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Getting Settled

Welcome to my new blogsite!  It was supposed to be totally finished and handed over to me in February.  However, the young lady who designed it ran into some personal problems and wasn’t able to work on it for several weeks in a row. Even now there are things still not completed, but the basic working shell is functional.

The page tabs above, for example, do not have the code worked into them so they work properly, and in the meantime I’ve sought out another designer who hopefully can help flesh out what’s missing and get the site up to snuff.

It went against my grain to go ahead and move in, but I decided to use the new site with its apparent flaws. So please be forgiving, as you try to explore any  “extras”–they WILL eventually get fixed.  All the old posts and basic information as to what the site is about is here. I’ll be glad to give you a grand tour of the place sometime when everything’s finally in place. . .

I got back from Haiti on Saturday with our church mission group, and I’m still trying to process everything I experienced there.  The capitol of Port-au-Prince is a bustling, crowded city, with encouraging signs of growth everywhere.  Yet the neighborhood of Cite Soleil, one of Haiti Outreach Ministries’ campuses where we worked several days,  is still ranked as the most impoverished slum in the Western hemisphere. The poorest in our country are rich people compared to the little that these people have! Yet in light of the earthquake’s horrific devastation, even in that very dark place, you can see the abundance of God’s grace, from the churches that have strengthened their arms of inreach into the community, to the many organizations who have jumped in to assist the neediest of needy. God truly has taken the bad and used it for His good and the furtherance of His gospel! As I sift through the take-aways of my Haiti experience, I will write more about it in the future.

I am so thankful for the many good things God has given me. . . I know I have been changed forever by this trip and have been convicted and challenged in many areas.  I am stirred now, more than ever, to tell others about Jesus and His saving grace. I want to live life differently, so others may know more of Him. . .and the incredible hope and joy that He gives. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life! Everything else in life we fret over, that we occupy ourselves with, pales in comparison to the Bright Lord of the Universe. He is worthy of our very best. . . and all we can offer Him. Oh, that this may be a permanent change, Lord, and that I don’t waste this precious lesson You’ve entrusted to me. . . .

Our Father, we thank You that Your gospel is not a dry, archaic story that merely happened long ago but is a living, powerful, life-altering Truth. It changes ALL OF US, from the inside out! And that you gift us with glimpses of Your amazing transformations, how You establish hope where there is no hope. . . because You are the Great God of Love Who cares! Thank You, thank You! May we stake our lives on faith in the Son of God Who loved us and gave Himself completely for us. . .

Lookin’ up,

Finding Common Ground in Kenya: Guest Blog by Betsy Vaughan

On February 12, 2012, our team departed for mission trip to Kenya.  This was my 6th time visiting/teaching the people among the tribes of Kenya.

We taught in each church for two days.  On the first day our pastor’s wife (JoAnne) and I taught on the stories of the Woman at the Well, the Woman with  the issue of blood, the Shunnamite Woman, and the Good Samaritan. The next day four of us went in to the desert to evangelize.  The first community we came to was very poor and all were very undernourished.  You can usually tell they are not getting enough food by the color of their hair, which will be brownish-red instead of black.  The ladies were all believers and were very happy to greet us.

We invited them to ask questions.   Someone asked, “What would you do if your 16-year-old daughter came home pregnant?”  What a profound opportunity I had!   So I shared with them the story of my own daughter who became pregnant at the age of 16.  She remained in our home where we loved her unconditionally, continued to take her to church, and supported her.   Our church family accepted her and loved her through this trying time.  Our first grandson is almost 30 now!  The ladies in Kenya were so glad that I do not believe in abortion but very sad to know that abortion is legal in America.

The third day JoAnne and I taught the same lessons at another church.  The ladies asked us to teach on marriage upon our return next year.  They want to be better wives, even though many of them have to share their husbands with other wives.   Many of them also have been abused and mutilated.  It is sad, but very true.  It is so amazing to see the joy they have in the Lord under those circumstances!  They love the Lord and their desire is to please Jesus and learn more about Him.  Most of them cannot read, but the ones who do share the Word with others.  The Bible (in the Maasai language) is a very valuable possession and is treated accordingly.  It brings tears to my eyes when I think about these beautiful women and how they love our Lord and Savior and treasure His Word.

Their final question was “Do men in America abuse their wives and abandon their children?”  I thought wow, if you only knew!  Then God urged me to share what happened to me as a child.  God wanted me to share about how my daddy had abused and beaten my mother and abandoned us.  Usually when I am talking about this, I am somewhat angry.  However, the Spirit came over me and caused me to cry.  Suddenly all were crying.  I thought I might be kicked out of Kenya!  As it turned out, the tribal pastor’s wife, Alice, had experienced the same thing.  It was very emotional for her and all the women who loved her.  This is how God works when we allow Him to work in our lives.   Alice needed to hear that this had happened to someone else.  Someone on the other side of the world knows what it is like not to have a daddy.  We comforted each other and loved on each other.

Another way that God used me was to encourage two young ladies on our team who had never been out of America or on a mission trip.  At different times, God seemed to bring Scripture to mind that fit the particular circumstances.  How thankful I was that God allowed me this wonderful opportunity.

Yes, I would have to say this was a very special trip. It is so amazing how God can use each one of us, no matter our background.  The important thing for us to remember is to always be available for God’s purposes

Betsy Vaughan has been married to husband Joe for 50 years and were members of Ridgecrest Baptist Church in Durham, NC, for 32 years.  Since moving to Clayton, NC in 1999, they have been members of Hocutt Baptist Church.  They have two children, 5 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren that they simply adore.  Betsy has been privileged to go on joint mission to Kenya 6 times with her church and Bay Leaf Baptist Church in Raleigh.

Coming Soon. . . .

I will be moving into my newly-designed blogsite soon; the reins have finally been turned  over to me.

But the new place needs all the furniture hauled over (old posts) and some of the new appliances are not working quite right–the widgets have yet to be “tweaked.”

But overall, the blogsite is cleaner and less cluttered than this old one, with some great additional features. My new site is warm and homey, and I hope invites you to come in, sit down, and wander around a bit. . . .

My month-long theme for April is the Body of Christ, locally and abroad. I have a great blogpost from Betsy Vaughan that I’ll air this Friday. She’s had several chances to go to Kenya and minister there with her church. . . .I think you’ll get a wonderful blessing from what she has to share!

3 DAYS until my own mission adventure with our church group to Haiti. . .There are 27 of us going, flying out to Miami, then out to Port-au-Prince on Saturday morning the 7th. We’ll return the next Saturday the 14th. Although there is spotty internet service in the evenings where we are staying, I can’t promise a post until I return home. . .

