 8, 2014, according to Aviation Herald, we have lost the lives of 1,101 international passengers and flight crews on eight compelling global aviation crashes, comprising:
the oceanic loss of a Boeing 777-200ER airliner, flown as Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on March 8, 2014, where the loss of 239 passengers and crewon board are now officially declared an accident and all lives lost;
the shooting down over a war-torn eastern Ukraine region of a Boeing 777-200 airliner, performing as Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 17, 2014, wherein295 passengers and crew aboard were blown out of the sky;
a crash in the Java Sea of an Airbus A320-200 airliner (see case study in Appendix A), operating as Indonesian AirAsia flight QZ8501 on December 28, 2014, killing 162 passengers and crew aboard;
a shocking local automobile dash video splashed across international media that recorded a real-time double engine flame-out crash in the Keelung River in Taipei, Taiwan of a Regional ATR 72-212A airliner (see case study in Appendix B), moments after takeoff from nearby Taipei International Airport, operating as TransAsia flight GE235, on February 4, 2015, killing 43 persons on board;
a TransAsia flight 222, involving a Regional ATR72 airliner at Makung on July 23, 2014, impacted buildings on approach with stormy weather trailing behind a typhoon, which is now believed to be the likely cause of the airliner crash on a Taiwanese island that killed 48 people on board and injured 10 on the plane and five on the ground. The small Regional ATR-72 airliner, operated by Taiwan’s TransAsia Airways, was carrying 58 passengers and TransAsia crew, when it crashed, while trying to land in the Penghu Island chain in the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and China late Wednesday night on July 23, 2014, according to the Aviation Herald. The plane was flying from the city of Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan. The victims included 46 Taiwanese and two French medical students, who were interns in Taiwan;
a crash Southeast of Gossi, Mali of a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 airliner, operating as Air Algerie flight 5017 on July 24, 2014, causing 110 fatalities of passengers and crew on board;
a crash in the French Alps of an Airbus A320-200 airliner, performing as Germanwings flight 4U9525, whereby 150 passengers and crew died.
a lost airliner in the Indonesia mountains of a Trigana Air flight IL267 ATR 42 turboprop (Registration Number PK-YRN), carrying 54 people, early Sunday morning, August 16, 2015.
Loosing these 1,101 passenger and crew lives aboard international commercial airliners this past year and a half is the most we have encountered in close succession like this in nearly six and a half decades.
What has happened to our once stellar world of commercial passenger airline safety in this new world slowly grappling from the aftermath of MH17 and MH370, and most recently, Germanwings 4U9525 and Trigana Air IL267?
Photo Credit: IATA Director General Tyler addresses delegates, as he opens the 69th IATA Annual General Meeting and World Air Transport Summit in Cape Town
Commercial passenger air travel industry groups released a report on global flight-tracking recommendations and monitoring standards on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 with adoption at ICAO’s “Second High-level Safety Conference” at its headquarters in Montreal Canada on February 2-5, 2015.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) held a news conference at its Geneva headquarters Wednesday, December 10, 2014, announcing the report recommendations on global flight-tracking for its 240 member airlines. IATA’s 240 member airlines encompass 84% of international passenger air traffic.
ICAO’s “Second High-level Safety Conference” included “various topics covering three major themes: reviewing the current situation, the future approach to manage aviation safety and facilitating increased regional cooperation. In particular, the Conference attendees discussed emerging safety issues, including the global tracking of aircraft and risks to civil aviation arising from conflict zones.”
Attendees included experts and strategic decision-makers of international civil aviation, which convened to “build consensus, obtain commitments and formulate recommendations deemed necessary for the effective and efficient progress of key aviation safety activities,” according to the conference’s website.
Here, airline chiefs, aviation experts, and government officials approved a concept of operations for global flight-tracking, and moved forward in developing a global flight-tracking and monitoring standard, carefully stepping forward beyond February 2015, which should now be accelerated well before a proposed February 2016 plan released by ICAO in the wake and aftermath of the Germanwings flight 4U9525 aviation tragedy.
Given this, consensus must be reached on recommendations of human factor errors of complacency, over-reliance, and over-confidence bias (a “winner’s curse“) in flight management efficiency and flight systems automation, global flight tracking of commercial passenger airliners, jet black-box data streaming, and ejectable flight data recorders.
All of this calls for further consensus to be reached quickly among airline chiefs, aviation experts, and government officials, who have just completed their discussions at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) “Second High-level Safety Conference” on February 2-5, 2015 at its headquarters in Montréal, Canada.
Case of Indonesian AirAsia flight QZ8501 crash.
Indonesia has a patchy aviation safety record. On December 28, 2014, an AirAsia flight QZ8501 (Registration Number PK-AXC) Airbus A320-200 airliner en route from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore crashed in the Java Sea during stormy weather, killing all 162 people on board.
Photo Credit: AirAsia flight QZ8501 (Registration Number PK-AXC) Airbus A320-200 airliner, via Oka Sudiatmika (Wikimedia Commons)/CC-BY-SA 3.0
Technical speculation suggest at this point the severe weather-related conditions may have most allegedly caused some degree of human factor errors, mostly likely revealed from the flight deck conversations and flight performance data and information gained from AirAsia flight QZ8501’s Airbus A320-200 black-boxes (one shown below) still to be completely analyzed and transcribed for the crash final report expected to be released early next year.
Photo Credit: AirAsia flight QZ8501 (Registration Number PK-AXC) Airbus A320-200 Flight Data Recorder
However, the AirAsia flight QZ8501 crash final report could allegedly reveal additional future learning factors of aviation, navigation, and communication that in this extreme case was driven by the extraordinary monsoon-like cumulonimbus cloud conditions, extending at such high altitudes at 44,000 feet (beyond normal commercial passenger aircraft operating ranges), allegedly creating such a perfect storm event for a naturally catastrophic air disaster upon a commercial passenger airliner.
Known in the Southeast Asia region as the most dangerous inter-tropic cumulonimbus cloud storm conditions with mixtures of extremely high and low air masses, flying temperatures faced inside these clouds can drop as low as minus 100 degrees fahrenheit (F) below freezing akin to temperatures in Antarctica, the Earth’s southernmost continent, containing the geographic South Pole.
Pilots in the region know that during almost every flight they will be flying around avoiding critical thunderstorms. Previously flown 13,500 flights for over 23,000 flight hours, AirAsia flight QZ8501’s Airbus A320-200, departed at 5:34 am (local time) on December 28, 2014 from Juanda International Airport (Surabaya, Indonesia) en route to Singapore Changi Airport, is the world’s best-selling single-aisle airliner and the most technologically advanced digital “glass cockpit” airliners too.
Twenty-two minutes into the flight, the Airbus A320-200 airliner is cruising at 32,000 feet on complete auto-pilot, comprising of seven digital computers inside this airliner’s “glass cockpit,” which literally flies the aircraft by itself without any input from the pilots.
In the meantime, severe thunderstorms was building in moments of minutes above the Java Sea thousands of feet below the aircraft, then suddenly within a few minutes these thunderstorms climbed several thousands of feet above AirAsia flight QZ8501’s Airbus A320-200 airliner.
At 6:12 am (local time), air traffic control received a final request from flight QZ8501’s cockpit “to make a left turn and climb” several thousand feet to avoid the sudden thunderstorm consuming the aircraft. Their request was denied due to the high volume of nearby aircraft cruising in the range of 34,000-38,000 feet, undergoing similar flight alterations to maneuver around the huge thunderstorm in the same area in order to avoid possibilities of encountering rough turbulence and other storm-related issues inside the cockpit, although never really a problem inside an Airbus A320-200 flying at cruise speed.
At 6:16 am (local time), Indonesia Ministry of Transportation radar picks up QZ8501 cruising at 32,000 feet. Two minutes later disaster happens to 155 passengers and seven AirAsia crew on board. Suddenly, through a simple course correction of the Airbus A320-200 auto-pilot controls, the airliner departs from its forward flight path, making a sharp left turn in a steep climb to 37,000 feet, slowing down to just 400 miles per hour, onto 38,000 feet, before aerodynamically stalling out in forward speed and dropping from radar at 6:18 am (local time), eventually plunging into the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia.
Here is where the greatest potential human factor error occurs in automated flight management efficiency and decision-making. It is pilot fear of flying into an intimidating severe thunderstorm of unknown origin or to what extent is the storm’s severity. Such a storm looks like a huge 360 degree dark black cloud of complete and severe lightning with torrential rain slamming onto the airliner’s fuselage and wings with a great deal of bending and twisting forces. This is a black weather zone having no-end in sight outside the pilot’s cockpit windows.
According to years of research by the United States Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board, fifty percent of all fatal air accidents in the last fifty years result from human factor encounters with these kinds of severe thunderstorm incidents. These storms have huge high turbulent energy plunging into an airliner. Of course, this affects human decision-making piloting under such sudden weather crisis.
Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee chief Tatang Kurniadi told reporters back in January, “if one wing engine had stalled, the plane could spin out of control as it plummeted toward the water.”
However, he said that “only the data from the black boxes would ultimately determine what happened to flight 8501, and he declined to say whether the plane had in fact stalled.”
Mr. Tatang said “the comments made by Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan to Parliament in January “were based not on data from the black boxes, but on the ground radar.” Indonesia investigators have now confirmed the transportation minister’s comments made in January 2015.
Mardjono Siswosuwarno, chief investigator of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, said the flight data recorder, which was recovered from the Java Sea along with the cockpit voice recorder earlier this month (January 2015), had provided a “pretty clear picture” of what happened in the final minutes of AirAsia flight QZ8501.
Captain Plesel was in charge from take-off until the cockpit voice recording ends, Siswosuwarno said.
“The second-in-command was the pilot flying,” Siswosuwarno said to reporters in Jakarta, adding that “the captain was monitoring the flight,” and that “this was common practice.” He also said that “the plane was in good condition.”
“Things may have gone wrong in a span of just three minutes and 20 seconds, triggering a stall warning that sounded until it crashed into the Java Sea,” investigators of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee further elaborated in a news conference in Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday, January 29, 2015, via CNN International.
According to Reuters, Captain Iriyanto was out of his seat and conducting an unusual procedure on the Flight Augmentation Computer (FAC) when his co-pilot, Remy Plesel, lost control. By the time Iriyanto returned, it was too late to save the plane.
The FAC is a “fly-by-wire” device of the Airbus A320 airliner that uses a computer to control a flight process in order to increase airliner flight safety and reliability, as well as flight management efficiency, while reducing the need for human intervention.
In other words, the FAC is designed to ensure normal operation of the aircraft within specific computerized flight safety envelops independent of any alleged human factor errors resulting from possible pilot inputs. FAC “fly-by-wire” devices can supposedly in extremely rare instances affect “operator” decisions, whose primary responsibility shifts from being the “performer” in flight operations to being the “onlooker” in flight management efficiency.
Whereby, the concerns of “complacency” can potentially arise in flight management decision-making with increasing level of automation in modern aviation, particularly in flight and air traffic control operations.
Iriyanto reportedly had previously flown on the Airbus A320 and experienced a faulty FAC, which he apparently went to fix. Reuters was unable to offer independent confirmation of the faulty device.
After trying to reset the device, pilots pulled a circuit-breaker to cut its power, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, February 6, 2015.
“You can reset the FAC, but to cut all power to it is very unusual,” one A320 pilot, who declined to be identified, told Reuters. “You don’t pull the circuit breaker unless it was an absolute emergency. I don’t know if there was one in this case, but it is very unusual.”
Pulling the circuit breaker is also an unusual move, because the captain would have had to rise from his sea.
President Joko Widodo said the crash exposed widespread problems in the management of air transportation in Indonesia.
Case of Taiwanese TransAsia Airways ATR 72-212A Turboprop: “Wow, pulled back the wrong side throttle.”
French-built TransAsia Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72-212A (a much larger aircraft than Indonesian Trigana Air ATR42 Turboprop), registration B-22816 and Manufacturing Serial Number MSN 1141, performing as TransAsia Airways flight GE235 from Taipei Songshan to Kinmen (a small resort island near the coast of Taiwan) with 53 passengers and 5 TransAsia Airways flight crew on board, departed Songshan’s runway 10, upon which the airliner was involved in an accident, crashing into the nearby Keelung River in Taipei, early Wednesday morning, February 4, 2015 at around 10:45 am (local time).
Taiwanese Aviation Safety Council’s (ASC), Factual Data Collection Group Report, which neither assigns responsibility, nor suggests recommendations, showed that Captain Liao Jian-zong was operating GE235’s Regional ATR 72-212A airliner at the time of the crash.
According to Reuters, Captain Liao Jian-zong had “failed simulator training in May 2014, in part because he had insufficient knowledge of how to deal with an engine flameout on take-off.”
Taiwanese air transport crash investigators state in the report that the right-side Pratt and Whitney turboprop engine went idle on TransAsia Airways flight GE235, only 37 seconds after taking off from nearby Taipei International Airport. After this right-side turboprop engine malfunctioned, the flight data recorder revealed, “fuel to the only functioning turboprop engine on the left-side was manually cut off.” This critical finding was also discovered in a The Wall Street Journal report back in February 2015.
The turboprop engine aircraft is now generally believed to have incurred an ‘engine flameout‘ moments before the crash in into the Keelung River in Taipei, Taiwan on Wednesday, February 4, 2015, according to early preliminary analysis of the flight data recorder and independent air-traffic control voice recordings of the TransAsia Airways ATR 72-212A airliner.
In an attempt to re-start both turboprop engines, Taiwan’s Aviation Safety Council believes the pilots may have shut off the plane’s left-side turboprop engine upon encountering a right-side engine malfunction immediately 37 seconds upon becoming airborne at takeoff in Taipei.
“Wow, pulled bak the wrong side throttle”
Unfortunately, the pilots did not have enough time before the ATR-72-212A airliner crashed into the Keelung River in Taipei, Taiwan, as air-traffic control lost communication with the plane’s pilots four minutes after takeoff from Taipei’s Songshan Airport.
According to CNN International and The Wall Street Journal reports, supposedly a pilot on a recording of radio conversations between air traffic control and TransAsia Airways flight GE235 says,
“GE235. Mayday, Mayday. Engine flameout.”
The recording released Wednesday, February 4, 2015 was verified by an independent website, which records air traffic control feeds from around the world.
Nonetheless, regarding the operating conditions surrounding the February 4, 2015 TransAsia Airways flight GE235 crash into the Keelung River in Taipei, the Taiwanese Aviation Safety Council reported that “there were two captains, Captain Liao Jian-zong (age 42, a Airline Transport Pilots License (ATPL)-rated certification, had 4,914 hours total, of which 3,151 hours on ATR-72-500 aircraft, and 250 hours on ATR-72-600 airliners) was pilot in command occupying the left-hand seat being pilot flying.
Captain B serving as first-officer (age 45, an ATPL-rated certification, had 6,922 hours total, of which 5,687 hours on ATR-72-500 aircraft, and 795 hours on ATR-72-600 airliners) occupied the right-hand seat and was pilot monitoring.
A first-officer complemented the crew occupying the observer’s seat, the first officer (age 63, an ATPL-rated certification, had 16,121 hours total, of which 7,911 hours on MD-80s airliners, and 5,306 hours on ATR-72-500 aircraft) was in conversion training to ATR-72-600 airliners with 8 hours on the aircraft type.”
The crew had signed the flight papers, that showed no unusual circumstances.
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MH370 Gentle Landing Theory Experts Say Debris Reveals (VIDEOS)
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The missing MH370 Boeing 777-200ER airliner is believed to be “largely intact,” resting on the mountainous Indian Ocean floor, as a “MH370 Gentle Landing Theory” now emerges among experts from what can be surmised from the breakage from the airliner hull and 12-24 month reproductive breeding of seashell or barnacle biological life on the La Réunion wreckage from MH370.
JUST IN (July 31, 2016): MH370 on Australian Channel 9’s 60 Minutes
So says Canadian air crash expert Larry Vance, former investigator-in-charge of the Canadian Aviation Safety Board and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, who has led more than 200 air crash investigations.
Vance tells Australia’s 60 Minutes (in the above video) that an absence of any wreckage or debris was one factor suggesting MH370 landed in controlled circumstances (as outlined in the piece a year ago, August 14, 2015 below).
“Somebody was flying the airplane at the end of its flight,” he said.
“Somebody was flying the airplane into the water. There is no other alternate theory that you can follow.”
“At a press briefing in Kuala Lumpur for local journalists on Thursday, August 4, Malaysia transport minister Liow Tiong Lai confirmed that data recovered from the home flight simulator of the captain who piloted MH370, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, included a flight path to the southern Indian Ocean.
“But the minister also said that thousands of destinations were found on the simulator. According to the New York Times report, the minister did not say when the Indian Ocean track was entered into the simulator and he cautioned that it was too soon to draw conclusions from the finding.
Regarding the flaperon recovered on La Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean (discussed further below): “The force of the water is really the only thing that could make that jagged edge that we see. It wasn’t broken off. If it was broken off, it would be a clean break. You couldn’t even break that thing.”
He said the fact the flaperon had apparently been deployed for landing also indicated that someone was piloting the plane when it hit the ocean.
“You cannot get the flaperon to extend any other way than if somebody extended it,” he said.
“Somebody would have to select it.”
Peter Foley, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s (ATSB) program director of the search, told Australia’s 60 Minutes that the type of damage the flaperon sustained provided evidence for the controlled landing theory.
Mr Foley was asked: “If there was a rogue pilot, isn’t it possible that the plane was taken outside the parameters of the search area?”
He replied: “Yeah — if you guided the plane or indeed control-ditched the plane, it has an extended range, potentially.”
“There is a possibility… somebody [was] in control at the end and we are actively looking for evidence to support that.”
So says also a year ago, satellite communications expert, Zaaim Redha Abdul Rahman, speaking to Malaysian government Bernama news service in an interview recently on August 12, 2014 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, confirms International Business Times, New Zealand Herald, The Huffington Post (U.K.), Business Insider Australia, Daily Mail (U.K.), and Express (U.K.). As well as now several experts this week on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 say in the Daily Mail (U.K.), “investigators hunting for flight MH370 will officially blame a rogue pilot for the disaster if the plane is not found in the current search zone,” including related statements and questions I posed early-on to French and Australian aviation safety investigators Thursday, August 6, 2015 on Fox News.
Photo Credit: The Daily Mail (U.K.)/Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), Wednesday, February 17, 2016: “The rogue pilot theory does not alter the plane’s final flight path because that has been verified by satellite data. But it means that someone at the controls could have glided the plane hundreds of miles past the current search zone after it ran out of fuel. The ASTB estimates the new crash zone would be three times bigger.”
Martin Dolan, the former chief commissioner of the ATSB, told The Times: “We’re not at that point yet, but sooner or later we will be and we will have to explain to governments what the alternative is.”
“And the alternative is, frankly, that despite all the evidence, the possibility that someone was at the controls of that aircraft and gliding it becomes a more significant possibility if we eliminate all of the current search area [now scheduled for completion in June 2016].”
An emergent “MH370 Gentle Landing Theory” is that the massive airliner sank into the Indian Ocean in one piece “after probably floating for a while,” moments surrounding the airliner’s disappearance from air traffic controls and military radar, while performing as Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing early morning on March 8, 2014 with 227 passengers and 12 Malaysia Airlines crew on board.
Our thoughts, prayers, and sympathies still remain with the families, friends, and loved ones of those 239 persons lost, as they continue to wait in deep anguish for any definitive answers still emerging surrounding the MH370 aviation tragedy.
After more than 23 months of searching and waiting for answers, this history-making aviation safety and security mystery is now not just “an aviation-changer, it is a world-changer,” says the Smithsonian Institution.
So, an emergent “MH370 Gentle Landing Theory” is quite hopeful yet interestingly probable to contemplate at this moment of the international MH370 crash investigation.
“The ASTB estimates the new crash zone would be some three times bigger, The Daily Mail (U.K.) reports. “The theory does not automatically lay blame at the Captain and co-pilot, as it allows for someone else to have entered the cockpit to commandeer the jet. The rogue pilot theory does not alter the plane’s final flight path because that has been verified by satellite and radar data.”
The Sydney Morning Herald does qualify that the only stories Malaysian Bernama news agency primarily puts out are those sanctioned by the government in Kuala Lumpur.
On July 29, 2015 an aircraft wing part, called a flaperon, was discovered on the shores of the French governed La Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
A probable scenario I explained on Fox News (below) is that the flaperon was attached to the Boeing 777-200ER airliner (Registration Number 9M-MRO) at the bottom of the southern Indian Ocean for some time before it was broken off and pulled to La Réunion’s shore by the oceanic currents.
That would mean in the last moments of flight MH370 the Boeing 777-200ER airliner probably would have “glided down” atop the ocean surface to a floating rest — as a result of the airliner exhausting its fuel in a probable “one-then-the-last” engine flameout — only the actual missing black-box recorders could confirm.
In other words, the massive Boeing 777 airliner entered the ocean gently. That means the airliner was flying near horizontal, as it exhausted its fuel and slowly spiraling down in its last engine flameout.
Putting this another way, the jet perhaps spiraled slowly somewhat out of control into the southern Indian Ocean, as each of the plane’s engines would shutdown upon exhausting their fuel supply “one after the other.”
At this instance, the airliner was probably gliding and not moving extremely fast in order for the aircraft hull to stay intact. Else we would see so much more MH370 drift debris washing ashore by now!
After analyzing data between the plane and a British firm Inmarsat satellite, officials believe Malaysia Airlines flight 370 was on autopilot the entire time it was flying across a vast expanse of the southern Indian Ocean, Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) former Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan said.
Investigators searching for flight MH370 now believe a catastrophic event, leading to oxygen starvation, is the most likely scenario in the disappearance of the Boeing 777-200 airliner (see Appendix A below).
The Australian-led search team say that the plane was flying on autopilot on a consistent course when it finally crashed into the southern Indian Ocean when its engines flamed out.
In a flight path analysis released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) on Wednesday, October 8, 2014, the details report what experts still believe they hope is where MH370 resides at the bottom of the southern Indian Ocean, further confirming the Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss’ statement earlier that week, “not as much a question of where but when,” we would reach a final outcome of the MH370 missing airliner mystery.
In the meantime, Australia’s deputy prime minister said on Monday, August 3, 2015, “the country still plans to end the hunt for the missing aircraft after the current 46,000-square-mile search zone has been covered, unless the wing part found in La Réunion yields hard clues that alter the current thinking on the fate of Flight 370,” The Wall Street Journal reports.
Photo Credit: Missing MH370 Boeing 777-200ER, Registration Number 9M-MRO
“Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went into a slow left turn and spiraled into the Indian Ocean, when its fuel ran out, an interim report concluded October 8, 2014, pointing investigators towards the southern section of the current search zone,” reports NBC News.
Flight simulations recreating the final moments of MH370, suggest the Boeing 777-200 entered “a descending spiraling low bank angle left turn” and hit the ocean “a relatively short distance after the last engine flameout,” the ATSB said in that report.
As Business Insider Australia reported on August 7, 2015, “while investigators initially thought that the plane might have gone down quickly in a tight spiral, the debris that washed up on Reunion Island near Madagascar in the Indian Ocean last week suggests that the aircraft might have glided along after running out of fuel and descended slowly into the water … the “flaperon,” was likely “broken off by the engine pod ripping off as it was dragged through the water on the initial impact,” Tracy Lamb, an aviation safety consultant and former Boeing 737 pilot, told Bloomberg on August 5, 2015.
“The speculation among pilots right now is that it must have come down at a relatively shallow angle,” Lamb said.
Former US National Transportation Safety Board investigator Greg Feith told Bloomberg that since the piece is not “crushed,” experts “can deduce it was either a low-energy crash or a low-energy intentional ditching.”
Zaaim Redha, principal consultant at Zeta Resources Sdn Bhd, a satellite communications consulting and engineering services, has also now concurred: “I believe that when the aircraft went out of fuel, it glided downwards and landed on the water with a soft impact … that’s why I believe the plane is still largely intact.”
“It (the flaperon) was only slightly damaged and was just encrusted with barnacles. Its appearance indicates that it was not violently torn off from the aircraft’s main body…it does seem that it got detached pretty nicely at its edges,” Zaaim Redha explains.
“If MH370 had crashed with a really hard impact, we would have seen small pieces of debris floating on the sea immediately after that. Furthermore, the flaperon that was recovered (from La Réunion Island) wouldn’t have been in one piece…we would have only seen bits and pieces of it,” he said.
“It’s possible that the (MH370) aircraft may have been submerged deep inside the ocean for quite some time before the flaperon (a part of the plane’s wing) got detached itself,” Redha adds.
“Similarly, other parts would also become detached and float with the help of the strong water current, before being washed up on the shores of islands like La Réunion,” he said.
Meanwhile, Jean Paul Troadec — former head of the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA), France’s counterpart to the National Transportation Safety Board — who led the BEA during the investigation into the crash of Air France Flight 447 — said on Tuesday, August 4, 2015, experts will try to determine three things.
“If there is a reference number on the debris, a correlation can be made immediately,” Troadec explained to NBC News. He added “experts also will be looking at the length of time the fragment has been in the ocean.”
“The seashells or barnacles will play an important role in determining how long this piece of plane has been submerged underwater,” Troadec said. “Seashells grow at a certain rhythm and depending on their size can tell investigators if they have been breeding 12 months or 2 years.”
“The investigators in France would also be on the lookout for other organisms such as tube worms, coralline red algae or shellfish that could also provide clues,” according to The Associated Press.
Troadec said investigators also will be studying the debris to figure out how it broke apart from its aircraft.
French military aviation lab in Toulouse, where it will be examined, “possesses very sophisticated electronic microscopes that can help experts determine whether the piece broke off because of an explosion, a fire or on impact of something,” Troadec explained. That process, he added, could take weeks.
“No plane could continue to fly without this piece,” Troadec said.
Photo above taken by Steve Richardson, Aviation Analyst for FlyersPulse.com on a Delta Airlines Boeing 777-200ER, en route from Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport on September 9, 2009.
Appearing below on Fox News Happening Now on Friday, July 31, 2015, I explain the “aircraft forensics” linking the flaperon debris to MH370, which was found on July 29 on the French island of La Réunion, in full concurrence with the above statements of Jean Paul Troadec — former head of France’s Bureau of Investigation and Analysis.
“A months-old US intelligence report that surfaced recently speculates the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 might have been deliberately flown off course,” according to an unnamed source cited by ABC News — ABC News’ source said (via. Business Insider Australia), “the assessment was based on information that US intelligence officials obtained about the foreign investigation into the MH370 case,” which so far hasn’t yielded any public answers about what happened to the plane. This theory reportedly comes from evidence of the plane changing course multiple times, The Telegraph (U.K.) reports.
On August 5, 2015, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, upon affirming that the maintenance record seal on the flaperon provided the definitive proof, announced the debris found on La Réunion is from MH370’s Boeing 777-200ER. He said,
Given that the La Réunion flaperon is indeed from flight MH370, then there is one simple fact emanating.
MH370 must have “come down south of 10 degrees South in the Indian Ocean,” says Dr. Paul Scully-Power, a renowned Australian oceanographer, who also took his experiments on the 13th flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
“Because, if it came down anywhere further north, then any wreckage would have flowed in the opposite direction,” Power says in concurrence with experts of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Ocean Currents Drift Analysis of the World.
This blows away many of the conspiracy theories, including hijacking and northern hemisphere resting places of the massive Boeing 777 airliner.
Hence, we should perhaps give some more credibility to any alleged eyewitness sightings or accounts of a falling airliner somewhere between the 5th and 7th arc theories, as consistent as possible with the British Inmarsat satellite findings.
The ATSB report narrows the slice of ocean in which there is strong probability the Boeing 777-200ER airliner wreckage of MH370 resides in a 400-mile stretch of the southern Indian Ocean. Drawing upon scenario planning of autopilot flight patterns, human factors error, and probable aircraft attitudes and speeds prior to crashing, and operating from the assumption the airliner turned south into the Indian Ocean after flying over the Strait of Malacca, the ATSB report focuses on a 350 nautical mile (400 statue mile) stretch of ocean as the most likely underwater search plan going forward.
“The possibility of debris washing up near La Réunion island is a scientific possibility. Although the currents today are significantly different to those seen 16 months ago, the Indian Ocean Gyre could move debris from the southern Indian Ocean in a counterclockwise direction towards Africa, spitting it out near the island of Reunion,” Mashable reports.
On whether it was possible for the flaperon to have floated on water for over 4,000 kilometers before ending up on La Réunion Island, Zaaim Redha said it was plausible based on sea current modeling by oceanography experts.
“Going by how the earth rotates, it’s highly possible that the piece of debris could have floated (over a long distance) because the ocean current can be really powerful.”
“Their drift model computer simulation was run from March 8, 2014 to July 30, 2015, to see if the flaperon could have drifted to La Réunion from the search zone somewhere along the 7th arc.”
Confirmed and/or suspected MH370 debris recovered off the coast of southern Africa [via, BBC News]
“1. A section of wing called a flaperon, found on Reunion Island in July 2015 – confirmed as debris in September 2015
2. Horizontal stabilizer from tail section, found between Mozambique and Madagascar in December 2015
3. Stabilizer panel with “No Step” stencil, found in Mozambique in February 2016
4. Engine cowling bearing Rolls-Royce logo, found in March 2016 in Mossel Bay, South Africa
5. Fragment of interior door panel found in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius in March 2016
6. Fragments including what appears to be a seat frame, a coat hook and other panels found on Nosy Boraha island in northeast Madagascar.”
Some Open Science and Technology Questions in the Crash Investigation of Flight MH370 Over the Next 12-24 Months?
So, my further private discussions with Australian oceanographer Scully-Power raised additional issues as to what else can we suggest to ask of the MH370 investigation going forward in the next 12-24 months?
1. Did the flaperon float on the southern Indian Ocean surface or was it a submerged drift, as it traveled 2650 miles from western Australia east to Reunion?
Answer: We deem the difference between surface float or submerged drift would affect oceanic windage and current oceanic drift calculations across the southern Indian Ocean.
2. Did the flaperon float or drift horizontal or vertical?
Answer: We conclude the biological seashells or barnacles distribution on the La Réunion flaperon would suggest a vertical float or drift.
This is important because, if vertical, the flaperon would act as a “wind vane” following the currents exactly and with much less influenced by the strong “hurricane-like” oceanic winds across the southern Indian Ocean.
3. Was the discovery of the flaperon announced as soon as it was found?
Answer: We suggest that this would impact any back prediction of the drift currents.
4. One remaining key question is what is the average debris drift speed in the Indian Ocean South Equatorial Current?
Answer: Since it was 515 days until the Reunion flaperon was found, we conclude then that would indicate a MH370 debris drift speed of about ¼ of a knot (or about 0.13 meters per second or just 0.3 miles per hour) across the southern Indian Ocean.
This is probably about right. An accurate confirmation of this approximate MH370 debris drift speed we suggest is an open scientific question for public understanding that could be posed to the French and Australian aviation safety investigators and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) oceanic science experts.
5. Finally, a key scientific and technological innovation that is possible at this stage of the MH370 mystery emerges.
Answer: It centers upon Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), a precise satellite-based surveillance and airliner positioning system, which is already being implemented by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration at various U.S.-based international airlines around the world.
ADS-B system needs to be mandated by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) with the system extended to tracking aircraft worldwide through satellites, rather than just relying on conventional air traffic control ground stations. This would absolutely give the fullest coverage over transatlantic, transpacific, and transpolar oceans and remote regions of the world, like the Brazilian Amazon and the Sahara Desert.
Of course, others like myself have called for streaming limited flight data and aircraft performance conditions, literally putting “The Black-Box in The Cloud,” while being mindful of certain information classified to airlines and aircraft manufacturers.
Well, be that as it may, I discuss above on Sky News Tonight on Thursday, July 30 and Fox News Happening Now on Friday, July 31 what I call “aircraft forensics,” which is now being conducted linking the wreckage finding in La Réunion to MH370.
Careful analysis of the seashell-covered Boeing 777-200ER composite flaperon wreckage found on La Réunion may tell a story of what happen during the last moments of flight MH370, answering several open questions:
Was it a fast impact or a slow impact into the Indian Ocean?
What angle did the flaperon break off from the composite right wing?
What can be seen under a microscope about the composite material and metallurgical science and forensics of the Boeing 777-200ER airliner during the final moments of the crash into the Indian Ocean?
Are their any traces of a fire or explosion that can be gleamed from the flaperon wreckage found on Réunion island?
Do the barnicals on the flaperon wreckage provide any clues as to what portion of the southern Indian Ocean did MH370 crash?
Will microscopic analysis of these barnicals by oceanic scientist reveal any clues about the trace forensics of a path to the final resting place of the Boeing 777-200ER’s hull on the Indian Ocean floor?
There is a very fine science of aircraft forensics from just a small piece of a flaperon that holds many clues to the whereabouts of MH370 and to the final moments of this mysterious Boeing 777-200ER airliner crash – historically the only one lost amongst all 80 large airliners lost since 1948.
“Accident investigators may be one step closer to solving one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. They are facing pressure to confirm whether a piece of aircraft debris found on a remote island in the Indian Ocean belongs to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. But establishing a link with the lost Boeing jetliner would only be a first step. Experts would then try to gain information about the last moments of the flight and attempt to reconstruct how and where the airplane went down. When investigators start analyzing the debris, Malaysian officials are expected to participate, and the U.S. safety board is likely to have someone in the laboratory as an observer,” Gerald Baker, Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief writes on LinkedIn Pulse.
Bottom Line Takeaway: It now appears that MH370 entered the southern Indian Ocean, according the British Inmarsat satellite firm’s 7th arc theory, currently being held by Australian and Malaysian aviation safety officials.
Since August 7, 2015, France is continuing its air and sea searches off its southern Indian Ocean territory of La Réunion until the start of next week for debris from missing flight MH370, the island’s top official said on Wednesday, August 12, 2015.
“Coordinated searches will continue until the beginning of next week,” the island’s top authority said in a statement, adding that air and sea searches so far had yielded “no significant elements.”
La Réunion’s chief official said “the searches would be shifted to the periphery of the initial area scoured, especially to the south.”
Since Monday, August 10, 2015, there have been over 45 hours of daytime land searches on La Réunion island and 15 hours of daylight maritime and air searches.
Photo Credit: Australian Transport Minister, Warren Truss (shown pointing to the then-new (and still current) MH370 search area in the southern Indian Ocean, as of June 26, 2014).
UPDATE (JUNE 26, 2014): As Next phase of MH370 search headed south.
Experts believe the missing MH370 flew on autopilot until it ran out of fuel, as an assumption Australian safety investigation officials are pronouncing in establishing that an underwater search must go further south to find the Malaysia Airlines jet’s most likely resting place, South China Morning Post and The Guardian (U.K.) report.
After analyzing data between the plane and a British firm Inmarsat satellite, officials believe Malaysia Airlines flight 370 was on autopilot the entire time it was flying across a vast expanse of the southern Indian Ocean, Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan said.
Investigators searching for flight MH370 now believe a catastrophic event, leading to oxygen starvation, is the most likely scenario in the disappearance of the Boeing 777-200 airliner.
ASTB Chief commissioner Dolan said it was “highly, highly likely” that MH370 was on autopilot for hours before it crashed, because of the orderly path the plane took.
“Certainly for its path across the Indian Ocean, we are confident that the aircraft was operating on autopilot until it ran out of fuel,” Dolan said.
Asked whether the autopilot would have to be manually switched on, or whether it could have been activated automatically under a default setting, Dolan replied: “The basic assumption would be that if the autopilot is operational it’s because it’s been switched on.”
But exactly when the Boeing 777 began running on autopilot is still not known.
“Autopilot theory would explain plane’s ‘orderly path’,” says Australian Transport Minister, Warren Truss.
“We could not accurately nor have we attempted to fix the moment, when [the Boeing 777-200 airliner] was put on autopilot,” Truss said. “It will be a matter for the Malaysian-based investigation to look at precisely when [the airliner] may have been put on autopilot.”
Efforts to find the Boeing 777-200 airliner is now focusing on an area near to where the original search off Australia’s west coast began, upon the March 24 shocking revelation of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, announcing the airliner ended its journey on March 8 in the southern Indian Ocean.
“We are now shifting our attention to an area further south of [the 7th] arc – broadly in the area where our first search efforts were focused,” Truss said.
Photo Credit: Geoscience Australia
Recovering MH370’s Boeing 777-200ER Requires New International Cooperation and Complexity
Under the Annex 12 and 13 rules of the United Nation’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) — that governs traditional air crash investigations — the conventional procedure after recovery of MH370 debris would have been to bring together Boeing experts and Malaysian aviation safety investigators to determine next steps of the accident probe.
But now, since it has been confirmed that the Boeing 777-200ER has indeed crashed in the southern Indian Ocean by the Malaysian prime minister, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and Australian Joint Agency Coordination Center has to complete its underwater scouring of nearly 75,000 square miles of search area off the western coast of Australia at Perth.
Resolving modern aviation’s greatest mystery requires answers to two main questions: What happened aboard Flight 370 to make it veer sharply off course and disappear from radar? And where did the massive Boeing 777-200ER end up inside the southern Indian Ocean, spanning across current drifts from the French island of La Réunion off the coast of Madagascar to the western coast of Australia at Perth.
Several international cast of officials involved in the investigation brings forth not only new international cooperation, but also a new degree of complexity among government officials, aviation safety investigators and experts in Malaysia, Australia, France, China, United Sates and United Kingdom.
Malaysia leads the overall investigation, as the sovereign flag-carrier of flight MH370, which departed the early morning of March 8, 2014 from Kuala Lumpur, moments before mysteriously vanishing from air traffic control and military radar.
Australia oversees the underwater search for the Boeing 777-200ER hull, since the airliner is now “conclusively confirmed” by international investigators to have crashed in a remote portion of the southern Indian Ocean, now known as the current 46,000 square mile “priority search area” off the continent’s western coast at Perth.
France, four of whose citizens were aboard the flight, takes a larger role in the Boeing 777-200ER crash investigation, when airliner’s flaperon washed upon a remote part of its territory, known as La Réunion off the coast of Madagascar near the southwestern coast of Africa. French authorities had already opened their own criminal investigation last year into possible manslaughter and hijacking in the loss of MH370.
“The French tend to be pretty aggressive” when it comes to asserting the authority of prosecutors, said Robert Francis, a former vice chairman of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Because investigators suspect the plane went down as a result of an intentional act, Flight 370 has been “far removed from an average aircraft accident,” Mr. Francis, who has years of experience working with the French government, said in an interview. Therefore, he said, French law-enforcement officials “shouldn’t have a great deal of difficulty defending what they have done,” Wall Street Journal reports.
China, which had 155 citizens on the missing flight MH370, en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, holds the biggest stake in all decisions made about the search for the Boeing 777-200ER, including one might suppose, Malaysia prime minister Najib Razak’s go-ahead press announcement on Wednesday, August 5, the La Réunion debris “conclusively confirmed” was indeed MH370 that crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, despite cautious hesitation by French and United States officials.
United States and United Kingdom government agencies — as well as experts from the National Transportation Safety Board, the Boeing Company, and the British satellite firm, Inmarsat — will contribute to the investigations until MH370’s Boeing 777-200ER is found, the aircraft hull recovered and re-assembled, and the causes of the mysterious crash are determined.
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Malaysia PM Says Reunion Debris Is MH370’s Boeing 777-200ER (VIDEO)
Malaysia’s PM Najib Razak, announced the debris found on La Réunion is from MH370’s Boeing 777. He said today,
“This is a remote, inhospitable and dangerous area, and on behalf of Malaysia I would like to thank the many nations, organizations and individuals who have participated in the search,” the Malaysian prime minister said moments ago.
He also said the first physical debris evidence of MH370 is in the city of Balma, France, near the city of Toulouse for examination by civil aviation investigators.
Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak also promised relatives of passengers that Malaysia will not give up searching for the plane.
Debris found on the island of Reunion is very likely from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The design of the plane part known as a flaperon matches a Boeing 777, and the characteristics of the flaperon match the technical specifications provided by Malaysia Airlines for that part.” Paris Deputy Prosecutor Serge Mackowiak, speaking to reporters on August 5, 2015.
Meanwhile, the New York Times reports moments ago: A person involved in the investigation said, however, that “experts from Boeing and the United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), who have seen the object — a piece of what is known as a flaperon — were not yet fully satisfied, and called for further analysis.”
“Their doubts were based on a modification to the flaperon part that did not appear to exactly match what they would expect from airline maintenance records,” according to the person, who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and requested anonymity.
Well, be that as it may, speculatively speaking, unfortunately some airlines at times supposedly make minor modifications to aircraft parts to keep their fleets flying that might be supposedly unexpected from normal airline maintenance records.
French and Malaysian officials, nonetheless, proceeded forward with their official statements today, despite the Boeing and United States NTSB experts’ caution, though, mainly because no other Boeing 777 neither has been lost in the southern Indian Ocean, nor has any such large airliner been lost worldwide since World War II.
Here’s Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak’s statement:
PRIME MINISTER DATUK SERI NAJIB TUN RAZAK’S STATEMENT ON MH370, Wednesday August 5, 2015
“On 8 March 2014, flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing disappeared. The days, weeks and months that followed have been a period of torment for the families of those on board.
The plane’s disappearance was without precedent. At every stage, we followed the tiny amount of evidence that existed. But, despite the efforts of 26 nations and the largest search in aviation history, from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean, the plane could not be located.
Neither could investigations by the world’s leading aviation experts answer why MH370 veered off course and went dark. While the plane’s disappearance remained a mystery, we have shared the anguish of those who could find no comfort.
Last week, on 29th July, we were informed by the French authorities that part of an aircraft wing had been found on Reunion, the French island in the Indian Ocean.
Today, 515 days since the plane disappeared, it is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370.
We now have physical evidence that, as I announced on 24th March last year, flight MH370 tragically ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
This is a remote, inhospitable and dangerous area, and on behalf of Malaysia I would like to thank the many nations, organizations and individuals who have participated in the search.
The burden and uncertainty faced by the families during this time has been unspeakable. It is my hope that this confirmation, however tragic and painful, will at least bring certainty to the families and loved ones of the 239 people onboard MH370. They have our deepest sympathy and prayers.
I would like to assure all those affected by this tragedy that the government of Malaysia is committed to do everything within our means to find out the truth of what happened. MH370’s disappearance marked us as a nation. We mourn with you, as a nation.
And I promise you this: Malaysia will always remember and honor those who were lost onboard MH370.”
Appearing below on Fox News, America’s News HQ on Saturday, August 1, 2015, I predicted Malaysian officials would be making today’s announcement linking the La Réunion Boeing Triple Seven flaperon debris to MH370.
First Definitive Piece of Physical Evidence Recovered from Flight MH370
Debris now believe to be part of the only large airliner of its kind lost in oceanic waters since 1948 washed up Wednesday, July 29, 2015 on the French island of La Réunion in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar, a volcanic island of 850,000 people. The wreckage is now certainly part of a Boeing 777-200ER, the top Malaysian official, prime minister Najib Razak, and aviation experts now have confirmed.
MH370 is believed to be the only Boeing 777 to have crashed south of the equator since the jet came into service 20 years ago.
Below is an excellent detailed infographic pulled together by and derived from numerous aviation safety authorities, experts, private-sector, and public-sector organizations, circulating across the media, for the benefit of public understanding that clearly and briefly chronicles the underlying facts and current evidences and further investigations surrounding the search for MH370.
Photo Credit: University of Western Australia / Australian Joint Agency Coordination Center / Australian Transport Safety Bureau / Malaysia Airlines / Boeing / Australian Government / Inmarsat / AFP
In the past several years only three such Boeing Triple Sevens have been in an aircraft crash, including Asiana flight 214 in San Francisco back in 2013, where three fatalities occurred, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 17, 2014, where 298 passengers and Malaysia Airlines crew were killed.
And now this Boeing 777 wreckage surfacing, which has potentially created the biggest breakthrough in the search for flight MH370, missing since March 8, 2014, where 239 passengers and Malaysia Airlines crew have been officially declared as lives lost from an accident by the Malaysian flag carrier back in January 2015. National carrier Malaysia Airlines was operating a Boeing 777 on the ill-fated flight, which vanished from air traffic control and military radar early morning on March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, igniting these past seventeen months the most baffling mystery in aviation history.
The flaperon debris on La Réunion is the first piece of physical evidence that the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean.
“Confirmation that the debris came from MH370 would also finally disprove theories that the airliner disappeared somewhere in the northern hemisphere,” Australian Transport Safety Bureau Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan said.
“If the find proved to be part of the missing aircraft, it would be consistent with the theory that the plane crashed within the 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square miles) search area, 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) southwest of Australia,” he said.
Aviation safety expert, John Goglia, a former member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, speaking to The Associated Press: “It’s going to be hard to say with any certainty where the source of this was,” he said. “It just confirms that the airplane is in the water and hasn’t been hijacked to some remote place and is waiting to be used for some other purpose. … We haven’t lost any 777s anywhere else.”
It looks like part of a Boeing 777 … if the flaperon is of MH370, it is in line with the current movement in the Indian Ocean.” – Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai (shown above)
Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai pleaded on Sunday, August 2 for more caution in speculating about the finding of aircraft wreckage on La Réunion island near Madagascar last week on Wednesday, July 29, 2015.
Malaysian investigators arrived in La Réunion island Sunday for closed-door meetings on all day Monday to discuss the flaperon, identified by aviation experts as part of the right composite wing of a Boeing 777-200ER, which has been sent to a French military laboratory near Toulouse for checks, French police sources said. This laboratory is the same one that conducted the extensive analysis of Air France flight AF447 wreckage and debris recovered from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil back in 2009.
Tiong Lai said on Sunday, August 2, Malaysian authorities await confirmation to officially identify the wreckage as MH370 from the aviation safety investigation in Paris headed by the director of the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA), working in collaboration with the French aircraft crash investigation agency (BEA).
“Although from this picture, it looks like part of a Boeing 777, this is only seen by the naked eyes. This matter can only be confirmed after thorough investigation,” said Tiong Lai to reporters at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang on Sunday, August 1.
He added: “if the wreckage is of MH370, it confirms the theoretical prediction of the currents movement in the Indian Ocean … We are still awaiting confirmation if the wreckage is of Boeing 777 or MH370.”
That is has now been determined officially by Malaysia and announced by the country’s prime minister.
The small French island of La Réunion near Madagascar off the southwestern coast of Africa is roughly 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) east across the southern Indian Ocean from western Australia at Perth, where the primary search efforts have been ongoing by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and the Australian Joint Agency Coordinating Center. Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said this week currents could have carried wreckage very far from western Australian oceanic waters east to southern African oceanic waters.
Photo Credit: CBS News / NASA / Australia Maritime Safety Authority
“If the flaperon is of MH370, it is in line with the current movement in the Indian Ocean. As we can see, the ocean current movement will show a pattern of flows. But we do not want to speculate and wait confirmation from the French authorities,” said Tiong Lai.
On Friday, AFP reported that Deputy Transport Minister, Datuk Ab Aziz Kaprawi had confirmed that the object found on La Réunion Island was of a Boeing 777-200ER.
Photo Credit: Jean Paul Troadec — former head of the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA)
Aircraft Forensics of a Boeing 777-200ER Flaperon
According to the Wall Street Journal: The United States National Transportation Safety Board said “it dispatched one of its experts to France to help with the analysis of the part” at a military laboratory near Toulouse, scheduled to begin Wednesday, August 5, 2015.
“Boeing Company representatives also are expected to be at the lab Wednesday, according to industry officials. The company hasn’t confirmed whether it believes the part in question came from Flight 370. But Boeing officials helped Malaysia in its initial determination, based on photographic evidence, that the part came from a Boeing 777,” Malaysian officials said.
Photo above taken by Steve Richardson, Aviation Analyst for FlyersPulse.com on a Delta Airlines Boeing 777-200ER, departing from Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport on September 9, 2009.
Meanwhile, Jean Paul Troadec — former head of the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA), France’s counterpart to the National Transportation Safety Board — who led the BEA during the investigation into the crash of Air France Flight 447 —said on Tuesday, August 4, 2015, experts will try to determine three things.
British firm Inmarsat satellite tracking data from the missing Boeing 777-200ER has yielded a nearly $100 million dollar scouring of 75,000 square miles of the floor of the southern Indian Ocean by the Australian government. The flaperon debris discovered on the French island of La Réunion is about 2,650 miles east from the current priority search area in the southern Indian Ocean.
The debris flow modeling below does show consistency with the 7th arc theory established by the British satellite firm, Inmarsat, which will further assist investigators in making adjustments to their current search area as the hunt for the Boeing 777-200ER airliner continues.
The massive Boeing 777 airliner entered the ocean gently. That means the airliner was flying near horizontal as it exhausted its fuel and spiraling down in its last engine flameout, upon which the airliner was gliding and not moving extremely fast in order for the aircraft hull to stay intact. Else we would see so much more MH370 drift debris washing ashore by now!
Given that the Reunion flaperon is indeed from flight MH370, then there is one simple fact emanating.
UPDATE via Mashable: Thursday, August 6, 2015:
Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, Warren Truss released a statement Thursday local time, cautiously acknowledging statements from the Prime Minister of Malaysia and French authorities, and stating “in all probability” the wreckage found on La Réunion is from Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370.
He advised the Australian government is awaiting information from the investigation team in France before making a conclusive statement.
“The French-led investigation team is continuing to finalize its considerations of the wreckage and we will await further detail from them,” Truss said.
“Our expert from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) remains in France and will continue to aid the international investigation team.”
Australia has been leading an extensive search for the plane in the unexplored depths of the southern Indian Ocean, and the government advised it will be continuing this mission.
Truss added: “The finding of wreckage on La Réunion is consistent with our current search area. For this reason thorough and methodical search efforts will continue in the defined search area.”
“The Australian Government will continue to work to keep the next of kin of passengers and crew informed of developments as they happen.”
Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, August 2, 2015, Statement
Below is the Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, August 2, 2015, statement officially identifying the flaperon found on La Réunion Island on Wednesday, July 29, 2015 as that of a Boeing 777-200ER aircraft.
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Wreckage of MH370’s Boeing 777-200ER Found!
UPDATE: Sunday, August 2, 2015, Malaysia Confirms Wreckage Found on La Réunion is a Boeing 777-200ER; Tuesday, August 4, 2015, via NBC News, Wall Street Journal.
Debris now believe to be part of the only large airliner of its kind lost in oceanic waters since 1948 washed up Wednesday, July 29, 2015 on the French island of La Réunion in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar, a volcanic island of 850,000 people. The wreckage is almost certainly part of a Boeing 777-200ER, a Malaysian official and aviation experts now have confirmed.
Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai pleas on Sunday, August 2 for more caution in speculating about the finding of aircraft wreckage on La Réunion island near Madagascar last week on Wednesday, July 29, 2015.
Malaysian investigators are expected in La Réunion island Sunday for closed-door meetings on all day Monday to discuss the flaperon, identified by aviation experts as part of the right composite wing of a Boeing 777-200ER, which has been sent to a French military laboratory near Toulouse for checks, French police sources said. This laboratory is the same one that conducted the extensive analysis of Air France flight AF447 wreckage and debris recovered from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil back in 2009.
Tiong Lai said Malaysian authorities await confirmation to officially identify the wreckage as MH370 from the aviation safety investigation in Paris headed by the director of the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA), working in collaboration with the French aircraft crash investigation agency (BEA).
“We are still awaiting confirmation if the wreckage is of Boeing 777 or MH370. That is yet to be determined.
He added: “if the wreckage is of MH370, it confirms the theoretical prediction of the currents movement in the Indian Ocean.”
“If the flaperon is of MH370, it is in line with the current movement in the Indian Ocean. As we can see, the ocean current movement will show pattern of flows. But we do not want to speculate and wait confirmation from the French authorities,” said Tiong Lai.
Wreckage of an airplane flaperon of the right composite wing likely that of Malaysia Airlines MH370’s Boeing 777-200ER was found on the island of La Réunion in the southern Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar.
The debris was found off the coast of St. Andre, a community on the island, according to Adjutant Christian Retournat. “It is way too soon to say whether or not it is MH370. We just found the debris this morning,” Retournat said.
However, breaking moments ago on Associated Press confirms U.S. and French air safety investigators — including a Boeing air safety investigator — have “a high-degree of confidence” that online media photos of aircraft debris found in the southern Indian Ocean near La Réunion island is a component known as “a ‘flaperon‘ from the trailing edge of a Boeing 777 right composite wing, the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared last year.”
Malaysia’s prime minister Najib Razak, has confirmed that the debris found on La Réunion is “very likely” to be from a Boeing 777, but it is still too early to speculate whether it is from MH370, The Guardian (U.K.) reports.
In a statement he said the debris will be taken to the French city of Toulouse for examination by civil aviation investigators.
He also promised relatives of passengers that Malaysia will not give up searching for the plane.
Initial reports suggest that the debris is very likely to be from a Boeing 777, but we need to verify whether it is from flight MH370. At this stage it is too early to speculate.
To find out as fast as possible, the debris will be shipped by French authorities to Toulouse, site of the nearest office of the BEA, the French authority responsible for civil aviation accident investigations.
A Malaysian team is on the way to Toulouse now. It includes senior representatives from the Ministry of Transport, the Department of Civil Aviation, the MH370 investigation team, and Malaysia Airlines.
Simultaneously, a second Malaysian team is traveling to where the debris was found on Reunion.
The location is consistent with the drift analysis provided to the Malaysian investigation team, which showed a route from the southern Indian Ocean to Africa.
As soon as we have more information or any verification we will make it public. We have had many false alarms before, but for the sake of the families who have lost loved ones, and suffered such heartbreaking uncertainty, I pray that we will find out the truth so that they may have closure and peace.
I promise the families of those lost that whatever happens, we will not give up.”
Xavier Tytelman, a French former military pilot and aviation security expert, was contacted on Wednesday morning by a man on La Réunion Island, near Madagascar, who found the flaperon wreckage of the Boeing 777-200ER’s right composite wing, according to The Telegraph (U.K.). Tytelman believes it could be from MH370’s Boeing 777-200ER, Registration Number 9M-MRO, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, when it suddenly and mysteriously vanished from radar early morning on March 8, 2014. now missing for nearly a year and a half (or about 17 months).
“If it is from a jetliner,” it could be a flap and not a wing, according to Jon Ostrower, reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Ostrower, who covers Boeing and related aerospace stories, says the missing Boeing 777-200ER airliner, flown as Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, on the early morning hours of March 8, 2014, before suddenly vanishing from air traffic control and military radar, “has a single-piece outboard and a two-piece inboard flap system.”
“We all think it is likely that the wing is that of a Boeing 777 – the same plane as MH370,” Tytelman said to The Telegraph (U.K.).
Writing on his blog, Tytelman said that the photos of the aircraft right flaperon wing wreckage have raised a huge amount of discussion over a code part of the wreckage, 657BB and 657AT (inboard), 657DB, 657EB, 657CT (outboard), (according to the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft maintenance manual), amongst aviation pilots on an online forum website, AvGeek.
“The code is not that of a plane number plate, nor a serial number on machinery,” Tytelman wrote.
He added: “But if the flaperon does indeed belong to MH370, it’s clear that the reference will be swiftly identified. In a few days, we will have a definitive answer.”
Here’s the 260-page manual showing the parts serial numbers to the numerous parts of the Boeing 777, via The Guardian (U.K.) running timeline. It includes this diagram of a flaperon of a Boeing 777-200ER right composite wing with the part numbers, 657BB and 657AT (inboard), 657DB, 657EB, 657CT (outboard), said to have been seen on the debris washed up on La Réunion island. Boeing officials now have a high-degree of confidence that the composite wing wreckage is a Boeing 777, because of this part number confirmation with their aircraft maintenance manual.
Photo Credit: Boeing manual photograph
“The extensive barnacles collected on the plane debris may indicate that it had been in the ocean for a significant period of time,” according to India Today.
The discovery was made by employees of a company responsible for cleaning the shoreline of the island, India Today reported.
La Réunion, a volcanic French island with a population of nearly 850,000, is about 39 miles long and 28 miles wide. It is located about 500 miles east of Madagascar.
Speculation on the cause of flight MH370’s disappearance has been surrounded primarily on a “possible mechanical or structural failure, a hijacking or terror plot, or rogue pilot action, as scientists say it is plausible that ocean currents carried a piece of the wreckage as far as La Réunion,” AFP reports.
The Daily Mirror has an excellent map that depicts several theories as to the whereabouts of flight MH370 after it disappeared from radar.
The airliner flap wing wreckage is roughly 3,800 miles south from where MH370 was last spotted, off the southern tip of Vietnam. Here, according to The Daily Mirror map, “military radar detects what could be the airliner heading towards the Andaman Islands.”
However, the wreckage discovered off the island of La Réunion assumes a “maximum Breguet range of flight MH370 on available fuel,” as seen on The Daily Mirror map.
According to oceanic scientists’ drift analyses, prevailing hurricane-like currents inside the Indian Ocean remarkably could have conceivably carried the airliner right composite wing wreckage, or more specifically, the ‘flaperon‘ from the trailing edge of a Boeing 777-200ER’s right composite wing thousands of miles from the priority search area, off the western coast of Australia, east to Réunion island, off the coast of Madagascar and the southern African continent.
Since 1948, only three of some 80 other aircraft lost have been found after extensive searches – Eastern Airlines Flight 980, lost January 1, 1985 and found in 2006; Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, lost October 13, 1972 and found 72 days later; and Air France Flight AF447, lost June 1, 2009 and found June 1, 2009 and found May 2011.
“MH370 was one of only three Boeing 777s to have been involved in major incidents, along with the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine last year and the Asiana Airlines crash at San Francisco airport in 2013 that left three dead,” French news service AFP reports.
Given there have been no other Boeing 777 airliners reported to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean since 1948, one might surmise with a high-degree of certainty that this is indeed debris from flight MH370 lost on March 8, 2014.
Disappearances of Large Airliners Since 1948
Photo Credit: Bloomberg Visual Data
“At flight MH370’s last tracked position, the airliner was traveling at 539 miles per hour. At that speed it could have flown a Breguet range of just over 4,000 miles.”
This range is where the priority search area for MH370 wreckage had focused, which is currently off the western coast of Australia at Perth. An international team of experts used British firm Inmarsat satellite data to determine that flight MH370 crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.
Below Photo Credit: Graphic News, Australian Maritime Safety Authority, via The Telegraph (U.K.)
“According to the official account of MH370’s final hours, the missing plane probably did make a sharp left turn to fly west … soon after it lost radio contact with air traffic controllers … MH370 then flew south before running out of fuel and crashing into the ocean about 1,000 miles off the Australian coast, according to an analysis based on satellite tracking data,” as reported in The Week (U.K.).
MH370 Search Continues Now That Wreckage Has Been Found.
Two vessels, Fugro Discovery and Fugro Equator, are continuing their extensive search operations, covering nearly a 75,000 square mile priority search area inside the southern Indian Ocean. Australia’s Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC) is supervising the massive search for MH370 in this western region of the Indian Ocean, along with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB). According to the JACC and ATSB in their latest update last week, over 21,000 square miles of the 46,332 square miles of search area have been scoured.
Flight 370 departed from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for Beijing, China early on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board. A search over tens of thousands of square miles of ocean in a number of different regions, failed to turn up a single trace of the jet.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 “will be found in the next year,” Martin Dolan, ATSB chief commissioner said to reporters last week on Thursday, July 23, 2015. He said a week later on Thursday, July 30, the finding in La Réunion “doesn’t rule out our current search area over 4,000 kilometers (or 2,500 miles) from La Réunion, and the discovery did not mean other parts would start washing up on La Réunion.”
“Over the last 16 or 17 months, any floating debris would have dispersed quite markedly across the Indian Ocean,” Dolan added.
According to International Business Times, “an unprecedented international search for the plane has crossed 500 days, but has so far yielded no concrete clues as to the whereabouts of the jet.”
“Once we started looking and defining the search area, it became quite clear it could take up to two years,” Dolan said, according to U.K.’s Daily Express. “We still remain confident it will be found in the next year.
The Associated Press reports, “a comprehensive report earlier this year into the plane’s disappearance revealed that the battery of the locator beacon for the plane’s flight data recorder had expired more than a year before the jet vanished. However, the report said the battery in the locator beacon of the cockpit voice recorder was working.”
“Investigators hope that if they can locate the two recorders they can get to the bottom of what has become one of aviation’s biggest mysteries. The unsuccessful search for Flight 370 has raised concern worldwide about whether airliners should be required to transmit their locations continually via satellite, especially when flying long distances over the ocean.”
Discussing on Thursday evening’s Sky News Tonight, I’ve called for limited flight-data streamlining literally putting the “black-box in the cloud” and for looking further into these four grand-challenge technologies for the future of international aviation safety and security: (1) The Cloud, (2) Big Data, (3) Advanced Wireless Communications, and (4) Social Media (especially for aviation crisis management, not only for providing accurate information for grieving families and loved ones, but also for government officials and airline executive in handling aviation disaster recovery).
The Boeing 777-200ER flaperon wreckage that washed up on La Réunion island in the southern Indian Ocean arrived for analysis at a French laboratory Saturday, according to one AFP journalist, as Malaysian authorities are certain the part came from missing flight MH370.
“Transported in a convoy of vehicles under police escort, the wing part from a Boeing 777 arrived at about 5:30 pm (1530 GMT) at the defense ministry laboratory specializing in plane crash investigations near Toulouse in southwestern France.” AFP reports. Malaysian and French experts will begin their analysis of the part on Wednesday, August 5, 2015.
AFP adds: “The lab near Toulouse, which specializes in plane crash investigations, also studied 650 pieces of debris from the Air France 447 flight that went down in the South Atlantic in June 2009 while traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, killing 228.”
“Four Malaysian officials including the head of civil aviation are in Paris together with officials from Malaysia Airlines for a meeting on Monday, August 3, 2015 with three French magistrates and an official from France’s civil aviation investigating authority BEA.”
“I believe that we are moving closer to solving the mystery of MH370. This could be the convincing evidence that MH370 went down in the Indian Ocean,” Malaysia’s deputy transport minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi told AFP. He added: “photographs showing the flaperon bearing the part number “657BB” proved it was from a Boeing 777.”
Boeing said in a statement Friday that it would send a technical team to France to study the plane part.
French AFP news service also warned that “one small piece of plane debris is unlikely to completely clear up one of aviation’s greatest puzzles.”
Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said while the part “could be a very important piece of evidence”, using reverse modeling to determine more precisely where the debris may have drifted from was “almost impossible”.
Well, be that as it may, I discuss on Sky News Tonight on Thursday, July 30 and Fox News Happening Now on Friday, July 31 what I call “aircraft forensics,” which is now being conducted linking the wreckage finding in La Réunion to MH370. Careful analysis of the barnical-covered Boeing 777-200ER composite flaperon wreckage found on La Réunion may tell a story of what happen during the last moments of flight MH370, answering several open questions:
There is a very fine science of aircraft forensics from just a small piece of a flaperon that holds many clues to the whereabouts of MH370 and to the final moments of this mysterious Boeing 777-200ER airliner crash – historically the only one lost since 1948.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Officially Declared An Accident
The Malaysian government has officially declared the loss of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 an accident and all of its passengers and crew presumed dead.
Officially, this cleared the way for Malaysia Airlines to pay compensation to victims’ relatives, while the search for the massive Boeing 777-200ER airliner continues, reports Reuters.
“We officially declare Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 an accident … and that all 239 of the passengers and crew on board MH370 are presumed to have lost their lives,” Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) director-general Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said in a statement.
Malaysia Airlines, as the national flag-carrier, reached an “out-of-court” settlement of the first legal claim by the family of a gentleman, who was a passenger on flight MH370, a lawyer handling the claim said to the French press service, AFP, on Tuesday, June 2, 2015.
In October 2014, Mr. Hang’s family brought a lawsuit, benefitting his two living sons, aged 11 and 14 when the lawsuit was filed, against Malaysia Airlines and the Malaysian government, including its Department of Civil Aviation and Department of Immigration, and the Royal Malaysia Air Force Chief, agencies altogether involved in investigating the missing MH370 flight. The premise of the plaintiff’s lawsuit argued “for negligence and breach of contract,” against the air carrier, as it “failed to bring its passengers to its destination,” according to AFP.
UPDATE on Monday, June 1, 2015: Malaysia Airlines “technically bankrupt”, via BBC News, ABC News
Coming out of nearly a year and a half long dual crisis of the MH370 aviation tragedy on March 8, 2014 and the MH17 aviation disaster on July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines is now “technically bankrupt”, the newly appointed chief executive of the flag-carrier, Christoph Mueller, told reporters in his first news conference on Monday, June 1, 2015, adding the air carrier’s decline “started long before the tragic events of 2014,” as he announced a restructuring program and plans to cut about 6,000 jobs.
“Analysts have long blamed the airline’s failure to compete on poor management, unwise business decisions, government meddling, and unfavorable service and supplier contracts stemming from Malaysia’s crony capitalism,” according to ABC News.
Mueller did not say whether any rebranding of the flag-carrier would involve a change in name, logo or other alterations, or whether costly long-haul flights to Europe (excluding the air carrier’s flagship London flights) would be either eliminated or reduced in frequency of departures or “size of aircraft on those routes.”
The flag-carrier’s restructuring program and plans for building cash flows and increasing profitability will invoke various tools of alternative contracting, such as joint ventures, strategic alliances, and partnerships.
“The blueprint called for the renegotiating or resetting of major contracts, and a major revitalization of technology, training, and business operations,” ABC News reports.
Christoph Mueller, Chief Executive Officer of Malaysian Airline System Berhad (MAS), Photo Credit: Malaysia Airlines
“Mr Mueller warned in May a major overhaul was necessary as the airline was weighed down by “uncompetitive cost levels” that he said were 20 per cent higher than its rivals,” according to ABC News.
The Malaysian national air carrier said in a statement its immediate priority was to “stop the bleeding” in 2015, then to stabilize next year and start growing again by 2017.
Malaysia Airlines is tapping off a year-long US$1.8 billion restructuring, including new company name change, flight route cuts, senior management reorganization, and fleet assets liquidation, by slashing “6,000 out of 20,000 staff, though reports are now suggesting the figure could be closer to 8,000,” CNN Money and Time confirms.
The workforce transition of the Southeast Asia flag-carrier will be managed by a newly-appointed senior administrator. According to an official statement released on Monday, May 25, 2015, “the appointment by Khazanah, Malaysia’s sovereign fund and the sole shareholder of Malaysian Airline System Berhad (MAS), is backed by the Malaysian Airline System Berhad (Administration) Act 2015 (MAS Act) enacted by the Government of Malaysia. Under the MAS Act, the Administrator plays a critical role to facilitating the transfer of selected assets and liabilities to Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB), which will replace MAS as Malaysia’s new national carrier (by September 1, 2015).”
“MAS continues to operate throughout the period up to and including August 31, 2015, after which MAB will operate the business of the airline from September 1, 2015 onwards,” the national air carrier’s official statements confirm.
What is a Flaperon?
According to Wikipedia, “a control surface that combines an aileron and flap is called a flaperon.”
“Flaperons are a mix of Flap and Aileron to allow these control surfaces to improve flight efficiency or aerobatic capability,” defines airfieldmodels.com.
“A flaperon is a type of aircraft control surface that combines aspects of both flaps and ailerons. In addition to controlling the roll or bank of an aircraft, as do conventional ailerons, both flaperons can be lowered together to function similarly to a dedicated set of flaps,” Wikipedia defines.
Consider these photos taken by Steve Richardson, Aviation Analyst for FlyersPulse.com on a Delta Airlines Boeing 777-200ER, departing from Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport on September 9, 2009. You will notice the flaperon on the left composite wing changes positions in the take off sequence depicted below.
First, sitting in your window seat over the left composite wing, when you look out at the wing, you will see the following on the trailing edge from the outside-in:
Aileron (furthest outside along the Boeing 777-200ER left composite wing in the photo below) is extended to act as a flap on take-off. An aileron, also hinged on the trailing edge, is used to roll the aircraft left and right.
Flap (shown next inward in the photos below is deployed for take-off, because the Boeing 777-200ER left composite wing needs extra lifting surface). The flaps keep the aircraft flying at slower speeds, but also increase drag. The flaps are normally raised during flight for efficiency. They are mounted on the trailing edge (the back) of a Boeing 777-200ER wing to allow take off and landing at shorter distances.
Flaperon (encircled in red in the photos below as the small square flap on the Boeing 777-200ER left composite wing, notice how it changes positions in photo sequence).
Double Slotted Flap (closest on the inside in the photos below) is a two-piece flap extending the left composite wing out to its maximum lifting surface for landing sequences of the Boeing 777-200ER airliner.
Specifically, the photo below shows the flaps (and flaperon) of a Boeing 777-200ER, which is deployed just prior to takeoff.
The Boeing 777-200ER then begins take off roll in the photo below. Notice how the flaperon on the left composite wing changes position.
The Boeing 777-200ER is now airborne with flaps (and flaperon) deployed. Notice how the flaperon on the left composite wing continues to change position.
Flaps (and flaperon) is retracted as the Boeing 777-200ER airliner is prepared for flight cruise. Note that the flaperon serves as an aileron on the left composite wing, because the extra lift on the composite wing during takeoff is not needed during flight cruise.
Now that the Boeing 777-200ER airliner is in flight cruise, the flaperon is deployed as an aileron on the left composite wing. It will be used again as a flap during the final landing sequence of the Boeing 777-200ER airliner.
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Pilot Error Caused GE235 Prop-Engine Flameout
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TransAsia flight GE235 pilot mistakenly switched off the airliner’s only working engine moments before crashing in February, killing 43 people, says officially the Taiwanese Aviation Safety Council in its latest report released Thursday, July 2, 2015.
Photo Credit: Taiwanese Aviation Safety Council, TVBS TAIWAN / Agence France-Presse (AFP) / Getty Images. Final moments showing idle right-side Pratt & Whitney turboprop engine before the pilot error-induced left-side engine shut-off of TransAsia Airways flight GE235 Regional ATR 72-212A airliner, which had 58 passengers and crew on board, subsequently clipping a bridge and hitting a taxicab before crashing into the Keelung River in Taipei on February 4, 2015. Fifteen people survived.
What was the circumstances of Flight GE235’s turboprop engine flameout?
A turboprop engine flameout is “a run-down of a jet engine caused by the extinction of the flame in the combustion chamber. It can be caused by fuel starvation, compressor stall, insufficient oxygen (at high altitudes), foreign object damage (such as caused by birds, hail or volcanic ash), severe inclement weather, mechanical failure and very cold ambient temperatures,” according to Wikipedia.
For quick reference by laypersons, offered by the Aircraft Performance Toolkit for Air Traffic Controllers, by definition, “a turboprop engine propels the aircraft using a propeller, as well as, an air jet. The air jet is produced in the same manner as the jet of the turbofan. The main driving force comes from the propeller. The turbine in the engine extracts more energy compared to a jet because it must power the propeller as well as the compressor.”
“The amount of propeller thrust varies up to 90% of the total thrust depending on type. The air, compressed and burnt with injected fuel, is discharged through a turbine transmitting its energy to the compressor and via a gearbox to the propeller.”
“The turboprop uses a gas turbine (jet engine) to turn a propeller. There are two main parts to a turboprop propulsion system, the jet engine and the propeller. The jet engine found in turboprops is very similar to a jet engine, except that instead of expanding all the hot exhaust gases through the nozzle to produce thrust, most of the energy of the exhaust gases is used to turn the turbine.”
Data from the flight and cockpit recordings discussed in detail inside the latest Taiwanese ASC factual data report confirms that the pilot indeed in error cut-off fuel to the left-side Pratt and Whitney turboprop engine that would normally keep the airliner flying, and not in the stall mode before crashing as shown below.
Photo Credit: TVBS Taiwan, via AFP — Getty Images
By now all the world has seen the stunning photo and YouTube video, showing a TransAsia Airways plane clipping a road before crashing near Taipei, Taiwan in February.
Images taken from video provided by TVBS and flight GE235’s final path trajectory given inside the Taiwanese ASC report shows the French-built ATR 72-212A plane’s final moments in the air captured on car dashboard cameras do not appear to show flames, as it turned sharply with its wings going vertical and clipping a highway bridge, before plunging into the Keelung River in Taipei, according to the island’s official news agency, CNA.
Taiwanese ASC reported that “video surveillance from dash-board cameras of vehicles were helpful to the investigation in addition to surveillance videos from two tall buildings nearby. The videos show the aircraft passed near one of the buildings (without contact), the first contact of the aircraft was with the taxi.”
“Wow, pulled back the wrong side throttle,” Captain Liao Jian-zong, 42, was heard to say on voice recordings, flying the aircraft in the left seat inside the “hot cockpit,” as the captain first officer monitoring in the right seat quickly attempted to recover the ATR 72-212A airliner upon the loss of the one remaining left-side turboprop engine seconds before the crash.
Unfortunately, Captain Liao Jian-zong, flying the aircraft in the left seat, reduced the throttle on the only working turboprop engine, the Taiwanese ASC report concludes. Cockpit recordings appear to show that Captain Liao Jian-zong “did not appear to realize his mistake until it was too late,” Reuters identifies from the ASC report.
Liao Jian-zong tried to restart the flamed out turboprop engine before the captain first-officer monitoring this flight in the right seat, shouted: “Impact, impact, brace for impact.”
“Those chilling words were the last heard on the data recordings,” according to the Taiwanese ASC’s factual data investigation report on the TransAsia flight GE235 crash on February 4, 2015.
Earl Chapman, of Canada’s Transportation Safety Bureau, told reporters back in February that the plane’s Pratt & Whitney turboprop engines were known for their reliability.
“This engine type has millions of flight hours behind it with a very good safety record. So, it’s fairly unremarkable in that respect,” he added.
French-built TransAsia Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72-212A, registration B-22816 and Manufacturing Serial Number MSN 1141, performing as TransAsia Airways flight GE235 from Taipei Songshan to Kinmen (a small resort island near the coast of Taiwan) with 53 passengers and 5 TransAsia Airways flight crew on board, departed Songshan’s runway 10, upon which the airliner was involved in an accident, crashing into the nearby Keelung River in Taipei, early Wednesday morning, February 4, 2015 at around 10:45 am (local time).
Photo Credit: Taiwanese Aviation Safety Council
Frantic rescue of fifteen survivors from Keelung River in Taipei.
Rescuers scrambled to pull survivors from the submerged wreckage of the ATR-72-212A twin-engine turboprop aircraft, which went down into the Keeling River shortly after takeoff from the international airport of the Taiwanese capital.
Photo Credit: WALLY SANTANA/ASSOCIATED PRESS. Emergency personnel try to extract passengers from the plane on Wednesday morning, February 4, 2015.
Taiwanese rescuers used a massive crane to hoist the French-built ATR 72-212A plane from the shallow, murky river after survivors were brought to safety on rubber rafts or scrambled to the Keelung River bank on their own.
Photo Credit: Wally Santana / Associated Press. The main fuselage from TransAsia Airways flight GE235 is hoisted away in Taipei on Thursday, February 5, 2015.
One injured person was reportedly found in a park along the river, Taiwan News reported. Wu Jun-Hong, a Taipei Fire Department official coordinating the rescue, said he was not “too optimistic” that more survivors would be found.
Earlier Friday, February 6, 2015, Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration said TransAsia Airways would be grounded for additional new international flight routes for a year. The Southeast Asia regional air carrier had already been grounded from new international flight routes after a crash involving one of its airliners in July 2014 killed 49 people. TransAsia Airways flight GE235 crash extends the grounding period to February 4, 2016, the Taiwanese regulatory agency said.
Photo Credit: JIN LIWANG/ZUMA PRESS. TransAsia Airways flight GE235’s Regional ATR 72-212A airliner black-box was recovered in February and sent to a lab for analysis by Taiwanese Aviation Safety Council.
“Wow, pulled back the wrong side throttle.”
On Thursday, July 2, 2015, the facts of this crash scenario was confirmed, as the Taiwanese ASC report provides this summary of events, as it unfolded early Wednesday morning on February 4, 2015 (all times in local time):
10:51:39 — GE235 began takeoff roll.
10:51:43 — Pilot Monitoring (GE235 Captain serving as First-Officer) called “no ATPCS armed,” and Pilot Flying (GE235 Captain Liao Jian-zong serving as Pilot) replied “ok continue takeoff.” (ATPCS means Automatic Take-off Power Control System)
10:51:51 — Pilot Monitoring called “oh there it is Automatic Take-off Power Control System armed.” The aircraft lifted off and climbed out. Autopilot was engaged after after-takeoff check completed. The aircraft turned right after 1,000 feet.
10:52:38 — After climbing through 1,200 feet master warning sounded. Engine and Warning Display (EWD) showed “ENGINE 2 FLAME OUT AT TAKE OFF” procedures.
10:52:41 — Pilot Flying disengaged autopilot while the flight climbing through 1,300 feet.
10:52:43 — Pilot Flying announced “I will pull back engine one throttle” and Pilot Monitoring replied “wait a second cross check.” At this moment ENGINE 1 Power Lever Angle (PLA) record indicated a reduction from 75 degrees to 66 degrees.
10:53:00 — Pilot Monitoring replied “okay engine flameout check” and continued announcing “check up trim yes auto feather yes.”
10:53:06 — Pilot Flying said “pull back number one” and ENGINE 1 Power Lever Angle record showed a reduction to 49 degrees. Meanwhile, Pilot Monitoring said “okay now number two engine flameout confirmed.”
10:53:09 — Pilot Flying replied “okay”; however ENGINE 1 Power Lever Angle remained at 49 degrees. The aircraft reached its highest altitude of 1,630 feet and started to descend at 102 knots.
10:53:13 — Stall warning sounded with stick shakers activated. Pilot Monitoring called “okay push push back.”
10:53:15 — Pilot Flying said “shut” and Pilot Monitoring replied “wait a second throttle throttle.” Between 10:53:13 and 10:53:15, ENGINE 2 Power Lever Angle was advanced to 86 degrees and ENGINE 1 Power Lever Angle was retarded to 34.5 degrees (idle position).
10:53:19 — Pilot Flying said “number one,” followed by “feather shut off.” Meanwhile, Pilot Monitoring said “number feather.” Stall warning revived and stick pusher was in effect until 10:53:27.
10:53:22 — Pilot Monitoring said “okay” and Pilot Flying said “uh number one.”
10:53:24 — ENGINE 1 Condition Lever (CL) was in fuel shut off position. Six seconds later ENGINE 1 propellers were in feather position.
10:53:35 — Pilot Monitoring declared emergency on engine flameout to Songshan tower. Between 10:53:46 and 10:54:04, Pilot Flying attempted to reengaged autopilot twice but failed. The aircraft stalled again during the time.
10:54:05 — Pilot Monitoring said “both sides lost.” Two seconds later Pilot Monitoring said “no, engine flameout we lost both sides.”
10:54:09 — Pilot Flying announced “restart the engine” while the aircraft was at 545 feet with speed 105 knots.
10:54:20 — ENGINE 1 Condition Lever was advanced from fuel shut off position.
10:54:25 — Pilot Monitoring said “cannot restart it,” while the aircraft was at 401 feet with speed 106 knots. ENGINE 1 actual propeller shaft rotational speed corrected for engine temperature (NH1) recorded an increase to 30%.
10:54:27 — Pilot Flying said “wow pulled back the wrong side throttle,” while aircraft was at 309 feet with speed 105 knots.
10:54:34 — “Pull-up” warning issued by Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) sounded. The aircraft was at 83 feet with speed 108 knots.
