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“Three Marlenas” (Wallflowers Cover)
Posted on December 18, 2015 by Jeff Copperthite
By Jeff Copperthite:
Good evening to everyone at www.laptopsessions.com. It’s Jeff for your Monday edition, and it’s time to go back to the favorite band and to exhaust all their singles from “Bringing Down The Horse”. I get the privilege of bringing you “Three Marlenas”.
I also bring it to you while being shy of a few pounds. You’ll notice I am now clean-shaven, and that is because it was the agreement with my wife. If I purchased a new amplifier, then I would have to shave the beard. Speaking of which, you will see my Behringer BXL1800 tomorrow when I let you know what I think of it.
Anyway, while this song is quite simple to play, it tells an interesting story and I like the song a lot. “Bringing Down The Horse” is a terrific album and you should consider giving it a listen if you can.
The Wallflowers are a popular band here at www.laptopsessions.com. I’m sure you’ll hear more of them in future sessions. Until then, enjoy “Three Marlenas”, and come back tomorrow for Jim’s latest and greatest Laptop Session!
Editor’s Note: Unfortunately, Jeff’s acoustic cover song music videos are no longer on YouTube, but we decided to keep his cover song blog posts up. We figured these music blog entries would be good for posterity’s sake and because Jeff always gave such insightful posts each Session. We hope to see Jeff’s impressive catalog of acoustic rock songs here on the Laptop Sessions cover songs and original music blog again in the future. But, for now, please make sure to check-out hundreds of other acoustic cover songs from all of your favorite bands here on the Laptop Sessions music blog!
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“Back to California” (Wallflowers Cover)
Posted on December 18, 2015 by Chris Moore
By Chris Moore:
Seeing as how the Wallflowers are coming to town tonight, I thought it only appropriate to play one of my favorite tunes off their most recent album, Rebel, Sweetheart. If you are hearing “Back to California” here for the first time, please find and listen to the album version. The real version is one of the most rocking songs I’ve ever heard from Jakob Dylan and the boys.
I recorded more takes of this cover song music video than I should have, in my desire to recreate it acoustically and yet maintain the same spirit of the studio recording. Just like “Everything I Need,” this was certainly a vocal workout–this time, not because of the range but due to the emotion/inflection I tried to achieve while my allergies are in full swing…
Well, I’m really excited about going to see the Wallflowers show at Foxwoods tonight with Jim and Mike. This is one of my all-time favorite bands, and because they tour so infrequently these days, I was afraid I would never get to see them.
We’ll definitely report back on the Wallflowers show. For now, I hope you enjoy the acoustic cover song music video — I hope you’ll rate it and/or leave a comment.
See you next session!
P.S. I can’t wait to hear more new tracks from Jakob Dylan’s upcoming solo album, Seeing Things! Maybe they’ll translate into some new acoustic covers for the Laptop Sessions music video blog soon… 🙂
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“Days of Wonder” (Wallflowers Cover)
This song comes per request from Dylan81 on Youtube.
I’m going for the hat trick on Wallflowers songs, and doing the album opener from “Rebel, Sweetheart” called “Days of Wonder”. It is a terrific opening song full of cheer, reflection, the usual writing of Jakob Dylan.
This song has a driving beat that is difficult to reproduce on the acoustic guitar, and I have only learned how to play this song for 24 hours now. Still, this version is nice and cool. I hope you enjoy it.
This also represents my first non-quick capture attempt at these videos. All i’ve figured out so far is how to cut off the “hitting the stop button” part at the end, and I got text at the beginning. As far as the song is concerned, I like how it turned out, but from now on i’ll try to increase the lighting in the room – especially when filming at night.
Thank you for your request! If there is a song you’d like me to consider for fusco-moore.com’s Laptop Sessions, please send me a message!
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“Hand Me Down” (Wallflowers Cover by Chris Moore)
I think this is an under-appreciated song from the post-“One Headlight” album Breach. This was a lot of fun to finally learn and play. From the moment Jim mentioned the idea for these laptop sessions, I thought this would be a great one to pull out. And I feel that I’ve waited long enough after Jeff’s last Wallflowers post to finally put this one up here.
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Bach Psychology: Gothic, Sublime, or just human?
By Michael Markham
THERE IS AN UNOFFICIAL marker in the timeline of canonical classical music. It falls around 1800, during Beethoven’s lifetime, separating composers for whom biography matters to non-academic listeners from those for whom it doesn’t. It is assumed the listener needs to know about the lives of post-1800 composers: about the onset of Beethoven’s deafness and resulting feelings of alienation in order to understand the storming anger in his music, about Chopin’s sense of exile in order to properly feel the longing expressed in his, about Schumann’s struggles with mental illness in order to properly feel the spasms between passion and introversion in his, about Mahler’s faith and disillusionment in order to feel the weight of existential crisis in his. It grows out of our desire to find personal meaning in art, to find some message encoded in all those notes. We need to believe we know what our composers were about before we can trust that we’re receiving their ideas properly. To get it wrong is somehow to do them an injustice. It certainly simplifies the process of listening. We know, with Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, and Mahler, what sort of mood we are supposed to be in even before the music begins to play. But it also simplifies and often distorts the historical record, reducing the complicated lives of our heroes to a series of mythological icons. Elsewhere in this publication, I’ve wondered if this is a problem worth worrying over: “A thousand battalions of Mozart scholars cannot erase the image of Miloš Forman’s Amadeus. But should they try?” With the publication of John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, a new quasi-biography of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), we’re situated comfortably on the other side of the 1800 line, back during the musical “Baroque” where we have a chance to see the problem at its thorniest, focusing on the composer who proves its most difficult test case.
For today’s classical music audiences one of the most problematic aspects of music before circa 1800 is answering the simple question “why did they make this piece of music I’m about to listen to?” The answers, for Beethoven and all composers succeeding him are comfortably familiar: Music is testimony of the self or the world of the self. It is done for Art (capital A), for the Inner Spirit, for the memory of the persecuted, to expose the existential anxiety of it all, etc. The early Romantics reached back a little bit and quickly salvaged Mozart (who, after all, should have lived to see 1800) by projecting testimony back onto him — of Oedipal strife and a difficult personality — fairy tales that still make up his mythic badge (“drunken child savant”), providing a framework for listeners to have satisfying emotional experiences when listening to him. But further beyond the wall mythology gets more difficult. As entertaining as Vivaldi’s music is, and as intense as his life may have been, who seeks out his music to experience the artistic integrity of his personal testimony? No one cares what Palestrina’s relationship with his father was like, or whether or not Handel believed in authoritarian order when he wrote Giulio Cesare. So much of the daily reality surrounding the music of the more distant past gives us less heartfelt, less Romantic, less personally-resonant answers to the question “why do it?” (for the King, for the paycheck, for the Pope’s pleasure cruise) that the profundity of the music can seem to suffer for its lack of subjective, creative angst that we seem to crave and they perhaps did not.
Thus much pre-1800 music is today relieved of being much more than “mood” music. Our approach to the music of the Renaissance, for instance, often becomes caught in a circular logic that keeps us at a distance. It is beautiful, yes? It is expressive, yes? And so what does it express? Beauty. And why is it beautiful? Because it is so expressive. But what does it express? … and on and on. The music of the Baroque, on the other hand, often represents extreme emotional states. It is not, however, the conduit of the composer’s own feelings, but of the “official” emotional posture required for whatever event, patron, institution or (for the opera) story they were writing. Emotional states, during the enlightenment, were just another natural phenomenon to be illustrated and represented, like winds or water or birdsong. As Joseph Kerman put it “Baroque composers depict the passions. Romantic composers express them.” The idea of personal expression had to wait for a few big cultural rifts. First, the freeing of composers from the Ancien Régime system of patrons and institutions, making them independent artists following no one’s taste but their own or their public’s. Second, the Napoleonic cult of the individual commanding that the artist, no less than the philosopher, look inward. As Johann Gottlieb Fichte pitched the new Romantic creed in 1792: “Turn your gaze away from all around you, and inwards on to yourself.” Once again, Mozart and Beethoven were the earliest prototypes of the new musical artist who would not or could not submit to the whims of church or aristocratic patronage and who instead struck out on their own, misfits, outlaws, non-conformists misunderstood by their era. This is all as much mythology as history, a plotline we internalized so long ago it will likely never be shaken.
And so biography for Pre-Romantic composers has often seemed superfluous to the experience of listening — merely academic, and usually pretty hopeless. Among the pre-1800 masters, Bach biography in particular is a prickly and thankless calling. It requires one to fuss endlessly over minor details, or at least to pretend to. It entails teasing phantom details from in-between precious few lines of actual primary sources, most of which are notoriously dull and legalistic. It requires you to do this while knowing that these same precious few, dull, legalistic sources have already been poured over by dozens of prior adherents to produce dozens of contradictory hagiographies and incompatible mythologies leaving us little more than a name-symbol accompanied by a jumble of tepid modifiers. To Cristoph Wolff’s recent Bach: The Learned Musician, we can add a few more alternately dismissed or embraced by Gardiner: the “exemplary Teuton,” the “working-class hero-craftsman,” the “bewigged, jowly old German Capellmeister,” the “incorrigible cantor.” If none of these monikers sounds terribly appealing or particularly dramatic to you, as opposed to say, Beethoven: The Stormy Napoleonic Revolutionary, or Mahler: The Disillusioned Neurotic Spiritualist, then you are starting already to see another problem with Bach biography. When you combine the stubborn refusal of the historical record to yield much of anything tantalizing, the expectation that none of it makes it into his music anyway, and the cowing complexity of that music, the end result is not a familiar emotional character-type but a cold distance, a sense that he and his world are unreachable and irrelevant to the listening experience. Yet Bach receives more biographical attention than any composer before Mozart and remains his chief rival for sheer quantity. Unlike the other canonic masters, the popularity of Bach studies shows no sign of letting up. The early 21st century has already seen more attempts to figure him out, of both the strict academic variety (along with Christoph Wolf’s biography, there are substantial essays and monographs by Robert L. Marshall, Peter Williams, and John Butt) and user-friendly “crossover” variety (Davitt Moroney, Martin Geck, Paul Elie, Eric Siblin) than any of the other candidates, including those like Mozart and Beethoven whose source material is richer in detail and drama. This mania for redundant parsing of the same scant material remains an unusual situation. Understanding it is key to figuring out what, if anything, Gardiner’s attempt has to offer.
His goal, on one hand, is humanization, to bring Bach closer to us. And, having throughout his life as a conductor absorbed any and all research on his favorite composer, he acknowledges many of the problems:
Even to his most ardent admirers Bach can seem a little remote at times: his genius as a musician – widely acknowledged – is just too far out of reach for most of us to comprehend. But that he was a very human human being comes across in all sorts of ways: not so much from the bric-à-brac of personal evidence such as family letters and first-hand descriptions, which are few and far between, but from chinks in his musical armour-plating, moments when we glimpse the vulnerability of an ordinary person struggling with an ordinary person’s doubts, worries and perplexities.
The anxiously modified tautology “he was a very human human being…” gives you some sense of what Gardiner fears he is up against. More than any other composer, Bach illustrates the problem of articulating the emotional mechanisms of music. There is a long tradition of disappointing hermeneutics lurking there. The mainstream of Bach reception has been characterized by a frustrating poetic reticence, a dissonance between strong claims that his music is emotive and deeply moving coupled with a refusal or inability to identify the source of that emotion in terms other than its exhaustiveness or its impressive contrapuntal achievement. The poetic potential of his music is usually tied to its stylistic breadth and technical complexity, an exercise in the monumental and the logical, which impresses only insofar as it remains aloof from emotional particularity. That distance has proven useful. The vagueness of those powerful emotions everyone claims to feel, their being tied to something so seemingly unnamable, has allowed each generation to remake Bach in whatever image suits them. It is, in other words, what makes possible that most ubiquitous and banal claim about Bach’s music: that it is “Universal.” That cardinal cliché is difficult for any biographer of a “great” to avoid, and Gardiner is no exception, finding in Bach’s sacred music, “a universal message of hope that can touch anybody regardless of culture, religious denomination or musical knowledge.”
Such platitudes, of course, tell us nothing except how easy it has been to renew Bach’s music decade by decade. As anyone surveying the last hundred years will realize, and as Paul Elie pointed out last year in his Reinventing Bach, the 20th century belonged to the miraculous Leipzig cantor. While other composers had their moments, and the center of the concert hall canon might seem to tilt every so often between earlier and later Romantics, by the beginning of the 20th century it had been decided that Bach would always stand as the monad, the font, the Großvater of us all. The image of Bach as prototype has been a cultural obsession since the 1830s when the Romantics first rediscovered his great settings of The Passion of Christ. That revival, beginning with Felix Mendelssohn’s historic performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829, the first time it had been heard since Bach’s own lifetime, succeeded in doing two things for Mendelssohn’s generation: it extended the German canon back a century, proving that “deep” music had always been a Teutonic thing, and it made a literal merger between Art and Religion for a generation that increasingly saw the concert hall as a site for their most spiritual and philosophical experiences.
Since that moment, Bach has been the official center of gravity that binds together the musical universe. It’s not an empty honorific. “In Bach,” according to Mahler, “the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.” For Brahms his music represented “a whole world of the deepest thought and most powerful feeling.” The 19th century turned his off-putting complexity and biographical distance into a mechanism for confronting the sublime, that ultimate proof of Romantic ideals. Whether it was the tangle of a solo keyboard fugue, or the glacial face of the opening chorus in the St. John Passion, his music was a test, a mountain to be climbed so that one might, with pain and awe, glimpse and reach out to touch the highest possible points mortally attainable.
By the third decade of the 20th century, the sublime had met up with the mass market mechanisms of radio and recording. His most famous works were packaged for maximum virtual mountaineering, the keyboard works played in lush, gargantuan transcriptions by the likes of Rachmaninoff and Busoni or clothed in the grandest garb of all, the oversized Wagnerian symphony orchestra. If the mountaintop is too far away, and too steep a climb, then the NBC Radio Orchestra would snip off the peak and send it to your living room where it would still seem plenty big. The transcriptions by Leopold Stokowski of works like the Chaconne for solo violin or the Passacaglia and Fugue for organ were gorgeous, plodding wooly-mammoths that marked a moment of maximal popularization for Bach: Gothic Bach, Unfathomable Bach. This was the Bach world that John Eliot Gardiner was born into and would eventually help to replace.
His career as a conductor of the Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique falls squarely into a newer phase of Bach reception, an epochal shift in what Bach symbolized and eventually what he sounded like. This new Bach, the Bach that has reigned in the cultural imagination for the last 75 years, which musicologist Susan McClary has dubbed “Pythagorean” Bach, emerged as part of the stark turn away from Romanticism following World War I. The modernist rejection of “subjectivity” and personal psychological confessionals in art led to something of a downfall for Wagner, Mahler, and most of the great 19th-century Romantics. But the disillusioned post-war avant-garde found intellectual solace in the alienating distance between Bach and the human. Unlike Wagner, and Beethoven, and Schumann, Bach was untainted by personal psychology and corruptible human desire. He again benefited from having no historical personality, seeming to float above it all in a positivistic paradise where music and number intersected free of the original sin of emotion. His difficult and seemingly flawless counterpoint could serve as a crucible for what mattered in the years of Modernist formalism: Truth, objectivity, incorruptible processual integrity. The chores of complicated composing rules seemed to the modernists the best protection from backsliding into old bad (read: Romantic) habits. For Stravinsky, Bach’s fugues were “a pure form in which the music means nothing outside of itself.” Even as multiple generations or artists turned for comfort to the play of abstract forms, Bach managed to remain the center of the musical universe.
Even the radical post-World War II composers of total serialism, chance music, and computer music could not fault the pristine precision of his counterpoint. Gothic Bach had given way to Harmony-of-the-Spheres Bach, a different kind of metaphysics, but one no less rooted in the sublime — The Mathematical Sublime. Think no further than the close bond between Bach and Glenn Gould, that next great mythic icon of modernist detachment. To twist Gardiner’s tautology, Gould was one of the least human human beings to have ever been. Like everyone else, he found himself in Bach, imagining him as an artist “withdrawing from the pragmatic concerns of music-making into an idealized world of uncompromised invention.” This, of course, is precisely what Gould did in 1964 when he retired from live performance to concentrate his efforts exclusively within the precision-bubble of the recording studio, freed from the concert hall and its stink of the human and the social. Gould, too, is now central to our mythology of artist types and, in the popular imagination, Bach has remained the music for that type: esoterics and ascetics and Beautiful Minds. It is the music to which Hannibal Lecter plans his meticulous escape in The Silence of the Lambs. It is the music obsessively plinked out by the father of Allison Janney’s character on The West Wing, of course a mathematician, of course seeking structure through the spreading disorder and isolation of Alzheimer’s Disease. Music, Math, and Discipline. Clarity, Structure, and Complexity.
It is necessary to revisit Bach’s complicated reception history because it is out of all of this that Gardiner hopes to bring back to human form his “very human human being.” It is a tall order, and a motivation one may not immediately trust considering how much Gardiner’s own recordings have helped to solidify the modernist view. As he relates it in Music in the Castle of Heaven, he experienced that version of Bach early on in his studies with Nadia Boulanger who preached the Stravinskyan catechism of discipline and order: “She insisted that the freedom to express yourself in music, whether as a composer, conductor or performer, demanded obedience to certain laws.” His own recordings, part of the wave of “historically informed” interpretations using original instruments and claiming to resurrect the performing styles of Bach’s own era, have come to define the sound of Bach for the current generation of listeners. Those initial claims to “authentic reconstruction” have long been put aside, and we have (most of us) come to admit that we like this sound not for its historical authenticity but for how well it matches up with our own Mondrian-esque view of Bach: sleekness, clarity, momentum, almost superhuman precision (with Gardiner’s Monteverdi Choir often at tempos that take the breath right out any mere humans foolish enough to try and sing along). Gardiner’s interpretations are only the most successful of an entire generation of conductors (along with those of Sigiswald Kuijken, Phillipe Herreweghe, Nikilaus Harnoncourt, and Masaaki Suzuki among others) whose sound lays bare the abstract lines in Bach’s counterpoint by eliminating all of the distractions of older, Romantic performing styles: too much vibrato, too much rubato, too much dynamic swelling, not to mention too many performers. It would be impossible to overestimate how important Gardiner’s recorded legacy is to contemporary Bach reception. As novel and shocking as his recordings may have seemed to my own teachers who grew up on Otto Klemperer and Wilhelm Furtwängler, I am just young enough that his 1990 B-Minor Mass recording on Archiv was the first I heard, as was his St. Matthew Passion, and most revelatory to me, his recording of Bach’s Magnificat. Today, for my students, Gardiner’s Bach is “normal” Bach, and those earlier conductors seem shocking, impossibly foreign, as from a lost and bizarre era.
The book, then, surprises. Given this reputation for clarity and precision, it is surprising that Gardiner’s inner dialog with the composer is such a humanely messy concoction of the spiritual and the psychological. One wonders if the motivation for the book is not to provide something of a correction to his own public reception. That a great performer may look back on his career and fear that everyone has missed his point all along must be daunting. Though one suspects that the 30-year-old Gardiner, caught up in the heady days when the “authentic performance movement” was laying siege to record labels, might have written a different book. Much of Gardiner’s current view seems to have been born of the extraordinary project he undertook in 2000, dubbed the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage. While hardly as austere an experience as the name implies (it was backed by a major record label and documented by a BBC camera crew), it was still a powerful testament to our continuing Bach obsession — a full year spent living life as an itinerant cantor, moving from one church to another throughout Europe, preparing and rehearsing two complete, often unfamiliar, Bach cantatas each week along with a number of other Bach monuments, some two hundred total pieces of difficult music all conforming to the liturgical calendar that was the composer’s own constantly ticking task master. That intensity of focus, of having one’s international conducting career turned for a year into the comparably claustrophobic vocation of Lutheran cantor, in short the pretense of “walking in the composer’s shoes,” seems to have shaken loose a lot in Gardiner. He speaks of it like an evangelist bringing back answers from the desert:
Following Bach’s seasonal and cyclical arrangement of cantatas for an entire year provided us with a graphic musical image of the revolving wheel of time to which we are all bound…solving the enigma of how this music brimming over with vigour and fantasy could have emerged from beneath the wig of that impassive-looking cantor…
The punishing pace of creativity and the picturesque settings seem to have provoked a sort of vision quest, part time-travel fantasy and part genuine insight into how distant a figure as Bach might actually be. It is no surprise, then, that the most satisfying sections of the book are those where Gardiner lets us into that inner dialog by reconstructing his thoughts during moments when he is swimming in the music during rehearsal or performance. Some of this talk is very much in line with the Pythagorean orthodoxy:
to convey what it feels like to be in the middle of it – connected to the motor and dance rhythms of the music, caught up in the sequential harmony and the intricate contrapuntal web of sounds, their spatial relations, the kaleidoscopic colour-changes of voices and instruments…the way it exposes to you its brilliant colour spectrum, its sharpness of contour, its harmonic depth, and the essential fluidity of its movement and underlying rhythm.
So far so Gould: sequences, spatial relations, colors, contours, lines. But as the book progresses, Gardiner reveals another layer of his current thinking about the composer, through both his perspectives on those same dull primary sources, which unfortunately he chooses to revisit in great detail, and through his favorite individual passages of the cantatas and Passions, which happily he does in just as much detail. The biographical half of the book shines in those sections when he imaginatively recreates the feel of the places Bach lived, penning him in a much smaller and uglier world than one might wish to imagine. Gardiner’s biographical Bach is impressively small: not a German but a Thuringian, not part of a Lutheran community but part of a family-clan, not a citizen of the Enlightenment but an overworked and alternately obsequious and litigious crank mired in the petty squabbles of provincial town life. Remote from the big thinking that usually makes up the intellectual context of Baroque studies, Bach’s world as presented by Gardiner is decidedly un-sublime. While far too conjectural in its details to be taken as an authoritative biography, it is a welcome antidote to the sweeping historical movements which usually serve as the “context” of important artist’s lives: The Enlightenment, The Baroque, The Holy Roman Empire. Bach’s world is too small for such big frames. Gardiner usefully reminds us that it is entirely possible to live “in the Enlightenment” without knowing it or showing many signs of it. It is a common sense point that some academic writers of epistemological “top-down” history might heed more often.
With a Huizinga-esque flair, Gardiner depicts Bach’s milieu in terms calculated to pull him off the mountaintop of “pure music.” From the rough and tactless scrounging required of preceding generations of the great “Bach Clan” to survive the grey landscape of the Thirty Years War (“the malaise which through most of the previous century had blighted the struggles of their parents’ and grandparents”), to Bach’s own dingy coming of age in the brutish boy’s schools of Eisenach and Ohrdruf with their Caravaggiesque gangs of knife-wielding ruffians (“brawls…[that]…developed unchecked while the burghers stood by, impotently wringing their hands…[over the] territorial division of the town between these embryonic Jets and Sharks or Mods and Rockers”), all the way to the petty arguments that made up much of his life in a Leipzig run by “a formidable alliance of secular and religious powers whose methods of subjugating employees had been honed over time and who were expert at making life difficult…,” Gardiner shows a consistent flair for the drab and depressing.
As in Huizinga’s history writing, the rough detail in this portrait of a querulous, often petty cantor and his dour world is meant to shock and alienate the reader. In breaking the composer out of his abstract cocoon, Gardiner also manages to break down the stereotype of the detached ascetic inhabiting a world of pure intellect. But that distance, once achieved, and the reader’s predictable recoil from the grubby reality offered up, is actually just a step toward Gardiner’s next goal, to locate in Bach some basis for a tragic persona that can serve as a framework for reading his works psychologically and autobiographically. The goal is not without merit. For listeners, it promises a renewed emotional resonance between we moderns and Bach’s sacred music that goes beyond the old saws of purity or complexity. The tactics, however, are predictable and problematic. To pull Bach, and only Bach, across the 1800 wall and into the world of authentic testimony, Gardiner needs to pick and choose when to allow him to be a very human human being living in his very small human world, and when to allow him the luxury of transcending that world in order to communicate his “universal” message. It is a difficult needle to thread.
The Bach that emerges is heavily marked by that rougher, darker setting. But the resulting scars are arranged into a familiar pattern, that of the romantic outsider. He is orphaned, death-obsessed, outlaw, non-conformist, a sullen misfit. He is “battle scarred” from disputes with both civic and court authorities, scars that include the memory of imprisonment and the threat of destitution. He rejected the career path of his more successful contemporaries toward the soulless but profitable theatre music of larger urban centers out of pure artistic integrity (“not from any Lutheran prudery but simply because the music he heard there left him cold”). Instead he propagated “mutant” musical forms that were largely misunderstood by his own audiences and bosses. He is set upon by smaller musical minds who question his lack of a university education. Thus even Bach, the supreme technician (and posthumous terrorizer of conservatory students the world over), is able to fill the Romantic role of the unschooled, or at least un-institutionalized, outsider. He stands alone as a complex psychological figure among a collection of shallow and imperious straw men: despots, bureaucrats, venal patrons, abusive pedagogues, jealous academics, frivolous popular composers (Telemann serves as the main foil here), and audiences craving easy delights. Bach alone is allowed the luxury of introspection and depth because Bach alone is tasked with having something important to say to us directly. The personal flaws of this “imperfect man” selected for our inspection are consistently of the anti-hero variety. He is, in short, every bit the visionary and martyr we’ve come to expect from artistic hagiography. The process is completed when Gardiner makes the final turn so familiar to us from our side of the 1800 wall, revealing that the ultimate primary source for Bach’s biography is the testimony of “the music itself.”
The music gives us shafts of insight into the harrowing experiences he must have suffered as an orphan, as a lone teenager, and as a grieving husband and father. They show us his fierce dislike of hypocrisy and his impatience with falsification of any sort; but they also reveal the profound sympathy he felt towards those who grieve or suffer in one way or another, or who struggle with their consciences.
Much of this is merely an extension of the call made over ten years ago by Robert L. Marshall for bolder attempts at Bach Biography. There is much resonance between Gardiner’s portrait of Bach and Marshall’s suggested method, to extend back to Bach the posthumous Freudian couch sessions practiced so provocatively (and questionably) by Maynard Solomon in his biographies of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. Both Marshall and Gardiner fixate on Bach’s experience of loss. Marshall goes so far as to posit that an obsession with death and human frailty, not to mention a deep attraction to Lutheran orthodoxy, might be explained as a retreat from the anxiety of being twice orphaned, first by parental death, and then by brotherly abandonment. It is a method that requires inflating poorly documented, sometimes partially guessed, bits of biographical detail with intense emotional consequences. Gardiner’s musical analyses flow freely from this font. Simply put, Bach’s personal experience of loss, coupled with his fervent immersion in Lutheran doctrine, led him to a uniquely honest understanding of shame, of temptation, and of the desire for redemption. Such themes, of course, never go out of fashion and were staples as well of Baroque opera and of the sacred works of Vivaldi, Telemann, and scores of other composers. But Gardiner singles out Bach for an “authentic” religious conviction in contrast to the shallowness of his more theatrical contemporaries. To revisit and rewrite Kerman’s formula, “Baroque composers depict the passions….except for Bach, who expresses them.” One of us after all. This coupled with Bach’s unmatched willingness to forego the beautiful and the pleasurable in favor of uncomfortable moments of pain, rage, and revulsion separates him from those others. At its best such diagnoses invest old music with a new and contemporary psychological power, a process that leaves one conflicted, offending the historian while stirring the concertgoer. Being both myself, I’ve long since learned to stop worrying and enjoy the resulting neurotics made out of Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Ives, et al., and so I am fully prepared to do the same for Bach. But we should never forget who the patient on the couch really is.
Gardiner’s task is made easier by the predictability of the resulting trope. We all know the artist type that we expect to be born of such angst. The gateway from slim source material to mythological archetype is a bit like Platform Nine and Three-Quarters at King’s Cross Station. It will always be there for you if you run confidently enough at it. In Music in the Castle of Heaven, this dimension of testimonial expressivity remains Bach’s special prerogative among Baroque composers, a special status essential to the book’s final and most substantial argument, that among the music of that entire era Bach’s sacred vocal works are uniquely relevant to our modern condition.
Gardiner provides us two different vantage points on Bach’s testaments. Based on his experience during the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, he is the perfect guide to walk us through a diachronic survey of an entire year’s cycle. It is an ambitious analysis offering glimpses of a composer responding to the challenge of producing a new sacred composition every week — a complex of moving Rembrandtian musical portraits of humans in distress. For a few cantatas and for the two extant Passion settings he gives us extreme close-ups, visiting with each movement and scene at a level of detail that allows us to luxuriate in the conductor’s vision of his newer darker Bach. His reading of Christ Lag in Todesbanden (BWV 4) demonstrates the surprising zeal of a 22-year-old’s commitment to Lutheran eschatology. The text and governing melody, harshly ritualistic and tribal, are by Luther himself.
No innocence could be found.
Thus it was that Death came so soon
And seized power over us –
Held us captive in his kingdom,
Bach’s musical setting weeps, wails, and roars with striking realism even as it astounds in its intricate textures. The result is a grim reminder of how effective Luther’s language and Bach’s music can be at bringing abstract theological concerns down into the world of everyday mortality:
Timeframes overlap here: first that of pre-regenerate man, then those of the Thuringians of both Luther’s and Bach’s day, scarred by their regular brushes with pestilential death.
Gardiner uncovers (or injects) much that is new and worth the reader’s time. The St. John and St. Matthew Passion settings get particularly engaging analysis, fitting to their position in Gardiner’s view as the greatest example of music’s ability to mimic tragedy and to force passive listeners into a recognition of their culpability in the world they inhabit:
[they]…animate the conventions of tragic myth and tragic conduct….leading his listeners to confront their mortality and compelling them to witness things from which they would normally avert their eyes.
These close readings have a lot to offer. They are rich in technical detail for those that want that in a music book, and bold in their emotional lunges for those who will skip past the shop talk of rhythms and counterpoints. But Gardiner’s hope is for more than mere compellingness. It is for relevance. His book is a failure if it cannot frame Bach’s Passions as something more than historical artifacts of a proto-enlightenment. That is the reason he doesn’t go too far into that world before pulling up. Others have already delved farther into what Gardiner almost sheepishly calls “the delicate issue of religious belief,” questioning the ability of today’s audiences to connect to a music so deeply rooted in convictions that many of us do not share or may even outright reject. Richard Taruskin offers that if one digs far enough into the real historical Bach, one finds a worldview worth truly recoiling from, a world of enforced consensus, absolutist ideology, anti-individualism, misogyny, and small-minded bigotry: “pre-Enlightened—and when push came to shove, a violently anti-Enlightened—temper…Such music was a medium of truth, not beauty, and the truth it served—Luther’s truth—was often bitter….Even when Bach is not expressing actively anti-Enlightenment sentiments…his settings are pervaded with a general antihumanism.” This, according to Taruskin, is why “only a handful of Bach’s cantatas can be said to have really joined the modern performance repertory, and a thoroughly unrepresentative handful at that.”
Gardiner offers us some relief from that “abandon ship” position, coaxing us to dip a toe into real history, just enough to give us something more real than Pythagorean Bach or Mountaintop Bach, just enough to darken the mood a bit for audiences who like their music pathological but not demagogic. History, in Music in Castle of Heaven, is in the service of contemporary experience. It must bend to achieve Gardiner’s goal, which is to convince us that Bach’s sacred vocal music remains socially relevant. It contains, after all, vivid and relatable depictions of very human human beings at their most pathetic, guilty, ashamed, supplicating, desperate. Gardiner believes above all else that exposure to these works is good for us in a way that even Bach’s own instrumental music cannot match. Simply put, it fosters empathy:
although Bach is habitually required to deal with such towering universal themes as eternity, sin and death, he shows he is also interested in the flickers of doubt and the daily tribulations of every individual, recognising that small lives do not seem small to the people who live them.
The extent of this belief is on stark display on the CD covers to the recordings that coincide with the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage. Released by Gardiner’s own label, each CD features a photograph by Steve McCurry, best known for National Geographic’s famous cover photo of 12-year-old Sharbat Gula. The CD covers all attempt to repeat the power of that iconic image, a single person staring directly at the camera and thus, challengingly, into the eyes of the listener/holder of the CD. What changes from photo to photo is ethnicity, gender, traditional clothing or makeup. Like Gula, known across America and Europe not by her name but by a reductive formula — “The Afghan Girl” — (direct object + ethnicity + gender = human), the people in the photographs are all easily reduced to interchangeable symbols of exoticness. They are ethnically and geographically diverse, with the notable absence being the white European or American that one might presume is Gardiner’s expected Bach CD purchaser. If their ethnicity does not establish their “otherness,” then their indigenous dress, makeup, or ceremonial posture certainly does — a cascade of very human humans, all very different than you. Shuffle the deck of humanity and buy the complete box set! It is easy to read this exercise as naively exploitive orientalism. But I am willing to give Gardiner the benefit of an earnest belief that these images press the same issue as the music, asking us to confront the ultimate test of empathy — distance. It is easy to feel for the person near you, or the person who most resembles you. The consequences of their suffering are clearer and closer. The true test is how compelled one is to act on behalf of someone far away, who does not resemble you, and who you will never meet. It is a bold and clumsy attempt to make a strong claim that Bach’s sacred music has powerful work to do still today, the highest order of work, of making the world a better place all the way from the private to the global:
for beleaguered humanity at all times and in all places – from instances of false accusation in private or domestic life to the outrages under regimes of torture.
Music in the Castle of Heaven seems meant to complete a triad: striking musical performances, provocative visual imagery, and now a book-length exploration of these works, step by step, psychological trauma by trauma. But this brings us back to where this essay began, prompting the question of why it requires so many pages of biographical backup? Why the need to establish that the message we receive from this astounding music is rooted in Bach’s own psyche and endorsed by his own intentions? Twenty years ago, during the great “authentic performance” debates, this same question was asked of performers like Gardiner who claimed “historical verisimilitude” as a justification for their new performance style rather than simply admitting that they played the way they wanted to because they (and we) liked the sound. Gardiner’s own rhetoric was called into question back then as an example of the poietic fallacy, the idea that the only, or most valid, meaning of a musical work is one derived from the composer’s own thought process. It is a habit that leads us to credit our own feelings to someone else — someone whose mind we cannot hope to read, but whose authority we crave — the composer or author as lawgiver. The debate is long settled so far as performance is concerned, and performers in the new style have (mostly) accepted that, as Taruskin sneakily commended them, “being the true voice of one’s time is…roughly forty thousand times as vital and important as being the assumed voice of history.” But reading Music in the Castle of Heaven, it seems as if Gardiner, the author, learned nothing from the trials of Gardiner, the performer, or at least thought he might slip old habits by in another form.
Take for a final example his readings of Cantatas 178, 179, and 135, the texts of which center on spiritual hypocrisy (from BWV 178: “wicked men … conceiving their artful plots with the serpent’s guile” and from BWV 179: “Likeness of false hypocrites, We could Sodom’s apples call them, Who, with rot though they be filled, On the outside brightly glisten.”). The music is filled with strident, heavily articulated orchestral slicing, fiery long-winded chewing-outs for melodies, and unexpected harmonic thunderclaps. For Gardiner, the one thing that is missing is personal testimony:
such sustained defiance that one asks whether there is a submerged story here – of Bach operating in a hostile environment, How much more satisfying, then, for him to channel all that frustration and vituperative energy into his music,…This is superb, angry music executed with a palpable fury, with Bach fuming at delinquent malefactors. One can picture the city elders, sitting in the best pews, listening to these post-Trinitarian harangues, registering their intent and starting to feel increasingly uncomfortable as these shockingly direct words – and Bach’s still more strident and abrasive music – hit home.
Perhaps. Certainly the notion reinforces Gardiner’s own Bach mythology, Bach again as prototype, this time of the outsider anti-hero — proto-Beethoven. It is attractive. But whatever satisfying defiance this music parallels in modern listeners — anger at hypocritical corporate double-speak or outraged moralizing at ignorant power-wielding political hacks — is both self-evident in the sound and already built in to our cultural moment. It does not require the backing of Bach’s imaginary diary or visions of puffed-up Leipzig burghers.
In the end, the book is an argument for these difficult works to be kept alive, sprinkled with a fear that in our age of spiritual skepticism, and our new $.99/track digital music marketplace, Bach’s shorter instrumental works (and heaven forbid Vivaldi’s brilliant and breezily accessible concerti and arias) may be better built to thrive. But the case for relevance, and the call to keep the cantatas from fading, will be made between Bach’s music, his performers, and us. The answer to the question “why should we listen to this?” does not have to coincide with the answer to the question “why did he write it?”
If one has any doubts, look around at how many different Bachs are coexisting today, when more than a century of shifting performance styles and emotional perspectives are all streaming together on Youtube: Romantic Bach, Modern Bach, Gothic Bach, Pythagorean Bach, ascetic Bach, Lutheran Bach, audacious virtuoso Bach. You can choose whichever you’d like today, and a different one tomorrow. They all once claimed to be “the real” Bach — proof of how the process of reception is the history that matters. Just be aware, when reading Music in the Castle of Heaven, that John Eliot Gardiner’s tragic orphan-empath is only one Bach among those many. No more or less accurate to the “true” past, but perhaps more prepared to survive the immediate future.
Michael Markham is an assistant professor of Music History at the State University of New York at Fredonia. His writings on Baroque music and performance spaces, on solo song, and on J. S. Bach have appeared in Gli spazi della musica, The Cambridge Opera Journal, The Opera Quarterly, and Repercussions.
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American golfer Bubba Watson with his Green Jacket after victory in the 2012 US Masters. Getty Images
Watson wins sudden-death at Masters
by James Corrigan
9th Apr 2012 12:00 PM
IT WAS perhaps fitting that a Masters which stretched the limits of sporting incredulity was won by an American eccentric who conjured an outrageous major-winning birdie. Bubba Watson denied Louis Oosthuizen on a day which featured the South African record the fourth albatross in the 83-year history of Augusta's magnificent event.
Watson was in the trees on the second extra hole - the 10th - and needing a miracle. But with that self-taught swing which creates barely imaginable movement he produced an incredible hook which finished within 12ft. Oosthuizen could not get up and down and so the drama ended in glory for the 33-year-old from Florida. Bubba blubbed. He had every right to cry.
It says so much about the frenetic nature of this feast that by the time Watson had tapped in the miracle of four hours before was a distant memory. It was the Masters which had everything - including a play-off. When Watson and Oosthuizen walked back to the 18th it was a chance for Augusta to take a breath. Blimey, it was needed. This cathedral of the pines had just witnessed one of the game's greatest shots and one of the most gripping back nines.
Oosthuizen's four-iron had sent him clear, but Watson hauled him back with four birdies in a row from the 13th. After Oosthuizen had made a nerveless five-footer to send it into extra time the big-hitting Watson stood tallest, proving that you don't have to be mad to keep your cool in the most pressurised of atmospheres - but it certainly helps.
At 10-under there were two shots back to Lee Westwood, Phil Mickelson, Matt Kuchar and Peter Hanson in a tie for third. A few more would have left the National counting up the "if onlys".
It had to go some to rival the drama of last year. It eclipsed those remarkable scenes. This was a white-knuckled ride with so many candidates hanging on to the rollercoaster. Turning for home there were eight players within four shots. They included Westwood and Ian Poulter for England and Padraig Harrington for Ireland. The trio played a full part, Westwood in particular displaying outrageous form with wood and iron. His 68 left him two shots short and when one considers the missed putts this was yet another major that got away. It must have been hard to take.
This was Westwood's seventh top three in his last 15 majors, a remarkable run. Except he wants the magical Sunday. He doesn't need to be told that he led the green-in-regulation statistics or that he took 98 putts in his first three rounds. The realisation was written all over his face. It has to be his day soon.
His ball-striking on the back nine was peerless. The wood on to the 15th green was perfectly struck to 10 feet, but somehow the ball managed to rest an inch on the opposite side of the hole. No matter, he marched to the 16th and put it 14 feet. The putt dribbled wide. The 17th he put he to 10 feet, the putt dribbled wide. On the 18th, he holed a nine-footer. At eight-under he went to prepare for a possible play-off. But deep down he knew.
Westwood is 39 in a fortnight and will be a big factor at the US Open in San Francisco. Only a fool would predict otherwise. Poulter is another who will head to the Olympic Club with conviction. Little over a month ago he had pneumonia. He shrugged off the fatigue to finish seventh, his best here.
An albatross at Augusta is only just less commonplace than a female member. Never mind giving this Masters a spark, Oosthuizen threw paraffin and so many boxes of matches on the 76th conclusion of the season's first major. Somewhere up above, Gene Sarazen allowed himself a little chuckle.
Of course, it was the great American who produced "the shot heard across the world", by holing his second at the par-five 15th. Nobody had ever, in 89 years, conjured a two on the 575-yarder. Oosthuizen defied the record books.
Starting the day two behind the Hanson, the 2010 Open champion stood over his 253-yard four-iron approach thinking of making the putting surface. The observer could tell he liked it straight away. And so it hopped on to the green. Crikey, this was going to be close. Very close. It was destined to drop, rolling up and into the hole with perfect weight. Cue bedlam.
Oosthuizen raised his arms, before performing "a high 10" with his caddie, Wynard Stander, which missed. He threw the ball into the crowd, the lucky recipient being a New Zealander called Wayne Mitchell. The rumour was the greenjackets "acquired" the ball from the gentleman, who had apparently been offered $20,000 by an auction house.
In one shot Oosthuizen had gone from being two behind to one ahead. With Hanson bogeying the first, Oosthuizen was three ahead, although by the eighth, Watson and Kuchar had closed to within two. Wasn't it golf's great entertainer, Mickelson, charged with introducing the electricity?
The left-hander did that; but it was negative rather than positive. Mickelson sliced the ball off the grandstand into the trees on the fourth, took two right-handed swings in the cabbage, then chunked a flop-shot into a bunker off a tight lie, then almost holed his bunker. The triple-bogey six dropped him to five-under, four behind Oosthuizen. But no Masters champion has ever posted a triple, never mind two and the three-time champion could only drag his way back to a level 72.
So it was another left-hander who launched the assault which felled Oosthuizen. His father died last year, which accounts for the tears. After a three-putt on the 12th, Watson went into attack mode. It came off, courtesy of that quartet of birdies and, of course, that piece of supreme skill in the play-off.
Oosthuizen - who made so many gutsy par saves - had achieved immortality. A crystal bowl is on the way to his residence in West Palm Beach - and a plaque will be on its way to that spot on the second fairway. What a start for Oosthuizen, what a start to a major.
The Masters hadn't seen an albatross - or "a double eagle" as they call it over - in 19 years since Jeff Maggert at the 13th. Oosthuizen has provided emphatic proof that his seven-shot win at St Andrews was anything but a fluke. And whatever the result of the play-off, Oosthuizen at least had a moment to toast. If only Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy could have said the same.
Woods was lifeless in a 74 which ensured his worst finish at The Masters in 15 years as a professional, at a place which was supposed his theatre. There was a nice moment when he gave a mock fist-pump and a roar when birdieing the 18th. Don't believe his wry smile. Deep down he was in agony.
So much for The Tiger and Rory Show. It was supposed to be the main act, but it did not even qualify as a warm-up. They finished together on five over, tied for 41st. In the event, golf didn't require a battle between the generations to thrill the heart. The Masters requires nothing else but the magic of Augusta.
Bubba blubbed. And everyone with a sporting soul acknowledged why.
SELECTED FINAL ROUND SCORES (US unless stated, par 72)
278 B Watson 69 71 70 68, L Oosthuizen (SA) 68 72 6969. (Watson wins sudden death play-off)
280 L Westwood (GB) 67 73 72 68, M Kuchar 71 70 70 69, P Hanson (Swe) 68 74 65 73, P Mickelson 74 68 66 72.
283 I Poulter (GB) 72 72 70 69.
284 J Rose (GB) 72 72 72 68, A Scott (Aus) 75 70 73 66, P Harrington (Ire) 71 73 68 72.
285 J Furyk 70 73 72 70.
286 K Na 71 75 72 68, G McDowell (GB) 75 72 71 68, S Garcia (Sp) 72 68 75 71.
289 J Dufner 69 70 75 75, A Hansen (Den) 76 72 73 68, P Lawrie (GB) 69 72 72 76.
290 V Singh (Fiji) 70 72 76 72, R Fowler 74 74 72 70.
291 A Cabrera (Arg) 71 78 71 71, L Donald (GB) 75 73 75 68.
292 B Haas 72 74 76 70, Sang-moon Bae (S Kor) 75 71 69 77, T Bjorn (Den) 73 76 74 69
293 A Baddeley (Aus) 71 71 77 74, R McIlroy (GB) 71 69 77 76, T Woods 72 75 72 74.
294 M Kaymer (Ger) 72 75 75 72, K Chappell 71 76 71 76, W Simpson 72 74 70 78.
295 S Stricker 71 77 72 75, R Fisher (GB) 71 77 73 74, P Cantlay 71 78 74 72.
298 M Angel Jimenez (Sp) 69 72 76 81.
299 M Laird (GB) 76 72 74 77, Y E Yang (S Kor) 73 70 75 81, E Molinari (It) 75 74 76 74.
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Attack on Darwin
Contributor: Morgan Bell
ww2dbaseIn the 1930s the tropical, northern Australian port city of Darwin was considered by government ministers in Canberra as a vital asset in Australia's defence against an expanding, militant imperial Japan, so in the years leading up to the Second World War, the harbour underwent improvements to coastal defences and port facilities, while local airfield facilities were also upgraded, and the garrison was steadily increased. Despite this increased security, after the fall of Singapore, Australian wartime governments feared Japanese air raids on Darwin, or even full scale invasion. Evacuations of women, children, the infirm and the aged were conducted in Darwin shortly after the outbreak of war in the Pacific on 7 December 1941, the expectation of Japanese attack assisting officials in this difficult task, with two thousand civilians not in necessary occupations in the city being transported to southern states, such a successful evacuation that means of transport were difficult for authorities to find. The 12,000 ton American liner, the President Grant, recently arrived in Port Darwin after its mooring in Manila Bay was threatened when the Japanese invasion of the Philippines seemed imminent, and the captain, after being told to proceed to the nearest friendly port, chose Darwin, navigating with a map taken from a National Geographic magazine. The owners negotiated a settlement with the Australian government, in the midst of the scramble for transport, for 100 pounds per evacuee, the ship already bound for Australia's eastern coast, at a time when the standard fee on Australian ships between Darwin and Sydney was 25 pounds. The ship later struck a reef in the Solomon Islands as it was transporting troops to the Battle of Guadalcanal.
ww2dbaseAustralia lay directly south of the newly consolidated Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, where Japanese military leaders feared that it would be used as a base by the Allies to strike at Japan's newly won empire. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Combined Fleet staff feared Darwin was a possible hinderance to Japanese operations in Java, as they completed the seizing of the Netherlands East Indies. He submitted proposals for an amphibious invasion of the Darwin area, but the Navy and Army General Staff rejected that option, favouring an air raid, the first of 64, between 19 February 1942 and 12 December 1943, to destroy the installation. So a Japanese task force of carriers set out from the Celebes, and passed into the Timor Sea, turning into the wind to launch 81 level bombers, 71 dive bombers, and 36 fighters, more aerial machines of destruction than within the force that attacked Pearl Harbour, destined for Darwin. This force, led by Commander Mitsuo Fuchida, was ordered to destroy the port facilities, sink as many ships in the harbour as possible, and destroy infrastructure. Years later, Fuchida would say of using such an overwhelming force against such a soft target "It was hardly worthy of us. If ever a sledgehammer was used to crack an egg, it was then". At 9.58am on 19 February 1942, after the war in the Pacific had been raging for ten weeks, the 188 planes descended upon their target, performing their task with precision. Eight ships were sunk in the harbour, including an American destroyer, the USS Peary; and damaging a further thirty-five ships seeking refuge in the harbour. Of the citizens remaining in the city, including those dockside workers undertaking their tasks in the port facilities and on ships, approximately two hundred and fifty died, and a further three or four hundred were wounded. The government in Canberra suppressed these casualty figures out of fear for a panic among the Australian population. Most of the remainder fled, even some under a military discipline that was in tatters. An extra half an hour warning could have allowed those remaining time to flee if warnings from Melville and Bathurst Islands, north-west of Darwin and directly below the aerial force's flight path, had been heeded. Earlier false alarms causing panic and confusion made authorities wary of hitting the alarm unless an air raid was definitely taking place. At 10.40am, the all-clear was given, but at 11.58am lookouts aboard the HMAS Platypus observed more planes flying towards Darwin. These were 54 land based bombers that had flown from Kendari, in the Celebes, the alarms were sounded just as people were emerging from trenches and shelters. Expecting further bombing of the harbour, people, civilian and military, once again took cover, but these Japanese planes passed over the harbour and city, continuing in the direction of the RAAF base, which was subjected to intense pattern bombing, as described by Lieutenant Owen Griffiths on the bridge of the HMAS Platypus
With one big crash they dropped their entire loads on the aerodrome and buildings. This was the first time I had seen a large number of bombs fall together on a target. It was a fearful sight. With a noise like the roll of heavy thunder, a thick cloud of smoke, dust and red and yellow flame shot into the air and left a long line of smoke to join with the flame already hanging over Darwin. Surely nothing could be alive in that area!
ww2dbaseBut RAAF staff had either been mostly safe in shelters or deserted their posts, only six men died in this second raid on this first day of Japanese air raids on Darwin. Darwin was to continue suffering Japanese air raids throughout the remainder of 1942 and 1943, the last Japanese raid on Darwin during the war occurred on 12 December 1943. Australian resistance, under-resourced from the RAAF operating in the war against Germany, with air forces occurred in January 1943, when No. 1 Fighter Wing, RAF was moved to the area. Three Spitfire squadrons, 54 RAF based at Darwin, 452 RAAF operating from Strauss, and 457 RAAF based in Livingstone, were involved in major skirmishes with the Japanese on 2 and 15 March 1943. In the most successful raid by the RAAF over Darwin, the Spitfires intercepted a formation of fighters and bombers, shooting down fourteen Japanese aircraft. In this sortie, Group Leader Caldwell shot down his fifth Japanese aircraft.
ww2dbaseSources: D. Lockwood, Australia’s Pearl Harbor: Darwin 1942, The Australian War Memorial, J. Beaumont, Australia’s War: 1939 – 1945.
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Attack on Darwin Timeline
19 Feb 1942 Japanese carriers launched 152 bombers and 36 fighters at 0845 hours. The attack force reached Darwin, Australia at 0958 hours and attacked the port city for the subsequent 42 minutes, sinking US destroyer USS Peary (93 killed, 49 survived), US transport USAT Meigs, merchant ship Zealandia, US merchant ship Mauna Loa, British freighter Neptuna, British tanker British Motorist, and coal storage hulk Kelat. 7 Japanese aircraft were lost in this first raid, while 7 American P-40 fighters were destroyed (4 in combat, 3 on the ground). Later in the day, 54 land-based bombers based in Kendari, Celebes, Dutch East Indies arrived for a second raid, destroying 6 Australian Hudson light bombers, 1 US B-24 Liberator bomber, and 2 US P-40 fighters.
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1. Anonymous says:
alot of panic and pain
2. joel says:
24 Jun 2006 12:53:46 AM
can any one PLEASE help me find out what and when the last plane was shot down in darwin on land?? thank you would be much appreiciated
18 Apr 2007 09:16:01 PM
Wow, I knew Australia was a big part of the war, but I never knew they were attacked on their on soil.
4. Rivadavia says:
9 Sep 2008 01:33:34 AM
Bravo! This is history as it was meant to be written, in a succinct prose that is long on fact and short on flourish. The exposition is as tight and brisk as the action it describes. No story ever tells itself, but the true historian knows which facts flow together. It is a measure of Morgan's historical gift that we hardly see the effort of research & thought behind this article. The story seems to tell itself.
It has become fashionable lately to derogate impartiality as a virtue of historical judgment. But if we can't transcend our perspective, we can certainly transcend our prejudices. No one who knows Morgan will be surprised at the fairness of his treatment of an event that must strike fierce sparks in the Australian national memory. There are no villains in this piece only historical actors who must be understood on their own terms. Fashions come and go but Morgan can only be an honest judge.
A good history buzz always leaves us wanting more (and this article could have used a few more lines, just by way of summation). Morgan's last paragraph prompts one of those troubling questions that tend to get lost in the Manichean glare of the war against evil. How much was Australia asked to sacrifice its own defensive priorities, as the only Allied nation on Japan's warpath, to the emphasis of the other Allies on the war in Europe? The evidence in this article ("Australian resistance, under-resourced from the RAAF operating in the war against Germany") is that the sacrifice was not small.
Perhaps that is another point that strikes sparks among Australians. But thanks to Morgan, the rest of us know more about their sacrifice.
5. Stephen David Edwards says:
20 Nov 2008 02:06:02 AM
You seem to have neglected to mention the involvement of the Americans in saving our bacon. If I'm not mistaken, we would all be speaking Japanese today if it were not for them!
6. peter lee says:
29 Dec 2008 04:34:43 PM
message for david edwards
the americans have a lot to answer for have nt they,where would we be to day with out them!
7. William McCollum says:
8 May 2009 10:23:03 PM
Just saw the film Australia and had to check out the attack on Darwin for historical accuracy. My uncle was a B-25 gunnner who arrived in Queensland (Charters Towers) to fly with the 90th Bombardment Squadron, 3rd Bombardment Group from April until July 1942. His plane was shot down by Saburo Sakai on July 26, 1942 over Papua New Guinea while trying to slow the Japanese advance on the Kokoda trail. His crew had flown 3 missions from Port Moresby in 24 hours and their number finally came up. He remains MIA, presumed dead.
8. STEELWOLVES says:
31 Jul 2009 09:16:47 PM
To William McCollum: I sincerely hope that your uncle was not a gunner on the "Virginian"? I suspect that aircraft may well be the plane in which Sakai claimed several survivors in the water were attacked and eaten by sharks...
9. dylan says:
11 Aug 2009 04:27:11 PM
could any one please help me ?
i need to find out the name of the commander incharge of the darwin fleet at the time of the bombing.would be much appreiciated.
10. Anonymous says:
13 Oct 2009 06:22:37 PM
I need some help...What circumstances led to the attack?
11. dave kelly says:
As above I am at moment looking at Australia, always knew there was threat from Japanese to Darwin but never realised there was an actual attack, I knew of Gallipoli and Vietnam but Aussies as Irish are denied their position in in what they have given in wars, as remembrance day is on horizon i say thank you to all nations who gave something to my freedom
12. james troy says:
hey guys, im doing a school assignment on the bombing of darwin and i need more info on how the attack happened and would like any pictures for the slide show im doing with it.
13. Kay says:
3 Mar 2011 02:27:16 AM
My father is a WWII Veteran he doesnt talk very about the war at all even after all these years, He did talk about running out of bullets and having to use whatever they could find eg nails screws, I also have an ashtray the base is the shape of Australia and there is a plane hovering over it I was wondering if anyone could tell me about who made it? as there were quite a few made at that time and dad cant remember anymore.
why did they attack?
15. Michael Leach says:
19 Feb 2012 03:04:32 PM
Whilst the raid on Port Darwin was a disaster from an Australian point of view, in terms of a use of a precious resource [the Japanese 6 carriers carrier fleet], the Port Darwin raid was very much an overkill, and did little or nothing to further the Japanese strategic aims. A much better use would have been to seek out the three active American carriers over which Japan had a 2:1 superiority
16. jane says:
10 Nov 2012 08:02:41 PM
does anyone know where I can find a timeline of the events that day?
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Though I usually restrict this blog to films up to about 1970, I occasionally make exceptions for films that have a 60’s feel to them—Fiddler on the Roof, for instance. And this one, which despite the bell bottoms, the unbelievably gaudy outfits of the supporting cast and the horrendous decor, has a definitely 60’s feel about it. Another reason (and one which I’m not ashamed to admit is probably the main reason) that I’ve decided to make an exception for Ek Nari Ek Brahmachari is that it stars the lovely and vivacious Mumtaz, one of my very favourite actresses.
The first half hour or so of the film is irritating and seemingly pretty pointless. It’s set in a college where the battle of the sexes seems to reign supreme. Most of the men (who—if they’re basically nice—wear skin tight trousers and chest-hugging shirts, or—if they’re the hippy variety—wear psychedelic kurtas with yellow, pink or azure bell bottoms) spend their time ogling the girls or passing snide remarks. The girls, thankfully, aren’t the cringing sort and give back as good as they get.
One person who tries to stay out of these shenanigans is the professed brahmachari (a man who’s taken a vow of celibacy), Mohan Choudhary (Jeetendra). Mohan lives in the college hostel, and spends much of his time praying to Hanuman and Shri Ramakrishna Paramhans to help uphold his vow. When he isn’t doing that, Mohan’s admonishing his male classmates to look upon all girls as their sisters.
His pals aren’t listening, but one of Mohan’s classmates, Neena (Mumtaz) is, and she’s quite won over by his nobleness, thus defeating the entire purpose of that nobleness—Mohan certainly doesn’t want any girl mooning over him.
Mohan’s best friend Jugal (Jagdeep, in what is my favourite role of this delightful actor) has, however, decided that enough’s enough. It’s time Mohan got hitched. So, aided and abetted by his girlfriend Mala (Aruna Irani), Jugal sets out to get Mohan and Neena together. This consists of switching their packages when both Mohan and Neena happen to shop at the same store, so that Mohan ends up with Neena’s package and she ends up with his.
I can’t see that this ploy is very effective: both Mohan and Neena open their packages in the company of friends, and are equally embarrassed at what emerges. Neena ends up coming to Mohan’s room to return his package, but he boots her out soon after, so there’s nothing in the way of a budding romance here.
In the meantime, we get a glimpse into life in Mohan’s home. His father Rai Sahib Surajbhan Choudhary (Sohrab Modi) is a domineering paterfamilias who holds sway at home, bossing his wife Rajlakshmi (Durga Khote) and plotting to get Mohan married. As part of his latest attempts to get Mohan married, Rai Sahib sends for Mohan—who refuses to accede. He won’t marry, he’s a brahmachari.
There is also some indication of Rai Sahib’s unbending pride at this stage. When the prospective bride’s father sends a messenger to say they won’t be able to bring the girl over for Mohan to see her, and instead can Mohan come over, Rai Sahib throws a fit and says this isn’t done, and the wedding’s off. Huh? All I can surmise from this scene is that Rai Sahib’s a bully and a stickler for what he thinks is right.
At any rate, Mohan is thankful the proposed wedding has been nipped in the bud, and he rushes back to college. Back in college, his classmates inform him that all of them are off for a picnic. It’ll be great fun, so Mohan agrees to go along too.
Here some more convoluted and seemingly pointless stuff happens. Jugal decides to play a prank on his girl Mala by stealing her handbag. Unfortunately, he gets mixed up and steals Neena’s handbag, thinking it’s Mala’s. He hides it in a bed roll in the tent he’s sharing with Mohan…
…and Mohan, coming into the empty tent for a comfortable read, opens the bed roll and is scandalised to find a woman’s handbag in it. He pitches the bag out of the tent, into a nearby river. The current carries it away swiftly, so that by the time Jugal discovers his mistake (by eavesdropping on a conversation between Mala and a distraught Neena) the handbag’s far, far away, well and truly lost.
Jugal’s also heard Neena telling the warden (Ruby Myers) about the disappearance of her handbag. It contained Rs 25, she says, along with a gold chain that her grandfather had given her years ago. It’s the chain Neena’s most upset about.
Jugal confesses all to Mohan, who is very remorseful at the thought of having thrown away Neena’s handbag. He must make amends, but won’t spill the beans about Jugal’s role in the affair.
So Mohan goes off to talk to Neena, who is very forgiving about it all. Mohan promises that he’ll get another gold chain made for Neena. In the meantime, will she please accept his gold chain (with a pendant cameo of Ramakrishna Paramhans)? Neena initially refuses, but finally accepts it and puts it around her neck.
While Mohan and Neena are walking back to rejoin the rest of their classmates, a couple of the more idiotic lot fling a fake snake towards Neena—who squeals and grabs Mohan. This is all a setup, of course, and another classmate is ready with a camera to take a very incriminating photo of the brahmachari and the belle.
The scene now switches to Mohan’s home, where Rai Sahib’s oldest friend (Mukri) has come to ask for Mohan’s hand in marriage for his daughter—who happens to be Mala, Mohan’s classmate, Jugal’s girlfriend, and Neena’s friend-cum-roommate. Rai Sahib is amenable to the match, and promises to go look up Mala whenever he next visits Mohan’s college.
Rai Sahib hasn’t realised that Mala shares a room with another girl; so when he enters the hostel room and meets a pretty girl who’s very polite and sweet, he assumes she’s Mala, and is thoroughly approving. The sudden arrival of a somewhat less appealing Mala shatters his illusions, and he’s distinctly miffed at the thought that this girl may well become his bahu.
What’s worse, on his way out of the college, Rai Sahib runs into a bunch of Mohan’s unprincipled pals, who’re brandishing those incriminating photos of Mohan and Neena in each other’s arms. That’s the last straw; Rai Sahib decides his son must marry before he sows any more wild oats.
With Rai Sahib gone back home, plotting the brahmachari’s downfall, Mohan’s friends decide it’s time to help along Mohan and Neena’s nonexistent romance a bit. They write a love letter to Neena, forging Mohan’s signature at the end, and then get a lot of vicarious pleasure out of spying on Neena while she’s reading the letter and swiftly falling in love with Mohan.
Unfortunately for Neena, though, her romance is short-lived; when she goes to Mohan’s room to say thank you for the letter and to assure him that his love is reciprocated in full… he raves and rants at her. Doesn’t the dumb girl realise he’s a brahmachari? He didn’t write any letter to her, he isn’t in love with her, and he has no desire to have anything to do with her.
Neena is hurt and annoyed, but just as she’s getting ready to leave Mohan’s room, she notices a photograph lying on his table. It’s a photograph of a young man (Shatrughan Sinha), and when Neena asks Mohan who this is, he tells her it’s his elder brother. Why? Does she now want to weave her spell on him? Neena, the epitome of the woman scorned, flounces out of his room, vowing that one day she’ll come to Mohan’s home as his bride.
And sure enough, sometime later, with college over and Mohan away in Calcutta on work, Neena arrives at his house with a baby in her arms. To Rai Sahib and Rajlakshmi—both flabbergasted—she reveals that she is their bahu, and that the baby is their grandchild.
But is it? Neena swears by all that’s holy that the child is their grandchild, and she refuses to budge from that stance, not even when a panicking Mohan rushes home to confront her and try to expose her lies for what they are. She has his love letter; she wears his chain around her neck; Rai Sahib has seen a photo of her in Mohan’s arms. She is Mohan’s wife, his parents think… but what about the baby? Where’s this kid turned up from? Who is he?
What I liked about this film:
Mumtaz. I so like her, effervescent and lively and oh so pretty. And a good actress too (though Ek Nari Ek Brahmachari doesn’t really give her much scope for showing off her skills as an actress).
Jagdeep and Aruna Irani. As Jugal and Mala, they’re one of the most endearing supporting couples I’ve seen in Hindi cinema. Funny, affectionate, loads of fun—and their love story, as they try to get married and then keep body and soul together as an impoverished young couple, is as much a part of the film as the main storyline.
What I didn’t like:
The decor, of course. And the costumes of much of the supporting cast. And the very last frame, which is hard to beat when it comes to sheer corniness. But, most of all, the badly scripted first half of the film. This meanders into unnecessary scenes, pointless dialogue and action, and more stuff that irritated me and nearly made me give up. Thank heavens I persevered—the second half is much more fun.
Not one of the best romantic comedies to come out of Bollywood, but entertaining enough. Just be patient through the first half.
Posted in Dusted Off | Tagged Aruna Irani, Bollywood, Durga Khote, Ek Nari Ek Brahmachari, film review, Jagdeep, Jeetendra, Mukri, Mumtaz, Ruby Myers, Shatrughan Sinha, Sohrab Modi
41 thoughts on “Ek Nari Ek Brahmachari (1971)”
bollyviewer
This is worth watching?! I usually see the Brahmachari part in the title, and coupled with Jeetendra on the DVD cover, it stifles any desire to pick it up in my local video store.
And for a moment there, I thought I must be seeing things when I recognised Sohrab Modi in one of your screen caps. I thought he was done for, long before this! (imdb says he was around till 1984! So I guess I should check my assumptions.) I just might pick up the film for him, but the first half doesnt sound like I would make it through to the second half.
Let me guess what happens in the second half. Neena had a sister who was secretly married to/seduced/raped by Mohan’s brother in the photo. Said sister is probably dead, and Neena only wants Munna/Munni to get his/her rightful place… True? If thats way off-base then I am going to get the film ASAP! :-)
bollyviewer, remember me saying on your blog that you should take to writing film scripts? I rest my case. You’re spot on re: the plot! :-)
The brahmachari bit (not to mention Jeetendra, who is definitely not one of my favourites, though he’s tolerable in some of his early films) would’ve put me off too. Only, as it so happens, I saw this film way back when Doordarshan was the only source of entertainment and we watched everything that was telecast… I rather enjoyed this film then (probably mainly because of Mumtaz, Jagdeep and Aruna Irani – I had an even lower tolerance level for Jeetendra then), so decided to buy it a few years back. Good time pass.
Sorry dear, the plot sounds so sick!
“Neena, the epitome of the woman scorned, flounces out of his room, vowing that one day she’ll come to Mohan’s home as his bride”
Why would anyone want to do that? Gettng hitched to a guy, who doesn’t love you? And her appearance at his home with a child! O God, I hate such films.
There are really very few college movies from the 60s and early 70s, which I like! They are either full of mcp’s or uptight righteous men (and the one doesn’t exclude the other) and the girls are Sitadevis or sex sirens! No normal people there.
But as you said, Mumtaz looks awesome! Her beauty, her ‘namkeen’ness!
It is a treat just to look at her pic. Her good mood is so infectious! another plus I see is Sohrab Modi-Durga Khote pairing. The first one after Prithvi Vallabh?
Arre baba, I was trying to be sarcastic!
Yes, she does sound silly at that point, trying to get hitched to a guy who doesn’t love her – though of course her motive turns out to have been different. I was a bit amused at the way the usual 60’s male-pursuing-reluctant-female plot element got turned on its head, though.
Like bollyviewer, I too hadn’t realised that Sohrab Modi acted in films till so late – and beyond, as it appears. He and Durga Khote make an appealing couple, but I must admit that for me it’s Jagdeep and Aruna Irani who are the highlight when it comes to the couples in this film. They are a delight.
This sounds appealing… I love Mumtaz, and I actually don’t mind Jeetendra at all, especially in his earlier movies. And the Aruna-Jagdeep’s jodi sounds cute…
bollywoodeewana
You seem to be on a Jeetendra roll these days :0) i have nothing but love for the man. I love Mumtaz too but most of the films i’ve seen her in tend to cast her as the pretty babe who doesn’t get much chance to do anything with the exception of Khilona, which in fact made me a lifelong lover of Her, what other films would you recommend to see her display her acting chops
Oh! *deeply embarassed*
But I believe she does say something of that sort, doesn’t she? Stupid! Poor Mumu!
I just can about tolerate Jeetendra in his early films. And his 80s film… ? Oh no!
If you want to get all my dark secrets out of me, you just have to bind on a chair and set me in front of Himmatwala or Toofah!
Though there are some 70s films of his, where he is subdued like his Gulzar films or Aasha.
There is this V Shantaram film of his where he is tolerable: Boond jo ban gayi moti. But that film is *yawn*
I’ll gladly bind you on that chair Harvey, i love Tohfa & i’m about to watch Himmatwala, indeed such movies had the silliest of plots but the songs and picturizations more than made up for it. One of my all time favourite bollywood songs and picturisation is ‘Naino mein sapna’ i simply love the colours and the Bugsby Berkeley style arrangements of the dancers and props
The title of the film is provocative enough.
But I always shudder to have to watch Jeetender films. With his tight pants and white shoes…eeewww! (Sorry fans!!!)
I’m sure there must be some nice films of his and I don’t know about them.
Can one watch only Mumtaz with one eye closed and avoid looking at Jeetender?
bollywoodeewana, looks like you’re outnumbered. ;-) I must admit to being part of the majority commenting on this post – I am not a Jeetendra fan! I can tolerate him in his very early films (Ek Nari Ek Brahmachari, Farz, Boond Jo Ban Gayi Moti, Humjoli or Caravan, for example) but not much beyond that. I think the only one of his somewhat later films in which I’ve liked him was Parichay. There’s something about (as pacifist mentions) those tight pants and those white shoes that puts me off.
Unfortunately, by the time Mumtaz was getting more prominent roles than the bimbette ones of her early days, she’d decided to get married and leave cinema. So there aren’t those many films that have her in very substantial roles. Khilona, of course, as you say – also Aap ki Kasam, Tere Mere Sapne or even Jheel Ke Us Paar… plus some films she made with Rajesh Khanna.
DG: Yes, despite the hackneyed romance-novel plot, it’s a fairly entertaining film. I’ve seen much, much worse. At least this has the advantage of not being depressing! And it has Mumtaz. :-)
harvey: Years ago, in the good old days of the Sunday 5.45 Doordarshan film (which we’d watch no matter how bad) I remember reading a synopsis in the newspaper about a film that was to be telecast. Whoever wrote it was obviously not a Jeetendra fan either, because it read something like this: “Both women, no matter how hard to believe this may be, fall in love with Jeetendra…”!! :-D
I recall having seen Boond Jo Ban Gayi Moti. Jeetendra was passable in that, though his character’s speechifying got on my nerves. But Mumtaz was there too!
P.S. Just noticed: you have a blog now. Yippee! But do please do more posts in English. My German only extends to danke, guten tag, eingang and ausgang (probably also heil, drang nach osten and sturm und drang! ;-)
pacifist: Have you seen Jyoti – Jeetendra and Hema Malini (she’s made to marry him, even though he’s been drugged and bullied into a state of retardation)? Or Sada Suhagan (Jeetendra and Rekha – with a young Govinda among their offspring). Until you’ve seen those, you don’t know what tortures Bollywood is capable of. Believe me, Ek Nari Ek Brahmachari is a song in comparison!
sunheriyaadein
Mumtaz turning up with a kid (given the earlier reference to Shatrughan Sinha) part is quite predictable – I had exactly the same prediction as what bollyviewer mentioned above.
I neither am very fond of Jeetu nor am totally against him…I’m neutral. Like some of his movies, esp the earlier ones. Haven’t watched many of his 80’s movies. In fact it’s not just his movies, somehow late 70’s and 80’s movies dont appeal much to me.
@ bollywooddeewana : I would be more than happy to join you in binding harvey on that chair ;-)
I like Naino mein sapna …it’s such a catchy number. Same goes for Ek aankh maroon toh from Tohfa. And his dance used to be so entertaining and hilarious.
Good for bollywoodeewana that he’s found someone to help him do the tying! ;-) I am also with harvey on this – you’d need to tie me up too to make me watch something like Himmatwala or Tohfa. In any case, I am not a fan of most of the Hindi films made in the 80’s. And Jeetendra, on top of that… Nahiiin!
Hee hee….Movies like Jyoti and Sada Suhagan were real emotional atyachar!!!
“Both women, no matter how hard to believe this may be, fall in love with Jeetendra…”!! :-D – ROTFL
I happened to see the likes of Farz, Boond Jo Ban Gayi Moti, Humjoli, Caravan, Jigri Dost (Raat suhani jaag rahi hai), Dharti Kahe Pukar Ke (don’t remember much of it but that song was very sweet – hum tum chori se), Parichay first. Haven’t seen much of his later movies apart from Sanjog and Judaai .
And Jyoti and Sada Suhagan were real disasters…had seen them when I had gone home for holidays. Living in a missionary hostel, where we had only Doordarshan and that too transmitting programs in regional language most of the time, anything in Hindi used to be more than welcome to me. Famished for good-old movies, those few days at home, I would watch literally every movie aired on tv. And I guess it was only because of that I could sit through these and many more such movies which I would have never seen otherwise.
You hit the nail on the head when you called those films emotional atyachar – they’re awful!
I haven’t seen Dharti Kahe Pukaar Ke, but Hum tum chori se is a sweet song… and I haven’t seen Jigri Dost either. Wouldn’t mind seeing them, though, because early Jeetendra films aren’t usually too bad. I think by the mid-80’s or so, a lot of his films had been pretty formula, and not worth watching. Offhand, the only two films that I remember liking him in were Parichay and The Burning Train – the latter possibly because of the entire cast and story, not because of Jeetendra himself. Interestingly, whereas in Waaris Jeetendra’s was a sort of brother to Neetu Singh’s character, in The Burning Train he’s her love interest.
Jeetendra as an instrument of torture! :-D As it happens, several scientists are looking to movies to improve interrogation techniques. I am sure they will be glad to know that Jeetu bhai is a potentially powerful weapon there. I would add his Yaar Mera (with a lovely young Rakhee) to the list of his 70s and 80s horrors – never again will I try to give Jeetu a fair chance, NEVER!
bollyviewer, I love your post!! And, even at the risk of being labelled iconoclasts, I am willing to stand shoulder to shoulder with you re: Mother India. Okay, good film and Oscar nomination and whatever, it’s still very hard for me to watch. Very. (my sister’s comment on Raj Kumar: “As it is, I don’t like him. And on top of that, the fact that he looks as if he wears soorma makes it even worse!”)
Two more films that I’d add to the list of truly torturous ones: Black Cat (starring Balraj Sahni and Minoo Mumtaz – I’ll be reviewing it sometime soon) and the absolutely horrible Parivar, starring Nanda and Jeetendra. Surprisingly, Jeetendra isn’t what’s awful about the film – he’s pretty bearable. It’s just that the story is terrible.
haha Your sister and I must be long lost friends, if not masala-twins!
I loved Black Cat! But then I am a sucker for Balraj Sahni’s non-Bhabhi roles and a B-grade noir is as far as it gets from there. Besides, the film had lovely songs. The mystery/thriller parts werent all that great and the villain wasnt very villainous, but I didnt really care. Balraj Sahni as detective? More please… :-)
Oh, I didn’t mind Balraj Sahni as detective at all! I’d have liked him in more of those roles – but the film itself nearly drove me to trichotillomania! N A Ansari, his dumb moll and the absolutely mindless meandering of the plot really got on my nerves.
“Both women, no matter how hard to believe this may be, fall in love with Jeetendra…”!!
ROTFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My brother and I had a theory that Jeetu refused to sign a film until and unless he had two heroines!
@ sunheriyaadein: “Naino mein sapna” is surely a catchy number and that is the problem with it. It jus tplays on and on in your brain, this coupled with images of jumping jeetu and sirdevi just drives you crazy.
bollywooddeewana: sorry, the plots, the dialogues, the comedy, Jeetu, the machismo are all so big no, nos for me! The only saving grace in these films were the heroines Sridevi or Jaya Prada. YOu must be surely knowing htis from which movie is that song “bhukh lagihai khana do, khana do”, where Sridevi goes begging with her kid brother or something like that. Soemhow this scene just won’t go out of my mind! HELP!
Sada Suhagan! That was torture of high order. i was never ever pleased as in this film, when Rekha died! BTW did you know that the producers wanted Madhuri Dixit to play the role which afterwards went to Anuradha Patel. Govinda thinking that Madhuri didn’t want to act with him, refused to sign any films with her until they came together in a very forgetful movie with Dilip Kumar called Izzatdaar.
Count me in your numbers dustedoff and bollyviewer, I am also not a big fan Mother India except for the beautiful picturisation of the gangetic plains. And a major disappointment no good songs despite Naushad!
Jigri Dost is a hoot! I love to watch the song “Mera tu, tu hi tu”, where the Jeetu and Mumtaz sprint thro Brindavan Gardens! Our neighbour’s opinion about the picturisation of the song should have been recorded for generations to come. A pity that I can hardly remember anything! No nothing indecent, after all the whole family was seated to watch it.
Balraj sahni in a bad film! Poor chap! Didn’t bollyviewer write a review on black cat, few months back? Looking forward to yours, dustedoff! Thanks for the word trichotillomania! Wow, sound slike a mania for centipedes to me!
I am all for buying loads of wine and stacks of junk food and watching Parivar together. I luv the way hindi films tackled family planning in the 70s! ;-)
And as for the blog. I’m seriously thinking of moving to wordpress. but will have a look at it after 25th April.
Unfortunately Harvey i don’t know what movie the ‘bhook lagie’ song is from but as soon as i find out i shall let you know
Dustedoff its fine, i’ve noticed that for a lot of things i seem to be alone in my tastes e.g. Rajendra Kumar, Movies from the 80’s etc I don’t mind at all :0)
harvey: The loads of wine and junk food sounds good (I remember you recommending red wine with pakoras was it?), but Parivar is painful. Actually, though, that’s probably the only way to watch it – when you can entertain each other with completely mad comments levelled at the idiocy of the film!
bollywooddeewana: Ah, but the world would be such a boring place if all of us had the same tastes!
Jeetender reminds me of the worst of the cheap eve-teasing guys who used to hang round women’s colleges…dress, hair, clothes….all I want to do is hit him on the head, although that is probably not his fault at all!
Probably: because he could have gone in for a different style I guess.
Bawa: my words! Agree totally!
bollywood deewana: I like Rajendra Kumar in his early movies like Dhool ka Phool and Dil ek mandir.
@dustedoff: not all sorts of red wine, zweigelt goes quite well with it. the heavier the better. According to me they are the best with indian food.
bawa: You hit the nail on the head! That is the reason he’s never quite appealed to me. Strange, really, considering that he didn’t act the persistent lovesick Romeo that much – if that was the case, someone like Shammi Kapoor would probably never have been among my favourites! But it’s probably the style, as you say: those tight pants and the white shoes (not to mention the black net shirt – in the first screen cap of this post; I was hoping nobody would notice that!)… just not nice.
harvey, bollywoodeewana: Yes, come to think of it, I don’t mind Rajendra Kumar in some of his earlier films. Not Dil ek Mandir much, but Mere Mehboob.
Bollywood deewana, I too like Rajender Kumar films :-)
There just one which I don’t.
I can’t remember the name, I haven’t seen it, but happened to watch a song – aa meri rani le ja challa nishani’ – which sounded so cheap coming from him that I was appalled.
Apart from this I think Rajender Kumar was likeable.
I do hope Black Cat left you some hair. You better write it up and warn everybody that only the bald may watch safely! ;-) (I gave it a glowing review and dont want to be responsible for any incidents of trichotillomania in blogland!)
Bawa has described Jeetendra to a T – he does remind me of cheap eve-teasers and I dont think its his clothes or hair but something undefinable about him. As you say, Shammi, for all his onscreen eve-teasing never came off as cheap. And Jeetendra’s clothes were pretty standard issue hero wardrobe – Shashi Kapoor was equally prone to white suits and white shoes and Vinod Khanna to tight pants, but neither of them come off as roadside romeo material. Jeetendra just projected an unsavory persona onscreen!
And I love Rajendra Kumar, too. I dont care for his weepy roles too much, but otherwise, he is mostly good (especially in Jhuk Gaya Aasman) and he did age fairly gracefully…
pacifist: That song was picturised on Rajendra Kumar?! Good lord – I hate it (there’s something so Jeetendra about it)… would never have thought it featured Rajendra Kumar, since I don’t associate him with that. Weepy, yes; stoic and stiff-upper-lip, yes; cheap, no.
bollyviewer: I’ll review Black Cat as soon as I can summon up the courage to see it again and figure out the story – it’s been a couple of months since I saw it and my mind has blanked out the finer details. All I remember is the basic plot, and that too with huge holes!
I did some research and found out the name of the film – Anjaana
Here is a link to *that* song;
Hope I don’t spoil your day :-D
I think this is one of Rajender Kumar’s last films and he’s at that stage where he’s jumping around imitating the younger heroes.
It was sad when actors reached that stage.
There were no botox treatments and stuff that could keep them looking young. (Thank goodness).
I fear these treatments will keep established stars of today hanging on for years, and the younger lot will lose out without getting a fair chance.
memsaab
1. I thought I was the only person on earth who loved Jagdeep!!!!!
2. I have never been able to make it past the first half hour/45 minutes of this, but perhaps I will now give it another go :) Thanks!
pacifist: Aaarrgggh! Awful. The total effect – his dancing, the somewhat leering look, everything – is just too cheap for words. Now I will make it a point to never watch Anjaana!
memsaab: Persevere! It’s not that bad after the first hour or so.
Re: Jagdeep, I was told a really cute story about him while I was doing the writers’ residency this January. Another writer there was the playwright-theatre actor-sometimes film actor Manav Kaul. Manav acted in Jajantram Mamantram with Javed Jaffrey, and one day, Javed’s father was on the sets. Javed introduced him to Manav, saying, “And this is my father.” Manav said he’d – for the moment – forgotten who Javed’s father was. Until Daddy grinned, ear to ear, and Manav recognised him. Only because of that trademark smile! :-)
I love Jagdeep!! His sholay dialogue ‘kya ke rai ho’ is what I think of immediately when he’s mentioned.
He and Mohan Choti are a pair.
The trademark smile! So apt! :-)
Yes! Mohan Choti and Jagdeep are both so much fun. I wish there were more films of Jagdeep in his heyday where he had a substantial role. This is the only one I’ve come across where, even though he’s only part of the comic side plot, the CSP itself is substantial enough to satisfy my Jagdeep-lovin’ self. :-)
I only recently discovered that Javed Jaffrey (who I also really like and wish I saw more of in roles like the one in 3 Idiots, but larger) was Jagdeep’s son, but it didn’t surprise me in the least :)
Yes, he’s funny too – my nephew and niece used to like him a lot mainly because he did Hindi dubbing for a Japanese game show called Takeshi’s Castle. Hilarious! Whoever wrote the commentary must be a genius, of course, but Javed’s delivery was a hoot! :-)
Javed did a good job in Salaam Namaste ! He is also known to be a very good dancer
I actually haven’t seen too many of his films – offhand, I can only remember 3 Idiots. I’m sure there are others I’ve seen, but can’t recall them right now…
Please watch movies like Priyatama, Badaltey Rishtey and Khushboo. I am sure you will like Jeetendra in them.
I’ve seen Khushboo but not the others – will look out for them now. Thanks! (and I’d add Kinara and Parichay to your list). :-)
Vishwanathan
LMAO, I was laughing my a** of reading these comments. As for Jeetendra’s appeal, I think it is because he grew up in a chawl, and I guess that could translate his appeal onto screen. But even Jackie Shroff and Govinda grew up in chawls, and several ladies swooned for them. IDK, since I am not really their target audience.
Plus, he’s not an actor, he’s more or less an astute businessman who did these Madras stuff just to keep the kitchen burning. Anyways, a movie of Jeetendra’s that I actually sort of liked was Meri Awaaz Suno. I think it’s on youtube with subtitles. Another Jeetendra film, Bidaai, was just unbearable.
LOL. I can’t bear Govinda, and Jackie Shroff I’ve only liked in his roles when he was past the hero stage – 1942: A Love Story comes to mind.
I don’t think I’ve ever watched Meri Aawaaz Suno. Will look out for it.
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Whatever Happened To Our Hyderabadi Lad?
From nice kid next-door to man of the big, bad world - it's been a long slide
Krishna Prasad ON Mohammed Azharuddin
Krishna Prasad June 26, 2000 00:00 IST Whatever Happened To Our Hyderabadi Lad?
Match-fixing and nuclear physics have nothing in common, except that the end-products of both are mighty explosive. But Cape Town, 2000, is the cricketing equivalent of Chagai Hills, 1998. When 'Islamic' Pakistan went nuclear two summers ago, barely a fortnight after 'Hindu' India had, every major religion in the world, 'Jewish' Israel included, had joined the 'Christian' West and the 'Buddhist' East in having its own 'anu bum'.
Likewise, Hansie Cronje's confession. It may still fail to provide the kind of proof of player-complicity that will convince the CBI and bcci that something is rotten in the Gardens of Eden. But what it does establish is that nobody is above suspicion when it comes to dancing with the devil in the middle of the pitch. Australians, Asians, Afrikaners. Whites, browns, coloured. Christians, Hindus, Muslims.
Like infidelity, is match-fixing in our genes?
But Mohammed Azizuddin Azharuddin? Ten years ago, when he was 27, if there was one player who would have won automatic nomination of his peers as the second most popular cricketer in the country...
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Home Article Instant Star's Actor Tim Rozon Dating a Girlfriend Or Is He Secretly Married And Enjoying Life With His Wife
Instant Star's Actor Tim Rozon Dating a Girlfriend Or Is He Secretly Married And Enjoying Life With His Wife
Updated On 13 Aug, 2019 Published On 13 Dec, 2018
Tim Rozon is a Canadian actor caught up in the media circus of Hollywood. from being suspected as a gay to being associated to his co-stars, Tim finally put all the rumors to rest when the news of his marriage in 2015 broke out. But he has kept his wife's identity a secret.
Being a gorgeous actor, rumors and speculations about one's sexuality and relationships is a work hazard that comes with the profession but the extremes at which the rumors get is sometimes incomprehensible.
Tim Rozon is one of the best looking actors, was also caught in this chaos of rumors until they were shattered. From being suspected as a gay to being associated with his every co-star, it's fair to say that he has had his share of unsupported rumors on his plate.
Instant Star's Actor Tim Rozon Secretly Married and Enjoying Blissful Life With His Wife
Tim Rozon is a really good looking actor and it was recently revealed that he got married to a beautiful girl that goes by the name, Linzey on her Instagram. He has been able to keep his marriage hidden from the world and although the news of his marriage got out, he has still managed to keep the identity of his wife a secret.
It has been revealed that they got married on 6 September 2015 but upon doing some digging around his wife’s Instagram account, the couple is pictured together way back from 2012. So it’s a safe bet to say that the two have been together several years before deciding to tie the knot.
Tim Rozon marriage pic in his wife's Instagram.
Source: Hollywood mask
Till today, Rozon and his wife have been enjoying a blissful life together as husband and wife and the duo is reaching milestones after milestone, having already celebrated their three year marriage anniversary.
She’s my wife....... K. BYE @chantel_riley #WynonnaEarp
— Tim Rozon (@realtimrozon) August 4, 2018
The loving husband proudly posted about his wife earlier in August 2018. He posted about his wife via a Twitter as he humorously waved bye to actress Chantel Riley.
Also Read: Actor Thomas Middleditch's married life with his wife, Mollie Gates and their children
The next logical step for the lovebirds is probably to start their family although whether they do it or not is a whole other story.
Tim Rozon and his wife Linzey are in a relationship for over 7 years now. Before turning a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship into holy matrimony, the pair dated for about three years. The celebrity couple doesn't have any children to date. Yet, they relish one another's a company without any rumors of divorce and extramarital affairs. Both Tim and his partner Linzey's socials are showered with the pictures of the moment they've spent together.
Tim Rozon Relationship Rumors And Girlfriend; Speculated To Be Gay
It's hard to believe that the handsome hunk was speculated as a gay man many times. Fortunately, he put those rumors to rest when he showcased his adorable partner & wife.
Tim Rozon and Alexz Johnson.
Source: Resisted Term
Tim is best known for portraying the character Tommy Quincy on the CTV teen drama, Instant Star and there was a usual enthusiasm from the public that he and his co-star Alexz Johnson were in a relationship, but that speculation was also shattered.
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There was also news of Tim and his fellow co-star Chantel being in a secret relationship, as both shared excellent chemistry between each other on the supernational horror series, Wynonna Earp. Their characters, Doc Holliday, and Kate are married on the show and the good bond was clearly seen.
Outside of the stage, the two were seen on each other’s social media account, often sharing pictures of enjoying their companionship together. From exciting the fans for the next episode of the show to wishing one another on their special days including birthdays, the two actors indeed share a strong bond.
Also see: Actor Taylor Kitsch Marriage and Dating rumors
With that said, although they’re husband and wife on the show they’re just close friends at best and are not in any intimate relationship with each other. Regardless of the rumors, we are happy that Tim is settled and happy in his life.
Tim Rozon: Quick Facts
Tim Rozon was born in 1976, June 4th in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
His eye color is grey and hair color is brown.
He is 5 feet 11 inches tall.
His estimated net worth is approximately $1 million.
Tim Rozon owns a restaurant, Garde-Manger with friends in Montreal.
Tim serves as a model for a few years before chasing the acting field.
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Digital still the poor cousin at the RTS TV Journalism Awards
The decision to award Steve Hewlett the Judges’ Award at the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards dominated the reporting of this year’s event.
That’s no doubt correct. But it did somewhat overshadow what a terrific night it was for Channel 4 News; the team won programme of the year, Matt Frei picked up TV journalist of the year and Waad al-Kateab won a number of awards including Young Talent.
Before the event I spoke to Digital Editor, Jon Laurence, the driving force behind Channel 4 News’s incredible success with social video – especially on Facebook.
Despite recent changes to make the RTS a more level playing field and stop ITN’s domination of the categories through its multiple newsrooms, the awards still don’t recognise the contribution of digital to the success of news journalism.
I find that surprising and disappointing – as I said to Jon, although he was self-deprecating enough to laugh it off.
Still, with digital threatening TV’s audiences as never before, it’s surely sensible to celebrate TV newsrooms’ digital success. And perhaps phase out the ancient news technology award.
One final thought. While Tom Bradby won for Network Presenter of the Year, even as the reviews of the Nightly Show suggested the move of the news was a mistake, and the BBC won for Home Coverage with its series on prisons, this wasn’t a great year for the big bulletins.
The RTS has tried to increase the pool of jurors, including myself, but it would be a shame if the awards lost their sense of the industry awarding its peers because the independent jurors ended up voting for the shows they watch or appear on.
In Nations and Regions News, the category for which I was a juror, the broadcaster representatives still had a vote – unlike some of the more hard fought categories, such as Programme of the Year. I wonder if that is a better solution than only independents voting. Perhaps some more tweaks to the rules might be advisable.
Author Matt WalshPosted on March 5, 2017 Categories Digital news, TV newsTags Channel 4 News, Matt Frei, Royal Television Society, RTS awards, Steve Hewlett1 Comment on Digital still the poor cousin at the RTS TV Journalism Awards
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40 – ‘Fjokra’, ‘Houdini Dax’ and ‘Brave Yesterday’
Fjokra:
www.reverbnation.com/fjokra
“Earnest singer songwritery balladeering? NO!
Retro revivalists? NO!
‘Hip’, urban funkateers? NO!
‘Queen on crack’? Perhaps. Chuck in a liberal dose of Mike Patton/Mr Bungle, Todd Rundgren, Prince, Rachmaninoff interludes and metal riffs the size of skyscrapers and you’re halfway to describing the musical smorgasbord that makes up Fjokra’s music. Oh, and there’s some Latin grooves and some monstrous Dubstep chucked in as well. Five guys, two girls and a lot of facepaint.”
(Quote obtained from the band’s website)
Houdini Dax:
www.houdinidax.co.uk
“Summer 2011. And the nippers are still making good honest rock ’n’ roll. Take Cardiff’s Houdini Dax, who have an average age of 19. What are they doing digesting records, writing songs and rehearsing when they could be playing Xbox or texting friends from the back of the bus? Weren’t “the kids” supposed to have tired of analogous music? Wasn’t the house music craze of the late ’80s supposed to have killed rock? Heck, thinking about it, weren’t the synth bands of over 20 years ago viewed as the only way forward?
No my dear music lovers, valves are not dead, rock ’n’ roll is blossoming and “the kids are alright” (as Pete Townshend so neatly put it 46 years ago). The Noughties has seen great success for young bands. The Libertines and then Arctic Monkeys paved the way post-Brit Pop and now still barely out of the shadows come Houdini Dax, your soon to be favourite new band.
Hearing ‘The Magicians’ for the first time it’s impossible not to think of Alex Turner and his band in their early stages. Jack Butler’s edgy vocals, sharp wordplay and the stop-start, spiky New Wave tendency of the playing certainly share similarities with early Arctic Monkeys, but it’s not what defines them. A video of a live acoustic performance for Huw Stephens’ Swn Festival ‘Swn is Sound’ video series of ‘Struggling In The Sand’ show Houdini Dax playing in a stripped back setting with acoustic guitar, bass, brushed drums and harmonies to the fore. It’s tight, honed and timeless. Yes, they have major talent. They can sing splendidly, they throw in some deft bridges and could very well sound like one of those great old acts. Yet they don’t! And when quizzed about their favourite bands, ’60s touchstones (The Beatles, The Kinks, The Sonics, The Stooges) meet latter day acts (Blur and Supergrass) and new bands (The Black Keys, The Raconteurs and White Denim). Yet You Belong To Dax Darling sounds nothing like any of them. It’s the sound of teenagers discovering what they can do.
“Recording the album was amazing,” Jack reveals. “Having Rich from The Method [another of the See Monkey Do Monkey coterie] as producer was special. We’re friends, so he won’t shy away with his opinions. And he always got the best out of us.” Mentioning how the production had elements of ’60s guitar heroics, post-punk rhythms and an element of My Bloody Valentine about it, Jack beamed back at me as if their mission statement had been achieved.”I’m glad you hear those things clashing,” he eagerly states “because we love that retro ’60s style, but it’s been done so much before. It’s important for us to mix older styles with newer ones… We were aiming for a really strong debut that doesn’t really let up in energy and excitement,” closes Jack. “We tried to capture this by recording in a really live way.”
And live and exciting is the order for the day for the teenage world view of Houdini Dax. Their second album may well feature strings, ballads and mellotrons but for now let the revolution begin as these youngsters play it their own way with what they have learnt from Hendrix, Syd, Gaz and co. They should be famous! ”
Brave Yesterday:
www.myspace.com/braveyesterdaymusic
“We are Brave Yesterday, a rock band from Jersey. Not the one immortalized in rock mythology by the Boss. The other Jersey, the one in the Channel. Knowing this, you could also be forgiven for thinking that we are nearly French. We’re not. We’re nearly Canadian-ish.
Our frontman Nutter’s authentic North American Rawk voice gives us our mid-Atlantic twang. Mention us in the same breath as Rival Schools, Jimmy Eat World and 30 Seconds To Mars. We’re cool with that.”
July 30, 2011 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 60s, bass, bassist, brave yesterday, camden, cardiff, chris dorney, drummer, drummers, drums, fjokra, fresh, future, guitar, guitarist, guitarists, guitars, houdini dax, jack butler, john peel, jombal party, kentish town, keyboard, keyboardist, lighting, lights, live, live & unsigned, live and unsigned, london, London Unsigned Music, music, music scene, new, nutter, on stage, onstage, perform, performer, performers, photographer, photography, pianist, piano, player, pocket gods, scene, sing, singer, singers, songs, stage, style, talent, the magicians, the pocket gods, unsigned, up & coming, up and coming, vocalists | Leave a comment
39 – ‘Lost In The Riots’, ‘Electric Fusiliers’ and ‘Luxury Stranger’
Lost In The Riots:
www.soundcloud.com/lostintheriots
“Lost in the Riots are a four-piece post rock outfit fighting their way out of Watford, Hertfordshire. Differing from their hardcore peers that the town has previously spawned, the quartet serve up a guitar-driven assault of quiet-loud dynamics laden with unconventional time signatures and occasional vocalism. Their sound is a schizophrenic mix of heavy riffs to aggressively nod your head to and tear jerking, hopeful crescendos.”
Electric Fusiliers:
www.facebook.com/ElectricFusiliers
“Formed by Ollie, Sheard and Matt as we had run out of bands between us and wanted an outlet for our music. Callum quickly joined and we played a couple of small time gigs. Matt left to pursue other things, Sam O’D joined, cementing the lineup. Spent many hours and days playing COD and cracking jokes, under the guise of ‘Writing and Recording’. Now actually nearly finished writing and recording our first EP, having not had a band COD session in rather long time, due to the trend for practicing at Ruff Rockers. Will have more tracks up imminently, and a few gigs on the horizon, which will hopefully turn into many more gigs following the ‘release’, or more accurately indiscriminate distribution, of the EP. Have a listen, please do contact us with constructive feedback and stuff, love to hear what you think. ”
Luxury Stranger:
www.luxurystranger.com
“Influenced by the sounds of post-punk / new wave from 1978 – 1984. Imagine: Bowie and Pop’s Berlin years mixed with the disparate sound of Joy Division and early Cure with the melodies of Martin L Gore and power of The Chameleons – this is Luxury Stranger.”
July 23, 2011 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: camden, chris dorney, chrisdorney, electric fusiliers, gary numan, london, London Unsigned Music, lost in the riots, luxury stranger, music, photography, unsigned | Leave a comment
38 – ‘The Damn Fine Coats’, ‘Random Perception’ and ‘Siriustar’
The Damn Fine Coats:
www.myspace.com/thedamnfinecoats
“The year 2005 saw the formation of The Damn Fine Coats, a band consisting of singer/guitaristOlly Cole, drummer/poet Tom Brooks and bassist/handsome man Jim Butler. Each band member contributes lyrics with Olly having penned songs such as ‘2 Headed Monster’, ‘Black Belt In Karaoke’ and ‘Nice Try, Icarus’. Tom has provided‘Roses’, ‘Comply Or Die!’ and ‘Dawn’ among others while Jimbles has recently dabbled in lyrics with success in the shape of ‘Be Lucky’. The band are also fairly equal in terms of their musical contributions with Olly writing the guitar parts, Jim contributing the bass lines and Tom providing the drums. This collaborative song-writing style has led to some of the band’s most inventive, unique creations such as the mind bending prog-math-rock instrumental ‘Let’s Put The Fun In Funeral’.