That said, I have a couple of personal prayer requests for you to carry to the Father for me:

  • I’ve had vertigo problems lately and am concerned that even with the preemptive measures I’m taking, the plane ride over might “stir the pot”—please pray that this is not a problem.
  • Along the same lines, if you would pray that my digestive system stays functioning properly—I’d appreciate it!
  • That I reflect the Lord Jesus and truly am a flexible servant, focused on Him and what He wants me to do–
  • I pray I get to meet my sponsor child, Pierre, and give him his goodies in person. If this happens, there will be plenty of pictures to come!

May the Lord bless you greatly, my brothers and sisters.  He is worthy to be praised!

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He Draws the Unwilling

The greatest gift of all is the gift of eternal life and that is life in Christ; it is Christ himself, who died to save sinful people from an eternity of separation from God.

God had answered our prayers by giving this wonderful gift, a Person who loves and redeems those who believe in him, to Jack who had been so slow of heart.

We were grateful and still we grieved. We grieved for ourselves only, because we knew Jack was healed and happy, yet we missed him.

Life went on. The church friends, fellow Christians, and others who had been so supportive during the time of illness were never forgotten for their generous gifts and loving encouragement.

The financial crisis that developed during the illness was resolved by life insurance which Jack had purchased only two years before his death at a time when he was in excellent health. He always had an uncanny ability to make good investments at the perfectly opportune moment. Some of the undeveloped land he purchased ripened as prime lots at ideal times when Mandy most needed help to pay for college and other large expenses.

God has given grace and strength to Mandy, continuing to test her faith through many trials and difficulties, to assure that his relationship with her remains two-sided and alive.

In the initial years following Jack’s death, we would often look back and remember the events surrounding his miraculous salvation and new birth. I prayed deeply to understand why Jack could not have been healed. Mandy felt it had to do with the type of personality he had. He had always been the sort to be influenced by his friends, desiring to go along with them and to please them. Perhaps he would not have been able to remain strong in the Lord, but would have fallen back into old patterns. The way that God arranged things, he was separated to his family and to the Lord while he lived. It was better to take him when he had just reached the Mountain, before he had time to stray or to backslide.

No matter how hard we may try to understand, there are mysteries of the Kingdom that we cannot fathom. Was Jack right that his cancer was a discipline? If we agree to this, are we not forgetting that God puts our sins as far as east is from west when we seek his mercy and pardon for all that we deeply regret having done?

Was it the prayer of abandonment which we had prayed, asking God to do whatever it might take to save Jack, that achieved the glorious breakthrough? Paul did instruct the Corinthian believers to hand over a man involved in sexual immorality to Satan “so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord.” (I Cor 5:5) Grievous sin calls for drastic action to be taken in order to avoid the worst consequences— namely, utter destruction on the day of God’s Judgment.

Needless to say, the prayer of abandonment should never be prayed until all other avenues have been thoroughly exhausted. Yet, had it not been prayed, would Jack have died alone, apart from the love and comfort of his family? Would divorce have been the solution to the deteriorating marriage, a way that would have brought such ugly repercussions compared with death? We do not know.

We cannot understand or explain all that occurred but we can say with complete certainty that God hears the petitions and intercessions of his people, and he places people in our lives for whom we are to intercede. He expects us not to fail in this responsibility nor to give up. Keep praying for your loved ones who do not know Christ! Keep praying for your friend who is bound up in Satan’s steel traps of alcohol, depression or other strongholds.

I once was in a deep meditation, not caught up to the third heaven, yet somewhere near a place of Revelation. I had wakened from a dream in which the word “petition” had been spoken. I turned to a Psalm that I knew contained that word, and read it…

The Lord answer you in the day of trouble!
The name of the God of Jacob protect you!
May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.
May he remember all your offerings, and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices.
May he give you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your plans!
May we shout for joy over your victory and in the name of our God set up our banners!
May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!
- Psalm 20:1-5 (RSV)

In reverie, I began to remember the message in my dream. It was the idea that in response to petitions and intercessions, God acts. He does for one at the request of another. So though he will not force a man to believe, yet in answer to prayer he will overrule him, for prayer gives privilege.

The closed heart of an unbeliever may be opened by the Lord on behalf of the prayer and fasting of a believer, for he draws the unwilling by calling his own to prayer.

He rescues the weak, the rebellious and the captured brother by way of his devoted people. The story of Lot pictures this great truth.

Of the many legacies provided to us by the Lord through Father Abraham, we have the testimony of the importance of intercession. If you have been made strong by God’s love and promises, use your strength to be an intercessor, and may the Lord remember you.

KEY VERSE: Genesis 19:29 "So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived."

Chapter One

What About Lot?
Further Study

Chapter Two

A Type of Christian
Further Study

Chapter Three

Westward Ho!
Further Study

Chapter Four

Time for Worship
Further Study

Chapter Five

Severing Ties
Further Study

Chapter Six

The Rescue
Further Study

Chapter Seven

The Promise Sealed
Further Study

Chapter Eight

Nearer to God
Further Study

Chapter Nine

The Covenant
Further Study

Chapter Ten

To Whom Much Is Given
Further Study

Chapter Eleven

God Remembered Abraham
Further Study

Chapter Twelve

A Good Ending
Further Study

He Draws the Unwilling

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April 2016

IEEE-MSN Newsletter

Madison Section Newsletter

Vol. 19, No. 4 Serving IEEE Members of South Central Wisconsin April 2016
    • Upcoming Events

      • April ECN Meeting “Cloud Servers Discussion”

        • Thursday, April 7th, 11:45-1:00 PM
          • Talk on Cloud Servers and Demonstration
        • Fee: Free
        • Location:
              2100 Winnebago Street
              Madison,  WI
        • Drinks and Snacks are available for purchase.
        • Bring your own Brown Bag lunch!
        • Please Register at the IEEE-Madison  event page.

          Talk/Demo: Tom Kaminski and Tim Chapman will give a short talk and demonstration on setting up your own Cloud Server.  One server, hosting an interactive book with Redmine project management was used for teaching.  The second server, an M2M server for data collection and display shows details of the “Internet of Things” approach to connecting small SoC to user laptops through cloud servers.

          Discussion: After the short talk, the ECN group will open the floor for discussions of participant’s experience with cloud servers.  Bring your questions, suggestions, experiences to share.

      • April Section Meeting “The Adult Role Models in Science”

        Adult Role Model in Science

        • Date: April 12, 2016, 11:4 AM – 1:15 PM
        • Lecturer: Dolly Ledin, Outreach Coordinator for UW-WISCINECE
        • Location:
             Madison Sequoya Library Branch
             Large Room on the Right
             4340 Tokay Blvd
             Madison, Wisconsin
             United States 53711
        • Details: Lecture and Pizza, Cookies and Beverage
        • Suggested Donation: $5 IEEE Members, Free for IEEE Student Members, $10 Others
        • Please Register at the IEEE Madison Section event page

          The Adult Role Models in Science (ARMS) program is founded on the basic idea that the best way to transform science education for children is to help adults—from teachers to undergraduates to researchers to parents—become and see themselves as competent scientific role models. Each trained role model can mentor many children, and that’s how ARMS is able to reach hundreds of kids each year. She will be joined by Shaheen Sutterwala who is Outreach Specialist at Center for Biology Education at the UW Madison.