10:54:35 — At altitude of 55 feet with speed 106 knots, aircraft increased its left bank from 10 degrees to 80 degrees and its left-wing collided with a taxi driving on an elevated expressway at the left bank of Keelung River. The left-wing continued to hit the fence of the expressway as well as a light pole, before it crashed into Keelung River.
Thomas Wang, executive director of the Taiwanese Aviation Safety Council, said in February “preliminary findings from the aircraft’s black boxes showed the right engine sounded an alarm seconds after taking off, moving into idle mode,” The Independent (U.K.) reports.
Remarkably, the British newspaper added:
“Data showed it had not shut down, or “flamed out,” as the pilot told the control tower in his last “mayday” distress call, but went idle with no change in the oil pressure.
Then, 46 seconds later, the left engine was shut down, apparently by one of the pilots, who then attempted a full re-start. The plane crashed into the Keelung River just 72 seconds later.
Their bodies were found in the cockpit still gripping the plane’s joystick with their legs badly broken, investigators said.
A survivor said the plane did “not feel right” from the moment it left the ground.“
French aircraft manufacturer ATR has expressed its deepest sympathy to the families, friends and to those affected by the accident.
TransAsia Airways has reached a settlement with the families of seven passengers, and negotiations were underway with the rest, said TransAsia CEO Peter Chen. “Relatives of the victims of the crash were offered over $470,000 in compensation, but many of them rejected it, citing dissatisfaction with the amount and the method of payment,” International Business Times reports.
Taiwanese Aviation Safety Council leads the ongoing investigation to a final report in April 2016. The Taiwanese Council is the official source of all causal information surrounding the crash and safety recommendations for the future.
According to the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization regulations, TransAsia Airways flight GE235’s aircraft manufacturer, ATR of France will advise the French Bureau d’Enquêtes et Analyses (BEA), the safety investigation authority representing the Sovereign State of the aircraft manufacturer. ATR is a joint venture between Airbus and Alenia Aermacchi, a subsidiary of Italian aerospace firm Finmeccanica.
One of my thousands of followers on Twitter, Kerry Barrett (@Kerry Barrett) poignantly brought to my attention a very relevant question on what non-pilots and air transportation consumers think, when they hear breaking news about an airplane stalling or an ‘engine flameout‘.
And, what does an aircraft stall actually mean to the flying public, as they try to understand the stunning pictures of the TransAsia Airways flight GE235 crash into the Keelung River in Taipei, Taiwan on Wednesday, February 4, 2015, or the extraordinary final three minutes of the AirAsia flight QZ8501 crash into the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia on Sunday, December 28, 2014.
According to USA Today: “It turns out flying in Asia is actually riskier than in any other region but Africa. Why? Regulatory regimes there are less advanced than in the United States and Europe (Japan is considered as safe as the west). Another factor is that international regional airlines, such as TransAsia Airways, tend to use less-experienced pilots than major airlines.”
Nonetheless, the ASC reported that “there were two captains, Captain Liao Jian-zong (42, ATPL, 4,914 hours total, 3,151 hours on ATR-72-500, 250 hours on ATR-72-600) was pilot in command occupying the left-hand seat being pilot flying. Captain B serving as first-officer (45, ATPL, 6,922 hours total, 5,687 hours on ATR-72-500, 795 hours on ATR-72-600) occupied the right-hand seat and was pilot monitoring. A first-officer complemented the crew occupying the observer’s seat, the first officer (63, ATPL, 16,121 hours total, 7,911 hours on MD-80s, 5,306 hours on ATR-72-500) was in conversion training to ATR-72-600 with 8 hours on the aircraft type.” The crew had signed the flight papers, that showed no unusual circumstances.
“It’s not like they’re the wild west, like you might get in some African countries, but they are 10 or 20 years behind,” said Justin Green, a New York aviation lawyer with Kreindler & Kreindler. “If you’ve never heard of the airline that your travel agent is booking you on, you should do some research.”
Aviation expert David Learmount, operation and safety editor at Flight Global, says it is clear from the video footage that TransAsia Airways flight GE235’s French-built ATR 72-212A airliner was ‘fully stalled’.
In a blog post on the possible causes of the crash, Learmont writes:
“An aircraft stalls because it’s flying too slowly to generate sufficient lift from its wings and it starts to fall.
If an aeroplane is flying too slowly in level or descending flight, it is normally because there is insufficient power to keep the aircraft’s speed up. The question for the investigators is why was there insufficient power?
Reports are coming in that the pilots made a Mayday call declaring an engine flameout.
Both propellers were clearly turning, but that does not necessarily mean they were being supplied with sufficient power to fly safely.
If engine power is lost, the un-powered propeller can cause a lot of drag by windmilling, making the aircraft too difficult to handle. Under those circumstances the crew would normally “feather” the propeller to cut the drag.”
Taiwan’s Aviation Safety Council on Friday, February 6, 2015 said flight GE235 issued five speed-loss warnings before crashing. This is the essence of the key cause of the crash, mainly because fundamentally non-dimensional engine thrust is a sole function of the turboprop engine flow velocity ratio. This is a ratio of the engine exit flow velocity of the air slipstream far downwind of the turboprop to the engine inlet flow velocity of the air slipstream far upwind of the turboprop.
Closely related to this is the non-dimensional engine thrust power, which is a sole function of the square of the turboprop engine flow velocity ratio. Without engine thrust power coming from either one of TransAsia Airways flight GE235’s French-built ATR 72-212A turboprop engines, aircraft stall is imminent, resulting in the stunning last photos and dash cam videos gone viral online and widely seen on international broadcast media.
Photo Credit: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES. The front section of the wreckage of the TransAsia plane is lifted onto the bank of the Keelung River, outside Taiwan’s capital of Taipei.
The Taiwanese ASC report reveals that TransAsia flight GE235 Captain Liao Jian-zong “failed the simulator check in May 2014, when he was being evaluated for promotion. Assessors found he had a tendency not to complete procedures and checks, and his “cockpit management and flight planning” were also found wanting,” according to Reuters.
To overcome this problem, the design of automation has required:
“The automated systems must also be able to monitor the human operator and the human must be able to monitor the automatics.
This emphasizes two real problems, first, humans are fallible and are not the perfect monitors because of human limitations. Secondly, even the highly capable computers available today can fail partially or completely and cannot anticipate all of the circumstances that might be encountered in a line operation. Therefore, the performance of the computers and the human operators must be monitored by each other. For example, the computers should be able to send warning signals when human operator has made an error, and at the same time, when the automation is making incorrect decisions, humans need to understand and be aware of it.”
“Each element of the system must have knowledge of the others intent.
A very basic principle in cross-monitoring, which must be effective in achieving maximum safety, is that it can only be effective if the monitor knows what the system is trying to accomplish. This principle requires good communication between the pilot flying and pilot-not flying for it is virtually impossible to be sure of intent without effective communication.”
“The issue of safety due to automation that arises due to the pilot or controller making rare errors can be reduced by having two pilots in the cockpit who are well-trained to monitor the automatics as well as monitoring each other’s operational performance during flight. This process of monitoring both the systems performance along with the pilots performance is further improved by the automated warning systems in the cockpit,” writes Orlady and Orlady (1999).
Case of 2014 AirAsia flight QZ8501 crash. Technical speculation suggest at this point the severe weather-related conditions may have most allegedly caused some degree of human factor errors, mostly likely revealed from the flight deck conversations and flight performance data and information gained from AirAsia flight QZ8501’s Airbus A320-200 black-boxes still to be completely analyzed and transcribed for the crash final report expected to be released early next year.
Mr. Tatang said “the comments made by Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan to Parliament in January “were based not on data from the black boxes, but on the ground radar.” Indonesia investigators have now confirmed the transportation minister’s comments made in January.
Mardjono Siswosuwarno, chief investigator of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, said the flight data recorder, which was recovered from the Java Sea along with the cockpit voice recorder earlier this month, had provided a “pretty clear picture” of what happened in the final minutes of AirAsia flight QZ8501.
Pulling the circuit breaker is also an unusual move, because the captain would have had to rise from his sea
Case of 2009 Air France flight AF447 crash. Notwithstanding, recent aviation disaster history confirms an excessively rapid ascent is indeed likely to cause an airplane to go into an aerodynamic stall.
In 2009, an Air France flight AF447 Airbus A330-200 disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean in bad weather, while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
Investigators determined from the jet’s black boxes that it began a steep climb and then went into a stall from which the pilots were unable to recover, The Independent (U.K.) reports.
A synopsis of what occurred during the course of the doomed Air France AF447 Airbus A330-200 airliner’s final few minutes is here.
Airbus spokesman Justin Dubon said that it was too early to comment on possible similarities between the two crashes.
Photo Credit: SAM YEH / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE / GETTY IMAGES. Rescuers on Wednesday, February 5, lift the wreckage of the plane out of the river in Taipei. Early Thursday, February 6, officials said 35 people died and 15 injured. Eight people remain missing.
In just the past year (2014-15), we have lost the lives of over 734 international passengers and flight crews in Southeast Asia (which amounts to about three times more than all fatal civil airliner accident in the last 68 years between 1945-2013) on four compelling global aviation crash events.
These include the oceanic loss of a Boeing 777-200ER airliner, flown as Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on March 8, 2014, the shooting down over a war-torn eastern Ukraine region of a Boeing 777-200 airliner, performing as Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 17, 2014, a crash in the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia of an Airbus A320-200 airliner, operating as AirAsia flight QZ8501 on December 28, 2014, and a crash in the Keelung River in Taipei, Taiwan of a French-built ATR 72-600 (72-212A), flown as TransAsia Airways flight GE235 on Wednesday, February 4, 2015.
Given this consensus must be reached on recommendations of human factor errors of complacency, over-reliance, and over-confidence bias (a “winner’s curse“) in flight management efficiency and flight systems automation, global flight tracking of commercial passenger airliners, jet black-box data streaming, and ejectable flight data recorders.
SECOND HIGH-LEVEL SAFETY CONFERENCE 2015 (HLSC 2015)
PLANNING FOR GLOBAL AVIATION SAFETY IMPROVEMENT
MONTREAL DECLARATION ON PLANNING FOR AVIATION SAFETY IMPROVEMENT
Whereas the Convention on International Civil Aviation and its Annexes provide the essential framework required to support for the safe operation of a global aviation system;
Whereas aviation safety is a prerequisite for the sustainable development of air transport which is a catalyst for the economic and social development;
Whereas Member States have a collective responsibility for aviation safety and its enhancement can only be possible through a cooperative, collaborative and coordinated effort among all stakeholders under the leadership of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO);
Recognizing the efforts of the international community towards the implementation of Conclusions and Recommendation of the High-level Safety Conference held in 2010;
Recognizing the actions taken by ICAO and the role of the Regional Aviation Safety Groups (RASGs), Member States and aviation safety partners in identifying and attaining of the objectives and priorities of the Global Aviation Safety Plan (GASP) endorsed by the 38th Session of the Assembly;
Recognizing that Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) is the primary air navigation priority and that effective regulatory oversight is an essential requirement to achieve its safe implementation;
Recognizing that recent events showed the need for improvements in the timely identification and localization of aircraft in distress as well as the effective search and rescue efforts (SAR) and recovery operations;
Recognizing that the recent event of the downing of a civil aircraft have demonstrated the urgent need to provide accurate and timely information to States and airlines regarding risks to civil aviation arising from conflict zones and to enhance existing mechanisms to share such information;
Recalling that mutual trust between States, as well as public confidence in the safety of air transportation is contingent upon access to relevant and timely safety information;
Recognizing the role of aviation in public health emergencies and the importance of collaboration between the aviation and public health sectors in preparedness planning and response to public health events;
Recognizing the challenges faced by States in achieving a mature safety oversight system and implementing a State safety program (SSP) to attain the GASP objectives;
Recognizing the complexities in safely integrating remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) into their national air navigation systems;
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Camento / Searching for Self-Awareness
25 Jan 2017 · Moonwalk
"It's sort of like someone else is doing an autopsy on your dead body, but you're looking at it through a TV screen and you're completely confused what's going on." - Mohnish Soundararajan
Imagine a grand experiment. Two men set foot to reconstruct your past - as accurately as they can. They talked to everyone you've ever cared for, looked at, talked to, yelled at, peed on, and washed a dish for.
But the story keeps changing. And in the process, they shatter everything you ever knew about your memory, your self-awareness, and - lucky you - your sense of self.
And what if - we actually did this.
Featuring special guest Cam Poter, this episode deconstructs not just Cam's narrative identity, but the search for self-awareness, and covers:
- The most technically challenging and time-consuming podcast we've ever done
- Specific, actionable steps to get a better sense of self-awareness, so you don't take the one, precious life your parents paid so much money for and absolutely screw it up
- The differences in memory between a diverse, dynamic social circle, and yourself
- How we piece together our narrative past - and how wrong we get it
Our main guest is Cameron Poter - listen to his podcast, Sex Talk With My Mom.
Special thanks to Scott Breen - if you want to learn about sustainability, check out his podcast Sustainability Defined. Also, you can find special guest Karen Lee Poter on Youtube at the Karen Lee Poter Show.
Special thanks to Jeremy Poter, David Goese, and Leesa Hapsel.
You can find more research and fun stuff at moonwalkpodcast.com.
Introducing Moonwalk
It's not just a new season or a new episode - we're getting a new name. And this time, we're not messing around.
Unless we're messing around. Then, technically, I guess we'd be messing around.
Moonwalk premieres January 24th, 2017.
Produced by Mohnish Soundararajan. Music is by Podington Bear.
Burning Hot and Fast at 22 / Untangling Your Career (Season 3, Episode 5)
4 Jan 2017 · Moonwalk
"People are really looking for reasons to say no, Mohnish. That's the thing." - Ted Gonder
Mohnish has done well for himself. Thanks to his mother's credit card, he hasn't managed to die of starvation. He's worked with interesting authors, fast-paced startups, and - most importantly - he has a girlfriend.
But if he stops there - he's screwed.
As of January 1st, 2017, he doesn't have a job. He's a full-time student - so he doesn't need one. But in 6 months, that'll change.
And when you're 22, and time is running out - how do you answer the hardest question: what do I do with the rest of my life? More to the point: is that even the right question to ask?
On this episode, special guests Josh Indig (AI research and serial entrepreneur) and Ted Gonder (Moneythink, Obama's Advisory Council) share their insights to wrestle, untangle, and reframe why careers (as well as their own) are just so incredibly tricky.
- If you're 22 and have no skills, what should you do?
- How badly will Ted roast Mohnish on the phone?
- Instead of asking "what should I do with my life?", what should you do instead?
- Will Josh start an AI overthrow and doom humanity? (Short answer: No)
P.S. For research and book recommendations, go to realtalkstudio.com.
Production Team and Special Credits:
Host and Producer: Mohnish Soundararajan
Special Guests: Ted Gonder and Josh Indig
Feedback: Jarrod Sport and Josh Indig
Intro Music: Electric Mantis
Movie Clips: The Social Network (2010), and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
Q&A: How Do I Know If I Have The Right Group of Friends?
Note: This December, we're taking a bit of a break. It's Christmas, we want to see our family's faces, and hey - we need some time to recharge and reorient the direction of this podcast.
Here's a short, rough episode - we'll be back to regular programming soon.
Finding the right friends is harder than trying to ice skate in the Olympics blindfolded.
But - the key word is "right". Because anyone can make friends. You can go out on the street, meet a store clerk, and become friends in 30 seconds. The key is: are the friends you have, even the right ones for you?
On this episode, we cover one thing: How do you know if the friends you have are ones you should keep? (And, should or should you not get new ones?)
For more, go to www.realtalkstudio.com
Inside High School / A Bonus Audio Essay
7 Dec 2016 · Moonwalk
"We all have stories that we tell ourselves about what our lives are - and those stories are always wrong" - Shawn Coyle
Going to high school is kind of like cutting an onion: you have to do it, but you're probably going to cry.
In this audio essay, I talk about why that's true.
Before we get to that though, here's the deal: We're off this week and we'll return to regular programming in 2 weeks. The bright side: this is a bonus episode. It's rough and it's a bit of an experiment...but I think you'll dig the change of pace.
(If you're new to the podcast, don't start here, but if you're a fan, stick around.)
The piece that I read in this episode, I wrote 2 years ago (so, basically 10,000 years ago). Here's what's covered:
- What was high school really like for most people?
- What is the emotional reality of high school?
- Defining the bullshit: the status, fake work, fake friends, and the stories we believed about ourselves when we were 16 and incredibly stupid
- A story about me, a car, and concrete, and why it mattered
For more, go to realtalkstudio.com.
The Danger Zone / How Top Gun Can Reinvent Your Career (Season 3, Episode 4)
23 Nov 2016 · Moonwalk
"Once you pull that handle....there's no turning back" - Dave "Bio" Baranek
In 1969, the United States established an elite school for the top one percent of it's pilots. The Navy calls it Fighter Weapons school. The flyers?
They call it Top Gun. And if you don't know what Top Gun is, know that Tom Cruise just called, and he wants me to tell you he's extremely disappointed.
But, here's the point: by extrapolating strategies from Top Gun, you can become amazing at what you do. And - it's backed up by research. On this episode, the guys and special guest Dave "Bio" Baranek (Top Gun Instructor, RIO, and author) cover:
- Whether you're an engineer, a doctor, a computer scientist, a lawyer, a marketer, or an entrepreneur - how do you break the sound barrier in your own career and blow past your peers?
- What's it like to meet Tom Cruise?
- Is it fun to crash in an F-14 and get waterboarded? (Hint: No.)
- Technically speaking, can you get on the highway to the danger zone?
For more on this episode, go to realtalkstudio.com.
P.S. Sign up for our email list and get your mind blown every other Tuesday.
Production and Special Credits
Dave "Bio" Baranek - Special Guest, Photo Credit (Check out his book!)
Mohnish Soundararajan - Host, Producer, Editor, Sound Design, Research
Jarrod Sport - Producer, Editor, Research, Feedback
Kevin Sanji - Co-Host
Electric Mantis - Intro Music
Justine Brumm - Feedback
Movie Clips are from the film "Top Gun (1986)"
Important Influences - Anders Ericsson, Cal Newport
The Most Interesting Woman in the World / Being Remarkable (Season 3, Episode 3)
9 Nov 2016 · Moonwalk
"Some people go to sleep and have God appear in their dreams. I just looked her up" - Sudev Namboodiri
If you didn't pass 5th grade, you have no idea what that word means.
But, when something's remarkable - you know it when you see it. On this episode, we talk to the founders of a fake religion and then, one of TIME's People of the Year to uncover how to transform your working life by being remarkable. Plus:
- How do you become the most interesting woman in the world?
- What happens when you meet strangers on the internet?
- What are the inner-mechanics of being remarkable and how can you use them to your advantage?
- How do you build the foundation for a deep, focused career?
- What happened to Pardis Sabeti in 2015 that really, really sucked?
For more material on this episode, go to realtalkstudio.com.
P.S. Sign up for the email list here.
Special Guests: Pardis Sabeti, Sudev, Amanda, and Paca
Host, Producer, Sound Design, Research: Mohnish Soundararajan
Co-Host: Kevin Sanji
Feedback: Kevin Sanji and Justine Brumm
Special Music: "Turkana Boy" by Thousand Days
How to Break Into the White House / Engineer Your Own Luck (Season 3, Episode 2)
26 Oct 2016 · Moonwalk
"We can curse all we want, but this is the most explicit thing that's ever been said on our podcast" - Mohnish Soundararajan, to Ted Gonder
While your friend Jen is working at the White House, you're on the couch eating Ramen at 4 o' clock in the morning and you can barely feel your face. Jen - you figure - must be lucky.
But what if you could reverse engineer the moments that would come to define you? And what if you could break into the White House while doing it? The guys cover:
- The weirdest thing about 5 Silicon Valley billionaires.
- Is it possible to go from unlucky to lucky?
- How do you engineer random chance in your life? Is it even possible?
- What is "bulk, positive, randomness"?
For more on this episode, go to www.realtalkstudio.com.
P.S. Become an Insider, get on the email list, and get your questions answered. Seriously - any question.
Host, Research, Production, Sound Design, Editing: Mohnish Soundararajan
Co-Host and Editing: Kevin Sanji
Feedback: Jarrod Sport, Kevin Sanji, Justine Brumm, Vysali Soundararajan
The Gloomy Prospect / The Hidden Sources of Bad Behavior (Season 3, Episode 1)
"You see this cute little vial here? It's crack - rock cocaine - the most addictive form. You think it's the glamor drug of the 80's? Well, that's the point of this friendly little reminder. It can kill you."
- Clint Eastwood
Humans are bad. We're ridiculous. And we act in complex ways that I honestly have no idea how to describe. From Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign to the reality of teaching low-income students, we figure out: Why is changing and understanding human behavior so hard? To boot: What's the best way to change human behavior in a hopeless situation? We cover:
- Did the "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign work?
- What are the hidden sources of bad behavior?
- How does complex, emergent behavior work?
- What is the Gloomy Prospect?
- Why is the learning-to-see model so effective at causing good behaviors?
And more, all on this episode. For more, go to realtalkstudio.com
P.S. Sign up for the email list and get your mind blown every other Tuesday.
Production and Credits
Host, Research, Sound Design, Editing: Mohnish Soundararajan
Feedback: Jarrod Sport, Kevin Sanji, and Justine Brumm
Special Thanks: Eric Turkheimer, for the idea of "The Gloomy Prospect"
Season 3 Teaser
27 Sep 2016 · Moonwalk
"Do you know what it's like to be a Top Gun pilot? What about a violin player?" - Mohnish Soundararajan, Host
Season 3 is coming soon - the wait ends October 11th.
We'll be releasing twice a month (so that's every other Tuesday) in exchange for more people, better stories, better research, better production, and stupider jokes.
It's about to get nutty. See you in 2 weeks.
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Topless club owner names dog shelter after Gingrich
CNN Associate Political Producer Emily Sherman
Dawn Rizos donated $5,000 to open 'Newt's Nook'.
(CNN)– Despite being uninvited to a "private dinner" given by Newt Gingrich, the owner of a Dallas topless club has no hard feelings. She used the money meant for a donation to the former house speaker's political organization to open up a dog shelter in his honor.
Last month, Dawn Rizos, owner of Dallas topless club The Lodge, received a letter from Gingrich's American Solutions inviting her to dine with Gingrich at a Capitol Hill club. She was also told she had been selected to receive an Entrepreneur of the Year Award. "Dawn – Newt is looking forward to finally meeting you face to face" to talk policy, read a handwritten note on the missive.
Lodge spokesman Michael Precker said they were told the group would need $5,000 to confirm her attendance, which they promptly paid. Shortly after, they were notified by a marketing company working for American Solutions that the invite had been mistakenly extended, and was being rescinded.
"Newt's Nook" opened its doors earlier this week, thanks to a $5,000 donation made by Rizos to the Animal Guardians, a dog rescue shelter 40 miles outside of Dallas. The shelter is meant to provide a place for dogs to recuperate until they are adopted.
"We're thrilled to help such a worthy project," said Rizos. "Instead of holding a grudge, we decided to make something positive out of his bad manners."
Rizos also announced a Valentine's Day special. The Lodge will donate an additional $100 to the Animal Guardians for each dog adopted through Valentine's Day 2010, along with a gift certificate to The Lodge or Stratos Global Greek Taverna.
Animal Guardians Director Annette Lambert says she will be forever grateful.
"Dawn [Rizos] didn't deserve to be treated like that, but this will do so much for these loving dogs until we find them good homes," Lambert said.
–CNN's Rebecca Sinderbrand contributed to this post.
Filed under: Newt Gingrich • Popular Posts
Now, if someone would name a toilet paper brand after him, his worthy place in history would be secured.
November 28, 2009 04:44 pm at 4:44 pm |
What a beautiful story! If I lived anywhere remotely near that area, I would adopt a dog from that shelter in a heartbeat. What a superior cause to which to donate your money than to a political action committee, be it Democrat or Republican.
NVa Native
Newt is a joke, so are his weak attempts to being relevant.
Gop-
It may not have been Newt personally addressing the letter and perhaps she should have looked into it deeper (although that is really not her responsibility being someone who matches all the criteria the invitation was calling for). Regardless, a mistake like that is still pretty amateur and doesn't reflect well on Mr. Gingrich or his constituents. That being said – the same would be true if it were coming from a Democrat's office.
Joyce Becker
Newt is so dumb, he couldn't even get elected for dog catcher.
gottlieb schlittenfahrt
Probably was an honest mistake sendimg her the invitation. It's a matter of public record that Newt and his pals seem to prefer the company of hookers and mistresses over strippers.
Good one GOP. Keep spewing all of your one-liners. That's all the GOP has going for them. Most "conservatives" are full of hatred and it is showing thanks to Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh. They are giving the meaning to "right wing whack job." Obama should have an easy second term win.
Why on earth would she give him a donation in the first place? If he had his way both her and the dog shelter would be out of business.
I guess maybe Newt thought that maybe one of the girls might know him professionally. I see that Dawn has put the donation to a much better use althouh it is no doubt much to dignified for Newt to be associated with real "man's best friend". As far a Dawn having the qualifications to be Newt's running mate. I do believe she greatly outclasses him an maybe he could be second fiddle to her.
jsamples
"Instead of holding a grudge, we decided to make something positive out of his bad manners.
" HAHAHA Ladies and Gentlemen, that's still called "HOLDING A GRUDGE!"
Don't look down your nose at Dawn Rizos, she pays more than 1.3 million in taxes each year. Maybe she should recieve the award.
Minnesotan
The money is far better spent helping dogs that it would have been in Washington wasted on snakes.
Stunning.....a whole day nearly passed by now without CNN slandering Palin.
Why not a story on the environmental fraud? Rahm got your tongue CNN ?
What a bunch of BOOBS, but of course the left will not be be one up'd and respond with an article about Michelle and Barry's Beavers....
May they NewTer the GOPers and their so-called family values.
check into it a bit more to be sure it is not a mistake
you GOPers are really dumb
she should check into her invites to make sure they are not a mistake
as if it is her fault... listen dummy, Newt could have personally extended an appology instead of phone-ing it in
Newt has no manners, he is a creep
regardless of her profession, which is what you were reacting too, she is an honorable woman
big deal. How is this news Emily??????
Gop wrote "...Maybe next time she gets an invite she might want to check into it a bit more to be sure it is not a mistake."
Why should she? If you got a handwritten letter from a political organization saying you were to receive an award for your successful business, would you think it was a mistake? Of course not.
You're drinking too much holiday kool-aid over at CNN if this is a national news story in your minds.
Pam Holt, Los Angeles, CA
That money CERTAINLY went to a much better cause! BY FAR! Bless you, Dawn for helping those that cannot help themselves. Newt can go fly a kite (that was the politest thing I could come up with)!
Gonzo in Houston
I wonder who Newt finally gave the Entrepreneur of the Year Award to? And do they know that they were his second choice after the owner of a strip club?
For a party that stresses conservative morals, the republicans seem to have alot of issues involving strippers and prostitutes. In fact, they cheered David Vitter and his cheating with a prostitute. They were thrilled that a republican actually cheated with a women unlike the scandals involving Larry Craig and Mark Foley.
KArcher37
This is the best and worst headline in American history.
Shirt please?
Jim Adams
I agree it was very bad manners, but what do you expect?? At least the money went to a good cause.
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Hindu Extremists in India Beat Pastor Unconscious
Evangelist was traveling with sons from one village to another.
NEW DELHI, April 22 (CDN) — Hindu extremists beat a pastor and evangelist unconscious in front of his sons earlier this month in Madhya Pradesh state.
Ramesh Devda, 30, from Dhadhniya, Meghnagar district, said he was attacked on April 4 at about 11 a.m. after leading a prayer meeting in Chikklia village. He said he was on his way to Bhajidongra, at the border of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat states, by motorcycle with his two sons, 10-year-old Elias, and 8-year-old Shimon, to lead another prayer meeting.
When he reached Raseda village, he said, suddenly three people on two motorcycles blocked his way and forced him to stop.
“Suddenly out of nowhere these three men appeared in two motorcycles – they blocked me and tilted my motorcycle,” Pastor Devda told Compass. “We fell down. They were carrying big bamboo sticks and clubs. They started beating me, and then they called and three more men came and started to attack me.”
He said he was thankful that his sons were spared from beating, though his older son sustained a leg injury in the course of the attack.
“They were angry at me and were threatening to kill me and were warning me not to come to their area again,” he said. “My sons were screaming at the top of their voices, and they were afraid. One of the men hit me on my forehead with a big bamboo stick, cracking my skull. The others were also beating me on my body, especially my back with bamboo sticks.”
A blow to the forehead temporarily blinded him, he said.
“My eyes were darkened, and I fell down, and they proceeded to beat me even more,” he said. “The men were also abusive in the foulest language that I had heard, and they were drunk.”
People passing by heard the two boys crying out and came to help, and the attackers fled, he said, leaving the unconscious pastor and his sons.
“I do not know who helped me, as I was unconscious,” Pastor Devda said. “But I came to know later that local Christians also came in and called the emergency helpline. As a result, an ambulance came, which then took me to the hospital.”
He was taken to Anita Surgical Hospital on Station Road in Dahod, Gujarat. There a physician identified only as Dr. Bharpoda told him that he had fractured his skull.
“I am being treated for my wounds now, but there is still a lot of pain,” Pastor Devda said.
A Christian for 15 years, Pastor Devda has been in Christian leadership for 11 years and now serves with the Christian Reformed Fellowship of India. He has two other children, Ashish and 4-year-old Sakina, and his wife Lalita, 28, is active with him in Christian service.
Pastor Devda leads congregations in Chikklia, Bhajidongra and Dhadhniya villages.
“I have heard that I was attacked because the people of Chikklia did not like me conducting the Sunday service there,” he said. “The people who beat me up do belong to a Hindu fundamentalist outfit, and some believers in Chikklia know them. I can recognize them if I see them again.”
He said, however, that he does not want to file a First Information Report (FIR) with police.
“There is no one supporting me or standing with me in my village or my mission, and I am myself fearful, as I have to continue to minister to these very people,” Pastor Devda said. “I know my attack was pre-planned, but I do not want to report it to the police.”
A Christian co-worker from Rajasthan was also attacked about a month ago in equally brutal fashion, he said, but also refrained from filing an FIR because of fear of repercussions.
Vijayesh Lal, secretary of the Evangelical Fellowship of India’s Religious Liberty Commission, said the tribal belt that extends to the border areas of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan, has been a hot spot for anti-Christian activity since the late 1990s.
“Only recently a 65-year-old evangelist was beaten and stripped by Hindu extremists,” he said. “It is a worrisome trend, and one that should be dealt with not only by the government but by the secular media and civil society in general.”
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India Briefs
Karnataka, India, April 15 (CDN) — Police on April 10 arrested a pastor and other Christians of the New India Church in Mysore after some 25 Hindu extremists from the Sreeram Sena attacked their Sunday service, accusing them of forcible conversions, reported the Mathrubhumi daily. Pastor Vinod Chacko was leading the service when the Hindu nationalists barged into the church, stopped the prayer service and complained to police of alleged forcible conversions. The Global Council of Indian Christians reported that the extremists along with police detained the worshippers inside the church building, including 20 women and 10 children, taking down personal details about them and asking them whether they were paid money or otherwise lured to attend. Police also seized vehicles belonging to the church and those attending the service. Police charged Pastor Chacko, his wife Asha and others identified only as Sabu, Simon and Sayazu under section 295A of the Indian Penal Code with “deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings.”
New Delhi – A mob of about 150 Hindu extremists on April 9 attacked a Christian worship meeting in Bhajanpura, East Delhi, beating Christians with clubs and stones, including women and children. Pastor Solomon King told Compass that the Assembly of God church organized an open-air “Festival of Deliverance” meeting at which he was speaking; there were about 150 people in the arena when he arrived with 40 choir members. After the meeting began at about 6 p.m., some present suddenly shouted “Jai Shri Ram [Praise Lord Ram]” and started beating the Christians. Two Christians identified only as Prabhu and Abhisek sustained head injuries and received hospital treatment. Pastor King, his wife and other Christians also suffered bruises. The intolerant Hindus also destroyed furniture, a sound system, a generator and some Christians’ vehicle. The Christians had received permission from government officials to conduct the worship meeting, and five police officers were on duty to protect it; the Hindu extremists also severely beat them. The attack lasted for about an hour before police reinforcements arrived, and the extremists fled. Police were able to arrest two of the assailants.
Madhya Pradesh – An enraged mob of Hindu extremists on April 7 stormed into the prayer meeting of a Christian Assembly house church shouting anti-Christian slogans and filed a police complaint of forceful conversion against those present in Sagar. The Hindu extremists accused Pastor Joy Thomas Philip of forceful conversion, Pastor C.P. Mathew of Bhopal told Compass. Police arrived and took Pastor Philip and three other Christians into custody for questioning but claimed it was a protective measure. After area Christian leaders’ intervention, the Christians were released on bail on April 9.
Karnataka – Mulki Circle police officials on April 4 forcibly took church documents from Hebron Assembly Church in Mulki and told the pastor not to allow any Hindus to enter. The Global Council of Indian Christians reported that officials identified only as Inspector Shivaprakash and Sub-Inspector Neelakanta, along with five police officers, verbally abused Pastor I.D. Prasanna and harshly denigrated church activities. Police officials questioned Pastor Prasanna for three hours, telling him what church activities he can and cannot undertake, and threatening to close the church if he disobeyed. They also ordered the pastor to give detailed information about the families that attended the church service.
Karnataka – Police in Shimago on April 3 detained Pastor Abraham K.G. and a Christian identified only as Eerappa for their faith in Christ. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that Hindu extremists led by area Bajrang Dal member Subbraya Shetty interrupted the worship meeting of the Jehovah Nizzi church and warned them to stop meeting. The extremists had been harassing the pastor since March 27, reported the GCIC. As the April 3 service started at about 10:30 a.m., a sub-inspector from the Hosanagara police station arrived in a Jeep with three other police officers to make the arrests. When the Christians asked about the reasons, the officials said without basis that the Christians were using abusive language. Later that evening, police released the Christians without charges after taking a statement from them pledging that they would conduct no future worship meetings – and that they should leave the area.
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Suspected Drug Traffickers Kidnap Pastor
Michoacan state church leader abducted during Sunday service.
MEXICO CITY, April 15 (CDN) — Some 500 worshippers were gathered for last Sunday’s (April 10) worship service at the Christian Center El Shaddai in the Mexican city of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacan at about 8:15 a.m. when four masked men burst in firing machine guns into the air.
Before the frightened believers realized what was happening, their pastor, Josué Ramírez Santiago, had been whisked away. Divergent press reports indicated the kidnappers, suspected drug traffickers active in the state, were about 10 in number.
The following day, the pastor’s family received news that the criminals wanted a ransom of 20 million pesos (US$1.7 million). Even if the family could raise such an immense sum – considered doubtful – payment would not guarantee that the victim would be returned alive.
Arturo Farela, director of the National Fraternity of Evangelical Churches, has asserted that organized crime syndicates and drug cartels have targeted Christians because they view churches as revenue centers and because churches support programs for the rehabilitation of drug addicts and alcoholics.
“The majority of rehabilitation centers that have been attacked by organized crime in Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Tepic and other places belong to the evangelical community,” Farela said in a declaration regarding the kidnapping of Ramirez. “Furthermore, some 100 Mexican or foreign pastors who lived in Ciudad Juarez have had to abandon the city because of the threats and demands for money. And of course many pastors and their families have been victims of extortion, threats, kidnapping and homicide.”
Farela has stated that 100 Mexican clergymen have been kidnapped in recent years, with 15 of them losing their lives to organized crime. Asked if Compass could review his records of these crimes, Farela said he was not authorized to permit it.
In numerous other cases, children of pastors have been kidnapped, including one from Matehuala, San Luis Potosi, who has not been heard from for some six months. The college-age daughter of a prominent pastor in Mexico City was held by kidnappers for a week but was released when the criminals grew tired of the father’s prayers every time they telephoned him; the family has not revealed whether money was given for her return.
Michoacan, the state where the most recent abduction took place, has been a center of much criminal activity and also of severe reprisals by elements of the Mexican army. The state where President Felipe Calderon was born, Michoacan was the first to implement an anti-drug military operation that expanded to northern and eastern states.
In spite of the operation, more than 34,600 people nationwide have reportedly been assassinated since it was implemented in December 2006, with most of those crimes tied to drug traffickers “settling accounts.”
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Church in China to Risk Worshipping in Park
Evicted from one site and denied others, unregistered congregation resorts to open air.
LOS ANGELES, April 7 (CDN) — One of the largest unregistered Protestant churches in Beijing plans to risk arrest by worshipping in the open air this Sunday (April 10) after eviction from the restaurant where they have met for the past year.
The owner of the Old Story Club restaurant issued repeated requests for the Shouwang Church to find another worship venue, and authorities have pressured other prospective landlords to close their facilities to the 1,000-member congregation, sources said. Unwilling to subject themselves to the controls and restrictions of the official Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), the congregation has held three services each Sunday in the restaurant for more than a year.
Church members have said they are not opposed to the government and are not politically active, but they fear authorities could find their open-air worship threatening.
“Normal” (state-sanctioned) religious assembly outdoors is legal in China, and even unregistered church activity is usually tolerated if no more than 50 people gather, especially if the people are related and can cite the gathering as a family get-together, said a source in China who requested anonymity. Although the congregation technically risks arrest as an unregistered church, the primary danger is being viewed as politically active, the source said.
“For a larger group of Christians to meet in any ‘unregistered’ location led by an ‘unregistered’ leader is illegal,” he said. “The sensitivity of meeting in a park is not being illegal, but being so highly visible. Being ‘visible’ ends up giving an impression of being a political ‘protest.’”
The congregation believes China’s Department of Religious Affairs has overstepped its jurisdiction in issuing regulations limiting unregistered church activity, according to a statement church leaders issued this week.
“Out of respect for both the Chinese Constitution [whose Article 36 stipulates freedom of worship] and Christian conscience, we cannot actively endorse and submit to the regulations which bid us to cease all Sunday worship activities outside of [the] ‘Three-Self Patriotic Movement’ – the only state-sanctioned church,” according to the statement. “Of course, we still must follow the teachings of the Bible, which is for everyone to submit to and respect the governing authorities. We are willing to submit to the regulations with passivity and all the while shoulder all the consequences which . . . continuing to worship outside of what is sanctioned by these regulations will bring us.”
The church decided to resort to open-air worship after a prospective landlord backed out of a contractual agreement to allow the congregation to meet at the Xihua Business Hotel, the church said in its statement.
“They had signed another rental contract with another property facility and announced during the March 22 service that they were to move in two weeks,” the source said. “In spite of the fact that they had signed a formal contract, the new landlord suddenly called them on March 22 and refused to let them use the facility.”
The landlord offered various excuses for reneging on the contract, according to church leaders, and that disappointment came after 15 months of trying to obtain the key to another property the church had purchased.
“The space in Daheng New Epoch Technology building, which the church had spent over 27.5 million RMB [US$4.2 million] to purchase, has failed to hand the key over to the church for the past year and three months because of government intervention,” the church said in its statement. “For the past year, our church has not had a settled meeting place.”
Beginning as a house church in 1993, the Shouwang Church has been evicted from several rented locations. It also met outside after its last displacement in 2009. The congregation does not believe its calling is to split up into smaller units.
“For the past several years the church has been given a vision from God to be ‘the city on a hill,’” the source said. “Especially since 2009, when they officially began the church building purchase, they have been trying to become a more officially established status. At this point, they feel that they have not completed the journey in obedience to God.”
The number of Protestant house church Christians is estimated at between 45 and 60 million, according to Yu Jianrong, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Rural Development Institute. Yu and others have concluded that house churches are a positive influence on society, but the government is wary of such influence.
Yu estimated another 18 to 30 million people attend government-approved churches – potentially putting the number of Christians higher than that of Communist Party members, which number around 74 million.
The government-commissioned study by Yu and associates suggested that officials should seek to integrate house churches and no longer regard them as enemies of the state. The study employed a combination of interviews, field surveys and policy reviews to gather information on house churches in several provinces from October 2007 to November 2008.
Yu’s team found that most house or “family” churches fit into one of three broad categories: traditional house churches, open house churches or urban emerging churches. Traditional house churches were generally smaller, family-based churches, meeting in relative secrecy. Though not a Christian himself, Yu attended some of these meetings and noted that the focus was not on democracy or human rights but rather on spiritual life and community.
The “open” house churches were less secretive and had more members, sometimes advertising their services and holding public gatherings, he found. Urban emerging churches functioned openly but independently of TSPM churches. In some provinces such as Wenzhou, these churches had constructed their own buildings and operated without interference from local officials.
While some house churches actively seek registration with authorities to avoid arrests and harassment, they would like the option of registering outside the government-approved TSPM structure, as they disagree with TSPM beliefs and controls. Many unregistered evangelical Protestant groups refuse to register with TSPM due to theological differences, fear of adverse consequences if they reveal names and addresses of church leaders or members or fear that it will control sermon content.
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Authorities Move to Stop Protestant Christmas Events
Apparent central government crackdown puts halt to Yuletide celebrations in five areas.
HANOI, Vietnam, December 20 (CDN) — In what appeared to be part of a central government crackdown on Protestant Christianity in Vietnam, hundreds of Christians from 10 northern provinces were locked out of a Christmas celebration that was supposed to take place here yesterday.
The throngs who arrived at the National Convention Center (NCC) in the Tu Kiem district of Hanoi for the Christmas event found the doors locked and a phalanx of police trying to send them away, sources said. Deeply disappointed, some of the Christians began singing and praying in the square in front to the center, they said.
Police moved in, striking some Christians with fists and night sticks in the melee that followed. A number of video clips of the action were posted online by Monday morning (Dec. 20), Hanoi time. Christian leaders worked to calm the disappointed crowd, which eventually left, but not before at least six people – including the Rev. Nguyen Huu Bao, the scheduled speaker at the event – were arrested. They had not been released at press time.
Similar incidents occurred on Christmas Sunday (Dec. 19) in at least four other places throughout the country.
Unregistered house churches under the umbrella of the Hanoi Christian Fellowship rented the auditorium in the name of one of their members. A copy of the six-page contract obtained by Compass says the event was to be a reunion of Vietnamese who had worked in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries. Many of northern Vietnam’s house church leaders became Christians during their time there.
While it was understood that this was to be a Christmas event, the managers of the state-owned facility did not want to put this in writing. Organizers had hoped that some 4,000 people would come.
The contract called for at least five days’ written notice before the event if either side wanted to terminate the contract. According to one source, the NCC informed event organizers on Dec. 15, four days before the event, that the contract was voided but gave no reasons as the contract required. The organizers, having completed major preparations and distributed several thousand invitations, considered this a breach of contract and decided to try to go ahead.
When the first Christians arrived Sunday afternoon, they found the doors of the NCC locked. According to a source at the scene, a sign indicated a wedding was taking place. When more than 1,000 people had arrived, some decided to sing and pray in the square in front of the NCC. Police called for reinforcements.
One witness said “possibly hundreds” of uniformed and plainclothes personnel came to try to disperse the growing crowd. Reports from the scene and video clips on the Web show pushing and shoving, with some Christian leaders trying desperately to calm the agitated crowd. Some witnesses said officials punched some Christians, and others were struck hard with night sticks. Late police reinforcements carried electric cattle prods, according to one source. In one clip, people can be seen comforting an 86-year-old woman who was knocked down.
Gradually the Christians dispersed. For many Christians who tried to come – some from great distances and at great personal expense – this would have marked the first time they had ever worshipped in a large gathering.
Sources in Vietnam told Compass that similar stoppages also took place yesterday (Dec. 19) in Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, and Quang Nam provinces, and in the city of Danang in central Vietnam.
In Thanh Hoa province, Christians of various house church denominations planned a joint celebration yesterday at the home of a woman identified only as Tuyet in Dong Phu commune. Pastor Ho Van Thom sent an appeal to the church worldwide asking for the prayers. He arrived at the scene to find some Christians had been beaten and wounded by police intent on preventing their Christmas worship.
In Danang city in central Vietnam, the Rev. Ho Tan Khoa, superintendent of the unregistered United Presbyterian Church of Vietnam, was invited to preach at a house church Christmas celebration yesterday. Pastor Khoa reported that a distraught church leader told him authorities had come that morning and, without a warrant, carted off the chairs, the pulpit and the sound system. They also tore down the Christmas decorations including a backdrop painstakingly decorated by church members, he said.
In Ho Chi Minh City, house churches have received permission for a public Christmas celebration both from authorities of the central government in Hanoi and of Ho Chi Minh City for an event on Dec. 26. But church leaders say that potential venue owners, obviously under threat, will not dare rent to them.
Even those who closely follow Protestant church developments in Vietnam were somewhat surprised at the severity of the crackdown. One well-respected overseas Vietnam leader observed that it is now clear that this was a coordinated, well-planned and executed crackdown involving top Communist Party and government officials.
He noted that sometimes officials in remote areas of the country are excused when they persecute Christians on the grounds they do not yet know the new, more enlightened religion policies of the central government.
“In this case,” he said, “the strong actions against Christians are taking place in Vietnam’s three largest cities. They can’t use that excuse.”
Another observer said that authorities likely became alarmed at the size and attraction of the Christmas events in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi last Christmas. The events in those two cities attracted more than 50,000 people. They were organized by unregistered house churches that somehow obtained permission in spite of prohibitions of such events by Vietnam’s Decree 22, which governs religion.
One key church leader in Vietnam informed Compass that Directive No. 75, a secret Ministry of Interior document dated Oct. 15, ordered the crackdown on unregistered groups.
Unregistered groups are caught in limbo. Denominations with a history before the 1975 communist takeover of Vietnam have now been registered, but many groups that began in the 1980s and later have tried but failed to register their congregations as provided by Vietnam’s regulations. Their requests have mostly been ignored or denied, leaving them vulnerable to capricious repression.
As Christmas Day draws near, it appears the 400,000 or so Protestants that belong to unregistered churches will be denied celebrating together.
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Islamic Extremists Held for Church Blast in Bangladesh
Police believe militants from banned groups responsible for 2001 bombing that killed 10.
LOS ANGELES, December 11 (CDN) — Police in Bangladesh said they believe at least two Islamic extremists are responsible for a bomb blast in a Catholic church building that killed 10 young Christians and maimed dozens of others in 2001.
After a district court remanded the two extremists of the banned Harkat-ul-Jihad Al-Islami (HuJi) group, including its chief leader, to police for seven days on Dec. 7, Police Inspector Sheikh Mohammad Akhteruzzaman of the Criminal Investigation Department told Compass that they believe the militants are responsible for the long-unresolved case.
“We took Mufti Abdul Hannan and Arif Hassan Sumon on remand for interrogation for three days in the middle of November, and we found their involvement in the bombing inside the church,” Akhteruzzaman said. “We took them again on remand on Dec. 7 for seven days to verify their previous information found after interrogation. If the previous information matches this time’s interrogation, then we can be sure that they were involved in the bombing inside the church.”
A total of 14 Islamic extremists are suspected in the bombing, including three from the banned militant group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh and 11 from the HuJi.
The blast took place as about 70 Christians attended Sunday mass on June 3, 2001 in Baniarchar village in Gopalganj district, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of the capital, Dhaka.
Initial police reports suggested that the blast might have been the result of a dispute between two Christian groups in the area.
“The bomb blast did not happen because of any internal feud of church members that was previously suspected,” Akhteruzzaman said. “The magnitude of the blast indicates different motives. Apparently, it seems that they found Christians as their enemy for whatever they were doing against Islam. But the exact motive will come out soon.”
The late archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Bangladesh, Michael Rosario, had said after the blast that there was no report of any communal tension in that area.
The initial investigation faltered under the previous Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led Islamic alliance in power from 2001 to 2006 but was revived after a landslide victory of the Awami League-led Grand Alliance government in December 2008. The chief priest of Baniarchar Catholic Church, the Rev. Jacob Gobbi, had urged the new administration to revisit the case.
The left-leaning Awami League-led government does not include Islamic fundamentalist parties such as Jamaat-e-Islami. Prior to the election, the country was ruled for two years by an army-backed, caretaker government that imposed a countrywide state of emergency.
Christians account for less than 1 percent of Bangladesh’s 164.4 million people, according to Operation World, but Baniarchar has a large number of Christian residents. Muslims make up nearly 90 percent of Bangladesh’s population, with Hinduism the second largest religious affiliation at 9.2 percent of the people.
The Bangladesh government banned HuJi and its activities in Bangladesh in 2005. An international Islamic militant group, HuJi’s Bangladesh chapter had been involved in carrying out terrorist activities in Bangladesh for more than five years.
It was responsible for several major bomb attacks, as well as assassination attempts in 2004 on leading intellectuals and on then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed, who was ushered back into office in December 2008. An intelligence report in October 2003 had strongly recommended that HuJi be banned.
The Bangladesh chapter of HuJi was established in 1992 with an aim toward establishing Islamic rule in the country.
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Punjab, India, December 1 (CDN) — Hindu extremists on Nov. 14 beat a Christian in Moti Nagar, Ludhiana, threatening to harm him and his family if they attended Sunday worship. A source told Compass that a Hindu identified only as Munna had argued with a Christian identified only as Bindeshwar, insulting him for being a Christian, and beat him on Nov. 7. Munna then returned with a mob of about 50 Hindu extremists on Nov. 14. Armed with clubs and swords, they dragged Bindeshwar out of his house and severely beat him, claiming that Christians had offered money to Munna to convert. Local Christian leaders reported the matter to the police at Focal Point police station. Officers arrested three Hindu extremists, but under pressure from local Bharatiya Janata Party leaders released them without registering a First Information Report. Police brokered an agreement between the parties on Nov. 18 and vowed they would not allow further attacks on Christians.
Tripura – Hindu extremists attacked a prayer conference on Nov. 6 in Burburi, threatening Christians if they opened their mouths. A local evangelist known only as Hmunsiamliana told Compass that area Christian leaders organized a prayer conference on Nov. 5-7, but extremists ordered the participants not to open their mouth or make any sound. Christian leaders reported the threat to police, and the participants proceeded to pray aloud. On the nights of Nov. 6 and 7, a huge mob of Hindu extremists pelted the Christians with stones, but the participants continued praying. The meeting ended on the evening of Nov. 7 under police protection.
Chhattisgarh – Hindu extremists from the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP or World Hindu Council) disrupted a Christian youth gathering in Raipur on Nov. 6 and accused organizers of forcible conversion. The Evangelical Fellowship of India reported that Vision India had organized the Central India Youth Festival with about 900 in attendance when the extremists stormed in at about 4:30 p.m. and began questioning leaders. The Christian and VHP leaders then held a meeting in the presence of police, with the Christian leaders explaining that it was a normal youth meeting with no forceful conversion taking place. Nevertheless, officers and VHP leaders proceeded to observe the gathering and proceedings, and the Christians were made to submit a list of participants. In this tense atmosphere, the meeting concluded at 10 p.m. under heavy police protection.
Madhya Pradesh – On Oct. 31 in Neemuch, Hindu extremists from the Bajrang Dal barged into a worship meeting shouting Hindu slogans and accused those present of forceful conversion. The Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI) reported that about 40 extremists rushed into the church building at about 10 a.m. shouting “Jai Shri Ram [Hail Lord Ram].” The Rev. K. Abraham, who was leading the service, pleaded with them to come back later, but the invaders remained and continued shouting. After the service ended, the extremists rushed Abraham and accused the church of paying money to people to convert, as published in newspaper Pupils Samachar. The Christians said the newspaper published the false news because Abraham, principal of United Alpha English School, refused to advertise in it, according to EFI. The extremists grabbed a woman in the congregation who had a bindi (dot) on her forehead, claimed that she had been lured to Christianity and asked her why she was attending the service, according to EFI. “Where were you people when I was demon-possessed?” the woman replied, according to EFI. “You didn’t come to help me, but when I came to the church in God’s presence, these people prayed for me and helped me to get deliverance.”
Karnataka – Police on Oct. 29 detained Christians after Hindu extremists registered a false complaint of forced conversion in Kalammnagar village, Uttara Kannada. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that at around 8:15 p.m. police accompanied extremists belonging to the Bajrang Dal, who along with members of the media stormed the Blessing Youth Mission Church during a worship service for senior citizens. They dragged out Ayesha Nareth, Hanumanta Unikal,Viru Basha Doddamani, Narayana Unikkal and Pastor Subash Deshrath Nalude, forced them into a police jeep and took them to the Yellapur police station. After interrogation for nearly six hours, the Christians were released without being charged.
Orissa – Hindu extremists refused to allow the burial of a 3-year-old Dalit Christian who died in Jinduguda, Malkangiri. The All India Christian Council (AICC) reported that the daughter of unidentified Christian tribal people fell ill and was taken to a nearby health center on Oct. 27. The doctor advised the parents to take the child to a nearby hospital, and the girl developed complications and died there. When the parents brought the body of the girl back to their village, according to AICC, Hindus refused to allow them to bury her with a Christian ritual. There are only 15 Christian families in the predominantly Hindu village. With the intervention of local Christian leaders, police allowed the burial of the body in a Christian cemetery.
Karnataka – On Oct. 6 in Beridigere, Davanagere, a Christian family that converted from Hinduism was assaulted because of their faith in Christ. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that the attack appeared to have been orchestrated to appear as if the family provoked it. An elderly woman, Gauri Bai, went to the house of the Christian family and picked a quarrel with them. Bai started shouting and screaming for help, and suddenly about 20 Hindu extremists stormed in and began beating the Christians. They dragged Ramesh Naik out to the street, tied him to a pole, beat him and poured liquor into his mouth and onto his body. His sister, Laititha Naik, managed to escape and called her mother. Later that day, at about 8:30 p.m., the extremists pelted their house with stones, and then about 70 people broke in and began striking them with sickles, stones and clubs. Two brothers, Ramesh Naik and Santhosh Naik, managed to escape with their mother in the darkness, but the Hindu extremists took hold of their sister Lalitha and younger brother Suresh and beat them; they began bleeding and lost consciousness. The attackers continued to vandalize the house, damaging the roof and three doors with large boulders. The unconscious victims received treatment for head injuries and numerous cuts at a government hospital. Police from the Haluvagalu police station arrested 15 persons in connection with the assault.
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Christian in India Suffers Miscarriage in Hindu Extremist Attack
Four pastors also injured in Karnataka, hub of anti-Christian persecution.
NEW DELHI, October 13 (CDN) — Police in a south Indian state known for turning hostile to minority Christians in recent years have arrested two suspected Hindu nationalists for beating four pastors and striking the wife of one of them in the stomach, killing her unborn child.
The attack took place at a Christian gathering in a private Christian school to celebrate the birth of Mahatma Gandhi on Oct. 2 in Chintamani, in Karnataka state’s Kolar district, reported the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC).
About 40 people barged into New Public School during the concluding prayer that morning and began selectively beating the pastors and Kejiya Fernandes, wife of one identified only as Pastor Fernandes. Chintamani police arrived but the attack went on, and when it ended at noon officers took the Christians to the station instead of arresting the attackers.
Denied medical attention, the injured Christians were released at 7:30 p.m. only after Kejiya Fernandes began to bleed profusely, GCIC reported. She and her husband later received hospital treatment, where she lost the baby she had been carrying for four months, according to GCIC.
Pastor Fernandes received an injury to his ear. The three other victims, identified only as pastors Robert, Muthu and Kenny, all ministered in a local independent church.
Of the 12 suspects named in the police complaint, two were arrested the same day, and the rest are absconding, said attorney Jeeva Prakash, who is associated with the Evangelical Fellowship of India’s (EFI) advocacy department.
The police complaint against the 12 includes “causing death of quick unborn child by act amounting to culpable homicide” (Section 316 of the Indian Penal Code), and “intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace” (Section 504). No charges related to defiling a religious place or gathering or creating communal conflict were included.
All the accused are residents of Chintamani city and suspected to be associated with Hindu nationalist groups.
The attack was reportedly carried out to avenge an alleged insult to Hindu gods during the Christian gathering, with the accused also having filed a police complaint, added Prakash, who visited the area and the Christian victims this week.
The complaint against the Christians was for “deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings or any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs” (Section 295-a), and, strangely, Section 324 for “voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means,” among other charges.
The Christians were not arrested, as a court granted them anticipatory bail.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, whose birthday the Christians were celebrating, was friends with Christian missionaries during British rule and taught religious tolerance. The acclaimed Hindu, India’s greatest political and spiritual leader, was killed in 1948 by Nathuram Godse, who was allegedly influenced by the ideology of the Hindu extremist conglomerate Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
For the last three years, Karnataka has been seen as the hub of Christian persecution in India. Of the more than 152 attacks on Christians in 2009, 86 were reported in Karnataka, according to the EFI.
This year, too, Karnataka is likely to top anti-Christian attacks. According to the GCIC, at least 47 attacks on Christians in the state had been reported as of Sept. 26. Persecution of Christians in Karnataka increased particularly after the August 2008 anti-Christian mayhem in eastern Orissa state, where Maoists killed a Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader but Hindu extremists wrongly blamed it on local Christians.
The attacks in Orissa’s Kandhamal district killed more than 100 people and burned 4,640 houses, 252 churches and 13 educational institutions.
While Hindu nationalists had targeted and were working in Karnataka for close to two decades, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to sole power in the state for the first time in the history of independent India in May 2008. Prior to that, the BJP ruled in coalition with a local party, the Janata Dal-Secular, for 20 months.
It is believed that the victory of the BJP – and later the violence in Orissa, which was also ruled by a coalition that included the BJP – emboldened Hindu extremists, who now enjoy greater impunity due to the party’s incumbency.
Despite the high incidence of persecution of minorities in Karnataka, BJP leaders deny it, alleging complaint are the result of a political conspiracy of opposition parties.
There are a little more than 1 million Christians in Karnataka, where the total population is more than 52 million, mostly Hindus.
Karnataka, India, October 13 (Compass Direct News) – Hindu extremists belonging to the Bajrang Dal on Oct. 3 stormed into a Christian worship service, beat those attending and confiscated Bibles in Emarakuntte village, Kolar district. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that nearly 25 extremists barged into the house of a Christian identified only as Manjunath, where Pastor Daniel Shankar was leading Sunday worship. Verbally abusing those present and falsely accusing them of forcible conversion, the extremists dragged them out and photographed them. Pastor Shankar managed to escape. Police arrived – after the extremists called them – and confiscated the Bibles and a vehicle belonging to the pastor. A GCIC coordinator told Compass that Shankar, accompanied by area pastors, went to the police station the next day, and officers made him give a written statement that he would stop Christian activities in the village. Only then were the Bibles and vehicle returned. No worship was held on Sunday (Oct. 10).
Karnataka – Police on Sept. 5 detained a pastor after Hindu nationalist extremists registered a false complaint of forcible conversion in Doni village, Gadag district. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that at 8:30 p.m. nearly 100 extremists belonging to the Hindu extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh stormed the worship of an Indian Pentecostal Church at the home of a Christian identified only as Nagaraj. A GCIC coordinator told Compass that the extremists repeatedly slapped Pastor Mallikarjuna Sangalad, dragged him outside and tore his shirt. They also tore up a few Bibles of those in the congregation. The extremists called Mundargi police, who arrived at the spot and took Pastor Sangalad to the police station as the slogan-shouting extremists followed. Police questioned the pastor for over two hours and warned him against leading services. With GCIC intervention Sangalad was released at around 11 p.m. without being charged, but he was forced to sign a statement that he would not conduct services at Nagaraj’s home.
Karnataka – Police on Sept. 3 stopped worship and falsely accused a pastor of forcible conversion, threatening to jail Christians if they continued religious activities in Ganeshgudi village. A Global Council of Indian Christians coordinator told Compass that Ramnagar police Sub-Inspector Babu Madhar, acting on an anonymous accusation of forcible conversion, disrupted worship and threatened Calvary Fellowship Prayer Centre Pastor P.R. Jose as nearly 40 congregants of the house church looked on. The sub-inspector warned the Christians against worshipping there and told Pastor Jose to shut down the church or be arrested. On Sept. 4, however, Madhar returned to the house and informed Pastor Jose that they could continue worship services.
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Tamil Nadu, India, September 30 (CDN) — Police detained evangelist V.K. Williams and seven other Christians after Hindu extremists disrupted their evangelistic meeting on Sept. 29 in Theni, according to the Global Council of Indian Christians. The extremists filed a complaint against the Christians of “forceful conversion” and pressured police to arrest them, and officers took the eight Christians to the station for questioning. At press time, area Christian leaders were trying to free them.
West Bengal – On Sept. 26 in Purulia, Hindu extremists stopped a worship service and dragged Christians out, saying no more prayer or worship should take place in the village. A source in Kolkata reported that the extremists were threatening to kill the Christians if they did not convert to Hinduism. The Christians reported the matter to the Kenda Police Station. Officers summoned both parties to the police station, but the extremists threatened to kill the Christians if they went.
Karnataka – Hindu extremists belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Bajrang Dal attacked Gnanodya Church at Yellapura, Karwar district, on Sept. 26. The All India Christian Council reported that the assailants broke into a church worship service after having filed a complaint against Pastor Shiva Ram of “forcible conversions.” In the presence of the police, the attackers started to vandalize the church, pulling down calendars and breaking furniture. Church members said their pastor was targeted because of his social service works. Police took the pastor into custody and jailed him.
Karnataka – Karnataka police on Sept. 26 arrested a Pentecostal pastor, Shivanda Siddi, on false charges of “forceful conversions” in Mundgod. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that at about 11 a.m. five Hindu extremists from the Bajrang Dal stormed the church building while Christians were praying and began arguing with the pastor. They beat him, stripped him of his clothes and took Bibles from those present. The extremists later telephoned police in Yellapur, about three kilometers away (less than two miles), and an inspector arrived and took the pastor, seven women and two young children to the police station. The extremists continued to threaten the Christians in front of police, who watched in silence. With GCIC intervention, police released the women and children without charges, but Pastor Siddi was charged with “defiling a place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class.” He was put in Uttar Kananda’s Sirsi prison.
Karnataka – On Sept. 19 in Santhemarnalli, police led by Inspector Madhava Swamy threatened a pastor with harm if he did not stop alleged “forceful conversion” activities. The All India Christian Council reported that police threatened Pastor Mhades of Good Shepherd Community Church after Hindu extremists filed the complaint against him. Police barged into his church, questioned him and told him that they would take action against him if he did not stop trying to convert people. Area Christian leaders claimed that there was no case of forceful conversion, and that Christians were only conducting their regular worship services.
Andhra Pradesh – Police on Sept. 17 arrested a Christian convert from Islam, Sheik Magbool, after Muslim extremists filed a complaint against him of uttering derogatory remarks against the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, in Kurnool. A source reported that Maqbool organized a three-day, open air Christian meeting and distributed some tracts that allegedly contained comparisons between the teachings of Jesus Christ and those of Muhammad. The Muslim extremists accused Maqbool of making derogatory remarks against Muhammad, threatened to kill him and filed a police complaint against him. Area Christian leaders maintained that the tracts did not contain any hateful remarks against Muhammad; they asserted that the Muslim extremists reprinted the tracts after adding some lines insulting to Muhammad in order to fabricate a case against the Christians. Maqbool was put in a jail cell, with the Down Court rejecting his petition for bail on Sept. 21.
Chhattisgarh – On Sept. 15 in Raipur, Hindu extremists misrepresenting themselves as journalists barged into a prayer meeting led by Pastor Kamlakarrao Bokada and accused him of “forceful conversion,” verbally abused him and falsely accused him of dishonoring their idols. They ordered the pastor to video-record the prayer meeting, but he refused. The pastor, who visits Christian homes in the Khorpi area, was ordered not to do so again. Police refused to register a complaint by Christians.
Andhra Pradesh – Hindu extremists in Vizianagaram on Sept. 13 attacked a pastor’s wife, injuring her head, and told the church leader to leave the area, according to the All India Christian Council. The attack came after Pastor Y. Caleb Raj of Good Shepherd Community Church requested that youths playing loud music before the idol of Ganesh near his church not disturb the Sept. 12 worship service. As the pastor was speaking to organizers of the Ganesh event, Hindu extremists gathered and some tried to manhandle him. They told him to close down the church and leave the village. When Pastor Raj was out on ministry work the next day, the same group of Hindu extremists came and struck his wife with a wooden club. Pastor Raj filed a police complaint, but no arrests had been made at press time.
Chhattisgarh – Hindu extremists in Raigarh on Sept. 12 beat evangelist Robinson Roat and ordered him to stop all Christian activities. The Global Council of Indian Christians reported that about 25 extremists barged into the worship meeting in Roat’s home. They told him he would face further harm if he left his house. The Christian did not venture out for two days.
Madhya Pradesh – Hindu extremists in Satna on Sept. 12 accused Pastor V.A. Anthony of “forceful conversion” and of carrying out the funeral of a non-Christian in a local Christian cemetery. Based on the complaint of the Hindu extremists, the inspector general of police summoned Pastor Anthony and a high-level inquiry is pending, reported the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC). The son of a local church member had died under mysterious circumstances earlier this year, and the pastor and church members had buried him in the Christian cemetery according to the wishes of his parents and other relatives, according to the GCIC.
Uttar Pradesh – Hindu nationalists from the extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Sept. 5 beat a pastor in Sarva village in Babina, Jhansi district. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that three Hindu extremists led by Surendra Yadav and armed with wooden clubs barged into the church building after Sunday classes and beat Pastor Anil Masih on his back and legs, kicked him and verbally abused him. The assault went on for about 30 minutes. The next day, Masih’s father informed Babina police. Masih received hospital treatment for a broken left leg. GCIC sources told Compass that after Masih’s discharge from the hospital on Sept. 10, he filed a complaint against the extremists at the Babina police station on Sept. 13. At press time, no arrests had been made.
Karnataka – Police on Sept. 1 stopped a pastors’ meeting in Mysore, claiming that they were being trained to “convert people,” though conversion and persuading to convert is legal in India. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that the Mysore Pastors Association organized a two-week pastoral training program with about 50 local church leaders and evangelists in attendance. Police arrived and ordered the organizers to vacate the premises by the next day. Even though such trainings are legally permitted in India, the Christians called off the meeting.
Rajasthan – Hindu extremists attacked two Christian workers, damaged their vehicles and seized evangelistic literature from them on Aug. 26 in Udaipur. The All India Christian Council reported that evangelists Charlie John and V.M. George were distributing gospel tracts when a group of Hindu extremists suddenly came and began objecting. The extremists blocked their vehicle and beat the two Christians, leaving them with serious injuries. Police came to their rescue and suggested they file a complaint against the extremists, but the Christians said they chose to forgive their attackers.
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LONG RANGE LASER SCANNING FOR STADIUMS & ARENAS
Scan-to-BIM solutions for complex structures.
Why would you use long range 3D laser scanning?
Stadiums and arenas are massive, complex structures with unique geometry and building shapes. They generally require a different approach to 3D laser scanning because of the large, open spaces. PrecisionPoint often uses two types of scanners—short range for interiors and long range laser scanning for the arenas themselves (whether open aired or enclosed). PPI has the expertise needed to blend these scanner technologies to produce accurate 3D point cloud models, and ultimately the building information model needed for renovations and retrofits.
Arena Client Snapshot
Client: Indiana University
Project: $40 million renovation to the infamous Assembly Hall. The project included adding amenities for which most modern arenas are known, like box seats, fancy concessions, and a jumbo video scoreboard.
Challenge: The university lacked sufficient as-built drawings for the arena, and thus requested 100% of the facility be scanned and modeled.
Solution: PrecisionPoint was awarded the contract to generate a 3D model of the entire building from CSO Architects, an Indiana firm responsible for creating the renovation designs. PPI’s job was to scan and model the interior and exterior architectural and structural features, as well as MEP and HVAC systems throughout.
One reason PPI was chosen for this project is our experience using long range laser scanning and survey dimensional control techniques. These skills are especially crucial for a project this size to ensure the high-definition digital scans have an accurate fit and alignment. We also know how to work in a live environment, which brought additional value to the project. Even during the summer, the field house was in continual use, but we knew how to work around all the athletic activities going on inside the facility.
PrecisionPoint crews divided the scanning work into three phases, focusing first on the southern portion of the building where most of the renovations were planned. Over a period of several weeks, PPI captured more than 500 scans covering every inch of the arena. Most outdoor scans, including the roof and facades, were collected with long-range scanners, while short-range scanners were used indoors in the tighter spaces, including three basement mechanical rooms. Once the scans were completed, PPI stitched them together and registered the resultant point cloud to the survey dimensional control.
One of the toughest modeling aspects in a building like Assembly Hall involves the MEP/HVAC features. Because the HVAC system would be upgraded in the renovation, the designers needed to know precisely where the existing as-built ducting was located, including all of its bends and turns.
Each of the mechanical rooms scanned was crammed with ducts, pipes, and conduit. PrecisionPoint broke the scanned 3D point cloud into smaller segments, each including one of the basement mechanical rooms. We then used EdgeWise™ MEP software to model the HVAC duct runs and other electrical and plumbing elements. The complexity of these areas would have otherwise taken months to measure, extract, and model manually.
Ultimately, PrecisionPoint delivered Revit as-built models that included the architecture, structure, and MEP/HVAC data. CSO is already using the models in design work on the renovation, and the university will archive the entire as-built dataset for future remodeling and additions to the stadium.
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Psychedelics: A New Treatment For Disorders of Consciousness?
A look into the potential therapeutic application of psychedelics in disorders of consciousness.
June 14, 2019 - By Shane O'Connor
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The study of consciousness is one of the most intriguing and multidisciplinary areas of research at present. Experts spanning the fields of neuroscience, philosophy, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and anesthesiology contribute their opinions of what they believe constitutes consciousness and how exactly to define it.
For the sake of clarity, this article defines consciousness as a brain state that requires both wakefulness and alertness. Wakefulness (or arousal) is controlled by the more primitive areas of the brain (brain stem and basal forebrain) and is the ability to open one’s eyes and have basic reflexes (i.e., coughing and swallowing).1 Awareness, which arises as a result of more recently evolved cortical mechanisms is associated with complex thought (the content of consciousness) and is more challenging to evaluate.2
Disorders of consciousness (DoC) are defined as brain states in which consciousness is affected by damage to the brain. Damage may be a result of traumatic brain injury (i.e., car accident), non-traumatic brain injury (i.e., due to a stroke) and progressive brain damage (i.e., Alzheimer’s disease). DoC are diagnosed and categorized on a spectrum that includes coma, vegetative state (VS) and minimally conscious state (MCS).3 Individuals in a comatose state exhibit no signs of wakefulness or awareness. They lay with their eyes are closed and are unresponsive to external stimuli. A person in a VS is technically awake but shows no signs of awareness. They can regulate autonomic processes such as heartbeat and breathing without assistance but display no visible signs of emotion. Individuals that present minimal or inconsistent signs of awareness are categorized as being in an MCS. There may be instances when those in an MCS can communicate or respond to instructions, such as moving a finger when asked but by and large they are unresponsive. Locked-in syndrome (LIS) has comparable characteristics to DOC, but it is a distinct condition. A person with LIS is both awake and aware but experience complete paralysis. While being unable to move their eyes in the majority of cases, individuals may achieve some form of communication through blinking.
Quantifying Consciousness
In the neurosciences, many theoretical accounts of consciousness have related the complexity of dynamics in a neural system to the manifestation of conscious experiences.4-5 It appears that levels of consciousness positively correlate with neural complexity.4 In other words, high levels of complexity are observed in conscious states such as ordinary waking consciousness and REM (dream) sleep, with lower levels of complexity seen in anesthesia and non-REM sleep.
Researchers categorize neural complexity through the use of the Perturbational Complexity Index (PCI). PCI quantifies the complexity of electroencephalogram (EEG) responses to pulses of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)(Fig. A).6 A real-world parallel is to imagine hitting a bell and quantifying the resulting reverberations. In patients with DoC, PCI accurately indexes the various states of consciousness, with PCI being lowest in VS, higher in MCS and higher still in those patients that have recently come out of an MCS. Notably, those suffering from locked-in syndrome exhibit the same PCI as healthy awake individuals, as they are fully awake and aware.6
Fig A. Quantification of brain complexity index conscious level. Measures of brain complexity are high in the normal awake state and low whenever consciousness is lost. Perturbational complexity index (PCI) is deduced by applying a pulse of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) which results in a cortical perturbation. Evoked electroencephalogram (EEG) responses are recorded. Alternatively, spontaneous EEG data alone are recorded. The Lempel-Ziv algorithm, a measure of compressibility, quantifies the complexity (LZC) in the thresholded EEG data (illustrated by black and white grids). LZC readouts reliably index conscious level. VS = vegetative state; MCS = minimally conscious state; EMCS = emergence from MCS; LIS = locked-in syndrome; LZC = Lempel-Ziv complexity; non-REM = non-rapid eye movement sleep; PCI = perturbational-complexity index. (Scott et al., 2019) (Ref.13)
At the core of the PCI method is quantification of the complexity of TMS-evoked EEG responses using an application of the Lempel-Ziv algorithm, a measure of compressibility which counts the sum of unique patterns in a sequence. This is referred to as the Lempel-Ziv complexity (LZC). The LZC also measures the EEG recordings of spontaneous brain activity, i.e., without TMS perturbation and can accurately differentiate between conscious and unconscious states. Moreover, concerning DoC, LZC-based values of spontaneous EEG robustly differentiate VS from MCS patients and values increase in parallel with patients’ conscious level.7
Psychedelics and Disorders of Consciousness
Recently, research groups demonstrated that brain complexity (LZC) observed during psychedelic states after LSD and psilocybin ingestion, exceeds those found in standard waking consciousness (Fig.B). The psychedelic associated elevation in LZC increases the richness of conscious experience. Furthermore, the degree of complexity has a positive correlation with the subjective intensity of the psychedelic experience.8
The increased LZC observed in psychedelic states is thought to originate from interaction with serotonin (5-HT) receptors, in particular, the 5-HT2A receptor. Psilocybin and LSD act as agonists at this receptor subtype, meaning that they activate the receptor. 5-HT2A receptors are located in many brain regions thought to be important in the generation of consciousness.9 Activation of the receptor is associated with cognitive flexibility, while antagonism (blockade) of the receptor is associated with a decrease in cognitive flexibility and slow-wave sleep.10-12
Fig B. Classic psychedelics increase measurements of brain complexity like LZC above the levels in the normal awake state. This suggests that psychedelics could increase conscious awareness in patients with DoC, where brain complexity is low. LSD = lysergic acid diethylamide. (Scott et al., 2019) (Ref.13)
Although the usage of psychedelics in patients with DoC is a new therapy that is showing promise, one must to remember to consider the significant ethical questions that are associated with such a hypothesis. The first being the question of consent. Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris, an advocate for the implementation the treatment argues that “the inability of patients to consent doesn’t make research ethically illegitimate so long as it is ethically proportionate, a judgement that hinges on the accurate assessment of risks and benefits.”13 Existing therapies in the treatment of DoC include the surgical implantation of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) electrodes, which function to “shock” the brain in an attempt to improve consciousness. This procedure is highly invasive and currently performed without the patient’s consent. Furthermore, scant evidence exists supporting the benefits of DBS in improving conscious awareness.14
A further argument against the use of psychedelics in DoC is the possibility that the patient may experience a “bad trip.” The caveat to this argument is that the emergence of “bad trips” is almost exclusively observed with improper use of psychedelics. The recent resurgence in clinical trials involving psychedelics ensure that all the necessary safety barriers are in place to mitigate the onset of a “bad trip.” Experimental evidence suggests that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the use of psilocybin leads to positive effects on medium to long term mental health outcomes.15 Moreover, a contributing factor to the onset of a “bad trip” is the negative expectations before ingestion of the compound. Those suffering from DoC do not have the conscious capacity to expect a negative outcome.
The recently hypothesized therapeutic action of psychedelics in DoC presents an opportunity for improved understanding of the fundamental science underlying consciousness, along with the potential for a major clinical breakthrough. Existing research demonstrates the positive correlation between psychedelics and brain complexity, which provides a strong hypothesis for their utilization in DoC. However, the application of this hypothesis in a clinical setting will raise ethical concerns and experimental challenges. A pragmatic and open-minded approach is required for future research, as many groups may harbor strong biases for and against the usage of psychedelics in this paradigm.
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The Popularization of Economics through the Biblioteca dell’Economista: analysing Amari’s translation of the High Prise of Bullion (1810) by D. Ricardo
Cristina Guccione
Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche
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Between 1850 and 1868, the Sicilian economist Francesco Ferrara edited the first two series of the Biblioteca dell’Economista (BE). This is a collection of economic treatises that were translated from English, French and German into Italian by Ferrara and his assistants (among whom was the scholar Emerico Amari) to popularize the international economic science in the Italian peninsula. The paper deals with Amari’s translation of the High Price of Bullion (David Ricardo 1810) entitled Dell’alto prezzo dei metalli preziosi and published in BE II vol. VI (1857). An analysis of the lexical and stylistic differences between source and target text (Malmkjaer 2004) points out the translation strategies used by Amari to introduce Ricardo’s theories among non-specialist Italian readers.
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Periodica Mathematica Hungarica
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On the non-tangential convergence of Poisson and modified Poisson semigroups at the smoothness points of \(L_{p}\)-functions
Simten Bayrakci
M. F. Shafiev
Ilham A. Aliev
First Online: 13 January 2020
The high-dimensional version of Fatou’s classical theorem asserts that the Poisson semigroup of a function \(f\in L_{p}(\mathbb {R}^{n}), \ 1\le p \le \infty \), converges to f non-tangentially at Lebesque points. In this paper we investigate the rate of non-tangential convergence of Poisson and metaharmonic semigroups at \(\mu \)-smoothness points of f.
Poisson semigroup Metaharmonic semigroup Non-tangential convergence Smoothness point Rate of convergence
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The authors would like to thank the editor and the anonymous referees for their carefully reading the manuscript and useful comments and suggestions, which improved this paper.
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What’s the Difference between the PCA and the OPC?
Camden Bucey
Camden Bucey - 19 July 2016 - Ecumenism / Modern Church - 31 Comments
Occasionally, I am asked about the difference between the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and my denomination, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC). I’ve had different thoughts about this during my brief sojourn as a member of the latter. It’s a question that can be answered from several different angles.
The PCA was founded in 1973 after many conservatives left the progressive Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS), which is often called the “Southern Presbyterian church.” The OPC was founded in 1936 out of the Presbyterian Church (USA), the mainline Presbyterian body of the north. The PCA and OPC share the same doctrinal standards, but other factors give rise to denominational differences. The PCA is roughly ten times larger than the OPC, and perhaps because of the size, demonstrates a greater diversity in several theological matters and worship style. I haven’t seen any empirical studies to substantiate this claim, but some contend that the OPC is generally more uniform among its congregations.
The two bodies also have slightly different ways of organizing and governing their work. The OPC, being founded immediately as a result of a controversy over foreign missions, has taken a specific approach to the foreign mission field. Whereas other missions organization focus more broadly on social justice and humanitarian efforts, the OPC is particularly focused upon planting and raising up indigenous churches. The OPC has sent many ministers along with elders and deacons to the field to support the work of the Great Commission. The OPC calls these ordained men to the work and funds them entirely and directly. Like most other missions organizations, the PCA’s Mission to the World often requires its missionaries to raise financial support. Many argue that this is more effective and leads to a greater number of missionaries being sent to the field. Others view the practice critically, believing it effectively makes “fundraiser” one of the qualifications for ministry. Regardless, the PCA and OPC partner with one another in several mission fields, encouraging one another and recognizing each other as co-laborers in the harvest.