Having spent a substantial amount of time after their formation writing, rehearsing, changing, re-rehearsing and then scrapping vast amounts of music, TDFC finally settled on a five song track list for their first demo. This led to the band being booked for their first gigs at the back end of 2007 and have been playing regularly both locally and around London ever since. A second demo followed in 2008, and a third more recently in 2010.
The latest demo showcases the band’s eclectic tastes with each member bringing their own personal influences to the songs. From the screeching power of ‘Comply Or Die!’ to the melodic chords of ‘Black Belt In Karaoke’ to the juxtaposition of poetry and punk that is ‘Roses’, the band cater to all palettes. TDFC continue to gig around London having played venues such as Water Rats, The Bull & Gate, and Tommy Flynns Camden.
The band are continuing to write new material and book gigs with the aim of improving their music and gathering a fan base while striving to remain their own favourite band. Two recent tracks in particular are worth keeping an eye out for and will be debuted at upcoming gigs, while the most recent demo is available in mp3 format on request.”
(Quote obtained from the band’s myspace page)
Random Perception:
www.myspace.com/randomperceptionband
“Random Perception are a four piece alternative indie band from Fishguard, West Wales who formed at the start of 2009. Having already released an E.P titled State of Mind, fans can expect a full album in early 2012. Citing their main influences as Radiohead and Muse, the band put in a tight live performance and prove very popular with crowds. The band have appeared all over west Wales including some big name local festivals and are slowly branching out further to south wales and beyond.”
Siriustar:
www.siriustar.bandcamp.com
(No biography info available on the band’s website)
July 13, 2011 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 2 headed monster, black belt in karaoke, chris dorney, comply or die!, dawn, facebook, icarus, jim butler, london, London Unsigned Music, music, myspace, nice try, olly cole, photography, random perception, roses, siriustar, state of mind, the damn fine coats, tom brooks, unsigned, wales | Leave a comment
37 – ‘Eliza Jaye and The Tarts’, ‘Codes’, ‘Air Castles’ and ‘The Good Suns’
Eliza Jaye and The Tarts:
www.myspace.com/elizajayeandthetarts
www.myspace.com/codesofficial
“C O D E S . are an alternative/electronic quartet from Dublin, Ireland. Expansive yet melodic. Powerful yet delicate, their music colours the void between the ambience and longevity of soundtrack music and the energy and immediacy of live music..
Soaring vocal harmonies, dreamy arrangements and a calculated cryptography of electronic beats, piano, glockenspiel and analogue synths permeate their sound.
Codes debut album “Trees Dream In Algebra” which was recorded in Gloucestershire UK & mixed in Auckland, New Zealand with acclaimed producer Greg Haver (Manics, SFA) and mastered in NYC by Greg Calbi (U2,Interpol,Kings of Leon) is out now. It was the winner of Best Album 2009 in Phantom FM Dublin’s annual awards, is featured in hotpress magazine’s top 200 Irish albums of all time and was nominated for The Choice Music Prize 2010.”
Air Castles:
www.aircastlesmusic.com
“Air Castles is a London based band led by Swedish born singer-songwriter Max Mansson.
Starting off as a home recording project in 2008 by the then 19-year-old Mansson, Air Castles has since recorded an EP and an album together with Magnus Lindberg of Cult of Luna.”
The Good Suns:
www.thegoodsuns.blogspot.com
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36 – ‘Ronit’, ‘Lunch’, ‘The Broken Tea-Set’ and ‘Israel Cannan’
Ronit:
www.ronit-music.com
“A passionate and captivating musician, Ronit has developed a devoted following around Australia that grows with each performance. Audiences are drawn to her strong vocals and emotive honest lyricism, while being floored by her fiery guitar playing. Her sound is a melting pot of soul, roots and rock with hints of Middle Eastern inspired melody, due in part to her Israeli heritage.
Before emerging as a solo artist, Ronit cut her teeth in several established Melbourne bands and toured with popular Reggae/Dub band The Red Eyes as a backing vocalist, gaining vast live playing experience around the country. She is now accompanied by a six piece live band featuring some of Melbourne’s finest musicians, who compliment and embellish Ronit’s catchy songwriting perfectly. Whether playing with her band, or performing intimate solo concerts, Ronit has fast been creating a reputation as one of the city’s premier and most exciting live acts. Just as comfortable playing in large venues as she is playing in smaller jazz clubs and classic Australian live music pubs, she has performed supporting such iconic Australian acts as The Whitlams, Tim Rogers, Renee Geyer, Mark Seymour, James Reyne and Vanessa Amorossi.
Ronit’s music has been used exclusively in the internet based advertising campaign for the established ‘Nevenka’ brand fashion line, and quite recently was used in a successful short film called ‘The Wake’ directed by Gemma Lee. ‘The Wake’ was selected to screen at Palm Springs Short Fest in June 2009 to critical acclaim, and was recently chosen for the prestigious Tribeca film festival in New York.
Ronit released her debut EP ‘Heavy’ through MGM in June 2009. The past couple of months she has been on a whirlwind Summer tour of the US and the UK. ”
(Quote obtained from the artists’ Official Website)
www.myspace.com/lunchUK
“The product of four years writing music together in differing projects, Lunch is the collective masterpiece of songwriters Tom Cale & Josh Jackson, merging the boundaries of as many genres as possible.
Together with bass player James “Mull” Mulligan, the trio are crafting the future sounds of your afternoon mealtimes that will have enough resonance to keep you hungry for more all day, no matter what course of the banquet you find yourself indulging. ”
(Quote obtained from the artists’ facebook page)
The Broken Tea-Set:
Israel Cannan:
www.israelcannanmusic.com
“In 2010 Israel Cannan travelled 20,000 kilometers around his homeland Australia singing songs in the streets and capturing hearts in the process.
This year he decided to trade the streets for the stage and headed to the UK armed with the new album “Walk” in which he wrote, recorded and played all the instruments on. After only a week in London Israel was showcasing at Cargo alongside fellow Australians The Jezabels, Little Red, Luluc at “The Aussie BBQ”.
From there came shows at some of London’s most prestigious venues including The Troubadour, Borderline, The Bedford where Israel continued to wow audiences with his heartfelt melodies and powerful lyrics.
Meanwhile back in Australia National Broadcaster Triple J were featuring Walk on their Unearthed podcasts and The AU Review even named “Walk” as #19 on the top 40 Albums of 2010 (Worldwide).
With shows and festivals being confirmed in the UK & Europe over the summer including Groundswell festival (France) alongside Jason Mraz and Newton Faulkner Israel’s Walk looks like its just getting started..”
July 7, 2011 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: acoustic, act, acts, artists, aussie, australia, bass, bassist, bassists, camden, camden town, chris dorney, chris dorney photography, drum, drummer, drummers, drums, dublin castle, fresh, gig, gigs, glastonbury, guitar, guitarist, guitarists, guitars, israel cannan, james mulligan, josh jackson, live, live & unsigned, live and unsigned, london, London Unsigned Music, lunch, mull, music, music scene, musicians, new, photography, player, ronit, show, sing, singer, singers, solo, stage, talent, talented, the, the broken tea set, the dublin castle, tom cale, town, unsigned, unsigned music, up & coming, up and coming, vocal, vocalist, vocalists, walk | Leave a comment
35 – ‘The Kabeedies’, ‘Town’ and ‘Fractures’
The Kabeedies:
www.myspace.com/thekabeedies
www.facebook.com/thekabeedies
www.myspace.com/wearetown
www.facebook.com/town
“Formed on a love of iconic British bands like the The Clash, The Undertones and The Jam (to name a few), a working class work ethic and no-nonsense approach; South Wales quartet TOWN’s debut offering, the ‘Original Design’ EP, documents the knocks and scrapes of being a youth in modern day Britain.
It’s certainly not all doom and gloom though, lead single ‘Eighteen’, as frontman, Alex Nash explains, “focuses on a prime time in our teenage years, where you’re expected to follow the system and fall into the generic nine-to-five lifestyle, having only 48 hours on the weekend to let off steam. You don’t have to take a journey on that conveyor belt, and can do whatever you want to do, be whoever you want to be.”
It’s attitude like that, that has seen the band begin to make waves up and down the UK with their relatable subject matter, no matter what bill they’re playing on, following shows alongside the likes of The Buzzcocks, The Bluetones, Kids In Glass Houses and One Night Only.
Produced by Romesh Dodangoda (Motorhead, Manic Street Preachers, Lostprophets) at Long Wave Studios and the legendary Rockfield Studios, ‘Original Design’ is both anthemic and ambitious, serving as a perfect introduction to TOWN and should whet the appetite for what will surely be an exciting future for the Newport outfit.”
Fractures:
www.soundcloud.com/wearefractures
July 4, 2011 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: alex nash, alternative, alternative rock, band, bands, chris dorney, chris dorney photography, drummer, drummers, drums, eighteen, facebook, fractures, group, groups, guitar, guitarist, guitarists, guitars, indie, kabeedies, kentish town, london, London Unsigned Music, londonunsignedmusic, long wave studios, music, myspace, newport, palindromes, photography, rock, rockers, rockfield studios, romesh dodangoda, single, teenage sky, the kabeedies, town, unsigned, wales, we are town, welsh | Leave a comment
34 – ‘Jax Walker’, ‘Chaser’, ‘Some Skeletons’ and ‘Wyndham North’
Jax Walker:
www.myspace.com/jaxwalker
“A culture clash, Jax Walker is a musician / producer & illustrator interweaving a deadly combo of classic Hiphop with sprawling, electronic indie. A brain blast of Pulsating Basslines, Bulletproof Beats, Trashy Keyboards and Human Voice, the most fun you can have with your own ears!
Backed by his head turning live band, Jax regularly packs out some of the most notorious haunts across the country, recent gigs include the Waterats, The Deaf Institute, Nottinghill Arts Club, Antwerp Mansion, Proud Camden, the Night & Day et al. With future ear bursting releases on the agenda, expect big things over the coming months.”
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The Hong Kong Jockey Club, the operator of the Mark Six Lottery, has announced that Anthony Ingham will join the club as Executive Director of Membership, Strategic Marketing and Branding (EDMSMB) on December 7, 2020, effective from January 1, 2021.
As EDMSMB, Ingham will lead the development of the club’s membership strategy with the aim of enhancing and creating unique membership experiences for its 30,000 members.
He will also lead the development and implementation of the club’s strategic marketing plans through active coordination with key stakeholders. He will be responsible for articulating the club’s brand and further strengthening the communication of its unique integrated business model and its significant contribution to the community, reporting directly to the CEO, Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges.
Ingham brings 20 years of in-depth experience in brand transformation, strategic marketing and customer experience development for globally renowned luxury and lifestyle hospitality brands.
He previously worked for Marriott International leading brand strategy, marketing and guest experience execution for some of its major hotel brands. He was appointed Global Head of the W Brand in 2015, where he was responsible for developing and executing a holistic brand transformation of W Hotels. In 2018, he took on additional global responsibility for The Luxury Collection Hotels and Resorts, a portfolio of 115 luxury hotels. He also spent ten years with InterContinental Hotels Group.
Ingham holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Bath. He attended King George V School in Hong Kong and is looking forward to returning to the city.
The club also announced the retirement of Scarlette Leung, Executive Director of Corporate Planning, Branding and Membership, who will leave after two decades with the club on January 1, 2021.
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The Steadicam was invented in 1975 to free the camera from the tripod. It quickly won an Oscar for technical innovation, and it still shows up on film and video sets 45 years later. An operator wears a vest to distribute the weight to his or her shoulders and hips, and connects the camera sled to an Iso-elastic arm (with a series of springs) that isolate the operator's movements from the camera. Is Steadicam Affordable? The answer is yes! Moving image can add the Steadicam package to your shoot based on usage for the day. If only a handful of scenes will require it then the cost is reduced accordingly. The Steadicam can add dramatic movement to Corporate Video, Event Videos, Music Videos and Movies.
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By Jim Coulter|2020-08-21T16:02:34-05:00April 30th, 2020|Creative|
COVID-19 has brought the world's economies to a grinding halt. But not every business has raised the white flag of defeat. Many businesses have found ways to keep their doors open safely and successfully but it takes thinking outside the box. What works for one business may not work for another. As a video production company we have found a way forward that keeps both our staff and our clients safe. For clients that need original content we can send out a very small one, two or three man crew. Our staff is equipped with PPE that meets CDC guidelines including rubber gloves and masks. We also adhere to social distancing by staying at least six feet apart from each other. After several successful shoots during the pandemic we have had no COVID infections for our crew or clients.
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The unprecedented disruption of our economy and business has challenged companies to find new ways to stay relevant and leverage the dormant marketplace. At Moving image Studios our mission is to shore up our brand by rebuilding our website from the ground up incorporating our very best work and streamlining navigation to make it easier, faster and more enjoyable for our clients to get to know who we are and what we are all about.
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Is there a way to pay less for professional video production? The answer to that question is YES! But in order to achieve an affordable rate you have to understand how the video production business works. The cost for video production can be broken into 2 parts. PART 1.) The true unavoidable cost of crew, equipment and post production (editing the video) PART 2.) Administrative fees including office space, salaried staff and markups. Here's a tip: You can avoid PART 2 if you use the right company. (See Method #4 below)
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Moving image Studios along with Vintage Production Group recently produced a new music video titled "BIG" for the Junior Gordon Band. Houston Press Magazine awarded it Best Local Music Video. The Junior Gordon Band hired my good friend Roy Schneider at Vintage Productions Group to produce the video and Moving image Productions provided camera gear and crew. Shot entirely on our new Red 4K Cinema Camera, the video made extensive use of our Steadicam and Jib. The video's storyline depicts an up and coming singer who is destined to make it to the big time. The video was shot in Alvin, Texas on a beautiful estate and at a nearby dance hall.
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Juventus cut player wages, expect more NBA-style trades as result of COVID-19
Juventus sporting director Fabio Paratici agrees with the suggestion that more swap deals will emerge out of the COVID-19 outbreak, bringing football and the NBA closer – something that affects Juve directly, given their cashflow issues.
Juventus expecting an uneasy few years
With the 2019-20 season still on hold, cashflow is proving a serious issue for clubs worldwide. Paratici expects coronavirus to take its toll on transfer fees, which are expected to decrease in value over the next few years at least.
As quoted by Football Italia via Tuttosport, the 56-year-old said: “There will be many swap deals, a situation that will bring football closer to NBA. It’s likely that some clubs, for example those in Germany, can benefit from this general crisis situation through [Germany] having a more stable underlying economy than the others.”
There are no transfer fees in NBA, with player movement dictated through trades or as free agents once contracts expire and they’re free to move across the 30-team league.
The notion that transfer fees will suffer is something that has been echoed by Borussia Dortmund in recent days, with the ongoing Jadon Sancho transfer saga set to reach its conclusion at some stage this summer – whether he stays at BVB, joins one of Spain’s giants or returns to home comforts in England with a host of different clubs interested.
Paulo Dybala was expected to join Tottenham last August, but complications over his image rights meant the deal broke down at the last minute. Although Juve themselves were reluctant to sell, the Argentine’s value and their cashflow issues meant their hand was forced. A few weeks before, they let Moise Kean join Spurs’ league rivals Everton.
Juve’s Marcelo interest reignited
Juventus have long been admirers of the experienced Brazilian
Elsewhere, Spanish reports claim the Serie A champions were close to agreeing a four-year deal with Real Madrid fullback Marcelo this summer before the COVID-19 outbreak.
According to La Stampa, Juve officials were expected to meet with Marcelo in Madrid. Maurizio Sarri is an admirer of the 31-year-old, who would provide priceless experience to a backline who downgraded by swapping Joao Cancelo for Danilo last August.
Details regarding a transfer fee and wages were not disclosed, though it’s not the first time he has been linked with a move to Turin – his name was discussed in 2018 when PSG reportedly a €60m bid rejected for Alex Sandro, with Marcelo identified as a replacement for his compatriot in that position.
At the time, I wrote:
Real Madrid left-back Marcelo, who himself has been at the Bernabeú for 11-and-a-half years, is reportedly being lined up as a potential option to sign for the Bianconeri. The potential move is made even more possible given his long-time teammate, Cristiano Ronaldo, shocked many by sealing a €100m move to Turin last month.
Marcelo lost his starting berth to new signing Ferland Mendy this season and with the approval of close friend Ronaldo in Turin, agreeing a deal to venture elsewhere to try a new challenge away from Spain makes sense from his perspective.
Developing story update: Juve players agree to cut wages
According to ESPN and other media, Juventus players and boss Sarri have collectively agreed to a four-month wage reduction which will save them a reported €90m.
Club captain Giorgio Chiellini is believed to have led players’ negotiations, as Italian media claim Cristiano Ronaldo had agreed to sacrifice €3.8m of his yearly wage to ease their financial burden.
In a statement on Saturday, the club said:
“The economic and financial effects of the understanding reached are positive for about €90m ($100.26m) for the 2019-2020 financial year. The understanding provides for the reduction of the compensation for an amount equal to the monthly payments of March-June 2020.”
Should the current season’s matches be rescheduled, the Club will negotiate in good faith conditional increases of compensation according to the actual resumption and finalisation of official competitions. Juventus would like to thank the players and coach for their commitment at a difficult time for everyone.”
Personal agreements with Sarri and the players individually will be finalised in the weeks to come. Three first-team players have tested positive for the virus: defender Daniele Rugani, midfielder Blaise Matuidi and forward Paulo Dybala.
The agreement comes at a time when Europe’s leading clubs are having to slash their wage bills due to matches being postponed or played behind closed doors. Italy has seen the highest number of deaths in any country from the virus so far.
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On July 9, 2019, a Deputy Head of the State Archival Service of Ukraine was given a notice of suspicion of trading in influence (Article 369-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and submitting false data to e-declaration (Article 366-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The investigation revealed that the official promised to assist in the employment of a person to the State Property Fund of Ukraine for 10 thousand USD of improper advantage. After that they agreed to reduce the “cost” of bribe – up to 9.8 thousand USD.
The transferred funds were divided into two parts. The officials were exposed and detained immediately after the transfer of the second part of the improper advantage in the amount of 4.8 thousand USD.
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Dad devastated after dog who helped his depression stolen in vicious attack
People won't adopt this dog because she's too 'ugly' - can you give her a home?
12 animals longing for forever homes this Christmas after years in shelters
12 animals looking for their forever homes this Christmas
An ‘ugly’ abandoned dog has finally found a new owner
Dog who can only use two limbs gets prosthetic leg so he can go snowboarding
‘Thinnest dog ever seen alive’ ate glass and batteries because he was so hungry
A dog so badly treated he lost a leg is looking for a loving home
Rocco’s leg was broken and had to be amputated (Picture: Jake McPherson / SWNS)
Could you help Rocco trust people again and give him the love he deserves? Rocco is a two-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier who was so badly treated by his former owner he ended up losing a leg. The RSPCA has launched an appeal to find him a home.
Rocco came into the care of the animal welfare charity after the RSPCA and police went to his former owners’ address in September 2019, following reports of an injured dog.
Rocco suffered a broken leg and multiple fractures to his ribs, cheek, and skull after being abused.
But instead of taking the dog to a vet, Rocco’s owners left him to suffer and the RSPCA had to step in.
The dog’s injuries were so bad that his leg had to be amputated, leaving him with three limbs.
Thankfully Rocco is now back in good health and is ready to find a forever home with someone who will treat him well. Andy Cook, Behaviour and Welfare Advisor at RSPCA Brent Knoll, in Highbridge, Somerset, said: ‘Rocco went through such a huge and traumatic ordeal before he was rescued by RSPCA.
Rocco when he was rescued (Picture: Jake McPherson / SWNS )
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOUR PET: While other pets have positive effects on your health as well, dogs have the added benefit of needing to be walked and played with numerous times a day. This means most dog owners get the recommended minimum 30 minutes of exercise a day, lowering their risk of cardiovascular disease and keeping them in better overall shape.
‘It really is amazing that he has such a wonderful and loving personality.
‘Rocco really seems to appreciate the contact and company of other dogs.
‘As far as we are aware he has not lived with them previously but we would be more than happy to consider him living with other dogs in future, providing they are compatible on introduction.
‘He is very affectionate and craves social contact but can struggle when left so any new owner would need to continue with general training to reassure him and help with this.’
Britain's loneliest dog ooking for a home for 437 days after owner died
He’s recovered well and is ready to find a home (Picture: Jake McPherson / SWNS)
Rocco needs a home with someone who has the time and patience to train him up and give him plenty of attention.
He’s sweet and loving, and after a tough start in life is a lovely happy dog who would make a great pal.
If you think you could be the owner Rocco’s searching for, get in touch with the RSPCA by calling 01278 782671.
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News, Reviews and Features NEWS: RSC starts redundancy consultations as closure is extended to 2021
NEWS: RSC starts redundancy consultations as closure is extended to 2021
In London theatre, Musicals, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Quotes, Regional theatre by Press Releases 27th August 2020
Responding to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic and the direct impact on the RSC, artistic director Gregory Doran and executive director Catherine Mallyon have confirmed that RSC theatres will not reopen for full productions before 2021, though the company will continue its activity outdoors and online. The company also announced that a formal consultation process with employees will begin in October.
Commenting on the announcement the RSC added: “Despite our wish to re-open our theatres by the end of the year, it is now clear that the ongoing pandemic and the continued need for social distancing mean that we will not be able to stage full RSC productions in our theatres before 2021.
“Despite our theatres being temporarily closed, our acting company continue to work on events and activity, including our programme of outdoor Shakespeare in Stratford. We will look at what other events, and online activity we can continue to provide for our audiences in the autumn and winter. Our work in partnership with teachers and schools to support children and young people as they return to school is ongoing, with communities across the country and alongside our regional theatre partners.
“We very much hope that the government review of social distancing measures in November will bring positive news for the industry, and provide a timeline for when we can welcome our audiences back into our theatres again.
“It is with great sadness that we have now reached the stage where a formal consultation process with employees must take place to safeguard the long-term future of the Company. We had hoped that things would have become more positive by now, but this has not been the case. With the end of the CJRS in sight, today we gave advance notice to our trade union partners and our employees of a formal consultation process, which will begin in October.
“We also confirmed that, as there will be no work available, from 1 November we will be unable to pay casual worker colleagues and those employed on variable hours contracts. Variable hours colleagues will remain employed, and casual workers will stay on our books, for when work opportunities return in the future.
“Every one of our colleagues makes the RSC the Company that it is, and every one contributes to its success. They show exceptional talent, professionalism, skill, commitment and care at all times and we thank them for their ongoing support.”
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Researchers Employ Unsupervised Funniness Detection in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest
In their study, the researchers took a computational approach to studying the contest to gain insights into what differentiates funny captions from the rest.
A lexical similarity network showing a subset of captions for cartoons, clustered thematically. Image by Agustin Chanfreau, Columbia University.
How do we know what’s funny, and can machine learning and big data techniques be used to identify the essence of humor?
Prof. Dragomir Radev and his former student and alumnus Rahul Jha, together with colleagues from Yahoo! Labs and Columbia University, recently teamed up with New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff to take a computational approach to understanding humor. Their paper, posted on arxiv.org and entitled “Humor in Collective Discourse: Unsupervised Funniness Detection in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest,” describes their findings.
The New Yorker publishes a weekly Cartoon Caption Contest has been running for more than 10 years. Each week, the editors post a cartoon and ask readers to come up with a funny caption for it. They pick the top three submitted captions and ask the readers to pick the weekly winner. The contest has become a cultural phenomenon and has generated a lot of discussion as to what makes a cartoon funny.
In their study, the researchers took a computational approach to studying the contest to gain insights into what differentiates funny captions from the rest. They developed a set of unsupervised methods for ranking captions based on features such as originality, centrality, sentiment, concreteness, grammatically, human-centeredness, etc. They used each of these methods to independently rank all captions from the New Yorker’s corpus of cartoons and selected the top captions for each method. Then, they performed Amazon Mechanical Turk experiments in which they asked Turkers to judge which of the selected captions is funnier.
The researchers were able to show that negative sentiment, human-centeredness, and lexical centrality most strongly match the funniest captions, followed by positive sentiment. These results are useful for understanding humor and also in the design of more engaging conversational agents in text and multimodal (vision+text) systems.
As part of this work, a large set of cartoons and captions is being made available to the community so that other researchers may experiment further.
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By Darren Geek, Music Industry, Tech
Spotify & Deezer’s apps: The Emperor’s New Clothes?
Recently I decided to familiarise myself with Deezer, because I feel the service could start making some big moves this year and that therefore it would be good to have some insight as to the platform, the user interface, what’s possible etc etc.
Something that really caught my eye when using their web client though was the way in which many of the Deezer “apps” were basically just external websites that were using the Deezer API to provide their audio. This led me on a train of thought around both Deezer and Spotify apps, where I concluded that in many respects what we have here is a massive case of Emperor’s New Clothes. A chat with Syd Lawrence on Twitter basically confirmed that, too – which you read on Storify here.
Let’s start with the basics. Spotify’s desktop client is basically a jazzed up Chromium browser, as I understand it. The Spotify apps that run within it are, to all intents and purposes, websites. They’re code being pulled from elsewhere and run within the Spotify desktop client. Similarly, Deezer’s apps run in a similar manner – though often not even within the Deezer web client.
That being the case, one has to ask the question: why are the people behind these apps not broadening them out to run on the web, connecting in with all available services? Take the Earache Metalizer Spotify app, for example. I’d wager that with probably an extra 20% of time spent on it, that could have been adapted to also run within Earache’s website, pointing people to the streaming service of choice, be that Spotify, Deezer, Rdio or potentially something else.
This isn’t – and shouldn’t be – an “either/or” scenario. I would assume you could have the same app available in Spotify, Deezer *and* on your website if you so desired – and why not? It provides convenience to your users, after all. So why aren’t people doing this?
A recent development to further erode any argument against doing so would surely be the introduction of Tomahawk’s Toma.hk API. For the unfamiliar, Toma.hk is a top-level music sharing service. You tell it what song you want to share, and it spits back a shortened URL that will offer links to the song across all services it can find it on (Spotify, Deezer, Soundcloud, YouTube etc), and will provide a player if the song is found on an open service like YouTube or Soundcloud where an account isn’t required to listen. By offering an API, Toma.hk means people can now build webapps with the same functionality as a Spotify or Deezer app, but with the flexibility to link to any service it can interact with. You can even state what order you’d prefer results to be found in (ie “please find me the songs on Spotify first, then YouTube if not available” etc).
Playing devil’s advocate then, it would be very easy to take the concept of Earache’s Metalizer app and rebuild it using Toma.hk’s API, so that it could serve up heavy metal playlists for not just Spotify but Deezer, YouTube, Soundcloud – you name it. The site would be open to all and on paper at least would have far greater reach because it is not restricted only to users of one service. There’s nothing untoward about this either; all the services in question are 100% legal and, with the exception of Soundcloud, remunerate rightsholders.
In some respects it feels like the music industry has fallen under a classic marketing spell here. Various content owners and publishers have rushed to deliver Spotify apps (and Deezer ones too in some cases), whilst failing to look at the bigger picture. In my own experience, Spotify is an awesome service but still one limited by virtue of its requirement 1) to be operational in your territory and 2) for you to have an account. Taking this concept of locked-in apps and opening them up to a wider audience only makes good sense to me, as it ensures rightsholders are not limiting their offering to one or two services but instead putting the consumer first with maximum compatibility to their listening services. When you look beyond your own country especially, you realise that such a move isn’t just “a nice additional feature” – its critical to delivering awesome, engaging web experiences to as many people as possible.
So… who will be the first to step up?
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Bas Grasmayer (@Spartz) says:
This is definitely where we’re headed: “music as an API” as Mark Mulligan once put it.
I’m a bit surprised that Tomahawk are still (seemingly) the only guys doing it, although certain Spotify apps are of course also available outside of Spotify (Shuffler.fm comes to mind). I think it needs some time. Perhaps it will take a high-profile app heavily relying on one music API (eg. Soundrop) to suddenly get suspended from it…
Because currently it’s not stable, it’s more fragmented and it still (!) sucks to share music with friends in a completely legal way… Especially when those friends don’t live in the same territory.
I think this will change fast though. Music catalogs with big amounts of highly popular music are becoming increasingly easy to tap into. This could well be where the next generation of music apps lies.
They are not the only guys doing it. Musictray.org is another company that is doing it a little differently but effectively achieves the same thing.
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Saloodo! (https://www.Saloodo.com) seamlessly connects shippers and carriers in international markets; Digital freight platform is available on 4 continents and in more than 50 countries; Saloodo! is the most international digital road freight platform in the world.
The logistics start-up Saloodo! remains on course for expansion. The digital platform is now ready to be used globally for road freight transports. A milestone in the still young company history, which has been sustainably and strategical well prepared.
The intuitive and user-friendly digital road freight platform was launched in Germany in 2017 and has grown continuously since then. Initially Saloodo! was available in several other European countries, while expanding rapidly into emerging markets outside Europe like Middle East and Africa.
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“We are already working with a number of global players. These customers have a high degree of digitalisation and operate worldwide with seamless processes. On the part of their transport and logistics providers, this often looks different, resulting in disruptions in the companies’ supply chain,” explains Anja Kappus, COO Saloodo!. “With the global digital road freight platform, we at Saloodo! can make precisely these processes more efficient and economical – worldwide.”
The launch of the global platform will not only unite the markets. From now on Saloodo! customers will also benefit from all features developed so far in the individual regions. “For example, customers in our region will now also benefit from the improved and further simplified user experience of the new Saloodo! interface. Furthermore, the global platform offers improved functionalities for organising convoy shipments, which is a big advantage.,” explains Tobias Maier, CEO Saloodo! MEA.
Conversely, European shippers will be able to order truck transports in convoy for the first time. This option has been extensively tested in the MEA regions in advance, and shippers of high-value goods in particular appreciate the security benefits of convoy transports.
A new feature that will also be introduced for the European road freight market in the near future is the possibility to submit transport offers via WhatsApp. Transport service providers can be informed about new transport requests via WhatsApp and then enter their offer. If the shipper agrees to the offer, the service provider will be informed and all transport-relevant information and documents will be sent automatically to him.
Just four years after its founding, Saloodo! is rolling out its digital road freight platform worldwide, setting an unprecedented milestone in digital road transport platforms.
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Car News > All > Spotfiy could be ready to launch voice-activated music playlist for cars
Spotfiy could be ready to launch voice-activated music playlist for cars
Spotify could soon launch an Amazon Alexa-powered voice recognition tool to make using its app easier in cars, if rumours circulating the tech world turn out to be true.
The music-streaming firm announced on Friday that it was to make a surprise news announcement in New York later this month, with one of the possibilities being a new music gadget for cars, according to UK Business Insider.
The rumoured gadget first appeared on link-sharing website Reddit in February, where users posted screenshots from their music app showing a pre-order for this in-car device. The Spotify advertisement appears to have been released by mistake.
The unnamed and unconfirmed device is believed to work in the same way that Siri does – featuring voice recognition tech to carry out functions. In this case, it would be to change music or playlists from your Spotify account.
With American users of the app having the option to purchase the device, either for a monthly fee of $12.99 (£9.20) or a one-off fee of $155 (£110), it does seem likely that the gadget will be brought to market.
Many manufacturers already offer voice recognition services in their cars, usually operated by having to press a button and then speak your command. BMW and Mini are integrating Amazon Alexa into all their new cars from the middle of 2018 that will allow users to switch and interact with services using their voice.
The new Mercedes A-Class, which is hitting showrooms shortly, also features a voice recognition tool that’s operated by using the words ‘Hey Mercedes’.
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Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has already stressed the importance of their game against Tottenham on Sunday to his players, according to Mason Mount.
The Blues go into the Premier League clash following a 2-1 win over Rennes in the Champions League on Tuesday, which sealed qualification into the Round of 16.
Lampard’s side now have the chance to overtake Spurs at the top of the table with a win at Stamford Bridge.
When asked if the squad are aware of the magnitude of their game against Tottenham this weekend, Mount told Chelsea TV: “Yeah, everyone knows. The gaffer has made it very known how big of a game it is.
“All of us boys know how big of a game it is and we’re going into the game with the confidence that we want to win.
“And that’s what we’ve been doing recently and we’re not going to change.
“Obviously, we know how big of a game it is and how tough it’s going to be ‘But we’re ready, we’re confident and we’re ready to fight.”
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Gold Miners’ Steven Babin named Gongshow Gear player of the month
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Release Date: Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013
SUDBURY – The Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League announced Tuesday that Kirkland Lake Gold Miners forward Steven Babin has been named the Gongshow Gear Inc. player of the month for September.
In eight games during the month that was the 19-year-old native of Val d’Or, Que., got on the score sheet in all of them as he rides an eight-game point streak into October.
Babin, who represented the NOJHL at this summer’s Ontario Summer Select Showcase event in Cornwall, currently leads all scorers in the league in both assists and points with 14 and 16 respectively. One of his two tallies, one was a game-winner.
He presently tops all NOJHL skaters in point-per-game average at 2.00 while his assist numbers tie him for the fourth-best total overall in that offensive category in the entire Canadian Junior Hockey League despite having played at least two fewer games than those ahead of him.
His efforts have also helped the Gold Miners post the best record in the NOJHL after one month of play as they sit in first place on 14 points with a 7-1 won-loss mark. Kirkland Lake was also rated 11th in the most recent CJHL Top 20 rankings.
Babin will be recognized at a future game for his on-ice efforts and will be presented his monthly award courtesy of Gongshow Gear Inc.
Honourable mention for September’s NOJHL’s Gongshow Gear player of the month laurels went to forwards Gavin Burbach of the Soo Thunderbirds and Brennen Dubchak of the Espanola Rivermen.
ABOUT GONGSHOW GEAR INC.
Gongshow was founded in 2002 by three teammates in the Central Junior “A” Hockey League after identifying the need for a hockey apparel brand that would accurately represent the exciting and exclusive lifestyle that hockey players live. Gongshow was the first Lifestyle Hockey Apparel brand in the world to hit the market in 2002, and this game changing company has since grown into the largest hockey lifestyle clothing brand in the world – selling in over 500 retail locations, in 15 countries internationally, and has hailed comparisons to such pioneering lifestyle brands as Billabong (Surfing Lifestyle), and Burton (Snowboarding Lifestyle). Gongshow is dedicated to a core set of philosophies and strengths: design superiority, highest level of material quality and workmanship, edgy and trend setting hockey expression, a focus on consumer to brand connection, and strong partnerships with retailers and suppliers.
For more information on Gongshow Gear Inc., visit their website at www.gongshowgear.com or via Facebook at www.facebook.com/gongshowgear or Twitter at twitter.com/gongshowgear.
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Protection of Non-Traditional Trade Marks in Lithuania
27 rugsėjo, 2012 | metidalawfirm
Authors: Mykolas Jakutis, an Assistant to Attorney-at-Law in METIDA, Inga Lukauskiene, an Associated Partner, an Attorney-at-Law and a Patent Attorney in METIDA
Trade marks are traditionally perceived as words, numbers, pictures, symbols or combinations of these elements. However development of marketing and promotional strategies has broadened the scope of what is considered to constitute a trade mark. Therefore, colours, shapes, moving images, holograms, even sounds, scents and tastes nowadays may serve as marks distinguishing the goods and services of one person from those of another. Although the description of non-traditional mark is accepted worldwide, registrations of such marks face serious difficulties in practical registration procedures.
Most usual of the unusual trade marks and perhaps most widely applied for are shape marks or the three-dimensional (hereinafter – 3D) marks. Still the 3D marks are facing challenges in passing the examination on absolute grounds in Lithuania. Notably, three-dimensional form (the shape of products, their packaging or containers) is included in the list of marks with respect to which legal protection under Trade Mark Law of Lithuania (hereinafter – Law) is applicable. Yet in the practice application of a plane 3D shape without any other wordy or figurative distinctive elements is generally sentenced to fail first examination in the Patent Bureau of Lithuania (hereinafter – SPB) and is provisionally refused in most cases. However recent decisions of the Appeal Division of the SPB have brought some eligibility and identified the actual criteria applied for the 3D marks.
With the decision of September 28, 2011 the Appeal Division has satisfied appeal filed in the name of applicant Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha due to the registration of 3D trade mark – bottle device, depicted in the picture.
The appeal was supported by the arguments that the 3D mark is an original form created in 1965 and introduced on the market in 1968. The form distinguishes by the specific features: the body of the bottle is visually divided by straight lines into four parts of different dimensions – oblique neck of the bottle, straight part of the body, narrowed middle of the body and straight body again at the bottom. Hereby the bottle repeats the lines of woman’s figure in a very stylized way.
The following characteristic points may be crystallized from the above decision of the Appeal Division and these should be taken into account when filing 3D mark application in Lithuania:
Plane 3D shape without any other additional elements may constitute a trade mark per se, i. e. no supplementary word or figurative elements should be required for the registration to be accepted.
Nevertheless the 3D mark should also significantly differ from the common examples and practice of the market.
When estimating distinctiveness of the 3D mark, it is essential to evaluate the whole shape and common impression presented by the mark, since the way of presentment of various elements allows reaching entire esthetical result.
Neither 3D shape of packaging (containers, bottles, etc.) nor separate elements of it (handle, cap, etc.) shall be deemed to be consisted of the shape which is necessary to obtain a technical result on the mere fact that it’s initial purpose is technical – to store, convey, lift, carry, outpour. Instead it is crucial to evaluate the originality and distinctiveness of the specific form and not the object itself.
Another type of non-traditional trade marks are colour marks, which appears even more complicated to pass through the registration requirements. The Law defines a mark which may be registered as a trade mark quite liberally. Colours or combinations of colours and their compositions are covered under provision of applicable marks by the Law. However the Rules on Examination of Trade Marks ZR/03/2004 constrict this provision by stating that a mark shall be declared devoid of any distinctive character if it consists of only one colour or two colours (especially basic ones) represented in basic geometrical shape (usually in a square) unless the mark conforms to the following provisions set in the same Rules:
the colour has obtained secondary meaning among consumers;
the colour does not bear any functional or practical value in relation to the goods/services concerned;
the colour does not posses any competitive need within the market of the goods/services concerned.
Therefore, in principle allowed for registration, in practice colour marks meet strict requirement of acquired distinctiveness to be fulfilled though. Taking into account the above provisions, it is transparent why only a narrow number of colour mark applications are awarded a registration in the SPB.
For example, with the decision of June 20, 2012 the Appeal Division has rejected the appeal filed in the name of applicant “Humana people to people Baltic” due to the registration of colour trade mark – yellow and blue color combination, depicted in the picture.
The applicant indicated that in this particular case the Appeal Division did not take into account the fact that the application was for two colour combination. The Appeal Division has noted that there are the same evaluation criteria for combined colours applications. In September 2012 this particular decision was appealed to the Vilnius Regional Court
Summarizing the above, it should be pointed out that although it is still arguable if the colour mark in questions has actually acquired distinctiveness through use or not, the major obstacle for clear registration of colour marks in Lithuania today is unsettled and even contradictious practice of the Appeal Division of the SPB as concerns registration of the colour mark. Unfortunately this obvious instability leads applicants into disorientation and even loss of their legitimate rights.
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Aramco faces new test: shareholders
Anuj Chopra
Saudi Aramco's market debut on the Riyadh stock exchange will raise pressure for higher profit margins on a company that so far has been answerable to no one except the government. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
From robots to sniffer drones, Saudi Aramco has ramped up spending on technological innovation while its rivals cut back amid soft oil prices, but the energy giant risks losing its edge after its much-anticipated IPO.
Saudi Arabia is offering a sliver of the company, touted as the kingdom’s crown jewel, in its upcoming initial public offering that is the bedrock of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s ambitious strategy to overhaul the oil-reliant economy.
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Its market debut on the Riyadh stock exchange will raise pressure for higher profit margins on a company that so far has been answerable to no one except the government.
“Aramco has never had to answer to investors looking at the company’s quarterly results,” Ellen Wald, author of the book Saudi Inc., said.
“When it goes public, that will change.”
In recent years the world’s most profitable company, billed as a juggernaut of innovation, increased spending on research and development as most of its competitors scaled back.
Aramco said it incurred R&D expenses of $591-million in 2018, up from $507-million in the previous year.
Its technological prowess was on display in a recent media tour of its sprawling Dhahran headquarters in eastern Saudi Arabia, akin to a manicured American suburb with quaint houses, shopping plazas and schools for its 15 000-strong workforce.
Engineers hunched over computers in an air-conditioned command centre with giant screens tracking the flow of crude from oil fields, through a complex web of pipelines and refineries, to tankers dispatched around the world.
Workers displayed innovations, from production-boosting drilling technology to nimble robots that crawl over pipes to carry out repairs and drones fitted with “sniffers” to detect leaks and inspect flare tips.
“Over the past five years, our R&D spending has more than doubled,” said Ahmad al-Khowaiter, Aramco’s chief technology officer.
“That has enabled investment in world class talent and research centres.”
‘Pressure to scale back’
Aramco says its 1 300 scientists and engineers at 12 research centres around the world — from Beijing to Detroit — help it file new patents every year.
Officials say the large-scale investments have helped it pump crude at a fraction of the cost of its rivals from beneath its rolling sand dunes and seas.
But an expensive R&D effort may not appeal to investors as profits slip. In the first nine months of this year, Aramco said its net profit dropped 18% to $68.2-billion.
As it remains vulnerable to oil price fluctuations, some Saudis fear the IPO will force the company to pander to shorter-term preferences of shareholders.
“The R&D creates useful technology for Aramco… (but) some of the projects may or may not ever be commercially viable,” Wald said.
“It is understandable that some in the company are concerned that there could be pressure to scale back or change its R&D strategy.”
Analysts say Aramco could announce an intention to list two or three percent of the company on Riyadh’s Tadawul exchange, with its valuation likely to fall short of the hoped-for $2-trillion.
Its prospectus said it would start taking bids from investors on November 17, but it did not disclose the size of the sale or the pricing range.
‘Ultimate cash cow’
Given the size of the company, even a scaled-down valuation could still make the offering the world’s largest — generating funds to develop non-energy sectors deemed important for employment generation — from tourism to entertainment.
But analysts are left asking whether the IPO will be constructive for Aramco, the front engine of an economy strongly tethered to oil.
“Aramco is the workhorse behind the Saudi economy,” the Energy Intelligence group said in a report.
“It reflects superior governance, corporate culture and competence at the company, which is recognised as best-in-class in the Middle East. By taking Aramco public, Riyadh risks disrupting the formula that’s produced its ultimate cash cow.”
Minority shareholders are unlikely to force a radical shift in the company’s strategy but there could be pressure if the stock price underperforms, analysts say.
“Aramco’s past success was partly due to its closed model, where it answered only to Riyadh,” the Energy Intelligence report said.
“Tension seems bound to emerge between the interests of the Saudi state in securing stable oil revenues, the commercial aspirations of a listed Aramco, and the crown prince’s vision that must somehow satisfy both.”
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MH370 and Other Investigations
Following the Data towards Discovery
Radiant Physics Inc.
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End-of-Flight Simulations of MH370
by Victor Iannello Posted: Sunday, 8/19/2018
Boeing simulations of MH370 at end-of-flight. (Click on image to enlarge.)
With the failure of the recent search by Ocean Infinity to locate the debris field along the 7th arc at latitudes as far north as 25S and at widths equal to or exceeding +/- 22 NM, we consider whether it is possible that with the assumption of uncontrolled flight, the plane could have impacted the ocean farther than 22 NM from the 7th arc, and was missed because the search along the arc was too narrow.
At each phase in the subsea search for MH370, the search area was defined by following parameters:
A range of latitudes along the 7th arc
A width inwards and outwards from the 7th arc
The range of latitudes for the search was determined by analysis of the satellite data, aircraft performance, and drift models. Collectively, these data sets constrain the position that MH370 crossed the 7th arc. Unfortunately, due to the imprecise nature of these data sets, official and independent investigators have proposed a fairly large range of latitudes, and this continues to be the subject of debate.
In a parallel effort by the ATSB, the width inwards and outwards from the arc was estimated by the distance the aircraft could have glided after fuel exhaustion. With the assumption that there were no pilot inputs after fuel exhaustion, this distance was determined by end-of-flight simulations conducted by Boeing based on aircraft conditions requested by the ATSB. The simulations were completed in Boeing’s engineering simulator, which offers high fidelity of the aircraft’s performance. Some of the results of these simulations were presented in an ATSB report entitled MH370 Search and Debris Update, released in November 2016.
Because of the importance of the simulations in establishing the search width, I asked the ATSB for more details about the conditions modeled and the results of the ten simulations. (Because Boeing conducted the simulations based on conditions requested by the ATSB in support of the search, they are an ATSB product.) Although legal restrictions prevent the ATSB from providing specific details about each of the ten simulations (referred to as Cases 1-10), the ATSB did reveal that the initial speeds varied between M0.75 and M0.83, the starting altitudes were either FL350 or FL400, the initial headings were either 178°, 184° or 190°, and turbulence was either light or moderate. Winds at various altitudes were included in the simulations.
In addition to these general descriptions, the ATSB did provide me with numerical results of the ten simulation runs in the form of X, Y, and altitude in one second increments, where X is the E-W position in NM, Y is the N-S position in NM, and the altitude is in feet. (The ATSB deliberately did not include the latitude and longitude values in these files so that there was no association with a particular crossing of the 7th arc.) The ATSB has permitted me to share these results on this blog so that a broader group of investigators can independently analyze the results. To my knowledge, this is the first time these results have been released to the public.
Although not included in the files, derived quantities such as groundspeed, Mach number, track, vertical speed, vertical acceleration, bank angle, and wing loading are all calculable, although some parameters such as Mach number and calibrated airspeed need assumptions about the wind and temperature fields.
A presentation of the detailed technical analyses of all the simulations would be lengthy and not appropriate for a blog post. However, some generalized observations and results are summarized below:
There were two groups of simulations. In the first group (Cases 1,2,5,7,8,9), the autopilot was lost after the flameout of the second (left) engine, which corresponds to a “normal” configuration of the electrical system.
In the second group (Cases 3,4,6,10), the electrical configuration was in an “alternate” configuration in which the left generator and left backup generator were isolated with switches in the overhead panel. In this case, when the right engine is running, power is supplied to the left bus from the right bus through the bus tie breaker. However, after the first (right) engine flames out, both main AC busses and both transfer busses lose power, which causes the flight control mode to transition to “secondary” and the autopilot and autothrottle disengage, even as the left engine continues to provide thrust.
The SATCOM’s log-on request at 00:19 is assumed to occur two minutes after the loss of the autopilot. (The two minute interval assumes the APU would take one minute to start supplying power, and the SDU would subsequently take one minute to power up and request a log-on to the satellite.) The ATSB has adjusted this position in all the simulations so that the two-minute mark occurs at the same X,Y values, and the paths can be compared. The two-minute mark serves as a reference position (labeled with “2 mins” in the figure above).
For all ten simulations, the paths stay within a distance of 32 NM from the reference position. However, since all paths are curved, the farthest impact point from the 7th arc is only about 15 NM, and depends on the track angle between the initial path and the arc tangent.
There were five simulations (Cases 3,4,5,6,10) in which the rate of descent exceeded 15,000 fpm and the downward acceleration exceeded 0.67g, which are the values indicated by the two final values of BFO. This included all four cases with the “alternate” electrical configuration, and one with normal configuration. The maximum downward acceleration for these cases ranged between 0.87g and 1.30g.
For the five simulations (Cases 3,4,5,6,10) with high descent rates, the impact occurs within 14 NM from the reference position, and about the same distance from the 7th arc, depending on the track angle between the initial path and the arc tangent.
For the five simulations (Cases 3,4,5,6,10) with high descent rates, the descent rate of 15,000 fpm and the downward acceleration of 0.67g occur at different times, and are not predicted to occur at the time of the log-on. If the impact distance is measured from the point at which the descent rate first exceeds 15,000 fpm, the distance ranges between 4.7 NM and 7.9 NM.
In none of the simulations did the plane fly straight with level wings after the autopilot was disengaged. Ultimately, the magnitude and direction of the bank that develops is the net effect of a many factors, including thrust asymmetry, TAC, manual rudder input, weight imbalance, aerodynamic asymmetry, and turbulence, with the dihedral effect of the wings and center-of-mass tending to restore the bank to zero.
Simulation of Alternate Electrical Configuration
Case 6: A simulated end-of-flight path for the left generators turned off before fuel exhaustion. (Click on image to enlarge.)
The four simulations (Cases 3,4,6,10) with the alternate electrical configuration are interesting because in all cases, the descent rates and downwards accelerations exceeded the values suggested by the final BFOs, and the high speed descent is achieved within minutes of loss of the autopilot. To further illustrate the sequence of events, we consider Case 6, with initial conditions of a groundspeed of 425 knots at an altitude of 35,000 ft, and shown in the figure above.
When there is no more fuel in the right tank, the right engine coasts down and the left engine speed increases to full thrust. The loss of AC power causes a transition to secondary control mode, and the autopilot and the autothrust are disengaged. As the right engine coasts down, the automatic thrust asymmetry compensation (TAC) will apply left rudder, but the amount of rudder does not change after the flight control mode degrades to secondary.
After the right engine flames out, there is a slight turn to the right, which means the rudder position does not completely balance the yaw from the resulting thrust asymmetry. It is possible that the transition to secondary control mode occurs before the TAC can apply sufficient rudder input to fully compensate for the thrust asymmetry of no right engine thrust and full thrust of the left.
At some point, the remaining fuel in the left tank is exhausted, and the left engine shuts down. With both engines producing no thrust, the left rudder position now causes a steep turn to the left, and the plane descends. At the point it reaches 27,000 ft, the descent rate is 15,000 fpm, and it has achieved a downward acceleration of 0.3g over the preceding eight seconds. The plane levels off at about 19,000 ft, and then begins to again rapidly descend, reaching a descent rate of 15,000 fpm at about 18,000 ft, and impacting the sea about 3.3 NM from this point. The impact distance from the earlier point of reaching a descent rate of 15,000 fpm is about 7.9 NM.
[Phrases in italics were added on Aug 21, 2018 for clarity.]
If we consider that the end-of-flight Boeing simulations were representative of the actual conditions of MH370, we have three possibilities:
If the flight was uncontrolled after fuel exhaustion, and if we ignore the final BFO values, the plane impacted no farther than about 15 NM from the 7th arc.
If the flight was uncontrolled after fuel exhaustion, and if the descent rates suggested by the final BFO values are valid, then the aircraft impacted no more than about 8 NM from the 7th arc.
If the flight was controlled after fuel exhaustion, an efficient, stable glide starting at about 40,000 ft could have achieved a distance of 120+ NM from the 7th arc.
Possibilities (1) and (2) suggest the next search should occur along the 7th arc north of 25S latitude at a width of about +/-25 NM. The +/-25 NM is an estimate that includes uncertainty in the simulation models and uncertainty in the final BTO values.
Because possibility (3) requires pilot inputs after fuel exhaustion, if this occurred, we have to assume that pilot inputs also occurred during the powered part of the flight after 19:41. As such, there would be no reason to believe that paths reconstructed with the assumption of automated flight with no pilot inputs are representative of the path actually flown. The large width (+/- 120 NM) and the difficulty in objectively constraining the crossing latitude of the 7th arc would make it difficult to define a manageable search area without additional information.
Until additional information or insights become available, it will be difficult to establish a new search area.
This entry was posted on Sunday, August 19th, 2018 at 5:08 pm and is filed under Aviation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
434 Responses to “End-of-Flight Simulations of MH370”
Victor Iannello says:
@TimR: If you could provide us with more specifics or proof of your assertions regarding the intentions of the captain, it would help justify a search further north of 25S. As of today, most people treat it as an unsubstantiated rumor, of which there have been many.
Don Thompson says:
Perhaps, in drawing a pause on the radar/ADS-B information this is an update for VATM’s upgrade progress in 2013.
Given the ADS-B mandates by Singapore and Australia prior to 2014, MAS will have been operating ADS-B compliant transponders on the B777 fleet during 2014. I’d like to confirm if the transponder included “Aircraft Derived Data” (ADD) in its broadcast, the data that meets enhanced surveillance requirements. If so, any data logged from the VATM Con Son receiver may be significant.
Today, I noted one paragraph in the SIR, under Synopsis, page xv:
The investigation [..] comprised an Investigator-in-Charge (IIC) and three main Committees, comprising: Airworthiness; Flight Operations; and Medical/Human Factors.
No indication that a Structures committee was convened as aircraft debris began to be recovered.
Dan Richter says:
Forget about SIO. Very interesting CSIRO study about marine debris. Modelled marine litter usually enter the Indian Ocean from Southeast Asia within one to two years (Figure 20).
https://image.ibb.co/hLh9az/Particles_Southeast_Asia.jpg
Study here https://publications.csiro.au/rpr/download?pid=csiro:EP159268&dsid=DS3
flatpack says:
@Victor Iannello
“The SATCOM’s log-on request at 00:19 is assumed to occur two minutes after the loss of the autopilot. (The two minute interval assumes the APU would take one minute to start supplying power, and the SDU would subsequently take one minute to power up and request a log-on to the satellite.)”
How long do you assume the ADIRU would take to boot? Having lost it’s reference heading whilst in-flight, it may may take even longer for the output to be reliable.
If the AES is sucking the bus, can the initial data be relied upon?
@Victor. Nice that you got more info finally and thank you for the work in your analysis and presentation.
Some off the top of the head starter observations and questions:
• Achieving the descent rates is much dependent on the right engine power loss configuration. If the left (‘normal configuration’) then but 1 of 6 did.
• You indicate the timings do not match the BFOs. Have you calculated how far off 2mins 7secs were the times to that descent rate?
• If achieving the descent rates qualitatively is a go/no go, that indicates the right is the only acceptable. That suggests that if unmanned the right IDG would have been switched on at 18:24 to restore the SDU.
• However your anlysis shows that within the limitations of the simulations, achieving those descent rates does not matter much if there is a 25NM limit.
• On the limitations, did they say what the assumption was as to the time difference between engine flame outs; was there a spread; and was the increased consumption due to the right providing all electrical power for 6 hrs included in those?
• They did not simulate right or left engine relights or the effect of APU start. On the latter I am thinking of the APU restoring AC, though not of course the autopilot with that.
• Statistically the numbers are small. “the farthest impact point from the 7th arc is only about 15 NM” is an example. Aside from a bit of a swoop in at the end it may not be representative of the true maximum.
• I think some of these points need to be clarified before a general conclusion can be made about ±25NM, though your analysis certainly helps with that.
• For those who find Cases 6 and 9 and even 10 hard to make out I assume the ATSB original to be the same?
An observation on the paths vs attitude to I-3F1.
At the 2 minute mark, after loss of generator power, paths 4, 3, 6, and 10 put the aircraft in a good position for line of sight abeam from an antenna aperture to I-3F1. Paths 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, and 8 put the aircraft longitudinal orientation close to a radial line from I-3F1. In other words, the satellite is directly behind the aircraft and approx 40º above its position (antenna look angle depends on pitch).
If the initial LOR burst from the aircraft was ‘missed’ by the GES, add 12-19 seconds before a second LOR occurs. If that was to have occurred, the path terminus for all but 8 and 4 shift closer to the arc.
@flatpack
The ADIRU operation is not interrupted, its power supply redundancy is assured by the main battery.
Bruce Robertson says:
In reading about the FlightRadar24 data reports, I see several squawk codes containing the numerals 8 and 9. These are invalid values as squawk codes are octal (ranging from 0 to 7) as has been mentioned. If the reports from Paul Sladen do indeed show these 8’s and 9’s, it calls into question the reliability of the all the reports.
@Don Thompson
Slightly off topic but are there any non battery-backed inputs to the ADIRU that could cause an erroneous output. I was thinking along the lines of AF447 and pitot tube heaters but they would presumably require a longer power interruption to ice-up.
@Bruce Robertson: The (octal) squawk code for MH370 was 2157. I discovered that if this is (incorrectly) interpreted as hex, it would convert to 8535 decimal, which is the squawk code listed in a graphic supplied by FR24. I think the conversion was performed incorrectly by whomever prepared this graphic. On the other hand, the squawk code in the CSV file from FR24 correctly lists the squawk code as 2157. I don’t think the incorrect squawk code indicates a problem with the data.
@David: You’re asking lots of questions. I appreciate your interest, and I’ll answer some, but be aware that I asked permission from the ATSB to share the CSV files for each simulation so that others can perform their own calculations.
Have you calculated how far off 2mins 7secs were the times to that descent rate?
I’ve done it for some, but not all. It’s easily calculated for each case.
That suggests that if unmanned the right IDG would have been switched on at 18:24 to restore the SDU.
The left bus could have been isolated by opening the breakers for the left bus tie, the left IDG, and (optionally) the left backup generator. Power at 18:24 could have been restored by restoring the left tie bus breaker to AUTO. There was no need to ever switch the right IDG.
On the limitations, did they say what the assumption was as to the time difference between engine flame outs; was there a spread; and was the increased consumption due to the right providing all electrical power for 6 hrs included in those?
I do not know the fuel levels in the tanks at the start of the simulations.
On the latter I am thinking of the APU restoring AC, though not of course the autopilot with that.
I do not believe this effect on the flight dynamics, if any, was modeled.
Statistically the numbers are small. “the farthest impact point from the 7th arc is only about 15 NM” is an example. Aside from a bit of a swoop in at the end it may not be representative of the true maximum.
If we believe the descent rates that we derived from the final BFOs, the distance from the 7th arc is less than 8 NM with no pilot inputs. Once the aircraft achieves high rates of descent and high downward accelerations, the flight dynamics becomes increasingly unstable.
For those who find Cases 6 and 9 and even 10 hard to make out I assume the ATSB original to be the same?
I’m not sure what you are asking. If you are having problems distinguishing each path in the first figure, you can use the files I provided to obtain the precise paths.
RE: “Given the ADS-B mandates by Singapore and Australia prior to 2014, MAS will have been operating ADS-B compliant transponders on the B777 fleet during 2014. I’d like to confirm if the transponder included “Aircraft Derived Data” (ADD) in its broadcast, the data that meets enhanced surveillance requirements. If so, any data logged from the VATM Con Son receiver may be significant.”
Perhaps I’m mistaken, but doesn’t the DF17 message frame that’s broadcast via the Mode S extended squitter (ie ADS-B) only include items such as aircraft identification, position, altitude & emergency status? Other ADD that meets the Mode S enhanced surveillance requirements (ie selected altitude, roll angle, IAS, magnetic heading, etc) would only be sent in response to a Mode S interrogation.
I’ll have to check, but I recall the Mode S enhanced surveillance requirements were implemented for operations in Europe some time around 2005. I don’t have confirmation, but given that Malaysian’s B777s were used on its routes to Europe, I’d say the aircraft must have been compliant.
@Victor. Thank you. A couple of comments then I will leave this alone for a while.
Yes, “If we believe the descent rates that we derived from the final BFOs, the distance from the 7th arc is less than 8 NM with no pilot inputs.” But also we must believe that the right engine bore all the electrical load.
In that case the 18:24 restoration of power, later unmanned, would have entailed the right IDG being selected if both had been selected off earlier, or loaded through a bus tie which had been opened earlier when the left IDG was selected off as you say. I think most likely the left back up gen would have been selected off already in that hypothetical, for some reason, that reason going a-begging and raising the possibility that the right B/U had been selected off earlier too. Even harder to explain would be how the left B/U would have been isolated at 18:24 or later I would suggest.
It might be better to forego the right engine sub-set that comes with a BFO realisation requirement since 25 NM seems good enough.
That wider margin also could allow short glide distances eg for a pilot who glided for a while before plunging.
As to the cases hard to make out I meant in your top diagram some are indistinct.
DrB says:
@Victor Iannello,
For the alternate power configuration, it seems rather likely that the left engine would continue operating some 8-10 minutes after the right engine failed (causing the autopilot to be disconnected and the SPU to auto-start). There are 3 main contributors to the run time difference, assuming no fuel was transferred after17:07. First, there was less fuel in the right tank than in the left tank at 17:07. Second, the right engine consumed about 1.5% more fuel. Third, the right engine had twice the electrical load as normal, increasing its fuel consumption, while the left engine had no electrical load.
Do you know, or have you inferred from the ATSB data, how long the engine run time difference was assumed to be in the simulations using the alternate power configuration? I don’t see how less than 2 minutes is possible.
Perhaps I missed it, but was it the case that the several simulations for each power configuration only differed by the degree of residual rudder mis-trim?
@ Victor Iannello
Don Thompson wrote “The final F24 record, timed at 17:21:03, records only the 4 digit ATC assigned octal code (2195).” What squawk code is this? I haven’t been able to convert it to anything reasonable.
@flatpack asked “are there any non battery-backed inputs to the ADIRU that could cause an erroneous output“.
Yes, some inputs to the Air Data side of the ADIRU may be unreliable. However, the IRU function isn’t affected. The data words used by the AES originate in the IRU function.
@Bruce Robertson asked “ATC assigned octal code (2195). What squawk code is this?”
It’s simply a unique code, from a defined pool of numbers, assigned by ATC to the a/c crew before departure that enables the a/c to be identified by SSR interrogation. Or, while enroute, a code is assigned by the ATC managing an FIR the aircraft enters.
2100-2177 is a range assigned to Malaysia and designated for international flights.
Air Life says:
Are you saying Power(SDU) at 18.24 was restored automatically? Timeline: Take off at 16.41, at 17.07 ACARS Failure, after 17.19 (last ATC), Communication Failure, after 17.22 Turn Back to KLIA, Navigation Failure, at 18.03 SDU Failure, and 7h38 after take off at 00.19 Fuel Exhaustion or Aviation Failure in the SIO. A lot of Failures. With all these Electrical Failures, the Malacca Strait diversion is not to be believed, nor the impossible fluctuating altitudes indicated in the previous and the more recent reports, nor a diversion of THREE hours until 19.41 after take off. MH370 was only 38 minutes into its flight and could have made it back to KLIA in near enough the same time after dumping fuel. So what stopped them from achieving that? Catastrophic depressurization at 35000 feet leading to the Ghost Flight is my reckoning. 2-3 Minutes only if O2 didn’t or wasn’t deployed successfully.
Victor and Don,
Can you please clarify which squawk code was assigned to MH370. 2195 (which falls outside the range assigned to Malaysia’s International Flights), or 2157 (which does not), or are we talking two different aircraft?
Not relevant but interesting:-
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/08/13/in-flight-satellite-comms-vulnerable-to-remote-attack-researcher-finds/
@Air Life: I am not aware of code 2195, which is not even an octal number.
No, I didn’t mean to imply that the power to the left bus was restored automatically. Likely, it was from manually resetting one or more switches in the overhead panel.
@DrB asked: Do you know, or have you inferred from the ATSB data, how long the engine run time difference was assumed to be in the simulations using the alternate power configuration? I don’t see how less than 2 minutes is possible.
Looking at Case 6, the right engine fails at 119 s based on the drop in speed and the start of the descent starts seconds later. The maximum bank to the right (afterwards a bank to the left starts) is about 10 deg, and occurs at 162 s, which appears to be due to the loss of left thrust. That greatly compresses the time between loss or right thrust and loss of left thrust.
When I first analyzed this case, I believed the loss of left thrust was the autothrottle reducing thrust during the descent as the speed increased passed 250 KIAS, which is approximately the starting speed. This scenario had the left engine running but at idle thrust for the remainder of the flight. However, Andrew explained that with no A/C power, the servo motors on the autothrottle are not powered, so I can’t explain the loss of left thrust other than a flame out, if the loss of left thrust did indeed cause the bank to the left.
Are we sure that there is no other power source for the autothrottle servo motors? If the autothrottle somehow stayed engaged, it would explain a lot.
I think it will take more queries to the ATSB to determine the exact sequence of events. On the other hand, in every sequence with a steep descent (>15,000 fpm), there was an impact soon after. Long glides with level wings and oscillating high descent rates don’t occur.
It’s also possible that the steep descent within 2 minutes of loss of autopilot is an indication the there were pilot inputs.
@DrB: Here’s another possibility. When the servo motors to the autothrottle lose power, the autothrottle does not disengage. When the APU comes online, power is restored to the servo motors, and the functionality of the autothrottle is restored. In this scenario, the left engine could be at idle thrust for many minutes after the right engine flameout.
@Victor, Air Life, Bruce Robertson
My apologies, I erroneously quoted a transponder code 2195 in an earlier comment. That was a simple error.
According to Malaysia’s Factual Information the ‘Lumpur Delivery’ ATC unit assigned transponder code 2157 at 16:26:41UTC, the various SSR logs are consistent in showing octal code 2157.
@Andrew
DF 17 defines the Downlink Format for ADS-B extended squitter, which contains the EM, Extended Squitter Message. Five message types were originally defined for the EM: 05/Airborne Pos, 06/Surface Pos, 08/Aircraft ID, 09/Airborne Vel, and 0A/the event driven message. A sixth was defined in DO-260A, EM 1D/Target State and Status.
I agree that the Malaysian 777 fleet would have been compliant with the European requirements, so I expect that it was broadcasting the extended squitters listed above while its transponder remained active. If VATM recorded all received DF17 EMs, that log may have contained useful information, but only if it was accessed and reviewed.
@Don Thompson said: I agree that the Malaysian 777 fleet would have been compliant with the European requirements, so I expect that it was broadcasting the extended squitters listed above while its transponder remained active.
If there were no extended squitters, we would have no ADS-B data from FR24, right?
@DrB, @Andrew: According to the FCOM:
Autothrottle disconnect occurs automatically:
* if a fault in the active autothrottle is detected
* when either reverse thrust lever is raised to reverse idle
* if the thrust levers are overridden during a manual landing, after the autothrottle has begun to retard the thrust levers to idle
* when both engines are shutdown
If the loss of power to the autothrottle servo motors is not a “detected fault”, then the autothrottle remains connected, and the functionality will be restored when the APU comes on line.
@Victor,
ADS-B comprises extended squitter messages (EMs). If a transponder wasn’t broadcasting ADS-B then FR24’s log would contain no records for that transponder.
FR24, and the other public web trackers, don’t require all the EMs to identify and plot the track of an aircraft. It’s not clear if the plethora of available feeder units and software relay all received EMs to the web trackers.
I’d expect an ANSP’s receiver station, or network, to maintain a comprehensive log of EMs received.
@Don Thompson: Yes, I agree. We are trying to use FR24 in a way it was not intended to be used, and some are trying to draw definitive conclusions on ambiguous data. (The low precision of the latitudes and longitudes are a tell-tale sign that the data was processed, as the lower precision values are not consistent with the Compact Position Reporting format used by ADS-B.) Access to the raw data received by the Con Son receiver would be helpful. My guess is that data will be difficult to obtain, and I also question whether there was any data after 17:20:31.
TBill says:
@Victor
“…Here’s another possibility…the left engine could be at idle thrust for many minutes after the right engine flameout.”
Interesting, yes that’s similar to what I am worried about. I have guesstimated with FS9 that maybe 250-nm glide is possible with 2 engines on idle. This compares to your quote of 125-nm with no engine power.
@TBill: A glide of 250 NM with no thrust is impossible, if that’s what you are implying. The (L/D) of the wings is not sufficiently high to permit such a shallow flight path angle.
I was saying idle engine (min. fuel flow) thrust is 250-nm…are you saying that idle engine is zero contribution to distance?
@TBill: I believe at idle engine speed, the drag introduced by the engine is balanced by the thrust produced by the engine, so the net force is zero. If the engine is shutdown, there is additional drag due to the windmilling of the engine rotors.
…so could I go farther with 2 egines in idle in the 70-knot winds at 30 South? I get I can maybe reach Dordrecht Hole from Arc7, but it’s FS9 so I am not claiming it is reality (yet).
@TBill: FS9 should do fine predicting the glide path with idle engines and a wind. But you’ll have to accurately model the wind field. At 30S,98E, the wind is towards the east. It’s about 70 knots at FL340, but it’s down to around 30 knots at FL210 and around 12 knots at FL100.
RE: ”DF 17 defines the Downlink Format for ADS-B extended squitter, which contains the EM, Extended Squitter Message. Five message types were originally defined for the EM: 05/Airborne Pos, 06/Surface Pos, 08/Aircraft ID, 09/Airborne Vel, and 0A/the event driven message. A sixth was defined in DO-260A, EM 1D/Target State and Status.”
Thanks, that’s what I thought. I wasn’t sure which parameters you meant when you mentioned ADD in relation to ‘enhanced surveillance requirements’,
@TBill
RE: ”If the loss of power to the autothrottle servo motors is not a “detected fault”, then the autothrottle remains connected, and the functionality will be restored when the APU comes on line.”
The TMCS monitors the ASM response to commanded thrust changes. A fault is detected if the ASM fails to respond (eg due to a power loss), causing the autothrottle to disconnect. The autothrottle function would need to be reset after power restoration, otherwise it would remain disconnected.
@Andrew: After the right engine fails, there could be a period of time in which the commanded left engine thrust is full, and the thrust lever is already in the full position. Perhaps in this case, there would be no detected error in commanded thrust, and the autothrottle would remain connected. If the APU comes online before the commanded thrust is less than full, perhaps the autothrottle’s functionality returns before it is ever disconnected.
1. Thank you for responding to my question about the time delay. It seems that at the moment we don’t know exactly what was assumed for the time difference in engine fuel exhaustions. This time difference is important.
2. Using the X-Y data, here are what I figured as the initial conditions for the 10 cases:
Case# Alt(ft) Horiz.GS(kts) True Track (35S)(deg) Elect. Config
1 40,000 450 179.5 Normal
3 40,000 450 179.5 Alternate
10 40,000 450 179.5 Alternate
3. The true track angles I derived using an approximate method can be compared to the values you said were given by ATSB: “. . . the initial headings were either 178°, 184° or 190°. . .” The differences will be due to the significant westerly cross winds, since the ATSB quotes headings (I assume true, not magnetic), whereas I computed true tracks. Assuming a 35S approximate latitude, I get roughly 180, 174, and 185 degrees for the true track values at the start of the X-Y data. That implies that the headings from ATSB were about 4-5 degrees larger than the true tracks I calculated, and this is consistent with ~32 knot right crosswinds, which appears reasonable for that general location and time.
4. From the table above, it appears that Cases 1-4,9,10 are identical (at 40,000 ft, 450 kts, 180 deg true track) except for perhaps two parameters. Cases 1,2,9 used normal electrical and 3,4,10 used alternate electrical. I suspect there were 3 values of rudder mis-trim used for each of the two electrical configurations. Do you think this was the case?
5. The Case #6 example indicates that the left engine was assumed to stop only about 40 seconds after the right engine was fuel exhausted (causing the beginning of a turn to the left and a phugoidal oscillation with generally higher ground speed). It appears this timing was assumed to try to match the RODs inferred from the 00:19 BFOs. However, it does not quite succeed in matching the BFOs at the proper time, being about a minute late. In addition, there is no plausible rationale, in my opinion, for the MEFE time difference to be less than one minute. It is much more likely to be about 8-10 minutes. To get down to one minute, approximately 200 kg of fuel would need to be transferred from the left tank to the right tank prior to fuel exhaustion. I don’t think that a pilot would make such a minor fuel transfer, so I don’t think that is likely to have happened. If a fuel transfer didn’t occur, then I don’t see how the assumed < 1 minute fuel exhaustion time difference could have happened.
6. On the other hand, if the L-R fuel exhaustion time difference is really 8-10 minutes, then it does not seem likely that the BFOs can also be matched at 00:19. So, based on these few simulations, it does not seem possible to match both the BFOs and the expected fuel exhaustion time difference. That may mean that the alternate electrical configuration simply cannot explain the data we have.
7. Looking at Case #5, the only normal electrical configuration that achieves 15,000 fpm ROD but (at a very late 1810 seconds after simulation start), the ground speed begins to decline at 120 seconds. I assume this corresponds to the right engine running out of fuel two minutes into the simulation. I'm not sure when the left engine stops thrusting. A phugoid oscillation appears at about 854 seconds, and a turn to the left begins near 867 seconds. These two events are about 12 minutes after R engine failure. Is that when the L engine is assumed to stop – 12 minutes after R engine failure?
8. It seems that none of the simulations is consistent with the BFOs at 00:19 (using the ATSB's APU/SDU power-up timeline), regardless of electrical configuration. Furthermore, perhaps the agreement might be improved by adjustment of the rudder mis-trim, but this is not obvious to me.
9. I can't think of any way the BFOs could be very far off, but either that happened or the 10 simulations run by Boeing did not include the correct fuel/electrical configuration, or a pilot flew part of the final descent.
“At 30S,98E, the wind is towards the east. It’s about 70 knots at FL340, but it’s down to around 30 knots at FL210 and around 12 knots at FL100.”
I know. In one active pilot scenario, I think descent is favored to get out of the winds and sun, on the other hand, another scenario maybe the high winds carry MH370 almost all the way to Arc6 by the 23:14 sat call.
@DrB: Regarding Case 6, perhaps you missed my previous comments regarding idle thrust of the left engine with the autothrottle connected, which could explain the timing of the bank to the left occurring well before fuel exhaustion of the left engine.
If you calculate the air speeds, you’ll see the reversal of bank from right to left occurs suspiciously close to when the calibrated airspeed increases past the starting value (around 250 KIAS). I am still exploring whether the autothrottle was connected at this point.
Considering variability of initial conditions, APU start up times, and SATCOM log-on times, I think the timing of the high speed descent could match the BFO data.
I don’t what rudder trim was assumed for any of the cases, although in the past I have proposed that different values of trim caused different behavior for the “alternate configuration” cases.
Timing of Case 5 doesn’t seem close to what was observed. I think the “alternate” electrical configuration is still the best candidate for uncontrolled flight.
Of course, pilot inputs cannot be dismissed.
I think we need to consider a slight variation of the electrical ‘alternate’ scenario. One where the right IDG is powering the Both main buses, however the L BU GEN is working and is able to power a Transfer bus when the first eng fails.
In this set up, when the right eng fails, the autopilot should remain engaged and only fails when the left eng fails.
@Mick Gilbert. As to how the ATSB (and others) came to sign off on the Malaysian report as accredited representative, here is an ATSB quote from today’s ‘The Australian’ about its role in the investigation of an accident by South Africa involving two Australian pilots.
‘The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has provided an “accredited representative” to assist the SACAA with its investigation, and help obtain information requested by the South African investigators from involved parties in Australia. “It is not the role of ATSB to review any reports of this investigation,” an ATSB spokesman said.’
I wonder still if the ICAO could require more work on the Malaysian report.
RE: “After the right engine fails, there could be a period of time in which the commanded left engine thrust is full, and the thrust lever is already in the full position. Perhaps in this case, there would be no detected error in commanded thrust, and the autothrottle would remain connected.”
Perhaps, but as I mentioned in a previous comment, I don’t think the thrust lever would have reached the max thrust position. The autothrottle would have been engaged in SPD mode and the speed would have needed to start decreasing before the autothrottle commanded any thrust increase. However, in this scenario, the electrical power would have failed after about 7-9 seconds, removing power from the ASMs. I doubt the ASMs would have had time to move the thrust levers to the max thrust position before the power failed.
@Andrew: Thanks. At around 123 s, the speed decreases and the plane begins slowly rolling to the right. At around 160 s, the bank reaches about 10 deg and starts rolling to the left, is level at around 194 s, and continues to steadily roll left. If the roll to the left is not from a reduction of left thrust with constant rudder trim, I am not sure what caused it.
Mick Gilbert says:
Thanks for that reference, David. My reading of Annex 13, specifically 5.23, 5.25 and 6.3 as they relate to Accredited Representatives is that unless you are an AR from the State of Registry, the State of the Operator, the State of Design or the State of Manufacture you don’t get a say in the reporting. It’s look but don’t touch, speak only when spoken to. So all this hot air from the arm-waving, pot-bangers (Bailey, Keane et al) about the ATSB drafting a dissenting report on MH370 is just that, hot air. The only Non-Malaysian AR entitled to submit a dissenting report on MH370 would be the NTSB.
Given the nature of international organisations like ICAO I suspect that they would be reluctant to start ‘marking’ investigations and calling for ‘resubmits’. That’s not to say I don’t think that the final report needs more work, it does, in its current form it’s far more confusing than anything that went before it (eg the Factual Information).
I haven’t yet caught up on the commentary over the last few days, so perhaps I missed something. At what point is the left engine assumed to have failed?
@Mick Gilbert. That clarifies it.
So the NTSB, inc Boeing and all, must have been satisfied with the report.
@Mick Gilbert
Para 6.3 of Annex 13 was substantially reworded in 11th edition, issued in 2016. It now reads (amended parts in bold):
6.3 The State conducting the investigation shall send a copy of the draft Final Report to the following States inviting their significant and substantiated comments on the report as soon as possible:
a) the State that instituted the investigation;
b) the State of Registry;
c) the State of the Operator;
d) the State of Design;
e) the State of Manufacture; and
f) any State that participated in the investigation as per Chapter 5.
If the State conducting the investigation receives comments within sixty days of the date of the transmittal letter, it shall either amend the draft Final Report to include the substance of the comments received or, if desired by the State that provided comments, append the comments to the Final Report. If the State conducting the investigation receives no comments within sixty days of the date of the first transmittal letter, it shall issue the Final Report in accordance with 6.4, unless an extension of that period has been agreed by the States concerned.
The UK’s AAIB probably also had sign-off rights on the basis of the RR Trents.
Thanks for that. I’m wondering if that change would apply to an investigation commenced under the old framework?
I don’t know, but given the significant assistance Australia provided during the search and investigation, I find it difficult to believe that a significant ‘protest’ would simply be ignored. Perhaps I’m being naive.
@Andrew,
Combining suggestions to create a more detailed scenario for Case #6, let’s assume the right engine failed at 120 seconds elapsed time in the simulation. The left engine is still running at normal cruise thrust, with the auto-throttle servo being controlled in SPD mode. Then, within a few seconds, the aircraft begins to slow down (at 123 seconds), and more thrust is desired from the left engine, but there is only a small increase ( or perhaps even no adjustment at all) before the AC power is lost to the servo motor at about 8 seconds after right engine fuel exhaustion (I.e., circa 128 seconds). Thus 128 seconds in the simulation corresponds to circa 00:17:30 UTC. Now the aircraft has roughly cruise thrust from the left engine and no thrust from the right engine. The TAC will begin to adjust the rudder to the left during the interval from 120-128 seconds. We don’t know if the rudder adjustment will be completed within this time period. Perhaps the rudder adjustment was still in progress when the AC power was lost circa 128 seconds, and the TAC is only partial. If partial, then the aircraft will begin to turn to the right at 123 seconds, and this will continue through 128 seconds and afterward until there is a reduction in left engine thrust (or impact occurs). The TAC in the rudder is now fixed, and it won’t change after the APU starts.
When the AC power is lost at 128 seconds, the PFCS reverts to secondary mode. Does anyone know if secondary mode commands a particular thrust level, such as idle? For this exercise, I will assume that is the case. Next, let’s assume the APU starts up and delivers AC power in 60 seconds after loss of both Transfer Buses, which occurs at 128 seconds (the same time as loss of the Main Buses). So the APU delivers AC power beginning circa 188 seconds. If the APU power can cause a reduction in the left engine throttle setting, say down to idle, then the aircraft would stop turning to the right and begin turning left at 188 seconds. This is what the simulator Case #6 shows, except near 160 seconds, not at 188 seconds. However, I don’t know if an in-flight APU start can occur in only 32 seconds, which is needed to match the left turn beginning at 160 seconds in Case #6. I think it takes about 30 seconds for the inlet door to open. ATSB has used 60 seconds for the APU auto-start.
Continuing and using 60 seconds for the APU start time, the APU would start circa 188 seconds (00:18:30) and supply power to the SDU and to the auto-throttle servo motors. IF the servo motors did not exhibit a fault during the power outage, they may still be functional. In addition, IF secondary mode commands idle thrust, then the left engine may have been reduced to idle thrust at 00:18:30 (188 s). That would cause the right turn to stop (perhaps at 20 degrees or so of right bank) and a left turn to begin, because the TAC set the rudder for near-cruise thrust from the left engine, and the reduced left engine thrust would start a left turn.
That turn/bank to the left would increase with time, passing through wings-level and then banking to the left, causing an increasing ROD about a minute later at 247 seconds (00:10:29), when the SDU transmitted a log-on request after booting up, followed by the log-on acknowledge message 8 seconds later. The two transmissions created the two final BFOs at high RODs.
This scenario has two main features. First, it uses the alternate electrical configuration that causes loss of all AC Buses and APU auto-start upon right engine fuel exhaustion. Second, it has a means (still unproven) for the left engine to have a reduced thrust upon APU power-up. The left engine, in this case, would continue running until impact, perhaps some few minutes later, unless a pilot took control in the interim. This scenario seems to offer the possibility to match the BFOs at the correct time. However, the possible means to produce the reduced left engine thrust by servo control upon APU power-up rather than by fuel exhaustion are not well understood and require further investigation to determine their feasibility.
@Andrew, Mick Gilbert. What the ATSB was quoted as saying re the South African accident looks inconsistent with the 2016 amendment.
There is a misunderstanding somewhere.
To add to the muddle, in the 1997 Silk Air investigation the ATSB made comment but that was not accepted by the Indonesians on the grounds they were not accredited, as distinct from not being one of the then Annex 13 nominees.
To add to that the Annex 13 amendment and probably that which went before it are concerned with ‘Final’ reports, which the Malaysian’s wasn’t (to my regret, though not the relatives of those lost).
I have asked the ATSB whether they were free to comment formally on the Malaysian Safety Investigation report.
@DrB
RE: “When the AC power is lost at 128 seconds, the PFCS reverts to secondary mode. Does anyone know if secondary mode commands a particular thrust level, such as idle?”
PFCS reversion to secondary mode does not cause the thrust to reduce to idle. The autothrottle is controlled by the thrust management computing function (TMCF) within AIMS and is entirely separate to the PFCS.
I wonder if the ATSB was quoted correctly in the report. As an accredited representative, the ATSB has the right, under Annex 13 and the South African Civil Aviation Act, to comment on the draft final report.
In the Silk Air case, I think BASI (as the ATSB was then called) was an ‘advisor’ not an accredited representative. As such, they had no Annex 13 entitlement to comment on the draft final report.
I’m not sure what you mean by your second last paragraph. Although the contents are disappointing (to put it mildly), the MH370 ‘Safety Investigation Report’ is the Annex 13 ‘Final Report’. The accredited representatives to the investigation should have had the right to comment, under the current and previous amendments to Annex 13. Para 6.3 in the earlier amendment read (my bolding):
“6.3 The State conducting the investigation shall send a copy of the draft Final Report to the State that instituted the investigation and to all States that participated in the investigation, inviting their significant and substantiated comments on the report as soon as possible…”
Thank you for your replies. My point is in order to even discuss end of flight simulations, there has to be clarity on which course MH370 took, i.e. a right turn back to KLIA after IGARI or a left turn after IGARI and diversion across Malaysia and up the Malacca Strait to the NW. The two won’t intersect on the 7th arc. There is reasonable doubt as to the left diversion. The fluctuating flight levels in the latest report would indicate there are two aircraft involved in the military radar. One at a higher altitude (possibly military) and the other at a lower altitude(possibly a departing flight to the west or North Africa). So far all the searches based on the left diversion and 7th arc have come up empty. Isn’t it time to re-evaluate the military radar data, which I believe has never been scrutinized by an independent body or radar specialists, apart from re-evaluating Inmarsat’s BTO/BFO values and Timeline. I’m more inclined to only work with the Timeline as I belief it to be more accurate and the BTO/BFO values to be superfluous in the right turn back to KLIA case. Ater 4 and a half years, isn’t it time to look the other way? The way MH370 turned first, right, before it’s course was turned left. Or, are we going to continue to beat a dead, left diversion horse to ad infinitum? Nobody is errorless and that includes Inmarsat and the the Military, but turning a blind eye to a feasible option, in the absence of conclusive proof, is unforgiveable.
@Air Life,
I would not categorise the case for the left turning diversion as subject to ‘reasonable doubt’, nor a ‘dead horse’. The accuracy of the path, as a 4D route, is questionable but 3 evidence, in both illustration and written narrative, is that three separate primary surveillance radars recorded 9M-MRO’s path after diversion. It would be useful to see the machine recorded data from which the track depictions were created.
Those three assets include DCA’s Kota Bharu-WMKC terminal area control radar, the RMAF ATC unit’s terminal area control radar at WMKB, and (at least) the RMAF Sqdn 310 air defence surveillance radar high on Western Hill, Penang.
It’s been noted to me that a right turn at IGARI, and a diversion path back towards WMKK would have put 9M-MRO into the view of Singapore’s Air Defence Radar at Bukit Gombak. That system is operated 24/7.
The ‘fluctuating flight levels’ are not untypical of long range 3D primary surveillance radars such as that sited at Western Hill.
But, please, work away on your exploration of a right diversionary turn and establishing at least as much verification as exists for the left turn.
@Andrew, “I wonder if the ATSB was quoted correctly in the report.”
Maybe not. I hope their response will answer that: I have quoted it.
“…the MH370 ‘Safety Investigation Report’ is the Annex 13 ‘Final Report’”
My opinion was based on the their statement to the families and relatives that it wasn’t, to their reported relief. Is a Safety Investigation synonomous with the Final? I note the Annex 13 terminology.
Thank you for clarifying what the pre-amendment version said as I understood the 11th amendment to alter the sense of who could comment.
Annex 13 reports.
Comments may or may not be submitted. A comment might state, “great work on use of spell check”. Comments may not be accepted, refer to NTSB’s work on MS990.
The investigating body is not bound to publish comments, this one hasn’t.
Yesterday, I reviewed contemporary reports for the establishment of the investigation team.
In response to the event, the MY government’s cabinet set up three committees: technical, next of kin liaison, asset deployment.
The technical committee was responsible for establishing the Annex 13 investigation team.
On 5th April 2014, the remit of the Annex 13 investigation was announced. The remit?! Someone obviously didn’t bother to read Annex 13 or related Doc 9756/Manual before making that line up.
On 29th April came the announcement that an IIC had been appointed. Perhaps the first assignment for the investigation team was attendance on air accident investigator training.
The reports of the Investigating Team have never produced anything of substance. That the contributions of other bodies are provided as appendices at least differentiates them from the main body of the report.
A fundamental weakness of Annex 13 is that each contracting state has the option of undertaking an investigation, regardless of the capabilities of that state’s administration. Annex 13 mentions ‘regional accident and incident investigation organisations’ (RAIO), that’s a good suggestion.
RE: “My opinion was based on the their statement to the families and relatives that it wasn’t…”
I missed that statement. Do you have a link? Annex 13 refers to the final report as the ‘Final Report’, but I don’t think there’s any onus on States to name it that way. In the UK, USA, Hong Kong, South Korea and Greece the final report is called an ‘Aircraft Accident Report; in Taiwan it’s an ‘Aviation Occurrence Report’; in Japan it’s an ‘Aircraft Accident Investigation Report’; and in Canada it’s an ‘Aviation Investigation Report’. In the MH370 3rd Interim Statement, the Malaysians referred to a ‘Final Report’ being released following the suspension of the underwater search. However, the 4th Interim Statement referred to it as a ‘Safety Report’. I wonder if the name changed because of the inconclusive nature of the report and the sensitivities of the families, etc.
RE: “Thank you for clarifying what the pre-amendment version said as I understood the 11th amendment to alter the sense of who could comment.”
I think the 11th amendment merely clarifies who can comment. The first part of the earlier version of para 6.3 says that ‘all States that participated in the investigation’ can comment, but then refers only to the States of Registry, Operator, Design and Manufacture. My understanding, however, is that the intent has always been that any State that has an accredited representative in an investigation is entitled to comment.
@David, Andrew
Manual of Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation, Part IV, Reporting:
“The Final Report of an aircraft accident investigation is the foundation for initiating the safety actions which are necessary to prevent further accidents from similar causes. Therefore, the Final Report on an accident must establish in detail what happened, how it happened and why it happened. The findings, causes and/or contributing factors of the Final Report should lead to safety recommendations so that appropriate preventive measures can be taken.“
RE: “The investigating body is not bound to publish comments, this one hasn’t.”
I think that’s a weakness of the ICAO system and, more generally, the UN. Annex 13 requires the investigating authority to ‘either amend the draft Final Report to include the substance of the comments received, or if desired by the State that provided comments, append the comments to the Final Report’. Nevertheless, some States get away with not playing by the ‘rules’.
RE: “Manual of Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation, Part IV, Reporting”
Clearly, the MH370 Safety Investigation Report fails to meet that standard.
@Andrew said: I wonder if the name changed because of the inconclusive nature of the report and the sensitivities of the families, etc.
Without a doubt. There was uproar when the report was called “final”.
Believe it or not, the boxed EICAS message in the following image says ‘AUTOTHROTTLE DISC’:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jr0bd2sg6vdifwb/AUTOTHROTTLE%20DISC.png?dl=0
The image is a screen shot from one of ALSM’s simulator trial videos. In that video, the right engine failed first and the autothrottle advanced the left thrust lever to CLB thrust. The left engine subsequently failed and the AUTOTHROTTLE DISC message appeared when electrical power was lost. The message remained after the APU started and restored power.
Don, thank you for your reply. I have been working on the left and right turns for four and a half years, but have much supporting material in my arsenal for the right turn, shared with officials, too. As MH370’s transponder was non-operational and not expected to divert or even to show up in certain locals in the early hours of the morning on the 8th March 2014, I am of the opinion MH370 could have been missed or even misinterpreted as something else. As such, the right turn remains a very strong possibility and one I can’t ignore or exclude.
In that case I may have a bone to pick with NTSB. In general though I am expecting a defensive approach, giving Malaysia freedom and sovereign rights to say what they want as long as they do not unfairly blame USA/Boeing for, for exmaple, unsubstantiated mechanical failure etc.
@Andrew: I looked at those simulations, and I watched whether the A/T button light was illuminated. Unfortunately, in those cases, the transition to secondary mode occurs after the failure of the second engine. We have no doubt the A/T is disconnected in this case, as those simulations show.
The “alternate” electrical configuration is different. After the failure of the right engine, the A/T would be initially commanding full thrust. I am still questioning whether the APU could have come online before there was a disagreement between the commanded thrust and the thrust lever position that remained after the ASMs were unpowered.
@DrB: As Andrew said, there is no reason for either the APU start up or a transition to secondary mode to cause the thrust to reduce.
@Andrew, @DrB: Here’s a plot showing the relationship between groundspeed, altitude, and estimated bank angle. We can attribute the initial roll to the right as partial compensation for the thrust asymmetry after the right engine flames out. The roll to the left starting at 160 s is harder to explain. The only real possibilities are a reduction of left thrust (which I attribute to the autothrottle reducing the left thrust when the speed increases), or a change in position of one or more flight control surfaces (which I can’t explain).
I don’t doubt you hold the opinion that a right turn may have occurred, if any officials have shared anything back to corroborate your opinion that’d be very interesting indeed.
The traffic count through the KL FIR was not high on the night 7/8th March. A combined picture of SSR identified plots vs PSR unidentified plots would have readily differentiated 9M-MRO’s post diversion track. The Malaysian reports of 8th March 2015 and 30th July 2018 describe that they made a conclusion for the post-diversion track, using radar playbacks, that 9M-MRO turned left.
To turn right, not be detected by any PSR, and make the line of position described by the 18:25 Log On, implies that the aircraft would have actively evaded PSRs. Those PSRs would include DCA TARs at WMKC, WMSA, WMKK, WMKJ, and WMKL; the RMAF operated TARs at WMKB and WMKD; and the long-range air defence radars at Western Hill-Penang, Kuantan-Phanang, Bukit Lunchu-Johor, and Bukit Gombak-Singapore.
Andrew’s picture shows the autothrottle disconnecting upon loss of AC power and not reconnecting upon APU start. Nice find! For Case #6 this means the left engine thrust should remain somewhere between cruise and climb after loss of power due to right engine fuel exhaustion. That seems to eliminate reduced left engine thrust as the cause of the left bank starting about 40 seconds after the right engine fails. If not that, what else could be the cause? We must be missing something, since the Boeing Level-D simulation clearly shows it happening. Could the rudder move then? Could the TAC be reset?
Update on Aug 21, 2018
I have added some comments to the discussion section (in italics) to improve the clarity. Unlike what has been reported, I never intended this post to be interpreted as a recommendation for a new search area.
@DrB: I am still questioning whether the A/T ever disconnected before the APU started. If the autothrottle is commanding full left thrust, and the thrust position was at the full position at the time that power was lost to the ASMs, perhaps there was no discrepancy between commanded and actual thrust, the TMCS did not detect a fault, and there is no A/T disconnect. When the APU starts supplying AC power, the A/T remains connected.
@DrB, @Andrew: Thinking about this more, the roll rate to the left is nearly constant from 160 s to 290 s. Yet, the speed and altitude are nearly constant from 210 s to 250 s. The constant speed and altitude indicates the left engine is producing thrust. If the left thrust was varying from a low value at 160 s to a high value at 210 s, the roll rate would also change.
So, I am now leaning towards the left engine producing constant thrust with no autothrottle, and a change in position of one or more control surfaces at 160 s.
The change in control surface position could be related to either the APU or the RAT coming online.
Richard Godfrey says:
Many thanks once again for an enlightening post. I have waited until I had completed a first analysis of all the data sets before commenting. In our BFO analysis we concluded that the ROC was around -4,000 fpm at 00:19:29 UTC and around -15,000 fpm at 00:19:37 UTC, only 8 seconds later. Many said that was impossible!
My key take away is that Case 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10 all have a phase were the ROC goes from around -4,000 fpm to around -15,000 fpm in around 8 seconds and this happens on average 27 seconds before impact.
Case 3 at 541 secs, ROC is -3,480 fpm and at 552 secs, ROC is -15,780 fpm in 11 seconds, TTG 25 seconds.
Case 4 at 410 secs, ROC is -4,080 fpm and at 418 secs, ROC is -16,380 fpm in 8 seconds, TTG 35 seconds.
Case 5 at 1868 secs, ROC is -4,260 fpm and at 1876 secs, ROC is -15,960 fpm in 8 seconds, TTG 15 seconds.
Case 10 at 436 secs, ROC is -3,660 fpm and at 443 secs, ROC is -17,340 fpm in 7 seconds, TTG 30 seconds.
The gradual descent shown by Case 1, 2, 5, 7, 8 and 9 only exhibits such decent rates in Case 5 were the turbulence is medium, the altitude and speed lower. Case 1, 2, 7, 8 and 9 do not exhibit descent rates over 10,000 fpm.
As you point out the alternate configuration Cases 3, 4, 6 and 10 are indeed fascinating for their fit to the BFO data.
Case 6 is also an exception amongst all the cases, in that the Ground Speed never drops below 95% of the start speed.
Boeing in their analysis in the Malaysian Safety Report Appendix 1.6E on page 1294 in Table 4 show 22 options of different altitude and speed combinations, that they considered, from low and slow (FL030, 235 knots) to high and fast (FL400, 494 knots). The MH370 end points considered range from 10°S to 40°S.
It is interesting that the ATSB only selected 3 altitude and speed combinations and all were high and fast. None of the options correspond to either LRC or MRC modes. All the ATSB selections reach fuel exhaustion between 36.1°S and 37.3°S.
Enrique Martín says:
Best regards, I allow myself these contributions:
ANNEX 13: The State in charge of the investigation, always has the last word in the content of the report, even if a State with an Accredited Representative forms part of the process and recommendations, not necessarily these will be accepted or should be accepted by the State responsible for the investigation. process. Everything will depend on what the State in charge determined to do according to Article 37 or 38 of the 1944 Chicago Convention, with what is stated in Annex 13 of ICAO.
Remember that a Final Report can be Issued, if we consider the ICAO Accident Concept in point or separate “C” that indicates that the Aircraft is inaccessible or is missing. In the case of the MH370 some remains were located so the research process is guided by the DOC. 9756 and it is therefore possible to issue a Final Report that does not have to reach conclusions. But attention can also be opened again the Investigation (reopening) according to Chapter 5 of Annex 13, so that report is not the last word.
Search and Rescue (SAR): In search operations, the tracking area is estimated based on the worst scenario. In this case it is that the one that had the control of the aircraft maintained it until the aircraft fell to the sea.
Understanding the 7th arc as a point of reference, it is necessary to estimate that the aircraft deliberately planned and calculated the maximum distance from it that was already referred by Mr. Iannello.
Of course what we are trying to do now is reduce the search area, but it turns out that the maximum search area was not applied and I think that’s what Mr. Iannello refers to, since it is clear that we do not know the MH370 count, if more to the north of the 7th arc or more to the south. But there is also a problem the tracking system with the AUV was with inertial navigator and this generates an interesting margin of 650 meters for each hour of navigation, on the other hand we used a sonar SSS (Side Sweep) and no opening SAS synthetic that today is much more efficient, among other sensors, therefore the area sought by Ocean Infinity can not be discarded, there is necessarily a need to reevaluate it and look again there and in the remaining others if necessary with new technology, it is complex very difficult area.