          Dolly Ledin works to engage scientists in collaborating with educators to engage youth in the process of science. She has worked as outreach coordinator for the University of Wisconsin WISCIENCE for the past 25 years.  She has worked as an elementary and middle school teacher, an environmental educator with the Wis. Dept. of Natural Resources and an adjunct faculty with Univ. of Wisconsin Stevens Point. Most of Dolly’s work has focused on the Madison community, building long-term partnerships between the university, local K-12 schools and organizations that serve youth.  She has also led environmental science courses for teachers in Puerto Rico, led university students on a study-abroad course in rural Ecuador and spent a year as the environmental education coordinator at the Cloud Forest School in Monteverde, Costa Rica.  She has an MS in Land Resources from UW Madison Institute for Environmental Studies (now the Nelson Inst.)   She received the Sister Joel Read Civic Leadership Award from the Wisconsin Campus Compact in 2015.
    • Section News

      • Review of March Events

        March LMAG Meeting/tour: “Charter Street Heating Plant” (Review by Charles Cowie and Chuck Kime)  The tour of the Charter Street plant was conducted by Campus Utilities Engineer Jeffrey A. Pollei, P.E. Jeff summarized the history of UW heating and cooling plants and described the factors influencing the planning and design of the new Charter Street plant. The tour included the control room and control systems, the new 225,000 LB/HR natural gas boilers, the natural gas meter pit, the new utility tunnel and steam exit locations, the water treatment plant, the steam turbine generator, the campus cooling chillers and pumping systems, and the backup fuel oil tank. Jeff described the auxiliary equipment and technical features of each major piece of equipment included in the tour. You can read about the history of the Charter Street Heating and Cooling Plant here. Boldt, the construction contractor also has information on the plant here. More images by Chuck Cowie are available here.
        Composite Charter Street

      March Section Meeting: “Magnetics + Mechanics + Nanoscale  = Electromagnetic Future”

          Our Mar 17 talk featured a talk by Dr. Greg Carman.  Instead of talking about the planned topic of CDs, Dr. Carman talked to us about his researching into future data storage technology. Dr. Carman recommended the book Innovators by Walter Isaacson.  The book is about how a collection of small innovations made computers possible.  He believes that his research into converting electricity into magnetism at a small scale may be part of similarly revolutionary technologies of the future. There is certainly room to improve data storage efficiency.  An internal combustion engine is about 20% efficient, and most people agree we need more efficient alternatives.  MRAM storage is 0.0003%.  Clearly this is an area with great opportunity for improvement.
          It has been known for centuries that current through a wire creates a magnetic field (See Fig. 1).  The trouble is if we do this on a small scale, we need a tiny wire, and wire resistance becomes a problem.  We need a different mechanism to do this.  One way is Dr. Carman’s area of research, strain mediated multiferroics – research that uses materials whose magnetic field changes with mechanical strain (See Fig. 2).
          We want a material whose magnetic field changes with electricity. The Curie brothers discovered piezoelectric material in 1880.  In 1894 they searched unsuccessfully for a magnetic “magnetoelectric” analog to this effect. In 2002, Dr Ryu demonstrated it’s possible to laminate magnetoelastic materials to piezoelectric materials so an electric field can modulate the direction of a magnetic field.  In the late 2000s, researchers at Berkely started doing research on single-domain nanostructures.  (See Fig. 3)
          Dr. Carmen’s research uses a film of nickel 30-100nm thick. (See Fig. 4) The research could radically increase storage efficiency.  Good modeling is needed because it’s impractical to work out the best geometries by trial-and-error.  Testing concepts on such a small scale is challenging.  There may be future applications beyond storage, such turning a string of molecules using changing magnetic fields to push liquid on a very small scale.  (See Fig. 5)
          NOTE:  The talk was recorded and Dr. Carman’s Presentation may be viewed

      Summary Images

                             Figures from Dr. Carmen’s Talk on Multiferroics
      • Upcoming Meetings

        April ECN Meeting: This meeting builds on the information presented by Dominic DiMarco about “IoT” technology.  The meeting will demonstrate how easy it is to create a cloud server for several applications.  Please come and bring your own “Tales for the Cloud”.

        April Section Meeting: This meeting will be Co-Sponsored by the Life Member Affinity Group and the Engineers in Medicine and Biology Chapter.  Dolly Ledin has spent many years helping to educate children. Her current role as Outreach Coordinator for the ARMS program at UW-Madison.  The Adult Role Models in Science (ARMS) program is founded on the basic idea that the best way to transform science education for children is to help adults. What’s a scientific role model? It isn’t just someone who can present scientific information to children in an interesting way. It’s someone who’s there with them over time to cultivate their curiosity and excitement about science, help them think like scientists, and nurture both their desire to learn more and their belief that they can. It’s also someone who’s a role model to other adults, taking leadership in science education and outreach. Can IEEE members participate as role models? , Many of the LMAG are retired educators and several already participate in children’s education. Join them!

      • Volunteers Needed

        Micro Volunteers: Do you have some time to spare to help IEEE-Madison Section?  Perhaps you have a meeting topic that you would like to see us host and could find a speaker.   Maybe you have time to call a few members who might have forgotten to renew their membership.

        Please consider sending some time helping with the Section activities.  Let me know (tjkaminski (at) ieee.org).

    • Regular Meetings

      • Section Meetings

        The third Thursday of January through May, and September through December is reserved for a meeting to provide recent research, developments, trends and/or innovations in one of our membership’s technical areas.

      • Life Member Affinity Group

        The first Thursday of January, March, May, September and November is reserved for a meeting on a topic selected from a broad range including such areas as technology, science, history, culture and leisure.

      • IEEE-MSN-ECN Networking Meetings

        • Purpose: Presentations, Discussions, networking
        • Date: First Thursday of even-numbered months
        • Time: 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM
        • Location: Sector67, 2100 Winnebago Street (East Side of Madison)
        • Parking: Park in lot or on Winnebago Street.
        • Process: Members are encouraged to make introductions, describe endeavors, and make request for: contacts in target companies, needs, resources.
        • Contact: For assistance, call Tim Chapman 2 0 6 – 2 5 7 0
    • Membership Upgrades

    • Those interested in upgrading their IEEE membership level should send their resumes or other information showing five years of significant performance in an IEEE-designated field to Charles J Gervasi via email at cj(at)cgervasi.com. Madison Section Board will attempt to find Senior IEEE members knowledgeable in the applicant’s area of practice who may be able to provide references. You are invited to attend the informal networking portion of the monthly Section meetings (starting at 11:30am) to meet the Section Board members and discuss intentions.