There are other slight differences. For example, all ministers are invited to attend and participate in the PCA’s General Assembly. In the OPC, each presbytery is given a specific number of seats depending on its size, and a minister must be elected and sent by his presbytery to become a commissioner. As you’d expect, this changes the dynamics of the assembly and its related activities.
But are these matters really substantive, at least to the point that they should be a barrier to ecclesiastical union? It’s an important question that was asked and answered over forty years ago. Why didn’t the conservatives who left the PCUS join with the OPC or other churches of like faith and practice? I believe Sean Michael Lucas identifies the reason:
While many in the Machen cohort that led the OPC in its early days sought to maintain a confessional Presbyterianism for its own sake, the majority of those who helped to develop the PCA were less interested in arguing over secondary theological issues that would distract from the larger goal of evangelizing and renewing American culture. In fact, it appeared that conservatives within the PCUS were influenced more strongly by the rising “New Evangelicalism” and its luminaries, particularly Billy Graham, than by leaders or emphases from the OPC. . . . Thus, rather than link arms with smaller, separatist northern Presbyterian bodies, the founders of the PCA forged a body that would emphasize conservative doctrine for the purpose of renewing American culture (Lucas, For a Continuing Church: The Roots of the Presbyterian Church in America, pp. 3–4).
Lucas continues:
The PCA has sought to be evangelical Presbyterians and Presbyterian evangelicals, which has given the church a voice to the broader culture. Holding the church together has not been easy. For some, frustrations have arisen from the church’s tendency to opt for an identity that is more comprehensive than pure. Others are disappointed that the church often spends a great deal of time on relatively fine points of Reformed doctrine instead of focusing on mission, cultural engagement, or evangelism (Lucas, For a Continuing Church: The Roots of the Presbyterian Church in America, p. 11).
I’m sure many in the PCA would agree with Lucas’s assessment while others would cast the issue differently. Answering the question of identity with relatively diverse groups of people must be reductionistic to a degree. Lucas, however, has identified an important feature of the PCA. In comparison, a prevailing view of the OPC is that it espouses a pilgrim—rather than an evangelical—mentality. Charlie Dennison, one-time historian for the OPC, reflects on this issue:
While everyone in the OPC understands our opposition to liberalism, some have had trouble understanding the aversion that others have to evangelicalism. They have been unable to accept the conclusion of Cornelius Van Til and others that evangelicalism, as a system, is Arminian. They have been unable to accept the criticism that modern evangelicalism’s view of regeneration is subjective, incapable of rising above a personal experience of sin and grace to the level of the covenant and the federal headship of Adam and Christ. Further, they have been unable to accept the growing historical and social evidence that contemporary evangelicalism is worldly, individualistic, and adolescent, craving acceptance and desperately wanting to make an impact (Charlie Dennison, “Some Thoughts about Our Identity” in History for a Pilgrim People, p. 204).
Dennison continues:
Modern practical theology, however, has moved in a man-centered direction, having adopted a worldly agenda for remedial goals and perceivable gains. Growth and year-end statistics have become gods. Christian maturity is confused with the mastery of methods, managerial skills, and the ability to cope. Modern practical theology trivializes the biblical vision by exalting incidental matters to the level of greatest concern. This is usually done, sometimes unwittingly, through a blend of social sciences, religious technology, and commercialism. In its more tragic expressions, it is ridiculous. (Charlie Dennison, “Some Thoughts about Our Identity” in History for a Pilgrim People, pp. 205–206).
I suppose your reaction to these statements would disclose whether you’re more of the PCA or OPC persuasion. If you’re offended by Dennison’s remarks and feel that this is a pessimist and short-sighted view of ministry, you may be more of an evangelical. If you feel that Dennison is speaking to some deep part of your soul, giving voice to latent eschatological purpose, you may be a pilgrim. It’s a matter of heritage, disposition, philosophy of ministry, and eschatology. I believe Danny Olinger captured it well when he spoke of John P. Galbraith in our recent “documentary” on his life and ministry. Galbraith understood his ecumenical work within the context of a separatist church that nevertheless was not isolationist. He was an engaged pilgrim.
There are meaningful differences between the PCA and OPC, but we shouldn’t overemphasize them. The two ecclesiastical bodies are united ecumenically as closely as our polity allows. We often share pulpits among our sister churches, and many of us have been members in both denominations. We join together in substantial unity wherever and whenever we can, even while we continue to labor as two distinct ecclesiastical bodies under the same head, Jesus Christ.
Camden Bucey (MDiv, PhD) is Executive Director of Reformed Forum and a minister of Hope Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Grayslake, Illinois. He is the author of Karl Rahner (Great Thinkers) and Lamentations, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: A 12-Week Study. You can follow Camden on Twitter at @camdenbucey.
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There are a couple other differences between OPC and PCA: Similar to foreign missionaries, the OPC fully funds church plants whereas the PCA church planters need to fund-raise. The role of deacons is different as well. The OPC Deacon’s role is that of mercy ministries. In the PCA the deacons handle finances in addition to mercy ministries. In the OPC there can be at-large trustees who are men (and in some churches woman) elected from the members of the congregation who handle the finances of the church (alongside the deacons and elders who are all also trustees). Another difference is the OPC does not allow assistant pastors.
jason, can you provide a source for the OPC not allowing assistant pastors? My OPC congregation has had several assistant and associate pastors over the years.
To clarify, I am speaking about assitant pastors – pastors who are not called by the congregation but instead by the session, and who do not serve on session, not associate pastors.. This position is mentioned in many places in the PCA BCO, even outlining what should be said when they are ordained/installed. The OPC never mentions Assistant pastors and in teh BCO when it talks about pastors it says: “Christ’s undershepherd in a local congregation of God’s people, who joins with the ruling elders in governing the congregation, is called a pastor.” It also states that ministers are only called by the congregation if they are serving the congregation (ministers can be called by presbytery or general assembly ” for work not related to any one particular congregation” (FOG 12.1) To me this makes it clear that it is not allowed, while the PCA specifically makes rules to allow it.
Cris Dickason (RE, Hatboro, PA)
Jason: I think you are seeing a ban on a particular function in the OPC FOG (form of government), just because it is not called out in a specific manner. The OPC allows for assistant pastors and associate pastors. But it only happens in churches where the funding is sufficient. No one serves a ministerial or pastoral role (teaching elder/minister) without a call from an appropriate body, either a congregation or a Presbytery. Presbyter does not impose ministers. Presbytery is not a corporate bishop or bishop by committee (as a Roman or Anglican bishop). Presbyteries are required to examine the provisions of the call to make sure there is sufficient salary and benefits to provide a living for the minister (and his family!). In some cases you may have a man called to serve some capacity, such as at local church, in a part-time capacity, because he has a fully funded FT position.
The function and make of a given church’s trustees depends on that church’s Bylaws. Some churches incorporate, some don’t – depends on the benefits, drawbacks and or legal rules that differ across the 50 states.
The OPC FOG offers/protects various freedoms for the local church and its session
I’m new to the OPC and I’m finding the polity to be very rigid. I’m really okay with the structure of Sunday worship, but there’s an issue I’m struggling with.
I came into this region from a Reformed Baptist congregation which was ‘called out on the carpet’ by a representative of the Southern Baptist Convention for having chairs, rather than pews, in their sanctuary, along with other fairly trivial issues. Never mind that the incredible expository teaching of our pastor, speaking the hardline truth, in love (albeit on occasion ‘tough love) which was fostering spiritual growth and an unusually high percentage of church ministry workers.
Some time ago, working back east and new to the region, I “visited” a Baptist church. When I parked my car I looked around at the families entering the sanctuary… men and boys dressed in slacks, wearing ties. Not wanting to command center stage in my jeans and western footwear, I slinked out of the parking lot to find another church. There was nothing wrong with what they were doing, but I was poor at the time and couldn’t afford to follow suit.
In the OPC I’m attending, the powers that be allow flute, trumpet and piano for worship, but heaven sakes, not a guitar! (Reflecting on someone’s comment below.) And there will be no choirs or special music, regardless of how appropriate (kids’ Sunday school specials are the exception). Okay, I’ll acquiesce, because the teaching and worship music is scripturally sound. There is however one formality I’m having difficulty accepting. Prior to our weekly communion, along with 3 other understandable criteria that should exist in a believers life, it is emphasized that attenders have to be a member of a Bible believing church in order to receive communion. To become a member here, there is a time span from a person’s 1st visit, extending through a period of appropriate pastoral instruction (whether formal or informal) that could last 2-3 months. This could leave a Bible believing visitor to experience a range of negative feelings and spiritual isolation. (I myself would have left.)Q: is there a scriptural mandate for such a rule?
Although having been qualified form membership for several months now, I have chosen to “ride” on the membership in my former church which, under my circumstances, my former pastor is keeping inactive until I request removal from the roll. As such I have been receiving communion. This is not a good situation and I’m reluctant to bringing it up, considering the formality of the leadership.
In summary I will be moving out of the region soon, yet, with all due love and respect for the truly wonderful church family and loving leadership here, I really don’t feel comfortable seeking out the OPC in the area I’m relocating to. I’m not against formal polity, when it is consistent with scripture, however I’m left with the feeling that OPC might be over emphasizing structure and/or process at the cost of something greater. – Your thoughts?
Jim Stevenson
I would agree with Danny Olinger’s assessment of John P. Galbraith and he would certainly have more knowledge of Rev. Galbraith than I. However, I would also add something based on the address Rev. Galbraith gave at the age of 98 to the 78th GA of the OPC, which was the 75th anniversary of her birth. Rev. Galbraith exhorted the GA to be wary of the rampant inclusivism in much of evangelicalism. In general, the OPC has been and is more sensitive to that which concerned Rev. Galbraith.
Of course, there are exceptions in both the PCA and OPC on the matters presented. Trying to compare both denominations is indeed difficult without some generalizing.
What I greatly appreciate about the OP is the uniformity: you always know what you’re going to get with strong liturgical structure and Scripturally-solid teaching and the trinity hymnal. I honestly can’t think of a time I’ve visited an OP church and not found that to be the case.
With PCA it’s usually the opposite: lax structure, illustration-heavy topical teaching. And guitars.
I loved the way you ended your comment…”and guitars”. I got a laughed out of that one. 🙂
A couple of the OPC churches in my presbytery have guitars and do not use the hymnal, and I know of OPC churches in other ares that are the same. I would agree with the first two points of you know what you get, with the middle point (scripturall-solid teaching) being the most important one.
Debbie Doerfel
There was quite a presence of more informal atmosphere congregations in the OPC prior to the mid-’80s. Several churches, the names of most of which begin with “New Life,” started out as OPC. They are much more lax in presentation/atmosphere, don’t use the Trinity Hymnal (though will sometimes sing hymns), and have guitars (and sometimes worship bands). Granted, when “J&R” (Joining and Receiving) provided the opportunity first for the RPCES and then the OPC to join with the PCA and the OPC declined, not only (as Sam Logan commented) did many OPC pastors choose to switch to the PCA but the New Life and other OP churches did as well. (Sam Logan made further comments about “J&R” which I also appreciated.)
Sean Lucas
Thanks for this, Camden. One other anecdote on this line: several years ago, I wrote an essay for the WTJ in which I focused on Machen and Stonehouse and their relationships with the larger evangelical world. I was specifically engaging Charlie’s essay, *Ambivalence, Tragedy, and Hope,” where he talked about this. For Charlie, ambivalence was Machen; tragedy was Stonehouse; hope was Van Til. For me, Machen and Stonehouse were hope and Van Til was not. That’s when I realized that I wouldn’t fit in the OPC.
Sean, thanks for mentioning the article. I enjoyed reading it. The quandary of ecumenism is significant, and I believe conservative Presbyterians need to devote more time and energy to meaningful ecclesiastical relations. I also appreciate your thoughts on Charlie’s taxonomy. Dennison was the OPC’s historian, but of course he doesn’t speak for everyone. Nevertheless, many of us find him to be a kindred spirit. Whether these dispositional differences can be overcome by a commitment to shared confessional standards is a question that has been asked and answered several times already. Perhaps there can be a day when it will be asked again.
For the others who may read this, Dennison identified the early era of the OPC and Machen as tragedy given the battle with the fundamentalists just after the formation of the OPC (then the PCofA). The era of the 1940s was “hope” because of the “remarkable but narrow victory in the 1940s over the visions of cultural Protestantism, championed by figures like Edwin H. Rian and Gordon H. Clark” (History for a Pilgrim People, 94). Stonehouse’s was the era of ambivalence because of a failure to act decisively to the subjectivism of the Peniel Controversy. It’s worth noting that Dennison includes Clowney and his evangelical and practical concerns in this era as well.
Reference: Sean Michael Lucas, “J. Gresham Machen, Ned B. Stonehouse, and the Quandary of Reformed Ecumenicity,” WTJ 62 (2000) 197–222.
Ronald Pearce
Thanks for the excellent article. One thought I would add as a difference between the two denominations is, that the PCA does not require subscription to the Directory of Worship as we do in the OPC in our ordination vows for church officers. Because the Directory is not mandatory in the PCA, may be one reasons there will be greater latitude and differences in the worship services from one PCA congregation to another.
I would be quick to say that we have a warm relationship with the PCA down the road from us. Our congregations have joint worship services twice a year and I get together with the PCA minister for breakfast and prayer on a regular basis. We are certainly more similar than dissimilar and I would pray for our churches some day to work through the issues that separate our communions.
Robin McLain
Found this site from a link on the Aquila Report. Am I correct in assuming from this article that the OPC is TR?
Sam Logan
I have found the previous comments about this issue extremely good and helpful. Thanks especially to Camden and Sean. I have been an OPC Teaching Elder for 38 years; I have, with the knowledge and permission of my OPC Presbytery, worshiped in a PCA congregation for 35 years; and I worked for 27 years at a school which sought to serve both the PCA and the OPC. With that background, I would suggest several specific events/positions which help to provide an understanding of the difference between the OPC and the PCA. First, in 1982, the RPCES voted to “join” the PCA while, in 1986, the OPC declined to do so. [Although a majority of the OPC elders voting favored joining the PCA, that majority did not reach the required level of two-thirds. As a result of this 1986 vote, numerous OPC ministers who had supported “J&R” left the OPC and personally joined the PCA. Among them was Edmund Clowney.] Second, the PCA , as a result of an official action at its 2015 General Assembly is in a “Corresponding Relationship” with the EPC. The OPC has no official denominational relationship with the EPC. Third, the PCA was one of the founding members of the World Reformed Fellowship and is more heavily represented on the WRF Board than any one of the other 71 denominational members of the WRF. The OPC specifically declined to join the WRF even though, at the time it voted, one of its ministers was the CEO of the WRF and urged the OPC to join. I will leave it to others to interpret these events/positions but I do think they communicate some of the significant differences between the two denominations.
This article and all the comments are very helpful. I never could give an educated answer about the differences between the OPC and the PCA. Perhaps that’s why I was never quite sure why the OPC didn’t join the PCA during the time of “J&R” (and wasn’t quite sure which position to hold at the time). I knew that many of the OPC pastors and several OP churches joined the PCA after the OPC declined to do so.
There are quite a few conservative PCA churches in the South.
Lucas’ phrase of the PCA mindset in the early 70’s of the OPC — a “…smaller, separatist northern Presbyterian…” church — gets near the heart of the cultural divide that kept future PCA folks from considering the OPC in ’73. There was still too much ‘southern blood’ in the PCA…and too much distrust of their Northern counterparts.
Then there is this quote from VanTil about his former student, EJ Carnell: “I fear I shall again have to appear ungracious in dealing with it. Perhaps I was brought into the world to be a nuisance to others.” Sometimes for better and sometimes for worse, that explains a lot of the ‘ethos’ pervading the OPC. VanTil’s fingerprint is all over the OPC still; the OPC views evangelicalism as a ‘nuisance’!
John Muether
Sam Logan’s partial account of the OPC’s ecumenical initiatives may give a misleading picture. Yes, the RPCES voted to join the PCA in 1982, but so did the OPC (it was rejected by the PCA that time). Moreover the 1975 OPC-RPCES proposed plan of union was accepted by the OPC GA but rejected by the RPCES GA. So let’s not leave the impression that the OPC finds it uniquely hard to get along with others.
Also, it is true that the PCA is a member of WRF and the OPC is not. But the OPC is a member of the International Council of Reformed Churches while the PCA is not. We can debate which is a more robust expression of international Calvinism, but it is not fair to suggest that the OPC is ecumenically isolationist.
PS — Edmund Clowney did not leave the OPC in 1986 in the wake of the J&R vote. He transferred to the PCA two years earlier, in 1984, after his retirement from WTS-P in order to serve on the staff of Trinity PCA in Charlottesville, VA.
Robert T.
John Muether, thanks very much for providing balance to Sam Logan’s comments.
Vicki Sue
I wish I would have read this before I wasted my time going to an EPC. They claimed to be “reformed” and I thought maybe this might be the one!
I even came after the service the first time to talk to someone; I said I was a reformed Calvinist. They invited me to attend a Bible study on the Millennial using an R.C. Sproul Video. I was thrilled! (I’ve been a partner since 2010)
I thought I was home free. But when I returned I discovered Women elders and one of the worst sermons I have ever heard! I spent the whole sermon reading my reformed Bible.
Ironically, R.C. Sproul says if you have a Woman Pastor or Elder then you don’t have a Church!
A little leaven …………….
I will not go to any Presb. church or Methodist or Assembly of God or Church of God or Adventist the list goes on! I have been to eight or more. It can’t really be this bad, can it?
Debra Marlana
Yes it can…I see your post was months ago…but I am in same situation..I live in Central Texas in small town w/ 46 churchs …mostly Pentecostal/Baptist/Church of Christ & Charismatic…..I am spoiled from all the wonderful gifted pastors on Youtube…R.C Sproul/Derek Thomas/Ligon Duncan etc and cant hardly make myself go to the small fellowship of some Canadian ?…don’t really know what they are ? I ask when I first attended and they said…’well we just call ourselves Christians’??? They do however believe in election but do not hold to any confession of faith or creed? I love the all the people but there is NO pastor…everyone just meets and sits in Sanctuary reading verses in Bible aloud and then only the men can comment etc..which I am against women teaching men as well.! but when some young fellow makes a comment that is very unscriptural…no one says a word..totally ignore it and go to the next person reading aloud..+ it bothers me very much that in the sanctuary during this Service everyone is drinking coffee…which I believe is a disrespectful to the House of God….I want to belong to a Body of Believers in a Church but ???? not seeing one anywhere in my location or 100 miles….
I’m afraid it is that bad.
All these acronyms remind me of the Church of Scientology. I volunteered for them before I was saved. As a receptionist, i would take these ridiculous phone calls from other “Churches” and they would never us a persons name. They would say something like “this is the “OPC” calling for the PCA” and I would get so irritated! I wanted to say; JUST TELL ME THEIR STUPID NAME YOU JERK! Even as a lost pagan, I was able to figure out it was a cult! 10 years later they are still sending me mail!
Yvette dillman
Thank you for taking the time to write this. Do you believe a follow of Christ should hold both a pilgrim and an evangelist view. I believe a Christ centered view is “we are called out as pilgrims on a mission”.
I thank God for the reforming work He is doing on the hearts of so many followers of Christ and the impact it is having on the visible church. Thank you for your ministry. May God continue to make His name great among the nations. Thank you for keeping the dialogue going! Blessings, fellow sister in Christ.
Karen Johnston
I left the church because of the shift to what feels to me, too much like marketing. Pandering to a new generation with rock bands and giant video screens may be viewed as a requirement in order to “compete” and to attract the youth population but I find it enormously distracting and lacking in substance. Just one person’s opinion.
Greg Linse
Please do not give up on the Church. While our sin has corrupted it in many ways, God is still building it and there will always be a remnant as the Lord has promised. I’m not saying this in judgement of the PCA, but I say this, that most OPC churches worship in a simple, scriptural and meaningful way: Confession, reading the Word, prayer, preaching the Word and sacraments, all of which there is no marketing or pandering to a new generation. In fact, we have many young couples in our church plant here in Oshkosh, WI and are grateful that the Lord continues to mercifully and graciously grow us into a congregation that loves Him and glorifies Him. Don’t stay home or give up on what the Lord is doing! Be a part of it! Not only are you missing out on fellowship and growth that the Lord wants to give you, but you are losing out on the rest and look to heaven that the Lord wants to give you on the Lord’s day!
This article was enlightening. Thank you for writing it. I see that I have been gradually becoming more pilgrim as I’ve aged (and nearing 52).
Allen L> Willey
I am a pass member of Village PCA and PCA church near broad moor in Colorado springs. I now live in flint Texas. I hAve been thinking of changing my membership to the tyler PCA, but have not done so as yet. would to know more about the OPC churc in flint texas.
Ricky Parham
Hi, Camden, my name is rick parham. I attend Hope PCA church in Hot Dprings AR.
I came to reformed theology late in the game of life as it were. I came to the Lord in Pentecostalism, but Christ has been so Gracious as to bring me into reformed faith.
That being said, I love reformed forum, very insightful. But reading this article on the differences between the OPC & the PCA & always learning new terms of the reformed faith, can you tell me the differences between evangelical & pilgrim theology in our approach to gospel preaching & witness?
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Ricardo completes final stage of Lloyd’s Register Rail acquisition
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Successful completion of Chinese joint venture rail acquisition part owned by Lloyd’s Register Group in China
Ricardo Rail continues to grow its international footprint into the important Chinese rail market
Ricardo plc has confirmed today that, following Chinese government approval, the transfer of a small rail joint venture (JV) owned by Lloyd’s Register Group and CCS in China is now complete. This now concludes the transfer of the Lloyd’s Register Rail business to Ricardo.
“The Ricardo Rail business is performing well across its existing international footprint and with the addition of the Chinese JV, we are now well placed to maximize our position in this fast-growing and increasingly important rail market,” commented Ricardo plc CEO Dave Shemmans. “I would also like to extend a warm welcome to the former CCS LR JV employees who have today joined the Ricardo family.”
“China is an important rail market, having built the world’s largest high speed rail network over the last 15 years,” added Ricardo Rail managing director Paul Seller. “Almost 20,000 kilometres of new high speed lines carry 800m passengers per year – half of the total high speed rail traffic in the world. A key focus for the rail sector now is on urban transit systems with approvals or construction already started in over 80 cities. The export market, particularly across South East Asia, will also become increasingly important to its domestic equipment manufacturers.”
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Russian Circles Guidance Tour – Bucharest 12.11.2016 AB
Saturday night’s alright for fighting. That was the reason for us to attend last night the Bucharest leg of the tour which Russian Circles were doing in support of their latest album, Guidance, released in August 2016 on Sargent House Records.
For us this was the second time watching them live and we were anxious to see how the band will perform in Bucharest. I discovered them 3 years ago, just after the band released Memorial and opened Chelsea Wolfe‘s European Tour . I was really impressed how a band can sound so heavy, with only 3 members (and absolutely no vocals at all) so after the Parisian show we promised ourselves we’ll see them again someday.
Well, that someday came yesterday, in Bucharest’s Control Club, the perfect location for such a show.
On this tour, Russian Circles were joined as an opening guest by Helen Money, an American cello player who has also worked, besides her collaboration with Russian Circles for their Geneva album, with artists like Mono, Anthrax and Jarboe. To be honest, I didn’t listen to her music before, so I did not know what to expect.
We arrived at the venue exactly when she started her show and I cannot say that I was touched by the angel of music. I cannot deny her musical prowess when handling this impossible instrument, but something, inside, did not resonate with me at all. I kinda liked the track Rift, cause it was more metal, so to speak, but that’s all. I noticed she had a lot of effects on that cello and that was interesting since I never knew a cello can sound like that.
I liked that she received the proper appreciation from the audience, because she really knows her stuff and every artist should have his work appreciated by the public, otherwise the concerts will become pointless. The crowded Control gave a warm round of applause and, after her show ended, the small and necessary change over began, preparing the stage for Russian Circles.
Somewhere around 10:10 PM, the 3 guys got up on stage and started their show with the first two tracks from Guidance, Asa and Vorel. Let me just say that some might find post rock/metal quite a boring genre (they might be not that wrong, in my opinion) but that might happen especially on disc. Live, some bands really manage to stand out and create/inflict a powerful impression upon the listener since they somehow manage to sound in a different, heavier way.
I can say this about Hemelbestormer, which were amazing during their performance last August at DBE, Aluk Todolo, Cecilia Eyes and even Mono. Russian Circles make no difference and live, these 3 dudes really kick some serious ass. The style changes completely and that linear, somehow boring sound is suddenly replaced by a much heavier approach that instantly smashes your brains and stomach (especially if you stay in the first rows).
The heaviness these 3 guys play with makes the vocal lines almost obsolete and that way you can just concentrate on their playing style, which is absolutely stunning. While Brian (bass/guitar) and Mike (guitar) are the ones in charge of setting the mood, Dave (drums) is the spine of this band. This drummer is one bad motherfucker who can turn his drum set into a piece of clay at the end of the show. The energy he consumes when hitting those cymbals and the heaviness of the double bass drums are the foundation of all the Russian Circles music is based upon.
Watching those guys get into the mood and performing 100% really made me proud and happy for having the chance to witness such a perfect display of musicianship. The set list they chose was very inspired, comprising songs from almost all their albums to date, with a small, obvious balance inclined towards Guidance.
After the 2 songs mentioned above, the band played Deficit, from Memorial, which is one of my favorite Russian Circles songs ever and I was extremely happy to hear it (again). It’s that type of song which grows from a slow tempo into something so heavy that at some point you think everything will come down on you, crushing your fragile being under its weight. An amazing song which I am very glad they still include in their live shows, it’s already a classic.
From Memorial, we were taken a step closer to our days, with the track 309 from Empros, released 5 years ago. After 309, the band moved back to 2016 with Afrika, switching again to an old album, Station, from which Harper Lewis was played.
The show ended with Calla (Guidance) and the band left the stage in a sea of applause. The public requested an encore and Russian Circles returned to perform another track from Station, the 7 minute long Younglblood.
At the end of the end of the song, it was obvious the show will end there, the musicians were exhausted after a little more than one hour on stage and the effort took its toll.
Before ending this short review of such a remarkable night, I need to mention and thank the promoter, Doru/Kogaionon, for doing a fantastic job with this show (and all the shows he has put on, actually). He’s one of those lone wolves who, even if they do not gain much from this, are stubborn enough to continue doing it. We need these promoters, we need this kind of concerts, with bands that are highly appreciated abroad in the so-called “mainstream” underground and, most importantly, are at the peak of their career.
The atmosphere last night was amazing, the merchandise stand was full of goodies (lots of vinyls, cd-s and shirts), the sound was impeccable and the 2 bands performed incredibly.
Sometimes I just wish I could see more concerts like these here in Bucharest instead of travelling abroad to catch the bands on tour.
Matei 13.11.2016
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Coyote Papers: WCCFL 18 (2000)
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JournalCoyote Papers (9)Coyote Papers: The University of Arizona Working Papers in Linguistics (4)AuthorsMcGill University (2)University of Arizona (2)Bird, Sonya (1)Castillo, Juan Carlos (1)Chung, Chin Wan (1)Curtin, Suzanne (1)de Lacy, Paul (1)Goh, Gwang-Yoon (1)Hendricks, Sean (1)Hosoi, Hironobu (1)View MoreTypesArticle (13)
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Coyote Papers: Working Papers in Linguistics is a publication of the Linguistics Circle, the Graduate Student Organization of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona.
Papers from the Poster Session of the 18th Annual West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 18), Edited by Peter Norquest, Jason D. Haugen, Sonya Bird. A special volume of the Coyote Papers: The University of Arizona Working Papers in Linguistics.
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Papers from the Poster Session of the 18th Annual West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 18)
University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000
Reconstruction and Linearity in Long-Distance Cleft Constructions
Tanaka, Hidekazu; Kizu, Mika; University of British Columbia; McGill University; University of Durham (University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000)
This paper is concerned with cleft constructions and reconstruction effects in English and Japanese. Japanese cleft constructions involve two different syntactic dependencies, movement and deletion. This assumption explains facts that have not been reported in the literature. The reflexive pronoun in (la) and the reciprocal pronoun in (lb) in the focus phrase can be bound either by the higher subject or by the lower subject in the presupposition. In clear contrast, the lower subject in Japanese cleft constructions cannot bind anaphors in the focus phrase. In (2), only the higher subject can bind the anaphors in the focus phrase. What explains the contrast between (1) and (2)? We argue that an operator in Japanese moves from the position adjoined to the lower clause (tk in (3)), not from the thematic gap position (ek). It is shown that the dependency (ii) in (3) stems from movement, and (i) from deletion. Since Opk (or the focus phrase associated with it) reconstructs only to the position of tk, the anaphor can only be bound by the higher subject, Sallyi-Nom.
Yes-no Ii questions in Russian: Interaction of syntax and phonology?
Rudnitskaya, E.; The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000)
In this paper, I look at yes-no questions in Russian with the question clitic Ii. I address the question of interaction of syntax and phonology in the derivation of these questions. I show that the phonological operation Prosodic Inversion is involved is required for the derivation of Ii questions. That is, syntactic movement alone cannot derive 1 W li questions. My derivation of li questions involves two steps: the syntactic step of the focused phrase preposing and the phonological step of Prosodic Inversion. It also accounts for the fact that the host of li must be the focus of the question. Li is both a focus particle and a question particle, and, as such, it has strong [+FOC] and [+Q] features. Li is base-generated in Foe. Li's [+FOC] feature attracts the focused phrase preposing to SpecFocP. Then li moves to C and gets inverted with the first PWd of SpecFocP.
The Effect of Focus on Argument Structure: Depictives vs Resultatives
Noh, Bokyung; The University of Texas at Austin (University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000)
A variety of linguistic evidences have been to support the assumption that depictives and resultatives are different in their thematic structures with a main predicate, despite they appear identical on the surface. Both depictives and resultative contain a subject NP, a verb, an object NP, and an adjective following the object NP, as shown in (1)-(2). However, the thematic relation between the verbs and the adjectives are different. In depictives, the adjective characterizes the object NP in relation to the action or process described by the verb. Thus, (la) means: 'I ate the beef and at the time I ate it, it was raw.' The NP is characterized at the time of the action of the verb. In the resultatives, the final adjective characterizes the state of the object NP, a state which results from the action or process described by the verb. Thus, (2a) means: I caused the window to be clean by wiping it; the adjective describes the final state of the NP. (1) a. I ate the beef raw. b. I ate the food cold (depictives) (2) a. I wiped the window clean. b. I kicked the door open. (resultatives) Recently it has been proposed that the argument structure is reflected by sentence accentuation (Schmerling 1976, Gusenhoven 1983, Selkirk 1984). The main claim in the focus theory (e.g., accent percolation theory) is that in a focus constituent consisting of a head and an argument, the accent is realized on the argument, everything else being equal (Gussenhoven 1983, Selkirk 1984). Uhmann (1991) proposes that if focus is assigned to a constituent, all the phonological phrases of that constituent bear an accent. She also points out that a head and an argument form a single phonological phrase, whereas a head and an adjunct form a separate phonological phrase, Following Uhmann (1991), I assume that a pitch accent is the evidence for phonological units and manifests focused words or constituents. The accentual differences between head-argument and head-adjunct are clearly shown by Gussenhoven (1992) as follows: when a head-argument structure is in focus, as in (3), the accent falls on the argument, tent, while when a head-adjunct structure is in focus, as in (4), an accent is realized on the head smoked and the adjunct tent, which are in separate phonological phrases. Likewise, both gerookt 'smoked', and tent 'tent' are accented in Dutch. The phonological phrase is represented by parenthesis, the focus structure is by bracket and the accented words are capitalized. (3) a. John [ ( stayed in the TENT) l b. John [ ( in the TENT gebleven)] F (4) a. John [(SMOKED)(in the TENT)] F b. John [(heeft in the TENT) (gerookt)]F (Gussenhoven 1992: 94) Does the distinction between an argument and an adjunct exist? My goal in this paper is to investigate the issue of how the theory of focus applies to the different types of secondary constructions, namely depictive and resultative constructions. The experiments are conducted to examine the statuses of resultative and depictive constituents in terms of their focus marking.
Locative inversion and optional features
Kim, Jeong-Seok; Korea University (University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000)
Some locative PPs in English can be optionally fronted in a certain environment, as the following examples show: 1 ( 1) a. John rolled down the hill b. Down the hill rolled JOHN Note that in (lb) the logical subject and the verb are inverted. Example (lb) is called a locative inversion construction. One of the controversial issues in locative inversion is the location of the inverted PP in (1 b) (see, for example, Stowell 1981, Coopmans 1989, Hoekstra and Mulder 1990, Bresnan 1994, Watanabe 1994, Collins 1997, and Jang 1997). Recently, this construction has been given more attention by Collins (1997) with respect to global vs. local economy. In this paper, I explore the locative inversion construction in English within a minimalist framework (cf. Chomsky 1995). In section 2, I review CoUins' (1997) analysis of locative inversion, while section 3 provides an alternative analysis. Lastly, in section 4, I discuss its theoretical implications on the economy of grammar.
A Dual Function of tokoro in the CENP Construction
Hosoi, Hironobu; McGill University (University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000)
In this paper, I will discuss the semantics of the Japanese so-called "Counter-Equi NP" (henceforth, CENP) Construction, given in (I). (1) CENP Construction Keisatsu-wa [ doroboo-ga nige-ru ]-tokoro-o tsukamae-ta. police-TOP burglar-NOM escape-PRES-occasion-ACC arrest-PAST 'The police arrested a burglar on the occasion during which he/she was escaping.' The CENP construction is similar to the so-called "internally headed relative clause" (henceforth, IHRC) construction, given in (2), in that, in the CENP construction, an NP within the embedded tokoro-clause is interpreted as an argument of the matrix verb. (2) IHRC Construction Keisatsu-wa [ doroboo-ga nige-ru ]-no-o tsukamae-ta. police-TOP burglar-NOM escape- PRES-NO-ACC arrest-PAST 'The police arrested a burglar on the occasion during which he/she was escaping.' In both (1) and (2), the embedded subject doroboo 'burglar' is interpreted as an object of the matrix verb tsukamaer 'arrest'. In this paper, I argue that the noun tokoro semantically has a dual function. To be more specific, it is a generalized quantifier over an entity and at the same time an event when it combines with the tokoro-clause, adopting Srivastav's (1991) generalized quantifier approach to Hindi correlatives.
Bare-Consonant Reduplication in Yokuts: Minimal Reduplication by Compression
Hendricks, Sean; University of Arizona (University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000)
In Y okuts, a Penutian language, there is a pattern of reduplication in which the reduplicant surfaces as a copy of the first consonant and the last consonant of the root. This type of reduplication falls under the category of bare-consonant reduplication (Sloan 1988, Hendricks 1999), which is characterized as being a single consonant C, or a string of two consonants CC. Such examples of reduplication are incompatible with analyses in which the shape of the reduplicant is defined by a prosodic template constraint. In this paper, I present data illustrating this pattern of reduplication in Y okuts and show how this data cannot be accounted for in Optimality Theory by a prosodic template. Also, I will provide an analysis without a template constraint, consistent with current accounts of reduplication (McCarthy & Prince 1994, 1997; Gafos 1997; Walker 1998; Nelson, to appear; Urbanczyk, to appear). This analysis is based on a compression model (Hendricks 1999), where the shape of the reduplicant is determined by constraints that determine morpheme ordering.
What Does Diachrony Say About English Tough-Constructions?
Goh, Gwang-Yoon; The Ohio State University (University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000)
Introduction (1) English tough-constructions (TCs, e.g., Bill is easy to please, Mary is hard to work with) have caused considerable controversy about their correct analysis and this controversy can be roughly described by two main types of analyses. The first type, which can be called "strong connectivity" analysis, assumes syntactic connectivity between the tough-subject (i.e., the subject of the main clause in a tough-sentence) and the gap in the infinitival phrase/clause. Thus, studies along this line argue that the tough-subject is not the true subject of the tough-adjective but is generated as the object of a verb or preposition in the infinitival phrase/clause and moved to the subject position (Postal 1971, Postal & Ross 1971, Berman 1973, Postal 1974, Comrie & Matthews 1990, etc.)(2). This position is supported by the well-known fact that typical toughadjectives such as easy, hard, and difficult generally have no or little semantic effect on their subjects. On the other hand, the second type, which can be called "weak connectivity" analysis, argues that there is no syntactic connectivity between the tough-subject and the gap and that toughadjectives subcategorize for an infinitival phrase with a gap. Thus, early transformational studies such as Ross (1967: 231), Akmajian (1972), and Lasnik & Fiengo (1974) say that the object of the complement of a tough-adjective has been deleted. Government-Binding (GB) theory, for example, Chomsky (1977: 102-110, 1981: 308-314), proposes the movement of an empty operator that binds the trace in the object position and is coindexed with the subject. Furthermore, although no movement of an empty operator is posited, the analysis of HeadDriven Phrase Structure Grammar is similar to that of GB theory in that it does not assume syntactic connectivity. Thus, Pollard & Sag (1994) analyze TCs as a lexical fact about some special predicates and assume that such predicates as easy, difficult, take, and cost subcategorize for infinitive complements containing an accusative NP gap which is coindexed with the subject. Even though the second type of approach has long been more favored by current syntactic frameworks, it is not clear whether there is sufficient empirical evidence to support this more dominant, second type of analysis ( cf. Jones 1983 )(3). Since synchronic linguistics doesn't seem to be able to resolve this controversy one way or the other, what then does the diachrony of the relevant parts of English grammar say about the analysis of TCs? Does diachrony argue for any particular position?
A Correspondence Theory of Morpheme Order
de Lacy, Paul; University of Massachusetts, Amherst (University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000)
The aim of this paper is to explain how the grammar distinguishes prefixes from suffixes. More generally, a theory that accounts for the variation in direction of attachment in both affixes and bound roots is presented, set within Optimality Theory. The core of the proposal is that direction of attachment is a property of morphemes; specifically, direction of attachment is indicated in the phonological string of an morpheme by an empty position. More formally, I propose that phonological strings can be partial functions from positions to phonological features; 'empty positions' are just those positions which do not map onto phonological features. The formalism behind this proposal is presented in section 2. The empirical implications of this approach are examined in section 3. Two phenomena are shown to follow straightforwardly from the present approach: (I) the implicational relationship between prefixes and suffixes (if a language has prefixes it also has suffixes, but not vice-versa - Hawkins & Gilligan 1988), and (2) the Affix Ordering generalization (that class I affixes must appear closer to the root than class II affixes - Siegel 1974). The typology of morpheme types produced by this theory is also discussed.
Size Restrictors and Prosodic Structure in the Acquisition of Stress
Curtin, Suzanne; University of Southern California (University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000)
This paper examines the stages of development in the acquisition of Dutch main stress by children. In the early stages of prosodic development, there are strong restrictions on word size. These restrictions can be explained by the high ranking of alignment constraints (McCarthy & Prince 1993) over faithfulness (McCarthy & Prince 1995). Moreover, the truncation and early prominence patterns are due to adherence to Strict Layering (Selkirk 1984) which emerges from the constraint ranking. The subsequent violation of Strict Layering (Weak Layering, Ito & Mester 1992) at later stages arises from constraint re-ranking. This analysis provides a unified account of child language and adult grammar. The development of the child's grammar moves from unmarked to marked structure (Demuth 1997) building on the units of the Prosodic Hierarchy (Selkirk 1980). Working within the Optimality Framework (Prince & Smolensky 1993), using well-attested constraints, the relationships between stages of acquisition are explained through constraint re-ranking. The paper is organized as follows. First I provide a general overview of the stages of stress acquisition. I then discuss on each stage individually focussing first on the size restrictions found in the early stages of development before turning to stages 3 and 4.
The behavior of velar nasal and syllabification in Korean
Chung, Chin Wan; Lim, Byung-jin; Indiana University (University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000)
Across languages including Korean, a string C1V1C2V2C3 is generally syllabified as C1 V 1 .C2 V 2C3 but not as C1 V 1 C2.V 2C3. This is largely due to the fact that languages prefer a syllable with an onset, which is explained by Ito (1986) as a Universal Core Syllable Condition or by Prince and Smolenky (1993) as an optimality-theoretic constraint 'Onset'. In Korean, a C1V1C2V2C3 string is generally syllabified as C1V1.C2V2C3. However, when the velar nasal lr.JI is C2, it is not syllabified as the onset of the second syllable but rather as the coda of the preceding syllable. The main purpose of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, we investigate the behavior of the velar nasal with respect to syllabification in syllable coda position. On the other hand, we also investigate the variation among speakers regarding strategies to avoid an onsetless syllable over a morpheme boundary in which the second morpheme begins with the glide /y/ in Korean, as well as the variation between Seoul dialect (SD) and Kyungsang dialect (KD) with respect to ways to deal with the velar nasal in the syllable coda position. We provide an analysis within Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993), particularly the more enhanced version called Correspondence Theory (McCarthy and Prince 1995). This paper tries to shed more light on various cases of syllabification in Korean. The organization of this paper is as follows. In section 2, we present the data. In section 3, we propose optimality-theoretic constraints and their interaction and provide an analysis based on the constraints and their ranking. Finally, we sum up the paper in section 4.
Towards a Universal Account of Possessor Raising
Castillo, Juan Carlos; University of Maryland (University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000)
This paper explores the nature of possessive relations in Universal Grammar, and their involvement in a syntactic process known as Possessor Raising or, as it is usually called in the Relational Grammar (RG) tradition, Possessor Ascension. Possessor Raising can be defined as the transformation that takes the D-structure possessor of a direct object in the sentence and assigns to it a surface grammatical relation (GR) to the verb of the sentence.
Diminutive Bare-Consonant Reduplication in Stl'atl'imcets
Bird, Sonya; University of Arizona (University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000)
Stl'atl'imcets, otherwise known as Lillooet, is a Salish language spoken in British Columbia, Canada. Stl' atl' imcets exhibits 4 different patterns of reduplication, plus combinations 1• In this paper I explore one of these patterns: the diminutive bare-consonant reduplication. The goal is threefold: 1) propose and Optimality Theory (OT) account of the diminutive bare-consonant reduplication in Stl'atl'imcets, 2) discuss the role of prosodic templates in reduplication, and 3) explore the use of morphologically defined constraints. The organization of the paper is as follows: first I present the basic facts of reduplication and account for them using the interaction between two constraints, REALIZEMORPHEME and CONTIGUITY. I show that together, these constraints avoid having to posit prosodic templates associated with the reduplicant and the base. Not only is it unnecessary to refer to prosodic templates, but doing so in fact achieves the wrong results. Second, I discuss cases where reduplication requires vowel epenthesis and propose that CONTIGUITY is morphologically defined, such that schwa-epenthesis does not violate it. Third, I look at reduplication involving consonant clusters, and show that the reduplicant must align to a stressed mora, rather than a stressed syllable. Finally, I conclude by discussing the implications of the proposed account, with respect to the need for prosodic templates (or lack thereof) and for morphologically defined constraints.
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FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD - Better than Expected
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FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD – Better than Expected
When FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM released in 2016 I was ropable, I detested the movie with a passion. It was a cute cash grab for more Potter dollars. People wanted more Potter and it was just far enough removed that it was shite, have watched it again and still not a fan, although I love Eddie Redmayne and it now holds a better story with the sequel continuing the plot. When the trailers started for FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD I groaned, even felt the same when tickets to the premiere arrived. But I have seen it now and while it is still Potterverses away from being magical it is one epically huge improvement on the first.
FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD releases in Australia tomorrow, Nov 14th from Warner Bros Pictures/ Roadshow Films. It is rated PG and runs for 138mins.
BY JASON KING
FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD SYNOPSIS:
In an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plans of raising pure-blood wizards to rule over all non-magical beings, Albus Dumbledore enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided world.
Jude Law and Joshua Shea
THANK GOD – MUCH BETTER THAN I WAS EXPECTING!!
FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD is what the first instalment should have been. Fast paced, beautifully shot, and a decent story that ties into the Potterverse. It still has a long way to go but apparently there will be FIVE FILMS IN TOTAL, they have plenty of films left to get it right. I still think the biggest hurdle for the franchise to overcome is storyline, this entire franchise is based on a fictional text book in the Harry Potter movies written by Newt Scamander.
Where the Potter movies gave us all books to read multiple times to get the story into our soul we are guests in the Beasts Universe having to get all the story from the screen. As such the films suffer from over exposition, every one of the million characters has a backstory that needs explaining. If we had books they could do this less onscreen because we would already know them in detail. Instead we barely tread water keeping up with subplots and exposition.
But FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD does manage to get a lot right. Less of the animals but more cuteness when they are onscreen. This does have a downside as now Newt is acting more like an Auror and this completely goes against the title “Fantastic Beasts” – was a Magizookeeper’s story too boring? So all the darkness was added? This is probably the biggest conundrum of the Fantastic Beasts movies, the beasts are basically irrelevant.
Callum Turner, Zoe Kravitz and Eddie Redmayne
QUITE THE CONVOLUTED MESS BUT MOMENTS OF GENIUS:
The most important parts I love are the forming of origins in the Harry Potter world. Lots of ancestors of Potter characters are present and the forming of good and bad generational legacies happen on screen. Seeing the origin of Nagini, seeing the Lestrange future forming and seeing Nicolas Flamel onscreen all gave me goosebumps. But I literally squealed each time we ventured to Hogwarts – it was like seeing an old friend and it put me in my happy place.
BUT – the subplots and most of the story is a mess. Dan Fogler’s Jacob Kowalski is a waste of film, he had no purpose besides being a likeable character from the first movie. Nagini had little meaning either and while megalomaniac Grindelwald has sound reasons (in theory) for starting the pureblood movement and turning the magic community against muggles his motives are less clear and his rally towards the end of the movie had a lot less impact than it deserved. He gave a talk about war and how dangerous muggles are but one dead witch from self defence is not cause enough to turn the magic community against the non-wizarding humanity.
THE RIDICULOUSLY HUGE CAST:
The cast has definitely grown on me and I hate to say it but I am excited for the third instalment now. Eddie Redmayne is superb and I love how he is less of a bumbling idiot and more a nuanced, if definitely on-the-autism-spectrum, wizard with a lot of skills. He is someone to rely on in FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD and I have started to bond with him and other characters. The relationship with his brother is genuine, as is his almost father/son relationship with Dumbledore. I have to give special mention to Joshua Shea, who plays young Newt when he is studying at Hogwarts. Shea perfectly displays every single mannerism of Redmayne’s Newt – I honestly believed it was a young Redmayne.
I am keen to see where Newt’s brother’s character heads in following instalments, Callum Turner has a good presence onscreen. Zoe Kravitz’s Leta Lestrange also has a story arc I am eager to follow and I really hope they sort out Jacob and Queenie’s storyline. Tina Goldstein is great onscreen but she has little purpose in this.
I love where Ezra Miller’s story is heading but I really hope the epically slow build to his character finally pays off. Jude Law nails Dumbledore, he is a wonderful younger version of Michael Gambon’s Dumbledore and I need to see more of him!
Finally Johnny Depp as Grindelwald; everyone hated the casting. It works really well however. I love seeing Depp deliver as a dark and evil character that isn’t as cartoonish as his previous roles. I thought he was chilling in most of his scenes even if his accent is inconsistent. Grindelwald’s story can go many places in the upcoming films and i’m keen to see what Depp does with it.
Claudia Kim and Ezra Miller
FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD is going to split viewers. I read one article the other day stating critics are ripping into the film so harshly they are like Death Eaters. But in all honesty I thought it was eons more entertaining and with more purpose than the first film. For the first time ever I am actually interested to see where this story heads.
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Turkey’s Military Acts Seen As Aggressively Escalating War Tensions?
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Is this a military conflict brewing between Greece and Turkey?
Read: http://www.chaniapost.eu/2016/10/19/dogfights-in-aegean-amid-tensions-with-turkey/
Greece complains to NATO over Turkish submarines in Aegean and Cretan Sea…
Read: http://www.chaniapost.eu/2016/10/09/greece-complains-to-nato-over-turkish-submarines-in-aegean-and-cretan-sea/
Turkish fighter jets entered Greece’s air space Wednesday [19 Oct 2016], prompting the response of two Greek aircraft, and leading to a dogfight between the two sides, the first such incident of its kind since a failed military coup in Turkey on July 15.
Two Turkish F-16s violated Greek air space southeast of Rhodes and south of Kastellorizo shortly before 4 p.m. and were pursued by two Greek fighter jets dispatched from a base at Souda Bay, according to Defense Ministry officials. A separate pair of Turkish jets then entered Greek air space and engaged in a dogfight with the Greek aircraft. The Turkish jets were all armed, according to defense officials.
Greek-Turkish relations have been strained in recent weeks following comments by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other Turkish officials questioning international treaties that establish the borders between the two countries. A misinterpretation, however, of more recent comments by Erdogan, which suggested that he had called for a referendum in the Greek region of Thrace, needlessly aggravated the situation. …Read more.
Title: The United States Gets Ready for Nuclear War
Turkish Military Forces Violate Syrian Territory in Northern Aleppo:
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Turkey Warns World War III May Erupt as a Result of Russia-U.S. Tensions Over Syria
Pointing at surging tensions between Washington and Moscow, Ankara’s Deputy prime minister says world is ‘on the brink of a large regional or global war.’ Turkish deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus has warned that Syria’s civil war held a risk of plunging nations into a new global war, according to an AFP report. According to …Read more.
Turkey Supports Daesh Offensive on Kurdish Forces in Northern Aleppo, Syrian
Turkey’s army is providing cover to Daesh militants during their attacks on Kurdish forces in the north of the Syrian province of Aleppo, Kurdish politician and …Read more.
Pentagon: Turkey Not Included in Air Operations in Mosul
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Turkey has reportedly invited Russia to bid on an air defense system that has become a sort of geopolitical bellwether, suggesting that Ankara may be using its rapprochement with Moscow to send a message to its Western partners. On October 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin made his first visit to Turkey since the two countries fell out …Read more.
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Bulgarian customs officers have seized 29.785 kg of heroin at the Malko Tarnovo checkpoint on the country’s border with Turkey, authorities said Tuesday. The illicit drugs, split into 56 packets, were found on Monday in a car entering from Turkey, the country’s Prosecutor’s Office said on its website. The driver of the vehicle, a Turkish …Read more.
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7 comments on “Turkey’s Military Acts Seen As Aggressively Escalating War Tensions?”
Lost Trust In Institutional Governance
Title: FRAMING & BLAMING PUTIN FOR WW3
Rumors of War and Rigged U.S. Elections:
Title: Turkey Instigating War With Greece
Title: URGENT! This brings chills to my bones Could this be it? please share this now!
Review Your Emergency and pre-war checklist:
Title: Major Energy weapon, Clinton or Trump pulled from US presidential election? currency reset 2016?
Title: THE WORLD WILL RETURN TO GOLD — Doug Casey
This Is Bad And Will Get Worse!
Not only is the mass media, along with Central Banks, Corporate Controlled Governments, and other bank controlled entities in a feeding frenzy on the unaware citizens and defenseless populous, but on the horizon is their new world order plan to…
Illegal Industries & Money Laundering:
International Drug Trade
Banking Cartel
Mass Deception/Psyops/Propaganda/
Compulsory Education Are Indoctrination Centers
Population Control/Social Engineering/Geoengineering/GMOs/Engineered Viruses/Chemical & Biological Warfare/Fluoride Drinking Water/Sustainability Environmental Policies from centralized control centers and think-tank organizations.
And some individuals are not capable of seeing conspiracies that are in front of their faces!
Title: The Wikileaks Bombshell You Never Heard About
The Death Of The Mainstream Media:
Title: Wikileaks Just Killed What’s Left of the Pathetic Mainstream Media
Rigged U.S. Elections:
Title: Under Cover Operation Exposes Unethical Practices of the DNC
Russia’s War Games Seen As Warning
An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a guided ballistic missile with a minimum range of 5,500 kilometres (3,400 mi) primarily designed for nuclear war…
Title: Russia’s War Games Moves ICBM Closer To Europe
Its About Control – Control Everything
[Ok, everything is rigged and manipulated when “they” want to. When things are favorable to their plans then less manipulation is needed, however in volatile times such as today then the evidence suggest heavy, frequent, and deadly interventions are taking place, the awareness of the hidden agendas and their geopolitical plans becomes clear and their past criminal activities are better understood as to how contemporary society has developed to this current sorry state of affairs.
I ask you, WHAT ARE THE PILGRIMS DOING TODAY? ~Ron]
BRICS See Aggressive Globalism as Antidote to Economic Failure:
Title: Controlled Demolition of World Economy by Satanist leaders of the World
BRICS, Putin Secretly Aligned With West, Seek Aggressive Globalism
This summit provides yet more evidence that at the very top, the BRICs are aligned with the Western controllers of London’s City.
This has always been our theory and history shows this to be true.
Wall Street tycoons traveled to Russia dressed up as Red Cross workers to ensure that Lenin won the day and communism was established in Russia.
Supposedly Mao attended Yale Divinity School in China and was inducted into the notorious (Illuminati) Skull and Bones fraternity.
The head of Germany during World War I was actually the grandson of Queen Victoria. Hitler was funded by Western central and commercial banks.
Why should the BRICs be any different? The term BRICs was invented by a Goldman Sachs banker.
We are supposed to believe that the BRICs are going their own way and are challenging the West on numerous economic and military issues.
stuartbramhall says:
No military could escalate war tensions more than the US military – no contest there.
Agreed,No contest there.
But war should not be a contest, no?
People in every country must face governments’ war campaigns, and I do not see us forgetting the poster-child for war mongering by the U.S. government.
And talking about Turkey’s military, I saw this today:
Title: A New Revelation from Newsbud’s Sibel Edmonds: “Turkey’s Never-Admitted-to Nuclear Capabilities”
Russia’s evidence proving the involvement of Belgian Air Force jets in a recent airstrike on a Syrian village that killed four civilians:
https://www.rt.com/news/363640-russia-evidence-belgium-airstrikes/
The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Van Meeuwen on Friday.
“During the conversation with Van Meeuwen, First Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov said that Moscow was puzzled by Belgium’s ongoing denial of the fact that the Belgian Air Force carried out an airstrike that killed civilians on the outskirts of Aleppo on October 18 of this year,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
“The Belgian diplomat [Van Meeuwen] was presented with evidence showing involvement of the Belgian Air Force in the airstrike on the village of Hassadjek. It was also mentioned that detailed info on the technical aspects of the flight of the two F-16 jets had been given to Belgium’s military attaché in Moscow by the Russian Ministry of Defense.”
NATO Agrees to Expand Naval, Air Patrols in Black Sea
NATO has agreed to come up with a “coordination body” to manage activity in the Black Sea, a step toward formalizing a NATO presence in the region that Russia considers to be its sphere of influence.
Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey — the three NATO members on the Black Sea — have been tasked with coming up with a plan to increase the alliance’s naval and sea patrols in the region, Romanian Defense Minister Mihnea Motoc said on October 27. That decision was made following a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels.
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The State, by Peter Kosminsky – Channel 4 TV, August 20th – 24th.
August 24, 2017 August 24, 2017 / rosiemcandrewwriting / Leave a comment
What an astounding production! I didn’t expect to like this series about British recruits drawn to join IS in Syria, and I nearly didn’t watch it at all. Perhaps I thought it would be heavily propagandist, presenting the young Muslims as hate-filled fanatics, and foment yet more prejudice against Muslims in general, regardless of the fact that those who choose to go and fight (or stay and commit acts of terror) are an extremely small minority. Or that in contrast, it might serve to entice more young believers to leave their families and sacrifice their lives for a bitter cause. Continue reading →
Wordsworth’s White Wife – Review 1
April 17, 2017 April 17, 2017 / rosiemcandrewwriting / Leave a comment
Review by Frank Birbal Singh, Emeritus Professor of Post-Colonial Literature at York University, Toronto, Canada.
“Rosie’s documentary zeal in meticulously cataloguing social, cultural, and political aspects of her experience in Guyana, with a sense of wide-eyed wonder, in spite of frustration and grief, is nothing less than exemplary in Wordsworth’s White Wife. ” Continue reading →
Cultures on the Cusp in 1970s Guyana – a review by Chris Cormack
in the Hastings Online Times (http://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/arts-culture/literature/wordsworth-mcandrew)
A newly published book by author and Hastings resident, Rosie McAndrew, gives important insights into the nature of inter-racial relationships and an historically key period in the development of multi-culturalism, namely the 1960s/70s when old cultural props were de-stabilised and emerging nations were to develop a new cultural pride and identity, writes Chris Cormack.
Rosie McAndrew’s memoir Wordsworth’s White Wife works on a number of planes; as a simple memoir of an extraordinary relationship with the odds set against it; as a historic memoir of two nations on the cusp, sixties’ Britain self-questioning of long held hierarchical and ethical codes of society and Guyana (formerly British Guiana) seeking its own new cultural identity after recent independence from Britain in a cultural ‘melting pot’ that reflected multi-racial Guyana. Given Rosie’s philological background (French and Spanish), it is also a fascinating exploration of linguistic melding and development, as creole language and culture is brought to prominence by a remarkable man for the cultural recognition that it undoubtedly deserves. Through the linguistic devices the reader is able to glean important insights into life and culture in 1970s Guyana. Continue reading →
Review in the Hastings Independent by Christine Sanderson
When Wordsworth McAndrew died in 2008, he was hailed in his home country of Guyana as a ‘National Treasure’ and the voice of Guyanese folklore. But to Rosie McAndrew, who lives locally near to Ore village, he was her ex-husband and an influence that changed her life completely.
‘Mac’, as Rosie usually called him, was ten years older than her and already well-known in 1968 when the two first met. Both were attending courses at the BBC in London, his in connection with his job in broadcasting and hers to prepare her for Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) – in the same town, Georgetown, Guyana, working for Broadcasts for Schools (BS) her first real job as a young graduate. There was an instant attraction well before either knew much about the other. Continue reading →
Darcus Howe & Tariq Ali re.Partition, Channel 4, 1987
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Tariq Ali & Darcus Howe,
Executive producers of ‘Partition’,
Channel Four TV
I am writing to congratulate you on the excellence of ‘Partition’; it was beautifully scripted, filmed, acted and directed – one of the most sensitively handled productions I have seen for a long time.
The composition of individual shots, whole scenes, and the relationship between them was extremely imaginative and thought-provoking; the pacing was courageously unhurried, and the cumulative image of the cruelty of partition was powerfully but unostentatiously portrayed. Brilliant!
So please pass on my congratulations to the director and everyone else concerned with the production; when is your next one, and when can this be repeated?
Thank you again, and very best wishes for future productions.
In a Free State, by V S Naipaul
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Soon after my return from 5 years in Guyana in the early 1970s, I submitted this piece as part of my bid to review for the TLS or the TES. In response I was invited to define the areas I would like to specialise in, and foolishly uncertain which to suggest, delayed replying too long, and let the opportunity slip…
In a Free State, by V S Naipaul.
This novel takes the form of variations on a theme. It is written in five sections: a prologue, three separate narratives, and an epilogue – and while these sections are unconnected in terms of plot or character, they are all consistent with the theme of the isolation and insularity of expatriates. Continue reading →
The Poetry of Alain Grandbois
I wrote this appreciation back in 1967, in my final year at University, where as part of my degree in French and Drama I studied French Canadian Literature. Some of Grandbois’ poetry can be found in the collection “Classiques Canadiens”, as chosen and presented by Jacques Brault.
In much of his poetry, Alain Grandbois appears condemned to a restless journey through night, rain, endless streets marked by the impotent illumination of street lamps, exclusion from the existence of fellow men, and the gradual disintegration of contact with a loved woman – to a “périple” of perpetual solitude. In this nightmare, place succeeding place in a filmic progression, as he makes a desperate, misunderstood, unanswered cry for contact – with another, or with an ideal that will justify the chaos:
“Une colonne d’allégresse”
– he is obsessed with the evanescence of life, and the ugly manifestations of death among the living, and of decay among the dead:
“…ces trop beaux visages détruits”. Continue reading →
Hidden Figures – 10; La La Land – Nil
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Apart from a Hollywood mutual congratulation exercise, can anyone explain to me why That Film got so many Oscar nominations – and awards? OK, it was glitzy and colourful, but what was all the fuss about?
Story? Uh uh; Characters? Uh uh; Acting? Uh uh. Memorable songs? Uh uh
Whereas Hidden Figures was thought-provoking, shocking, gripping, moving, uplifting and life-enhancing – a story that needed to be told, and that was told brilliantly.
I rest my case!
Eurovision Dance Contest, 2008
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Xenophobia – BBC’s new Mission Statement?
(Some names have been omitted to protect the guilty…)
In last night’s transmission of the Eurovision Dance Contest, the BBC sank to new levels of bad taste.
Over the years the various TV channels have bludgeoned us into expecting, if not accepting, the manifestation of some bizarre belief that the general public is incapable of enjoying anything that is not formulaic, snappy, glitzy, sexy, jokey and smiley. I might therefore have been prepared for the inanities of the two presenters. Even so, could someone (a highly-paid BBC producer, perhaps?) not have explained to the gentleman in question (presumably astronomically paid?) that the time delay in receiving transmissions from elsewhere in Europe means that to follow his scripted opening questions with poorly timed colloquial drivel served no purpose other than to make each of the foreign presenters look congenitally stupid? Continue reading →
“Pinter’s People” – Review
February 25, 2017 March 17, 2017 / rosiemcandrewwriting / Leave a comment
This was my response to “Pinter’s People”,
as performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, 2007
What an opportunity…
….missed!
As a lifelong fan of Pinter, and about to direct my fourth production of one of his plays – The Dwarfs (after Betrayal, The Caretaker and The Homecoming), I was keen to see Pinter’s People at the Haymarket last Saturday. Especially as it was reputed to be bringing the humour of Pinter’s brilliant dialogue to life. So what happened? Continue reading →
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Source: RPM Title 18 | Community and Governmental Relations
Policy Administrator: VP Advancement
ARP 18.05 - Honorary Degree Awards
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ARP 18.20 - University Advancement – Gift Income, NMSU Endowments, NMSU Foundation, Inc.
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To accomplish its mission, NMSU depends upon the support of alumni, donors, private foundations, business partners and other external constituencies. Through the efforts of its office of University Advancement, NMSU seeks to develop and sustain genuine long-term relationships with the supporters of the university. The responsibilities of the Office of University Advancement, subject to the approval and direction of the Chancellor, include:
To maintain alumni and donor relations;
To conduct fundraising activities on behalf of the institution;
To establish the rules, procedures and conditions under which NMSU will recognize and support any affiliated organizations established to support NMSU;
To serve as liaison between the university and the NMSU Foundation, Inc., and between the university and any other University-affiliated not for profit organization established to support the university;
To providing coordination of fundraising activities for the various NMSU entities;
To receive and receipt all gifts made to NMSU and the various NMSU entities;
To develop rules, procedures and proposals for the naming of NMSU’s buildings, organizational units and programs, subject to the reservation of authority to the Regents set forth below;
To develop rules and procedures for the nomination of honorary degree recipients; and
To develop the rules and procedures for gift income spending to promote the good stewardship and proper accounting and use of all donations and earnings available to support NMSU’s mission
B. Reservation of Authority
The Regents are ultimately responsible for protecting the reputation of, relationships with and financial support for the University. Toward that end, each of the following actions or events require advance approval of the Regents:
Award of Honorary Degrees;
Naming the university’s major physical entities including buildings, structures, indoor and outdoor spaces;
Naming of the academic and administrative organizational units at the college, school or department level or above;
Acceptance of any non-monetary gift which contains restrictions as to its use or disposition;
Acceptance of any gift which requires a matching fiscal obligation by the university or creates a substantial in kind or monetary future obligation;
Acceptance of any gift which includes real property.
C. Delegation of Authority
The Board of Regents delegates its authority and responsibility to the Vice President of University Advancement, with approval from the Chancellor, for the naming opportunities not reserved above to the Board, including but not limited to endowments (professorships, chairs, and scholarships), collections, and similar gift supported activities and events.
D. Rulemaking Authorization
The Regents of New Mexico State University authorize the administration to formulate and amend the Administrative Rules and Procedures (Rules) addressing its activities in the area of advancement, including those areas of responsibility listed above. Such Rules shall be consistent with this policy and shall be adopted in accordance with RPM 1.10 and ARP 1.10.
E. Repeal of Related Policies
By previous action of the Board of Regents on October 21, 2015, the contents of the former NMSU Policy Manual were replicated in the Administrative Rules and Procedures of NMSU (the ARP) and remain in full force and effect. Upon adoption of this policy, RPM 2.50, RPM 2.75 and RPM 6.75 will be superseded by this policy, but will remain in effect in the ARP as ARP 18.10 – Namings, ARP 18.20 – University Advancement – Gift Income, NMSU Endowments, NMSU Foundation, Inc., and ARP 18.05 – Honorary Degree Awards to the extent consistent with this policy, until amended or repealed.
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Salesforce.com downtime comes at worst time
A $50 million initiative planned for imminent release would offer a mirrored data center and prevent service interruptions.
In many ways, the interruption of service for some Salesforce.com customers this month couldn't have come at a worse time for the San Francisco-based company.
Not only did the outage provide its competitors with plenty of public relations ammunition heading into the new year, but it also occurred shortly before the launch of Mirrorforce, a massive Salesforce.com initiative announced by CEO Marc Benioff in August. Mirrorforce, a $50 million investment planned for the upcoming Winter '06 release, will offer data mirroring between production and backup between three North American facilities.
The good news for Salesforce.com, said one analyst, is that Tuesday's three-hour outage was probably something Salesforce.com customers won't see again soon.
This is probably the last time for a long while that we'll see this kind of outage, barring some catastrophe," said Denis Pombriant, managing principal with Stoughton, Mass.-based Beagle Research Group. "There are probably some unhappy customers. A company like Salesforce.com can take a bullet like this once, but they can't afford to have a string of these."
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On Tuesday Dec. 21, some Salesforce.com customers experienced intermittent access to the application, between roughly 9:30 a.m. and 12:41 p.m. EST and 2 p.m. and 4:45 p.m. EST. The root cause, according to Salesforce.com, was an error in the database cluster. The problem was addressed with the database vendor; Salesforce.com did not name the vendor or release the number of customers affected.
Salesforce.com, which provides hosted CRM, houses the application and customers' data in its own data center, which customers access via a Web browser and are charged for on a subscription, per user model.
Hosted CRM has overcome much of the initial apprehension on the part of buyers nervous about security, downtime and another company holding their important data. But as Salesforce.com tries to move upstream in the market, targeting enterprise companies, the news provided Salesforce.com's competitors with an early Christmas gift. They flooded reporter's inboxes with both news of the outage and the superiority of their own products. NetSuite Inc., a hosted vendor in San Mateo, Calif., pointed to the money-back guarantee of 99.5% uptime for subscribers, which it launched last year. Boston-based Salesnet Inc., another hosted CRM provider, highlighted its customer communication and disaster recovery center in a separate geographic region.
"From what I've seen, I think the competitors blew the opportunity," Pombriant said. "They used it as an opportunity to strut their stuff and say how great they are. It would have been smart for at least one of them to take the high road and do something like offer emergency service using their product for free for example."
CW ASEAN – September 2018: Time to clear DevOps hurdles –ComputerWeekly.com
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Enterprise Integration and Low Code Applications –Joget
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Salesforce Sandbox outage raises concerns about SLAs and SaaS testing
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Salesforce.com profits up despite service problems – ComputerWeekly.com
Is IBM the real winner in the CRM SaaS wars? – SearchCustomerExperience
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The Passion of the Christ Blu-ray
Digitally Mastered in HD, Dubbed, Subtitled, Dolby
Highly controversial and enormously successful, Mel Gibson's religious biopic chronicles the last 12 hours of Jesus' (James Caviezel) life, from his despair over the betrayal by the apostle Judas and his appearance before Pontius Pilate to a brutally depicted journey up Golgotha and his subsequent crucifixion. Monica Bellucci, Maia Morgenstern, Luca Lionello, Claudia Gerini also star. Includes both the original theatrical version and the 2005 "re-cut" version. 126 min./122 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: Aramaic, Latin, and Hebrew DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English, Spanish; audio commentary; "making of" documentary; featurettes; deleted scenes; art gallery; more. In Aramaic, Latin, and Hebrew with English subtitles.
Title: The Passion of the Christ
Genre: Drama, Faith Based-Drama
Director: Mel Gibson
Attributes: Digitally Mastered in HD, Dubbed, Subtitled, Digital Theater System
Subtitles: ENG, SPA
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Home About Media Eclipse SP accomplished a pilot project for Lavasoft
Eclipse SP accomplished a pilot project for Lavasoft
The world anti-spyware leader involved Eclipse SP in development of the new release of their famous computer security product.
Lavasoft is an international company in anti-spyware sector, which delivers security software solutions worldwide and is famous for its Ad-Aware product. With 350 million Ad-Aware downloads around the world, Lavasoft remains an anti-spyware leader, continuously setting the benchmark for all other security companies in the industry.
“This first accomplishment for the original anti-spyware company makes us proud to meet all their quality requirements. We hope to work with Lavasoft again, providing them with fresh ideas and solutions”, said Vladimir Chirva, Eclipse SP Development Director.
Development & testing were done completely offsite in close cooperation with Sigma Kudos AB. Regarding work results, Lavasoft project manager Vaidas Adomauskas said: “We are happy with code quality too. Therefore, application and code were accepted from development side in Lavasoft. It was very easy and a pleasure working with you!”
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Sigma Kudos is one of the global leading suppliers of Information Logistics Solutions and Product Information.
Sigma Kudos currently employs some 500 highly talented and dedicated staff globally, with offices in Sweden, Finland, France, Hungary, Ukraine and China. Sigma Kudos is a member of the Sigma Group.
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Since April 2006, Sigma Ukraine is a member of Sigma.
Sigma – One of Sweden’s Leading IT Consultancies. Sigma delivers to an international market and concentrates on functional undertakings. Sigma is continuously ranked against strong competition as one of the leading IT consultancies in Sweden. Sigma is listed on the O-List of the Stockholm Stock Exchange and employs about 1,300 people in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Germany, France, China and Ukraine.
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Friday — December 18th, 2015
Ultra Music Festival Announces Phase One Lineup For Eighteenth Annual Edition
RESISTANCE WELCOMES ‘THE ARCADIA SPIDER’ STAGE
THE PRODIGY, PENDULUM, RABBIT IN THE MOON, CHET FAKER, CARIBOU AND NERO AMONGST LIVE HEADLINERS
ARMIN VAN BUUREN, AVICII, CARL COX, DAVID GUETTA, KYGO, MARCO CAROLA, MARTIN GARRIX, TIESTO, ZEDD AND MORE ANNOUNCED AS DJ HEADLINERS
With just three months until it touches down at Bayfront Park in Downtown Miami, Ultra Worldwide’s flagship event ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL announces the electrifying Phase One lineup for its eighteenth annual edition, taking place on March 18, 19 and 20, 2016. Watch the trailer below:
In another incredible move from the American festival juggernaut, whose unique lineups have always been praised for their diversity, innovation and forward-thinking LIVE programming, Ultra Music Festival 2016 will see the return of three of the most revered LIVE acts in the history of electronic music.
Dubbed “The Godfathers of Rave”, UK pioneers and award-winning outfit The Prodigy will be making their long awaited Ultra Music Festival return, as they prepare to entertain the ULTRA faithful with their industrial brand of rock-tinged electronica. Incorporating rave, electro, jungle, hardcore and everything in between, this fully immersive live show is not to be missed.
Next up, and for the first time since 2011, Australian Drum & Bass getup Pendulum will be heading back to Ultra Music Festival for a very special and rare live appearance. Often credited for the global popularization of the genre, fans can expect to witness a raw, high-octane live experience, rivaled by few others.
And, in a momentous nod to the festival’s very roots, the headline act for ULTRA’s very first edition, which took place on the sands of Miami Beach in 1999, will also be returning for their landmark reunion. None other than Rabbit In The Moon will be showcasing their visionary interpretation of psychedelic trance, house and breaks, as Ultranauts young and old prepare to witness a true slice of history.
Completing the LIVE programming for Phase One are additional headliners Caribou, Chet Faker, Destroid, Miike Snow, Nero, Purity Ring and Tycho.
As ever, ULTRA will also be welcoming a huge array of the finest, most in-demand DJs on the planet. Headlining the festival across a broad selection of stages this March will be Afrojack, Armin Van Buuren, Avicii, Carl Cox, David Guetta, Dubfire, Eric Prydz, Hardwell, Jamie Jones, Kaskade, Knife Party, Kygo, Loco Dice, Maceo Plex, Marco Carola, Martin Garrix, Seth Troxler, DJ Snake, Tiësto and Zedd.
Ultra ambassador and crowd favorite Carl Cox returns to the ULTRA Megastructure for a groundbreaking twelfth year to host his legendary Carl Cox & Friends, as does Trance icon Armin Van Buuren, who will take the reins to bring his ‘A State Of Trance’ show to the masses.
Having made its Miami debut at the 2015 edition of Ultra Music Festival to critical acclaim, the RESISTANCE stage will be returning to Downtown Miami this March, bigger and better than ever before. After welcoming ‘The Afterburner’ in 2015, the 2016 RESISTANCE stage will transform into an entirely different beast dubbed ‘THE SPIDER’. Powered by creative pioneers, Arcadia Spectacular, the 50 ton, 20m tall Spider structure is built from recycled military and industrial hardware, rigged with cutting edge technology, features a DJ booth suspended above the crowd, and shoots 50-foot fireballs over the dancefloor. Etched into festival folklore through Europe and beyond, the iconic Spider will be making its debut on US soil at Ultra 2016.
Ultranauts will also witness an extra spectacle each day with the ‘Arcadia Landing Show’. A brand new addition to RESISTANCE this year, The Landing Show will see the Spider come to life, elevating the energy across the area to peak euphoria. Uniting a stunning range of creative elements and all the Spider’s special effects, the show features interactive aerial performances, abductions, mechanical mayhem and breathtaking pyrotechnics as the Spider makes first contact. For further information on RESISTANCE watch the new trailer here and head to resistancemusic.com
Ultra Music Festival takes place during Miami Music Week and is an 18+ event. As Easter falls on the usual dates, next year’s edition will take place on March 18, 19 and 20, 2016. General Admission and VIP tickets are currently on sale priced at $324.95 and $1,249.95 respectively. Early Bird and Payment Plan tickets have now sold out so act fast to avoid disappointment. For further details and ticket information, head to ultramusicfestival.com
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Diamond Planet: Astronomers have discovered a rocky planet 40 light years away, so heavy that it must be composed of dense carbon, aka diamond. At this point sending astronauts to mine the surface for diamonds is still science-fiction, but discovering that planets like his exist brings us one-step closer. This artwork was created in Cinema 4d, Eon Vue xStream and Photoshop for the inaugural edition of All About Space magazine. All copyrights transferred to Imagine Publishing, with permission to use for self-promotion by Sayo-Art LLC.
Life on other Planets? The question fascinates us, has led us to the moon, and motivates the imagination and dreams of our girls and boys destined to be future scientists. More and more research points to the likelihood that there is indeed life on another planet, in far off solar systems. One such planet, named Gliese, appears to be perfectly distanced from the sun for warmth and possible photosynthesis, and there appears to be water on its surface. Lacking an orbit like Earth, one side of the planet is permanently in darkness, covered in ice. If life does exist, it would likely be in the transition zone between the light and dark side.
Inside Cells: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
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3rd annual International Poetry Night showcases poetry of protest
March 8, 2012 kuiryamfCampus, Clubs, Entertainment, News, Top Story
Southern Oregon University’s third annual International Poetry Night took place Mar. 1, showcasing powerful and controversial poetry and literature from around the world. The poems were read in the six languages offered at SOU: Chinese, German, Japanese, Spanish, French and American Sign Language, and then translated into English. Somali, Russian, and Arabic poems were added bonuses to the night. This year’s theme, “Poetry of Protest,” packed a powerful punch.
Maria Paz Moreno is a professor of Spanish literature at Cincinnati University and has taught courses at the graduate level for SOU at the Summer Language Institute for Spanish Teachers in Guanajuato, Mexico. Moreno translated her poem “Carta de amor a mi país” (Love letter to my country) to English especially for the poetry reading and allowed it to be read in public for the first time.
The opening stanza reads,
“To Baltasar Garzón
I come from a country
where the dead sleep on the curbsides.
Their sleep is long, unsettled,
because they remember everything and
are still waiting.
Silence is more painful to them than the
shot that killed them.”
Anne Connor, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages, discovered the poem and requested permission to present the very political piece.
“Her poem talks about coming from a country where justice has not been served and is dedicated to the Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzón,” said Connor.
Garzón has recently been in the headlines because of a series of court cases against him. The most recent conviction for using illegal wiretapping barred him from practicing law and stripped him of the title of judge for eleven years. He has also been tried for crimes against humanity and abuses of power.
Another gripping poem was authored in Japanese by Hideko Tamura, a survivor of the attack on Hiroshima. The opening stanza is a chilling one,
“On one sunny day,
I lost my universe.”
The last stanza wraps up the poem and highlights the importance of the human connection that we all share.
“On one sunny day, began a search for Life and
the conditions that must be
On being a Human, anywhere, any time.”
If you would like more information or copies of the poems, please contact Sarah Conway at conways@students.sou.edu.
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Home/Quickies/Quickies: Indiana, force fields, and poor womens’ access to family planning
Quickies: Indiana, force fields, and poor womens’ access to family planning
Amanda March 27, 2015
Indiana governor signs “religious freedom” bill in private – “His action followed two days of intense pressure from opponents — including technology company executives and convention organizers — who fear the measure could allow discrimination, particularly against gays and lesbians.”
Boeing has patented the real-life version of a force field – “The Boeing system senses a great disturbance in the Force air, and it then sends out laser pulses in the direction that the explosion’s waves are coming from. The lasers change the ions in the air, which absorbs and deflects the blow and prevents most of the damage.”
The poorest women are being priced out of family planning – “The Brookings researchers conclude that we need to make some changes to address the deeply entrenched economic inequality that prevents low-income women from controlling their fertility.”
Scientists have discovered a way to cook rice that dramatically cuts calories – From Mary.
Cute Animal Friday! Fritz learning to catch is pretty much guaranteed to make you chuckle, from Nowoo. And from Michael, have you seen the photos of the extremely rare, endangered magic rabbit?
I should mention that they’re calling it the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The RFRA had its genesis, pardon the pun, in First Amendment cases involving Indians, Jews, and Muslims. Horrible appropriation.
Arturo Magidin says:
Quite; the federal RFRA was passed in response to a Supreme Court decision that upheld the firing of two native americans who were fired after they tested positive for drugs, because they had smoked peyote as part of their religious ceremonies. This was an integral part of their religious worship rituals, but the Supreme Court (in an opinion written by Justice Scalia) argued that generally applicable laws held sway. (One might compare it to the use of communion wine during Prohibition, though in that case the exemption was written into the Volstead Act).
Hobby Lobby and its progeny, as well as these state RFRAs, seek to allow people to refuse service/discriminate by arguing that it is their sincerely held belief that the person they are denying service to, or the service they are denying, goes against their religion. It allows pharmacists to refuse to fill out contraceptive prescriptions *and* not refer the client to someone who can fill it; it allows Hobby Lobby and others to refuse to provide contraceptive care in their employee’s health insurance; it is being used by Notre Dame to claim that even letting the government know they don’t want to provide contraceptive care to their employees is a violation of their religious freedom because it will allow their employees to get that care elsewhere (which they consider a sin). This is about actions that affect others, not personal acts of worship, which is what the RFRA was meant to protect. It allows for the “exportation” of moral judgements.