However, to determine how much the aircraft could fly, it is necessary to be clear about the amount of fuel onboard the 9M-MRO (MH370), although the different reports talk about it, there is a doubt about the amount of fuel remaining on the last flight of that 9M-MRO aircraft, because for its destination to China it did not need to be fully filled and this information is not clear in the different reports (amount of fuel remaining before filling it for its flight to China).
An important fact is to determine with precision the turning point of the MH370 in the area of the Gulf of Malacca, because there is no doubt that the control course had the SUR course (we suppose, but it may not be that way). In the final report, this point is not clearly defined and is a limitation in the search operations. A colleague of this forum, it was clear you have to review ALL the radar information and I say you’re absolutely right, but you have to check everything, including cell phones, etc. For example, I ask: Did the other satellite to the east copy the hand grips of the ACARS system? This is not clear, the secret and the reservation, do not allow it and it is not good.
It is also necessary to review the simulated flights carried out by the pilot in command of the MH370 at his home, because this information will undoubtedly illustrate the possible direction that he took, because if he was responsible for the seizure of the 9M-MRO (we do not know , but we do not doubt it), in those flights there is information of interest. He will try to avoid the radars and more to the West (W) where there is a US military base and that must be kept in mind.
In Search and Rescue Operations (SAR), according to Annex 12 of the ICAO and the IAMSAR Manual (Doc. 9731), there SHOULD NOT BE SECRETS, nor Reservation of information. The comment by Mr. Iannello, about the secrets of ATSB of Australia, sadly is a real proof of why the MH370 does not appear and another real proof of that great failure to have secrets, is this forum that shows that there are many people in the world prepared and that can provide constructive and technical ideas. Of course there are also inventions, but they are few.
In short, more information is needed to have an estimated place of the accident, but what Mr. Iannello does today, is a positive contribution, to have another vision of what could happen, and that is VERY GOOD.
All contributions here are valuable, constructive and positive therefore the Secret in the handling of the MH370 information does so much damage, that’s why we did not find it.
My respects to all.
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RE: ”I am still questioning whether the APU could have come online before there was a disagreement between the commanded thrust and the thrust lever position that remained after the ASMs were unpowered.”
The APU auto-start sequence won’t commence until after electrical power is lost, some 7-9 seconds after the failure of the right engine. How could the APU come online before an autothrottle disagreement occurred? The point of my comment was to show that an AUTOTHROTTLE DISC message will be generated when the power fails, even if the thrust lever reaches the CLB thrust position. The message will not be removed when power is subsequently restored by the APU.
RE: ”The change in control surface position could be related to either the APU or the RAT coming online.”
It’s 01:49 am here and way past my bed-time. I’ll think about it some more later today.
@Richard Godfrey: Thank you for compiling the RoD data on all the flights.
Your comment reminded me of another aspect. If MH370 was in the “alternate” electrical configuration, then the log-on to the Inmarsat network occurred when there was still several more minutes of fuel in the left tank. In the past, we considered that the IFE log-on was missing because either the APU ran out of fuel or the plane had already impacted the ocean. For the “alternate” configuration, since there should have been enough APU fuel to last past the expected IFE log-on, it seems more likely that the plane had already impacted the water when the IFE log-on was expected.
“Case 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10 all have a phase were the ROC goes from around -4,000 fpm to around -15,000 fpm in around 8 seconds and this happens on average 27 seconds before impact.”
The maximum lateral distance from the point of reaching -15,000 fpm to impact is 3.76 nm (Case 4).
The minimum lateral distance from the point of reaching -15,000 fpm to impact is 0.30 nm (Case 3).
@Andrew asked How could the APU come online before an autothrottle disagreement occurred?
I was proposing a situation in which the A/T is commanding full thrust and the thrust lever is already at the full position, such that there is no disagreement between target and actual thrust, both being “full”.
That said, I am leaning towards a change in control surface position, as I don’t think the speed, altitude, and roll rate are consistent with changes in thrust. Still thinking…
How long does it take for the RAT to deploy? The RAT produces drag on the left side of the aircraft. Thus the RAT itself would induce a slight left turning of the aircraft. Suppose the left engine thrust went up at right engine flame-out, and the TAC compensated almost all of the thrust asymmetry. The result would be a slowly declining speed for a while and a slow right turn. Then when the RAT deploys, there would be a left turning action from the RAT drag. Maybe this was slightly larger than the effect of the TAC imbalance, and the result was a slow left turn. This scenario doesn’t require any restarting of the autothrottle or movements of flight control surfaces. Could it be that the drag caused by RAT deployment begins to have an effect at 40 seconds after right engine loss, or 32 seconds after loss of AC power?
When we previously worked through EOF scenarios the loss of actuator pressure and subsequent fairing effect of the L flaperon was discounted due to residual hydraulic pressure from the windmilling engines. Low speed windmilling would sustain some RPM in the Engine Driven Pumps (EDPs).
At the time I suggested that the hydraulic system configuration could be readily configured so as to rely on Main AC Bus electrical power alone. Primary L and R ENG pumps to off, Demand C1 and C2 Air pumps to off. Effectively, the RAT hydraulic configuration as landing gear & flaps are not expected to be deployed.
@DrB: RAT drag is interesting to consider. Years ago, I assumed a certain mechanical and electrical efficiency for the RAT power conversion, and knowing the true air speed and rated power of the RAT, the drag force can be determined. In turn, knowing the moment arm, the yaw moment can be calculated, and compared with the yaw moment from an engine. My recollection is the RAT moment was small compared to the engine moment. It would take some time to dig up those calculations. But as you say, even if small compared to the moment from the thrust asymmetry, the TAC compensation is also relatively large, so the net values might be small and comparable to the “RAT moment”.
On the other hand, as Richard G. observes, the Boeing simulations reaching high descent rates and high downward accelerations all impact the ocean close to the point where those values occur, in which case the details of the flight dynamics really don’t matter, and the plane should be found close to the 7th arc.
@Don: IF I understand you correctly, you are considering the case in which the hydraulic system is put in an alternate configuration. However, as far as we know, that was not done in the Boeing simulations.
There is also this blurb from the AMM that you found:
Training Information Point
When the RAT is extended and hydraulics off, the airplane rolls left. Two to three units of right control wheel rotation are necessary to hold the wings level.
In the end, I think we decided that the AMM was referring to a condition in which the hydraulics were selected off.
Paul Smithson says:
Victor – thanks once again for a highly illuminating post. I think it’s fair to say that these simulations lend credence to a flight terminus very close (horizontal distance) to the point of final power loss. The ATSB’s “bet” on a narrow search swathe looks entirely justifiable.
However, something serious doesn’t add up. Out of 6 conventional configuration simulations, only one produced ROD greater than 15,000fpm. The others produced maximum, transient ROD of -5000 to -7000. Even Case 5 which produced the higher ROD did so about 15 minutes after second flame out – 13 minutes too late to align with the BFOs. If that weren’t enough, the high ROD was only sustained for a period of 14 seconds, so you would have to be “lucky” to catch it on the BFO.
The “alternate” scenarios do succeed in producing ROD in excess of the -15000fpm required but again the timing is “wrong” – occurring 3 minutes to 5 minutes after first engine flameout & AC power loss. In any case, I thought the “alternate” electrical configuration was the purview of scarce “Accidentalists” like myself. Pijackers don’t need to shut down and isolate the entire left side power to achieve their devious intent, do they?
So it seems to me that these simulations have failed spectacularly to reproduce the ROD at the rate, acceleration and timing required for the 0019xx BFOs. The simulations might be wrong (initial conditions, fidelity or small sample), but it doesn’t change the fact that these simulations do NOT support conventional BFO interpretation.
CORRECTION I miss the word error of 650 meters per hour of navigation. Excuse me, please.
Of course what we are trying to do now is reduce the search area, but it turns out that the maximum search area was not applied and I think that’s what Mr. Iannello refers to, since it is clear that we do not know the MH370 count, if more to the North of the 7th arc or more to the South. But there is also a problem the tracking system with the AUV was with inertial navigator and this generates an interesting margin of error of 650 meters for each hour of navigation, on the other hand a sonar SSS (Scan Side Sonar) was used and not SAS synthetic opening that is much more efficient today, among other sensors, therefore the area sought by Ocean Infinity can not be discarded, there is necessarily to reevaluate and re-search there and in the remaining others if necessary with new technology, it is complex is a very difficult area.
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The average time to the final -15,000 fpm point is 442 secs for cases 3, 4, 6 and 10.
If this point aligns to 00:19:37 UTC, then the simulations start at 00:12:15 UTC on average and 00:10:25 UTC at the earliest.
@Paul Smithson: I think there is some variability in the time for the APU to spin up, for the RAT to deploy, and for SATCOM to successfully request a log-on, all of which could affect the timing. I don’t think the calculated timings for the alternate configuration are all that different than what we expect from the satellite data.
We suspect that the SATCOM was deliberately shutdown by flipping at least the bus tie and left IDG switches, and then restoring one or both switches at 18:24. (That can be accomplished without leaving the cockpit.) I don’t think it’s a stretch consider that after 18:24, the switch configuration was with the left IDG and backup generator remaining off, and the left bus powered off the right bus through the bus tie. Why this configuration was chosen as compared to the normal configuration, I don’t know.
@Enrique Martin: Welcome to the forum, and thank for your comments. English is the common language here, so there is no need to repeat your comments in Spanish.
I assure you that the navigational error of the AUVs was carefully considered by OI. During each mission, the onboard inertial systems were re-calibrated with the host vessel to ensure the drift was kept within acceptable limits as dictated by the scanning overlap and other considerations.
I don’t understand your comments about uncertainty in the fuel level. We have records showing the amount of fuel loaded at KLIA, and we also have the fuel level transmitted in the ACARS performance reports up until 17:07 UTC. It is all consistent with the flight plan that was filed. We have also checked whether there were any abnormalities in what was filed, and the answer is the loaded fuel is consistent with company requirements.
As for the analysis of the pilot simulator data, with the limited data we have, we analyzed this closely and have tried to incorporate this into our thinking. I have posted an entire article on this topic, including links to other papers co-authored by me and others. Whether the Malaysians have performed similar or more detailed analyses is unknown, but in the end, they have reported that this evidence does not show intent of the captain. Many of us disagree, of course.
We agree that Malaysia should release all the radar data (including the military radar data), all cell phone registrations, and whatever other information they have.
Below is a link to a table with a timeline for Cases 3, 4, 6 and 10:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ll0pgqqba1a5o3u/End%20of%20Flight%20Simulations%20Timing.png?dl=0
I have assumed that the final time when a ROD of 15,000 fpm occurred was at 00:19:37 UTC.
The time when both engines flame out is marked by the speed starting to drop, followed 4 or 5 seconds later by the altitude starting to drop. This event appears to happen a little earlier than the ATSB assumption of 00:17:30 UTC.
As you pointed out earlier, in each of the Cases 3, 4, 6 and 10, the time of impact is before the IFE setup at 00:21:06 UTC.
Just in case this hasn’t been discussed before, has anyone got any views about the picture featured in the article below:-
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-search-for-debris-from-malaysia-flight-370-2014-3
The pictue is titled; “A member of staff at satellite communications company Inmarsat works in front of a screen showing subscribers using their service throughout the world, at their headquarters in London March 25, 2014.”
Clicking on the picture brings up the hi-def version (3500 x 2191).
The coverage pictured is obviously Europe, the Middle-East and Africa and is not Inmarsat-3 F1 but could be Inmarsat-3 F5, or more likely Inmarsat-4A F4 given that the highest area ID number is 188 and each I-4 satellite provides around 200 narrow spot beams.
Apparently each I-3 satellite provides four to six regional spot beams, so I wondered whether Classic Aero utilised them and whether MH370 had transited a beam boundary.
If only a single global beam were used it would be interesting to know how symmetrical the directive pattern of the antenna is (along with the signal strength data from MH370).
Above you said: “On the other hand, as Richard G. observes, the Boeing simulations reaching high descent rates and high downward accelerations all impact the ocean close to the point where those values occur, in which case the details of the flight dynamics really don’t matter, and the plane should be found close to the 7th arc.”
You didn’t mention the usual disclaimer “. . . unless a pilot glided the aircraft afterwards, in which case the aircraft may have impacted as far as ~100 NM from the 7th Arc.”
@Andrew. Final Report. You said, “I wonder if the name changed because of the inconclusive nature of the report and the sensitivities of the families, etc” Victor says its name was changed from that after “uproar” which is what I remember the press reporting.
To the pedant in me if one writes ‘final report’, in lower case, it is a descriptor. With capitals, ‘Final Report’ as in Annex 13 indicates that is to be its title. There are the defined expectations of a Final Report which for example include damage assessments. There is a fullsome guide as to how to the sorts of things be expected. The DGA flaperon report is the only one on a recovered item which is thorough, with scanning electron microscopic examination of fractures for example. The converse is the Malaysians making no mention in their report of the vortex generator. That appears to be languishing uncollected in Madagascar still and unexamined even as to its origin, though the press reported it that it has been available for collection since June.
The suspicious bit in me broke confinement on learning that this was not to be called a Final Report, for that appeared to relieve Malaysia of the formal obligations.
I am ever hopeful that the ICAO will ask for more work on the report, not of course just its lack of damage assessment. The ICAO is the fullback if those accredited did not or could not see to something with fewer shortfalls. Based on the precedents you cite though the title should make no difference to the way the ICAO receives it so that provides some reassurance as to the formal situation.
I hope we learn of its reaction.
@TBill. Yes it would be interesting to learn of the NTSB’s position noting it has been forceful in the past.
DennisW says:
I am half way complete on a new book about MH370 that focusses on the evolution of analytical thought relative to the dissappearance.
Title: “MH370 Analytics – From Occam to Metaphysics”.
@Victor, You quoted the AMM, “When the RAT is extended and hydraulics off, the airplane rolls left. Two to three units of right control wheel rotation are necessary to hold the wings level.”
Perhaps they mean the RAT drag due to its power generation, which has an upwards vector, would roll the aircraft left though as you observed the moment arm is short.
Also about the notion of the hydraulics being off you say, “We decided that the AMM was referring to a condition in which the hydraulics were selected off.” There is provision for the RAT to deploy automatically when hydraulics drop off but surely they do not have in mind that there could be good reason why someone would select them off?
To me, more likely a total loss of all hydraulics is envisaged, like the DC 10 after an engine failure ruptured all hydraulic lines. Also though, while we came to the conclusion that windmilling engines would provide hydraulics, that is unconfirmed and, particularly, would be the way at to slow indicated airspeeds.
One other general observation about drawing conclusions from Boeing simulations is that as you are aware, the data might be from outside the flight envelope or derived from aircraft behaviour outside the simulator data base. This could apply particularly to those descents which exhibit high descent rates.
Related, I would like to know whether in any of those the aircraft structural limits were exceeded but I doubt the data could be relied on with those caveats in mind.
My particular reason is that I expect to post a revised and comprehensive study of the flaperon separation, starting with the French DGA report on that. Its conclusion will be that on the balance of probabilities, in-flight separation in a high speed spiral was the cause.
Thanks for the welcome Victor Iannello, a pleasure to share with everyone here and I hope to learn and help a little.
I am happy that the navigation error of the AUV was considered by OI, it is correct. But little comment about it and that is not so good. On the other hand there is a report that 2 of your AUV were lost, I could not verify, but if true, this allows me to have reasonable doubts about the inertial navigation system. If you know something about it please, I’d appreciate a comment from Victor.
About fuel, I hope everything is clear, but I will explain in cases:
Suppose that return of a flight and its remaining fuel were 1000 LBS. For the flight to China it required 2000 LBS and that was placed, charging 3000 LBS accordingly, but they reported only 2000 LBS. That’s what I mean, because nowhere in the report is the amount of fuel remaining, but the total amount on board. Hence my doubt. But if everything is clear, then there is no doubt about it.
And if I share the need to release data, it is necessary to be able to have everything clear.
I think there is a lot of valuable information that can certainly help us a lot in this case, but there is no way to review it, thank goodness. You esteemed Victor achieved access to a material, which can help to see another phase of the accident from a different constructive point of view , as well expressed in his writing, may be north or south of the seventh arc, everything depends on the scenario, therefore all are valid today, because we do not know what happened in that cockpit.
I have no doubt this is a complex SAR case and what I see, is that the least there are experienced SAR experts, starting with the USCG, which at the beginning of the case towards the Indian Ocean were not consulates. I speak of people with real experience in SAR, not military who looked for 2 or 4 planes at some point in their career, but years looking for aircraft and boats, because the prospects of that experience will make a big difference. Hopefully this change is necessary for many to analyze everything and think about it, there is no other to add and work as a team, as today by your initiative Victor we are here, ALL from what I could read with the best desire to contribute and I join Everybody.
Sorry to put it in Spanish, it’s an old constubre.
Thank you for allowing me to be here with you.
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Dear @ flatpack and that I mean with the satellite.
On the east side of the satellite that received the hand grips, there is another satellite to avoid losing links, that is, in case the plane in flight leaves the coverage of a satellite, another one takes its signal.
It’s like cell phone, but the phone system or in this case the link automatically determines which satellite has better signal reception and definitely links the plane’s system to that satellite.
But what happens, it is possible that at some point in the navigation of the plane, the other satellite that is east of your route, try to link or connect with the plane’s system. This possibility of having been generated would have been registered in the company’s system (although, after a long time, these records may no longer exist, there is no doubt that it is true that it escapes), that is what happens with cell phones and SAR operations. Cellular tracking allows us to define a search area and define the area.
Hence my question and that is why your doubts are mine.
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That image looks like Alphasat at E24.5º.
Inmarsat-3 craft provide 7 spot beams. Classic Aero may use a spot beam, but I understand that would be more typical of an Aero-I installation (I for intermediate gain antenna). 9M-MRO was very definitely using Aero-H, with its high gain antenna, and the SATCOM traffic log shows that the global beam was used exclusively. I have had sight of other logs for Classic Aero traffic, the global beam was exclusively used for the traffic detailed in those logs.
These satellites carry much more traffic than just Classic Aero: other higher data rate services command higher charges to subscribers, spot beams do enable higher data rate services to small portable terminals.
@Dr B said: You didn’t mention the usual disclaimer “. . . unless a pilot glided the aircraft afterwards, in which case the aircraft may have impacted as far as ~100 NM from the 7th Arc.”
We’ve been talking about the Boeing simulations, which included no pilot inputs. I thought that was understood. In the discussion section of the post, I specifically cited the possibility of pilot inputs and long glide (Possibility 3).
If there were pilot inputs at fuel exhaustion, then likely there were pilot inputs between 19:41 and fuel exhaustion, and in addition to a large search width, it will be very difficult to constrain the latitude range. I’m not seeing a way forward with that assumption.
@DennisW: Sounds like an interesting read. I’m sure many here will read it.
@David: I agree that parts of the simulation were likely beyond the range of Mach number and angle of attack that have been verified for model accuracy. However, if the aircraft dynamics had achieved such an extreme state, it is unlikely the aircraft would have flown much further. It doesn’t matter much if the impact distance from the point of high rate of descent was 5 or 6 NM.
We’d be very interested to read your report discussing the inflight separation of the flaperon. Please share it when you are ready.
@David,
The effect described when “the RAT is extended and hydraulics off, the airplane rolls left. Two to three units of right control wheel rotation are necessary to hold the wings level” was deemed due to the left flaperon PCU being set into bypass mode.
Without pressure in the L and R hydraulic systems this PCU is set into bypass, when in bypass the flaperon fairs free in the slipsteam with its T/E up causing a left wing down roll.
The Training Point noted hydraulics OFF: that was ultimately understood to mean no pressure in the L and R systems as a consequence of the flight deck EDP switches set of OFF. By setting an EDP switch to off the pump output is blocked and the pump is ineffective whereas a windmilling engine with EDP switch set ON would continue to provide flow and pressure.
RE: ‘I was proposing a situation in which the A/T is commanding full thrust and the thrust lever is already at the full position, such that there is no disagreement between target and actual thrust, both being “full”.’
The ‘disagreement’ is a disagreement between the commanded ASM rate and the actual ASM rate; it is not a disagreement between the target thrust and the actual thrust. The AMM reads:
‘When the A/T engages, the control law sends rate commands to the ASMs. The ASMs send rate feedback (low speed tachometer data) to the TMCFs. The servo loop monitor compares these two signals and sets the inhibit logic when they do not agree. This causes the ASMs to disconnect.’
ALSM’s video shows that an AUTOTHROTTLE DISC message is generated when the electrical power fails, even if the thrust lever has reached the commanded position. The message is not removed when power is subsequently restored by the APU.
RE: ‘The change in control surface position could be related to either the APU or the RAT coming online.”
My understanding is that the Boeing simulations did not model the APU autostart. There may be a case for the RAT deployment causing a change in the right flaperon position if the C hydraulic system initially lost pressure after the R engine flameout.
The right flaperon actuators are powered by the R & C hydraulic systems, controlled by the L2 and C ACEs respectively. When electrical power was lost after the R engine flameout, the L2 ACE would ‘fail’ and the C hydraulic system primary pumps would also ‘fail’. If the C hydraulic system lost pressure, the R flaperon’s actuators would both be in bypass mode and the flaperon would float upward.
Reasons for the C hydraulic system to lose pressure include an abnormal hydraulic or bleed system configuration, such as:
– C1 & C2 demand pumps selected OFF, or
– L bleed air isolation valve selected OFF, or
– L engine bleed switch selected OFF
In that state, the R flaperon would float upward until the RAT deployed and started providing hydraulic pressure to the C system flight controls. At that point, the R flaperon’s C system actuator would go back to normal mode and the flaperon would be centred. That said, I don’t think there was any indication the Boeing simulation’s hydraulic or bleed systems were configured abnormally??
RE: “How long does it take for the RAT to deploy? The RAT produces drag on the left side of the aircraft. Thus the RAT itself would induce a slight left turning of the aircraft.”
The AMM states that ELMS triggers the RAT to deploy when both transfer buses lose power for more than 15 seconds. The RAT then deploys in about 2 seconds, so the total time for deployment is a minimum of 17 seconds after the loss of electrical power. The RAT should spin up immediately upon deployment.
The RAT is located on the right hand side of the aircraft, as shown in the following images:
https://aeroblogbrasil.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/dsc_02722.jpg
http://www.boeingimages.com/Docs/BOE/Media/TR3_WATERMARKED/4/d/d/1/BI42131.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BYVl8Wk-fCw/maxresdefault.jpg
The drag caused by the RAT would tend to make the aircraft yaw (and the secondary effect of roll) to the right. Given the relatively short distance between the RAT and the fuselage centreline, I think the yaw effect would be minor.
@Andrew: There is no servo rate error if the target position of the lever is the same as the measured position. Nor am I proposing that a disconnected autothrottle would automatically connect after the APU restores power.
We usually do well, but we’re not converging on this one. I don’t think it’s productive to continue discussing a hypothetical scenario which I now believe probably did not occur.
Why do you believe that Boeing did not include APU autostart functionality in the simulations? My understanding is that what was not modeled is residual fuel in the APU fuel line when there is no fuel in the left tank. However, for the alternate configuration, there is fuel remaining in the left tank when the autostart would occur.
Fair enough; I’m afraid I don’t understand the scenario you proposed. If I might be permitted one more comment on the subject: the system is not measuring the target position of the lever vs the measured position. It is measuring the commanded servo motor rate vs the actual servo motor rate. For example, the ASM has a clutch that allows the pilot to override the thrust lever movement. If the pilot does override the thrust lever movement, the ASM continues trying to move the thrust lever against the pilot. In that scenario, the autothrottle does not disconnect because the ASM is still operating correctly. The disconnect logic does not depend on thrust lever position.
RE: “Why do you believe that Boeing did not include APU autostart functionality in the simulations?”
My mistake, I was thinking of the simulations where the configuration was normal.
Hank says:
@all @DennisW
DennisW dismissed suicide but raised the issue of political motive in an earlier post. There were some indications that Zaharie had concerns with the government. Assume that Zaharie wanted to grossly embarrass the government of Malaysia by making MH370 disappear and never be found. He will die as a consequence but this is a different objective than a pure suicide. If this was his objective he was extremely successful. Best ever!!!
He depressurized the aircraft early to humanely put the PAX to sleep and then die. He flew the plane into the sea. I do not know how you would fly the last few minutes to minimize surface debris. For example, maybe you dive to low altitude, bleed off airspeed, and then loop backward to enter a vertical dive but at low speed. If the SEA Q400 ramp worker could invert the aircraft and pull though a half loop, Zaharie had great skills and a simulator to practice. I am not suggesting this maneuver, but there must be some best way not have a breakup on the sea surface. My guess is a low speed vertical would be better than breaking up in high waves with horizontal entry. Ditching in rough sea state is often the best way to scatter wreckage all over the surface – not like the placid Hudson river.
Because he likely had no knowledge of the SATCOM pings and the concept of arcs, there is no reason to extend range by gliding after flameout. He would just perform the final entry maneuvers. The RAT would provide FBW control for the primary controls (but not flaps) so Zahaire would be able to have good control capability for a clean aircraft.
He does need to decouple the max range path from the max endurance path which I stated in an earlier post. He would perform periodic 360 turns of 15 to 30 minutes duration or S-turns. These would pull the arc 7 point north and maybe above 25 south. These would really mess with the arc to arc probabilities – not that he would know.
Everyone seems happy with the ATSB/DSTG particle filter which centered the hot spot at 38 south. I think the model was flawed. Their filter was designed to fly straight airline routes and verified for these. So for a ghost ship on AP, the model might be just fine. But if Zaharie flew this to sea entry and intentionally engaged in 360 turns or broad S-turns, the BTO/BFO analysis would show different hot spots. A single 360 could have a significant impact on the arc to arc probabilities. It would have been interesting to see a simulation where the required one or more random 360 degree turns after the turn south – very different map would result.
It looks like much thought went into the turn back at IGARI, the route to Penang (which is the best diversion airport), the flight up the center of the Strait of Malacca. So why wouldn’t significant planning have gone into the flight path to water entry? It possible that a mechanical failure caused the crew to immediate divert toward Penang and then died and then everything else was a ghost flight. The IGARA to MEKAR path may have all just been random and only looks planned after the fact.
Clearly nobody in Malaysia or ATSB wanted to consider a planned mission to hide the plane under the ocean so never considered anything other than a ghost flight and unpiloted final descent. Boeing did what they were told by ATSB.
So maybe Zaharie planned and executed his last mission very well and died with his passengers and crew, and created the worlds greatest aircraft mystery and showed the incompetence of the Malaysian government.
@All. That’s amazing. So 5/6 “normal” configuration simulations don’t even come close to producing -15,000fpm ROD at ANY stage [max is a little over a third of that]. 1/6 manages to do so, but fully 13 minutes after the timing “predicted” by our BFO. Should we not be concerned? It certainly doesn’t look to me like an affirmative piece of evidence! These simulations do NOT succeed in replicating the high ROD at ~2 mins after power loss required by the BFO.
To then seize upon the “alternate” configuration scenarios that did produce high ROD and say, effectively, “it must have been like that” is disingenuous. Nobody except the Accidentalists would predict that an alternate configuration might be in use. There is no reason for the Pijackers to invoke it.
@Paul Smithson
Once again you ignore the data, because it does not fit your scenario.
Even worse, you then determine that anyone following the data, is not sincere, deceitful and dishonest.
Fact is, the Cases 4, 5, 6 and 10 fit the BFO data and a timeline from dual flameout to impact.
Can you please forget the polemic and start dealing with the data.
Michael Helms says:
I would like to address this question to You, since You are a B777-pilot:
If a trained pilot needs to ditch a B777, how much fuel/flight time would he chose to have in the tanks, when initiating the the first attempt? Of course assumed he has that choice.
In my humble view it seems clear, low fuel is fine, but he would like to have some reserve to have the chance for 2 or 3 runs or so.
Thank You very much fro Your time.
Well said Paul,
We now know the IGARI turn was flown manually(why it took 4 years to release that?).
It seems the flight across the Peninsular was an autopilot-off meandering flight.
The electrical configuration seems to have been severely compromised ( with something like only the R IDG and L BU generator remaining).
This all points to serious mechanical failure followed by pilot incapacitation. None of what we know fits with a pijack scenario.
@RG.
Case 5 (conventional) does NOT fit the BFO data and timeline since the required ROD occurs >10 minutes too late.
Cases 3,4,6,10 DO produce the required ROD and the timing is not bad. But none of these have anything to do with the conventional EOF narrative per ATSB reports (loss of power when left engine goes down). Instead they require an unusual, alternate electrical configuration to be in place – with all AC power sourced from right engine. Anyone who now wishes to depend upon these (alternate) cases as evidence of BFO veracity also needs to provide a good reason why such an alternate configuration should be in place. What’s so unreasonable about that?
For the Cases 3, 4, 6 and 10, the maximum vertical acceleration g-force experienced was between 0.902g (Case 4) and 1.462g (Case 3). Case 6 was 1.213g and Case 10 was 1.400g.
For the Cases 3, 4, 6 and 10, the maximum lateral ground speed experienced was between 576.962 knots (Case 3) and 612.368 knots (Case 4). Case 6 was 599.093 knots and Case 10 was 609.260 knots.
A maximum ground speed of 612 knots gives a TAS of 578 knots (around 0.92 Mach at 17,600 feet).
I am interested to know whether speeds up to 0.92 Mach and vertical accelerations up to 1.462g are sufficient to cause aerodynamic flutter and separation of control surfaces in flight.
Don, thank you for your reply. Yes, a right turn back over the SCS to KLIA, with technical difficulties, would be “atively” the safer/safest, manual manoeuvre to execute. I have had acknowledgement from both the ATSB, and finally from the Malaysian officials. I hope they are now actively looking into the right turn back to KLIA option.
You stated “Anyone who now wishes to depend upon these (alternate) cases as evidence of BFO veracity also needs to provide a good reason why such an alternate configuration should be in place.”
Victor already answered you on that point in his linked comment:
https://mh370.radiantphysics.com/2018/08/19/end-of-flight-simulations-of-mh370/#comment-18069
“We suspect that the SATCOM was deliberately shutdown by flipping at least the bus tie and left IDG switches, and then restoring one or both switches at 18:24. (That can be accomplished without leaving the cockpit.) I don’t think it’s a stretch consider that after 18:24, the switch configuration was with the left IDG and backup generator remaining off, and the left bus powered off the right bus through the bus tie.”
@Paul Smithson: Calm down. I’ve seen some here claim that others are “disingenuous” when they present scenarios that are counter to their own. Once the accusations start to fly, it usually doesn’t end well for the accusers.
The end-of-flight dynamics for the alternate electrical configuration is being proposed as a possible explanation for the timing and values of the rapid descent derived from the final BFOs. The missing IFE log-on is consistent with an uncontrolled flight that ends soon after the log-on acknowledgement message that was sent to the GES.
What is your explanation for the final BFOs and the missing IFE log-on?
@DrB, @Andrew: The roll to the left about 40 s after shutdown of the right engine is not explained by a reduction in left thrust as it is not consistent with the subsequent altitude and groundspeed. Nor is the roll to the left explained by RAT drag, as the timing and direction don’t match. I believe what remains is a change in position of one or more control surfaces after the APU autostarts and comes online. Is there another possibility?
@Victor @Richard
“… I don’t think it’s a stretch consider that after 18:24, the switch configuration was with the left IDG and backup generator remaining off, and the left bus powered off the right bus through the bus tie.”
Could one reason for that config be to save fuel by running less generators? Or to get more power for who knows what manuevers we might gave missed after radar coverage ceased at 18:22.
@TBill: With only one main generator running (the right IDG), ELMS will shed loads, so there will be an additional increment of fuel available for propulsion, and also an increment of additional thrust capability. I doubt that would be a consideration, but I am guessing.
@Hank
I do think the diversion was politically motivated, but with the intention of getting something from the Malaysian government. Not simply to create an embarrassment. The early response of the government to the diversion strongly suggests that they were aware of what was going on at high levels. The decision to search the South China was made before Inmarsat surprised everyone with their data, and the government had to scramble to create the radar narrative.
A quick thought about the turn-back.
Given that there was an initial turn to the right segueing into a (longer) left hand turn, is it possible that this was intended to ‘feel’ like an offset manoeuver to the PAX and/or crew?
Thus they may think that they were still broadly heading in the right direction (for a short while anyway). Over the sea they would have few points of reference.
This might just be possible, acceleration can apparently play strange tricks. I recall reading about a fatal crash involving a light plane piloted by one of the Kennedys where this was reported as a (much more extreme) factor.
I do not fully understand how a turn can feel like a dive let alone whether this can be reverse engineered by a pilot.
If this seems like some over elaborate stage-magic trick then, assuming it actually occured, that is exactly what it was.
@DennisW
The search of South China Sea was a logical response to the loss of the transponder at IGARI. Everyone expected an immediate crash near IGARI.
I assume you meant the search off the west coast which was a surprise because the turnback observed on radar was not discussed. It was just odd that they were searching so far from IGARI.
I learned that Inmarsat checked the MH370 data within hours of the reported disappearance and noted that the aircraft was in the air for 7 hours and this was provided to the government before any BTO/BFO work was done by them.They did privately report the time in the air to Malaysia. This was not announced by Malaysia, but this could have been the wake up call that led to looking at the radar data and searching to the west,
It may be that there were other communications based on a hijack, but the private Inmarsat alert on flight duration may have been the driver.
…or, there were people in Malaysia who knew the plane was airborne for some time after IGARI, but did not make that info public until the Inmarsat data forced their hand.
ventus45 says:
If you are correct, Z must have had a deadline for the government to comply, with a threatened consequence for non compliance, or a “plan B” if you like, otherwise the government would simply “wait it out”, thinking that Z would have to land somewhere, so he would loose. He didn’t land. The government lost the gamble instead. Then the scrambling commenced.
@Ventus
My thoughts, exactly.
BTW, my book “Occam to Metaphysics” is largely complementary to our community here. To me metaphysics tries to define what it is possible to know. The cognoscenti here have gotten very careful about that, and it is a good thing, IMO,
Andrew, thanks for the RAT pictures. I recall a long time ago a drawing was shown with the RAT on the left side at the rear of the fuselage. Obviously that was incorrect for this aircraft.
Victor said: “@DrB, @Andrew: The roll to the left about 40 s after shutdown of the right engine is not explained by a reduction in left thrust as it is not consistent with the subsequent altitude and groundspeed. Nor is the roll to the left explained by RAT drag, as the timing and direction don’t match. I believe what remains is a change in position of one or more control surfaces after the APU autostarts and comes online. Is there another possibility?”
I can’t think of any. It seems like most/all of the hydraulics would still be operational with the R engine windmilling and the L engine running normally, but with no AC power until the APU started. A R wing control surface would need to be driven downward or a L wing control surface upward to causes a roll to the left when the APU restored AC power. Maybe someone here can identify the control surface which would move after AC power was restored.
The timing of the left roll is a bit off from the ATSB estimate. I think the ATSB said it took 1 minute from engine fuel exhaustion for the APU to restore power. In the Boeing simulations the left roll starts about 40 seconds after R engine fuel exhaustion. That is about 20 seconds sooner than the ATSB estimate. I don’t know if this timing difference is significant or not.
Victor asked Paul: “What is your explanation for . . . the missing IFE log-on?
Is it possible that the IFE is load shed in the alternate electrical configuration, so that it is powered when the R IDG is operating but not after the R engine fails and the APU starts? I would have thought that IFE would be a good candidate for load shedding.
Unlike the ATSB decisions which are very well documented, the Malaysia activity is very opaque, even now. Could be a cover for blowing a ransom deal as you suggest. I have never seen any MOT description of why they started the expanded search – a detailed discussion of who decided what, when, based on what information would be nice to see documented unless they can’t.
If it was a hi-jacking, the Malaysian Authorities would have known about it and demands would have been received and that they would have made public. Why wouldn’t they? It’s not their fault! With COMMS down starting with ACARS at 17,07 UTC or 1.07 local time, then RADIO after 17.19 UTC or 1.19 Local time AND unanswered calls made to the aircraft later on, I really don’t see how the Malaysian Authorities could have received ANY demands. Hi-jacking is another red herring thrown into Cooking Pot of Causes to confuse and distract us up a blind alley. There are too many nonsense causes. Find the wreckage first, and then let the wreckage do the talking.
@Air Life: I don’t think Najib’s government would have been very eager to publicize demands that exposed the corrupt Najib government and demanded elections. The negotiations could have been with collaborators on the ground, and not directly with the pilot. In that scenario, something must have gone wrong, leading to a crash rather than a landing, in which case, both sides would have an interest in keeping the details undisclosed.
RE: “I believe what remains is a change in position of one or more control surfaces after the APU autostarts and comes online. Is there another possibility?””
Nothing that springs to mind. That said, I can’t find a reason for a control surface to change position after the APU autostart either.
@DrB wrote “ I would have thought that IFE would be a good candidate for load shedding.
Yes, the cabin located components of the IFE: the seat electronics boxes, the media players/storage, distribution boxes, etc. But not the few avionics units in the MEC that provide integration to the Cabin Services System, and so on.
@DrB, @Andrew: I asked the ATSB about the roll to the left, and they said they would discuss this with Boeing. Hopefully, Boeing will respond and the ATSB will share the response.
@Don Thompson, @DrB: In addition to Don’s belief that the IFE head in the MEC is not load shed, we know that there WAS an IFE log-on as part of the log-on sequence commencing at 18:25, so unless the electrical configuration changed after that IFE log-on, there should have been an IFE log-on during the log-on sequence commencing at 00:19.
Reviewing past, I now see it took the IG about 6-months until at least Nov_2014 just to start to realize the pilot could turn off Left Bus to turn off SDU from the cockpit. Prior to that it was apparently thought a hijacker had to enter the MEC bay.
That has some implications:
(1) For 6 months nobody in the public/media had the understanding that the pilot could have done this act sitting in the cockpit…so that’s a lot of time for conspiracy and pilot-did-not-do-it theories to develop. Championing old out-dated theories is probably one reason some people do not accept pilot blame.
(2) Not sure we can solely blame MY for hiding the fact that the pilot could have done this from the cockpit. Boeing/JIT/CIA probably knew this from the get-go but nobody was super-anxious to let the public know that in part due to fear of public demand for corrective actions
(3) If it took IG up to 6 months to figure this out, the implication is ZS probably was the only one smart enough to do this.
@TBill: The IG was learning a lot about aircraft systems in that timeframe, and made many mistakes. Even now there is resistance to believing that the captain would know that isolating the left bus would bring down the SATCOM, even though there are EICAS messages advising this very fact, and he could have tested this on his simulator without poring over electrical schematics.
In the ATSB’s June 2014 update, they told us that the left bus could have taken down the SATCOM, although it took some of us some time to understand what they were saying:
The SDU was powered by 115 V AC from the left AC bus which was normally supplied by the left IDG. If power from the left IDG was lost, then a bus tie breaker would close and power would be automatically transferred from the right AC bus. Similarly, if power was lost from the right AC bus, power would be automatically transferred from the left AC bus. This power switching is brief and the SDU was designed to ‘hold-up’ during such power interruptions. To experience a power interruption sufficiently long to generate a log on request, it was considered that a loss of both AC buses or, a disabling of the automatic switching, would be required.
I’ll add we were thinking about how to disable the SATCOM without bringing down the entire left bus, which seemed extreme.
The IG is not a self appointed global police force investigating aircraft accidents.
We are a voluntary self-funded organisation that spontaneously came together with a common interest to help solve the mystery of MH370.
We have no contracts, commitments or deadlines. We cannot be early or late in delivering any particular tasks.
You have apparently absorbed too much garbage from Jeff Wise.
For the record, the IG are not authorised, accredited, ordered, contracted, paid or recompensed by the ATSB, NTSB, AIB, CIA, FBI or any other body.
OK thank you, so ATSB did say that in June and it took a while. Looks like a lot of early energy on MEC Bay access concerns.
I was not criticizing IG…only trying to track the history of what we undertood and when we understood it, especially since I was not a discussion participant for some period after CNN coverage stopped.
@TBill: Yes, access to the MEC at one point seemed to answer a lot of questions. Later, I think we realized it was an unnecessary complication.
Victor, thanks, but I am not going down the Japanese Red Army incident route and I think the hi-jacking route is too far-fetched, as is the Suicide/Murder route. I think I’ll stick with the right turn back and Ghost Flight scenario as the most likely cause, even if it doesn’t turn out to be that, for my own sanity sake.
@Air Life: Many people persist in believing a particular scenario because of pre-conceived biases. That’s your right. Just don’t fault others that don’t share your bias (not that you have).
In stating “it took IG up to 6 months to figure this out”, I find that a disparaging comment against the IG.
We never committed to solving the mystery of MH370, or any part of it, in a particular timeframe, let alone 6 months!
When you say “I was not criticizing IG…only trying to track the history”.
I am not willing to be tracked by you or anyone else.
Victor, my likely scenario isn’t based on pre-conceived biases, but on Tough Training, Airmanship and Experience. Thanks!
You said: “@Don Thompson, @DrB: In addition to Don’s belief that the IFE head in the MEC is not load shed, we know that there WAS an IFE log-on as part of the log-on sequence commencing at 18:25, so unless the electrical configuration changed after that IFE log-on, there should have been an IFE log-on during the log-on sequence commencing at 00:19.”
There definitely were major changes in the electrical power configuration after 18:28, in fact, circa 00:17-00:18. The right engine flamed out, AC power was lost from both main and transfer buses, the APU auto-started, and the RAT deployed. I understand Don believes the part of the IFE needed for log-on at 00:21 was not load shed. He may be right, but it would be useful to have this confirmed by ATSB or Boeing, since it is a vital clue.
Niels says:
Dennis, sorry for my late reaction regarding “Doppler integration”. I have taken a long summer break this year.
Henrik used something like Doppler integration, see eq. 9 in:
http://bitmath.org/mh370/mh370-path.pdf
Also, long time ago, I have been looking at an “BFO-only” approach, see:
http://nebula.wsimg.com/25f47f9d48f3cce925b3d9609e980c18?AccessKeyId=5D94BAB6DF613B220FB7&disposition=0&alloworigin=1
I’m not sure, is this in line with your ideas? Estimates of 00:11 or 00:19 latitudes based on Doppler integration will be rather inaccurate, even if you limit BFO errors to +- 7 Hz.
@DrB: By a change in electrical configuration, I mean a change in the bus switch states in the overhead panel. If one generator supplies power, there is load shedding. If two, there is no load shedding. If the left generator was isolated before 18:25, then at the time of the log-on at 18:25, only one generator (the right IDG) was supplying power. If no bus switches were flipped after that time, then at the time of the log-on at 00:19, again only one generator (the APU) was supplying power. The load shedding would be similar in both cases. If the IFE was not load shed for the first case, it would not be shed in the second.
Regarding your comment:
I’m not sure when exactly the existence of the Inmarsat data was known to the Malaysian government/MAS/SAR coordinators.
A link to an early report (apparently dated Monday March 10th) about radar data showing a turnback was recently tweeted by Julie (@Nihonmama):
https://web.archive.org/web/20180813193345/https://peraktoday.com.my/2014/03/ada-isyarat-pesawat-berpatah-balik//
“Kuala Lumpur: The disappearance of the MH370 plane was enveloped in mystery when there was a signal on the radar showing it turned back to Kota Bharu at 2.40am yesterday.
According to sources, it detected the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) control tower, Butterworth and control rooms of several Royal Malaysian Navy (TLDM) vessels overseeing the security of the South China Sea and the Singapore Air Traffic Control and Surveillance Unit.
RMAF Chief, General Tan Sri Rodzali Daud, said it did not rule out the possibility of a plane returning to Kuala Lumpur Airport (KLIA) before being reported missing from the radar.
Impact of movement
“The military radar detects the movement of the aircraft back and causes search and rescue operations to expand into the waters of Penang,” he said at a press conference at the Operations Coordinator Center, in Sepang yesterday.
MAS Group Chief Executive Officer Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, however, said it did not receive any emergency calls on damages that forced the plane to return.
-Daily news”
lkr says:
@AirLife: “If it was a hi-jacking, the Malaysian Authorities would have known about it and demands would have been received and that they would have made public…”
I’d agree in part: I’m not at all sure that the Malaysian govt would be open, but it would surely be in the interest of the hijackers to broadcast the situation — make sure third parties — and the world at large — see what’s going on in real time, as a way of maximizing pressure on the govt, and inviting blame if negotiations go south.
Against VI, Dennis, others: There are just so many problems with this being a hijack with negotiations: it requires a pi-jacker to fly for hours with live passengers and crew on the other side of the bulkhead, and certainlyt in that scenario with more than one party trying to phone as they passed over the peninsula and Penang. It surely would have triggered a large aerial chase, and probably requests for assistance from other countries. The latter, even if confidential, would almost certainly have leaked by now..
It’s of course possible that ZS could have “negotiated” in bad faith, with the passengers/crew already comatose or dead. But that doesn’t explain why every interceptor in the region was not in the air that night.
@lkr: I could come up with reasons the negotiators would not want to be identified during negotiations, but I would prefer that @TimR weigh-in, since he is the theory’s staunchest proponent.
@TimR: Why is it that you believe negotiators did not try to leverage public opinion to strengthen their demands while the plane was still flying?
You said: ” If the IFE was not load shed for the first case, it would not be shed in the second.” I assume that is for the case of the APU powering up circa 00:18:30 What if it didn’t? Would that mean the SDU would not have logged on, because the RAT won’t power the SDU?
@Niels
So how would you explain the initial search in the South China Sea?
@DrB: In either the “normal” or “alternate” electrical configuration, there would be no power to reboot the SATCOM if the APU does not autostart. The RAT does not supply power to the left bus, which feeds the SATCOM.
Perhaps it is not surprising they started searching in SCS on Saturday. On Sunday 9/3 they expanded the SAR operations to the west, according to:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=soY45F3tgTk
Of course it puts in question the later statements that they followed the turn back in real time and knew it was MH370 (with no need to react)
PaxLambda says:
Niels says: A link to an early report (apparently dated Monday March 10th) about radar data showing a turnback was recently tweeted by Julie (@Nihonmama):
There was a post by “Iceman29” on a French forum on the Sunday 9th at 09:06 EU time (08:06Z) about the turnback, with a link to:
https://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/03/09/enqute-pour-terrorisme-a_n_4928216.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-quebec&ir=Canada+Quebec
“Il existe une possibilité réelle que l’avion ait fait demi-tour”, a déclaré le chef de l’armée de l’air malaisienne, le général Rodzali Daud, sur la foi d’analyses radars.
[Google translate: “There is a real possibility that the plane has turned around,” said the head of the Malay Air Force, General Rodzali Daud, on the basis of radar analysis.]
ELT: the Safety Info/Flaperon Report suggests a ditch which makes the lack of ELT signal upon crashing more suspicious yet again. Is there a breaker for that main ELT? I bumped into discussion along those lines.
2014-03-07 at 12:50: the aircraft powered up on the APU. At that time, after SATCOM Log On, the IFE hosted applications opened their connections over SATCOM. We know that the APU was running because ACMS sent a message just after pushback that the APU had been running for more than 4hrs.
Sure ATSB, or Malaysia (lol), might confirm that, but the ACARS data tells us that. Their reference would also be the ACARS correspondence.
RE: ”Is there a breaker for that main ELT?”
No. The ELT has an internal battery pack that is not connected to the aircraft. The ELT control panel on the overhead panel in the cockpit is powered by the master test and test circuit for the cockpit panel lights. Removal of power from the control panel would not affect the automatic operation of the ELT in a crash.
Dennis: “So how would you explain the initial search in the South China Sea?”
How about bull-headed sunk-cost stupidity in those in charge, and cowardice for those reporting to them. Combination of “I can understand” for plane crashing right after transponder goes out, to too-much-information-I-don’t-want-to-understand for Inmarsat’s informing the plane was still in the air.
In your book, I hope you address how often we find that incompetence beats conspiracy in explanatory power. ?Ockham’s razor-cuts?
@TimR
If MH370 followed a flight path out over the Andaman Islands, entering a holding pattern pending negotiations, followed by a flight around the south of Sumatra heading toward Cocos Islands (YPCC) or Christmas Island (YPXM), as you have proposed, then the simplest way to navigate would be to enter a couple of waypoints. Waypoint PILEK is nicely out of range of the Indonesian radar at Sibolga and waypoint EPGUP places you in a nice position between YPCC and YPXM, leaving both airport options open. The flight path shows a good general fit to the satellite data.
If the MH370 flight was at FL250, Mach 0.642 (which is the corresponding MRC speed), the TAS would be 383 knots and the range from the 1st Arc given in the Boeing data in Appendix 1.6E of the Malaysian Safety Report is 2,363 NM.
Making some assumptions about the holding pattern over the Andaman Islands, and following the flight path from PILEK to EPGUP, I calculate that at 22:41:22 UTC, MH370 is 27 NM short of waypoint EPGUP at 10.2463°S 99.3171°E (5th Arc) on a track of 150.2528°T. This fits the BTO and BFO satellite data exactly. At this point YPCC is 187 NM distant to the South-West with a tailwind and YPXM is 377 NM distant to the North-East with a headwind. Both airports are within range. I calculate the fuel remaining is good for at least another 583 NM.
Obviously MH370 did not land at either airport. If MH370 carried on following a track of 150.2528°T, the aircraft reaches the 6th Arc at fuel exhaustion. The end point on the 7th Arc is at 19.4130°S 104.7428°E.
I have recently completed a revision of my drift analysis using the data from 300 undrogued GDP buoys and a corrected windage calculation based on the CSIRO data from a genuine Flaperon, which points to a MH370 End Point around 20°S near the 7th Arc.
Here is a link to a GE map of the waypoints and airports in question. The points M5, M6 and M7 are where MH370 crosses the respective Arcs:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yt6jdxdfhy3rh9q/MH370%20Flight%20Path%20Model%20V17.0%20EPGUP.png?dl=0
I should add that I do find it strange that the SCS continued for a week or so, see for example:
http://www.asiaone.com/malaysia/missing-mh370-3-countries-end-south-china-sea-search
One would expect that it would not take more than the whole weekend to “understand” the essence of the radar play-back.
@PaxLambda
It is possible that the info refered to on the French forum was based on the 9th March press conference, see the youtube link in my 4:52 pm posting.
In your August 21st additions to the header article, you said: “
1. If the flight was uncontrolled after fuel exhaustion, and if we ignore the final BFO values, the plane impacted no farther than about 15 NM from the 7th arc.
2. If the flight was uncontrolled after fuel exhaustion, and if the descent rates suggested by the final BFO values are valid, then the aircraft impacted no more than about 8 NM from the 7th arc.
3. If the flight was controlled after fuel exhaustion, an efficient, stable glide starting at about 40,000 ft could have achieved a distance of 120+ NM from the 7th arc.
My Comments :
I disagree with several of those points.
First, I don’t think it is difficult to establish a prioritized list of new search areas. At present there is actually not much disagreement in the interpretation of the meager information we have to work with. However, there is no proposed location that is best indicated by all the methods of latitude discrimination. Therefore, one must consider how to weight the findings of the various methods so that multiple search zones can be prioritized. You took a binary approach (N or S of 25S). I think this is too crude to accurately represent what I think we know.
Second, you said: “Because possibility (3) requires pilot inputs after fuel exhaustion, if this occurred, we have to assume that pilot inputs also occurred during the powered part of the flight after 19:41. As such, there would be no reason to believe that paths reconstructed with the assumption of automated flight with no pilot inputs are representative of the path actually flown.”
I don’t agree with this statement, either. You don’t have to make that assumption. You can certainly have a pilot flying for a long period on autopilot and then manually flying after fuel exhaustion (alternatively, there could be other reasons why our inference of the 00:19 BFOs is flawed).
What I Think is Known :
1. The aircraft is very unlikely to be located within +/- 22 NM of the 7th Arc for latitudes south of 25S, and within +/- 40 NM for latitudes south of 33S.
2. The 00:19 BFOs appear to indicate a crash prior to 00:21, and therefore within about 22 NM of the 7th Arc. However, this interpretation is subject to several assumptions and could be wrong. In particular, it assumes no piloted glide after 00:19:37.
3. The great circle paths proposed by Godfrey and by Iannello (2016-2017) can match the satellite data, albeit with BFO errors larger than used by Inmarsat, although they are consistent with DSTG’s analysis. The latitude range is from 39.0S to 26.6S for 7 Hz RMS BFO error, with BFO errors increasing at the northern end of the latitude range.
4. The Cocos Island Flyby route proposed by Iannello (2018) ends at 22S and has similar BFO errors as the Great Circle routes.
5. The CMT route proposed by Ulich (2018) ends at 31.6S+/-0.4. It has the smallest BTO/BFO errors of any route flyable with a single, unchanged autopilot lateral navigation method or waypoint at 19:41. The BFO errors are consistent with Inmarsat’s more stringent criterion.
6. At least 8 drift studies have been done by many groups to infer 7th Arc latitude range:
Pattaiaratchi (2014, 2016): 28.3S-33.2S
Meteo France (2016): 25S-35S
CMCC (2016): 28S-35S
GEOMAR (2016): 14S-33S
NOAA (2016): 26S-38S
CSIRO (2016, 2017): 26S-38S
Godfrey (2017, 2018): <28S-37S (2017), 20.5S-34.5S (2018)
Nesterov (2017): 25.5S-34.5S
I would characterize these results by saying at least 6 out of 8 (all except GEOMAR and Godfrey 2018) are remarkably in agreement at both ends, with average latitude limits of 26.5S-35.6S. One of the studies, namely GEOMAR, is an outlier for the northern latitude limit (14S). Godfrey’s 2018 paper indicates a slightly more northern limit of 20.5S than the majority of predictions. Starting a new search north of 25S seems to be inconsistent with the predictions of almost all of the drift studies.
7. A new method, for which at present there is only one quantified result, is matching the temperature profile inferred by measurements of the barnacle growth patterns with time. Godfrey (2018) finds 25S-20S (from memory, Richard, so apologies if this is incorrect) as the best matching latitude range.
Potential Search Zones :
Consider three possible search zones, and give each area 3 points if it is the best match, 2 points if second best, and 1 point if poorest match. Then sum up the results for these three zones: A is 25S-39S, B is 31.2S-32.0.2S, and C is 20S-25S.
For each latitude discriminator, next rank the three zones from high to low in terms of best match:
Current negative search results: C, B, A (i.e., C is most likely, and A is least likely)
00:19 BFOs: C, B, A (but C is very uncertain)
If Great Circle Path: A, B, C
If Cocos Flyby: C, B, A
If CMT Route: B, A, C
Drift Studies: B, A, C
Barnacle Growth Temperature Profile: C, B, A
An unweighted average shows that Areas B (31.2S-32.0S) & C (20S-25S) are roughly equal and way ahead of Area A (25S-39S). Depending on how you weight each discriminator, either B or C is at the top. This is where we are right now.
I don’t think a binary choice between 20S-25S out to 22 NM versus 25S-39S out to 100+NM makes much sense. The probability density of MH370 being between 25S and 39S is certainly not uniform. There is a strong peak at 31.6S. It deserves to be given due consideration. It has almost all the drift studies and the sat data going for it, except the inferred discrepancy between 00:19 BFOs and an impact < 22 NM from the 7th Arc. North of 25S is OK (but not great) for the sat data, it is poor for the majority of the drift studies, and it is unknown how it will stack up against the 00:19 BFOs. It does have the appeal of being virgin territory for searching and possibly matching our current interpretation of the 00:19 BFOs (which could turn out to be wrong), but I am concerned about the disagreement with almost all the drift studies.
Extending the search out to 100 NM from 31.2S-32.0S is just 50% of the area from 20S-25S out to 25 NM, so we are not necessarily talking about just doing one or the other. My recommendation at this time is to focus only on those two areas. I don’t think searching out to 100+NM over the entire range from 25S to 39S is worthy of even a partial effort until the two other options are first completely carried out. Furthermore, pending some new insight, I don’t see a way to clearly prioritize between 20S-25S/22NM (Area C) and 31.2S-32.0S/100NM (Area B). Perhaps weather or logistical considerations might favor starting one before the other.
@Don Thompson,
Thanks for addressing the question of the IFE sending messages when on APU power. The pre-flight occurrence seems like a solid demonstration that this will occur if the APU continued running at 00:21 (which it certainly should for the alternate electrical configuration), and if the aircraft orientation allowed a line of sight to the satellite.
Air life wrote “my likely scenario is based on Tough Training, Airmanship and Experience”
Reads like bias confirmation.
Tough training: you’re choice
Airmanship: the crew of MH370 didn’t communicate, the aircraft ceased cooperative surveillance, 9M-MRO crossed active airways. Any posited right turn makes confliction more likely with traffic departing & approaching WMKK & WMSA.
Experience: contradicting data reported to investigators by the ANSP, and military surveillance.
@Richard Godfrey
“If MH370 followed a flight path out over the Andaman Islands, entering a holding pattern pending negotiations, followed by a flight around the south of Sumatra heading toward Cocos Islands (YPCC) or Christmas Island (YPXM), as you have proposed, then the simplest way to navigate would be to enter a couple of waypoints………….”
This is above my pay grade. I am really just a messenger.
I am pleased a destination to the North on the 7th arc is being given oxygen.
Using basic navigation (from the drift rate era) on the back of an envelope my thoughts were that around 21S or around 9S had merit as a possible ditching.
Your incredible work on all these in-depth calculations are to be applauded particularly if it helps find MH370.
@Andrew. The ATSB’s remarks as accredited representative. I have discussed this with the ATSB today.
Going back to the South African investigation the ATSB was requested to provide specific information about pilot’s licenses, so in that instance as an accredited representative its role was limited to what it was requested to do by the investigating authority. As to whether it will get to comment of the final report was left open.
However on the Safety Investigation Report the ATSB said the Malaysians had made clear that this was not a final report, though the ATSB did provide comment on it. I asked whether the ICAO would treat it as a Final Report in the Annex 13 sense and was told that no they would not since the Malaysians had made clear it wasn’t.
I asked whether it would be fair to describe the Safety Investigation Report as an interim final: agreed.
As to whether the ATSB was satisfied with the response by Malaysia to its remarks I could get no comment on that. My speculation is that, if dissatisfied, the ATSB like other accredited reps, would not be able to insist that its dissent be included in that Report.
My suspicions remain unallayed.
Possible reasons for SCS Search (why Malaysia hid the IGARI turnback)
(1) Trying to hide something-
(a) military/radar capabilites; or
(b) known plot to divert MH370 (definite rumors of this); or
(2) Expecting to hear MH370 landed somewhere
(3) Incompetence/Pride/going with the flow of events without taking initiative
(4) Internal politics/not wanting to inflame politcal opposition by suggesting pilot deliberate hijacking, which the opposition was angry when Razak disclosed probable deliberate act on 15-March
(5) Various SCS “eyewitness” sitings (oil rig worker/fishermen/etc)
Brian Anderson says:
@ TBill
“lack of ELT signal upon crashing more suspicious”
Nope, absolutely not. As I have explained many times, I would expect the ELT to trigger in a ditching, any ditching. However the first transmission on 406Mhz, by design, occurs 50 seconds after triggering. By that time the antenna could be under water and hence the trasmission would be ineffective. There may be no satellite visible at the precise time of the first transmission and in that case there is a further delay until the second transmission.
RE: “The ATSB’s remarks as accredited representative. I have discussed this with the ATSB today.”
Thanks for that. So we can look forward to Malaysia releasing further interim reports until they get around to publishing a ‘final’ report, as required by Annex 13? I suspect not!
The entitlement of an accredited representative to have its views heard (and published) is very clear under Annex 13: the State conducting the investigation ‘shall either amend the draft Final Report to include the substance of the comments received, or…append them to the Final Report’. In practice, that obviously doesn’t always happen, but I doubt many governments would have the political will to make representations to ICAO if their views were ignored. Even if they did, there’s nothing ICAO can do to compel the investigating authority to comply. Frankly, I think it makes a mockery of the UN conventions, but I guess that’s nothing new.
@Richard Godfrey,
Here’s another way to look at the choices for a new search area.
If you go 22S/22 NM, you are betting on three things that all must be correct: (1) a pilot made multiple maneuvers after 19:41, (2) a pilot did not glide after fuel exhaustion, and (3) our current interpretation of the events and BFOs circa 00:19 is roughly correct. You are also betting that almost all the drift studies are wrong.
If you go to 31.6S/100 NM, you are betting on two things that must be correct: (1) a pilot made no maneuvers from 19:41 to fuel exhaustion, and (2) either (a) our current interpretation of the EOF and the 00:19 BFOs is seriously wrong or (b) a pilot glided the aircraft after 00:19.
So 22S/22NM requires an active pilot long after 19:41, but not active at 00:19. On the other hand, 31.6S/100NM requires no active pilot from 19:41 until 00:19, but possibly one after 00:19.
@DrB: I don’t believe there is a strong peak at 31.6S latitude. In the Great Circles post, I included a file summarizing the BTO and BFO errors for constant Mach and LRC speeds. The minimum RMS BFO error of 3.4 Hz occurred at 34.3S latitude (due south), yet the RMS BFO error only increased to 4.6 Hz at 37.5S, and to 4.8 Hz at 30.6S. The BTO error over that same range was between 27 μs and 32 μs. These BFO errors meet the Inmarsat criteria. In fact, the due south path to 34.3S is very similar to the path that Inmarsat proposed.
You believe you have a methodology to constrain the crossing of the 7th arc to a small range of latitudes. You also believe there is a reasonable chance that the pilot provided no inputs until fuel exhaustion and then performed a long glide (after what was probably a steep descent). I place a much lower probability on both these claims.
Ultimately, it’s not my opinion that matters, but the opinions of those that might conduct and finance a new search.
@DrB said: So 22S/22NM requires an active pilot long after 19:41, but not active at 00:19.
That’s simply not true. The path ending at 22S latitude that included an alignment and flyover of Cocos Airport had no pilot inputs after 19:41.
@Brian Anderson
Re: ‘… the first transmission on 406Mhz, by design, occurs 50 seconds after triggering …’
The ELT transmission delay when triggered automatically is 30 seconds. The 50 second delay is when the device is triggered manually; the extra 20 seconds is because there is a 10 second self-test sequence followed by a 10 second period when the self-test result is displayed.
If you take Ethiopian Airlines flight 961 as indicative of a wide body ditching there’s about 10 seconds between the first substantial contact with the water (the left engine) and when the aircraft (or parts thereof) come to a stop. It is up for debate whether the tail section of the aircraft would have sank in the next 20 seconds.
Perhaps those maneuvers could be programmed before 19:41, but they occurred after 19:41. That was my point, that maneuvers occurred after 19:41.
You said: “I don’t believe there is a strong peak at 31.6S latitude.”
That is because you only considered a small subset of all lateral navigation methods and speed modes (Great Circle routes at constant Mach and LRC according to your counter-example).
I looked at all the possible nav and speed methods, and clearly the best single-setting route is 181.2 degree CMT at MRC, as shown in Figure 11 in
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NM7c9Vs6dJgOczqnU0682Jqw5Mjp84-J/view?usp=sharing
CMT has a single sharp, very narrow optimum, as shown in Figure 11c. The great circle case has two broad optimum regions, as shown in Figure 11b. This comparison was done using the same fitting program, with only nav and speed methods being changed from run to run. I have high confidence in the results, especially for relative route comparisons.
You also misrepresented what I said about my case at 00:19. I don’t know whether or not a pilot glided after 00:19, nor do I know that the current interpretation of the EOF and BFOs then is correct, but for 31.6S to be correct, at least one of those must be true.
@Andrew. “….there’s nothing ICAO can do to compel the investigating authority to comply.”
As you say, no compelling. In this case though it could advise Malaysia that in the circumstances a Final Report is called for now. If that should be unsatisfactory or is withheld it could seek rectification publicly, applying embarrassment and possibly deterring others from what gives the appearance of a ploy.
Doing nothing implicitly is endorsement.
sk999 says:
You write, “…or, there were people in Malaysia who knew the plane was airborne for some time after IGARI, but did not make that info public until the Inmarsat data forced their hand.”
The first public reference to a possible air turnback by Malaysian authorities (based on military radar data, although that was not made clear at the time) was made by HH (and possibly Daud) at a press conference on Sunday, March 9, 2014 [Day 2], at 11:30 am Malaysia time. At that time, no one at Inmarsat had even yet begun to delve into the satellite data.
All of the above assertions are based on news articles available on the internet at the time and still retrievable today.
@DennisW @TBill @ikr @Neils
When MH370 went dark at IKARI and Malaysia and Vietnam ATC could not establish communication, it would be assumed it crashed into the SCS. Vietnam, Malaysia, and other nations responded as expected. Inmarsat did not check their data logs until well after the flight was reported missing. The turn back and radar story was not public or maybe not even understood. If you assume the aircraft just crashed or exploded, the world would expect a SCS primary search.
What surprised me was that Malaysia started a search at Straits of Malacca without any notice of how a crashed plane could get there!
Inmarsat privately advised Malaysia shortly after the plane was declared missing that it was in the air for 7 house after it went silent. This was not disclosed to public, but it clearly indicated that IKARI was not likely. 7 hours is a huge radius, so it may not have been sufficient to cancel search.
I don’t know when 7.hour info and radar information came together. It took Inmarsat a few days to define the arcs – it the 7 hours was a major early finding.
It would be great if the Malaysian government had a timeline for when they confirmed a turn back toward Penang and that it was in the air for 7 hours.
But there was really no reason to not start an Immediate search in SCS. This follows standard protocol. If they knew this was a hijack and didn’t want to advertise it, you would still let the expected search to begin.
It does seem stupid to have not stopped the SCS search earlier, although China didn’t help by claiming satellite detected debris in SCS.
@sk999
Explain the search in the South China Sea.
An air turnback would not be the way to describe a long diversion West over Kota Baru.
Also, I have made the point several times that the radar data is really not necessary to determine the path from Igari to 18:25 range ring. The aircraft had to fly almost straight West at maximum speed to satisfy that BTO. The more intricate BFO data interpretation for an FMT to the South came later, but it did not take any analytical prowess to figure out that the path after IGARI had to be almost straight West
DennisW,
The LKP (last know position) to DCA was at IGARI, over the South China Sea. DCA was responsible for launching the search. What’s to explain?
Irrelevant. You claim that the radar narrative was forced by the Inmarsat data, whereas publically available news articles demonstrate the opposite. Why are you trying to rewrite history?
@Victor, @Don, @Andrew. Do any of you know answers to the following, I wonder?
1. What conditions, specifically, trigger an APU auto-start
2. What are the possible sources of power to pitot heat and are there two pitot tubes?
3. Could RAT deliver power for pitot heat?
Thanks in advance for any insights.
Inmarsat knew or should have known that the aircraft flew West over the Malaysian peninsula in less than a few hours after the diversion. If the Malaysian claims relative to the radar data are valid they also would have known the direction the aircraft went from IGARI. There was no plausible reason to spend any time searching in the South China Sea.
The reality is the LKP was clearly West of Penang. The path after that took some time to unravel (four plus years and counting).
“1. What conditions, specifically, trigger an APU auto-start?
Loss of power to both AC transfer buses while the aircraft is in the air.
L & R AC transfer buses. There are three pitot tubes, L, C & R.
Joseph Coleman says:
As regards to your earlier comment August 23rd at 02:13pm
http://thehuntformh370.info/content/malaysia-airlines-flight-370
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) issued a media statement at 07:24, one hour after the scheduled arrival of the flight at Beijing, stating that contact with the flight had been lost by Malaysian ATC at 02:40. MAS stated that the government had initiated search and rescue operations. It later emerged that Subang Air Traffic Control had lost contact with the aircraft at 01:22 and notified Malaysia Airlines at 02:40. Neither the crew nor the aircraft’s on-board communication systems relayed a distress signal, indications of bad weather, or technical problems before the aircraft vanished from radar screens.
Don, it’s based on MY Tough Training, Airmanship, Experience, not others. I have looked both left AND right over 4.5 years, taking a balanced approach, whereas others have not, that’s confirmation bias. I’d say there has been too much BIAS directed against the pilots without a shred of evidence. ‘Innocent until proven Guilty’ is the cry. Finding the aircraft should be first priority and thereafter the post mortem, but it’s happening in the reverse order. Also, not everything that has been put in the reports can be believed. Cutting through all chaff isn’t an easy task, but it has to be done, AND so too narrowing down the options. Thanks.
@Joseph Coleman
Your quote states that “Subang Air Traffic Control had lost contact with the aircraft at 01:22 and notified Malaysia Airlines at 02:40.”
Local Malaysian time, obviously.
However, the Factual Information/SIR ATC voice transcript records a telephone call at 02:25MYT between ATC & MAS Ops where ATC notes an earlier conversation with MAS, “But earlier we checked with MAS I think your side somebody said that the aircraft still flying and you already send signal to the aircraft.“. At that point both ATC & MAS appeared unclear about the status of the aircraft.
Please be careful how you represent the various drift analyses. There are multiple solutions that fit a drift analysis.
Pattiaratchi et al. of UWA only considered the area from 22.8°S to 39.3°S and therefore would not find a hotspot at 20°S.
Daniel of Meteo France considered a large number of areas from 7°S to 49°S but only 21°S and 23°S were in the vicinity of the 7th Arc.
Durgaddo et al. of GEOMAR had two favoured areas at 15°S and 25°S but neither were in the vicinity of the 7th Arc.
Griffin et al. of CSIRO only considered 27°S to 41°S and therefore would not find a hotspot at 20°S.
Trianes et al. of NOAA considered 15°S to 40°S and concluded only a wide area from 26°S to 38°S.
Jansen et al. of CMCC considered 15°S to 40°S and concluded only a wide area from 28°S to 35°S.
In terms of discounting a MH370 end point at 20°S, Pattiaratchi and Griffin can be ignored, because they didn’t even look.
Daniel of Meteo France and Durgadoo of GEOMAR both agree with my finding that 20°S is also possible.
Trianes of NOAA and Jansen of CMCC both disagree that 20°S is also possible.
A review of the drift analysis literature is not a clear cut as you make out.
I may add, and that is exactly what IO has been doing too, narrowing down the location options or eliminating the location options. Is that confirmation bias? Absolutely not. By eliminating, or narrowing down the options, you get closer to the truth. By endlessly expanding the options/theories/causes, the further away you get from the truth. So, I asked myself, why would they turn back to KLIA? Answer: Turn back is about technical difficulties, it always is. Thanks.
@Andrew. Thanks for your earlier response.
I am still trying to think of a situation where AP might not drop out.
As I understand it, the generators on the engines are of a “variable speed” type so that the amount of power generated depends on the revs. If that’s the case, will a windmilling engine not generate some power, even if it’s not a lot? Last time this was discussed I think the consensus was that there would continue to be power generation for a limited period as the engine spooled down but that below a critical threshold it would stop generating power. I wonder what that time period and threshold are.
If the ELMS is doing its job properly, it should also be shedding successive systems in reverse order of priority as the generated power declines. That might conceivably also reduce the “resistance” on the windmill, enabling it to continue rotating and generating a little power.
Now, since this windmilling IDG is not generating enough power for critical systems, would APU not autostart – this being triggered by “too little power available” rather than zero power available?
If something like the above could be feasible, you would have a scenario whereby:
– AP remains engaged because pitot heat retained as a high-priority item on the little power being generated by windmilling engine. Also remain in “normal” rather than reverting to secondary.
– SDU is shed by ELMS when power severely limited under windmilling engine. Re-boots once the APU is up and running.
Alternative to windmilling is an engine that maintains revs above threshold due to repeated re-lights. You would still, however, need to have an APU re-start triggered by power upset rather than zero power. Enough re-lights to bridge a 2-minute gap seems to me a bit of a stretch, though, depending on how long a spooling-down engine keeps generating electrical power.
Is either scenario conceivable?
Perhaps it’s less than a 2 minute gap if we are only waiting for APU power to become available (rather than that plus SDU boot/logon sequence).
When I google RAT I find “the Ram Air Turbine provides hydraulic power to powered actuation of flight control surface and electric power for flight control computers, essential instruments, radio, cockpit lighting, windshield- and pitot tube de-icing”. Seems strange that pitot heat is not included on a 777? I’d have thought this would be pretty high on the list of vital systems.
@Air Life
If we were to add up, training years, flying hours and professional experience years for all contributors to Victor’s blog, we would all be astounded at the result.
We still have to argue our case and supply supporting evidence, so that others can transparently review our findings.
This reference
http://www.ieee.rackoneup.net/rrvs/06/Emergency%20RATs%20Presentation.pdf a
lso specifically says:
Emergency Ram Air Turbine
Purpose: provide emergency power to essential systems when all engines fail
• Hydraulic power for powered actuation of flight control
• Electric Power for flight control computers, essential instruments, radio, cockpit lighting, windshield and pitot tube de-icing
RE: “As I understand it, the generators on the engines are of a “variable speed” type so that the amount of power generated depends on the revs. If that’s the case, will a windmilling engine not generate some power, even if it’s not a lot? Last time this was discussed I think the consensus was that there would continue to be power generation for a limited period as the engine spooled down but that below a critical threshold it would stop generating power. I wonder what that time period and threshold are.”
No, the engine speed obviously varies, but the generators are driven by a constant speed drive to ensure constant frequency power; the combination of drive and generator is known as an integrated drive generator, or IDG. When the engine speed reduces below a certain point, the drive can no longer maintain the constant speed required by the generator, so the generator drops off line. In the simulator, it takes about 7-9 seconds for the generator to drop out after an engine failure.
RE: “Now, since this windmilling IDG is not generating enough power for critical systems, would APU not autostart – this being triggered by “too little power available” rather than zero power available?”
The autostart sequence is driven by voltage on the transfer buses. I’m not sure of the figure, but when the voltage drops below a certain threshold on BOTH transfer buses, ELMS automatically sends a start signal to the APU controller to start the APU. The voltage threshold is well below the normal 115V AC required by the equipment that is powered by the buses.
RE: “Is either scenario conceivable?”
I don’t have time to explain in detail, but the short answer is NO. I’ll try to explain in more detail later, if someone else doesn’t beat me to it.
RE: “When I google RAT I find “the Ram Air Turbine provides hydraulic power to powered actuation of flight control surface and electric power for flight control computers, essential instruments, radio, cockpit lighting, windshield- and pitot tube de-icing”. Seems strange that pitot heat is not included on a 777? I’d have thought this would be pretty high on the list of vital systems.”
I think the problem is that the really essential systems on aircraft such as the B777 consume a lot of power. The pitot heat, although important, is not as important as some other items. I guess the designers had to draw the line somewhere to make sure the loads do not exceed the RAT’s generating capacity.
So far the supporting evidence and cases supplied by the official search teams have come up empty after 4.5 years of searching I’ve sent in my case and supporting evidence to the officials. Time to think outside the 7th arc box and look into it? I can’t do more than that. Thanks
@Air Life: I won’t engage you because you already said you have a preferred answer. (If you think technical failures haven’t been thoroughly studied, you are mistaken.) Also, like it or not, this is not a website where we dismiss scenarios because of “innocent until proven guilty”. This is not a court of law. It’s an investigation.
However, I can’t not respond to this statement:
So, I asked myself, why would they turn back to KLIA? Answer: Turn back is about technical difficulties, it always is.
Have you ever heard of 9/11?
Please see my post @TimR yesterday and then tell me I am not thinking outside the box.
@DrB also tried to prove yesterday that my Drift Analysis was an outlier (or outside the box).
Denial of evidence is not thinking out of the box.
@DrB: I have no doubt that with a particular set of assumptions, you get a narrow peak in your cost function. That doesn’t mean that other acceptable solutions with different assumptions that don’t exhibit a narrow peak are wrong. It comes down to the correctness of the assumptions. I am much less certain about the uniqueness of your solution than you are.
@Richard Godfrey, DrB
I encourage you to carefully check the update by David Griffin (August 10th 2018):
http://www.marine.csiro.au/~griffin/MH370/
David has extended the probability graphs and simulation/animations up to S8 degrees; see the links in his update.
His (extended) results do not support a hotspot around S20 degrees.
Griffin makes so many mistakes and false assumptions in his various analyses:
1. Differences to Pengam 2016 not explained.
2. No ocean trials with genuine flaperon.
3. Windage results based on only a small selective data set.
4. Conclusions based on sporadic aerial search, claimed as being comprehensive.
5. Conclusions based on satellite imagery.
6. Conclusions based on one debris item out of 27.
ICYMI, MH370 is not where Griffin predicted, in study 1, 2, 3 , 4 or subsequent updates.
Please do not try and prohibit a search further north of 25S, because Griffin does not agree.
So why do you engage me? 9/11 wasn’t turn back for technical reasons, but hi-jackings and diversion of aircraft to perpetrate terrorist acts on the Twin Towers in New York. The Petronas Towers weren’t affected! I stand by: “Innocent until proven Guilty” as far as the pilots are concerned, court or no court. It isn’t fair blaming them without concrete evidence. A right Turn back to KLIA with technical difficulties, imo, is the most likely scenario. If you have studied tehnical failures, then good for you, there are many as I have already pointed out. Furthermore, too few blips detected by Military Radars to be sure it was MH370 diverting across Malaysia and up the Malacca Strait. The 7/8/9th March 2014 was also the annual raptor migration event in Malaysia which complicates matters even further.
Drop your defensiveness. I wasn’t accusing you. Time to think outside of the 7th arc boX? It’s a rhetorical question. What evidence?
Stop playing psycho games!
When you write to me with accusations, then you are making accusations against me.
ICYMI, your comment was not addressed to anyone else.
Apparently, you have no regard for the ZS simulator data. Or do you believe ZS was particularly meticulous to practice a technical difficulty on the way to IGARI?
Furthermore, too few blips detected by Military Radars to be sure it was MH370 diverting across Malaysia and up the Malacca Strait.
You don’t need the radar data to be sure the aircraft flew West past Penang. The Inmarsat data is unambiguous in that regard. It is the only direction the aircraft could have flown based on very easy to interpret BTO data.
There is absolutely nothing in collection of information associated with the diversion that suggests an aircraft failure.
What accusations? What psycho games? You’re making accusations, or reading too much into a rhetorical, challenging, question. I’m straight forward. That silly “psycho finger” of ours is point back at you!
My posting was triggered by your remark:
“In terms of discounting a MH370 end point at 20°S, Pattiaratchi and Griffin can be ignored, because they didn’t even look”
I agree with some of your critical points regarding the CSIRO work, especially where it concerns the “mixing” of aerial search results and satellite imagery with drift results. However, if you remove these “restrictions” I think it is valuable work which should not be ignored.
I have no interest to “prohibit a search further north of 25S”. I just feel that a decision to start a new search should be based on complete and state-of-the-art information.
I wouldn’t know where to search best based on the current state of available information. For example, I think it would be important to have a detailed update on the extent of “data holidays” and LPD areas in previously searched areas before taking a position where to search next.
Maybe you should read, what you write before pressing the send button.
You are always right.
I think @Niels may have orginally posted this sg.News.Yahoo article. Focus on the 527 comments, apparently many from Malaysians. It gives a feeling for public sentiment at the time (distrust of the government). Also more “chatter” about MH370 being a planned diversion.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/hishammuddin-now-says-military-told-keep-eye-mh370-025118812.html
For exmaple-
Azura4 years ago
Razmatazz, my husband had told me from the beginning that this is a planned operation but I told him he is being ridiculous.But now after reading Hishamuddin’s statement and also what you have written, I think my husband is right after all.
But if they are safe, where can they be ? Where can you hide 239 passengers with so many countries searching for them ?
razmatazz4 years ago
A driver asked his boss who is a Minister about what has happened to the MH370 about 3 days after the incident..the Minister replied “Everything is according to plan” The driver then asked again…The Minister was speechless because he has said something which he shouldnt have said..He gave a stern look at the driver…and the topic was left hanging until now …A true story from the driver himself but he refused to reveal the name of the Minister..
>>So I do not know if FBI/CIA would say this above and @TimR’s account qualify as “chatter” but seems to me it is “chatter”. Additionally there was the reported email claim to one of the lesser-respected news outlets.
Simulator data? It’s worth JS if it can’t find the wreckage. So, if you’re so sure about the direction, military data and Inmarsat’s BTO data then why haven’t you found the wreckage in 4.5 years or to date? Also, I have never mentioned “aircraft failure”, but electrical failure/outages. BTW, a flight from KL to Perth is 5h30. A 7h00 flight after turn back would take it beyond Perth. You do the math. I don’t subscribe to 3h00 diversions that don’t make sense. Also, there were more than one geo-stationary satellite in play at the time of MH370’s disappearance from radar. So, until they sort out the mess or come clean, I’m firmly sticking to the timeline, it’s more precise.
please don’t feed the troll
I don’t remember having posted this article (Which is not a guarantee that I haven’t: nowadays it feels I need a memory extension)
Your interpretation of “turn back” mirrors sk999’s. To me there is a significant difference between a “turn back” and a “turn left”. The data can only be interpetated as a “turn left” (West). There was no indication of an attempt to return to KL. A search of the South China Sea after 7 hours of flight time after IGARI seems to assume the plane was flying in circles over that region.
Intelligent people would not make that mistake. It was a sham plain and simple.
The ZS simulator data clearly shows planning and intent. It has nothing to do with locating the aircraft.
You’ve been too long in the tetchy 7th arc box, get a life, get a new perspective.
Being the “gate keeper” for the whacko category I inform you that you are in.
Below is your original post.
Important notes on the sg.News.Yahoo article “Keep and eye on” quote:
(1) I do not think Hish said (on 4 Corners video) that someone said to “keep an eye on MH370″…so I do not exactly understand why this media article indicates Hish said that….seems to be a bad press report again. So I am not able to verify that point.
(2) Note last sentence claims Razak started some Malacca Straits serach right away, which is also my understanding might be true.
So here you go below. Obvously I latched onto it in my memory, and later Victor challenged me on it because we really do *not* have any proof someone said to “keep eye on” MH370.
@Julia
Here is one link to the interview:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2XQPCwY5SHk
In my observation Hishammuddin escapes the question about why there was no interception by going “ad absurdum”:
“If you’re not going to shoot it down, what’s the point of sending it (a fighter) up?”
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/hishammuddin-now-says-military-told-keep-eye-mh370-025118812.html “
Please do not try to give me advice.
You don’t even know your left from your right.
@Andrew thanks for your responses.
There was no coordinated information about any flying from IGARI toward Penang until well after the aircraft did not arrive at Bieging. While radar observation was being made people responsible for search only knew that all communication stopped near IGARI.
My understanding was the aircraft made a 270 turn to the right on radar and not a 90 left. But result is the same of a quick turn toward Penang.
If you believe (I don’t) that someone on the AC was in direct communication with the the person directly responsible for the search, then searching the SCS makes no sense except as a ruse. But without any confirmed information that the AC deviated from the approved route and did not arrive one would start a search along the route starting from the last transponder fix.
Malaysia has been terrible at laying out the timeline of what was known by whom when and how decisions were th3n made and by who. Inept or hiding something?
Inmarsat had no reason to check data until the AC was declared missing which was not un5il not arriving. This was when they checked the data records and noticed the 7 hours. There was no real time information provided by Inmarsat that night. There was no reason to not start a search at IGARI at first light.
When did Malaysia primary decision maker learn of flight toward Penang and 7 hours of fligh5 after IGARI? Which was discovered first by the person in charge. I don’t remember who was the actual person making the decisions and not just a talker.
I’m not trying to give you advice, your shortcomings are blatantly obvious.
I most certainly do know my left from right, unfortunately you do not, nor your light (UTC) from darkness (Local Time).
Thanks for digging that up; I remember it now in the context. Regarding your two points:
(1) The minister admitted that DCA contacted the military that morning (he avoids to mention a time), see around 9:30 in the youtube link. I agree that is not necessarily the same as what the article suggests.
(2) Difficult to verify when the Malacca Straits search was exactly started. If we may believe the Sunday press conference mentioned before, some searching at the west coast was ongoing on Sunday 9/3.
@AL: I shouldn’t pile on since Dennis has made his call. But “The 7/8/9th March 2014 was also the annual raptor migration event in Malaysia which complicates matters even further” at least adds to our collective store of facts..
Not Falcon and Eagle jets, but Falcons and Eagles!
The military radar data showing a diversion toward Penang would have led to expanding the search to the Straits. The 7 hour information from Inmarsat would have made all of the local searches questionable. They asked Inmarsat to work the arcs after the new flight duration was recognized. They did not disclose the 7 hours for a while. Hijack may have been a concern at the time.
The decisions after Inmarsat initial air search work and then DSTG are well documented by a ATSB but MOT decision timeline is opaque in report. They merge the information in a timeline that was only incrementally known over days at the time. After the fact the searches in SCS and Straits were a waste, but real time decisions with conflicting information may have been reasonable.
When the news first broke I expected wreckage to be found near IGARI in shallow seas. I was mystified by search in Straits and blown away by the seven hour revelation.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-12/malaysian-military-denies-detecting-missing-plane/5314212
I estimate it would take me a 20 minutes using the Inmarsat data to know that MH370 flew West past Penang – 15 minutes to do the calculation, and 5 minutes to check it after being very surprised. This denial is dated 13 March. Inmarsat had to have known the plane went West of Penang by then. The search in the South China Sea ended March 18.
The question of info timing between Inmarsat and Malaysia is murky, but I am sure there are clues out there. I stand by my claim that the ISAT data forced Malaysia to come up with the correct (or fabricated to sound correct) narrative.
Why the South China Sea search went on to March 18 is an important question, that begs for an answer.
In the meantime wreckage was being dispersed at the impact location in the SIO.
You are correct in that there would be no reason for any SCS search after Inmarsat disclosed the 7 hours on March 8 or March 9. My point was only that it made sense to start in SCS at daylight on March 8. But not for long.
I don’t remember the date that Inmarsat provided the diagram of the north and south arc segments, but that should have ended any searches near Malaysia. They disclosed the 7 hours much earlier than the arc model by several days.
China did report debris by satellite in SCS which confused things because it was not consistent with SIO focus at the time.
Inferring anything from the BFO is much more complicated. The approximate location of the 18:25 arc is easily derived from the last known position, BTO and time near Igari, and the BTO and time at 18:25. No need to get fancy and calculate BTO bias etc. My sense is the location West of Penang should have been realized before the end of the first day of searching in SCS.
The article you linked says the following: “Air force chief General Rodzali Daud was this morning quoted by Malaysian media …”
Have you searched back to the original in “Malaysian media”? I highly doubt it – the headline of the article, which is based on said “Malaysian media”, is sensationalist rubbish, as anyone who tried to track down its origins would realize. The original article appeared in Berita Harian (in the Malaysian language) and has long since disappeared. I spent quite a bit of time trying to track it down. If someone else here has a copy and can put a copy online, please do.
The following is my best reference to the earliest report of an “air turnback”:
http://english.astroawani.com/malaysia-news/
plane-may-have-made-air-turn-back-counter-terrorism-units-activated-31527
It is dated March 9, four days before your purported “his denial is dated 13 March.”
You also state:
“I estimate it would take me a 20 minutes using the Inmarsat data to know that MH370 flew West past Penang – 15 minutes to do the calculation, and 5 minutes to check it after being very surprised.”
Congratulations. Were you working for Inmarsat on March 8, 2014, with full benefit of hindsight?
Oh please, you could do the same thing. I never worked for Inmarsat, and I don’t think you did.
The fact remains that something is very strange about the early search efforts, and it bears looking into. (And I am not trying to rewrite history.)
At some point before 15-March (Razak press conf), it seems to me that Malaysian authorities developed a talking-point position to say the military observed an unidentified radar blip, not known to be MH370 until (a week) later, but known to be commercial flight (no threat perceived).
The recent SIR report, to my ears, surprisingly says, they knew all along it was MH370 turning back. Total contradiction.
@TBill,
In the link I posted the phrase “reciprocal route” was used. It is more definitve than “turn back”. Maybe sk999 will not think that is “irrelevant”. I don’t know what his problem is.
P.S.- I assume SIR report is more accurate, that they surmised within a few hours they had radar tapes of MH370’s turnback.
The reality is that the first thing any intellegent person would do, and I don’t doubt there are intelligent people at Inmarsat, is to compute the location of the 18:25 range ring. It is a trivial thing to do. At that moment it is “game over” for searching in the SCS.
Arc6 is near SCS so flight could have ended near there? Is that a stretch explanation for why Inmarsat did not over-rule SCS search at first?
Dennis, as Bill has alluded to, wouldn’t the first thing that Inmarsat might do with the satellite data be calculate the BTO for the last transmission rather than the first. If they did that, lo and behold, that arc carves through the South China Sea a couple of hundred miles from the last known position of the aircraft based on the SSR data. You’d be a brave person to cancel the search in the SCS when, despite now learning that the airplane stayed aloft for 7 hours, you’ve got a piece of independent data that supports a crash in the SCS.
As to the availability of radar data immediately post-LOC I am firmly of the view that there is no Malaysian military radar data (to the extent there’s a ‘cover up’, that’s what’s being covered up). I think that the only radar data that the Malaysians had at their disposal until around 18-19 March was their own civilian radar data – the KL and KB SSR data showing the flight proceeding normally right up until it disappeared near IGARI after commencing its right turn toward BITOD, the KB PSR showing a target approaching from the NE and then heading away to the SW towards Penang and the Penang (Butterworth) PSR data showing a target approaching from the NE and then turning NW as it neared the southern tip of Penang.
In terms of accessing their own civilian PSR data I suspect that it would have been the KB data first and once they understood that then they would have called for the Penang PSR data. I think that process explains the delay in adding a search of the Malacca Strait to the SAR effort.
And if you consider the largely forgotten ‘other’ Lido slide – the one showing the fanciful 270-odd degree right turn at IGARI that hooks back to pick up the transit past KB towards Penang – I’d suggest that that is the product of trying to stitch all the then available radar data together into an ostensibly cogent picture. If they had radar data showing a turnback to the left when that presentation was put together, why show such a fanciful representation of the turnback? One possible answer is that they didn’t have any military radar data at that time (and I’d argue that’s because the Thais hadn’t yet given it to them).
We’re all captives of the tyranny of knowledge, we can’t unknow what we now know. Back then as things were unfolding off a somewhat shoddy start, the notion that the airplane might have crashed somewhere other than near where it dropped off radar would have been met with some scepticism, and rightfully so. We now place considerable trust in Inmarsat’s data and the various interpretations of it. Back then, however, if you’re running the SAR effort and someone says that we’ve got some ‘satellite guys’ from London on the phone who say the aircraft was still in the air at 7am, you’re realistically not just going to drop everything to factor in their input exclusively. Let’s not forget that you’ve previously had the airline’s ops people telling your ATC guys that the airplane was flying off the east coast of Vietnam per its flight plan at 1.30am. New and challenging data is going to be processed slowly and with caution and to the extent that any of it supports currently held views (eg the seventh arc carving through the SCS) you’re going to run with that first.
@Mick and TBill
You both make good points, and I suppose I am guilty of a personal bias here. If I had the ISAT data from the start my strong inclination would have been to ask where did the plane go after it dissappeared near IGARI. The 18:25 arc is a bit unique given that it can only be reached directly from IGARI at near maximum aircraft speed. It falls in the category of a certitude that the plane had to fly almost directly West. The BFO data was not needed. It is also unique in the sense that it represented a reboot – the ping occurred much later than it should have.
The path relative to subsequent arcs is not so deterministic as we all know given the struggles of the last four years, and BFO plays a much stronger role. Still, I acknowledge your arguments make a lot of sense.
@Et Al
With the knowledge available at the time it made sense to continue the SCS search. There could have been an explosion/collision that left debris near the turn-back area.
Mick Gilbert was spot-on when he suggested “We’re all captives of the tyranny of knowledge”.
@sk999 said: The following is my best reference to the earliest report of an “air turnback”:
This BBC story is dated March 9, and includes the following: Air force chief Rodzali Daud said the investigation was now focusing on a recording of radar signals that showed there was a “possibility” the aircraft had turned back from its flight path.
About half-way down the page, Rodzali’s full statement can be heard in the video.
Here is a more complete version of the press conference, including more questions from reporters about the turnback.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKRkm11RyD0
You stated “I’m not trying to give you advice, your shortcomings are blatantly obvious.”
I agree with you, I have many shortcomings, failings and weaknesses. In fact, quite human and almost normal.
@Mick
Also one of the articles above is talking about a lot of radar assets near IGARI that we nener talk about, including Malaysian radar ships monitoring the shipping lanes, Singapore etc.
There is a very interesting exchange starting at 22:11 of this news conference on March 12. The Chief of Army, General Zulkifeli Mohd Zin, explains his version of the radar saga. (He is clearly distressed.) He is emphatic that MH370 was not tracked in real time. A reporter asks a question about whether Malaysia will release all radar data. Hishammuddin states that “If FAA and NTSB can confirm that this flight from the raw data from the military is the flight that we are concerned, tomorrow I will release it [all the radar data]”. Then at 28:40, a reporter asks a question about why there was no intercept of the unidentified radar target. The reply, this time from Air Force Chief Rodzali Daud, is that the radar operator classified the target as a non-hostile civil aircraft, so there was no response.
So, in the same news conference we have from two different generals that MH370 was NOT tracked in real time, and later that it WAS classified in real time as non-hostile and therefore was not intercepted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWh2MGgq6Ak
Victor Iannello said : There is a very interesting exchange starting at 22:11 of this news conference on March 12.
From France, the link you gave (youtube HKRkm11RyD0) connects to a 14min57sec long video. Are you sure of the link?
Well done for researching out this evidence.
The Malaysians could not keep their fabrications aligned, even at the highest level!
@Pax Lambda: Thanks. The link should be correct now.
In combination with the SIR report, it seems to me they are saying that MY *human eyes* did not see MH370 in real time.
However, their radar system did see and record MH370 and, if I understand the SIR, their radar system somehow knew the aircraft was coded as MH370 (commercial) even after the turnback.
That would seem to imply either (1) their radar computer system is smart enough to fill the 10-minute KB radar data gap at IGARI and still know it was MH370, or (2) if @Mick is wrong about no military radar, maybe there was MY military radar data that their computer system used to connect the dots and keep the radar blip ID’ed as MH370 (commercial flight – no concern).
The implication to me is MH370 probably got totally away before they knew it. I had thought maybe by 18:22 they were looking for MH370 in real time around VAMPI.
PS- Another implication is the pilot perhaps knew how to outsmart the MY radar logic system and keep the flight ID’ed as commercial
@TBill: If the military radar picked up the turnback after IGARI as claimed, there would be no reason to doubt the target crossing the Malay peninsula was MH370. I suspect what they call the military data is the primary civilian data supplied to the military. The confusion about whether the unidentified targets were MH370 might stem from the uncertainty in associating the final SSR target near IGARI with the first PSR target as it approached Kota Bharu.
…but the unanswered question is- why was the incoming target at KB classified as commercial no threat in real time?
SIR seems to say their radar system knew the attributes of MH370 and was able to know it was MH370 coming back at KB. So then you could argue, upon replay, the people had human doubts, even though the system got it right.
@TBill: Why do you think it was classified as non-hostile? Because the military says it was? It is a very obvious lie.
@VictorI, TBill
To add to the confusion:
In the 4 corners interview the minister of defence states that an aircraft was detected in real time, but it was not identified as MH370, see around 6:00 in
So, what to think about the statement in the SIR p.19/20? I have serious doubts. After seeing several press conference / interview videos I get the impression it took time afterwards to realize and confirm they had been looking at MH370.
From the SIR:
“On the day of the disappearance of MH370, the Military radar system recognised the ‘blip’ that appeared west after the left turn over IGARI was that of MH370. Even with the loss of SSR data, the Military long range air defence radar with Primary Surveillance Radar (PSR) capabilities affirmed that it was MH370 based on its track behaviour, characteristics and constant continuous track pattern/trend. Therefore, the Military did not pursue to intercept the aircraft since it was ‘friendly’ and did not pose any threat to national airspace security, integrity and sovereignty.”
I agree with you. I am convinced that there was no real time military radar available. The military looked at recordings of the civilian primary surveillance radar.
Civilian radar operators looking at the real time civilian primary surveillance radar concluded the target was MH370, that was flying back over Malaysia and out over the Malacca Straits. As they were convinced that is was MH370, they did not consider the aircraft hostile. This was the wrong conclusion in light of 9/11. A commercial airliner that was flying back toward Malaysia, without any distress signals, should raise an alarm. There is always a possibility of a hijack taking place and that a 9/11 style terrorist act could happen.
As it turns out, there was no 9/11 style terrorist act, but it would still have been helpful if jets were scrambled to intercept MH370, as we would know more about the direction, speed, altitude, final turn south, pilots in the cockpit, etc.
Perhaps there were no jets available to be scrambled, just as there was no military radar.
Western Hill (military) radar at 5.424622°N 100.250972°E is 243.521 nm from the last radar point at 18:22:12 UTC at 6.5776°N 96.3408°E and still within the nominal range of 250 nm (the range will be further due to the altitude of the radar station at 814 m above sea level).
Butterworth (civilian PSR co-mounted with civilian SSR) radar at 5.472106°N 100.394621°E is 250.972 nm from the last radar point and at a nominal range of 250 nm, just disappearing out of range.
I conclude that it was the civilian PSR at Butterworth that captured MH370 at 18:22:12 UTC and not the Western Hill military radar.
I also conclude that there were no military aircraft on standby at 02:22:12 MYT to be scrambled if required.
The Malaysian authorities are just smoke and mirrors.
