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It's July already, and that means family, friends, fireworks, and fun this 4th of July weekend. But for seniors who struggle with independent living, Independence Day can be a little bittersweet. For many seniors – in particular, those who require in-home care – age-related difficulties can get in the way of fully enjoying the holiday.
At Visiting Angels, we care as deeply about making our clients happy as we care about this great nation. We believe that all Americans should be able to fully enjoy the 4th of July, no matter their age or any difficulties that come with their golden years. Our caregivers help brighten Independence Day for our in-home care recipients every July. We would love to help you do the same for an elderly loved one in your life.
Below, you'll find senior-friendly 4th of July tips and in-home activities from Larry Meigs, President and CEO of Visiting Angels and an expert in home care for seniors. Take advantage of these tips to make this 4th of July weekend a holiday to remember.
Nothing says America quite like a backyard 4th of July celebration: friends and family, cold sodas and fresh-off-the-grill hot dogs, warm summer sun and fireworks bursting red, white, and blue. But as with any outdoor summer celebration, heat and sun exposure can add up – especially for seniors and in-home care recipients.
"Make sure elderly loved ones stay shaded and well hydrated whenever you're have an outdoor summer celebration," says Larry Meigs. "Also, be sure that they have a cool, air-conditioned area where they can go to for resting and cooling down."
If you're having an outdoor event, it's important that elderly loved ones are able to feel comfortable. After all, even the most spry seniors can suffer from joint pain or exhaustion if they don't have the chance to rest and relax a little bit.
"A strong, high-quality portable chair can be a godsend for seniors, especially those whose physical age-related difficulties require in-home care," says Larry Meigs. "Be sure to have your loved one test his or her chair in advance for comfort and to keep it available for them throughout the event."
Some seniors simply don't have the energy or strength for a long, outdoor 4th of July party. Others, such as those who require in-home care for memory disorders, might not feel comfortable in a busy, energetic, and disorienting setting.
"If your loved one can't celebrate the 4th of July outdoors, there are numerous in-home care activities you can do on Independence Day and the days leading up to it that make seniors feel a part of the celebration," says Larry Meigs. "For instance, you can watch classic movies or fireworks on TV, craft patriotic decorations, make 4th of July-themed snacks, or simply spend the day together sharing stories."
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Qantas Airways Announces Worst Loss in History of $2.8 Billion
SYDNEY — Australia's national airline, Qantas Airways Limited, has posted a devastating loss of 2.8 billion Australian dollars ($2.6 billion), reflecting a profit-draining battle with its smaller rival Virgin Australia and aircraft write downs.
The loss for the financial year ended June 30 is the largest the former state-owned airline has posted in its 94-year history. It made an AU$1 million profit in the previous year.
The dire result was expected. Shares of Qantas were up seven percent in Sydney on the airline's confirmation it would separate its domestic and troubled international businesses. It will establish a company for the international business that will be able to attract new investors after an Australian law change eased limits on foreign investment in Qantas
The result included an AU$2.6 billion write down of the value of its aging international fleet of Boeing 747s and Airbus A380s, reflecting a weakened Australian dollar.
Excluding the write down and other one-off costs, Qantas made an underlying pre-tax loss of AU$646 million, compared to a AU$186 million underlying profit a year earlier.
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce described the result as "confronting," but said the massive loss represented history.
"We have now come through the worst," he said in a statement.
"With our accelerated Qantas transformation program, we are already emerging as a leaner, more focused and more sustainable Qantas group," he said.
Joyce said the underlying loss for the latest year reflected higher fuel costs and growth in its passenger capacity outstripping demand.
Joyce forecast a profit in the first half of the current fiscal year.
The airline announced in February it would cut its employees by 5,000. So far it has shed 2,500 workers.

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The sexual battery charge against an Air Force officer who had headed a military unit aimed at preventing sexual assaults was changed to assault and battery, his lawyer said Thursday.
Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, a 1994 graduate of the Air Force Academy who served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, was arrested in May for allegedly grabbing a woman's buttocks and breasts in a parking lot in Arlington County, Virginia, near the Pentagon.