4tune8chance says:
Religious freedom, huh, somehow I think they mean the other thing!
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Seattle Public Library Southwest Branch
Using significant portion of the existing library, the design intent was for this library to continue in the tradition of important civic institutions. The building welcomes the community and surrounds and shelters them with a palette of warm materials.
The Southwest Seattle Library, a branch of the Seattle Public Library System, serves as a community center for West Seattle, hosting events and classes for a diverse neighborhood, including Free Tax Help, Baby Story Time, Spanish Story Time, ESL Classes, Friends of the Southwest Library Book Sales, and Citizenship Classes.
When asked for input early in the design process, the community responded that the renovated and expanded Library should be welcoming to all, and that it must include a prominent civic presence on 35th Avenue. In response, the new Library includes a grand entry colonnade, glass lobby, and warm, earth tone colors throughout.
Location Seattle, Washington
Team Rick Sundberg | Principal-in-Charge and Lead Designer while at Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen
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Tag Archives: Jane Foster
Thor, God of a Thundering Good Time
May 6, 2011 by The Geekfather in Geek, Movies and tagged Agent Coulson, Anthony Hopkins, Asgard, Bifrost, Chris Hemsworth, Clint Barton, Frost Giants, Hawkeye, Heimdall, Idris Elba, Jane Foster, Jeremy Renner, Jotunheim, Kat Dennings, Loki, Marvel, Midgard, Mjolnir, Natalie Portman, Odin, Sif, The Avengers, Thor, Volstagg | Leave a comment
Caution: may contain some spoilers.
After the terrible black mark that Sucker Punch left on my soul I was in dire need of a movie that at the very least didn’t disappoint and insult. Or punish me with it’s awfulness.
Thor was just what was needed!
Don't say I never provide ogle material for the ladies. Ogle away, girls!
While not an Oscar caliber flick like The Dark Knight (really, what is?), Thor delivers in the key areas of action, story, character likableness, and heart. The general premise of course is that Thor (played with excellently playful charm and fun by Chris Hemsworth), the Norse God of Thunder, is real and lives in Asgard, one of the 9 realms. His father is Odin King or as they call him, All-Father. Thor is in line to become king but is a brash, loud, boorish, warmongering jackass who is really unworthy. Really, he’s a bit of a dick.
When did Kirk's dad turn into Thor?!!!
The beginning of the movie is awesome. Shows Asgard in all its imagined-in-my-head-for-years glory. The characters are all gods, but not portrayed in an over the top sense. Anthony Hopkins plays Odin just right. On that edge of scene chewing and stoic. Of course any great realm of gods have enemies, right? Well, those enemies are the Frost Giants of Jotunheim and they are spectacular. There is an uneasy peace between them thanks to Odin’s awesomery. Well, Thor wants to bash some Frost Giant heads like young bucks want to do and does some rash shit in Jotunheim with his cohorts The Warrior’s Three (Volstagg, Fandral, and Hogun), his childhood friend Sif, and his brother Loki. All these parts are played well with Ray Stevenson as Volstagg being a standout. They gave him some great lines. As you imagine, Thor and his gang fuck some shit up in Jotunheim (Thor especially. Some cool shit you have to see), and totally kill the peace. Odin rescues them and is really fucking pissed so he banishes Thor to New Mexico of all places and takes away Mjolnir, his enchanted hammer of bad-ass. Odin puts a spell on it allowing only the truly worthy may lift it and wield the power of Thor.
When you absolutely, positively have to kill every motherfucker in the room...accept no substitute.
While on Earth the movie slows but I was never bored because this is where the majority of the humor takes place. It’s all fish-out-of-water type of humor, but funny nonetheless. Natalie Portman plays Jane Foster, Thor’s love interest from the comics. She is an astrophysicist and really not given much to do but say big words, look smart and stunningly beautiful, and then fawn over Thor like a Bieberette in almost every scene they’re in together. Not overdone, but silly nonetheless. It doesn’t ruin things because…well, it’s Natalie Portman, man! Her partners, Dr. Erik Selvig (played quietly by Stellan Skarsgard) and Darcy Lewis (played with great comic timing by Kat Dennings. Really, she steals the scenes she is in.) are there mostly for comic relief, which they provide quite well. During this time, a bunch of redneck yahoos discover Mjolnir. It has fallen to Earth in New Mexico as well but of course no one can lift it as it’s enchanted and whatnot. This is where Stan Lee’s cameo is. You have to pay attention for this one, but the crowd roared when it happened. Damn funny scene. Of course then S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Coulson show up on the scene and try to study Mjolnir before Thor comes in and tries to get it back. Fisticuffs ensue, Thor whoops that ass, but sadly realizes even he cannot lift Mjolnir at that moment.
You'd want her fawning all over you too. Admit it, you're jealous of Thor. Jeez, god powers aren't enough Thor?! Huh?!
While Thor was gone, his father fell into what they call the ‘Odin-sleep’. He does it periodically to recharge his godliness. Loki, ever the trickster and plotting douche, uses this opportunity to steal the throne and generally fuck up everyone’s day. While on Earth there is a battle sequence with Thor’s buddies who have come to rescue him from banishment. The sequence is all too short and should have been grander for what was at stake. Thor makes a sacrifice, and yada-yada-yada, he gets Mjolnir back, he ‘suits up’ and pounds the shit out of the creature sent to take him out. It feels a little like it was put in so that the Asgardian crew would have something to do in the middle of the movie. So Thor gets his swagger back and heads back to Asgard to confront Loki and be all kick ass with the help of the gatekeeper Heimdall (played with smoldering awesomeness by Idris Elba). Heimdall is the guardian of what they call the Bifrost. It’s essentially an Einstein-Rosen bridge. Basically a wormhole from one point in space to another. Of course this one is all pretty and sufficiently mythical in nature. Heimdall looks great and oozes bad motherfucker. Unfortunately, he isn’t given a ton to do other than stand all swoll and look intimidating. Hopefully in the inevitable sequels they come to their senses and give the brutha some ass whooping scenes of his own.
How much ass do you think he can whoop? My hypothesis is...a shitload.
The climax of the movie takes place in Asgard with a showdown between Loki and Thor. Thor saves the day of course and learns his lesson that pricks are bad and he shouldn’t be one. A perfectly serviceable ending with humor and heart that probably set up part of the plotline for The Avengers.
So tantalizingly close to being assembled....
Overall I give the movie 3.5 out of 5 stars. It was funny and the characters were more than just moving cardboard cutouts even with Jane Foster fawning. They were at least interesting and totally watchable while Thor wasn’t onscreen. The action was fast and showed all of Thor’s signature moves that we all love. The humor was perfectly placed and not wrung to death. However, my gripes are that the middle 1/3rd of the movie slowed some, we could have benefited from a longer action piece when the monster attacked the town Thor was in, and I would have liked to see more from S.H.I.E.L.D. For a national organization tasked with the defense of America from super-villain threats they come off too keystone cops-like at times. Also, the cameo by Clint Barton (Hawkeye, one of the members of the initial Avengers) should have been more. I would have liked to see what he could do! The excellent Jeremy Renner was sorely underused.
More Jeremy Renner in your movie is never a bad thing.
This was a great start to what I hope will be one of the greatest summer movie seasons of all time, especially in the genre of superhero movies! Good job to Kenneth Branagh for not ruining it like Ang Lee did with Hulk. Props to J. Michael Straczynski and Mark Protosevich for a good story writing job. Straczynski had several stints as a writer on the Thor comic so this was a good choice to provide the story for the film. Great casting job as well. Everyone gave the subject matter the geek reverence it deserved, but didn’t act like they were trying to pull off Shakespeare. The effects weren’t something you paid attention to, which means they were good. All in all, this is one to see. Also, stay past the end of the credits for an easter egg that sets up the primary plot for The Avengers.
Verily!
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Postgraduate Theses
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Personalised medicine and its application in patients with complex disorders
dc.contributor.author Liu, Xiaoman
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20488
dc.description.abstract Personalised medicine aims to achieve the best treatment outcome with the highest safety margin tailored for each individual patient. It is essential to develop biomarkers of disease characteristics, prognosis and response to treatment for the implementation of personalised medicine. Widely used in postmenopausal women with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer, third-generation aromatase inhibitors (AIs) have nevertheless marked interindividual variability in efficacy and safety. Personalised treatment with AIs is required to achieve the best therapeutic response with highest safety margin. In the first specific aim, the current implementation of different approaches for personalised medicine of AIs in patients with breast cancer was reviewed, and future prospects were proposed. In the second specific aim, I reviewed details of the current research progress of personalised medicine with aromatase inhibitors specifically from a pharmacogenetic perspective. Schizophrenia is a genetically complex disorder. Even though it has been extensively studied, our understanding of the molecular etiology of schizophrenia remains incomplete, and current pharmaceutical treatments are not a complete solution. In the third specific aim, I conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of schizophrenia in an Australian population. Post-GWAS analyses were subsequently conducted by leveraging GWAS summary statistics. The strongest finding (P=2.01×10-6, odds ratio (OR) =1.82, 95% confidence interval (CI) =1.42-2.33) in GWAS was with rs10252923 at 7q21.13, downstream of FZD1 (Frizzled Class Receptor 1). While this did not stand alone after statistical correction, the involvement of FZD1 was supported by gene-based analysis, which exceeded the threshold for genome-wide significance (P=2.78×10-6). The identification of FZD1, an independent association signal at the gene level, provided new insights regarding susceptibility for schizophrenia, as well as potential targets for developing new treatments. Very early- and early-onset schizophrenia (VEOS and EOS) are more severe forms of the disorder and have worse prognosis than adult-onset counterparts. There is evidence supporting schizophrenia onset at an early age to be associated with a greater genetic predisposition. In the fourth specific aim, a genome-wide association study for VEOS and EOS was carried out. Further functional follow-up analyses were performed using GWAS summary statistics. rs3825884 in NTRK3 (Neurotrophic Receptor Tyrosine Kinase 3), located at 15q25.3 showed the strongest genome-wide significant association (P=3.09×10-8, OR=2.63, 95% CI=1.87-3.71). Furthermore, immune alterations were implicated in VEOS and EOS through pathway enrichment analysis (T-cell and B-cell receptors signaling pathways, false discovery rate of 1.00×10−4 and 0.015, respectively). Our findings of genetic markers and pathways may aid in elucidating molecular mechanisms underlying VEOS and EOS, and offer insights into developing novel, tailored pharmacologic interventions. The combination of dabrafenib and trametinib is a standard of care for the management of BRAF mutant metastatic melanoma. Clinical trials of dabrafenib-trametinib combination therapy exclude patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and, as such, no data are available regarding the safety, efficacy and pharmacokinetics of these drugs in such patients. In the fifth specific aim, pharmacokinetic profiling of trametinib, dabrafenib and its metabolites were similar pre- and post- dialysis and comparable to those in patients with normal renal function. In the era of personalised medicine, this study provided evidence for the feasibility of administering dabrafenib and trametinib to patients with ESKD undergoing haemodialysis. en_AU
dc.publisher University of Sydney en_AU
dc.publisher Faculty of Medicine and Health en_AU
dc.publisher School of Pharmacy en_AU
dc.rights The author retains copyright of this thesis. It may only be used for the purposes of research and study. It must not be used for any other purposes and may not be transmitted or shared with others without prior permission. en_AU
dc.subject Personalised medicine en_AU
dc.subject GWAS en_AU
dc.subject Schizophrenia en_AU
dc.subject Breast cancer en_AU
dc.subject Pharmacokinetics en_AU
dc.subject Melanoma en_AU
dc.subject.other includes published articles en_AU
dc.title Personalised medicine and its application in patients with complex disorders en_AU
dc.type PhD Doctorate en_AU
dc.type.pubtype Doctor of Philosophy Ph.D. en_AU
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Hung Yen asked to play leading role in region
Monday, November 28, 2011 09:22
State President Truong Tan Sang has urged Hung Yen province to fully tap its potentials and advantages to become a model in terms of comprehensive development in the Red River Delta.
President Truong Tan Sang at the ceremony (Source: VNA)
Addressing a ceremony to mark the province’s 180 th founding anniversary on Nov. 27, President Sang praised achievements recorded by the provincial Party Committee, administration and people over the past years, particularly since the re-establishment of the province 15 years ago.
The 11th National Party Congress adopted a resolution, setting out basic orientations for socio-economic development in a bid to turn Vietnam into a modernity-oriented industrialised nation by 2020, said President Sang.
To reach the target, the entire Party and people, including the provincial Party Committee and people of Hung Yen, need to make greater efforts, he stressed.
The President asked the province to take the lead in the process of national industrialization, modernisation and international integration, thus helping to renew the growth model, restructure the economy and make development breakthroughs.
Apart from fostering fast, sustainable economic development, the province should pay more attention to socio-cultural development, and environmental protection, while maintaining political security, promoting democracy and building a clean and strong political system.
On this occasion, President Sang presented the Ho Chi Minh Order, a noble distinction of the Party and State, to Hung Yen province, in recognition of its achievements./.
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The Vaporwave Aesthetic | Ironic Nostalgia
Posted by Redmond Bacon | Oct 14, 2018 | Essentials, Genres | 3 |
Of all the micro-genres to spawn out of 2000s chillwave, vaporwave aesthetic has had the most lasting impact. Drawing almost entirely from the music and culture of the 1980s and 1990s, it has a self-aware and nostalgic quality. Sampling sources as diverse as muzak, elevator music, lounge jazz, City Pop, 1980s synth-pop, R&B and even songs from corporate training videos, it has a synthetic and ambiguous vibe that has somehow endured on the internet since its introduction in 2011.
It is a wholly postmodern genre — considering that songs are situated within an ironic context and are built almost solely from samples — and its rise as an aesthetic is wholly dependent upon the internet, especially the cut-it-up, DIY collages of Tumblr. Vaporwave often slows down samples to near unintelligibility, and then uses that sound and correspondent imagery to create a cyberpunk critique of capitalism. They are often released on Youtube as mixtapes, evoking the feel and vibe of old cassette players and CDs. Part Japanese anime, part Windows 95, a quick look of the genre can be forbidding for most, as if it is some inside joke that is impossible to understand. But don’t worry. In this guide we will look at every aspect at vaporwave, what its intentions are, and how you can make your own. Read on now to find out more!
To sum up, we will respond to the following questions:
What is the vaporwave aesthetic?
How to make vaporwave?
Macintosh Plus – Floral Shoppe
The birth of Vaporwave: Macintosh Plus
The album credited with starting the Vaporwave aesthetic is Floral Shoppe by Macintosh Plus, released in 2011. Its cover art is typical of the vaporwave look, replete with Greek statues, images of the Twin Towers and old-school computer-generated 3D cubes. The computer inspired alias of Ramona Andra Xavier, i.e. Vektroid, it was released in 2011 to high-acclaim. Chopping up samples of R&B music from the 80s and 90s, adopting a liberal approach to tempo, and evoking the sensation of taking drugs in a shopping mall, it is easily the most popular vaporwave album of all time.
Like lo-fi hip-hop, there is a massive inspiration from Japan, hence all the names of the album being written in Japanese. “リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー |” (Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing) in particular is considered the archetypal vaporwave song, featuring strange, spa-like melodies, a spaced-out drum beat and a slowed-down, often difficult-to-understand sample from Diana Ross’s “Its Your Move”. Floral Shoppe was a crossover success, with many critics listing it as their favorite album of 2011.
The Key to Vaporware | Ironic Nostalgia
Vaporwave is about nostalgia. Nostalgia for lo-fi, analog technology. Nostalgia for the early internet. That strange time between the early 80s and 9/11 (all cover art keeps the Twin Towers in the background). Its also about how previous eras imagined the future and how they got it so wrong. By criticizing the naivety of the past, Vaporware shows how poorly the present has gone. Made in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, it looks at the 80s in particular, the high-point of neoliberalism and corporate banking culture, as the cause of the current world’s problems. The end of this era, 9/11, is seen as a critical loss of innocence.
“Many people even listen to vaporware ironically, while others who started listening ironically find themselves actually enjoying it, venturing out into the strange realm of the post-ironic.”
Written and produced by people who have hazy memories of their childhood, it takes an ironic look at the past that doubles up as a comment on consumerist society. Parody is part of the aesthetic, with the way songs are chopped and screwed up synonymous with its critical approach to hyper-capitalist culture. Many people even listen to vaporware ironically, while others who started listening ironically find themselves actually enjoying it, venturing out into the strange realm of the post-ironic. Vaporwave loves teasing out these types of contradictions: in a way it presaged meme culture in the way one cannot tell the difference between sincerity and irony.
Music critic Adam Harper pins down the allure of the genre’s capitalist critique:
“Is it a critique of capitalism or a capitulation to it? Both and neither. These musicians can be read as sarcastic anti-capitalists revealing the lies and slippages of modern techno-culture and its representations, or as its willing facilitators, shivering with delight upon each new wave of delicious sound.”
This is what makes Vaporwave so exciting. It is both things at once. It is the allure of internet culture in a nutshell.
What Defines The Vaporwave Aesthetic?
The cover art and videos for vaporware are just as important as the music. As previously stated, the vaporwave aesthetic is rooted in nostalgia, a combination of different and strange ephemera from the 1980s and 1990s. This imagery can include anime, cyberpunk, late 90s web design, the twin towers, early internet message boards, 3D-object renderings, Greek statues, cityscapes, men in suits, IKEA-bought interiors, airport bars, corporate logos, early computer games, especially NES and Nintendo, and shopping malls. It’s also not uncommon for album art to look like old cassette or CD covers. Perhaps a classic distillation of this aesthetic is the description for World Class by Luxury Elite:
“Imagine for a moment if you will, a parallel universe in which Tom Cruise’s 1988 hit Cocktail was actually a gritty noir, full of smoke-filled scenes of low-lit bars and brutalist executive suites. World Class – the new full-length from Luxury Elite – is the essential soundtrack to such a film; a love letter to ‘80s America, smooth jazz, lounge music and skyscraper skylines by night.”
“Songs and album names are often stylised with s p a c e d o u t spellings in order to create a dreamy effect and to stress the slowed-down nature of their songs.”
Other films that are considered a touchstone of the aesthetic are American Psycho, Scarface, the films of Gaspar Noé, especially Enter The Void, Videodrome, Fight Club, Wall Street, Blade Runner and nearly any movie where Michael Douglas plays a self-obsessed yuppie. On the Japanese side, anime such as Akira, Paprika and Ghost in The Shell. In more recent years, Drive is an obvious influence on the genre, while the New York crime thriller Good Time was even scored by vaporwave-inspired artist Oneohtrix Point Never.
Additionally, songs and album names are often stylised with s p a c e d o u t spellings in order to create a dreamy effect and to stress the slowed-down nature of their songs. Like lo-fi hip-hop, continuous stream videos are massively popular, allowing people to listen on an infinite loop without noticing the change between songs. The concept of w a v e can be added on to anything – for example, there are playlists such as Z e l d a w a v e and even a tribute to British conservative politician Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Sub-genres of Vaporwave
Even within the micro-genre of Vaporwave, there are spin-offs. One is Simpsonwave, which pairs music from the genre with washed-out VHS-like footage from The Simpsons, often in the form of hallucinatory gifs or short videos. Other darker spin-offs are Fashwave, which combines Nazi and fascist symbols with vaporware aesthetics, and the self-explanatory Trumpwave, which makes sense considering Trump was considered the ultimate symbol of the money excess of the 1980s. Both these spin-offs have a similar root in nostalgia, looking backward to so-called Golden Ages like the Reagan-dominated 1980s or the perfect early seasons of The Simpsons.
A more significant micro-genre spin-off in terms of sound is Hardvapour, which replaces the chilled, laid-back vibe of vaporwave with harder, faster sounds inspired by gabber and punk music. Additionally, instead of being inspired by Japanese music, it is inspired by Eastern European culture. As a result, many of its artists adopt Russian or Ukrainian monikers and its memes and gifs have a distinctly nihilistic vibe. Created in opposition to its predecessor, Wolfenstein OS X’s End of World Rave (2015) is considered its first proper release.
How To Make Vaporwave Aesthetic | Software, Hardware & Samples
Making vaporwave is relatively simple. Its a genre mostly based around taking samples, slowing them down and adding lots of reverb. To make things sound even weirder its worth lowering the bitrate, increasing distortion and adding flange effects. Songs need not be complex, but the obscurer the sample you find the better, making digging perhaps the hardest task.
In addition, its a question of sounding fresh while staying true to the genre, which many people believe has already exhausted itself. Many people think that all you need to do to make vaporwave is take an old song and slow it down, but this reductive approach is looked down upon by true patricians of the community. Adding your own synth sounds, drum patterns and even extra vocal samples helps to give your songs character and depth. Below we will explain how to make vaporwave, look at the gear you should use and how to find the best samples.
To recreate the vaporwave sound organically, you need to buy an FM synth, as these were the most commonly used for games and software until the mid-90s. Classic options such as the Yamaha DX200 and Yamaha TX802 are highly recommended – they can be picked up second-hand for a very reasonable price. Additionally, the Arcano MIDI NES Chiptune Synth II is a very cool little thing that helps to recreate video – game-like sounds. For this genre, the cheaper and dirtier the synthesizer the better – you are looking to recreate the strangest sounds coming out of the era and not something polished like a high-end production.
To help you get the iconic vaporwave sound, there are a whole bunch of plug-ins that you need to download. Whether its bit-crushing, adding flange, chopping up samples, distorting vocals or adjusting EQ levels, the right plug-ins can help you to hone that perfect sound. While a lot will come with your DAW software, its always worth downloading more, either to help create effects or emulate the sounds of synths. We recommend installing these ones which perfectly emulate the feel of old software:
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Vaporwave is all about the 1980s and 1990s, so the main kind of genres you should mine are city pop, R&B, smooth soul, muzak, lounge and disco. Yet this is where you can get creative, sources such as YouTube and Soundcloud great places to fall down the rabbit hole and get to find the most obscure work possible. Don’t feel restricted by just the main genres – true innovators find something new to vaporize and make into a sub-genre by itself. If you are looking for sample packs, we would recommend Samplephonics – yet its worth trying to distort and change up these samples as much as possible to make your sound stand out.
Vaporwave was created as a celebration of ephemerality, and how quickly seemingly new things can be outdated. As a result, a lot of people consider Vaporware itself to have burnt out as a genre. But this isn’t strictly true – as the rise of Hardvapor shows, it is only spinning off into stranger, more specific categories. While the hype surrounding it has definitely calmed down since its heyday of 2012, we don’t believe that things are over for the genre just yet. There are always other places to mine from apart from American and Japanese cities in the 1980s and 1990s. Where it goes next is anybody’s guess!
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IMLXH on February 10, 2019 at 2:04 am
Interesting article! I’m honestly very surprised that my program was the first one you mentioned, since I wasn’t actually attempting to emulate any sort of specific hardware with it. Also it isn’t TECHNICALLY a plugin (yet), but if there’s interest I may make a Max for Live version in the future!
Neon on June 2, 2019 at 4:35 pm
I came upon vaporwave a s t h e t I c for the first time yesterday and I fell in love. I didnt know, until reading your article, that it is a musical genre as well. Thank you for writing this!
Name *Zanzi shiao on January 2, 2020 at 3:52 pm
I was just doing my assignment about Vaporwave, and I met your article. Your comments and content are the profoundest I had seen. Thank you for you did it!<3
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Reasons behind the “Transposition, docking and extraction” maneuver
The Transposition, Docking and Extraction (TD&E) maneuver was done during the Apollo Moon missions right after the translunar injection. The Command/Service Module (CSM) separated from the S-IVB, pitched 180 degrees, docked with the Lunar Module (LM) and extracted it from the upper stage.
I guess the reason for this delicate and potentially risky maneuver was that the 2 modules had to be stacked like that (CSM on top of the LM) on the Saturn V rocket due to aerodynamics, but during the mission the order had to be switched, so the service module engine could perform the Lunar Orbit Insertion. Is that correct?
Were there some other options considered? Was the engineering team trying to find a way how to avoid this maneuver somehow and simplify the mission profile? What led them to pursue this setup in the end?
I'm speculating that the chosen design meant the least possible load for the Launch Escape System (LES), because anything else I can imagine means the LES would have to carry more mass: CSM installed upside down (docked to the LM) would mean the LES must carry not only CM, but also SM. More mass for LES requires more fuel in the LES which is more mass to carry for the first stage with all the rocket equation problems. Unfortunately I cannot find a relevant resource to confirm this.
There is a plenty of online resources that describe the details of the procedure as such (which I already understand), but not the reasons why it must have been done in the first place. Even though I feel I probably understand at least part of the reason, a reliable reference would be nice.
Checked resources:
Apollo mission tutorial only describes the procedure.
Wikipedia only describes the procedure.
The Apollo 11 Flight Journal only describe the procedure.
How Apollo flew to the Moon book - I only have this preview, not the full book. The available sections again deal with the procedure, not the reasons behind.
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Three factors come to mind from my reading over the years: Heat Shield integrity, Escape Tower limitations, and avoiding fuel over the CM on the pad.
Throughout this answer, keep in mind that the stacking order (from the top) is Escape Tower (ET), Command Module (CM), Service Module (SM), Lunar Module Shroud, Lunar Module (LM). See the full Saturn V diagram or this simplified diagram.
The ET, in order to keep its own mass minimal, only lifts the CM and itself. When it is triggered, the CM/SM joins are broken, and the ET's rockets fire.
The CM/SM connections all routed around the heat shield on the CM, none of them go through it. NASA has stated in several documents that this was to preserve the heat shield integrity.
The CM and SM do need to be connected — the capsule is only good for a few hours comfortable operation without the SM's support systems, and NASA's safety culture precluded any in-flight connections being made that were not mission essential. (A failure to dock to the LM would not be a mission failure, per se. It would abort the landing, but the LM was essentially just pushed along with the CM/SM.)
The shroud serves several purposes — one of which is transferring the load of the ET/CM/SM stack down to the S-IVB. The shroud also prevents damage to the LM before and during launch, and keeps the LM separated from the SM, as well as streamlining the stack, and preventing animals being accidentally carried. Note that the LM is not actually connected to the SM while inside the shroud — the CM/SM stack separates from the shroud, which then itself opens, revealing the LM.
The LM itself is a dual stage design — the Lunar Descent Module, and the Lunar Ascent Module.
Alternate Stacking
NASA did consider some alternate stacking schemes, but these were not for the Apollo CM/SM/LM as launched — these final designs were concepts approved well before production designs were completed. Two of the three other stackings considered (see link 1) are worth discussion.
One alternate stack was a CM/SM/LunarLaunch/LunarLanding stack — no on-orbit docking maneuvers. It would have, however, required a larger launcher than the Saturn V, and would have had the potential for losing all three astronauts at once at the moon, and would not have had the orbiting CM for comm relay and visual confirmation. The costs of designing an even larger launcher were considered prohibitive.
The second alternate stack given serious consideration was to launch the LM separately on a second Saturn V. This would have allowed a considerably more powerful LEM and a larger CM as well. It was not, however, considered cost effective, and so was rejected.
Discussion and Elaboration
The CM design could not have had the LM above it — it would have made the escape tower too massive, and the Apollo project was run almost to the safety limit already. Further, that would have put several tons of highly explosive fuel above the CM at load, which would have been rejected even by the (now relatively lax) safety standards of 1960's NASA.
The SM cannot be stacked above the CM for the same reasons, plus even more mass.
That the capsule need not be 2-axis balanced was apparently not considered until later in the program, in the 1970's.
The SM has to be able to use its engines; they're used for mid-course corrections, lunar orbit insertion and trans-Earth injection. Therefore, the LM cannot remain stacked underneath the SM if the SM is to have a single engine. The single engine is a matter of simplicity.
The LM cannot be used as the TLI/LOI engine, either — it would require more structural mass, and the LM engine is left on the surface of the moon.
The LM in the middle requires disconnecting and reconnecting the CM/SM, or having the CM be self-sufficient aside from the rocket motor, or having the connections run around the LM; for a variety of reasons, this was not practical.
So, for reasons of simplicity, the historic stacking mode was the best combination of habitability, safety, and price for the available technology set.
https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/1853/8042/3/SSEC_SE2_doc.pdf
http://news.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-lancashire/plain/A3770174
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo_mission.swf
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$\begingroup$ This is an excellent answer, thank you. Just one clarification: you mention that SM engine was used for trans-lunar injection, but I think this was done by the Saturn-IVB. The SM engines were used for Lunar orbit insertion and trans-Earth injection. $\endgroup$ – mpv Mar 19 '14 at 9:39
$\begingroup$ @mpv -- That is correct. The SM engines were not used for TLI. The TD&E maneuver occurred after TLI. The SM engines were used for midcourse corrections along the way to the Moon (and of course lunar orbit insertion and trans-Earth injection). $\endgroup$ – David Hammen Mar 19 '14 at 17:24
$\begingroup$ Wasn't one of the reasons for rejecting the two-launcher option not just cost but complexity of managing and coordinating essentially two launch missions for one landing mission? $\endgroup$ – Anthony X Jun 17 '17 at 20:00
$\begingroup$ @AnthonyX Gemini 8 & Agena proved it was doable to do an orbital rendezvous. THe problem being that... 1) only the Saturn was buff enough to carry a joined SM/CM filled for lunar missions; 2) Only the saturn was capable of carrying the full LM, 3)the combined stack allowed for the trip as a single mission, 4) if there are 20 abort conditions on one flight, that's 400 on two. Either going wrong screws the mission. 5) mate-up in orbit is another potential fail unique to the multi-launch, 6) the connection of umbilicals would likely have needed EVA. Going to 2 launchers is not sane. $\endgroup$ – aramis Nov 21 '19 at 19:53
Probably the biggest reason is they did not want to cut a hole through the heat shield, same reason the Soyuz has the ascent/descent element in the middle of the stack, instead of at the top.
But the Lunar module is not very robust, and probably needed the structural bracing for launch. So probably would not have worked well on top of the Command Module. It would have made the Launch Escape System much harder or more expensive.
Thus Soyuz is your counter example on a much smaller scale.
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$\begingroup$ Would cutting a hole through the heatshield remove the requirement for transposition? I think it would be very difficult to connect the CSM and the LM in this way, because below the heatshield there is the service module and the huge nozzle. Hole in the heatshield would help only if the service module would be below the LM, but that would require even more complicated transposition maneuver (to free the LM and connect the CM with the SM). The structural strength of the LM seems more plausible as a reason, but I'm not sure if this was the main reason. $\endgroup$ – mpv Mar 16 '14 at 9:20
$\begingroup$ There were connections between CM and SM, for electric power, control signals, oxygen and water. These connections were made through the heatshield. These connections were cut just before reentry of the CM by a guillotine assembley in the SM. There was no hole cut in the heatshield, but the heatshield was build around the existing connections. It was not possible to separate CM and SM temporally. $\endgroup$ – Uwe Jun 25 '17 at 15:07
I guess ... during the mission the order had to be switched, so the service module engine could perform the Lunar Orbit Insertion. Is that correct?
That's one of the reasons, but not the only one.
Before the TDE manuever, the modules are not connected at all. After the TDE maneuver, the CM and LM are connected to each other via an airlock, so the astronauts can move between the two without having to do an EVA. This removes a risky, time-consuming procedure from the mission and makes the journey much more comfortable.
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The Saturn V was equipped with a launch escape system. In case of a dangerous malfunction during launch, there was a smaller rocket on top of the Saturn V which had the job to drag the crew capsule away from the rest of the rocket.
This could only work when the crew was in the topmost part of the rocket. The LM could only house two crewmembers, so all crewmembers had to be in the command module during launch, so the CM had to be the topmost part of the payload.
PhilippPhilipp
$\begingroup$ I'm not sure if you missed it, but Geoff already mentions LES. Perhaps you could find some way of expanding on your answer, touch points that Geoff hasn't already? I think there's more to say about it, even if some of it is fairly obvious to most of us. E.g., nobody yet described why the CSM and LM weren't docked (or in position to do so) from the start. Or adding some nice diagrams / photos explaining the maneuver, or something else entirely? $\endgroup$ – TildalWave Mar 15 '14 at 0:10
$\begingroup$ The Soyuz is also using Launch Escape System and they don't have the crew in the topmost module. There is the orbital module and below it the landing module with the crew. However if I imagine the LM below LES (and the CSM below LM), that seems kind of fragile. So another option would be to keep CSM on the top, but install it docked with the LM (the nozzle pointing upwards), connect that with the LES somehow reliably and cover under an aerodynamic fairing. Was that considered? $\endgroup$ – mpv Mar 15 '14 at 9:30
$\begingroup$ @mpv Maybe I'm reading your comment wrong (and of course it's been a while), but any configuration that does not attach the ET to the CM would incur a mass penalty for abort by ET, which means the ET itself would need more fuel, incurring a mass penalty for the launcher's first stage (since IIRC the ET was jettisoned before first stage cutoff; otherwise it would incur a mass penalty also for later stages). Also, two fully fueled rockets, one meant to be used while the other remains or is in close proximity, sounds like a risky setup to me. LM/SM/CM/ET stack order does not have that problem. $\endgroup$ – a CVn Aug 8 '15 at 22:24
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HALLERVORDEN SPATZ SYNDROME PDF
Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome is a rare neurodegenerative disease of autosomal recessive inheritance which presents in childhood or early adulthood with. Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration (PKAN), also known as neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation 1 (NBIA1), also called Hallervorden–Spatz syndrome, is a degenerative disease of the. Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome was first described in by Drs. Julius Hallervorden and Hugo Spatz with their study of a family of 12 in which five sisters.
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Because rare disorders like PKAN often go unrecognized, these disorders may be under-diagnosed or misdiagnosed, making it difficult to determine the accuracy of these estimates. Diagnosis The diagnosis of PKAN is made based upon a detailed patient history, a thorough clinical evaluation, and a variety of specialized tests. Loss of independent ambulation walking often occurs 15 to 40 years after the initial development of symptoms.
Mental alertness and intellectual capacities are not affected. Clinical and magnetic resonance imaging correlations: Spontaneous presentation on a patient with Hallervorden-Spatz disease in the absence of neuroleptic drugs. The symptoms and severity of fucosidosis are highly variable and the disorder represents a disease spectrum in which individuals with mild cases have been known to live into the third or fourth decades.
Lab data were negative for Wilson serology. The inability to breakdown fucose-containing compounds results in their accumulation in various tissues in the body. Tremor in patients with HSD responds best to dopaminergic agents. PKAN affects males and females in equal numbers.
Additional symptoms often develop including progressive cognitive impairment, muscle weakness, seizures and behavioral or personality changes.
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Racial hygiene, active euthanasia and Julius Hallervorden. C ] – Classic: Clinical and magnetic resonance imaging correlations. The risk is the same for males and females. Pantethine a precursor of pantetheine has been studied and shown to be effective in a mouse and in a fruit fly model of the disease. The symptoms and physical findings vary from case to case. This is especially seen in regions of the basal ganglia called the globus pallidus and the substantia nigra.
Degenerative changes occur in areas deep within the brain substantia nigra and other pigmented regions of the braincausing a decrease in dopamine levels in the brain.
This is a hallervordeen that comes with a lot of demands on our time and energy. A year-old girl was relatively asymptomatic until the age of 15 years when she started developing dysphagia, dysarthria, and dysphonia.
Brain Encephalitis Viral encephalitis Herpesviral encephalitis Limbic encephalitis Encephalitis lethargica Cavernous sinus thrombosis Brain abscess Amoebic. Many of the delays in development pertain to motor skills movementalthough a small subgroup may have intellectual delays.
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People with late-onset HSD may live well into adulthood. All patients have the ‘eye of the tiger’ hallefvorden on brain MRI Hayflick et al. Degenerative SA Friedreich’s ataxia Ataxia-telangiectasia.
Shevell suggested that the disease might be called ‘Martha-Alma disease’ for the 2 unfortunate sisters whose brains were first dissected in the original description of the condition Hallervorden and Spatz, Intellectual testing may be hampered by the movement disorder; therefore, newer methods of studying intelligence are necessary to determine if there are any cognitive features of this condition.
History Symptoms in HSD include the following: All patients had the characteristic ‘eye of the tiger’ sign on brain MRI. Focal Generalised Status epilepticus Myoclonic epilepsy. If dopaminergic agents are not effective against dystonia, anticholinergics can be used, but they offer only transient relief. Case Rep Neurol Med. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed small hyper intensity in inner part of both GP, surrounded by hypointense rim peripherally on T2.
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Clinically the condition is characterized by progressive rigidity, first in the lower and later in the upper extremities. Neurological examination revealed hyper-extension in neck muscles and because of that she was unable to look downward. MR and pathologic findings. This molecule helps your body convert fats, some amino acids, and carbohydrates into energy.
Another common feature is degeneration of the syhdrome, resulting in progressive night blindness and loss of peripheral side vision. Hallervorden-Spatz disease Sydrome is a rare disorder characterized by progressive extrapyramidal dysfunction and dementia. Articles Cases Courses Quiz.
While the movement disorder is a very common feature, it usually develops later. Frequent contact with patients and treatment adjustments are required to maintain as high a quality of life as possible. Because of severe dystonia in limbs and tongue muscles, he was unable to eat easily as you can see in movie.
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Turkey Throws Wrenches Into the War on Terror
The ideological fight against Islamism suffers new setbacks courtesy of a wayward NATO member.
by Liam Duffy
Necmettin Erbakan (ymphotos/Shutterstock.com)
Since the start of the Bush administration’s War on Terror, much has rightly been made of the need to defeat the jihadist ideology behind terror attacks using more than simply guns and bombs.
But terrorism is only one battleground of the broader ideological fight, and we will ultimately fail to defeat the jihadist threat unless we pull the Islamist rug from beneath their feet — a rug to which, at present, Turkey is adding its considerable weight.
As evidenced by the latest incursion into Syria, President Erdoğan’s Turkey is at best hindering the fight against jihadism; at worst our NATO ally is (inadvertently or not) aiding and abetting the enemy. If we consider jihadism to be the tip of the Islamist spear, it becomes even clearer how problematic the role of Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) really is.
Erdoğan himself is a disciple of Necmettin Erbakan, founder of Milli Gorus (National Vision), the Turkish cousin of the globally and disproportionately influential Muslim Brotherhood movement. The Muslim Brotherhood and Milli Gorus share the same ultimate objective as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, although their strategy differs and they are less promiscuous with their understanding of jihad.
Muslim Brotherhood ideologues were key in the formation of the al-Qaeda worldview, and the barrier between the “nonviolent” Islamist groups and jihadist groups is porous to say the least, with a number of senior jihadists emerging from the intellectual Islamist movement.
Although at one time Erdoğan’s Islamist days appeared to be behind him, he has embarked on a campaign of “re-Islamization” in Turkey— formerly a bastion of secularism.
This mirrors the activities of Milli Gorus and the Muslim Brotherhood in the West, which seek to implant an ultra-orthodox and politicized Muslim identity into Western Muslim communities.
Milli Gorus is heavily supported and influenced by Erdogan’s AKP, particularly in Europe. In Germany alone, Milli Gorus is estimated to control 300 mosques and can count some 30,000 members (87,000 in Europe in total).
Aside from the risk of creating parallel societies that would prove dangerous to social cohesion and integration, Germany’s own assessment concludes that there is a “risk that such milieus could also form the breeding ground for further radicalization.”
Alongside the re-Islamization campaign at home and abroad, Erdogan has slowly pressed down on the throat of democratic freedoms in Turkey, with thousands of alleged coup plotters still imprisoned after a brutal crackdown that left hundreds dead.
Thousands of websites, including Wikipedia, are banned alongside occasional blockages of social media, and Turkey has tumbled down the ranks of both Freedom House’s democracy rankings and the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law index.
Erdoğan’s grip on the country seemed to weaken over the summer as AKP suffered a wave of election losses, including a defiant rejection at the ballot box from the cosmopolitan city of Istanbul. Erdoğan’s authoritarian impulses will likely dictate the long-term strategy to overcome these setbacks, but as any dictator worth his salt knows, there is also nothing like a good war to boost domestic approval. The Turkish soccer team’s on-field military salute to coincide with the Syrian operation is a sad indictment of the nationalistic fervor against Kurds that Erdogan has fostered.
The euphemistically named invasion of the Kurdish autonomous zone in northern Syria, “Operation Peace Spring,” is not only an assault on the PKK and affiliates but also a flagrant attack on the very people who fought the world’s fight to defeat Islamic State and endured some of its worst excesses.
Kobane, once saved from extinction by U.S. airstrikes, is currently being shelled by a NATO member. And to add insult to injury, the shelling was deliberately directed to unnerve the U.S. forces still in the city.
In a move sure to please his Islamist cheerleaders, Erdoğan even tweeted in Arabic his blessing for his “Mohameddan Army,” effectively declaring ISIS-style takfir (excommunication) on the Kurds. Evidently, some of Turkey’s proxies were listening, as it appears that war crimes were committed against civilians within the first few hours of the Turkish invasion.
This move risks reversing the gains made against the Islamic State and casts even more uncertainty over the fate of thousands of captured fighters held in northern Syria. ISIS has previously had great success in springing its fighters from prison, and the remnants of the group may yet seize on the opportunity Turkey has afforded them.
The chaos is already taking its toll: reports suggest that the large Ain Issa prison camp holding ISIS families and sympathizers has fallen, meaning we have now “lost” several hundred jihadists (including a number of Westerners). A reminder: this mess is in the very earliest stages of the Turkish operation.
It is hardly a secret that Erdoğan has long considered the Kurds along the border as more of a threat than the jihadists. Turkey has had a complicated relationship with the jihadists at its doorstep, and some have even accused the government of tacitly supporting the terrorists.
Like the “-ism” defeated in the Cold War, Islamism is a totalitarian and utopian ideology with violent terrorist offshoots. Erdoğan’s Turkey is winding back democracy at home, incubating Islamism in the West, and reversing hard-fought gains against jihadists in Syria. If this were the Cold War and the West was serious about winning the ideological war against Islamism, Turkey’s conduct would no longer be acceptable for an ally in that fight.
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Pope Francis Calls for Dialogue, Restraint Amid Rising International Tensions
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THE VATICAN (Sputnik) - Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, said on Sunday that states should show restraint and engage in dialogue to ease rising international tensions in the wake of a US drone attack that killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) elite Quds Force.
"In many parts of the world, a terrible air of tension is felt. War brings only death and destruction. I urge all parties to fan the flame of dialogue and self-restraint, and to banish the shadow of hostility," the Pope said during his traditional Sunday sermon.
The Pope then called on worshipers to pray for peace.
In the early hours of Friday, Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of an Iraqi Shia militia group, were among those killed by a US drone attack near Baghdad International Airport. Soleimani and al-Muhandis were blamed by Washington for organizing demonstrations at the US Embassy in Baghdad on 31 December.
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On Friday, the head of the Vatican press office, Matteo Bruni, said that the Pope was following the ongoing situation between Washington and Tehran with prayers.
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BA man charged in stabbings — (Tulsa World)
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Author: CARY ASPINWALL World Staff Writer
A man who is accused of fatally stabbing and mutilating his mother and stepfather last weekend was charged Friday with murder.
Darren Craig Ellis, 27, faces two counts of first-degree murder for the slayings of Margaret and Troy Hefley.
Police discovered the Hefleys’ decapitated and disemboweled bodies Sunday at their Broken Arrow apartment after receiving a 911 call from Ellis stating that he had killed his parents and needed police help, court records show.
An affidavit filed earlier this week by Broken Arrow police gave details of a gruesome crime scene. Ellis has been hospitalized since he was found Sunday with a self-inflicted stab wound, police said.
First Assistant District Attorney Doug Drummond said Ellis was set to be discharged from the hospital Friday. He was booked into the Tulsa Jail on Friday night, records show.
The District Attorney’s Office has not decided whether it will seek the death penalty for Ellis, Drummond said.
A search warrant filed Friday shows that police collected from the apartment several knives and the prescription antidepressant Celexa and a sack that had contained Celexa and the anti-psychotic medication Risperdal.
Ellis apparently had been living with his mother and step-father since his release from prison in June.
He previously served time in prison for grand larceny, possession of a controlled substance and escaping from prison, court records show.
He also was convicted of mailing threatening letters to Creek County officials in 1998.
Since his release from prison, Ellis had been charged with a number of traffic violations and had also been detained for mental observation, police said.
Remarks he made to police following an automobile accident on Sept. 10 led to an emergency order of detention and treatment for Ellis, police said.
Cary Aspinwall, World staff writer, can be reached at 581-8369 or via e-mail atcary.aspinwall@tulsaworld.com.
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Houston First partners with Staging Solutions
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HOUSTON (October 9, 2017) – Houston First Corporation (HFC) announced it has entered into agreements with Levy Convention Centers as its hospitality partner and Staging Solutions to provide its premier multimedia expertise to the George R. Brown Convention Center (GRB), transforming the overall meeting and special event experience.
With its deep roots in convention centers, large-scale events, restaurants, and professional sports, Levy will be the food and beverage partner for Houston’s convention center district, bringing creativity and an elevated approach to hospitality. Levy will offer expanded culinary options, including pop-up dining locations throughout the facilities featuring afternoon treats, specialty cocktails, and other customized creations to delight guests throughout the day. Locally sourced ingredients and vibrant flavors will come together to create new signature items, while a local roaster will be tapped to create a signature coffee for the GRB. Levy will also partner with local farms, restaurants, and purveyors to deliver a unique ‘taste’ of Houston. The contract also expands to the Theater District, where Levy will incorporate mobile technology to offer expedited service during intermissions and new options for patrons planning their evening before the show.
“Houston First’s vision for the future of the George R. Brown Convention couldn’t be more exciting, and we’re proud to be a part of the convention experience in Houston and to help this incredible city look toward the future,” said Andy Lansing, President and CEO of Levy. “By marrying a culinary focus on local ingredients and flavors with industry-leading technology, we look forward to working to create an experience that is customized and meaningful for the broad range of guests we will serve.”
Staging Solutions, a Houston based production and creative agency, will also bring their expertise to the GRB. Through creative strategy, media, and production services, Staging Solutions crafts experiences that bring value to brands and engage audiences. One of the first tasks for Staging Solutions will be to help the Houston Grand Opera transform an exhibit hall in the GRB into an intimate opera stage as the GRB becomes a temporary home for the opera after the Wortham sustained damage from Hurricane Harvey. Staging Solutions is an industry leader and has created event experiences at the GRB for two decades for events like ABB’s Customer World and LNG’s World Gas Conference. Notable events and experiences in surrounding venues in their portfolio include the Virtual Reality Activation for Texas Medical Center and Super Bowl LI Gala: Luminaries of the Game.
“By redefining in house audio visual offerings, we will elevate the experience traditionally found within convention centers and facilities. Our expanded service wheelhouse allows us to drive projects from concept to completion. We’re excited to collaborate with Houston First to continue to grow the GRB as a unique destination for business and entertainment,” said Bill Fitch, President and CEO, Staging Solutions. “Meeting planners can look forward not only to the high quality of service they have come to expect from the GRB, but also to more innovative and groundbreaking experiences for their attendees” said Luther Villagomez, Chief Operating Officer Convention District, Houston First Corporation. “Both Levy and Staging Solutions will provide superior services that will continue to set the standard in our industry making the George R. Brown one of the top convention sites in the country.”
Contracts for Levy Convention Centers went into effect October 1, and Staging Solutions will go into effect October 15.
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Snowy Notes
Love More. Hate Less
Project AA
助理建筑师 羲和清零 164
On July 25, 2019 By Yukisan
Assistant Architect by Xi He Qing Ling
Chapter 164: Worries
Even though he wasn’t really expecting anything to happen, Zhang Siyi was struck in the heart by Gu Yu’s seemingly simply but in fact, profound action.
Yes, the point is not on the tying of the shoelaces themselves, but rather, the process of taking one knee to the ground.
Zhang Siyi asked himself whether or not it was possible for him to kneel down like Gu Yu had to tie his girlfriend’s shoes. The answer was, no. He would even feel embarrassed to kneel in front of his parents to tie their shoes. From a young age, boys are taught to stay strong and show no weakness.
Perhaps while joking with friends, one might do it, but not after such a serious discussion. Zhang Siyi found Gu Yu’s prostration extremely shocking. For a few seconds, he felt as though he was restricted by in an invisible barrier and couldn’t move.
Zhang Siyi felt himself fall in love with the man before him all over again. If, in that moment, Gu Yu had asked him to marry, he wouldn’t hesitate and say yes.
The faint touch on his foot, like an electric current, spread from his toes, throughout his limbs and to his scalp causing him to tremble.
After he was finished, Zhang Siyi naturally extended his hand to Gu Yu to help pull him up. When Gu Yu accepted his hand, Gu Yu was gazing up at him affectionately and like a prince kissing a princess, Gu Yu planted a kiss on the back of Zhang Siyi’s hand.
Zhang Siyi was reminded of the dream he had during the movie ‘Cinderella’ where he grabbed the prince’s hand and asked him if he liked him or not……
With a pounding heart, Zhang Siyi felt like he was going to drown in his emotions. For once, he was thankful for Gu Yu’s silence, otherwise with further stimulation, he thought he might faint!
His feelings at the moment were so hot and sincere that Zhang Siyi quickly embraced Gu Yu and kissed him after he stood up. However, because they were both men standing outside in public, Zhang Siyi felt his anxiety rise and as a result the longing he felt couldn’t be satisfied right now. Even so, he felt true happiness that one feels when their dreams come true. Ecstatic, he held him tightly and affirmed; he wouldn’t let Gu Yu go for the rest of his life.
Drunk, not only on alcohol, but on love, the two of them remained in each other’s embrace and kissed deeply. The night air of Kyoto, saturated with sweetness, wrapped around them.
While taking a stroll through the ancient roads, they held hands and relished the rare opportunity to be affectionate together outside. Like a fool, they stopped here and there and kissed each other as if they were the only two people in the world.
Gu Yu: “I thought your secrete plans with Ji Feiyu went smoothly.”
Zhang Siyi: “What plans? I just thought of that punishment on the fly. If I had known ahead of time, I would have told you. If I told you, would you have written ‘lie’ on my hand still? And even so, you disregarded your own rule and said you liked me in front of everyone. That Fat Peach too! Were you guys in collusion?
Gu Yu laughed and smiled at him: “It’s not…. It’s just…… I can’t hold back. Anyway, being part of the game, I didn’t think it was a big deal. People took it as a joke and no harm was done.
Zhang Siyi: “You scared me to death!”
Gu Yu looked at him and leaned over to his ear and whispered: “When you kissed me, I was hard.” He planted a hot passionate kiss on Zhang Siyi lips.
Zhang Siyi: “………” (o////o) Gu Yu, this rogue!
After separating their lips, Zhang Siyi asked: “Do you believe in Tao Fei’s ‘love period’ theory?”
Gu Yu smiled: “You are my first love. What Tao Fei said isn’t allowed.”
Zhang Siyi: “……”
Zhang Siyi’s silence prompted Gu Yu to continue: “Our experience is the same, don’t you think?”
Zhang Siyi: “Even though I went out with one other person I think what you said is true. Don’t be angry, but when I was with my ex-girlfriend, I felt at that time that I liked her very much and……”
“Hey” Zhang Siyi called out “why are you pinching me!? I told you not to be angry… hey… help… I was wrong! I was wrong!”
Laughing, Zhang Siyi squirmed and begged for mercy. He tried to move out of reach, but Gu Yu pulled him close instead. As Zhang Siyi was being held in Gu Yu’s strong embrace, he pleaded: “Okay, okay…. I didn’t like her. I only like you.”
Continuing to prod Zhang Siyi’s sensitive waist, this time with gentle caresses, Gu Yu stared at him.
Zhang Siyi dare not move. He knew enough not to say more positive things about his past with his ex-girlfriend: “In retrospect, our best time together was only the first few months because there was less contact when I went to the UK to study. The difficulty in maintaining long-distance relationships……”
Gu Yu: “So, what is it that you are trying to say?”
Zhang Siyi lowered his eyes and whispered: “I am afraid that after the first few months we are together, you won’t like me anymore.”
Gu Yu smiled broadly. It seems he wasn’t the only one suffering from his own doubt. This little fool was also afraid. While Gu Yu was afraid Zhang Siyi would regret his relationship with him, Zhang Siyi was afraid of being tossed aside.
“Do I look like the kind of person who only likes new things?” Gu Yu asked.
Zhang Siyi shook his head. Even though he knew it wasn’t the case as the old tape measure that Gu Yu gave him was his evidence, Zhang Siyi’s insecurities out-weighed his rational thought.
Gu Yu softly said: “According to Tao Fei’s theory, since this is our third month together, we are supposed to have cooled down already. Will there be a time when suddenly, like the ending of a magic spell, where we will think the person besides us isn’t who we thought they were and our emotional ties cease?
Zhang Siyi shook his head again. How could it be?
Gu Yu added: “Although we have had our fair share of squabbles these last few months, we were able to resolve our problems every time. As a result, our understanding of each other became better and our feelings for one another are stronger. As we get to know each other more and more, there will be fewer unknown elements between us and thus lack freshness. Which, by the way, are very normal changes in a relationship. I understand that life is long and that the feelings between us may change subtly over time into responsibility and affection for family.” Gu Yu clenched his hand and softly asked: “Do you think that is boring?”
Zhang Siyi: “No.”
Zhang Siyi is obsessed with the calm and peace of mind that Gu Yu brings into his life. Wherever Gu Yu is, he is his soul’s safe harbor.
Gu Yu sighed with relief and said: “It is good to be accepting of things for the future. In any case, I don’t believe that our relationship will be any different after three months.”
In fact, in comparison to his normal stoic and calm demeanor, the strong impulsiveness and loss of control that Gu Yu felt from time to time was difficult to restrain. If his impulses were due to the love period, then Gu Yu was wondering, if when his enthusiasm settles down, how will they continue?
Gu Yu calming timber of his voice soothed Zhang Siyi. Not only did Gu Yu quell any uneasiness in his heart, but Gu Yu’s attitude and maturity made Zhang Siyi adore him even more.
Brimming with love and affection, Zhang Siyi wanted to shout it out to the world. He waned to tell every female that secretly coveted Gu Yu…… Your male god, he is my love!
6 thoughts on “助理建筑师 羲和清零 164”
skaralding
Oh no, now I feel dumb for assuming it was GY trolling by kneeling down last chapter. Really love how intense the author made that moment though o(≧∇≦o)
Thanks for the chapters ❤
Ah, these two are just getting better and better, thank you for the translation!
nenslovehailouyin
Thankyou for daily update…
Washu M (@Washu_M)
Omg… Every time GY speaks in a way that gets ZSY blushing makes my day… ❤
Thanks for the update! 🙂
Openlyfujoshi
Thank you for the update and your hard work .
I really like GY’s point of view when it comes to long term relationships and how mature he was when it comes to discussing his feelings with ZSY. I think it’s really important for couples to do what these guys do, which is communicate… Anyway, thanks for the update!
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Show 103, December 27, 2014: Brad A. Johnson, Restaurant Critic, Orange County Register Part One
Posted on December 30, 2014 by abell
It’s our pleasure to welcome back Brad A. Johnson, the Orange County Register’s award-winning restaurant critic to the show. Brad is going to share his 2014 Orange County restaurant awards with us. These include his selections for Restaurant of the Year, Chef of the Year, Pastry Chef of the Year, Outstanding Wine Service and Best New Restaurant. Additionally we’ll hear about his favorite Orange County dishes of the year.
Posted in Podcasts, SoCal Restaurant Show | Tagged Best New Restaurant, best of 2014, Brad A. Johnson, Chef of the Year, Orange County, Outstanding Wine Service, Pastry Chef of the Year, podcast, restaurant awards, restaurant critic, Restaurant of the Year
Show 86, August 30, 2014: Guest Host Kedric Francis and Producer & Co-Host Andy Harris preview the show
Posted on September 3, 2014 by abell
Guest Host Kedric Francis of The Orange County Register Magazine & Coast Orange County Magazine and Producer Andy Harris preview the show.
The always debonair Kedric Francis, our dashing man about Orange County, is the Executive Editor of both publications.
You’ll remember the always opinionated Chef Shirley Chung (Las Vegas – based) as a finalist in Season 11 of Bravo’s “Top Chef” in New Orleans. She is opening a modern Chinese restaurant in Irvine at the end of September.
It’s the Orange International Street Fair in Old Towne Orange this Labor Day Weekend. In the center of the action in a restored historic bungalow on W. Chapman is Wahoo’s Fish Taco. Co-founder Wing Lam joins us to discuss what’s new at Wahoo’s.
The Palm Restaurant, known for classic steakhouse fare, has been an institution in West Hollywood since its launch in 1975. That location is closing at the end of September. In early November a new, 6,000 square foot Palm will begin welcoming guests in Beverly Hills.
Chef-comedienne Nadia G. is widely known as the creator and host of “Nadia G’s Bitchin’ Kitchen,” a brand defining series for Cooking Channel and the first ever online show to successfully transition from the internet to primetime. Her new primetime Cooking Channel series is “Bite This.” The always unpredictable Nadia G. is our guest.
Brad A. Johnson is the James Beard award-winning restaurant critic for both the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Register. Brad is back with us this week to talk about sushi and his favorites in both Los Angeles and Orange Counties. He’ll also preview an intriguing piece he’s writing for the Orange County Register Magazine on the new wave of Italian restaurants.
Five years ago Haven Gastropub opened on S. Glassell St. in Old Towne Orange during the annual Orange International Street Festival. That Festival attracts some 500,000 hungry and thirsty guests for the three-days. Executive Chef Greg Daniels is with us to talk about their five-year anniversary.
All of this and lots more absolutely incredible deliciousness on Saturday’s show!
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Show 86, August 30, 2014: Brad A. Johnson, Restaurant Critic, Orange County and Los Angeles Registers
Brad A. Johnson is the James Beard award-winning restaurant critic for both the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Register.
Brad is back with us this week to discuss sushi and his favorites places to enjoy the preparation in both Los Angeles and Orange Counties. His undiscovered gem in the OC is Shunka Sushi in Costa Mesa.
“Most of these (fish listed on chalkboard @ Shunka Sushi) will be fish you’ve never heard of , fish that you will rarely see in sushi bars in America – all flown in daily (except Sunday) from Japan.”
He’ll also preview an intriguing piece he’s writing for the Orange County Register Magazine on the new wave of Italian restaurants.
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August 30: Kedric Francis, Shirley Chung, Wing Lam, The Palm, Nadia G, Brad A. Johnson, Haven Gastropub
Posted on August 28, 2014 by abell
Segment One: Guest Host Kedric Francis and Producer & Co-Host Andy Harris preview the show
Segment Two: Executive Chef Shirley Chung of TWENTY Eight
Segment Three: Wing Lam, Wahoo’s Fish Taco
Segment Four: Bruce Bozzi, Jr., of the Palm
Segment Five: Cooking Channel’s Chef Nadia G. Part One
Segment Six: Cooking Channel’s Chef Nadia G. Part Two
Segment Seven: Brad A. Johnson, Restaurant Critic, Orange County and Los Angeles Registers
Segment Eight: Executive Chef Greg Daniels, Haven Gastropub and Provisions, Orange
You’ll remember the always opinionated Chef Shirley Chung (Las Vegas – based) as a finalist in Season 11 of Bravo’s “Top Chef.” She is opening a modern Chinese restaurant in Irvine at the end of September.
It’s the Orange International Street Fair in Old Towne Orange this Labor Day Weekend. In the center of the action in a restored bungalow on W. Chapman is Wahoo’s Fish Taco. Co-founder Wing Lam joins us to discuss what’s new at Wahoo’s.
Five years ago Haven Gastropub opened on S. Glassell St. in Old Towne Orange during the Orange International Street Festival. That Festival attracts some 500,000 guests for the three-days. Executive Chef Greg Daniels is with us to talk about their five-year anniversary.
You’ll remember the always opinionated Chef Shirley Chung (Las Vegas – based) as a finalist in Season 11 of Bravo’s “Top Chef.”
Prior to her ride to fame on “Top Chef” she held the Executive Chef position at China Poblano by Jose Andres at The Cosmopolitan.
Chef Shirley is opening a modern Chinese restaurant in Irvine at the end of September. “I like my cuisine to tell a story,” commented Chef Shirley, who has developed the innovative menu of sharable plates for TWENTY EIGHT. “My inspiration for this menu is reflective of my childhood years in Beijing, my past experiences, and my travels, all of which have inspired me to push the envelope.”
“In addition to the menu of modern Chinese specialties, diners can look forward to an enticing Dim Sum and Small Plates menu, a full bar with a focus on craft cocktails, and private dining options for both large and small gatherings.”
It’s the Orange International Street Fair in Old Towne Orange this Labor Day Weekend. In the center of the action on W. Chapman is Wahoo’s Fish Taco. Co-founder Wing Lam joins us to discuss what’s new at Wahoo’s.
Raymond Martin is the new executive chef for Wahoo’s. New on the menu are Street Tacos, a Kale Kai Salad, and Wahoo’s Wings.
Opening soon is a long-in-the-works Wahoo’s location at Honda Center.
The iconic Palm Restaurant in West Hollywood will close and lock its doors for the last time on September 30th after almost 40 years. The better news is that their new 6,000 square foot restaurant seating 185 guests will debut at in Beverly Hills at 267 N. Canon Dr. in early November.
“Serving its classic steakhouse cuisine and generous “Palm-size” portions since 1975, The Palm in West Hollywood is equally famous for the caricatures of its celebrity customers and the entertainment industry power players that adorn its walls.”
“This Palm has been here for almost 40 years, and while we are sad to leave our home on Santa Monica Blvd., we are excited to be opening a new Palm just a few minutes away in Beverly Hills,” said Bruce Bozzi, Jr., great-grandson of Pio Bozzi, who, with John Ganzi, co-founded The Palm in 1926. “Through four generations, we have followed a simple recipe for success that focuses on making our guests feel that they belong at The Palm. We look forward to continuing that tradition in our new location.”
Chef-comedienne Nadia G. is widely known as the creator and host of “Nadia G’s Bitchin’ Kitchen,” a brand defining series for Cooking Channel and the first ever online show to successfully transition from the internet to primetime. She also hosts an original online design series, “Sick Kitchens,” and is the author of two bestselling cookbooks.
Her new primetime Cooking Channel series is “Bite This.” It’s a fusion of food, travel and comedy following Nadia as she travels the nation featuring the coolest chefs and finding hidden gems and signature flavors in each city – from Los Angeles to Harlem and the Bronx, to Louisville to Nashville, Chicago and more.
The always unpredictable Nadia G. is our guest.
“Nadia G. rocked your kitchen, now it’s time to rock your city! We’re hitting the road, G-style.” The first city visited for “Bite This” was Los Angeles.
“First up : Badmaash – An outrageous Indian-fusion Poutine with Chicken Tikka at this downright bad ass downtown gastropub.”
“Next up, the freshest and tastiest Lobster Roll you can find West of the Rockies at Blue Plate Oysterette in Santa Monica.”
“Finally, the G and the crew is off to Father’s Office where they’ll meet Chef Sang Yoon and taste the Office Burger – a burger so good that it was names “best burger in the world.” PSST. Insider info : They’ll also unveil for the first time EVER Sang Yoon’s latest tasty creation : The Patricia Melt.”
Brad is back with us this week to discuss sushi and his favorites places to enjoy the preparation in both Los Angeles and Orange Counties. He’ll also preview an intriguing piece he’s writing for the Orange County Register Magazine on the new wave of Italian restaurants.
Thursday, September 4th marks the actual 5-Year anniversary. Within minutes of the original opening guests were 3-deep at the long bar. It hasn’t stopped…
On Thursday, September 4th Haven Gastropub will be celebrating with one of their most impressive line-ups of craft beers on tap to date. There will be specials on signature items throughout the day. ($5 Haven Burgers, anyone ?).
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Also joining us at 10:45 a.m. is Travis Rodgers of the “Travis Rogers Show” heard weekday mornings on AM 830 KLAA from 6:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. Travis’ loyal fans know his second most favorite subject is food! He’s serious about eats. “The Travis Rodgers Show” is SoCal’s only live and local sports morning show.
Arriving on August 29th and continuing through August 31st is the Los Angeles Times The Taste at Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood. Los Angeles Times Food Editor Russ Parsons and Chef Michael Cimarusti of Providence and Connie & Ted’s are participants and our very special guests.
Kedric Francis of the Orange County Register Magazine and Coast Orange County Magazine has been out and about exploring the latest finds in the OC. He was at the very exclusive pre-opening preview lunch for the eagerly anticipated Din Tai Fung Dumpling House in South Coast Plaza on August 15th and will share some of his observations.
Executive Chef Michael Rossi (ex-Napa Rose) has been at the helm of The Ranch Restaurant & Saloon since it’s opening day in early 2012. He was actually on the ambitious project over a year testing recipes before the first guests were greeted. The Ranch (unusually) has its own farm located on the Edwards Ranch Estates in Orange which provides a lot of the fresh fruits and vegetables used at the highly regarded and much acclaimed restaurant. It’s a chef’s dream to have these resources…
Freddy Vargas is the forward-thinking executive chef of the high profile Scarpetta located in the Montage Beverly Hills across a pocket park from Thomas Keller’s Bouchon Beverly Hills. This is one of Celebrity Chef Scott Conants’s restaurant properties. At lunch on Weekdays he’s operating a to-go Paninoteca. Think gourmet Italian sandwiches like a Porchetta. It’s spiced pork belly, broccoli rabe pesto and a fried hen egg on house-baked bread.
Brad A. Johnson is the James Beard award-winning restaurant critic for both the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Register. Where does a restaurant critic eat when he’s not reviewing? Those are the spots we all want to go…Brad shares with us some of his favorites in both Orange County and Los Angeles. The origin of this discussion was a recent article Brad wrote for the Orange County Register Magazine.
The show was live on Saturday morning from The Valley View Casino. The fine dining restaurant there is Black & Blue – The Place For Steak. We’ll meet Chef de Cuisine Michael Knowles.He started cooking at age 14! He has elevated Black & Blue to an award-winning California steakhouse that’s true destination dining for San Diego residents.
Travis Rodgers is the easy-going Iron Man of personalities on AM 830 KLAA. Every weekday morning he’s on AM 830 KLAA talking sports for four hours beginning at 6:00 a.m. After he’s finished at 10:00 a.m. on AM 830 he continues his national show for Yahoo Sports Radio for another hour until 11:00 a.m. That’s five hours on Weekdays as the solo host.
Travis’ second favorite subject is good food. Did we say Mexican? The discussion with Travis is on assorted cravable eats.
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Show 85, August 23, 2014: Brad A. Johnson, Restaurant Critic, The Orange County Register & The Los Angeles Register
Brad A. Johnson is the James Beard award-winning restaurant critic for both the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Register. He’s also an accomplished photographer.
Where does a restaurant critic eat when he’s not reviewing? Those are the spots we all want to find…Brad shares with us some of his favorites in both Orange County and Los Angeles. The origins of this was discussion a recent article Brad wrote for the Orange County Register Magazine.
Posted in Podcasts, SoCal Restaurant Show | Tagged Brad A. Johnson, James Beard Awards, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Register, Orange County, Orange County Register, Orange County Register Magazine, photographer, podcast, restaurant critic
August 23: Live from Valley View Casino with Kedric Francis, Travis Rodgers, Russ Parsons, Michael Cimarusti, Michael Rossi, Freddy Vargas, Brad A. Johnson
Segment Two: Preview of Los Angeles Times The Taste
Segment Three: Kedric Francis, Executive Editor, Orange County Register Magazine
Segment Four: Michael Rossi, Executive Chef, The Ranch Restaurant & Saloon
Segment Five: Freddy Vargas, Executive Chef, Scarpetta, Montage Beverly Hills
Segment Six: Brad A. Johnson, Restaurant Critic, The Orange County Register & The Los Angeles Register
Segment Seven: Chef Michael Knowles, Black & Blue Steakhouse, Valley View Casino
Segment Eight: Travis Rodgers, “The Travis Rodgers Show” on AM 830 KLAA
Brad A. Johnson is the James Beard award-winning restaurant critic for both the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Register. Where does a restaurant critic eat when he’s not reviewing ? Those are the spots we all want to go…Brad shares with us some of his favorites in both Orange County and Los Angeles. The origin of this discussion was a recent article Brad wrote for the Orange County Register Magazine.
The show is live on Saturday morning from The Valley View Casino. The fine dining restaurant there is Black & Blue – The Place For Steak. We’ll meet Chef de Cuisine Michael Knowles .He started cooking at age 14! He has elevated Black & Blue to an award-winning California steakhouse that’s true destination dining for San Diego residents.
Travis’ second favorite subject is good food. Did we say Mexican ? We’ll talk assorted cravable eats with Travis
On Saturday morning, August 30th at 11:00 a.m. Russ Parsons and Nancy Silverton (Mozza) will be hosting “Field to Fork.” “The city’s best eats are in season.”
On Sunday, August 31st at 7:30 p.m. Chef Michael Cimarusti and Jonathan Gold will be hosting “Flavors of L.A.” “Find great eating around every corner.”
Kedric Francis of the Orange County Register Magazine and Coast Orange County Magazine has been out and about in the OC. He was at the pre-opening preview lunch for the eagerly anticipated Din Tai Fung Dumpling House in South Coast Plaza (August 18th was Opening Day) and will share some of his observations.
Din Tai Fung is most famous for XiaoLongBao, the Shanghai-style soup dumplings which became a signature dish at the original site in Taipei.
Din Tai Fung at South Coast Plaza is over 8,000 square feet, making it one of the largest in over 100 locations worldwide.
Executive Chef Michael Rossi (ex-Napa Rose) has been at the helm of The Ranch Restaurant & Saloon since it’s opening day in early 2012. He was actually on the ambitious project for over a year testing recipes before the first guests were greeted.
The Ranch (unusually) has its own 2-acre farm located on the Edwards Ranch Estates in Orange which provides a lot of the fresh produce used at the highly regarded restaurant. Think of over 600 heirloom tomato vines featuring 90 different varieties. Original (and fully mature) orange and fig trees are also part of the property.
Future expansion plans for the Edwards Ranch Estates include avocado trees, olive trees, and grape vines.
It’s a chef’s fondest dream to have these incredible resources…
One of Chef Michael’s signature menu items is the much talked-about 58 oz. bone-in Cowboy Ribeye chop.
Freddy Vargas is the forward-thinking executive chef of the high profile Scarpetta located in the Montage Beverly Hills across a lush pocket park from Thomas Keller’s Bouchon Beverly Hills. This is one of Celebrity Chef Scott Conants’s restaurant properties.
At lunch on Weekdays he’s operating a to-go Paninoteca. Think gourmet Italian sandwiches like a Porchetta. It’s spiced pork belly, broccoli rabe pesto and a fried hen egg on house-baked bread.
The show is live on Saturday morning from The Valley View Casino. The fine dining restaurant there is Black & Blue – The Place For Steak.
We’ll meet Chef de Cuisine Michael Knowles.He started cooking at age 14! Chef Michael cooked at Wolfgang Puck’s Postrio in San Francisco in the 90s. He has elevated Black & Blue to an award-winning California steakhouse that’s true destination dining for discerning San Diego residents.
All of his pastas are made in-house along with some of the cheese.
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Show 76, June 14, 2014: Guest Host Kedric Francis and Producer Andy preview the show
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Guest Host Kedric Francis and Producer Andy preview the show.
Barbara Fairchild, the well-traveled Restaurant & Travel Editor for grapecollective.com, is back with us to share some inspired and practical travel tips. Also a profile of a big deal celebrity chef flagship restaurant in London.
It’s the 9th Anniversary of Chef Michael Cimarusti’s and Donato Poto’s Providence in Hollywood. The Los Angeles Times’ restaurant critic, Jonathan Gold, recently named them the Number 1 establishment in his annual listing of the “101 Best Restaurants – 2014.”
One of the foremost goat cheeses available in the United States, Belle Chevre, is made in a tiny town located in northern Alabama. It’s quite a success story!
You’ve seen Chef Ben Ford on Andrew Zimmern’s “Bizarre Foods America” on Travel Channel and are probably familiar with his landmark Culver City Gastropub, Ford’s Filling Station. His new book is Taming The Feast: Ben Ford’s Field Guide To Adventurous Cooking.
Hinoki & The Bird, hidden in a luxury high rise condo tower in Century City, features Pan-Asian cooking. We’ll meet executive chef Kuniko Yagi.
Guest Host Kedric Francis has been doing some traveling up the Central Coast. Some inspired dining and lodging tips are on the way.
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Show 76, June 14, 2014: Donato Poto, co-owner, Providence, Hollywood, CA
“June marks our ninth anniversary at Providence and we are on…well…Cloud 9! We would like to take this opportunity to thank you, our loyal guests, for your enduring support. “We feel so fortunate to be part of the ever-evolving Los Angeles food scene. At times, I look back and can’t believe it’s been nearly a decade. It feels like we just opened yesterday!”, says consummate host and co-owner of Providence, Donato Poto. In honor of this auspicious occasion, Providence is providing some incentive for you to celebrate along with us. Beginning on our May 28th reopening, we are offering our four-course tasting menu for $80 a person, during the entire month of June. We look forward to celebrating with you!” This may be extended into July…
The Los Angeles Times‘ restaurant critic, Jonathan Gold, recently ranked Providence as the Number One Restaurant in the annual Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants 2014. This is an encore from the same position in 2013.
Providence was closed last month for about two weeks for a freshening of the dining rooms. It’s got a new art deco look. The patio located off the main dining room was enclosed.
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Show 75, June 7, 2014: Brock Kleweno, Executive Chef and General Manager, Yamashiro Hollywood
Brock Kleweno (Kla-ve-no) is both the executive chef and GM of Yamashiro Hollywood. Their ever-popular Thursday Night Farmers Market has returned through September 4th. It operates from 5 to 9:00 p.m.
Yamashiro’s Pagoda Bar will be open for libations and light fare each week.
The Farmers Market also marks the seasonal return of Chef Brock’s famous tacos! They are the darlings of restaurant critics.
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Album Review: Giving The “Green Light” to John Legend’s Evolver
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Last time we spoke, our musical love affair was on shaky ground. I still have a bitter taste in my mouth over the snooze fest that was Once Again. Sophomoric slump in my opinion.
Although I added Evolver to the list of albums I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this year, I admit I was a bit nervous after hearing “Green Light.” Unlike some, I didn’t despise the song but it left me a bit unsettled as to where you were going with this project. Our relationship was gonna be in trouble if this album was underwhelming.
Well Johnny, guess what?
You and I are ace boon coons once again.
One thing I can say about you as an artist is that you are certainly an evolver. With each album you have tried to create a different sound. Sometimes it worked, other times not. I have to applaud the effort. So many artists play it safe, particularly when their first album is so successful. Be prepared, many fans will hate on this album because they want you to return to your soul roots and stay there.
Although I can honestly say that there were no skips for me, a few of the songs did sound similar. I also would have liked the sound of more live instruments. I’m looking forward to seeing you on tour backed by a band. I think I’ll fall completely in love with a few of these tracks when I hear the words set to some live instrumentation.
Let’s get to a few of the songs that I have on repeat.
First, let’s just get the unpleasantness out of the way. The whole album has leaked. It happens. Moving on.
Before the entire album leak, I loved the tracks that were previewed on the music sites like “Good Morning” and “Quickly.”
“Good Morning” should please your stans from Get Lifted. It’s easy like Sunday morning and just as sweet. I tell you, if I had you crooning that in my ear every time I opened my eyes, I just might become a morning person.
Surprisingly, you and Brandy are the perfect combination on “Quickly.” I have a love/hate relationship with her voice but she really shines here with just the right amount of urgency that the song requires. You may just be single-handedly responsible for reviving her career. Folks are checking for her again. I like the sentiment of the song as well, Country is warring, leaders lying; I know we just met but can you love me quickly. Call me mushy but it works for me.
If I was forced to pick one track on the album as a favorite, there’s just something about “I Love, You Love.” The song is simply beautiful without all of the fancy production of some of the other tracks. I can envision this live – just you and the guitar man.
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/12/14/510642/12-john_legend-i_love_you_love.mp3
I am also really feeling the two island-flavored tracks on this album. I’m an Caribbean girl at heart so you and Estelle teaming up on “No Other Love” will be in constant rotation on my IPOD when I need a mental escape. As if it couldn’t get any better, you and Buju Banton on the bonus track, “Can’t Be My Lover” takes me right back to that hot summer night two years ago in Jamaica at Reggae Sumfest.
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/12/14/510642/14-john_legend-cant_be_my_lover_%28bonus_track%29.mp3
Other stand out tracks for me are “This Time,” which somewhat reminds me of “Ordinary People.” Again, I’d like to see this performed live with just a single spotlight on you and the piano. I could have done without whatever that machine is in the background. It competes with the beauty of your voice at times and you struggle to win.
“Take Me Away” reminds me of Bobby Valentino’s sexy summer anthem from a few years back, “Slow Down.” This is the perfect “club-about-to-close-seal-the-deal” song.Take me away from here…take me somewhere where love is like breathing. I don’t care where we go ‘long as I’m there with youuuuu.” Indeed.
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/12/14/510642/10-john_legend-take_me_away.mp3
These days, I’m not a huge fan of rap guest appearances. Often, it’s just not needed. However, Dre and Kanye are welcome additions on “Green Light” and “It’s Over.” (sidebar: There’s no way I will be pressing play on Kanye’s album if the whole thing is going to sound like that. It was okay for sixteen bars but anymore than that, I have to vote hell no.) Nice to see Teddy Riley remixing “It’s Over,” which is another bonus track. I boogied on down to both versions.
Johnny, I know you’ll get some static on this album but even if I have to stand alone, I’m letting you know that it will get much play in my stereo. After hearing this album, I must catch you and Raphael Saadiq on tour. Great live performances of most of these tracks will likely be what it takes to get this on my top albums of 2008 list.
You’re backkkkk!
Vivrant Thang
13 thoughts on “Album Review: Giving The “Green Light” to John Legend’s Evolver”
Black Maybe said:
Nice review. It made me want to hear the album even more, now. (two more days left)
geegee said:
coming out of lurkmode…love your site…found you via Krush…love the legend review..i’m not a fan but my cousin is always shoving him down my throat..i’ve been listening the “can’t be my lover” all day…sent it to this white boy at my job who loves buju banton…so THANKS!! we are groving to your site today!!
I will NOT lurk..I will NOT lurk…I will NOT lurk…
thanks for having such great reviews on music I otherwise wouldn’t even listen to!
Soul UK said:
JL is one of those arists who tear me in 2 … I REALLY want to like his new CD, I just can decide if i actually do or not!
As is the case with most ppl I loved his debut, but Once Again knocked me sideways (and not in a good way!). I just cant seem to get into Evolver!
One good thing tho! ‘Quickly’ has definitely got me ready for Brandy’s return!
Tha Connoisseur said:
Alright, I will be honest with you since there is no other way for me to go anyway…lol Like your friend Soul UK, I have a love/hate relationship with John. Loved “Get Lifted” and hated “Once Again,” so believe it or not I have not even been checking for “Evolver.” I guess I just didn’t care. And I have heard Green Light and I do like it, but not enough to jump back on the bandwagon. Well it looks like you have peeked my interest. I guess I should finally listen to it then. :(…lol
And by the way, that Leigh Jones – FYAH. I love it!
vivrant thang said:
@blackmaybe Thanks! And I admire your strength 🙂
@geegee Come on outta lurkmode girl! I don’t bite! Thanks so much for taking the time to comment. Yea that Buju guest spot made that song. When you hear him at the beginning, you just know it’s gonna be fiyah! I appreciate your comments. That’s what I’m here to do. Once I learn to write less, I’ll certainly be writing more (if that makes sense!) So stay tuned.