@Niels: Even if the military identified MH370 in real time (which General Zulkifeli was adamant that they did not), the claim that they did not send an intercept because they “knew” it was friendly is just plain silly, to put it mildly. At the minimum, they are hiding the inadequacy of their defense systems.
The 4 Corners is very unlcear, except I like when Hish says you’ll get the same talking points from PM Razak (of course we will).
So you two are saying SIR above is false info. I am saying that explains why the system kept track of MH370. I would suggest the pilot perhaps knew how to accomplish that behavior.
To me the SIR is possibly correct, and that means I think the statement about not knowing the blip was MH370 was a little white lie that was agreed to in advance. The purpose of that white lie could be to cover-up something or possibly to defray criticism for SCS search and account for why they kept the turn-back secret.
Or alternately, for some reason, upon playback, they did not agree with the software that told them it was MH370 coming back in. Seems unlikely though obviously it was MH370.
From the SIR (SLIGHTLY MODIFIED):
“On the day of the disappearance of MH370, the KOTA BHARU CIVILIAN PSR radar system recognised the ‘blip’ that appeared west after the left turn over IGARI was that of MH370. Even with the loss of SSR data, the KOTA BHARU CIVILIAN PSR long range air defence radar with Primary Surveillance Radar (PSR) capabilities affirmed that it was MH370 based on its track behaviour, characteristics and constant continuous track pattern/trend. Therefore, the Military did not pursue to intercept the aircraft since it was ‘friendly’ and did not pose any threat to national airspace security, integrity and sovereignty AND HAVING IGNORED EVENTS LIKE 9/11 AND AS NO ASSETS WERE AVAILABLE ON STANDBY”.
@Richard Godfrey: I don’t think the Butterworth PSR has range to reach past MEKAR, as it is approach radar for the airport.
I also note that the Malaysia is reluctant to release the military radar data before “calibrating” it with all the other radar sources. What the hell does that mean?
If the radar capture 10 nm beyond waypoint MEKAR is not from Butterworth, where do you think the radar source was?
General Rodzali Daud’s famous denial that he never said that it was Butterworth that captured MH370 flight back over Malaysia and out into the Malacca Strait, makes it all the more believable that it was Butterworth.
Butterworth is an Air Force Base and not a civilian airport. Could it not be that the radar is not a typical approach radar.
@Richard Godfrey: According to this DCA document: A 50 NM Terminal Approach Radar with co-mounted 250 NM conventional SSR located one each at Butterworth, Labuan and Kuantan Air Forces Bases
I don’t know about the 18:22 data point. It could be from Western Hill, as most believe. It could be from Thai radar. It could be a “mobile radar asset”, be it airborne or on the sea surface. Or it could be fabricated. I’m open to all possibilities.
@VictorI, Richard Godfrey
“the claim that they did not send an intercept because they “knew” it was friendly is just plain silly, to put it mildly”
It is clear this is a sensitive point. When pressed on this point in the four corners interview, the conversation takes strange turns with the minister starting to talk about “shoot down”, see 7:40 – 9:30 in:
It is possible that there were no assets available on stand-by and they don’t like to admit. Remember also that RMAF Butterworth is “home to the Headquarters Integrated Area Defence System (HQIADS), part of the Five Power Defence Arrangements for Malaysia and Singapore, which is commanded by an Australian Air Vice Marshal.” (Wikipedia). So the embarrassment could be significant.
I tried to convey what is my impression. There is not much we can prove here, except that there are clear inconsistencies in the different statements from Malaysian side.
@Niels: Yes, most of us remember that interview quite well. It demonstrated how defensive and evasive Hishammuddin was. It might be because the ineptness of Malaysia’s military was on display for the world. It might be more.
To further belabour radar.
The Malaysian’s had 2, and most likely 3, ‘pictures’ available from air surveillance assets on the night of 8th March (local time): A) the DCA civil ATC radar; B) the RMAF operated ATC radar (at WMKB); and the RMAF air defence surveillance network.
Assets included in A) include the radar heads at WMKK, Genting Highlands, and WMKC: a mix of SSR only and combined SSR/PSR systems.
B) is the NEC combined SSR/PSR on the aerodrome at Butterworth serving both Butterworth and Penang International.
C) includes the RAT-31DL on Western Hill and the S-743 Martello at Bukit Puteri. I suspect the Martello did not contribute anything.
Assuming readers are satisfied with the SSR reports until 17:20, I’ll go to the Factual Information part of the 2015 Interim Report and the 2018 SIR that show tracks from plots captured by the terminal area PSRs at Kota Bharu/WMKC and Butterworth/WMKB, groups A and B, above. These PSRs have limited range, stated to be 80NM and 60NM, as the primary function is terminal area control under the transition altitude defined for the area. Both reports depict tracks determined to be 9M-MRO. The Kota Bharu PSR investigation was initiated by DCA at 05:34MYT on 8th during a call with AAT, DCA’s radar tech services provider.
Now C), the ADS network. The RAT-31DL also comprises dual, SSR and PSR, antennas on its head. A MSSR antenna sits above the 3D PSR planar antenna. It has the ability to interrogate using SSR in ‘all available modes’. The manufacturer’s description for the performance of this site states a range compatible with tracking 9M-MRO throughout its path from departure to IGARI (with SSR confirmed identity), the turnback, across the peninsula to Penang Island, and out over the Straits of Malacca. These type of systems include a plot combiner so that SSR and PSR targets can be correlated. I’ve described before how the Sentry C² system, that integrates the ADS network, can also integrate with the civil network to corroborate assigned SSR identity. If the RAT-31DL executes Mode-S all-call interrogations, it receives the 24-bit a/c address, 4 digit ‘squawk’ code, and baro altitude replies: with that information it classes a target as ‘friendly’. After loss of SSR returns the RAT-31DL may continue to associate the PSR plots with the previously identified target. This is the capability Selex and Raytheon describe for their systems. However, following the loss of SSR, the surveillance reverts to PSR and plots are subject PSR’s inherent precision issues.
It is scandalous that Malaysia has never adequately clarified the issue of ‘military radar’. Scandalous that Malaysia, after five days was still in headless chicken mode.
In the press conf clip referenced by VI, above, the Chief of the Armed Forces, General Zulkifeli Mohd Zin, does state the track was determined from a recording. The PC clip was recorded on Weds, March 12th. The previous day, 11th March, the press sectretary to Najib’s Prime Minister’s Office, Datuk Tengku Sariffuddin Tengku Ahmad, strenuously contradicted remarks made by the chief of air force, Rodzali Daud, that the ‘turn-back’ had then extended across the Malaysian Peninsula and over the Str of Malacca (NY Times, Guardian, Malaysian Insider). Sariffuddin’s statement appeared to allow only the turnback as certain, at that time.
You mentioned an image depicting a 270º turn. If it was this image, that was created to support the NoK’s presentation back to Malaysia (my annotation translating the title), I understand that it was not part of any Malaysian material.
You said: “@DrB also tried to prove yesterday that my Drift Analysis was an outlier (or outside the box). Denial of evidence is not thinking out of the box.”
It is unclear to me exactly what you meant. Yes, I said your result was different from most of the drift study results. If you want to call that an outlier, I won’t argue the point. But being an outlier is quite different from thinking out of the box. I don’t consider any of the drift studies, including yours, as thinking out of the box, except possibly Pattiaratchi, because he was the first to do it and he assisted Blaine Gibson in determining where to search for debris. They all use similar methods and the predictions vary. That is to be expected since they don’t all use the same assumptions or the same drifter data. You seem to be saying that I am denying evidence, if that last comment is directed to me instead of Niels. If you do think that of me, please give me an example. I included all the drift studies of which I am aware. That is certainly not a “denial of evidence.”
I am glad you listed the latitude limits for the drift studies. That is helpful in understanding the results. Still, the majority of results to date favor latitudes between 26S-36S. Only 3 of 8 studies indicate a “possibility” north of 25S, whereas 5 of 8 indicate it is more likely to be south of 26S.
You also criticized Grffin’s drift study by saying “2. No ocean trials with genuine flaperon.” That’s not a valid criticism of Griffin. The flaperon is not his to use. Besides, you could say the same thing about all the drift studies, including yours. Why didn’t you use the real flaperon? No French prosecutor in his right mind is going to let the flaperon be used by CSIRO in a long-term sea trial for fear of damaging the evidence.
You further criticized Griffin’s results by saying: “4. Conclusions based on sporadic aerial search, claimed as being comprehensive. 5. Conclusions based on satellite imagery.” On this point we agree. I have only used Griffin’s drift study predictions, unfiltered by the aerial search and satellite data assumptions he made. That gives an apples-to-apples comparison with the other drift studies, which is what I have done.
G’day Don, yes, that is the slide I was refering to. My understanding is that that slide was shown to the NOK on 21 March 2014 at the Lido Hotel in Beijing as part of the official briefing. I think that slide had to be part of the official Malaysian presentation.
@Don Thomspon
Therefore, do you feel the SIR statement below is probably correct?
And if SIR is correct, then that suggests the historic rhetoric from Malaysia that they did not know the blip was MH370 turning back, was not true?
Seems like we all agree Malaysia is talking about what the recordings showed.
I am going to stick my neck out and suggest MH370 made it to MEKAR undetected in real time.
You said: “@DrB: I have no doubt that with a particular set of assumptions, you get a narrow peak in your cost function. That doesn’t mean that other acceptable solutions with different assumptions that don’t exhibit a narrow peak are wrong. It comes down to the correctness of the assumptions. I am much less certain about the uniqueness of your solution than you are.”
I am not certain the 181.2 degree CMT route is the one flown by 9M-MRO, but here are some of the arguments why I think it is the most probable route:
1. The sharpness of the objective fitting function (what you call the cost function) is remarkable. It is only 0.1 degrees wide, whereas for great circles the width is about 5 degrees. Thus the CMT fit is 50X sharper. I spent three weeks adjusting the track angle in very small steps to make sure there was only one peak and that I did not miss it by making steps that were too coarse.
2. There is a distinct connection of this path prior to 19:41 to nearby waypoints and prior procedures. I first fit the route from 19:41 onward. Then I generated a “back track” to earlier times (as far back as 19:00). Then I found the magnetic deviation for that area. It was -1.2 degrees, meaning that the true track approaching 19:41 was 180.0 degrees. That means that the aircraft was flying due true south when the CMT commenced (perhaps using TRK HLD via the MCP circa 19:28). Next, I identified a pair of nearby waypoints that lay on a 180.0 degree true N-S line (AGEGA and BULVA). Now the “back track” path prior to 19:41 did not pass directly over AGEGA-BULVA. It lay to the west by 14.1 NM. In other words, prior to 19:41 the plane would have been flying ~15 NM to the right of AGEGA-BULVA. Sound familiar? That’s the same 15 NM right lateral offset called out by the Malaysia Airlines Contingency Procedure for Lost ATC Clearance and the same 15 NM right offset that fits the 18:25-18:28 satellite data very well. Perhaps the pilot was mimicking the contingency procedures so as to appear like a non-threatening civil flight with technical issues, thereby reducing the chances of a military intercept.
3. The best-fit speed is MRC, and the best-fit altitude is FL336, which are both quite reasonable. Another step in the Contingency Procedure is to change the flight level by 500 feet, and this is also consistent with the best-fit flight level being essentially FL335 (I.e., not an increment of 1,000 feet, but in between the normal flight levels in this area).
Regarding the correctness of my assumptions, I will point out that this route has the minimum number of assumptions among all proposed solutions. That doesn’t prove it is correct, but this has the fewest chances to get an assumption wrong.
RE: “I am going to stick my neck out and suggest MH370 made it to MEKAR undetected in real time.”
I think that’s most likely true and that all the contradictory statements made by Malaysian officials are simply an attempt to cover up the fact they were caught with their pants down that night. How can they expect anyone to believe the military identified the aircraft in real time and “did not pursue to intercept…since it was ‘friendly’ and did not pose any threat to national airspace security, integrity and sovereignty”? If that were true, why did Malaysia persist with searching the South China Sea for days after the event? Did the military ‘forget’ to tell anyone? I think the real story is that the turnback was captured on radar and recorded, but not analysed until some time later.
RE: “It is possible that there were no assets available on stand-by and they don’t like to admit. Remember also that RMAF Butterworth is “home to the Headquarters Integrated Area Defence System (HQIADS)…”
Absolutely. I think it’s extremely unlikely the RMAF had aircraft on alert, especially in the early hours of a Saturday morning. The threat level in the region is low and there would have been no reason for them to have aircraft and crews on 24-hour alert. IADS was set up to coordinate military action in the event the Malay Peninsula ever came under attack, but it is not NATO. They regularly exercise the military forces that make up the FPDA, but they don’t normally have forces on instant readiness.
RE: ”If something like the above could be feasible, you would have a scenario whereby:
Is either scenario conceivable? .”
As I said previously, the short answer is NO. The following is a more detailed explanation.
The engine and APU generators are rated at 120 kVA and produce power at a constant 115 V AC, 400 Hz. To that end, the IDGs are driven at a constant RPM by a constant speed drive (CSD) over a wide range of engine RPM. However, the CSD can’t drive the generator at constant RPM once the engine RPM drops below about 50% N3, so the generator control unit (GCU) trips the generator off-line. Essentially, the generator output is either 115V AC 400 Hz, or nothing; there is no gradual decrease in output as the engine RPM decreases. The APU generator is similar, except that it is driven at a constant speed by the constant RPM of the running APU.
Two operating generators provide more than enough power to operate all the aircraft’s electrical loads; however, a single generator cannot do so. If the total load exceeds the available power, ELMS automatically sheds specified loads in sequence until the total load is within the capacity of the operating generator. The following loads are shed in sequence:
– Galley loads
– Utility buses
– Equipment cooling vent fan
– Galley chillers
– Recirculation fans
– Lavatory/galley fans
– Electronic seat equipment (ie IFE)
– Hydraulic pumps.
In the alternative electrical configuration scenario, only the right IDG was operating before the right engine flamed out. Consequently, ELMS would have shed some or all of the above loads until the total load was within the capacity of the operating generator. Upon engine flameout, that generator would have continued to produce power for about 7-9 seconds. The GCU would then have tripped the generator off-line as the engine RPM continued to decrease. At that point, the voltage on the AC buses, including the transfer buses (assuming the left backup generator was selected OFF), would have dropped to zero. ELMS would have automatically sent a start signal to the APU and, after 15 seconds, automatically sent a deploy signal to the RAT.
The loss of power to both AC transfer buses would have caused the loss of a number of systems and sensors that are required for the operation of the PFCS in normal mode. Consequently, the PFCS would have automatically reverted to secondary mode, resulting in the loss of the AP and TAC, etc. In the past it was thought that the mode reversion was caused by the loss of pitot heat. However, recent advice indicates the reversion is caused by the loss of other sensors required by the PFCS. The loss of pitot heat would only cause a mode reversion if the system detected invalid air data.
@DrB: You are obviously placing a lot of weight on the sharpness of the objective function as a criterion for testing assumptions and prioritizing routes. In the end, the validity of a path is only as good as the underlying assumptions, even if the objective function is sharp, and even if the number of assumptions is less than for other scenarios.
Independent of the sharpness of the objective function, we have no reason to doubt the final BFOs, and we have no reason to doubt the end-of-flight dynamics from the Boeing simulations, although we cannot be absolutely certain that either is correct. Assuming both are correct (which I think is our best estimate), your scenario requires a pilot to select track hold for a long distance trajectory, not provide inputs for hours, run out of fuel, enter in a steep descent, then glide a long distance. I question the realism of those assumptions.
I won’t try to persuade you that your assumptions are incorrect, but I am much less persuaded than you are that your solution is more likely than others.
In your last post the term “best fit” is used frequently. I have long ago (from the get-go actually) rejected the notion of “best fit” being a valid route discriminator. The intrinsic uncertainty associated with the ISAT data (BFO) does not support the use of “best fit”.
I think attaching more weight to the softer issues of motive, intent, human factors,… is a better approach at this time. The pure analytics have simply run out of gas. Nobody is taking them seriously anymore.
At this moment I am inclined to support Victor’s path toward a Cocos landing.
So I think the real story may be that ZS knew he could turn off the transponder at IGARI and make a sharp U-turn, and by-pass the military alert system right under their eyes. Total inside job. Next morning business as usual in the air, but Malaysia is having a 9/11 crisis…what’s going to happen next? More AWOL planes? Negotiations? Razak keeps a lid on it, and it turns out working in his favor to have a great mystery instead of what really happened.
PS- The reason it is such a mystery, ZS was thinking everyone would know he was the only one who could do that deed, and why (Anwar trial outcome). Crazily, Razak did not blame ZS so everyone is mystified who done it and why.
The radar data has never held any interest for me. The path from IGARI to the 18:25 range ring is very deterministic. Who cares about details of the turn West? I did get involved with the Kota Bharu radar discussions just for fun (and it turned out not to be fun), but not because I thought they would produce anything of value relative to a terminus.
At this time, I think we all need to take a step back and contemplate the “why” of this event.
“The pure analytics have simply run out of gas. Nobody is taking them seriously anymore.”
Refreshing thinking Dennis, and long overdue, in my view.
May I now respectfully suggest, that we discard the Malacca Strait straitjacket / blinkers, and instead, take the deterministic performance limited 18:25 arc segment, from it’s most northern possible limit, to it’s most southern possible limit, and then apply the softer issues of motive, intent, human factors, and plausible “why’s” ?
I won’t push my route / reasons again, I will just sit quietly on the sidelines, and wait and see what transpires.
ST says:
@Victor – Thank you for all the detailed analysis on this blog. Just wanted to point out that the blog is showing as being “Not secure”. I don’t recall this being the case before. Maybe some server permissions or patches are causing this issue. Wanted to make sure you are aware.
Shadynuk says:
@DennisW said: “At this time, I think we all need to take a step back and contemplate the “why” of this event.”
Yes. ’bout time! And frankly I don’t see that Shaw had much reason to do this. I do see that the Uyghurs had plenty of reasons to do this and the Chinese had plenty of reasons to stop them.
@ST
Concerning ‘not secure’. That’s a warning generated by your browser that a website is hosted by an HTTP server that does not use SSL encryption.
@TBill wrote “I am going to stick my neck out and suggest MH370 made it to MEKAR undetected in real time.”
I won’t argue with that. I’ve attempted to explain how the air defence surveillance system identifies a target, how it can combine PSR & SSR to track the target. It’s quite possible that 9M-MRO never reverted from a ‘friendly’ categorisation to ‘suspect’ in the ADS system after -MRO’s transponder ceased. There should be no doubt that an aircraft departing WMKK, under ATC supervision, with an ATC assigned ident code will be categorised as ‘friendly’ in the ADS system.
DCA’s ATCC staff didn’t track MRO after 17:21 when -MRO’s transponder ceased, at that time no DCA PSRs had coverage. ATCC called upon the services of AAT at 0535MYT on Saturday 8th to recover their systems’ recordings. Analysis of PSR data from WMKC produced the two tracks either side of WMKC.
It remains astounding that, apparently, the military continued to struggle with the task of discriminating -MROs path even on Wednesday, day 5, as shown in Awani clip referred above. It’s a straightforward task: remove the ‘dots’ for all the targets for which an ID was determined by SSR interrogation.
Both functions in the military, ATC (operating at WMKB) and ADS, tracked -MRO & eventually produced data. Our request still stands, for that data to be put on the table.
Mick: I’m quite certain that image was not part of the Malaysian material presented on 21st Mar. I have a trail (somewhere!) with a record of the date.
It would be nice to see the whole radar clip or images of all PSR detections/hits for the SOM track especially from Vampi onwards to determine how they picked out 02:2212, for the public to be fully convinced it wasn’t fabricated, misjudged or genially mistaken for something else in that recording period.
As someone who hasn’t gone down the nefarious pilot route, I favour an alternative power setup where the L BU gen hasn’t been switched off but is powering the R transfer bus. Therefore, the autopilot, RAT and primary flight controls only drop out on the left eng failure.
I thought, the general consensus was before this thread started that loss of control was after the second(left) engine failure. Why has it changed to loss of control after the first eng fail?
G’day Don, here’s an article dated 22 March 2014 from the UK Mirror featuring that slide;
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-malaysia-airlines-flight–3272635
@Mick Gilbert, @Don Thompson: On March 16, 2014, Chinese media published an interview with a Malaysian air force officer in which he disclosed that MH370 passed IGARI and turned back, flying low to avoid radar detector. the turn after IGARI was a clockwise loop. A video was produced by the Chinese to illustrate this path. (The link I have for the video no longer works.)
Interview: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.soulu365.com%2Fa%2Fnews%2F32582.html
Video: http://www.zhuatieba.com/video/XNjg1ODM0ODUy
On March 22, 2014, Malaysian officials brief the next-of-kin (NOK) at the Lido Hotel in Beijing, but leave the room without taking any questions. After the Malaysian officials leave, the NOK continue with questions, and project a slide showing the path of MH370 with the clockwise loop shown in the Chinese video. This enrages the NOK as there are discrepancies in time and path from the radar data shown to the NOK the previous day (March 21). I documented this on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/radiantphysics/status/648202471425376256
Thank you for the links and provenance of that slide, Victor.
Tim asked: Why has it changed to loss of control after the first eng fail?
The Boeing simulations with the alternate electrical configuration are more consistent with the descent rates as derived from the final BFO values.
@Victor, thank you for the detail.
@Mick, further citation via an India Today article which provided the following caption to the “question of time” image, “A screen shows the questions from family members of passengers onboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 after a routine briefing given by Malaysia’s government and military representatives at Lido Hotel in Beijing March 22, 2014.”
Other reports for 22nd March described that the family group became aggresive towards the briefing team & the delegation left with the protection of the security guards. The Malaysian team, normally sat at the ‘top table’, under the screen, is absent in both the Mail and India Today images. The Mail’s image shows the audience on their feet, turned to the press at the rear of the room (it’s a large room).
@Mick Gilbert, @Don Thompson: It has never been explained why the turn near IGARI was described by the “Malaysian Air Force officer” as clockwise. The article also says eyewitness reports peg the flying at low altitude near Kota Bharu. In fact, much of what was reportedly said by the Malaysian Air Force offer is not consistent with our current understanding of the facts.
Try as we may, we will never sort this out with the raw military radar data.
@ST: Yes, I am aware of the “unsecure” label. More browsers are showing this for sites that are “http” instead of “https”. I have not yet migrated the site to an https server. Perhaps at some point I will.
@ventus45 said: May I now respectfully suggest, that we discard the Malacca Strait straitjacket / blinkers, and instead, take the deterministic performance limited 18:25 arc segment, from it’s most northern possible limit, to it’s most southern possible limit, and then apply the softer issues of motive, intent, human factors, and plausible “why’s” ?
Do you also suggest we ignore the BFOs at 18:28?
@TimR has been me writing to me since 2014 with a rumor out of Malaysia that we have not been able to substantiate. In summary, he believes that:
– In the days after the disappearance, a politically-connected individual relayed to him what was planned for MH370.
– The objective was to embarrass the Prime Minister into agreeing to call new elections.
– There was to only be communication from the ground to the aircraft, and no communication from the Captain to the ground.
– Once landed and passengers released communication, was to resume.
– As it turned out, there was apparently no communication during the flight due to the break down of the negotiations in Malaysia.
– The ground team was unaware of the final outcome of the flight.
– The plan was for the Captain to fly MH370 over the Malacca Strait, out of Malaysian radar contact into the Andaman Sea, then listen out for confirmation the demands had been agreed to.
– The plane would then proceed to Banda Aceh and land to allow the passengers to be repatriated.
– In the event confirmation was not received early on the intention was to continue at a steady loiter around off the coast of Indonesia to suitable island landing sites while the negotiations continued.
– Possible landing sites included Cocos Islands and Christmas Island.
– There was no suggestion of suicide in the plan which was put in place weeks before the disappearance.
As @TimR continues to contribute here, perhaps we can engage him in more discussions on this scenario.
However we slice it- low altitude to hide from radar, or high altitude to purposely paint a contiguous domestic flight path to avoid human eyes detection, the implication is an expert flown path that apparently managed a great escape over Malaysia without ever alerting the military.
The question becomes what were Malaysia’s criteria in their radar computers to signal an intruder alert? Whatever it was, it appears the pilot knew how to avoid those “intruder” flight characteristics.
The FIR gives us clues about some of Malaysia’s criteria, and they are weak:
(1) A flight is allowed to turn off transponder and still be considered “non-hostile”; (2) A flight is allowed to deviate from planned flight path, as long as there is a contiguous flight path inside Malaysia it is considered “safe”. One wonders if there are some areas like Kuala Lumpur Twin Towers where there could be more rigorous radar rules to detect intruders.
Re: @TimR hypothesis
As you know, further above I posted on-line “chatter” from “Razmatazz” confirming a somewhat similar story to the @TimR story.
I accept the @TimR hypothesis as one possibility. Razak handled it so well, ignoring ZS-connection in the follow-up days backfired on ZS the attempted scheme. The world was much happier inventing a million-and-one alterbate theories.
@TBill: It’s hard to put any weight on the “chatter” from Razmatazz.
What I’m trying to say is; it is possible to have an alternate electrical configuration (but with L BU GEN still powering R Transfer) that allows flight onto second eng failure. This still should produce the high rate of descent observed.
@Tim: If the left backup generator is on, there is no loss of A/P and no autostart of the APU until the left engine flames out. The Boeing simulations say that does not produce high descent rates anywhere close to two minutes after the autostart of the APU.
I am sure you can correct my understanding of the ACARS Logs.
The ACARS message requesting urgent contact sent at 18:03:23 UTC to the 9M-MRO Cockpit Printer resulted in a response that it had failed because the “up intercept aircraft not logged on”.
In the Inmarsat Log we see a transmission of user data starting at 18:03:41.405 UTC and ending at 18:05:59.905 UTC with five requests for acknowledge of the user data. There was no record of any response.
We are told that the ACARS message was then retransmitted at 18:08:09 UTC and every 2 minutes until 18:43:33 UTC. Each of these 20 attempts resulted in a response that the message had failed.
In the ACARS Log in the Malaysian Factual Information and the Safety Report only the first 6 messages are recorded.
Why were the other 14 messages not included?
In the Inmarsat Log we see no further transmission of user data that aligns with the second message attempt reported in the ACARS Log at 18:08:09 UTC or any other attempt up until 18:43:33 UTC.
Was the ACARS messaging switched to VHF after 18:03:23 UTC and prior to 18:08:09 UTC?
The ACARS Log in the Malaysian Factual Information was filtered on:
1. Aircraft Registration = MRO.
2. Source/destination = QXSXMXS.
3. Timeframe = 7th March 2014 12:48:00 UTC to 7th March 2014 20:00:00 UTC
Based on this filter, 37 ACARS messages are shown.
We do not see any messages prior to 15:54:41 UTC, although there was a successful Logon to POR at 12:50:19.735 UTC, whilst 9M-MRO was at MAS Engineering. We do not see any message after 18:15:25 UTC, although the urgent contact message was retransmitted until 18:43:33 UTC.
The ACARS Log in the Malaysian Factual Information has been truncated and is incomplete.
The ACARS Log in the Malaysian Safety Report Page 1 was filtered on:
1. Aircraft Registration = 9M-MRO.
Based on this filter, 5 ACARS messages are shown.
We see 3 ACARS messages via VHF between 15:54:31 UTC and 15:54:36 UTC via BKKXCXA. We see 2 ACARS messages via SATCOM between 15:54:41 UTC and 15:54:53 UTC via QXSXMXS. We see no more messages after 15:54:53 UTC until 18:15:59 UTC despite the filter setting.
The ACARS Log in the Malaysian Safety Report Page 1 has been truncated and is incomplete.
The ACARS Log in the Malaysian Safety Report Page 2 onwards was filtered on:
We see 2 ACARS messages via SATCOM between 15:54:41 UTC and 15:54:53 UTC via QXSXMXS repeated from Page 1. We do not see any message after 18:15:25 UTC, although the urgent contact message was retransmitted until 18:43:33 UTC.
The ACARS Log in the Malaysian Safety Report Page 2 onwards has been truncated and is incomplete.
What are the Malaysians trying to hide by presenting an incomplete record of the ACARS Log in both official reports (Factual Information and Safety Report)?
Was the end time of the timeframe filter changed from 20:00:00 UTC in the Malaysian Factual Information down to 18:15:59 UTC in the Malaysian Safety Report as an attempted cover up?
Upshot of that, if true, is that MH370 is not over yet. Probably everyone in power on both sides would know about this and there is a day of reckoning ahead.
Although this is entirely speculative, we have some interesting developments to follow and to better understand:
1) Claims from @TimR that the aircraft was to be contacted from the ground with the status of ongoing negotiations.
2) Truncated ACARS logs that might be missing ACARS messages submitted between 18:15 and 18:43 by MAS operations for the VHF link.
I am happy to accept @TimR hypothesis, but there are some weaknesses, like how could it possibly be kept secret all this time? And some other weak points.
We should be inclusive of possibility that Z was on a secret protest mission. In either case Z made a great escape without detection, snookering the air defenses, and Malaysia hid the facts of what they thought happened and is still hiding the facts and their thoughts.
@Richard & Victor,
I will respond presently, too much today already.
@TBill: If the intention of the planned diversion was to draw attention to a corrupt administration without hurting anybody, and then that plan caused the disappearance of 239 people, neither side would want to put the details in the public domain. The (then) opposition responsible for the diversion might want to quietly make it known what was planned so that perhaps that knowledge might be used by the search effort to find the aircraft. Perhaps the leak to @TimR was part of that effort, but the leak was ignored because it was considered to be an unsubstantiated rumor, of which there have been many that have proven to be false.
@DennisW,
In term of finding a direct solution from the satellite data, I would agree that we have already extracted as much useful information as we are going to get. That process has produced several solutions, each of which fails in some way or the other to provide a complete match to our our current understanding of the data (satellite data and Boeing end-of-flight simulations).
Recently, there have been several attempts to add maneuvers after 19:41 in order to generate impact points north of the currently searched zone (while also matching the satellite data). They are also assumed to match the Boeing descent predictions. However, that is a big unknown at present. One of these late-maneuver routes could be correct, but the only way to find out is to search there. The cause of the failure of the current search is currently unknown – did the aircraft impact farther from the arc or is it farther north?
The “analytics”, as you call it, still serve a very useful purpose in eliminating newly proposed routes that are inconsistent with the satellite data.
Interestingly, the drift studies have not allowed the latitude range on the 7th arc to be restricted compared with the predictions based only on the satellite data. In my opinion, we would be in basically the same situation today if there were no drift studies at all.
I did not intend to sound or imply a lack of appreciation for your work. It is consistently very good. I am simply burned out analytically.
@Victor @TBill
There were reports that Z had political concerns but did not show signs of depression or other indicators of suicide. This would align with a theory of well executed diversion to beyond MEKAR and holding to await some resolution, where the fallback was to dispose of the AC. It could equally have been a Z plan to just lose the AC.
In the recently discussed hijack and negotiate plan, this was said to require some circling about in vicinity of Christmas Island (for example) and this would directly impact arc to arc crossing times. This is not dissimilar to Z performing a number of wide 360 turns for the purpose of decoupling max range and max endurance calculations for a pure disposal plan.
In either scenario the effect of holding or clearing turns is a huge change from the ATSB/DTSG particle filter models. This clearly moves arc 7 crossing to the north – maybe above 25S.
It would have been interesting if DTSG performed some PF simulations that inserted some random 360 turns at a reasonable holding latitude. Clearly the longer Z would hold waiting a decision, this would significantly impact all arc crossings. But they only assume Ghost flights.
Thanks Victor for the clarification.
So we are now assuming the autopilot/Primary flight controls drop out on the first engine(right) failure. But if this is the case, then surely, if the left engine is still running then there will be an overwhelming roll to the right, not to the left.
I should have mentioned that my threshold for “consistency with the satellite data” is less stringent than yours, but we (you, Mike, me,…) have a long history of discussions on that topic. Victor’s Cocos path is an LNAV path with a runway track adjustment at the end. In my view it is acceptably consistent with the satellite data.
@Hank said: But they only assume Ghost flights.
Actually, in the DSTG study, they allowed maneuvers, with prior distributions for the number of maneuvers and the time spacing between maneuvers. In my discussions with the DSTG, I suggested that they expand the types of maneuvers (which were restricted to changes in altitude, direction, and speed) to include a structured “hold” maneuver which would essentially hold the plane in place for a given amount of time (again determined by a prior distribution). They seemed receptive, but I don’t think that was ever carried out. One of the problems is the posterior distribution becomes wide with no discernable peak. That means a broad range of solutions (including ones terminating further north) become acceptable. So this kind of analysis may provide justification for a search further north, but little else.
All the searches were based on the particle filter simulations conducted by DTSG as documented in their book. While this uses the BTO and BFO data, the model is highly dependent on the random flight profiles generated to feed the filter. The designed the simulation to favor creation of long straight airline flights and validated it against other successful flights. The results are only as good as the assumptions. For the specific assumptions – which are for a ghost flight – the likely flameout at arc 7 is at 38S latititude with decreasing probability to north and south along the arc.
If DTSG had required every flight to include one or more large 360 degree turns, this would have moved arc 7 crossing to the north. But the scenario of a live pilot performing intentional holding turns was never considered.
While a live pilot that knew about BTO/BFO and the concept of the arcs could enter a best range glide after flameout to increase the uncertainty, there is no indication Z knew about the arc capability. So after flameout he would plan the final decent to minimize debris on the surface. I don’t know how that is best done in rough sea state – but a rapid descent to just above the water, hold off for a bit, and then do a 360 back loop to enter vertically at stall speed might be best????
The Boeing simulations are unpiloted spiral dives – classic out of control demise. But a piloted ending could use the same spiral to get down quick and the pilot art would be setting up the airspeed and attitude for water entry.
The SEA Q400 ramp worker did some very impressive maneuvers. Z could have practiced many terminal maneuvers on his simulator.
Victor suggested a ditching and sinking. Ditching without power in the ocean usually is very difficult. If he could enter vertical at 100 knots, maybe the aircraft would stay together until the tail cleared the surface. Usually a pilot is trying to land on the water and not dive deep under it.
I reviewed their book in detail and particularly the modelling for the flight profiles. They were using a very simple model for turn magnitude and turn frequency which was heavily biased by the filter toward small turns. This model is OK for simulating direct airline flights and that is how they validated it. If they wanted to include a single 30 minute 360 turn they would have had to allow for it (and could have) and set probable location. Doing this would have created a very different probability map. The Mach and altitude modeling did not concern me because Z would most likely have left these alone.
They also assumed infinite fuel with the idea of post simulation correction of the results. Bad. They do not seem to recognize that the duration and the route are decoupled. They ignored the separate problem of the time for arc 7 fuel exhaustion is a different problem than the location for crossing arc 7. Maybe the PF could not handle two different objectives so they ignored fuel burn. The book discussion of maneuvers and dynamics showed a very amateur discussion of aircraft flight dynamics and little understanding of the difference between range and duration models.
While the stochastic modeling by DSTG in the PF may have been world class, the aircraft dynamics were simplistic. The result is for the best straight airline flights to the SIO.
If they inserted piloted intentional holding patterns at random times and duration the heat maps would be different. They could not mix these because these would represent different scenarios.
So everything that has been done has been for long straight airline flights to the SIO.
For the scenario that you raised o holding while negotiations were conducted was never considered. If DSTG used their existing model and just required one 30 minute duration 360 turn at the latitude of Christmas Island, a very different heat map would result.
They could run for different numbers and duration of 360.
The heat map would be different for each assumption of location, size, and number of 360 turns.
I’d love to see a PF simulation with just one planned 360.
Your suggestion to DSTG was good. You wrote – “One of the problems is the posterior distribution becomes wide with no discernable peak. That means a broad range of solutions (including ones terminating further north) become acceptable.”
By ignoring a live pilot – maybe under pressure from Malaysia – DSTG only analyzed routine airline flights. You are exactly right that each holding loop moves the arc 7 crossing north.
They could have looked at other scenarios for what a live pilot might do and they had no reason to not consider that a pilot was active until water entry.
And they spend 200 million on a search. The sole justification was the the wonderful particle filter made a nice heat map. You would get a nice heat map somewhere else along arc 7 if you planned one 30 minute hold.
It seems stupid to spend the search time on a simplistic assumption and to not have run more assumed scenarios. Someone really didn’t want this airplane found. I don’t know if this is nefarious or just inept.
@Hank said: Victor suggested a ditching and sinking.
No, that wasn’t me. I believe the debris shows evidence of a high speed impact.
By ignoring a live pilot – maybe under pressure from Malaysia – DSTG only analyzed routine airline flights.
Yes, this was a fundamental error. The flight of MH370 might have looked nothing like the airline flights they used to calibrate their model.
Another assumption was that the aircraft was level at 18:40, which constrained the track to be southerly at this time.
May you could get DSTG to modify the model to include a planned holding pattern as the AC crosses the latitude of the Cocos islands. Use a 30 minute 360 turn to the left. Then have them run another simulation for two loops at the same location. Each of these Monte Carlo runs would generate its own heat map. This would be a rough analysis of a hijack and negotiate scenario – a 30 minute orbit and a 60 minute orbit. Each planned orbit would move the heat map more north. It would be interesting to see how these maps with some holding would correlate with the drift models.
@Andrew. “In the past it was thought that the mode reversion was caused by the loss of pitot heat. However, recent advice indicates the reversion is caused by the loss of other sensors required by the PFCS.”
That’s new and sounds more sensible. Are the transfer buses the source of power for the “other sensors” or are the main buses? Any more on which they are?
@ Victor – Thank you for the inputs. I tested some other sites as well and this seems to be like you mention how browsers are reporting different sites these days.
@Hank: I already proposed to the DSTG that they include a holding pattern as a maneuver. I don’t control their activities, nor set their priorities.
On the other hand, if you feel that a particular case is worthy of further examination, you should examine it.
Like Metron, DSTG is coin operated. You don’t get unfunded freebies. Likewise the absence of university or corporate people providing inputs is largely throttled by their legal departments. Only folks who are truly independent investigators can contribute.
@DenisW. @Victor
Far too complex to create the particle filter from scratch for me. It uses the BTO and BFO data to assign conditional probabilities to each of the randomly generated flight profiles. It would be relatively easy for DTSG to add the ability to the path generator to perform a hold. The hold has a much larger impact on the arc 7 then just the time delay between two adjacent arcs. It could swing the probable downstream routes.
But I expect that there is no incentive for DSTG to do free work to show the entire basis for their search area maps used an overly simplistic maneuver model on which over $200 million was spent.
I’ll have to think about whether I can pick a location on arc 7 (such as 23S) and use a constant Mach and altitude and only adjust a time delay for one or more holding circles to match all of the crossing times. It may be that a single time delay between two arcs could allow many crossings of arc 7 above 25S?
I’ll think about a very crude proof of concept simulation.
Trip says:
@ Dennis
This flight only has a mathematical resolution if the crew and passengers were unconscious (Newtonian). If the plane was being actively piloted we need to begin with motive. A suicide motive leads us to a race to the southern Indian Ocean as one possibility. What levels of confidence do we have in each data set? We know with a high level of certainty that the plane made it to the transponder shut down. I assume the military and commercial radar back each other up to the fmt. The Inmarsat data has no other back up. It came back on with no flight identifier and it is the easiest data to manipulate. If we ignore the satellite and looked more at range and motive what does that leave?
We have to look to the actors on board. First is the crew. The pilot and co-pilot didn’t appear to know one another so one of them would have to be acting alone. This complicates matters for the other pilot. The 3 Ukrainians are serious guys and capable of handling oxygen deprivation (experienced diver). They would not go down without a fight. I have taken flights from China to Malaysia several times and there is no quiet time with lights out. The stewardesses would have been in the aisles hawking duty free goods. Everyone would have been trying to get on their internet. Many of the passengers would not have turned off their calling/texting. Chinese do not follow rules well and the passengers would have been up opening overhead bins. I have seen passengers get up from their seat on final approach and open bins. The sudden turn would have included a warning from the flight deck saying they have encountered mechanical electrical issues and will be trying to resolve. This message would come from the flight deck from whoever was flying the plane. The only way to hijack the flight for 6 hours would be to kill all the passengers. Otherwise you would definitely have an angry mob outside the cockpit. Inflight real time falsifying Inmarsat data seems reasonable. The Ukrainians would have to overcome the flight crew. I think they’re much more capable of that than the flight crew would be.
Which brings us to motive
For the flight crew we have suicide although I can’t believe that the other crew members couldn’t come up with something to regain control.
Flight crew also has political motives.
Ukrainians would be trying to neutralize an asset. What a great way for them to call attention to US military than to attack Diego Garcia knowing that the US would not shoot down a commercial jet liner. And doing it before the start of a war game would leave a strong message.
In that scenario the US shoots down the plane and then falsifies the Inmarsat data. The US wants this to go away as much as the Malaysians do. The US radar on Diego Garcia would have been tracking an incoming plane. When there was no response they had no choice but to shoot it down.
I think the Ukrainians would definitely be able to kill all on board. As a matter of act the US may have shot it down after it became apparent that all of the passengers had been killed.
I think Diego Garcia is a reasonable target. Excuse the wildly unfounded speculation but what we’ve tried so far hasn’t really worked.
RE: ‘Are the transfer buses the source of power for the “other sensors” or are the main buses? Any more on which they are?’
I don’t have a comprehensive list, but my understanding is that they are mostly position sensors associated with actuators controlled by the L2 ACE. The L2 ACE is only powered by the L 28V DC bus, which is normally supplied by the L AC transfer bus (via the L TRU).
@Andrew. Thank you.
@Nederland, Victor. Here is the new appraisal of the French DGA’s right flaperon separation hypothesis, of the evidence in its report and of alternative theories. It replaces that of 5th August.
It is more comprehensive and incorporates various changes plus rethinks. It attributes the most likely cause of the separation to overstress causing a wing break in an unmanned high speed spiral.
While hardly seminal it does bolster the case that there was no ditching. Also, it may prove a useful reference for others later, so I will correct and amend it as necessary.
The Boeing simulations might include descents within and outside the flight envelope and simulator data base which overstress the aircraft though I have supposed they will have looked at that possibility.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kqgi5tjcnjzc25e/Flaperon%20Separation%2C%20MH370.docx?dl=0
@Trip said: Excuse the wildly unfounded speculation but what we’ve tried so far hasn’t really worked.
Now is not the time to throw out all the data and latch on to theories that are not supported by any facts. Rather, now is the time to build upon what we know based on the available evidence, including the most recently failed search, and possibly supplement that with plausible theories that include human factors.
Layperson says:
Fascinated observer here (hence the name), I normally avoid commenting.
However, TimR’s postings about a rumoured plan to land on an island reminded me of this from 22 June 2014:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10917868/MH370-captain-plotted-route-to-southern-Indian-Ocean-on-home-simulator.html
“Sources close to the investigation confirmed to The Telegraph on Sunday that a deleted flight path had been recovered from Capt Zaharie’s simulator which had been used to practice landing an aircraft on a small runway on an unnamed island in the far southern Indian Ocean.”
Was it ever substantiated that the simulation involved landing on an island in the SIO? Was this simulated island ever identified? Does this tally with what TimR had heard, or would they have to be different islands?
Regarding the rumour reported by TimR, we know from Zaharie’s public life he supported an opposition party, and we known he was very angry about his government’s behaviour. We know the flight was just after the (supposedly politically-motivated) conviction of the opposition party’s leader. Zaharie also had an apparently stable character, in contrast to the Germanwings pilot who crashed his own plane in 2015.
Putting these together, it really is not that much of a stretch to think Zaharie might want to use his flying skills in some kind of peaceful protest that involved returning the passengers safely afterwards.
But if the plan was peaceful, how could it go wrong in a way that let the plane fly until fuel exhaustion, and which kept the final location of the plane a mystery? This seems to be the biggest barrier to a “peaceful protest” theory?
Pings 1,2,3,4,5 don’t align with 6 & 7. Ping 1 @ 18.25 is too far north west. Once shifted south east, or in the opposite direction, the timeline aligns and shifts further south as it should in a 7h00 endurance after a right ‘or’ left turn-back at IGARI (Malacca Strait diversion excluded) The Timeline is CORRECT, but the geo-graphical depiction or illustration of Inmarsat’s 7 ping rings on the google map is WRONG.
@Air Life: You’ve presented too many falsehoods as facts. This is not Facebook or Twitter, where that behavior is common. You’re banned from here.
@Layperson: The deleted simulator data sets (the “flight files”) that we have do not show a landing on an island in the SIO. On the other hand, we are missing significant portions of the data files, including the portions that would show the route programmed in the flight computers, so we don’t know for sure.
I am in agreement that if the diversion was meant to cause no harm, something went wrong.
@Layperson
I sense the recent SIR report has caused some misundertsanding of the Microflight flight simulator program. As FS9 or FSX users, we are constantly hitting “SAVE” but all we are saving is the current location and conditions. We are also saving the future flight plan, but as Victor has discussed, each and every truncated file from FBI was missing a ton of case information including the forward flight plan is missing (corrupted file fragments is all we have).
The SIR report suggests a weakness that no complete flight history was saved for the sim flight. But nobody saves complete flight history (not sure it is possible). Normally we are saving a sub-case at one spot along the flight path. So of course all we have is saved “waypoints” case fragments…but that’s all we usually ever have.
In his prior paper, Victor reconstructed/estimated the sim flight path to the best of his ability. And Victor’s ability is pretty good…no one really has improved on Victor’s analysis (as hard as I try).
As far as island landings, I believe that is in reference to unrelated flight cases to Diego Garcia.
@Victor: Do you know if these simulations are the ones indicated in the 2015/12/10 update of the ATSB report of 2014/12/03?
ATSB update 3th december 2015 wrote (copied from file “ae2014054_mh370-definition_of_underwater_search_areas_3dec2015_update.pdf”)
Simulator data
The aircraft behaviour after the engine flame-out(s) was tested in the Boeing engineering simulator. In each test case, the aircraft began turning to the left and remained in a banked turn. In many cases, but not all, a phugoid oscillation in pitch was observed. The final position of the aircraft was within a region defined by 10 NM forward and 10 NM left of the position where the flame-out occurred.
Basic turn analysis
The ATSB performed a basic trajectory analysis of an uncontrolled, but stable aircraft. The trajectories commenced from estimated flame-out locations and used starting conditions consistent with the DST Group analysis results and ATSB assumptions outlined in previous sections. The analysis included constant and increasing bank angles, but did not include variations in speed or pitch angle. There were many resulting trajectories consistent with an intersection with the 7th arc at the appropriate time. Some of these solutions ended between 20 and 40 nautical miles from the 7th arc.
The majority of the solutions from the turn analysis involved a left turn. A left turn is consistent with the simulation results. A larger proportion of the trajectories ended on the north-western side of the 7th arc.
Glide area
A simulation was performed to determine the glide distance of the aircraft under active control to maintain wings-level attitude. The simulation (from FL330) resulted in the aircraft gliding for a total distance of approximately 125 NM from the point of the second engine flame-out.
In order to make this distance the aircraft would travel approximately 15 NM in the first 2 minutes of the descent (approximate time required to start the APU and initiate the log-on sequence). Therefore, from the 7th arc, the aircraft has the potential to glide around 110 NM.
Bold by me.
Before discardings the few data we have, it seems that some areas remain to search…
@Pax Lambda: You are citing results of the “Basic Turn Analysis”, which were not Level D simulations, and included some unrealistic assumptions such as constant bank angle (for some simulations) and constant speed and pitch angle. I don’t see how we can apply these results to realistic flight dynamics.
@David: “Here is the new appraisal of the French DGA’s right flaperon separation hypothesis..”
Very interesting, and if validated, certainly a big deal for EOF and search radius — is this your own [anonymous] work, or did I miss the signature?
@lkr
I too wondered.
If you look at document properties, author is David.
We must insist David take credit for his good work.
Victor said: You are citing results of the “Basic Turn Analysis”, which were not Level D simulations…/…
OK, agreed.
But the main question was (which was perhaps not very clear): Are the End-of-flight simulations of this thread the ones mentioned in the December 2015 ATSB report (“Simulator data” section)?
@Ikr, TBill. Thank you, yes my work.
As you say Ikr, ‘if validated’ it could help, though that is an ask.
@Hank, I can not think of any sensible reason to loiter with 360 degree turns late in the flight, (at the latitude of Christmas or Cocos Islands), much earlier, near Ache perhaps, but only if the intent was to land in Ache. If negotiations were still ongoing “that late in the game”, they had effectively failed.
@Victor, re the 18:25 BFO’s on my route, there were significant thunderstorm cells west of Sibolga at the time, so some maneuvering due weather avoidance could be expected.
@David: Very interesting paper. What probability would you assign to separation of the right flaperon due to breakup of the wing in a high speed, tight spiral descent?
Do you think the suggested wing break location is consistent with the YouTube video of the stress test break?
@Victor. It is hard to express high confidence in that alone since it depends on assumptions, estimates and judgements; and there could well be questions about it which I cannot answer. It is just a best (to my knowledge) fit amongst the alternatives.
Also had any of the simulations raised this as a possibility, including those beyond the flight envelope and data base, I would have expected Boeing to have been alert to that. Because nothing has been nothing heard that puts something of a dampener on it.
To help assess confidence in it I would forward it to the ATSB, for Boeing would not respond, but then I do not think the ATSB could these days either and there could be no confidence in Malaysia looking into it. Suggestions are welcome though.
To me there can be more confidence in the negative, that it wasn’t a ditching. That does not fit at all though I gave it a fair go. My feel is 4 chances in 5 it wasn’t that.
Given a few weeks if there is no rebuttal about that or the wing break, confidence in both should rise.
One other comment on probabilities is that were the (lesser likelihood) flutter included as an either/or, that would increase somewhat the prospects of the crash close to the 7th arc.
RE: “Are the End-of-flight simulations of this thread the ones mentioned in the December 2015 ATSB report (“Simulator data” section)?”
Apologies for butting in on your question – the EOF simulations discussed above are additional scenarios that were conducted by Boeing in April 2016, at the behest of the ATSB. They were reported in the ATSB report MH370 – Search and debris examination update, dated 2 November 2016 (amended 18 August 2017), pp.7-8.
https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/5773389/ae-2014-054_mh370-search-and-debris-update_aug2017.pdf
@TBill. In case you have the short video this one is the clearer, starting at 3 mins and also gives a description (about 5:40) as to break characteristics, including these being at about the same place on each wing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4vEfZFx4hk
To me, judging by the tank access holes at 5:04, the break looks to be at about the place I have drawn it though it was diagonal whereas mine, indicative, was fore and aft.
There are refinements such as that diagonal, squarer with the leading edge, reducing lift and increasing drag as the outer wing rises after fracture. Also outside the envelope the chordwise and spanwise lift distribution of the test could change as the stresses could with thrust vs no thrust.
The 5 part You Tube series relates a magnificent story, though missing were the recollections of the rubber ducky last seen on the wing tip at 3:03, just before the wing broke, apparently unbriefed.
@Victor. In the second last line of my two above please read, “…flutter included as an either/or….” as, “….flutter included as a secondary possibility….”.
Many thanks for your excellent analysis of the likely flaperon separation as a result of a wing break in a high speed spiralling descent and the exclusion of a ditching as the cause.
@Richard Godfrey. Thank you.
Timing. I was about to send you this:
@Richard Godfrey. Recovered item 5 was the R1 door closet panel part recovered from Rodrigues Island on 30th March 2016. Its ATSB photograph was after barnacle removal and in the Malaysian debris summary I can see none.
I regret I cannot find your latest drift analysis but my memory has it that this was not amongst those you included as recovered shortly after beaching.
Looking for other things today I came across the below which shows barnacles best at 0:44 and 1:20 – 1:23. In case that should be of interest in any continuing drift studies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJEvqExMHbE
@Andrew: Thank you for your clarification about simulations.
I hope I will not bother you too much, but I take the opportunity to ask some questions: Could you confirm the 6 statements below are true and, most important, what happens in 7?
1 – If both main AC buses are unpowered in flight (both IDGs and both backup switches OFF), the APU starts automatically, whatever position of its rotary knob.
2 – As the APU doesn’t power the buses quickly enough, the RAT comes out and goes on line before APU could power the buses.
3 – If the plane was flying by the autopilot, it goes OFF and the plane has to be flown manually.
4 – If the APU knob was on OFF position, turning it to ON then back to OFF (before the APU comes on line) shuts the APU out and prevents it to power the plane.
5 – From then, the plane flies with only the RAT, and can do that for a long time, say one hour or more, if somebody manually flies it.
6 – If, later, an IDG or both come back on line, the plane is again with “normal” electrical power (excepted the RAT remains out, and some loads are shed if there is only one IDG). The autopilot can be used again.
7 – Now, if both buses are unpowered again later in the same flight, does the APU automatically start again, or does it remain OFF because some system “remembers” it has been shut (line #4)?
Thanks by advance,
You’ve set out a good analysis that a wing break, that could be expected during the end-of-flight descent, is much more consistent with the condition of the right flaperon, and the adjacent flap. A thorough structural analysis for the consequence of bending the flap along its span would be useful, as would an analysis for the flaperon hinge-actuator fittings.
@David: That you are 80% sure the flaperon damage is not consistent with a ditching is helpful. If the aircraft impacted south of 25S and outside of the search zone, then our best estimation is a steep descent followed by a recovery followed by a long glide followed by a steep descent. That sequence doesn’t appear to make much sense.
“…not think the ATSB could these days either and there could be no confidence in Malaysia looking into it. Suggestions are welcome though.”
…also maybe consider France as we know they have active MH370 effort.
@Don. Pages 18 & 19 of the report note that corrosion prevented scanning electron microscope examination of the fracture faces of the flaperon actuator attachment lugs and that there was distortion of them in the outboard direction. The detail of that is in Annex 11 pages 219-226, though in French. That does seem to be all that would be available.
Yes, the flap in ATSB hands received little attention, at least that the ATSB has disclosed, other than that relevant to its finding about flaperon and flap positions at separation. It is now in Malaysian hands.
The chordwise break at the support assembly, the separation of the auxiliary support track carriage internally and the shape of the trailing edge missing and its skin stresses are of interest as are the distortion, twisting and bending you mention.
A reconsruction of what happened to these two items surely could have been expected. With the flap and with DGA report to hand and access to aircraft plus Boeing should have all led to much more but there is no sign of that.
We now have 3 independent evidences that there was a steep descent at the end of flight:
1. Two BFO satellite data at 00:19:29 UTC and 00:19:37 UTC.
2. Four Boeing Simulations in the alternate electrical configuration.
3. The Debris Analysis of the Flaperon and Outboard Flap by David.
Therefore the likelihood that the MH370 end point is outside the 22 NM search width, is remote.
The main wreckage of AF447 was found on the seafloor at a depth of 3,900m over an area 600m x 200m. If the main wreckage of MH370 is similarly spread, then the probability that it was missed by Fugro and Ocean Infinity is also remote.
The case for continuing the search north of 25°S and ±22 NM is very strong.
Yes. The trigger for the autostart is the loss of power to both transfer buses, which are normally powered by the main AC buses. Note: The backup generators only power the transfer buses.
Yes, however, the RAT only powers the standby electrical system to ensure power to essential systems. The entire electrical system would be powered by the APU when it becomes available, subject to switching.
Yes, assuming at least one of the engines remains operating! Only the essential systems would be powered.
Yes, provided the crew cycle the primary flight computers DISC switch to restore the PFCS normal mode.
Good question! As I said above, the autostart trigger is the loss of power to both transfer buses. If that should occur again later in the flight, then ELMS should send the same start signal to the APU controller, regardless of the position of the APU start switch. As far as I’m aware, the system has no ‘memory’ of the previous autostart attempt.
@Richard Godfrey: Let’s all try to develop a list of evidence that suggest the impact might not have occurred further north than 25S. I’ll start.
1) Some drift model results predict the debris arrives to East Africa too early. (Some drift model results are consistent with a more northern impact.)
2) For the automated path over Cocos Island ending at 22S, the BFO at 00:11 is in error by about 12 Hz, which is 5 Hz greater than the Inmarsat has stated in the past is acceptable. (The DSTG suggests larger errors than 7 Hz are possible. The temperature of the SDU at 00:11 might have been colder than normal due to depressurization of the cabin. There might have been an ongoing descent with higher BFO errors.)
I am not at all “in love” with forward drift models. They are just fundamentally bad science (no disrespect intended, Richard). At the end of the day they anwser the question “what is possible” instead of “what is probable”.
In the case of MH370 the forward models are “sort of” OK because we think we know the starting point had to be on the 7th arc, but using that constraint contaminates the purity of the analytics.
@DennisW: Even if we recognize the uncertainty in using the drift models, we still have a large discrepancy between drift model results that needs to be resolved.
Is there other evidence that contradicts a possible impact along the 7th arc north of 25S?
3. Despite their best efforts Fugro or Ocean Infinity missed the plane in the underwater search.
What I am suggesting is that there is less discrepancy in reverse models. If you drop enough debris at the South pole eventually a piece will land on ReUnion at about the right time.
@Victor.”That sequence doesn’t appear to make much sense.” To me either.
As to a ditching to me there is little possibility of one along the DGA hypothesis lines.
There might still be a possibility of a flaps-up ditching being consistent with the damage evident under the flaperon and flap lateral-displacement approach if the right wing digs in.
I will look into this again tomorrow and my page 16 conclusion which I think applied to a ditching flaps down.
@Dennis
I agree drift modelling is not a precise science.
However, if I come up with 10 possibilities, but I do not know how probable each possibility is, then I can still go check each possibility out.
Henrik Rydberg in his drift analysis did work out the probability of floating debris in the SIO beaching on a coast somewhere and reflected the result in his forward drift analysis. He concluded the most probable origin was 34.5S.
Re evidence that suggest the impact might not have occurred further north than 25S.
In the limit, going further north risks encroaching on Indonesian radar coverage if a great circle path is used.
A more subtle objection is that ‘further north’ implies ‘slower flight’ and probably ‘lower flight’.
Personally I advocate ‘further north’ with a lower and slower flight and a fuel dump to restore the expected end-of-flight time however I do recognise that there are constraints on ‘how low’ and ‘how slow’ based on both BTO and BFO data.
Reasons for points below 25 South:
This is where I am stuck at:
(1) Absoluetly perfect match to BFO’s until 22:41 for original IG 187T deg path, good match after 22:41.
If I had a nickel for future coin-op DTSG studies, I would study all possible intentional flight paths after going 187 degT until 22:41 Arc5. I think it could head southeast to Dordrtech Hole with the winds, but also could divert to north of 25 South, so it does not exclude north of 25 South.
per my prior essay: On the Straightness of the BFO Trend
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d5_ZM6lfcgjVelP6k6RjPIvsZeOgDYtJXELYHDewg3k/edit?usp=sharing
@ventus45
You noted: @Hank, I can not think of any sensible reason to loiter with 360 degree turns late in the flight, (at the latitude of Christmas or Cocos Islands), much earlier, near Ache perhaps, but only if the intent was to land in Ache. If negotiations were still ongoing “that late in the game”, they had effectively failed.
I was primarily discussing the impact of holding on the latitude for crossing arc 7. I only referenced the Cocos latitude because people had discussed these islands as a possible landing site.
Just a note. Every hold circle moves the flight path to the east between arc segments because of the SW-NE orientation of the adjacent arcs. A 15 minute hold takes over 100 miles off the available arc to arc range and this may require a more easterly course. If a pilot performed one 360 every hour between arc 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-5, and 5-6 this would result in a significant shift. The number or length of holding between arcs would be limited by the arc spacing and reasonable Mach number for the cruise portion.
ArthurC says:
Sorry for backtracking a bit, but I don’t quite get the comments on those large radius 360 turns.
Would such turns not have changed the location of the corresponding arcs?
I mean, if the pings happened to be during one of those loops, it would show an anomaly, wouldn’t it?
In other words, the pings should not be somewhat equally spaced apart or there should be something else obviously inconsistent if those 360 turns did happen.
And another comment, if I measured on the image above (with the inherent lack of accuracy) the distance between the 7th arc and the calculated/simulated point of contact for all 10 scenarios, is seems to me that it should all have been within the searched area.
Please be gentle, I don’t mean to push any buttons, just stating some things I observed, right or wrong. 🙂
Argh, sorry, I meant “the arcs should not be somewhat equally spaced apart”, not the pings.
A perfect match to a random walk is what got the early analytics to converge on 38S. BFO can tell us the plane went South at the FMT, and that it came down rapidly at the end. Beyond that it is not useful.
If we ever find the black box (doubtful?) it will be very interesting to see how a loiter path or Jean-Luc’s path conspired to appear like a straight flight to Arc5.
You may not have followed by periodic 360 degree turn. You drop ground speed to zero if you perform a 360 degree turn between the arc segments. It takes exactly one hour to go between arc 2 and arc 3, but if you perform a 360 degree circle for 15 minutes, you now have only 45 minutes to cover the arc to arc distance. The aircraft burns one hour of fuel but only uses 45 minutes for transit. Because of the SE-NE orientation of neighboring arc segments the most probably arc intercept moves to the east with each hold. If a pilot just did a clearing turn every hour, this burns the fuel but moves the course to the south east versus more southerly.
Since there was plenty of time it is easy to just hold every hour (to avoid a slick on crashing and avoids a vapor trail of a dump).
I also mentioned the periodic holds decouple the range calculation from the known duration. The time between arc 1 crossing and arc 7 is 5 hours and 54 minutes.
My view is that an experienced pilot would have engaged in periodic holding to mess up any Boeing calculations of range/duration. One 360 per hour would have significantly shifted the arc 7 crossing to the North. This has a more dramatic impact on arc to arc routes than just shortening the line toward 38S and shifting it over.
The total number and duration of each 360 between neighboring arcs is limited by the arc spacing because the aircraft has to cover the each distance.
@ArthurC
Think of a 360 as the aircraft just stopping – fuel is consumed but no progress is made. The BTO arcs reflect an actual possible position at the time.
So between arc 2 at 19:41 and arc 3 at 20:41 the aircraft was flying for 60 minutes. If it spent 15 minutes in a circle, the leaves on 45 minutes to transit between the two arcs. This eliminates many possible arc to arc connections.
The DSTG work never allowed for any intentional holds.
A pilot that wanted to burn all of the fuel, but not simultaneously achieve the maximum range could break this up by just doing a 360 every hour or so.
The airplane could be in a circuit at the arc time and I do not know what that does to a BFO.
An experienced pilot that wanted to mess with max range max endurance simulations would mess this up and plan for it by doing periodic turns or even s-turns. The idea is to burn fuel but not go to max range.
This is not unlike the recent holding done by a Gulfstream that blew tires at Teterboro and circled over Bridgeport CT to burn fuel prior to landing at Stewart.
Here’s what I am struggling with:
If this was an intentional flight to hide the crash-
I’d just keep the SDU off to avoid relaying flight duration data…
unless, it was intentional and I wanted to let people to know it was still flying. In which case, your maneuver or more simply turns could confuse the crash location issue.
Maybe Z did not know about the SDU pings. He may have thought that by switching ACARS off this stopped the reporting. But he clearly would know that flying to maximum range to burn fuel adds some predictability to a future Boeing simulation.
And if he did know about SDU pings what a mystery he created by allowing everyone to know the plane was inthe air to 0019 UTC.
If he did the s-turns or period hold (as I think Z could have done) it clearly worked to confuse DSTG.
Their maneuver model limited turns to between -180 and +180 degrees at exponential distribution between each turn. Their particle filter mostly tossed out everything but straight southbound routes with a center at 38S latitude. Add lazy s-turns or a 15 minute hold in each one hour arc to arc segment and the course would be more southeast than directly south.
Over 25S maybe???
@Andrew: a BIG thank you for your detailed answers.
I recognise that you are one of the few who advocate deliberate decoupling of range from the known (or assumed) endurance.
You noted that “Since there was plenty of time it is easy to just hold every hour (to avoid a slick on crashing and avoids a vapor trail of a dump).”
Sure it is possible but unless the ping ring times etc were ‘known’ then the pilot would have to be quite lucky to avoid a clash with the periodic holds.
To my thinking a vapour trail would not be a bad thing but rather another ‘prop’ to support a ‘wounded bird’ interpretation.
After all, ZS did seem rather exercised about the fidelity of the depiction of fuel dumping within his flight simulator.
Slightly further down the rabbit hole one can simply assume that the report by Kate Tee was accurate:-
https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-ten-best-f-111-pig-dump-and-burn-moments-of-all-t-1601915237
@TBill, @Richard Godfrey, @DennisW, others:
I probably was not clear when I asked the question. I didn’t mean to ask for the reasons why the plane might be found south of 25S. I was asking if there is any evidence that taken on its face value refutes the hypothesis that the plane impacted north of 25S. I know of two that have been proposed: some of the drift studies, and an interpretation of the BFO that permits little error at 00:11. There are reasons to doubt the validity of both of these. Are there any others?
Sorry for being slow.
Apart from the 2 reasons you mention, I do not know of any other evidence taken at face value, that refutes the hypothesis that MH370 is north of 25S.
Thank you very much for the details. I do understand the mechanics and the reason for the 360 loops, just not how that would not be obvious plotting the arcs.
If it’s an argument for searching farther north on the 7th arc, then it makes sense. IIRC, the southernmost possible point was calculated based on maximum range, but with such “holding” loops, it would certainly move the final point farther north.
I can’t come up with anything else.
I will get back on my BFO soap box and say that the Inmarsat 7Hz criterion is nothing more than a comment to a graph, yet it is cited over and over again as some sort of authoritative reference.
Z would not need to know about any ping times. The ping could happen in the middle of a 360. Assume that ZS needed to fly to around 0019 UTC to consume all of the fuel. There is no rush to dump it because he has the time. S-turns or a complete hold have the effect of decreasing the available time to complete the arc to arc crossing. The effect is that a more southeast course would result than a more south course to meet the arc BTO constraints.
The entire ATSB/BSTG search analysis assumed that there was no active pilot that would have intentionally engaged in period s-turns or holds while enroute.
My other issue is the water entry problem. ZS would have thought about this. The objective is to enter that water with the least breakup.
An uncontrolled aircraft would enter a tight spiral dive and have a near vertical high speed entry – maybe slightly inverted. A flat ditch approach at the end could just breakup and scatter on waves. Is it possible to fly a maneuver to enter vertical at 60 knots. A low speed vertical entry or into a wave.
Could I pull out of a terminal dive to level to the water and then do a loop over to get to a low velocity vertical entry. I would think a 60 kt entry would be better than 600 kts?? What would ZS do. The SEA Q400 ramp worker did some impressive flying – what could ZS do?
The ZS problem was to burn up all of the fuel and enter the water with the least breakup in a well executed terminal maneuver. No rush to go far so do some s-turns or holds along the way. That’s a good plan because it worked.
4 years and not a clue.
We of course also have the NZPG simulator cases.
But we also have the straight flight/high altitude appearance of the data (by NTSB/Inmarsat/IG/and so on). Not saying it is true, just saying.
The arcs are what they are and have nothing to do with the route. These represent all possible locations that the AC could be located at the exact time. How the aircraft could go between any specific point on one arc and feasibly get to any specific point on the subsequent arc is the problem.
From any arbitrary point on arc 2 to any arbitrary point on arc 3 you could eliminate any pair that would require a ground speed of Mach 1. That reduces many possible points. If you also assume that the plane can only fly in straight lines between arc points you could delete any point pairs that were below some ground speed. If you assume that Mach was always greater that say 0.7 for expected winds aloft, you could drop the routes too close. Here is where an s-turn or 360 creates havoc because the time delay makes the close route acceptable. The Inmarsat and the DSTG models just eliminate all of these “too short” routes (which would be in the SE direction).
The plane did need to get between the arcs at the exact time, but it is the complete elimination of all “too short” transits from consideration that worked against the over 25S location.
By not ever considering any intentional delay behavior by s-turn or holds the investigators biased the search to the south. Maybe this is OK because ZS never performed any delaying tactic.
And all of the Boeing work just simulated an uncontrolled “splat.” Anybody that’s been to an airshow has seen great low altitude maneuvers following a death spiral or spin.
@TBill: The fact that the BTO/BFO error is satisfied by a straight flight at cruising altitudes and speeds does not contradict the paths further north than 25S. The data agreement with straight paths has been used by some (including me in the past) as justification for prioritizing paths ending further south than 25S. Without any other evidence, simpler is better. However, we now have ample evidence now that is contradictory to an impact further south.
I’m looking for other evidence that taken on face value contradicts an impact further north than 25S, not evidence that says impact points further south than 25S are higher probability.
Taking this to the extreme, then the final point might even be much farther north, just enough to satisfy the shortest possible distance that still matches the points of crossing each arc.
I am of course favoring north of 25 South myself.
However, I also suggest simuator data shows about 30 South@Arc7 heading towards Dordrecht Hole. Conceivably the real MH370 flight headed due south and then picked up the NZPG operating line as per the actual ZS simulator run. Overflys reasonably close to DrB’s point.
I am going to work that idea a little.
Since the BFO/BTO was a new application for the Inmarsat data has anyone compared the pings and the trajectories of actual flights? How do the pings compare with radar? Flying over land the pings could be used to calculate a route and then compared to the radar traces. If you only had the pings to calculate a route how close would they match the radar route? How does it play out in real flights? And what do we know about frequency variations from real flights?
@flatpack said: Re evidence that suggest the impact might not have occurred further north than 25S.
If you consider any reasonable range for the Indonesian radar station at Lhokseumawe, Sumatra, MH370 targets should have been captured before reaching Penang Island and up the Malacca Strait. The fact that Indonesia has supplied no radar data indicates that either the radar station was not operational that night, or targets were captured but not shared. Either way, I don’t see how you can realistically use Indonesian radar as a way to qualify potential paths.
I also don’t think that slower, curved paths can be dismissed. As I said previously, all other things being equal, a straight path at cruise speeds might be preferred, but at this point, all other things are not equal.
@Trip: I refer you to the DSTG Bayesian Analysis, which presents the uncertainty of the measured BTO and BFO values based on data from previous flights.
This is a “hypothetical thought exercise” only – for those considering some theoretical way of putting a 777 cleanly into the water, without much structural breakup.
Look at the video of the crash of Czar52, the B52 crash at Fairchild Air Force Base. It was a near vertical, low speed impact, restricting the debris field to a very confined area.
A deliberate maneuver, to achieve minimum velocity water entry, for a B777, could be similar.
Method.
Enter a deliberate, low level, low speed, nose up, tight wind up left turn, with left engine at max power, and a boot full of top rudder (right rudder).
This leads to high bank angle, “g” coming on, and speed washing off, leading to an accelerated stall break, with resultant free fall, from a low height.
Immediately cut left engine and apply a rapid boot full of bottom rudder (left rudder – to swing the nose down) at the break.
This results in rapid roll left, probably going inverted, with rapid pitch down, resulting in relatively clean, near vertical water entry, at virtually nil forward speed, and perhaps as little as 5,000 ft/min (50 knot) vertical speed.
In such an entry, wing trailing edge components could be liberated with little further damage.
@Victor, others. In my flaperon separation analysis, in the Introduction and Summary at page 1 I said of the DGA ditching hypothesis that it was not supported by the evidence. The hypothesis depicts the flaperon as deployed. At page 8, repeated on page 9 I added that the hypothesis was unlikely to support a ditching even if not deployed. That all stands.
In the conclusions at page 16 I said that a ditching was ruled out. Since by then I had introduced an alternative hypothesis, implicity that too did not support any ditching.
However because a flaps-up ditching can be supported by the alternative hypothesis if during it the right wing breaks upwards and backwards, I now have added a paragraph covering that to page 14.
So instead of a ditching being ruled out the conclusion should have said that a ditching under the DGA hypothesis was ruled out as was a flaps down ditching under either hypothesis. It has now been amended to that effect.
My apologies for the error.
@TBill. “…also maybe consider France as we know they have active MH370 effort.”
Thanks for the idea but I doubt they will renew activities in this field.
@David: On Twitter, @PatrickTissot, who has contacts with official French investigators, claims the military have never stopped investigating the disappearance, although they have chosen to remain quiet.
@Victor. Thanks. I rang the embasssy here this morning and they said someone from the military would call back. I did not imagine there would be interest but maybe there will be after all.
I have asked the ATSB if they retain any interest.
Reading this somewhat amused that so many here seem to be giving Tim R’s ‘hypothesis’ serious consideration.
How do you reconcile a hypothetical failed negotiation that then leads to the disappearance of the aircraft AND to the deaths of all 239 souls on board?
I have heard from Dennis in the past that it was necessary for Z to be prepared to follow through on his ‘bluff? If so, this would paint Zaharie in an even worse light. A true monster who would have deliberately and calculatingly murdered 238 human beings ostensibly sans mental illness, as he had a cadre of conspirators diabolically plotting with him.
And if there were an intervention on board (breached cockpit etc.) that thwarted Z’s plan, certainly we would by now have located the POI and corresponding debris field, as a deliberate disappearance is no longer on the table with said scenario. And furthermore, surely the debris finds would be far more numerous than the relative paucity of finds to date?
This whole negotiation thing is bollocks imho and makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. And it flies in the face of what the evidence to date strongly suggests occurred…a cunning, brazen and callous final fit to secure infamy and forever a place in history.
Seems he did quite well for himself.
@Donald
And it flies in the face of what the evidence to date strongly suggests occurred…a cunning, brazen and callous final fit to secure infamy and forever a place in history.
What evidence are you referring to, Donald?
[References to “David” were changed to “Donald” to avoid confusion.]
@Donald writes that the demise of MH370 involved “…a cunning, brazen and callous final fit to secure infamy and forever a place in history.“.
I accept that such a notion has become widely held, I just don’t hold it.
The evidence to date may be interpreted that the execution of a plan failed, initiating a paniced and unforeseen third option: no return.
I am casting a wide net on what happened, I do believe pilot was probably involved. Whether it was straight suicide or large plan, I am open.
@Don Thompson said: The evidence to date may be interpreted that the execution of a plan failed, initiating a paniced and unforeseen third option: no return.
The third option might have been foreseen but not preferred.
“If you consider any reasonable range for the Indonesian radar station at Lhokseumawe, Sumatra, MH370 targets should have been captured before reaching Penang Island and up the Malacca Strait.”
Indeed, you are correct. Unfortunately I did not make it clear that I was thinking about radar stations covering the south coast of Sumatra and Java, plus the Sunda strait.
An example on Sumatra would be Sibolga, which has a reach of approx 600 Km to the southwest.
@flatpack: I am not aware of a radar station at Sibolga. Can you please provide any details you have?
But assuming a radar station is there, a more reasonable radar range is 250 NM, not 324 NM (600 km). At 250 NM, MH370 targets near Penang Island would have been captured, and targets along flight paths to the SIO would not. (The path I generated that overflies Cocos Island is about 270 NM from Sibolga.)
I think we will be hard-pressed to use Indonesian radar to draw any conclusions about possible paths of MH370. I really wish this wasn’t the case.
I agree with you that a piloted flight to water entry is a very possible scenario and cannot be ruled out until the aircraft is found. The result is the same whether ZS did it for reasons of mental health or to embarrass Malaysian government. In either case the objective is to hide the aircraft forever and the mission is very carefully planned to water entry maneuvers.
It has been proposed that a mechanical failure occurred at IGARI forcing a diversion toward Penang and it became a ghost flight to the SIOat some point. This is the basis of all of the ATSB search effort where a piloted flight has not been considered past Penang or maybe MEKAR. It’s a big ocean so this can’t be ruled out.
The hold and negotiate and conditionally kill everyone, for me, is a stretch.
If ZS just did a few lazy circles on a SE route and executed a clean water entry after fuel exhaustion north of 25 S latitude he would have placed the wreckage on the sea floor where no one has searched. Maybe the drift analysis supports debris originating near the 7th arc above 25S.
Re Sibolga, the information came from a comment (including coverage diagrams) made by Richard Godfrey on your previous article. All credit to him:-
https://mh370.radiantphysics.com/2018/07/30/mh370-safety-report-raises-many-questions/#comment-17756
I believe, but cannot demonstrate, that there is Indonesian military radar coverage of the Sunda strait.
Civilian radar coverage of the west of Java (Jakarta and Bandung) may not be as useful as one would hope because of the mountainous terrain to the south.
TNI-AU has 4 long-range ADS sites in Sumatra: Dumai, Lhoksuemawe, Pulau We/Sabang, and Sibolga (SATRAD 232, 231, 233, and 234 resp).
The Sibolga site is actually 25km NW of Sibolga City, near Sorkam. I located it a few months back and it was noted here. The location is N-1.9096° E-98.6179°.
Do you have any info re coverage of the greater Sunda strait region?
Given that Jakarta is the capital, one would think that there would be an extended air defence system, possibly utilising outlying islands.
To quote one far-sighted TV contributor, finding MH370 is like eating an elephant, one bite at a time. All we can do is help decide where the next bite should be.
@Don Thompson, @Richard Godfrey, @flatpack: Thank you for the information about the additional radar sites in Sumatra. Those are additional sites that didn’t see MH370 as it flew past Penang Island and up the Malacca Strait.
So either Indonesian radar was operational and detected MH370, and the military is quiet because there was no military response, or the Indonesian radar was not operational and did not detect MH370, and the military is quiet because there was no military response.
That’s about where we were four years ago.
You’ll be interested in TNI-AU Kosekhanudnas I.
@Donald: “And furthermore, surely the debris finds would be far more numerous than the relative paucity of finds to date?….”
I don’t think you quite spelled out your argument. But please note that it’s easy to demonstrate that very, very few people randomly encountering a “non-charismatic” piece of debris [eg, everything but the flap and flaperon bodies” took any notice. More than 50% of debris items were found by Blaine Gibson’s directed search. On a very tiny sample of IO coastline. Even with expert advice, it’s unlikely that as much as 5% [more likely closer to 1%] of debris that reached shoreline [and no more than 10% or aircraft exterior was capable of floating more than a few weeks].
I have to remember to harp on this every couple of months.
Part of that dropped out; I meant to conclude: “Even with expert advice, it’s unlikely that as much as 5% [more likely closer to 1%] of debris that reached shoreline HAS BEEN RECOVERED [and, FURTHER, no more than 10% or aircraft exterior was capable of floating more than a few weeks].
@lkr: Based on Blaine’s success at finding debris, my takeaway is that there was a lot of debris generated and few people searching and/or having the ability and/or having the desire to report potential parts.
A question about supposed End-of-Flight Inmarsat data (ref. document is “Update to Signalling Unit Logs December 2014” PDF). Sorry for the length of the post…
The last transmission of the “normal” period after take off was an “Acknowledge User Data” at 17:07:48.907. Normally, in the absence of a Log-Off from the AES, a Handshake Request from the GES was due around 18:07. But there was none. Why ? Probably because from 18:03:41.405 to 18:04:29.413 there were transmissions from the GES of the ACARS from MAS requiring an answer from MH-370, then an automatic retransmission from 18:05:11.405 to 18:05:59.905.
After the 5 Request to Acknowledge (by the GES) from 18:03:50.905 to 18:04:29.413 without answer from the AES, and another 5 (automatic retransmission) from 18:05:11.905 to 18:05:59.905 also without answer from the AES, the AES of 9M-MRO was probably written off the system***.
At 18:25:27.421 the AES of 9M-MRO began a Log-On request. The sequence ends at 18:28:14.904, after 26 lines of data on the Inmarsat log.
It is largely admitted that this Log-On request happened because the SATCOM has been unpowered and powered again.
This request around 18:25 was from an AES written out.
At 00:19:29.416, began a new Log-On request from the AES of 9M-MRO. It is also largely admitted this was because the SATCOM was unpowered and powered again. But this time for some minutes only, so the AES was not written out the Inmarsat system.
There are only 8 lines of data, finishing by a transmission of the GES P-Channel: TX OxlS – Log-on/Log-off Acknowledge [copied from the data log where “OxIS” is probably a misreading by the OCR for 0x15].
This Handshake as been described as “incomplete” because of the SATCOM was unpowered again, or because the antenna lose the LoS of the satellite.
The line 8 of the Log-On sequence at 18:25 is the same as the 8th and last line of the Log-On sequence of 00:19.
Could the difference was not because of an interruption of transmissions, but because the Log-On of 00:19 was different: the AES of 9M-MRO was not written off at 00:19 and, perhaps, in this case, the data exchanges between the aircraft and the ground would be shorter?
*** BTW, it is probably why there is not other data from Inmarsat about these ACARS message from MAS in the report: 9M-MRO being written off the system, the “failed” transmission came directly from the GES to MAS, without trying to “ring” the plane.
The 00:19 Log On has been described as incomplete, but strictly that is incorrect.
The GES Log On did complete at 00:19, hence the two Log On Acknowledge SUs exchanged between the AES and the GES.
However, the GES Log On was not followed by any additional signalling to establish ACARS comms with the ground (neither did that happen at 18:25), nor was it followed by the two ISO-8208 SSN connections (which did occur after the previous GES Log Ons).
Regardless of whether, or not, the GES has the AES marked as active in its Log On Table, the AES executes the same sequence of actions: GES Log On; ACARS establish; opens the two ISO-8208 SSN connections for the IFE applicaitons. A Log On doesn’t assume any prior state is maintained.
@Don Thompson: Thank you for your answer.
What did you think:
– about the absence of Log-On request from the GES around 18:07: is it because 9M-MRO has been written out as I wrote?
– about the retransmitted ACARS from MAS which has been described above is this thread as “missing” in the report? Could the 18:43 a typo for 18:13? Or the AES was written off? But at 18:43, it was on line again. Could be because, then, the flight ID was no more there?
… Perhaps, too many questions: hope I don’t bother you!
About “the absence of Log-On request from the GES around 18:07“. The GES does not make Log On Requests. At 18:03:41, the GES assumes the AES is still listening (there has been no implicit or explicit Log Off for 9M-MRO’s AES since 17:07:48) so it makes the transmission of the first ACARS block, 220 chars, of the ‘URGET REQUEST’ message.
About the “retransmitted ACARS from MAS“. The GES transmitted this message twice, without acknowledgement, as a consequence of the message submission into the system by MAS Ops. Failure of the second SATCOM transmission resulted in the GES clearing -MRO’s AES from its Log On table. Accordingly, the ACARS hub lost its known path to forward messages to -MRO. So, the subsequent events are message re-submissions into the system from the originating terminal.
About the “typo for 18:13“. The final message re-submission described in Appendix 1.9A is timed at 18:15:13, a typo for 18:43 isn’t consistent. And “the AES was written off?, the GES cleared the AES from its Log On table at 18:06. The AES made a successful GES Log On at 18:25:35.
About “at 18:43, it was on line again“. The AES had successfully completed a GES Log On at 18:25:35, however, the aircraft Data Communications System did not initiate ACARS correspondence. It is the aircraft that initiates ACARS correspondence when a datalink is established. The AES, and its SATCOM datalink, is merely a medium for ACARS correspondence. It is the Data Comms System (and its component functions) that initiates/responds to ACARS messages, and it has been explained how access to SATCOM can be disabled for ACARS.
The use of a Flight Identifier in the Log On Request is not involved with ACARS, it’s purpose relates to an Inmarsat network management function. It’s of no consequence to packet data operation (ACARS and ISO-8208 SSN).
Returning to Appendix 1.9A: the Safety Investigation Team has presented two versions of this information, one in 2015, and the other in 2018. Neither satisfactorily explains “messages are auto transmitted every two minutes […] 1843:33 UTC“.
@Don Thomson: Thank you again for these very detailed and informative answer.
About the “messages are auto transmitted every two minutes […] 1843:33 UTC“, I agree that a typo is inconsistent vs the times values.
Is it possible these transmissions were only between MAS and GES, or even a subsystem: the first went along all the system to the satellite, but once 9M-MRO AES was cleared from the GES AESs table, and perhaps after some delay***, the retransmissions were rejected (> failed) and then not recorded following the ones seen in the reports, but, perhaps somewhere else… or not recorded at all.
***If this has happened, some delay had to exist between queries times and their “rejections” and also for explaining why, if retransmissions persisted between 18:25 and 18:43, those ones are not recorded in the data logs.
Even if I believe Inmarsat has nothing to hide and their data are right, I have to admit there is something suspicious on Malysian side if some data have been put aside.
@Pax Lambda said: Even if I believe Inmarsat has nothing to hide and their data are right, I have to admit there is something suspicious on Malysian side if some data have been put aside.
In addition to the missing traffic between 18:15 and 18:43, there are some red flags with the ACARS Traffic Logs that need to be explained by Malaysia.
For the Traffic Log in the FI, the choice of filter parameters ensured that the VHF traffic was not included. On the other hand, for the Traffic Log in the SIR, the VHF traffic was included on the first page, but the filter parameters changed starting with the second page to exclude VHF traffic. It appears that this log is actually an assembly of two different reports. In addition to the difference in filter parameters at the top of the pages 1 and 2, you can see that the messages received by MAS at 15:54:41 and 15:54:53 appear on both the bottom of page 1 and at the top of page 2.
What we need is a complete log of SATCOM and VHF traffic for the time period 12:48:00 to 20:00:00. Until this occurs, we can’t be sure there wasn’t other traffic that was not included in the logs.
The fourth possibility could be that ZS actually used the @TimR story as a ploy to get pre-flight “assisitance” he needed. The assistance would be (1) not letting Razak claim the accident was a mechanical failure/crash (also turning on SDU at 18:25 accomplished this task); and (2) aside from potentially wiping CVR, one step better than SilkAir, he may have left behind “knowledge” that this accident was not an intentional suicide. Possibly other assistance.
So here is the list:
@TimR Story Outcome Matrix
1. Peaceful Diversion
2. Peaceful Diversion that crashed; something went wrong on aircraft
3. Peaceful Diversion with planned suicide option if demands not met
4. Peaceful Diversion was a false cover story for a suicide plan
5. Peaceful Diversion plan was true, but plan was later changed to suicide
P.S.-
6. Peaceful Diversion is an urban myth (untrue after-the-fact rumor)
Victor said: I didn’t mean to ask for the reasons why the plane might be found south of 25S. I was asking if there is any evidence that taken on its face value refutes the hypothesis that the plane impacted north of 25S.
More you go North, and more you go East: doesn’t there would be a change from IOR to POR as it happened for MH-371 (and even before take-off at KL for MH-370)?
Not a very strong argument, but…
Thank you, that is indeed interesting!
My take is that there are multiple radar sites on Sumatra (and from the link supplied by Don Thompson likely also in Java) that have significant coverage to the south and southwest. I consider that these constrain ‘northern’ paths.
Please check out the map in the link provided by Don. It is nicely divided up into ‘named’ rectangles. At the bottom of the map is Christmas Island. There is also what seems like a radar station on the southern coast of Java that looks interesting.
We know that MH370 was logged on to the Inmarsat satellite IOR until 00:19:37 UTC.
At all points along the 7th Arc in the Indian Ocean, even right up to the South coast of Java at 8°S 108.0145°E, MH370 would be much closer to the IOR satellite, than the POR satellite.
@Pax Lambda: Once logged onto a satellite, automatic handover to another satellite requires degradation of the P-channel signal or an elevation angle below the threshold. That never occurred for MH370, independent of overlap or relative proximity. MH370 would have to be east of 121E longitude to be closer to POR than IOR. That is well beyond the 7th arc, even as the arc crosses the equator.
@Victor and Richard: OK. However, I just look at MH-371 inbound flight data***.
For this flight, the last connection with POR was at 06:48, the plane was then around 105°E. The change from IOR to POR has been at 06:11. At this time the plane was around 107°E. So, it is possible there was a change from IOR to POR largely west of the 121°E longitude.
But transition from IOR to POR not happened west of 107°, so I agree my argument is not a good one… May be 9M-MRO is North of 25° on 7th arc after all…
***Data from unredacted Inmarsat Logs Excel xlsx file authored Greg West. Correspondances between time and longitude taken from decoded hexadecimal SSUs PDF published by Richard on June 12th 2017 (thanks a lot, Richard for all your studies!).
@PaxLambd asked “Is it possible these transmissions were only between MAS and GES”
No, the particular GES being used by an aircraft is entirely transparent to the MAS ground user who submits the message for relay to the aircraft.
ACARS relies on a ‘store-and-forward’ technique. After 18:06, the main ACARS hub in SITA’s network (addressed via QXSXMXS) had no knowledge of any path over which to forward ACARS messages to 9M-MRO.
So, from 18:06 to 18:25, 9M-MRO was “discarded” from the AESs table of the main ACARS hub in SITA’s network, and later, when 9M-MRO was again in line with the satellite (after the Log-On of 18:25), there was no more a way to forward the ACARS because the ACARS link has not been activated in the 18:25 Log-On of 9M-MRO. And for the Log-On didn’t include ACARS link activation, the only way was to uncheck the “option case” SATCOM of the ACARS screen?
From the fact that at 18:03 the ACARS was effectively transmitted to 9M-MRO (without success besause the SATCOM was unpowered), can we conclude that at this time, the SITA’s network didn’t “know” that ACARS transmission to 9M-MRO was “out” and therefore unpowering the SATCOM had been done before unchecking the SATCOM “case” for ACARS?
And, therefore, unchecking the SATCOM “option case” for ACARS has been done knowingly before 18:25 because powering again the left bus was (also) allowing ACARS transmission!
With the SIO simulator points and this, is it really possible to consider this was an “accident” or an “electric problem”?
@Pax Lambda: Along similar lines to your last comment, when a pilot gets handed off from one controller to another, common practice is to dial in the new frequency as the standby, acknowledge the handoff and read back the new frequency, hit a button on the radio that exchanges the active and standby frequencies, and call ATC on the new frequency. The time between the two transmission would be less than 15 seconds. It was 13 seconds at MH370’s previous controller handoff.
At the handoff between Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh, the pilot acknowledged the handoff, but never read back the new frequency, and the call to Ho Chi Minh was not made. That leaves a window of only about 15 seconds for the abnormal event that caused the turn back.
@Victor: An interesting observation. I would rather say that during the handoff the sequence of abnormal events has already taken place. The situation initially was not too serious but it quickly evolved to the critical point when the transponder was switched off.
@Greg: I think you may be missing my point. There is a mountain of circumstantial evidence that points towards a deliberate diversion by the captain.
@Victor: Of course, you are right. But I remember that you were interested in the motivations and role of the human factor. Perhaps that is why I am suggesting possible (but not certain) explanation of known facts. By the way, switching off the transponder is circumstantial evidence. It is certain that the signal has ceased to be received.
@Greg: Yes, what I said is There is a mountain of circumstantial evidence that points towards a deliberate diversion by the captain.
@Victor. I’m presume that two of the items of circumstantial evidence referred above are:
1. Simulator data
2. Timing of diversion
But that wouldn’t amount to a “mountain”. Would you mind listing the items that you consider circumstantial evidence of deliberate diversion? For present purpose, “deliberate diversion” taken to refer to diversion with nefarious intent and not an accident/systems failure.
@VictorI
With apologies for my late contribution; I’m having a busy week..
“Let’s all try to develop a list of evidence that suggest the impact might not have occurred further north than 25S. I’ll start.”
In addition to your point (1) (“Some drift model results predict the debris arrives to East Africa too early. (Some drift model results are consistent with a more northern impact.)”):
The same can be said for the arrival time of the Flaperon at Reunion
A more general comment:
While imo there are strong indicators for an impact south of 25S, there is no watertight evidence “against” an impact north of 25S. For the Inmarsat data we know that for many years. For the drift studies, even if the methodology followed is in accordance with state-of-the-art, there are inherent inaccuracies and the results are expressed in probabilities.
Remember, however, that before the OI search started most of us here were optimistic and probably many contributors would estimate the probability that MH370 should be located somewhere between S36 and S25 “near” the 7th arc perhaps as high as 80 -90%.
So for the moment, I remain at the position that MH370 has not been found in the area where we expected it to be located. Hence my call for taking our time to collect as much as possible of the relevant information which would perhaps be within our reach.
Some ideas for additional analysis which would advance our understanding and which could help us to formulate a better founded search recommendation:
– A detailed estimate of the detection probabilities in previously searched areas
– An in-depth meta study of the different drift models to better understand the different results and get a better feel for sources of inaccuracies.
– A review of the BFO analysis performed by DSTG on the 20 earlier flights of 9M-MRO
– (Better understanding of the BFO calibration process (timing, calibration target etc.): perhaps less urgent)
– (Analysis of possible end-of-flight scenarios: already ongoing)
@Niels said: While imo there are strong indicators for an impact south of 25S, there is no watertight evidence “against” an impact north of 25S.
That seems to be the consensus here.
So for the moment, I remain at the position that MH370 has not been found in the area where we expected it to be located.
That’s true. The locations remaining were not long ago considered by most here to be low probability.
And that’s the reason that I have not made a recommendation about where next to search. I am holding out hope that new evidence or insights surface. Perhaps drift modelers will converge on a smaller area of the 7th arc. Perhaps we learn more about communications between the parties that helps to eliminate some scenarios. I will say that my patience is not infinite. It is possible that with the evidence we have in hand, we have taken this as far as we can go in bounding where the debris field is.
@Paul Smithson: Perhaps others are willing to compile a detailed list making the case for pilot hijack. At one point, @DrB was attempting to do this.
In a nutshell, putting motives and even the sim data aside, there is no evidence that cannot be explained by a pilot diversion just after the last radio transmission, and no accident sequence that comes close to being a likely explanation for the evidence.
You stated “For the drift studies, even if the methodology followed is in accordance with state-of-the-art, there are inherent inaccuracies and the results are expressed in probabilities.” I agree.
I am currently running a re-calibration of my drift simulator software having made some changes to remove all data prior to the year 2000 from the database of undrogued drifters, which Griffin points out are out of alignment and too slow. I have found 10 transoceanic drifter buoys from the years 2009 to 2017 that passed the 7th Arc at various latitudes from 13°S to 33°S and various months including Jan, Mar, May, Jul, Sep, Nov and Dec. I will compare their tracks with the tracks predicted by my simulator software.
I have analysed the latest update and conclusion from Griffin, with results up to 8°S along the 7th Arc. The conclusion is still based on one item of debris arriving too early in Reunion, “According to our model, the flaperon’s arrival at Reunion is not consistent with crash sites north of 25°S.” By contrast, Griffin’s Fig. 1 still shows high windage Items arriving in Africa from 23S northwards are much more likely, than latitudes further south.
There are 27 items of debris to fit into an analysis, not just one. What if the windage of the flaperon does not fit the Fig. 1 scenario with 10 cm/sec at 20? Low windage items in Griffin’s view (see his Fig. 2) are more likely to reach Reunion from 17S to 20S and to reach Africa from 23S northwards. There were no ocean trials with the genuine flaperon, how can we be sure the windage was, as Griffin predicts. What if the flaperon was slightly submerged and had no or only low windage? The low windage results from Griffin show, in this case, 17S to 20S as more likely MH370 end points.
@Neils
@Niels said: While imo there are strong indicators for an impact south of 25S
Maybe your strong indicators are all based on drift analysis – I can’t comment on that.
But if you believe the ATSB/DSTG particle filter modelling, that model only works for a very special case with a live pilot at the controls. And the failure of the search based on the modelling suggests that assuming a ghost flight could be a bad assumption.
If you assume that ZS was at the controls to water entry, this makes a crash location above 25S much more likely.
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December 4, 2018 by Osa Blume · Activism
Incels: The Dangerous New Wave of Women-Haters
In the wake of the Florida yoga-studio murders, Osa Blume studies the angry men at the center of this scary movement.
At first, the senseless November 2nd murders of two women at a Tallahassee, Florida, yoga studio may have seemed to be a random act of violence by a lone gunman. But it soon became apparent that the gunman (we refuse to use his name), who wounded four others and pistol-whipped a fifth victim before killing himself, was associated with a group—a men’s “movement,” some call it—whose targets are, simply, women.
The Tallahassee gunman reportedly had a history of harassing women and was twice arrested for groping. His social media accounts were strewn with sexist slurs and rants against “whores” and “slutty girls.” Among his numerous vicious video posts was a song threatening to “blow off” a woman’s head. And in another clip he referenced a misogynist mass murderer—and a martyr/hero to the subculture known as “incels.”
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The Incel Movement: A Frightening Phenomenon
Incel, shorthand for “involuntary celibate,” pertains to a community of predominantly straight men who want sexual or romantic relationships but cannot seem to achieve them. Rather than internalize the perceived rejection, “Incels cast blame on women for their sexual troubles, suggesting that women are shallow and cruel,” explains Ross Haenfler, a sociology professor at Grinnell College and the author of Subcultures: The Basics. “They experience ‘aggrieved entitlement,’ anger and resentment based on a conscious or unconscious sense that they are not getting what they deserve.”
Incels cast blame on women for their own sexual troubles.
What these men consider their due goes far beyond sex, however. “Incels believe that a man should be the master of his own fate, and when they discover that they’re not, they make women the scapegoat for all their failings,” says Andrew Smiler, PhD, a Winston-Salem, North Carolina, psychotherapist and author of Dating & Sex: A Guide for the 21st Century Teen Boy. Failings, indeed: Many incels are believed to work low-level jobs or be unemployed. They also tend to describe themselves as unattractive by traditional standards and bemoan having little to no social life.