    • About IEEE

        The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (read Eye-Triple-E) is an international non-profit, professional organization dedicated to advancing technology innovation and excellence for the betterment of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE’s highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities. It has the most members of any technical professional organization in the world, with more than 300,000 members in around 150 countries. The IEEE consists of 38 societies, organized around specialized technical fields, with more than 300 local organizations that hold regular meetings. Discover what IEEE Member Discounts can offer you. The Member Discounts portfolio consists of insurance products and programs for the home, office and travel, all at excellent group rates and reduced pricing. Visit IEEE Member Discounts to see what’s available in your location and enjoy the savings. For more information, please visit:

    • Madison IEEE Section

      The IEEE-Madison Section of the IEEE is a section in Region 4 of the IEEE-USA organized to serve IEEE members in the Madison, WI area with over 600 members. The 2016 Officers and Board Members are Charles Gervasi – Chair, Matthew Bartlett – Vice Chair, Tom Kaminski – Treasurer, Steve Schultheis – Secretary, Timothy Chapman – Webmaster, Tom Kaminski – ECN Chair, Dennis Bahr – Engineering in Medicine and Biology Chapter Chair, Ann E. Thompson – Educational Activities Chair, Charles Cowie – Life Member Affinity Group Chair, Chuck Kime – Life Member Affinity Group Vice Chair, Scott Olsen – Membership Development Chair, Members at Large: Mitch Bradt, Clark Johnson, Craig Heilman, Dennis Bahr, Sandy Rotter.

    • Job Openings

      Check out WIEES.com for electrical engineering jobs in Madison and the surrounding region. This site is maintained as a service for electrical engineers. Jobs are displayed starting with the most recent postings first. You can filter results by location and job type. If you are hiring an electrical engineer in our area, for full-time or contract work, you can post the job in the Contact Us section on the WIEES.com site. Here is a sampling of the new job listings:

      • Electrical Design Engineering Manager, Chicago
      • Electronics Design Engineer, Sheboygan
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    • Contact Us

      The IEEE-Madison Section has a number of volunteer positions open if you are interested in helping out. Please direct any questions or comments to Tom Kaminski (Newsletter Editor) via email to tjkaminski(at)ieee.org.


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Hot Docs 2018: Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie

Mattel sets out to do a complete overhaul of its signature Barbie dolls in Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie. Introduced in 1959 by Ruth and Elliot Handler, Barbie is one of the most recognizable brands in the world. However, Barbie has frequent received criticism for portraying an unrealistic thin and blonde female image. In response to […]

Hot Docs 2018: Our New President

The story of Trump’s election is told entirely through Russian propaganda in Our New President. Compiled from material from Russia’s stations Russia-1, Russia TV, and NTV, the media empire of Russia works overtime to sabotage Hilary Clinton, while celebrating Donald Trump. This results in a film about news, which is completely devoid of any true […]

Hot Docs 2018: Shirkers

A Singapore filmmaker revisits a film she made in her youth in Shirkers. When she was 18 years old, Sandi Tan set out to shoot Singapore’s first road movie with her friends Jasmine Ng and Sophie Siddique. The film was directed by Sandi’s enigmatic American mentor Georges Cardona, who would disappear along with the footage after […]

Hot Docs 2018: Slut or Nut: The Diary of a Rape Trial

A rape victim goes through the process of bringing her sexual assault to trial in Slut or Nut: The Diary of a Rape Trial. In 2015, Mandi Gray was sexually assaulted by a union leader she was dating from York University. She decides to report the assault to police, but is initially assumed that she […]

Hot Docs 2018: Constructing Albert

Chef Albert Adrià hopes to step out from his more famous brother’s shadow in Constructing Albert. With his restaurant elBulli, Ferran Adrià redefined the world of gastronomy and can be considered one of the greatest chefs in the world. Ferran’s younger brother Albert began as a teenager working in the kitchen of elBulli and follow the closure of the restaurant in […]

Hot Docs 2018: Roll Red Roll

Social media plays a major role in the case of a teenager girl raped in a small town in Ohio in Roll Red Roll. Steubenville is a town in Ohio best known for the local high school football team Big Red. At a party, a teenage girl is raped by members of the team, which causes […]

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The sequence of events leading to Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 US Presidential election is broken down in Active Measures. It has been alleged that Russia utilized active measures, a Soviet term for actions of political warfare, to interfere with the 2016 US Presidential election, leading to the election of Donald Trump. This wouldn’t […]

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The life and career of Canadian musician Randy Bachman is told in Bachman. Developing a love for music very early on growing up in Winnipeg, Bachman joined Chad Allen & The Expressions in the early 1960s, which evolved into The Guess Who, which generated hits such as “American Woman” and “These Eyes.” After leaving The […]

Hot Docs 2018: Anote’s Ark

The president of the island nation of Kiribati fights for the survival of his people in Anote’s Ark. Kiribati is a low-lying nation in the Pacific, which has been severely affected by the effects of climate change. With rising ocean levels, it is estimated the Kiribati would be no more within a century. It is for this […]

Hot Docs 2018: Believer

Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds organizes a music festival in support of LGBTs in the Morman community in Believer. Raised as part of the Morman church, Dan Reynolds begins to have a major crisis of faith involving the church’s strict stance against gay rights, which has contributed to an pandemic of suicides by LGBT youth […]


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New Store and Some Free Fiction

For those that have been wanting a Tyenee Pendant from my Black Raven stories can find one on this site.  So far I only have the copper pendants.  Depending how they go, I’ll be expanding to Bronze, Silver, and the others.  I did have a few gold pendants made for myself and a few others.  There is one gold left and will be doing some special giveaway for it in the future.

In other news, several years ago I narrated my story The Mist of Lichthafen for the TTA Press podcast, Transmissions From Beyond.  It was a lot of fun.  However, TTA eventually pulled the podcast site down.  So I finally uploaded my recording to YouTube and SoundCloud for people to enjoy.

For those not familiar with the story, The Mist of Lichthafen was originally published in Black Static Magazine and was my first sale. It’s a heist/horror story, and while it’s technically not a Black Raven story, it shares the same world and themes. Many of the places in Mist of Lichthafen also appear in the Black Raven adventure Thieves Duel.  The quality of the recording is okay.  I wish my mouse wheel wasn’t so loud and there is a moment where I fail horribly as doing a little girl’s voice. But it’s still fun.

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ANDPOP have released a new interview with Ms. Grey, conducted by Evan Ross – they discuss why she chose DON’T LOOK DOWN as the title of her album, why she considers DON’T LOOK DOWN to be her album debut, as well as revealing an interesting tidbit to her Canadian fans!

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“….having just released her second studio album Don’t Look Down  (although she considers it her debut), the singer’s success so far is nothing to scoff at.  With a Grammy nomination and the support of big names rappers and producers like Eminem and Alex da Kid, it’s no surprise that Grey is poised to become a household name….

If you could say one thing to your Canadian fans what would it be?

(pauses) I don’t know…I love Canada. I have a funny story about Canada though. For the longest time I thought I was conceived in Thunder Bay, which is why I named my production company after it (laughs) I was almost Canadian….”