A police report said the unidentified woman fought off her assailant, who appeared intoxicated.
Speaking to media outside the Arlington County Courthouse Thursday, Krusinski's attorney, Barry Coburn, pointed out that that while both charges are still categorized as misdemeanor charges, the change is quite significant.
"The other offense is not a sex offense and my own sense of this is the reason this matter became newsworthy in the first instance was given Col. Krusinski's job responsibilities (and) he was initially charged with a sex offense," he said.
After taking the position with the sexual assault prevention unit in February, Krusinski underwent training aimed at preparing him for his duties, Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. John Dorrian told CNN in May.
Dorrian said Krusinski's record was "exemplary" and contained nothing that would have precluded him from serving with the unit.
Krusinski served in Iraq from November 2009 to May 2010 and in Afghanistan from August 2011 to February 2012, earning five non-combat medals during 19 years of service.
In a written statement Coburn distributed to media outside the courthouse, he expressed appreciation to prosecutors for their "care and diligence" used in this matter.
"Charging decisions such as this one must be based on the facts and the law of each individual case, not on politics or the desire to have a 'teachable moment' concerning issues such as sexual abuse in the military," Coburn said.
An alarming spike in sexual assault cases in the armed forces has brought the issue front and center, prompting both President Barack Obama and top military brass to vow change.
The Navy and Marine Corps will begin publishing their own versions of a sex offenders list as part of an effort to crack down on sexual assaults, CNN has learned.
After his appearance Thursday, Krusinski made no comments to reporters outside the courthouse. He has been removed from his job leading a branch of the Air Force's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program.
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When visiting your aging mother, she seems down again. She'd rather sleep then play her favorite game of checkers with you. You thought she was just feeling blue, but your senior parent hasn't been herself in nearly a month. Everyone feels blue now and then due to circumstances in life. However, sadness that lingers more than two weeks often is considered a symptom of depression. Depression is different from sadness as it is associated with long-term feelings of helplessness that affect happiness, appetite, sleep and relationships. Recognizing the signs and symptoms of depression in seniors and getting the right treatment and support can put them back on track to a fulfilling life.
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Gender too plays a role. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, women are at greater risk and twice as likely as men to become seriously depressed due to hormonal changes, the stress of caring for an ailing spouse or widowhood.
One out of eight American seniors takes at least one medication with many taking three or more daily. Many drugs can cause symptoms of depression or negatively impact the condition such as:
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Suicide risks always exist with depression, especially with those having a history of threats or attempts. If your senior talks or behaves with suicidal tendency, take their actions seriously and seek immediate professional help.
Aging adults can take immediate steps to avoid the onset of depression such as keeping in touch with family and friends as isolation is a trigger for this condition. Schedule regular visits with your aging loved ones so they look forward to visits and frequently interact with others. Regular exercise along with a balanced diet help seniors maintain both mental and physical fitness for a good mind and body. Keeping active with favorite hobbies or pursuing new activities provide a sense of purpose and something to anticipate.
A daily caregiver can help rebalance seniors' lives by spending time with them and taking them out into the world on a regular basis to go to the hairdresser or to go outdoors for walks. With regular company from a caregiver, your aging parents won't feel lonely or isolated from the world when family can't be by their side during certain days.
Up to 57% of older adults suffer from some form of chronic depression later in life. If you believe your senior suffers from depression, start with a visit to their physician who can recommend a specialist that can conduct a physical and/or mental evaluation. Various treatment options exist for depression including both therapy and medications. Finding the right one might take time and include a mix of both.
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Different types of antidepressants help control mood and stress. Seniors often take other medications for different health conditions. Discuss any adverse effects or potentially harmful interactions with the prescribing physician before taking any new drugs. Also, ask about the effects and benefits of over the counter medicines or herbs in combination with medicines.
Everyone reacts to life and health changes in different ways. Depression does not mean someone is weaker than another person. It is an illness that must be treated just like any other. If your aging loved ones seems down for a long time, take the necessary steps for a diagnosis to determine if depression is taking hold of their life so they can get the right treatment to regain control of their emotions and their happiness.