It might be comforting to think that there can’t be a lot of men who blame women for, well, everything. Only 16 percent of men reported having no sexual partners in the previous 12 months according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, and it’s impossible to estimate how many of those might adhere to incel ideology. But more pertinent than the number of incels is how dangerous they might be. “It may seem to some people that this is a group of pathetic, victimized white males who just are lonely,” says Heidi Beirich, who tracks hate groups for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). “It’s not. It’s ugly.”
Strange Roots
Ironically, the term incel was first coined by a young woman who, in 1993, started a website to discuss sexual inactivity. Several years later she abandoned the site and the term, but it was appropriated—and distorted—by misogynists who often gravitated online to such popular platforms as Reddit forums and the message board 4chan (both known for uncensored musings on guy culture) to complain about their plight and degrade the imagined culprits.
Their struggle is expressed as pure hatred of women who seized their power; women who demean, deride or, just as bad, ignore them.
Though it seems odd that such men would self-identify by a term stolen from their enemy, experts are not at all surprised by their emergence. “Our culture has defined masculinity through the objectification and control of women,” explains Edward Morris, PhD, a sociology professor at the University of Kentucky. “Men are taught to view women as objects to possess rather than human beings to relate to, and to measure masculinity in large part through symbolic or real sexual conquests. Incels appear to struggle with that cultural message.”
Their self-pitying struggle is expressed as pure hatred of women as a whole—women, who seized their power; women, who demean, deride or, just as bad, ignore them. Yet while misogyny is nothing new, in the past men were apt to hide feelings of emasculation by women, lest they appear weak. The digital age changed all that.
Incels and the Internet
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Unbridled woman bashing won’t fly in the town square or at a cocktail party. It’s a different story on the internet. “What isn’t acceptable in face-to-face interactions may become acceptable online because the normative regulations are less calcified,” says Morris. “Deep-seated biases that often remain hidden or even unconscious can become unearthed online where the social structure is more open with less clarity on norms and punishments.”
Plus, when users hide behind avatars or alternate selves, no one knows who they really are—how easily anonymity breeds contempt. Disturbingly, anonymity allows them to hide in plain sight: the guy who bags your groceries, the technician who fixes the copy machine, the time bomb next door.
On the Internet, anonymity breeds contempt
The internet also provides a place for like to seek like and achieve strength in numbers—leading to mob mentality. “Men are able to find a community of other men online who share their experiences and frustrations and collectively protest their subordinate status,” says Morris.
Unfortunately, incels have done more than protest; some have advocated using mass rape as a weapon among other forms of violence against women. Beirich of the SPLC calls them “one of the most violent areas of the internet.” And the virtual world is leaking into the real world, with tragic results.
Their Fury Is Real
The real-world horror of incels has been gaining steam since 2009, the year a man (who described his sexual failures on his website) entered a health club near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and started firing two handguns at an aerobics class, killing three women and injuring nine others before committing suicide. Five years later, another aggrieved man insisted “it was women’s fault for refusing to have sex with me”; he then embarked on a killing spree in Isla Vista, California, that left seven dead (himself included) and 13 injured. The following year another man killed nine people and injured eight others before killing himself at an Oregon community college; he, too, wrote about his social and sexual frustration, claiming that he was a virgin but “involuntarily so.”
Our political situation may fuel incel fire.
In April of this year, a Canadian man lauded the Isla Vista killer in a Facebook post, declaring the “incel rebellion has already begun” before allegedly driving a van into a crowd in Toronto, Canada, killing 10 people (he is now awaiting trial). Next came the Tallahassee attack, which took the lives of physician Nancy Van Vessem, MD, 61, and student Maura Binkley, 21 — two innocent people who perhaps had nothing in common besides a yoga practice … and the fact that they were female.
Sadly, our political situation—with a commander in chief who boasted about grabbing women by the genitals, claiming he had the power to do so—may fuel incel fire. “The current American President provides cover for a variety of hateful sexist, racist and xenophobic messages,” says Haenfler (who points out, as do other experts, that incels also rail against immigrants, people of color, members of the LGBTQ community—any group whose efforts toward empowerment threatens them). “There’s also the more commonplace sexism on display during the Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings. The climate invites incels to express extremely vile opinions without much repercussion.”
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What’s Being Done?
“While only a handful of incels commit mass murder, middle-class and upper middle-class women—who have long assumed a level of safety and security—are recognizing that they’re not really safe,” says Smiler. “This violence against women is random and may show up anywhere you might commonly find yourself.” The gym, the mall, the park—basically any public place is vulnerable to incel attack, and those who track and report on hate group activity have not found law enforcement, from local police to the FBI, to be monitoring this insidious hate group.
The most reasonable counterattack is a relentless outcry against websites that allow incels to proliferate.
Still, there are ample incel-inhibiting ideas floating around. Some conservatives advocate rewarding religious virtues like abstinence. Some liberals and libertarians favor legalizing prostitution to reduce the stigma attached to paying for sex. Robin Hanson, a George Mason University economist, has even suggested the redistribution of sex, akin to the redistribution of wealth.
Perhaps the most reasonable counterattack is a relentless outcry against websites that allow incels to proliferate. “We should take a page from the anti-fascist activists who’ve done so much to kick back against the so-called ‘alt-right,’ working diligently behind the scenes to take away their platforms online,” journalist David Futrelle, who explores the online male supremacist movement on his blog, wrote in an op-ed for The Globe and Mail, indicating successful efforts to banish alt-right sympathizers from Twitter and Facebook and prevent their fundraising on PayPal and Patreon.
There’s been some self-policing, too, but progress has been slow. Last year Reddit shut down a 40,000-member incel forum but allowed another to fester freely.
Retaliation Through Education
Incels are unlikely to seek counseling (rejecting therapy being another ingrained hallmark of masculinity), but there is hope of curbing their toxicity if we focus on young people. “We need to overhaul what it means to be boys and men—and better yet, question the boxes in which we put boys and girls, men and women, while making trans and gender-fluid people invisible,” says Haenfler. “Many boys feel pressure to ‘prove’ their masculinity by hiding vulnerability, being tough and, too often, demonstrating their heterosexuality through sexual conquest of women.”
Smiler counsels teaching our sons and grandsons how to accept rejection. “In sports and school, the lesson is always, ‘try harder!’ but what’s useful when learning a skill isn’t the answer when you wish to win someone’s heart. Boys have to know it’s okay to be disappointed, and how to express that disappointment, so that being sad doesn’t get stuffed down and ultimately come back as anger.”
We need to overhaul what it means to be boys and men.
Remember our daughters’ role in the equation, too: “Raise girls to appreciate nice guys and send the right message about what is desirable,” Smiler says. “There’s a whole range of choices we make that reinforces or encourages behavior from nice guys, and it comes out in who you vote for, what activities you value and where you spend your money.”
He also urges finding teaching moments by using media literacy questions. “When watching TV or movies with kids, ask things like: ‘Which character would you like to be and why?’ and ‘What would you do in this situation?’” he says. “Remind them that life is not a movie. If a male character behaves in an unacceptable way and is rewarded, ask, ‘Would that happen in real life?’ Have an open conversation about it, and tie it into values about respect and equality.”
Bottom line, says Haenfler, “All adults—and I would especially call upon men—must teach boys to unlearn the more damaging aspects of masculinity, to not feel entitled to women’s attention and to respect all people.”
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There has never been so much misinformation on the largest group of young men and boys than in this article, wherein the author uses a creepy facade as helper and bearer of wisdom. You’re neither. This sort of concept that “incels” are all the perpetrators and should be expelled from society and that all women are their victims has completely missed the pain they experience and the terrible social priming they were involuntarily given by permissive parents and begrudgingly bureaucratic and sterile societal norms now being engineered from the top down about how men and women work.
As if men can just be raised to be given everything they want as little kids with zero boundaries and delay of gratification, and then when their “incel” life unfolds because of it, we should just shame them and say they are actually the problem and all women are their victims all the time and let’s write hit pieces about how pathetic they are
How the fuck does that help? Can you not see you are contributing to that raw resentment and nihilism they already bear?
I’ve passed that incel part of my life which i was in for years but I broke out and took responsibility for my life through the patience and kindness of others and the open heart of a good women to whom im forever grateful for. But, if everyone believed the bullshit being spouted in this article, i would still be that same lonely angry 4chan troll that no one gives a shit about.
You don’t change these people with shame and labels as perpetrators. It just makes it worse. The pain is REAL. Dont think just because it’s straight white men that it automatically makes all their grievances invalid and that it’s just a misfiring of their super special privilege as protected little diamonds of aristocracy. They often bear the most pain due to.the sterility of their social and family lives, and due to never having father figures to guide and channel their testosterone. They need help. They need dads
Charmaine says
Good article. Very well thought out and articulated. One minor dispute with your point about teaching girls to appreciate ‘nice guys’. If rejection leads a ‘nice guy’ to these extremes, he’s not a nice guy. Let’s make that point and dispel the ‘nice guy’ turned bad myth. As Mae West once said- ‘ there’s no such thing as a good girl gone bad. Just a bad girl found out’. Same principle applies. There’s no such thing as a nice guy gone bad. Just a bad boy found out.
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Revealing that he initially went to Marvel Studios in hope of doing a Hit Monkey movie, James Gunn recently talked all things Guardians of the Galaxy with Kevin Pereira following last week's teaser trailer debut. While a portion of the Pointless Podcast interview was also revealed last week, the full audio has the director discuss more Rocket Raccoon, Vin Diesel's "I am Groot" delivery, a "beautiful" overhead scene with Peter Quill, the motive of the mad titan Thanos and much more.
"Rocket is a result of countless and cruel, illegal genetic experiments, where he's been turned--from an innocent little creature, where he has an IQ of three, and he becomes this thing that's completely alone; this gnarled little beast," said Gunn of the gun-toting raccoon, voiced by actor Bradley Cooper. He's pretty sad." Speaking on Groot, "All of the 'I am Groots' that were earlier voices didn't sound very good at all, they sounded like sh#t. It just didn't work. Then Vin Diesel came in and, in one day, lied down all these 'I am Groot' tracks, and he's a perfectionist. He made me explain to him exactly what (Groot) was saying (before each delivery)" Gunn also said that both Diesel and Bradley Cooper were videotaped for reference while doing voice work.
Though filming is his least favorite part of making a movie, James Gunn said that his experience on Guardians of the Galaxy was much better than with his first two movies, Slither and Super.
"There's one shot that I'm thinking of; the characters are imprisoned early on in the movie and there's this overhead shot of Peter Quill and he's sleeping on the floor in what we call the Locked Up Abroad shot. It's Quill surrounded on the floor with all these different aliens, disgusting, they're all sleeping, packed together like sardines. It was just a really beautiful shot and we have it overhead completely with the camera slightly revolving as he's sitting there wide awake and all these gross aliens are asleep around him. I was able to take time and compose the shot in the same way you would design a painting, and changing little guys. It wasn't like it took an extraordinary time to do it, but we took some time at doing and that was something that I'd had really never been able to do in my entire career," enthused Gunn.
When pressed about the Infinity Gauntlet and Thanos, whose "employees" are main villains of Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn said: "Here's the thing, truthfully the Marvel Cinematic Universe takes out of both the 616 and Ultimate Marvel Comics universe, and then they recreate some elements themselves. What Thanos wants in the comics is not necessarily what Thanos wants in the movies; we don't know yet." Also during the hour-long interview, Gunn also said there are no Skrulls, but there's some additional filming in the cards.
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The Case Against Kris Russell Part 1
December 2, 2016, 9:30 PM | Matt Henderson
Alright. I’ve been overly damned cheery for weeks on this site. I think it’s a pretty much non-stop stream of happiness since the season began, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that the Oilers are on the verge of doing something incredibly unadvisable: Extending Kris Russell. It makes so little sense for so many reasons, and yet here we are. Let’s have a conversation about this.
This is part 1 of 2 articles that will talk about the prospects of extending Kris Russell. Today the focus is on the player himself and where he fits on the club. Tomorrow the second article will run discussing the various reason why extending Russell is a truly awful idea.
Let’s start with the cold hard truth. Kris Russell is Edmonton’s worst defender.
I’ve already lost a segment of readers and I accept that. For some people, saying the obvious is offensive and there are others that just can’t acknowledge the truth. It’s understandable that the statement may seem shocking, although it’s dangerous to come to any other conclusion than the one stated above.
I know that Kris Russell skates really well. I know that he blocks lots of shots and is always willing to sacrifice his body. There are times when he uses those skills and good things happen on the ice as a direct result. It’s fantastic that he can skate with the puck like he did during a 4v4 recently and create an opportunity for the team.
The problem with Russell, and it’s what makes him so thoroughly dangerous to the Oilers, is that the things he does well are really noticeable but what he does poorly often goes by invisibly. For example, he will block two shots in a shift and retrieve the puck in the corner, take some strides, then move the puck out of the zone. The eyes catch all of that really well. What they are not generally trained to see is that Russell’s side was targeted by the attacking team, he gave them unobstructed entry to the zone by giving a 10-foot gap, and after he threw the puck up the ice it was immediately picked up by the attacking team and brought back in again.
This imaginary sequence of events I’ve used as an example happens very frequently with Russell and it’s bearing out in all of the non-traditional stats we can get out hands on. Once you start looking for entries allowed and successful transitions back up to offense, there is one Oiler defender who starts standing out in the least positive way possible: Kris Russell. It’s then impossible to unsee it.
Kris Russell’s fave position pic.twitter.com/0zjqtKA83N
— Mathmew Purrrr Oh! (@maxthesilent) December 2, 2016
Every player has a Risk/Reward benefit. Every single one. It’s all about what you create minus what you give up. For a player like Dustin Byfuglien he’s constantly derided for weaknesses in his own zone, but he more than makes up for them with his impact in the offensive zone. Someone like Adam Larsson we recognize has limits in the offensive zone but he’s stronger defensively.
Kris Russell, however, is neither strong offensively nor stellar defensively. This is a bad combination, but it’s actually his impact on offense that should be most alarming. Of course, it’s the WAY in which he chooses to defend that negatively impacts his ability to transition back up to offense. No matter which way you look at it, Kris Russell is a ticking time-bomb for the team.
Edmonton has had seven defensemen play at least 200 minutes 5v5 this season. Here is where Russell ranks of those seven in some key statistical categories.
Corsi For per 60: 7th (50.03 CF/60)
Corsi Against per 60: 7th (56.36 CA/60)
Corsi For Percentage: 7th (47.0%)
Fenwick For per 60: 7th (38.34 FF/60)
Fenwick Against per 60: 6th (39.87 FA/60) *This should be one of the stats he performs best in because he’s a shot blocker. Fenwick counts only unblocked shot attempts.*
Fenwick For Percentage: 7th (49.0%)
Shots For per 60: 7th (28.18 SF/60)
Shots Against per 60: 3rd (28.37 SA/60) *Good Job!*
Shots For Percentage: 7th (49.8%)
Scoring Chances For per 60: 7th (18.96 SCF/60)
Scoring Chances Against per 60: 3rd (19.98 SCA/60)
Scoring Chance For Percentage: 5th (48.69%)
Offensive Zone Faceoff Percentage: 4th (33.7%)
Defensive Zone Faceoff percentage: 3rd (32.7%)
On-Ice Shooting Percentage: 2nd (10.2%)
Save Percentage: 2nd (94.59%)
PDO: 2nd (104.8)
So that’s a pretty big wall of information. Here are the key takeaways for me: Russell is last or next to last in every single shot metric we have available. In Scoring Chances against he’s doing an OK job of staying in the middle of the pack, but the team also generates the lowest number of chances for when he’s on the ice. He’s also getting a pretty even distribution of zone starts so I can’t blame his low numbers on bizarre usage.
At the same time as all of that, Kris Russell has a stellar PDO. Our eyes should be in love with Kris Russell and our brains should associate him with success because he is riding a wave of percentages that are covering up his deficiencies. In the four years prior to joining the Oilers, Kris Russell’s on-ice save percentage was 91.74%. I think it’s highly unlikely that at 29 years of age Kris Russel has figured out how to make his goalie jump to 94.59%. The inventor of PDO himself (Brian King) says that the stat was created because the Oilers were extending players with high numbers and dealing away for pennies the ones with low numbers. Teams mistake great PDO for great talent then make awful decisions.
There are things that no metric can tell you, like how a player is in the dressing room, what kind of character they have, etc. All of those things are inputs. They are tools that the player has available to help him/her get the job done. The metrics help inform us as to how well the job is getting done. In Russell’s case, we have a lot of information that says the team struggles to move the puck in the right direction when he’s on the ice.
Where does he fit on the blue line? If you had to keep one player moving forward, Russell or _____, how many Oiler defenders do you go through before you keep Russell? He makes it through the entire list for me.
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Matt Henderson 4 years ago
I await all of your measured responses
McRaj 4 years ago
CHEERS 114
Sorry Matt but I find it you have a huge bias against the player. You don’t think he is an NHL D-Man.
114 CHEERS
Gravis82 4 years ago
How is matt biased against the player. His opinion is based on the numbers. Its the least biased here of all of them
L 4 years ago
How?????? Oooooh this is a joke. Ha ha ha good one
Tell me how. How do you know he is biased. I see him forming opinion based on widely accepted metrics.
1) Do you think the metrics are wrong?
2) Or do you think Henderson in misunderstanding the metrics?
If 1) Tell me why you think that.
if 2) Tell me how he is doing it wrong.
Todd Harvey Fan Club 4 years ago
Or confirmation bias, you archeologyguy D rider
Define for me what you believe confirmation to be, as it pertains to data analysis in this situation.
Then, tell me how you know Matt has demonstrated this bias as you define it.
If you cannot do that, then you may be the one who is biased and not even know it
Any player that puts out but has bad stat analysis is always going to be destroyed by guys like this. Move on
Agree with everything here. Seriously. Great article.
Osmosis_jones 4 years ago
We should’ve traded Nuge for Seth Jones when we had the chance. Then we wouldn’t even have to argue about Kris Russell and we could worry about who’s going to be our 3rd line centre.
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OLLIE AND LYNETTE ON THE WORLD
Exploring the World. One Country at a Time.
Highlights of Yunnan Province
Mar 12, 2019 Oct 2, 2019 Lynette
In Spring 2018 Ollie and I spent a month in China, on what was our first trip to this hugely diverse country. We landed in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, which is the most diverse in all of China.
More than half of the country’s minority groups can be found in Yunnan, along with arguably some of its best scenery and landscapes. From tropical jungle in the south of the province, bordering Thailand, to stunning snow-capped mountains in the north towards Tibet, Yunnan is a sensory overload that definitely left its imprint on our hearts and memories.
We arrived in Kunming in the very early hours of the morning and took a bus into the city centre, followed by a taxi to our hostel, which we had luckily notified of our inconvenient arrival time.
Kunming is nicknamed ‘city of eternal spring’ because of its pleasant year-round climate; it has a laid-back charm that’s often missing in big cities. We only spent one night in Kunming, though there is enough in and around the city to have warranted a far longer stay. However, despite having only arrived in the early hours, we were back up and out bright and early, ready for a full day of exploring!
Although Kunming is quite spread out, the city centre, where all the key sights are located, is relatively compact so we were able to save money by exploring on foot. We headed first to Green Lake Park, just a short walk from our hostel, which looked beautiful in all its springtime glory. Pretty pink blossom was everywhere, looking even more radiant against the perfect blue-sky backdrop. Trendy cafes, tea-houses and shops line the park roads and locals practice tai-chi in the mid-morning warmth; it was a perfect welcome to China.
That day, as we ambled around the city centre, we noticed the seamless blend of traditional and modernity. Amid the shopping malls and hectic city traffic we enjoyed Yuantong Temple, the city’s largest Buddhist complex, and the East and West Pagodas, both Tang structures.
We will certainly return to Kunming; aside from being a great starting point from which to explore more of Yunnan, there are also many worthwhile sights just outside the city. These include the Bamboo Temple, Xi Shan (Western Hills) and Lake Dian.
Yuantong Temple in Kunming
Yuanyang Rice Terraces
From Kunming we took a long bus seven hours south to the Yuanyang Rice Terraces, which had been on our China bucket list for a good long while. Covering roughly 125 square km and hewn from the land by the Hani throughout the centuries, they are certainly one of Yunnan’s most impressive sights.
The best time to visit is when the terraces are flooded with water, when they are turned into an artist’s palette at sunrise and sunset. We just so happened to be there in the perfect season.
We spent an enjoyable few days hiking around the area, catching different terraces at their best, rolling fog and cloud banks adding to the effect at sunrise. We based ourselves in picturesque Pugaolao, a traditional Hani village set amidst the rice terraces. The tranquil pace was much needed after Kunming and having the spectacular Duoyishu Terraces on our doorstep meant getting to the viewpoint in time for sunrise was an easy walk away.
Exploring the surrounding villages, dodging water buffalo, chickens and pigs, we wandered the timeless stone pathways; it gave us a real sense of traditional China and gratitude that modernity had not completely taken over.
The Duoyishu Terraces at Sunrise
From Yuanyang we journeyed on to Dali, Yunnan’s original backpacker hangout. Lying on the western edge of Erhai Lake at an altitude of 1900m, Dali has a fascinating old city and a stunning backdrop of the imposing Cang Shan – Green Mountains.
We arrived early in the morning, having broken the journey in Kunming the previous night, and spent the day exploring the old walled city. It’s a beautiful place, full of traditional Chinese architecture and temples, making for some wonderful snaps. Despite it being a pretty touristy place, we were able to wander round, unhassled, and soak up the historical energy of the place.
The city is full of handicraft stores, the products made by the local Bai population, and opportunities abound to taste some of the local delicacies. Bai food makes use of local flora and fauna, some of which is unrecognisable!
We managed to find a really great little restaurant and ate there every night during our stay in Dali. The vegetable dishes were fresh and plentiful and the mapo tofu turned out to be some of the best we tasted throughout our whole month in China.
In Dali Old Town
Hiking the Cang Shan
The following morning we were ready to get out of town and into some more natural surroundings; the rampant commercialism and presence of Starbucks within the old city was enough for one day! Hiking the Cang Shan is a world away and offers an enchanting respite from the hustle and bustle below.
We completed a full-day 11km hike, emerging back at the town’s edge as the light was beginning to fade. The path, called Jade Belt Road, is paved and easy to walk yet we saw few other hikers, Chinese tourists preferring to see the main sights by chairlift access.
Erhai Lake
We spent our final day in Dali exploring some of the area around Erhai Lake, which, at 1973m above sea level and covering 250 square km, is the seventh largest freshwater lake in China. We cycled from our guesthouse to Caicun, a pleasant little village at the lake’s edge. From there we headed a little further around the shore; we didn’t, however, attempt the full circuit which, at 98km, is too much for one day!
It’s possible to take boat trips on the water and also to visit the east side and a number of lakeside villages. We didn’t but would love to another time. Shuanglang town is reportedly very beautiful, with a labyrinth of winding alleys and traditional homes, as are Putuo Island and its temple, set on a photogenic rocky outcrop.
There are also colourful markets almost every day of the week around Dali, selling everything from food products and clothing to jewellery and local batik. The one in Yousuo is apparently the largest in all of Yunnan!
Ollie beside Erhai Lake
Shaxi
After Dali we spent two nights in Shaxi, one of only three surviving caravan oases that stretched from Yunnan to India and the only one with a functioning market; on Fridays Bai and Yi villagers converge on the tiny hamlet. Shaxi is a throwback to the days of the Tea Horse Road, when Yunnan tea was exchanged for the prized horses ridden by the Tibetan warriors.
Sugar and salt were also carried by the caravans of horses, mules and yaks and the trails were used by the likes of Buddhist monks and foreign armies to move between Myanmar, India and China. In WWII it was a vital supply route for the Allied troops fighting the Japanese in China. However, peace and the communist takeover in 1949 put an end to the road.
Shaxi is a delight to explore with its rustic wooden houses, courtyards and narrow winding lanes; it was the traditional rural China we had been searching for. The scenery is especially evocative down by the river, where it is possible to rent a pony by the hour and ride part of the trail yourself. We stayed in a cute, compact guesthouse just off from the village square, where there was a big black Tibetan mastiff for company!
The Old Tea Horse Trail Town of Shaxi
Tiger Leaping Gorge
Our three-day trek through Tiger Leaping Gorge, one of the deepest in the world, was the best part about our Yunnan experience. Almost every step of the way, gorgeous scenery was there to take our breaths away. From snow capped mountains to lush green oasis villages, this is an unmissable hike if you’re in the province.
We started in Qiaotou, where we left our big backpacks at Jane’s Tibetan Guesthouse. From there we spent two nights on the trail, first at Naxi Family Guesthouse, which had stunning views from the rooftop and was set around a pretty courtyard, and then at Tibet Guesthouse, near Walnut Garden.
On the third day we picked up a mini van from Tina’s Guesthouse, a short walk back where the trail met the road, and were on our way to Shangri La, looping back on the way to collect our backpacks in Qiaotou.
Starting the Tiger Leaping Gorge Trek
Before we departed Tina’s, we took a short yet extremely steep trail down to the middle rapids and the Tiger Leaping Stone, where the gorge gets its name. A tiger is said to have once leapt across the Yangzi at this point.
Aside from the incredible scenery, another highlight of the trek is the fantastic food along the way; it was definitely the best of our entire month in China. The veggies are wholesome and organic and the rice is locally grown; the tea is also some of China’s finest.
Beautiful Scenes in the Gorge
At an altitude of 3200m, Shangri La was extremely cold in March and we were very grateful for the log burner in the communal area of our guesthouse to keep warm by. In fact, it was hard to steal ourselves away when it came to bedtime! Yet, despite the biting chill, Shangri La was another huge highlight of our trip with its intriguing blend of Tibetan and Han Chinese culture and unmistakable Tibetan monasteries and architecture.
Surrounded by mountains, lakes and grassland, Shangri La was meant to be our last stop in Yunnan before an epic adventure through Western Sichuan to Chengdu. However, fate was not on our side; Western Sichuan used to be part of Tibet proper (the old region of Kham) and the Chinese government periodically closes the region to foreign travellers, especially during Tibetan New Year in March. We have plans to do this rugged road trip another time.
Shangri La is divided into the larger modern side and the old town, which was devastated by a fire in 2014 but which has now been almost completely rebuilt. Fortunately, the two are within walking distance, as are the key sights, so getting around is easy. The old town is a place to soak up the unique Tibetan vibe and explore traditional temples and winding cobbled alleys.
Ganden Sumtseling Gompa near Shangri La
There is Zhuangjin Tong, a huge prayer wheel standing at 21m high and containing 100,000 small prayer wheels, Guishan Temple and 100 Chickens Temple, which offers amazing views over Shangri La. We also visited Ganden Sumtseling Gompa, a 300-year-old Tibetan monastery complex with around 600 monks. It is impressive to say the least.
Options around Shangri La are endless with villages, mountains, meadows and lakes all waiting to be explored; the only issue can be getting to them independently. Public transport is scarce in these remote parts.
Walking up to 100 Chickens Temple
Having hastily re-planned the remainder of our trip in Shangri La, we turned on our tails and headed back south to the popular old town of Lijiang, somewhere we’d purposefully planned to avoid. However, we were pleasantly surprised and actually really enjoyed our short time there; it just shows that sometimes you have to make up your own mind about a place.
With its winding maze of cobbled streets, old wooden buildings and gushing canals, Lijiang sucks in over 8 million people a year, but not without good reason. It is a very, very pretty place. The old town is a must to explore but, with the predictable number of other explorers, we had to do it in small doses!
Just a short walk away, Black Dragon Pool Park offers an obligatory photo opportunity of Yulong Xueshan, also known as Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. If you want to avoid paying the entrance fee, do as we did and enter via the back door after having hiked Xiang Shan – Elephant Hill. The hike started just up from our guesthouse and meanders across a spiny ridge, with stunning views over the surrounding area, to the other side of the hill and the park.
Stunning Views from Black Dragon Pool Park
Baisha and Shuhe
During our time in Lijiang, we also visited nearby Baisha village and Shuhe old town. Baisha is known as a centre of Naxi embroidery; this minority descend from ethnically Tibetan Qiang tribes and, until recently, lived in matrilineal families.
Shuhe, on the other hand, resembles Lijiang in many ways, complete with hordes of day trippers seeking a marginally more tranquil setting. It was also a staging post on the Tea Horse Road.
We enjoyed wandering the cobblestone alleys and streets south of the main square, which were picturesque at the foot of Yulong Xueshan. If you have more time, you can head to Jade Peak Monastery, on a hillside 5km past Baisha, or up Jade Dragon Snow Mountain itself, which is kitted out with chairlifts and exorbitant entrance fees!
The Big Water Wheel in Lijiang Old Town
Having been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997, Lijiang is firmly on the tourist trail, both for Western and Chinese travellers alike. Yet, it is a quintessential part of the Yunnan experience that we were glad not to have missed.
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Posted on May 29, 2013 September 21, 2013 by Ana Francisca Silva
The following essay will explore the relationship between gender and disguise in Haywood’s Fantomina[2] and Defoe’s Roxana[3] and demonstrate how masquerades and disguises provided a level of freedom that was seldom permitted to women in 18th century English society.
Eighteenth-century society confined bourgeois women mainly into the home or around ‘polite assembly’. As opposed to their male counterparts, who could move freely in public,[4] ‘only masquerade provided… women’s social mobility.’ [5] Whilst in disguise as a prostitute, Fantomina is able to escape many of the social restrictions she must conform to whilst she is ‘the Haughty Awe-Inspiring Lady.’ However, as the prostitute, when Beauplaisir approaches her and they begin to converse in a ‘free and unrestrain’d manner’ she derives a ‘vast deal of Pleasure’ from this social liberation. She is no longer restrained beneath the social expectations of her ‘distinguished Birth’, or in other words, her true identity as a woman of the upper-classes:
Slippers, and a Nightgown loosely flowing, has been the Garb in
which he has left the languishing Fantomina; – Lac’d, and adorn’d
with all the Blaze of Jewels, has he, in less than an Hour after,
beheld… the Haughty Awe- Inspring Lady’[6]
Henry Robert Morland, The Fair Nun Unmasked, c. 1769
Just as she sheds one costume for another (and one identity for another), she escapes from her socially-defined identity and the associated customs of conventionality. As a prostitute, she is able to expose herself, whilst her reputation, and her identity, remain completely protected. In fact, the disparity between her behavior as her true self and her disguise as the prostitute are so great, that although Beauplaisir ‘look’d in her Face, and fancy’d … that she very much resembled that Lady whom she really was’, her manners as Fantomina prevented him from thinking ‘that they coul’d be the same.’ There is a sense of freedom in hiding her true identity; and although she initially confesses to indulge in an ‘innocent curiosity’, it becomes a way of life for the heroine as she goes on to hide behind three more disguises. Castle points out that ‘masks and disguises protected the reputations of middle- and upper- class women’[8] and the heroine in Fantomina realizes this as an opportunity for her own social and sexual liberation early in the novel.
The anonymity of disguise enable the female to play the seduction game knowingly and deliberately and it could be argued that the heroine’s clever disguises in Fantomina enable her to tie him to one love object, and thus, attain what she desires. She is no longer the hysterical ingénue; she is a conscious competitor in the seduction game. The heroine herself is not only self-conscious of, but promotes the use of ‘this method’, of disguise in courtship, to all ‘neglected wives’ in order to catch ‘Men… in their own snare.’ These feminist comments may suggest that Haywood makes a critique against male ‘rakish’ behavior, which ‘still prefer the last Conquest, only because it is the last.’ In order to retain power and control, ‘Fantomina wishes to re-enact the scene of seduction, to return to the momentary power that the woman experiences in courtship.’[9] In other words, each disguise is an attempt at regaining the power that she looses once her body has been ‘possessed’ by Beauplaisir. As Fantomina rightly recognizes, Beauplaisir varies ‘not so much from his sex as to be able to prolong desire to any great length after possession.’ It is through disguise that Fantomina obtains power over her lover; disguise does not only excite his sexual desire for her (by appearing as a new conquest each time), but also enables her to remain desired by him, even after he has already possessed her. Fantomina congratulates herself on successfully transforming her traditional gender role from the deceived, to the deceiver; ‘I have outwitted even the most Subtle of the deceiving Kind, and while he thinks to fool me, is himself the only beguiled person.’
The transformative nature of the masquerade is recaptured in the masquerade scene in Roxana. However, unlike Fantomina who consciously constructs each of her disguised identities, Roxana has an identity imposed upon her;
Gentlemen cry’d out Roxana ! Roxana ! … upon which
foolish Accident I had the Name of Roxana presently
fix’d upon me… as effectually as if I had been Christene’d
Roxana [10]
‘Roxana’ is the name used in the ‘drama of the late seventeenth-century as a generic name for an oriental queen’[11] but she later complains that ‘it began to be publick, that Roxana was, in short, a meer Roxana’. Used in this way, the name means courtesan or mistress and the woman who has been labeled ‘Roxana’ often prefers to remain ‘Incognito’.[12] Her anonymity allows her to move freely between countries and men; but as the narrator reminds us, namelessness can be dangerous just as it is advantageous.[13] She becomes increasingly frightened of being recognized ‘for fear some impertinent Person of Quality shou’d chop upon me again, and cry out, Roxana, Roxana’. Unfortunately, that impertinent person happens to be her own daughter, who creates further turmoil by admitting that she not only knew that she was ‘the same Lady Roxana that danc’d in the Turkish Vest’ but later exclaims, ‘I know my Lady’s name and family very well; Roxana was not her name, that’s true indeed.’ This frightening realization – that someone has seen past her disguise – is much more problematic for Roxana, just as it is for Fantomina. The protection that the disguise provides affords them the opportunity to abuse their sexual licence, and it is the withdrawal of this luxury that leads to their downfalls.
Although Roxana remains effectively disguised in her Turkish dress, Wahrman points out that the masquerade was not merely a game of dress-up, it was about a transformation into a disguise that would render you unrecognizable to anybody that was not in on the secret.[14] Unfortunately for Roxana, she is discovered and ends the novel, ‘brought so low again, that my Repentance seem’d to be the only Consequence of my Misery’. It seems that through Roxana, Defoe makes a statement about the morality of the culture of masquerades, and the masquerade itself acts as ‘a moral trope – as the emblem of a world where all will appear to be what they are not’.[15] But one of the major differences between Defoe’s Roxana and Haywood’s Fantomina is in their reaction to their deceitful actions. For Fantomina, it is never a question of morality. In fact, the moral consequences of her actions are rarely discussed in the novel, and Haywood, unlike Defoe, strips her heroine of any moral consciousness. Fantomina seems to place more importance on her apparent virtue than her actual virtue; ‘’while he laughs at, and perhaps despises the fond, the yielding Fantomina, he will revere and esteem the virtuous, the reserv’d Lady.’ For Fantomina, the only thing she fears loosing is her reputation, and rightly so, because although she becomes ‘Shock’d… at the Apprehensions of really loosing my honour’ the only thing worse in eighteenth-century society is ‘the Danger of being expos’d, and the whole Affair made a theme for publick Ridicule.’ On the other hand, Defoe’s Roxana spends the last quarter of the novel plagued with guilt about her duplicitous past. Defoe employs a didactic tone for his narrator towards the end of the novel, and she muses;
Another Reflection was, How just it is, that Sin and Shame follow one
another so constantly at the Heels, that they are not like Attendants
only, but like Cause and Consequence, necessarily connected one with
another; that the Crime going before, the Scandal is certain to follow;
and that ’tis not in the Power of humane Nature to conceal the first, or
avoid the last.[16]
Although, Fantomina is punished at the end when she is sent to a convent in France, she shows no sign of repentance. Fantomina suffers none of the psychological torment seen in Roxana, but the novel offers a challenge to the conventional plot structure and gender positions of the traditional amatory fiction.[17] Ultimately, the masquerade and disguise were popular themes for novels during the eighteenth-century; not only because they featured heavily in popular culture, but also because novelists were able to explore the dynamics of desire through their characters. Fantomina, opens by introducing us to ‘a Young Lady of distinguished Birth, Beauty, Wit and Spirit’, but she is never named, and never characterized. Haywood does not create an individual identity for her heroine; instead, she gives her a stereotypical female role; ensuring that from the very beginning, the masquerade has already begun. Roxana also remains anonymous, we are never told: ‘what was Roxana’s real name’. Whilst Roxana adopts a new identity at the masquerade, Fantomina employs disguise, but it is Roxana who undergoes a complete reinvention of her identity. Her experience at the masquerade, ‘I not only did not know any-body else, but indeed, was far from knowing myself’, results in a loss of identity. This is followed by a complete reinvention of her identity, resulting in her being renamed ‘Roxana’; Wahrman describes this as the potential for ‘identity metamorphosis that was perceived to inhere in the eighteenth-century masquerade’.[18] However, whilst masquerade and disguise can also be a form of protection against male voyeurism by providing a distance between the self and the reinvented identity[19] it may be said that it could just as well be a painful submission of female desire. Although both Fantomina and Roxana successfully employ these tactics to access a greater freedom of social mobility, they do end the novel disgraced, unhappy and strictly ostracized from society.
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[1] Terry Castle, Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (London: Stanford University Press, 1986) p. 33
[2] Eliza Haywood, Fantomina (London: Dodo Press, 2008)
[3] Daniel Defoe and John Mullan, Roxana (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
[4] Ros Ballaster, Seductive Forms: Women’s Amatory Fiction from 1684 – 1740 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) p. 188
[5] Ibid., p. 188
[6] Defoe, Mullan, op.cit., p. 12
[7] Castle, op.cit., p. 33
[8] Ballaster, op.cit., pg. 189
[9] Defoe, Mullan, op.cit., pg. 176
[10] Ibid., pg. xviii
[13] Dror Wahrman, The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century En4land (New York: Yale University Press, 2006) p. 161
[14] Castle, op.cit., p. 194
[15] Defoe, Mullan, op.cit., p. 298
[16] Ballaster, op.cit., p. 192
[17] Wahrman, op.cit., p. 162
[18] Craft-Fairchild, op.cit., p. 65
Ballaster, Ros. Seductive Forms: Women’s Amatory Fiction from 1684 – 1740. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992
Blewett, David. ‘’’Roxana’’ and the Masquerades’, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 65, No. 3. (Jul., 1970), pp. 499 – 502
Castle, Terry. Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century Fiction. London: Stanford University Press, 1986
Craft-Fairchild, Catherine. Masquerade and Gender: Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women. London: The Penn State University Press, 1993
Defoe, Daniel and Mullan, John. Roxana. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008
Haywood, Eliza. Fantomina. London: Dodo Press, 2008
Kahn, Madeleine. Narrative Transvestism: Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel. New York: Cornell University Press, 1991
London, April. The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012
Potter, Tiffany. Honest Sins: Georgian Libertinism and the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1999
Wahrman, Dror. The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England. New York: Yale University Press, 2006
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Next to Rian Mosque, a new Palestinian school is under construction, Jab al Rachme Girls High School. At 3pm on Saturday, the guard saw a squad of Israeli soldiers enter the building and go upstairs. When they left, the guard discovered that they had written “Death to Arabs – Arabs must die” in Hebrew in permanent marker on one of the new white boards. The construction manager did not inform the police as from experience he said he had no expectation that they would respond.
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NOWTRUTH! is THE platform to organize, strategize, advocate and work for the END of the Grand Systemic and Endemic Corruption, which includes Judicial/Legal Systemic Racism as a subset!
NOWTRUTH!!! BECAUSE WE NEED TRUTH AND JUSTICE FROM THE COURTS MORE NOW THAN EVER, NOT HYPERPOLITICIZED, NUANCED LAW COMPLETE WITH THE REQUISITE NARRATIVE!! (LAW= Politically manufactured, orchestrated, strategic opinions, rulings, and orders for injustice to hide behind!)
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Superior and Appeals Court Fraud in Motion to Dismiss
As for the Appeals Court, the appeals court bases it’s decision to dismiss al-Hakim’s appeal entirely on CSAA’s contention that al-Hakim had failed and refused to comply with an unserved discovery request that was unopposed and as such should have their unserved motion to dismiss granted!
Defendants obtained this order from Commissioner Rausch as the product of fraud and deceit when again defendants got an UNOPPOSED order as al-Hakim was NEVER served any interrogatories and requests for the production of documents BUT Brand granted the Motion of al-Hakim to vacate and set aside the related order on MOTION NO. 3. of 4/16/18. (Filed 9/14/18)
Nor did defendants serve a motion to dismiss the appeal by CSAA, nor did al-Hakim receive any filing notice of any type from the Appeals Court of any motion to dismiss by CSAA.
MOTION NO. 3. (see 2/25/19 Brand Challenge at ¶¶ 18, Page 34-35)
Even though Brand set aside the order, his ruling is willfully blind, bias, prejudice, shrouded in fraud as he attempts to ignore the existence of the Fraud, Deception, Misrepresentation and Bad Faith Conduct of Defendants. Here Brand was presented with evidence of defendants sworn statements that clearly establish their fraud of al-Hakim, Extrinsic fraud upon the court, the People of the State of California by not having served the alleged documents, yet in his order he advocated a judicial imprimatur of the defense’s theory and demands “within 21 days of service of this order, Al-Hakim must produce responses to interrogatories (set one) and requests for the production of documents (set one). The responses must be without objection and must be verified” He totally disregards the fact that al-Hakim WAS NEVER SERVED, thus CAN NOT RESPOND!!
THIS ORDER WAS TAKEN OUT OF SHEER FRAUD AND DECIT BY CSAA FILING WITHOUT SERVING THE MOTIONS ON al-HAKIM.
al-Hakim has expressed repeatedly to the courts that he was NEVER served any motion to dismiss by CSAA, nor any motion to compel discovery by CSAA, and this is clearly a well established patterned litigation practice employed by them and al-Hakim has brought this fact to the attention of the courts many, many times before as well as CSAA historically NEVER has any supporting proof of service that is legally and properly executed, is always unsigned so that they are NOT under the penalty of perjury. The orders are the unsavory product of CSAA’s unscrupulous, immoral fraud and that immorality has been drastically redefined in recent times, arguably the boundaries of what is judicially acceptable remain publicly policed!
The Court of Appeal abuse its discretion and improperly prejudice al-Hakim when it dismissed his appeal given that Justice Barbara J.R. Jones July 16, 2018 order EVADES THE ENTIRE GRAVAMEN OF al-HAKIM’S ARGUMENT, THE FACT THAT al-HAKIM WAS NEVER SERVED THE MOTION TO DISMISS BY DEFENDANTS AND NEVER RECEIVED ANY NOTICE FROM HER APPEALS COURT OF ANY SUCH ACTION AND HER APPEALS COURT HAVE NO RECORD OF EVER SENDING ANY NOTICE OF ANY TYPE TO al-HAKIM REGARDING THE MOTION TO DISMISS!
So how is it possible that the Appeals Court would be silent, not providing ANY proof of their having EVER served ANY notice of any kind of their receiving the motion to dismiss, NOTHING served on me even remotely noticing the motion, no briefing schedule, no schedule of motion practice and this clearly should have been the practice of the courts as it has before with Anne Reasoner, Vira Pons and Truefiling. al-Hakim NEVER received any email, or U. S. postal mail from Anne Reasoner, Vira Pons or the appeals court nor any electronic service from TrueFiling as he usually would.
The matters of the courts failure and refusal to serve ANY notice of ANY type regarding as serious a matter as a dismissal of an action against the obvious corruption of a judge or judges combined with the failure and refusal of the reviewing judge smacks of blatant GRAND CORRUPTION of ALL INVOLVED, ESPECIALLY AND INCLUDING THOSE THAT COVER IT UP COMMITTING AN EVEN GREATER CRIME!!!
Alameda Superior Court and Appeals Corruption
Judge Brands ruling granting the motion to vacate and set aside the order granting defendants motion to compel interrogatories and sanctions due to NON SERVICE.
On October 12, 2018, the Appeals Court sent a reply that merely mentions that the defendants had submitted a proof of service dated June 22, 2018, that was allegedly served via mail and electronically to two different email addresses, 1) one that CSAA has admitted to the courts that has been blocked from sending email to for years due to his giving that email address to a commercial business without al-Hakim’s knowledge or approval and 2) the other email address he knows is not al-Hakim. There NEVER was any U.S. mail nor personal service of any documents.
In several documents filed with the courts, Attorney John Bradley sworn under the penalty of perjury in a November 29, 2017 letter to al-Hakim that he will neither serve nor accept service via email and has not done so!
At the November 22, 2017 hearing, Bradley could not and did not produce a valid, properly executed proof of service which is why his deputy counsel Colwell could not enforce his unserved motion for the issuance of an order to show cause re: sale of dwelling.
Secondly, al-Hakim notified Bradley by letter, fax and email on December 4, 2017, that Bradley’s email was blocked due to his giving that email address to a commercial business without al-Hakim’s knowledge or approval. This notice was given months, nearly a year before Bradley claims that it was problematic and he fails to explain how al-Hakim has problems with receiving mail at his home because Bradley alleges that “he does NOT live there and is not there everyday”. al-Hakim does NOT deliver the mail to his home and in no way would be involved nor responsible for that task!
NOW THE ENTIRE UNDERPINNINGS OF JUDGE JONES DECISION TO DISMISS al-HAKIM’S APPEAL HAVE VANISHED except the remaining Court Administration Grand, Systemic and Endemic Corruption; Conduct To Pervert or Obstruct Justice, or the Due Administration of the Laws (Pen.Code, §§ 182, subd. (a)(1), 4570) 1 and Conspiracy to Pervert or Obstruct Justice (§ 182, subd. (a)(5)); Fraud Upon The Court; Manipulation; Cause Due to Criminal Conduct In Violation of The Law!
The Appeals court, Judge Barbara Jones and the court clerks are blocking and providing interference for judge Kim Colwell to make her “end run” and complete her fraud and corruption in her Order for sale of al-Hakim’s Dwelling BEFORE the Motion to Vacate the Order, which was uncontested by defendants, was to be heard and has been continued by the court under an illegal Appeals stay since February 2018.
al-Hakim’s Motion to Vacate the Order granting the sale of plaintiff home is NOT an appealable order and is NOT subject to the automatic stay pending appeals, just as the defendants motion for sale of the dwelling with an undertaking is NOT subject to the automatic stay, which Colwell ruled the sale of dwelling could and did go forward, yet she has continued to delay the resolution to plaintiff’s motion to vacate that was uncontested by defendants! This would reverse the ruling made by Judge Colwell for the sale of the Dwelling!!!
For eight months Colwell had been begging the Appeals court to expedite the Remitter in the motion to dismiss so she can quickly rule on the motion to vacate with a denial!
For the Appeals Court to deny such a serious motion when the appeals court was willfully and intentionally derelict in their NON-SERVICE of ANY notices to al-Hakim and CSAA obvious fraud, there is NO place for this in modern society much less in a courtroom before the people! It is even more enlightening in respects to the calumny deceit and denial of due process employed in it, that al-Hakim have complained of for years. This order in response to al-Hakim’s actions of merely invoking his rights to petition the courts was the very epitome of specious retaliation and heinous denial of due process FORCED on al-Hakim by defendants.
On March 18, 2019, January 10 and 7, 2019 and November 7, 2018, filed and served complaints with Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye and Associate Justices of the Court, Beth Robbins, and Charles Johnson requesting an investigation of and urging both the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal to grant review of the Court of Appeal’s decision in al-HAKIM VS CSAA- Wellpoint (2018) California Appeals Court Case# 153510, and now California Supreme Court Case# S-250997. Order from the Appeals Court dated July 16, 2018
al-Hakim has received NO response from the State Supreme nor Appeals Courts and their response and the admissions of the facts, evidence, testimony, and proof from their findings of what happened in this incident has a drastic effect on this case as it will NOT “go away” merely because you chose to ignore it! We DEMAND ANSWERS TO THIS CONTINUING CRIME!
Defendants “appeal covers more than just a failure to comply with a court order. It includes obstructive tactics and frustration or obstruction of legitimate efforts to enforce a judgment.” as again al-Hakim was NEVER served any motion to dismiss by CSAA, any filing notice of any type from the Appeals Court of any motion to dismiss by CSAA, no briefing schedule, no schedule of motion practice, and this clearly should have been the practice of the courts as it has before with Anne Reasoner and Truefiling. al-Hakim NEVER received any email, or U. S. postal mail from Reasoner or the appeals court nor any electronic service from TrueFiling, which is the norm, and there is NO RECORD of any type that any of them sent any notice of any type to al-Hakim!
These matters are currently being investigated.
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Non-Service of Process Tactic
This tactic employed by the courts and defendants of failing to serve documents on al-Hakim is a major part of the litigation scheme carried out solely for the purpose of espousing defendants vitriol of Trump-esq hate induced 20 year strategy of FRAUD, DECIET, RACISM, RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY, AND INTOLERANCE, PREJUDICE, stirring the animus of the court to provoke acrimony toward al-Hakim, fostering calumny deceit within the judicial and legal community, knowingly using fraudulent, misleading, false and larcenous documentation provided by Defendants attempting to foist upon plaintiff and the courts the imprimatur of substantiating documentary evidence in denial of al-Hakim’s civil rights and immunity from takings of property without due process is a gross abuse of discretion in violation of the law is objectively unreasonable and was undertaken intentionally with malice, willfulness, and reckless indifference to the rights of al-Hakim in lieu of proper litigation.
Brand’s order has merely substantiated the evidence of the continuing Superior Court Administration Grand, Systemic and Endemic Corruption; Conduct To Pervert or Obstruct Justice, or the Due Administration of the Laws (Pen.Code, §§ 182, subd. (a)(1), 4570) 1 and Conspiracy to Pervert or Obstruct Justice (§ 182, subd. (a)(5)); Fraud Upon The Court; and Manipulation.
These efforts of CSAA is tantamount to a scheme to hinder, deny and defraud al-Hakim in violation of the laws above and can qualify as a Hate Crime under the Unruh and Ralph Civil Rights and the Bane Acts, while they are clear acts of religious bigotry and intolerance for which al-Hakim will not allow.
The “COURTEL” Corruptocrats and Kleptocrats
Due to the Grand Systemic and Endemic Corruption, that includes Judicial/Legal Systemic Racism as a subset, that provides for the unlawful, and unconstitutional acts of The “COURTEL”– COURT CORRUPTION CARTEL, the Corruptocrats and Kleptocrats, the al-Hakim Family has suffered the unfathomable loss of their homes, their businesses, their incomes, their life’s assets, their credit worthiness, their friends and associates!
Those Judicial/Legal, Government and Law Enforcement Bodies, Agencies and Political Officials identified in the COURTEL, are listed in the “THE COURTEL,THE COURT CORRUPTION CARTEL” Page on this website at: https://wp.me/Pye39-qE; and those identified as Corruptocrats and Kleptocrats are listed BELOW! Those identified as “THE COURTEL”, include ALL those referenced in both The “COURTEL”– COURT CORRUPTION CARTEL, plus the Corruptocrats and Kleptocrats collectively in total!
ABDUL-JALIL al-HAKIM, his family members Harun al-Hakim-Miller, Jalil Omar al-Hakim, Bari al-Hakim-Williams, Joette al-Hakim-Hall, Patty Flenory, and their siblings; and their business entities Superstar Management, The Genius of Randy Wallace, Inc., the Aaron & Margaret Wallace Foundation (AMWF), Nowtruth.org, eX-whY Adventures, and communities that they serve, have suffered through over 50 years of continuing great and irreparable harm, which continues to this date.
The COURTEL disabled, stole and sold their home, businesses, retirement funds, cars, trucks, assets, revoked al-Hakim’s drivers license and passport: forcing the loss of income from oversea’s employment, touring and booking dates; business and pleasure travel; prohibited from serving in Aaron & Margaret Wallace Foundation (AMWF) relief missions in Haiti and Africa willfully and intentionally deprived al-Hakim, his family and business of their civil rights, religious rights, right to fair competition and right to due process under the law and insurance contract; the benefits under the contract; the peace of mind and economic security purchased under the contract; the prospects of full and healthy lives for the past forty years and in the untold future; the normal course of their lives and the pursuit of happiness which will never be recovered; al-Hakim, his family and business has been harmed BEYOND COMPREHENSION!
The COURTEL and District Attorney admitted stealing child support paid to them in trust for al-Hakim’s daughter and extorted al-Hakim to pay it again; al-Hakim’s appeal of the District Attorney’s fraud and extortion was handled by then Attorney General Jerry Brown and later Kamala Harris whom substituted in as attorneys in the interest of justice, yet they was supposed to be investigating these same parties crimes as part of the U. S. Attorney General’s action al-Hakim filed in 2005; they suspended al-Hakim’s drivers license since 2004 for the DA’s admitted fraud in an effort to extort him into paying for their fraud; at the same time revoked al-Hakim’s passport denying his ability to travel or gain employment internationally for the DA’s admitted fraud in an effort to extort him into paying for their fraud; the California State Franchise Tax Board illegally raided two al-Hakim’s retirement money market and business accounts with fraudulent, fictitious double billed bank levies on both business and personal bank accounts; the COURTEL (DA’s office, Hayward Police Department, California Bureau of Automotive Repair) have dismantled an auto leaving it in parts; they have impounded and sold another SUV truck used in their family non-profit foundation; Bankruptcy judge Randall Newsome fabricated the audio and written record of a hearing and three times demanded al-Hakim work with Trustee and attorneys to continue performing management duties for M. C. Hammer and when al-Hakim refused to work free, the judge made a “take it or leave it” offer compromising al-Hakim’s $1.7 million claim, resulting in al-Hakim getting $0; another Federal Bankruptcy Trustee stole $10,000 from al-Hakim in a Bankruptcy case involving court ordered restitution to be paid to al-Hakim from the police burglary of al-Hakim’s computer store; among others!
This is criminal fraud upon the court and law, extrinsic fraud — fraud on the al-Hakim, which prevented him from having his days in court and has deprived him and his family of the celebration of their daily lives with the pursuit of happiness, ruined their health, destroyed their businesses, their savings of their lifetimes, All this in retaliation for exercising federal protections against the onslaught of record setting violations of federally protected rights, and in retaliation for reporting criminal activities in which The COURTEL, Corruptocrats and Kleptocrats with their conspiring offending parties were implicated.
Appeals and Superior Court Corruption
This COURTEL, Corruptocrats and Kleptocrats have deprived al-Hakim and his family of the celebration of their daily lives with the pursuit of happiness, ruined their health, destroyed their businesses, the savings of a lifetime, with their fraud upon the court inflicting maximum emotion distress, pain and suffering, forbidding and denying the basic and elementary pursuit of happiness, casting them into an uncontrollable downward spiraling infinite moribund density, schism, chasm, of life threatening and life altering danger and crippling poverty without end until death!
The COURTEL’S insidious and fatal legal intrusion into the al-Hakim’s lives has maimed and dismember the al-Hakim family; shattered their hopes, dreams, aspirations; murdered their lives through oppression and persecution; causing, forcing their death from this slaughter and torture, as they destroy al-Hakim’s iconic, role model status, ruined his public persona and business reputation, and sullied his professional integrity by casting aspersions upon him with GREAT pain and suffering!
The COURTEL’S illegal eviction of al-Hakim from the defaulted Green Key case, forced him, his family and businesses out of his home with only two days to move and was unable to take anything! ALL al-Hakim’s entire 70 years life long obtained belongings, every invaluable item he has ever acquired, including everything of his family’s personal property and his businesses property documented over $600,000, ALL his belongings from 40 years of residing in the home and was forced to leave EVERYTHING, a completely furnished, 5 bedroom, 19 room, 3,800 sq ft home, including his business and personal property, includes ALL personal and business effects, computers and electronics, jewelry, artwork, audio and video recorder equipment and tapes, chandeliers, silver and china ware, household items, furniture and fixtures, valuables, clothing, gym and exercise equipment, spa and swimming pool goods, bedroom goods, kitchen ware, ALL food and nutrition goods, supplies, gardening and pool supplies, tools, accessories and supplies.
Additionally, there was over $100,000 in clothing, clothing accessories, sporting goods and equipment, clothing racks, displays, manikins, athletic wear, gear, accessories, inventory of the family 62 year old non-profit, the Aaron & Margaret Wallace Foundation, alone! These are among other things that were in the home on the premises.
Of note is the fact al-Hakim was forced to leave all his personal and business files that are now in the custody and control of the COURTEL’S. al-Hakim has NONE of the files he had accumulated over his life of years!
The COURTEL’S has total possession and control of ALL al-Hakim’s possessions, Four times al-Hakim has demanded the return of EVERYTHING, ALL ITEMS LEFT IN THE HOUSE, WITHOUT ANY DAMAGE TO THEM! COURTEL and defendants has NEVER responded to the demand and we are sure the items of interest are in the complete control of the COURTEL, Corruptocrats, and Kleptocrats!
The COURTEL’S tactics is designed to instill fear into al-Hakim and his family, to capture them in the snare of the legal system- civil and criminal, with prosecuting judges, police and district attorney in ALL their cases…… without justice, stealing their lives, businesses, human and civil rights, property, pursuit of happiness and freedom are ALL in jeopardy of peril. Justice is what they want you to buy into and adhere to while they use it as a smoke screen to deny you that same justice they NEVER intended for you!
Kamala Harris, whom substituted in as attorneys in the interest of justice, was acting or purporting to act in the performance of their official duties, FILED DOCUMENTS THAT THEY WERE REPRESENTING the al-Hakim Family members Harun al-Hakim-Miller, Bari al-Hakim-Williams, Joette al-Hakim-Hall, Patty Flenory; the VERY SAME PARTIES THEY ADMITTED TO HAVE STOLEN, MISAPPROPRIATED, AND DEFRAUDED THE CHILD SUPPORT PAID TO THEM IN TRUST FOR THE MINOR GIRLS AND THEN EXTORTED THE FATHER TO PAY IT AGAIN; wherein this conduct violated the girls’s civil rights, religious rights, right to fair competition and right to due process under the law and is an inherent threat to all our civil and human rights, right to due process, property, pursuit of happiness and freedom; yet Kamala Harris and the Attorney General’s Office was supposed to be investigating these same parties crimes as part of the U. S. Attorney General’s action al-Hakim filed in 2005! THERE IS NO GREATER CONFLICT OF INTEREST THEN THIS OBVIOUS AND ADMITTED DEFRAUDING OF TWO MINOR GIRLS CHILD SUPPORT PERPETRATED BY KAMALA HARRIS IN THE INTEREST OF JUSTICE IN THE HISTORY IF JUSTICE!!
The COURTEL, Corruptocrats, and Kleptocrats, these corrupt judicial, law enforcement, governmental and legal entities are more dangerous to our liberty, than any of the enemy it claims to protect us from. Why have these people and organizations been so derelict while failing and refusing so miserably to enforce the same rules of conduct and law on incompetent, mendacious judicial, law enforcement, governmental and legal entities after so many complaints filed? They have allowed these same judicial, law enforcement, governmental and legal entities to act as if in a trance… trying to destroy al-Hakim and demonized al-Hakim to prosecute, persecute and disparaged al-Hakim whom was guilty only of advocating and standing up for his civil and human rights and right to due process. These same judicial, law enforcement, governmental and legal entities are allowed to use court orders to threaten to fine, jail and pauperize al-Hakim.
Did the COURTEL, Corruptocrats, and Kleptocrats, these same judicial, law enforcement, governmental and legal entities honestly and fairly serve al-Hakim and this generation of Americans by failing and refusing to prosecute these serious charges, and did they do what it takes to defeat the inherent threat to all our civil and human rights, right to due process, property, pursuit of happiness and freedom? Sadly — of course — the distance of history will recognize that the threat to all our civil and human rights, right to due process, property, pursuit of happiness and freedom that al-Hakim and this generation of Americans needed to take seriously… was The “COURTEL”– COURT CORRUPTION CARTEL, with their Corruptocrats, and Kleptocrats, the same judicial, law enforcement, governmental and legal entities that they are suppose to Protect and Defend US FROM!
Herein you will find those identified in the al-Hakim cases as being involved in this COURTEL culled from the case files ALL of whom are and will be a NAMED DEFENDANTS, WITNESSES, and SNITCHES are:
United States Senator Dianne Feinstein
United States Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Anne Taylor, Elaine McKellar, Lauren Riggs, Saundra Andrews, Leslie Littleton and ALL former and current employees
California State Governor: Gavin Newsome, former Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr., Evan Westrep and ALL former and current employees
California State Senator Kamala Harris and ALL members of her office including but not limited to Nathan Barankin, Debbie Mesloh, Michael Troncoso, Tony West, Shaeda Ahmadi, Clint Odom, Lily Adams, Tyrone Gayle and Rohini Kosoglu, Brenda Gonzalez, Andy Vargas, Shawn Haq, Josh Hsu, Daniel Chen, Sergio Gonzales, Kate Waters, Zev Karlin-Neumann, Halie Soifer,
California State Franchise Tax Board: Vu Tran, Emelda Nanca, Margaritas Escoveda, Selvi Stanislaus, Connie Aceves, Eric Scheidegger, Sheree Haris, Jeffery Lin, Iselma Bueno, Virginia, Patricia, Sharon Jones, and ALL former and current employees
California State Senator Loni Hancock, Michelle Milam, Terri Waller, Melissa Male, Nathan Rapp, and ALL former and current employees
Former California State Assemblyman Sandre Swanson, staff Carol Jones, Charlene Washington, Adam Jones, Larry Broussard, Danita Blair, Amber Maltbie, Monica Vejar, Amanda, and ALL former and current employees
Alameda County Administrator: Susan Muranishi, Donna Linton and ALL former and current employees
Alameda County Office of the Treasure And Tax Collector, Donald R. White, Elvia Quiroga, Jack Wong and ALL former and current employees
Alameda County Supervisor Kieth Carson, Rodney Brooks, Mina Sanchez and ALL former and current employees
Alameda County Supervisors: Nate Miley, Andra Wicks, and ALL former and current employees
Alameda County Sheriff’s Office: GREGORY J. AHERN, R. KELLY, S. PETERSON, RICHARD T. LUCIA, CASEY NICE, BRETT M. KETELES, James Baker
Alameda County Clerk-Recorder
City of Oakland Mayor: Libby Schaff, Tomiquia Moss, Shereda Nosakhare, Peggy Moore, Erica Terry Derryck, Audrey Cortes, Matt Nichols, David Silver, Jose Corona, Michael Hunt, Karely Ordaz Salto, former Mayors Ron Dellums, former Mayor Jean Quan, Trina Barton, Diane Boyd, Miguel Bustos, Kitty Kelly Epstein, VaShone Huff, Earl Johnson, Cheryal Kidd, Marisol Lopez, Vincent Mackey, Paul Rose, Daniel Boggan Jr., Karen Stevenson, Rich Cowan, Lewis Cohen, Karen Boyd, Anne Campbell Washington, Reygan Harmon, Susan Piper, former Mayor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown, Jacque Barzaghi and ALL former and current employees
Oakland City Attorney: Barbara J. Parker, former City Attorney John Russo and Jayne Williams the City Attorney’s Office, Mark Morodomi, Randy Hall, Janie Wong, Anita Hong, Sophia Li, Demetruis Shelton, Elizabeth Allen, Erica Harrold, Michele Abbey, Deborah Walther, Anita Flores, and former employee Pat Smith
Oakland City Administrator: Sabrina Landreth, former Deanna J. Santana, Dan Lindhiem, Fred Blackwell, Kathy Kessler, Barbara B. Killey, Marjo R. Keller, Amber Todd, Ann Campbell-Washington, Winnie Woo, Gia Casteel-Brown, Claudia Cappio, Stephanie Hom and ALL former and current employees
City of Oakland Fire Department: Weldon Clemons, James A. Williams, the and ALL former and current employees
Oakland City Auditor: Brenda Roberts, S. Lawrence, Maya Collins
City of Oakland Public Works: Brooke A. Levin, former Director Vitaly B. Troyan, Gary Pilecki, Julius M. Kale Jr., Allan Law, Gunawan Santoso, James Lowrie, Lorenzo Garcia, Jaime Ramey, Michael Neary, Donna F. Enright, Tim Low, Rich Fielding, Sarah Flewellen, Jason Wong, J. R. Nicks, Henry “Bubba” Rushing, Dana, Sabrina Jones, Yolanda Hartfield, Fred Lozar, Marcel Banks, Eldridge Person, Perry, Ron Gittings and ALL former and current employees;
Oakland Police Department: former Chief George Hart, Anne E. Kirkpatrick,Richard Word, John Lois, Sgt. Eric Milina, Johnna Watson, Marco Marquez, Ersie Joyner III, Reygan Harmon, Kirk Coleman, Frank Morrow Jr., Jad Jadallah, Chris Bolton, Fred Jenkins, Capt. Trevino, Sgt. Gonzalez, Jonas Jones, George Philips, Sgt. M. Poirier, Capt Alison, Lt. Hamilton, Sgt. Wingate, Bill Denny, Ofc. M Ziebarth #8281, Cpt. Dorherty, Mike Morris, Danielle Ashford, Sgt. Green, Ofc. Anderson, Anthony Batts, Howard Jordan, Rebecca Campbell, Cassandra, Marc Hicks, Ron Lighten and ALL former and current employees
City of Oakland’s Ethics Office: City of Oakland FOIC Point of Contacts: Crystal Ramie-Adams, Arlene Flores-Medina , James Bondi, Ellen Dillard, Tiffany Millinder-Heard , Susan A. Sanchez , Maya Collins, Nal Phan, Mary Mayberry, Annie To, Patricia Carter , Amber Fuller , Rebecca Kozak, Dana Perez, Victoria Chak , Rogelio Medalla , Shahla Azimi , Novene Fiores, Mani Paschal, Oliver Luby, Jennie E. Gerard , Brigitte Cook , Shereda Nosakhare , Clara P. Garzon , Desley Brooks , Patricia Mossburg, Jason Nicholas Overman
City of Oakland Councilmembers: Laurence Reid, Desley Brooks, Clara Garcon, Larry Reid, Ray Leon Patricia Mossburg, Dan Kalb, Abel J. Guillen, Lynette Gibson McElhaney, Annie Campbell Washington, Noel Gallo, Rebecca Kaplan former Council members Pat Kernighan and Ignacio De La Fuente and ALL former and current employees
Oakland City Clerk: LaTonda Simmons
City of Oakland Fire Department: Camille J. Rodgers- Vegetation Management Supervisor
City of Oakland Building Code Department: Sandra M. Smith, Rich Fielding, Bill Patchen, Tim Low and ALL former and current employees
City of Oakland Public Ethics Commission: Whitney Barazoto, Milad Dalju, Jonathan Stanley, Barbara Green-Ajufo, Alaric Degrafinried, Alex Paul, Ai Mori, Richard Unger, Amy Dunning, Daniel Purnell- Executive Director, Alix Rosenthal, Lauren Anguis, Daniel Purnell, Tamika Thomas, and ALL former and current employees
The City of Richmond administrators: Trina Jackson, Ranjana Maharaj, Jerry Anderson, Tania Swartz, Helen Agcaoili, Loretta Robbins, LaFaye Walton, Bernadine Anderson, Kris Lofthus, Alicia Nightengale, Courtland “Corky” Boozé, Robyn Kain, Keith Jabari, Jerry Anderson, Bill Lindsay, Leslie Knight, Nat Bates, and ALL former and current employees
Mayor City of Alameda: Marie Gilmore
Law firm of Meyers Nave: Jayne W. Williams- Principal, Michael Nave, Marilee Bass, Edward L. Kreisberg, Eric Firstman, Krysten Hicks, Ruthann Ziegler, Kim Colwell, Kim Drake, Kevin McLaughlin, Deborah Fox, Claudia J. Gorham, Steven Mattras, Courtney Ruby, Mike Macaluso, and ALL former and current employees
Law Firm of Keker & Van Nest LLP: John W. Keker, Robert A. Van Nest, Elliot Remsen Peters, Jon Streeter, Holly Saydah, Joy Scharton and ALL former and current employees
Attorney Lewis Nelson and ALL former and current employees
Attorney Edward C. Bell and ALL former and current employees
Law Offices of Michael C. Cohen: Michael C. Cohen, and ALL former and current employees
Law Offices of Anthony S. Leung, Christopher Leung, and ALL former and current employees
Attorney John F. Bradley, Jr.
Law Firm of McKeown Price, LLC: Frank McKeown, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm of Wendel Rosen Black & Dean LLP: Chris Noma, Elizabeth Berke-Dreyfuss, and ALL former and current employees
Law Office of Irwin J. Eskanos: Irwin J. Eskanos, Myrna Figueroa
Ellis Law Group: Mark E. Ellis
Eason & Tambornini: Matthew R. Eason, Kyle K.Tambornini
Attorney William Bill Green of Marin County and ALL former and current employees
Attorney Sam Barnum and ALL former and current employees
Law firm of Caven, Cleaveland, Murray: Attorney Patricia Walsh, Steve Roberts, William Jemmott and ALL former and current employees
Law firm of Norland & Kays: Eric P. Norland and ALL former and current employees
Law firm of Archer Norris: Todd Jones, Dan Crowley, William Coggshall, Daniella Arteaga, Eugene Blackard, Jonathan
Bacon, Cesar Alvarado, W. Eric Blumhardt, Gino Cano, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm of Burnham Brown, LLP: Eric Haas, Lise Arts, Claudia Leed Clark J. Burnham, John J. Verber, Paul Caleo, Richard Finn, Charles Alfonzo, Cathy Arias, Robert M. Bodzin, Susan E. Firtch, Dean Pollack, Darrell T. Thompson, Cathy Arias, Denise Quon, John Verber, and ALL former and current employees
Attorney Philip T. Besirof, Roland Brandel, Tony West, the law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP, and ALL former and current employees
Attorney Paul N. “Pete” McCloskey, Jr., the Law firm of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, and ALL former and current employees
Attorney Eric Nyberg, The Law firm of Kornfield Nyberg Bendes & Kuhner, P.C., and ALL former and current employees
Law firm of Lombardi Loper and Conant: Attorney Bruce Loper, Matthew Conant, Chris Lavdiotis, Peter Glaessner, Timothy McCaffery, Gay Conant, Ralph Lombardi, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm of Murphy, Pearson, Bradley, & Feeney: Attorney James Monagle and ALL former and current employees
Law firm of Bridgman & Bridgman: Attorney Richard D. Bridgman, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm of Buty & Curliano LLP: Attorney William Rowell, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm of Binder & Malter LLP, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm Walkup Melodia, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos: attorney David Alexander, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm Abbey Weitzenberg et. al., and ALL former and current employees
Law firm Guichard Teng Portello APC, and ALL former and current employees
Ellis Law Group: Attorney Mark E. Ellis and ALL former and current employees
Eason & Tambornini: Attorney Matthew R. Eason, Kyle K.Tambornini, and ALL former and current employees
Attorney Eugene Schneider, and ALL former and current employees
Attorney John Bradley Jr., and ALL former and current employees
Law Firm of Ropers Majeski: Eugene Majesk, Stephan Barber and ALL former and current employees
Law Firm of Willoughby Stuart Bening: Ronald J. Cook, Randall E. Willoughby, Alexander F. Stuart, Bradley A. Bening, and ALL former and current employees
MacMorris & Carbone: Stan Michael CSAA, and ALL former and current employees
Caven, Cleaveland, Murray: William Jemmott, Dan Hernandez, Dan Crowley, and ALL former and current employees
Gordon & Rees, LLP: Joel K. Liberson, Fletcher Alford, and ALL former and current employees
Bruce Loper, Matthew Conant, Chris Lavdiotis, Peter Glaessner, Timothy McCaffery, and ALL former and current employees
Daniel Crowley & Assoc.: Daniel Crowley, and ALL former and current employees
Jackson Alternative Dispute Resolution: Attorney Yolanda Marnell Jackson, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm Crone Rozynko, LLP: Sean O’Halloran, Greg LaCross, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm Bennet, Samuelsen, Reynolds & Allard, Anthony Allard, Thomas Gelini, Stuart C. Gilliam, Richard Reynolds, David J. Samuelsen, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm Fitzgerald, Abbot & Beardsley, Elizabeth Clark, Barry Epstein, Fatima Brunson, Jason Holder, Scott Jackson, Anil Kripalani, David Lee, Kristin Pace, Marsha Van Broek, Michael Ward, Richard White, and ALL former and current employeesLaw firm Goldfarb Lipman, LLP, Jennifer Bell, Juliet E. Cox, James Diamond, Heather Gould, John Haywood, Lynn Hutchins, Margaret Jung, Barbara Kautz, Dianne Jackson McLean, Robert C. Mills, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm Nossaman LLP: Attorneys Allison M. Dibley, David L. Kimport, Danielle Sveska Gensch, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm Murphy, Vu, Tongsamouth and Chaterjee: Attorney Trina Chatterjee, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm Kilpatrick, Townsend and Stockton: attorney Roger Hughes, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm Burke, Williams, Sorenson: attorney Michelle Kenyon, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm Bingham McCutchen: attorney Ray Marshall, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm Dhillion and Smith: attorney Harold Peter Smith, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm Donahue Gallagher: Attorney David Stein, and ALL former and current employees
Law firm Hawkins Delafield: Attorney Sean Tierney, and ALL former and current employees
The American Inns of Courts
Port of Oakland: former attorney David L. Alexander, Donnell Choy, and ALL former and current employees
JP Morgan Chase & Co: Sanjiv S. Sittampalam, Jim Vallone, Jemma Antczak, Robert Marvin, Gloria Marshall Figueroa, Geoffrey Morton
Twitter: Jack Dorsey, Anthony Noto, Vijaya Gadde, Leslie Berland, Robert Kaiden, Genelle Ng, Amy Keating, Benjamin Lee, and ALL their previous and current employees, agents, independent contractors, consultants, representatives, lobbyist, experts, professional organizations, social organizations, charitable organizations, and professional services organizations, et.at.
Interserver: Mike Lavrik, John Quaglieri, Stacey Talieres, Sibin Ibrahim, Taras Tyulyakov, Gnanendra Kumar, Jose Viju, Pawan Kumar, Anoop Vijayan, Sreejith Sreedhar, Joe George, Sadaf Perwez, Anish Vijayan, ALL former and current owners, ALL former and current domestic partners, ALL former and current foreign partners, ALL former and current investors, ALL former and current marketers, ALL former and current promoters, and ALL former and current Interserver employees, agents, independent contractors, consultants, representatives, lobbyist, experts, professional organizations, social organizations, charitable organizations, and professional services organizations, et.at.
Google: David Drummond, Joseph Berlin, Darry Chiang, Annabelle Danielvarda, Renee DuPree, Jeffery Heileson, Tina Chia-Chi Hwang, Anna Itoi, Jonathan Manson, Van Nguy, Andrew Orion, Tim Pham, Kulpreet Rana, Anand Rao, Priya Seshachari Sanger, Theresa Beaumont, Nikhil Shanbhag, Kent Walker, Allen Lo, Jim Sherwood, Jeff Donovan, and ALL their previous and current employees, agents, independent contractors, consultants, representatives, lobbyist, experts, professional organizations, social organizations, charitable organizations, and professional services organizations, et.at.
Equinix: Brandi Morandi, Kristine Mostofizadeh, and ALL former and current Equinix employees, ALL former and current Interserver employees, agents, independent contractors, consultants, representatives, lobbyist, experts, professional organizations, social organizations, charitable organizations, and professional services organizations, et.at., in your relationship with Interserver.
Travelling Mailbox.com: Travis Poole, and ALL former and current employees
The Office of Management and Budget: Mick Mulvaney
Consumer Finance Protection Bureau: Wendy Kamenshine Ombudsman
California Office of Business Oversight: Commissioner Jan Lynn Owen, Jeanette Salazar,
Bureau of Consumer Protection: Tom Pahl, and ALL former and current employees
California Secretary of State: Alex Padilla, and ALL former and current employees
Board of Equalization: David J. Gau, and ALL former and current employees
CLTA and WFG TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY: Steve Winkler, Christine Gula, and ALL former and current employees
California Land Title Association: Craig Page, and ALL former and current employees
The past and present residents of 7633 Sunkist Drive, Oakland CA 94605 including but not limited to: Eric Wiesman
Acclamation Insurance Management Services: Doug Kapovich and ALL former and current employees
East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD): Alexander R. Coate, Lynelle M. Lewis, Charles C. Hardy, Alicia Vasquez, Steven J. Martin, Debra Skeaton, Daniel Fuller, Aaron Shear, Theresa A. Edwards, William B. Patterson, Abby Figueroa, Andre Adams, Harve Boddie, Vernon May, Lucious Lyons, Laura Baron-Childers, Steven J. Martin, Stan- Mgr. Field Services and ALL former and current employees
KPFA Radio: Luis Medina- music director, Sasha Lilley- then interim Program Director, Gabrielle Wilson- host for radio programs Ear Thyme, and Jazz Passages, The Gospel Experience Program, Saturday, September 5, 2009 at 8:30 A.M. on Radio Station KPFA 94.1 FM, Berkeley CA., and ALL former and current employees
Beacon Property Management, Stacy Smith- Regional Property Manager, Mani Lehr, and ALL former and current employees
Athens Insurance Service Administrators: Andre Adams and ALL former and current employees
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Assoc., Inc.: Kent Sasaki and ALL former and current employees
Keith Nofield Land Surveying and The Mount Diablo Surveyors Historical Society: Keith Nofield, and ALL former and current employees
CENTURY 21 Pinnacle: Michael Warren, and ALL former and current employees
Bay Restorators: Everardo Rodriguez Jr., and ALL former and current employees
Sewer Connection, Inc.: Dean Brazil, Ryan and ALL former and current employees
Green Key Investments: Brent Hanson and Sarah Hanson, and ALL former and current employees
Housing Group Fund: Dennis Lanni, the, and ALL former and current employees
Trustors Security Deed Service: Deanna Montgomery, Dennis Lanni,, and ALL former and current employees
Eurisko Development Solutions L.L.C.: Dennis Lanni, Andre Scott, and, and ALL former and current employees
Otolum, Inc., Cdm Holdings, LLC, and Bbskm Family LLC: Dennis Lanni, and Otolum Corporation,, and ALL former and current employees
Zachary Young, and Carolyn M. Young Fiduciary Services, and ALL former and current employees
Bluewater Services, Chris Kirschenheuter and ALL former and current employees
RGA Environmental, Robert Gils, Jeff Kraus, and ALL former and current employees
Hobart Associates, Kathy Hobart, Lisa Fong and ALL former and current employees
Dr. Michael Lenoir and ALL former and current employees
Just Accord, Inc., Attorney David W. Rudy and ALL former and current employees
Ron Magin and ALL former and current employees
Rescue Rooter: Rick Syrett, Rich Staben, Chris Peterson, John, Earnest, Larry, Lonnie, James Baker and ALL former and current employees
California State Automobile Association (CSAA): Douglas Kroll, Randy Rowland, Richard Mackey, Karen McGinnis, Kenneth C. George, Greg Stubblefield, Dennis Spadini, Eller Torres, Lynn M. Koehler, Steve Marshall, Barbara Clark, Bob Finlayson, Don Divencenzi, Peggy Dupont, Kate Overbeck, Rick Hunts, Marilu Zrimc, Londa Leung, Maria Arqueta, Nick Pezzaniti, Sherri Robertson, Joel Theong, Chris Devitto, Matthew Lager, Paul E. Olson and ALL former and current employees
Oakland City Attorney Gives Case File To Defendants Stephan Barber and Law Firm Ropers Majeski, Doesn’t Tell Court or Plaintiffs
Bay Area Carpets: John Sophinus, John Bartha, Jason Ryan, Mike Anuski and ALL former and current employees;
Vanderbilt Construction: Mike Boshard, Rich Jones and ALL former and current employees
Four Star Restorations: Bill Webber and ALL former and current employees
Service Master: John Whiting and ALL former and current employees
London Construction: Dean Jensen and ALL former and current employees
Silva Roofing and ALL former and current employees
Synergy: Sal Vaccaro and ALL former and current employees
D.L. Glaze: David Ceresa, John Ratto, and ALL former and current employees
Restoration Management: John Takata and ALL former and current employees
Purofirst: Margie, Edward and ALL former and current employees
Fowler Associates: Douglas Fowler and ALL former and current employees
Construction Quality Engineers: Dick Anderson and ALL former and current employees
Insurance Technical Services: Karen Smith, Gary Halpin and ALL former and current employees
Sigmund H. Schandrel and ALL his former and current employees
Safe Environments: David Bierman and ALL former and current employees
P.W. Stephens: John, Jamie Tamayo and ALL former and current employees
B & C Construction: Wayne Bellmer and ALL former and current employees
Pipe Pros: Randy Agnetti and ALL former and current employees
Alliance Credit Services Inc: Richard A Segol, Daniel Oditt, Myrna Figueroa,
Eskanos & Adler A Pro Corp: Irwin Eskanos, Barry Adler, dpittman, Julie Hanestad
Eskanos Ventures: Brad Skepner, Vivian, Barry Adler, and ALL former and current employees
Michael Cosentino, Esq. and National Collection Agency represented by Fred Keeperman, Esq. A copy of the papers directed at National Collection Agency, and ALL former and current employees
WFG National Title Insurance Company, and ALL former and current employees
Ronald P. Kaminski, Certified General Real Estate Appraiser, and ALL former and current employees
Foreclosure.com
Movoto.com
Brooke L Wamsley, Marshall B Wamsley, Catherine L Wamsley, James L Higgins, Son Hoang,Truong Hoang, Daniel R Tuggle
Wellpoint Asset Recovery, LLC: , and ALL former and current employees
California State Automobile Association Inter-Insurance Bureau. et al. (CSAA), Kenneth C. George, and ALL former and current employees
NEUMANN AND ASSOCIATES: RONALD RAYMON NEUMANN, and ALL former and current employees
WEST COAST MCI MGMT CONSLT INVEST: ERNIE CLAUSEN, ELIZABETH D CLAUSEN, and ALL former and current employees
GayLynn Kirn Conant,
Colby K. Yeager,
Housing Group Fund Corporation,
Trustors Security Deed Service:
School Trust #1321: Dennis Lanni, John Bradley Jr., California State Automobile Association Inter-Insurance Bureau. et al. (CSAA), Law Firm of Ropers Majeski: Stephan Barber and Law Firm of Willoughby Stuart Bening: Ronald J. Cook, and ALL former and current employees
Sunkist Trust #7633: Dennis Lanni, Carl Wallace, JoEvelyn Gamble, Harold Wallace, Henry Wallace, Sharon Wallace, Jerline Wallace-Evans, Eunice Wallace-Bell, Ronnie Wallace, Cameron Jackson, John Bradley Jr., Deanna Montgomery, Colin Hammett, Ken Madhvani, Cameron Hammett, Lanette Hammett, Lanny Hammett, and Brooke Hammett, and ALL former and current employees
Eurisko Development Solutions L.L.C.: Dennis Lanni, Deanna Montgomery, Colin Hammett, KenMadhvani, CameronHammett, Lanette Hammett, Lanny Hammett, Brooke Hammett, and ALL former and current employees
ZACHARY YOUNG, and ALL former and current employees
The past and present residents of 7641 Sunkist Drive, Oakland CA 94605 including but not limited to: George and Jackie Piljay, Dustin Dalli, Caitlin F. Dobson, Michael D. Dobson, Caitlin J. Farr, Denise T. Coronado, Rogelio G Coronado Ii, Nettie Wilson, John Hudson, Juan Mancheno, Harold Deblander, Marco Manriquez and Mar Con Co., Sharon Foncesca
The past and present residents of 7640 Sunkist Drive, Oakland CA 94605 including but not limited to: Wayne Kasom, Howard Roth
The past and present residents of 7634 Sunkist Drive, Oakland CA 94605 including but not limited to: Asa J. Watkins Jr., Carol A. Watkins, Bobbie J. Watkins
The past and present residents of 7615 Sunkist Drive, Oakland CA 94605 including but not limited to: Carl Sims, Earthy Raylene Sims
The past and present residents of 7627 Sunkist Drive, Oakland CA 94605 including but not limited to: James M. Zeager, Bessie M. Zeager, Sebastian Gauthier
The past and present residents of 7701 Sunkist Drive, Oakland CA 94605 including but not limited to: Ron Marcus and Patti Maloney, Ronald D. Maloney, P. M. Marcus, Patti A. Maloney
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How many Insults, Excuses and Fake Apologies are Blacks, Minorities to take from Joe Biden?
How many insults, excuses and fake apologies are Black Voters supposed to take from Joe Biden as he risks alienating Black voters after race remarks?
It’s not about his age. It’s about whether he has offended black voters.
At a convention for Black and Hispanic journalists, a Black reporter asked Joe Biden whether he has taken a cognitive test.
This was Biden’s response: “No, I haven’t taken a test. Why the hell would I take a test? Come on, man! That’s like saying you, before you got in this program, you’re taking a test whether you’re taking cocaine or not. What do you think, huh? Are you a junkie?”
Had that answer come from President Trump it would have been blasted, virtually nonstop, as blatantly racist. But the Biden campaign was basically allowed to brush off the query as “preposterous” rather than address the appropriateness of the words spoken by Trump’s Democratic challenger. Besides the matter of relatively low-key media coverage of Biden’s over-wrought objections to a perfectly valid question posed to a 77-year-old presidential candidate, it raises another serious political issue: How many more insults will Black voters take from Biden in the interest of defeating Trump? And at this point, wouldn’t a failure to select a Black woman as his running mate be the ultimate insult? Biden’s credibility as Barack Obama’s friend and vice president can go only so far.
“He’s making us all nervous,” said Joyce Ferriabough Bolling, a media and political strategist, about Biden’s recent gaffes. “I think some of his responses are just plain sloppy.” And Ferriabough Bolling knows sloppy and what it’s like to clean it up. She was Jesse Jackson’s New England press secretary when Jackson was running for president in 1984 and referred to Jews as “Hymies” and New York City as “Hymietown” during a conversation with a Washington Post reporter. Today, she defends Biden the same way she defended Jackson — saying she knows “what’s in his heart,” no matter how awkwardly those feelings may be expressed. In contrast, she said, “Trump doesn’t make gaffes”; in other words, he’s as racist as he sounds.
But Ferriabough Bolling has her forgiveness limits, too. Last May, she chided Biden after his “You ain’t Black” quip to Charlamagne tha God, cohost of the radio show “The Breakfast Club.” As she wrote in a Boston Herald column, “You definitely don’t want black folks to feel taken for granted and so disillusioned that they sit out the election.” And she still worries about that, especially with young Black voters.
During that convention of Black and Hispanic journalists, Biden also made some waves when, in response to a question about engagement with Cuba, he said, “Unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community, with incredibly diverse attitudes about different things.” For that, he’s also forgiven, on the same essential grounds that he’s not Trump. Or as Jeffrey Sanchez, a former state representative and longtime Biden supporter, put it, “He’s not the shell of a human being that’s in the president’s office right now.” Sanchez — now a senior adviser at the public affairs firm Rasky Partners — said he applauds the discussion of diversity in the Black and Latino communities, and that Biden’s record of fighting for health care and economic justice is what matters.
An answer Joe Biden gave in the Houston Debate might come back to haunt him.
Biden had been performing effectively throughout the first half of the debate, then the subject turned to the matter of race and inequality, and moderator Linsey Davis posed this question to Biden:
“In a conversation about how to deal with segregation in schools back in 1975, you told a reporter, “I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather, I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation and I”ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.” You said that some 40 years ago. But as you stand here tonight, what responsibility do you think that Americans need to take to repair the legacy of slavery in our country?”
There was a smile (some called it a “smirk”) on Biden’s face as he listened to the question. And he answered her this way:
“Well, they have to deal with the “look”, there’s institutional segregation in this country. From the time I got involved, I started dealing with that. Redlining banks, making sure we are in a position where, look, you talk about education. I propose is we take the very poor schools, triple the amount of money we spend from $15 to $45 billion a year. Give every single teacher a raise to the $60,000 level. Number two, make sure that we bring in to help the teachers deal with the problems that come from home. The problems that come from home, we have one school psychologist for every 1,500 kids in America today. It’s crazy. The teachers are “I’m married to a teacher, my deceased wife is a teacher. They have every problem coming to them. Make sure that every single child does, in fact, have 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds go to school. Not day care, school. Social workers help parents deal with how to raise their children. It’s not like they don’t want to help, they don’t know what to do. Play the radio, make sure the television, excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the make sure that kids hear words, a kid coming from a very poor school, a very poor background will hear 4 million words fewer spoken by the time we get there.”
The post-debate commentariat pounced on the “record player” comment, noting that it suggested a lack of familiarity with more modern-day devices, like the eight-track tape or Walkman. It was viewed mostly as a proxy for his age, a self-inflicted wound from a candidate stuck somewhere in the 1970s technologically. But by Friday morning, attention had begun to shift to the broader and far more culturally fraught implications of what Biden was saying: Did he mean that black parents depended on an army of white people with degrees to help them raise their kids?
Anand Giridharadas, an author and editor-at-large at TIME magazine, helped trigger a Twitterstorm about the nature of Biden’s comments. “Right now, somewhere, in some newsroom, some brilliant journalist ought to be pitching a big analytical story parsing Joe Biden’s statement and explaining why it was so troubling and ignored by so many people. It is a textbook example of the racism that is still respectable.”
There’s some anecdotal evidence that other journalists are already on the case. New York magazine writer Rebecca Traister wrote:
“Yes. Syntactically this reminded me of the viral Miss Teen USA answer from years ago. But the substance of what he was trying to say was much worse.” Journalist David Rothkopf wrote: “This is an important and accurate thread. I don’t believe Joe Biden is a bad person. I just think this once again reveals that he is not of this era or suited to lead for nearly the decade ahead.” New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie joined the thread as well, while also noting the meandering nature of Biden’s words.
At the risk of stating the obvious: Biden’s lead in the polling rests in substantial measure on his enormous strength in the African-American community. It is why he is far ahead in South Carolina (where black people cast the majority of Democratic primary votes), while doing much less well in Iowa and New Hampshire. It is why sustaining that strength is crucial to his chances; over the past decades, no Democrat has won the prize without winning the lion’s share of the African-American vote. Eroding that support is crucial to the hope of Trump, which is why Kamala Harris went after him back in June on his self-proclaimed ability to work with Southern segregationists.
And it suggests that if the Twitterstorm gains salience over the next several days “if his comments are interpreted as cluelessly condescending at best” it poses a serious danger to his prospects.
For those troubled by Biden’s sometimes cringe-worthy statements, Sanchez said, “Look where he puts his heart. I have faith in him. I have faith in what he’s done and what he’s going to do.”
To Ferriabough Bolling, “Anything is better than Trump. And Biden is better than most because of his relationship with Obama.” Still, an insurance policy beyond he’s-better-than-Trump would help. “With all the gaffes lending themselves to various interpretations, a woman of color as vice president becomes a necessity, especially in this climate,” said Ferriabough Bolling.
Biden wouldn’t be where he is without Black voters. Representative James Clyburn helped set up the South Carolina primary win that resurrected Biden’s candidacy and turned him from loser into nominee. Once he said he would choose a woman as a running mate, several smart, accomplished, and politically savvy Black women made the short list. After much jockeying, the reveal is said to be imminent. If a Black woman isn’t the final choice, Biden will have a lot more explaining to do.
And answers like the ones he gave last week won’t be so easy to forgive and forget.
Biden has some resources to deploy here. His embrace of Barack Obama, and the former president’s obvious affection for him, may insulate him from the criticism. And he has an army of African-American allies, who see him as a fighter for racial justice going back decades. Whether they jump to his defense, or begin to create distance, will be a sign of whether this is a passing firestorm or something much, much worse.
Kamala Harris, also known as “Hillary Clinton in blackface” from the comparison between Harris and Clinton, “#BlackHillary” trended , “light-skinned Hillary”; Black Lives Matter movement and other critics have trolled her on Twitter with the hashtag #Kamalaisacop; advocates for criminal justice reform say her office was part of the problem, not the solution; Harris violated defendants’ constitutional rights by failing to disclose they knew about the tainted drug evidence in her crime lab scandal that resulted in the dismissal of over 1,000 drug cases; laughed when she said she smoked marijuana, yet opposed recreational pot while she convicted over 2000 people for having marijuana; oppossed independent investigations of police shootings; opposed racism in the legal system and the mandatory use of body cameras by police: California reduce its prison population by 33,000 inmates Harris argued in court that releasing them would drastically reduce their prison labor pool (seriously!); there were 600,000 truant students in elementary schools, she passed a law making it a criminal misdemeanor for parents or guardians of truant children that could face a $2000 fine or up to one year in jail; She’s shut down websites of sex workers and prosecuted those involved, then moved to decriminalize sex work in a “massive shift; authored numerous policies that disproportionately harmed Black and Latino defendants; fake feminist! who is Jamaican/Indian who identifies and passed as a black woman.
Are The TRUTH of Biden Harris Clashes, Political Records Supposed to just Disapear?
˜I believe them”: From supporting Biden’s sexual assault accusers to policing, where Kamala Harris has clashed with running mate
“I believe them, and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it”
Is it just me or are WE ALL supposed to just be “Thooopid” and act as if ALL the insincere, fake, scripted and repeated apologetic excuses from Joe Biden for 47 years of “selling out” and the “please overlook my lies, fraud and corruption” from Kamala Harris’ “humping her way to POWER” (how old was Willie Brown when they were “screwing” and wasn’t/isn’t Rock Harmon gay?) Are the TRUTH of Biden vs Harris clashes and their political records supposed to just disappear?
Mr. Trump’s campaign has been keen to highlight the former US vice-president’s political baggage from a long career as a Washington insider – and tar him as out of touch with the mainstream of the modern Democratic party.
Joe Biden announced Kamala Harris as his running mate for the presidential election, but his pick of the California senator comes after the pair have sparred multiple times over differing views and EACH HAS THEIR OWN POLITICAL BAGGAGE!!
Although Mr Biden has since formerly said he holds no “grudges” against his running mate for what she’s previously said against his campaign, her past remarks have still dominated the news cycle.
The Independent has rounded up the four key moments Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris have clashed ahead of being named on the same presidential ticket.
Mandatory School Busing
Kamala Harris went out swinging against Joe Biden during the first Democratic presidential debate.
The California senator saw her chance to fluster the former vice president, who was leading among all Democratic candidates, and she found Mr Biden’s weakness: his past Senate record on mandatory busing in the 1970s.
Biden’s Work with Bigoted Senators on Segregation and Busing
Senator Kamala Harris raised his past work with bigoted senators, and his previous opposition to a policy combating segregation in schools.
He said she had “mischaracterized” his position, insisting he had entered politics to champion civil rights.
Harris pilloried Mr Biden for having recently reminisced about working with two Democratic senators who favored racial segregation.
Turning to him, she said she did not believe he was a racist, but added: “It was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.”
She also took him to task for working “with them [racist senators] to oppose bussing” – a policy of driving white children by bus to majority-black schools and vice versa, in the mid-1970s.
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The policy aimed to undo the negative effects of Jim Crow-era racial segregation. Segregation of public schools was outlawed in 1954, but the racial inequality it fostered persisted.
“There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me,” Ms Harris said during the debate while targeting Mr Biden for opposing mandatory busing.
Mr Biden bristled: “It’s a mischaracterization of my position across the board. I did not praise racists. That is not true”of his position in the Senate, but it went down as the most contentious moment between the politicians during the presidential campaign.
He said he ‘detested” the segregationists’ views, following a backlash.
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He also said he was only against bussing being mandated by the federal government, but had no problem with it at state level.
The comments thrust segregationist policies onto a national stage, and Ms Harris again repeated her criticisms against the former vice president at the following debate.
“Had I been in the United States Senate at that time, I would’ve been completely on the other side of the aisle, and let’s be clear about this: had those segregationists their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate,” she said. ‘so on that issue, we could not be more apart.”
Insults Black voters take from Biden in the Interest of Defeating Trump
Had the many, many racial insults come from President Trump it would have been blasted, virtually nonstop, as blatantly racist. But the Biden campaign has basically been allowed to brush off the query as “preposterous” rather than address the appropriateness of the words spoken by Trump’s Democratic challenger. Besides the matter of relatively low-key media coverage of Biden’s over-wrought objections to perfectly valid questions posed to a 77-year-old presidential candidate, it raises another serious political issue: How many more insults will Black voters take from Biden in the interest of defeating Trump? And at this point, the ultimate insult is Biden’s reliance on any credibility as Barack Obama’s friend and vice president can go only so far!
Sexual assault allegations against Mr Biden
In April 2019, prior to Mr Biden entering the presidential race, reports surfaced of the former vice president inappropriately touching women.
When asked by reporters, Ms Harris said she believed the women who spoke out against her now-running mate.
“I believe them, and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it,” she said.
Multiple women accused Mr Biden of inappropriately touching them, including one Nevada politician who said the former vice president came up to her at a 2014 campaign stop and kissed the back of her head. This encouraged Mr Biden to release a video addressing the allegations against him.
‘social norms are changing. I understand that, and I”ve heard what these women are saying. Politics to me has always been about making connections, but I will be more mindful about respecting personal space in the future. That’s my responsibility and I will meet it,” he said.
Then Tara Reade, a former aide to Mr Biden, came forward about allegations of sexual assault when he was a US senator, all of which he has vehemently denied.
Ms Harris, who was a potential vice president candidate at the time, was asked about the allegations, saying Ms Reade “has a right to tell her story”.
“And I believe that and I believe Joe Biden believes that, too,” she said on the San Francisco Chronicle podcast.
The attack prompted Harris” sharpest spike in the polls, but she soon faded and ended her campaign in December.