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Happy birthday to me!

Jan 30th 2010

This is my second birthday as a free man, and I honestly can say that I never felt so happy: everyday I do what I want — as opposed to what other people think I should do, check this post —, I continuously meet beautiful people, I visit incredible places, I learn everyday something new, and everyday is quite different from the preceding one.

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Esprimi un desiderio, spegni le candeline e â€¦ noi la mangeremo pensando a te!

Of course I miss my family and friends (my mum sent me this birthday cake, but unfortunately it was just the photo!) but you know I have all of you in my heart everyday. I am currently in Montevideo, Uruguay, thinking on where to go next — although some beach seems to be the right answer :-) I don’t know for how long I will be able to afford this lifestyle, while one thing I know for sure is that I will not come back to the other one. It is long ago that I stopped getting worried in advance.

Bottom line: we are the owners of our own life, and this life deserves to be lived fully. It is our responsibility to do so. To be happy. My thanks go to you, all my friends and my family, for loving and supporting me every single day in this adventure that is my new life.

I am happy.

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  1. Marita says:

    ma quando Ã¨ stato il 30 gennaio?
    sono andata……forse i miei neuroni stanno facendo il giro del mondo, solo che mi hanno lasciata a casa…

    imperdonabiliAUGURIINRITARDO e grazie a te oggi sorrido.
    ci vediamo fra un po’ vero?…..

    • pt says:

      Grazie, grazie.

      Ci vediamo fra un po’ via Skype o similari, mi sa. Altrimenti o venite voi a trovarmi o vi tocca aspettare un pochettino :-)

      Un bacio a M+O

  2. bruno says:

    go on to feel free my friend

  3. Tala says:

    straaugurozzi in straritardo PIERGI!
    felice cammino!

  4. Tala says:

    si scusa dimenticavo…andrea tala!…mi sto guardando tutte le foto…

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Celebreate July 4th with Uncle Sam...

I've shared this little Uncle Sam I made with several yahoo groups (some other demonstators have even made variations of him) but I haven't shared him on my blog, so I decided to do so for the July 4th weekend. He's made using the Top Note die (several colors of CS) and several punches. I asked around, thinking surely someone else had made one, but none turned up so I had to make one myself! I love how he turned out. I made this fellow, attached him to Blue CS and put him on a little white bag, for a cute July 4th "treat bag". I sent that one to SU! Hope you all have a happy 4th of July! I'm heading to my sisters, so you'll hear from me Thursday! Be safe!! Smiles, Laura

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Readers of The Washington Post, take note: the paper's online paywall launched today.

Publisher Katharine Weymouth last week announced the Post would begin "phasing in our metered subscription model" on June 12, but noted it "will take us a few weeks to get everyone into the system."

Non-subscribers will be allowed to view 20 pieces of content per month, but that limit isn't set in stone: The paywall can be circumvented by accessing the site through search engines, outside links and social media "regardless of the number of articles they have previously viewed," Weymouth wrote in the letter to readers.

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Regulator’s research finds barriers to schemes and ‘poor service’ from barristers

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The schemes which allow the public and lay clients to directly instruct barristers without first going through a solicitor is ‘working well’, according to the Bar Standards Board, despite findings of ‘barriers’ to instruction and evidence of ‘poor service’ from some counsel.

In a new report, the BSB has concluded that both the public and licensed access schemes are operating well, the former of which was found to be providing ‘a valuable service to clients’.

The independent review did, however, identify barriers that make some consumers unable or unwilling to access a legal provider, as well as concern that barristers and their clerks may not have enough support to manage public access work. It also highlighted potentially poor client service.

The BSB found an ‘inability of potential clients to fulfil the functions traditionally handled by a solicitor, such as the conduct of litigation’.

The research showed a lack of clarity over what constitutes the conduct of litigation from both barristers and clerks. A lack of training was said to be a contributing factor to this issue.

Interviews with 13 public access clients who had made complaints against their barristers highlighted poor communication and timeliness, and work not completed in accordance with instructions, as being their main areas of grievance.

Not being able to meet their barrister face-to-face was also commented upon by complainants, as was a lack of available plain English guidance and information packs.

Some clients said their barristers had not provided them with a breakdown of the costs and so could do not understand how fees were calculated.

By contrast, many barristers said that dealing directly with lay clients was unfamiliar territory and that clients often had unrealistic expectations of the scheme and the role of the barrister.

These misconceptions and expectations often prompted ‘excessive’ correspondence with the client, which had an impact on the case’s profitability and added an administrative burden for the barrister.

Many barristers were found to be uncertain about how to charge fees to the lay client and some said undercharged as a result. Respondents also generally appeared to lack an understanding of market prices or a sense of a need to charge competitively.

Several respondents said they had spent time and effort chasing up fees which ‘would not have been the case if instructed by a professional client’.

A lack of adequate training aimed at understanding and managing client expectations was identified as a potential cause of poor service.

Meanwhile, interviews with consumer organisations identified costs, the threat of instructions being returned, and the impression that barristers were ‘intimidating and inaccessible’ as barriers to clients.

It was also suggested that barristers are often ill-equipped to deal with vulnerable clients, as they are not as experienced in this area compared to solicitors.

The report found some barristers ‘do not think public access work is suitable for vulnerable clients, and these cases are often declined as part of the clerks’ initial screening.

However, many of these clients were found to have approached barristers after being turned away by solicitors who viewed their case as being unlikely to succeed.

Just over half of surveyed barristers had undertaken up to five public access cases in the past year. Nearly two-thirds declined between one and five cases put them. Nearly 60 per cent stated that the clients or the case itself (50 per cent) were unsuitable for the scheme.

The BSB has agreed to implement all the review’s recommendations including: a re-assessment of the training for public access barristers; amendments to the rules and guidance for both schemes; and a revision of the public documentation for those wishing to access the schemes.

The BSB’s director of policy and strategy, Ewen MacLeod, said: ‘Overall, our review has found that the public and licensed access schemes offer an important service to the public.

‘These perform a valuable role in promoting consumer choice by increasing the ways in which legal services can be accessed by the public.

‘However, we cannot afford to be complacent and want to make sure both public and licensed access schemes continue to work well and that the challenges identified in our report are fully addressed.’

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2 singers wear their pro-Trump fashions on Grammy carpet

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And a year ago, she had a pro-life message on the Grammys red carpet.

The gown was created by Desi Lee Allinger-Nelson of Desi Designs Couture, Villa told The Hollywood Reporter.

MAGA is having a small fashion moment at the 2019 Grammys. Keep America great. That's right, baby.

This year, she wore a dress that included wire, bricks, and the phrase "BUILD THE WALL". "And I'm reflecting millions of Americans out there who voted for Trump. We are here. We're here all around the world, 50 million of us".

Villa, known more for her support of the President than for her music, wore a Make America Great Again gown at the 2017 Grammy Awards and a pro-life dress with an image of a foetus at the show in 2018.