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Monday, April 01, 2013
{ LMFF 2013 highlights }
The Karen Walker show featured 60's inspired outerwear in toffee and pink, soft polkadots and lady-like shirt and skirt combinations. I also loved the tan ankle boots and fluffy, relaxed knits from the show.
Limedrop had quite a mix of looks, my favourite being the gorgeous cloud-printed pieces, which reminded me of the past Sretsis collection, and also the head-to-toe gothic doll looks which were all black and topped with a black floral crown.
Gorman had a lot of super wearable looks that I just wanted to throw on right then and wear out. I loved the mixing of textures and prints in this collection, such as leopard print with salt and pepper grey knits, as well as the eye-catching silver ankle boots with the wooden heel.
Last but not least, Leonard St definitely stole the show for me with their adorable swan print pieces, chunky-knit beanies and scarves and backbacks full of barley. It prompted me to buy my very first beanie with a big pom pom on top yesterday!
After the show I caught up with lovely bloggers Connie from K is for Kani, Cecylia from Cecylia.com and Cheryl from Business Chic. I wore this new top and shorts set from Asos along with a furry Miss Selfridge bag and tapestry wedges from Rubi Shoes. I'll be doing an outfit post with them very soon as this set is my favourite thing in my wardrobe at the moment!
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- Lindsay said... on
- April 1, 2013 at 10:26 AM
Those Karen Walker coats are DIVINE. Must. Have.
- Spoonful of Vintage said... on
- April 1, 2013 at 5:37 PM
Oh What a stunning show! I thought I recognised that Karen Walker coat, I saw the rust coloured one in a shop window the other day and just about died!....Just died a little more seeing the pink one though! I must have it! haha xoxo Amie @ Spoonful of Vintage
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- April 2, 2013 at 3:57 AM
Karen Walker - one of the best shows <3
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- April 2, 2013 at 5:47 AM
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- Rosalinda Tjioe said... on
- April 2, 2013 at 2:37 PM
Such pretty looks! Love the show! xx
- Francesca Giagnorio said... on
- April 2, 2013 at 7:07 PM
Beautiful catwalks: love the shots :)
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- April 6, 2013 at 9:27 PM
It is a nice fashion show, I love it :)
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- Nina Cat said... on
- April 7, 2013 at 12:37 AM
These are beautiful! :)
And you look so pretty!!
Lemon Kitty (I just really like cats haha)
- cherry said... on
- April 7, 2013 at 8:10 PM
I like your style and your blog so much
You're one of my inspirations
- Unknown said... on
- April 7, 2013 at 8:34 PM
Lovely post, I really like all the looks! <3
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- April 23, 2013 at 2:18 AM
ohh, I got my eyes on that Asos top too~ it's so sweet! Now that I've since you wearing, I am definitely getting it :P
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TRENTON, N.J. – Woolwich Township today received Initial Plan Endorsement from the New Jersey State Planning Commission (SPC). This marks the first time a municipality has been endorsed with an approved Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) Program under the State TDR Act. DCA's Office of Smart Growth (OSG), the New Jersey Department of Agriculture (NJDOA) and other state agency partners helped provide both technical and financial assistance to aid Woolwich Township in this process.
"Woolwich Township has set a great example of planning and implementing smart growth principles," said DCA Commissioner Doria. "I encourage more municipalities to work with our Smart Growth Office to receive endorsement."
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WATERFORD TWP. - A 38-year-old Waterford Township woman who was convicted of first-degree criminal sexual assault after having sex with her biological son will have to wear an electronic tether for the rest of her life.
The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that Aimee Louise Sword, who was sentenced to a minimum of nine years in prison in 2010, must continue to wear the tether upon her release from prison, which, at the earliest, would be about seven years from now.
Sword's attorneys argued that the law -- which states, in part "A person convicted ... for criminal sexual conduct committed by an individual 17 years or older against an individual less than 13 years of age, shall be sentenced to lifetime electronic monitoring" -- meant Sword would not have to wear a tether. Her son was 14 when they had sex in 2008.