Harris, 55, has several potential advantages as a vice presidential candidate. She is a woman of color “” her mother was born in India, her father in Jamaica “” which could help Biden connect better with the Democratic Party’s base. As a senator and former attorney general of the nation’s most populous state, she may be seen as more prepared than some to assume the top job.
One downside is that deep blue California is in the bag for Biden in the November election, so Harris wouldn’t deliver a home-field advantage in a swing state.
Harris also weighed in Friday on allegations by former Biden staffer Tara Reade, who said Biden sexually assaulted her when she worked in his Senate office in 1993.
Reade said Biden “pinned her to a wall in a Senate building, reached under her clothing and penetrated her with his fingers,” according to the New York Times. Last year, Reade was among several women who said Biden had inappropriately touched them or invaded their personal space. Reade made the assault allegations in a podcast interview.
Biden has not personally addressed the allegations, but his campaign has denied them.
Harris said the case raises “a bigger structural issue, frankly, which is that women must be able to speak without fear of retaliation.”
The senator said she could “only speak to the Joe Biden I know. He’s been a lifelong fighter, in terms of stopping violence against women.” She pointed to his lead role in passing the Violence Against Women Act in the Senate in 1994.
“The Joe Biden I know is somebody who really has fought for women and empowerment of women and for women’s equality and rights,” Harris said.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that she believes women who say they felt uncomfortable after receiving unwanted touching from former Vice President Joe Biden.
“I believe them and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it,” Harris said at a presidential campaign event in Nevada.
“He’s going to have to make that decision for himself. I wouldn’t tell him what to do,” Harris said.
Several women have come forward to allege that Biden has touched them inappropriately.
Former Nevada state lawmaker Lucy Flores, a Democrat, made the first accusation last week in an essay in New York magazine’s The Cut. Amy Lappos told the Hartford Courant that Biden also touched her inappropriately at a 2009 fundraiser in Connecticut.
Two additional women, Caitlyn Caruso and D. J. Hill, came forward Tuesday, sharing their experiences with The New York Times.
Biden has not commented publicly on the accusations, when in response to Flores’s allegation he said in a statement that he has “offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support and comfort.”
“And not once “never” did I believe I acted inappropriately,” Biden added. “If it is suggested I did so, I will listen respectfully.”
Another prominent debate moment between Ms Harris and Mr Biden happened when discussing the American healthcare system.
This was a point of contention among many of the Democratic candidates at the time, with voters able to draw a distinct line between those who were for a plan like Medicare for All, which Ms Harris supported, versus those like Mr Biden who wanted to expand on the Affordable Care Act.
After listening to voters, Ms Harris devised her own Medicare-for-All plan that would take 10 years to implement and involved slowly transitioning every American over into a single-payer system.
“I listened to the American families who said four years is just not enough to transition into this new plan, so I devised a plan where it’s going to be 10 years of a transition. I listened to American families who said “I want an option that will be under your Medicare system that allows a private plan,”” the California senator said during a debate after changing her plan multiple times throughout her campaign.
Mr Biden, who has been a proponent of keeping private health insurance for those who want it while expanding on the Affordable Care Act, disagreed at the time.
“Well, my response is that the senator has had several plans so far. And any time someone tells you you”re going to get something good in 10 years, you should wonder why it takes 10 years,” he said.
“If you noticed, there is no talk about the fact that the plan in 10 years will cost $3 trillion. You will lose your employer-based insurance. And in fact, you know, this is the single most important issue facing the public.”
Bringing more Police to the Streets
In 2002, then-Senator Joe Biden penned an op-ed for the Delaware State News that reacted to the rising national crime rate, which was happening for the first time in 10 years. What was his solution to the rise in crime? More police on the streets.
“What works in the fight against crime? It’s simple ““ more police on the streets,” he wrote. “Put a cop on three of four corners and guess where the crime is going to be committed? On the fourth corner, where the cop isn’t. More cops clearly means less crime.”
This was during the “tough on crime” era of the Democratic party in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Now Mr Biden stands as a presidential candidate of a major political party during a time in the country where there is a nationwide call for police reform. Although his views have likely altered since that op-ed, Mr Biden did state he was not for the ‘defund the police” movement taking over on the far left of his party.
But his running mate has said she would be for “reimagining” police in the US.
“I think that a big part of this conversation really is about reimagining how we do public safety in America which I support which is this: we have confused the idea that to achieve safety, you put more cops on the street instead of understanding to achieve safe and healthy communities,” Ms Harris said.
“That’s how I think about this,” she added. “You know, in many cities in America, over one-third of their city budget goes to the police. So, we have to have this conversation, what are we doing? What about the money going to social services? What about the money going to helping people with job training? What about the mental health issues that communities are being plagued with for which we”re putting no resources?”
Biden on Social Security
Joe Biden has repeatedly advocated for cuts to Social Security, not to protect and expand it.
Biden’s mixed record of support for the US government’s social welfare program for retirees has been a theme as reform of such so-called “entitlement” programs has long been a political bugaboo for candidates as well as elected officials, and Mr Biden’s decades-long career has laid bare this point. A senator before his stint as vice-president, Mr Biden argued that Social Security should be subject to government austerity. “When I argued that we should freeze federal spending, I meant Social Security as well,” he said in 1995. “I meant every single solitary thing in the government. And I not only tried it once, I tried it twice, I tried it a third time, and I tried it a fourth time.”
When challenged on this record on the campaign trail, Mr Biden has flat-out denied backing Social Security cuts. His campaign has said that, if elected, a President Biden would expand the program, paying for it through a tax on the wealthy.
Biden on Abortion Rights
“Joe Biden in the past has voted for what is called the Hyde Amendment, that said that women could not use Medicaid dollars in order to protect their reproductive rights and get an abortion.
An exit poll analysis by the political forecast website FiveThirtyEight found that white women were the single largest voting group that turned around Mr Biden’s campaign fortunes.
Given the importance of female voters, it is hardly surprising that Mr Biden’s votes on reproductive health would be scrutinized. The former vice-president’s positions on abortion have “transformed” over the past few decades. As a senator in 1981, he voted to support an amendment that would have allowed states to overturn the landmark Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing the US right to abortion. As recently as last year, he said he still supported the Hyde Amendment (which forbids public money from being used for abortions), but reversed course after it became clear he was the only Democrat in the field who did so.
Abortion access is an important issue for Democratic women, but denunciation of Mr Biden’s record appears to go only so far. A YouGov/Economist poll finds that support from women overall for the former vice-president is slightly higher with women older than 45 and it is this group that votes more reliably.
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‘does anybody think that Joe can go to Michigan or Wisconsin or Indiana or Minnesota and say vote for me, I voted for those terrible trade agreements?”
The anti-free trade line worked in 2016, when the same criticism of Hillary Clinton helped Trump.
Mr Biden has said he stands by his vote for the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), which critics say hollowed out manufacturing in the US. However, Mr Biden has argued that he is a “fair trader” who believes that “we should treat other countries in a way they treat us”, rather than a “free trader”.
The argument against Mr Biden looks to be less effective this time around than four years ago. According to a recent Gallup poll, 67% of self-described Democrats now say that Nafta has been beneficial for the US.
The debate has not played out in the general election, however. Trump will and has already talked about Joe’s record on trade. “Just looking at the facts – if you’re going into the heartland of America… it’s hard to make the case, when Trump has made trade such an important part of his agenda.”
Trumps’ sharpest lines against Mr Biden have been against the former vice-president’s ties to moneyed interests. Mr Biden “bailed out the crooks on Wall Street who nearly destroyed our economy 12 years ago”.
Trump has hit out at Mr Biden for taking money from well-heeled backers.
Biden has positioned himself as a champion of the masses, arguing that it is not him, but Mr Trump who is in the pockets of Wall Street.
At one point, he said he would eschew taking money from political action committees – private groups that can donate big money to campaigns with little oversight – but was forced to reverse course when his White House hopes were looking anaemic before Super Tuesday. A campaign spokeswoman defended the decision, saying: “Those who are dedicated to defeating Donald Trump are organizing in every way permitted by current law”.
“Joe is going to have to explain to the American people – who are so tired of endless wars which have cost us too many lives, destabilized too many regions around the world, have cost us trillions of dollars – why he was a leader in getting us involved in the war in Iraq.
On this point, Mr Biden has conceded. “It was a mistake, and I acknowledge that,” he has said.
Given the primary season results so far, it would appear that despite voters’ mixed feelings over the war (half of Americans think it was a mistake, according to Gallup), this particular error of judgement is not costing Mr Biden much – so many people made the same wrong judgment and, politically speaking, it was so long ago.
It has been weaponized by Mr Trump given the president’s losing battle to reduce the American military footprint in the region, it could be a risky one for him – but that has never stopped Mr Trump from throwing a punch.
Biden a Career Politician- 47 years and counting!
Mr Biden then brought up his two terms as vice-president to Barack Obama, America’s first black president.
Mr Biden, 76, was also confronted on an issue he presents as one of his strengths – political longevity.
“Pass the torch” Joe Biden
Mr Swalwell said: “I was six years old when a presidential candidate came to the California Democratic convention and said, ‘It’s time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans.’
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“That candidate was then-Senator Joe Biden. Joe Biden was right when he said it was time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans 32 years ago – he’s still right today.”
Mr Biden, who would be the oldest president ever elected, retorted: “I’m still holding on to that torch.”
He has also faced criticism for flip-flopping on abortion rights, and for calling Vice-President Mike Pence “a decent guy”.
Harris Political Baggage
Kamala Harris, also known as “Hillary Clinton in blackface” from the comparison between Harris and Clinton, “#BlackHillary” trended , “light-skinned Hillary”; Black Lives Matter movement and other critics have trolled her on Twitter with the hashtag #Kamalaisacop; advocates for criminal justice reform say her office was part of the problem, not the solution; Harris violated defendants’ constitutional rights by failing to disclose they knew about the tainted drug evidence in her crime lab scandal that resulted in the dismissal of over 1,000 drug cases; laughed when she said she smoked marijuana, yet opposed recreational pot while she convicted over 2000 people for having marijuana; opposed independent investigations of police shootings; opposed racism in the legal system and the mandatory use of body cameras by police: California reduce its prison population by 33,000 inmates Harris argued in court that releasing them would drastically reduce their prison labor pool (seriously!); there were 600,000 truant students in elementary schools, she passed a law making it a criminal misdemeanor for parents or guardians of truant children that could face a $2000 fine or up to one year in jail; She’s shut down websites of sex workers and prosecuted those involved, then moved to decriminalize sex work in a “massive shift; authored numerous policies that disproportionately harmed Black and Latino defendants; fake feminist! who is Jamaican/Indian who identifies and passed as a black woman.
Harris’ history as a prosecutor and attorney general in the state of California was a touchy subject and cause for concern long before her presidential campaign, and is being recirculated in the 2020 presidential and vice presidential debates.
“The concerns are overblown, yes, no question,” Harris told CBS News. But she was unable to escape addressing her controversial history; it took center stage during the second Democratic debates last year. When the topic of criminal justice reform arose, Harris bore the brunt of criticism from her fellow candidates, including Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
Democratic Debate: Tulsi Gabbard Goes After the Party, Tangles With Kamala Harris | NBC New York:
Harris has failed in her views on Criminal Justice Reform (you can read her full policy on her website here) and Police Brutality in the wake of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless other Black Americans. So, let’s try to clear up this controversy. Here are the important things to know about Kamala Harris’ history as attorney general:
Harris served as Attorney General twice.
Harris’ first go-around was as the district attorney general of San Francisco. Her term lasted seven years, from 2004 to 2011. Then, from 2011 to 2017, she went on to serve the state of California as attorney general before taking on the role of Senator.
Failed “Back on Track” Initiative
The “Back on Track” initiative was one her most successful programs.
As district attorney in 2005, Harris launched an initiative to reduce recidivism among first-time drug-trafficking defendants. The program, known as “Back on Track”, lasts 12-18 months and provides its participants with a personal responsibility plan (PRP). Their PRP will consist of setting goals around employment, parenting and receiving an education, instead of serving jail time. Participants are also required to serve 220 hours of community service. Graduating from the program requires each participant to find a job, enroll in school full time, and comply with all terms of their PRP.
‘shutting the revolving door of the criminal justice system requires innovative, results-driven policies and initiatives that help offenders get their lives back on track,” Harris said.
Failed Racial Bias and Police Brutality Reform.
In 2015, under Harris’ jurisdiction as state attorney general, California became the first statewide agency to adopt a body camera program and also enforced a “first of its kind” law enforcement training. The then-presidential candidate reminded people of her work during one of the debates.
However, what wasn’t mentioned is that wearing the body camera was not mandatory for all local police officers in the state, only those working directly for Harris. According to PBS, that same year Harris warned against a “one-size-fits-all” solution. “I as a general matter believe that we should invest in the ability of law enforcement leaders in specific regions and with their departments to use [their] discretion to figure out what technology they are going to adopt based on needs that they have and resources they have,” Harris told the Sacramento Bee.
And the training Harris referred to is known as “Principled Policing: Procedural Justice and Implicit Bias.” The course totaled eight hours and consisted of ‘six areas that focus on policing approaches that emphasize respect, listening, neutrality and trust, while recognizing and addressing implicit biases that can be barriers to these approaches,” according to a press release from the attorney general’s office. According to press release, a little over 90 applicants from 30 agencies applied for the course.
Failed on Prison Reform.
In 2011, the Supreme Court demanded the state of California reduce its prison population by 33,000 inmates in the next two years due to overpopulation resulting in starvation, inhumane treatment and even death, according to NPR. However in 2014, according to the LA Times, federal judges “ordered that all nonviolent second-strike offenders be eligible for parole after serving half their sentence.”
As stated by the LA Times, most of those prisoners were working as groundskeepers, janitors and kitchen staff. Harris’ lawyers argued in court that releasing them would drastically reduce their prison labor pool (seriously!). However, Harris told BuzzFeed that she was ‘shocked” to hear their defense. “I was very troubled by what I read. I just need to find out what did we actually say in court,” she said.
Her stance on Marijuana.
In 2010, Harris was staunchly opposed to the use of recreational marijuana. ‘spending two decades in court rooms, Harris believes that drug selling harms communities,” her then campaign manager Brian Brokaw told Capitol Weekly. “Harris supports the legal use of medicinal marijuana but does not support anything beyond that.”
In 2015, at the California Democrats Convention, she called for an end to the federal ban on medical marijuana, but withheld the term legalization. It wasn’t until 2018, as Senator, that she co-signed Senator Corey Booker’s Marijuana Justice Act”.
“Right now in this country people are being arrested, being prosecuted, and end up spending time in jail or prison all because of their use of a drug that otherwise should be considered legal,” Harris said in a press release. “Making marijuana legal at the federal level is the smart thing to do, it’s the right thing to do. I know this as a former prosecutor and I know it as a senator.”
The Failed Anti-Truancy Policy
In her 2011 inauguration speech, Harris pointed out that in 2010 there were 600,000 truant students in their elementary schools alone. In an effort to remediate this issue, she passed a law making it a criminal misdemeanor for parents to allow their children (kindergarten through eighth grade) to miss more than 10 percent of school days, without an excuse. The parents or guardians of truant children could face a $2000 fine or up to one year in jail. “We are putting parents on notice,” Harris said at her 2011 inauguration. “If you fail in your responsibility to your kids, we are going to work to make sure you face the full force and consequences of the law.”
However, this policy ended up generalizing the truancy issue, placing blame on parents with circumstances outside their control. Harris has since apologized for criminalizing parents in a Pod Save America interview. “This was never the attention,” she said. “I regret that that has happened and the thought that anything I did could have led to that.”
Failed Criminalization of Sex Workers.
In 2016, she was one of the leaders in the downfall of the classified ads website, Backpage.com. In her filings, she charged the site owners for money laundering, pimping, and conspiracy to commit pimping. A majority of sex workers used the site to find clients who needed an escort, other services, and many of them deemed it was one of the safest options to overall vet new clients. She said recently that she has “no regrets” about getting it shut down.
She’s recently spoke on matters of decriminalization of sex work, saying she supported the movement, which some have called a “massive shift.” In an interview with The Root last year, she said: “There is an ecosystem around that that includes crimes that harm people, and for those issues, I do not believe that anybody who hurts another human being or profits off of their exploitation should be free of criminal prosecution. But when you’re talking about consenting adults, we should consider that we can’t criminalize consensual behavior.”
FROM EMMETT TILL TO BREONNA TAYLOR: AMERICA CONTINUES TO SANCTION THE MURDERING OF BLACKS
“We want Justice for Breonna yet justice was met for her neighbors apartment walls and not her beautiful life.” – Lebron James, NBA star
On the 65th anniversary of the acquittal of the men who murdered 14-year-old Emmett “Bobo” Till, Black America suffered another punch to the gut by a justice system that too seldom provides anything approximating justice when the victim is Black. The officers who killed Breonna Taylor will not be held accountable.
In August of 1955, Till was murdered by a group of men after being falsely accused of flirting with a White woman in Money, Mississippi. As was the custom for many Black children in the north, they would be sent “down south” to spend the summer with relatives. Till never made it back home to Chicago. I was born 37 miles away in the same county, Tallahatchie, that he was kidnapped from and murdered.
The two men tried for his murder, J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were found not guilty in the county courthouse of Sumner, Mississippi on September 23, 1955. It had not even been a full month since they murdered Till. The all-white, all-male jury deliberated for 67 minutes before issuing a not guilty verdict. One juror infamously said:
“We wouldn’t have taken so long if we hadn’t stopped to drink pop.”
Fast forward to September 23, 2020 and we are told that no one will be held accountable for killing 26-year-old Breonna Taylor. The officers who shot her were not found to be criminally culpable by a grand jury. One officer, who was fired months ago was charged with a crime that most Americans could not define if they tried to. Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison was indicted on three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree for shooting into a neighboring apartment. What the heck is wanton endangerment? And just as importantly why is he facing five years in prison for shooting a wall but the officers who killed Taylor will not be charged with killing her?
Kentucky law describes wanton endangerment as happening:
“when, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life, [a person] wantonly engages in conduct which creates a substantial danger of death or serious physical injury to another person.”
Allow this to sink in for a moment. Because this officer could have potentially caused bodily harm to someone in a neighboring apartment, he was the sole officer indicted from the night when Taylor was killed by police wearing civilian clothes using what was reported to be a no-knock warrant in the middle of the night. If this officer had actually shot straight, like his peers who killed Taylor, he would not have lost his job and would not be facing charges right now.
As we should have suspected, protests exploded in Louisville and around the country. I am numb. I have run out of words to describe my frustrations with America. I wonder why I stay in this country. I have been warning people for years that there is something fundamentally flawed with the way we police in this country.
It is more than the police though. It is also the district attorneys, and grand jurors around the country who refuse to hold police officers accountable for killing unarmed civilians. It is the state and federal elected officials, who have passed laws that make it nearly impossible to hold police officers accountable. It is the fault of judges who have interpreted the laws in a way that gives the cops a license to kill in almost every circumstance possible. It is the uncaring way in which so many Whites in this country show indifference when these things continue to happen over and over again.
The system is the problem not the people in the system. The system works the same in 2020 as it did in 1955 even though the people are not the same. he system is called racism. It allowed the murderers of Emmett Till to walk free and be paid for giving an interview with Look magazine where they detailed what they did to Emmett Till. On January 24, 1956 the magazine ran a cover story entitled “The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi.” Both killers were paid $1,500 a piece and their attorney was paid $1,000. The most ironic thing about the magazine cover was that it featured two smiling blonde women who looked as if they did not have a care in this world.
Milam said during the interview that as they were kidnapping Till he pointed a flashlight in his face at his uncle’s home.
Milam: “You the nigger who did the talking?”
Bobo: “Yeah.”
Milam: “Don’t say, yeah to me. I’ll blow your head off. Get your clothes on.”
They stole a cotton gin fan weighing over 70 pounds so that they could weigh down Till’s corpse in the Tallahatchie River. This account comes from the interview:
They stood silently … just hating one another.
Milam: “Take off your clothes.”
Slowly, Bobo pulled off his shoes, his socks. He stood up, unbuttoned his shirt, dropped his pants, his shorts. He stood there naked. It was Sunday morning, a little before 7.
Milam: “You still as good as I am?”
Milam: “You still ‘had’ white women?”
That big .45 jumped in Big Milam’s hand. The youth turned to catch that big, expanding bullet at his right ear. He dropped.
This courageous 14-year-old kid had the audacity to speak to the White people in a way that was not allowed in Mississippi at that time. He was murdered and the murderers realizing they were protected by double jeopardy laws and a solidly White pool of jurors knew that nothing would happen to them. This is how Milam defended himself and described the murder in Look magazine.
“I never hurt a nigger in my life. I like niggers – in their place … But I just decided it was time a few people got put on notice. As long as I live and can do anything about it, niggers are gonna stay in their place. Niggers ain’t gonna vote where I live. If they did, they’d control the government. They ain’t gonna go to school with my kids. And when a nigger gets close to mentioning sex with a white woman, he’s tired o’ livin’. I’m likely to kill him. Me and my folks fought for this country, and we got some rights. I stood there in that shed and listened to that nigger throw that poison at me, and I just made up my mind. ‘Chicago boy,’ I said, ‘I’m tired of ’em sending your kind down here to stir up trouble. Goddam you, I’m going to make an example of you – just so everybody can know how me and my folks stand.’ So Big Milam decided to act. He needed a weight…Bobo wasn’t bleeding much. Pistol-whipping bruises more than it cuts. They ordered him back in the truck and headed west again … Bryant and Big Milam stood aside while Bobo loaded the fan. Weight: 74 pounds … Big Milam ordered Bobo to pick up the fan.He staggered under its weight … carried it to the river bank.
Till’s mother, Mamie Till, demanded that her son have an open casket funeral so that the world could see what they did to Bobo. According to PBS, “Emmett Till’s mutilated body would be on display for all to see. Fifty thousand people in Chicago saw Emmett Till’s corpse with their own eyes. When the magazine Jet ran photos of the body, Black Americans across the country shuddered.” The murder of Till was a catalyst for the community of Montgomery, Alabama standing up to segregation and boycotting the buses just a few months later.
The killing of Till, and the acquittal just weeks later was a heavy blow to the hearts and minds of the 15 million Black people in this country. Today, 44 million Black people were kicked in the stomach by this decision in Kentucky. Protests are occurring once again just as they were when George Floyd was killed by police in May. We have endured so many of these murders without receiving justice that it feels like we are in a never-ending, repeating cycle of doom. Justice does not allow itself to be a part of the lived experience of Blacks when they are killed by police and in many cases vigilantes.
We have done all of the things possible to tell America how we feel. America has not changed much since that hot summer day in Mississippi when two murderers walked away free men. The officers who killed Taylor will not be held accountable. Nothing will change this reality. Civil charges will not be filed. There may be talk of it happening but I would not bet on it occurring.
What can we do now? What have we not done already? Has it mattered that George Floyd’s death led to worldwide protests but here we are again just months later? How can we be comforted? How can we be expected to do anything other than express our emotions? Many won’t like the way some express their frustration over the coming days and weeks. We will hear the useless calls for more police training. We will hear people say they stand by us but don’t appreciate or support how we protest.
Unfortunately for Blacks in this country the more things change the more they stay the same. There are no words to describe the current feelings I have. I am not surprised by the decision to not charge the officers who killed Breonna Taylor. The mindset of those people in Mississippi back in the 1950s is the mindset of far too many people around the country today. We must be honest and call America out for allowing this systemic racism to perpetuate itself.
Bob Dylan’s song The Death of Emmett Till could easily be re-written on behalf of the memory of Breonna Taylor.
“And so this trial was a mockery, but nobody seemed to mind.
I saw the morning papers but I could not bear to see
The smiling brothers walkin’ down the courthouse stairs.
For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free,
While Emmett’s body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea.
If you can’t speak out against this kind of thing, a crime that’s so unjust,
Your eyes are filled with dead men’s dirt, your mind is filled with dust.
Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains, and your blood it must refuse to flow,
For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low!
Death of Ginsburg could boost Trump,we have his Replacement Candidates
Democrats fear Donald Trump will defy the legal icon’s final wish and attempt to push through a candidate to the Supreme Court – diverting attention from his handling of the coronavirus crisis
Crowds have gathered to pay tributes to iconic Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg following her death at the age of 87.
Emotional tributes have been paid to the women’s rights champion, amid fears Donald Trump could defy her dying wish.
Ginsburg had pleaded for her successor to be appointed once there is a new President – but Trump seems likely to pounce on the chance to divert attention from his handling of the coronavirus.
If he gets his way and a conservative takes Ginsburg’s place, laws permitting abortion in the US could be under threat.
Flowers were left outside the Supreme Court building in Washington DC as mourners paid their respects.
Ginsburg was a renowned liberal who famously branded Trump a “faker” and said he was guided by his ego.
The judge, a co-founder of the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), was just the second woman ever appointed to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the US.
She was popularly known by her initials RBG, and emerged as an icon in popular culture in recent years.
An image of Ginsburg and the alternating messages “thank you” and “rest in power” were projected on the front of the New York State Civil Supreme Court building in Manhattan as Americans paid tribute.
The race to appoint a successor
Ginsburg had requested that her replacement on the Supreme Court was not appointed until there is a new President.
Just days before her death, she dictated a statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera, saying: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies – and she didn’t want to be replaced until Trump out of office
But with Trump on the back foot and Republicans anxious about losing the White House and the US Senate, experts believe putting forward a candidate could divert criticism away from the incumbent.
If successful, it would also move the Supreme Court further to the right, giving it a 6-3 conservative majority.
The balance is currently 5-4 in favour of conservatives.
Trump has already appointed two conservatives to lifetime posts on the court, Neil Gorsuch in 2017 and Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.
Why this could impact on abortion rights in the US
Conservative activists for years have sought to get enough
votes on the Supreme Court to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.
During the 2016 campaign, Trump promised to appoint justices who would overturn that landmark decision.
If Trump is able to appoint a judge who opposes abortion, he may be able to deliver on this pledge.
Timing could suit Donald Trump’s campaign, says strategist
For months, the election contest has centred on Trump’s handling of the pandemic, which has badly damaged his prospects for reelection as the US death toll nears 200,000.
However, Ginsburg’s death opens up the potential for Trump or Biden to choose a successor – who could rule on issues including abortion access, environmental regulations and the power of the presidency for a generation.
Strategists on both sides have seized on the moment to find an advantage.
Trump’s supporters see an opportunity to galvanize support beyond his most loyal core of backers, with Republican strategist Alex Conant saying: “It’s hard to see how this doesn’t help Trump politically.
“Biden wants this election to be a referendum on Trump. Now it’s going to be a referendum on whoever he nominates to the supreme court.”
Multiple Republicans close to the White House believe Mr Trump will likely nominate a woman.
“Any week Donald Trump doesn’t have to talk about coronavirus is a net positive for him,” said Joel Payne, a Democratic strategist who worked for 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
“Historically, Republicans vote on the court. I think some Republicans will see this as the October surprise to gin up excitement in their base.”
Tributes paid to liberal icon
Figures from across the political spectrum have paid tribute to Ginsburg
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat, posted on Twitter : “Tonight, the flags are flying at half staff over the Capitol to honor the patriotism of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“Every woman and girl, and therefore every family, in America has benefitted from her brilliance.”
“Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature,” Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement.
“We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her – a tireless and resolute champion of justice.”
“Today, our nation mourns the loss of a titan of the law,” Trump said in a statement, adding that Ginsburg’s decisions “have inspired all Americans, and generations of great legal minds.”
Trump, who as a presidential candidate in 2016 called on Ginsburg to resign and said “her mind is shot” after she criticized him in media interviews, did not mention any potential plans about nominating a replacement.
President Donald J. Trump announced the following additions to his Supreme Court List:
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THE COURTEL, THE COURT CORRUPTION CARTEL
The COURTEL, Court Corruption Cartel
THE “COURTEL”, THE COURT CORRUPTION CARTEL, this Black Robed Society was Conceived in Sin, Born of Corruption, Covered Up with Collusion, protected by Diabolical Guard Dogs of Hell itself- the COURTEL! A Litany of Law Lords, Demonically Dealing Decisions for Dominance, DOLLAR$!
These Kingpins of Corporate Crime, Fraud, Corruption, Collusion, Conspiracy, are continuing the Jim Crow administration of justice, with Transactional Justice that’s really Contracted Injustice, legal rulings to favor their Corruptocrats and Kleptocrat carpet bagging political handlers, slaves to lobbyist and their colleagues Transactional Justice for CA$H to insure Justice Fails and Refuses to Bring Justice!
The dramatic long standing effects of the “COURTEL” is characterized by tyrannical Federal, State, and Local Governments; Corrupt Federal, State, and Local Government Judicial and Law Enforcement Agencies; Rampant Fraud and Corruption; Class, Race and Caste Societal Wars; Dehumanization of the Minority and Poor Masses; Financial Collapse; Famine, Disease; Food Insecurity; Affordable Housing Drought; Sky Rocketing Unemployment; Social Unrest; Environmental Disaster; other characteristics representative of a Cataclysmic Decline in Society as the Rich Top 2% Just Get Richer at everyone else’s expense!!
This Judicial Cult of Immoral Dishonor, this “COURTEL”, with no accountability grievously disintegrates in “a monumentally moral descent into the very exclusive part of HELL for Criminal Justices who swear others to GOD but themselves are sworn to Judicial Purgatory as Satan’s Slaves!”
They want the WORLD to believe they are GOD’S vicegerents on earth and pledge allegiance to THEM- then GOD, to honor their dishonor, to gracefully ignore their disgrace, to hold them in reverence ABOVE GOD while they do the Devils work!!
Even in their own dysfunctional Dystopia it is religiously inconceivable, absurd to believe that a HUMAN BEING serving in the capacity of a Judge, can BE a Judge and have irreducible beliefs, to BELIEVE IN GOD- A HIGHER POWER, a religious concept/belief/practice in THE HEREAFTER- HEAVEN AND HELL, GOOD AND EVIL, RIGHT AND WRONG, REWARD AND PUNISHMENT, TRUTH AND JUSTICE! SIMPLY NOT POSSIBLE, UNLESS THEY ARE ALREADY RESIGNED TO THEIR GOING TO HELL FOR THEIR ACTIONS AND RULINGS!! These scurrilous, nefarious, Devils Disciples, bathing in their Judicial Ejaculation from the graft of Political Porn of Judicial Ejaculation, Motion Masturbation, can’t believe in GOD and engineer, orchestrate, author, originate and enact such cruel corruption.
California Appeals and Superior Court Corruption
The COURTEL system protects and serves the Corruptocrats and Kleptocrats, these Kingpins of Korruption, the corrupt judges, prosecutors, public defenders, and police officers that hide behind their pledge/oath to their codes of the Black Robe Society and Cops “Blue Code” of Corruption and Silence, that hide behind gavels and badges! But in this Den of Degenerates, Judges are Politicians, appointed and/or elected officials that also received campaign contributions and endorsements wherein this make it difficult, impossible, for these Judges as politicians, elected/appointed officials to try and rule in any cases, to prosecute crime, thus to engage in any cases against their colleagues or manipulators.
The COURTEL’S Criminal Justices and their cohorts, these Corruptocrats and Kleptocrats,epidemiological spread of Grand Systemic and Endemic corruption that has Systemic Racism as a subset, controls the Police, District Attorneys/Prosecutors, Public Defenders and covers up for them! This Grand and Endemic Judicial/Legal Systemic Racism portrays perhaps the single most important reason why this “COURTEL” has been able to THRIVE, why the Federal, State, County and Local Governments Judicial and Law Enforcement Agencies, the Judicial Councils, the Commissions on Judicial Performance, and the heads of the Judicial Disciplinary bodies responsible for taking corrective action in these matters, has been so derelict in doing so, is because they are ALL PARTNERS, inextricably placed in the legal paradox where every Government Judicial and Law Enforcement Agency, Judge, Court Administrator, attorney, law firm, litigant and their agents having been involved in committing these crimes, opens the way to legally setting aside every case they were ever involved with and potentially being reversed at an untold cost of money, integrity and irreparable loss of public confidence in the legal system!
Vice President Kamala “Kriminal Harass” Harris and the COURTEL is commodifying, merchandising, commercializing, politicizing and exploiting the current Black Lives Matter and Social Justice dissent movements, pandering to Corruptocrats and Kleptocrats engaged in transactional justice: “pay-to-play” for rulings, orders, and decisions, in connivance with judicial, political, law enforcement, governmental and legal entities, and their assorted group of “bag men”, lobbyist, agents, upper class donors, political handlers, strategist, influence peddlers, well-connected law firms, special interest groups, corporate controllers, judicial and legal systems corruption incubators such as the Inn of Courts and noted Law Firms Keker Van Nest, Myers Nave, Ropers Majeski, acting as Judge mills transactionally buying and selling judicial appointments and decisions, as political “King Makers” to maintain and regulate legislative power, control and authority over laws and enforcement thereof!; while she also faced scrutiny among progressives – pledging to avoid big-money donors and special interests in their fundraising; as minorities criticized her for not taking a tougher stance on racism in the legal system and police brutality: furthering policies that disproportionately harm Black and Latino defendants!
Vice President Kamala “Kriminal Harass” Harris, integral in the pervasive, Corruption perpetrated by the “COURTEL”, the Corruptocrats and Kleptocrats, as then Attorney General of California, substituted in as attorney of record in al-Hakim Family’s case of ADMITTED stolen Child Support by and against the Alameda County Department of Child Support Services “in the interest of justice”.
Kamala Harris, whom substituted in as attorneys in the interest of justice, was acting or purporting to act in the performance of their official duties, FILED DOCUMENTS THAT THEY WERE REPRESENTING the al-Hakim Family members Harun al-Hakim-Miller, Bari al-Hakim-Williams, Joette al-Hakim-Hall, Patty Flenory; the VERY SAME PARTIES THEY ADMITTED TO HAVE STOLEN, MISAPPROPRIATED, AND DEFRAUDED THE CHILD SUPPORT PAID TO THEM IN TRUST FOR THE MINOR GIRLS AND THEN EXTORTED THE FATHER TO PAY IT AGAIN; wherein this conduct violated the girls’s civil rights, religious rights, right to fair competition and right to due process under the law and is an inherent threat to all our civil and human rights, right to due process, property, pursuit of happiness and freedom; yet Kamala Harris and the Attorney General’s Office was supposed to be investigating these same parties crimes as part of the U. S. Attorney General’s action al-Hakim filed in 2005!
THERE IS NO GREATER CONFLICT OF INTEREST THEN THIS OBVIOUS AND ADMITTED DEFRAUDING OF TWO MINOR GIRLS CHILD SUPPORT PERPETRATED BY KAMALA HARRIS IN THE INTEREST OF JUSTICE IN THE HISTORY IF JUSTICE!!
SHE THEN DOUBLED DOWN AND SUPPRESSED THE EVIDENCE, DESTROYED AND REFUSE TO PROVIDE NECESSARY TESTIMONY AND TRANSCRIPTS, COVERED UP THE ADMITTED CRIMES- THEN FAILED AND REFUSED TO CARRY OUT THE INVESTIGATION SHE WAS ORDERED TO UNDERTAKE BY THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, OF THESE VERY SAME PARTIES SHE CLAIMED TO REPRESENT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE CRIMES AND CASE: THE VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS!!!
What justice is there in the Attorney General defending, concealing and being complicit in committing the ALREADY ADMITTED willful and intentional extrinsic fraud upon the court; prosecutorial misconduct; willful and malicious prosecution; misconduct; conflict of interest; obstruction of justice; denial of due process; willful and intentional fabrication and authoring false evidence; misstating and mischaracterizing evidence; misrepresentation and concealment of material facts with knowledge of the truth with the intent to induce the court’s act or reliance; harassment; and intimidation on behalf of District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, former DA John “Jack” Meehan, Tom Orloff,Tom Orloff, Rock Harmon, Maureen Lenahan and others in the DA’s office; various Judges and Commissioners abuse of discretion, willful misconduct, conduct prejudicial, illegal ex-parte communications and bias that resulted in error?!!
How can the District Attorney ADMIT in a letter to the Family apologizing for committing fraud, embezzlement, fabricating and authoring false evidence, and obstruction of justice of two minors girls child support and nefariously prosecute their Father for it?”. How can Kriminal Harass, ALL the State and Federal law enforcement agencies be on notice of this crime and prosecution, have received formal complaints of the crime and prosecution, be directed to investigate and prosecute this fraud and prosecution and Kriminal Harass do NOTHING but suppress the evidence and cover up this crime and ignore the prosecution?
It is due to her being DEEPLY entrenched and interwoven into the Judicial Corruption fabric of the “COURTELS” Grand Systemic and Endemic Corruption that has Systemic Racism as a subset, that controls the Police and District Attorney/Prosecutors and covers up for them! So Black Lives Matter, if you are going to fight the good fight, you need to know and educate yourselves on the Grand Systemic and Endemic Corruption Judicial/Legal Systemic Racism that Kriminala Harrass is SOOO much a part of!
There’s NO Police reform, no social justice reform, no change in systemic racism, no defund the police, no societal change/advancement unless and until there is complete Judicial Reform revoking immunity for Judges, Police and Prosecutors to END Grand systemic and endemic corruption! We don’t need to wait until after serving 30 years in prison only to be freed for a crime we didn’t commit because of DNA tests revealed the truth that the system victimized us!
The REAL SYSTEM, it’s the “COURTEL”, the Court Cartel and the Corruptocrats and Kleptocrats!
Unless and until there is complete Judicial Reform revoking immunity for Judges, Police and Prosecutors to END Grand systemic and endemic corruption, YOUR LIVES DON’T MATTER!
Biden, Harris, the Corruptocrats and Kleptocrat politicians from your districts and state WILL NOT move to change that fact, their job is to PROTECT it! If you don’t believe it, CHALLENGE them to make a meaning change verbally, in committee, by petition, and election!
They have invoked an extremely “chaotic and dangerous” contagion of human and civil rights abuses across thousands of cases and incidents that have irreparably harmed and damaged these litigants essentially “murdering” them, executing their families, their businesses and their communities, robbing them of their lives!
For over 50 years al-Hakim has been presenting information about the COURTEL, which did not make any of them happy—so there is a full-scale attack, on him for doing something that the COURTEL is opposed.
The COURTEL engaged in the one-sided, presenting of the government’s narrative, a complete and total mischaracterization of al-Hakim, his family, their businesses, their community and those they serve, the victims, criminalizing them simply because they could, unopposed as an effective defense tactic, which had nothing to do with our cases as victims and then forced to survive the COURTEL’s persecution/execution that we have been experiencing as part of the governments campaign of calumny deceit of 50 years!
The COURTEL enacted a criminal, tactical policy of isolation, victimization, criminalization and the attempted entrapment of al-Hakim, including the use of government initiated, Nixon era “White House Plumbers” and CoIntelpro style dirty tricks! This civil conspiracy has brought into play Federal, Sate, County and Local Agencies to further it’s continued investigation of al-Hakim whom has been surveilled for years and continues today with the compromising of many agents and informants covers due to their sloppiness. These actions are just one example of the continuing efforts of law enforcement to silence and eliminate al-Hakim, even by death, as their adversary when al-Hakim has caught and exposed them as they have been entrapped in their own crimes!
al-Hakim has expressed his fear for his and his family’s safety after an attempt at being to set up for murder by District Attorney Officer Bob Connor in 1989, and then again being verbally accosted; physically threatened; attempted to be baited, provoked and intimidated into a physical altercation; threatened with arrest, disallowed from going to Judge Leo Dorado’s courtroom; forcibly removed and escorted from the courthouse building; and ordered not to return by Officer Bob Connor again on November 22, 2010.
The al-Hakim Family, as the victim, had to go toe to toe with this oppressive government trying to coerce and put us away! As law-abiding citizens who did nothing wrong in our cases, we were forced to endure tragic circumstances and outcomes. And we fought, the al-Hakim family, against all odds, just to be happy that we can one day walk out of a courtroom with our heads held high!
The COURTEL Judges in al-Hakim’s cases heinous, egregious actions has taken the spirit of the law for which it was written and applies and totally misused the principles it was founded upon, has written, signed and submitted willfully perjurious, deceptive and fraudulent orders in attempting to deceive the public in support of his rulings; responded to his disqualification by his failure and refusal to timely filing an answer; some doing so days later only after al-Hakim had requested the written answer multiple times; filing an answers days later only after al-Hakim contested their continued sitting in the case and indicated his intent to file an appeal for same; stating al-Hakim “attacks judges” in their answer without any explanation; calling al-Hakim a liar in their answers without any substance; publicly criticizing al-Hakim in court on the record; repeatedly lied under oath; made knowingly false statements in an effort to demean, humiliate and provoke plaintiff while lying under oath and perjury; dishonesty; fraudulent deception; calumny deceit; willful and prejudicial misconduct; abuse of discretion; negligence; bias; prejudice; willful and intentional extrinsic fraud upon the court; prosecutorial misconduct; willful and malicious prosecution; misconduct; conflict of interest; obstruction of justice; denial of due process; willful and intentional fabrication and authoring false evidence; misstating and mischaracterizing evidence; misrepresentation and concealment of material facts with knowledge of the truth with the intent to induce the court’s act or reliance; harassment; intimidation; misrepresentation; incompetence; conflict of interest; bad faith; collusion; denial of due process; obstruction of justice; racism; bigotry; has exhibited, expressed and shown a fixed opinion of al-Hakim; displayed favoritism towards the opposing parties; made false accusations; harassed al-Hakim; has willfully, deceitfully and recklessly indulged in a series of offensive acts and statements against plaintiff and has displayed disdain, malice, and a mental attitude or disposition toward al-Hakim that prohibits the right to a fair hearing or trial; failed and refused to respond to the allegations contained in the challenges for cause; conduct prejudicial; and advocated a judicial imprimatur of the opposing parties position are grounds for disqualification and DEMAND FOR REMOVAL OF THE HONORABLE JUDGES FOR PEREMPTORY BIAS CHALLENGE and FOR CAUSE PURSUANT TO CALIFORNIA Code Civ. Proc., §§ 1085; on the ground of misconduct, prejudicial misconduct, bias, and prejudice in violations of Code Civ. Proc., §§ 170.0-170.5 et. seq.; specifically 170, subd. (a)(5); 170, subd. (e); 170.1, subdivision (a)(2); 170.1, subdivision (a)(6)(C); 170.3, subd. (c)(1); 170.3, subd. (c)(5); 170.3, subd. (d); CCP §170.1(6)(A)(iii)); 170.l(a)(6), §170.l(a)-6(B), §170.3(a)(1)-4(c), and §170.4(a)-(3); the Canons of the Code of Judicial Conduct 1, 2, 2A, 2B(2), 3B(2), 3B(4), 3B(5), 3B(8), 3C, 3D(1), 3E, 3E(1), 3E(2), 4, 4D(1) and 4(E)( a corresponding Federal Statute, 28 United States Code section 455(a) adopted by Congress in 1974); DUE TO CRIMINAL CONDUCT IN VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. §242; Corruption; Manipulation; Obstruction of Justice in Motions for Peremptory Challenge; Conduct To Pervert or Obstruct Justice, or the Due Administration of the Laws and Conspiracy to Pervert or Obstruct Justice (§182, subd. (a)(5)); Fraud Upon The Court; Business and Professions Code sections 6068, subdivisions (b) and (f), 6103 and 6106 and former rule 7-105(1) of the Rules of Professional Conduct; Cal. Const., art. VI, §§ 8, 18; see Cal. Code Jud. Ethics, canon 3D(1).); and violates al-Hakim’s fundamental civil rights and due process under the law guaranteed by the United States Constitution Amendments First, Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, and as applicable to this state of California Constitution by the First Clause of Section 13 of Article I of California Constitution; Article VI, § 4 1/2, as a “miscarriage of justice.”; Article VI, section 18, subd. (d)(3); California Code of Civil Procedure §§ 355, 356, 473, 475; 3523, 3528. The judge’s persistent willful misconduct, bad faith, mistreatment, promised retaliation and “atmosphere of unfairness” determines that there is a high probability they would continue their unethical behavior if they were to continue in a judicial capacity in the future.
Herein you will find those identified in the al-Hakim cases as being involved in this COURTEL culled from the case files.
United States District Court- Northern Division, Phyllis J. Hamilton, Claudia Wilken, Thelton E. Henderson, Jon Tigar, Yvonne Gonzalez Rodgers, Jacqueline Scott Corley, Donna M. Ryu, Susan Y. Soong, Ioana Petrou, Edward M. Chen, Richard Wieking, Joseph Spero, Pat Talley-Linnhart, Diana Pasadori, Tracie Williams, Ernestina Lee, Linda Ekstrom-Stanley and ALL former and current employees
The United States Attorney’s Office- Northern District of California, Hon. Brian Stretch, Stacey Geis, Alex Tse, Joshua Eaton, Charles O’Connor, Sara Winslow, Barbara Valliere, J. Douglas Wilson and ALL former and current employees
United States Federal Trustee, Northern District Of California: Tracy Hope Davis, Donna S. Tamanaha, Michael O. Sorgaard, Nathalie Brumfield-Brown, Martha G. Bronitsky, Chief Judge Roger L. Efrensky, Clerk Edward J. Emmons, and ALL former and current employees; Timothy S. Laffredi, Barbara A. Matthews, Margaret H. McGee,
United States Federal Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of California: Judge Randall Newsome, Trustee Terrance Stinnette, Carol Roth, Linda Ekstrom-Stanley, Mark L. Pope, Ron Bearskin, Mr. Efremski, Richard Jenkins, and ALL former and current employees;
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) San Francisco: John F. Bennett, John.Bennett, Lawrence D. Buckley, Craig D. Fair, Bertram R. Fairries, Derek Fischel, Lisa R. Gentilcore, Marina A. Mayo, Stacey Moy, M.K. Palmore, and ALL former and current employees
The California Supreme Court: Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Cathal Conneely, Ronald M. George, Frank A. McGuire and ALL former and current employees
State of California Courts of Appeal: Barbara J. R. Jones, Judge Kennedy, James Richman, Henry Needham, Mark B. Simons, Gordon B. Burns, James Humes, Terence Bruiniers, Sandra Margulies, Anthony Kline, Kathleen Banke, Beth Robbins, Charles Johnson, Anne Reasoner, Susan Graham, Mary Quilez, Diana Herbert, Dick Sandvick, Rosa, Joy Washington and ALL former and current employees
California Attorney General: Xavier Becerra and ALL members of his office including but not limited to Peter Southworth, Robert Wilson, Marina L. Soto, Sean McCluskie, Robert Wilson, Laura Stuber, Kelli Evans, Amanda Renteria, Eleanor Blume, Jonathan “Jon” Blazer, Melanie Fontes Rainer, David Zonana, Alejandro Pérez, Sirat Attapit, Bethany Lesser, Chris Moyer, Liz Saldivar, former California Attorney Generals Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr., Kamala Harris and ALL members of their offices including but limited to Evan Westrep, Louis Verdugo Jr., Richard Frank,
Oakland City Attorney John Russo’s Political Suicide- Planted Evidence
Judicial Council of California: Martin Hoshino, John Wordlaw, Blaine Corren, Nancy Carlisle, Maria Kwan, Yvette Trevino, Bernadette Torivio, Jody Patel, Nancy Carlisle, Mikayla Connell, Tina Carroll Felizia Nava‐Kardon, Evelyn Ramos, Stephen Chow, Rochelle Mosley, Galina Osachiy, Chantel Perrella, Rowena Tabar, Edward Tang, Hoa Tran,
Commission on Judicial Performance: Victoria B. Henley, Director-Chief Counsel, Marshall Grossman, Jay Linderman, Andrew Blum
California Judges Association: Jennifer Blevins, Stanley Bissey, Lexi Howard, Ronald G. Overholt and ALL former and current employees
Alameda County Superior Court Judges and clerks: Judges Frank Roesch, Wynne Carvill, Robert Freedman, Yolanda Northridge, Jon Rolefson, Kim Colwell, George Hernandez, Leo Dorado, Frank Roesch, Barbara J. Miller, Leo Dorado, C. Don Clay, Winifred Smith, Stephen Pulido, Sandra Bean and Commissioners John Porter, Sue Alexander, Boydine Hall, Taylor Culver, Glenn Oleon, Thomas Nixon, and Elizabeth Hendrickson, Jenifer Madden, Scott Patton, David Krashna, Morris Jacobson, Ioana Petrou, Jeffery Brand, Evelio Grillo, Paul Herbert, Kevin R. Murphy, Michael M. Markman, Jo-Lynne Q. Lee, David Lee, Michael Ballachey, Richard Hodge Judith Ford, Dawn Garrard, Jacqueline Tabor, Tara Desautels, Leo Dorado, Dennis Hayashi, Julia Spain, Kristi Hereth and ALL former and current Superior Court employees
California Courts of Appeal -First District, Alameda County Superior Court- Appeals Section: Y. Singh, Angela Yamsuan, F. C. La Torre, Liza Sabio,Ruby Atwall, Nancy Adams, D. Johnson-Cannon, Anita Lippman, and ALL former and current employees
Alameda County Superior Court Administration: Chad Finke, Executive Officer, Adam Byer, Giza Lewis, Pat Sweeten, Adrianne Forshay, Angela Ball, Dan Croyle, Robbie McIntosh, M. Scott Sanchez, Shiela McMullen, Vicky-Clerk, Marvin- Attendant, Pam Drummond-Williams, Letichia, Michelle Escerra, Tanisha V. Jones, Joyce, court reporter Adrienne Peretti, Phil Abar, Elaine Kabiling, Maggie Takeda, Renee Pickney, Clarence Traywick, Connie Parchman, Alina Mateo, Darmica Oliver, Leah Wilson, Kasha Clarke, Kim Steinbach, Reshma Mishra, Walt Stemmler, Pilipino “Pip” Tungohan, Ruby Sanchez and ALL former and current employees, agents and contractors; et.at.
Alameda County District Attorney: Nancy O’Malley, Kevin Dunleavy, Michael O’Connor, David Stein, former and current Alameda County District Attorneys John Meehan, Tom Orloff, Rock Harmon, Kamala Harris, Matthew Golde, Robert “Bob” Connor, Bruce Brock, David Stein, Ann Diem, Matthew Golde, Karen Campbell, Venus Johnson, Yolanda Smith, Boydine Hall, Thomas Rogers, Lawrence Blazer, Brad Kearns, Joseph Chan, Jay Patel, Bill Kleeman, Teresa and ALL former and current employees
Alameda County Department of Child Support Services: former and current Directors Matthew A. Brega, Sue Eadie, Ann Deim, Maureen K. Lenahan, Valgeria Harvey, Ricca Alcantara, Lloyd Lavagetto, Ms. Karol Pendergrass, Ms. Adler, Kris Ferre, Robert Lovelady, Mrs. Carlilse, Mrs. Remelton, Kicheko Reese, Roslynn Coleman, Terry Simmons-Booker and ALL former and current employees
County of Alameda Legal Counsel: Donna Ziegler, Richard E. Winnie, Gabriella Raymond, Erin H. Reding, Teresa L. Robinson, Brian E. Washington and ALL former and current employees
Superior Court of San Joaquin County: Judge Lesley Holland, Junqueiro, Richard Vlavianos, J. Gerlomes
Superior Court of Solano County: Judge John B. Ellis, Adrianne Forshay
Kamala Harris, Government Stole Server, “scrubbed” internet, shut down al-Hakim’s Social Media to Silence Voice Exposing Criminal Activity!
The nearly Five decades old continuing story of the conflict between Abdul-Jalil al-Hakim and his Family with the Alameda County District Attorney (DA), the California Attorney General (AG) and the Alameda County Department of Child Support Service (DCSS) must be among the most extensively told in the history of the American judiciary.
al-Hakim had to file an action against Tom Orloff, the DA and ACDCSS because they failed and refused to enforce the courts own orders for the fair and proper application and accounting of payments al-Hakim made in trust to the DA in their fiduciary capacity for the two minor al-Hakim girls depriving al-Hakim and one minor child of over $2,000 of monies paid, then illegally charging al-Hakim with the crime of violating the child support statute for nonpayment. Full Story with Videos and Documents at http://tinyurl.com/ljk8av
Vice President, former Attorney General Kamala “Kriminal Harass” Harris and the Office of The Attorney General of The State of California substituted in as attorney of record in this case for the Alameda County Department of Child Support Services allegedly “in the interest of justice”. What justice is there in the Attorney General defending, concealing and thereby being further complicit in committing the admitted willful and intentional extrinsic fraud upon the court; prosecutorial misconduct; willful and malicious prosecution; misconduct; conflict of interest; obstruction of justice; denial of due process under the law; willful and intentional fabrication and authoring false evidence; misstating and mischaracterizing evidence; misrepresentation and concealment of material facts with knowledge of the truth with the intent to induce the court’s act or reliance; harassment; and intimidation on behalf of District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, former DA John Meehan, Tom Orloff, Rock Harmon, Kamala Harris, Maureen Lenahan, Valgeria Harvey, counselors L. Lavagetto, Ms. K. Pendergrass, Ms. Adler, Kris Ferre, and accountant Mr. Lovelady and others unnamed in the DA’s office; various judges and Commissioner Oleon’s abuse of discretion, willful misconduct, conduct prejudicial, illegal ex-parte communications and bias that resulted in error.
This was done to excuse and protect the Alameda County Department of Child Support Services from their ongoing conflict of interest in their alleging to represent the interest of Joette Hall, whom they had defrauded along with al-Hakim of the funds paid to the DCSS in trust for their minor child.
The Alameda County Department of Child Support Services was never representing the al-Hakim Hall family, they were defending and covering up their extrinsic fraud upon the state and the families. The Alameda County Department of Child Support Services wanted to conceal their attempted coercion of al-Hakim to pay the arrearage they created in his name. al-Hakim and his family had complained many times each year about the misapplication of the funds tendered to the Department of Child Support Services in trust for the al-Hakim Hall family.
The al-Hakim vs Rescue Rooter and CSAA case’s is an over $100 million, over 20 year; contentious action; was the largest, continuous case file in the history of Alameda County Superior Court, over 80 file boxes; over 300 motions and responses; plaintiff had over 300 exhibits; over 5,000 pages of exhibits; 3,000 pages of documents for rebuttal argument; 20 expert witnesses; 77 other witnesses; over 100 pages of jury instructions; with 17 Judges being Disqualified, volumes of convicting proof of over 40 more judicial misconduct cases, where EVERY judge in this case has admitted error, committed perjury, recused themselves, or all three! Most attorneys go their entire career and NEVER file a Challenge for Cause to Disqualify a Judge, in some cases it could dramatically affect their career irreparably.
In 2005 Abdul-Jalil al-Hakim filed a federal complaint with the United States Attorney General, Department of Justice, of a hate crime of Islamophobia and Xenophobia committed against him during a trial in Superior Court of Alameda County, California, demanding a change in this criminal, tactical policy of persecution, litigation isolation, victimization, criminalization and the attempted entrapment of al-Hakim, including the use of government initiated, Nixon era “White House Plumbers” and CoIntelpro style dirty tricks by the parties, including but not limited to those listed herein!
al-Hakim is a whistleblower targeted by the FULL FORCE of the government, with Vice President and former Alameda County and San Francisco County District Attorney, former California State Attorney General, and former California State Senator Kamala Harris; former California Governor, California State Attorney General, and Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown; United States District Court- Northern Division, Phyllis J. Hamilton, Claudia Wilken, Thelton E. Henderson, Jon Tigar, Yvonne Gonzalez Rodgers, Jacqueline Scott Corley, Donna M. Ryu, Susan Y. Soong, Ioana Petrou, Edward M. Chen, Richard Wieking, Joseph Spero, Pat Talley-Linnhart, Diana Pasadori, Tracie Williams, Ernestina Lee, Linda Ekstrom-Stanley and ALL former and current employees;The United States Attorney’s Office- Northern District of California, Hon. Brian Stretch, Stacey Geis, Alex Tse, Joshua Eaton, Charles O’Connor, Sara Winslow, Barbara Valliere, J. Douglas Wilson and ALL former and current employees; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) San Francisco: John F. Bennett, John.Bennett, Lawrence D. Buckley, Craig D. Fair, Bertram R. Fairries, Derek Fischel, Lisa R. Gentilcore, Marina A. Mayo, Stacey Moy, M.K. Palmore, and ALL former and current employees; The California Supreme Court: Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Cathal Conneely, Ronald M. George, Frank A. McGuire and ALL former and current employees; State of California Courts of Appeal: Barbara J. R. Jones, Judge Kennedy, James Richman, Henry Needham, Mark B. Simons, Gordon B. Burns, James Humes, Terence Bruiniers, Sandra Margulies, Anthony Kline, Kathleen Banke, Beth Robbins, Charles Johnson, Anne Reasoner, Susan Graham, Mary Quilez, Diana Herbert, Dick Sandvick, Rosa, Joy Washington and ALL former and current employees; current California Attorney General: Xavier Becerra and ALL members of his office including but not limited to Peter Southworth, Robert Wilson, Marina L. Soto, Sean McCluskie, Robert Wilson, Laura Stuber, Kelli Evans, Amanda Renteria, Eleanor Blume, Jonathan “Jon” Blazer, Melanie Fontes Rainer, David Zonana, Alejandro Pérez, Sirat Attapit, Bethany Lesser, Chris Moyer, Liz Saldivar, former California Attorney Generals Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr., Kamala Harris and ALL members of their offices including but limited to Evan Westrep, Louis Verdugo Jr., Richard Frank, and ALL former and current employees; California State Governor: Gavin Newsome, former Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr., Evan Westrep and ALL former and current employees; United States Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Anne Taylor, Elaine McKellar, Lauren Riggs, Saundra Andrews, Leslie Littleton and ALL former and current employees; Judicial Council of California: Martin Hoshino, John Wordlaw, Blaine Corren, Nancy Carlisle, Maria Kwan, Yvette Trevino, Bernadette Torivio, Jody Patel, Nancy Carlisle, Mikayla Connell, Tina Carroll Felizia Nava‐Kardon, Evelyn Ramos, Stephen Chow, Rochelle Mosley, Galina Osachiy, Chantel Perrella, Rowena Tabar, Edward Tang, Hoa Tran, and ALL former and current employees; Commission on Judicial Performance: Victoria B. Henley, Director-Chief Counsel, Marshall Grossman, Jay Linderman, Andrew Blum and ALL former and current employees; Former California State Assemblyman Sandre Swanson, staff Carol Jones, Charlene Washington, Adam Jones, Larry Broussard, Danita Blair, Amber Maltbie, Monica Vejar, Amanda, and ALL former and current employees; Alameda County Superior Court Judges and clerks: Judges Frank Roesch, Wynne Carvill, Robert Freedman, Yolanda Northridge, Jon Rolefson, Kim Colwell, George Hernandez, Leo Dorado, Frank Roesch, Barbara J. Miller, Leo Dorado, C. Don Clay, Winifred Smith, Stephen Pulido, Sandra Bean and Commissioners Sue Alexander, Boydine Hall, Taylor Culver, Glenn Oleon, Thomas Nixon, and Elizabeth Hendrickson, Elaine Kabiling, Maggie Takeda, Renee Pickney, Jenifer Madden, Scott Patton, David Krashna, Morris Jacobson, Ioana Petrou, Jeffery Brand, Evelio Grillo, Paul Herbert, Kevin R. Murphy, Michael M. Markman, Jo-Lynne Q. Lee, David Lee, Michael Ballachey, Richard Hodge Judith Ford, Jacqueline Tabor, M. Scott Sanchez, Tara Desautels, Leo Dorado, Dennis Hayashi, Julia Spain, Kristi Hereth and ALL former and current Superior Court employees; California Courts of Appeal -First District, Alameda County Superior Court- Appeals Section: Y. Singh, Angela Yamsuan, F. C. La Torre, Liza Sabio,Ruby Atwall, Nancy Adams, D. Johnson-Cannon, Anita Lippman, and ALL former and current employees; Alameda County Superior Court Administration: Chad Finke, Executive Officer, A Byer, Giza Lewis, Pat Sweeten, Adrianne Forshay, Angela-Law Clerk, Dan Croyle, Robbie McIntoshs, Vicky-Clerk, Marvin- Attendant, Pam Drummond-Williams, Letichia, Michelle Escerra, Tanisha V. Jones, Joyce, court reporter Adrienne Peretti, Phil Abar, Clarence Traywick, Connie Parchman, Alina Mateo, Darmica Oliver, Leah Wilson, and ALL former and current employees, agents and contractors; et.at.; Alameda County District Attorney: Nancy O’Malley, Kevin Dunleavy, Michael O’Connor, David Stein, former and current Alameda County District Attorneys Tom Orloff, Matthew Golde, Robert “Bob” Connor, Bruce Brock, David Stein, Ann Diem, Matthew Golde, Kamala Harris, Rock Harmon, Karen Campbell, Venus Johnson, Boydine Hall, and ALL former and current employees; Alameda County Department of Child Support Services: former and current Directors Matthew A. Brega, Sue Eadie, Ann Deim, Maureen K.Lenahan, Valgeria Harvey, Ricca Alcantara, L. Lavagetto, Ms. K. Pendergrass, Ms. Adler, Kris Ferre, Mr. Lovelady, Mrs. Carlilse, Mrs. Remelton, Mrs. Reese, Terry Simmons-Booker and ALL former and current employees; County of Alameda Legal Counsel: Donna Ziegler, Richard E. Winnie, Gabriella Raymond, Erin H. Reding, Teresa L. Robinson, Brian E. Washington and ALL former and current employees; Alameda County Administrator: Susan Muranishi, Donna Linton and ALL former and current employees; Alameda County Office of the Treasure And Tax Collector, Donald R. White, Elvia Quiroga, Jack Wong and ALL former and current employees; Alameda County Supervisor Kieth Carson, Rodney Brooks, Mina Sanchez and ALL former and current employees; City of Oakland Mayor: Libby Schaff, Tomiquia Moss, Shereda Nosakhare, Peggy Moore, Erica Terry Derryck, Audrey Cortes, Matt Nichols, David Silver, Jose Corona, Michael Hunt, Karely Ordaz Salto, former Mayors Ron Dellums, former Mayor Jean Quan, Trina Barton, Diane Boyd, Miguel Bustos, Kitty Kelly Epstein, VaShone Huff, Earl Johnson, Cheryal Kidd, Marisol Lopez, Vincent Mackey, Paul Rose, Daniel Boggan Jr., Karen Stevenson, Rich Cowan, Lewis Cohen, Karen Boyd, Anne Campbell Washington, Reygan Harmon, Susan Piper, former Mayor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown, Jacque Barzaghi and ALL former and current employees; Oakland City Attorney: Barbara J. Parker, former City Attorney John Russo and Jayne Williams the City Attorney’s Office, Mark Morodomi, Randy Hall, Janie Wong, Anita Hong, Sophia Li, Demetruis Shelton, Elizabeth Allen, Erica Harrold, Michele Abbey, Deborah Walther, Anita Flores, and former employee Pat Smith, and ALL former and current employees; Oakland City Administrator: Sabrina Landreth, former Deanna J. Santana, Dan Lindhiem, Fred Blackwell, Kathy Kessler, Barbara B. Killey, Marjo R. Keller, Amber Todd, Ann Campbell-Washington, Winnie Woo, Gia Casteel-Brown, Claudia Cappio, Stephanie Hom and ALL former and current employees; Oakland City Auditor: Brenda Roberts, S. Lawrence, Maya Collins and ALL former and current employees; City of Oakland Public Works: Brooke A. Levin, former Director Vitaly B. Troyan, Gary Pilecki, Julius M. Kale Jr., Allan Law, Gunawan Santoso, James Lowrie, Lorenzo Garcia, Jaime Ramey, Michael Neary, Donna F. Enright, Tim Low, Rich Fielding, Sarah Flewellen, Jason Wong, J. R. Nicks, Henry “Bubba” Rushing, Dana, Sabrina Jones, Yolanda Hartfield, Fred Lozar, Marcel Banks, Eldridge Person, Perry, Ron Gittings and ALL former
and current employees; Oakland Police Department: former Chief Anne E. Kirkpatrick, John Lois, Sgt. Eric Milina, Johnna Watson, Marco Marquez, Ersie Joyner III, Reygan Harmon, Kirk Coleman, Frank Morrow Jr., Jad Jadallah, Chris Bolton, Fred Jenkins, Capt. Trevino, Sgt. Gonzalez, Jonas Jones, George Philips, Sgt. M. Poirier, Capt Alison, Lt. Hamilton, Sgt. Wingate, Bill Denny, Ofc. M Ziebarth #8281, Cpt. Dorherty, Mike Morris, Danielle Ashford, Sgt. Green, Ofc. Anderson, Anthony Batts, Howard Jordan, Rebecca Campbell, Cassandra, Marc Hicks, Ron Lighten and ALL former and current employees and other Federal and California State Judges.
The complaint, drafted and filed by al-Hakim, had broad based support from Democrats and Republicans, was submitted by Congresswoman Barbara Lee with the offices of Congressmen John Conyers, and Charles Rangel, reviewed by several legal experts, with advocacy by former Republican Senator J. C. Watts, a client of al-Hakim’s, moved forward with the investigation and charges of criminal extrinsic fraud upon the court of the State of California, fabricating and planting fabricated evidence, spoliation of evidence, and solicitation of perjurious testimony against defendants/hostile intervener AAA Insurance; Ronald J. Cook, Randy Willoughby, Alex Stuart, Bradley Bening and others of the law firm Willoughby, Stuart & Bening; Stephan Barber and others of the law firm Ropers, Majeski; and many others.
The complaint addresses concern that Superior Court Judges, defendants, defense counsels and others conduct rose to the level of consideration for a Federal Crime and a Civil Rights violation because the bench upon which the judge rules is “under the color of law” and certainly the violation of anyone’s civil rights is a federal crime, perhaps even more importantly, not only requested Merrily Friedlander, Chief of the Civil Rights Division, to make an investigation of a judicial hate crime, but also the many other civil rights and due process violations of judicial misconduct, and attorney extrinsic fraud upon the court and law that are themselves directly the matters complained.
After review in the U. S. A. G. Office, the case was thought of as being so egregious that even the infamous Bradley Schlozman, whom is now fired and facing Federal indictment with resigned former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez for removing Democratic attorneys from the U. S. Attorneys Generals offices nationwide, sent al-Hakim a letter referring the matter (because of jurisdictional limitations) to the California State Attorney General, California State Bar Association, the California State Judicial Council, and California State Insurance Commissioner for investigation and prosecution. And these were Republican Judges and attorney’s being complained of!
This is their active retaliation, VENDETTA, against al-Hakim’s for his “advocacy and activism, race, religious belief, speech, political association or privileged conduct.” is being punished for: (1) attempting to cure abuses against him in the Alameda County Superior Court, State Supreme and Appeals Courts; (2) attempting to protect his constitutional rights from corrupt, biased, incompetent judges acting in concert with unscrupulous judicial, law enforcement, governmental and legal entities illegally utilizing the full force and resources of the government in a covert criminal undercover sting operation; (3) exercising his right of free speech in making the above attempts and exposing the corruption; (4) exposing the inner workings of this covert overreaching judicial, governmental operation entailing judicial, political, corporate and law enforcement corruption; (5) the complicit inept judicial system of serious malfeasance, a complete denial of secrecy, security, and transparency that encompass anything that might threaten their cover; (6) the cover up of the judicial system; (7) the criminal justices ability to deliver injustice that prohibits their ability to defend themselves; (8) They have engaged in a total evisceration, disembowel al-Hakim’s rights!
al-Hakim’s actions fall under the Constitution and the Amendment and the duty of vigorous advocacy, where under color of law, these judicial, law enforcement, governmental and legal entities criminal corruption and persecution sought to deprive plaintiff of litigation due him contrary to the right to due process and immunity from takings without due process is a gross abuse of discretion in violation of the law that will violate plaintiff’s rights guaranteed under the First, Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; First Clause of Section 13 of Article I of California Constitution, art. VI, § 4 1/2; California Code of Civil Procedure §§ 355, 356, 473, 475; Civ. Code, §§ 3523, 3528.
This civil corruption, collusion and conspiracy has brought into play local, County, Sate and Federal Agencies in furtherance of their continued social, political, and legal castration of al-Hakim whom the CSAA defense attorneys admitted in 1998 they had al-Hakim surveilled for years and continues today with the compromising of many agents and informants covers due to their sloppiness. These actions are just the latest example of the continuing efforts of judicial and law enforcement to silence and eliminate al-Hakim as their adversary when he has caught and exposed them as they have been entrapped in their own crimes!
CSAA began to work with the defense in the underlying case of al-Hakim vs Rescue Rooter, et., al., even fabricating court orders to do so and were the defendants in this case of al-Hakim vs. CSAA. They also had al-Hakim investigated by the Department of Insurance, FBI, and other governmental, law enforcement, judicial and legal authorities and still worked as an operative, agents and informants with law enforcement trying to create a case against al-Hakim for fraud that NEVER existed, and still works with those forces today!
This was their beginning of the racist, Islamophobic, Xenophobic, hate induced campaign of calumny deceit in the law enforcement and legal community and public at large to obtain a litigation advantage! The Rescue case ended with the retiring judge David Lee informing the jury that ALL the testimony of the defense had to be disregarded due to the subornation of perjurious testimony of ALL their witnesses and the source of most of the basis for their documents.
In the CSAA case the defendants were found guilty of fraud in the appraisal and to have used illegal values by judge James Richmond. (see Richmond order of February 23, 2003, in Al-Hakim v. California State Automobile Association, C-811337)
Judge James A. Richman by his Order dated February 23, 2003 set aside the appraisal award because, among other grounds, “the award was procured by corruption, fraud, or other undue means”; or the appraisers “exceeded their powers and the award cannot be corrected without affecting the merits of the decision upon the controversy submitted”. The order further cited the improper use of “cash value” as replacement cost, use of erroneous “used cost” figures, denial of coverage, injection of fraud, concealment, breach of contract, and coverage issues without any reason or evidence
Due to their subornation of perjurious testimony in the Rescue trial, they did not have any witnesses nor experts the could present at their own trial.
This case is about a civil and criminal judicial, governmental, and law enforcement fraud that goes back to the Department Of Justice- U. S. Attorney General and NSA. The government can not defend this admitted fraud, embezzlement, breach of fiduciary, extortion (recorded conversation and all documents can be listen to and/or downloaded) and obstruction of justice in a MAJOR civil suit!
CSAA was rewarded for their efforts as they even represented the judge in this case, Judge Jon Tigar, in his Disqualification Challenge for Cause filed by al-Hakim, wherein Judge Tigar judged in their favor awarding them a judgment while al-Hakim was away at THREE (3) Funerals (the second and third during the trial) of over forty year friends with Tigar and the courts prior approval!
On Thursday, March 20, 2008, Plaintiff al-Hakim faxed a letter to Judge Jon Tigar in Department 21 and defense counsel Steve Barber to notify them that he had received the news of the tragic passing of Jerrold Woods, a very dear 40 year friend and associate and of plaintiff’s imminent leave for bereavement. He did so to facilitate the courts efforts and give them advance notice so that when the need for him to take the leave was necessary, he could do so without any unexpected disruption and then resuming the expected trial. While in open court, Tigar acknowledged the closeness of the relationship, the pain that al-Hakim must be enduring, and the request for leave of bereavement at some point and granted court permission while on the bench, to attend the funeral/memorial upon noticing the court of it scheduling.
On April 3, 2008, news was received by the community of the second and third deaths of over forty year friends occurred hours apart during the trial.
Since al-Hakim had not taken time to grieve and pay proper respect, on these occasion, it was not only necessary and desired, it was religiously obligatory. There was no other alternative comfortable for al-Hakim and the trial could surely be continued for three-four days given the circumstances of now two MORE deaths during the short time of the trial
al-Hakim, with previous court permission to attend the funerals less than two weeks earlier after the first death (the first of the trial) of the very close over 40 year friend from Judge Tigar, noticed the court Five times via personal service, fax, and email of his intent to attend the funerals with the courts prior approved leave seeking direction from Tigar, including personal service on Judge Tigar in the courtroom, Five days BEFORE the trial resumed and attending the TWO funerals and memorials, and Tigar took advantage of the opportunity, DID NOT RESPOND TO THE 5 NOTICES and decided the case in al-Hakim’s absence!
It should be noted that Tigar ADMITTED THAT HE HAD COMMITTED SUCH EGREGIOUS ERRORS THAT THEY DEMANDED A MISTRIAL, WHICH PLAINTIFF DECLARED AS WELL. Plaintiff acknowledges that this fact is a major factor in Tigar deciding the case in his absence in attempt to evade in many legal transgressions he committed during the case.
The government, with the parties including but not limited to those referenced herein, have commandeered and absconded with al-Hakim’s ENTIRE commercial VPS internet SERVER, WHM and multiple cPanels administration, destroying ALL the businesses Aaron & Margaret Wallace Foundation hosts websites entities Superstar Management, The Genius of Randy Wallace, Inc., Nowtruth, eX-whY Adventures, CAECAY and their websites: Amwftrust.org, Superstarmanagement.com, Ex-Why.com, Nowtruth.org, Greencleanascene.com, Nobooksnoballsports.org, Steppingto.org, Bawha.com, DrKenya.net, Fightfordrghosh.org, CAECAY.org, Nstrongharmony.org; ALL their email address accounts; propriety email list Futurist, MWBE, Newsalert, NIA, Superstars, Act, Lawaid, Politicos, AMWF, Super Bowl Guest, Entrepreneur, and SJA; logins to All services, ALL incoming and outgoing email, websites and website traffic in an effort to censor, suppress, conceal, and shut down their exposing the corruption of the courts and others, thereby covering up their criminal acts!
They have shut down ALL al-Hakim’s Twitter accounts: @ajalil, @FirstSSM, @Nowtruth1, @EXWHYAD, @griotz, @AMWFND, @electionwin, and @caecay.
They have “scrubbed” the internet of any references and shut down al-Hakim’s social media presence to silence his voice exposing the criminal activity of Kamala Harris, along with that of the Federal Judicial and Law Enforcement Authorities; Alameda County Superior Court and Administration, District Attorney and Agencies; City of Oakland Mayor, Administration, Services and their City Attorney; California Attorney General Javier Becerra; former Governor Jerry Brown, current Governor Gavin Newsome, and others.
Government Covertly Planted SpyWare on al-Hakim’s Company Computer
On June 17, 2018, al-Hakim found SpyWare covertly planted on al-Hakim’s company computer through his web browser when he logged into his Interserver and U. S. Courts account.
SpyWare is programed to take control of your camera and microphone, to spy on their Computer Activities, Instant Message, Chats, Software usage, Take Screenshots Remotely, See File Transfers, Capture Key logs, Spy on Media Files, Spy on Emails, Spy on Browser Activities, monitor your workplace or home remotely, notify them if it detects your computers activities, including an alarm system, a recording system, and sending screengrabs of your PC or mobile phone. The SpyWare can connect to multiple IP cameras and microphones, then automatically starts recording whenever it captures motion and enable live remote viewing from any PC.
It’s a terrifying invasion of privacy that defendants with government agencies like the NSA can take control of the webcam and microphone on your computer and spy on you without your knowledge.
Previously, censorship had been implemented by them by blocking and blacklisting plaintiffs servers IP’s, device IP’s, domain IP’s, email addresses with accomplices SORBS, SpamHaus, RBL, SURBL, Mailchannels, Trouble-Free.net, Barracuda, ABUSE.NET, Exploits Bot List (XBL), AbuseIPDB, Invaluement, MXToolBox, MultiRBL, URIBL, SURBL, Composite Blocking List (CBL), Passive Spam Block List (PSBL), with reverse DNS verifications, DNSBL blocks, surveilled email content, censored email content, blocked or throttled email distribution as Internet filters, firewalls, Internet blocking, DNS poisoning, and Internet zoning. It is currently used by some organizations and governments to control the content viewed by individuals accessing Web pages over the Internet. The largest complaint about Internet censorship is that it ignores free-speech rights and violates the civil liberties of Internet users.
That censorship along with AMWF’s server and hosted websites being intentionally mis-configured by defendants it is causing the many, many, over 40 years of creating a brand, establishing goodwill, proprietary client email list and email distribution to those lists, clients intellectual property, trade secrets, clients data, content, website service pages, articles, posts, videos, podcasts, features, photos, marketing, promotion, testimonials, social media, email lists, simple inter-company and inter-office email communications, the theft and missing proprietary client email list, the theft and missing clients intellectual property, the theft and missing clients trade secrets, the theft and missing clients data, links to partner websites (blogroll), thousands of broken links prevent access to all these features via website visits, search engines, and by blocking web IP’s, server IP’s, device (computers, phones, tablets, etc.) IP’s, email addresses, ALL INTERNET CONNECTED AND RELATED COMMUNICATIONS AND DEVICES, referrals, from ALL the above mentioned sources, for all intents and purposes, burying the business.
This prevented employees, volunteers, clients, donors, donees, subscribers, users, contributors, and visitors from accessing the site, services, articles, posts, videos, photos, events calendar, information, fundraising efforts, advertising, special events, marketing, promotions, special offers, acknowledgement, individual and group discussion, town hall meetings, online forms for FREE tickets to entertainment events, to join the mail list, to be a subscriber, to become a member, submit a special request for services, for FREE educational opportunities and assistance, for FREE rental assistance, for FREE food, for FREE clothing, for FREE computers, for FREE housing, for FREE medical services, for FREE legal services, for FREE home and cell phones, fundraising donations, for volunteering, Inter-Faith and Multi-Cultural events, for FREE Youth resources, for FREE employment opportunities and assistance, for FREE resources and assistance, for FREE Autism resources and assistance, for FREE homeless resources and assistance, for FREE proprietary videos, CD’s and podcasts, to purchase proprietary videos, CD’s and podcasts, for FREE clinics and health centers, client proprietary videos, partner proprietary videos, selected educational/information proprietary videos, and sharing the above.
Due to the continuing, 50 year grand fraud, this case has NOT been exhausted to finality!!
Kamala Harris's father slams her as a Race-Grifter for making a 'travesty' of her Jamaican heritage
Kamala Harris Isn’t African-American. She’s Ethnically Indian and Jamaican. That’s Not The Same Thing.
Joe Biden recently implied blacks in America are a monolith. Now, by calling his Vice Presidential pick Kamala Harris “African-American,” the media is endorsing his racist position that all blacks are the same.
While the media will continue to portray Harris as African-American, it’s important to note her mother was from India, and her father from Jamaica.
That’s not typically what people think of when they say “African-American”, but she can go around pretending to be “Black”.
And I suspect there will be a large number of African-Americans across the United States who aren’t happy with their ethnicity or race being co-opted to suit a political candidate who shares little with them.
The same for the Native Americans who weren’t so hot on Elizabeth Warren prancing around pretending to be one of them, in order to further her career.
The truth many are learning, and that many already knew, is that the left does in fact class all immigrants as one group, and they ruthlessly attack ethnic minorities who deviate and criticize the liberal plantation. I should know, I’ve been one of them.
Kamala Harris needs to be “CALLED OUT” as a race-grifter. She can’t run as an “African-American” and let true Blacks- starving for anything that remotely fashions itself as “their success”, and the Democratic Party Pimps get away with co-opting race in this shameful way.
Political activist Ali Alexander — of half African extraction himself — noted the matter over a year ago, tweeting: “Kamala Harris is *not* an American Black. She is half Indian and half Jamaican. I’m so sick of people robbing American Blacks (like myself) of our history. It’s disgusting.”
He was met with derision from white liberal reporters in the establishment media, who demanded there was no difference.
The fact the Democrats would select an Indian-Jamaican candidate and bill them as African-American in year marred by Black Lives Matter riots would usually be unthinkable.
Then you remember they continuously call men who identify as women, “women,” and allow them to “be women”.
Her mother is Indian and her father from Jamaica.
https://t.co/ZXLyECgUqD
— Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) August 11, 2020
Of course this short post is going to send the media into a tailspin as they attempt to defend Harris and steer Biden toward the White House.
They’ll call this important distinction a “racial attack,” on Harris, as they have on the past.
But don’t take my word for it.
Kamala Harris’s own father has lashed out about her race-grifting, telling a Canadian magazine in 2019:
My dear departed grandmothers, as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.
See the full story below:
Kamala Harris’s father is slamming her for making a ‘travesty’ of her Jamaican heritage
Allen Abel: Donald Harris’s rebuke over ‘pot-smoking joy seeker’ stereotype is one thing the Democratic presidential contender is disinclined to talk about. Another is her time in Canada.
By Allen Abel February 18, 2019
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks during a campaign event at South Church in Portsmouth, N.H. (Elise Amendola/AP/CP)
Updated on Feb. 19, 2019 at 12:40 p.m. ET to include response from Kamala Harris and details of later appearances
Eighty-nine weeks from the White House, front-running, formidable and fierce, yet publicly scorned as a “travesty” by her own father, Kamala Harris, hyper-ambitious presidential candidate and former unwilling Quebecker, paces the old stone cathedral.
We’re at South Church, founded in 1713 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on the Atlantic’s snow-flogged shore, but it could be anywhere in the 50 American states; anywhere that there are cameras and dollars and votes to be pocketed and rivals to be slandered and slain. Hundreds of New Englanders cram the prayer hall, the home of a Unitarian Universalist congregation that is based not on a single Savior, but on “Wisdom from the world’s religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life.”
Like South Church, the campaign to confront Donald Trump in the 2020 election offers—at this ridiculously early but already fraught and frantic stage—a deity to suit every desire. At least two dozen Democrats already have, or soon will, enter the contest. In June, they will begin to debate each other on stages as wide as wheat farms. Next February—that’s still a year away!—the first intra-party primary elections and arcane county caucuses will begin to winnow the crop. So here we go.
Senators, congresswomen, mayors, governors, billionaires—Beto, Bernie, Bloomberg, Biden; Amy, Kirsten, Tulsi, Pocahontas; Hickenlooper, Inslee, Buttigieg, Bullock—all are in it now, or soon will be. Just as it was with the Republicans in 2016, she or he who talks loudest and most profanely is most likely to be heard above the Democratic din. At every whistle stop, in every city and hamlet, the raw odors of vanity and conceit assault the nose. But also, this time, there are coos of love and healing in the air.
Here’s another metaphor—imagine a round of pool with 25 multi-colored balls on the baize and only one corner pocket. Charge the ablest players half a billion dollars to ante up. Estimate the trillions of permutations of rebound, ricochet, angle, scratch and spin. And then try to run the table while an orange-skinned shark—call him Fifth Avenue Fats—leans over the rail, licking his lips, chalking his cue, eager to eat the winner.
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Back to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Kamala Harris, a first-term U.S. Senator and former San Francisco prosecutor and state attorney general—“the best-looking attorney general in the country,” Barack Obama once called her, a career-ending slur for anyone else in these touchy times—is on her first campaign visit to the Granite State, a sliver of bedrock, ski slopes, and escaped Bostonians whose “first in the nation” primary gives it a numinous status among this country’s peripatetic career politicos. (Iowa, South Carolina and Nevada also are in the early-state recipe, with Harris’s behemoth California to join them in February balloting for the first time in 2020. Advantage, Kamala?)
The senator’s stump speech, which she will give from 20 to 50 times a week for the next 21 months, should she last that long in the race, is heavy on her prosecutorial experience and her eagerness to take on a divisive, calamitous incumbent. Even at the pulpit, she never invokes the homilies of her multiple religious roots, or gives thanks for the support of her husband of four and a half years—a California attorney of the Jewish faith—or mentions his two college-age children by a previous marriage: a son named for John Coltrane, a daughter for Ella Fitzgerald. Domesticity, her culinary skills, the multi-cultural and bi-national aspects of her life—none is touched today. Eighty-nine weeks from the White House, the business of the campaign already is serious business.
“I plan on prosecuting the case against people who do not tell the truth,” she says to a roaring, whooping, left-leaning clientele that has been waiting in the fluffing snow for hours, snaking around Portsmouth’s preciously curated shops and its handy-crafty market-stalls, with the first balloting still a spring and a summer and an autumn and another winter away.
Then (on the need for a single-payer, government-run health care program):
“The system is immoral.”
And (on gun control):
“We should never bow down to those who have a love of money while people are dying in the streets.”
“We are looking at an America today where American values and American dreams are under attack.”
But there is much more about Kamala Harris to be said, and told, and learned. As with all of our lives, there are conflicts and complications, secrets and mysteries. But unlike all but two dozen of us on this planet, she yearns to be President of the United States, and she may well succeed.
“I am a proud daughter of Oakland, California,” Harris said in January, when she formally announced her candidacy at Howard University, her “historically black” alma mater in Washington, D.C. That she considers herself to be African-American is beyond dispute—“I was born black and I will die black,” she told a radio interviewer a few days ago. Crucial to her candidacy will be her defense of her record of filling the penitentiaries of the Golden State with legions of young African-American men. But the annals of American politics reveal that personality and personal history will triumph over policy every time. So it matters deeply to the voters of all the nation’s Portsmouths not only what Kamala Harris says, but who she is.
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Again: “I was born black.” Yet Sen. Harris’s mother, née Shyamala Gopalan, was a Brahmin Hindu born in Chennai (Madras), the oceanside megalolopolis of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu; and her father, raised in Brown’s Town, educated in Port Antonio and at the University of the West Indies, is as Jamaican as the sun and the sea. (Dr. Shyamala Gopalan Harris died in 2009 at the age of 70.) Just as Barack Hussein Obama is the mixed-race descendent of tribal Kenya and sunflowery Kansas, Kamala Harris, potentially Obama’s successor’s successor, is every bit as not-really-a-real-American as her desperate opponents may choose to make her out to be. Will that matter?
(For a few days in January, an asinine and racist “birther” conspiracy against Sen. Harris circulated on the Internet’s extreme right wing—namely, that since her mother was from India and her father was from Jamaica and neither of them had lived in the United States for five full years before Kamala’s birth, she could not be a “natural-born citizen” as required of the president and vice-president by the U.S. Constitution. This was patently and crudely false—Harris’s birth in California swaddled her in American citizenship the instant she drew her first breath. President Trump often has ranted against “birthright citizenship” to enflame his base, but
The Donald’s nativist ravings carry no weight in law; at least not yet.)
So far in the 2019-2020 campaign, there has not been much in the way of personal slander. None of the six or seven or eight sitting senators in the race has torn a colleague to shreds. (“That will come later,” Sen. Lindsey Graham coyly predicted to a Maclean’s reporter in Washington last week.)
But when Sen. Harris sniggered on New York City radio program that, like the sky-high Honolulu stoner Obama, she had thoroughly enjoyed marijuana—and that, unlike Bill Clinton, she had inhaled—she explained her behavior by saying, “Half my family’s from Jamaica! Are you kidding me?”
Her father exploded.
Donald Harris, 81, professor emeritus of economics at Stanford University, divorced from Shyamala Gopalan since 1972, offered this comment to the website Jamaica Global Online, whose editor, Ian Randle, shared it exclusively with Maclean’s:
This was not Harris’s first incursion into the ambitions of the elder of his two daughters. (His younger child, Maya Lakshmi Harris, a prominent liberal attorney, professor of law, senior adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the wife of Obama’s associate attorney general, Tony West, is Kamala’s national campaign chair.) In a December article on Jamaica Global Online, the girls’ father took pains to enumerate Kamala’s Caribbean experiences and to reassert the depth of her island heritage. Yet in her new campaign manifesto, The Truths We Hold, Prof. Donald Harris disappears on Page 20 of 300, and never is mentioned again.
The early phase of interaction with my children came to an abrupt halt in 1972, Dr. Harris wrote, when, after a hard-fought custody battle in the family court of Oakland, California, the context of the relationship was placed within arbitrary limits imposed by a court-ordered divorce settlement based on the false assumption by the State of California that fathers cannot handle parenting (especially in the case of this father, “a neegroe from da eyelans” was the Yankee stereotype, who might just end up eating his children for breakfast!). Nevertheless, I persisted, never giving up on my love for my children or reneging on my responsibilities as their father.
In the United States Senate—and especially in her vehement shredding of Brett Kavanaugh (“I’m asking you a very direct question: yes or no”) during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing and Jeff Sessions (“I’m not able to be rushed this fast. It makes me nervous”) during the Russian-collusion investigations, Kamala Harris presented herself as anything but a pot-smoking joy-seeker. “There are flaws in the criminal-justice system and this system needs to be reformed,” she said at Howard U. “Instead of being soft on crime or tough on crime, we need to be smart on crime.”
Barack Obama’s father bolted back to Africa when his son was three years old. They met only once more before Obama, Sr.’s death. But Donald Harris is very much alive. “I have decided to stay out of all the political hullabaloo,” he told Ian Randle, the editor of the Jamaican website (Donald Harris declined to be interviewed for this story). But his vow already has been broken. How much more will we be hearing from him about his daughter’s histories?
And then there is the Canadian/Québécois chapter, another blank page in the candidate’s life.
Shyamala Gopalan of Chennai and Donald Harris of Brown’s Town met and married on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley amid the seething ferment and sexual electricity of a social and cultural revolution. Shyamala—the daughter of a man who had crusaded alongside Jawaharlal Nehru in the campaign for India’s independence from the British Raj—had graduated from the University of New Delhi. At 19 she was confronted with an existential choice—to weigh millennia of expectations and an arranged marriage against emigration and a new life of laboratory science and freedom to choose her own love.
Swept up in the Bay Area’s white-hot protests for equal rights for blacks, Shyamala chose the side of the oppressed minority, and weaned her girls on chanted slogans, justice marches and home-drawn picket signs.
“These were my mother’s people,” Kamala writes in The Truths We Hold. “In a country where she had no family, they were her family—and she was theirs. From almost the moment she arrived from India, she chose and was welcomed to and enveloped in the black community. It was the foundation of her new American life.”
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Then, suddenly, Shyamala Harris—scientist and single mom—turned her back on the struggle and flew away. Again, from Kamala’s book:
When I was in middle school, we had to leave. My mother was offered a unique opportunity in Montreal, teaching at McGill University and conducting research at the Jewish General Hospital. It was an exciting step in advancing her career.
It was not, however, an exciting opportunity for me. I was twelve years old, and the thought of moving away from sunny California in February, in the middle of the school year, to a French-speaking foreign city covered in twelve feet of snow was distressing, to say the least. My mother tried to make it sound like an adventure, taking us to buy our first down jackets and mittens, as if we were going to be explorers of the great northern winter. But it was hard for me to see it that way. It was made worse when my mother told us that she wanted us to learn the language, so she was enrolling us in a neighborhood school for native French speakers, Notre-Dame-des-Neiges—Our Lady of the Snows.
It was a difficult transition, since the only French I knew was from my ballet classes, where Madame Bovie, my ballet teacher, would shout, ‘Demi–plié, and up!’ I used to joke that I felt like a duck, because all day long at our new school I’d be saying ‘Quoi? Quoi? Quoi?’
“By the time I got to high school, I had adjusted to our new surroundings,” she later concedes. And then not another word about Westmount High, about Montreal, about Quebec in the parlous hour of the first independence referendum, about her own coming-of-age.
“Let me begin with a simple statement: Indonesia is part of me,” Barack Obama said in the Bahasa language in Jakarta in 2010. (He lived there from age six to 10 with his mother and her Indonesian husband.) So Canadians may wonder, how much is Quebec part of Kamala Harris, if at all?
The morning after the whoop-fest at the old seacoast Universalist church, the junior senator from California speaks to a far more restrained gathering at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics on the campus of Saint Anselm College in Manchester, an hour inland. The affair is called “Politics & Eggs” and it has been attended by every presidential candidate since the days of the black-and-white photograph. Yes, even Donald Trump came here, and Donald Trump almost never speaks to the unfiltered public.
Manchester, the phrases that brought down the temple in Portsmouth barely ripple the pond. Harris’s tripwire pledge of “Medicare For All” garners only silence; the words “Kavanaugh,” “Trump,” and “Green New Deal” are never even uttered. There are at least 20 other Democrats yet to hear from, and 50 weeks before the Granite State primary for all of them to be heard.
When the breakfast concludes, a Maclean’s reporter approaches the candidate and asks about Quebec in 1980, how—if—a high school student’s exposure to the crucible of ethnic, linguistic “identity politics”—the very words her own father abjures—affected her values and her views.
“It was certainly very significant,” she responds. “It was about people wanting to be recognized, wanting equal treatment for their culture.”
“Were you a Oui or a Non?” the candidate is asked.
“It was a very significant moment,” says Kamala Harris. “But I was too young to vote.”
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Throughout our Nation's history, American women have led movements for social and economic justice, made groundbreaking scientific discoveries, enriched our culture with stunning works of art and literature, and charted bold directions in our foreign policy. They have served our country with valor, from the battlefields of the Revolutionary War to the deserts of Iraq and mountains of Afghanistan. During Women's History Month, we recognize the victories, struggles, and stories of the women who have made our country what it is today.
This month, we are reminded that even in America, freedom and justice have never come easily. As part of a centuries-old and ever-evolving movement, countless women have put their shoulder to the wheel of progress -- activists who gathered at Seneca Falls and gave expression to a righteous cause; trailblazers who defied convention and shattered glass ceilings; millions who claimed control of their own bodies, voices, and lives. Together, they have pushed our Nation toward equality, liberation, and acceptance of women's right -- not only to choose their own destinies -- but also to shape the futures of peoples and nations.
Through the grit and sacrifice of generations, American women and girls have gained greater opportunities and more representation than ever before. Yet they continue to face workplace discrimination, a higher risk of sexual assault, and an earnings gap that will cost the average woman hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of her working lifetime.
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And when the Mexican comic emerged from the sea…
In the latest of our PEN Atlas Mexican series, novelist Laia Jufresa muses on the fall and rise of Mexican comics
Translated from the Spanish by Annie McDermott
I remember my first lesson in narrative art: the day I learnt – or experienced – what a deus ex machina is, and why it’s not a good idea to spring one on your reader. I was at a family gathering and my aunts and uncles were reminiscing about their childhood, one populated by characters from the comic books they bought religiously every Friday: Kalimán, Los supersabios and La familia Burrón, all of them made in Mexico. One Friday, Kalimán (which was printed in sepia) ended with the hero chained to a rock, plummeting to the depths of the sea. My aunts and uncles spent hours – days – constructing elaborate theories about how he would make it out of the water. (Would he break the chains? Would he be saved by his sidekick Solín?) But when they finally got their hands on the next issue, it began like this: ‘And when Kalimán had emerged from the sea…’ The treachery! Unforgivable for the average child in the fifties, who consumed Mexican comics with the same feverish devotion with which children today demand iPhones. Even now, people born in the fifties make jokes based on those comics. In the company of my aunts and uncles, for example, you can’t show any kind of bodily disgust without them comparing you to Borola Burrón, who was horrified when she learnt she had a skeleton inside her.
Because of all this you might think that I too was raised on a healthy diet of local comics, but I wasn’t. By the time I started to read, at the end of the eighties, the national comic book industry (which had at one point been the most productive in the world: every week, two million copies were printed of Kalimán alone) was in decline. The main publishers had decided to focus on translating material from elsewhere (much cheaper than producing their own) and the stands were filling up with imported superheroes. The country’s comic book tradition was sinking fast, chained to a rock. My generation read foreign comics. Bernardo Fernández, ‘Bef’, perhaps the main representative (and defender) of graphic novels in Mexico, learnt English by reading comics and has said he feels ‘no creative or emotional connection to the old Mexican comic strips’.
But now the Mexican comic book is emerging from the sea, transformed into webcomics or graphic novels. Over the past four years, government-funded scholarships, national prizes, dedicated festivals and a few more publishers (Resistencia, Sexto Piso, Caligrama, Jus – still not many) are getting behind the genre. This is a new creature, more sophisticated and, inevitably, less popular. However, this creature has not simply materialised from the ether – it has materialised from the persistent efforts of its creators – and neither is it the daughter of the twentieth-century Mexican comic book alone. If anything, it is its long-lost niece, an animal with mixed blood in its veins: from manga, from pop, from French bandes desinées, and from everything else the random tides of the internet can cast ashore. And this great variety of influences leads to a great variety of voices and styles, from Edgar Clement’s complex clarity to the muted palette and painterly flourishes of Patricio Betteo, via the playful, digital figures drawn by Micro and the straightforward yet subtle watercolours of Alejandra Espino.
It is interesting to see that Mexican history is still the most important character in the country’s comics, however far-reaching their other influences may be. This was the case in F.G. Haghenbeck’s anthology, A Mexican in Each of Your Comic Books [Un mexicano en cada comic te dio] (paraphrasing a line from the national anthem: ‘a soldier in each of your sons’), as it is in the forthcoming Moquito and the Colonial Sarcophagus [Moquito y la Momia Colonial] by Juanele (set in the colonial period) and Rafaela by Alejandra Espino (about ‘a woman in the twenties in an alternative Mexico City, an aspiring muralist who wants to paint fantastical rather than historical scenes’). In Cry of Victory [Grito de victoria], Augusto Mora explores two recent civil protest movements: the marches in 1971 and the #YoSoy132 protests. There is also Operation Bolívar [Operación Bolívar] and others by Edgar Clement, which are rooted in fiction and mythology but have clear parallels with the country’s painful contemporary reality. In a sense, the history of Mexico also stars in Uncle Bill, the new graphic novel by Bef, a virtuoso account of William Burroughs’ fateful years in the country.