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After her red carpet appearance, Villa took to Twitter to defend her pro-Trump attire and the president. "Another tweeted, "#JoyVilla is back in pure trash box form".

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Donald J. Trump has two big supporters at the GRAMMYs. After all, they both mentioned in red carpet interviews that they have new albums out.

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What If a Space Shuttle Orbiter Had to Ditch? (1975)

Final approach: the inner and outer wing flaps and body flap are visible at the aft end of the descending Orbiter. Image credit: NASA
High on any pilot's list of things not to do with an aircraft is to ditch - that is, to make an emergency landing in water. Planes that nimbly slip through air become about as graceful as a brick when they touch an ocean swell. Anyone who has flubbed a dive and belly-flopped knows how painfully hard water can be.

Aircraft ditching behavior became of great interest in the United States during the Second World War, when B-24 Liberator bombers damaged by enemy fighters and flak - or simply lost and low on fuel - ended otherwise successful bombing runs over Nazi Germany by ditching in the English Channel or North Sea. Even in calm seas, the B-24 did not fare well. More often than not the plane broke apart and sank within minutes.

The Arsenal of Democracy: Workers assemble B-24 Liberator aircraft in the Consolidated Vultee plant in Fort Worth, Texas. More than 18,000 B-24s flew a wide range of missions in all Second World War operational theaters. Image credit: Wikipedia
Because of this, on 20 September 1944, four months past the beginning of the D-Day invasion of Europe, a B-24 Liberator with two brave airmen on board intentionally ditched in the calm waters of Virginia's James River. Close by in a small boat was a team of engineers from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Langley Aeronautical Laboratory in nearby Hampton, Virginia. As the 44,100-pound, four-engine, straight-wing aircraft skimmed the water's surface at 97 miles per hour with its landing gear up, instruments inside the fuselage collected data on motion and deceleration.

The B-24's belly touched water at a point just behind the wing trailing edges. The plane began to skip, its nose rising and dipping to the left; then the water seemed to grab the bomber hard. Inside, the crew felt deceleration equal to 2.6 times the force of Earth's gravity. It threw them forward against their safety harnesses. Propellers still whirling, the plane nosed down and pieces flew out of an enormous cloud of spray that momentarily hid it from view. Rescuers moved in quickly; meanwhile, both pilots climbed atop the aircraft.

The men were in good shape, but their plane, a veteran of several European bombing missions, would never fly again. Even under the relatively benign conditions of the test, its fuselage had cracked, nearly breaking in two. The crack acted as a hinge, so the plane floated, rapidly filling with water, with both its tail and its nose in the air. The right inboard motor was gone, sheared away upon contact with the water.

When the NACA engineers lowered themselves inside to recover their instruments, they were in for a shock. Almost every piece of equipment bolted to the interior of the B-24 had torn loose and been flung forward, forming a nearly impassable heap just behind the cockpit. They found their instruments, secure in water-tight containers; meanwhile, a U.S. Navy salvage boat with a crane moved in fast to hoist the plane out of the water before it joined its missing engine 30 feet down on the muddy bottom of the James River. Smaller boats collected floating pieces.

On the salvage boat's deck, the plane looked even worse than it had in the river. A large dent marked where its belly first touched the water at a descent rate of 1.8 feet per second. Though they had been reinforced for the ditching test, the bomb bay doors had been pressed inward. The bomber's thin skin was rumpled over large areas; where it wasn't creased and puckered, it was ripped.

The 20 September 1944 ditching test became a pivotal event in aerospace history. It brought home to engineers as never before the powerful forces that ditching brought to bear on aircraft. It led NACA Langley to study ditching behavior in many types of aircraft. Because ditching full-size planes was both costly and dangerous, the lab developed techniques for testing scale-model airplanes in a water trough in what became known as the Langley Impacting Structures Facility (LISF). Above all, their experiments showed that ditching was actually crashing.

Fast forward 30 years to 1975. The era of scale-model experiments was gradually drawing to a close - computer models of complex phenomena, though still crude and costly, had made their debut in aviation and other fields. When NASA had formed in 1958, Langley had become one of its research centers. With the splashdown of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Apollo Command Module in the Pacific Ocean in July 1975, the era of U.S. space capsules was over. The era of wings in Earth orbit was about the begin.

The Space Shuttle stack as envisioned in 1975 with major components indicated. Image credit: NASA
NASA and its contractors envisioned several plausible scenarios which might lead a Space Shuttle Orbiter to ditch. The Orbiter was a glider, so it could not try again if it missed its runway at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida. If the Orbiter crew realized the problem in time, they might ditch in the Banana or Indian Rivers or in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Canaveral.

In the event that two of the Orbiter's three Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) failed early in its ascent to space, the Orbiter would need to return to KSC; however, depending upon when the engines failed, it might not have enough altitude and energy to turn around, line up with the Shuttle runway, and stretch out its descent. In that case, it would probably fall short of the coast.

In October 1975, William Thomas, a former Langley engineer who had taken a job with Grumman Aerospace Corporation in Bethpage, New York, published results of 67 tests of a 1/20-scale model of the Space Shuttle Orbiter. The tests occurred in the LISF starting in 1974. The actual Orbiter was planned to be 37.2 meters (122 feet) long, so the tests saw a 1.86-meter (6.1-foot) fiberglass and balsa-wood Orbiter launched into a broad trough of water using a ceiling-mounted "catapult" device. The trough could simulate smooth seas or seas with swells and waves.

The model included a replaceable balsa insert designed to give some sense of the belly damage a ditching Orbiter could expect. Weights enabled Thomas to simulate either 32,000-pound or 65,000-pound cargoes in its cargo bay. With the lighter cargo, the full-scale Orbiter would weigh 85,464 kilograms (188,247 pounds); with the heavier, 103,200 kilograms (227,313 pounds). The corresponding model weights were 10.68 kilograms (23.53 pounds) and 12.9 kilograms (28.41 pounds). Small lead weights permitted tests at intermediate Orbiter weights and allowed Thomas to trim the model so that it would, for example, dip one wing as it approached the water.

The model also included adjustable flaps and landing gear which could be installed to simulate gear-down ditching or left off to simulate ditching with landing gear doors closed. Flaps and landing gear were designed to break away at scale stresses - for example, on a full-sized Orbiter, the main landing gear would fail under a load of 356,270 pounds. The 1/20-scale landing gear would break if subjected to a torque of 6.41 pounds.

In the first of the 67 tests, the model Orbiter's nose was pitched up 16°, its aft-mounted body flap - located below the SSME engine bells - was tilted down 11.7°, and its wing flaps (inner and outer) were tilted up 4°. The water in the LISF trough was calm.

The 1/20-scale Orbiter, with a simulated mass of 93,000 kilograms and a simulated speed of 53.5 meters per second (just 120 miles per hour - slow for a Shuttle landing), contacted the water with its landing gear up. It skipped, then sank deeper on the next contact. The model decelerated very rapidly - it stopped four fuselage lengths from where it first touched the water. In the full-size Orbiter, this would have amounted to about 160 meters (490 feet).  It was, Thomas commented, a "very stable run."