@souluk and amc Okay, so this begs the question?. Do we quit an artist after one “bad” album? Is it because he doesn’t have a deep disography that we have less patience with him? If say, MJB put out a bad album (assuming you both adore her like I do) would you be done with her? Or is it that you just feel so-so about him as an artist overall so it’s easy to “jump off the bandwagon?”
@ vivrant..thanks for the warm welcome..and I must admit I do quit artist after they put out garbage also..will take me a lot to go back with them..MJB is a great example..after My Life in 1996 I was done and never went back. *sigh*
@geegee *clutching my pearls and gasping for air* How can you quit Mary?! Lawd take me now! 🙂 🙂 So you weren’t feeling Share My World or Mary at all huh? We were on shaky ground after Mary, which I loved. That hateration and holleration and making up words album afterwards was NOT the move. Growing Pains was the first album in a while I’ve liked…although it still doesn’t do it for me like the 1st 4. But I just can’t quit her. It’s like a strange compulsive need to buy everything she puts out. Can’t explain it.
I feel a post coming on.
Sabrina97 said:
I must be the only person who liked hateration…I think Mary is great, happy or sad. I don’t know about John though. He went a little TOO lounge singer on Once Again. I’ll think about it…
MarvalusOne said:
I can’t believe y’all didn’t like Once Again…I thought there were some gems on that CD…
I can’t wait to listen to this new one…this, of course, will probably be the one that I don’t like!
Viv … You should def do the MJB post!
Going back to what you said, MJB is one of the modern ‘greats’ as far as im concerned. I admit it would be impossible for me to quit her no matter what she released (I was one of the few not feeling Growing Pains).
Its not really a case of i “feel so-so about him as an artist overall so it’s easy to jump off the bandwagon” … it’s something i can’t put my finger on with him. I didnt ‘hate’ Once Again, i actually felt a couple of tracks on first listen, but i cant listen to it now without skippin most tracks. Get Lifted is still a regular guest at my private iPod party. I think that his debut set such a high standard he just (in my eyes) hasnt lived up to it.
Hey Hey dahlin,
So I dug John out of my mailbox and I am having a listening session right now. So far, so good. 🙂 But I am only on “It’s Over” featuring Kanye (I swear I am going to smash that vocoder thing over Kanye’s head).
Ok, no your girl doesn’t give up on an artist just like that. John and I have gone back and forth since he came out honestly. As much as I loved Get Lifted, there were a couple of songs on there that drove me nuts, but have become part of my musical psyche. He always bordered on a ‘Broadway’ type of thing for me and on Once Again that element shined through for me and I did not like it. I agree with UK again, in the fact that there are so many songs that I tend to skip on that album. I don’t know, but I was not feeling that feeling of euphoria for him that I usually feel when a new album is being released by an artist I love. **cue in After The Love Has Gone**
As for Mary, that’s my girl right there. Love her like I love cooked food. However, I must say there are albums she released that I do not rate. But like you mentioned, my compulsion to purchase her stuff wins every time. 😉
I just had to come back and tell you that I have listened to JL…me likey…only I haven’t quite decided how much…
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According to British media, the Liverpool club are ready to play all hands to be able to recruit Real Madrid midfielder Isco. Liverpool decide to spend a lot of money to buy midfielder Isco.
Isco has just undergone an unsuccessful season at Real Madrid in this year. Last season, the Spanish midfielder almost did not contribute anything to the playing style and achievements of Real Madrid.
The star was born in 1992, only played 11 times in La Liga and scored 1 goal. Even when Zidane returned to the Bernabeu, the performance of the former Malaga star also showed no signs of improvement.
The Spanish midfielder was too prominent in the second half of the 2016/17 season, making a big contribution to Real Madrid’s Champions League and La Liga championship. Even in Spain, Isco also played greatly, especially in the victory against Italy in the 2018 World Cup qualifying rounds. However, when it was considered the mainstay of Real Madrid, Isco suddenly fell dramatically. The 25-year-old star has fallen so badly that he has become a thorn in the eyes of coach Zinedine Zidane.
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That should have been the headline news today, but you will hear nothing about it from the zombie-stream media.
You may have heard in the news a couple of weeks ago about how the St. Charles, Missouri caucus was shut down as a result of the antics of the Republican chairman because he realized that Ron Paul supporters were in the majority, which would have cinched the delegates for Ron Paul.
St. Charles, due to its size and number of delegates, as a suburb of St. Louis, was one of the most important counties in the Missouri caucus. Winning its large number of delegates would have insured that Ron Paul would win the majority of delegates in Missouri – the largest caucus state in the country!
You see, the controlled media will not tell you, that at this point the race for the Republican nomination could easily turn on a dime.
They control your thought by controlling the dialog in the media. This is one of their means for brainwashing the American people, to control their dialogs, and thus their thoughts, and their actions. They create a self-fulfilling prophecy. But we can break out of the trance by understanding the truth.
Well, due to grassroots demand, the St. Charles caucus was rescheduled for last night, and the chairman was instructed to run it fairly this time, because the integrity of the Republican Party was on the line and the American people were watching! The caucus went off without a hitch last night, And Ron Paul won all the delegates up for grabs. Did you get that?
All the delegates were won by Ron Paul!
Combined with the results from the other caucuses in Missouri, this means that Ron Paul is Scoring Big Wins in Missouri!
But don’t count on coverage from the zombie-stream media. Today, instead, they are reporting that Santorum has dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination “cinching” the Republican nomination for Romney.
Nothing could be further from the truth! Ron Paul and Romney are neck to neck in the race for the Republican nomination. But despite all this good news, Ron Paul was not mentioned even once by Fox news during their reporting of Santorum’s drop. They even talked about Gingrich, who does not figure in the race at all at this time, with no mention of Ron Paul, the real contender.
But you won’t hear this, because Ron Paul is like Holy Water to a Vampire, to the corrupt establishment, including the controlled media. With a promise of a one trillion-dollar cut in the federal budget in his first year in office – reeling in the uncontrolled growth of the central government – the corrupt establishment, Democratic and Republican alike, is pulling out all stops when it comes to cheating the American people out of the real candidate – the only one who plans to shut down the corrupt Federal Reserve and bring our troops back home from the banker-run unConstitutional wars of aggression.
Santorum was never meant to be a serious contender! I knew from the start, as I have stated over and over to my readers, that Santorum was nothing more than a Ron Paul spoiler!
As a supposed Christian (even though, unlike Paul, he has voted for abortion), Santorum was in the race to steal the Christian vote from the real Christian, Ron Paul. You see, there is no way that the Southern states would support a Mormon (Romney) over a born-again Christian (Ron Paul.) So the establishment promoted another Christian, Santorum, to divide the vote.
Now that Santorum has done his job, he was predictably discarded, as they turn the dialog now to Romney vs Obama. They know that given a choice between Romney, Vanilla Obama, and Barack, Chocolate Obama, the Christians and conservatives alike will vote for the “lesser of two evils,” and will vote for Vanilla Obama. (Folks, the lesser of two evils is still evil!)
These hapless people have been brainwashed to believe that if they vote for a third-party, they will be “throwing their vote away.” Of course, the reality is, no matter whether you vote for the establishment Republican (“Vanilla Obama”), or the establishment Democrat (“Chocolate Obama”), either way you are throwing your vote away, because the power behind the puppets is the same – the corrupt Central Bankers and the Military Industrial Complex! (The same supporters of Obama are also supporting Romney. You can’t lose when you back both horses – they think!)
Want more wars? Want less liberty? Want more taxes, unemployment and deindustrialization of America (their stated goal)? Ready to have your Bill of Rights trashed even further? Go ahead and vote for the lesser of two evils. You will get what you have coming to you!
But we don’t deserve this and will not allow it to happen! There is still a real choice. Ron Paul is still in the race!
The debate in the media at this time should be who will Santorum’s supporters go to? Santorum was (marginally) more closely aligned with Ron Paul than with Romney, so logically most of his supporters should go to Ron Paul. But the establishment media can not afford to allow this discussion to take place. They have already declared Romney the winner of the Republican nomination so they can now make the race between Romney and Obama – “Vanilla Obama” and “Chocolate Obama” – continuing to ignore Ron Paul as they have done from the beginning.
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As delegates to the Republican conventions, we will stand firm and support Ron Paul to the very end – no matter what! We realize that you can not compromise with the Devil! And we still have a good chance to save this country from the corrupt powers who want to destroy American sovereignty, along with their planned destruction of our economy, so they can establish their New World Order – one totalitarian world government with the corrupt unelected elite in power.
But We Need Your Help!
Pray from Ron Paul’s protection. Because his life is in danger. And pray that our country will do the right thing, and support liberty, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution. Pray to End the Fed, the puppet-master pulling the strings of both Obama and Romney. And make a contribution to Ron Paul’s campaign:
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We pledge to be in this fight to the end! Because we have children and grandchildren who do not deserve what the global puppet-masters have in store for them – debt slavery, annihilation of American sovereignty, and the end of liberty!
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Strength Through Adversity
‘My Darren’ – Mum
By darrenedwards / Mar 21, 2017 / 6 Comments
A little while ago, I asked my Mum to write a blog about the events of August 6th from her perspective. It is only since looking back at the first hours/weeks of my accident that I have come to realise how wrapped up in ‘self-preservation mode’ I truly had been at the time. I had felt an overwhelming sense of guilt for what I was putting people through, but I didn’t stop to think what this must have really been like for my loved ones. As I read through this blog for the first time, I felt that same sense of guilt return, but I also felt an immeasurable sense of pride in my Mum for being as strong as she was. Thank you for writing this Mum, I love you.
Julie Edwards (Mum)
I have found this blog extremely difficult to write. It has been so hard to record my thoughts and feelings about the events of Saturday 6th August 2016, a date that changed my life, as well as Darren’s, in an instant. When I answered the phone it was my daughter Eve at the other end. I knew from her tone that she was upset and on reflection it must have been so hard for her to break the terrible news to me. I can’t recall exactly how she told me but the three words that I heard so clearly were “Darren”, “Accident” and “Hospital”. After ending the call I struggled to piece together exactly what had been said. For some reason I thought Darren had been involved in a car accident and taken to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
Very shortly afterwards Dr Ed from A&E at the Royal Stoke University Hospital rang and informed me that Darren had been involved in a climbing accident and had been brought to the hospital by helicopter. He told me Darren had received a “significant” injury but stressed that it was not life threatening. He asked me to take my time in travelling to the hospital safely and he would speak to me in more depth once I arrived. He let me speak briefly to Darren and I do remember saying “what have you been up to”?
Once Eve had arrived home, we set off on the 35 mile journey to the hospital, along with Darren and Eve’s dad and my mum. It was late evening by then and driving in darkness along the winding country roads seemed endless. We were unfamiliar with the Newcastle-under-Lyme area and its huge hospital site and spent what seemed an age trying to find the car park nearest to A&E. For the first time in my life I abandoned the car without getting a ticket as I felt so frustrated and agitated making sense of the ‘Pay and Display’ machine with instructions to pay for however long we were plannng to be there: 1 hour, 2 hours, 24 hours – who knew?
When I finally saw Darren in a cubicle in A&E my first and overwhelming sense was one of relief. “Hello Mum”, “I’m so sorry” he said. At that stage I still didn’t know the full extent of his injuries but all that mattered was that he was ALIVE, he was conscious, he was speaking to me normally and squeezing my hand. He was still “My Darren”. Nothing else mattered in that moment.
It was only when Dr Ed spoke to us in the Relatives Room that the seriousness of his injuries became apparent. I asked if Darren would be able to walk again? “Unlikely” came the answer. I was almost functioning on ‘auto pilot’ by then; I felt numb and kept thinking it was all just a bad dream. Any minute I would wake up and all would be well. It was so hard for me to process what was happening and deal with the emotions of those around me too. I knew I had to ‘dig deep’ to remain strong for Darren’s sake and that of my daughter Eve. Going to pieces would help neither of them. A mother’s instinct to protect her children at all cost I guess. Over and over I just remember feeling so incredibly thankful that Darren hadn’t died, particularly after hearing the full horror of what had happened from his best friend Matt, who had been rock climbing with him that day. Ellie, Darren’s girlfriend, and Matt’s family were also at the hospital and were so very supportive to us.
Darren was eventually transferred to the Critical Care Unit and we were told spinal surgery would take place early the next day. We drove home exhausted and in silence at around 4am Sunday morning. It was approximately 12 hours before I would see Darren again, post-surgery.
Hanging around in the waiting room that Sunday was almost unbearable and I finally gave way to tiredness and tears. Wendy, the lovely receptionist in Critical Care, noticed my distress and kindly opened up a small and more private Relatives Room with comfy sofas. She brought some pillows, a welcome cup of tea and told me to try and get some rest; she would let us know when Darren was back from surgery and able to have visitors. Subsequently, Wendy also arranged for a free car parking permit and organised for me to stay close by for three nights in hospital accommodation reserved for relatives of those in Critical Care. This accommodation was a real ‘God send’ as it saved the long drive back and forth. Eve was able to come and stay with me for two of those nights and we were a great comfort for each other.
There are two memories of Darren’s week in Critical Care that will always stay with me. Firstly, when the staff wheeled his bed , plus attached monitors, out of the emergency exit into the fresh air at his request. It was so uplifting to see the smile on his face and colour return to his cheeks as he felt the cool fresh air on his body and he was able to look up at the sky again. Secondly, when a member of staff from the Spinal Injuries Ward spoke to me quietly while I sat beside a sleeping Darren. She reassured me that, although serious, his level of injury was such that he would be able to lead a totally independent life and he would be able to father children in the future.
When Darren transferred to the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry, so began a real rollercoaster of emotions. The six weeks of total bed rest was the hardest time to keep him in good spirits; I felt frightened that it might drive him to despair. The wonderful staff on Wrekin Ward were happy to regularly wheel him into a shady spot in the courtyard just outside his room; the Summer weather was kind and he was able to get outside most days. I hated having to say goodbye each time I left for home, knowing his low points were at night time when visitors had gone. Thankfully staff had the wisdom to put Darren in a room with another young man called Tim, who was good company for him and like minded with a positive mental attitude. They both shared a similar bond and Darren had made a friend who knew exactly how he was feeling.
As I write, it is now four months down the line and Darren is almost ready for discharge from hospital and the many challenges that will lie ahead. The other day I watched a baby crawling around in a restaurant. It took me back to when Darren had been that age and I had willed him to take his first tentative steps, as an anxious first time parent thinking “how will he ever manage it”? He figured it out then and I believe he will do so again. I will still be there to catch him if needed.
The human body is a wonderful machine which we largely take for granted until something happens that changes our perspective. I watched the 2016 Paralympics in a whole new light. The people who competed had overcome their disabilities to represent their country in a worldwide sporting event. Their stories were so fascinating and inspirational. My son’s life has taken a different path from the one I had envisioned for him but he has shown so much courage and determination throughout his ordeal. I am so incredibly proud to be his Mum.
Finally, as we go forward into the future together, I give thanks to God for keeping Darren safe from death that day by putting Matt close enough to save him from falling any further and for remaining calm when it mattered. God has also given me the strength to bear all that has happened since and truly blessed me and my family with the love, support and friendship of so many wonderful people along the way.
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Another great piece of writing, thank you, proud to know such a brave man. Xxx
You are a very supportive family unit Darren is an amazing person was a pleasure to have helped in this journey much love to you all
Gillian Edwrds
Julie you are an amazing mother and I’m proud to be your sister-in-law. Love Gilly xoxo
Stuart o' connor
I’m sat with a friend Baz who was with Darren in hospital. He has told me about Darren who sounds an amazing man, after reading his mum’s blog I see where he gets this. I won’t be surprised to see Darren in the next Olympics. If Darren would like to say hi to Baz email me at stuoconnor73atgmail.com and I’ll put them in touch.
hollymayj
Loving the blog! Great thing to see that your writing about it and giving insight to others who may end up in the same situation! It’s so inspiring! xxxx
STA123
Such a beautiful blog. Perfectly written Julie. Love to you all xx
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Sunreef humpback whale swimming and watching tours run out of Mooloolaba, which lies in the heart of Queensland, Australia’s Sunshine Coast. It takes about 15 minutes from the Sunreef dock to get out on the beautiful waters off the Coast, which are at their best during the winter months when the whales migrate. Water temperatures during this time range from 19 to 23 degrees Celcius and visibility can sometimes be up to 30 metres.
Surface behaviours we may see
They may show surface activities such as breaching, tail slapping and spy hopping – humpback whales are a species of whale that shows some of the most surface activity out of any whales.
You may see the humpbacks displaying logging behaviour, where they just sit still at the surface, resting or feeding their young. We may see them swim right under or beside our vessels, and sometimes they may just swim away from us.
No matter what happens, whale watching creates memories you and your loved ones will never forget.
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The Sunshine Coast’s Whale Watching season runs from early June, and tours with Whale One will be running until very early November. Our Swim with Whales season runs from July to Mid October.
We have typically found that June through July is usually the time of the year where the whales are heading north, in August through September we see many whales going both north and south in what we call the “crossover period”. From September to the end of October, most whales will be finishing their journey south to Antarctica for the summer.
The humpback whales come up to this area to breed, give birth, and stay until their newborn calves have grown and gained enough blubber to face the Antarctic waters when they head back south for the summer season.
All our staff at Sunreef take your safety, and respect for nature very seriously – it’s our top priority so we expect all participants to follow the directions of our staff at all times.
The Sunreef crew is very experienced in guiding these in-water activities and follows all relevant safety guidelines.
All encounters are conducted in accordance with the Australian National Guidelines for Whale and Dolphin Watching (2017) as well as our own strict Code of Practice which has been developed with whale researchers and experts to ensure the protection of the whales.
We are also working with the University of the Sunshine Coast on a coordinated research project to increase the knowledge around these amazing creatures. Our commitment includes recording information about every whale sighting and offering spots on every boat for the researchers to get out into the field to collect their own data. Our guests can also participate, if they wish, using our whale spotting sheets.
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This section includes local places likely to be of greatest interest to steampunks. You can think of it as a "Best of" section that features selected locations from the other sections. The term "steamiest" should be taken figuratively. You won't necessarily find steam-powered contraptions in all these places. Instead, these locations are rich in the elements that define steampunk: Victorian- or Edwardian-era technology, culture, history, personalities, oddities and so on.
Some descriptions in these listings are adapted from articles in Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. See the full descriptions for details.
Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave
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The museum has exhibits related to the life and times of American scout, bison hunter, and entertainer William F. Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill. . .
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South Park City is an open-air museum in Fairplay, Colorado. . .
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Transition of Apple into a Services Company has Just Started
In its previous earnings call earlier this year, Apple had put a lot of focus on its services. The company had for the first time stated its user base which was around 1 billion devices. Those one billion devices generated $5.5 billion in services revenue for Apple during the three months ending Dec. 26, an increase of 15% from the same period a year earlier.
The reason why Apple was putting services under the spotlight was because its traditional cash cow i.e the iPhone had witnessed marginal growth in Q1 2016 and had actually declined in Q2 this year. But apart from highlighting services, Apple has been taking steps to actually transform itself into a services company. Some of those steps we’ll discuss in this article.
1. iPhone Upgrade Program
Although a lot of people feel buying iPhone is a one time purchase, it’s actually a recurring activity in most countries where the iPhone is popular. In countries such as US, the iPhone was sold along with a contract which meant users paid a fixed fee every month to their carriers and got the opportunity to upgrade to a newer iPhone version every two years free of cost. If you didn’t upgrade to a newer iPhone after two years, the loss was yours as the carrier wouldn’t reduce your monthly fee.
So instead of putting down $600-$700 all at once when a new iPhone came out, people just paid $50-$60 every month to their carrier and got a new iPhone every two years along with whatever data, voice and messages the plan got them. However with all US carriers now shifting away to an Equipment Installment Plan, an iPhone truly becomes a one time purchase with the ability to only pay for the data packs separately once the device fee is paid off.
The shift to Equipment Installment Plan brings a problem to Apple as it truly makes the iPhone a one time purchase. To counter this problem, Apple brought the iPhone Upgrade Program last fall to make the iPhone a subscription just like the good old contract days. You have to pay a particular price every month depending upon the model you select and the storage. Apple allows you to upgrade to a newer iPhone model every year if you turn in your old iPhone and also adds free Apple Care protection to sweeten up the deal.
How successful Apple’s iPhone upgrade program has been, remains unknown, but at least Apple has made its attempt to try and convert owning an iPhone into a service rather than a one time purchase. It’s not difficult to see how Apple might apply the same for its other hardware products such as the MacBook and Apple Watch as well.
2. Apple Music
iTunes has definitely been one of the most popular services for digital music downloads. However just like everything else, even over here, it was a one time purchase – people would select which music tracks or albums they like and buy them, and Apple would get a cut in the process.
However with changing times, music streaming is now dominating all forms of music consumption. According to IFPI’s latest report, music streaming made 43% of digital music revenues and digital music revenues made 45% of the music industry’s revenue. This means that music streaming now contributes close to a quarter of the music industry’s revenue. With Apple Music, the company is trying to take a part of the music streaming pie. With around 13 million subscribers, Apple is now the second biggest music streaming platform subscribers wise, only behind Spotify, giving Apple a recurring revenue stream of tens of millions of dollars every month.
3. New App Store rules
App Store has always been a good source of revenue for Apple. However, till date, this has also been on a one time purchase basis for the most. People buy an app on app store or make an in-app purchase and Apple gets a 30% cut from it. With the newer rules, Apple would let developers keep 85% of the revenue after one year of managing to have a user subscribe to their app.
This is a boon for developers. Most developers currently don’t have effective methods of monetization except for charging a price for the app upfront, in app purchases or ads. For most developers, the only reason to continue maintaining an app is to make sure they are the best in their category of apps and when a new user buys an app, they end up paying for their app.
The previous model worked as long as iPhone sales kept increasing, as increased iPhone sales meant new users on the platform who would end up buying apps and would most probably select the app that’s most feature rich and has great UI and UX. However, with the sales of both iPhone and iPad declining, the number of new users on the iOS platform would also start to gradually decline which means no more new users to pay for an app. Until Apple is able to have a mass exodus of Android users jump ship to iPhone which doesn’t seem possible according to the latest Kantar report. In such a scenario, a subscription would be the best way for app developers to monetize their work.
Apart from subscriptions paving the way to a viable monetization method for developers, it would also help Apple. As I said with sales of iPhone and iPad gradually declining, the new users on the iOS platform would also decline which would also mean lesser people to pay for an app. In that scenario, Apple ends up getting lesser revenue as its cut from App Store sales is 30%. Subscriptions in such a scenario would ensure that Apple gets a constant and recurring stream of revenue from the App Store.
Considering the billion subscriber base that Apple has, 15% of even a $10/year subscription would end up being millions of dollars of recurring revenue for Apple every month.
4. Opening up of iMessage
The latest rumor before WWDC is that Apple is planning to open up iMessage to Android users. Apple has already made Apple Music available to Android users, and opening up of iMessage could very well be lucrative.
Currently, the places where Apple dominates, like America, Europe etc., people end up messaging each other on iMessage if both the parties are on iPhones, Else, its a normal SMS routed through the telecom carrier if the other party is on Android or some other platform. Opening up iMessage to Android which is pretty much the only alternate smartphone OS apart from iOS, would make iMessages ubiquitous all throughout. With a ubiquitous messaging platform comes the opportunity to build on top of it.
WeChat in China has already shown us the kind of value a chat app can create. WeChat currently commands a $7 ARPU, considering Apple’s popularity in America and Europe this ARPU can be even higher. How successful Apple can be at this remains to be seen. Facebook has already tried its hands at bots and has received lukewarm response till now. Apart from that an “all in one” app concept is less popular in the markets where Apple dominates except of course China where WeChat already dominates.
But if Apple is able to convert iMessage into a successful platform, the rewards could be enormous and could act as yet another constant revenue stream for Apple.
As time passes by, Apple is trying its best to convert itself from a hardware manufacturer and software maker to a services company. Apple has a solid one billion base which is highly profitable. However, what remains to be seen is whether Apple can be successful at services.
For one, the company’s culture isn’t made for services. While companies like Google and Facebook push out software and then constantly improve them, Apple nails down hardware and only then does it ships the software. Similarly, there are no induvidual product teams at Apple, there’s just VP of Hardware, VP of software etc. There’s no VP of iPhone or VP of iPad. But with declining iPhone and iPad sales, Apple needs to pivot into becoming a successful services company sooner rather than later.
Last updated by Viranch Damani, on 13-Jun-16
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RuneScape Gold Game Review
RuneScape is a fantasy MMORPG developed and published by Jagex, first released in January 2001. RuneScape was originally a browser game built with the Java programming language but was largely replaced by a standalone C++-coded client in 2016. The game has had over 200 million accounts created and is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world’s largest and most-updated free MMORPG
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RuneScape takes place in the world of Gielinor, a medieval fantasy realm divided into different kingdoms, regions, and cities. Players can travel throughout Gielinor via a number of methods including on foot, magical spells, or charter ships. Each region offers different types of monsters, resources, and quests to challenge players. The game’s fictional universe has also been explored through a tie-in video game on another of its maker’s websites, FunOrb, Armies of Gielinor, and the novels Betrayal at Falador Return to Canifis, and Legacy of Blood.
Players are represented in the game with customisable avatars. RuneScape does not follow a linear storyline; rather, players set their own goals and objectives. Players can choose to fight non-player character (NPC) monsters, complete quests, or increase their experience in the available skills. Players interact with each other through trading, chatting, or by participating in mini-games and activities, some of which are competitive or combative in nature, while others require cooperative or collaborative play.
The best part is you can use Runescape Gold which is ingame currency used to buy weapons and upgrade the skills. During the combat, the players will have to defeat the monsters and the enemies and if during the combat, if the health level of the players comes down to zero, he or she will lose the battle. The monsters or the bosses shall also have of their own strengths and weaknesses knowing which the players would have to defeat them. You can even trade it with different players.
Players begin in a secluded area, where they are taken through a tutorial, a set path where they learn the most basic skills in RuneScape.After the tutorial, players have access to tutors and advisors located in the towns they explore, who can give players appropriate information about their respective skills.
Players set their own goals and objectives as they play the game. They can train their in-game skills, engage non-player character(NPC) monsters and other players in combat and complete quests at their discretion.Players interact with each other through trading, chatting or by participating in mini-games.
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RuneScape features a semi-real-time combat system. Combat is an important aspect of the game, allowing players to defeat monsters to obtain dropped items or to complete quests. A combat level is an indicator of how powerful a player or NPC is in combat. For players, it is determined by applying a mathematical formula to their combat skills. Players engage in combat by clicking on the enemy they want their character to attack and will automatically continue fighting until they kill their opponent, die, or retreat from the fight. Most of the game’s weapons are medieval or fantastical in nature, and feature different strengths and weaknesses. Players may also summon a familiar to assist with combat, use special attacks called “abilities” to deal additional damage, and use potions and the Prayer skill to boost their combat prowess.
Player interaction
Players can interact with each other through trading, chatting, or by participating in mini-games and activities, some of which are competitive or combative in nature, while others require cooperative or collaborative play. Players can trade items and gold coins with each other, either through a face-to-face trade or by using a largely automated marketplace known as the Grand Exchange.
The chat system enables players to communicate with each other. Public Chat broadcasts text to players in the local area on one server, both by text appearing above the speaker’s head and in the message box. Friends Chat broadcasts text in the message box only to certain players tuned into a specific channel, who can be available on any RuneScape world. Each Friends Chat channel has an owner, who can assign different ranks to individual players; players’ ranks dictate their ability to perform administrative tasks within the channel. Clan Chat allows members of a clan to communicate with each other through a separate channel. Quick Chat allows players to choose from a list of predetermined messages to send as Public Chat, Clan Chat, or Friends Chat
Without any doubt, as a game, the RuneScape Gold has the largest community and set of forums that has been provided by the Jagex on its official website. The players here can interact and create an enjoyable and memorable experience with each other in the form of Skype or Discord or just chat or can participate in mini-games and through other IP services. There also exists a ‘Clan chat’ which allows members of a clan to communicate with each other through a separate channel. Because the game is an open world game, it doesn’t seem like violent or a bit offensive to some communities like some other games currently on the platform.
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The Young Stradivari, part 2
What can we glean about Stradivari’s early career from the surviving handful of instruments?
By John Dilworth September 13, 2016
If Stradivari’s personal life seems unconventional, as we saw in part 1, there is plenty of the outsider about his early work, too. The ‘Serdet’, part of the Ashmolean Museum’s Stradivarius exhibition in 2013, is the first fixed point. This is the violin that contains the clear, unaltered label ‘Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis Alumnus/ Nicolaij Amati, Faciebat Anno 1666’. The last digit is added by hand, and the label has the faded traces of Stradivari’s brand, the ‘AS’ monogram around a cross, enclosed in a double circle. This brand is still extant, in the collection of Cremona’s Museo del Violino, and gives us some idea of Stradivari’s self-importance. None of his peers or precursors in Cremona felt the need to identify themselves so demonstratively. The occasions when he forgot to brand his labels are very rare. Charles Beare says in the Ashmolean catalog that a twin to the ‘Serdet’ exists, lacking the label and its original top. It may be that this was the other ‘Alumnus’ labeled violin of 1665 mentioned by Count Cozio.
The 'Serdet' Stradivari, 1666. Photo: Tucker Densley, courtesy of the Beare family
The 1666 ‘Serdet’ is among the most obviously Amatise of the early works, with fine, Nicolò-like soundholes, and a head already showing Stradivari’s slightly more forceful approach to the Amati template. The purfling is firm and strong, neatly extended in Stradivari’s unique manner in the corners. The wood is quite attractive, but it is the native Italian ‘oppio’ maple, dark in color and with very narrow, horizontal flame. There is a small knot in the upper treble bout, and the grain is broad and the figure inconsistent. In fact this local field maple found most employment in the making of fence posts, according to modern forestry manuals. The corners are slender and elegant, but the arching is surprisingly full and most unlike Amati’s voluptuous forms. Most interestingly it is a unique pattern. With a 356 mm back length, it is longer than Amati’s Grand Pattern but also narrower. There is no direct relationship in form to any Amati violin I can recall.
The next interesting example is the c. 1666 ‘Back’, which lacks its original label but if anything looks slightly more primitive than the ‘Serdet’. It has a tightly flamed two-piece back, again of local oppio. The scroll is very Amatise, lacking the swelling behind the throat, the back of the pegbox having an unusually straight taper. There is exquisite workmanship in the delicate purfling, and the soundholes also appear very slender, but this is partly because of the distorting effect of the enormously high arching.
The ‘Parera’ of 1679 – one of a handful of early Stradivari violins made with a one-piece front. Photos: Stewart Pollens
The ‘Aranyi’ of c. 1666 has the same two-piece, horizontal-flamed oppio back, but an interesting hazel-figured, one-piece front. Single-piece fronts are very rare, especially among the Cremonese – I can think of no other examples from Cremona beyond the handful of Stradivari instruments that come mostly from this very early period; others include the c. 1680 ‘Saville’ and 1679 ‘Parera’. I wonder if in fact they were off-cuts of cello fronts, perhaps scrounged from other workshops.
Even more odd is that Stradivari did not mind how the grain was orientated – it might be assumed that the broader grain in a one-piece top should go to the bass side, as it does in the ‘Aranyi’, but he was not consistent in this.
I can’t get the idea quite out of my mind of the 20-something Antonio sneaking round the bins behind the Amati and Rugeri workshops.
The prominent knots in the back of the c. 1670 ‘Tullaye’ suggest that Stradivari had limited access to wood. Photo: Tarisio
Oppio backs dominate in the early period and the few examples of what appears to be imported maple are mostly plain and cut on the slab. The most shocking examples are the 1667 ‘Jenkins’ and the c. 1670 ‘Tullaye’, which both have lightly figured slab backs showing the most eye-popping knots – they must have been evident in the boards before Strad even started sawing. It does not even appear that the wood is from the same log, as the curl and pattern of the backs is distinctively different, so he seems to have chosen this very poor material twice. Perhaps he did not have the luxury of choice. But it certainly gives a jolt to our modern idea of Stradivari as a perfectionist. To this we might add the 1672 ‘Mahler’ viola, which has a two-piece back of lightly figured poplar, and the 1673 ‘Du Pre’ cello, which is of one-piece poplar that lacks any figuring at all. I can’t get the idea quite out of my mind of the 20-something Antonio sneaking round the bins behind the Amati and Rugeri workshops. But why would such an obviously gifted craftsman be denied the proper materials of his trade?
The name Rugeri adds another thread to this knotty ball of evidence. The 20th-century violin researcher E.M.W. Paul claimed to have found proof that Stradivari was the pupil of Vincenzo Rugeri, although that proof has remained tantalisingly out of sight (he died in 1966 before his research could be published). There is a lot to be said for this view on the basis of observation of these few early instruments. There is one important difference between Amati’s technique and that of Stradivari. This is the use of the small dorsal pin, or even just a pricked hole, that is invariably present in the work not just of the Amati, but of all their recognised pupils. It was obviously a fundamental step in the organising of the interior graduation of the back, a workshop practice that the Amati passed on through their own generations and those of their apprentices. But not Stradivari. To my knowledge there is not a single instrument of his that has this feature, and this is also the case for Rugeri.
But this is no proof. How did Rugeri develop his technique? And what about all the other distinctive features present in the very earliest Stradivaris? So much about his work is consistently unique to him – the purfling, the characteristically stout interior work invariably of willow, even the model and archings – that all we can fairly conclude is that Stradivari was exceptionally original and resourceful among his fellow luthiers. These instruments from 1666 to 1680 show a rapid development, and from a thoroughly original starting point.
It is as if Stradivari had been saving all his resources in time and materials to make this breakthrough from night to day.
The forms on which the early instruments were made were those marked ‘S’ (MS no.2) and ‘T’ (MS no.11) from the Dalla Valle collection in the Museo del Violino. The ‘S’ mould is slightly larger and provided the 356 mm back of the ‘Serdet’, ‘Aranyi’ and ‘Jenkins’. The ‘T’ form produced the slightly smaller back length of around 350 mm found in the 1669 ‘Clisbee’ and 1670 ‘Sachs’. In this way Stradivari preserved the Amati tradition of making two sizes of violin.
The astonishing ‘Sunrise’ of 1677 represents a dramatic shift from Stradivari’s earlier work. Photos: Jan Röhrmann, Antonius Stradiuarius Vol I–IV
Stradivari gathered momentum in his work during his second decade in the ‘Casa Nuziale’. The c. 1671 ‘Oistrakh, Queen of Belgium’ violin, a smaller ‘T’ form instrument, is possibly the first to make use of ‘conventional’ imported flawless maple, quarter-sawn and jointed, with consistent figure. More oppio followed, often showing a similar and curious feature of heavily marked, curving grain on either side of the center joint.
Then in 1677 comes the ‘Sunrise’, and never was there a more appropriately named instrument. It is dazzling from every point of view, as if Stradivari had been saving all his resources in time and materials to make this breakthrough from night to day. The first in his glorious sequence of decorated violins, it uses the very finest single piece of quartered maple with a dramatic unbroken flame as the platform for the intricate inlay of mother-of-pearl and ebony paste. It is obviously inspired by the two decorated Amati instruments from the 1650s (see part 1), but the extent to which Stradivari develops the inlay without drowning the instrument shows genuine artistry, not just phenomenal skill.
What enabled Stradivari to make this leap is impossible to know. There seem to have been several years in which he produced little, or nothing that has survived. No labels are known at all from 1674, 1676 or 1678, during which time the infants in the household, Giulia, Francesco and Giacomo, were joined by two more babies, Caterina and Alessandro. The ‘Casa Nuziale’ must have been a lively place to work. But the ‘Sunrise’ was followed by the equally magnificent ‘Hellier’ in 1679 and with his move to the Piazza San Domenico the next year this enigmatic early period of his career comes to an end. Now aged 34, and middle aged by 17th-century standards, Stradivari began the 1680s with a new home and workshop and seemingly a fresh confidence. A new form, the ‘PG’, emerged, which produced the mature ‘Amatise’ instruments and defined his subsequent style. And, not least, he was about to embark on a cascade of stunningly beautiful cellos, with no shortage of the most vividly figured maple imaginable. Antonio Stradivari’s extraordinary mature years had finally begun.
John Dilworth is a maker, writer and expert. He has written extensively about fine instruments and their makers, and is a co-author of ‘The British Violin’, ‘Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu’ and ‘The Voller Brothers’ among other books.
– W.H. Hill and A.F. Hill, Antonio Stradivarius, His Life and Work, W.E. Hill & Sons, London, 1902
– Arnaldo Baruzzi, La Casa Nuziale, The Home of Antonio Stradivari 1667–1680, W.E. Hill & Sons, London, 1962
– Charles Beare, Carlo Chiesa, Peter Beare and Jon Whiteley, Stradivarius catalogue, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2013
– Antonius Stradiuarius Vol I–IV, Jost Thöne Verlag, 2010
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Metadata Management: An Imperative for Your Enterprise
A new report delves into the importance, use, and management of metadata and how it's become a critical component for your enterprise.
By Stephen Swoyer
Metadata is the glue that binds a business together, writes Philip Russom, senior manager with TDWI Research, in a new Checklist Report from TDWI Research.
Why, then, Russom wonders, is the management of metadata too often an afterthought in so many shops?
One explanation, he suggests, is that the bottom-line benefits of managing one's metadata aren't always clearly understood. Russom is the author of Cost Justification for Metadata Management, a new report that aims to help organizations calculate the benefits of metadata management to determine ROI.
It's a hard problem, Russom suggests, precisely because of the way metadata is treated. "[M]etadata -- as managed by most organizations today -- has been kept invisible to all but data specialists and a few business people. Up to this point, it has not been the actual deliverable the way that solutions for data integration, data quality, master data management, and operational applications are," he argues.
"[T]he assistance provided by a quality metadata management solution is masked because it is embedded within a larger solution, or it has been a degree or two of separation from the business processes it enables."
That's why it can be difficult to reliably assess the impact of a proposed metadata management effort, Russom explains. He champions a multi-step process in which a shop first comes to terms with the why and the what-for of managing its metadata.
For one thing, metadata is a component of (and can be said to enable) most intelligent business processes, applications, and (of course) data models.
To the extent that almost all day-to-day production and commercial activities are automated (or have been information-enabled), they likewise depend on the existence of reliable, consistent metadata -- either as a means to define information for consumption by internal resources or (as is the case with EDI) as a means to reliably exchange information between and among businesses.
In addition, he argues, effective metadata management can pay dividends in other management disciplines (including both operations management and performance management) and can likewise improve the efficacy of business intelligence and data governance initiatives. In fact, Russom asserts, metadata management is an essential best practice for any data-driven business process or technical implementation.
From another perspective -- that of the data management (DM) professional -- metadata management is associated with a litany of concrete benefits. To the degree that metadata is poorly managed, it likewise has concrete costs.
According to a May, 2010 survey conducted by TDWI Research, DM pros associate good metadata management with a number of desirable outcomes or activities, including "better data sharing across an enterprise" (cited by almost 80 percent of respondents), "more compliant use of data" (almost three-fifths of respondents), "faster response to change" (just over half of respondents), and "reduced data-related risk" (almost half of respondents).
Although DM pros regard improved data sharing as metadata management's biggest benefit, they likewise cite limited data sharing as the most obvious symptom of poor metadata management. "Sharing data across diverse business units and their information systems is key to business integration," according to Russom. "[M]etadata greatly facilitates broad data sharing, which in turn contributes to the success of important business initiatives and processes."
Two of metadata management's four most frequently cited benefits involve risk or governance. This isn't an accident, Russom says.
"For example, when business rules are embedded in metadata, they help control data access and use, which yields better compliance. When metadata describes data structures clearly, the documentation reduces the risk of users selecting the wrong data for a report, portal, data set, or other application," he notes.
There are tangible dollars-and-cents drivers, too. Just under half (46 percent) of respondents say effective metadata management is strongly associated with "more effective data management projects." In addition, almost two-fifths (39 percent) of DM pros believe that effective metadata management can lead to "reduced costs for the business."
Cost, it seems, is key: respondents associate "smoother operations for the business" or "increased revenue for the business" with improved metadata management. In the latter case, Russom explains, DM pros have told TDWI Research that good metadata can assist with "speeding up changes to applications and data that are required for new product development and rollout, careful targeting for sales and marketing campaigns, and on-boarding new partner companies."
Such activities tend to lift revenue, Russom reports. In addition, solid metadata management can improve both the speed and the accuracy of these efforts.
Russom's report provides considerable details, particularly for those who like hard data about dollars and cents. For example, he derives a formula shops can use to calculate how much -- in hard payroll dollars -- effective metadata management can save them. This stems from an operating assumption (endorsed by TDWI Research) that payroll is one of the biggest expenses that a shop must shoulder. In this respect, Russom estimates, using a dedicated metadata management tool can:
Eliminate almost $104,000 per year (on average) in payroll costs associated with the collection and sourcing of metadata (a task typically performed by at least three full-time workers, according to TDWI survey data)
Populate a repository that's used in reused in multiple projects throughout the year
Free technical staff and boost developer efficiency, permitting shops to fund and complete more projects
There's a trickle-down effect at work here, too, according to Russom: just as the investment in a metadata management tool can have an impact that immediately redounds to the benefit of front-line technical staff, it can likewise have an impact (call it a shockwave impact) that trickles down throughout an organization, boosting the work of business analysts, data stewards, data governors, report designers, and other data-driven professionals.
These benefits are similarly calculable. "Alter the formula to include the kinds of people in your organization and plug in numbers that represent their work metrics," he suggests. "Your alteration of the formula should produce a useful indication of potential savings from reusable metadata."
Buy Versus Buy
That leaves the thorny matter of ROI. It's called "return on investment" for a reason, of course: metadata management isn't (or shouldn't be) a tactical or homegrown enterprise. Metadata management doesn't involve "managing" metadata in product-specific silos, after all. Best results -- reusable, predictable, ROI-able results -- come from investing in a central metadata repository, Russom suggests. "[T]he reuse of collected and documented metadata depends very much on the use of a metadata repository. Furthermore, the repository must be centralized, in the sense that there's one repository or a small collection of integrated or federated repositories," he argues.
A number of large vendors -- including application giants IBM Corp., Oracle Corp., and SAP AG -- market metadata management solutions. Others -- such as Informatica Corp. and SAS Institute Inc. subsidiary Dataflux -- have data management-centric pedigrees and market metadata management tools as part of their information integration stacks. Most metadata management offerings, in fact, prescribe the use of a centralized metadata repository.
It's centralizing metadata that's sometimes the hardest change for organizations to digest, however. After all, Russom points out, centralization involves the un-siloing of data and places a premium on cooperation between IT and the lines of business, as well as entails people or process (to say nothing of data ownership) changes. "For some organizations, centralizing metadata management is a big change, because for years they've managed metadata in silos, typically with an isolated metadata solution per application, database, or data management tool," he points out.
There's at least one other respect in which metadata management can be an especially thorny issue. Consider a related field -- that of master data management (MDM) -- where industry veteran Jill Dyché famously raised the specter of a "dirty little secret" that's becoming harder and harder to suppress.
"Once you invest in an MDM technology and on-board a system or two, you're pretty much on the hook. It becomes foundational, not only from an IT perspective -- as it continues to link data from heterogeneous systems -- but from a business-enablement perspective," she argued. "MDM is the new ERP. It's really, really hard to de-commission. Way harder than replacing a BI tool or re-platforming a data warehouse. The vendor that owns MDM can become the de-facto owner of its customers' enterprise data."
That's one reason shops might opt to eschew a packaged metadata management offering from a non-specialty vendor in favor of a best-of-breed metadata management tool, Russom suggests.
"For some organizations, successfully centralizing metadata may require the acquisition of an independent metadata repository that's vendor-agnostic and suited to broad enterprise use, managing metadata for many IT systems from a shared, central source," he writes.
Enter Rochade, by Allen Systems Group Inc. (better known as ASG Software), which ASG likes to postion as … a vendor-agnostic metadata management repository. (Full disclosure: ASG sponsored Russom's report.) Unlike most players, ASG doesn't market its own metadata discovery or data integration technology: instead, it uses a best-of-breed tool (Saphir) from another metadata management specialist (Sillwood Technology Inc.) to populate Rochade.
Russom outlines a number of other metadata management benefits, such as broad application support and improved reporting. In the latter case, he notes, metadata management can pay other dividends, too: in the event of a regulatory audit, for example, a reliable financial reporting bolstered by a credible audit-trail could potentially save an organization millions of dollars.
There's another important reason to bite the metadata management bullet: it's almost inevitable. Not only is the use of metadata is growing, but the capabilities of metadata repositories have evolved to support a host of non-traditional activities. With so many different applications and stakeholders, metadata should and must be managed in a centralized repository.
"[T]he trend toward extending metadata's uses will continue as organizations go deeper" into activities such as governance (which typically prescribes rules for accessing and using data), compliance (which always requires a digital audit trail), and MDM, Russom asserts.
"Nowadays, [metadata repositories] also store and provide broad access to application routines, project management documents, master and reference data, data quality metrics, reports germane to development, and so on. When centralized, the repository is a conduit through which developers, managers, and other people collaborate. To facilitate collaboration, some repositories support browser-based access, security for multiple user roles, annotations for managed objects, and discussion threads."
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Kathy Chen
Twitter has hired a new head in China - where it's been banned since 2009
Twitter cofounder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Friday that Kathy Chen has been appointed as managing director of Twitter's operations in Greater China.Business Insider | April 15, 2016, 16:09 IST
REUTERS/Rick Wilking: Jack Dorsey, creator of Twitter
Twitter has hired a new boss in China even though the social media platform has been banned in the country since 2009.
Twitter cofounder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Friday that Kathy Chen has been appointed as managing director of Twitter's operations in Greater China.
Chen, who has only posted nine Tweets, will be tasked with getting more Chinese businesses to advertise on Twitter, according to The South China Morning Post, which reports that Chinese companies like Huawei, Lenovo, and domestic media outlets like the state-owned Xinhua news agency already pay Twitter to promote their tweets in people's timelines.
The number of Chinese businesses advertising on Twitter increased more than 300% in the last year, according to The South China Morning Post.
A big welcome to Twitter, @KathyChen2016! She joins us as our MD for China!
- Jack (@jack) April 15, 2016
Despite Twitter being banned on the Chinese mainland, the San Francisco-headquartered company opened an office in Hong Kong last year, where Twitter can be accessed. At the time, Twitter said the Hong Kong office would allow it to get advertising revenue from Chinese businesses, even if internet users on the mainland cannot see those ads. Chen will be based out of the Hong Kong office, according to The South China Morning Post.
Thank you for your support as we connect Greater China to the world! A video by @kathychen2016 , MD of @TwitterGCN pic.twitter.com/aX9GzZe2sc
- Twitter GCN (@TwitterGCN) April 15, 2016
Shailesh Rao, Twitter VP for Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Emerging Markets, told The South China Morning Post: "We've seen a 340% growth in the number of advertisers [using Twitter], and the types of advertisers are diverse.
"Because of the success we've seen, we want to expand the investment we're making in [the region]," Rao said. "Kathy Chen will be responsible for developing the strategy and running the business.
"Asia-Pacific is the largest region in the world for us in terms of total number of active users, and it is also the fastest-growing region in terms of active user growth," said Rao. "We view Greater China as a critical component [of the region]."
On the ban in mainland China, Rao said: "We would love to offer our Twitter consumer service to Chinese users, but that's not an option right now. Instead we will focus on leveraging some of our capabilities to create value for Chinese businesses and state-owned enterprises."
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Proposed Trial to Ease Alcohol Restrictions in Local Parks
By Siriol Dafydd on November 27, 2019 in News
Hardened criminals, by Em Tiyaglas.
Waverley Council has been debating the age-old question of whether or not local residents deserve to be treated like adults. The current alcohol prohibition across public areas supports the long-standing belief (unfortunately reinforced by events such as Coogee-gate 2016) that we can’t be trusted to enjoy a few sensible drinks. While we understand the dilemma authorities face, the average local simply wants to be treated like a grown-up.
The latest campaign to relax drinking regulations was lead by Joseph O’Donoghue, who ran as Keep Sydney Open’s Coogee candidate in March. Mr O’Donoghue contacted Waverley Council after witnessing a man in Bronte Park being instructed by rangers to tip the glass of wine he was enjoying alongside his wife and baby onto the grass.
“The sheer presence of the rangers, and their interference to ask nearly every group if they had alcohol, injected this really unnecessary tension into the park, when it should have just been about relaxing and enjoying the afternoon,” said Mr O’Donoghue.
In fairness to rangers, they cop a lot of abuse for simply enforcing the rules. I’m sure they would much rather be sitting on the grass enjoying a glass of wine than being shouted at to ‘get a real job’. However, there’s clearly an issue here with zero tolerance policies.
“We all remember experiencing these sort of rules when we were in primary school. If little Johnny accidentally kicked that ball out onto the busy road outside, the ball was confiscated – forever! Despite the fact that nearly all of us did absolutely nothing wrong, we all were forced to miss out because of one idiot’s mistake or bad behaviour. This wasn’t fair then and it certainly isn’t fair now,” said Mr O’Donoghue.
The proposed action by Waverley Council is to conduct a trial allowing alcohol consumption in Bronte and Bondi Parks between 12 noon and 7pm from December 1, 2019 to March 30, 2020. This received support from Greens Councillor Elaine Keenan.
“The demographic of our area has changed dramatically with the median age of our residents being 35 and I believe they would support a short trial,” Councillor Keenan told The Beast.
“It has been decades since the ban was reviewed and councillors should make evidence-based decisions.”
A decision on whether or not the trial would go ahead was due to be made at Council’s November meeting. As The Beast went to print the meeting was yet to occur but, crucially, both Council and the Police Area Commander (PAC) needed to agree in order for the trial to proceed. Judging by previous meetings (where PAC representatives claimed that this would allow large groups to consume unrestricted quantities without intervention and lead to violence, sexual assault, littering and anti-social behaviour) this seemed unlikely.
However, they also said, “Police currently perform the role of early intervention. We identify those groups we consider at risk and, for the most part, those people who are responsible probably avoid detection by police because they are being responsible.” So although we don’t suggest in any way that you should indulge in illegal drinking activities, you could in theory get away with it if you behave yourself and catch the fuzz in a good mood.
By the time you read this article, the trial’s fate will probably have already been decided. While we go to print still hoping that we may be allowed to legally enjoy a cold one on a picnic blanket this summer, we’ll probably have to settle for a schooner at one of our beachside establishments while trying to duck out of someone else’s Instagram story instead. Cheers to bureaucracy.
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Olympic medalist
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Mers brief Florida Taylor v Deutsche Bank Mers Standing
Appeal No. 5D09-4035
IN THE 5TH DISTRICT FLORIDA COURT OF APPEALS
Deutsche Bank National Trust Company
as Trustee for FFMLT 2006-FF4, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series
2006-FF4
Appellee
APPEAL IN CAUSE NO. 05-2008-CA-065811
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA
David E. Silverman presiding
APPELLANTS’ OPENING BRIEF
George M. Gingo, FBN 879533
Mims, Florida 32754
ggingo@yahoo.com
Table of Contents . . . . . 2
Table of Citations . . . . . 3
Table of Cases . . . . 3 – 7
Table of Statutes . . . . 7 – 8
Table of Secondary Sources . . 8
Statement of the Case and Statement of Facts 9 – 16
Standard on Appeal . . . . 16
Summary of the Arguments. . . . 17
Arguments . . . . . . 18
Issue 1:
The Appellee presented evidence
that it was not entitled to enforce
the promissory note in question. . 18 – 23
MERS did not pass an enforceable
interest in the promissory note to
the Appellee. . . . . 23 – 33
Conclusion . . . . . . 33
Certificate of Service . . . . 33
Certificate of Font Compliance . . . 34
Amacher v. Keel,
358 So. 2d 889
(Fla. 2 DCA 1975) . . . . . . . 24
Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.,
(1986). . . . . . . . . 16
Booker v. Sarasota, Inc.,
707 So.2d 886
(Fla. App. 1 Dist., 1998). . . . . . . 12
Brown v. Snell,
6 Fla. 741 (1856). . . . . . . . 18
Carpenter v. Longan,
16 Wall. 271,
83 U.S. 271,
(1872). . . . . . . . . 24, 32
City of Cocoa v. Leffler,
762 So. 2d 1052
(Fla. 5th DCA 2000). . . . . . . 16
Century Group Inc. v.
Premier Fin. Services East L. P.,
Case v. Smith,
200 So. 917
(Fla. 1941). . . . . . . . . 23
Collins v. Briggs,
Evins v. Gainsville Nat’l Bank,
85 So. 659
Grier v. M.H.C. Realty Co.,
274 So. 2d 21
(Fla. 4 DCA 1973). . . . . . . 18
In re Carlyle,
242 B.R. 881
(Bankr. E.D.Va., 1999). . . . . . . 22
In re Foreclosure Cases,
521 F. Supp. 2D 650
(S.D. Oh. 2007). . . . . . . . 26
In Re Hayes,
(Bankr. D. Mass. 2008). . . . . . . 21
In re Kang Jin Hwang,
(Bankr.C.D.Cal., 2008). . . . . . . 22
In re Mitchell,
Case No. BK-S-07-16226-LBR
(Bankr.Nev. 3/31/2009). . . . . . . 25, 27
In re Sheridan,
Case No. 08-20381-TLM
(Bankr.Idaho, 2009). . . . . . . 28
In re Vargas,
In re Wilhelm,
Krol v. City of Orlando,
778 So. 2d 490, 492
Landmark National Bank v. Kesler,
216 P.3D 158
(Kansas, 2009). . . . . . . . 31
LaSalle Bank NA v. Lamy,
824 N.Y.S.2d 769
(N.Y. Supp. 2006).. . . . . . . 27
Major League Baseball v.Morsani,
Mellor v. Goldberg,
Margiewicz v. Terco Prop.,
Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc.
v. Southwest Homes of Arkansas,
08-1299 (Ark. 3/19/2009) (Ark., 2009). . . . 31, 33
Miami Mtge. & Guar. Co. v. Drawdy,
Pepe v. Shepherd,
Rollins v. Alvarez,
Scott v. Taylor,
58 So. 30
Sobel v. Mutual Dev. Inc.,
(Fla. 1 DCA 1975). . . . . . . 18, 24
So. Colonial Mtge. Co. v. Medeiros,
Stuyvesant Corp. v. Stahl,
62 So.2d 18, 20
(Fla., 1952). . . . . . . . . 32
Tayton v. American Nat’l Bank,
Thomas v. Hartman,
Vance v. Fields,
Volusia County v.
Aberdeen at Ormond Beach, L.P.,
Young v. Victory,
TABLE OF STATUTES
§ 673.1031(1)(a), Fla. Stat.(2009). . . . . 12
§ 673.1031(1)(c), Fla. Stat.(2009). . . . . 12
§ 673.1031(1)(e), Fla. Stat.(2009). . . . . 12
§ 673.1041(1), Fla. Stat.(2009). . . . . . 19
§ 673.1041(5), Fla. Stat. (2009). . . . . 12, 19
§ 673.1091(2), Fla. Stat.(2009). . . . . . 19, 21
§ 673.2031(3), Fla. Stat.(2009). . . . . . 21, 22, 25
§ 673.3011, Fla. Stat.(2009). . . . . . 19
§ 673, et. seq., , Fla. Stat.(2009). . . . . 19
TABLE OF SECONDARY SOURCES
Christopher L. Peterson, Subprime Mortgage Market
Turmoil: Examining the Role of Securitization,
http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.
cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=
4f40e1b9-ec5b-4752-ba8f-0c14afc44884. . . . 29
MERS, State-by-State, MERS Recommended
Foreclosure Procedures, (2002), http://www.mersinc.org
/filedownload.aspx?id=176&table=ProductFile. . . 26
Richard R. Powell,
POWELL ON REAL
PROPERTY § 37.27[2] (2000). . . . . . 25
R. K. Arnold, Yes, There is Life on Mers,
Probate & Property, (Aug., 1997),
http://www.abanet.org/genpractice
/magazine/1998/spring-bos/arnold.html). . . . 30
STATEMENT OF THE CASE AND FACTS
This appeal is taken from the Circuit Court’s decision to render Summary
Final Judgment against the Appellant. The Appellate Court of Florida has
jurisdiction to consider the issues raised in this appeal under authority of the
Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure, Rule 9.130 et seq.
The nature of the case below was Appellee’s Complaint to foreclose the
residential real property owned and occupied by the Appellant, Gregory Taylor.
(R. I/2) Appellant’s First Amended Answer challenged Appellee’s standing in
affirmative defenses and an incorporated Motion to Dismiss. (R. I/111-112, 117,
118-119, 121-124)
On October 9, 2009, a hearing on the Appellee’s Motion for Summary Final
Judgment was held. (R. I/166) The Appellee offered in evidence the promissory
note, the mortgage instrument and an assignment of mortgage. (R. I/62-87)
Appellant’s Response in Opposition to Appellee’s Motion for Summary Final
Judgment (which was also identified as a cross-motion for summary judgment)
stipulated that this evidence was not in dispute. Appellant contended that the
dispute was as to what that evidence actually proved – that being that Appellee was
not entitled to enforce the promissory note against Appellant.1 (R. 174-175) This
1 The clerk’s Index to Record on Appeal has this document as being filed
subsequent to the Summary Final Judgment of Foreclosure. That is incorrect as
argument in the Appellant’s Response in Opposition to the Motion for Summary
Final Judgment was not novel. That document referenced that this argument had
been previously raised in the Motion to Dismiss which was incorporated within the
First Amended Answer. (R. 175) On October 9, 2009, Judge Silverman granted
Summary Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Appellee’s favor. (R. 166-172)
Appellee made the following three claims in it’s Complaint: 1) “On or about
December 21, 2005, a promissory note was executed and delivered in favor of
Plaintiff, or Plaintiff’s assignor, in the original principal amount of $168,000.00.”
(R. I/2, para. 2 of complaint); 2) “The Plaintiff is the present owner and
constructive holder of the promissory note and Mortgage.” (R. I/2, para. 2 of
complaint); and, 3) “The above-described Note and Mortgage were assigned to
Plaintiff. The assignment is attached as Exhibit “C”.” (R. I/3, para. 3 of complaint)
On November 26, 2008, Appellant filed an Answer which substantially
denied the foreclosure allegations. (R. I/49-50) On December 9, 2008, Appellee
filed a Motion for Summary Final Judgment. (R. I/51) In support of the Motion
for Summary Final Judgment, the Appellee relied solely upon the promissory note,
the mortgage instrument and the assignment of mortgage to support its’ claim that:
the file stamp on the document indicates it was filed at 8:27 a.m. on October 9,
2009. (R. I/174) This was prior to the hearing on the motion which was noticed
as set for 8:45 a.m. on October 9, 2009. (R. I/149)
The Note and Mortgage are in default. Moreover, Plaintiff owns and
holds the Note and Mortgage and is entitled to recover its principal,
interest, late charges, costs, attorney’s fees, and other expenses, all of
which are more fully set forth in the supporting affidavits to be filed
with the court.
(R. I/52, para. 6)
On February 23, 2009, the Appellee filed the original promissory note,
mortgage instrument and the assignment of mortgage. (R. I/62-87) The
promissory note states:
1. BORROWER’S PROMISE TO PAY
In return for a loan that I have received, I promise to pay U.S. $168,000.00
(this amount is called “principal”), plus interest, to the order of the Lender.
The Lender is FIRST FRANKLIN A DIVISION OF NAT. CITY BANK OF
IN. I understand that the Lender may transfer this Note. The Lender or
anyone who takes this Note by transfer and who is entitled to receive
payments under this Note is called the “Note Holder”.
(R. I/63)
Sections 7 and 9 of the promissory note provide that payments are due to the
Lender until the Lender transfers the note, at which time payments shall be made to
the “Note Holder”, who may enforce its rights under the note. (R. I/65) The
promissory note was never transferred, as evidenced by the lack of an indorsement
on the promissory note. (R. I/66-67)
Though the Appellee is Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, the
promissory note is payable to a different person who is specifically identified in
the promissory note as “First Franklin A Division of Nat. City Bank of IN”
(hereafter, “First Franklin”). The promissory note was not indorsed by anyone,
including First Franklin.2 (R. I/66) Additionally, the promissory note did not carry
an allonge.3
The mortgage instrument provides that Mortgage Electronic Registration
Systems, Inc. “MERS” is the mortgagee and that it is a separate corporation that is
acting solely as a nominee for the Lender and Lender’s successors and assigns. (R.
I/68, para. (C) and (D) ) The mortgage instrument does not identify MERS as a
2 Florida Statutes section 673.2041 (1) provides that the term “indorsement”
means a signature, other than that of a signer as maker, drawer, or acceptor, that
alone or accompanied by other words is made on an instrument for the purpose
of negotiating the instrument, restricting payment of the instrument, or incurring
indorser’s liability on the instrument. Appellant is the “maker” of the
promissory note pursuant to Florida Statutes section 673.1031(1)(e) which
provides that “Maker” means a person who signs or is identified in a note as a
person undertaking to pay.” The terms “drawer” and “acceptor’ do not apply in
this case as those terms only apply to a “draft” pursuant to Florida Statutes
section 673.1031(1)(a) & (c). Florida Statutes section 673.1041(5) provides
that “An instrument is a “note” if it is a promise and is a “draft” if it is an order.”
3 For the purpose of determining whether a signature is made on an
instrument, a paper affixed to the instrument is a part of the instrument. (§
673.2041(1), Fla. Stat. (2009)) “An allonge is a piece of paper annexed to a
negotiable instrument or promissory note, on which to write endorsements for
which there is no room on the instrument itself. Such must be so firmly affixed
thereto as to become a part thereof.” BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY (6th
ed.1990). Florida’s Uniform Commercial Code does not specifically mention an
allonge, but notes that “[f]or the purpose of determining whether a signature is
made on an instrument, a paper affixed to the instrument is part of the instrument.”
§ 673.2041(1), Fla. Stat. (1995)). Booker v. Sarasota, Inc., 707 So.2d 886 (Fla.
App. 1 Dist., 1998)
payee. Instead, like the promissory note, the mortgage instrument names First
Franklin as the Lender/payee. (R. I/68, para. (E); also see R. I/70)
Appellee had not filed a reply to the Appellant’s Answer, so on June 1, 2009,
Appellant filed his First Amended Answer. (R. I/111) Appellee did not file an
objection to Appellant’s First Amended Answer. (See Index to Record for lack of
filing) In the First Amended Answer, Appellant:
1) denied that he delivered a promissory note in favor of the Appellee or
the Appellee’s assignors (R. I/110, para. 2);
2) denied that the promissory note was assigned by MERS to Appellee
(R. I/111, para. 3);
3) denied that the mortgage instrument was properly assigned to the
Appellee (R. I/111, para. 3);
4) denied that the promissory note and mortgage instrument are in
default with Appellee (R. I/111, para. 5); and,
5) denied that Appellee is owed any sum due and owing on the
promissory note and mortgage instrument (R. I/111, para. 6).
Appellant had admitted in his First Amended Answer that he is in control of
the subject property and that he resides at the property. (R. I/111, para. 12) And
though the Complaint neglected to specifically state that the Appellant had actually
borrowed money, the Appellant admitted in his Response in Opposition to the
Motion for Summary Final Judgment that he did execute a promissory note and
mortgage, but that someone other than the Appellee is entitled to enforce the
subject promissory note and mortgage against him and his property. (R. I/180)
Appellant made several affirmative defenses, the first and ninth of which
were to challenge the standing of the Appellee as not being an owner or holder of
the promissory note or an authorized agent for an identifiable owner or holder of
the promissory note. (R. I/111-112; 117)
The First Amended Answer also incorporated within it a Motion to Dismiss.
(R. I/119; 121-124)) The incorporated Motion to Dismiss challenged the
Appellee’s standing and stated the following:
i. The Plaintiff is clearly acting as a trustee in this action for an entity
not named in either the Mortgage or Note. (Complaint, Caption)
The Plaintiff claims that it is the present owner of the Promissory
Note and Mortgage, yet contrarily, it also claims that it is the
constructive holder of the promissory note and Mortgage.
(Complaint, par. 2) The Plaintiff claims that the Note and Mortgage
were both assigned to the Plaintiff and that the assignment is Exhibit
C to the Complaint. (Complaint, par. 3)
ii. Both the Mortgage and the Note state that payment shall be made to
Lender. (Complaint, Note, par. 1; Mortgage, p. 1)
iii. The assignment referenced in Exhibit C is an assignment by MERS of
the Mortgage to Plaintiff, it is not an assignment of the Note – there is
no assignment of the note in any of the Plaintiff’s documents.
(R. I/119)
The First Amended Answer’s incorporated Motion to Dismiss made the
The Plaintiff alleges that it is all things – a trustee acting on behalf of
another entity who owns the Note and Mortgage, and that it is the owner of
the Note and Mortgage. The Mortgage provides that there can be multiple
owners of fractional interests of the Note and Mortgage. (Complaint,
Mortgage, par. 20) However, that is not what the Plaintiff alleges. The
Plaintiff alleges that there is only one owner of the Note and Mortgage – it
may be the Plaintiff, or it may be the beneficiary of a trust that the Plaintiff
is trustee of – we can’t possibly know because the Plaintiff pled it both
ways. The proof the Plaintiff provides of its ownership interest is
insignificant. The Plaintiff provides an assignment of the Mortgage but not
an assignment of the Note.
On October 9, 2009, at 8:27 a.m., which was prior to the hearing on the
Appellee’s Motion for Summary Final Judgment, the Appellant filed an opposition
to the Motion for Summary Final Judgment and Cross-Motion for Summary Final
Judgment. (R. I/174) In this document the Appellant stipulated that Appellee’s
evidence was authentic, uncontested and that there were no genuine issues of
material fact. (R. I/174-175 ) In the document, Appellant argued that there were
solely legal issues pending before the Court, those being: 1) that because the
promissory note was made payable to a specifically identified person who was not
the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff’s principal, that before Appellee could enforce it
against Appellant, the promissory note had to carry either an indorsement or an
allonge making it payable to the Appellant or to Appellant’s principal; (R. I/175)
and, 2) that MERS could not pass an enforceable interest to Appellee. (R. I/177)
The Appellee’s Motion for Summary Final Judgment was heard on October
9, 2009, at 8:45 a.m. (R. I/149; R. I/166) After oral argument in the absence of a
court reporter, the Circuit court granted Summary Final Judgment to the Appellee
after argument. (R. I/166)
STANDARD ON APPEAL
The standard of review for summary judgment is de novo. Major League
Baseball v.Morsani, 790 So. 2d 1071 (Fla. 2001); Rollins v. Alvarez, 792 So. 2d
695 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001); Volusia County v. Aberdeen at Ormond Beach, L.P.,
760 So. 2d 126 (Fla. 2000). In reviewing a summary judgment, the Court must
determine whether there is any “genuine issue as to any material fact” and whether
“the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.” Fla. R. Civ. P.
1.510(c).
Issues of fact are “genuine” only if a reasonable jury, considering the
evidence presented, could find for the non-moving party. Anderson v. Liberty
Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 249 (1986). Generally, “[t]he party moving for
summary judgment has the burden to prove conclusively the nonexistence of any
genuine issue of material fact.” City of Cocoa v. Leffler, 762 So. 2d 1052,1055
(Fla. 5thDCA 2000). The evidence contained in the record, including supporting
affidavits, must be considered in the light most favorable to the non-moving party,
and if the slightest doubt exists, summary judgment must be reversed. Krol v. City
of Orlando, 778 So. 2d 490, 492 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001).
SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENTS
Ownership of the promissory note and the mortgage instrument were
bifurcated. The unindorsed promissory note was not a bearer instrument. Rather,
it was made payable to the lender who is a specifically identified person – First
Franklin – and the mortgage instrument named MERS as the mortgagee, solely as
a nominee. Neither the promissory note nor the mortgage instrument granted
MERS an interest in the promissory note, instead, First Franklin retained
ownership in the promissory note.
The right to foreclose is dependent upon there being an enforceable
promissory note. An assignment of mortgage from MERS to Appellee granted
Appellee all of the interests that MERS had in the promissory note and the
mortgage instrument. By the assignment of mortgage, MERS could not convey a
greater interest to Appellee than that which it already held. Since MERS had no
enforceable interest in the promissory note, it conveyed no enforceable interest in
the promissory note to the Appellee. Even if MERS was an agent of First Franklin
with authority to enforce the promissory note, no evidence of such authority was
presented to the Circuit Court. Without an interest in the promissory note, or
without evidence of authority to enforce the promissory note against Appellant,
Appellee had no standing to foreclose and summary judgment was improper.
FIRST ARGUMENT
THE APPELLEE PRESENTED EVIDENCE THAT
IT WAS NOT ENTITLED TO ENFORCE THE
PROMISSORY NOTE IN QUESTION
Every mortgage loan is composed of two documents – the note instrument
and the mortgage instrument. No matter how much the mortgage instrument is
acclaimed as the basis of the agreement, the note instrument is the essence of the
debt. Sobel v. Mutual Dev. Inc., 313 So. 2d 77 (Fla. 1 DCA, 1975); Pepe v.
Shepherd, 422 So. 2d 910 (Fla. 3 DCA 1982); Margiewicz v. Terco Prop., 441 So.
2d 1124 (Fla. 3 DCA 1983).
The promissory note is evidence of the primary mortgage obligation. The
mortgage is only a mere incident to the note. Brown v. Snell, 6 Fla. 741 (1856);
Tayton v. American Nat’l Bank, 57 So. 678 (Fla. 1912); Scott v. Taylor, 58 So. 30
(Fla. 1912); Young v. Victory, 150 So. 624 (Fla. 1933); Thomas v. Hartman, 553
So. 2d 1256 (Fla. 5 DCA 1989). The mortgage instrument is only the security for
the indebtedness. Grier v. M.H.C. Realty Co, 274 So. 2d 21 (Fla. 4 DCA 1973);
Mellor v. Goldberg, 658 So. 2d 1162 (Fla. 2 DCA 1995); Century Group Inc. v.
Premier Fin. Services East L. P . , 724 So. 2d 661 (Fla. 2 DCA 1999)
On December 21, 2005, Appellant issued a promissory note. (§673.1051(1),
Fla. Stat. (2009), and § 673.1051(3), Fla. Stat. (2009)) The subject promissory
note is a “negotiable instrument” because it is an unconditional promise to pay a
fixed amount of money and it was payable to the order of First Franklin at the time
it was first issued. (§ 673.1041(1), Fla. Stat. (2009); § 673.1041(2), Fla. Stat.
(2009); § 673.1041(5),Fla. Stat. (2009); and § 673.1091(2), Fla. Stat. (2009)) The
promissory note clearly states the intent of the Appellant to make the Lender, First
Franklin, the Payee. (§ 673.1101(1), Fla. Stat. (2009)) That’s because the
document specifically identifies First Franklin as the Payee.4
Florida law defines those who are entitled to enforce a negotiable instrument
as either a “holder” of the instrument, a non-holder in possession who has the
rights of a holder or a person not in possession who is entitled to enforce it as a lost
instrument. (§ 673.3011, Fla. Stat. (2009)) Florida law goes so far as to permit a
person to be entitled to enforce an instrument even though that person is not the
owner of the instrument or is in wrongful possession of the instrument.
However, the subject promissory note is more restrictive in its’
4 In a mortgage loan, there is only one negotiable instrument, and that is the
promissory note. Neither the mortgage instrument nor the assignment of mortgage
are “negotiable instruments” as the term “instrument” as used in § 673, Fla. Stat.
(2009), et. seq., only means a “negotiable instrument”. (§ 673.1041(2), FLA.
STAT. (2009))
characterization of who may enforce it because the subject promissory note and the
subject mortgage instrument together were designed to have been sold in fractional
interests on the secondary market. The subject mortgage instrument provides
“The Note or a partial interest in the Note (together with this Security Instrument)
can be sold one or more times without prior notice to Borrower.” (R. I/77, para.
Having multiple parties attempting to enforce a single promissory note could
destroy the entire secondary market system in mortgages. In order to prevent that
from happening, the subject promissory note does not make a mere possessor of it
a “holder”, rather, one becomes a “holder” of the subject promissory note only
upon “transfer” of the promissory note along with the right to enforce it. The
subject promissory note provides “The Lender or anyone who takes this Note by
transfer and who is entitled to receive payments under this Note is called the “Note
Holder”. (R. I/63, para. 1) This is consistent with Florida Statutes § 673.2031(1)
which provides that an instrument is transferred when it is delivered by a person
other than its issuer for the purpose of giving to the person receiving delivery the
right to enforce the instrument.
At the hearing on the Appellee’s Motion for Summary Final Judgment, there
was no evidence presented as to whether First Franklin actually delivered the
subject promissory note either to MERS or to the Appellee. That evidence was
necessary to demonstrate that First Franklin transferred the promissory note with
the purpose of giving the Appellee the right to enforce it. In the case of In Re
Hayes, 393 B.R. 259, 266-268 (Bankr. D. Mass. 2008), the movant seeking relief
from stay failed to show that it ever had any interest in the note at issue. In that
case the court found the movant lacked standing altogether because it failed to
show that the note was ever transferred to it, and thus had no rights of its own to
assert. Having a note in one’s possession is not synonymous with “transfer”.
The obligation of an issuer of a note owes that obligation to a person entitled
to enforce the instrument or to an indorser who paid the instrument under Florida
Statutes § 673.4151. (§ 673.4121, Fla. Stat. (2009)) A transfer of possession of a
bearer instrument is sufficient to transfer enforceable rights in the instrument. (§
673.2011(2), Fla. Stat. (2009)) That stands in stark contrast to a promise or order
that is payable to order, which means that it is payable to the identified person. ( §
673.1091(2), Fla. Stat. (2009)) In the case of an instrument payable to a
specifically identified person, transfer of possession of the instrument along with
an indorsement is necessary.5 (§ 673.2011(2), Fla. Stat. (2009) & § 673.2031(3),
Fla. Stat. (2009)) Without that necessary indorsement, the transferee still receives
5 An “indorsement” means a signature, other than that of a signer as maker,
drawer, or acceptor, made on an instrument for the purpose of negotiating the
instrument. (§ 673.2014(1), Fla. Stat. (2009))
an enforceable interest – however, it’s not enforceable against the issuer, rather, the
enforceable interest is the specifically enforceable right to the unqualified
indorsement of the transferor.6 (§ 673.2031(3), Fla. Stat. (2009)) Appellant
admitted in his Response in Opposition to the Motion for Summary Final
Judgment that he executed a promissory note, which someone is entitled to enforce
against him – just not the Appellee. (R. I/180)
In the case at hand, if the subject promissory note were delivered to the
Appellee by First Franklin with the purpose of giving Appellee rights to enforce it
against the Appellant, before Appellee could enforce the promissory note against
the Appellant it had to either obtain an indorsement from First Franklin or get an
Order from a court of competent jurisdiction enforcing it’s right to the unqualified
indorsement of First Franklin – the end result either way is that the promissory
note still must be indorsed. Absent that evidence, there is a material factual
dispute.
6 Addressing the same issue, the Court in the case of In re Kang Jin Hwang,
396 B.R. 757, 763 (Bankr.C.D.Cal., 2008) stated “The transfer of a negotiable
instrument has an additional requirement: the transferor must indorse the
instrument to make it payable to the transferee.” In the case of In re Wilhelm,
Case No. 08-20577-TLM (Bankr.Idaho, 2009) the Court recognized that if the
note instrument, by its terms, is not payable to the transferee, then before the
transferee can enforce it the transferee must account for possession of the
unindorsed instrument by proving the transaction through which the transferee
acquired it. (At page 18) The Court in In re Carlyle, 242 B.R. 881 (Bankr.
E.D.Va., 1999) came to the same conclusion at page 887 of the Opinion.
From the evidence admitted in Court, it is impossible to know whether
Appellee was ever a “holder” of the promissory note – as that term is defined by
the subject promissory note. Additionally, since this promissory note was payable
to a specifically identifiable person, before it could be enforced against the
Appellant it had to be indorsed. There was no evidence presented of an
indorsement, either by First Franklin or on Order of a court. Therefore, the
evidence presented proved that Appellee was not entitled to enforce the promissory
note against Appellant.
SECOND ARGUMENT
MERS DID NOT PASS AN ENFORCEABLE INTEREST
IN THE PROMISSORY NOTE TO APPELLEE
The note is the instrument of concern in all assignment situations. There is
an old maxim “the mortgage follows the note”. Evins v. Gainsville Nat’l Bank, 85
So. 659 (Fla. 1920); Case v. Smith, 200 So. 917 (Fla. 1941) The note is evidence
of the primary mortgage obligations or the debt. The assignment of the note
carries with it the mortgage and its rights, even though the mortgage instrument
has not been assigned either orally or in writing. Collins v. Briggs, 123 So. 833
(Fla. 1929); Miami Mtge. & Guar. Co. v. Drawdy, 127 So. 323 (Fla. 1930); So.
Colonial Mtge. Co. v. Medeiros, 347 So. 2d 736 (Fla. 4 DCA 1977)
The mortgage, as evidenced by the mortgage instrument, is only a mere
incident to the debt. Therefore, the mortgage instrument is of lesser significance.
Because the assignment of the note is an imperative act as to the transferring of the
mortgagee’s right, the assignment of the mortgage instrument without the note is
an ineffective assignment. Vance v. Fields, 172 So. 2d 613 (Fla. 1 DCA 1965);
Sobel v. Mutual Dev. Inc., 313 So. 2d 77 (Fla. 1 DCA 1975); Amacher v. Keel,
358 So. 2d 889 (Fla. 2 DCA 1975)
In the instant case, the assignment of mortgage claims that it assigns the
beneficial interest in both the note instrument and the mortgage instrument to
Appellee. However, the note instrument was bifurcated from the mortgage
instrument and MERS did not have an interest in the Note that it could assign.
MERS act of assigning the mortgage instrument was invalid as it held no beneficial
interest in the mortgage instrument for two reasons: 1) a security instrument, apart
from the promissory note giving rise to the debt has no value because there is no
debt by which it secures payment; and 2) MERS had no beneficial interest in the
mortgage instrument that it could assign.
In Carpenter v. Longan, 16 Wall. 271, 83 U.S. 271, 274, 21 L.Ed. 313
(1872), the U.S. Supreme Court stated “The note and mortgage are inseparable; the
former as essential, the latter as an incident. An assignment of the note carries the
mortgage with it, while an assignment of the latter alone is a nullity.”
“Where the mortgagee has ‘transferred’ only the mortgage, the transaction is
a nullity and his ‘assignee,’ having received no interest in the underlying debt or
obligation, has a worthless piece of paper.” (4 RICHARD R. POWELL, POWELL
ON REAL PROPERTY, § 37.27[2] (2000); In re Mitchell, Case No. BK-S-07-
16226-LBR (Bankr.Nev. 3/31/2009)(At page 12))
As previously stated in Argument 1, the Uniform Commercial Code makes a
distinction between a promissory note that is a bearer instrument and one that is
payable to a specifically identified person – the former not requiring an
indorsement to be enforceable, the latter requiring an indorsement to be
enforceable. (§ 673.2011(2), Fla. Stat. (2009); § 673.2031(3), Fla. Stat. (2009))
Additionally, the subject mortgage instrument states that it can only be
transferred with the sale of the note – and not the other way around where the sale
of the mortgage instrument would include the note. (R. I/77, para. 20) The subject
mortgage instrument provides “The Note or a partial interest in the Note (together
with this Security Instrument) can be sold one or more times without prior notice
to Borrower.” (R. I/77, para. 20) In this case, the only relevant transfer that could
occur is a transfer of the promissory note, which would include a transfer of the
mortgage instrument if ownership of that instrument were not bifurcated from the
ownership of the promissory note. So an assignment of the mortgage instrument
from MERS to Appellee would not transfer the promissory note to Appellee.