It isn’t all Mexican history, of course. The brilliant Powernap happens in the future in a place that could be anywhere in the world. Its author, Maritza Campos, began writing it in Spanish, but – like Bef, and like so many others – she has become bilingual and almost bi-national as a result of consuming and assimilating so much American culture, and she soon switched into English. Powernap takes place in a world in which people no longer sleep; it’s illustrated by Sebastián ‘Bachan’ Carrillo and you can read it online or buy it in an elegant edition that was financed by crowdfunding.
In a country that tends – by necessity, by instinct, by way of a response to its barbaric reality – towards graphic violence, I think it’s worth celebrating the people who are producing graphic novels instead. People working hard at telling good stories. Because this – telling stories – is, I think, also a social responsibility. Storytelling with images has historically had a wider audience because of its ability to reach people who couldn’t read. This isn’t necessarily the case with contemporary graphic fiction, and yet I see in this new creature of ours a determination to go far. And I hope it does. It really deserves to.
Find out more about Laia Jufresa at www.laiajufresa.com.
Read English PEN’s open letter to President Enrique Peña Nieto on the occasion of his visit to the UK as part of #mxuk2015.
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John Brunner: The Day of the Star Cities (aka Age of Miracles).
Sun, Aug 30, 2020./noise/books | Link
Kindle. And yet more thin Brunner, proving that I am now impervious to learning. This time around some aliens install transit lounges on Earth and blow up all the nukes. With that as a premise it logically follows that Mad Max is beyond Thunderdome, the mice-men are cowed but the rat-men are dreaming of the stars, and the Russkies invade. Yes that's right, the nukes were keeping the peace. The opening police procedural is a bit misleading; this is not a noir. As usual in this space the meek have superpowers, or in this case, a valuable lack of cognition. The centres themselves are psychedelic trippy trip machines, just like Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Do speak up if you’ve seen any of this before.
Juan Cárdenas: Ornamental.
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Kindle. A pointer from Nathan Scott McNamara in the New York Times. A first-person Colombian drug chemist refines a substance from a flower that makes the ladies go wow; shades of State of Wonder? Realising that baldly stating this premise is not going to carry a book, we also get psychedelic prose, love triangles, and some very weak commentary on what I take to be Continental philosophy. Overall, an exercise in style mining overly familiar tropes and not for me.
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A jag via Roger Ebert's review of Rosemary's Baby. Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine. Thin gruel I feel: a playboy marries an upright/uptight/unworldly sprog of a General. He continues to be a playboy, as much as he can in black-and-white 1941. I often couldn't tell if the penny was dropping for Fontaine or she was foxing Grant. In the end it didn't matter much at all.
Bosley Crowther at the time.
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On the Oregon Trail with director Kelly Reichardt and leads John Magaro and Orion Lee, the latter of whom we meet naked in the style of The Terminator. These guys form a complementary entrepreneurial pairing in this bucolic setting, and attempt to build their fortune on donuts. The cow gets her time in the frame but has less agency than I'd hoped: all blame attaches to the cat. It's slow and sometimes finds its mark; there's a touch of Dead Man in the foreshadowing, the aimlessness, the musical interludes, the canoe on the river. Also Ewen Bremner and Toby Jones.
A. O. Scott watched it so you don't have to.
John Brunner: Entry to Elsewhen.
Sat, Aug 22, 2020./noise/books | Link
Kindle. More even shorter Brunner; I still haven't learnt. The drugs and conceits run thin here. I did enjoy the concluding No Other Gods But Me a bit, as a riff on Scientology perhaps, up to the butchered ending which was unusually poorly written. The first Host Age is a topical pandemic thing with a busted epistemology (we'll know how to travel in time but we'll forget most of medicine), and the second Lungfish is millennial discontent at being ejected from all they know. Not the worst of his I've read recently.
John Brunner: To Conquer Chaos.
Wed, Aug 19, 2020./noise/books | Link
Kindle. More thin Brunner. You'd think I'd learn. Near as I can tell this is a mild yet wordy variant of Planet of the Apes: an artificial biological sapient goes insane and the humans regress technologically. There's little to redeem it as it goes nowhere for far too long. Brunner calls time on this fiasco before resolving many loose ends; for instance the girl does not get the boy, and the green stuff remains purely a plot device.
John Brunner: The Repairmen of Cyclops.
Kindle. The last of what he must've hoped would be a much longer series. This is Soylent green refracted through the horror of involuntary parting out of bodies. There's a touch of USA-style coca-colonisation and the United Nation's smurfs. I just wish his characters weren't right all the time.
Fri, Aug 14, 2020./noise/movies | Link
With Jacob and his kids. Bill Murray reels off some great face gags and lines. It's been a while since they've made a movie this silly and fun.
John Brunner: The Avengers of Carrig.
Kindle. Goodreads told me that this was part of a series, somewhat related to the last one I read. It's mostly fantasy, a dragons-and-damsels sort of thing, and thin Brunner at its worst. A few twists (and not the paltry revelatory style) may have made it worth reading.
John Brunner: Polymath (aka Castaways' World).
Kindle. More thin Brunner. Goodreads reckons this is more chop than the last one, and they're right. Here we're served a North Korea/South Korea setup (making me wonder if there's a plateau and a river there) that underpins a pioneering/disaster recovery superman plot. Brunner (as always) is more interested in social commentary than the scifi; the resource limitations he imposes are more for the sake of the story than plausible. For instance a star going supernova is surely not a matter of hours.
John Brunner: The Rites of Ohe.
Kindle. More thin Brunner, and more mediocre. At best this is some thin criticism of staid cultures (Britain) and the futility of finding solutions in ancient, "god-obsessed", death-culture India (Buddhism). While there may be something in that the superficiality here grates. In other ways the converse of Asimov's Second Foundation, a failure to launch in spite of promise, is championed. The repetition does not improve things, and clearly Brunner was struggling to make bank.
Stan Parish: Love and Theft.
Kindle. Sold by Adam Sternbergh's review in the New York Times. I don't usually read thrillers, and having finished I'd say this is solidly in the Oceans territory, including a femme crossover, where all women are beautiful and available and willing, and all men are handsome-ish and carry an MMA undertow. The writing is fine for these purposes, though he could have left out the common exotic (the finance son predictably, inevitably hooks up with the party DJ daughter) and the Spanish dialogue that adds little. We spend perhaps 80% of the story waiting for a production. The ultimate twists are disappointingly transparent. Locations are chosen seemingly at random. It did pass the time. Michael Mann to direct the movie, or maybe he already mostly did.
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Justia Patents US Patent Application for Energy filter image generator for electrically charged particles and the use thereof Patent Application (Application #20060016974)
Energy filter image generator for electrically charged particles and the use thereof
The invention relates to an energy filter image generator for filtering electrically charged particles. The inventive energy filter comprises at least two toroidal energy analysers (30, 40) arranged one inside the other. A transfer lens device (20) is disposed between the plane of emergence (5) of the first energy analyser (30) and the plane of incidence of the second energy analyser (40), thereby making it possible to obtain the perfect energy filtered reproduction of the surface (1′) of a sample on a detector (10).
The invention pertains to an image-generating energy filter for electrically charged particles such as electrons and ions with at least two toroidal energy analyzers arranged in a row, where at least one energy analyzer has a diaphragm in its entrance plane and another diaphragm in its exit plane. The invention also pertains to the use of these image-generating energy filters.
The diaphragms in the entrance and exit planes can be slit diaphragms or circular diaphragms perpendicular to the associated energy-dispersive plane.
The term “energy filter” is understood to mean preferably an imaging or image-generating energy filter. The use of imaging filters is especially advantageous when the image fields being processed in parallel contain more than 100×100 pixels. The recording times are then much shorter than those of a spectrometer, which scans the sample sequentially.
Energy filters are used in, for example, photoelectron spectroscopy, which is one of the most important methods of the quantitative elementary analysis of surfaces. Measuring the energy distribution of photoelectrons with high local resolution is called spectromicroscopy. There are essentially two different methods which can be used to achieve a high degree of local resolution.
In the first variant, the sample is scanned by a focused photon beam, and the energies of the photoelectrons coming from the individual emission spots thus defined are analyzed.
In the second variant, the photon beam is focused just long enough to illuminate the visual range of the objective lens. Electron-optical means are then used to produce a magnified image of the intensity distribution of the generated photoelectrons.
To derive a map of the distribution of the elements or of the chemical bonds, the kinetic energies of the photoelectrons must be analyzed. Various techniques have been developed to accomplish this in transmission-electron microscopy. Here, too, there are essentially two different principles:
There are microscopes which use all of the electrons to generate an image. A small percentage of the electrons pass through an energy analyzer to generate a spectrum of a portion of the image. In another part of the microscope, only a narrow energy band is processed, but a complete image is transported through the energy analyzer.
The electrons are filtered by electrostatic or magnetic devices, which allow only the electrons with a certain energy to pass through. The intensity of the resulting beam reflects the concentration of a chemical component present on the surface of the sample. In this method, it is important for the local resolution not to deteriorate as the beam passes through the monochromator.
Several different energy analyzers have been developed to perform this imaging function. Because of its good transmission and energy resolution, the hemispherical analyzer has become widely accepted in commercial devices for energy analysis not requiring image quality.
The possible imaging properties of electrostatic energy analyzers were studied many years ago on the basis of analyzers with general toroidal fields (B. Wannberg, G. Engdahl, A Skollermo: Imaging properties of electrostatic energy analyzers with toroidal fields, J. Electron Spectr. Rel. Phenomen. 9 (1976), pp. 111-127). For a toroidal potential, the radius of curvature in a first direction is different from that in a second direction perpendicular to the first. A spherical capacitor with a ratio of 1 between the radii is included as a special case in this general description. A cylindrical capacitor is curved in only one direction, and the ratio between its radii is zero. Some spectrometers make it possible to adjust the transition between the field forms in a continuously variable manner, as described, for example, in K. Jost: Novel Design of a spherical electron spectrometer, J. Phys. E.: Sci. Instr., 12, 1979, pp. 1006-1012.
An electron microscope with an energy filter comprising a spherical analyzer of hemispherical design is known from EP 0,293,924 B1. To improve the imaging quality of the energy filter, a complicated lens system is set up in front of the entrance slit so that the arriving electron beams are as close to perpendicular as possible. For electrons which start at the mean path radius r0=x0, it should be true that α0=−α1, where α0 stands for the angle at the entrance to the energy filter and α1 for the angle at the exit.
It is claimed that the entrance angles of these electrons are transferred exactly to the exit angles regardless of their energy.
To take advantage of this property, a magnified image of the sample is placed not at the entrance slit of the analyzer but rather at the focal point of a lens, which is set up in front of the slit diaphragm of the analyzer. Thus the position of the image is transformed into angles. The entrance slit diaphragm is placed on the image side of the lens at the focal point.
The exit slit of the analyzer selects the desired energy range. Another lens behind the analyzer reconstructs a now energy-filtered local image from the transmitted angle image. This can be magnified further and made visible on a screen with the help of an intensity amplifier, such as a microchannel plate.
An electron spectrometer with a similar arrangement is described in EP 0,246,841 B1. A local resolution of down to 2.5 μm is obtained with this energy analyzer of the toroidal capacitor type, which has a lens system in front and another behind.
It was overlooked, however, that the equation α1=−α0 is usually only a rough approximation. In Nucl. Instr. Methods A291 (1990), pp. 60-66, it is shown that the entrance and exit angles also depend on the entrance and exit locations. The entrance and exit angles will differ significantly from each other when the entrance and exit positions are different. It is then true that (tan α0):x0=−(tan α1):x1.
The aberrations increase with the size of the magnified image field, that is, with the possible difference between x1 and x0. The following example can illustrate the magnitude of these defects:
In the case of a visual field with a diameter of 4 mm, where, for example, x0=122 mm and x1=126 mm, and for an acceptance angle of α0=5°, we can calculate an exit angle of α1 of 5.16°. This is a 3% deviation from the incidence angle. In the case of a visual field with a radius of 100 μm, this results in an imaging error of 3 μm at the edge of the image field.
Electrons with the same entrance position but different entrance angles also have different exit positions and different exit angles according to: tan α 1 = tan α 0 ( 1 - 2 cos 2 α 0 ) - 1 .
This is described in, for example, T. Sagara et al., Resolution Improvements for hemispherical energy analyzers, Rev. Sci. Instr. 71, 2000, pp. 4201-4207.
In another example, a hemispherical analyzer is used in a different operating mode. Here the potentials are selected so that the electrons travel along a hyperbolic path in a field which rises with the square of the-radius.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,185,524 describes an electrostatic analyzer with spherical mirrors. The electrons pass into the inner sphere through slits and are brought back out through the inner sphere to a focal point by an opposing field. Both the object and the image are located inside the inner sphere.
The disadvantages of this arrangement are described in Nucl. Instr. Methods 42, 1966, pp. 71-76. Large slits are present in the inner sphere at locations where the cross section of the beam is not small. Pieces of netting are attached at these points to ensure the required spherical potential. Only a portion of the field passes through the mesh, which limits the local resolving power. Each mesh opening represents a small diverging lens. Another disadvantage of using netting in the path of the beam is the production of secondary electrons, which leads to an increase in background noise and thus reduces the displayable contrast. The energy-selecting slit is located in the electrical field between the hemispheres and is therefore difficult to reach and adjust. The voltages which must be applied to the outer sphere are much higher than those required for the conventional hemispherical analyzer.
In this design, as also in the preceding one, there are inherent aberrations, which can be attributed to the merely two-fold symmetry of the instrument's construction.
DE 196 33 496 A1 describes a monochromator for electron microscopy with mirror symmetry. The design in the form of a Ω avoids second-order aberrations, and even some of the third-order aberrations disappear. One of the essential criteria for the selected design was the avoidance of an intermediate focus. The goal here is to make it possible to monochromatize a primary electron beam of small diameter and high current density. This requirement leads to a complicated mechanical solution. The design consists of eight toroidal sectors, which must be adjusted very precisely with respect to each other. The device is therefore very costly to make and very time-consuming to adjust.
A similar mirror-symmetric arrangement of monochromators is selected in EP 0,470,299 A1. This arrangement also lacks an intermediate lens, but it does have a straight connecting tube. The energy-selecting slit is located in the plane of symmetry. No provisions are made for generating images in this case, either.
An energy filter consisting of a complementary opposing pair of 90° sectors, which are arranged with respect to each other in such a way that they form an “S”, is known from U.S. Pat. No. 5,466,933. An aperture diaphragm is set up between the two sectors. With this energy filter, an image of the incoming parallel electron beam is produced at the exit from the sector arrangement.
Although this arrangement using parallel electron beams does make it possible to obtain a high-contrast image at the exit of the energy filter, the intensity present at the exit is extremely low. The intensity can be increased by allowing electrons with an entrance angle ao not equal to zero to enter as well, but then the pixels are smeared and the contrast is reduced.
WO 01/61,725 A1 describes an emission electron microscope, which contains an image-generating beam path consisting of an electron-optic imaging system, which subjects the electron beam to a parallel shift and analyzes its energy. It consists of two spherical energy analyzers with a lens inserted between them. This lens is located at the focal point of the two analyzers. An intermediate image of the sample or the angle image of the sample is placed at the center of this lens. Because the magnification of field lenses is positive, aberrations which arise on passage through the first deflector are not corrected. This document does not mention or discuss the correction of aberrations.
DE 3,014,785 A1 describes a double monochromator for charged particles, which contains a delay lens in the form of slit diaphragms between the two monochromator subunits. The monochromator operates without loss of energy resolution at higher intensities than was possible in the past. No lens which might improve the imaging properties of the system is mentioned. Slit diaphragms are also described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,742,223. The imaging properties of the system are not discussed.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,448,063 describes an image-generating, mirror-symmetric energy filter, which compensates only for 2nd and 3rd-order aberrations. This defect correction is achieved only by the use of complicated equipment, which includes additional hexapole fields.
The task of the invention is therefore to create an image-generating energy filter with minimal aberration, which guarantees both a high-contrast image with high local resolution and high intensity at the exit.
This task is accomplished by an energy filter which is characterized in that a transfer lens device with negative lateral magnification VL, negative angle magnification VW, image rotation by the angle γ=β−180°, and a telescopic beam path is placed between the exit plane of the first energy analyzer and the entrance plane of the second energy analyzer, where all the deflection angles φ of the transfer lens are the same, and where its energy-dispersive planes (33, 43) are rotated around the angle β with respect to each other.
The energy analyzers are rotated around the axis of the transfer lens device.
A “telescopic beam path” is understood to be a beam path in which the various clusters of parallel beams are converted to a single parallel beam cluster regardless of their angles of incidence. The angle γ stands for the degree to which the image is rotated from its inverse position. This inverse position is achieved by the use of, for example, electrostatic lenses.
The advantage of the energy filter is that it is not mandatory to work with particle beams arriving in perpendicular fashion at the entrance plane of the first energy analyzer; that is, the entrance angle α0 can be allowed to be unequal to zero, which means that a high-contrast image of high intensity can be produced at the exit of the energy filter. The aberrations present at the exit from the first energy analyzer, especially the second-order aberrations, are transformed by the transfer lens device and projected onto the entrance plane of the second energy analyzer in such a way that that these aberrations are completely eliminated when the charged particles travel through the second energy analyzer.
The image quality of the energy filter is limited essentially only by the quality of the transfer lens device.
The transfer lens device is preferably designed so that, in the energy-dispersive plane, it projects the intermediate image ZB1 present at the exit plane of the first energy analyzer with a linear magnification of V L = ZB 2 ZB 1 < 0
and with an angular magnification of V W = α 2 α 1 < 0 , where V W V L E 2 E 1 = 1 ,
rotated around the angle γ=β−180°, onto the entrance plane of the second energy analyzer as an intermediate image of the size ZB2, where α1 is the exit angle of the charged particles from the exit plane of the first energy analyzer; α2 is the entrance angle to the entrance plane of the second energy analyzer; E1 is the kinetic energy of the charged particles in the exit plane of the first energy analyzer; E2 is the kinetic energy of the charged particles in the entrance plane of the second energy analyzer, and where the charged particles travel through a telescopic beam path in the transfer lens device.
For an electrostatic transfer lens device, β=180° and VL and VW are negative. For a magnetic transfer lens device, VL and VW are also negative, but the image can be subject to rotation, which means that it is necessary to select β≅180°.
The energy analyzers and the transfer lens device are preferably set up with point symmetric around the center Z of the transfer lens device. This means that the energy analyzers have the same construction dimensions and that VL=−1 and VW=−1.
The energy analyzers can also have different construction dimensions, as a result of which an arrangement with quasi-radial symmetry is created, in which VW and VL are less than 0.
VW=VL=−1 can be obtained by adjusting the radii and the pass energies appropriately to each other.
Within the scope of the invention, the choice of the type of deflection fields used for the analyzers is essentially free. Magnetic fields, either permanent or generated by electrical current, can be used, but electrostatic fields are especially preferred.
The toroidal energy analyzers are preferably sectors of a sphere or cylindrical analyzers, especially with a deflection angle of more than 90°.
Hemispherical analyzers with deflection angles of φ=180° are especially preferred, because these have an especially high energy dispersion at their exit.
In a spherical field, in which the potential energy of the particle is ˜1/r, the charged particles move along closed elliptical paths. All of the particles which start at one point, even though of different energies and even of different angles, reach their exact original position again after a circuit of 360°. As a result, there are no aberrations at the exit. In a closed spherical analyzer of this type, the two energy-dispersive planes of the two hemispheres would by definition enclose the angle β=0. After traveling 180°, the particles with different energies reach their maximum distance from each other. If an aperture which does not disturb the radial field is placed here, only the particles of the desired energy are allowed to pass through. Nevertheless, in a closed spherical analyzer of this type, there is no room to put an entrance lens and a detector, for example, or a transfer lens.
In the case of two hemispherical analyzers which are arranged with respect to each other in such a way that their energy-dispersive planes are rotated around the angle β, the imaging properties of the transfer lens device makes it possible to retain the properties of a complete spherical analyzer, so that defect-free images will be obtained at the exit of the energy filter. The transfer lens device ensures that the paths are exact images of each other, the only difference being that the entrance point to the first hemispherical analyzer is separated in space from the exit point of the second hemispherical analyzer.
The effect thus obtained is that of a spherical capacitor. It is known that non-relativistic particles travel along closed, periodic elliptical paths. The angles and positions are the same after a complete circuit. This is independent of the starting position, of the entrance angle, and of the energy of the charged particles.
The energy-dispersive plane of the hemispherical analyzers is preferably rotated by an angle of β=180° around the axis of the transfer lens device, so that the beam path has the shape of an “S”. This arrangement offers the advantage that an especially simple transfer lens device can be used.
For practical reasons, the angle β between the dispersion planes is preferably within the range between 5° and 355°, especially between 15° and 340°.
The energy analyzers can be of different designs; if so, the design of the transfer lens device must be modified accordingly. In the case of different energy analyzers, e.g., different pass energies E1 and E2, the lateral magnification and the angular magnification must be adjusted to produce the desired intermediate image on the entrance plane of the second energy analyzer. In the design of the transfer lens arrangement, therefore, it is necessary to take in the account the Lagrange-Helmholtz equation
ZB1*α*√{square root over (E1)}=const.=ZB2*α2*√{square root over (E2)}.
From a cost standpoint, however, it is advantageous to use identical energy analyzers and to work with the same pass energies. In this case, the lateral magnification of the transfer lens device is VL=−1, and the angular magnification of the transfer lens device is VW=−1.
The transfer lens device preferably comprises at least one electrostatic lens, especially an electrostatic tube lens, which is used especially in conjunction with two hemispherical analyzers with energy-dispersive planes which are preferably rotated with respect to each other by the angle of β=180°.
The transfer lens device can comprise at least one magnetic lens. Magnetic lenses offer the advantage that they produce smaller aberrations than electrostatic lenses. They are therefore preferred in cases where, because the energy analyzers are rotated by the angle β from each other, the intermediate image ZB1 must also be projected with a rotation around the angle γ=β−180°.
The transfer lens device preferably has at least two lenses.
It is advantageous to locate the exit plane of the first energy analyzer at the focal point of the first lens and to locate the entrance plane of the second energy analyzer at the focal point of the second lens, where 2F stands for the distance between the two lenses and F stands for the focal distance of the two lenses.
The transfer lens device can also have at least one electrostatic or magnetic multipole lens. Multipole lenses offer the advantage that they can provide an image without any spherical aberrations. A multipole lens is set up between the two energy analyzers in such a way that a radially symmetric arrangement is obtained.
According to one possible use of the energy filter, the filter is placed in the imaging beam path of an image-generating electron-optic system. The task of the energy filter is to select electrons of certain energies from the beam path through appropriate adjustment of the diaphragms of the energy filter. It is irrelevant whether an intermediate image of the sample to be studied, the Fourier-transformed intermediate image, or some other intensity distribution of the imaging beam path is sent to the entrance slit of the energy analyzer. The energies of these charged particles and energy bandwidth of the detected beam path can be determined and varied by changing the energy window.
One of the preferred uses of the energy filter is in electron microscopy. Here the energy filter is used to produce an image of the electrons emitted and back-scattered by an object. These electrons have by nature a wide energy spectrum. The contrast can be improved by using electrons from a narrow energy band. By selectively setting the energy window, a succession of specific signals can be selected out and amplified, while the others can be attenuated. It is therefore possible to emphasize a certain set of data.
Another preferred use of the energy filter is in time-resolved measuring instruments. The advantage of the energy filter is that even differences in the times of flight which occur in the first energy analyzer are eliminated by the transfer lens device and passage through the second energy analyzer.
Exemplary embodiments of the invention are explained in greater detail below on the basis of the drawings:
FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of an energy filter with two hemispherical analyzers;
FIG. 2 shows a schematic diagram of a transfer lens device;
FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of the arrangement shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 shows a perspective view of the embodiment according to FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 shows another embodiment, which differs from that shown in FIG. 4 by a different angle of rotation;
FIG. 6 shows a schematic diagram of another embodiment in which spherical sectors are used as energy analyzers;
FIG. 7 shows another embodiment with a total of four toroidal sectors;
FIG. 8 shows an energy filter with cylindrical analyzers;
FIG. 9 shows a transfer lens device with multipole lenses; and
FIG. 10 shows a transfer lens device with magnetic lenses.
FIG. 1 shows a schematic cross-sectional diagram of an energy filter, which has two hemispherical analyzers 30 and 40, between which a transfer lens device 20 is located. The two energy analyzers 30, 40 together with the transfer lens device 20 are set up in such a way that the beam path lies in a plane and has the shape of an “S”.
The overall arrangement has radial symmetry with respect to the center Z of the transfer lens device 20; the radial symmetry is two-fold.
The electrons curve to the left in the first energy analyzer 30, and after they have passed through the transfer lens device 20, they curve to right in the second energy analyzer 40. This means that the two energy-dispersive planes 33, 43 of the two energy analyzers are rotated by the angle β=−180° with respect to each other (see FIG. 4).
FIG. 1 shows only the center beam paths 4 and 7 of the electrons in the first and second energy analyzers. The energy filter has image-generating properties while avoiding aberrations of the second and higher orders.
The surface 1′ of the sample 1 is a certain distance g from the first lens system 2, which forms an image of the electrons emerging from the surface 1′ on the entrance plane 3 of the first hemispherical analyzer 30.
The object distance g can be the same as the focal distance of the lens system 2, so that the image distance b is approximately equal to infinity. In this case, the entrance plane 3 of the first energy analyzer 30 is preferably located in the image-side focal plane of the lens system 2.
In the entrance plane 3 there is a first energy-defining slit diaphragm 25, which is perpendicular to the plane of the drawing and has the width B1 (see also FIG. 3).
The hemispherical analyzer 30 forms an image of the electrons entering through the slit diaphragm 25 with aberrations in the exit plane 5, where a second slit diaphragm 26 with the width B2 is located.
Because the electrons enter the slit diaphragm 25 in the entrance plane 3 at various angles α0, they also exit at different exit angles α1 upon leaving the deflection field of the first energy analyzer.
The second slit diaphragm 26 is perpendicular to the plane of the drawing in which the linear focus of the astigmatic intermediate image ZB1 23 lies. The energy dispersion occurs in the plane of the drawing. This dispersion is defined as the deviation from the central beam path 4 by a value which is proportional to the energy deviation. By changing the width B2 of the slit (see also FIG. 3), it is possible to adjust or to change selectively the energy bandwidth of the electrons let through by the slit diaphragm 26. As a result, the only electrons which reach the intermediate image ZB1 23 are those which lie within this energy bandwidth. The electron beam is monochromatic as a result.
A transfer lens device 20 is set up behind this exit plane 5. This device consists of two identical converging lenses 21 and 22 and forms an image of the first intermediate image 23 produced in the exit plane 5 as an inverted second intermediate image ZB2 24, that is, VL=−1, at the entrance plane 6 of the second energy analyzer 40.
The transfer lens device 20 not only inverts the intermediate image ZB1 23 on the entrance plane 6 but also inverts the angles, so that the entrance angles α2 in the entrance plane 6 of the second energy analyzer 40 are described by α2=−σ1.
The aberrations are eliminated in the second energy analyzer 40 as a result of the inversion of the astigmatism of the intermediate image ZB1 23 in conjunction with the inversion of the path curvature present in the first energy analyzer 30. An energy-filtered, stigmatic image 29, which can be projected by the lens system 9 onto a detector 10, is thus created in the exit plane 8.
In this embodiment, the second energy analyzer 40 also has a slit diaphragm 27 of width B3 in the entrance plane 6 and a slit diaphragm 28 of with B4 in the exit plane 8.
If the distance of the surface 1′ of the sample 1 or of a magnified or reduced image is equal to the focal distance of the lens system 2, the distance of the lens system 9 from the exit plane 8 will also be equal to the focal distance, and the distance to the detector 10 will be equal to the focal distance of the lens system 9.
Diffraction images instead of real images are then present at the entrance and exit planes of the two energy analyzers 30, 40. If the lens systems 2 and 9 are operated asymmetrically, it is possible to use the energy filter to obtain a diffraction image of sample 1 without any aberrations of the second and higher orders. It is said that the lens systems are operated “asymmetrically” when either the lens system 2 projects the surface of the sample onto the entrance plane 3 and the lens system 9 is adjusted in such a way that the intermediate image 29 is situated at the focal distance of the lens system 9, or conversely the lens system 2 is adjusted in such a way that the sample surface (or its intermediate image) lies in the focal plane of the lens and simultaneously the lens system 9 projects the plane 8 sharply onto the detector 10.
The diffraction image of the sample is then projected by the lens system 2 onto the entrance plane 3. This diffraction image is energy-filtered and ultimately arrives at the exit plane 8. From there it is projected by the lens system 9 onto the detector 10.
FIG. 2 shows a schematic diagram of the beam path in the transfer lens device 20. The two identical electrostatic converging lenses 21, 22 have an F-2F-F arrangement, where F is the focal distance of the lenses 21, 22. On the basis of this lens arrangement, the first intermediate image ZB1 23 in the exit plane 5 with the lateral magnification VL=−1 and the beams with the angular magnification VW=−1 are projected onto the entrance plane 6 as a second intermediate image ZB2 24. The beam path is radially symmetric and telescopic.
When other types of lenses are used, e.g., electron-optic cylindrical lenses, the angular and lateral magnifications can also be +1 in the non-dispersive plane.
FIG. 3 shows a possible embodiment of the arrangement illustrated schematically FIG. 1 with three possible electron paths E0, E1, and E2. A cross section through the energy-dispersive planes is shown.
The electrons start from the surface 1′ of the sample 1, pass through the slit diaphragm 25 of width B1, and enter the first hemispherical analyzer 30, in which an electrostatic deflecting field is applied between the inner shell 31 and the outer shell 32.
When the electrons enter the slit diaphragm 25 at a right angle, as they do at point X0, they describe a path E0, which describes a semicircle in each of the first and second hemispherical analyzers.
Because the path E0 meets the axis 200 of the transfer lens device 20, the electrons are also projected onto point X0 of the slit diaphragm 27 of the second hemispherical analyzer 40, and the path along which they travel in the second hemispherical analyzer is radially symmetric to point Z.
The electrons on path E1 start at point X1 of the slit diaphragm 25 of the first hemispherical analyzer 30 with a different energy and a different entrance angle α0,1, whereas the electrons of path E2 start at point X1 with the entrance angle −α0,2. The electrons are deflected to point X2 in the second slit diaphragm 26, describing elliptical paths in both cases. The exit angles are α1,1 and α1,2, where |α1,1|=|α1,2| was selected in this example.
The pixel X0 of the first intermediate image ZB1 in the slit diaphragm 26 is projected with the lateral magnification −1 and with the angular magnification −1 onto the plane 6 at point X3 as a pixel of the second intermediate image ZB2. For the angles we therefore have α1,2=−α2,2 and α1,1=−α2,1.
In the second energy analyzer 40, an equally intense electrostatic deflecting field is applied between the inner shell 41 and the outer shell 42, so that the electron paths E1 and E2 have elliptical courses which correspond to the elliptical paths in the first energy analyzer 30. The electrons exit at point X4 at the angles α3.1 and α3.2, which correspond in turn to the angles α0.1 and α0.2. The deviations of the angles are α1.1 and α1.2 are compensated by the second pass, i.e., by the pass through the energy analyzer 40. It is also true with respect to the point X4 that X4=X1. An energy-filtered image of the sample 1 is thus obtained without aberration in the plane of the slit diaphragm 28.
FIG. 4 shows a perspective view of the embodiment shown in FIG. 3. The energy-dispersive planes 33 and 43 and the slit diaphragms 25, 26, 27, and 28 in the hemispherical analyzers 30, 40 are illustrated. The second hemispherical analyzer 40 is rotated by the angle β=180° around the axis 200 of the transfer lens device 20, which axis passes through the slit diaphragm 27.
FIG. 5 shows another embodiment, in which the second hemispherical analyzer 40 is rotated by the angle of only β=90° around the axis 200 passing through the slit diaphragm 27.
FIG. 6 shows an embodiment corresponding to that of FIG. 3, where, instead of the hemispherical analyzers 20, 30 [Sic; →30, 40—Tra], spherical sectors 20′, 30′ [Sic; →30′, 40′—Tra] are used, which have inner shells 31′, 41′ and outer shells 32′, 42′ with deflection angles of φ≦180°. The arrangement of the diaphragms 25, 26, 27 differs from the arrangement according to FIG. 3 in that they are not located in the entrance and exit planes of the spherical sectors. This embodiment also shows two-fold radial symmetry with respect to point Z.
FIG. 7 shows the arrangement according to FIG. 6 supplemented by two additional toroid sectors 50a, 50b. The toroid sector 50a is placed in front of the first spherical sector 30′, and the toroid sector 50b is placed behind the second spherical sector 40′. These additional toroid sectors 50a, 50b serve to correct higher-order aberrations.
FIG. 8 shows an energy filter consisting of two cylindrical analyzers 30′, 40′ [Sic; →30″, 40″—Tra] with inner shells 31″, 41″ and outer shells 32″, 42″ and a transfer lens device 20. The axis 200 of the transfer lens system 20 is not collinear to the cylinder axes 34, 44 but extends instead in the direction of the central paths 4′, 7′ through the cylindrical analyzers, which form an angle of 42.3° with the cylinder axes 34, 44.
FIGS. 9a and 9b show a transfer lens device 20 which avoids both spherical aberration and the coma error. This can be achieved by combining electrical or magnetic round lenses (21, 22) with two sextupole lenses 121, 122. The axis 200 of the transfer lens device extends in direction z.
FIG. 9a shows a cross section through a sextupole segment perpendicular to its axis. The force F on a particle changes its direction between two adjacent electrodes, the voltages U and −U relative to the axis potential being applied to alternate electrodes.
FIG. 9b shows schematically the course of two electrons a certain distance away from the axis. At the point of entrance, the axes of these electrons are parallel in the xy cross section. The broken lines show the paths observed when the sextupoles 121 and 122 are turned off, and the solid lines show the path observed when they are turned on. The path near the axis is affected to only a slight extent by the sextupoles.
The sextupoles lie in the exit and entrance planes 5, 6 of the energy analyzers.
FIG. 10 shows a schematic diagram of a magnetic transfer lens device 20 [Sic →20′—Tra] analogous to the electrostatic lenses of FIG. 2. The magnetic fields of the lenses 22′ and 21′ are generated by coils. The essential difference between this and an electrostatic transfer lens device is an additional rotation of the image by the angle γ, where γ is based on the position of the image at V L = - ZB 2 ZB 1 .
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1 sample 1′ surface of sample 2 first lens system 3 entrance plane 4, 4′ central beam bath in the first energy analyzer 5 exit plane 6 entrance plane 7, 7′ central beam path in the second energy analyzer 8 exit plane 9 lens system 10 detector 20, 20′ transfer lens device 21, 21′ first transfer lens 22, 22′ second transfer lens 23 first intermediate image 24 second intermediate image 25 first slit diaphragm 26 second slit diaphragm 27 third slit diaphragm 28 fourth slit diaphragm 29 image 30, 30′, 30″ first toroidal energy analyzer 31, 31′, 32″ inner shell 32, 32′, 32″ outer shell 33 energy-dispersive plane 34 axis 40, 40′, 40″ second toroidal energy analyzer 41, 41′, 41″ outer shell 43 energy-dispersive plane 44 axis 50a, 50b toroid sector 121 sextupole lens 122 sextupole lens 200 axis of the transfer lens device
1. Image-generating energy filter for electrically charged particles such as electrons and ions with at least two toroidal energy analyzers arranged in a row, where at least one energy analyzer has a diaphragm at its entrance plane and another diaphragm at its exit plane, characterized in that:
a transfer lens device (20, 20′) is located between the exit plate (5) of the first energy analyzer (30, 30′, 30″) and the entrance plane (6) of the second energy analyzer (40, 40′, 40″), which device has negative lateral magnification VL, negative angular magnification VW, image rotation around the angle γ=μ−180°, and a telescopic beam path, where its respective deflection angles φ are equal and its energy-dispersive planes (33, 43) are rotated around the angle β with respect to each other.
2. Energy filter according to claim 1, characterized in that the transfer lens device (20, 20′) is designed so that, in the energy-dispersive plane (33), it projects the intermediate image ZB1 (23) present at the exit plane (5) of the first energy analyzer (30, 30′, 30″) with a linear magnification of V L = ZB 2 ZB 1 < 0 and with an angular magnification of V W = - α 2 α 1 < 0 where V W V L E 2 E 1 = 1, rotated around the angle γ, onto the entrance plane (6) of the second energy analyzer (40, 40′, 40″) as intermediate image ZB2 (24),
where α1 is the exit angle of the charged particles from the exit plane (5) of the first energy analyzer (30, 30′, 30″); α2 is the entrance angle to the entrance plane (6) of the second energy analyzer (40, 40′, 40″); E1 is the kinetic energy of the charged particles in the exit plane of the first energy analyzer (30, 30′, 30″); and E2 is the kinetic energy of the charged particles in the entrance plane of the second energy analyzer (40, 40′, 40″), and
where the charged particles in the transfer lens device (20, 20′) pass through a telescopic beam path.
3. Energy filter according to claim 1, characterized in that the energy analyzers (30, 30′, 30″; 40, 40′, 40″) and the transfer lens device (20) are arranged with radial symmetry around the center of the transfer lens device.
4. Energy filter according to claim 1, characterized in that the energy analyzers (30, 30′, 30″; 40, 40′, 40″) are built with different dimensions.
5. Energy filter according to claim 1 characterized in that the energy analyzers are spherical sectors (30′, 40′), hemispherical analyzers (30, 40), or cylindrical analyzers (30″, 40″).
6. Energy filter according to claim 5, characterized in that the energy-dispersive planes (33, 43) of the hemispherical analyzers (30, 40) are rotated around the axis (200) of the transfer lens device (20) by the angle β=180°, so that the beam path has a the shape of an “S”.
7. Energy filter according to claim 1, characterized in that the transfer lens device (20) comprises at least one electrostatic tube lens (21, 22).
8. Energy filter according to claim 1, characterized in that the transfer lens device (20′) comprises at least one magnetic lens.
9. Energy filter according to claim 1, characterized in that the transfer lens device (20) comprises at least one multipole lens (121, 122).
10. Energy filter according to claim 1, characterized in that the transfer lens device (20) has at least two lenses (21, 21′) and (22, 22′), and in that the exit plane (5) of the first energy analyzer (30, 30′, 30″) is located at the focal point of the first lens (21, 21′) and the entrance plane (6) of the second energy analyzer (40, 40′, 40″) is located at the focal point of the second lens (22, 22′), where the distance between the two lenses is 2F, where F stands for the focal distance of the lenses (21, 22, 21′, 22′).
11. Use of an energy filter according to claim 1 for electron microscopes.
12. Use of an energy filter according to claim 1 for time-resolved measuring instruments.
13. Energy filter according to claim 2, characterized in that the energy analyzers (30, 30′, 30″; 40, 40′, 40″) and the transfer lens device (20) are arranged with radial symmetry around the center of the transfer lens device.
14. Energy filter according to claim 2, characterized in that the energy analyzers (30, 30′, 30″; 40, 40′, 40″) are built with different dimensions.
15. Energy filter according to claim 2, characterized in that the energy analyzers are spherical sectors (30′, 40′), hemispherical analyzers (30, 40), or cylindrical analyzers (30″, 40″).
16. Energy filter according to claim 2, characterized in that the energy-dispersive planes (33, 43) of the hemispherical analyzers (30, 40) are rotated around the axis (200) of the transfer lens device (20) by the angle β=180°, so that the beam path has a the shape of an “S”.
17. Energy filter according to claim 2, characterized in that the transfer lens device (20) comprises at least one electrostatic tube lens (21, 22).
18. Energy filter according to claim 2, characterized in that the transfer lens device (20′) comprises at least one magnetic lens.
19. Energy filter according claim 2, characterized in that the transfer lens device (20) comprises at least one multipole lens (121, 122).
Filed: Nov 4, 2003
Publication Date: Jan 26, 2006
Patent Grant number: 7250599
Inventors: Dietmar Funnemann (Taunusstein), Matthias Escher (Bad Camberg)
Current U.S. Class: 250/281.000
International Classification: H01J 49/00 (20060101);
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1. WO1997017004 - PORTILLON SOUPLE A BLOCAGE RAPIDE
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QUICK RELEASE SOFT GATE
The present invention relates to a closure device for placement in a doorway and, more particularly, to a security gate which may be frictionally engaged with a doorway for preventing infants or small children from passing through the doorway, and which may be easily and quickly released from the doorway.
In environments where small children or infants are present, it is generally desirable to have a closure device or security gate which may be removably placed within an area way, such as a doorway, to prevent passage therethrough. For example, it may be desirable to restrict small children to a particular room without shutting the door to the room such that one can look into the room or the children can see an adult nearby.
Various means and techniques have been devised for the formation of barriers or closures across area ways wherein the gate may be removably mounted within the area way and which typically include means for adjusting the width ofthe gate to accommodate different distances between the side portions ofthe area way. For example, U.S. Patent No. 4,492.262 to Gebhardt discloses an infant security door gate assembly which includes upper and lower support bars incorporating coil springs positioned within
telescoping tubes to form a compression friction fit within the doorway. In addition, the gate of Gebhardt is formed of a pair of complementary
overlapping panels.
U.S. Patent No. 4,944, 117 to Gebhardt et al. and U.S. Patent No.
5,272,840 to Knoedler et al. disclose security gate constructions which include overlapping substantially rigid panels which may be adjusted relative to each other to provide for a width adjustment.
While the above-described gates are satisfactory for preventing passage of an infant or small child through a doorway, there is a need for a security gate which is adapted to be easily mounted within a doorway, and which is additionally capable of being quickly released from the doorway.
In accordance with the present invention, a security gate is provided which forms a releasable closure adapted for disposition between spaced, confronting sides of an area way, such as a doorway, and which may be easily removed from the doorway and conveniently folded to a compact form.
In one aspect, the present invention provides a releasable closure for disposition between spaced confronting sides of an area way and including first and second horizontal members for extending between the sides ofthe area way. A pair of vertical members are provided extending between the horizontal members such that the horizontal and vertical members define a frame for the closure. A panel is supported within the frame defined by the horizontal and vertical members, and the panel is preferably formed of a flaccid material, such as a fabric.
First and second lock assemblies are attached to first ends ofthe first and second horizontal members, respectively. Each ofthe lock assemblies includes a body portion mounted to a respective first end, and a thrust member pivotally connected to the body portion. The thrust member is connected to the body portion by means of first and second link members which are pivotally mounted to the body portion and to the thrust member. The link members are substantially parallel to each other and define a parallelogram structure in combination with the body portion and thrust member. Movement ofthe thrust member toward the body portion causes the thrust member to move in a horizontal direction away from the first end.
Thus, the closure ofthe present invention may be mounted in an area way by engaging second ends ofthe horizontal members, opposite from the first ends, with one side ofthe doorway and engaging an end ofthe thrust members with the opposing side ofthe area way. Pushing down on the first ends ofthe horizontal members causes the link members to move to an over center position within the body portion ofthe lock assembly while also moving the thrust members outwardly to thereby form a positive friction fit within the area way.
In addition, the horizontal members comprise telescoping tubes which are spring biased away from each other. The springs within the horizontal members provide a biasing force to ensure that the horizontal members are firmly held in place within the area way.
The vertical members include tube rings located at each end thereof for engaging the horizontal members. The tube rings may be detached from the horizontal members to permit the gate to be folded for storage or transport.
Therefore, it is an object ofthe present invention to provide a security gate which may be firmly mounted within an area way, and which may be easily released for removal from the area way.
It is a further object ofthe invention to provide a security gate which may be partially disassembled and folded when not in use.
Other objects and advantages ofthe invention will be apparent from the following description, the accompanying drawings and the appended claims.
Fig. 1 is a front elevational view ofthe security gate for the present invention located between opposed confronting vertical surfaces of a doorway;
Fig. 2 is an elevational view of one ofthe horizontal members for the gate;
Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view of one ofthe lock assemblies in a released position;
Fig. 4 is a cross sectional view of one ofthe lock assemblies in a locked position;
Fig. 5 is a partially cut away perspective view of an engagement end of one ofthe lock assemblies; and
Fig. 6 is a perspective view illustrating the connection of one of the tube rings and a lock assembly.
Detailed Description Of The Preferred Embodiment
Referring to Fig. 1, the security gate 10 of the present invention is shown extending across an area way, such as a doorway, including spaced, confronting sides 12, 14. The security gate 10 includes a central panel portion 16 formed of a flexible flaccid material, such as a fabric, supported by a frame defined by first and second horizontal members 18, 20 and first and second vertical members 22, 24. The first horizontal member 18 forms an upper support and includes a first end 26 and a second end 28. Similarly, the second horizontal member 20 defines a lower support member having a first end 30 and a second end 32. The vertical member 22 is connected to the horizontal members 18, 20 at the first ends 26, 30, and the second vertical member 24 is connected to the horizontal members 18, 20 at the second ends 28, 32. It should be noted that upper and lower portions 34, 36 ofthe panel 16 define tubular material portions through which the horizontal members 18, 20 pass, and the side portions 38, 40 ofthe panel 16 similarly define tubular material portions for receiving the vertical members 22, 24 therethrough.
Referring to Fig. 2, the first or upper horizontal member 18 is shown, it being understood that the second horizontal member 20 is provided with an identical construction. The horizontal member 18 is formed of a pair of tubes 42, 44 located in telescoping relationship to each other and biased outwardly from each other by a compression spring 46 in a conventional manner known in the art. A lock assembly 48 is attached to the first end 26 of the horizontal member 18, and an end cap 50 is attached to the second end 28. The lock assembly 48 includes a body portion 52 having a shoulder 54 defining a shoulder area 56. Similarly, the end cap 50 includes a flange defining a shoulder 58 adjacent to a shoulder area 60.
Referring further to Fig. 1, the first vertical member 22 includes identical tube rings 62 at opposing ends thereof wherein one ofthe tube rings 62 is located in the shoulder area 56 ofthe lock assembly 52, and the other tube ring 62 is engaged with a similar shoulder area on a lower lock assembly 64 of the horizontal member 20. The second vertical member 24 also includes tube rings 66 at opposing ends thereof wherein one ofthe tube rings 66 engages the shoulder area 60 ofthe end cap 50, and the other tube ring 66 engages a similar shoulder area on the lower end cap 68.
Referring to Figs. 3 - 5, the lock assembly 48 is illustrated wherein the body portion 52 includes a substantially U-shaped forward portion 70 and a tubular mounting portion 72 for attachment to the second end 26 of the respective horizontal member 18. First and second pivot links 74, 76 are pivotally mounted within the forward portion 70 by respective pivot pins 78, 80.
A thrust body 82 is formed as a U-shaped member connected to the body portion 48 by the link members 74, 76 at pivot pins 83, 84. The link members 74, 76 extend substantially parallel to each other such that the link members 74, 76, body portion 52 and thrust member 82 define a parallelogram structure for guiding movement ofthe thrust member 82 relative to the body portion 52. Thus, as the thrust member 82 moves from a position displaced downwardly from the body portion 52, as illustrated in Fig. 3, to the position shown in Fig. 4 wherein the thrust member 82 is positioned upwardly into close association with the body portion 52, it moves in a direction away from the first end 26 ofthe horizontal member 18. In this manner, the thrust member 82 moves into pressing engagement with the side ofthe area way 12 as, for example, the first end 26 is pressed downwardly with a contact pad 88 ofthe thrust member 82 in engagement with the side 12.
It should be noted that as the relative position between the thrust member 82 and body portion 52 moves from that shown in Fig. 3 to the position shown in Fig. 4, the link members 74, 76 are moved to an over center position such that the thrust member 82 will tend to remain in the locked position shown in Fig. 4. Further, the spring 46 within the horizontal member 18 provides a resilient biasing force for maintaining the lock assembly 48 in a locked position.
It may also be noted that the first link 74 is located above the second link 76, and the pivot 80 for the second link 76 is located closer to the first end 26 then the pivot 78 for the first link 74. This construction provides for a stable linkage when the lock assembly 48 is in a locked position.
Further, side walls 90 ofthe thrust member 82 are provided with curved slots 92 which are adapted to receive the first link member pivot pin 78 therein as the thrust member 82 moves to a locked position and which may define a stop position upon engagement of an end wall ofthe slot 92 with the pin 78.
Further, a torsion spring 94 may be provided engaged with one of he links 76 for providing a biasing force to move the thrust member 82 to a downward location when it is not positioned for locking the gate 10 in an area way.
Referring further to Fig. 6, the tubular portion 72 ofthe body portion 52 includes a latching tongue 96 which is positioned to latch and maintain the tube ring 62 in position on the shoulder area 56. The end caps 50, 68 include a similar tongue 98 for latching the tube rings 66 in position. It should be noted that the locking assemblies 48, 64 and end caps 50, 68 are preferably formed of a plastic material and that the latching tongues 96 and 98 are preferably formed integrally with the locking assemblies 48, 64 and end caps 50. 68, respectively. Further, the tube rings 62. 66 and respective latching tongues 96, 98 operate in a manner similar to that disclosed for the latching mechanism ofthe gate disclosed in U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 08/276,948, assigned to the assignee ofthe present invention, and incorporated herein by reference.
In use, the present gate 10 may be assembled for use and disassembled for transportation or storage. Specifically, the horizontal members 18, 20, in a disassembled configuration, are removed from
association with the tube rings 62, 66 and are separated from the upper portion 34 and lower portion 36 of the panel 16. Thus, the vertical members 22, 24 maybe brought together and the panel 16 folded to form a compact
configuration for the gate 10.
In assembling the gate 10, it should be noted that the tube rings 62 include a circular portion which defines an inner circumference larger than an inner circumference defined by a circular portion ofthe tube rings 66. The circumference ofthe tube rings 62 is such that the end caps 50, 68 may be passed through the tube rings 62, through the upper and lower portions 34, 36 and through the tube rings 66 until the shoulders 58 engage with the tube rings 66. As the horizontal members 18, 20 are passed through the upper and lower portions 34, 36, the shoulder area 56 is brought into engagement with the tube rings 62, and the tube rings 62 are of such a circumference that they will engage the shoulders 54 ofthe respective locking assemblies 48, 64 and be maintained in position by the latching tongues 96. Disassembly ofthe gate 10 may be accomplished by reversing the assembly procedure including depressing the latching tongues 96, 98 to release the tube rings 62, 66 from engagement with the ends ofthe horizontal members 18, 20.
In positioning the gate 10 within an area way, the horizontal members 18, 20 are initially adjusted by rotating the tubes 42, 44 relative to each other to thereby adjust the overall length ofthe horizontal members 18, 20 in a conventional manner known in the art whereby the contact pads 88 of the locking assemblies 48, 64 define an engagement portion which is brought into engagement with the side wall 12, and contact pads 100 on the end caps 50, 68 are brought into engagement with the wall 14. The first ends 26, 30 of the horizontal members 18, 20 are then pushed downwardly causing relative movement between the thrust members 82 and body portions 52 ofthe lock assemblies 48, 64 whereby the thrust members 82 move upwardly into the body portions 52 while moving horizontally away from the first ends 26, 30 of the horizontal members 18, 20. During this movement, the springs 46 within the horizontal members 18, 20 compress to provide a firm engagement force for maintaining the link members 74, 76 in their over center locked position to thereby maintain the gate in position between the sides 12, 14.
When it is desired to release the gate, the first ends 26, 30 of the horizontal members 18, 20 are lifted to quickly release the horizontal members 18, 20 from engagement with the sides 12, 14 of the area way. In this manner, an easily positioned gate is provided which may be quickly released from a doorway and which also provides for a compact configuration when it is desired to store or transport the gate.
While the form of apparatus herein described constitutes a preferred embodiment of this invention, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to this precise form of apparatus, and that changes may be made therein without departing from the scope ofthe invention which is defined in the appended claims.
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Re: PDL - Round 3 viewers lounge
by boldblade » 03 Jul 2018, 19:56
Sounds familiar... I seem to remember subbing a bad Turkey spot and trying to throw to the most powerful player on the board when no one would give me a chance at more. Seems recent just can't remember exactly what happened.
boldblade
mhsmith0 wrote:
I can't help that one, I was asked and hemmed and hawed and then said yes. I'd have been fine if anyone else particularly wanted the spot; had you contacted mjparett to ask to sub in?
I did but he ignored my message! The nerve!
Truthfully I think you did the right thing. Still a pure sham though!
by jay65536 » 03 Jul 2018, 20:00
Wow, so just a total breakdown...very surprising.
Did you at least try to re-open communications with England after France went to the Channel in S11? Because I saw that and thought "this is going to be a dogfight", not "this is over already".
by mhsmith0 » 03 Jul 2018, 20:01
boldblade wrote: Sounds familiar... I seem to remember subbing a bad Turkey spot and trying to throw to the most powerful player on the board when no one would give me a chance at more. Seems recent just can't remember exactly what happened.
in my defense, when i tried to throw the solo to France in this game I was also trying to worm my way back into the result, but since England shut down communication entirely I didn't care to work to reopen it (in particular with London just a wide open conquest for France, i don't understand at all how England isn't at least going to talk to everyone else and cover bases *shrugs*)
had England wanted to talk, I'd have tried to work back into the result
and when I was Russia in our game together, that was what I feared (in particular, I feared that IF could join hands with you or Germany and then I'd lose altogether). Possibly overly much, but so it goes. I'll also note that I was pretty engaged with my discussions with France and kept working on making sure she was as comfortable with the risk she was taking as possible, talking through options, giving move suggestions, explicitly saying "ok I'm just flat-out giving you this center", etc
Also even without my explicit help, she probably solo's just from working on it in that turn; like, ABSOLUTE worst case she's looking at like 15 centers, she has dominance over ION, she'll eventually crack my home centers, etc.
I feel like that was a REALLY easy solo spot for her. Maybe it was easier for me than I'd counted on, but I didn't think so, and so it goes *shrugs*
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by Pootleflump » 03 Jul 2018, 20:02
jay65536 wrote: I was all set to decry the carebear draw, but then I saw the result--this is either a total breakdown (which seems unlikely from an outsider's perspective) or the biggest carebear meta-gaming result I've ever seen. Only once before have I ever seen such total lack of fight in an endgame.
Anyway, now that the game is over, my point was, as of Fall 1908, when the replacement Turkey took over, France appeared to have a losing position, and instead she went on to win.
Hey. Congratulations Pootle. Maybe you just played a decent game of diplomacy and managed to get other people to do what you wanted them to and steered the game to the ending it was. 'Carebear Metagaming' gee thanks.
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Don't try to defend it. It's indefensible.
jay65536 wrote: Wow, so just a total breakdown...very surprising.
I didn't bother tbh. I'd already been stabbed multiple times by him in a short period of time (I consider the earlier Sev move to be a stab, I just couldn't really do anything about it at the time), and I was the weaker power with far less to lose. I feel like in that spot, it's England's responsibility to come to the table. If he didn't feel like doing so, well, that's a choice, and that has consequences. I wasn't willing at all to be a patsy just so EF could grow together and make a carebear result possible, so he'd really need to work to convince me, rather than the other way around. As far as I was concerned, his communications to me were tldr "I don't want to talk to you, and I'm fully committed to France". Why would I want/need/feel obliged to reach out to him at that point? He shut down communications, which was a purposeful decision, even though France was well ahead of him with stab potential and neither myself nor Germany (I think) had been talking to him, and even though I'd basically publicly said I was "going for a new plan" (which based on our lack of communications clearly didn't include him), and even though France made MULTIPLE moves in the spring that seemed to set up a stab (taking Kiel, and walking into ENG which gave her a shot at London).
Pootleflump wrote:
To be fair I think he has backtracked on that a little. I think he might agree with what I am about to say.
I think you did great. I think other players made some terrible decisions. And Jimbob/admins still turned this into a sham. But remember the first five words of this paragraph are most important.
boldblade wrote:
Well I take no responsibility for you not getting the spot
I was kinda like "eh, I'm kinda busy, and the position I'm taking over sucks, but sure I'll take it since league has been fun so I don't mind" *shrugs*
mhsmith0 wrote: Well I take no responsibility for you not getting the spot
Can I just blame you anyways? Stokes our rivalry and rivalries are good for th league.
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It would be easy for me to simply sit here and wax lyrical about my love of SHARKNADO okay – real easy. But to do that does a disservice to one of the major components of its success, and that comes in the form of the director at the helm of the franchise; (now moving into its 5th installment) the dynamic Mr. Anthony C. Ferrante.
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It was 2014. I was at work on the sequel volume to an anthology whose content was the collected author’s visions of their ultimate B movie. Anthony was prepping SHARKNADO 3 at the time for release. Still, I managed to get a hold of him to write the foreword for that book, and subsequently, the release of the book and SHARKNADO 3 fell in pretty close succession.
The desire to make movies and equally the passion for them, strikes one out of the blue. Anthony was not yet in his teens when that voice inside us all called out to him, and from that point forward, he knew making movies was exactly what he was going to do.
Now like I said earlier, to simply classify him as the SHARKNADO GUY, is to be completely unjust. Anthony is a renaissance man of the highest order. This writer, director, producer, sometimes actor, make-up effects artist, songwriter, comic book author – the list is longer than the list of cameos in the SHARKNADO franchise thus far.
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intrigued to see how it would compare to Guitar Hero and Rock Band, two games I’ve enjoyed quite a bit. Moreover, with the music of Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers, Rihanna, and Carrie Underwood licensed for the game, I was also interested to see how my children, avid listeners of Radio Disney, would respond to it. As fate would have it, I had just received Rock Band for my birthday when PopStar Guitar arrived for me to review. I’d be able to review the games side by side, for better or worse.
I have now spent the better part of a month playing PopStar Guitar and getting feedback from my kids and their cousins, who own a copy of Guitar Hero. Right from the start, you’ll notice that this Wii game doesn’t have a guitar controller like Guitar Hero or Rock Band. Instead, the game comes with two AirG peripherals that snap over the Wii controller. With the nunchuk attached to the controller, the controller provides the colored keypads used for “fingering†the guitar notes, while the nunchuk lever acts as the strumming mechanism. This loose, free-form feel is supposed to simulate an “air guitar†experience as you play the game.
It takes some getting used to, and if you’ve ever played the other two rock ‘n’ roll games, it takes a lot of getting used to. For me, playing the guitar requires a rigid positioning of my arms as I play the chords and strum the strings. In Guitar Hero and Rock Band, having your arms locked in place helps with the concentration needed to play the right notes; with the AirG peripherals of PopStar Guitar, your arms are loose to move all over the place. Not only is it easy to get distracted, but it doesn’t feel like you’re playing a guitar, which I thought was the whole point. Obviously, players of Guitar Hero and Rock Band know they aren’t real musicians when they’re standing in front of their TV, but part of the fun is imagining you’re Slash, Tony Iommi, or Pete Townshend as you shred the multicolor notes streaming in front of you.
PopStar Guitar includes the number of notes required to play. With only four colored buttons instead of the five the other games use, PopStar Guitar is easier for younger players to learn and gradually master. In fact, it seems geared toward younger players, especially with the song selections. My kids (7 and 9) and their cousins (5, 8, and 10) were thrilled to see some of their favorite acts’ songs available to play along with. But they quickly grew bored and set the game aside in favor of the classic-rock staples found on Rock Band. After about a week they forgot about PopStar Guitar entirely and wanted to go back to the Ramones and Mountain, leaving the Jonas Brothers behind. Eventually I found myself the only one even attempting the game, and when carpal tunnel syndrome in my strumming hand acted up because I overused my thumb on the nunchuk, I gave up.
The graphics and the features of PopStar Guitar come off as rather cheap, especially after you’ve experienced what Rock Band or Guitar Hero has to offer. If you do happen to play PopStar Guitar, you’ll probably go right for the songs and disregard everything else altogether. I feel like it has a huge hurdle to overcome if it wants to remain a player in the rock-game universe. Unless PSG’s makers change their mind and adapt to using the other games’ controllers, I can’t imagine it’ll be around for long.
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Home » cities » MOFA doesn’t apply to MMRDA land: Bombay HC on key legal point raised by flat buyers
December 3, 2020 cities
The Bombay high court has refused to stay the construction of an additional residential-cum commercial wing at Universal Garden-1 at Oshiwara west, observing that the purchasers of flats on land belonging to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) cannot invoke provisions of the Maharashtra Ownership Flats (Regulation of the Promotion of Construction, Sale, Management and Transfer) Act (MOFA), 1963.
The plea was moved by the association of flat purchasers from Oshiwara District Centre (ODC). Justice AK Menon said no relief can be granted to the flat owners’ welfare association and its 97 members by invoking provisions of the 1963 enactment.
“On a plain reading of Section 31, with Schedule-II of the MMRDA Act, it becomes clear that MOFA does not apply to MMRDA or any land or building belonging to or lands vested in the authority,” said justice Menon.
The association and its members have filed a suit against the developer, Pagarani Universal Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd., for a declaration that the developer had no right over any additional floor space index available on the property and cannot put up any additional construction on the property without their consent.
They had moved a plea for urgent interim injunction against the developer for stopping the ongoing construction of an additional wing, a residential-cum commercial building, on the property, after MMRDA issued the commencement certificate for construction of ground plus eight upper floors to the developer.
The association and its members contended that the developer had exploited to the fullest the development potential of the land available at the time, and had no right to construct a new building without their consent. They asserted that the permission granted by MMRDA, allowing the developer to utilise additional FSI, was illegal for being without their consent.
They insisted that MOFA was applicable to their case, as their agreements with the developer referred to several provisions of the 1963 enactment, although the MMRDA Act, 1986, specifically excluded applicability of MOFA to the lands and properties belonging to the authority.
HC refused to accept the argument, holding that the provisions of MOFA, statutorily excluded from applying to MMRDA lands and properties, could not be invoked by the association and its members.
The judge rejected the argument advanced on behalf of the association that the developer was bound by the obligation under MOFA because of the terms of their contract with the developer.
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HC also noted that there were clauses in the agreement, clearly indicating that the consumption of future FSI would not be affected by terms of the agreement and the developer will have an absolute right to additional construction or consume any balance FSI or TDR on the property.
Prima facie, the judge said, these clauses may appear to be contrary to the settled legal position, as contemplated under section 7 of MOFA, that once flat purchasers are put in possession and the time for formation of society is expired, developer cannot exploit the land over and above what is disclosed to the flat purchasers, without their consent.
“These are aspects which would come into play only if provisions of MOFA are applicable,” said justice Menon.
The single judge bench was also of the opinion that perhaps there was no contravention of section 7 of MOFA in this case, as some clauses in flat purchasers agreements with the developer showed that he was constructing wing A and intended to make further construction in future.
“Each of the agreements for sale are said to make reference to buildings that are yet to be constructed,” said the court. “The construction now underway is therefore clearly fitting the description of the further construction that was contemplated in the said annexure which forms part of the agreements for sale,” the judge noted.
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Home » News » Why STEM? The Key to Future Innovation Needs Funding Now
Why STEM? The Key to Future Innovation Needs Funding Now
by Jennifer Correa, Program Officer, The Pinkerton Foundation
On January 22nd, Philanthropy New York hosted a funders briefing, "Learning to Write Code: The New Literacy." During that lively session, we heard from educators, policymakers and funders about the issues and opportunities in computer science education and the tech sector. While all the attention on computers and coding is certainly welcome, it is also important for funders to not lose site of the value of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education as a whole.
STEM education in the out-of-school time is an increasingly important part of The Pinkerton Foundation’s grantmaking efforts. Last year, Pinkerton invested over $4.6 million in STEM programs that range from astronomy to engineering to environmental stewardship. Pinkerton supports career exploration programs for New York City low-income high school students that include mentored research opportunities such as the Science Research Mentoring Program (offering authentic research opportunities for young people at eleven science-based institutions in the city) and STEM-related internships at community-based organizations including the Van Cortlandt Park Conservancy and The New York Hall of Science. We also support initiatives designed to introduce high-quality science and technology activities in after-school programs like TASC’s STEM Academy and PASE’s Taking Root: Strengthening STEM initiatives.
Why STEM? STEM education creates critical thinkers, increases science literacy, and spawns the next generation of innovators. According to a 2012 report by the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, science and technological innovations have accounted for more than half of the United States’ economic growth since the beginning of the 20th Century. And the need for STEM-literate citizens will continue to grow. Future innovation depends on a solid knowledge base in the STEM areas. But today many students – especially minority students and girls – lack interest in science education and STEM careers. Too often students who show proficiency and promise, including minority students and girls, drift away from science and engineering toward other fields.
How can we change this? The obvious answer is to get children excited about learning STEM subjects earlier, to show them the possibilities in a STEM career track. But this is a daunting challenge when many children have less than one hour of science classwork per week. Children in grades one through twelve spend less than one fifth of their waking hours in formal learning environments. Out-of-school time programs are increasingly recognized as a way to effectively engage young people, particularly in STEM. These programs not only help students understand STEM, but also foster lifelong learning by providing role models and important connections between what they learn during the day and real-life settings. The after-school hours have the ability to create “active learning” opportunities where young people can be involved in project-based activities that will enable them to think like – and see themselves – as scientists, mathematicians or engineers.
What can foundations do? Invest in STEM education! A number of foundations are increasing their support in STEM education – and many are not doing it alone. Funding collaboratives like the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund and the STEM Funders Network are developing and underwriting high-impact projects no grantmaker could undertake alone. But there is still more that can be done. We hope you can join us in this effort.
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Home CPSC Hearing on Safety Standard Addressing Blade-Contact Injuries on Table Saws
CPSC Hearing on Safety Standard Addressing Blade-Contact Injuries on Table Saws
Sofie E. Miller
Jacob Yarborough
Download this Testimony (PDF)
Thank you to the Commission for the opportunity to present on the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC’s) proposed performance standards for table saws. We are Sofie E. Miller and Jacob Yarborough of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center.
The Regulatory Studies Center is a non-partisan academic research center focused on improving regulatory policy through research, education, and outreach. The Center is a leading source for applied scholarship on regulatory issues, and provides analyses to the public and regulatory agencies to inform and improve regulatory outcomes. Our remarks today represent only our own views, and do not represent an official position of the Center.
In our time before the Commission we will be discussing three components of the proposed rule for table saws:
the lack of a clear market failure
the effects of the standard on competition
the uncertainty of the benefits that the Commission expects to result from its standard.
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Z. Atan, A.G. Kok, de, N.P. Dellaert, F.B.S.L.P. Janssen, R. Boxel, van
Operations Planning Acc. & Control
We study an assembly system with a number of parallel multistage processes feeding a multistage final assembly process. Each stage has a stochastic throughput time. We assume that the system is controlled by planned leadtimes at each stage. From these planned leadtimes the start and due times of all stages can be derived. If a job finishes at a particular stage and has to wait before the start of the next job(s), a holding cost proportional to the waiting time is incurred. A penalty cost proportional to the lateness is incurred when the last stage of the final assembly process finishes after its due time. The objective is to determine planned leadtimes for each individual stage, such that the expected cost of a customer order is minimized.
We derive the recursive equations for the tardiness and earliness at all stages and an exact expression for the expected cost. We discuss the similarity between these expressions and those for serial inventory systems. Based on this observation and a conjecture related to the generalized Newsvendor equations, we develop an iterative heuristic procedure. Comparison with a numerical optimization method confirms the accuracy of the heuristic. Finally, we discuss an application of the model to a real-life case, showing the added value of a system-wide optimization of planned leadtimes compared to current practice.
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2015.0565
10.1287/msom.2015.0565
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Atan, Z., Kok, de, A. G., Dellaert, N. P., Janssen, F. B. S. L. P., & Boxel, van, R. (2016). Setting planned leadtimes in customer-order-driven assembly systems. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 18(1), 122-140. https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2015.0565
Atan, Z. ; Kok, de, A.G. ; Dellaert, N.P. ; Janssen, F.B.S.L.P. ; Boxel, van, R. / Setting planned leadtimes in customer-order-driven assembly systems. In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 2016 ; Vol. 18, No. 1. pp. 122-140.
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Yon-Hua Tzeng
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College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science
Masters Degrees (Microbiology)
Investigating the presence of microbial pathogens in the Umhlangane River, Durban, South Africa.
Thesis (4.490Mb)
Marie, Veronna.
The use of rivers for recreational and domestic practices makes it imperative to scrutinize the water quality circulating within the surrounding communities. The presence of potential pathogens in the Umhlangane River was monitored at five points (Phoenix industrial: P1; upstream KwaMashu wastewater/residential: P2; natural wetlands: P3; Riverhorse Valley industrial/business estate: P4; and Springfield industrial: P5) on a monthly basis from October 2013 to September 2014. Commonly measured physico-chemical parameters were determined according to standard protocols. Bacterial indicators were enumerated using the membrane filtration technique. A tangential flow filtration process was set up to remove the bacteria and to concentrate the virus populations from 25 ℓ of river water samples. Somatic and F⁺RNA coliphages were enumerated using plaque assays. The virus-like particles (VLPs) were estimated using epifluorescence microscopy and viral morphology was observed using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The potential infectious nature of the concentrated viruses was assessed using cytopathic effect (CPE) of tissue culture. The specific detection of some virus populations was determined by a two round nested-PCR reaction using virus-specific primer sets and confirmed by sequencing. Chemical and biological oxygen demand (COD; BOD) fluctuated at all sampling points and months with BOD ranging from 0.48 mg/ℓ (Riverhorse Valley; April 2014) to 12.4 mg/ℓ (Phoenix industrial; June 2014), respectively. The highest COD content was recorded at the Phoenix industrial site in May with 269 mg/ℓ. The total dissolved solid (TDS) content and electrical conductivity (E.C.) fluctuated throughout all sampling months and points with all measurements exceeding the Department of Water Affairs recommended limits of 0 – 100 mg/ℓ and 0 – 15 mS/m, respectively. High counts of E. coli (EC), total and faecal coliform (TC; FC) and Shigella (SHIG) were recorded at the industrial sites in Phoenix and Springfiled and upstream of the KwaMashu WWTP in Phoenix while the total heterotrophic bacteria (THB) depicted the highest and lowest counts at the Phoenix industrial natural wetland sites ranging from 14.9 x 10⁶ cfu/100mℓ to 1.3 x 10⁶ cfu/100mℓ, respectively. Somatic and F⁺RNA coliphages produced its highest counts at the industrial site in Phoenix ranging from 765 pfu/mℓ and 585 pfu/mℓ in January 2014, respectively. Direct VLP counts were substantially lower (105 vlp/mℓ; April 2014) than the plaques produced by the somatic and F⁺RNA coliphages. Morphological changes of HEK293, Vero and Hep-G2 cell lines were indicative of a positive CPE for viral concentrates. Apart from visualization of bacteriophages belonging to the Siphoviridae, Myoviridae and Podoviridae families, presumptive Picornaviridae, Adenoviridae, Herpesviridae, Coronaviridae, Reoviridae, Polyomaviridae and Orthomyxoviridae VLPs were revealed based on size and comparisons to electron micrographs of known viruses. Adenovirus, polyomavirus, and hepatitis A and C virus-specific nested primers revealed the detection of these waterborne pathogens in the Umhlangane River. Moreover, sequence data confirmed the presence of these virus populations by comparisons made in GenBank. An increase in the amount of chemical pollutants entering the water would allow for the high COD, BOD and changing E.C. and TDS levels. Elevated THB populations at all sampling points and months indicate poor water quality. High EC, TC, FC and SHIG are indicative of possible faecal pollution, which could be attributed to faecal contamination entering the catchment. The presence of these indicators as well as the somatic and F⁺RNA coliphages could be due to anthropogenic activities, changing climatic conditions and the excreta of infected and non-infected individuals entering the river. Viruses or phages in the river water samples are morphologically diverse. Phage diversity further indicates diversity in their bacterial counterparts. The presence of various VLPs revealed by TEM together with substantial CPE on human tissue cell lines and the confirmation of adenoviruses, polyomaviruses as well as hepatitis A and C viruses by molecular detection and sequencing data raise the health concerns of the river system. The present study highlights the importance of routine environmental surveillance of human enteric viruses for a better understanding of the actual burden of these viral infections on those who might be using the water directly without treatment.
Masters Degrees (Microbiology) [91]
The unification of amateur club soccer in Durban, 1980-1997 : a study of integration.
Africa, Ian. (1997)
This study is a micro level case study which in addition to attempting to establish whether integration in sport lends itself to the integration of broader society, documents and analyses the integration experiences of ...
Differences in hourly earnings across Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban.
Mpungose, Sakhile Keith. (2015)
Researchers have long noticed the existence of wage differentials across metropolitan areas and researchers have documented wage differentials across metropolitan areas to be due to differences in the employment and ...
Self-esteem and social distance among adolescents in a minority group, the case of the Zanzibaris in Durban.
Mohamed, Shireen Ahmed. (1998)
The Zanzibaris of Durban constitute the smallest minority in South Africa's ethnically diverse society. The largest cluster of Zanzibaris reside in a predominantly Indian area of Bayview, Chatsworth. Their adolescents ...
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GARBAGE IN
Here’s what we know is wrong with the PPP data
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Imprecise marks
New technology is upending everything in finance, from saving to trading to making payments.
By David Yanofsky
Editor of code, visuals, and data
The US government has finally released data on which companies took money from the government to support payrolls as part of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). It’s a mess. While there is rarely a dataset that doesn’t suffer from some methodological dirtiness, definitional quirks, or collection bias, this data has already become notorious for its failings.
Bad data entry
The data comes from loan applications facilitated by banks. Some banks submitted one application at a time. Others submitted them in bulk. Many clearly were not proofread or validated. For instance, the spelling of city names clearly was not checked.
There are at least 35 different spellings of Chicago in the data, including: CHCAGO, CHIACAGO, CHIACGO, CHIAGO, CHICAAGO, CHICACO, CHICAFO, CHICAG, CHICAGO, CHICAGOI, CHICAGOL, CHICAGOO, CHICAGP, CHICAO, CHICARGO, CHICGAO, CHICSGO, CHIGAGO, CHIOCAGO, and CHOCAGO.
Misspellings of Miami include: MAIAMI, MAIMI, MIAI, MIAM, MIAMI, MIAMIA, MIAMIF, MIAMIM, MIANI, MIANMI, MIMAI, and NIAMI
Misspellings of Dallas include: DALAS, DALASS, DALL, DALLA, DALLAA, DALLAD, DALLASQ, DALLAX, DALLLAS, DALLS, and DALLSA
Even in fields that are easy to validate, errors were made. Some loans that have Zip codes listed have state codes listed as XX. One loan has a zip code in Florida, but has the state code listed as FI instead of FL.
The field for business type contains checkable errors too. Excluding organizations listed as non-profits, there are 2,627 loans to organizations with “LLP” in their names which are not listed as a limited liability partnership under the business type. Similarly there are 21,287 loans to organizations with “LLC” in their names which aren’t listed as a limited liability company.
Then some loan information is just wrong. The loan listed for Ford’s Hometown Services Inc has the company listed at 549 Grove St in Hartford, CT. But that address doesn’t exist. The company’s website says that it’s located 60 miles (100 km) away at 549 Grove St in Worcester, MA.
The Zip code listed for a loan for La Jolla Dentistry in San Diego is 91121, a Zip code that is for Pasadena, California, 110 miles away. The correct Zip code is 92121.
If well known information like cities are misspelled, we can assume that other fields, like the names of companies or the names of banks are misspelled too. Garbage in, garbage out.
The Small Business Administration, which is operating the loan program and released the data did not provide answers to Quartz’s questions about any of the issues we found or provide any substantive comment on our findings.
Bad data translation
It’s clear that some data has been transposed or truncated into the wrong cells. For instance the most common street address for a business receiving a loan is “PO BOX” without a street address or box number. Some fields also have the wrong information in them.
There are 1,182 loans where numeric digits appear in the city field. Some of those are clearly spill overs or duplication from the address field. On 198 loan listings the city field contains an office suite number.
Quartz was able to identify 842 loans where what appears to be a name associated with the loan is listed in the city field. For 781 of those, the loaned amount was less than $150,000 which meant the recipients identity was intended to be withheld by the SBA. This error appears 824 times on loans processed by Bank of America.
A loan listed under Morgan-Keller Inc. says the company is at 70 THOMAS JOHNSON DRIVE in the city of SUITE 200 FREDERICK, MD rather than 70 Thomas Johnson Drive, Suite 200 in the city of Frederick, MD, as their website indicates.
A loan listed under Volta Power Systems LLC has its location listed as SUPERIOR CT in the city of 12550 HOLLAND, MI. On what appears to be the company’s website, a contact address of 12550 Superior Ct. Holland, MI is listed.
For 600 loans the city field contains a five-digit number. For 519 loans, that number matches the listed Zip code. In the loans where those fields don’t match, there are clearly data errors. A loan given to an unnamed business with an address at JFK Airport in New York is listed as being in Michigan. Its zip code is listed as 48851. It’s certainly not a coincidence that the industry code for “Freight Transportation Arrangement” is 488510.
There are 224 loans that don’t have a Zip code listed, 247 without a city listed, and 210 with the state listed as XX. Together, there are 166 loans without all three.
Information on loans made for over $150,000 include the name of the receiving entity. For eight loans, the name of the recipient is missing.
Loan recipients were given the choice whether to provide demographic information. The race and ethnicity field was left blank on 89% of loans. The gender field was blank on 78%. The veteran field was blank on 85%. All three were blank on 76% of the loans. Any analysis of the current dataset to show the share of loans received by race, gender or veteran status will be biased by those who chose to provide that information.
Ambiguous schema
When applicants did provide the race and ethnicity field it wasn’t fully standardized. Both “Hispanic” and “Puerto Rican” appear in the data as do “American Indian or Alaska Native” and “Eskimo & Aleut.”
Retaining more jobs than are likely to exist
Because each loan is coded by industry, it’s easy to compare these figures to other statistics about the industry. In 35 industries, the number of jobs retained is greater than what other official statistics show to be the total number of workers in that industry.
There are many explanations for this. Companies may be wrongly categorized in the loan data. They could be using an out-of-date code as the classification system is updated periodically. Companies might be overstating the number of jobs they’re retaining or using a different definition of what constitutes a job.
Improbable wages
There are a couple of ways money received through PPP loans can be used, but for the loan to be forgiven 60% must be spent on payroll. The amount that is forgiven is proportional to the number of staff a business keeps on in the 10 weeks after receiving the loan.
Of course some businesses may have just wanted the easy, cheap loan rather than the free, strings attached money to say, pay rent. Even still, on at least 9% of loans listed, the implied wages would be less than the federal minimum wage. This is assuming that a borrower received the maximum amount listed in its value range and used the money exclusively to pay the workers it retained over the 10-week period.
There are 209,558 loans where the minimum possible per-person annual payroll is greater than $100,000. PPP loans are only supposed to finance the pro-rated amount of the first $100,000 of a person’s annual wages.
Bloomberg News spoke to to every borrower with a loan listed for more than $1 million but only one job listed as retained. They all told the publication that there were mistakes in the data.
Conspicuous employee counts
The number of employees at an organization is somewhat random. In the loan data though, there are many companies that say the money is to retain a number of jobs evenly divisible by 10 and five.
There are seven loans that have a negative number of “jobs retained.”
192 loans were given to entities labeled as a sole proprietorship that say they are retaining 500 jobs each. Typically, sole proprietorships are used by the self-employed and hire very few, if any, people. The SBA describes them (pdf) as “very small businesses.”
On 61 loans, the business type is listed as self-employed and the jobs retained figure is 500. There are 16 loans to independent contractors that claim to support 500 jobs.
Conspicuous loan amounts
Similar to employee counts the value of loans based on monthly payroll should have random qualities since it’s determined formulaically. Looking at the last digit of the exact loan amounts (which were only given for loans under 150,000) shows that there is again a bias towards numbers evenly divisible by 10. In fact, 94% of the 4.9 million loans under $150,000 end with the digit zero. Just 624 of the 4.9 million loans had values ending in three, four, six, seven, eight, or nine.
Companies that didn’t apply
Should this data be trusted or company statements? A number of companies that are listed as loan recipients are now denying that they applied or received one. Scooter-sharing company Bird is listed as receiving a loan between $5 million and $10 million, but the company says that’s wrong.
A woman in Wisconsin is listed as receiving a loan between $5 million and $10 million, even though she took out a loan for about $9,300.
Restaurant group Benihana says that it applied for a loan but didn’t accept it (paywall). The data show 24 loans made to entities sharing Benihana’s corporate address in Miami. All of them contain “Benihana” in their name.
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Tony Stewart frustrated Bristol got the NASCAR dirt race instead of Eldora
January 14, 2021 by Shane Walters
Track owner Tony Stewart clears up a misconception on why the NASCAR Trucks aren’t coming back to Eldora Speedway in 2021 Tony Stewart went out on a limb and welcomed the traditional asphalt racing series to his dirt track in 2013. The NASCAR Truck Series unloaded for a thrilling show […]
2021 SRX schedule released
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The new short track racing series has released their 2021 schedule SRX will debut in 2021. It’s a new racing series formed by Tony Stewart and Ray Evernham. The series will air all races live on Saturday nights via CBS. View the 2021 SRX schedule below. The Superstar Racing Experience […]
Riley Herbst signs with Stewart-Haas Racing
NASCAR driver jumps ship from Toyota to sign with Ford In 2021, Riley Herbst will move to Stewart-Haas Racing. He’ll pilot the No. 98 Ford Mustang during the 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series season with primary sponsorship from Monster Energy. Between 2018-2020, Herbst ran with Joe Gibbs Racing. Last year, it […]
Superstar Racing Experience adds second track to 2021 schedule
The new short track racing series is taking shape with drivers and tracks In July 2020, Ray Evernham and Tony Stewart teamed up to form the Superstar Racing Experience. The new racing series is set debut in 2021. The cars are designed to take the aerodynamic issues of racing, away. […]
NASCAR, Dirt Racing, Indycar teams take large PPP loans to stay afloat during pandemic (Amount List)
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I’m hoping things will be back to normal someday.”
Nine-year-old Sasha’s reflection in the New York Times echoes sentiments from many students, parents, and educators seeking a return to normalcy during the coronavirus pandemic. With thousands of public and private schools in the U.S. shuttering their doors, many schools transitioned to alternative operations seemingly overnight. “This has pushed us to adapt very quickly, and whether it’s mindset, disposition, or just resources, not everyone has been able to make the switch successfully,” Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Bridget Terry Long commented in a recent interview with The Brookings Institution. How schools and school systems are failing to meet the needs of millions of U.S. students during the pandemic currently dominates conversations in the education sector.
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Ray Povey’s paintings fall roughly into two distinct phases that are nevertheless linked by a sustained engagement with issues of representation, appropriation and the language of painting and its indebtedness to modernism. He has persistently pursued these issues through an exploration of the relationship between the language of film, its tropes, its framing devices including serialization and the formal vocabulary of late modernism.
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More recently the focus of his current work, at first glance, suggested that Povey’s interest is now moving towards the formal and the abstract, but on closer inspection a similar enquiry into the function of representation makes itself apparent. These ‘formal’ paintings reveal themselves to be a play on the tropes and conventions derived from abstraction and rely heavily on the use of the painterly language of modernism.
His approach however bears no resemblance to the cynical and opportunistic appropriation of postmodernism, but stands in line with the age long practice of appropriation as homage and celebration. It gives rise to paintings that are increasingly joyous, free from cant and continue what Habermas sees as the unfinished business of modernity.
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With a background as an award-winning theatre director, John Crowley received critical acclaim and his first awards in film in 2003 with his first feature INTERMISSION, which starred Colin Farrell. He followed this with with BOY A starring Andrew Garfield and Peter Mullan [BAFTA for Best Director in TV Craft Awards].
Other films include IS ANYBODY THERE? starring Michael Caine and BROOKLYN, adapted by Nick Hornby from Colm Toibin’s novel and starring Saoirse Ronan. It won the Best British Film BAFTA 2018 along with three Academy Award nominations.
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Marshall CV506 Goes Trackside to Capture all the Heart Pounding, High Speed Action for Premier Dirt Racing Broadcast Provider, DIRTVision
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DIRTVision, the premier dirt racing broadcast provider, needed a rugged, cost effective camera solution capable of taking viewers trackside to capture all the exciting motor sports action. Marshall Electronics CV506 Miniature Full-HD fit the bill with its premium video quality and small form factor.
DIRTVision is owned by parent company World Racing Group. The company’s largest brand and premier racing series, World of Outlaws, races coast to coast. DIRTVision streams all 155 World of Outlaw races each year. In total, DIRTVision streams 400 dirt races annually. From live coverage to historical races, DIRTVision it is the one-stop-shop for exclusive video and audio events. DIRTVision has been using Marshall cameras as part of its workflow since 2015.
“We had looked at the Marshall CV505 at NAB a few years ago and were immediately impressed,” says Brian Dunlap, director, broadcast services, World Racing Group. “We had the opportunity to see them in action through some of the production companies we work with and were really happy with the results. One of the main factors for us is being able to keep the cameras safe from crashes during races. Once we found a way to further protect them, using a custom aluminum enclosure, it was a no brainer, and we made the purchase. We then transitioned to the company’s 506’s when they were introduced last year.”
Every DIRTVision-covered race features three to four man operated full-size cameras with an additional four or five Marshall CV506 cameras placed around the track and venue. “We set up the 506’s in its custom housings, which also has a screw- on lens filter,” adds Dunlap. “This really keeps the camera protected and we just replace the lens filter, if needed. The cameras move with us from racetrack to racetrack, so it is really helpful that they are so easy to set up. The 506’s size, functionality, ease of use and durability is fantastic. They’ve been great and there really is no reason to consider going with anything else.”
The Marshall CV506 Miniature Full-HD Camera with 3GSDI/HDMI offers performance, flexibility and value in a small form factor. Built around a next generation 2.5-Megapixel, 1/2.86-inch sensor, the CV506 delivers ultra-crisp, clear progressive Full-HD video up to 1920x1080p at 60/59/50fps and interlaced 1920x1080i at 60/59/50fps as well as 720p. The CV506 utilizes full-sized BNC (3G/HDSDI) and HDMI outputs on its rear panel and locking I/O connection for power, control and stereo audio input (embedded on either output). The CV506’s threaded M12 lens mount offers a wide range of prime and varifocal lens options to use for different looks.“The CV506’s low angle closeup shot capabilities is the one shot that really helps us illustrate the true speed of the car over video,” says Dunlap. “Sometimes that's difficult from manned cameras that are at a safe distance away, but when you're able to put Marshall cameras right up next to the cars as they go by, it really portrays that speed.”
The CV506 can capture detailed shots while maintaining an ultra-discreet miniature point-of-view perspective without sacrificing versatility or convenience. Remote adjustment and picture settings commands are delivered via common RS485 (Visca) or OSD menu joystick on locking breakout cable. A wide range of picture adjustment settings are available and adjustable from a distance including paint (red/blue), white balance, exposure, gain control, pedestal (blacks), white clip, gamma, and more.
“Tod and the team at Marshall have been awesome to work with,” adds Dunlap. “When we have had questions or evaluated different workflows, the customer service side of Marshall has been outstanding. Their product knowledge has been great. We couldn’t ask for a better partner to work with. They just get it. It’s so nice to work with not only professional grade cameras and equipment, but great people as well.”
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Oct. 24, 2009 — Winter Park
After hours of sexually assaulting a woman, Jerry Camp told her that he was going to force the police to kill him.
Seminole SO
Camp, 43, drove to his daughter's house and was outside in the driveway when police arrived. Camp had a rifle and did not comply with the deputy's command to drop it.
Deputy David Rennish opened fire, killing Camp. Read more
Four days earlier, six officers shot one person in Sarasota .
Two days later, one officer shot one person in Eustis .
Camp was armed with a firearm. That’s true of almost half the people shot.
Camp told someone that he wanted officers to kill him. That preceded 10 percent of police shootings.
Camp showed signs of mental instability. Almost a third of all shootings involved someone who appeared mentally unstable.
Camp pointed a weapon at officers. Twenty-eight percent of shootings involved people who police say pointed a weapon at them.
2013. WEST PALM BEACH — Daniel Rhodes, 49, had hit his wife and threatened her with a... 1 killed
2011. HIALEAH — Hialeah police got a tip from a confidential source that a 2002 Cadillac Escalade was en route to commit an armed... 2 injured
2009. GAINESVILLE — Shortly before 1 p.m., Nicholous Weeks, 18, was walking through traffic on a busy street, reaching into cars, grabbing... 1 killed
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Court rules on Blac Chyna’s request to dismiss ex’s lawsuit against her
By rolling | September 22, 2020 | 0
Blac Chyna (Photo credit: Bang Media)
Blac Chyna‘s request to have a court dismiss Rob Kardashian’s assault and battery lawsuit against her has been denied.
The “Rob & Chyna” star — whose real name is Angela White — had filed a motion in February asking for the case to be dropped on the grounds she “did not intend to inflict injury on Rob and because she did not, in fact, harm him” but a court has ruled that the lawsuit can continue.
Minutes from a court hearing, the motion, obtained by People magazine, stated: “The Motion for Summary Judgement filed by Angela Renee White on 02/20/2020 is Denied. Defendant’s alternative motion for summary adjudication is DENIED as to both issues.”
Kardashian, 33, and his half-sister Kylie Jenner had filed the lawsuit in 2017, in which the sock designer claimed his former fiancée had tried to choke him with an iPhone cord during a fight in December 2016 at a house owned by the beauty mogul.
Kardashian allegedly suffered injuries to his neck, head and face and claimed Chyna also caused more than $100,000 worth of damage to Jenner’s abode.
In response, Chyna submitted a document of “undisputed” evidence, which she claimed showed Kardashian “did not suffer any cognizable” damage, and “the only ‘harm” he suffered was his devastation at the makeup artist leaving their home with their daughter Dream, who is now 3.
The documents also pointed out that the former couple reconciled several days after the argument and that Kardashian — who went on to drop all but two of the original charges against Chyna — didn’t seek medical treatment or “suffer any loss of earnings.”
Jenner “voluntarily dismissed her claims” in March 2018.
Chyna’s lawyer argued in the motion: “Other than admitted damage to a T.V. set, Chyna did not cause any physical destruction to Kylie Jenner’s home during the alleged ‘assault’.
“Chyna was being her very outgoing, colorful and joking self with Rob, not a fiancée who intended to inflict injuries on her fiancé and the father of her beautiful daughter.”
The former couple split for good in February 2017 and have endured an acrimonious relationship since then.
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A Quick and Dirty Guide to Some of the Best Seattle Trail Running
by Kristin Wuhrman
Taking to the trails at Cougar Mountain Wildland Park
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Seattle is coined as being an original epicenter for ultra-running elites as well as one of the world’s best cities for the everyday trail runner.
“We are a social city with a world-class trail system, including hundreds of miles of trails accessible within 30 minutes of the city,” says Phil Kochik, owner of Seven Hills Running Shop in Seattle. Because of Seattle’s social scene, it makes is easy to find plenty of other people to run with. “It’s like one big extended family and a trail-running clubhouse for all levels of runners,” adds Kochik.
May locals give credit to this extended family-like trail running culture to Scott McCoubrey, who started the now-legendary Seattle Running Company. It became a community that drew people together, including ultrarunning elite and author of Eat and Run, Scott Jurek, who reached the peak of his ultra-running career while living and training in Seattle. “You could grab any runner in Seattle and ask them about Seattle Running Company and they would say that’s where the trail runners go,” Kochik adds.
Local groups and clubs have exploded in the last decade, including Seattle Mountain-Running Group, Seattle Running Club, and women’s specific High Heel Running Group, all offering group runs taking place year-round. “These groups are slam dunks for newer runners to get into the sport,” says Kochik.
Race options have also grown aggressively with varying degrees of distances. “The mix of short and long distance options provide the chance to progress towards longer distances, or it just gives you more chances to run together with friends,” says Kochik. Evergreen Trail Series, Northwest Trail Runs, and Rainshadow Running are getting lots of good buzz and are well attended.
The Issaquah Alps
“Mountain running is big on the Eastside,” says Koachik. Roughly 30 minutes from Seattle, these mountains offer numerous options for routine and intense training, as well as practical convenience for an evening run after work. The Issaquah Alps include the popular Cougar-Squak-Tiger Mountain Corridor, encompassing thousands of acres of forest. With a plethora of singletrack trails, trail runners will find just about everything from merciful bends to fierce climbs never falling short of vast views of the encompassing valleys. Runners can even get creative and spice up their adventure by mixing trails on these three mountains.
Cougar Mountain
- Joe Wolf
Of these mountains, Cougar Mountain is the best mapped and easiest to navigate. This 3,100-acre park is often referred to as the Grand Tour, including 36-miles of lavish trails with mostly moderate climbs. In 2012, Runner’s World magazine named Cougar Mountain among the 25 best places for trail running in the United States.
Squak Mountain
Then comes Squak Mountain, known as the little sister located in middle of the Cougar, Squak, Tiger Mountain threesome. With miles of winding, cushy trails and several loop options, this mossy wilderness also allows for a steep ascent to the top. (2024 feet high) The trails are clean, clearly marked and well maintained. According to Kochik, “Squak is the perfect intermediate trail and lesser used of the threesome.” The Squak Mountain Trail Run , put on by the Evergreen Trail Runs presents a variety of distance options with a special prize they call “Race to the Top”.
Tiger Mountain
- Martin Criminale
Tiger Mountain has great views and is known as Seattle’s favorite loop due to its all season/all weather calendar, offering ample running terrain including over 70 miles of trails and as much elevation gain as you could ever want. There are three summits and each one goes straight up and straight down. Tiger is often used for intervals training due to the epic ascents.
Rattlesnake Ledge
If you head roughly 10 miles east, you will find the four-mile out-and-back trail, Rattlesnake Ledge , a well-loved and popular gem in the eastern Issaquah Alps for both trail running and hiking. With 1160 feet of elevation gain and uninterrupted uphill terrain for two miles, Rattlesnake makes an excellent option for training. Northwest Trail Runs puts on the Rattlesnake Trail Run , which includes a 5-mile, half marathon, and 50K trail option.
Chuckanut Mountain
Just south of Bellingham are the Chuckanut Mountains, where runners will enjoy a jumble of trails on 8,000 acres with views of Mountain Baker and Bellingham Bay. The Bellingham Trail Running Series includes boisterous races, including the historic Chucknanut 50K , which celebrated its 23 rd year in March 2015.
The Chuckanut Ridge Trail, a real mountain trail, broken up into 3 sections, has been a famous contributor to Chuckanut’s stellar views and singletrack sweetness. It’s noteworthy for its motley running conditions, offering almost every style of terrain, as well as wicked ascents and descents. It’s a swift run (roughly 2.5 miles long) and welcomes all levels of runners. However, it will give every runner a natural interval workout due to its quick bursts of ups-and-downs. Be sure to checkout Chuckanut Falls while you are there, as this peaceful trail takes visitors down to the water.
City Trails
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Seattle is lucky to have an abundance of dense, evergreen parks conveniently located right within the city offering trail runners options to get into the woods without leaving their home turf. According to Kochik, “these little gems tucked into big bustling neighborhoods offer various distances, whether you are new to trail running or a veteran looking for maintenance miles.”
Ravenna Park is located just north of Seattle’s University District and offers a nice, short run of 4.5 total miles, including wetlands, forests, and an all-around active community of other like-minded runners.
Discovery Park is a favorite for Seattleites looking for a hearty route, scenic views, and diverse terrain that’s close enough to the city to run any day of the week. Located in the Magnolia neighborhood, Discovery Park has over nine miles of trails with a few options to mix up the distances.
If you live on the Eastside of Seattle, both Bridle Trails State Park and Saint Edward State Park provide remarkably well-maintained trails. Bridle Trails State Park has a total of 28 miles of trails with three main running routes that are relatively flat. All three routes are great options for runners looking to do moderate workouts or recovery runs. If you head a little further north to Saint Edward State Park, you will be greeted with more than seven miles of trails offering scenic and challenging ascending and descending terrain – enjoyable options whether you are looking for shorter pre-workout run to or hours of running to unwind.
Races: Evergreen Trail Series , Northwest Trail Runs , and Rainshadow Running
Groups: Seattle Mountain-Running Group , Seattle Running Club , SRC Meetup , and High Heel Running Group
Retailers: Seven Hills Running Shop , Uphill Running , The Balanced Athlete
Non-profit/volunteer-driven organizations: Washington Trails Association
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The Paranormal
How to use Positive Mantras for Protection from Spells
Craig Hamilton-Parker October 1, 2012 May 5, 2020
Real Spells and Mantras for Psychic Protection
There was a time when just about everyone believed in the power of magic, and particularly in the power of real spells. We need not look far back in our history to read of how the real spells and hexes of witches were held responsible for many of the troubles of society.
A witch would cast her spells under the moon on a Friday night and meet with the devil in a meadow or graveyard. If witchcraft was thought to be the cause of a problem, there were many counter-charms a person could use, such as carrying salt, bread, or spitting over the left shoulder.
During the Middle Ages, the churches denounced witches, and there followed two hundred years of “witch hunts.” The most famous American case took place in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, when a West Indian slave by the name of Tituba scared young girls into fits by her terrifying voodoo stories. The doctors of the town decided that the girls had been bewitched. To protect herself, Tituba began to accuse others of casting real spells. This, in turn, led to other hysterical accusations, resulting in twenty-two people being put to death for casting spells.