Beginning with Test 4, the model Orbiter was fitted with instruments for recording normal (fore-aft) and longitudinal (left-right) deceleration. These revealed that even a perfect ditching would likely harm the Orbiter crew. Apart from the instrumentation, the Test 4 Orbiter model was configured exactly like the Test 1 model. It touched calm water with its nose pitched up 12° moving at a scale speed of 72 meters per second (161 miles per hour).

Had it been a full-scale Orbiter carrying a crew, they would, after the initial skip, have been thrown forward against their straps with a force equal to 8.3 times the pull of Earth's gravity. As the Orbiter swerved to a stop, they would have felt a longitudinal jolt of 4.5 gravities. Test 4 was, it would turn out, only a little more arduous than average.

For Test 5, conditions were virtually identical to those of Test 4. Landing speed was slightly higher at 75.1 meters per second (168 miles per hour). Yet had the model been a full-scale Orbiter, it would have subjected its crew to 19.4 gravities of deceleration when it made its second contact with the water. The model's inner wing flaps broke free; this hinted that structural damage on the full-scale Orbiter was likely.

The first test of an Orbiter model with a simulated 65,000-pound payload (Test 17) saw a scale deceleration of nearly 11 gravities. In all, 14 of the 67 tests subjected the model Orbiter to greater than 10 gravities of scale deceleration.

Tests 9 and 62 were without question the most dramatic. In both, the model Orbiter stalled following release and hit the water tail first.

Other tests saw the 1/20-scale Orbiter model skip along simulated 2.1-meter (seven-foot) wave crests, plow through waves with a series of sharp jolts, dive under the water and bob to the surface, and lose both its inner and outer wing flaps. Tests with landing gear down never went well; the gear always broke away. In a full-scale Orbiter, tearing away the landing gear would likely have permitted water to enter through the damaged wheel wells.

Thomas's interpretation of the results of the 67 tests was notable: "a fairly smooth runout is expected but considerable fuselage tearing and leaking or flooding will occur." He was confident, however, that a full-scale Orbiter would remain afloat if its wings, which contained hollow spaces, remained intact. The more damage the wings suffered, the faster the Orbiter would sink.

The LISF 1/20-scale Orbiter tests were, of course, simplistic. They did not reflect the fact that Space Shuttle Orbiters were not designed to withstand the deceleration loads most of the model tests indicated. The average ditching deceleration ranged between five and eight gravities; this would have been sufficient to cause significant structural damage. In other words, in almost all cases, the Orbiter would have snapped apart.

Moments before the end: the plume from the Solid Rocket Booster leak that doomed Challenger is clearly visible. Image credit: NASA
A little more than a decade later (28 January 1986), the Challenger accident made obvious the Space Shuttle Orbiter's fracture lines. The Orbiter Challenger did not explode; rather, the brown External Tank (ET) upon which it rode and from which it drew liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen propellants for its SSMEs was destroyed by a malfunctioning Solid Rocket Booster (severe wind shear might also have played a role).

The fuel and oxidizer the ET contained came together and ignited, producing an explosion, but it was aerodynamic forces that tore the Orbiter apart. Basically, as its ET disintegrated, Challenger's nose stopped pointing the right way. This subjected it to drag and deceleration.

The crew compartment broke free, trailing behind it a comet's tail of cables. Some of the crew inside remained conscious long enough to take prescribed - though futile - emergency measures. The compartment remained mostly intact until it hit the water about two minutes later.

The Payload Bay disintegrated, but Challenger's main payload, a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite with an attached Inertial Upper Stage, remained more or less intact as it flew free of the fireball and fell toward the Atlantic. Challenger's wings separated, partly disintegrating. Each, however, remained recognizable in images and video captured from the ground. The aft compartment containing the SSMEs also emerged from the fireball mostly intact.

After Challenger, the Space Shuttle Program came under intense scrutiny. The Report to the President by the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident cited Thomas's 1975 report when it stated that the probability was high that a Shuttle Orbiter would break up and sink after a ditching. Even if the Orbiter remained intact, the Commission report continued, cargoes mounted in the Payload Bay would break loose from their supports, slide forward, and smash into the back of the crew cabin. Though Thomas's report did not in fact say these things, they were logical conclusions based on the results of the 67 1/20-scale model Orbiter test runs.

YouTube - "Ditching of a B-24 Airplane into the James River" - https://youtu.be/WjadMxpXprk (uploaded by Jeff Quitney - accessed 16 January 2016)

YouTube - "Space Shuttle Orbiter Ditching Investigation of a 1/20-Scale Model" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlG-HcZIDl0 (uploaded by Jeff Quitney - accessed 16 January 2016)

Ditching Investigations of Dynamic Models and Effects of Design Parameters on Ditching Characteristics, Report 1347, L. Fisher and E. Hoffman, Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1958

Ditching Investigation of a 1/20-Scale Model of the Space Shuttle Orbiter, NASA Contractor Report 2593, W. Thomas, NASA, October 1975

Report to the President by the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Volume I, pp. 182-183, June 1986

"A Plane Crash in 1944 Is Saving Lives Today," Peter Frost, Daily Press, 22 February 2009 - http://articles.dailypress.com/2009-02-22/news/0902210116_1_b-24-successful-emergency-landing-hudson-river (accessed 16 January 2016)

More Information

What If an Apollo Saturn Rocket Exploded on the Launch Pad? (1965)

What If a Lunar Module Ran Low on Fuel and Aborted Its Landing? (1966)

Where to Launch and Land the Space Shuttle? (1971-1972)

What Shuttle Should Have Been: NASA's October 1977 Space Shuttle Flight Manifest

One Space Shuttle, Two Cargo Volumes: Martin Marietta's Aft Cargo Carrier (1982)

  1. The ocean. Not recommended. I live on the Atlantic. More precisely near the "Graveyard of the Atlantic", Cape Hatteras. Florida is near the Gulf Stream. Also quite unsettled. Normally 4-6 foot swells on a calm day.

    Which reminds me. If Elon ever gets his rocket to land on a pitching barge, that will be a feat.

    If a shuttle had to ditch, lord help them. But we're done with that now. I liked the discussion of Challenger. Had the Challenger "dismounted" before the center tank exploded, we might still have some 7 jostled, but breathing astronauts now. That big flat bottom of the orbiter would have made quite the surfboard.

    1. Ben:

      The trouble is, the Orbiter was structurally fragile. It had to do what it was meant to do, stay pointed as it was meant to be pointed, touch down as it was meant to touch down, or in almost all cases the vehicle was lost and the crew killed. We didn't spend enough to give it adequate margins.