Appellant’s Opposition to the Appellee’s Motion for Summary Final
Judgment included an affidavit of the contents of the MERS website. The
Opposition stated in relevant part:
MERS has nothing to transfer by an assignment. MERS own website listed
“MERS Recommended Foreclosure Procedures for FLORIDA”.7 In this
document MERS states that it is not the beneficial owner of the promissory
note. This document states:
MERS stands in the same shoes as the servicer to the extent that it is
not the beneficial owner of the promissory note. An investor,
typically a secondary market investor, will be the ultimate owner of
the note. (fn 8)
Foot Note 8:
Even though the servicer has physical custody of the note, custom in
the mortgage industry is that the investor (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac,
Ginnie Mae or a private investor) owns the beneficial rights to the
promissory note.
(R. I/177-178)
In the consolidated cases of In re Foreclosure Cases, 521 F. Supp. 2D 650,
653 (S.D. Oh. 2007), a standing challenge was made and the Court found that there
was no evidence of record that New Century ever assigned to MERS the
7 http://www.mersinc.org/filedownload.aspx?id=176&table=ProductFile
promissory note or otherwise gave MERS the authority to assign the note.
Beginning with this case, courts around the country started to recognize that MERS
had no ownership in the notes and could not transfer an interest in a mortgage
upon which foreclosure could be based.
In LaSalle Bank NA v. Lamy, 824 N.Y.S.2d 769 (N.Y. Supp. 2006), the
Court denied a foreclosure action by an assignee of MERS on the grounds that
MERS itself had no ownership interest in the underlying note and mortgage.
In the case of In re Mitchell, Case No. BK-S-07-16226-LBR (Bankr.Nev.,
2009), the Court stated “In order to foreclose, MERS must establish there has been
a sufficient transfer of both the note and deed of trust, or that it has authority under
state law to act for the note’s holder.” (At page 9) The Court found that MERS has
no ownership interest in the promissory note. The Court found that though MERS
attempts to make it appear as though it is a beneficiary of the mortgage, it in fact is
not a beneficiary. The Court stated “But it is obvious from the MERS’ “Terms and
Conditions” that MERS is not a beneficiary as it has no rights whatsoever to any
payments, to any servicing rights, or to any of the properties secured by the loans.
To reverse an old adage, if it doesn’t walk like a duck, talk like a duck, and quack
like a duck, then it’s not a duck.” (At page 7) MERS Terms and Conditions say
MERS shall serve as mortgagee of record with respect to all such mortgage
loans solely as a nominee, in an administrative capacity, for the beneficial
owner or owners thereof from time to time. MERS shall have no rights
whatsoever to any payments made on account of such mortgage loans, to
any servicing rights related to such mortgage loans, or to any mortgaged
properties securing such mortgage loans. MERS agrees not to assert any
rights (other than rights specified in the Governing Documents) with respect
to such mortgage loans or mortgaged properties. References herein to
“mortgage(s)” and “mortgagee of record” shall include deed(s) of trust
and beneficiary under a deed of trust and any other form of security
instrument under applicable state law.
In the case of In re Vargas, 396 B.R. 511, 520 (Bankr.C.D.Cal., 2008) , the
Court stated:
MERS is not in the business of holding promissory notes. (fn 10: MERS,
Inc. is an entity whose sole purpose is to act as mortgagee of record for
mortgage loans that are registered on the MERS System. This system is a
national electronic registry of mortgage loans, itself owned and operated by
MERS, Inc.’s parent company, MERSCORP, Inc.)
In the case of In re Sheridan, Case No. 08-20381-TLM (Bankr.Idaho, 2009)
MERS moved for relief from the stay. The Court stated that MERS “Counsel
conceded that MERS is not an economic “beneficiary” under the Deed of Trust. It
is owed and will collect no money from Debtors under the Note, nor will it realize
the value of the Property through foreclosure of the Deed of Trust in the event the
Note is not paid.” The Court stated “Further, the Deed of Trust’s designation of
MERS as “beneficiary” is coupled with an explanation that “MERS is . . . acting
solely as nominee for Lender and Lender’s successors and assigns.” The Court
stated “Even if the proposition is accepted that the Deed of Trust provisions give
MERS the ability to act as an agent (“nominee”) for another, it acts not on its own
account. Its capacity is representative.”
In Landmark National Bank v. Kesler, 216 P.3D 158 (Kansas, 2009), the
Kansas Supreme Court extensively analyzed the position of MERS in relation to
the facts in that case and other non-binding court cases and concluded that MERS
is only a digital mortgage tracking service. (At page 168) The Court recited that
MERS never held the promissory note, did not own the mortgage instrument
(though the documents identified it as “mortgagee”), that it did not lend money, did
not extend credit, is not owed any money by the mortgage debtors, did not receive
any payments from the borrower, suffered no direct, ascertainable monetary loss as
a consequence of the litigation and consequently, has no constitutionally protected
interest in the mortgage loan.
Judgment included reference to professor Christopher L. Peterson’s writings on
MERS and the secondary market as a source for the court to understand what
MERS is and how it operates. (R. I/179) Christopher L. Peterson, Associate
Professor of Law, University of Florida, testified at a hearing before the U.S.
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on
Securities, Insurance, and Investment and stated:8
MERS is merely a document custodian. . . . The system itself
electronically tracks ownership and servicing rights of mortgages. . . .
The parties obtain two principal benefits from attempting to useMERS as a
“mortgagee of record in nominee capacity.” First, under state secured credit
laws, when a mortgage is assigned, the assignee must record the assignment
with the county recording office, or risk losing priority vis-à-vis other
creditors, buyers, or lienors. Most counties charge a fee to record the
assignment, and use these fees to cover the cost of maintaining the real
property records. Some counties also use recording fees to fund their court
systems, legal aid organizations, or schools. In this respect, MERS’ role in
acting as a mortgagee of record in nominee capacity is simply a tax evasion
tool. By paying MERS a fee, the parties to a securitization lower their
operating costs. The second advantage MERS offers its customers comes
later when homeowners fall behind on their monthly payments. In addition
to its document custodial role, and its tax evasive role, MERS also
frequently attempts to bring home foreclosure proceedings in its own name.
This eliminates the need for the trust—which actually owns the loan—to
foreclose in its own name, or to reassign the loan to a servicer or the
originator to bring the foreclosure.
R.K. Arnold, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., stated:
MERS® will act as mortgagee of record for any mortgage loan registered
on the computer system MERS® maintains, called the MERS® System. It
will then track servicing rights and beneficial ownership interests in those
loans and provide a platform for mortgage servicing rights to be traded
electronically among its members without the need to record a mortgage
8 Subprime Mortgage Market Turmoil: Examining the Role of Securitization,
http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?
FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=4f40e1b9-ec5b-4752-ba8f-
0c14afc44884 . (At page 6 -8)
assignment in the public land records each time. . . . Members pay annual
fees to belong and transaction fees to execute electronic transactions on the
MERS® System. . . . A mortgage note holder can sell a mortgage note to
another in what has become a gigantic secondary market. . . . For these
servicing companies to perform their duties satisfactorily, the note and
mortgage were bifurcated. The investor or its designee held the note and
named the servicing company as mortgagee, a structure that became
standard. . . . When a mortgage loan is registered on the MERS® System, it
receives a mortgage identification number (MIN). The borrower executes a
traditional paper mortgage naming the lender as mortgagee, and the lender
executes an assignment of the mortgage to MERS®. Both documents are
executed according to state law and recorded in the public land records,
making MERS® the mortgagee of record. From that point on, no additional
mortgage assignments will be recorded because MERS® will remain the
mortgagee of record throughout the life of the loan. . . . MERS® keeps track
of the new servicer electronically and acts as nominee for the servicing
companies and investors. Because MERS® remains the mortgagee of
record in the public land records throughout the life of a loan, it eliminates
the need to record later assignments in the public land records. Usually,
legal title to the property is not affected again until the loan is paid and the
mortgage is released.
(R.K. Arnold, Yes, There is Life on MERS, Prob.& Prop., Aug. 1997, at p.16;
http://www.abanet.org/genpractice/magazine/1998/spring-bos/arnold.html)
Courts around this country are clearly recognizing that MERS is not an
owner of the promissory note and that it is also only a mortgagee in name alone
and has no beneficial interest in the mortgage instrument. Landmark National Bank
v. Kesler, 216 P.3D 158 (Kansas, 2009); Mortgage Electronic Registration
System, Inc. v. Southwest Homes of Arkansas, 08-1299 (Ark. 3/19/2009) (Ark.,
2009) MERS own website says as much. Therefore, the assignment of
mortgage from MERS to Appellee could not transfer an interest in the promissory
note; it could not even transfer an enforceable interest in the mortgage instrument.
One hundred and thirty-eight years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized
that the mortgage instrument is inseparable from the promissory note. Carpenter v.
Longan, 16 Wall. 271, 83 U.S. 271, 21 L.Ed. 313 (1872) That was necessary to
ensure that title to property could be deraigned. However, MERS is a product of
the past two decades and was designed to privatize recorded mortgages in order to
avoid the payment of taxes upon the recording of assignments of mortgage. The
design of bifurcating the mortgage instrument from the promissory note is not
based on law and it impairs the historical ability to deraign title. The logical
conclusion of bifurcating the mortgage instrument to MERS is that it renders a
foreclosure impossible as the promissory note is no longer secured by that
mortgage instrument. What they have sown, they should reap.
In Stuyvesant Corp. v. Stahl, 62 So.2d 18, 20 (Fla., 1952), the Florida
Supreme Court stated:
The rule is settled in this State that a principal is bound by the acts of his
agent. The authority of the agent may be real or it may be apparent and the
public may rely on either unless in the case of apparent authority the
circumstances are such as to put one on inquiry. The agent’s authority may
be conferred by writing, by parol, or it may be inferred from the related facts
of the case. (Cites omitted)
There was no evidence presented that MERS had any authority to act as an
agent for First Franklin. The Arkansas Supreme Court came to the same
conclusion in Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc. v. Southwest Homes
of Arkansas, 08-1299 (Ark. 3/19/2009) (Ark., 2009)(At page 7) By all
appearances, it seems contrary to the interests of First Franklin that the Appellee
would attempt to collect on a promissory note that was payable to First Franklin.
WHEREFORE, the Circuit Court’s judgment should be set aside and the
matter remanded.
Counsel for Appellant
Mims, FL 32754
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a true and correct copy of the foregoing was
served by U.S. Mail on Jonathan J.A. Paul, Butler & Hosch, P.A., 3185 S. Conway
Road, Suite E, Orlando, Florida 32812 on this 15th day of January, 2010.
CERTIFICATE OF FONT COMPLIANCE
I certify that the lettering in this brief is Times New Roman 14-point font
and complies with the font requirements of the Florida Rule of Appellate
Procedure 9.210(a)(2).
By: _________________________
George M. Gingo, FBN 8795335-27-10-first-franklin-appeal-george-gingo
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Anti-Corbynites are belittling the Holocaust. This has to stop. NOW.
Nazi soldiers would line Jewish children up along a pit – toddlers some of them – and shoot them in the head one by one. Others would be torn from their mothers’ arms and herded into cattle wagons where they would either die in transit or end up being gassed in the gas chambers of Nazi extermination camps.
Inmates recall regularly hearing cries of “mummy, mummy” as the children were murdered.
These were the ‘lucky’ ones. Older children would often be forced to work in Nazi Labour camps where they would slowly die of disease, or were slowly worked and starved to death.
Approximately 1.5 million children were murdered by the Nazis in this way.
THIS IS THE REALITY OF THE HOLOCAUST. That is the reality of real antisemitism.
This is what my own father – an unpolitical man – wrote on Facebook this year about the murder of his own Jewish grandmother at the hands of the Nazis:
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day.
I can’t help but get upset and very angry about something that happened so many years ago.
My grandmother on my father’s side a frail, old, innocent, lady, who never did anyone any harm was stripped naked herded into a “shower room” in front of young German soldiers, probably laughing, then gassed, and dumped in a pit!
I sadly never had the chance to meet her, but I often think of her and wonder how could any other human do that to an old lady.
Very hard to forgive!
This is why I am INCANDESCENT with rage at how anti-Corbynites in the right-wing press, in the Tory Party and on the right of the Labour Party are using this horror for their own political ends and abusing the memory of these victims for the sake of petty party politicking.
Margaret Hodge even compared the plight of Jews fleeing the Nazi horror to her own recent petty party spat.
HOW DARE SHE AND OTHER ANTI-CORBYNITES BELITTLE THE HOLOCAUST JUST BECAUSE THEIR PARTY CHOSE A PARTY LEADER THEY DON’T LIKE.
This disgusting abuse of the tragedy of so many millions has to stop. NOW.
Please share. Thank you.
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hilary772013 said:
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Tom I am so sorry for what happened to your grandmother, it can never ever be allowed to happen again.
Thank You for speaking out & sharing this.
Nick said:
that’s the main problem today with right wing politics only hate. and that’s the same the world over just constant abuse of others
beacoldwell said:
Margaret Hodge is Jewish. I don’t understand her reaction.
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groovmistress said:
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Martin Odoni said:
Please consider using this ‘template’ (of a sort) to complain to the Labour Party about Margaret Hodge’s behaviour.
http://thegreatcritique.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/suspend-margaret-hodge-from-the-labour-party-at-once/
Julie said:
Tom, I don’t always agree with your stances, but in this case, THANK you for ‘speaking’ out against this cynical planned campaign against the Left and the ordinary ppl of UK.
Has any, or is any, research being undertaken into the role of the fairly recently appointed Israel Ambassador to Britain “His Excellency Mark Regev מארק רגב” (WikiP)’
For those who may not know of this person, this may act as an introduction.
Solidarity in this Time of Struggle
Well said. The increasingly desperate attempts to smear Corbyn are trampling on the experiences of those who have suffered. The rage against the horror of nazism should never be diluted by attempts to spread it around for political purposes.
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Joe Field said:
My full support to you
Mr. Guy Mitchell said:
Thank you, Tom! As always, a beacon of decency and good sense
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Powerful and Moving words from Tom.
everydaycrimebusters said:
You speak my mind.
I’m a Jewish Labour Party member.
The political weaponising of antisemitism completely exposes the shallow and cynical abuse of the suffering of others to further their political aims.
Like many British Jews, my family suffered personal losses in the Holocaust. The wounds run deep and down the generations.
It’s been a motivation for me to work against racism and for equality all my life. I know that however difficult some of my life experiences have been, nothing compares to the mass persecution and destruction of millions.
I’m hard-pressed to find any genuine antiracist among those lining up against Corbyn. The one common thread is their serious efforts to sabotage the democratic process and destabilise our democracy in order to prevent the election of a Labour government.
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hirsutemal said:
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davidcransonblog said:
Tom, I am completely against any right-wing attempt to subvert what passes for democracy these days, and I have no doubt that there are many people in the Labour party who do not like the idea of a left-wing leader. However (you knew that was coming), like it or not Mr Corbyn has not done himself any favours over the past few years (even before he was leader). Certainly there are a myriad of people who should be ashamed of themselves and their selfish attitude. Mr Corbyn should also be looking at what he has done and not only be doing something to redress the balance, but – in this day and age – he should be SEEN to be doing something.
Hodge is an absolute disgrace to compare getting a warning letter admonishing her for attack on JC to the palpable terror of fleeing for your life from Nazi’s in Germany.
She needs the whip removed immediately for again bringing our Party into disrepute.
The Whitechapel Whelk said:
Corbyn is the most effective weapon the Tories have in their armoury. I doubt if he’s an anti-semite in the true sense of the term, but what he is, is unelectable. The people of Britain don’t like extremists of any political hue and this disingenuous fool and his chomping cohorts certainly fit into that category. I speak as a lifelong Labour supporter (no longer, sadly) and a trades unionist.
Howard Fuller said:
This whole row could have been settled favourably a long time ago if Corbyn hadn’t been so evasive and indecisive. If he can’t resolve this crisis with our community how on earth will he ever cope with being in power.
The bulk of the Corbynite “left” (as it describes itself) allows self determination for all minorities except it would seem Jews. I turned my back on you milieu many years ago after an activist in the PSC at my then unions conference (PCS) that he believed in free movement for everyone except Jews. An attitude that has got worse over the years.
I do not trust Corbyn or so many his “activist” followers and I am personally on the very fringes of the Jewish community, but will stand in stand in solidarity with my fellow Jews on this issue.
You need to ask yourselves why you attract Holocaust deniers. Nazi apologists
Does your mum know you’re out this late, Leland? 🙂
rob filth said:
Can we get rid of this holocaust denier please?
This kind of crap helps no one and is completely irrelevant.
Oh fuck, he’s back again.
Put a sock in it will you?
I suppose you think all of the bulldozed bodies at Belsen were all shop mannequins too?
The BNP blog is third on the right…
“You need to ask yourselves why you attract Holocaust deniers.”
Unfortunately they are called right-wing agent provocateurs and take great delight in coming on left-wing discussions to try and disrupt them with their bullshit.
Janet Mears said:
With the greatest respect & thank you TOM.
love4ibiza said:
Tom, I just had my first ever proper public political rant on FB after reading this. Love your journalism, honesty & integrity. Big up 🙂
duncanspence said:
I do not believe that any state should be connected to a particular religion. And for this, I could be accused of anti-semitism? Thank you for expressing the matter plainly. What I do not understand is that Jewish people are using the holocaust to accuse other Jewish people of anti-semitism.
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There are certain elements in the L P, and particularly in the PLP who will never be satisfied with whatever Cmrd Corbyn says or does until he knees before them and – as the “Americans say” cries UNCLE.
Then we will see wholesale expulsions of anyone left of the fatuous careerist Christopher Leslie, a grandson of Thatcher via warcrim Blair.
In a time when the struggle for Democratic Socialism is within our grasp, a caucus of Right wingers, masquerading as Social Democrats, is intimately involved in every attempt to hand power to the neo-liberal, so-called – Tory party rather than see a Labour victory under a democratic Socialist banner and leadership.
Once these people would be correctly called “Class Traitors”
The state of the British State is now so dire that they can be classed as “Traitors” of all but the few who run UK as THEIR personal property.
kersten said:
‘ All’s fair in love , war and politics ‘ The greatest fear in government is losing the reins of power and the greatest hope in opposition is gaining those reins. There are old fashioned men and women who believe that debate can resolve all problems , just as there are footballers who believe good football is all that is required to win. Human nature is not totally honest and above board and will use all sorts of trickery to achieve the desired outcome. Sometimes the individual reasoning takes the following path: once I achieve my position of power I will become honest since I’m convinced I’m the best man for the job.
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Anti-Trump FISA application followed unusual approval path
Washington Examiner In front of a joint session of the House Judiciary and Oversight committees on Aug. 31, 2018, former FBI Deputy General Counsel Trisha Anderson said she was normally responsible for signing off on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications before they reached the desk of her superiors for approval. Anderson said the “linear path” those applications typically take was upended in October 2016, with FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates signing off on the application before she did. Because of that unusual high-level involvement, she didn’t see the need to “second guess” the FISA application.
So what is the takeaway here? Well, first, the FISA application clearly followed an unusual, top-down, very much not "by the book", dare I say political process. By the time it reached Trisha Anderson's desk, who would normally see it first, it had already been approved "informally" by McCabe and Sally Yates had already signed it.
McCabe is infamous for his pro-Hillary involvement in the Hillary email investigation, and for this anti-Trump involvement in the Trump investigation, and also for the $500,000+ in campaign donations his wife received from Hillary-linked donors while all this was going on.
Yates is infamous for getting herself fired over a relatively trivial policy position during the early Trump administration. It suffices to establish her anti-Trump bias.
Anderson clearly admits she didn't do her job to review the FISA because her superiors had already signed off on it.
Second point. Remember Susan Rice's last minute email to herself saying Obama said to do it all "by the book"? This is the last firewall before this scandal reaches Obama. "He said to do it all by the book!" This is clearly not by the book.
Third... whether we believe her that she didn't look at the application or not, she signed off on it. That makes her complicit. It's not the informal approvals that matter. It's her signature.
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Lynch throws Comey's FBI under the bus
She tracks the start of the investigations into Trump to spring of 2016 rather than the summer of 2016 when Papadopoulos spoke with Downer. She says it started with Page instead.
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Trump calls coup attempt "Treason"
I'm not sure he's right. Here's what the Constitution says:
US Constitution Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
What they did is probably not "levying war". "Adhering to their Enemies" is a bit trickier. Steele is British; is he an enemy? Steele's alleged sources were Russian; they are definitely Enemy-ish. Ukraine was involved too, and Australia. Aid and Comfort, sure, that's easy enough. Does Hillary Clinton count as an "Enemy" if she is trying to overturn the government, or is that more of a nation-state designation?
It might be easier to pin some kind of rebellion or insurrection charge, or just nail them all for wiretapping and abuse of civil rights under color of law.
Under common English, however, treason would be an appropriate charge for trying to overthrow the government illegally.
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Breitbart Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kevin McAleenan confirmed to Congress this week that his agency is merely acting as a checkpoint for adults crossing the United States-Mexico border with children, as “100 percent” are being released into the interior of the country.
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Important side point: Halper was the one who invited her and seated her next to Flynn. Halper was also the one who reported Flynn's interactions with her as suspicious. That smells like a setup to me.
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“Today, at the request and recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States, President Donald J. Trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election,” said Sanders in a statement released late Thursday. “The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long established standards for handling classified information.”
“Today’s action will help ensure that all Americans learn the truth about the events that occurred, and the actions that were taken, during the last Presidential election and will restore confidence in our public institutions.”
Declassification of the material involved here will, finally, reveal the truth that nearly 4 years of hoaxes, intelligence abuses, spy games, and, yes, obstruction of justice have tried to conceal.
The people who abused our intelligence agencies must be held accountable. All the way to the top.
Communist Unions
Reason The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) has taken a radical turn in a few of its recent social media postings, winking at the idea of airline workers executing their bosses and encouraging the proletariat to literally seize the means of production.
Yesterday, the AFL-CIO tweeted out an explainer video from self-described "anti-capitalist, worker-owned" streaming platform Means TV featuring Dan Whelan, identified as a "Marxist, roofer", explaining that the middle class is actually an illusion spread by the owners of society to divide the working class.
So, yes, the unions are now openly communist.
Illegal alien allegedly murdered 11 women.. possibly hundreds more
Twitchy quoting CBS in Dallas-Fort-Worth A Dallas man previously arrested in the death of an 81-year-old woman has been charged with killing at least 11 more elderly women whose jewelry and other valuables he stole, authorities said Thursday.
The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, said 46-year-old Billy Chemirmir was indicted Tuesday on six more counts of capital murder in the deaths of women ranging in age from 76 to 94.
Chemirmir, a Kenyan citizen who was living in the U.S. illegally, also is charged in nearby Collin County with two counts of attempted capital murder for similar attacks there, according to county court records.
They are reviewing 750 unattended deaths for possible links to the same person. More than seven hundred possible victims.
Lisa Page
Sara Carter Analysis
Bruce Ohr
Nellie Ohr (Analyzed at Epoch Times) (Further Analysis at CTH)
Full testimony of Bill Priestap
Peter Strzok
James Baker Part 1
George Papadopoulos
Additional witnesses
Categories Operation Crossfire Hurricane Spygate
Declassification begins in a week
John Solomon says it to Hannity, starting with "Bucket Five". As a bonus, there's a poll saying over 60% of the public support naming a prosecutor to investigate whether regulations were violated to spy on Trump.
UPDATE: Oops. Poll results were misread a bit. 64% believe the FBI knew the dossier was unreliable when they used it to get a FISA warrant. 49% favor a DOJ investigation into illegal spying on the Trump campaign. 64% of Republicans support an investigation.
A Matter of Conflicting Testimony
Comeys says Lynch told him to call the Clinton email investigation a "matter". Lynch says she did not. One of them is lying. Both were under oath.
They went after Flynn for less even after their own interviewers said they didn't think he was lying. One of those two is lying to support a cover up. Apply the Flynn standard. Prosecute, convict, imprison.
An unverified application submitted as verified to the FISA court
National Review If dossier claims were still unverified when Comey testified to Congress in mid 2017 (and thereafter), then those claims could not have been verified when the Obama Justice Department and FBI submitted it to the FISC as a “VERIFIED APPLICATION” in October 2016. It also had to have been unverified on January 6, 2017, when the Obama administration chose to include a sliver of the dossier in the briefing of President-elect Trump — the day after intelligence chiefs met with President Obama in the Oval Office and discussed what Russia information should be shared with the incoming Trump team.
Moreover, FBI and Justice Department procedures require that information be vetted for factual accuracy before it is submitted to the FISC. The rules of the FISC require the Justice Department to notify the court promptly if misstatements or inaccuracies have been discovered. Far from alerting the FISC that information in what it boldly labeled the “VERIFIED APPLICATION” was actually unverified, the Justice Department and the FBI kept reaffirming the dossier allegations to the court — in January, April, and June of 2017.
The thing is, claiming that you verified something you didn't in court documents... that tends to be called perjury.
FBI tried to get Papadopoulos's wife to wear a wire?
Sara Carter George Papadopoulos said to Laura Ingraham on Thursday that the FBI tried to get his wife to wear a wire to “entrap” him. He also said that Congress “probably has transcripts” of meetings he had that would prove he was spied on by the FBI.
Papadopoulos believes his wife was targeted because she knew all about academic Joseph Mifsud’s connection to Italian government.
“But what we believed that they really targeted her for is, we believe she knew all about Joseph Mifsud’s connections to the Italian government and his connections in Europe, which we just found out today that … the prime minister … just fired the heads of three intel agencies in Italy. And I think it has to do with the person, Joseph Mifsud, who the president and Devin Nunes and other people have been asking the government in Italy to examine a lot more because he’s actually at the core of this entire scam,” Papadopoulos said.
Even if it's entirely legal, trying to get to someone through their wife is a really scummy move.
ATF contractor stole guns from his agency, including full auto
Of Arms and the Law has more details. This one is for the people who fantasize that if only the government will confiscate all the guns, then only the government will have all the guns. Of course it's not that simple. It's never that simple.
Mon May 20 07:47:19 CDT 2019 by TriggerFinger. Comments [Tweet]
A third of children caught crossing border are not related to claimed parents
Daily Mail An Immigration and Customs Enforcement pilot of new rapid DNA testing at the border has found that nearly a third of those tested were not biologically related to the children in their custody.
ICE conducted the pilot for a few days earlier this month in El Paso and McAllen, Texas, finding about 30 per cent of those tested were not related to the children they claimed were their own, an official told the Washington Examiner.
The official said that these were not cases of step-fathers or adoptive parents.
'Those were not the case. In these cases, they are misrepresented as family members,' the official said.
Sounds like that's an easy way to dispose of a third of the asylum claims. Ask if they are related to the children they are with. Test them. If they lie, send them home -- and put them in the identity database so next time you don't even have to bother.
Arson suspected in three fires at Jewish centers
Free Beacon Fires at Jewish centers in Massachusetts were deliberately set, authorities now believe. Two were an hour apart, and two struck one house the same week.
Police responded to reports of fires two Massachusetts cities Thursday night. One, at a Chabad rabbi's home in Arlington, burned for less than a minute before police responded to put out the flames.
The current Democratic party is showing a disturbing trend towards antisemitism. I don't want to say that this is the result, but the Overton window has certainly been shifted by it.
Turns out, Comey is a communist
New York Magazine (from 2003) “In college, I was left of center, and through a gradual process I found myself more comfortable with a lot of the ideas and approaches the Republicans were using.” He voted for Carter in 1980, but in ’84, “I voted for Reagan—I’d moved from Communist to whatever I am now. I’m not even sure how to characterize myself politically. Maybe at some point, I’ll have to figure it out.”
No, a literal Communist. His own words.
Here's the thing. He describes himself as a Commmunist. He admits voting for Carter. And then he switches to Reagan. But that doesn't make him a true believer; it makes him someone who realized being a Communist was bad for his career. Identifying as a Republican means he gets all the Deep State jobs where they need a Republican who is...reliable.
And remember, Obama's pick for CIA, Brennan, was... also a Communist. Voted for their candidate back in the day, before he went undercover. Just like Comey. It's not really a surprise that two "ex"-Communists would conspire to overthrow a legitimate President.
Who is committing federal crimes?
Conservative Review The latest report from the U.S. Sentencing Commission demonstrates that the 800-pound gorilla in the room clogging up the federal criminal justice system is immigration, not “low-level” domestic offenders.
If we only solved our border problem and deported illegal aliens before they commit more crimes, not only would we be safer, but we’d save a ton of money on the federal criminal justice system – without irresponsibly releasing American criminals back into our communities, as proposed by jailbreak proponents.
According to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, in its recently published 2018 report on federal sentencing statistics, 54.3 percent of the 69,425 federal offenders last year were Hispanic, and 42.7 percent of offenders were non-citizens. The two biggest offense categories were immigration (34.4 percent) and drugs (28.1 percent).
This is somewhat circular but the point is still valid. The counterpoints: federal crimes don't include local or state crimes, which are the majority of criminal activity, especially violence, and of course, being in the country illegally is a crime and one of the few crimes that fall under federal jurisdiction and are commonly committed.
The core point does stand, though. Illegal aliens are a large burden on our justice system, and deporting them rather than allowing them to remain in the country tying up the court system with frivolous asylum claims and court dates they don't bother to show up for would save us a lot of trouble.
Nellie Ohr deleted emails from Bruce Ohr's DOJ email account
Washington Examiner Nellie Ohr, the wife of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, told her husband she was deleting emails sent from his government account.
The revelation comes as both Ohrs remain under intense scrutiny for their ties to Fusion GPS and British ex-spy Christopher Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier that was used to obtain warrants to wiretap a member of President Trump's 2016 campaign.
Sounds like a coverup, doesn't it?
Italian government requests resignations of intelligence officials
It appears, from their press reports, that they helped the spying operation on Trump and are now being told to fall on their swords.
Strzok on the Spygate hot seat
The Kavalec email describing flaws in Steele's dossier went directly to Strzok well before the FISA warrant application was submitted. That means Strzok knew Steele's story had massive holes -- the most obvious being the routing of payments through a nonexistent Russian consulate in Miami.
Another terror compound found inside US
Daily Caller The FBI has uncovered a homegrown, jihadist compound in Macon County, Alabama.
The FBI‘s search warrant described the property as a “makeshift military-style obstacle course” in a story first reported by Sinclair Broadcast Group. The land where the group gathered reportedly looked like an “abandoned dump,” and was led by Siraj Wahhaj, who allegedly trained children to commit school shootings in a similar terrorist breeding ground in New Mexico last year.
Make no mistake, these terror camps are intended to produce terrorists. If we've found two there are likely more.
For what it's worth, on the scary scale, the indoctrination factor of being isolated in a controlled environment is probably worse than any skills they could be teaching. Firearms instruction is perfectly legal and gas is cheap. The missing ingredient to manufacture a terrorist is the desire to kill infidels for the glory of their twisted god of murder.
Google restricting search results to left-leaning news sites
Hot Air Google provides a significant percentage of the incoming traffic which many news sites get, but the algorithms that determine which sites get that traffic are proprietary and not widely understood. Academics at Northwestern University decided to attempt to quantify how those algorithms work by looking closely at search results for news related queries for one specific month, November 2017. The researchers identified 200 search terms related to hard news events and then ran those terms once for each minute of each day. What they found after collecting all of this data is that Google’s top story search results are concentrated on a small handful of major outlets.
If you exclude the 26% that isn’t rated, the ratio of news that appears in Google search results leans left by more than 5:1. But CJR points out that this result may be skewed by the fact that there are more left-leaning sites than right-leaning ones overall. However, even if you account for this, it appears Google’s algorithm is still tilting the results to the left.
Of course it is. Algorithms are developed by people, trained by people, and given manual tuning input by people. And the people working at Google are so far to the left they don't even know how reproductive sex works. We'll be fine, if we can just survive the current idiots.
Roger Stone challenges claim Russians hacked DNC
Details here. There are good technical arguments the data was leaked rather than hacked, even if you discount what Wikileaks says about how they got the data. Who exactly did the leaking is still an open question.
DOJ is of course saying they don;'t have to prove anything about the supposed "hack", they can just charge Stone with somehow being an accessory or conspiring to do something that they haven't proven was a crime.
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Government Gazettes:
New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900)
Tue 5 Mar 1872 [Issue No.71 (SUPPLEMENT)]
PROCLAMATION.
Tue 5 Mar 1872 - New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900)
Page 595 - PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Sib Alfeed Stephen, Knight, a Companion
of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Chief Justice of
the Colony of New South Wales, Administering the
Government thereof.
WHEREAS the Municipalities Act of 1867 provides for the
constitution of a Municipality on receipt of a Petition
signed by not fewer than fifty persons "who would upon incor
poration he liable to he assessed for municipal taxes in respect of
property or household residence within the area proposed to he
bo incorporated: And whereas a Petition signed by one hundred
and thirty persons liable to be so assessed upon such incorporation
has been received by the Governor, praying for a Municipality,
to be styled the " Municipal District of Inverell" : And whereas
the substance and prayer of such Petition have been duly
published in the Government Gazette and otherwise in accord
ance with the said Act: Now therefore, I, Sib Alfeed Stephen,
Administering the Government aforesaid, in pursuance of the
provisionb of the said Act, uud with t.bfi ndviVo of tbo "Ryecntive
Council, do, by frhia my Proclamation, declare that the area
hereinafter described shall be, and the same is hereby consti
tuted a Municipality, under the name and Btyle of the
"Municipal District of Inverell," viz.:—
Counties of Gough and Arrawatta: Commencing on the
"western boundary of the reserve on account of population of the
town of Inverell, at about 1 mile and 18 chains from the
south-west corner of that reserve, at 5 chains northerly from
the south-west corner of portion 208, parish of Inverell;
aud bounded thence on the west by the western boundary of
that reserve bearing north to Spencer's Gully ; thence by that
gully to the south-eastern corner of portion 73, parish of Byron,
county of Arrawatfca ; thence by the eastern boundary of that
portion northerly to its north-east corner; thence by a lino
north to the centre of the road forming the "western boundary
of J. R. Fraser's 320 acres conditional purchase, portion 72,
parish of Byron; thence by a line along the centre of that
road northerly to Rob Roy Gully; thence on the north by
that gully downwards to the Macintyre River; and thence
by that river south-easterly to the south-western corner of
J. M'G-regor's conditional purchase of 320 acres, portion 3,
parish of Wandera, county of Arrawatta, and thence by the
south boundary of tbat portion and J. M'Gregor's portion 18
and its easterly prolongation, bearing east in all about 5£ miles,
to its intersection with the northerly prolongation of the •western
boundary of C. Campbell's 97 acres, portion 4, on Macintyre
River, parish of Elmsmore ; thence on the east by a line bearing
south about. 5 miles and 4 chains to the north-west corner of
that 97 acres, and thence by the western boundary of that land
bearing south to the Macintyre River, and thence by a line
crossing that river and by the western boundary of A. M'llveen's
200 acres conditional purchase, portion 5, and the western
boundary of portion 22, parish of Elmsmore, southerly, to the
south-west corner of that portion; and thence on the south by
a line bearing west about 6 miles and 70 chains, to the point of
Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Colony, at
G-overament House, Sydney, this fourth day of
March, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-two, and in the thirty
fifth year of Her Majesty's Reign.
(l.s.) ALFRED STEPHEN".
By His Excellency's Command,
JOHN ROBERTSON.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Printed and published by Thomas Richards, Government
1 Printer, Phillip-street, 6th March, 1872.
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If you’d like to catch a kabuki performance while in Tokyo, it’s actually pretty easy to do, especially if you’re happy with just one act of a performance. Here are all the details.
Heisei Nakamura © gungirlnewyork
Tokyo Kabuki Introduction
A kabuki performance is like watching an alien stage show from another galaxy. The entire thing is otherworldly – from the bizarre vocal style to the flamboyant costumes. Kabuki is truly an “only in Japan” experience. Full kabuki dramas last up to several hours and they’re probably way too much for anyone but die-hard fans. But, if you’d like to just get a taste of kabuki, there’s a great option for tourists: You can catch just one act (known as “hitomakumi” in Japanese). And, there’s no need to buy tickets in advance: You can just show up at the venue and buy one-act tickets.
Tokyo’s main kabuki venue is Kabukiza Theatre, which is located in Ginza. It’s directly connected Higashi-Ginza subway station.
Before going, check the schedule of upcoming shows on the Kabukiza English web page to make sure there is a show on when you are in town.
How to Buy One-Act Tickets at Kabukiza
After checking the schedule (see above) to determine that there is a show on, head to Higashi-Ginza subway station, which is on the Hibiya and Asakusa subway lines. Follow the signs for exit #3, which is directly below the theatre. Get up to street level and walk to the front of the theatre. On the left side of the building, you will see a red bench and a line of people waiting to buy tickets. This is the line for one-act tickets.
Line for one-act tickets - image © Chris Rowthorn
There will be a sign near the line that shows the day’s schedule and which tickets are currently on sale. One-act tickets for daytime shows usually cost Y1,000 and one-act tickets for evening shows usually cost Y2,000. There are usually attendants on hand who speak enough English to explain things. You may have to wait a few minutes before being able to approach the ticket window to buy your ticket(s).
Kabuki schedule and one-act ticket sale sign - image © Chris Rowthorn
Here’s the ticket window for one-act tickets:
One-act ticket window - image © Chris Rowthorn
The actual one-act ticket will be written only in Japanese, but you will be able to read the time that the act begins, which is written clearly in numbers. As the instructions on the ticket state (in Japanese), you should enter the hall about 20 minutes before the curtain goes on, so get there about 20 minutes before the time printed on your ticket.
One-act kabuki ticket - image © Chris Rowthorn
When you enter the theatre, you will be directed to the elevator that takes you up to the 4th floor, which is where the one-act ticket holders sit (or stand). The seats in this section are unreserved, so that you can sit in any open seat. The seats are pretty cramped and you’ll be crammed right up against whoever is next to you. If the seats are full or you just want a little more personal space, you are allowed to stand. Note that phone use and photography are prohibited during the show.
Buying Advance Tickets and Better Seats for Kabuki in Tokyo
If you’d like to sit closer to the action or want to buy advance tickets for a performance at Kabukiza, it’s also quite easy to do. Just head to Kabukiza and take the escalator down to the basement level (the sign above the escalator indicates Higashi-Ginza subway station).
Escalator down to Kabukiza Ticket Office - image © Chris Rowthorn
At the bottom of the escalator make a U-turn to the right and you will see the Kabukiza Ticket Office, which is marked in Japanese and English. The ladies here usually speak enough to help you select a show and your seats.
If you’re heading to Kyoto and want to see kabuki there, check the Kyoto Minamiza Kabuki Theatre English webpage.
For historical details of kabuki and more on the experience of seeing a kabuki performance, see Kabuki at Kyoto’s Minamiza Theatre.
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Buried end for Airport Link TBMs
Buried end for Airport Link TBMs Jan 2011
BrisConnections Progress Report
Some 17km of TBM, roadheader and cut-and-cover tunnelling comprises the Airport Link highway
The two 12.48m diameter TBMs working on the Airport Link highway in Brisbane are destined never to see daylight again. When they reach the end of their 2.5km long journeys later this year, they will be lowered into pits in the invert in the roadheader sections of the tunnels into which they junction, rather than being lifted to the surface. The decision avoids a 50m deep reception-recovery shaft near Chalk Street in the residential area of Lutwyche and bypasses about three months of surface work and a large work shed at the site needed to shield the community from construction noise, dust and disruption.
The two 12.48m diameter Herrenknecht TBMs started tunnelling from the working site in Toombul in July 2010 and were about 500m into their respective 2.5km long drives by the end of December 2010. Later in 2011, the two machines are expected to break into junction chambers at the end of the roadheader sections of the tunnels being advanced from the Bowen Hills and Kedron work sites to the southwest. With a diameter of 12.48m the cutterheads and shields are wider than the completed TBM or roadheader tunnels and will remain underground and buried in 14.5m x 14.5m x 16.5m deep pits excavated in the invert of the junction chambers. With a combined investment of $45 million, the main components of the machines and their 180m long trailing backups will be withdrawn back through the drives to the Toombul working site.
Two TBMs will be buried at the end of their drives
"After dismantling the components and backups, the hydraulic systems and gearboxes of the shields will be drained and capped before being lowered onto prebuilt cradles and backfilled with concrete," explained Gordon Ralph, Project Director for
Early 2011 Fast Facts:
More than 60% of construction complete
More than 13.5 million hours worked
More than 3,700 people are working across the project
More than $2 billion spent
More than 80% of all earth works and tunnelling excavated
Mechanical and electrical fit out of the completed roadheader tunnels underway
17 roadheaders being used on the project, the largest number on any Australian project
Largest TBMs ever used in Australia
Weight - 3,600 tonnes; Length – 195m
Cost - $45 million for both
Took 12 months to build and a further 3 months to assemble at Toombul.
Cutterheads dressed with 80 x 17 inch cutters
22 workers in each TBM operating crew
Tunnel alignment about 55m below ground surface
Lined with rings of precast concrete segments
the Thiess John Holland construction JV. "Burial of machines is a common practice around the world and reduces the complexity of removing the cutterheads and shields. Holes will be cut into sections of the shields to ensure complete internal and external encasement of the machines in concrete."
When it opens in mid-2012, the 6.7km Airport Link toll road will improve travel times between the city and the airport, providing six new lanes for drivers from Bowen Hills and Kedron and four new lanes between Kedron and Toombul. Design-build construction of the tunnels by the Thiess John Holland JV, is part of a massive $4.8 billion infrastructure investment on Brisbane's Northside which includes the Northern Busway tunnel between Windsor and Kedron as part of the Thiess John Holland contract.
To date, more than 8km of the 15km of TBM, roadheader and cut-and-cover tunnelling needed across the project is completed. This includes finish of the 490m of roadheader excavation for the Northern Busway tunnel.
Breakthrough of the Busway Tunnel
Project used four Aker Wirth T3.20 roadheaders
In mid-October 2010, Aker Wirth reported that one of its four heavy-duty T3.20 roadheaders working on the project broke through to finish excavation of the 490m Busway tunnel at Lutwyche. All four machines are equipped with 300kW powered inline cutterheads and have an operating weight of more than 130 tonne.
The roadheaders are operating in different sections of the Airport Link tunnel project, successfully facing the specific challenges of each section. With local support as and when required, and a full complement of consignment stock on site in Brisbane, Aker Wirth has ensured a smooth operation of the machines and low maintenance downtime.
For Brisbane, road tunnelling will continue once the Airport Link is completed. Just as the Airport Link project continues from the finish of the CLEM 7 toll tunnel under the Brisbane River, so the Northern Link project will continue from the finish of the Airport Link. Following that a further highway tunnel and a proposed cross city underground railway services is being considered to improve traffic and public transportation services around the rapidly expanding metropolis.
Brisbane road tunnels survive flood threat - TunnelTalk, Jan 2011
TBM launch for Brisbane Airport Link - TunnelTalk, August 2010
Brisbane's Airport Link powering ahead - TunnelTalk, June 2010
Brisbane awards Northern Link highway - TunnelTalk, Sept 2010
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Fat Loss Hacks
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9 Fat Loss Hacks For A More Athletic Body
Matt Chappell
Unless you're a professional athlete... wait, EVEN if you're a professional athlete, staying trim is hard work. Getting there is even harder. A large part of doing that is reducing your body fat percentage. Fat loss, gents, we're talking about fat loss. And, because it's often quite the horrific challenge, it's time to introduce you to a few hacks that are going to make the whole process a little easier. We're not saying these are the only tips you'll ever need for fat loss, because you'll still need to cut refined sugars and work out lots. But the following will help you along your leaner way. Even if the potential gains seem marginal, don't be disheartened – it all adds up. Small positive changes = big results in the end. Good luck.
Start from the beginning
Eat a high-protein breakfast
Researchers have discovered that eating a protein-rich brekkie boosts a critical neurotransmitter, which could lower any food cravings later on in the day. The study looked at people who ate breakfast – who experienced reduced cravings for sweet things – and then people who ate a protein-laden hairs-on-your-chest breakfast and found those people experienced reduced cravings for both sweet AND savoury foods.
Of course, those who skipped the most important meal of the day got cravings all day long. Which one are you?
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Use smaller plates
It seems pretty obvious but how many of us prefer the larger plates? According to a new study, reducing plate size is a proven (and easy) way to lose weight.
There have been many studies into the effects of this though none have ever reached a consensus. By combining the studies, however, researchers were able to reach a conclusion: Plates with a smaller diameter by 30% (that is, halving its total area) in turn reduces the amount of food consumed by 30%.
One to note, though: The benefit is greatest when you eat at home. Eating out at a restaurant clearly has it's variables, buffet or no, as the portion sizes are chosen for you.
Play Tetris
According to a study published in the journal Appetite, playing Tetris for just three minutes can banish food cravings. Erm, get in. Tetris time-wasting fully justified. The way it works is that the visual distraction serves to help control a craving. As the study's author explains, "episodes of craving normally only last a few minutes, during which time an individual is visualising what they want and the reward it will bring."
"By playing Tetris, just in short bursts, you are preventing your brain creating those enticing images and without them the craving fades."
I guess that could work with any game that distracts you, right?
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Drink three cups of green tea a day
A small change but one that can lead to significant benefits. With it's powerful antioxidants, green tea has been shown to improve the metabolic rates in people who drink it regularly every day. In a small study, the Asian cuppa appeared to increase metabolism and speed up fat oxidation. Tea drinkers: this one's for you.
Ditch the comfort food
Well, it's official: Comfort food DOES NOT improve a low mood, studies say. Research found that people who ate nothing got over their bad moods just as quickly as those who ate their favourite comfort food. Next time you reach for the baked beans and bread (toast), give it half an hour.
Get AT LEAST seven hours sleep a night
Researchers found that sleep-deprived people had increased activity in the parts of the brain associated with rewards and less active frontal lobes (behind and above the eyes), the part of the brain that provides self-control. This could explain why you give into junk food and other poor food choices when you're knackered.
Eat berries and grapes
Yes, grapes and blueberries will officially help with managing weight gain! In a large study conducted on the subject, which involved observing 124,000 people in the US over a period of 24 years, researchers concluded that the so-called 'middle aged spread' (putting weight on in middle age) can be prevented if you eat regular portions of certain types of fruit. Previous long-term studies have found that, typically, people will put on one or two kilograms every four years during middle age. In this study, adults who ate foods that contained nutrients called 'flavanoids' didn't put on that weight, and some even lost weight.
The biggest effect comes from blueberries, grapes, strawberries and cherries. Dr. Cassidy, who is the senior author of the study, believes it's because these flavanoids slow the rate at which the body absorbs fat, increases energy expenditure and keeps the gut healthy. Obviously, this isn't to say eating a handful of blueberries a day is your magic answer. The study doesn't claim flavanoids are fully accountable for the weight loss and, although the researchers tried to account for participants' diets and exercise regimes, other factors could have had an impact. Also, over-eating anything, even blueberries, will lead to weight gain.
However, using common sense, portions of these fruits in moderation have been shown to help manage weight gain over time. Hey, this one may be a long-term fat loss hack...but every little helps! Right?
Look at lots of pictures of food
Yes, sounded counter-productive to me too. But, according to research, looking at endless pictures of food can make them less enjoyable to eat. One or two pics of juicy, cheesy burgers will make you hangry, for sure, but a constant stream of food porn and you're likely to get less pleasure from the food, the more you look at it. It's a bit like the mouthful of a party size chocolate bar – it tastes great – but sooner or later it gets sickening. The first picture whets your appetite but a fair few pictures in, it gets more and more boring. So – back to your favourite foodie Instagram, yeah?
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Water. 60% of our bodies are made of it. It makes sense that, without water, our bodies can't do their jobs properly, including burning fat. Think of it like a car – you wouldn't drive it without giving the engine some oil, would you? But, on top of that, there are a raft of studies that support the idea that water can aid weight loss for varying reaons. One such study says that drinking water before a meal can help to suppress appetite and control portion sizes. You feel fuller before you eat (drink a 500ml glass 30 mins before a meal). Go figure.
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15 Things to See and Do in Debrecen
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The second largest city in Hungary, Debrecen stands in the Northern Great Plain – earning it the nickname Capital of the Great Plain. With just 200,000 inhabitants it’s a relatively small city yet still rewards visitors with an array of attractions. Discover the best of Debrecen with these awesome things to see and do.
The Reformed Great Church
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Designed by Mihály Pechy and opened in 1822, Hungary’s largest Protestant church is both an architectural masterpiece and an iconic national symbol: it was within its walls that, in 1849, Lajos Kossuth presented the Hungarian Declaration of Independence. Today the church is open to visitors, who can explore its beautiful interior, see the Rákóczi Bell and climb to the top of the western tower for panoramic views over Debrecen.
1 Kossuth tér, Debrecen, 4026, Hungary
Agora Science Centre
Our entire world and daily lives are influenced and shaped by science. This science centre which recently opened in Debrecen aims to teach visitors more about daily scientific phenomena through interactive exhibitions, activities and learning opportunities for all ages. Physics, chemistry, biology and more are covered, while an observatory allows an insight into the workings of the sky.
Agora Sciente Centre, Egyetem tér 1, Debrecen, Hungary +36 52 518 620
Hortobágy National Park
Hortobagy National Park wildlife | © Francesco Veronesi / Wikimedia Commons
Debrecen’s proximity to this UNESCO listed National Park is a gift for those hoping to see one of Hungary’s most stunning natural areas. Miles and miles of flat grassland provide a home for an interesting range of flora, fauna and wildlife while Lake Tisza, which lies within the park, can be explored thanks to a boardwalk and guided tours.
Campus Fesztival
Every summer in Debrecen’s Great Forest, this increasingly popular music festival brings a number of local and international acts to the city. As well as a varied musical program there are also theatrical performances and cultural activities: previous artists to grace the stage have included Enter Shikari, Clean Bandit and Jess Glynne.
Statue of Lajos Kossuth
A key figure in the Hungarian revolution of 1848 against Austrian rule, Lajos Kossuth helped the movement to achieve initial success. He became regent-president of Hungary for a short time before Austria reasserted its control and he was forced to flee the country. His statue can be found in downtown Debrecen near the Great Church, where he presented the Hungarian Declaration of Independence.
Statue of Lajos Kossuth, Kossuth tér 1, Debrecen, Hungary
Kossuth Lajos statue Debrecen | © János Korom Dr. / Flickr
Tímárház
Take a look at a number of more traditional methods of craftsmanship at this small museum set in a former tanner’s workshop and residential house. Traditional craft methods are the focus, with live demonstrations of embroidery, pottery and cheese-making.
Tímárház, Nagy Gál István u., Debrecen, Hungary +36 52 321 260
Nagyerdei Park
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A peaceful haven of green space found just 10 minutes from downtown Debrecen, the city’s park is a great place to get a taste of more natural surroundings without needing to travel too far at all. Woodland, landscaped paths, outdoor artworks and cycling paths await.
Debrecen, 4032, Hungary
MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts
For modern and contemporary art exhibitions in Debrecen, this is the place to go. Hungary’s second largest modern art museum, exhibitions change on a regular basis – meaning there’s always something new to see!
MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Baltazár Dezső tér, Debrecen, Hungary +36 52 525 010
The Déri Museum
The aim of this museum (set inside a neo-baroque style building which is worth visiting for the architecture alone) is to preserve and share the cultural heritage of the region and the world. Permanent exhibitions include a look at death and burial and ancient times; a gallery of fine art from the 17 – 19th centuries and the Déri Memorial Hall, dedicated to the man who made the museum what it is today by donating a significant number of works – Figyes Déri.
Déri Museum, Déri tér 1, Debrecen, Hungary +36 52 322 207
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Debrecen Zoo
This small zoo set in the middle of a forest was founded in 1958, and is home to over 100 species from across five continents. Educational programs and tours are available for anyone wanting to learn more about the animals who live here, which include lions, tigers and monkeys.
Debrecen Zoo, Ady Endre u. 1, Debrecen, Hungary +36 52 310 065
Debrecen University and Botanical Garden
Botanical Garden, University
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One of Hungary’s top universities can be found in Debrecen and its grounds are open for exploration by visitors, with fountains, statues and beautiful campus buildings to see. The University also boasts a botanic garden with a wide variety of plants, including tropical flora and fauna housed in a greenhouse.
1 Egyetem tér, Debrecen, 4032, Hungary
The Calvinist College
Debrecen has a rich Calvinist heritage and this college is a great place to learn all about it. Opened in 1538, there’s a museum space with exhibitions covering the city’s Calvinist history, ecclesiastical art and the building’s function as an institution of education.
Calvinist College, Kálvin tér 16, Debrecen, Hungary +36 52 614 380
The White Rose of the Revolution
Created by award winning Hungarian sculptor Miklós Melocco, this marble sculpture of a white rose was built to remember the 1956 Revolution against Soviet rule. The revolution was brutally crushed causing many to lose their lives and their freedom: this sculpture is in their honor.
The White Rose of the Revolution, Egyetem tér 1, Debrecen, Hungary
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Kossuth Tér
Debrecen’s principle square is the site for a number of festivals and events throughout the year, from hosting the Flower Parade (a week long festival in August, with flower shows, performances and more) to being the site of the city’s main Christmas tree. It also boasts a number of architecturally interesting sites: for example, the art-nouveau Hotel Aranybika can be found here.
Kossuth Tér, Debrecen, Hungary
The Mist Theatre
Taking outdoor cinema to a whole new level, film clips are shown on a screen of mist at this unique theatre in Debrecen’s Nagyerdei Park. Especially enjoyable on warm summer evenings, the attraction is open from spring to fall and shows laser light shows as well as short movies.
Mist Theatre, Ady Endre út 1., Debrecen, Hungary
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UTPD chief Robert Dahlstrom says bomb-threat investigations will continue
By Alberto Long Posted on April 11, 2013 at 5:24 pm
After a day's worth of increased security presence on campus, UTPD chief of police Robert Dahlstrom said investigations into Wednesday's non-specific bomb threat will continue for the next several days.
“The increase in officers that you will see is standard protocol,” Dahlstrom said. “We will be monitoring buildings more closely than normally, 24 hours a day really. All that means is if you're studying at two in the morning, don't be shocked if an officer checking that building out.”
The threat prompted a campus-wide safety alert urging the campus community to report suspicious activity. Dahlstrom said several reports were made, all of which were cleared by police.
“An hour ago we had a report of a suspicious package and it turned out to be someone's gym bag,” Dahlstrom said. “That's exactly what we want people to call in-- something out of the ordinary, something that wasn't there yesterday or has been sitting there for a while or looks abandoned... use your common sense.”
Dahlstrom said the anonymous individual who made the threat has not been apprehended.
"We're certainly still trying to find out who did it," Dahlstrom said. "We're still working that end of it."
Authorities are asking the campus community to remain vigilant. Suspicious activity or unusual objects should be reported to UTPD at 512-471-4771.
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Una Marson: An Anti-Colonial, Feminist, Anti-Racist, Pan-Africanist Champion of Good Causes
By Guest Contributor on March 19, 2014
By Lisa Tomlinson
No more moaning and groaning
No more self-hatred masquerading as integration.
No more rejecting your own Ethiop’s child for somebody else’s Barbie doll.
You are part of a strong African-Caribbean influenced literary tradition.
Affirm your right as an individual, a woman and a writer to be both Black and British.
–Una Marson
Black cultural critics often acknowledge and celebrate Black political and cultural figures in the same vein, that is, without making a distinction between the cultural and political. Not surprisingly, creative work by male cultural and political advocates is more likely to dominate the list than that of their women counterparts. Seldom do cultural critics link the literary works of Black women to political spaces. While some progress has been made, in which African women such as Dionne Brand, Jean Binta Breeze, Maryse Condé, Afua Cooper, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, and Alice Walker have been noted for both their political and cultural contributions, Black women still remain under-recognized in this area.
This Women’s History Month, as we celebrate and reflect on struggles for the emancipation of women, I find it only appropriate to resurrect the cultural and political contributions of Una Marson. According to Lloyd W. Brown, Marson was the “first female poet of significance to emerge in West Indies literature” and yet ironically, she is the forgotten mother of Caribbean poetry. In many ways, Una Marson’s work has influenced both men and women Caribbean creative writers who, like Marson, have used literature to advocate cultural and political transformation in their home and host countries.
Born in 1905 in rural Jamaica, sixteen years after poet and novelist Claude McKay, Marson continued McKay’s poetic journey with African Jamaican cultural aesthetics and served as a voice for Black working-class Jamaicans. Marson’s work engaged anti-colonialism, antiracism, feminism, class politics, and Pan-Africanism. Indeed, her efforts in championing Jamaican literature as well as her avid support for access to local publishing positions for women made Marson a key figure in the development of a national and Caribbean literary canon.
As a product of a colonial British education, Marson’s pioneering work emerged within the European poetic tradition. Her first two collections of poetry, Tropics Reveries (1930) and Heights and Depths (1931), mimicked the Romantic Era and Victorian Period, and her literary themes adhered to love and the local tradition of landscape poetry. However, after Marson had migrated to England, her literary work travelled a more radical trajectory to include African Jamaican aesthetical forms such as the local Jamaican language, orality, and African-centered religion. Uniquely, some of Marson’s writings also blended African American jazz and vernacular culture, which was perhaps a result of her relationship with Harlem Renaissance writers Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson.
In addition to the radicalization of her literary form, Marson’s subject matter became topical and the content of her writing began to address the lived realities of Black working-class Jamaicans and the wider Caribbean diaspora community in London, England. For example, Marson’s third play, Pocomania (1938), spoke directly to Jamaican indigenous religious practices. The play was certainly a turning point on what was represented on Jamaican stage. Written in the Jamaican language, the play centralized the Africanized elements of the Pocomania religion. This dramatic literary production also integrated and utilized Jamaican proverbs, local dance, and songs. Of equal significance were the central themes of class division and marginalization of African cultural practices in Jamaica. Seemingly, the play Pocomania pointed to a significant moment in the development of a national theatre and evoked what Marson would refer to as a “cultural renaissance.”
Una Marson’s poems from her later collections, Moth and the Star (1937) and Toward the Star (1937), cultivated connections between Black literary aesthetics alongside Black internationalist views of Pan-Africanism. “Nigger,” one of her most forceful pieces, narrated the bitter experiences of racism that she encountered in London. Marson’s poem, similar to her literary counterpart Claude McKay (and later writer Frantz Fanon), resounded with the unexpected cultural shock of the colonial subject who migrated to the “motherland” only to painfully discover that their status in the empire is located as “outsider” and not the Britishness they were taught to embrace in the colonies.
“Quashie Come to London,” a milder poem, comically depicted the experience of an alienated Caribbean immigrant attempting to culturally negotiate England’s metropolis. Undeniably, Quashie’s problematic relationship with the empire provided a template for future writers and cultural theorists to open up conversations around Black identities via a diasporic lens.
Other poems from these collections candidly injected a feminist sensibility and shifted from the conventional themes of female writers of the time. Marson boldly critiqued the complexities of Black women’s self-image, and she also highlighted the intersection of class, race, and gender and their connection to economic exploitation, Black poverty, and white affluence in colonial Jamaica. “The Stone Breakers,” one of Marson’s few poems written in Jamaican, commented on the exploitative labor conditions of Black working-class Jamaican women forced to perform backbreaking work to survive—“Me han hat me,/Me foot hat me,/An’ Lard, de sun a blin’ me.”
“Kinky Hair Blues” and “Cinema Eyes” both interrogated received and commodified versions of womanhood and Eurocentric beauty aesthetics as these affected Black women, a topic that Marson had challenged in the Jamaican magazine The Cosmopolitan after the Miss Jamaica Beauty Pageant in 1931. In “Kinky Hair Blue,” voiced in the local language, Marson affirmed self-pride in her physical and racial characteristics, professing, “I hate dat ironed hair /And dat bleaching skin…/ Lord ’tis you did gie me All dis kinky hair…/ I like me black face And me kinky hair.” Similarly, in “Cinema Eyes,” the narrator who “grew up with a cinema mind” and thus “saw no beauty in black faces” now wants to protect her daughter from the same whitewashing she was exposed to as a youngster. Both poems reflected jazz and blues literary styles and expressed a Pan-African consciousness that challenged European standards of female beauty.
Like many writers of her time whose literature was anchored in political activism, Marson employed her literary ties as a vehicle to arouse social consciousness among her fellow Jamaicans and the Caribbean diaspora community in London. Marson became the first Jamaican woman to own and edit a magazine. The Cosmopolitan afforded Marson the opportunity to encourage local writers, but she also used her magazine as a platform to comment on current events and to bring to light taboo subjects, such as women in sports or class and color prejudice in Jamaica. Una Marson’s cultural activism in Jamaica also led to the creation of Save the Children Fund, an organization that helped to fund poor children’s basic education.
As she traveled back and forth to London, Marson remained equally committed to cultural and political currents. She was instrumental in establishing her own BBC radio program, Caribbean Voices. The forum, which Caribbean cultural luminary Kamau Braithwaite has called the “single most important literary catalyst for Caribbean creative and critical writing in English” (History of the Voices 87), was crucial in showcasing Caribbean writing internationally and undoubtedly acted as a precursor for many well-known contemporary Caribbean writers.
Furthermore, Marson’s community work extended to various women’s organizations in England. In 1935, she represented Jamaica at the 20th Annual Congress of the International Alliance of Women Suffrage and Equal Citizenship held in Turkey. Marson was the only Black woman in attendance, and she presented a moving speech about her racial ordeals in Britain and challenged White women to stand in solidarity with African women in their struggle against racial and gender oppression. In the same year, Marson acted as secretary to the exiled Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie in London. Marson’s last years of cultural and political activism were devoted to her campaign against discrimination toward Jamaica’s Rastafarian community. She was instrumental in establishing a centre for Rastafarian children.
Una Marson struggled with depression and suffered nervous breakdowns. In 1945, she was admitted to Kingston’s Bellevue Mental Hospital. After her release from Bellevue, Marson continued to engage in political and cultural activities. However, within a few years of her recovery, Marson was again hospitalized. In 1960, Marson moved to the United States, but after a failed marriage she returned to Jamaica, where died of a heart attack in 1965.
Indeed, Una Marson’s work was well ahead of her time and was instructive and trailblazing in the ways we address race politics, Black beauty standards/Black identity, gender, religious discrimination, and class/economic exploitation. Her work was not partial to a singular cause but instead addressed the major forms of intersecting oppressions. Thus, Marson’s life and work reveal her consistent and undying efforts to achieve a voice and selfhood for the oppressed.
Brathwaite, Kamau. History of the Voice: The Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry. London: New Beacon, 1984.
Dr. Lisa Tomlinson is a literary and cultural critic. She specialises in Caribbean and African Diaspora studies. She has written chapters on youth culture, hip hop, and dancehall in Canada, Creolising the Canadian literary canon, and Reggae and the Black diaspora. Dr. Tomlinson is currently Sessional Lecturer at University of Ontario Institute of Technology. She teaches introduction to sociology and media studies/communication courses.
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This is a well written article. I would like to be able to communicate with the author. Please let me kow how I can get in touch with her. I am a writer from Jamaica who is a cultural activist.
This is a well written article. I knew Una Marson. I am a Jamaican writer who is a cultural activist. I would like to get in touch with Lisa. Please let me know how I can communicate with herNana Farika Berhane
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Thanks Lisa for sharing and reminding us of the rich and groundbreaking Jamaican literary tradition from which we have come.This is a wonderful tribute to Una Marson.I thought of Jean Binta Breeze as I read sections of your insightful article. Kudos.
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Saffron exports drop 15% in Q1: official
MNA – Gholamreza Miri, deputy head of the national council of saffron told Mehr news agency that during the first three months of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21, 2019), exports of saffron witnessed a drop of 15 percent.
As he added, saffron prices also decreased by 10 percent to 15 percent in the said time.
“Saffron exports in the said period stood at 47 tons, while the figure was 55 tons in the same time in the year before,” Miri said.
Lamenting that saffron is smuggled out of the country, the official put the saffron prices between 75 million rials (about $650) to 115 million rilas (about $1,000) in domestic market.
Explaining the reason for saffron prices drop, Miri said that “the product is not exported, domestic production has reduced and the farmers and those who had stocked the saffron are injecting it to the market.”
In late January, Miri told Mehr news that there was a 15 percent increase in saffron production in the previous Iranian year, adding the prices had been stabilized in the market due to the balance between supply and demand.
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Stinger’s Jazlin Barker (#21) brought back the fire in the second half of the game against the McGill Martlets on Jan. 13. Photo Daren Zomerman
The Concordia Stingers women’s basketball team took their second straight loss to their crosstown rival McGill Martlets at the Love Competition Hall Saturday afternoon.
Starting off the third period down 38-22, the Stingers knew it would take some grit to get back into the game. Head coach Tenicha Gittens said the team, in the first two quarters, lacked the defensive edge they needed against Martlets’ centre Alex Kiss-Rusk, who lead the team with 22 points, 18 of which she scored in the first half alone.
“If you’re going to score 18-22 on a game, it’s got to be because you just went to work on us, and she didn’t go to work on us,” said Gittens. “We allowed her to get position.”
“Defensively, we had relapses, it wasn’t the same defensive effort as we had on Thursday when we played them. So that could have been better. In the second half we did a better job with that, we did a better job of resisting [Kiss-Rusk], but then she got put backs because we weren’t boxing out.”
Stingers Caroline Task (#7) fights through traffic to get to the net. Photo Daren Zomerman
The team also had to adapt the way they brought the ball up the floor as star point guard Jazlin Barker was benched for disciplinary reasons, the coach explained.
“It was a little different, but you’ve still got to be able to play if a teammate is down,” Gittens said. “You still have to be able to step up and execute, and have that poise, and I think we lacked poise in the first half, and they were speeding us up offensively, and we didn’t exploit that.”
When Barker stepped onto the court, the entire team instantly looked more confident and composed, despite McGill almost doubling their score. After a couple steals, fast breaks, and successful drives to the bucket, Concordia appeared to have a second chance at the win.
But as the Martlets mounted pressure, the Stingers lost their composure and took their third loss against the team this season, bringing their regular season record to an even three wins and three losses.
Coach Gittens said the team will be working over the week at getting possession on defence and working the ball up the court.
“In order to fast break, you have to get the ball, in order to get the ball, you have to get a rebound,” said Gittens. “And that’s the thing, that’s the type we are, we push the ball up, and we get those fast-break points.”
Concordia won’t see McGill again until Feb. 10, where they’ll be playing with a home-court advantage. By then, Gittens said the team will be ready to beat the top-seeded Martlets.
“If we want to win a championship, if we want to get out of the first round, depending on what these other teams do, you have to beat McGill,” she said. “They’re the best team, the second in the country, and they’re definitely the best in the conference right now. So they set the bar, and we have to go up there and go it.”
Next, the Stingers will have a chance to get back in the win column when they host the last-place Bishop’s University Gaiters at 6 p.m. on Jan. 18.
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Fri Nov 8, 2019 13:00
Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London
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Could ophthalmology be first branch of medicine to be fundamentally reinvented through the application of artificial intelligence?
ODI Fridays are free lunchtime lectures for everyone. You bring your lunch, we provide tea and coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk.
Ophthalmology is among the most technology-driven of the all the medical specialties, with treatments utilising high-spec medical lasers and advanced microsurgical techniques, and diagnostics involving ultra-high resolution imaging.
Ophthalmology is also at the forefront of many trailblazing research areas in healthcare, such as stem cell therapy, gene therapy, and – most recently – artificial intelligence.
In July 2016, Moorfields announced a formal collaboration with the world’s leading artificial intelligence company, DeepMind. This collaboration involves the sharing of >1,000,000 anonymised retinal scans with DeepMind to allow for the automated diagnosis of diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy (DR).
In his presentation, Pearse Keane will describe the motivation – and urgent need – to apply deep learning to ophthalmology, the processes required to establish a research collaboration between the NHS and a company like DeepMind, the initial results of the research.
Pearse Keane is a consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital and an associate professor at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. He is originally from Ireland and received his medical degree from University College Dublin (UCD). In October 2019, he was included on the Evening Standard Progress 1000 list of most influential Londoners.
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McCain Called Slotkin, Sponsor of House War Powers Resolution, ‘Unqualified’ for National Security Position
January 11, 2020 January 11, 2020 Anthony Gockowski
The late Sen. John McCain repeatedly called Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI-08) “totally unqualified” to serve in a national security position in President Barack Obama’s administration.
Slotkin, a former CIA analyst who served in national security positions under President Obama and President George W. Bush, was selected by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week to sponsor a War Powers Resolution. That resolution, which requires President Donald Trump to acquire congressional approval before engaging in further military actions against Iran, passed the House Thursday in a vote of 224-194.
The Michigan representative made rounds on cable news to promote her bill ahead of Thursday’s vote.
Today, we're voting on a resolution I introduced to make it clear that if the President wants to take us to war, he must get authorization from Congress.
If our loved ones are going to fight in any protracted war, the President owes the American people a public conversation: pic.twitter.com/zBFzU6wHMd
— Rep. Elissa Slotkin (@RepSlotkin) January 9, 2020
According to The Daily Caller, Slotkin was a vocal supporter of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal while serving as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 2014-2017.
During a 2014 hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. McCain criticized Slotkin for her testimony on Iran and called on her to resign from the Obama administration, saying she was “totally unqualified.”
“Ms. Slotkin, we learn more from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal than we do from any briefing that we’ve ever had with you,” McCain said during the hearing.
McCain opposed Slotkin’s nomination to serve in a national security position and numerous articles from 2014 quote the late senator describing Slotkin as “totally unqualified,” such as a 2014 article from The Hill and another from Roll Call.
Tori Sachs, executive director of Michigan Rising Action, a local branch of the America Rising PAC, was highly critical of Pelosi’s decision to select Slotkin to sponsor the bill in a statement provided to The Daily Caller.
“While serving in the Obama admin, Slotkin supported a deal that sent Iran billions in cash that they openly admitted would fund terrorism,” said Sachs. “Now Pelosi has Slotkin leading the disparaging of President Trump for taking decisive action that kept Americans safe.”
Slotkin said in a statement released Thursday that her resolution makes clear that “if the president wants to take us to war, he must get authorization from Congress.”
“This is simply what our Constitution requires. If our loved ones are going to be sent to fight in any protracted war, the president owes the American people a public conversation about why and for what ends,” she continued. “As a former Shia militia CIA analyst who has served multiple times in Iraq, I have lived Iran’s destabilizing activity in Iraq up close and personal. I have watched friends and colleagues get hurt or killed by Iranian rockets, mortars and explosive devices. And Qasim Soleimani was the architect of some of the worst destabilizing activities in the Middle East. But his behavior does not mean that the Administration can disregard the Constitution by engaging in a wider war, without consulting first with Congress.”
Anthony Gockowski is managing editor of The Minnesota Sun and The Ohio Star. Follow Anthony on Twitter. Email tips to anthony.gockowski@gmail.com.
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HomeNewsGeneral AnnouncementsHeavy Fusion Rockers SUMO CYCO Kick Off Kings & Queens Tour with Butcher Babies & Nonpoint in Two Weeks Featuring Co-Support from Cane Hill | Tour Begins April 25 in Dallas, TX
Heavy Fusion Rockers SUMO CYCO Kick Off Kings & Queens Tour with Butcher Babies & Nonpoint in Two Weeks Featuring Co-Support from Cane Hill | Tour Begins April 25 in Dallas, TX
April 9, 2018 Bernard Cana General Announcements, On Tour Comments Off on Heavy Fusion Rockers SUMO CYCO Kick Off Kings & Queens Tour with Butcher Babies & Nonpoint in Two Weeks Featuring Co-Support from Cane Hill | Tour Begins April 25 in Dallas, TX
Heavy Fusion Rockers SUMO CYCO Kick Off Kings & Queens Tour with Butcher Babies & Nonpoint in Two Weeks
Featuring Co-Support from Cane Hill | Tour Begins April 25 in Dallas, TX
Hear the New Single, “Undefeated”, and Watch the Music Video Here
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SUMO CYCO‘s potent fusion of hard rock guitar riffs with in your face blast beats, dance hall rhythms, and punk rock attitude have garnered them unwavering attention and hordes of fans since their formation in 2011. The band will perform their unique sonic blend on the road this spring with headliners Butcher Babies and Nonpoint on the “Kings & Queens” tour, also featuring support from Cane Hill.
The tour begins on April 25 in Dallas, TX, and will visit cities all across the United States, coming to an end in Mesa, AZ on June 15. See below for all current tour dates and visit http://sumocyco.com/ for tickets.
SUMO CYCO‘s powerhouse frontwoman Skye “Sever” Sweetnam says: “We are headed out on our longest tour of the USA to date and couldn’t be more excited! It’s the tour our fans have been relentlessly asking us to do. We are absolutely thrilled to join our friends in Butcher Babies and Nonpoint who we’ve toured with before overseas, and with Cane Hill on the bill as well, this line up is undeniable. See you there!”
SUMO CYCO U.S. Kings & Queens Tour Dates w/ Butcher Babies, Nonpoint & Cane Hill:
4/25 – Dallas, TX @ Canton Hall
4/26 – Houston, TX @ Scout Bar
4/29 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade – Hell
5/1 – Huntsville, AL @ Sidetracks Music Hall
5/2 – Monroe, LA @ Live Oaks Bar and Ballroom
5/3 – Destin, FL @ Club LA
5/5 – Fredericksburg, VA @ Hard Times Cafe Four Mile Fork (no Butcher Babies)
5/6 – Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage
5/7 – Reading, PA @ Reverb
5/8 – Hampton Beach, NH @ Wally’s
5/9 – Westbury, NY @ The Space at Westbury
5/11 – Racine, WI @ Route 20
5/12 – Ringle, WI @ Q& Z Expo Center (no Butcher Babies)
5/13 – Battle Creek, MI @ Music Factory (no Butcher Babies)
5/14 – Joliet, IL @ The Forge
5/15 – Fort Wayne, IN @ Piere’s Entertainment Center
5/16 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Ballroom
5/17 – Traverse City, MI @ Ground Zero
5/18 – Flint, MI @ The Machine Shop
5/20 – Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
5/22 – Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall
5/23 – Toledo, OH @ Civic Music Hall
5/25 – Memphis, TN @ New Daisy Theatre
5/28 – New Orleans, LA @ Southport Hall
5/29 – Austin, TX @ Come and Take It Live
5/30 – Corpus Christi, TX @ House of Rock
5/31 – Lubbock, TX @ Jake’s Backroom
6/4 – Colorado Springs, CO @ Sunshine Studios Live
6/5 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
6/6 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
6/7 – Billings, MT @ Pub Station Ballroom
6/8 – Jerome, ID @ Diamondz Event Center
6/10 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater
6/11 – Sacramento, CA @ Holy Diver
6/12 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
6/13 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Whisky A Go-Go
6/14 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
6/15 – Mesa, AZ @ Club Red
SUMO CYCO‘s live performance is impossible to be ignored. With undeniable energy and attitude, they have completed six trips to Europe in three years, growing their fan base each trip. SUMO CYCO has been part of festivals such as Warped Tour (Kevin Says Stage), Sound of Music (Main Stage), WTFest (Main Stage), Planet Rockstock, Winter Rocks (Sheffield UK) Canadian Music Week, NXNE and many more. The band has shared stages with The Offspring, Coal Chamber, Our Lady Peace, Life of Agony, Hollywood Undead, The Birthday Massacre, Hollerado, and FOZZY, to name a few.
About SUMO CYCO:
The Hamilton, Ontario four-piece is fronted by former teen sensation, Juno nominee, and Capitol Records artist Skye Sweetnam, but SUMO CYCO have proven they are nothing but uniquely authentic. Reincarnating as her alter ego, “Sever”, Sweetnam left her bubble-gum past behind and embraced her true calling – heavy rock with an electrifying twist.
To date, SUMO CYCO have released two full-length albums, Lost in Cyco City and OPUS MAR.Not only have they gained high traction by self-directing and producing grindhouse-esque movie videos (attracting over 2.6 million YouTube views and counting), they have all received awards such as “Best Female-Fronted” band at the Toronto Independent Music Awards, top finalist in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, Indie Week Canada “Best of the Fest” (prize included a trip to play Indie Week Ireland) in 2014 as well as Best Hard/Loud Recording at the Hamilton Music Awards 2015.
“The most charismatic singer…” – Kerrang!
“SUMO CYCO are nothing short of sensational” – Powerplay Album Review
“They are going to be huge” – Powerplay Live Review
“SUMO CYCO are a band you have to see” – Black Velvet Magazine
SUMO CYCO is:
Skye “Sever” Sweetnam – vocals
Matt “MD13” Drake – lead guitar
Ken “Thor” Corke – bass
Matt “Trozzi” – drums
SUMO CYCO online:
http://www.sumocyco.com
http://www.facebook.com/sumocyco
http://www.instagram.com/sumocyco
http://www.youtube.com/sumocyco
http://www.twitter.com/sumocyco
SUMO CYCO by Francesca Ludikar
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CHINA SURVIVE ALMIGHTY CHILEAN SCARE AT BETVICTOR WORLD CUP OF POOL
Nick Teale Send an email June 27, 2019
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China 7-6 ChileNetherlands 7-3 USA
Defending champions China survived a huge scare against Chile in the second round of the BetVictor World Cup of Pool, eventually progressing to the quarter-finals with a 7-6 victory at the Morningside Arena, Leicester, live on Sky Sports, DAZN and networks worldwide.
The Chilean pair of Enrique Rojas and Alejandro Carvajal had taken an early 2-0 lead before being pegged back by China (Wu Jiaqing and Liu Haitao), Wu making a golden break before the defending champions levelled.
Latin American champions Chile, though, we’re unperturbed and worked their way to a 5-3 lead. At that stage they looked set to reach the hill but Carvajal made a mess of the 7 ball, and China were back to within one. It was the turning point China needed. In the next rack it was Chile’s break, one which could have been golden as the 9 sat up in the corner pocket but nothing fell and China had the table.
The combo wasn’t immediately available but after taking down the 1, 2 and 3 the 4/9 presented itself and China were level. They ran the following rack to reach the hill, making it four in succession and looked to be closing out the match until Liu left the 8 hanging over the pocket, setting Chile up to give a fitting conclusion to a match which defined the phrase ‘hill-hill thriller’.
It was China to break in the decider and Liu had the 1 down. Wu then made a powerful 2/6, the table opened up, and the defending champions progressed by the skin of their teeth.
The second last-16 match saw Netherlands (Niels Feijen and Marc Bijsterbosch) up against 2017 runners-up Shane van Boening and Skyler Woodward of America. USA took the first two racks but their opponents took the next two. The Dutch then moved two ahead themselves at 5-3, capitalising on a Woodward scratch in the eighth. Two-time World Cup runners-up Netherlands were in clinical form and took advantage of another American mistake – this time from Van Boening – to go 6-3 up and when the US No.1 left a 3 hanging in the subsequent rack, Netherlands cleared for the match.
In the last of the first-round fixtures, Spain looked on the ropes before eventually defeating Australia 7-5. Australia had raced into a 2-0 lead and extended that after Sanchez-Ruiz left the 9 in the jaws. They could have gone further ahead but Stone played poor position leaving Sajich a tough 9. He tried to double bank it but left the shot on for Sanchez-Ruiz, who made a pivotal pot for Spain, only for Australia to re-establish their three-rack lead.