Casting Real Spells
It is no wonder that the casting of spells went out of fashion. Today, protection against witchcraft continues in our superstitions. For example, some buildings in the Dutch section of Pennsylvania have painted in the protective color red and bear “hex signs” to frighten away evil spirits, and counterspells against the householders.
The old beliefs persist, but there has also been a renaissance in interest in magic in recent years. Instead of instilling fear, the modern practitioner of Wicca, or paganism, turns to the old religions as an ancient system of influencing the world for the better. They claim that, in the days before the influence of the church, the true practice of witchcraft lay not in the Christian’s devil but in using the power of love to influence the world.
Spell Makers
Today, many people turn to real spells and spell makers to help them achieve their goals. In particular, there is an interest in spells to help us to fall in love, and stay in love. Again, candle burning is used to help cast these spells, but candle-burning also helps the practitioner to focus and relax. Spells are often spoken under the moonlight, as this is a symbol of the illumination of the inner world and the love that spreads from inside us.
The moon is also believed to open the door to intuition and help you learn the secrets of your loved one’s heart. The spells and paraphernalia of Wicca are meaningless in themselves. The most important thing about spells is not their complexity or origin but that they hold a special meaning to you. For a spell to work, there has to be believed.
Designing Spells
A real spell of protection can be taken from tradition, or you can make one up yourself. When casting a spell, it is important to establish the right setting. You may want to use various devices such as candles, gemstones, oils, or some other paraphernalia. Most important, however, are the right intentions and the right state of mind. And, of course, you need to accept that they can work. If all this is in place, then spells can be a powerful way to increase personal protection. They are essentially an inner mental affirmation that can generate its own protective energy.
Tradition says that spells are best performed following the lunar cycle. Spells of “increase,” such as gaining a new job, attracting a lover, or increasing personal power, are done on a waxing moon. Spells of “decrease,” such as to end a financial difficulty or string of bad luck or to remove a negative influence, are best done during the waning moon.
It is said that spells get better with practice and become more effective as you put more of yourself into it. Sometimes protective spells are accompanied by rituals, such as placing crossed needles under the doormat, burning sage, or washing all the windows with vinegar! Spells can also be written on paper, burned and the ashes carried in a spell bottle.
Mantras for Protection
“Chant the Gayatri as often as possible. If you chant it while you take a bath, your bath gets sanctified. Likewise chant it before taking your food. The food becomes an offering to the divine. Develop heartfelt devotion to God.” –Sai Baba
Mystical traditions believe that certain words have the power to transform our soul and can act as a powerful protection from harm. When chanted, these are called a mantra. Mantra is a Sanskrit word with many meanings. Some consider it to be “divine speech.”
They are believed to increase spiritual awareness, heal, and can bring about favorable circumstances for those who chant them. They are ancient formulas recorded by the ancient sages of India.
Vedic Mantras
The oldest mantras, and arguably the most powerful, come from the holy scriptures of India called the Vedas. Nobody knows when they were first created. The teachings were transmitted by oral tradition and are believed to be over 5,000 years old. The historical writer Graham Hancock argues that they may date back 11,000 years, and are relics from the civilizations that thrived just after the last Ice Age. Like an Eastern version of The Legend of Atlantis, the ruins of this lost civilization now lie under the ocean to the south of the Indus Valley, swallowed as the waters rose when the polar ice caps melted.
There are four Vedas: the Rig, Sama, Yajur, and Atharva. Each Veda itself is composed of parts, the Samhita (the mantras in verse), the Brahmana (rituals and liturgy in prose), and the Aranyakas and Upanishads (the philosophical works). It is believed by many that the Vedas are eternal scriptures, “heard” by ancient seers, and collected by them. The Rigveda Samhita contains 1,028 suktas (hymns) with a total of 10,552 mantras (verses) arranged in ten books.
The Gayatri Mantra
Considered by many to be the most ancient and holy of the mantras is the Gayatri mantra. Legend has it that the mantra was rediscovered by a rishi called Vishwamitra, a king who went through many arduous struggles to attain spiritual insight. The mantra, it is said, not only protects the individual but will eventually transform the whole of humanity by bringing enlightenment to all. This mantra is believed to bring great benefit. Its powerful words are charged to keep you to the light and drive away all negativity.
I was moved by it when I first heard it in India, echoing through the temples of the ashram I was visiting. Seated on the dusty ground, I could have been living thousands of years ago when the first avatars walked the earth. One of my friends, traveling with us, was a scholar of Sanskrit and made certain that every word we chanted was exactly correct.
The more perfect the pronunciation, we were told, the greater the benefit the mantra brings, for its sounds correspond directly with the higher vibrations of the spirit. I found it a little difficult, but even incorrect pronunciation brings some benefit. This mantra can be used anytime and, should you feel fearful for any reason, it will generate spiritual light and protection for the soul.
The Enlightenment Mantra
Om Bhur Bhuva Suvah
Om Tat Savithur Varenyam
Dhiyo Yonah Prachodayat
OM BOO BOO-VAH-HAH [extra syllable?] SWAH-HA
OM TAHT SAH-VEE-TOOR VAHR-EHN-YUM
BHAHR-GO DEH-VAHS-YAH DEE-MAH-HEE
DEE-YOH YOHN-AH-HA PRAH-CHOH-DAH-YAHT
The meaning of the mantra:
We meditate on that most adorable, most desirable, and most enchanting luster (effulgence) of our supreme Lord, who is our creator, inspired, and source of eternal Joy. May this light inspire and illumine our intellect (and dispel the darkness).
Breakdown of the meanings of individual words:
Aum: The primeval sound (from which all sounds emerge); Dheemahi: We meditate upon; Varenyam: the most adorable, most desirable or most enchanting; Bhargo: luster or effulgence; Tat: of that; Devasya: supreme (Lord); Savitur: from whom all creations emerge (also means the Sun God who is our life source); Bhur: who is our inspirer; Bhuvah: who is our creator; Suvaha: who is the abode of supreme joy; [Bhur, Bhuvah, and Suvaha are also considered to mean three lokas or worlds namely Heaven, earth and lower worlds]. Yo: May this light; Prachodayaat: inspire/illumine; Naha: our; Dhiyo: intellect (activities of the intellect)]
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UA MAU KE EA: Sovereignty Endures- The Textbook
Ua Mau is a great example of helping understand historical traumatic events and its long-term effects on individuals and society. The book chronicles Hawaii’s history through storytelling, interviews, archival images and Hawaiian-language newspaper articles. It takes the reader on a journey from 18th century Hawai‘i under the rule of King Kamehameha I, through the 19th century of the Hawaiian Kingdom to present day Hawai‘i.
Ua Mau is filled with hundreds of footnotes and references making it an essential tool for researchers and students. The textbook and the documentary were developed to compliment each other as teaching tools for classroom instruction at both the University level and High School.
UA MAU KE EA: Sovereignty Endures- The Textbook quantity
This textbook takes the reader on a journey from eighteenth century Hawai‘i under the rule of King Kamehameha I, through the nineteenth century of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and finally up to present day.
The textbook is packed with hundreds of footnotes and references making it an essential tool for researchers and students alike.
The Textbook and the Historical Documentary were developed to compliment each other as teaching tools for classroom instruction at both the University level and High School.
The Foundation has developed the UA MAU KE EA Collection, this textbook, the historical documentary and a theatrical film version as community educational resources. The Collection is offered as a tool to support community learning for families, students, teachers, pastors, lay people, business professionals, counselors, kamaʻaina, malahini, anyone.
Facing future – Ka Wa Ma Hope – learning from our ancestors, our aliʻi, those of the past who have dealt with adversity and have overcome, provides inspirational examples of positive change today.
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Gap-junctional communication is required for mitotic clonal expansion during adipogenesis
Obesity (Silver Spring). 2007 Mar;15(3):572-82. doi: 10.1038/oby.2007.547.
Takahiro Yanagiya 1 , Atsushi Tanabe, Kikuko Hotta
1 Laboratory for Obesity, Research Group for Disease-Causing Mechanism, SNP Research Center, RIKEN, 1-7-22, Suehiro, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan.
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2007.547
Objective: Gap-junctional communication (GJC) plays critical roles in cell growth and differentiation. Several studies have demonstrated the involvement of GJC in myogenesis and osteogenesis; however, the role of GJC in adipogenesis has not been fully studied. Thus, we investigated the role of GJC in adipogenesis.
Research methods and procedures: 3T3-L1 preadipocytes were differentiated in the presence of gap junction inhibitor, 18-alpha-glycyrrhetinic acid (AGA), and accumulation of cytoplasmic triglycerides was measured. 3T3-L1 cells were transfected with 100 nM small interfering RNA duplexes targeting connexin (Cx) 43. The mRNA levels of CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein (C/EBP) alpha, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma, glucose transporter 4, C/EBPbeta, and Cx43 were measured by real-time polymerase chain reaction. The protein levels of C/EBPbeta were quantitated by Western blotting. The cell proliferation was measured by counting cell numbers, and DNA synthesis was measured by bromodeoxyuridine incorporation.
Results: AGA inhibited adipocyte differentiation dose-dependently. The lipid accumulation and the mRNA levels of C/EBPalpha, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma, and glucose transporter 4 were markedly reduced in AGA-treated adipocytes. The mRNA levels of C/EBPbeta did not decrease; however, C/EBPbeta [liver-enriched transcriptional activator protein (LAP)] expression and the C/EBPbeta (LAP)-to-C/EBP [liver-enriched transcriptional inhibitory protein (LIP)] ratio were reduced by AGA treatment. The increase in both cell number and DNA synthesis, which occurs during mitotic clonal expansion, was reduced by AGA in a dose-dependent fashion. The major component of gap junctions in 3T3-L1 cells was Cx43. Down-regulation of Cx43 using small interfering RNA reduced the expression of C/EBPbeta (LAP) and inhibited adipogenesis.
Discussion: Our data suggest that GJC plays some important roles in adipogenesis through inhibiting mitotic clonal expansion and modulating C/EBPbeta (LAP) expression.
3T3-L1 Cells
Adipocytes / drug effects
Adipocytes / metabolism
Adipogenesis / physiology*
Cell Communication / drug effects
Cell Communication / physiology*
Cell Proliferation*
Connexin 43 / antagonists & inhibitors
Connexin 43 / metabolism
Gap Junctions / drug effects
Gap Junctions / physiology*
Glycyrrhetinic Acid / pharmacology
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Mitosis / drug effects
Mitosis / physiology*
RNA, Small Interfering / pharmacology
Connexin 43
RNA, Small Interfering
Glycyrrhetinic Acid
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BB&T realigns executive digital and operational roles
Press Releases Finance, FinTech, Software, Technology
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Nov. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — BB&T Corporation (NYSE: BBT) today announced Senior Executive Vice President Dontá Wilson has been named chief digital and client experience officer, and Senior Executive Vice President Bennett Bradley will assume leadership of the new Operations Shared Services division.
A member of BB&T’s Executive Management Team since 2016, Wilson, 42, will maintain his current responsibilities for client experience; client insights and analytics; corporate communications; marketing; and sales effectiveness. This new expanded role will include leading digital strategy and transformation, and digital revenue growth and engagement.
“With his more than 20 years of banking experience working with clients, Dontá is perfectly positioned to apply those insights to oversee a holistic approach to the client experience, accelerate BB&T’s digital transformation and drive digital revenue,” said Chairman and CEO Kelly S. King. “With his dynamic leadership, he will help BB&T build a more distinctive client experience, leveraging technology and the best associates in the industry to meet and exceed the needs of our clients.”
Bradley, 57, joined BB&T’s Executive Management Team in 2015 and most recently served as chief digital officer. He will lead the new Operations Shared Services team to drive operational quality, robotics deployment and cost efficiency. This new team brings together the operational teams for Deposits, Lending and Card-based Services under a single leadership structure, along with the Intelligent Automation team.
“Bennett has done a fantastic job developing our digital roadmap and building the foundation for our digital transformation,” King said. “As a proven leader, this new role allows him to bring together several well-performing teams to integrate our automation function and find more opportunities to drive efficiency, innovation and quality. Both Bennett’s and Dontá’s new and expanded responsibilities are critical to BB&T’s long-term success as we continue to adapt, disrupt and transform during this time of tremendous change in our industry.”
Wilson and Bradley will both report to Chief Operating Officer Chris L. Henson and the changes are effective immediately.
About BB&T
BB&T is one of the largest financial services holding companies in the U.S. with $222.9 billion in assets and market capitalization of approximately $37.4 billion as of Sept. 30, 2018. Building on a long tradition of excellence in community banking, BB&T offers a wide range of financial services including retail and commercial banking, investments, insurance, wealth management, asset management, mortgage, corporate banking, capital markets and specialized lending. Based in Winston-Salem, N.C., BB&T operates more than 1,900 financial centers in 15 states and Washington, D.C. and is consistently recognized for outstanding client service by Greenwich Associates for small business and middle market banking. More information about BB&T and its full line of products and services is available at BBT.com.
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Witchy Weekends: The Frog Wish (part 4)
On October 30, 2019 By angeliquejamailIn critique, fairy tales, fantasy, fiction, literature, urban fantasy, Witchy Weekends, women in literature, writing3 Comments
Hello! Sorry this post is a little late, but there were too many holiday festivities over the weekend for me to get this scene into a readable state in time.
So below you’ll find the fourth installment in a new story I’m working on, working title “The Frog Wish.” I hope you’ll read it and give me your opinions on it. It’s best to start with the first scene and work through them in order for them to make the most sense.
Click this link for the first scene.
Click this link for the second scene.
Click this link for the third scene.
“The Frog Wish” (part 4)
The mirror world was cold. Eleanor wasn’t dressed warmly enough in the bum-around t-shirt she’d put on to move furniture. She let her hair out of its ponytail, but that only kept the wind off her neck and shoulders. It was something, but not enough. And she had no idea how long she’d been here because whenever she looked at her watch, the hands just spun around like a drunken compass pointing at everything but the time. And the landscape they gestured to appeared to be a grayscale world of nebulous wooded avenues and the vague sense of the outdoors. She couldn’t see far and didn’t want to go wandering, lest she become lost and unable to return to whatever portal Moira had sent her through. So she sat down in the shelter of a large silver tree and stewed in furious wait for Reginald to show up.
“A frog. How am I even going to recognize him?” He hadn’t looked particularly unusual, as frogs went, the one time she’d seen him in Moira’s shop.
Had that only been this morning?
Yes, she had just been in the shop today, and she remembered Moira had dropped something small and hard into her pocket. Eleanor was still wearing those same loose lounging pants and pulled the item out. It was maybe the size of three acorns tied together and wrapped in black and white ribbons. She unwrapped them and found a dark stone, almost burgundy-brown, covered in alternating bands of different shades of red. It was polished smooth and warm from being close to her body.
“Thank you for not traveling far from this spot,” came a croaky voice off to her left.
Eleanor spun around and saw a large frog staring at her. “Reginald?” she asked, hoping she wasn’t talking to some random frog and also, hearing voices that weren’t there.
“That’s me. Ribbit.” The frog’s tongue whipped from its mouth and licked its own eyeball.
“Moira sent you?”
“Ayup.”
“Did she tell you why she sent me into the mirror world?”
“Is that what you’re calling it? Ribbit.”
“What else am I going to call it?” she asked, more shrilly than she intended. “How did she even put me here? How can I get home?” She lifted the book and the stone. “And what use are these?”
“You have any other questions?” Was it possible for a frog to look even more nonplussed than a frog usually did? If so, Reginald seemed to be attempting it.
Eleanor put her head down on her knees. “This experience has reached the limits of my ability to handle the surreal.”
“That’s okay.” She looked up at him. “I’ll wait until you’re ready to get going.” Reginald’s tongue flicked out again and caught something Eleanor couldn’t even see.
“Are you going to take me home?”
“Nope. Ribbit.”
“I want to talk to Moira.”
“I don’t have a phone, so you’re going to have to wait until you get back to the other side.”
“How the hell am I supposed to do that??”
“Ribbit.”
Eleanor put her face in her hands and screamed. When she looked back up, Reginald was still sitting there, looking as calm as any frog she’d ever seen. Which is to say, just like all frogs. Frogs which sat on the edges of ponds, and under hedges near the sidewalk after a rain, and occasionally in the woods Eleanor had visited when she was a child and her family got out of the city for a couple of days. Frogs which could not, as far as she had ever known, do anything at all to be helpful other than eat mosquitoes.
Finally she got up and dusted off whatever black dirt might have gotten on the back of her pants. She held out the stone toward Reginald.
“What is this rock?” she asked. “Can you identify it?”
He twisted his eyes slightly. “Looks like a tiger’s eye.”
A stone of protection. Okay, best not to lose that. She stuffed it back into her pocket and wrapped the ribbons into a loop and put them in there, too. She held up the fairy tale book.
“And this? Why did Moira think I need this here with me?”
“Don’t you like to read? Ribbit.”
She took a deep breath to avoid shouting at him. He was just a frog, after all. What did he know from books?
“How long am I going to be stuck here?” Moira had made it seem like it might be a while, if she was planning to take care of Eleanor’s house while she was gone.
And what about her client meetings next week?
And what about food? She was starting to feel hungry. So far she hadn’t seen anything in the twenty-foot radius she’d explored that might be edible.
“And what time is it, anyway? Do you know?”
Reginald’s eyes swiveled up at what passed for sky here: a dense canopy of metallic looking leaves. He looked back at her. “Night.”
She closed her eyes and took a slow, deep breath. Then let it out. Then took another, and slowly let it out. After her third cleansing breath, she could speak in a calmer tone of voice.
“What am I supposed to do here?”
“My guess is go on a quest. Ribbit.”
“And are you going to help me with that?” Why else would Moira have sent him?
“I could. I know a pretty terrific spot not far from here where people sometimes visit.”
She wondered what people, and whether Moira had shoved them through their own mirrors, too.
“All right then.” She bent down, then untied and retied her shoelaces a little more securely. When she stood up, she made her t-shirt as presentable as she could. She put her hair back into its ponytail then thought better of it; it was still pretty cold here. She looked down at Reginald. “Lead the way.”
“Ribbit.” He turned around and hopped off, pretty fast for a little guy. She had to jog after him to keep up.
Thank you for reading! In the comments, I welcome your feedback:
* What did you like?
* What confused you, if anything?
* What needs work?
* What are you most interested about?
* What do you think will happen next?
The Witchy Weekends series is finished for another eleven months, but if you’re interested in reading more of Eleanor’s story, please do let me know! I hope you’ve enjoyed this little experiment of mine; tell me what you thought in the comments below.
Want to read more of my writing that’s already finished and published? Click here for poetry, click here for urban fantasy, and click here for realistic flash fiction. You can also buy my books in Houston at Blue Willow Bookshop!
Monday Earworm: Chris de Burgh
On October 28, 2019 October 25, 2019 By angeliquejamailIn Chris de Burgh, Monday earworm, music, teachingLeave a comment
I was reminded of this song recently when we were discussing the Marie riddle, a moral dilemma from Donald Hall’s extremely dated piece “Argument and Persuasion.” The discussion was interesting, though, mostly because it exposed the societal prejudices my tenth graders have either absorbed or already, wisely, discarded.
This video used to be in frequent rotation in the early days of MTV, when I was glued to any screen playing that channel (much to my mother’s extreme consternation). How many of you remember this one?
Witchy Weekends: (Still Under Construction)
On October 27, 2019 By angeliquejamailIn Witchy Weekends, writingLeave a comment
Hey there. If you’ve been following my new story “The Frog Wish” here on the blog, you’ll note that I haven’t yet posted this weekend’s scene. That’s because I’m still working on it and don’t feel like it’s really ready yet for an audience. It will be posted before Witchy Season is over, however, so just stay tuned…
If you want to catch up on the first three installments, here they are:
Monday Earworm: Old 97’s
On October 21, 2019 By angeliquejamailIn Monday earworm, music, Old 97'sLeave a comment
Oh, the angst. I feel ya.
On October 19, 2019 October 31, 2019 By angeliquejamailIn critique, fairy tales, fantasy, fiction, literature, urban fantasy, Witchy Weekends, women in literature, writing5 Comments
Here’s the third installment of my newest story, working title “The Frog Wish.” I hope you’ll read it and give me your opinions on it. It’s best to start with the first scene and work through them in order for them to make the most sense.
And here’s the third one. Enjoy!
Moira whistled low when Eleanor told her she’d spent over twelve hundred dollars on a few new pieces of furniture for her bedroom. “I’m sure it’s a fair price for everything,” she said, but Eleanor knew she was thinking it was just a whole lot of money. “Would you like some help getting everything settled in?”
Eleanor would. Moira arrived a little after six, as soon as she closed up her shop. The delivery men had been gone only about fifteen minutes, and as soon as she let Moira in, Eleanor sprawled out on the floor with a cold bottle of water sluicing condensation onto her forehead.
“The bed is actually already put together,” Eleanor explained. “I got the supporting slats after I left the antiques shop and made it home just in time. But there aren’t any sheets on it yet, and the bureau is empty.” She sat up. “And there’s the matter of the mirror.”
“What mirror?” Moira asked, lifting the tapestry satchel off her shoulder and making herself comfortable on the sofa.
“I bought an enormous mirror. I don’t even know why.”
“You like mirrors. This one must have felt special to you.”
Eleanor took the water bottle off her face and turned to Moira. “Look around you at all the mirrors in this house.”
There were maybe a dozen scattered around the walls in the living room, the hallway, even the kitchen. And all of them were smaller than eight inches in diameter, some of them so decorated by their frames that they weren’t even useful as looking glasses. Eleanor loved mirrors, but she didn’t really use them.
Moira shrugged. “This isn’t the first time I’ve been inside your house. What’s so special about this?”
Eleanor sighed. “The mirror I bought is…large.”
Moira grinned. “Maybe you’ll be able to check your outfit properly before you leave the house each morning.”
Eleanor flipped her half-empty water bottle at her, but she wasn’t really annoyed. Moira caught the bottle and laughed.
“Yeah, that’s fair,” Eleanor said and heaved herself to standing. “Come on, I’ll show you.”
“Just a minute,” Moira said, rummaging in her satchel. She pulled out a gift-wrapped rectangle and handed it to her. “Here, have a house-reclaiming gift.”
“What is this?” Eleanor asked, eagerly sliding a fingernail under the edge of the wrapping paper.
“A book,” Moira said, although that was obvious from its shape.
The paper shed, Eleanor held a heavy volume of Grimms’ original fairy tales. She fingered the gilt edges of the pages and ran her palm down the thick spine, searching for something to say. She flipped through some of the pages.
“These illustrations are beautiful,” she said.
Moira smiled. “I thought you’d like them, since you love the art in my tarot cards so much.”
Eleanor only nodded slightly, keeping her eyes fixed on the book. She didn’t want to risk another reading tonight.
“This isn’t a full set of their stories, of course––there are hundreds of them––but all the usual suspects are in there, all the stories that most of us grew up with.”
“It’s really nice,” Eleanor said. “But, Moira…”
“Yes…?” She was still smiling, although Eleanor felt a little awkward.
“Isn’t this––I mean, aren’t I a little old for fairy tales?”
Moira sighed, but her cheerfulness didn’t fade. “Actually, my dear, that is the problem.”
“I don’t understand.”
Moira shrugged. “No matter. Let’s go see the new furniture.”
When Eleanor opened the door to her bedroom, everything felt strange and cold. Unlived-in. It actually felt like she really had just moved in.
Moira stepped over the threshold and let out a long, slow breath. “You really are reclaiming this space,” she murmured, her voice a mixture of admiration and awe.
“I suppose.” Eleanor sniffed. “It’s a lot of work––”
“Everything worth doing is,” Moira said, swiveling to catch Eleanor’s eyes. “Don’t be afraid of it. Even the upheaval can be an act of creation.”
That sounded like another one of those strange things Moira sometimes said that probably meant more than it Eleanor thought it did at first and which maybe felt a little confusing. Eleanor felt a sudden shift in her core that suggested she would understand it better later, whether she wanted to or not. She shuddered involuntarily.
Moira cocked her head. “Something the matter?”
“Just a chill down my spine,” Eleanor said.
Moira smiled and ventured farther into the room. As she inspected the carvings on the bedframe and the multitude of drawers and cabinets and hiding spaces on the bureau, her mood grew giddy. “You’ve made some beautiful choices,” she said.
Eleanor sighed and noticed a tightness in her chest. It didn’t feel like she had made amazing choices lately. A sudden powerful impulse to sit down and just have a good cry came over her. She didn’t want to, but she found herself plopping down in the middle of the floor, the fairy tale book in her lap, and leaning her face into her hands. Then Moira’s arm was around her shoulders, her head resting on top of Eleanor’s, and the world stopped spinning out of control. Eleanor sighed and lifted her face. Moira smelled like cinnamon and cocoa, one of Eleanor’s favorite combinations.
“Okay,” she said, dredging up a renewed sense of energy. “Come see this mirror and then let’s get some dinner.” They stood.
“Do you want a reading first?” Moira asked, opening her satchel again. “I brought your favorite deck.”
“I don’t think so but thank you.” She wasn’t sure she wanted to see what the cards had to say this time.
Moira opened her mouth but then just shook her head. Eleanor almost asked what she’d been about to say, but she knew if it was important to Moira she’d say it later over a roasted eggplant and spinach salad.
“Here we go,” Eleanor said as they stood in front of the new mirror. It took up most of the wall between the closet and the bathroom. The cloudy white streaks running down the entire surface distorted the image of the bedroom and of the two women standing in it. Moira cocked her head to the side again and flipped her long braids behind her shoulders. Her green sweater and broomstick skirt appeared to be one long dress. Eleanor’s unkempt ponytail looked even messier.
“Ah, I see,” Moira said.
That sounded enigmatic. “What do you see?”
Moira looked at her, a small smile pinching her lips, then went over to where they’d been sitting and picked up the Grimms volume. She came back and handed it to Eleanor.
“What’s this about?” Moira was acting more strangely silent than usual. She patted Eleanor’s pocket, the one she’d slipped the ribbon-wrapped something into earlier that day. Eleanor had forgotten all about it.
Moira smiled. “Don’t lose that,” she said. Eleanor reached into her pocket to take it out and see what it was, but Moira stopped her. “Not yet,” she cautioned. Then she positioned Eleanor squarely in the center of the mirror and stepped away. “Don’t move.”
Eleanor felt a strange compulsion not to, but she asked, “Why not?”
Moira reached inside her satchel. Out of the corner of Eleanor’s eye, she thought she could see a small vial, which Moira emptied into the palm of her hand.
“Do you trust me, Eleanor?”
Of course she did. Even when she wasn’t sure it was the best course of action. “You know the answer to that.”
Moira nodded, then stepped forward and kissed Eleanor gently on the cheek. “You’re going to be okay.” She stepped back out of the mirror range again.
“I appreciate the vote of confidence, but what––”
Then Moira blew whatever was in her hand into Eleanor’s face. She coughed in a haze of something glittery and sweet. This was getting a little theatrical, even for Moira.
“What was th––”
Then the floor trembled beneath her and she stumbled. The lights flickered. She dropped the book but caught it before it could land; for some reason, that seemed important. When she straightened up again and rubbed her eyes, she opened them onto a silvery landscape. She spun around.
“Moira? What was––”
She expected to see her bedroom, and she did, but it was a narrow view framed by the same beveled edge as the mirror. Long jagged streaks of cloudy white interrupted the view. Moira stood exactly opposite her, in the bedroom. But Eleanor wasn’t there with her.
She looked at her surroundings. They were both familiar and strange. “What the hell did you do, Moira?” She heard her voice growing impatient and felt her throat constricting. “What sort of hallucination is this?”
Moira shook her head gently. “It’s not a hallucination. And you’re going to be fine.”
“Don’t panic, love. I’ll take care of your house while you’re gone and be right here when you get back.”
“Back from where?” She gestured angrily around her. “Where on earth am I?”
“It’s all good, Eleanor. I’ll send Reginald to help you.”
“What? Your frog?? Are you out of you mind?” Eleanor felt like she was maybe out of her own.
Moira smiled. “Just sit tight. He’ll find you if you aren’t too far from this spot. It won’t take long.” She blew her a kiss then waved good-bye. When she stepped out of view, Eleanor’s bedroom looked unfamiliar and uninviting. Then the lights dimmed and she heard the door close.
She sat down heavily onto the silvery ground, trying to make sense of where she was and what had happened. But there was no way she could. Nothing in her reality could possibly prepare her for the possibility of entering a mirror world.
She pushed her hand into the streaky view of her bedroom, but she couldn’t press past the glass.
“I don’t believe this,” she murmured. She put her face back in her hands and waited for the sense of upheaval, the spinning and cold sweat, to subside.
When she got back to where she was supposed to be, she and Moira were going to have words.
Click here for the next installment in the story!
Monday Earworm: Talking Heads
On October 14, 2019 October 13, 2019 By angeliquejamailIn Monday earworm, music, Talking Heads, teaching2 Comments
I signed up for an hour-long webinar on self-care for teachers back in August. I knew I wouldn’t be able to attend when it was live because I had a meeting to be in. But that was okay; I could have a link to watch it later once it had aired.
I got the link. It has been two months, and I still haven’t watched it, because teaching (including lesson planning and grading and a couple of new curricula) has kept me so busy for the last two months that I haven’t had an hour of free prep time to sit and watch it.
I’m almost done grading and am more than halfway finished with comments for my report cards. This is good news, since they’re due Thursday. I’m pretty far behind on my revision deadline for my next book — which is part of the Animal Affinities series, by the way, the first book of which was Finis. — but I’ll get there. And afterward, I’m hoping to have the chance to sit and watch that webinar.
In the meantime, do enjoy this song.
Hello again! As you already know if you’ve been reading this blog for longer than a week, I’m doing something a little different for this year’s Witchy Weekends series. Instead of sharing movies or books or music with you, I’m sharing with you a story I’m writing, a work-in-progress. (I’ve already written quite a bit of it, but not every last thing yet.) This is a bit of an experiment for me, but I hope you’ll enjoy it.
Here’s the plan: each weekend this month I’ll share a scene with you from this WIP (in which one of the characters is a witch), and you, dear reader, get to share with me your reaction to it. That’s right, I’m crowdsourcing a beta-read. I’ve never done this before, so I don’t really know what to expect — though you all are a very nice bunch, so I’m not expecting you to be rude. 🙂
Click here to read the first scene. (And I recommend you read the scenes in order for the story to make the most sense.)
Feel free to post in the comments what you think of the scene, any aspect of it, and what you think is going to happen next in the story. I’d love to know!
The antiques store, a peeling pier-and-beam house in the unzoned Montrose area, was nothing if not old. But then all the vintage and antique shops lining this street were. It was like two blocks living in the past amidst some conspicuously hip restaurants and the artsy residential section of town. Eleanor climbed the noisy wooden steps to the front porch and opened the screen door. The oak door, whose red paint had faded to a morose coral, was propped open and blocked her view of what had probably been a dining room in the 1930s.
“Hello?” she called down a hallway lined with ornate wooden furniture. The living room to her left contained several sideboards and secretary desks, as well as some framed prints she thought might have dated back to the forties. She glanced around the oak door: the dining room was filled with small tables and their chairs. She heard a scuffling coming from the depths of the house, someone’s boots shifting on the wooden floors.
“I’ll be there in a sec,” a voice called out from the labyrinth of dressers and bedframes and curio cabinets and chairs and vanities Eleanor knew the house contained. All of these antique shops were alike––too many pieces of old furniture wedged into rooms barely big enough to hold both the merchandise and a passel of customers.
“I’ll come to you,” Eleanor answered and picked her away through the hallway to the next open space. Openish. At least the merchandise seemed to be in good shape. Other than a thin layer of dust on some of the taller pieces and the persistent aroma of incipient mildew germane to pretty much every place like this on the Gulf Coast that didn’t have central air and heat, the proprietor seemed to have a good handle on how to take care of the antiques. That encouraged her.
The shop owner came into view, navigating a row of end tables. He was an older man, probably approaching sixty, in a dark green t-shirt and blue jeans. He saw Eleanor and waved.
“Hey there.” His subtle twang suggested she was dealing with a born-and-raised. “I’m guessing you’re Ms. Richardsen.”
“I am,” she said, walking toward him with hand outstretched. He shook it. “Call me Eleanor.”
“Righty then.” He looked around. “I’m Joe. I just got some new dressers in last week, so the shop is a little bursting. But the––you were looking for bedframes?––I have some nice ones, about a hundred years old, from upstate New York.” He waved her toward the next room. “Rich mahogany stain, some lovely carvings.”
She needed a new bedframe because Lucas had taken theirs when he left. She’d bought a new mattress and box springs and metal frame on casters the same afternoon, because where else was she going to sleep? Moira had offered her the guest room at her house for as long as she needed, but Eleanor was determined to make her own space as quickly as she could.
It didn’t help that Lucas was Moira’s cousin and might show up there, looking for either company or commiseration or spells. Moira was staying totally neutral with her uncanny ability not to take sides. Maybe all the meditation kept her centered? Eleanor had no idea.
“How about this one?” Joe moved an umbrella stand made from a tree trunk off to the side and wiped a chamois cloth across the top of a queen-sized headboard peaked with an elaborately carved medallion. The image looked familiar, somehow, a triple spiral curling in on itself. It was pretty, but she didn’t know where she’d seen it before. The stain on the wood highlighted its grain pattern; the diagonal patterns on either side of the midline created an oppositional symmetry she found pleasing.
“I love it,” she said without thinking. She should have shown a little more hesitation to get the best price. Too late now, though. “Matching footboard?”
Joe nodded. It was propped up behind the headboard for some reason. “The side rails are solid and strong, no warping or chips at all, but you’ll need to add your own slats to hold the mattress and box.” He sniffed and scratched his scalp. “Probably four good two-by-fours oughtta do it, but get six if you want extra stability.”
For what? she thought sullenly but just nodded her head. She knew the enthusiasm in her eyes had dimmed. “How much?”
He leaned his head from side to side. “Six hundred, but we can work something out if you buy anything else.”
“Like what?” she asked. “Does this bed come with any matching pieces?” Lucas had taken the dresser, too, but she didn’t care as much about that. He was into Scandinavian “clean lines,” which she found utterly lacking in character.
“Course it does.” He smiled and led her toward a cluster of bureaus. “This is part of the same set.” His chamois wiped the top of an imposing cabinet almost as tall as she was. It had numerous large drawers and matching cabinet doors on the sides. The legs were carved in a style she didn’t see often. Every detail, down to the carved horn knobs, was thoughtful and deliberate. The top of the piece lifted with a trap door to reveal a modest storage space––she imagined it filled with gloves and the occasional decorative fan, maybe an embroidered handkerchief––and a place for a mirror, which was missing. That didn’t bother her, though. The bureau was gorgeous and in good shape.
“This is becoming an expensive appointment,” Eleanor said, injecting a note of caution into her voice.
“It’s solid stuff. You won’t find this design anywhere else in Houston.”
That much was true. She hadn’t seen anything else like these in all her years of collecting.
“Take both pieces, we’ll call it nine-fifty.”
“That bureau is missing its mirror.”
Joe grinned. “I got plenty of mirrors here.”
Eleanor sighed. She was going to buy this furniture, she already knew it. She didn’t even really mind how much this was costing her; she’d prepared for that when she’d decided to furnish her bedroom with antiques––to remake her own space in her own image, as it were––and these were fair prices for the value.
She backed away from the bureau section and followed Joe toward a room filled with glass. A single chandelier in the middle of the ceiling was reflected in thirty or forty mirrors lining the walls, so even though it had just a few warm bulbs in it, the room was the brightest in the shop so far. The selection was overwhelming. She could understand why this room was so far back in the labyrinth; in the front room it might scare customers off.
She turned around in a circle under the chandelier, trying to absorb all the different mirrors. Seeing herself reflected in so many distortions and angles made her a little dizzy, so she avoiding looking at that; she focused on the bevels and frames and occasional imperfections in the surfaces. Then another piece, framed in dark wood and standing so tall it nearly grazed the ceiling, caught her eye.
“I really like this one,” Eleanor said, pointing to the large mirror in the corner. It was propped up against the wall with a chiffonier in front of it, obscuring its bottom half.
“That one? Really?” Joe asked.
Eleanor looked at him, a little surprised by his hesitation. “Is something wrong with it?”
Joe shifted his weight and put his hands in his pockets before answering, as if he wasn’t sure how to explain to her what ought to be incredibly obvious. “Well, it’s just got all these water spots on it, so you can hardly see anything clear. We even tried Windexing the thing, but that’s as clean as it gets.”
“It’s not so bad.”
He looked at her skeptically, as if she weren’t looking at the same mirror he was. This mirror had long jagged streaks of frosted imperfection ripping its smooth surface from the top of the carved frame to the bottom beveled edge.
“I think it was in a fire or something,” he offered.
“The frame is marvelous, though, don’t you think?” She wasn’t sure why she was defending this piece, since she was pretty sure she could talk down the price if he didn’t expect the mirror could be sold.
“Well, yeah, it’s all right––but I’ve got a similar frame, in a smaller scale, over on this other mirror over here…” His voice trailed off as he made his way toward one hanging on a wall. It was an oval about a foot wide. The price tag was just about the same as on the one Eleanor had picked out, but her mirror couldn’t have been smaller than four feet by seven.
She looked at Joe over her nose as if amused. “There’s hardly a comparison.”
“But the glass on this one is perfect––you can’t hardly even see through the other one. It’s been here forever.”
She pretended to consider this point; she never really looked into mirrors much, anyway, but she loved having them around. The imperfections wouldn’t bother her at all. She walked carefully back over to her choice.
“You’re right, this one is quite flawed,” she said. “Perhaps you could lower the price on it? I mean, if you aren’t selling it otherwise, I could take it off your hands. Especially if I’m taking those other two pieces.”
The dealer looked like he was thinking about her offer, then said, “Ten percent off.”
She chuckled, ha! “How about twenty?”
“No, fifteen.”
“Sold if you’ll deliver all of it to my house for free. I’m just in the neighborhood here.”
“Yeah…okay. I can have someone bring it around this afternoon.”
“Done,” she said cheerfully, shaking Joe’s hand and then reaching into her purse for her wallet.
Monday Earworm: Oingo Boingo (Because October)
On October 7, 2019 October 12, 2019 By angeliquejamailIn Danny Elfman, Monday earworm, music, October, Oingo BoingoLeave a comment
Sometimes I wonder what it must be like inside Danny Elfman’s head.
Happy October. I’m keeping this short because I have papers to grade and report card comments to write.
If you like this song — and this live version is pretty darn good — seek out the album version, which is marvelous and rich and resonant.
On October 4, 2019 October 19, 2019 By angeliquejamailIn critique, fairy tales, fantasy, fiction, literature, urban fantasy, Witchy Weekends, women in literature, writing11 Comments
Welcome to October again! This year, I’m doing something a little different for my Witchy Weekends series. Instead of sharing movies or books or music with you, I’m sharing with you a story. A story I’m writing, a work-in-progress. (I’ve already written quite a bit of it, but not every last thing yet.) This is a bit of an experiment for me, but I hope you’ll enjoy it.
Eleanor couldn’t stop staring at the frog. A large creature, larger than the palm of her hand, it watched her as she circled the table, following her with its eyes and even turning a little to keep her in its line of sight. Maybe it was aware she was wondering about it? The thought made her a little uncomfortable. In her world, frogs were supposed to be garden animals. They did not possess the intelligence to be inquisitive about people. This one almost reminded her of Lucas, the way he had watched her sometimes from across the room, cocking his head slightly when she did something a little bit interesting. She circled around the table, and the frog’s eyes moved with her in an articulated curve, watching her until she stood behind him.
The frog lifted itself off its haunches and turned around, squatting once more, looking at Eleanor again. It made a little croak.
All the old stories of princes being turned into frogs by witches flooded her imagination. What would it feel like to kiss one? Slimy, no doubt… What would ever possess someone to try it? She looked over at Moira, measuring dried lavender buds carefully into a plastic bag for a customer.
“Now be sure to sprinkle those in the bath while the warm water is running,” she was saying. “And say the charm I gave you at the same time.”
The customer nodded her head. “Right. And I have to focus on myself only, not on anyone else.”
“You wouldn’t want to be unethical,” Moira smiled. She tossed a long braid over her shoulder. “Bad for your karma that way.”
“Got it. Thank you so much!” the customer called as she left the shop.
Moira looked back at Eleanor and grinned. “Some of them are so easy to please,” she said. “Just a few herbs and a decent meditation, and they think I’ve changed their lives.”
Eleanor looked at her friend more carefully, then glanced down at the frog, who’d just let loose a croak worthy of a blue ribbon. It blinked its moist eyes at her then looked away.
“This one of yours?” Eleanor asked, pointing to it.
“Who, Reginald?” Moira laughed. “He’s like a pet.”
Eleanor couldn’t believe she was about to ask it, but–– “Did you make him…?”
“Did I turn him into a frog, you mean?” The amused grin on her face tried hard not to look condescending.
Eleanor felt stupid now even for thinking something like that.
“No,” Moira laughed. “I found him that way. The Goddess has to take credit for that one.”
Eleanor sheepishly turned away from the frog, who croaked again, and followed Moira into the book room for tea and a cozy seat on the sofa.
The book room was Eleanor’s favorite spot in the entire shop. Oh, she liked the garden well enough, and the alcove filled with crystals and jewelry; the shelves lined with large glass jars full of powders and dried herbs fascinated her. But the book room, with its floor-to-ceiling rows of spellbooks, memoirs, meditation primers, and tarot decks, was absolutely the spot to be. Moira had set up a couple of Queen Anne wingback chairs (that might have been worth some real money if she’d reupholstered them) in the corners and a velvet divan under the window, and Eleanor often came in here to read or admire the art on the tarot cards. When things were slow, she and Moira would sit together for a cup of oolong or chai and pretend the world wasn’t a madly spinning maelstrom of nonsense.
Moira pointed to a small wooden box inlaid with mother-of-pearl on the coffee table. “A new deck arrived this week. I thought you might enjoy it.” She crossed the room to pour the tea.
Eleanor lifted the lid and drew back a dark blue silk cloth covering the cards. An intricate image stared up at her, a wildly overlapping pattern of jewel colors and shapes she couldn’t quite identify, and when she tried to impose some order onto it, the image seemed to shift back into chaos. An optical illusion, she thought. Clever. She flipped the first card over and saw The Fool, cheerfully traipsing down a haphazard path. Nothing she hadn’t seen before, even if the art was vibrant and appealing. She lifted the rest of the deck out of the box and sifted through it. The Major Arcana were gorgeous but easily recognizable, even without glancing at their titles or numbers.
Moira brought two teacups over and sat down. The scent of cinnamon and vanilla permeated the room.
“I still haven’t figured out how you manage such perfect foam without a latte machine,” Eleanor said.
Moira wrinkled her nose in a cute smile and sipped, then said, “What do you think of the new cards?”
“They’re lovely. Have you used them yet?”
“Just some idle browsing.” Moira set down her tea. “Would you like a reading?”
Eleanor glanced at her watch. She still had half an hour before her appointment with the antiques dealer. “Maybe a quick one.”
“Go ahead and shuffle them then,” Moira said and spread the silk cloth across the table. After Eleanor handed the cards back, Moira laid out three in a row, face-down. She turned the middle one over. “The Empress.” She gave Eleanor a sly smile. “Where have we seen this before?”
Eleanor dismissed it. “Yes, yes, you’re very optimistic about my ability to effect control over my own life blah blah blah.” She drank more of her tea.
Moira shook her head. “Not with that attitude, I’m not.”
Moira sighed. “In your past…” She flipped over the left-most card. “You have the five of cups.”
Also no surprise. Neither of them said anything, because neither of them wanted to argue about Lucas. Not again. Eleanor looked at the figure on the card mourning the spilled wine and ignoring the full chalices just out of reach. Moira gazed at it, too, but rather than say anything, she buried her face in her teacup.
After a moment, Eleanor cleared her throat. “Go ahead,” she murmured. “Show me the future.” As if a deck of cards could do such a thing.
Moira flipped over the last card. Death. The card that meant not actual death, but change. Big change. The kind of change no one could help you with or see you through. The kind of change you had to deal with alone.
“Well.” Eleanor took another sip then placed her teacup down as quietly as she could. “I suppose that’s good news, then, isn’t it?”
Moira looked up at her and crooked an eyebrow.
“I mean, right now, almost any change has got to be good. Hasn’t it?”
Moira laughed then, and the tension in the room crackled into a broken web. “We can do a longer reading later, if you like.” She gathered the deck into her hands and began idly shuffling them.
Eleanor shrugged. “I don’t know. I’m not sure I believe in all this stuff.”
Moira paused and gave her a skeptical look. “That would explain why I’ve done more readings for you than anyone else in the last fifteen years. Combined.”
Eleanor opened her mouth to speak but found she had no clever response, so she downed the last of her tea instead. “I need to go anyway. Work beckons.”
The wind chimes in the front room signaled a customer had come into the shop. “So it does,” Moira said and took both teacups back to the tiny closet she’d turned into a snack station.
Eleanor wrapped the cards carefully back in their cloth and returned them to the box, closed the lid. “I’ll call you later,” she said. Moira nodded and they both walked into the front room, where a skittery young man was looking through a small box of watercolor greeting cards.
“I’m looking for a gift,” he said before Moira could even ask.
She nodded. “I know just the thing.”
This caught him off-guard. “You do? But I haven’t told––”
Moira shook her head gently. “No need.” She smiled, and he suddenly stopped fidgeting.
“Oh,” he said, looking a little confused. “Oh.”
“I’ll show you.” Moira gestured to the garden just beyond the open back patio door. He nodded and stepped toward it.
Moira patted Eleanor on the shoulder and slipped something into her pocket. “Call me later,” she said and walked back toward her customer.
Eleanor felt a small hard something wrapped in ribbon next to her car key. “Will do,” she said and headed out the front door to a meeting that would be far more straightforward than this visit had been.
A single croak stopped her progress halfway over the threshold. She turned and saw the frog again, perched on the desk, watching her. She resisted the urge to tell it good-bye. It was a frog.
Croak.
Eleanor paused. Then she shook her head. “Nope.”
She walked out.
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The Swiss Artistic Research Network (SARN), founded in 2011, is an independent association engaged on behalf of artistic researchers in Switzerland. Association members receive a monthly newsletter with information on artistic research and can engage in discussions about the situation of artistic research and its themes in work groups. All members can advertise their projects and events on SARN’s Facebook page.
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Donor Mother Shares Her Experience with Donation and Correspondence
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Carol most recently spoke at the June 2014 Saving Sight Board of Directors meeting and Lions L.E.A.D. event, so we thought it appropriate to re-share the web article from 2011 so she and Mark can continue to have a positive impact on others.
When someone loses a loved one, it’s difficult to find the good in such a heartbreaking situation. However, for many families, eye, organ, and tissue donation has given them a sense of hope. And when those families hear from their loved one’s recipients, it’s particularly rewarding.
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The recipient/donor family correspondence has not only helped in the healing process for Mark’s direct family, but for his church family as well. Carol has read letters from Mark’s cornea recipient to fellow church members, helping them to find hope in desperate situations and encouraging them to follow Mark’s lead by pledging to become eye, organ, and tissue donors through Missouri’s donor registry.
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Rights of Accused
Self Incrimination
Sex Crime Laws
A Guide to the Romeo and Juliet Laws
Know the Statutory Rape Law to Protect Yourself!
The Facts About Molestation Laws
What are the State Variations of Statutory Rape
What You Have to Know About Child Pornography Laws
Sentencing & Punishment
How Can Statutory Rape Charges Affect a Person
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The consequences for committing a sex crime are very serious. Many sex crimes are treated at the state level. However, those tired on a federal level must follow federal laws. The laws are broken down into specific situations. An abuser will be charged according to which offense was committed.
Incest is considered a form of molestation. Abusers that commit incest can receive the maximum of eight years in prison. When an abuser is unsuccessful in committing this crime they may still face prison time lasting a maximum of two years.
A sex crime regarding the molestation of children ages 0-10 years old can result in twenty five years of imprisonment.
Molestation that is pressured is punishable up to fourteen years. When this same sex crime is committed on a minor between the years of 0-10 the prison time can amount to a maximum of twenty years.
Abusers that commit molestation in which a victim is not touched but still violated, they may face a maximum sentence of up to eighteen years in jail. This includes nudity, inappropriate actions, and alike. This type of offense also carries stipulations based on age. If the victim is in the age range of 0-16, the consequences are surprisingly lower. If the offense is violent however, the consequences are higher.
In the case of a sex crime in which a victim is threatened and sexual intercourse was attempted against them, the consequences can result in a lifetime prison sentence.
When abusers are repeat offenders the consequences are a lot harsher. Often when a sex crime has occurred more than once the consequences are lifetime prison sentences. Many times this happens because the culprits are given the chance to integrate into society.
Abusers are often placed in jail to protect the community and hopefully rehabilitate the criminals. Unfortunately, there are repeat offenders who commit these sex crimes more than once. While in jail, those guilty of a sex crime may have to participate in therapy or counseling to help them with their issue. When they are released from prison, a condition of their release may be that they have to attend additional sessions. Therapy is used as a mechanism to prevent crimes like molestation from reoccurring. Additionally, they may still be forced to register as an abuser in their community. This stipulation depends on the state or locale as well. Punishment for sex crimes, although circumstantial, often work to assure justice for the victims.
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SEZO A1L is a compact sensor device, measuring environmental parameters, luminosity, noise level and air quality, with a built-in accelerometer, magnetometer and motion detection. This handy device is suitable both for indoor and outdoor environment monitoring.
MEASURING AIR QUALITY
SEZO A1L provides information on air quality by measuring the levels of PM1, PM2.5 and PM10, which are very harmful to human health and life. The device thus provides information on whether it is safe to be outside.
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It allows the devices to use unlicensed ISM band – which means no subscription fees are required. The devices using LoRaWAN send data either after being triggered by an event (e.g. movement, switching on the light) or based on a fixed schedule (e.g. every 15 minutes).
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SEZO A1L is integrated with the Orange Live Objects platform, which allow an easy access to the data collected by the device. It is also possible to connect SEZO A1L to another existing platform used by your company.
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SEZO A1L monitors environmental parameters such as temperature, air pollution (PM), humidity, atmospheric pressure, light intensity and noise level.
Built-in accelerometer and PIR sensors allow detection of human presence within a range of 15 meters from the device.
SEZO A1L transmits data at the time of an event (e.g. motion detection) or in user-defined intervals. Configuration of the device is performed via USB.
SEZO A1L can be used both indoors and outdoors – it operates without any interference at temperatures ranging from -30 to +60°C.
LoRaWAN technology enables long-distance data transmission – the distance between the device and the gateway can be up to 10 km.
The SEZO A1L device is powered by an external power supply unit with a voltage of 230V, so it can be connected to a common electrical outlet.
Get in touch with us to create a personalised system tailored to your needs. We will be happy to provide support starting with the concept phase and ending with the implementation of your system.
SEZO A1L makes refineries and chemical production companies more secure.
Facility managers leverage the SEZO A1L device to measure shocks and movements of critical facility components and machinery, thanks to the built-in accelerometer.
The device can be adjusted to clients’ individual needs, involving the measurement of basic environmental parameters, i.e. temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure and sound levels. The device has an integrated alarm threshold configuration, giving the user the capability to adjust alarm thresholds of all measured parameters (such as temperature, humidity, light, air quality, as well as acoustic intensity).
The device is capable of sending data to the Orange Live Objects platform via LoRaWAN.
SEZO A1L makes public institutions more comfortable and more efficient.
Public facilities like libraries, museums or city halls leverage SEZO A1L capabilities such as monitoring temperature, humidity, sound level, and illumination to make the space more comfortable and efficient. Thresholds for the measured parameters can be set individually through the build-in alarm threshold configuration.
The integrated accelerometer enables measurement of shocks and/or movements (e.g. of objects such as doors or exhibition pieces) and can potentially decrease response time of facility security (more reliable than CCTV).
SEZO A1L makes schools a safer place for children and staff.
School management levarages SEZO A1L to detect and prevent exposure to floating dust on school yards and parking lots and therefore make schools a safer place for both, children and staff. SEZO A1L measures particulate matter such as PM10, PM2.5, and PM1.
The device is powered via AC 230V power supply, and can therefore be used conveniently in various locations with a common power socket.
The device is capable of sending data via LoRaWAN to the Orange Live Objects platform.
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SEZO A1L enhances security processes at industrial manufacturing sites.
The device is capable of sending data to the Orange Live Objects platform via LoRaWAN and pulls data from the environment like dust levels (PM1 / PM2.5 / PM10), sound levels. SEZO A1L device is powered by AC230V.
The device has an integrated PIR (infrared) sensor, so it can detect the presence of people (like light detectors). This can be used as an alarm function, individually configured by the user. PIR sensors are commonly used in security alarms and automatic lighting applications.
The device has an alarm threshold configuration for all measured parameters.
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Temperature, Humidity, Air Pressure, Luminosity, Noise, Particulate matter, acceleration, magnetic field, motion (PIR)
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Air pressure: 260 ÷ 1260 hPa, ±3 hPa
Luminosity: 0 ÷ 1000 lx, typ. ±10%, max ±35% @500lx
Noise: 40 ÷ 100dB, ±6dB at voice frequency band
PM: 0 ÷ 500 μg/m3, ±10 μg/m3 @<100 μg/m3 (measurement disabled below -10°C)
Accelerometer: 0 ÷ ±157 m/s2 , max. ±7%
Magnetometer: 0 ÷ ±49gauss, max. ±7%
PIR motion detection: 15m range for human-sized object
LoRaWAN v1.0.2, Class A device
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868 MHz, max. 14 dBm
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Default 15 minutes (configurable) or event-triggered
External AC adapter 100-240V 50Hz max. 1W, Europlug
Enclosure and mounting
IP55, polycarbonate, four screw holes
170 g (without AC adapter and power cable)
Length 89 mm, width 80 mm, height 48.5 mm
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April 8, 2009 — Board Room, San Mateo Daily Journal. The meeting was called to order at 6:45 p.m.
Present: Jon Mays, Jack Russell, Micki Carter, Dave Price, Melissa McRobbie and Darryl Compton; Absent: Jamie Casini, Peter Cleaveland, Ed Remitz, Marshall Wilson
Minutes of February and March were approved as read and the Treasurer’s Report was accepted.
Open Seats
The board accepted the resignation of Jay Thorwaldson which creates a second open seat on the board. Melissa McRobbie, managing editor at Bay City News, was appointed to a one-year slot on the board. Dave Price mentioned that he had talked to Terry Winkler, who does PR for Earth Justice, about serving on the board, but he said he didn’t have the time right now. Jon will contact L.J. Anderson, a free-lancer, about the opening.
Professional Journalism Contest
Darryl reported that 90 percent of the entries in the contest are out for judging. He distributed a spreadsheet on this year’s entries which indicated 424 entries from 62 organizations compared to 519 from 67 groups last year, with a commensurate reduction in income ($6,420 this year/ $9,555 last year). Darryl noted that only two television entries were received and that the Chronicle did not participate this year.
Darryl also described an online judging form that the Milwaukee Press Club uses. Dave will contact them to see if we can use it on our web site to facilitate the gathering of judging results this year.
Jon suggested adding a college division next year and announcing the winner of the High School General Excellence winner at the Evening of Excellence dinner next year. Micki suggested that we announce the three finalists at the High School Awards Reception and then announce the winner at the June event.
Evening of Excellence, June 6
Darryl has signed a contract with the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza in Foster City and expects to get menu choices that will allow us to keep ticket prices at $50. Marshall is contacting Phil Matier and Ward Bushee of the Chronicle and Kristen Sze, the KGO-TV morning anchor, about speaking at the event.
Micki wants to get a newsletter out early in May and asked for items ASAP.
High School Contest
Micki announced that Hillsdale Shopping Center will again sponsor the High School Contest awards reception from 4-6 p.m. May 12 in Ralston Hall on the campus of Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont. She urged board members to plan to attend. She also distributed contest categories for judging. She needs the judging results to her by April 15.
Marshall reported that the project for a meeting on high-speed rail was still on and he would have further details in May.
High School Project
Jon hasn’t heard anything from Carlmont after meeting with the group in February. He will call them this week. He also is meeting with the new San Mateo High School District Superintendent Scott Laurence this week.
Meeting was adjourned at 7:30 p.m.
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Trying to make a difference, one citrus fruit at a time!
At the beginning of Shed 1, we realised we were going to have a lot of spare citrus fruit as we use fresh zest in our gins. So, Zoe started making Gin Jelly Marmalade and we would ask for donations. Those donations went into our Marmalade Fund. We then started our Bottle Return scheme. People returned their empty bottles to us, and to some of our stockists (see Stockists’ list for participants) and in return we added a few pence to our fund. Not only does this raise some money for causes, but also means our bottles get reused. The money from the Marmalade Fund is then donated.
Now, we sell our Marmalade as one of Shed 1’s official products and we put £2 from each jar we sell into the Marmalade Fund. We have continued our Bottle Return scheme and for every small bottle and full sized marmalade jar you return, we’ll give 10p to charity. For every large bottle, we donate 20p to charity. Part of each sale from our Face Masks and Sanitiser are also added to the fund.
Announcing our Charity Partners for 2020.
This year we’re raising funds and awareness for two charities:
Furness Homeless Support Group &
Cumbria Action for Sustainability
Furness Homeless Support Group was launched as a Christmas Shelter in 1989. Nowadays, they offer supported accommodation to single homeless people. Their current facilities include 9 single rooms of supported accommodation, a newly re-furbished 1 bed ground floor flat, a day centre (open Monday-Friday for drop in and midday meals), a Charity Shop and they continue to run their Christmas Shelter.
Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS) is an award winning charity which has been tackling climate change for 20 years. Their vision is a zero carbon Cumbria, one in which we all have a better way of life in balance with our environment. They help communities across Cumbria to live and work more sustainably – to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in ways which also improve people’s quality of life. In addition, they help Cumbrians cope with the devastating impacts of increased rainfall and flooding caused by climate change and which disproportionately affects the most vulnerable. They do all this by sharing their practical experience, knowledge and skills, and creating, supporting and influencing networks.
Over the next few months we’ll be holding a couple of Gin Events at the Shed. We’ll also continue to raise money with the sale of our Gin Jelly Marmalade & Bottle Return Scheme.
UPDATE: Due to COVID-19 we haven’t been able to hold any charity evenings. We have decided to continue supporting these two charities throughout 2020 and into 2021. Once we are able to reopen the Shed we will be arranging some fundraising events.
For 2019, we raised awareness and funds for two charities: Gorlin Syndrome Group, a rare genetic disorder that affects us on a personal level, and Ulverston Mind a mental health charity. Thank you to everyone who bought a raffle ticket. We’re so pleased to be able to tell you that we’ve raised £2189.00. That’s £1094.50 for each charity!
Thanks also to the outlets in Ulverston who sold the tickets on our behalf: Ulverston Mind, The Tinners’ Rabbit, The Olde Ulverston Tea Rooms, and TPFramework.
There are 13 prizes. Make Your Own Distilled Gin Experience for 2, Afternoon G&Tea (with gin tastings), Make Your Own Bath Tub Gin Experience for 2, a Gin Tasting Session for 4, as well as bottles of gin, jars of gin marmalade, and books to win. The four main prizes will be redeemable for 1 year, to be enjoyed at our new shed in Ulverston. The other prizes can be collected or delivered.
To give some insight into Gorlin Syndrome and the aims of the group, we talked to Margaret Costello who established the Gorlin Syndrome Group with her husband Jim (now deceased, who had the condition) and Sally Webster, who has Gorlin Syndrome and is the Chair of the group. You can view these videos on YouTube via these links: GS Features, GS Aims and an in-depth GS Chat.
You can find out more about Ulverston Mind here, which includes a short video about their work.
In 2018 we donated a number of bottles of Gin, jars of Marmalade and boxes of Chocolates to various raffles.
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{Woman To Watch} Abi Ferrin
Published on November 25, 2013 August 13, 2016 by Danielle YB VasonLeave a comment
Meet Abi Ferrin!
Abi Ferrin is a fashion designer, humanitarian, a woman who uses her “cents” to ignite awareness in global issues and define what that success means to her… oh and did I mention that she is our November Woman to Watch (#w2w). She defines success as “a moving target”, explains Ferrin in an email interview with She Makes Cents. ABI FERRIN, the company, is the versatile and sophisticated fashion brand that offers easy-to-care-for fabrics providing a chic solution for women of all ages and body types; remember the 5- Way Nikki Dress? Each of her Made in the U.S.A. garments feature hand-crafted adornments made by women rescued from the sex trade and other forms of abusive employment in Nepal and Cambodia. Ferrin adds, “My idea of what [success] is always moves ahead, so I can never seem to quite feel like I am there yet. Ten years ago the company I have created today would be a huge success in my mind, but now that I am here I have so much more I want to do! I think being successful is an ongoing project, measured by reaching certain benchmarks along the way. If you can see that you are impacting people’s lives in a positive way as a result of your daily existence and making a difference in this world, then you are successful”. Yes, there are plenty of successful women to watch in business, but it is Ferrin’s impact on others that I find compelling.
About the Freedom Project
The Freedom Project is the branch of Ferrin’s business that focuses on giving back by incorporating vendor businesses that are created for and by marginalized people. For example, all of the buttons and most accessories are from Sak Saum in Cambodia, which rescues, restores and rehabilitates trafficked people. These people then become a part of the Sak Saum business once they are healthy, and as a vendor she gets to be a part of supporting their ongoing success and empowerment through their own efforts and responsibility! Ferrin explains, “Freedom is the most important thing to me. I knew I wanted my fashion company to have substance that went past making people look good. I wanted to empower women to step up their daily style and feel good about themselves, while still living their lives”. Congrats Abi Ferrin for being our November Woman to Watch.
For more information about The Freedom Project, please visit www.abiferrin.com or www.saksaum.com.
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Why is there so much medical misinformation in The Huffington Post?
terrasig | July 14, 2010
Today, I refer you to an excellent post by Peter A. Lipson, MD, at the blog, Science-Based Medicine, entitled, "HuffPo blogger claims skin cancer is conspiracy." The post focuses on an article by someone who contends that the link between sunlight and skin cancer is a conspiracy by dermatologists and the cosmetic dermatology industry. Dr. Lipson's highly insightful analysis about the "interview" process and how doctors must act these days on behalf of their patients concludes: This article shows a misunderstanding of journalistic ethics, medical ethics, and medical science. It's a disaster…
Case dismissed in vaccination libel case against Amy Wallace and Dr. Paul Offit
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Writer Amy Wallace just tweeted and posted to her blog the fabulous news that a pending libel case against her and physician Paul Offit has been dismissed. Amy Wallace was the author of the centerpiece article in a Wired magazine feature on how antivaccination activists create fear and confusion by distorting and misrepresenting facts about vaccines. This article "An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All," was discussed in detail here back in October. Two days before Christmas one of those individuals, Barbara Loe Fisher (also Arthur), filed a $1 million claim…
Chad Orzel on Science Blogging
scientificactivist | January 11, 2010
Chad Orzel, of Uncertain Principles, has a nice article today in Inside Higher Ed about the value of science blogging, both in his own career and in the scientific process in general. This is a view that I of course agree with and think is important, and Chad brings a unique perspective on the issue. Go check out his article, but here's a taste: As essential as this [communication] step is, it is in many ways the weakest link in the scientific process today. While there are more scientific papers published today than ever before, a combination of technical sophistication and scientific…
Chris Mooney with a New Year's resolution for practicing scientists: engage more with the public and the media
terrasig | January 1, 2010
Steve Silberman and Rebecca Skloot just pointed out to me an editorial from science writer Chris Mooney that has appeared online and will be in the Sunday, January 3rd edition of The Washington Post. In the essay, "On issues like global warming and evolution, scientists need to speak up," Mooney continues his longstanding call to scientists to take ownership in combating scientific misinformation, invoking the very weak response of the scientific community to the aftermath of e-mails and documents hacked from the Climatic Research Institute at the University of East Anglia. The central lesson…
Why We Need More Evidence-Based Medicine
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As mentioned here previously, the stimulus package passed in February includes funds to encourage evidence-based medicine. Some uninformed critics will claim that this is some big government conspiracy to exert socialized control over private medicine. But, truly, encouraging a firmer empirical basis in all aspects of medicine--through more studies, government guidelines, and just improved common practice--is a very desirable outcome. A post by David Newman at The New York Time's Well blog lays out a variety of examples of why this is so (with links to original studies!). Also, Hugh Pickens…
We Want a Presidential Debate on Science!
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Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum of The Intersection (along with Derek Araujo, Matthew Chapman, Austin Dacey, Lawrence Krauss, Shawn Lawrence Otto, and John Rennie) are spearheading a grassroots movement called Sciencedebate 2008 to try to convince the powers that be of the need for a presidential debate on science in 2008. For a comprehensive list of the reasons why this is a good idea, I would have to rehash almost everything I've written on this blog... and then some. The point is that science is playing a growing role in society and politics, affecting in some way almost every issue…
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Oh boy, it just never stops with this administration and its contempt for science. Via Keith Cowing's NASA Watch comes news of a, well, interesting new Bush Administration appointee at NASA: NASA Headquarters has a new political appointee in its employ: Patrick Rhode. He'll be working on the 9th floor. For those of you who followed the post-Katrina management fiasco at FEMA you may recall hearing his name. Rhode served as FEMA Director Michael Brown's Chief of Staff and later, as Acting Deputy Director of FEMA. I am sure the folks at Stennis and Michoud will be thrilled to learn this.…
The Structure of the Living Cell
scientificactivist | October 17, 2006
One of the goals of modern structural biology is to integrate the two traditionally distinct subfields of structural molecular biology (determination of the structures of macromolecules at atomic resolution) and structural cell biology (general architecture of of the cell and the localization of subcellular structures within it). The end result--as my research advisor at Oxford, Prof. Iain Campbell, often points out--is to be able to make a "molecular movie", at atomic resolution, of the whole cell. (Such a video might look something like this video from XVIVO and Harvard University--…
Pluto: The (Really) Broader Social Context
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For such a small planet (or non-planet now), Pluto sure has been making waves the last couple of weeks. I haven't really weighed in and instead deferred to the experts. I'm not going to really say much now either, but, hell, I'll admit it. I'm going to miss Pluto. A lot. Losing Pluto shakes the foundation of the worldview I grew up with, and this seems to be a widespread phenomenon. Along those lines, Monday's Washington Post featured an article by Shankar Vedantam that placed the loss of Pluto into a broader context, using it as an example to shed light on more general social phenomena…
Where Do Babies Come From? Find the Answer and More in Coming to Life
scientificactivist | August 21, 2006
Coming to Life: How Genes Drive Development by Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Kales Press: 2006. 176 pages.Buy now! (Amazon) If you examine yourself in the mirror, take a closer look at your favorite pet, or even contemplate that pesky fly that just won't leave you alone, it's difficult to not come away with a starry-eyed appreciation for life. With their overwhelming complexity and astonishing consistency, but seemingly endless diversity, these everyday animals are almost enough to make you believe in God. And, I don't just mean some vague modern spiritual presence. No, I'm talking about…
Fantastical Fridays: The End of the Hard Sciences?
It has been known officially since 2002 that the sciences are hard, and, as much as we scientists love it when our friends and family tell us how smart and wonderful we must be since they could never understand what we do... is this elevated position going to cost us in the end? Big time? Addressing this issue, an article by Emma Brockes in yesterday's Guardian explores the plight of the physical sciences in the UK, taking a humorous look at the question of whether a lack of interest from students will spell their eventual demise: It is presumably never easy being a physics teacher, what…
Fantastical Fridays: Organic People Chemistry
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Lurking beneath the surface here at ScienceBlogs is a force that compels people to do extremely gimmicky things on Fridays. Since I know that I'm no better than anyone else, I've decided to join in on the fun. Therefore, I introduce to you Fantastical Fridays at The Scientific Activist. From now on, every Friday I'll take a break from the more serious scientific activism to explore the stranger, more outlandish, and in general more lighthearted aspects of science. Today's installment of Fantastical Fridays brings you a fascinating discovery reported in 2003: the creation of tiny people,…
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The Mandalorian: Titus Welliver Cameo Reminds Us of Lost’s Man in Black
written by admin November 14, 2020
This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers.
The Mandalorian season 2 continues its streak of entertaining episodes with “The Heiress,” which brings in elements from The Clone Wars as well as gives us a clear sign of where the show is headed. Along the way, we’re treated to even more guest appearances, including Battlestar Galactica legend Katee Sackhoff, who brings Mandalorian warrior Bo-Katan Kryze to live-action for the first time, as well as Mercedes Varnado (better known as the WWE wrestler Sasha Banks), who portrays the gun-toting Nite Owl soldier Koska Reeves.
Two major cameos in one episode is more than enough to get viewers excited, but “The Heiress” throws in yet one more guest actor in the third actor. If you thought that fiercely loyal Imperial captain looked familiar, that’s because it’s actor Titus Welliver, who you probably know best from Lost, Deadwood, and as the star of police procedural series Bosch. In “The Heiress,” we watch as Welliver’s nameless baddie tries to thwart a Mandalorian attack on his vessel, throwing all the stormtroopers he has at his disposal at Bo-Katan’s team. And when it’s clear that he’s lost the fight, the captain follows Moff Gideon’s orders and prepares to crash the Imperial cruiser into the Trask ocean below.
We don’t learn much about Welliver’s Imperial villian except that he’s arrogant, a common trait among his rank, and that he’ll do anything for the Empire’s continued existence, even if it means taking the lives of his men and his own in the process. By crashing the ship, he can stop Bo-Katan and her group from finding Gideon’s secret Imperial fleet (as well as the location of the Darksaber, the legendary blade that the Mandalorian, the rightful heir to the weapon, wants back from the Moff). And when that fails, he doesn’t hesitate to bite down on the electric suicide pill that ends his life.
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FELLOWSHIP OF THE SCREEN
Streaming Roundup: ‘AMERICAN VANDAL,’ ‘THE FIRST,’ and ‘HILDA’
October 10, 2018 David Leave a comment
Whether you’re into children’s fantasy, brooding astronauts, or true crime + poop jokes, this roundup has something for everyone.
American Vandal, Season 2 (Netflix)
The first season of Tony Yacenda & Dan Perrault’s true crime mock-doc was a stealth success; it lured viewers in with spray-painted phalluses and a pitch-perfect parody of series like Making a Murderer, but gradually revealed hidden depths of thematic complexity, character-driven pathos, and a genuinely compelling mystery. It was, in short, a tough act to follow. What could a second season offer that wasn’t just more of the same? If you’ve already hit all of the “Serial, but in a high school” story beats, wouldn’t it be better just to leave it as a one-and-done? Fortunately, the show’s writers weren’t entirely out of ideas. Season 2 moves our investigators Peter and Sam (Tyler Alvarez & Griffin Gluck) up the coast to a Catholic school (shades of The Keepers), to solve a new, gross crime: Who dumped laxatives in the school’s lemonade and, while posting from “@TheTurdBurglar” on Instagram, committed a string of other fecal-related incidents?
Writing candidly, I don’t love scatological humor. It’s not necessarily that I find it juvenile, but that I just don’t find it funny. So if I have to watch multiple shaky iPhone sequences of crying teenagers spraying diarrhea all over the halls, it better be in service of some objectively great storytelling. I was relieved to find that while Vandal S2 wasn’t as consistently funny as the first, that was partially by design; the students of St. Bernadine went through a real trauma, and the series ultimately drills down on a host of weighty issues with not just nuance, but actual insight into what it’s really like to be a teenager in our social media-driven age.
And like last year, the biggest plaudits go to the casting director, Wendy O’Brien. Every victim (and potential suspect) at St. Bern’s is a fully-realized character: Kevin McClain (Travis Tope), the self-made weirdo who dons a horse mask to play house music for middle schoolers, and who claims he was coerced into confessing to the “poop crimes”; DeMarcus Tillman (an astonishingly authentic Melvin Gregg), the school’s star basketball player and god among boys; DeMarcus’s best friend/manager, Lou (Dear White People’s DeRon Horton); Chloe Lyman (Taylor Dearden), who brings the story to the Vandal crew’s attention; and on down to their classmates, teachers (including one poor woman who consistently misuses 2018 slang), administrators, and one unnaturally hot janitor. Tope and Gregg get the bulk of the screen time, and are diametric opposites on a spectrum of charisma that bends around to form a Möbius strip, both showing aching vulnerability as the season goes on.
The structure is familiar, as it already was in Season 1: The crimes are depicted; suspects are proffered, discarded, then examined again. But the plotting is more complex, certainly, which is why it doesn’t make time this year for Peter & Sam to get their own subplot — they’re there to do their digging and string clues up on their cork board. (I loved, however, the little acknowledgment at the beginning of the first season’s suspiciously high production value: Once American Vandal took Vimeo by storm, Netflix ponied up for drone shots and animated reenactments.) Now that our documentarians have wrapped up their senior project, what will film school — and a university setting — hold for them? Last year, I was nervous for more. But the formula is tried and true, so now I’m only nervous about what the next gross crime will be.
The First (Hulu)
The headlines for Beau Willemon’s House of Cards follow-up write themselves (“The First fails to take off;” “The First stalls on the launchpad,” etc.), but once I accepted that this isn’t wasn’t a space drama but a poetic character study about Providence 2’s participants, it wasn’t long before I fell under its proto-Malickian spell. It’s about the people, not the mission, which doesn’t even begin until halfway through the eighth and final episode, but those emotional beats wouldn’t have landed nearly as hard without the patient storytelling that came before.
It helps to have a terrific cast. Sean Penn, leading his first television series, could have sleepwalked through the role of Tom Hagerty, the mission commander who’s hungry for redemption after personal drama cost him his seat on the doomed first mission to Mars. But Penn is fantastic: He looks almost entirely made of sinew, but his performance is naturalistic and soulful. Natascha McElhone also shines as Laz, the tightly-wound director of the joint NASA/private company program. Likable turns from Oded Fehr, LisaGay Hamilton, Hannah Ware, and James Ransone hold down the screen when the two leads aren’t on it. Even FOTS favorite Bill Camp appears as a skeptical reporter.
But the real find is Anna Jacoby-Heron, who plays Penn’s daughter, painter (and addict) Denise. The 23-year-old shows remarkable potential in her utterly open and vulnerable performance, a work of impressive stillness where everything happens behind her eyes until the dam finally breaks at season’s end. The showcase episode is the fifth, “Two Portraits,” which is barely about any astronaut stuff at all, but depicts the disintegration of the Hagerty family in a series of nested flashbacks, anchored by Jacoby-Heron’s rawness and boldly directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven. I’ve seen that kind of episode a hundred times, but never quite like this: individual moments play out almost on a darkened stage, putting father, mother, and daughter in greater and greater isolation.
While those choices work, at least uniquely, the show isn’t without its pretensions. A recurring motif is voiceover from what appears to just be a Cajun guy working on machines in a garage, philosophizing like McConaughey in a Lincoln ad while stock footage of cicadas and sunrises play on top. It’s…weird, and I waited all season to find out who he was and what those interludes were for, and I’m still waiting. But looking past that, the immaculate sets (those homes!), vaguely plausible future tech (self-driving cars, augmented reality glasses), and the actual plot of the mission to Mars, the heart of the show is its characters, which are fortunately compelling enough to bring me back once — one presumes — Season 2 flies in a more conventional direction.
Hilda (Netflix)
Hilda is my 7-year-old daughter’s new favorite show, and if that’s not a ringing endorsement, I don’t know what is. Based on the graphic novel series by Luke Pearson and brought to the screen by Pearson, Kurt Mueller, Stephanie Simpson, and series director Andy Coyle, it’s easily the most charming and re-watchable entry in Netflix’s quietly swelling roster of children’s cartoons. It’s so good, in fact, that — like the new DuckTales — you may find yourself loving it even if you don’t have kids. I won’t tell anyone, I promise.
Set in something like Scandinavia, the blue-haired Hilda (voiced by Bella Ramsey, a.k.a. Lyanna Mormont on Game of Thrones) lives in the wilderness with her Mum (Daisy Haggard) and her adorable deerfox, Twig, until fantastical circumstances force a move to the urban non-wonderland of Trolberg. There, she joins up with a group of Scout types called Sparrows and leads her new friends on adventures with various magical creatures instead of trying to get badges. Every episode feels like a Dungeons and Dragons campaign in miniature, where plucky Hilda, Freida, and David have to use their cleverness to solve the problem of the day while often showing the adults that the assorted trolls, giants, and hounds aren’t as scary as they seem — assuming they can see them at all.
The series has at least three great things going for it. First, a genuine interest in folklore: Each creature, from the Nissas (gnomelike beings who live in the hidden spaces in your home) to the Marra (nightmare spirits in the form of sullen teenagers), to the taciturn Woodman (literally, Wood Man) are either drawn directly from Scandinavian legends or feel of a piece with the the ones that are. This is often done quite cleverly, as in the case of the “Little People,” whose discovery sets the series’ main plot in motion — reminiscent of Terry Pratchett creations, these elves live in homes invisible to humans who haven’t filled out the proper paperwork, which means they’re constantly being stepped through.
Second, the animation — from Canadian outfit Mercury Filmworks — is first rate, head and shoulders above your usual kids’ fare. Many compositions evoke a wintry, playful Miyazaki in their depiction of Hilda’s natural setting and occasionally sentient weather, and the blending of character and magic is like Tomm Moore’s Song of the Sea for the slightly younger set. The third ingredient is the series’s music, a catchy and complex electronic-pop soundtrack by the young singer-songwriter Grimes. The whole thing adds up to a delightful weekend’s binge with the family. You can try pacing it out, but they’re going to want to start it all over again right away, either way.
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SubTopic Automation and orchestration
Considerations for a private cloud migration
Know your requirements for building a private cloud
Blueprints for moving from virtualization to the private cloud model
First five steps to constructing a private cloud environment
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Self-service, security and storage tools for the private cloud
To manage a private cloud, you’ll need third-party tools that can help create self-service portals, maintain security and control storage.
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Private clouds often require the use of third-party tools for tasks such as migrating applications, automating virtual machine provisioning and monitoring the environment. Three other facets of private cloud that could benefit from use of third-party tools include service catalogs, security and storage.
Service catalogs, or self-service portals, are the crux of the private cloud. They put the power in the end users’ hands by allowing them to choose from a list of available cloud services. Without proper management or visibility into service use, your cloud can get out of control.
Security is a major consideration in any virtualized environment, and the cloud is no different. But native security measures may not be enough and traditional security tactics won’t properly protect a cloud. And while cloud may seem to offer unlimited storage capabilities, mismanagement or improper allocation can actually increase storage use.
Service catalogs and the self-service portal
Service catalogs and self-service portals sometimes are treated as different entities, wherein the self-service portal acts as the interface to the service catalog. In cloud, however, these technologies are a single entity.
A service catalog typically contains a list of services being automated and made available to users. It is the source of record for the services that IT offers to internal users. A service catalog can contain the name, description, cost and information for services delivered by the back-office IT infrastructure. It allows users to serve themselves from a menu of cloud service offerings. A well-designed and integrated service catalog is an essential ingredient of a cloud.
When Suncorp, a financial services provider in Brisbane, Australia, was building its private cloud, an initial step was to create a service catalog. Suncorp’s service catalog contains the list of cloud services being automated for internal use and made available to business users via a self-service portal.
Service catalogs not only provide the list of services and their characteristics to users in cloud environments, they can also be integrated with a configuration management database (CMDB). For example, if you use your service catalog to provision virtual servers and a change in physical servers -- as denoted in the CMDB via a configuration management ticket -- impacts the number of CPUs available for these virtual servers, then this change would also be reflected in the service catalog.
The following is a list of companies that provide service catalogs and self-service portals:
newScale, which Cisco acquired in April 2011, is the basis for Cisco’s Intelligent Automation tools for IT portals, service catalogs and lifecycle management software. This software helps IT organizations create self-service storefronts for data center and workspace services across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
CA Service Catalog from CA Technologies enables organizations to define service offerings. Native multi-tenancy allows multiple physical catalogs to support multiple business models across physical, virtual and cloud environments. It uses a billing engine to automatically associate service usage with departments, cost centers and customers and can send out invoices.
Nimsoft Service Desk module is a component of the Nimsoft Unified Manager offering that enables users to access the service catalog and submit change requests, report incidents, etc. Nimsoft Service Catalog uses ticket templates that allow users to enter requests for a cloud service. A workflow engine automatically routes all tickets to the appropriate group based on a combination of the requesters’ information and ticket information.
Where cloud security matters
Companies that move from physical to virtual environments, such as clouds, need to update their security. You can’t install a traditional firewall or antivirus software on a cloud-based virtual environment; physical firewalls aren’t designed to inspect and filter the traffic originating from a hypervisor that’s running several virtual servers. Whatever protection you have, it must be able to handle various activities like starting and stopping virtual servers and moving them.
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There is little to say about the importance of security in the cloud that hasn’t been said already. However, many admins tend to overlook where security is important. Hypervisor security, for example, is both critical and overlooked. If an intruder gains control of a virtual server, he may be able to gain control of the hypervisor. A whole new set of security issues are coming to the fore as enterprises allow employees to access corporate data with smartphones and tablets, such as Apple’s iPad.
Security problems will be exacerbated if employees access back-office databases on mobile devices. Mobile clouds can help to resolve these security problems as they allow IT admins to centrally control security.
Important security facets in the cloud include auditing, intrusion detection, access controls and antivirus protection. A number of vendors provide the distinctive security protection that clouds require:
Catbird’s vSecurity provides automated monitoring and enforcement for seven control areas: auditing, inventory management, configuration management, change management, access control, vulnerability management and incident response.
Juniper Networks’ Altor VF integrates Altor’s virtual firewall technology with Juniper Networks’ Network and Security Manager and Juniper Network’s STRM Series Security Threat Response Managers. It enables users to secure their virtual servers and cloud environments.
AppRiver SecureSurf cloud security suite includes email hosting, email security, archiving and Web protection services. SecureSurf, which is a relatively new addition to the AppRiver portfolio, is a Web filtering and malware protection offering. AppRiver provides its security services as a Software as a Service (SaaS).
Barracuda Networks' Email Security Service provides a cloud-based email filtering service that can be used as a cloud protection layer for the Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall.
McAfee Cloud Security suite secures email, identity traffic and Web traffic. The McAfee Cloud Security Platform offers a variety of deployment options, ranging from on-premises solutions to SaaS solutions, to a hybrid combination of both.
Keeping cloud storage under control
Server virtualization has lowered IT costs and improved server utilization, but its proliferation has increased the amount of storage required. Some IT managers have discovered that money saved with server virtualization is now being spent on storage.
Virtual servers can consume up to 30% more disk space than physical servers. And VM sprawl, an unfortunate result of improperly managed virtual servers, has forced many enterprises to overhaul their data backup and disaster recovery (DR) strategies.
Some companies have indicated that they had to upgrade storage devices to handle the extra storage required for virtual server environments such as clouds. Other companies, such as Concur Technologies, a travel and management solutions provider headquartered in Redmond, Wash., not only moved storage up a tier from Serial ATA to Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) to resolve performance issues, it also used data deduplication.
When creating virtual servers in a private cloud become more commonplace in enterprises and IT organizations begin supporting mobile devices, the amount of required storage will increase significantly. This increased storage use will push us to take a more serious look at storage virtualization, data deduplication and thin provisioning as well as a second look at data backup.
Enterprises have a few options for handling storage issues that crop up in virtualized environments. Technologies such as storage virtualization, deduplication and thin provisioning can optimize the storage requirements of a cloud environment. And several vendors offer tools that address the increase in storage use in cloud environments.
Some tools in this area include:
NetApp MultiStore, which lets users create isolated logical partitions on a single storage system such that unauthorized users cannot access information on a secured virtual partition. MultiStore allows you to easily move virtual partitions between storage systems and provide DR in the cloud.
DataCore SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor is a portable software package that’s used to enhance multiple disk storage systems by supplementing individual capabilities with extended provisioning, replication and performance. It offers a transparent virtual layer across consolidated disk pools, which can improve storage utilization.
FalconStor FDS is a LAN-based deduplication tool that reduces storage capacity. It uses a centralized management graphical user interface (GUI) that allows users to define deduplication policies. FalconStor FDS scales from a small footprint to rack-size installments that support petabytes of logical storage capacity.
Syncplicity's Virtual Private Cloud automatically synchronizes an unlimited number of files and folders across PCs, Macs, file servers, Google Docs and other cloud applications. It ensures that every file and file version is backed up to your own Virtual Private Cloud automatically -- on or off the corporate network.
Axcient RapidRestore is a hybrid storage model that includes a storage appliance and an Internet storage service. Customers can back up storage locally and online for archiving. Axcient’s RapidRestore storage appliances have capacities ranging from 500 GB to 10 TB.
Riverbed Whitewater appliance focuses on data security, accelerates transmission of data over the Internet and ensures data availability in cloud environments. Security of data and slow speeds of transmission of data to and from clouds are major concerns of cloud users.
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Ulster County Now Requires Vaccinations for Summer Camps
By Spectrum News Staff Ulster County
Ulster County is getting stricter when it comes to summer camp requirements, in an effort to curb the measles outbreak.
Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan announced Tuesday that any children or staff members at summer camps must have the measles vaccine unless they have a medical exemption. Campers will be required to turn over immunization records before attending.
The county says measles is highly contagious and children can be particularly vulnerable.
Anyone with questions can contact the Ulster County Department of Health at 845-340-3009.
This comes as a state supreme court judge has rejected a lawsuit against Orange County over its order. However, the judge is giving lawyers time to rework their complaint.
The original lawsuit cites state law allowing religious exemptions for vaccinations when it comes to schools. The judge ruled this doesn't apply to summer camps, and there is no law against exemptions for the camps.
The lawsuit also claims the county is overstepping its authority and wrongfully targeting those with religious exemptions.
Orange County has declined to comment on the lawsuit.
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Instead of mourning local news, try paying for it
Sooke PocketNews Posted on February 4, 2018 by Britt Santowski February 8, 2018
Canadians often mourn the loss of their local newspaper. But there’s a disconnect, because few Canadians actually pay for a local news subscription.
by April Lindgren, Ryerson University
Expressions of shock, concern and loss were widespread recently after Postmedia Network Canada Corp. and Torstar Corp. announced a newspaper swap and the closing of three dozen publications.
Local politicians worried aloud about who would keep them honest and citizens informed. Business owners fretted about the loss of an affordable advertising option. Citizens took to social media to mourn the closings.
The angst is consistent with research that suggests Canadians value local news: Sixy-nine per cent of respondents in a recent poll said they would consider it a “very serious” consequence if the decline in news organizations resulted in less local reporting. Ninety-two per cent said news about their communities is either very important (45 per cent) or somewhat important (47 per cent).
This love affair, however, isn’t quite what it seems.
Unwilling to pay for it
There’s a significant disconnect between the value Canadians say they place on local news and their willingness to actually pay for it.
Torstar’s announcement last January that it was closing the Guelph Mercury prompted devotees to shed tears, hug the building that housed the 149-year-old daily and wallpaper the Mercury’s front door with sticky notes bearing farewell messages. Yet only 22 per cent of Canadians have print or digital newspaper subscriptions.
More chilling was an Abacus poll released in June that suggests the majority of people are blasé about newspaper closings: Eighty-six per cent of respondents said they will still get the news they need if their local daily goes out of business.
The results were consistent across regions, age groups, among men and women, political party supporters, urban and rural respondents, homeowners and renters.
“Even among those who only have one newspaper in their community, 84 per cent think they would still be able to get the news they feel they need,” the pollsters noted.
What all of these contradictions point to, in fact, is a relationship in trouble.
Public misunderstanding about the news business is partly responsible. The lamentations after the Torstar/Postmedia announcement, for instance, suggests that many Canadians don’t realize the extent to which the availability of local news is already compromised. While newspaper closings are not typically announced by the dozen, the reality is that the death knell has been sounding with disturbing regularity.
Hundreds of lost media outlets
The Local News Map, a crowd-sourced tool I created with Jon Corbett at the University of British Columbia to track changes to local news outlets across Canada, now displays 234 markers recording the loss of newspapers, broadcast outlets and digital news sites since 2008.
While the closings point to a broken business model — online advertising just doesn’t generate the dollars needed to support robust newsrooms — nearly half (48 per cent) of respondents in a recent poll had not recently heard, read or seen anything about news organizations facing business or financial difficulties.
Online local news sites are emerging in some places to replace disappearing traditional news sources, but progress is slow and the future uncertain. To date, only 28 markers on the map indicate the launch of new digital sites. Another 13 document the demise of digital startups.
The relationship Canadians have with local news also suffers from complacency — never has it been so easy to access so much news.
A closer look, however, reveals that most of that news isn’t local. It also reveals that despite the dwindling number of subscribers, newspapers still play a key role in local political coverage. As the largest news operations in most communities, they report on stories that other news outlets ignore and their reporting sets the news agenda and influences the content produced by smaller competitors.
Newspapers cover more political news
Research I conducted with Jaigris Hodson at Royal Roads University on how the races for local MPs were covered by respective local media during the 2015 federal election found that newspapers produced most of the stories in six of the eight places we studied.
In two of the communities, the post-election deterioration of the local news environment illustrates what’s lost when a news organization shuts down. The Nanaimo Daily News, the daily newspaper that generated almost half of all local reporting on the race to represent Nanaimo, B.C., ceased publication in January 2016. In Kamloops, B.C., where digital news sites dominated the local coverage, the NewsKamloops site closed on Sept. 30, 2016. It provided about a quarter of all reporting on the local race for MP in that community.
Deception has also frayed Canadians’ relationship with local news organizations. If they haven’t closed shop, most news outlets have slashed the number of newsroom employees and been less than transparent about the consequences.
When layoffs are announced — if they are announced — proprietors do not spell out which beats will no longer be covered or how many reporters are actually left running the operation. But they do expect loyal subscribers to keep subscribing and businesses to keep advertising.
The erosion in news coverage is gradual but over time it becomes apparent to all. Critics dismiss the local newspaper as fish wrap and suggest nobody will miss it when it’s gone. Those critics have a point.
Glimmers of hope?
The disappearance of timely, verified news means having to rely on the police department’s version of events in a police corruption scandal.
It means being vulnerable to fake news and propaganda from sketchy blogs and on Facebook produced by unknown authors with hidden agendas.
And it raises the spectre of greater polarization as substantive stories that explore issues, solutions and potential compromises are replaced by news briefs that summarize the opposing sides in black-and-white terms.
For all the misunderstanding, complacency and deception, however, there is reason to believe reconciliation is possible.
Multiple polls suggest Canadians still value local news, that at some level they recognize the role journalists play in holding power accountable, in building community by telling stories that people share and discuss, and in equipping citizens with the information they need to act collectively.
On the journalism side of things, innovators are emerging to meet the public’s local news needs.
Promising startups
The Sprawl, a crowd-funded pop-up digital news outlet launched in September to cover Calgary’s municipal election, took a break, and is now reporting on the city’s budget process.
Vancouver-based Discourse Media is inviting individuals to purchase $250 shares in the enterprise.
In Toronto, the West End Phoenix newspaper is pinning its survival on subscribers and generous patrons.
All of these startups have given up on the old advertising model and embraced new business strategies. But they still need money to survive.
And so we come to a final contributing factor to the dysfunctional relationship between Canadians and local news providers: One of the partners is a cheapskate used to getting something for nothing.
If we want accurate, up-to-date information about employment opportunities, health risks, problems in our schools, decisions made by city council and what to do during a natural disaster — good local journalism is the answer. But it doesn’t come cheap.
Whether it’s through donations, subscriptions or crowd-funded campaigns for specific investigations, we need to pay for it. Public declarations of love, devotion and commitment are much appreciated — but they don’t cover the bills.
April Lindgren, Associate Professor of Journalism, Ryerson University
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Instead of mourning local news, try paying for it — 2 Comments
Patricia on February 5, 2018 at 8:24 am said:
I have been a subscriber to The Victoria based Times Colonist for nearly sixty years and will continue hopefully for many more years. I also subscribe to Sooke Pocket News. I love our weekly paper, Sooke News and I would happily pay for it if need be. I like to keep informed of our local news which I find TV and radio aren’t always as in-depth as a newspaper is.
Anonymous on February 7, 2018 at 4:28 am said:
I do not watch news at all due to the fact it’s just to negative. As a result I do not watch tv . I listen to the Christian radio station,no commercials. If news was positive generally ,I’d pay for it
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A Grape Idea
I was driving north last week towards Canandaigua, in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State, when a purple awning caught my eye. The awning belonged to the storefront of Monica’s Pies, a shop where just about everything is purple—awnings, signs, milk jugs, jars, t-shirts, carpets, flower pots…even the port-a-potty out back. Monica’s Pies is in Naples, a town of 2,500 that claims to be the grape pie capital of the world.
Driving towards Canandaigua Lake (literally)
My kind of place
Flowers against the lake
Special parking just for me
Even the port-a-potty is color-coordinated
Monica’s Pies
I always thought that I knew a lot about purple—including preserves, juice, wine, Bubble Yum, Pez, and even the Williams College Purple Cow (thanks to my in-laws).
Souzz’s parents flanking a purple cow
At a Williams football game
Purple cows are pretty book-smart
But I’d never had a purple-flavored pie before (and if orange can be a color, then purple can certainly be a flavor).
Monica’s Pies dates back to 1983, and it is one of four shops in Naples that feature grape pies. Back in the day, owner Monica Schenk was looking for a way to use a surplus of Concord grapes—a style of grape that had fallen out of favor with local vintners–and she started making grape pies. She sold the pies only in the Fall season, and most of her sales were by the honor system (an unattended box of pies sat out front, along with a money slot).
Honor system pie sales. From wjbq.com.
A roadside honor stand for pies. From wjbq.com.
Then and now, her grape pies are very sweet, thick like jello, and come topped with a crumb crust that adds a lot of texture. Souzz said each bite was “like eating really good grape jelly, back when you were a kid.” Huh?
Nowadays, Monica’s Pies is open year round and offers a variety of pies, jams, baked goods, and other treats. The shop has been featured in the New York Times and on the Food Network, and her grape pie sales alone top more than 10,000 a year. There’s no reason to wine with sales like that.
When I got back home, I shared the story of my new discovery with my Williams-educated purple cow-loving brother-in-law Steve, who is quite the foodie. “I love those grape pies,” he said. “Concord grapes suck for wine, but grape pies rule.” Those Williams kids sure have a way with words.
That’s Steve on the left, with his sisters, and looking more like a college kid than a foodie
A family visit to the “purple valley,” as Williamstown is known. That’s Souzz 2nd from right, probably after eating some jelly.
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December 18, 2019 January 2, 2020 By: musehick
Why do you want them to continue old TV shows that you used to love? For me it is not so I can see the same old story rehashed with actors who look like beef jerky versions of their younger selves – the number of reboots and remakes and satisfies that meagre craving.
When Twin Peaks came back it may have checked some nostalgia buttons for me, but the thing I loved about it was that, as you can always expect from Lynch, it struck out into new territory. Twin Peaks stands out for me as the peak TV from the last ten years.
Watchmen brought us something new for that universe. The old story about Moore and his disagreement with televisual or movie adaptations had validity in terms of creator-owned intellectual properties, but doesn’t detract from the choices made by the creators of this show, some of which have been brilliant.
I am hoping that the wrapping up of the story of Dr.Manhattan leads to new territory if gets picked up for a new season. It did enough of a balancing act between the source material and the new direction for it to be interesting an compelling.
Is The Man In The High Castle nostalgia fuelled too? Maybe – it feels like it to me. It could be the Philip K Dick connection, or the subject matter (despite it providing the distance needed to frame an exploration of present day issues). The ending seemed as inevitable as a Titanic Iceberg. It left me wondering if the ending was forced, and if they had more seasons planned, because it could have gone in some very different directions. I feel like this show side-stepped issues of Star Trek Nazi World cartoonishness, but it felt rushed in the last few episode. Were they midway through filming when they got the cancellation notice? If not then it fell a little foul of the wrap up loose end issues of a prematurely curtailed series.
What happened with the split Reich and the German iteration of it? So much more to explore. The dismantling of the Reich in the US could be used to dig into a whole bunch of interesting issues around emancipation and US war crimes, and corruption. Science fiction at heart is never about the future or the alternative world, it is just a mirror to where we live, and what would provide a better vehicle than this show?
Arrested Devleopment’s reboot never worked that well for me. The funnies seemed rooted in a time when the humour was different, but you also have this comedy of errors that just seemed to be in free-fall from the start, suddenly trying to arrive at some kind of conclusion. It just seemed unnecessary.
Franchise reboots are tricky beasts. You have to check the boxes of existing fans and provide an entry for new fans, and you also have to work with the notion that after the Marvel Universe everyone wants an endless ongoing series of interlinked films. Star Wars can’t make everyone happy. The framework is one of those behemoths of modern filmic mythology that tries to turn every innovation into a diet of same, but knows that in order to survive it needs to stir in some different. Royal Families are the model they are trying to match themselves too – occasional new blood to prevent the whole structure from crumbling under not enough variety.
A natural death is needed. An end to the cycle. New myths. Nostalgia can be satisfied by new shows using old shows as manure – that would make me happy enough.
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