      The Presidential Commission noted that NASA had added a "fast separation" option to the Orbiter software immediately after Challenger. However, it noted also that in all computer model testsof the new abort mode, the Orbiter hung up on its aft ET attach points and pitched backwards. Basically, it began an end-over-end tumble - but the Orbiter's frailty meant that it wouldn't complete even one complete somersault before it broke apart.

    2. Interesting. Makes alot of sense about the earlier designs with a smaller orbiter for personnel only mounted on an expendable rocket. Any explosion would have been from behind and escape technology of the day would have been a follow-on from the escape towers of Apollo, possibly.

      An alternate cargo configuration would have been for larger items, and I think you covered that in part with an earlier post on the Saturn IV-B.

      Its a shame the Air Force didn't get to finish MOL and Dyna-Soar. That technology seems a good bridge between Apollo and Shuttle. MOL would have been analogous the Salyuts of the day, I suspect.

      Ah Nixon. One wonders what a Johnson or Humphrey space program would have been from 1968-76.

  2. Remarkably, there is a film of the B-24 ditching on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggraQgZGe4Y

    1. Stuart:

      You'll note that I have a link to a YouTube video showing the 20 September 1944 B-24 experiment at the top of my sources. Just below that is a link to video of some of the 1/20-scale Orbiter test runs. The 2009 newspaper piece at the bottom of my sources contains reminiscences of one of the Langley participants in the 1944 test.

  3. Not being able to land in the sea (unlike the Apollo programme) meant that NASA had to have a large number of transoceanic abort landing sites to cover the event of an engine failure during launch. There is a list of them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_shuttle_landing_sites

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SPOKANE, Wash. — Rui Hachimura insists it’s true, and Tommy Lloyd swears it’s not.

The question was simple: How many languages does Lloyd, the Gonzaga men’s basketball assistant tasked with recruiting internationally, know how to speak?

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Hachimura, the 6-foot-8 sophomore forward from Toyama, Japan, found Gonzaga intriguing because of the Bulldogs’ long history of developing international bigs — plus he liked that Lloyd, the GU assistant tasked with international recruiting, knew a lot about Japan.

“Tommy speaks a little bit of Japanese, he likes Japanese culture, he knew about sumo wrestling and he loves Japanese food,” Hachimura told USA TODAY Sports.

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Lloyd waves off the bilingual claim. “I can say, ‘Arigatou’ which means ‘thank you’ but that’s it,” he insisted. It’s understandable why outsiders would question him.

In almost two decades at Gonzaga, Lloyd has brought in players from Japan to France to Poland to Germany to Lithuania. Multiple programs recruit internationally, but the Bulldogs have corned the market on it. Once a cute Cinderella story, the Zags have grown into a mid-major powerhouse, in part because of their love of overseas projects.

About 17 years ago, when Lloyd joined head coach Mark Few’s staff, Few told Lloyd he needed to find his own recruiting niche, something that would set him apart from every other college basketball assistant trying to find the next All-American. So Lloyd, who’s been hooked on traveling since his sophomore year of high school after a trip to Sweden and the Netherlands, hopped on a plane.

“I’ve always tried to look at our international recruits as our opportunity to get McDonald’s All-America caliber players, for sure,” Lloyd said.

The Zags’ first real international star was Ronny Turiaf, the 2005 West Coast Conference player of the year, who hailed from France. Since then, Lloyd’s brought a slew of international players to the Jesuit school in eastern Washington. All this recruiting success across oceans, and Lloyd swears he only speaks two languages: Regular English and Broken English.

Last season, 7-foot-1 center Przemek Karnowski played a key role in helping Gonzaga advance to its first Final Four. This year, the Zags again have an international feel with Hachimura, Killian Tillie from France and Joel Ayayi and Jacob Larsen of Denmark.

“The way Gonzaga plays is a really good fit for European players,” explained Tillie, who averages 12.2 points and 6.2 rebounds per game for the No. 11 Zags (21-4), who travel to No. 12 Saint Mary’s on Saturday. The Gaels (23-2) have an international big of their own in 6-foot-11 Australian center Jock Landale, who averages a double-double (22.8 points, 10.8 rebounds) and is likely to win WCC Player of the Year honors.

“They like the high-low here,” Tillie said. “Everyone (in American) wants to be a guard, that’s true, but over there (in Europe) we play more with the bigs, and that’s like Gonzaga.”

Tillie always knew he’d wind up in the states: His oldest brother Kim, now 29, played basketball at Utah and Kevin, now 27, won back-to-back NCAA volleyball titles at UC-Irvine. Their father, Laurent, competed in the 1988 and 1992 Olympics for the French national volleyball team and their mother, Carolina, captained the Netherlands volleyball team.

Lloyd estimates he takes two or three international trips a year to scout players. Some college staffs have a protocol where the head coach has to see a prospect play in person before the school will offer him. Few doesn’t believe in that.

“You take one look at Sabonis on tape and it’s like yeah, we’ll take him,” Few laughed. “But there’s a comfort level (for kids), too. I’ll go over there when needed, but Tommy does the bulk of it.”

When international players come for official visits, the staff will sometimes reach out to a foreign language professor on Gonzaga’s campus if they need help translating. Coaches don’t feel the needed to totally recreate a foreign culture in Spokane (though Rui will sometimes go over to Lloyd’s house for sushi).

“To be honest, most of these kids that come to the states have a real yearning for the American culture,” Lloyd said. “They’re excited and intrigued by that, and looking forward to making a change.”

Hachimura is the Zags’ most intriguing international player. A former baseball pitcher and catcher, he did not participate in martial arts at a competitive level, and jokes that his sumo wrestling experience was limited to playing outside with friends, despite the stereotypes that it’s something all Japanese kids want to do.

Coaxed by a friend into playing hoops, Hachimura caught the eye of international recruiters after the FIBA U17 World Championships in Dubai in August 2014, where he averaged a tournament-best 22.1 points per game. He picked Gonzaga over offers from Arizona, St. John’s, LSU and Vanderbilt, among others.

Despite inconsistency — he averages 11.1 points and 4.4 rebounds off the bench but can disappear in big moments — Hachimura is already a certifiable rock star in Japan. Multiple Japanese reporters have traveled to Spokane to profile him, with a Tokyo station compiling a 12-minute video where the letters “NBA” were plastered across the screen in almost every shot. There has only been one Japanese national in the NBA, Yuta Tabuse, who played just four games with the Phoenix Suns.

“I wish everybody — fans, media even us coaches at times — could remember the sacrifices these guys made,” Few said. “This isn’t just going from California or Texas or somewhere out of state. You’re leaving family, friends, culture and you’re totally immersing yourself in this … I’m always pushing and poking and prodding these guys and you know, I couldn’t have done it, gone to another country. There’s no way.”

International players over the years have raved about how Spokane has embraced them. Few and Lloyd see that, too, and know they’ve built a program where kids not only feel at home, but where fans are always ready to open their arms to the next international prospect.

Said Lloyd: “When they come in, fans always want to know: Who’s next?”


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