A break and run settled things again for Spain and they followed it up with two more successful racks to level at 4-4. Australia regained their advantage and looked set to get to the hill until Sajich missed the 7. The cue settled behind the 9 and Alcaide attempted the jump. At that stage the luck Australia had on their side switched allegiance. World Pool Masters champion Alcaide missed the pot but the 7 travelled to the centre of the table where it kicked the 9 into the middle pocket, and rather than being 6-4 down, Spain were all square.
Australia then broke dry and as Sanchez-Ruiz made the 1, again the 9 took a kick and sat in the jaws of the corner pocket, giving Alcaide a 2/9 carom which took Spain to the hill, and breaking for the match.
Spain’s cue ball control wasn’t as tight as they might have liked in the final rack and a tough position on the 7 forced an error from Sanchez-Ruiz. Stone had to cut it, and with the shot clock ticking down was forced to rush his shot. He made the object ball but the power on the cue ball sent it off the top rail and to the bottom right pocket, scratching to give Spain a place in the last 16.
Photo courtesy of ‘JP Parmentier/Matchroom Multi Sport’
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Samsung Top-Loading Washing Machines Recalled Over Injury Risk
Samsung Top-Loading Washing Machines Recalled Over Injury RiskStephen2017-07-16T20:09:24-05:00
Samsung has issued a voluntary recall for millions of top-loading washing machines, which can explode during use and create serious safety risks.
2.8 million washing machines recalled
700+ explosion reports
At least nine injured consumers
Consumers have sustained severe “impact” injuries, including a broken jaw, after one of Samsung’s defective washers suddenly blew up. Legal action may be possible.
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Samsung has voluntarily recalled 2.8 million top-loading washing machines over a risk of blunt-force injuries. According to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the washing machine’s top lid can suddenly detach from the product’s chassis, creating a significant risk for impact injuries. At least nine personal injuries have already been reported, including broken bones.
Samsung Washers Explode, Cause Impact Injuries
As of November 4, 2016, the South Korean multinational has received 733 reports of dangerous washing machine malfunctions, “excessive vibration” during use and multiple consumer injuries. Samsung’s front-load washers are not affected by the recall.
The issue first came to light when ABC News released the results of a year-long investigation into Samsung’s top-loading washers. In September of 2016, reporters from Good Morning America said they had identified 21 reports of Samsung washing machines that had exploding during operation. In interviews, affected consumers describe terrifying explosions and near-miss incidents. “It sounded like a bomb went off in my ear,” one mother said.
Consumers File Samsung Washing Machine Lawsuits
Several consumers have already filed a class action lawsuit against Samsung in a New Jersey federal court, although their complaint does not involve personal injuries. Court documents do, however, describe a serious risk for injury, with one claimant describing an explosion so forceful that it broke through a garage wall.
Plaintiff Melissa Thaxton says that she, and other consumers, have chosen to pursue legal action “to warn other people about the problem.” In court documents, consumers argue that the washers were installed with a faulty support rod that is insufficient to stabilize the tub and can come unfastened during spin cycles.
At the time, Samsung told Good Morning America, “in rare cases, affected units may experience abnormal vibrations that could pose a risk of personal injury or property damage when washing bedding, bulky or water-resistant items. It is important to note that Samsung customers have completed hundreds of millions of loads without incident since 2011.”
“Design Failure,” CPSC Chairman Says
Elliot Kaye, chairman at the CPSC, told a similar story to Good Morning America, blaming the explosions on a “design failure.” “We’re talking about […] a very serious hazard of the top of these washing machines completely blowing off,” Kaye said, adding that the washer’s tops were not “secured enough.”
As Samsung wrote in a press release, the company has received hundreds of reports “highlighting the risk that the drums in these washers may lose balance, triggering excessive vibrations, resulting in the top separating from the washer. This can occur when a high-speed cycle is used for bedding, water-resistant or bulky items and presents an injury risk to consumers.”
The washing machine recall follows close on the heels of Samsung’s recall of 1 million Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, which can catch fire during charging.
Affected Samsung Washing Machines
The recall affects 34 models of Samsung top-load washing machines:
WA40J3000AW/A2
WA45H7000AP/A2
WA45H7000AW/A2
WA45K7600AW/A2
WA48J7770AP/A2
WA50K8600AV/A2
WA400PJHDWR/AA
WA422PRHDWR/AA
WA456DRHDSU/AA
WA456DRHDWR/AA
WA476DSHASU/A1
WA476DSHAWR/A1
WA50F9A6DSW/A2
WA50F9A7DSP/A2
WA5451ANW/XAA
WA5471ABP/XAA
WA5471ABW/XAA
The washing machine’s model and serial number can be found on two stickers attached to the back of the machine. All of the affected washers feature either rear- or mid-control displays. Rear-control washers have an upright display panel, while mid-control washers have a flat control panel, seamlessly integrated into the machine’s top.
The washing machines were sold at Best Buy, Lowes, Home Depot, Sears and other appliance retailers from March of 2011 until the recent recall. Prices ranged from $450 to $1,500. The products were manufactured at facilities in South Korea, Thailand and China. Importation and distribution were handled by Samsung’s US subsidiary, New Jersey-based Samsung Electronics America Inc.
Samsung Offers Rebate, Repair For Dangerous Washers
Samsung is offering a full refund to consumers who purchased a recalled washing machine within 30 days before the recall was issued, between October 5, 2016 and November 4, 2016. For those who bought their machines earlier, the company plans to offer an option between two different remedies:
A rebate that can be applied to the purchase of a new washing machine, either manufactured by Samsung or another brand, including free installation and free removal of the old washing machine. Consumers who opt for a new Samsung washing machine will receive an “additional loyalty incentive up to $150,” the company says. The amount of the rebate itself will depend on the recalled washer’s model and manufacturing date.
A free in-house repair to reinforce the washing machine’s top, along with a free one-year extension of the product’s warranty. While the recall affects both washers with mid- and rear-controls, Samsung is only offering free in-house repairs for mid-control washing machines at this time.
Samsung also intends to mail a “Home Label Kit” to all known purchasers of the affected washing machines. The kit will include two warning stickers to place on the machine, explaining that reduced-speed spin cycles should be used to wash bedding, bulky or water-resistant items. Additional safety instructions and a new guide to the machine’s control panel will also be included, although the guide does not apply to Samsung’s mid-control washers. The company expects to begin sending out Home Label Kits within 14 days of the recall’s announcement.
Before a remedy is completed, ABC News reports, consumers should use only the machine’s waterproof or delicate cycles to wash large or bulky items, like bedding or water-resistant clothes. Lower washer speeds will reduce the risk of malfunction and injury, the CPSC says.
Find More Recall Information
Own a recalled Samsung washing machine? Consumers have been advised to call Samsung on the company’s toll-free line at 866-264-5636 between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. or visit their website, www.Samsung.com. Click on the banner at the top of the screen that reads “Important Information Concerning Your Top-Load Washer” to learn more about moving forward.
Samsung Recall Strategy “Flawed,” Reports Accuse
Samsung’s earlier recall efforts have been heavily criticized.
In 2013, the company recalled six models of top-loading washers in Australia over a risk that the products could catch fire. While Samsung executives reacted quickly to incident reports, the company’s response was “flawed,” the Wall Street Journal says. A Samsung press release published in 2015 described the situation as a “major failure.” It remains one of Australia’s largest product recalls, affecting around 150,000 units.
A similar problem marred the company’s image after its smartphone, the Galaxy Note 7, began exploding. Only days after becoming aware of the issue, executives quickly concluded that the device’s battery was to blame for the fire hazard. Samsung recalled the phones and replaced them with new ones which featured a different battery. But the explosions only continued, leading the company to scrap the Galaxy Note 7 completely.
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Leonard Cohen's first live album, originally released in 1973, during the three-year silence between Songs of Love and Hate and New Skin for the Old Ceremony.
1 Minute Prologue (Live)
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10 Queen Victoria (Live)
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Semiothisa sexmaculata
Green larch looper
Latin name: Semiothisa sexmaculata (Packard)
French name: Arpenteuse verte du mélèze
Family: Geometridae
Synonym(s): Macaria sexmaculata
British Columbia, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec
This species is distributed throughout the host range in the interior of British Columbia from the Yukon border south to the Okanagan and Columbia drainages; it also occurs from the Yukon to Newfoundland and Labrador, north to Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, and south to Oregon and Massachusetts.
The larch looper is a common, frequently abundant and occasionally destructive solitary defoliator.
Mature larva up to 19 mm long. This species has two distinct colour morphs. The more common green morph has a green head and body; faint fine white addorsal lines; broader white subdorsal stripes bordered below by dark line; creamy yellow spiracular stripes. The brown morph has a light tan head with dark markings; the body is brown with a dark brown wishbone mark on the dorsum of each abdominal segment; broken white subdorsal stripes and broken rusty yellow spiracular stripes.
This species overwinters as a pupa buried in the soil. Adults emerge in June. Eggs are laid singly on needles and hatch in about 14 days. Larvae are present from June to August, and pupation occurs from late July to August.
Phyllophagous : Feeds on the leaves of plants.
Free-living defoliator: Feeds on and moves about freely on foliage.
Tamarack, western larch
Secondary host(s)
Balsam fir, black spruce, eastern hemlock, eastern white pine, Engelmann spruce, European larch, jack pine, juniper, lodgepole pine, ponderosa pine, red spruce, Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir, western hemlock, western white pine, white spruce
Dorsal view of mature larva (green morph), on western larch
Dorso-lateral view of mature larva (green morph), on western larch
Mature larvae, brown morph (above) and green morph (below) on western larch
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Arunachal Elections
Itanagar News
Rajkhowa BJP's scapegoat: APCC
This story is from September 16, 2016
TNN | Sep 16, 2016, 6:11 IST
ITANAGAR: Congress on Thursday accused the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre of masterminding the recent political imbroglio in the state.
The accusation comes after former governor JP Rajkhowa, before leaving the state on Tuesday, said he had never recommended President's Rule in the state.
"Rajkhowa's statement makes it clear that the entire episode was a creation of the Modi government. BJP went beyond the Constitution to topple the popularly elected Congress government in the state," Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Padi Richo said in a statement here on Thursday.
Rajkhowa succumbed to BJP's pressure, Richo said and added, "When BJP failed to install its government in the state, they blamed Rajkhowa and sacked him only to hide their own misdeed."
APCC went on to blame BJP leaders and misguided Congress from the state for all episodes of political instability.
"Some BJP leaders of the state tried to make a backdoor entry into the state's political platform. BJP will badly suffer in the next election," Richo said.
The Arunachal Pradesh unit of BJP dismissed these allegations.
"BJP in the state has no role to play in the appointment or sacking of a governor," party vice president Dominic Tadar said on Thursday.
Tadar, referring to former chief minister Nabam Tuki's allegation of BJP's role in Rajkhowa's ouster, said a statement made by an 'ousted' chief minister is of no importance to his party.
"The party at the state level was never involved in the political mess. It is Congress, instead, which has so many unresolved issues," Tadar said.
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Member Group representation
The Member Regulations (available in MyBCS) specify that Council shall include members elected by the following constituencies:-
5 members elected by the Regional constituency
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3 members elected by the Young Professionals constituency
In accordance with sections 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 of the Member Regulations, the following process for nominations to these will be followed.
A member can be nominated to represent only one constituency at any one election. Nominees must meet the eligibility criteria set out in the Member Regulations for election to the Council.
Nominations will usually be sought in October/November for each of these constituencies.
Regional, International and Specialist Group Constituencies
The Regional constituency comprises the branches within the United Kingdom constituted under Bye-Law 47(d); the International constituency comprises the International Sections constituted under Bye-Law 47(f); and the Specialist Group constituency by the specialist groups constituted under Bye-Law 47(e).
A nominee for election by one of these constituencies must be a member of a group within that constituency when nominated and, if elected, they must remain a member of the group within the same constituency throughout their term of office on Council. The nominee need not be a committee member of a group.
A meeting will be called for the purpose of electing a representative to fill any ordinary vacancies in each of these constituencies. These meetings will usually be held electronically, with a period of voting when the Chair of each Member Group within a constituency (after consultation with their committee) should indicate that committee’s choice of candidate for that constituency via online voting. Successful candidates will commence their term at the close of the first BCS AGM after election.
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A nominee for this constituency must be a member of any age who is the Early Career Representative of a branch or specialist group or the Chair of a Student Chapter at the time of their election and, if elected, will be an ex-officio member of the Early Career Executive for their term of office on Council.
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GALLERY: Head coach Rodney Watson surpassed Bruce Pearl to become winningest coach in USI history after defeating Kentucky Wesleyan College
Jordan Auker, Jalon Dowell, Chief Photographer, Photographer
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FINAL FOUR: Men’s basketball team falls short against Point Loma 71-81
Jordan Auker and Katie Thompson
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GALLERY: Men’s Basketball vs Maryville University (WIN 61-59)
Jordan Auker, Photographer
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GALLERY: USI Women’s Basketball Win vs. University of Indianapolis 71-58
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Eagles bounce back with victories over Wisconsin-Parkside
Sarah Loesch, Editor-in-chief
The men's and women's basketball teams both earned wins in the second game of the three-game home series. Tonight the women's team beat Wisconsin-Parkside 78-71 led by double-figure performances from four players. Tanner Marcum led the team with 24 points, Kaydie Grooms scored 15 and both Morgan...
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The USI men's basketball team played its last non-conference game of the season and came away with a 122-59 win over Bluefield State College. The team was fueled by double-figure scoring from eight players including senior Jeril Taylor who ended the night with a triple-double. Assistant Coach Kevin...
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Men’s basketball advances to 8-0
The men's basketball team brought its season record to 8-0 with a 98-83 win against Lees-McRae College this evening. The team was led by sophomores Alex Stein and Jacob Norman who were high school teammates at Reitz High School before both heading to USI to continue their basketball careers. Stein...
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Objects to Think With (Master of Digital Experience Innovation)
Objects to Think With
Master of Digital Experience Innovation (MDEI) 613 - Digital Media Design Solutions 1: Design Principles and Practice
Jess Dobkin: This is My Work - a performative talk
Friday, November 30, 2012 — 12:30 PM EST
Exhibiting Animals, Displaying Society
History Speaker Series:
Dr. Gary Bruce
"Exhibiting Animals, Displaying Society: The Berlin Zoo in German History"
Please join us for an informal talk by Dr. Gary Bruce when he discusses "Exhibiting Animals, Displaying Society: The Berlin Zoo in German History".
"Exhibiting Animals, Displaying Society: The Berlin Zoo in German History" poster (PDF)
Red China Blues
History Speaker Series: Dr. Greg Donaghy
Please join our guest speaker Dr. Greg Donaghy, when he discusses:
Red China Blues: Paul Martin, Canadian Foreign Policy, and the China Problem, 1950-66
Part of the 2012/13 History Department Speaker Series
Thursday, November 29, 3:30 -5:00 pm, Hagey Hall (HH) 117 MacKirdy Reading Room
Dr. Donaghy became Head of the Historical Section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 2003. He is adjunct professor in the Department of History, St. Jerome's University.
Demographic Shifts and Gender in Asia
Sociology and legal studies series
Demographic Shifts and Gender in Asia: ‘Scarce Women’ and ‘Surplus Men’
SMF 208 5th Annual Social Justice and Anti-Oppression Therapy Poster Symposium
St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo, Department of Sexuality, Marraige, and Family Studies presents
Sexuality, Marriage and Family Studies (SMF) 208 5th Annual
Social Justice and Anti-Oppression Therapy Poster Symposium
Students will present their innovative ideas on social justice and anti-oppression practice within the therapy context.
Le numérique entre science et culture
Department of French Studies’ lecture Series
Milad Doueihi, Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities (Université Laval), and author of Digital Cultures (Harvard University Press).
"Le numérique entre science et culture"
This event will be held on Wednesday, November 28th, 2012 at 2:30pm in Tatham Centre (TC) 2218A.
Presentation will be in French, questions can be asked in English.
Coffee and cookies will be available.
St. Jerome's Reading Series Double Bill: Michael Boughn & Christopher Dewdney
We're thrilled to be hosting a double bill with Michael Boughn and Christopher Dewdney. Please join us at 8pm, Tuesday 27 November 2012, in St Jerome's room 3014.
More about the authors:
Feminist Masculinities
Women’s Studies Speaker Series
“Feminist Masculinities: Activist Inquiries into Leisure, Gender and Sexual Identity”
Corey W. Johnson, University of Georgia
Reception to follow in the Davis Centre (DC) room 1301.
Friday, November 23, 2012 — 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
Master Talks - Master of Digital Experience Innovation students at Stratford Campus
The University of Waterloo Stratford Campus invites members of the community to hear first hand from students and faculty what the Master of Digital Experience Innovation program is about, what they are learning.
Logic in Context - Dept.of Philosophy Colloquium
Department of Philosophy Colloquium
"Logic in Context"
Paul Simard Smith
Survey and Administrative data to support population health research
Dr. Ted McDonald, Professor and Academic Director of the Research Data Centre (RDC) at the University of New Brunswick, will give a presentation on Friday, November 23, 2012 in Hagey Hall (HH) 280 2:00 to 3:00pm. The title is:
“Survey and Administrative data to support population health research: opportunities, caveats, and an application to the incidence of head and neck cancer and thyroid cancer in Canada”
2012 Hagey Lecture - Dr. Paul Collier
Dr. Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion and The Plundered Planet
Lecture: Will Africa's resource scramble lead to development or disaster?
About Dr. Collier
Jacob Zimmer, Small Wooden Shoe Theatre Company: Populism and Affect
'Populism and Affect'
What is the space for affect and local-ness in contemporary performance? Theatre maker Jacob Zimmer tries to bring together his performance Sedition or "Kindness makes me cry like nothing else", his search for a populism he can stand behind and his debts to continental critical theory together to find strategies and tactics for proposals, change, being part of the world and a having good night out.
Lost Explorers of Arctic Canada
Robert W. Park | November 21, 2012
The challenge of mapping the Canadian Arctic fascinated European explorers for centuries. Much of what most people know about the Arctic has been shaped by the tragic deaths of a few of those explorers, most famously all the member of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition. This presentation will discuss the history of European explorations of the Canadian Arctic and describe what recent archaeological research has revealed about the lives and deaths of these explorers, along with what still remains to be learned.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 — 10:30 AM EST
Composing the Body via YouTube
"Composing the Body via YouTube"
Jennifer Sano-Franchini
In this talk, I explore how the body is composed via YouTube through a study of representations of East Asian double eyelid surgery in online video. These videos--ranging from mass media excerpts and news reports, to journals of healing and recovery, to short lectures on surgeon techniques, to audience commentary--provide a rich range of perspectives rationalizing the technological modification of bodies.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 — 3:30 AM to 5:00 PM EST
History Faculty Showcase
History Faculty Showcase, hosted by the Waterloo bookstore:
This event provides an opportunity to hear these History professors discuss their latest publications.
Speakers include James Blight and janet Lang, Dan Gorman, Geoff Hayes, Greta Kroeker, Doug Peers and John Sbardellati.
Refreshments will be available. Hope to see you there.
History Faculty Showcase poster (PDF)
Indigenous Peoples and the Search for Human Security
St Paul's University College proudly presents
2012 Stanley Knowles Humanitarian Service Lecture:
"Indigenous Peoples and the Search for Human Security"
Andrew Hunt – City of Saints – book signing
University of Waterloo Professor Andrew Hunt will be joining the Bookstore Thursday, to launch City of Saints. As winner of the 2011 Tony Hillerman Prize we are excited to gain deeper insights into the book and author.
To the outside observer, Salt Lake City might seem to be the squeaky-clean “City of Saints”—its nickname since Mormon pioneers first arrived. Its wide roads, huge Mormon temple topped by a horn-blowing angel, and orderly neighbourhoods give it the appearance of the ideal American city, but looks can be deceiving. Learn more online:
uWaterloo Drama presents Macbeth
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Directed by Lee Wilson
Theatre of the Arts | November 14-17, 8:00 p.m
Macbeth - Arts Alumni Theatre Night
Join us on November 13, for Shakespeare's shortest yet most intense tragedy
Decades of Dialogue
The Department of Anthropology presents
The 2012 Sally Weaver Award Event Guest Lecture
“Decades of Dialogue: International and Local Perspectives on Repatriation”
Guest Speaker: Dr. Susan Pfeiffer, Anthropology Department, University of Toronto
Arts International Exchange Information Session
Arts International Exchange Information Session : 2013-14
Framing Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty and Security
Dr. Whitney Lackenbauer,
Associate Professor; Chair, Department of History, St. Jerome's University on
"Framing Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty and Security: Historical Insights into Contemporary (Mis)Perceptions"
Part of the History Speaker Series 2012 - 2013
Omen, Punishment or Path to Revolution?
Spanish & Latin American Studies Lecture Series
Professor Berenice Villagomez
(University of Toronto)
Omen, Punishment or Path to Revolution? Earthquakes in the Mexican Cultural Imaginary
This will be held on Monday November 12th, 2012 at 3:00pm in the Davis Centre (DC) 1302 followed by a reception at 4:00pm in DC 1301
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vaccinesworkblog
debunking the reasons people don't vax
Truth about vaccines: who are the experts?
April 19, 2017 April 19, 2017 / vaccinesworkblog
I missed out on watching episode three of The Truth about Vaccines. The episodes are only available for free for 24 hours. I missed episode three. I suppose I could try to find it on youtube but, instead, I decided to bring to you the people behind the series. It is quite a long list. It is important to know who they are, why the filmmakers consider them experts, and why they are not truly experts in immunization science. Narrator Ty Bollinger makes frequent claims that his film is unbiased and truthful. Is it? How impartial and free of conflicts of interest are the members of this group?
Robert F. Kennedy, JR – RFK is an attorney, author, and environmental activist. For a while, he was famous for working with Riverkeepers and then Waterkeeper Alliance but has since moved on to The Mercury Project and vaccines. His claims about mercury and vaccines are not supported by scientific consensus. He is lately becoming famous for his choice of words.
Sherri Tenpenny, DO – Sherri is a practicing osteopath in Ohio, USA, who runs a store online for supplements and a website called The Vaccine Library where, for $100 a year, you can access her information on vaccines. She also runs a website called TruthKings, which publishes very dramatic stories related to science and vaccines, rarely providing evidence to support claims. She calls herself a vaccine researcher but she has, in fact, published no research.
Paul Thomas, MD – Paul is a pediatrician with offices in the Portland, Oregon area. He is a founding member of Physicians for Informed Consent, an antivax group affiliated with many other antivax groups. Dr Paul makes claims about his patients health that are not supported by any actual evidence and he is the author of a book called The Vaccine-Friendly Plan. He claims not to be antivax but then he spends a lot of time saying vaccines are dangerous, without much evidence to support his claims.
Toni Bark, MD – Toni is a former hospital medical director who currently runs an aesthetic beauty clinic and health center in Illinois called The center for disease prevention and reversal. She is a practicing homeopath who also offers nutrition advice, bio-identical hormones, and aesthetic treatments like dermabrasion. She has, in recent years, become a very outspoken antivax activist.
Mike Adams, Health Ranger – Mike fancies himself a sort of health lone ranger, but this is really a business model for which he has become quite successful. It has been documented that Mike’s original foray into the business of health blogging was based on what he felt would be the most financially lucrative area of the internet. His it no wonder he “has found a way to foster and monetize the most current fear gripping the cultural zeitgeist?” He is considered a health scammer and has been under investigation by the FBI for his actions.
Andrew Wakefield, former MD – Andy has been involved in two notorious science scandals, both relating to his 2004 study. Brian Deer’s profile of him is accurate, as is this explanation of the “whistleblower” manufactroversy. Of course, I watched his film Vaxxed.
Barbara Loe Fisher – founder of the National Vaccine Information Center, Barbara talks a lot about vaccine risks, including autism, and freedom and choice. She has a son who had a reaction after his fourth DPT shot that she believes led to his learning disabilities. That spurned her into vaccine advocacy, leading to her being one of the authors of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.
Del Bigtree – former producer of the television talk show, The Doctors, and producer of Vaxxed. Del was a lower tier producer on 32 episodes of The Doctors (out of 1125 total). He now makes a full time job out of promoting Vaxxed.
Suzanne Humphries, MD – Suzanne is a former nephrologist (currently licensed but not practicing) who, in 2011, devoted herself to studying homeopathy and then gave that up to focus full time on what she perceives as the evils of vaccines. She has been widely criticized for her ahistorical take on vaccines. I have read her book, Dissolving Illusions, and I am familiar with her vitamin C protocol. Her recommendations for vitamin C are based on case studies from the 1930s.
Larry Pavelsky, MD – Larry is a holistic pediatrician in New York state. He is in practice with a host of “alternative health practitioners.” A hallmark of someone not espousing good science is if they offer a store where they sell supplements and whether they offer to cure autism. Larry does both. Throughout the Truth series, Larry’s comments are among the most outrageously disconnected from fact and science.
Brian Hooker, PhD – Brian is an associate professor of biology at Simpson university in California. He has a teenage son on the autism spectrum and has spent much of the last 20 years working on proving that MMR and mercury caused his son’s “vaccine injury.” He was heavily involved with Vaxxed in that it was his now-retracted study that is featured in the film. His claim of vaccine injury was recently denied with medical evidence proved him wrong. He has a PhD in chemical engineering.
Sayer Ji – businessman Sayer has a degree in philosophy and runs the website, Greenmedinfo, which is a natural health website oft noted for it’s inexplicable inability to properly read scientific studies. He is also an advisory committee member of RFK’s World Mercury Project.
Judy Mikovitz, PhD – Judy is a disgraced scientist who chose to embrace pseudoscience rather than admit she made a mistake. She was a researcher looking into possible causes of chronic fatigue syndrome and claimed it was caused by a mouse recombinant virus called XMRV. The reality is that the XMRV was found to be caused by lab contamination, but Judy could not face facts. Sadly, bad science has a hard time dying and people desperate to repair their reputation sometimes dig themselves in deep holes.
Sin Hang Lee, MD – Sin has made a reputation for himself with his ideas about Gardasil vaccine. Even though his ideas about HPV dna have been widely discredited, he is still sought out by antivaxers.
Stephanie Seneff – Stephanie is Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. That sounds so impressive, doesn’t it. But, why is she trying to study vaccines? This is the question of the day. Lately, she is making incredible claims about vaccines and autism, none of which make any sense.
Marco Ruggiero, MD – Marco is an Italian AIDS denialist and practitioner of autism “cures.” In my world, this makes him pretty low on the respectability totem pole.
Janet Levatin, MD – Janet is in practice with Tenpenny and a known antivaxer.
Joseph Mercola, DO – Joe is the granddaddy of natural health bloggers. He has been in legal trouble for making outlandish claims not based on science and is a millionaire off tanning bed and supplements sales.
Jennifer Margulis, PhD – Jennifer is a writer and known antivaxer. She has no background in science but co-authored Paul’s book (scroll up). She is anti medicine on several fronts, including birth.
Robert Scott Bell, DA, Hom – Robert is a podcaster who supposedly overcame a lot of chronic health conditions with homeopathy (which he now practices) and other natural healing methods.
Tetyana Obukhanych, PhD – Tetyana is a currently not employed immunologist who self published a small manual one can buy online. She makes a lot of strangely unscientific claims, in her book, which has led to her becoming a popular member of the antivax brigade. She is now also a member of Physicians for Informed Consent. It is not clear why she has rejected her training.
Rashid Buttar, DO – Rashid is a known antivaxer.
Debra Gambrell, DO – Debra is an Anthroposophical Medicine Specialist, which means she espouses the theories of Waldorf School founder, Rudolf Steiner, including that disease makes us stronger.
Allison Fomar, JD – Allison is a parental rights activist.
David Wolfe – David is, well, David. He thinks the earth is flat.
Jeffrey Jaxen – Jeffrey is an independent journalist who often writes for greenmedinfo and appears on the Robert Scott Bell show.
Robert J, Krakow – Robert is an attorney specializing in vaccine and other injuries.
Polly Tommey – Polly is a friend of Andy Wakefield’s and very involved in Vaxxed, including actively travelling the USA in the Vaxxed bus, collecting vaccine injury stories. She doesn’t believe science is truthful and instead believes whatever parents tell her. She has a son on the autism spectrum and believes he is vaccine injured and his life was destroyed. She is known for saying things like vaccines are murdering babies.
Shawn Centers, DO – Shawn is an integrative doctor who believes he can heal autism.
Neil Z Miller – Neil is a vaccine researcher who likes to use VAERS data that has not been medically verified as accurate in his “studies.”
Laura Hayes – Laura is media editor of Age of Autism, which many in the autism community believe is a hate group.
Tim O’Shea, DC – Tim is the author of a self-published book claiming vaccines do not immunize.
Ty and Charlene Bollinger – Ty is a former CPA who now runs the Truth about Cancer website. Charlene is his wife.
Nico LaHood – Nico is District Attorney for Bexar County, Texas. He believes one of his children became autistic after a vaccine and now talks about it in public.
Brandy Vaughan – Brandy is a former Vioxx rep for Merck who now runs a website called Learn the Risk. She thinks vaccine ingredients are highly toxic and raises money to fund a billboard campaign about them. She feels that her two years selling Vioxx makes her an expert in pharmaceutical company practices.
G. Edward Griffin – G. Edward is a far right conspiracy theorist.
April Boden – April believes vaccines caused her son’s autism.
Tony Muhammad – Tony is a minister with the Nation of Islam and opposes vaccines. He also believes Vaxxed is truthful and vaccines are causing 250% more autism in African American boys.
Erin Crawford – Erin believes she got cancer from the HPV vaccine but this is not supported by medical evidence.
Mario Lamo-Jimenez – Mario is a Colombian author who now speaks at Autismone conferences on HPV vaccine.
Michael R Hugo – Michael is an attorney
Erin Elizabeth – Erin calls herself “the health nut” and is either currently or has overcome every chronic health condition you can think of, including being aborted as a fetus, mold toxicity, vaccine injury, and god knows what else. Read her story, on her blog. It’s astounding. She is Joe Mercola’s girlfriend and spends much of her time, lately, making a list of “holistic” doctors who have died in the past few years. She believes they are all murder victims.
Heather Rice, DC – Heather is a Vermont chiropractor
Erick Zielinski, DC – Erick is a chiropractor, essential oil salesman, and practitioner of “biblical health” and online ministry out of Atlanta, Georgia.
Srinivasulu Gadugu MD – he is a homeopath
Cilla Whatcott, PhD – she is a homeopath
David Lewis – David is a former research microbiologist and now Co-Chair of the Whistleblower Leadership Council.
Heather Wolfson, DC – Heather is a chiropractor from Arizona who believes vaccines are toxic
Jack Wolfson, DO – Jack is a cardiac specialist from Arizona who now runs a practice with this wife wherein they sell supplements and share why they think vaccines are toxic.
David Brownstein, MD – David is a holistic medicine practitioner from Michigan with specialty in thyroid health, arthritis and other chronic conditions. He believes they can all be overcome through diet.
Edward Group, DC – Edward wins the award for the most initials I have ever seen after one person’s name. According to his website, his title is Dr. Edward F Group III, DC, NP, DACBN, DCBCN, DABFM. You can check for yourself what all of that means.
Ian Clark – Ian is developer of a nanno-nutrition supplement called Oceans Alive. Yes, it is supposed to have two Ns.
Heidi Bonaroti – Heidi believes her son’s autism was caused by vaccines.
Muhammed Rafeeque, AA, BHMS – Muhammed is a homeopath who practices in India.
Edda West – Edda is founder of Vaccine Choice Canada, a believer that vaccines cause catastrophic illness and death in children, and a contributor to whale dot to and Vaccine Risk Awareness News.
Edwin Black – Edwin is a syndicated columnist and investigative journalist. He specializes in human rights.
Manuela Malaguti-Boyle, PhD, NMD – has a master’s in philosophy and a degree as a naturopathic doctor. She practices homeopathy and natural medicine in Australia.
Tom and Candace Bradstreet – Tom and Candace are related to Jeffrey Bradstreet, who killed himself as federal officials were about to raid his clinic. He had been accused of using an unproven, unregulated, potentially dangerous “cure” for autism called GcMAF.
Irvin Sahni, MD – Irvin is a pain medicine specialist from San Antonia, Texas.
Do you see what I see? The only person on the list who comes close to claiming any expertise about vaccines is Neil Z Miller and his studies have been widely refuted as not valid since he uses unverified VAERS data. Every person on this list has a reason to be antivax and completely biased against vaccines. They either make a living off the claims that vaccines cause all manner of health problems or they are people who are convinced they or their child experience vaccine harm. These are not unbiased, impartial people. Not at all.
In writing this blog post, I have linked often to several blogs I have come to know and trust over the years. Scienceblogs, Science Based Medicine, the Genetic Literacy Project, Skeptical Raptor, Left Brain Right Brain, and Harpocrates Speaks are blogs I have followed for years. They are all excellent quality. But, don’t take my word for it. My criteria for blog excellence is the following: do they cite their sources, do they back up their claims, do they NOT sell things, and are they good people with good intentions.
As I alway says, think for yourself.
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Vaccines a very profitable business
The Amish community don’t vaccinate and they aren’t suffering any plaques. As long as they have access to natural food and a clean atmosphere they will be ok. You don’t need vaccines. The Amish are proof. If what you say is true, then the Amish would have died long ago. Some Amish do vaccinate but most don’t. And not only are they still alive, most of them are actually healthier then the rest of the country. Autism rates and other child illnesses among Amish children is much lower than among the rest of the country. Why is this? Because the Amish eat healthy organic foods and live in a clean environment. That’s the key. If you have a naturally strong immune system, you can survive without vaccines. Now does this means life is perfect for the Amish? Of course not. A few years ago around 300 Amish got measles, however, none of them died from it. They all recovered. And that’s my point. The media is just trying to scare the public to go and get 100 vaccinations because the pharmaceutical corporations make money from that. It’s all about profits. In the last 20 years maybe 5 to 10 people have died from measles in the USA. In that same time period, around 500,000 people have died in motor vehicle accidents. And many more people died from alcohol or cigarette smoking. You have a higher chance of dying from a lightning strike than from measles. The key is good nutrition and clean sanitation. This is why in poor countries you here of people dying from disease outbreaks like measles. The reason is in poor countries a lot of people suffer from poor nutrition and unsanitary conditions, such as unclean drinking water. But in the USA and most wealthy countries nearly everyone has access to nutrition and clean water, etc. But since the vaccine makers make billions of dollars each year of course it’s to their best interest that everyone buys their products and doctors also make money from it. It’s not about safety, it’s for profit $. Now even though I’m not in favor of vaccines, if people want to vaccinate they should have that right. But at the same time, people who don’t want to vaccinate should also have the same right. I’m against forcing people to vaccinate. People should have a free will to choose. Freedom and liberty
Claims posted without any form of evidence can be safely ignored.
Death is not the only bad outcome for measles. It also causes pneumonia in about one in twenty cases, and encephalitis in about one in a thousand cases. This results in very expensive hospital, and sometimes permanent injury like blindness, deafness, and cognitive loss. Even in developed countries like the USA and UK. See: The Clinical Significance of Measles: A Review
Since you also are making claims about vaccines being profitable, you need to provide the economic analysis that it would be better to stop providing two MMR doses, and going back to the days when every kid got measles by the age of fifteen. Essentially you must provide something like this:J Infect Dis. 2004 May 1;189 Suppl 1:S131-45.
An economic analysis of the current universal 2-dose measles-mumps-rubella vaccination program in the United States.
We anxiously wait for that PubMed indexed study by reputable qualified persons that it is cheaper to treat measles instead of preventing it.
Chris..there IS one FACT you are leaving out..that the one woman who USED to head up the CDC and gave the thumbs up to Merke’s own MMR vaccine wound up one OF THE HEADS OF MERKE!..so u say follow the $$$…having an insider for Big Pharma is about like having KKK insiders investigating a white cop killing UNARMED ppl of color!..there should be NO SKIN INTHE GAME when doing science!!!!..otherwise..most likely CORRUPT!..its also like using the gun manufacturers to say whether or not to go to war..see my point??..for myself..I AM vaccine injured..US Army..1985..I was tricked into 8 yrs..4 active 4 reserves..had I not had a fractured pelvis b4 the 1st Iraq war..I would have been there..I have had Raynauld’s Phenomenon ever since..wanna know what it’s like to have to wear gloves just to get frozen veggies from my own freezer??..painful I can tell you..and let’s not forget that Squalene in flu shots ARE proven to cause GUILLAIN BARRE..ITS ON THE VACCINE INSERTS!!..Squalene was proven in 2007 BY TULANE UNIVERSITY TO CAUSE ALS, MS, LUPUS R. ARTHRITIS, FIBROMYALGIA, ETC..ALL Autoimmune diseases!..so this B.S. You are spewing about these PROFESSIONALS is terrible..can YOU prove they are giving bad advice?? I mean physically prove it..NOT just repeat what those in authority WANT us to hear?..again I say..follow the money
Merck. If you cannot spell it correctly, we have no reason to respect you at all. Dr. Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH, executive vice president for strategic communications, global public policy and population health and chief patient officer, of Merck & Co., Inc Maybe you would like to actually learn about her?
https://vaxopedia.org/2017/08/05/who-is-julie-gerberding/
Inserts don’t list proven side effects
Do you understand what makes a study valid? It’s a scientific principle, validity. If you do not know what I mean, enroll in a few courses at your local college, particularly upper class research methods and statistical analyais. I have taken several courses of each.
Kat: “Chris..there IS one FACT you are leaving out..that the one woman who USED to head up the CDC and gave the thumbs up to Merke’s own MMR vaccine wound up one OF THE HEADS OF MERKE!..so u say follow the $$$…”
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Oh come off it Chris that is a known fact and you are talking to an army vet who is sharing his own experience. This site is disgusting. I am sick to death of these fake sites popping up on the net trying to pretend they are authorities on these subjects. They are not.
Sorry, but Chris and I both know more about the science than you. It is quite obvious. I would highly recommend you enroll in some upper class research methods and statistical analysis classes at your local university. I have taken several courses in each area. Upper class meaning Junior level or above.
Being an Army vet does not automatically make everything they say is true. I know, my Army vet dad spouted all sorts of nonsense. Mostly because he was gullible.
This still stands: Claims posted without any form of evidence can be safely ignored.
Chris, they posted a thread about me in an antivax Facebook group called Stop Mandatory Vaccines. They linked to here. So these “smartypants” think they are warriors. Kinda sad how they are so ignorant, huh? And mean! You should have seen the nastiness they posted. I have screen shots. I might make another “antivaxers are mean” blog post.
Thanks, I don’t do Facebook.
I noticed their guru Larry Cook was mentioned as one of those who would send his minions to harass parents who have lost children to vaccine preventable children. Many of them using horrible insults, multiple times.
I guess if you do not have actual evidence then their logic resorts to insults, conspiracy theories and cruelty to grieving families.
What are you talking about? I have University level biology and I never presented any scientific studies. I also do not belong to any anti-vaxx groups. It is a fact that Julie from the CDC was offered a job at Merck. You just made fun of someone’s ability to spell and completely dismissed a vet who told his own story. Who is mean here ? Are either of you PhDs … I doubt it. Two people with college level science decide to start a board and pretend to be experts on vaccines. Sorry, but anyone can do that on the web these days. Are either of you toxicologists? No…so do not go there with me.
“Amish children were hospitalized for vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD) at significantly higher rates than other children, researchers found.” So, I am not sure why you think I should value the Amish way of life. They also run puppy mills and their children have a high rate of genetic health issues.
https://www.aappublications.org/news/2017/08/02/AmishVaccines080217
Measles has a minimum of 30% complication rate. Just because people did not die does not mean they did not suffer. And, all of them are at risk now for SSPE.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1602295
In the last ten years, according to CDC Wonder database, 39 people have died from SSPE in USA and two people have died from measles. Meanwhile, no one has died from MMR.
Neither nutrition nor sanitation prevent measles or keep people from getting complications or SSPE.
Vaccines are one of the least profitable of pharma products.
Provaxers deserve the liberty to be free from disease. Our children deserve the freedom to go to school and no be exposed to deadly diseases. Stop being so selfish.
“Our children deserve the freedom to go to school and no be exposed to deadly diseases.”
Thank you. In fact a recent Seattle Times article noted that 800 kids in Clark County were being told to stay home. At least the quarantine works in our state.
Also, a judge in the state of New York confirmed that “rules is rules”… if your kid is not vaccinated, they need to stay at home during an outbreak, even in a private school:
https://nypost.com/2019/03/14/judge-wont-let-unvaccinated-kids-return-to-school-during-measles-outbreak/
Thanks, should say NOT be exposed but my old keyboard has a wonky T.
Antivaxers fight every thing our WA public health depts do but public health wins every time because the majority appreciate diseases being kept at bay!!
Hey Vaccinesworkblog
You missed some VERY important info..its ON THE VACCINE INSERTS!..ENCEPHALITIS IS ONE OF THE SIDE EFFECTS OF CERTAIN VACCINES!!..geesh!.. why can’t ppl ACTUALLY see ALL of the data..not just REPEAT what bought off inside tell!!..do as I say..not as I do..why not demand the vaccine records of those ultra wealthy vaccine makers and their kids!!..let’s see WHO really believes in the VERY product they create!!..I don’t want words..I want PROVEN facts!..and fyi..I spent 13 yrs with an OLD SCHOOL horse vet whom I saw CURE pneumonia in 3 yearling colts who were sent home to die as they had NOT responded to conventional treatments..he cured them in only FOUR(4) DAYS!..he used 50/50 IV shots of Gentamicin combined with liquid stabilized oxygen..and IM shot of Penicillin..he also flushed their sinuses each day..with..of all things..warm DILUTED old rations merthiolate..aka..mersol..
He also was cussing mad after he gave his own gelding the 1st of 3 west Nile vaccines..and that horse had an adverse reaction to it and he said out loud “why did I listen to them, i should have KNOW BETTER!”…followed by a number of cuss words!..he only gave his horses vaccines required by law..none other..including the virus abortion vaccine..he also healed open wounds with none other than hydrated lyme!..yes the SAME very stuff you put on stall floors to kills germs..is the SAME stuff you put on garden plants..AND use in CANNING VEGGIES!!..heals wounds from the inside out!!..even kills proud flesh!
He also taught me the “catch phrases” of those only in it for the money!
So cut the BULL💩!..
But vaccine inserts don’t list proven side effects. They list adverse events recorded without regard to causation. Read 6.1 very carefully.
Kat: “.warm DILUTED old rations merthiolate..aka..mersol.”
Um, you do know that has mercury, right? Isn’t that supposed be bad?
That would include the 30 vaccinated kids who came down with whooping cough in an LA school wouldn’t it Chris. They should have stayed at home. Funny enough the 18 kids in the school who are not vaccinated are all well. Thankfully, informed consent and the freedom to choose is in the BNA Act of 1867 so forced vaccines will never be made mandatory here. In fact Health Canada says 90% of adult Canadians are not up to date with any vaccine and are at risk. I have not had a vaccine since childhood with no plans to get one. Maybe the 90% of Canadian adults should be banned from every public building as well…schools, grocery stores, malls, airports. Vaccination is no guarantee of immunity. Even with the measles vaccine, there is a 10% fail rate and immunity wanes after a number of years with most vaccines and that is why they make boosters that very few people get later in life. You will never have herd immunity for this simple reason. 95% of the population are not protected at any given time so there will always be small outbreaks in society…and that includes in the recently vaccinated and distantly vaccinated.
A school with 98% vaccination rate. Since pertussis vaccine does not prevent pertussis in 100% of vaccinated, it is a vaccine win that only 30 got sick out of several thousand. Vaccines worked in this case. They kept the outbreak small and contained.
You are more than welcome Kat. You can look it up on Children’s Health Defense on Facebook. You will find it there. I already follow the Environmental group Waterkeepers which he is with. He took a stand with the Native Americans at Standing Rock. He will always have my deepest respect for his work on corrupt environmental practices. Sites like this never will.
Love RFK Jr.
He helped win an historic 78 million dollar lawsuit against Monsanto for causing cancer and now this yesterday!
All this proves is that legal rulings are not actually science.
All this proves is how corrupt the whole industry is. All his facts check out.
Not really. I know you think Kenney Jr is a hero but if you took some research methods courses at a local college and then a few courses on statistical analysis, you would understand why Del and RFKjr are full of BS.
Not really. It shows how lawyers distort things for that big pay off. Case in point: Clifford Shoemaker.
Check out this ruling from when Brian Hooker lost his Vaccine Court case:
https://ecf.cofc.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2002vv0472-132-0
Which says:
Mr. Shoemaker has previously shown astoundingly poor judgment in attempting to bill the Program for amounts to be paid to Dr. Geier. For example, in one case, Mr. Shoemaker, almost unbelievably, attempted to bill the Program for the costs of a trip by himself, Dr. Mark Geier, and David Geier to France and Italy, allegedly to interview medical experts. The special master denied the claimed costs, labelling the attempt to bill such costs as an “extreme example of [Mr. Shoemaker’s] error in billing judgment.”
Shoemaker is also the lawyer that tried to silence a critic, and ended getting disciplined by a judge.
Thanks for the course plug but I took stats at a Ottawa U and I worked in law. His facts stand up and they would stand up in a court of law which you know nothing about. His facts also stood up in a court of law against Monsanto, one of the most corrupt companies on the planet who bought off scientists at Cantox in Mississauga to sign their false report and presented it to Health Canada. Another fact that even the CBC reported on…that is CBC and not CDC.
Legal rulings based on a jury’s take on the evidence are not the same as scientific evidence.
How do I find this video?
It is on Facebook Kat going Viral just put it in search. Chris is just throwing out nonsense now because she has nothing to add about the corrupt science that was exposed. His compelling evidence would be admitted in any court of law.
There is a reason youtube is considered bullpoop – anyone can make a video on anything. Evidence is published studies.
And herein lies the problem with antivaxers
No money has changed hands. It is still up for appeal. Since the jury voted based on emotion and not science, I have no doubt i will be overturned.
I would think if you based science on legal rulings, we would be no better than declaring real biology was bunk and all must follow Lysenko.
That only caused several million people to starve to death in both the Soviet Union and China.
The jury was obviously better informed then you were once they were presented with the evidence in this case.
I am not familiar with the evidence presented to the jury. Please link to it.
The only bullpoop I am reading here is from you two talking heads. The money changing hands is not from the 78 million dollar Monsanto verdict. The money that changed hands involved Monsanto and Cantox in Mississauga, who then sent a falsified report to Health Canada. I am quite sure the jury was given plenty of scientific evidence to help them reach their “emotional” conclusion. Glyphosate, which was classified as most likely carcinogenic to humans by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in March 2015 has been banned in 15 countries already. No, it will not be overturned and all the wishful thinking on your part will not make it so.
Do you have something to say about vaccines?
My apologies to Kat when I wrote “his”. Thank you for your service first of all, which is what a real human being would say to another human being instead of trying to win a point. I am sorry you were damaged by a vaccine and live in pain now. I believe you and please know there are plenty of people out there that do, including those with University degrees in biology and chemistry and informed juries. My advice to you is not to waste your time on fake sites on the internet.
It is called scientific fraud and unless a science report comes from an independent source with no backing or interest in the company involved that makes the product, that report should be thrown out. The problem is this kind of scientific fraud takes place all the time and it takes place in the pharmaceutical industry as well. If you are not aware of that fact you better start to dig deep. The first thing I want to know in ANY scientific study or report is who backed and funded the study. If there are no conflicts I accept the findings but there are too many guns for hire out there. All the best Kat. I don’t care what the other two have to say about this simple fact.
I can’t even begin to comment on the stupidity of what Bayer/Monsanto is saying along with Health Canada who constantly refers to the Cantox study in the news, when other countries have done their own studies and have banned the product including Germany, Belgium, Bermuda, the Netherlands, Sri Lanka who also linked the product to fatal chronic kidney disease and El Salvador who did the same, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates, France when President Emmanuel Macron announced in November 2017, an outright ban on glyphosate. Other countries are following suit so when Health Canada finally wakes up and smells the Agent Orange, it will be too late for a number of people. I really don’t care about the USA where money is God, makers of these crap products that kill people, because the whole country is corrupt from the elections and corporate lobbyists who buy off politicians to vote their way, to the scientific fraud and the corrupt EPA and DEA and FDA and CDC, to fake sites like this run by God knows who and backed by God knows who. Two talking heads armed with college level science….the experts. Don’t make me laugh.
Yes, “Get Off the Net” should actually get off the ‘net. There is something not right about flooding an old blog post. Most people would call it “trolling”, but there is something else going.
From this article at the Washington Post yesterday in an article titled: “”Anti-vaxxers trolled a doctor’s office. Here’s what scientists learned from the attack”
It says, with added emphasis: “About three weeks later, Hermann started seeing the anti-vaccine comments flood in. Hermann said he banned 838 commenters in the first six days. Comments were not specific to the HPV vaccine. Commenters in the random sample were spread across 36 states and eight countries, including California, Texas, Oregon and Australia, where anti-vaccination sentiment is strong. Many of the attacks came from a small number of commenters, including some who were posting more than 100 times, Hermann said.”
Is that last sentence you, dear person with the morphing pseudonym? If so, then please ask your family to get some help.
Are you psychotic? What are you even talking about and what does this have to do with Monsanto, RFK jr or vaccines? Or is this an attempt to deflect from the actual topics because you have nothing intelligent to add. Never mind. I do not speak crazy. Get help paranoid person.
Look in the mirror. Ask yourself why you feel a need to do a comment flood about some legal ruling on Monsanto on a two year old article about vaccines.
Ask your family if you need help.
This comes up on the internet when you type in truth about vaccines. I saw your jab at Robert F Kennedy Jr. and decided to respond with his latest video on vaccines after his Monsanto win. You are the one acting strange, not me. You are both ca ca.
well, that is kinda cool that my blog comes up with you search for that wonky video
So do tell me where Mr. Kennedy got his biology and medical credentials.
Also explain to me why I should care about a video. That is not in any a form of verifiable scientific evidence. We have seen how people make edits to make folks look like they say something that they did not really make.
I am pretty much ignoring him/her.
Well it pretty amusing that they had to change their pseudonym again as they stomped out. I hope they do talk to their family.
Really weird, to be honest.
Nice Block
I had to change it after you or your friend blocked my name twice. Yes, get help Chris. You and your friend are rude idiots.
I did not block you. Wow. You are a little strange.
Please go talk to your family.
Neal Stulberg
This author sounds like a paid Big Pharma schill. I’ve exposed many of them over the different sites. Tell me, do you have to show screen shots that you changed someone’s mind before you can submit your invoice for payment?
Yawn. Instead of actually presenting real data and evidence, you must resort to the old stale boring Pharma Shill Gambit: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-pharma-shill-gambit/
Here is an idea: prove it is cheaper to treat diseases like measles, HIb, pertussis, tetanus instead of preventing them. Basically present an economic analysis that disproves this one:
Pediatrics. 2014 Apr;133(4):577-85.
Economic Evaluation of the Routine Childhood Immunization Program in the United States, 2009.
Case in point: a little boy got tetanus in Oregon, he spent over a month in the ICU and the final bill was over $800,000. Apparently the anti-vax folks are a gift for Big Pharma and Big Hospital.
As of November 30, 2018, there have been more than 93,179 reports of measles vaccine reactions, hospitalizations, injuries and deaths following measles vaccinations made to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), including 459 related deaths, 6,936 hospitalizations, and 1,748 related disabilities. Over 50% of those adverse events occurred in children three years old and under. However, the numbers of vaccine-related injuries and deaths reported to VAERS may not reflect the true number of serious health problems that occur develop after MMR vaccination. https://www.nvic.org/vaccines-and-diseases/measles/measles-vaccine-injury-death.aspx
VAERS is raw data. One needs to understand the limitations.
“When reviewing data from VAERS, please keep in mind the following limitations:
VAERS is a passive reporting system, meaning that reports about adverse events are not automatically collected, but require a report to be filed to VAERS. VAERS reports can be submitted voluntarily by anyone, including healthcare providers, patients, or family members. Reports vary in quality and completeness. They often lack details and sometimes can have information that contains errors.
“Underreporting” is one of the main limitations of passive surveillance systems, including VAERS. The term, underreporting refers to the fact that VAERS receives reports for only a small fraction of actual adverse events. The degree of underreporting varies widely. As an example, a great many of the millions of vaccinations administered each year by injection cause soreness, but relatively few of these episodes lead to a VAERS report. Physicians and patients understand that minor side effects of vaccinations often include this kind of discomfort, as well as low fevers. On the other hand, more serious and unexpected medical events are probably more likely to be reported than minor ones, especially when they occur soon after vaccination, even if they may be coincidental and related to other causes.
A report to VAERS generally does not prove that the identified vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine was given. No proof that the event was caused by the vaccine is required in order for VAERS to accept the report. VAERS accepts all reports without judging whether the event was caused by the vaccine.”
https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/dataguide.html
With that in mind, it is important to remember most all VAERS reports are about issues not really caused by vaccines.
I read some NVIC Medalert VAERS reports recently and found page after page of causes of death not related to vaccines at all, including SIDS, sepsis, heart conditions, congenital defects, etc.
More about the limitation of VAERS:
https://thepoxesblog.wordpress.com/2015/02/08/vaccine-injuries-from-the-mmr-a-review-of-vaers/
In general we do not trust anything from NVIC, because they have an agenda. In future just post actual CDC surveillance data or PubMed indexed studies by reputable qualified researchers. Like the studies using the Vaccine Safety Datalink project.
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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris is founder and CEO of Center for Youth Wellness (CYW). She was just recently named the first surgeon general of California. Dr. Burke Harris has earned international attention for her innovative approach to addressing adverse childhood experiences as a risk factor for adult diseases such as heart disease and cancer. Her work has demonstrated that it’s time to reassess the relationship between poverty, child development and health, and how the practical applications of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study can improve health outcomes.
The goal of the Center for Youth Wellness is ambitious: to create a clinical model that recognizes and effectively treats toxic stress in children and to change the standard of pediatric practice in our nation. Her areas of interest are in health disparities, child trauma, nutrition and asthma. Particularly, her focus is serving communities where issues of poverty and race present challenges to conventional health care and education.
Dr. Burke Harris has over 1 million views of her TEDTalk on “how childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime”. She has recently published The Deepest Well.
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Hear several trauma 101 trainers’ perspectives across localities and different disciplines of the child-serving field about how they are developing best practices to meet the needs in their communities.
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Keith Cartwright, Behavioral Health and Wellness Consultant with DBHDS
Denise Studeny, LCSW, Director of The Foundations Program, Fairfax
Brandy Smith, LPC, President of The Virginia Alliance for School Counselors, Roanoke
John Richardson-Lauve, LCSW, Director of Mental Health and Lead Trauma and Resilience Educator, ChildSavers
Denise Purgold, LCSW, UMFS, Greater Richmond Trauma-Informed Community Network Trainer
Jenna White, Fairfax County PTA Liaison to the Fairfax Trauma-Informed Community Network
Chloe Edwards is Voices’ outreach coordinator, responsible for connecting local and regional partners and Voices’ policy team. With the Campaign for a Trauma-Informed Virginia, Chloe works with Trauma-Informed Community Networks and coalitions across the state of Virginia. Her goal is to jumpstart strategic conversations and mobilize advocates in implementation of trauma-informed policy and practice at the state level through Voices’ unified policy agenda. Her work is informed by her personal connection to foster care (she entered kinship foster care at age 14) and by her previous job as director of Connecting Hearts, a nonprofit that strives to find permanent, loving homes for every child living in foster care.
Keith Cartwright has worked with Eckerd Youth Alternatives in a residential therapeutic wilderness program as a counselor and then as a Regional Director of Operations. He is a certified to instruct Mental Health First Aid, as well as the NEAR Science curriculum developed by one of the principal investigators of the original ACE study.
Denise Studeny is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 19 years of experience working with adolescents and families. She is currently with Fairfax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, as the Director of the Foundations residential program, and part of the Court Trauma Team.
Brandy Smith has worked to serve children for 18 years. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in working with children and adolescents impacted by trauma. She is a co-owner of Connected Child Consulting which has delivered trainings about trauma-informed care to educators, counselors, and parents in Southwest Virginia.
John Richardson-Lauve is a licensed clinical social worker with over 25 years of experience working in the field of community mental health. He is the Director of Mental Health and Lead Trauma and Resilience Educator at ChildSavers. He and his wife have worked with over 50 children in foster care in their home.
Denise Purgold is the Lead Adoption Therapist with Adoptive Family Preservation (AFP) at UMFS, where she has worked since 2002. Denise provides clinical services to families working through adoption, attachment and trauma related issues. Denise is a member of the Greater Richmond Trauma Informed Community Network and she provides free trainings on trauma and resilience.
Jenna White is on the Executive Board of the Fairfax County Council PTA, which supports 40,000 members of PTA’s across the County. Last April, she requested the Council create a new position as the liaison to the Fairfax County Trauma Informed Community Network.
Trauma-Informed Schools: Techniques and Tips from Practical Experience
Discuss with local trauma-informed school leaders their work to make schools more trauma-aware and trauma-sensitive. The panel of local leaders will highlight: the Virginia Tiered Systems of Support and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, techniques for engaging grassroots and grasstops audiences, tips for incorporating equity, and resilience building, and conducting school-wide trauma trainings.
Moderator: Mary Beth Testa, NOVA Consultant, Voices for Virginia’s Children
Patrick Farrell, Intervention and Support Coordinator, Charlottesville City Public Schools
Ram Bhagat, EdD, Educator, Manager of School Climate and Culture Strategy, Richmond City Public Schools
Taisha Steele, Ed.S, Director of School Counseling, Roanoke City Public Schools
Maria Genova, PhD, School Psychology Supervisor, Fairfax County Public Schools
Kim Dupre, Program Manager, Project AWARE Coordinator, Virginia Tiered Systems of Support Systems Coach, VCU (VTSS RIC)
Mary Beth Salomone Testa is Voices’ consultant in Northern Virginia. Mary Beth became a part of the Voices team in 2014 to connect the organization’s work with agencies, programs and advocates in the Northern Virginia localities. As part of the Campaign for a Trauma-Informed Virginia, Mary Beth advocates for smart policies and investments for child and family well-being; to ensure policy makers are considering the whole child and family; and encouraging advocates to tell the stories behind the data. Mary Beth works with Trauma-Informed Community Networks in the Northern region, as well as advisory councils, work groups, and coalitions of providers and families.
Patrick Farrell is the Intervention and Support Coordinator for Charlottesville City Schools. He is also behavior specialist, co-facilitator of the division’s Mental Wellness Action Team, and federal program coordinator.
Dr. Ram Bhagat is an educator, arts innovator, and peacebuilder who has been teaching and transforming communities for 35 years. He is an expert in culturally responsive circles, specialist in arts integration, certified in restorative justice, trauma healing & resilience, and yoga & mindfulness. Dr. Bhagat is the Manager of School Culture & Climate Strategy for Richmond City Public Schools.
Taisha Steele is the Director of School Counseling with Roanoke City Public Schools. She is also the division’s equity coordinator and has an Education Specialist Degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from Virginia Tech.
Maria Genova is a School Psychology Supervisor with Fairfax County Public Schools. Maria also supervises the clinical practice of school-based psychologists, serves as a certified crisis intervention trainer for school-based mental health professionals, and leads departmental equity initiatives.
Kim Dupre has worked in education for 20 years. She is currently a Program Manager for Project AWARE; supporting mental health alignment within the Virginia Tiered System of Support. In addition, Kim serves as a Systems Coach for Virginia Tiered Systems of Support.
Evaluating Evidence-Based Practices: Leveraging Stakeholder Expertise to Inform the Implementation of the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA)
Participate in an overview of Virginia’s implementation of the FFPSA. This session will highlight a review of a recent stakeholder survey, and gaps in child welfare programs with regard to evidence-based services statewide. The workshop will include a tool to evaluate the implementation of evidence-based services in the community.
Moderator: Nicole Poulin, Executive Director, Family and Children’s Trust Fund
Dillon Wild, University of Virginia Batten School of Public Policy graduate student
Lisa Jobe-Shields, PhD, University of Richmond
Sunni Shin, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University
Laura Reed, LCSW, Virginia Department of Social Services
Dillon Wild is a Master of Public Policy Candidate at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He spent last summer interning with Voices for Virginia’s Children focusing on implementation of the Family First Prevention Services Act. After graduating, Dillon will be an Assistant Legislative Analyst with the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission.
Lisa Jobe-Shields, Ph.D. is an assistant professor at the University of Richmond in the Department of Psychology and a licensed clinical psychologist. Her research and clinical work focus on evidence-based treatments for traumatic stress at multiple generations, as well as the impact of parental trauma-related mental health on parenting experiences and child outcomes.
Sunny Shin is an associate professor in the VCU School of Social Work and the VCU School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. He is also the Director of the Innovative Child and Family Wellness at VCU. Shin’s research team has focused on developing and testing theoretical models that explain the developmental mechanisms that link childhood trauma to adolescent substance abuse.
Laura Reed joined the Virginia Department of Social Services in May 2017. Laura is facilitating Virginia’s Three Branch Initiative to implement the child welfare system changes that accompany the signing of the Family First Prevention Services Act.
Becoming a Trauma-Responsive School: A Guide for Virginia School Leaders
Gain an understanding of the research-based factors contributing to a successful trauma-responsive culture shift within a school. Learn how schools have embraced research-based, trauma-responsive practices to improve student outcomes and staff experiences. Practical examples will be anchored to the multi-tiered system of supports framework to emphasize the importance of a systemic approach.
Moderator: Margo Buchanan, LCSW, TFT Program Child and Family Therapist, Greater Richmond SCAN
Shawn Abel, Principal, Midlothian High School, VCU Doctoral Candidate
Kirk Eggleston, Principal, Colonial Trail Elementary School, VCU Doctoral Candidate
Erinn Green, Program Specialist, VDOE Training and Technical Center at VCU, VCU Doctoral Candidate
Stephanie Poe, Principal, Hopewell High School, VCU Doctoral Candidate
Shawn Abel is the principal at Midlothian High School. Shawn has conducted extensive research in an effort to provide an equitable and inclusive education for all students. He believes establishing trauma-responsive schools is an important step toward supporting students who are negatively impacted by ACEs.
Kirk B. Eggleston is the principal of Colonial Trail Elementary School. He serves a diverse population of students who speak 30 different languages. Trauma-responsive discipline has been an essential skill throughout Eggleston’s career – supporting and empowering children affected by physical, social, academic, and emotional challenges.
Erinn J. Green began her educational career as a Group Counselor at a residential therapeutic wilderness school for at-risk youth. Ms. Green is now an external systems change coach at the Virginia Department of Education’s Training and Technical Assistance Center at VCU.
Stephanie L. Poe has over 30 years of experience in education. Mrs. Poe taught high school science and was a technology resource teacher before becoming a school administrator. She is currently the principal of Hopewell High School.
Richmond’s Experience Making Law Enforcement More Trauma-Informed
Hear from Richmond leaders about the Richmond Police Department’s Road 2 Resilience and LIFE projects, and the Oliver Hill J&DR Court’s TILT program. Presenters will share assessment methods, implementation of pilot projects, and barriers to implementation. These programs aim to prevent the school-to-prison pipeline by providing support and education for at-risk youth, focusing on agency leadership, and building relationships with youth and officers.
Moderator: Lisa Wright, LCSW, RPT-S, Greater Richmond SCAN and Greater Richmond Trauma-Informed Community Network
Captain Don Davenport, Richmond Police Department
Lieutenant Anthony Jackson, Richmond Police Department
Mary Langer, Judge, Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court
Kelli Burnett, Deputy Commonwealth Attorney for Richmond City, Juvenile and Domestic Relations Trauma-Informed Leadership Team
Elaine Minor, Life Program Manager, Richmond Police Department
Officer Farrhard El-Amin, Community Relations Officer, Richmond Police Department
Lisa Wright, LCSW, RPT-S, received her Master’s degree in Social Work (MSW) from VCU in 1993, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Play Therapy Supervisor, Certified Trauma Practitioner and certified therapist in Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Lisa has an extensive professional background in trauma assessment, treatment and community collaboration. Through her work as the Coordinator of the Greater Richmond Trauma-Informed Community Network, she has led efforts with trauma-informed assessment and project implementation with the Richmond Police Department and coordinated overall efforts of the TICN.
Captain Donald Davenport He spent several years on active duty serving in the US and Korea. Don credits the Army for instilling in him a sense of service and leadership. In the fall of 1996 with a newborn son in tow, he and his wife Angela relocated to Richmond where he was hired by the Department of Juvenile Justice.
Lieutenant Anthony Jackson is a Homicide Sergeant with the Richmond Police Department. He currently leads a group of detectives that investigate homicides, suicides, and overdoses. Through his position, Anthony was introduced to the Greater Richmond Trauma-Informed Community Network to support and advocate for trauma-informed care for all children, families, and professionals.
Mary E. Langer is a judge in the Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. Prior to her appointment in 2016, Judge Langer worked as a Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney in the City of Richmond and Chesterfield County, as an Assistant Public Defender in the City of Richmond and in the Office of the Virginia Attorney General.
Kelli Hall Burnett is the Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney supervising the Juvenile and Domestic Relations (JDR) Court division of the Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Richmond. She has been a prosecutor since 2004, and has specialized in JDR practice since 2006. She currently leads the Oliver Hill Courts Building Trauma Informed Leadership Team.
Elaine Minor has a background in school counseling and has worked with youth for the past 10 years. It was in her work with a nonprofit that Elaine became involved with the Richmond Police Department doing outreach work with youth in the community.
Officer Farrhard El-Amin is a Police Officer with the Richmond’s Community Care Unit. He has been with the department for ten years and a Community Police Officer for four years. Farrhard specializes in working with the youth in the City of Richmond.
Building Resiliency Through Home Visiting
Hear the Lynchburg Trauma Informed Community Network Chair will present on their early childhood system and its multigenerational support of families with children ages 0-5 years. The presentation will focus on building parental resilience and using the parents’ experiences and motivation to teach them how to prevent ACEs in their children.
Moderator: Lisa Specter-Dunway, Executive Director, Families Forward
Presenter: Ashley Graham, MSW, HumanKind and Lynchburg Community Network Chair
Ashley Graham, MSW has been in nonprofit leadership since 2011, overseeing HumanKind’s continuum of home visiting, early childhood education, and parent support services in Central Virginia. This includes continuously assessing effectiveness and adapting programs to maximize community impact. Ashley has presented to national audiences regarding innovative collaborative partnerships. She is also the chair of Lynchburg’s Trauma Informed Community Network.
Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, & Vicarious Trauma: Caring for the Helping Professional
Learn about techniques for professionals, in both the mental health and school settings, who work with vulnerable populations of children and adults who have experienced trauma. Participants will discuss the differences between burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma. Information will be provided about the development and maintenance of healthy boundaries and self-care strategies in a fun and interactive format.
Moderator: Laurel Aparicio, Early Impact Virginia Director, Families Forward
Dr. Connie Honsinger, NBCT, Intervention Training Specialist for Trauma-Informed Care, Chesterfield County Public Schools
Trish Mullen, LPC Clinical Supervisor, Child and Adolescent Services Team, Chesterfield Community Service Board
Connie Honsinger has worked in education for over 25 years as a special education teacher, school counselor, and as an intervention and training specialist for trauma informed care. She holds a doctorate in counselor education and supervision with a specialization in crisis and trauma, is an active member of her local trauma informed community network, and sits on the Governor’s Children’s Cabinet for trauma informed care. Connie works part time as a counselor in residence for Greater Richmond SCAN providing trauma-focused therapy for children who’ve experienced abuse and facilitating groups for parents.
Patricia “Trish” Mullen has been practicing as a Licensed Professional Counselor for over 18 years. Trish is currently the Clinical Supervisor for Child and Adolescent Services at Chesterfield CSB. She is a member of the Greater Richmond Trauma-Informed Community Network. Trish consults with private and public mental health providers to ensure principles of Trauma-Informed Care are utilized. In 2009, Trish was appointed by Gov. Timothy Kaine to the Board of Counseling.
Trauma-Informed Collaborations Among Health Systems
Gain insight about how Richmond based hospitals and health plans imbed trauma-informed practices through the help of Greater Richmond SCAN and the Greater Richmond TICN. Presenters will share lessons learned along the way, and will highlight trauma-informed practice changes as they detail their journey toward becoming trauma-informed.
Moderator: Melissa McGinn, LCSW, Project Manager, Greater Richmond SCAN
Shaleetta Drawbaugh, MPH, Project Manager, VCU Health System
Cleopatra Booker, PsyD, Virginia Premier Health Plan/VCU Health System
Carly Barrows-Compton, LCSW, Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU/VCU Health System
Kelsey Williams, MS, CCLS, Chippenham Hospital/HCA Virginia Health System
Blair Bell, RN, MSN, CPN, CNL, St. Mary’s Hospital/Bon Secours Richmond Health System
Melissa McGinn is Greater Richmond SCAN’s Community Programs Coordinator and Coordinator of the Greater Richmond Trauma Informed Community Network. Melissa is responsible for the management and coordination of all SCAN’s prevention programs, training, and consultation on becoming a trauma informed organization.
Shaleetta Hicks Drawbaugh is a Senior Business Development Associate for VCU Health System. Shaleetta also served as the Administrative Resident for the CEO of VCU Hospitals and Clinics. Shaleetta has managed special projects for internal core operations and external strategic partnerships.
Cleopatra Lightfoot-Booker is a Licensed Clinical psychologist and the Associate Vice President of Behavioral Health Services for Virginia Premier Health Plan. She is responsible for traditional behavioral health services, Community Mental Health Rehabilitation Services, Addiction and Recovery Treatment Services, and integrated care value-based purchasing agreements.
Carly Barrows is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Since beginning her work at VCU Health in 2015, Carly has recognized the need for trauma-informed practices within the health system and established the Trauma-Informed Leadership Team to advocate for the needs of patients, families and staff.
Kelsey Williams is the Certified Child Life Specialist with HCA Healthcare at CJW Medical Center. She is co-chair for the CJW Trauma-Informed Leadership Team (TILT) and a member of the Greater Richmond Trauma-Informed Community’s Healthcare Committee.
Blair Bell is a certified pediatric nurse and clinical nurse leader with the Bon Secours Pediatric Specialty Practices at St. Mary’s hospital. Blair is involved in the trauma-informed leadership team with Bon Secours and has focused her DNP project work on how to develop and implement trauma informed care principals at St. Mary’s hospital.
The Intersection of Racial Inequity and Trauma
Identify and discuss the challenges of racial inequities and how trauma may later present within people of color. Facilitators from Petersburg and the Southside TICN will dispel myths and help participants identify and better address situations that cause cultural adversities to help unite diverse communities.
Breakout Session One Moderator: Olivya Wilson, RPS Resiliency Project Parent Engagement Coordinator, Greater Richmond SCAN
Breakout Session Two Moderator: Michelle Powell, Healthy Families Virginia Director, Families Forward Virginia
Dr. Alton Hart, Jr. MD, MPH, District Health Director, Crater Health District
Brian Little, Sr. Special Projects Coordinator, Crater Health District, Southside Trauma-Informed Community Network Leader
Theresa Caldwell, Chair, Petersburg Wellness Consortium
Alton Hart has served as the District Health Director for the Crater District Health Departments/Virginia Department of Health since 2012. While at VCU, Dr. Hart’s research focused on working with African-American men in 30 barbershops Richmond. He was recently selected as a mentor in the National Cancer Institute’s Research to Reality Mentoring Program, a program focused on evidence-based public health practice.
Brian C. Little, Sr. is currently the Special Projects Coordinator with the Virginia Department of Health’s Crater Health District and Chair of the Southside Trauma Informed Community Network (STICN) in Petersburg, Virginia. He brings over thirty years of business management, leadership and program development to the district.
Theresa Caldwell is a communications professional who leads a variety of workshops, including those about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) with the Virginia Department of Health-Crater District and Integration Solutions. She is a Certified Trauma Professional.
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PCS Union and ‘Help To Work’ changes
> You might find these extracts from the PCS union website of interest regarding the latest ‘Help To Work‘ nonsense….
This circular provides an update on the new increased conditionality regime from the end of April, and advice for PCS branches.
The Government is introducing increased conditionality measures from 28 April 2014 for JSA and lone parent claimants, and for or UC claimants from summer 2014. Although some measures will be phased in up to December 2014.
> “some measures will be phased in up to December 2014” – at the very least, I should think. I suppose this refers to the fact that the scheme is launched before they’ve actually got anyone on board to run it.
Advisers have now been re-branded as “Work Coaches” and Job search review/Assistant Advisers are now to be called “Assistant Work Coaches”.
> If in doubt, give everyone pointless new titles – it may give the impression that you are doing something. Work coaches – I ask you ! I really hope the ex-advisers are cringing at the prospect.
PCS has concerns that the department does not have adequate resources in place to cope with the new levels of work. The new measures appear to be aimed at ‘frustrating’ claimants off benefit, something the DWP was recently criticised for in the recent select committee report into the role of Jobcentre Plus in the reformed welfare state.
> ‘frustrating’ claimants off benefit’ – well yes, we’ve already figured that out. The trouble is, there’s no use PCS moaning when so many of their members seem quite happy – even enthusiastic – about enforcing these tactics. Now they’re really going to find out what ‘work‘ is all about.
SR13 Conditionality
This covers five elements of Day One Conditionality, Weekly Work Search Reviews, Quarterly Work Search Interviews, English Language Requirements and Increasing Lone Parent Conditionality.
An additional 12 minutes has been assigned to the initial new claims interview to complete the day one conditionality and English language requirements.
Day One Conditionality
Claimants using JSA Online will receive a message outlining Day One Conditionality Claimants will be required to demonstrate “positive job-seeking behaviours” from day one of their claim to benefit.
Day One Conditionality introduces an expectation for the claimant to create a Profile and Public CV in Universal Jobmatch; or create a CV and email account that can be used for employment purposes, if the claimant is not yet able to create a profile and Public CV within Universal Jobmatch.
These requirements and can be mandated by issuing a Jobseeker’s Direction, Conditionality is subject to a phased introduction between 28 April 2014 and 31 October 2014.
Increasing Lone Parent Conditionality (ILPC)
From April 2014 changes will apply to lone parents who are entitled to Income Support (IS); or claim Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and are in the Work Related Activity Group (WRAG)
Currently lone parents who are entitled to IS must attend regular Work-focused Interviews (WFIs) once their youngest child reaches the age of one. From April 2014 the frequency and duration of WFIs for this group of claimants will be determined by Advisers.
Work Related Activity (WRA) is also being introduced for ESA (WRAG) and IS lone parents with a youngest child aged 3 and over. From 28 April 2014 an easement in regulations has been introduced to prevent more than one sanction being applied in any two week period
Weekly Work Search Reviews
Weekly Work Search Reviews are subject to a phased introduction between 28 April 2014 and 31 October 2014. This applies to 50% of the live load, excluding Work Programme participants and claimants receiving support from the Help to Work Package. Claimants should be selected at Work Coach discretion. Claimants may be moved on and off Weekly Work Search Review. The 50% ratio is reviewed and monitored across each District.
A screening aide will be available to assist Work Coaches in identifying claimants whose English language speaking and listening skills are below E2. Once identified, the Work Coach will mandate the claimant to a provider assessment, using the Skills Conditionality referral process.
If any Day One Conditionality activity is appropriate to the claimant but their English Language is a barrier to them completing it, the English Language barrier would need to be addressed first. The DWP recognise that individual claimants will learn at different speeds, often with varying starting levels of spoken English. The average length of time they take to complete English Language Training is expected to vary between 7 and 20 weeks.
Quarterly Work Search Interviews
Twenty minute Quarterly Work Search Interview are being introduced to review the claimant’s jobsearch activities in the previous quarter, including updating the Claimant Commitment and widening jobsearch activities.
> Widening jobsearch activities ? Dont like the sound of that much…probably means having to apply for even more jobs you know you wont get in order to hit increased targets.
Help to Work (HtW)
Equal numbers of claimants are expected to be assigned to each of the three Help to Work Package measures:
> The word ‘assigned’ appears to suggest that we wont have any say in what we get stuck with. No doubt our Work Coach will have targets for each option and you’ll just get stuck with whatever they’re not meeting their targets on.
Mandatory Intervention Regime
This is the current support for claimants who have completed the Work Programme. The first 8 weeks of the Mandatory Intervention Regime (MIR) is known as the Assessment Phase. During this 8 week phase Work Coaches can decide to place the claimants in Daily Work Search Reviews or Community Work Placements. Claimants can only be allocated to Community Work Placements or Daily Work Search Reviews during the Assessment Phase
> Work Coaches can decide to place the claimants – yep, you dont get a choice.
Daily Work Search Review
The claimant will be required to attend the Jobcentre daily for up to 13 weeks to review jobseeking activities of the previous day and provide a labour market declaration signature.
Every 4 weeks the claimant’s attendance schedule must be changed.
Claimants are entitled to reimbursement of travel costs incurred to attend additional WSR. To enable claimants to attend Daily WSR, it is accepted that payment in advance, particularly in the form of weekly bus / rail travel tickets and passes may be appropriate.
> Every 4 weeks the claimant’s attendance schedule must be changed – ???
Community Work Placements
External provision will consist of a work placement that is of benefit to the community for up to 30 hours a week and supplemented by up to 10 hours jobsearch. If the claimant is still in receipt of JSA/UC after six months they will be transferred to MIR.
> If the claimant is still in receipt of JSA/UC after six months they will be transferred to MIR. – where your Work Coach can decide to place the claimants in Daily Work Search Reviews or Community Work Placements. Back to square one, in other words.
PCS Concerns
Although a meeting is planned for 24th April, PCS has not yet been consulted over key issues such as appropriate resourcing and the health and safety risk assessment.
There should also be consultation with trade union sides at district and local level, as well as consultation as part of the risk assessment process. PCS has pressed that this is made explicitly mandatory; given reports received that district management are going ahead with changes without engaging with the unions.
The Group Executive Committee (GEC) has raised concerns over the department’s capacity to deliver the additional work and cope with the increased footfall of up to 60%. 620 WSD staff will be leaving Job centres in June through the VES scheme with no one to replace them.
> Oh dear, oh dear… more claimants, fewer staff. Can anyone see the flaw in this plan ?
However DWP believe that current staffing levels are appropriate, as jobcentre staffing was due to be reduced by 10% which matches the numbers needed to deliver SR13 and HtW. The re-grading of the CSM post also delivers a significant cost saving. The GEC have pressed DWP for more staff, and believe jobcentres are at a crisis point in terms of staffing, workloads, safety and space.
The introduction of further attendance brings in an even stricter conditionality regime. The GEC is deeply concerned for the safety of PCS members facing the brunt of the public’s anger at this policy.
> Damn right !
Reports have been received that attendance times should be changed on every occasion, in order to ‘frustrate claimants off benefit’ which bears a resemblance to the hotly denied and lambasted ‘Botherability’. Group Officers need to be informed if this message is being relayed in offices, reps should challenge management locally and escalate.
> A different time every day ? you can just imagine the planning meeting – “hey guys, how could we make this situation even more chaotic ?‘
PCS opposes further attacks on benefit claimants
PCS believes that SR13 and HtW are not intended to offer further help to claimants, as the introduction of further mandation and attendance is clearly aimed at trying to set claimants up to fail. It is part of the politically motivated agenda the Government has of vilifying benefit claimants, rather than offering genuinely tailored support.
The DWP received criticism from the Select Committee in January over their off-flow target based approach, however, these new measures are politically driven policy which civil servants have been instructed to implement.
> But they don’t have to implement them. The old ‘Nuremberg Defence’ (I was only obeying orders) was never a valid one. But for fuck’s sake – PCS, YOU ARE A UNION. YOU CAN TAKE ACTION. Stop your members taking it out on the ‘customers‘ and take on the government instead. You may need to grow a spine first, though.
PCS campaigns against the stricter benefit and conditionality regime, we believe our members are best placed to help benefit claimants when they are given adequate time and discretion to truly identify the support needed, not by fostering hostility through draconian and punitive practices.
> So do something about it !
Branches are asked to ensure they are fully involved in consultation and the risk assessment processes, and issues are appropriately escalated. The introduction of the new measures should be phased until October and December 2014 to ensure there are appropriate resources and systems in place. There should be no ‘big bang’ approach. Risk assessments should be used to identify for a potential increase in CSMs and G4S security guards.
> a potential increase in CSMs and G4S security guards – hey, more government cash for G4S… now who would have expected that ?
Source: PCS website 24 April 2014
http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/department_for_work_and_pensions_group/dwp-news.cfm/help-to-work-and-sr13-conditionality
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Who is lying and why? Cesc interview and translation. »
Why Gooners have so much to be proud of
Why us gooners have much to be proud of
Aria Khani
The recent world cup final was contested between a technically gifted Spanish side and a very hard working and talented Holland. The Spanish victory was hailed by Alan Hansen and co, as a good result for football. They marvelled over the passing game and technical brilliance of Spain.
Yet I was not impressed, probably because I have been accustomed to this calibre of total football week in week out at the Emirates. Pundits were throwing out superlatives as if it was confetti. Conversely they could not wait till they condemned the Dutch as aggressive hooligans who simply ruined the spectacle. As it happens I completely agree with what they had to say. What is mighty irksome is the fact that they are not consistent.
Re-wind to Saturday, 27 February 2010. An away premier league match at the Britannia. Arsenal, much like the Spanish, pass and pass to unlock even the most stubborn of teams. It is this attractive football that makes me feel proud to be a gooner.
The match was marred by the horrific injury to one of our most coveted youngsters, Aaron Ramsey. I can’t help but compare the aggressive style of football Stoke utilized to what the Dutch did to counter the Spanish passing game. And yet the very same pundits were straight to the defence of Tony Pulis’ side. Their game plan was always to roughen us up saying that our foreign contingent can’t handle it. What I cannot understand is why that is acceptable when it comes to players like Ramsey, Eduardo, Diaby, Nasri etc and not when it is the Spanish national side. The standards change as soon as it’s anyone but Arsenal.
All of this makes me think of another similar situation when double standards were once again used. I remember when Eduardo was accused of diving against Celtic and was awarded a penalty. Yes in hindsight I can accept that the challenge was fairly innocuous. But that did not justify the witch hunt which proceeded. The situation is made worse when players like Rooney and Gerrard do the exact same thing, yet when they do it it’s called being a clever footballer but when it comes to Eduardo he is labelled a cheat. Could this all be out of envy?
Arsene Wenger has transformed the world of football. He has improved diets, shown that a football club can be run without a billionaire owner, finish consistently in the top four of the most competitive league in the world and won trophies along the way. And all this was not at the expense of our identity, tradition and history unlike our blue London rivals.
When I go to the Emirates I always have a smile on my face when I see parents who bring their children. I feel at home at the Emirates. And yet when I go to any other stadium I never have the same feeling. This speaks wonders for our fans and speaks wonders for our manager. Someone who has assured our future in a very competitive market has to be applauded. Maybe it is all this that makes the tabloids and pundits inclined to take every opportunity to take a swipe at the gunners?
All I know is that our squad is improving and with possibly a new goalkeeper and one more defender the project that Wenger started may finally come to fruition. For this we must be very proud.
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July 19th, 2010 | Category: Arsenal stories, Arsène Wenger | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)
19 comments to Why Gooners have so much to be proud of
Well said, couldn’t agree more.
proud to be proud…
We don’t give him enough credit…why dont we chant his name at the Emerates???? we should give more back show our graditude…im not Proud…Im Honourd…CMON ARSENAL
Brickfields Gunners
True ,true,well said-in Arsene’s Arsenal we trust.
demzdimmydemz
HERE HERE! Proud to stand by my beloved fans.
Very well said. When the dust settle’s around very one else and the clubs that are beign run on the basis of financial doping. We and our Manager will be vindicated. Look at us, we should be so proud, we don’t have a billonaire suga daddy, we are not 700million ponds in debt and yet we consistently out perform thess team’s who spend millions upon millions more than us.
Being where we are and in the way we have done it is something to be very proud of. Well said Aria.
Two seasons ago we had a number of quotes from Cesc saying how he loved the club and although his heart was always going to be with his boyhood club,he had plenty of time and was in no hurry to leave. This summer has seen a change- despite all the usual quotes and tabloid nonsense, for the first time he has not reaffirmed his allegiance to us. He had a conversation with Wenger before the World Cup and the suspicion is that he was asked for one more season. This echoes what Wenger asked Henry after our Champions League Final defeat- a one-off massive salary boost for another season. Make no mistake, Henry wanted to go before he finally did and when his marriage broke up, that was the final straw. He did not leave because we wanted him out, so no more of that nonsense. Now we have individuals saying “he’s not asked to go.. where has he said that… he just wants to go home.” Rubbish- he’s seen that we will get nowhere with the present regime and has had a bellyful of false dawns. He is carrying this team and realised last season that Wenger is too stubborn to change. Even his most fervent fans cannot justify his lame attempts to justify his inaction in recent seasons. It looks like no goalkeeper will arrive-not even the veteran Shwarzer. To entrust Almunia or Fabianski with the gloves again is beyond belief. How many more games and points do we have to lose with these two clowns between the posts? No-one can blame Cesc for wanting to leave. Finances and “one more season” begging from Wenger will see him here for now, but let no-one doubt this will not be the situation in 12 months time
Great article, I could not believe how Alan Hansen was judgeing my dutch team, saying they were a disgrace. I mean he had a point but being a live long Arsenal supporter I immediately thought about all those time he tells Arsenal to grow up, the men against boys stories.. He really must hate Arsenal and Wenger..
The guy is a complete joke, I’m just waiting for him to tell us again that Liverpool are going to be champions and Arsenal are not getting a CL place this season.
A very well argued and written piece. Well said sir.
The knee jerk reactions of the so called pundits get increasingly tiresome – whoever or whatever they are talking about. Switch them off or fast forward through them – the message will eventually get through to broadcasters.
Let’s remember, they were ‘invented’ in the first place in order to extend the length of highlights programmes in order to get in more ad breaks – and then cpoied by the BBC in order to counteract what was seen to be commercial channel ‘innovation’ (i.e. do the same but do it better).
They’ve served their purpose on linear TV and should, at best, be confined to red button access only.
Ochwoto
Mr Cee
I agree with the story but a point being missed is that Spain win trophies so its not possible to aim the level of criticism at them as we get. Our playing field is much harder due to sugar daddies but if we could win a trophy playing this brand of football on our budget it would be a massive thing for football.
I enter every season feeling pessimistic, its my nature so dont kill me, even I have faith in comings years we will be a real force as things are coming together slowly.
steww
Well said. 100% agree (apart from the suggestion that our keeper is any worse than anyone else’s)
Rhys Jaggar
I think Sir Alex Ferguson and Gordon Strachan will be saying ‘excuse me, we were all eating pasta at Aberdeen 15 years before anyone in England had heard of Arsene Wenger’….
I trained 3 others and myself to run a marathon in 1994 and was regularly bringing in a tureen of high performance pasta/rice salad for us all to eat 24 hours before a long Saturday morning run. Not to mention stuffing my stomach with spuds 36hrs before a 20 miler. I hadn’t heard of Arsene Wenger then either. And we did the marathon in not too much more than 3 hours.
There’s no question Arsene Wenger is a great sports scientist, but I think to say that he’s the only person who knew about this stuff when he came to England is a bit far of the mark….
Its because such diets were so well known that Wenger was so surprised that English players didn’t follow them. And had a players bar within the ground!
Its that level of ignorance at both health and training levels that have contributed to our home grown players performing so poorly internationally.And the complacency continues.
There’s a programme on youth development on the Beeb at the moment.
At the moment, boring mind numbing chat about some ex-Sp*d’s Soccer School. Of course, it’s not in the UK. For tax reasons? Heh.
Nothing about AFC’s programme over the last decade. Might have missed it. Not sure if I will last til the end of the show, they’re talking about ‘foreigners’ now. And whether English kids play a in ‘Spanish’ style.
Have these p(l)undits not watched AFC’s ever play? Oh, I forget. Every other English p(L)undit was moaning about how boring and slow AFC play last season. And they say English fans won’t accept different styles.
Well as we can see at AFC at this very moment in time, it is only a minority who like to live within their own delusions, who do not understand what has been happening at AFC over the last decade.
These p(l)undits are utterly useless and pathetic.
As better Football Minds then mine can explain, AFC’s evolving style is where we want to be! No doubt at all about that. For me, hopefully the pacier side of our game will come back to fore with TW14 and Vela starting more.
(It’s harder to play at ‘full tilt’ when your speedsters are taken out for half the season by a Brum wage slave, or injured).
It’s amazing to think, that Little Jack was not spotted by the ‘scouts’ till the Emirates Cup last season.
I think, the longer AFC’s new generation (the ‘thank you very much Anelka!’ generation) are kept away from the idiots at the FA, and their supporters, the better.
< whether English kids can play in a 'Spanish' style.
My friends I grew up in London with used to play football in what those jokers would refer to as a ‘Spanish’ style.
I was always playing crcket, but those guys were good. Very good. As in, twining and twisting some youth players on AFC’s books good (in the early nineties, so they were not up to the current lots standards!) Local cricket clubs in London when I was growing up were cool, players from all over the world, very high skill levels, nice sandwiches too. My football playing friends had no interest in playing for local clubs in the end. Some, were not considred ‘big enough’ anyway.
When I asked why, they said the style of football was rubbish, and bored them to death. They were happier in the park.
There’s a famous English scout, can’t remember his name.
He said players like Gazza were flukes, in spite of the ‘system’.
The English FA are hopeless, and they are now bankrupt.
Which is one reason why AFC deserves our support.
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Hurricane Development Region Sea Surface Temperature Update – August 2014
Bob Tisdale / August 23, 2014
The peak of the Atlantic Hurricane season is rapidly approaching. See the NOAA Hurricane Climatology graph to the right. (Give it a click for a full-sized version.) Hurricane frequency tends to peak in mid-September.
In the May 2014 post Hurricane Development Region Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies as We Start the 2014 Season, we presented sea surface temperature anomalies for the Main Development Region (10N-20N, 80W-20W) and for the Gulf of Mexico (21N-31N, 98W-81W) in 3 formats: (1) monthly long-term (1854 to present), (2) monthly satellite-era (1981 to present) and (3) weekly satellite-era (1990 to present). In this post, we’ll only update the weekly data, and we’ll add the data for the Caribbean (10N-20N, 84W-60W) and the Extratropical Eastern Coastal Waters of the United States (24N-40N, 80W-70W). (A map showing where those regions are located is included as the final illustration.)
SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE CLIMATOLOGIES FOR THE FOUR REGIONS
First, before we look at the anomaly data, I don’t believe I’ve ever presented how the sea surface temperatures for those regions normally vary throughout a year.
Figure 2 presents the average monthly sea surface temperatures, over the course of a year, for the base period of 1971 to 2000, which is the base period used by NOAA for its Reynolds OI.v2 dataset. In other words, they are the reference temperatures—the “normals”—from which anomalies are calculated. Sea surface temperatures (not anomalies) for the Main Development Region and the Caribbean normally peak in September and October. And the surface temperatures of the Gulf of Mexico and the Extratropical Eastern Coastal Waters of the United States normally peak in August.
I’ve included a red horizontal line at 26 deg C, which is considered the sea surface temperature needed for hurricane development. (I’ve also seen 26.5 deg C discussed.) Normally, the surface temperatures of the Main Development Region and the Gulf of Mexico reach that threshold about the beginning of May, while the Extratropical Eastern Coastal Waters don’t normally cross the threshold until June. Sea surface temperatures in the Caribbean are normally above the threshold year round. Obviously, there are factors other than warm water needed for hurricane development.
WEEKLY SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES
For the week centered on Wednesday, August 13, 2014, the surface temperature anomalies for the Caribbean (Figure 3) are slightly above the 1971-2000 “normals”.
Gulf of Mexico waters, on the other hand, are presently towards the high end of their recent range of variability. See Figure 4. In addition to variations caused by weather, the weekly sea surface temperature anomalies there appear to also have a strong seasonal component.
And as shown in Figure 5, the most recent weekly sea surface temperatures of the extratropical waters off the east coast of the U.S. are also above the 1971-2000 “normals”, but not exceptionally warm. Then again, as we discussed after Sandy strolled up those waters back in 2012, the sea surface temperatures in that region have cooled (not warmed) since the great New England hurricane of the 1930s. See the posts here and here.
Last but not least, Figure 6, the sea surface temperature anomalies for the Main Development Region are below (not above) the normals for 1971-2000.
IMPORTANT CLOSING NOTE
Current sea surface temperatures (absolute) are capable of spawning hurricanes…a result of the normal seasonal change in surface temperatures. See the map in Figure 7. And while the recent El Niño conditions in the Pacific tend to suppress hurricane development by effectively chopping the tops off the developing hurricanes (the result of wind shear in the tropical North Atlantic caused by the El Niño), hurricanes can still form and will likely continue do so this season.
The NOAA Reynolds OI.v2 sea surface temperature data and maps are available in absolute and anomaly forms through the NOAA NOMADS website
August 23, 2014 in hurricanes, Sea Surface Temperature.
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21 thoughts on “Hurricane Development Region Sea Surface Temperature Update – August 2014”
Unmentionable says:
ANDREW: Take a look … sudden larger swarm running full length
of fissure.
http://baering.github.io/
Otter (ClimateOtter on Twitter) says:
I have to wonder if eric holthause is eagerly watching for the next ‘kick ass’ hurricane.
DocWat says:
Any body out there doing research on the correlation between dust from the Sahara and low Hurricane counts?
Bob, why are the anomaly graphs still using a base line of 1971 – 2000. That is outdated by now.
vukcevic says:
Is the Arctic atmospheric pressure a precursor of future hurricane activity?
Past data suggests that it could be.
Hurricanes vs. Arctic atm pressure
I have no slightest idea.
Coincidence then?
“Nothing in nature is by coincidence…something appears to be coincidence only because of our lack of knowledge.” Spinoza
Andres Valencia says:
Thanks, Bob. A very informative article.
Colorado State University Forecast of Atlantic Hurricane Activity from August 14-August 27, 2014 (.pdf, 14 August 2014) [two-week forecast]:
We believe that the next two weeks will be characterized by activity at below-average levels (less than 70 percent of climatology). The average ACE accrued during the period from 1981-2010 for August 14-August 27 was 12 units, and consequently, our forecast for the next two weeks is for less than 9 ACE units to be generated.
http://hurricane.atmos.colostate.edu/Includes/Documents/Two_Week_Forecasts/august_14_2014.pdf
Moru H. says:
And while the recent El Niño conditions in the Pacific tend to suppress hurricane development by effectively chopping the tops off the developing hurricanes (the result of wind shear in the tropical North Atlantic caused by the El Niño), hurricanes can still form and will likely continue do so this season.
Since good news are no news, i wonder how many people in the US are actually aware that American East Cost is currently experiencing the longest period on record without a major hurricane making landfall.
It’s been a while since i delved into the topic of what factors determine hurricane genesis, and more importantly hurricane track patterns.
This is one (of the many) papers, i found to be a good departure point for further research.
The average ratio between U. S. landfalling hurricanes and total hurricanes is about 25%. However, an active hurricane season does not necessarily mean more U. S. landfalling hurricanes because the hurricane track is determined by both the hurricane internal dynamics and large‐scale climate variations.
The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season had 19 named storms, 12 hurricanes, 5 major hurricanes and an ACE index of 166.3, all of which indicate that the 2010 season was extremely active. However, for the 2010 hurricane season, not a single hurricane made landfall in the United States.
In this paper, we mainly focus on the tropical cyclones (TCs) that formed in the MDR (main
development region) and investigate why and how an active hurricane season can occur without a hurricane to make landfall in the United States.
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/docs/Wang_etal_2011.pdf
JamesS says:
Well, actually the peak of the hurricane season is approaching at the same speed it always does: one day every 24 hours or so.
David in Michigan says:
Thanks for the update. Always interesting.
Tom in Florida says: “Bob, why are the anomaly graphs still using a base line of 1971 – 2000. That is outdated by now.”
That’s how NOAA presents the Reynolds OI.v2 data through their NOMADS website.
Ric Werme says:
… i wonder how many people in the US are actually aware that American East Cost is currently experiencing the longest period on record without a major hurricane making landfall.
Any reader of this blog should know that. The most recent reference may be in yesterday’s http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/08/22/antarctic-sea-ice-has-been-above-average-for-1000-straight-days/
As for everyone else in the US, very few know it.
mouruanh says:
Yeah, i know and most readers of this or other skeptical blogs would at least be able to back up their statements with hard data. And yet, when the next major hurricane hits the east cost, which will inevitably happen sooner or later, the media will be full of reports linking it to climate change.
Sex sells, doom porn is no exception.
eyesonu says:
Is there a site where I can see sea surface temps plotted/displayed daily and current with regards to present time?
I had a link a couple of years ago but lost it due to computer crash. It may have been with the Naval Research Lab but I have not been able to locate it. My interest is following the SST drop in the wake of hurricanes.
Any assistance will be appreciated and likely interest other viewers here.
eyesonu says: “Is there a site where I can see sea surface temps plotted/displayed daily and current with regards to present time?”
Are you looking for maps?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/ocean-page/
Thanks Bob. I have viewed the WUWT reference pages. What I am looking for is the ability to zoom in to a particular region with much higher resolution. The link that was offered by a commenter on a thread here @ WUWT a few years ago was very informative and allowed the ability to track SST in the wake of Atlantic hurricanes. I think it allowed the ability to zoom in for a much higher resolution. Time frame of that thread was prior to the well known Irene.
Bob, in addition to the high resolution SST, I had a link (possibly at the same source) that would provide a high resolution image of sea surface currents, speed, and temp. By high resolution, I believe that it offered resolutions at less than 100 miles (?). I spent many hours viewing these.
Pencil and paper or other hard copies are the best source of reliable archives IMHO.
Crispin in Waterloo but really in Bali says:
Bob, inspired by your research on ocean temperatures I have engaged my wife on a research trip to Bali to test the water temperature there. We are using the ‘skin contact method’ which entails making periodic trips to the beach for a hands-on investigation. This ‘skin contact’ approach uses sensation meaning the results are sensational and are not of the regular Celsius type.
In order to make a comparison with the Caribbean it will be necessary to make several extended visits to land-based observation sites in that region. I am thinking of applying for an NRC grant to support this new sensational measurement system and its novel metrics.
While I am here, and unlikely as I am ever to return, I am also testing Willis’ thunderstorm heat regulation hypothesis by carefully and patiently observing the development of late morning cloud cover using a regulation umbrella and beach towel which is repositioned on a regular basis, calibrated to the position of the sun.
I can report that on the first day of the expedition the consensus is that Willis is a genius. The sky was completely clouded over by 11:20 AM and this lasted for more than 2 hours. It had cleared completely by sunset, an event I photographed. I also made some mental notes for future reference.
I will be offering my services to Environment Canada in order to extend the research footprint, so to speak. As for results, it is much too soon to expect conclusions. Like Svensmark’s GCR hypothesis, it is going to take another five years of data collection which I and my friends are willing to do for a fraction of the cost of running CERN. We are both trying to answer the question, “Are sea surface temperatures cloud cover related? I am not sure, but early results are encouraging.
Bob, I located this from the NRL but is not the link that had in the past. http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/GLBhycom1-12/skill.html
Information provided notes something about modeled data but I would assume that is should be a reliable representation of reality. The gif animation over the past 30 days appears to show a cooling in SST from one of the tropical storms in the eastern Pacific.
Not sure what other sources to search for to get the sites I had originally but will keep looking as time allows.
Murray Duffin says:
Vuk, looks like they are both responding to a common driver – quasi 60 year cycle, 0ne trefoil trip of the sun around the unmentionable barycenter.
eyesonu, I can recall the webpages you’re talking about, with the hurricane storm tracks sticking out like a sore thumb. I wanted to say it was the DMI website…
http://ocean.dmi.dk/satellite/index.uk.php
…but if it was them, they no longer provide those maps.
Somewhat OT for this thread but I was playing with nullschool wind/temp maps and clicked an area just to the north of hurricane Marie in the eastern Pacific and the temp was -2.9 C at 500 hPa which would be about 18,300 ft above mean sea level (msl) for dry air. According to the International Standard Atmosphere (ISA) and Pressure Settings the temp would normally reach a similar freezing temp around around 8,000 ft (+ or -) above msl. A difference of about 10,000 ft or double the height! Without the convection the temp would be in the range of -21.2 C @ 500hPa.
http://weatherfaqs.org.uk/book/export/html/174
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/700hPa/overlay=temp/orthographic=-117.94,26.41,675
The power of convection in a storm to transport energy upwards if astounding.
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SS Waldensian, immigrant ship, 1878
Posted on March 30, 2012 by william
Did your people come to Canada with my people?
S.S.Waldensian (Montreal Ocean Steamship Co.)
Left Glasgow, July 21, 1878
Arrived Quebec, August 1, 1878
The Waldensian was 1407 tons. 7250 ft. It had several compartments set apart for passengers other than cabin passengers.
Jon Gudmundsson, Labourer, single
2. 2. Bjorn Saemundsson, labourer, single
3. Olafur Torlacius Helgason, Labourer, single
4. Thorsteinn Kristjansson, Labourer, married
5. Valgerdur Svensdottir, his wife, married
6. Jon Shorsteinsson, child, single
7. Jon Brandsson, farmer, married
8. Margret Gudbrandsdottir, his wife, married
9. Gudbrandur Jonsson, their child, single
10. Askell Jonsson, their child single
11. Kristin Jonsdottir, their child single
12. Halflidi Gudbrandsson, labourer, single
13. Kristjan Samuelsson, labourer, single
14. Gudmundur Magnusson, labourer, married
15. Helga Jonsdottir his wife, married
16. Gudrun Gudmundsdottir, their child, single
17. Olina Gudmundsdottir, their child, single
18. Gudmundur Jonsson, farmer, married
19. Thuridfur Halldorsdottir, his wife, married
20. Gudmundur Gudmundsson, child, single
21. Holmfridur Gudmundsdotttir, child, single
22. Augerdur Petursdottir, occupation unknown, single
23. Sturlaugur Gudbrnadsson, labourer, married
24. Aslaug Gudmundsdottir, his wife, married
25. Daniel Gudmundsson, farmer, married
26. Arnbjorg Kristjansdottir, his wife, married
27. Kristjan Danielsson, their child, single
28. Adalbjartur Bjarnason, labourer, single
29. Svein Gudmundsson, labourer, single
30. Kristin Jonsdottir, domestic, single
31. Gudmundur Jonsson, labourer, single
32. Jens Sigurdsson, labouraer, married
33. Gudrun Petursdottir, his wife, married
34. Sigurdur Jensson, child?, 10
35. Petera Jensdottir, their child
36. Karolina Jensdottir, their child
37. Johann Jensson, their child
38. Jon Jonsson, farmer, married
39. Sigridur Jonsdottir, his wife
40. Thorbjorg Jonsdottir, their child, single
41. Jon Jonsson, their child, single
42. Kristin Jonsdottir, their child, single
43. Helga Jonsdottir, their child, single
44. Thordur Magnusson, farmer, married
45. Sigurlaug Eiriksdottir, his wife, married
46. Isak Jonsson, their child, single
47. Gudridur Thordardottir, their child, single
Halfdanarsson Labourer, married
Sigridur Gisladottir, his wife
Eggert Eggertsson, Labourer
Sigridur Einarsdottir, his wife
Karitas Eggertsdottir, their child
Maria Eggertsdottir, their child
Indridi Hallgrimsson, farmer, married
Ingveldur Gudmundsdottir, his wife
Gudmundur Indridason, their child
Helga Indridadottir, their child
Thorolfur Gudnason, farmer, married
Una Simonardottir, his wife
Thorolfur Thorolfsson, their child
Gudni Thorolfsson, their child
Malfridur Thorolfsdottir, their child
Thorgerdur Thorolfdottir, their child
Holmfridur Thorolfsdottir, their child
Halldor Halldorsson, farmer, married
Gudrun Gudmundsdotttir, his wife
Elin Halldorsdottir, their child
Halldora Halldorsdottir, their child
Johannes Halldorsson, their child
Ingibjorg Halldorsdottir, t heir child
Sigridur Halldorsdottir, their child
Gudrun Halldorsdottir their child
Sigurlina Halldorsdottir, their child
Valgardur Jonsson, labourer, married
Kristin Jonsdottir, his wife
Kettill Valgardsson, their son
Arni Jonsson, Labourer, married
Gudlaug Eiriksdottir, his wife
Gudny Arnadottir, their child
Mensaldrina Arnadottir, their child
Gisli Eiriksson, farmer,married
Anna Einarsdottir, his wife,
Einar Gislanson, their child
Margret Gisladottir, their child
Olafur Gislason, their child
Vilborg Gnnlaugsdottir, domestic, single
Brynjolfur Gunnluagsson, farmer, married
Halldora Sigvaldadottir, his wife
Sigvaldi Brynjolfsson, their child
Magnus Jonsson, farmer, married
Gudbjorg Marteinsdottir, his wife
Jonas Magnusson, their child
Sigridur Magnusdottir, their child
Josef Sigvaldsson, labourer, single
Gudmundur Marteinsson, labourer, married
Kristin Gunnlaugsdottir, his wife
Johanna Gudmundsdottir, their child
Helga Gudmundsdottir, their child
Marteinn Gudmundsson, their child
Gunnlauguer Gudmundsson, their child
Bjorg Gudmundsdottir,t heir child, this is the child who died in the sheds
Sigridur Einarsdottir, housewife, single
Edvard Thorleifsson, farmer, married
Sesselja Jonsdottir, his wife
Lara Edvardsdottir, their child
Jonina Rosa Edvardsdottir, t heir child
Kjartan Edvardsson, their child
ElinThora Edvardsdottir, their child
Lukka Edvardsdottir, their child
Kritin Edvardsdottir, their child
Sigvaldi Jonsson, labourer, married
Valgerdur Einarsdottir, his wife
Halldor Jensson, Farmer, m arried
Sigurbjorg Fridfinnsdottir, his wife
Kristjan Halldorsson, their child
Kristbjorg Halldorsdottir, their child
Johannes Halldorsson, labourer, married
Anna Sigurdardottir, his wife,
Leopold Sigvaldi Johannesson their child
1. Pall Gunnarsson, farmer, married, 25
2. Jorunn Jonsdottir, his wife, 27
3. Adalbjorg Johannesdottir, 4
4. Jon Gunnarsson, single, 26
5. Palina Jondsdottir, single, 22
6. Bardur Sigurdsson, single,25
7. Johannes Sigurdsson, single, 15
8. Gisli Einarsson, farmer, married, 24
9. Elin Bjorg Gunnlaugsdottir, his wife, 35
10. Maria Magnusdottir, sngle, 48
11. Jakob Eiarsson, single, 12
12. Arnbjorg Einarsdottir, single, 10
13. Jon Folmer Hansson, labourer, married, 28
14. Elina Jonasdottir, wife, married, 37
15. Einar Einarsson, single, 16
16. Svanfridur Einarsdottir, single, 13
17. Jon Einarsson, single, 11
18. Jonas Jonsson, single, 5
19. Elina Jonsdottir, single, 4
20. Sigurlaug Jonsdottir, single, 1
21. Johann Jonsson, labourer, married, 32
22. Gunnlaug Johannsdottir, child, 9
23. Thorbjorg Johannsdottir, child, 5
24. Sigrun Sigudardottir, domestic, single 18
25. Karitas Arnadottir, wife, married, 60
26. Jonina Jonsdottir, child, 4
27. Halldor Jonsson, labourer, single, 34
28. Sigurbjorn Jonsson, labourer, single, 27
29. Sigurbjorn Hansson, farmer, married, 51
30. Adalbjorg Jonsdottir, wife, 46
31. Albert Sigurbjornson, single 22
32. Sigurjona Sigurbjornsdottir, single, 20
33. Hans K. Sigurbjornsson, single, 20
34. Adalbjorg Sigurbjornsdottir, single, 13
35. Jakobina Sigurbjornsdottir, single, 11
36. Thuridur Sigurbjornadottir, single, 8
37. Thorsteinn Sigurbjornsson, single, 5
38. Kristjan Jonasson or Jonsson, labourer, single 19
39. Thorkell Olafsson, labourer, married, 30
40. Helga Thuridur Johannsdottir, wife, 22 but ?sngle?
41. Kristjan Jonsson, farmer, married, 25
42. Anna Thorey Arnadottir, wife, 34
43. Johannes Kristjansson, 3
44. Kristjan Kristjansson, 2
45. Sigurgeir Kristjansson, 6 months
46. Johann Sigurdsson, farmer, married, 35
47. Johanna Jonatansdottir, wife, 35
48. Fridbjorn Johannsson, 12
49. Sigurdur Johannsson, 9
50. Johan Johannsson, 7
51. Ingibjorg Johannsdottir, 4
52. Sigurbjorg Johannsdottir, 1
53. Julius Johannsson, 2
1. Kristjan Arnason, labourer, married, 30
2. Thora Jonsdottir, his wife, 30
3. Kristjan Julius Kristjansson, 4
4. ARni Olafur Kristjansson, 3
5. Jonina Thora Kristjansdottir, 6 months
6. Jonas Halldorsson, farmer, 33
7. Johanna Jonsdottir, his wife, 32
8. Sigridur Jonasdottir, 8
9. Hallgrimur Jonsson, labourer, married, 49
10. Nyborg Jonsdottir, his wife, 48
11. Jon Gudmundsson, labourer, single, 19
12. Krsitjan Niels Jonsson, labourer, single, 19
13. Johann Johannsson, labourer, married, 27
14. Valgerdur Gudmundsdottir, his wife, 27
15. Stefan Jonsson, farmer, married, 47
17. Bjorg Kristjansdottir, his wife, 47
19. Bjorg Kristjansdottir, hiswife, 47
20. Jonina Stefansdottir, single, 20
21. Sigurlaug Stefansdottir, single, 12
22. Kjartan Isefeld Stefansson, 6
23. Baldvin Jonsson, labourer, married, 25
24. Arnfridur Jonsdottir, his wife, 27
25. Jon Baldvinsson, six months
26. Sigurbjorg Sigurdardottir, housewife, married, 67
27. Sigurdur Kraksson, farmer, married, 24
28. Kristin Thorsteinsdottir, his wife, 24
29. Halldor Sigurdsson, 6 months
30. Johann Johannsson, farmer, married, 35
31. Gudrun Olafsdottir, his wife, 35
32. Sigurveig Johannsdottir, 7
33. Valdimar Palsson, single 17, different name but marked as family with Johann and Gudrun
34. Tryggvi Palsson, 15, also marked as family with Johann and Gudrun
35. Gisli Eiriksson, laborer, sngle, 36
36. Gudny Sigmundsdottir, domestic, single, 37
37. Johannes Egilsson, farmer, married, 30
38. Sigurlaug Stefansdottir, his wife, 31
39. Stefan Johannesson, 7
40. Helga Johannesdottir, 1
41. Egill Johannesson 3 months
42. Sofanias Olafsson, labourer, single 32
43. Arni Thorleifsson, labourer, married, 61
44. Elisabet Jonasdottir, his wife, 50
45. Gudrun Halldorsdottir, domestic single, 16
46. Valdimar Jonsson, 8
47. Arni Hallgrimsson, 7
48. Kristjana Jonsdottir but ?Gudmundsdottir, domestic, 32
49. Indridi Fridriksson Reinholt, labourer, single, 16
50. Magnus Gudmundsson, labourer, single, 22
51. Josep Josefsson? Jonssson, farmer, married, 42
52. Sigridur Eyjolfsdottir?, child, single, 16
53. Johann, no last name, single, 15 Magnus, Josef, Sigurdur, Johann are marked as family unit
54. Sigbjorn Sigurdsson, farmer, married, 31
55. Steinunn Magnusdottir, married, 30
56. Gudny Sigbjornsdottir, 6
57. Gudridur Sigbjornsdottir, 4
58. Kristjana Sigbjornsdottir, 2
59. Sigrun Sigbjornsdottir, 13
60. Bjorn Bjarnasson, labouarer, single, 20
61. Eyjolfur Kristjansson, farmer, married, 53
62. Lukka Gisladottir, wife, 45
63. Gisli Eyjolfsson, single, 24
64. Thorsteinn Eyjolfsson, single, 22
65. Jon Eyjolfsson, single, 21
66. Margret Eyjolfsson, single, 18,
67. Sigridur Eyjolfsdottir, single, 10
68. Sigfus Petursson, farmer, married, 37
69. Gudrun Thnora Sveinsdottir, his wife, 33
70. Gudrun Salina Sigfusdottir, 7
71. Sigurbjorg Sigfusdottir, 4
72. Gudny Johanna Sigfusdottir, 2
73. Child? Olof Margret Sigfusdottir, Infant
74. Gunnlaugur Magnusson, farmer, married, 55
75. Gudfinna Vilhjalmsdottir, is wife, 47
76. Sigurdur Gunnlaugsson, single, 13
77. Gudfinna Gunnlaugsdottir, 11
78. Kristin Thorsteinsdottir, 17
79. Sigurdur Oddsson, farmer, single, 55
80. Magnus Thorsteinsson, farmer, married, 36
81. Vilhelmina Gudmundsdottir, his wife, 26
82. Eyrikur Magnusson, 8
83. Thorsteinn Erlendsson, single, 68
84. Gudmundur Mangusson, six months
85. Kristbjorg Thorsteinsdottir, single, 24
86. Johann Gudnason, six months
87. Sigurbjorn Stefansson, farmer, married, 24
88. Sesselja Eriksdottir, his wife, 24
89. Helga Arngrimsdottir, housewife, single, 60
90. Gudrun Eiriksdottir, domestic, single, 22
91. Eyjolfur Jonsson, farmer, married, 45
92. Sigurveig Sigurdardottir, his wife, 45
93. Gudmudur Eyjolfsson, 11
94. Gdbjorg Eyjolfsdottir, 7
95. Svanhvit Ejolfsdottir, 5
96. Brgvin Kristjansson, married, 35
97. Kristjana Bregvinsdottir, 7
98. Runolfur Bergvinsson, 6
99. Margret Bergvinsdottir, 4
Bjorn Jonasson, farmer, married, 29
Sigridur Sigurdardottir, his wife, 32
Steinnun Thorbergsdottir, 8
Thorbergur Thorbergsson, 8
Kristin Jonasdottir, housewife, single, 32
Jakob Sveinbjornsson, child, single, 10
Eirikur Jonsson, farmer, married, 27
Vilborg Stefansdottir, his wife, 28
Ingibjorg Gudmundsdottir, housewife, single 34
Fridrik Jonsson? Jonasson, 10
Gudni Hansson, 4
Eirika Eiriksdottir, 6 months
Bergljot Eiriksdottir, 6 months
Einar Gudmundsson, farmer, married, 43
Gudrun Asfrimsdottir, is wife, 42
Gudmundur Einarsson, sngle 23
Halldor Sigurdsson, 12
Asmundur Eiriksson, farmer, married, 26
Eirikur Torfason, farmer, single, 30
Arnfridur Asgrimsdottir, housewife, sngle, 45
Arni Magnusson, farmer, married, 55
Ingibjorg Thorkellsdottir, his wife, 36
Arnfridur Asmundsdottir, hosewife, single, 40
Petur Gudmundsson, 12
Sigurjon Jonsson, 1
Gisli Arnason, farmer, married, 22
Gudrun Thorsteinsdottir, his wife, 22
Bjarni Gislason, farmer, 26
Kristjan Kristjansson, farmer, married, 28
Svanfridur Jonsdottir, his wife, 21
Thorsteinn Kristjansson? Einarsson, farmer, 21 KK, SJ and TK are marked as all on same ticket
Josef Helgason, farmer, married, 33
Helgi Jon Josefsson, 5
Eyjolfur Gudmundsson, farmer, married, 45
Thorunn Sigurdardottir, his wife, 44
Anna Eyjolfsdottir, 11
Jonina Eyjolfsdottir, 4
Adalmundur Gudmundsson, farmer, married, 24
Julianna Einarsdottir, his wife, 29
Johann Gunnarsson, farmer, single, 26
Jon Sigurdsson, farmer, married, two ages given, 21 and 29
Margret Gudmundsdotttir, his wife, 26
Olof Margret Jonsdottir, 2
Johannes Jonsson, farmer, single, 51
Pall Th. Thorsteinsson, farmer, single, 21
Jon Jonsson, farmer, married, 36?
Kristin or Katrin Bjornsdottir, his wife, 47?
Jon Bjarnason, 11
Josef Bjarnason? Bjornsson, farmer, married, 47
Malmfridur Hallgrimsdottir, his wife, 49
Josafat Josefsson, 12
Helga Josefsdottir, 11
Hallgrimur Josefsson, 8
Kristjan Josefsson, 6
Gudrun Josefsdottir, 3
Kristjan Eiriksson, farmer, married, 28
Ragnhildur Thorlaksdottir, his wife, 26
Einar Jonsson, farmer, married, 42
Olafia Hansdottir, his wife, 40
Sigurdur or Sigurgeir Einarsson, single, 17? Or21
Sigvaldi no last name, 15
Bjorn, no last name 3 but both these children included as “family” with Einar and Olafia
Jon Emundsson, farmer, married, 27
Jonina? Juliana Einarsdottir, his wife, 25, has child during the voyage
Eirikur Eymundsson, farmer, married, 32
Helga Jonsdottir or Johannsdottir, his wife, 32
Margret Eiriksdottir, 4
Johann Eiriksson, 2
Sigfinnur Petursson, farmer, married, 35
Sigurbjorg Sigurdardottir, his wife, 35
Oli Sigfinnsson, 15
Halli Bjornsson, 9
Jorgen Bjornsson, 19
Sigridur Bjornsdottir, 12
Eln Sigurbjornsdottir, 12
Friman? Finnujr Gjudmndsson, 8
Gudrun Sigfusdottir, six months
Sigridur Vigfusdottir, married, 41
Rosa Palsdottir, married, 19 from Halli to Rosa, the group is marked as one family
Einar Bessason, farmer, married, 54
Lilja Vigfusdottir, his wife, 54
Asbjorn Asbjornsson, labourer, single, 25
Petur Petursson, Lbourer, married, 26
Sigurveig Jonsdottir, his wife, married, 24
Gudrun Jonsdottir, hosewife, married, 62
Gudrun Petursdottir, six months
Jon Thorsteinsson, farmer, married, 54
Kristin Jonsdottir, his wife, 54
Gudmundur Arnason, farmer, married, 50
Gudny Arnadottir, his wife? , 50
Jon Sigurdsson, farmer, married, 48
Solveig Jonsdottir, his wie, 49
Albert Julius Jonsson, single, 22
Thorunn Ag. Grimsdottir, single, 24
Gudny Albertsdottir, six months
Josef Jonsson, labourer, married, 47
Stefan Josefsson, single, 12
Arndis Jonsdottir, wife, 48
Jon Josefsson, 7
Gudrun Bjorg Josefsdottir, 5
Gudmundur Thordarsson, farmer, married, 38
Thorunn Jonsdottir, his wife, 54?
Sigridur Arnadottir, single, 22
Jonatan Arnason, single, 15
Benjamin Arnason, 12
Thordur Thordarsso, farmer, married, 48
Kristin Thorsteinsdottir, his wife, 27
Gudmundur Thordarsson, single, 25
Gudridur Thordarsdotttir, single, 14
Thordur Thordarsson, 10
Sigurbjorg Thordardottir, six months
Ana Bjornsdottir, domestic, single, 23
Sigurdur Sigurdsson, farmer, married, 36
Kristin H. Ofeigsdottir, his wife, 25
Kristrun Olafsdottir, domestic, single, 22
Jon Sigurdsson, labourer, married, 54
Metusalem Jonsson, labourer, sngle 26
Hoseas Arnason, 13
Stefan jonsson, labourer, single, 28
Bjorg Jonsdottir, domestic, single, 25
Vigfus Josefsson, farmer, married, 48
Sigurbjorg Hjalmaradottir, his wife, 52
Sigurrin Vigfusson, single, 21
Herman Vigfusson, single, 19
Sigridur Vigfusdottir, 13
Stefan Jonsson, labourer, married, 26
Solveig Jonsdottir, his wife, 21
Sigurbjorn Jonsson?, labourer, sngle, 18
Jon ? 14
Holmfridur Sigurdardottir, his wife, 21
Ingibjorg Josefsdottir, 11
Gudbjorg Josefsdottir, 9
E. Sigurdsson, farmer, married, 30?
Katrin Magnusdottir, his wife, 40?
Sigridur Jonsdottir, 13
Petur Jonsson, 5
Holmkell Josefsson, labourer, single, 20
Hoseas Josefsson, 13
Gudrun Einarsdottir, domestic, married, 37
Vilhjalmur Sigmundsson, 5?
Borghildur Sigmundsdottir, 3?
Halldor Oddsson? Vilhjalmsson, labourer, single, 20
Jon Arnason, labourer, married, 74
Jonas Jonsson, labourer, married, 26
Kristjan?, 4
Stefan Hemansson, labourer, married, 41
Stefan Stefansson, 2
-add one girl born at sea
Jonatan Petursson, farmer, married, 78
Thorunn oddsdottir, his wife, 67
Helga Jonsdottir, child? Age?
Halldora Sigurdardottir? Sigfusdottir,, 10
Jonatan Jonatansson, farmer, 34
Jon Olafsson, farmer, ?
No ticket number recorded for the following lnames:
Eirikur Eymundsson, single, 32
Sig? Jonsson, single, 26
Bjorn? Bjarni Gisalson, single, 26
Kristjan Jonasson? Jonsson, married, 19?
Margret Gudmundsdottir, married, 26?
Olof Margret Jonsdottir, 2?
Jon Bergman (Sigurdsson), single?, 29
Joef Sigvaldason, single, 19
Not on the list, two children
Gudrun Thorsteinsdottir, 12
A child, 1.5 years old
I haven’t type all the names.
There are according to this passenger list, 409 people from Iceland. No. 74 is Valgardur, labourer, married, his wife, Kristin, and Ketill, their son. These are my great great grandparents and Ketill, my great grandfather, whom I remember because when I visited him in his home on 4th ave. in Gimli, he used to give me a peppermint. Also, he had his coffin on two trestles in his basement.
The destinations for the Icelanders were 132 for Fort Garry via Collingwood and 50 via Sarnia, Ont. 105 were destined for Toronto and 9 for Halifax. 122 were destined for the Western States.
During the trip there was one child born and four people died. 2 children died during the voyage and were buried at sea. I child died in the shed. One old man on board died at the wharf. This was Jon Arnason, a labourer, married, but no wife listed, his age is uncertain but believed to be 74.
64% of the Icelandic passengers were single
43 Icelanders were between 40 and 50 years old.
22 Icelanders were 50 years or older.
My thanks to Donald Gislason of Toronto for giving me this manifest many years ago when I had supper at his home. He said, “Oh, I nearly forgot. I’ve got your great grandfather in my filing cabinet”, jumped up and brought back this ship’s list of passengers. It was very kind of him, much appreciated then and still appreciated now.
Posted in 1878, emigrants, Glasgow, Icelandic immigrants, Icleandic, Montreal Steamship Company, SSWaldensian | 1 Reply
On An Old Joke
Posted on January 29, 2012 by william
When I was a kid, women weren’t allowed into beer parlours. These were male territory. Their purpose was not recreational. It was for drinking. There was no playing darts, no entertainment, no games of any kind. No standing up while drinking. You sat at a table and you drank.
Before my time, places like Portage Avenue in Winnipeg, according to both my grandfather and my grandmother, were not much more than a row of places to drink. A lot of men at the time were single men, often immigrants, working as laborers or tradesmen. There wasn’t anything to go home to except a rooming house. These places had one purpose, to separate as much payday money from the workingman as possible.
According to Harry Gutkin and Mildred Gutkin (The Manitoba Historical Society) “By the end of the nineteenth century, Winnipeg had mushroomed into a bulging outpost of some forty-two thousand people, with an unsavoury reputation as one of Canada’s wickedest cities. In the over-crowded North End, inadequate housing and poor sewage made disease endemic, and poverty fostered crime of every sort.”
Times had started to change by the time I was born and when I was growing up in the 40s and 50s. Also, wicked as Winnipeg might have been, Gimli, although connected to Winnipeg by road and train, was distant from the city and any evil ways that remained.
In Gimli, the local hotel was the den of iniquity, male territory, meant for drinking and fighting. When the fishermen came from north in time for the Icelandic celebration, we kids used to go downtown and sit across the street from the hotel. There wasn’t much entertainment around so we got ours by watching the brawlers spill out the doors as the fishermen beat each other bloody. Our other entertainment was watching men stagger out the door so drunk they couldn’t walk a straight line. Sometimes, they collapsed in the centre of the street. They weren’t in any great danger because there was so little traffic. Still, someone would drag them off to the side of the road, roll them onto a sidewalk or prop them up against a wall or tree.
Fishermen lived hard lives but fishermen’s wives often lived harder lives. They usually got left behind with the kids when their husbands went north. Their husbands didn’t get paid until the fishing season was over. Some fishermen were on wages but some were on shares or contracts. They had to pay for their board and room and, by the time they were going home, there usually wasn’t a lot left on the credit side of the ledger. In the meantime, their wives had been making do with what money the fishing company had been willing to advance over the fishing season.
For those who got paid out on their return, the beer parlour was a dangerous lure. The fishermen had worked long hours, done hard work every day, seven days a week, risked their lives in terrible weather, lived in isolation. When they returned, they wanted to celebrate. The church didn’t provide coffee and rullapylsa and, even if it had, no one would have been interested. The fishermen wanted beer and bragging rights.
Faced with a desperate need to feed a family, the wives often sent word to the beer parlour for their husband to come home. Sometimes they sent a child, sometimes, they went themselves. The women and children were stopped at the front desk. The clerk would go inside the parlour. He never came back with a husband. The answer the wife received was any one of the the following:.
$1 “Nope, not here.” Ha, ha.
$2 “Just missed him.” Ha, ha, ha.
$3 “Just had a drink and left.” Ha, ha, ha, ha, Isn’t that a scream?
$4 “Hasn’t been in all day.” He, he,he,hah,hah, what a laugh.
$5 “Never heard of him.” That put her in her place. Hah, hah, ho, ho.
The only instance I’ve heard of in which a formidable woman shoved her way past the desk clerk, marched into the parlour, grabbed her husband by the scruff of his neck and propelled him out the door, ended in disaster. His humiliation was such that he shot himself. The startling thing is not that he shot himself but that people were outraged not by his spending all his money getting drunk but that his wife had the temerity to interfere.
Today, it seems unbelievable that women could have been treated the way they were but we have examples on the news every day of countries where women are still treated as chattels, where men are in control and won’t let women drive cars, where women can be murdered because some male relative feels his honour has been tarnished, where women can be stoned to death, or whipped to death, or hung because of an accusation of infidelity. Where a woman can be punished for having been raped.
We like to think of Iceland as a civilized country, we like to tell each other stories of how independent Icelandic women have been throughout history. It’s utter nonsense. The fact that half a dozen women over a thousand years managed to exert control over their lives has nothing to do with the reality of all the rest of the women. In Indriðason´s Silence of the Grave, he describes the brutal, endless physical abuse meted out to an Icelandic wife and the dismissive attitude of the police. The same was true in Manitoba. The police, faced with husbands, drunk or sober, beating up their wives, shrugged and said domestic problems weren’t their concern. A relative of mine sometimes beat up his wife so badly that she had to be rescued by relatives and spend weeks in bed recovering.
Domestic violence? It’s still all around us. Women can go into beer parlours and other drinking establishments now. They can’t be stopped at the front desk of the parlour and be the joke of both the clerk and the patrons. And there are alternatives. There used to be no jobs for women. Now there are. There is progress because some behaviours are no longer acceptable. The police have been forced to take domestic violence seriously. Not because they want to. The attitude of a lot of the police toward women is clear in the appalling attitude toward women in the RCMP. Toward the women murdered on the Picton farm. Attitudes have, however, changed enough that the abusive men in the RCMP look and sound ignorant, stupid, immoral. When something is seen as ignorant, stupid, immoral, the possibility of change exists.
In Harry Gutkin and Mildred Gutkin’s essay, they say, “The two women practitioners were frequently called to the jails, where the rowdiest of the ravaged prostitutes were confined, and where beaten and homeless women found a shelter of last resort, male and female prisoners housed together in the same wards.” Cora Hind wrote about conditions in the jails.
“The cells are totally devoid of light or ventilation, except such as may be had through the doors … No sleeping accommodation is provided, and no bedding is allowed, except that blankets are sometimes given to the women … The wards are infested with vermin, drugs, lice, and cockroaches … Some of the most abandoned are afflicted with syphilis and other loathsome diseases, and healthy prisoners are exposed to the danger of becoming similarly affected. The men and women are obliged to use the same towels, closets, etc., so that those who are healthy can scarcely escape the consequences.
There was a storm of protest against the indecency of discussing such things in public…. Both the writer and the sponsoring group were roundly denounced for this assault on the sheltered innocence of womanhood and, Cora Hind remembered, fathers forbade their wives and daughters to attend the troublesome WCTU.”
Beaten and homeless women. Needing shelter. Men outraged that a woman should drag her husband out of an establishment so he wouldn’t drink away everything he’d worked for and so she and their children would have food and shelter. Women used as prostitutes, often by the same men who railed against articles being written about the whorehouses because it would assault the “sheltered innocence of womanhood.” Fathers forbidding their wives and daughters to attend meetings where women’s rights were discussed.
Pick a town, any town. The one I know is Gimli because I grew up there. I expect it was no better, nor worse than any other. It may even have been better than many for here the Icelandic suffragettes thrived.
It’s not so long ago that women were fighting for the right to be recognized as human. Fighting for the right to vote. Fighting for the right to have jobs. Fighting for the right to have legal protection.
Not so long ago? The Picton slaughter took place how long ago?
Two and a half years ago, four women were drowned to satisfy a man’s honour.Two and a half years ago. But, of course, we can console ourselves by saying the killers were foreign, they were immigrants, they didn’t have Canadian values. Canadian values? Like those displayed in the RCMP toward female recruits? Like the attitudes still displayed toward prostitutes? Like the attitudes displayed in many work places? Like every report of women being murdered in domestic disputes? Like murder on an Alberta highway.
Four women drowned. Sisters Zainab, Sahar and Geeti Shafia, aged 19, 17 and 13, and their stepmother, Rona Amir Mohammad. A father, mother, brother convicted of first degree murder. A society where a man´s honour is so important that his daughters´ lives are an inconsequential price to pay to redeem it. Foreign values from a foreign country. But what is the degree of separation in attitude toward women in the joke hiding-from-wife phone rates and women as objects to be disposed of to redeem some man´s twisted honour? We’ve come a ways. But how far do we still have to go?
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Steamship poster
Posted on November 17, 2011 by william
We’ve all heard of the ships of the emigration but how many of us have actually seen a travel schedule for those ships?
These were real ships, real crews, with fares to be collected, schedules to be met. These are the ships that took you to your destination in Iceland or, if you were leaving Iceland, took you away to the distant shores of your dreams. Here is one of the posters your ancestors would have seen and studied closely.
Think how intently they would have read the information, the dates, the cost, the accommodation.
If they were thinking of leaving Iceland, taking young children, how important would be the length of the voyage to Scotland? If they had carefully saved their rigs dollars, had them hoarded in a sock under their pillow, they would have memorized the cost of the fares and, at night, counted their coins once again to see if there were enough silver there to buy a passage and, if there weren’t, they’d have lain in the dark, thinking about how they might get the rest.
These posters held people’s futures. Ameríka. Ameríka. The land of dreams and opportunity. In Independent People Laxness has the fare of the youngest of Bjartur’s sons paid for by a relative already in Amerika. That youngest son later sends money so that one of his brothers can follow him to Amerika but the brother squanders the money on a horse because he has become infatuated with a girl who is above his social station. There will be no Amerika for him.
In Paradise Reclaimed, the main character, Steinar of Hliðar, does go to Amerika where he eats turkey and porridge but only at the ruination of his family. He eventually sends money so that they may join him in Utah.
Amerika was on everyone´s mind. Many left. Many more would have left if they could have raised the cost of the fare.
The well-to-do farm owners were opposed to emigration and the loss of cheap labour and tried to keep information about Amerika from reaching their workers. In one instance, an agent who was to give a talk in Reykjavik about the opportunities in Amerika was unable to do so because a group was organized to make so much noise that he could not be heard. In spite of the actions of the farmers, word did spread, small-holders who had sheep and land to sell, often could raise the necessary money. However, many were unable to take their entire family so some children were left behind, sometimes wives were left behind, but with a promise that when there was money to pay for their passage, the family members would be brought to Amerika.
Some families sold everything, travelled to the ports to meet the ships that would take them to England or Scotland for the first leg of their journey only to have the ships come so late that the potential emigrants, having had to spend their money for room and board, could no longer could pay for a ticket. There are many stories of individuals borrowing money from friends and family and, when they arrived in Amerika, making their first priority paying off their debt.
In Paradise Reclaimed, when the unscrupulous purchasing agent who works for the Scots’ buyers of cattle wants to stop Steina from taking their son to Amerika, he goes to his friend the sheriff and says, “I demand that the Hliðar folk be restrained from leaving while the case is being investigated.” He’s objecting to Steina, the young girl he’s got pregnant, taking their son to Amerika. That’s in spite of the fact that he’s denied being the father and driven the family to ruin with the result that they all have become paupers.
The sheriff replies, “Have you considered what sort of a favour you are doing the taxpayers by interdicting parish paupers from emigraitng?” “I know of parish councils that thank God for the chance of being allowed to pay t hem their fares to America.”
So it was not just those who could pay for their fare who went to Amerika but, sometimes, it was the indigent, the paupers, the poorest of the poor, those who were paid for with a special tax that was then given to the farmer who would keep them for the least amount of money. However, they, too, would have been intensely interested in what the posters had to tell them about the coming trip to a distant wilderness.
The emigrants seldom had large dreams. The poverty in which they lived was such that they often just hoped that life would be improved. In Amerika, a woman could get a job at five dollars a month with board and room. Five dollars, for some farm workers, was the equivalent of two year’s wages. Ameríka, where the letters said, there was lots of food and it was good. Where a man didn’t have to be worth four hundreds (the equivalent of the value of four cows) before he could legally marry. Ameríka. Where your employer didn’t have the right to beat you with a rod or a tree root. And the first giant step to having your own land was a voyage to Scotland.
Allthough many North Americans of Icelandic descent can say in what year their lang afi or amma came to Amerika, it’s important for us to understand what this voyage was like. This original poster will provide a lot of information about conditions on the voyage.
Think of them standing before this poster and how it must have affected them.
(image from The Home of the Eddas, Charles G.
Warnford Lock, 1872. A somewhat shorter version of this article originally appeared in Logberg-Heimskringla. Consider subscribing.)
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No destination is as important to North Americans of Icelandic descent as that of the farm on which their ancestors lived. In article after article, people write about the rush of emotion that occurred when they stood on that hallowed ground. They can, with no difficulty, see their grandparents or great-grandparents making hay, bringing in the sheep or cows. The sound of the waves on the shore is the same sound their ancestors heard. Many people refer to this land as “My grandparents’ farm.” But in fact the people who left for North America seldom owned land.
All Icelanders were not equal – socially or politically or financially. Nearly everyone had to be attached to a farm, and workers were allowed only one time during the year when they could move to another farm. There were six classes of people on these farms.
1. There were the Bændr, the land owners, at the top of the heap. The big shots. They were the farmers for whom everyone else worked. They had political muscle, and fought hard against the emigration of their workers who were providing cheap labour. Newspapers were filled with stories about the disputes between those who would emigrate and those who saw their power eroded.
2. There were the Húsmenn. These were people who had property on the Bændr ´s land but were not allowed to make hay or to use the pastures.
3. The Kaupamenn were labourers who were hired to work for the farmer.
4. There were Hjáleigumenn – the equivalent of crofters renting a small farm (hjáleiga) from the Bændr.
5. Then there were the Vinnumenn, the servants.
6. And, finally, there were the paupers. There were many paupers. The heaviest tax on the Bænder was the tax (fátækra útsvar) to support the paupers .
If your ancestors were not No. 1, and didn´t actually own a farm, they had good reason to leave Iceland. If they did own a farm and emigrated, there must be a story there? They had a legal and political system that made everything in their favour.
There was little actual cash. The peasants – yes, they were peasants – paid their rent and the money they owed in June and July with wool. In September and October, they paid with smoked and cured mutton, grease and tallow, and sheep skins and lamb skins with the wool still attached. Fat of any kind was always in short supply, and butter and cheese were usually kept for personal use or for bartering. Sometimes butter was used to pay taxes.
If your people worked on a farm, they were, essentially, indentured servants. Some farmers treated their people well. Others treated them badly. The landscape was beautiful, but nothing is beautiful when you are hungry. Emigration did not happen easily. People were driven to leave Iceland out of desperation. The trip was long. The way was hard. Many died.
But, in spite of all this, the beauty of Iceland stayed with many of the emigrants. You can read it in their poems, in their prose. You see it at Icelandic Celebration and August the Deuce, at Thorrablot and in the Icelandic clubs, in the Snorri program, and at the Icelandic summer camp. You see it in the frequent visits of Icelandic North Americans to Iceland.
You see it in those emotional visits to the places our ancestors left. The descendants of paupers, servants, crofters, labourers, tenants, still hold a place in their hearts for Iceland. When you visit this special destination, the farm of your great-grandmother or great-grandfather, or great-great-grandparent, take the time to reflect on what their life was like in the 1870s, and how desperate and brave they must have been when they walked away from both house and homefield for the last time to create a new life for children not yet born.
When you are setting the table for Thanksgiving dinner take out pictures of your ancestors who left Iceland for Canada, set them on the buffet or even on the dining table. Before you begin to eat, tell your family and guests something about them and, when you say grace, include these people from your past in your thanks. It is because of them that you sit down to a feast today. After the meal, when you’ve eaten your turkey, potatoes, gravy, your pumpkin pie, and are enjoying your coffee reflect upon the empty dishes, your full stomach, the photos and silently give thanks to Jon and Jonina, Gunnur and Gusta, or whatever their names were. Bless, bless.
(This article appeared in a slightly different form in Logberg-Heimskringla. This year is LH’s 125th birthday. Consider giving someone a gift of a subscription to celebrate.)
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Logberg-Heimskringla’s birthday party
Posted on October 6, 2011 by william
Publishing in Iceland has a long and honorable tradition. Jón Arason, the last Catholic bishop, and a well-known poet, brought the first printing press to Iceland around 1530.
In 1584 Guðbrandur Þorláksson printed the first translation of the Bible into Icelandic. This printing had far reaching consequences because it helped to preserve the Icelandic language.
Most early publications in Iceland were religious. However, gradually, secular material was published. By 1773 the Icelandic journal ‚Islandske Maaneds Tidender‘ was in print. It was mostly intended for a Danish readership. It stopped publishing in 1776. Other publications that followed it were written for the upper, ruling class in Iceland. Around 1848 new newspapers appeared. During this time and up to about 1910, the papers were essentially editorial sheets expressing opinions about Iceland‘s struggle for independence. The editors were also the owners of these often short-lived papers and they used them to express their personal point of view.
According to Richard Burton in his book of 1875, Ultima Thule, “The first newspaper printed in Iceland began in 1775.” By the time Burton went to Iceland, the paper had failed but he says that back issues were available in the College Library.
At this time, three periodicals were being published. Two of these were published in Reykjavik. Thjóðólfr was printed twice a month. The editor was Hr Procurator Jón Guðmundsson. The Tíminn appeared once a month. The third periodical was Norðanfari, published in Akureyri. It was usually published every two weeks.
Burton was in Iceland in 1872 but his book, Ultima Thule, came out in 1875. His interest in Iceland was intense. He made many contacts and friends in Iceland and managed to keep up on Icelandic news so even though his book was published three years after his visit, his information was current.
It is at this time that our ancestors are beginning to leave Iceland. It was this view of newspapers and their role that the emigrants take with them. They were used to the idea of a newspaper being a single sheet printed on both sides. Or two sheets. They were used to the idea that the paper‘s purpose was to express the views of the editor and the editor would be the owner of the paper. The paper would take a political position. It wouldn’t attempt to be objective. It would be less a news paper than a paper expressing the editor‘s opinions.
In 1876 in New Iceland, Jon Gudmundsson started a handwritten paper, Nýi þjóðólfur. This was the same name as the paper mentioned by Richard Burton. By choosing the name of an Icelandic newspaper, Jon was making it clear that he would attempt to create a paper like the one in Iceland. He wouldn’t try to create a new paper for a new world. The Icelandic influence was very clear. Jon took his newspaper from house to house and read the news aloud.
When the large group of Icelandic settlers arrived, the writing out of a paper and taking it around to read at individual homes became impractical. Some form of publication was needed to to provide the settlers with news, with information, and with a place to present their opinions and their ideas. In spite of the smallpox epidemic and all the other hardships, The New-Iceland Printing Company was established. Shares were issued at ten dollars each. The surprising fact is that in spite of the poverty of the settlers, there were subscribers. Enough to pay for a printing press.
Rev. Jon Bjarnason was in Minneapolis. At the request of the settlers, he purchased a printing press and shipped it to New Iceland. The paper was named Framfari (Progress). It was printed at Lundi (Riverton). The first issue appeared in 1877.
Heimskringla appeared in 1886. Lögberg was created in opposition to it in 1888. Both papers were highly political. Heimskringla supported the Conservative party and the Unitarian church. Lögberg supported the Liberal party and the Lutheran church. As had been the tradition in Iceland, the papers were filled with polemics. The papers not only reported on controversies in the community, they stirred up controversy. There were often bitter battles. However, in 1959, faced with declining subscriptions and financial problems, the papers amalgamated. It was an uneasy marriage at first and the way to keep it from being a divorce was to avoid taking positions on politics and religion. That still holds true, for though the fierce battles of old have faded with the secularization of society, there are still enough people who have strong opinions about religious matters to start a war. Old political divides, now not just between Liberals and Conservatives but, also, with the NDP, have meant avoiding taking political positions.
We‘re celebrating Lögberg-Heimskringla’s 125th birthday shortly. It totters, teeters, on the edge of going out of business. It’s teetered and tottered for years. There are discussions about it turning into a monthly magazine, into a newsletter for the INL. It depends for its survival on donations and, although the Icelandic North American community has spread out, been largely integrated, the cheques keep coming. The community is both generous and loyal. However, fifth generation kids are a Canadian hodgepodge of every national group you can imagine. A youngster might have an Icelandic name like Valgardson but be English, Irish, Russian, Scots, and one sixteenth Icelandic. The Snorri program and Nuna both try to help remedy this but they can only take in a small number of young people. What is needed are subscribers. That will keep the paper going. The paper, in turn, will help keep the community going. The current editor is Joan Eyolfson Cadham. She’s producing a paper worth buying and worth reading.
Because Icelanders integrated so quickly, the paper, a long time ago, lost its immigrant purpose. It doesn’t need to help people find jobs, learn English, get training or education. It now is about preserving our heritage, providing communication among the far-flung Icelandic organizations and communities, and providing a voice for the writers of our community.
One hundred and twenty-five years is a long time. Long enough to make LH the longest, continuously published ethnic paper in Canada. It’s a tradition worth having pride in, worth supporting. Take out your credit card and subscribe. Jón Arason started this tradition a long time ago. He lost his head. Let him at least keep the tradition.
(There is going to be a birthday party at the LH offices on Oct. 13).
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The Trading Ships
Posted on September 19, 2011 by william
It‘s 1872 and after a long, hard winter, isolated from neighbouring farms by wind, snow and sleet that come in howling storms, trapped inside with no heat but body heat from the other household members plus some heat from the cattle in their pens, it‘s time to ride to the coast to a Markaðr, the annual trip to trade goods with the Danish ships that have anchored off-shore, a trip that each way may take ten days.
The winter has been spent with everyone knitting and weaving on a fixed and standing loom. The good weavers wove three yards a day of wadmal, as the cloth is called. It comes in a variety of colors: grey, black, light blue, the russet brown of undyed wool, and sometimes white.
On the trip to the trading station, every rider had two horses so that the rider could change as the horses got tired. With them was also a string of pack horses loaded with supplies. In the packs would be woolen mittens, stockings, fine socks, ordinary wadmal jackets, fine wadmal jackets, wool, eiderdown, other bird feathers, tallow, butter, salted mutton and beef. There might even have been one or two fox skins and maybe some bird skins. Swan skins have become rare by this time, and command a high price.
Women rode side saddle to the harbour where the trading fair was held. Side-saddles were little more than chairs set sideways on a horse. The side-saddles gave the rider little control over the horse and women were at greater risk than men when fording rivers. The side-saddles used for this yearly event had unusually elaborate foot-boards, with backs of worked brass to display the farmer’s wealth and status.
As you get closer to the harbour, you can see other groups of horses and riders that are descending from the hills and, before you, groups of farmers and peasants have already gathered in clusters in front of the shore. The men greet each other with the traditional kiss, then study the ships.
You pitch your tents and begin by finding out what is being charged and paid by the Danish merchants. No cash changes hands. Everything is done by trading goods. The Danes control both the selling and buying prices.
The Sýslumaðr, in his gold-laced cap and uniform buttons struts about to keep order, because the drinking is heavy. The Sýslumaðr was similar to a sheriff. He was granted an area called Sýsla in which he was responsible for collecting tolls, taxes and fines, and upholding the law. The Danish merchants are free-handed with liquor before the bargaining begins so there is a party atmosphere to the gathering.
The men row out to the two Danish ships and scramble up the ladders. The women wear white head-kerchiefs over their usual black caps, and instead of shawls they cover their shoulders with short scarves that reach only to the waist. In spite of their bulky petticoats, they manage to climb the ladders and over the gunwales of the ships.
The ships have been constructed like a store. There´s a desk and a counter. Sometimes, the stores supply most of the Icelander’s necessities—dry goods, clothes and caps, saddlery, wool carders, querns of basalt for grinding grain, horse shoes, and spinnning wheels; sugar, grain, tobacco, and especially rye spirits. Everything is needed: timber, salt, grain, coffee, spices. The timber consists of pine and fir, the forms are beams for roofing and framing, twenty-two to twenty-four feet long, one-inch boards for siding for houses, three-inch planks and finer woods for the cabinet maker. Salt is essential for salting both fish and meat and the only local salt that is available sometimes is called dirty salt because it comes from burning seaweed. There may be birch wood, sawn and split for fuel, but it is not for ordinary people. Only the Danish merchants can afford it. There are cereals – rye and wheat – that can be bought as grain, flour or already made into biscuits. The farmers prefer the grain because the flour is often mouldy or in poor condition. Buying grain means the laborious task of grinding it with a handmill but that is work for the servants. They can do that when they are not pounding hardfish with a stone hammer to ready it for eating. You will be buying a lower-quality rice in quantity, because, like most Icelanders, you like to make rice milk. In the years between 1864 and 1870, the amount of imported rice quintupled. The available spices are usually cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Twist tobacco is bought for chewing as well as smoking. The favorite form of tobacco is snuff.
The merchants have a large cargo of port, sherry, claret and champagne, rum and cognac, and even cherry brandy to trade with the better off farmers. Most such liquor is expensive and of poor quality. Sometimes, the traders bring so much liquor that they don’t have room for the supplies the Icelanders want and need. The brennivin, kornschnapps and rye spirits are cheap. The profits for the traders are high.
According to F. R. Burton, who attended one of these markets, there was considerable hard drinking and loud hymn singing at night.
When the trading and visiting are done, it is time to return to the farm. The horses’ pack saddles are set on pieces of turf to protect the horses from saddle sores. Each saddle has wooden pegs jutting from its sides, and wooden chests full of the traded goods are hung from the pegs. The trip will be slow because the packs often shift and have to be righted.
Although it is summer, traversing the quaking bogs, ravines and rivers may be made more difficult by rain, sleet and snow. The hæði and the river fords have holes filled with quicksand that horses sink into and have to be pulled out. Some rivers have ice rushing down from the glaciers.There is the occasional ferry. In most cases, it is a small rowboat that can only take people and their supplies. The horses have to be driven into the water to swim for the other bank. Some turn back and have to be caught and forced back into the river. Most of the time, though, there is no ferry and you have to follow a local guide across the least dangerous path.
But you‘ve been to visit the fair, boarded the trade ships, purchased at least some of the goods you need for the coming year, seen people you haven´t seen for twelve months, caught up on news. In the weeks ahead, there is shortening daylight, growing darkness, winter wind and rain and cold, but you‘ve been to the fair, been inside the ships and bought at least some of the things you’ll need to survive for another year.
(With notes and quotes from F.R. Burton, 1872)
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West Coast Icelanders
I was on Salt Spring Island the other day planing arbutus. My friend Richard was putting the planks through the planer and I was catching them and holding them even so they wouldn’t snipe.
If you haven’t lived on the West Coast, you probably don’t know what an arbutus is. . It doesn’t shed its leaves seasonally. Instead, it sheds its bark. The old bark is often deep red or purple and comes away in long strips. The new bark is a pale, yellow green, smooth, sensuous.
All around us are majestic firs with salal filling any open spaces. To my right the ground drops away in a tangle of deadfall, sea spray and cedar. Between the trees I can see Galiano Island, then in the far distance, the mountains of North Vancouver. Below us on the sharp falling ridges, the tangle of salal is so thick I can’t push my way through it. Before cutting down a tree, I have to hack an escape path in case the tree twists as it falls. Hacking through the salal isn’t without its risks. The ground is riddled with wasp nests. Twice now I’ve stepped on a nest. The wasps swarm out, yellow and black and angry. In places where trees have been removed, there are tangles of blackberry canes rising up to six feet or more. Large mounds of canes covered in sharp, curved thorns and delicious fruit. For those who haven’t seen them, picture black raspberries, but much larger than most raspberries. In blackberry season, it’s easy to tell who has been picking, because their arms are covered in long scratches and their hands are stained purple.
This is the world of the Icelanders who kept traveling West, from Kinmount, to Toronto, to Winnipeg, to the Pacific Coast. Some Icelanders came first to Winnipeg, then hearing of the West Coast continued on. There were those who chose the Coast as their first destination, however. Some came in the 1880s – enough that Victoria had a vibrant and viable Icelandic community with Sunday musicals and poetry readings. A recession drove many of those people to Point Roberts and to Boundary Bay in the USA.
This was a world as different from Manitoba as Manitoba was from Iceland.
Ben Sivertz was part of this world. Although his name doesn’t sound Icelandic, his father and mother both came from Iceland. After graduating from high school he was a seaman and ship’s officer in the Merchant Marine. He served in the Royal Canadian Navy and ran a school for navigation. He retired with the rank of Lieutenant Commander. I wouldn’t have known that he was awarded the Order of the British Empire if I hadn’t asked about a picture on the living room wall.
His obituary said that “he joined the Department of External Affairs in 1946 and moved to the Department of Northern Affairs in 1950. He served as Director of Northern Administration from 1957 until 1963 when he was appointed Commissioner. He was Commissioner of the NWT from 1963 to 1967. He came to the post after a career as a foreign service officer in the Department of External Affairs and Chief of the Arctic division in the Department of Northern Affairs.”
The arena in Hay River is named after Ben.
He was also the only person I’ve known who owned an original Van Gogh.
Ben took Mattie Gislasson and me on a walkabout in Fernwood. He pointed out each house in which Icelanders lived and named the families. He even showed us where there used to be an Icelandic store.
On our tour, I saw Ben’s pride in the Icelandic community, in his Icelandic roots, in the Icelanders who came to the edge of Canada to settle. He was ninety-three when we did that walkabout and when he used to walk two kilometers uphill on a Saturday morning from his retirement home to my place. We’d have a visit then at noon I’d drive him back to his retirement home so we could have lunch together.
True to his roots, before he died, he wrote three books, one about his mother, one about his father, and an autobiography.
Sitting in the truck on the way back to Swartz Bay, listening to the throb of the engine, the dark shapes of the islands slipping by, I thought of how different was the experience of the West Coast Icelanders from those who stayed in Gimli or Winnipeg, how they had adapted to this world of forests and mountains while keeping their identity as strong as did those who had stayed in Nýa Ísland.
(This essay first appeared in Lögberg-Heimskringla)
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The Great Canadian Beer Festival
The Icelanders Go West
The Mighty Beaver
Grímur Hákonarsson
Jim Anderson on The Icelanders Go West
J. Eyolfson Cadham on The Puzzle
bill on Screwtop
william on Will You Remember Them?
J Cadham on Basement Rats
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30 April, 2013 繁 簡
Unveiling ceremony of "Effort" – sculpture donated by renowned Mexican sculptor
Hong Kong Professionals & Senior Executives Association and Lingnan University Joint Leadership Mentoring Programme 2013
New Dean of the Community College and Further Education appointed
Student artwork exhibition entitled “Points of View”
“One Person One Book” Scheme
Lingnan alumni enjoy a relaxing“Lamma Seafood Tour”
CHR Open Lecture on Literature: Putting a Queer Shoulder to Wheel──Irony, Parody and National Devotion
Teaching and Learning Centre professional development workshops
Public lecture on “Mexican Sculpture from Pre-Hispanic times to Sacal”
315 students awarded $9.7 million in scholarships
Lingnan gets gold award for making website accessible
MIBF Scholarships for undergraduate students
Excellent results for University Rowing Team at Verdant River Regatta 2013
University Lion Dance and Martial Arts Team awarded prize at Fifth Eastern Dragon and Lion Dance Invitational Competition
Remarkable achievements of University Judo Team and Karatedo Team at open tournaments
In the Name of the May Fourth: A Literary Forum (2 May 2013)
ZeShan Foundation Scholarships Presentation Ceremony (3 May 2013)
The Hong Kong Metaethics Conference (4-5 May 2013)
Seminar on “A Political Economy of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008” (6 May 2013)
Summer Workshop: Cinema & Human Rights (13-16 May 2013)
MCS10 Seminars on “In and Out of the Institution: The Past and Future of Cultural Studies and Adult Education” (18 May 2013)
Lingnan Education Organization Ambassadors Appointment Ceremony (21 May 2013)
Centre for Humanities Research: International Academic Conference on “Hong Kong Literature and Culture of the 1950s” (21-23 May 2013)
The 33rd Seminar for the Senior Officials of the Minority Nationalities Autonomous Prefectures in China (23 May – 4 June 2013)
The 4th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning “Service-Learning as a Bridge from Local to Global: Connected World, Connected Future” (4-7 June 2013)
Call for Papers: 2013 Academy of International Business (AIB) Southeast Asia Regional Conference (5-7 December 2013)
Lingnan University held the Awards Presentation Ceremony 2013 on 15 April, with Mr Rex Auyeung, Deputy Council Chairman of the University and President of Principal Financial Group – Asia, as the officiating guest of honour. This year, 429 scholarships and awards totalling about HK$9.7 million were presented to 315 students in recognition of their outstanding academic and personal achievements.
Mr Auyeung expressed his deep appreciation to all the donors for their generous support and encouraged the awardees to continue with the caring spirit as demonstrated by the donors and extend it further to the Hong Kong society. “Please bring this culture of caring for each other to your daily activities, whether it is to your fellow schoolmates, your family or your fellow workers in the future. A society like Hong Kong will prosper with its economic growth but one has to remember it is the people that make it happened,” he said. Mr Auyeung wished the awardees would appreciate the learning environment that Lingnan had created in nurturing them to become a person of high integrity.
Riggs Lee Kai-chung, a year-three Business Administration (Hons) student, received the Most Distinguished Student of the University Award for his excellent academic performance and outstanding community service. What makes Riggs outstanding was his unusual jump. He was admitted to a band-three secondary school when he migrated to Hong Kong, and became head boy a few years later. He has received several scholarships, including the HKSAR Government Scholarship, Emperor Foundation Scholarship and Student Enhancement Programme Scholarship, and will likely graduate with first-class honours. His devotion to community service and campus activities also made him a role model for fellow students.
Abi Chan Yau-yung, a year-two Social Sciences (Hons) student, received the Hang Seng Bank Community Service Scholarship 2012/13. Over the past two years, not only has Abi pursued academic excellence and developed her potentials by joining the University’s International Toastmasters Club, but she has also demonstrated admirable leadership skills by serving as the Social Service Officer of Lingnan University Wofoo Leaders’ Network. Abi has been devoting herself to serving the underprivileged in society. Her community service record includes teaching handicapped children in the Vietnam International Service Trip organised by the University’s Rotaract Club and visiting the homeless in Sham Shui Po under the “Care for the Homeless” project organised by the Urban Renewal Authority.
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Parliamentary Questions »New Horizons
by Adrian Pederick
Mr PEDERICK ( Hammond ) ( 15:06 :50 ): My question is to the Minister for Agriculture. In regard to the New Horizons initiative that was announced in the lead-up to the election, is the minister aware of the work Mr Clem Obst of Mundulla, who has been advocating the claying of sandy soils for the past 45 years and who was awarded an Order of Australia 10 years ago for developing and promoting clay spreading techniques to increase water efficiency and retention in sandy soils?
The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL ( Mawson—Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Tourism, Minister for Recreation and Sport, Minister for Racing) (15:07:19): I thank the member for Hammond for the question, and I am sure the people who are running the New Horizons project in Primary Industries and SARDI are well aware of all that has happened in the past.
Mr Pederick: They're 45 years behind.
The SPEAKER: The member for Hammond is warned.
The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL: The New Horizons project is very exciting for the future of agriculture in South Australia. There are three trials going on around this state: one over in Lower Eyre Peninsula, one in the Mallee and one down in the South-East, where they are looking at not just using the top five or 10 centimetres of soil, but going down 50 centimetres and using all the soil. The results that we are seeing in improvements in yields are producing increases in yields of between 70 and 200 per cent.
We know how important the agricultural industry is to the South Australian economy, and if we can increase those yields then it is good not just for farmers but for all South Australians. As a government, we are working with the agricultural community to make sure that we can help them in any way we can to improve their yields. As I said, the results that we have had so far have been terrific.
I was over at the Cleve Field Day, as I know a lot of members opposite were as well, and the people who were running the trials had some examples there. They had some core samples that had been grown in traditional soil, then they had the ones that had been given some more organic matter, and then the New Horizons technique as well. I have to say that the roots below throughout the soil were very healthy, and when you looked at the crop they were much further advanced—they were around three or four weeks advanced to what some of the other examples were.
I think it is a terrific example, and I commend everyone who is working on the current project and those who have done work in the past in looking at putting more clay into soils and making our state more productive. We do have some parts of the state that are traditionally less productive than others because of the chance of where these places lie and the soils that are there, but I have to say, this government is working day in, day out, to try and—
The SPEAKER: I don't think the minister needs to say. The member for Little Para.
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