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Note: With South by Southwest kicking off on Friday, March 12, until March 21, we knew there'd be bunches of hungry people in Austin. We turned to Austin-based blogger Citizen Taco to create our food-tineraries during the Music, Film, and Interactive festivals. —The Mgmt.
There's nothing like South by Southwest (SXSW) Austin's three-pronged mega-major arts festival now in its 24th year, to draw thousands of visitors to an unknown city. Yes, you'll be running around crazy all week (parties, panels, screenings, and more parties) but you can still experience the best of what Austin's food culture has to offer.
Though if you really want to eat well amidst the festival madness, be prepared for a little extra leg work. Nearly all the great food spots hide outside the downtown area.Read about the best tacos, street food, barbecue, coffee, vegan eats, dive bar, and draft beer, all after the jump.
Tacos: Tacodeli
How do you choose a single favorite in a town of so many superlative tacos? I can't, so instead I'll recommend Tacodeli, an Austin institution that boasts the best taco menu. With more than 30 different tacos (bison picadillo! portabella mushroom!) plus daily specials, you'll have a hard time deciding what to get.12001 Burnet Road, Austin TX 78758 (map) and 1500 Spyglass, Austin TX 78746 (map); tacodeli.com
Food Trucks: Odd Duck Farm to Trailer
The food truck fad has only invaded Austin within the last year or so, and more trucks open every week. One of the latest (and so far the greatest) is Odd Duck, where the simple yet inventive menu of small plates changes daily according to what's fresh on local farms, particularly artisan meats and cheeses. Head here for dinner before or after a screening at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar across the street. 1219 South Lamar Blvd, Austin TX 78704 (map); oddduckfarmtotrailer.com; Open Tuesday through Thursday, 5 to 10 p.m., and Friday/Saturday, 5 p.m. to midnight.
Barbecue: Smitty's Market
The capitol city's reputation for having great barbecue is a bit undeserved, only because the best in Texas happens to be around Austin, out in the hill country. You'll no doubt see caravans cruising toward the infamous Salt Lick, but if you aim a little farther Southeast, the real experience awaits in small town Lockhart at Smitty's Market (where, as per tradition, your hands are the only utensil). 208 South Commerce Street, Lockhart TX 78644 (map); 512-398-9344; smittysmarket.com
Coffee: Caffe Medici
Coffee is decidedly less fussed-over here than in, say, Portland or Seattle or New York, but the closest thing you'll find is at Caffe Medici. Both locations cater to a quieter crowd, serving French press and house blend espresso without a surfeit of self-consciously uber-hip baristas. 1101 West Lynn Street, Austin TX 78703 (map); 512-609-9899; and 2222 Guadalupe Street, Austin TX 78705 (map); 512-474-5730; caffemedici.com
24-Hour Diner: La Mexicana Bakery
If you're looking for outstanding diner fare at all hours of the day—and don't mind nosebleed-inducing wait times—your best bet is Magnolia Café, but for a real adventure I like the neon mania of La Mexicana Bakery, where breakfast tacos still taste amazing at 3 a.m. 1924 South 1st Street, Austin TX 78704 (map); 512-443-6369; la-mexicana-bakery.com/
Vegan: Counter Culture
While Odd Duck relies on meat and cheese to work its food cart magic, Counter Culture uses neither one. Everything is vegan and half the menu is raw as well, including some of the best desserts (raw or not) anywhere in the city. Try signature items like gluten-free bruschetta or a jackfruit barbecue sandwich and save room for the weekly special "cheezecake" (if it's not sold-out). 120 E. North Loop Blvd., Austin TX 78751 (map); countercultureaustin.com
Dive Bar: Donn's Depot
Few cities do old-school dive bars as well as Austin. Where else can you find Chicken Shit Bingo every Sunday? (See it yourself at Ginny's Little Longhorn.) For something close to downtown without the festival madness, check out Donn's Depot, where a dance partner and retirement benefits are de rigueur.1600 W. 5th Street, Austin TX 78703 (map); 512-478-0336 donnar.home.texas.net
Draft Beer: Whip In
Though the best beer bar in the city has long been The Ginger Man, Whip In sports a powerful secret weapon: Indian food! Made from locally-sourced meats and produce, the recipes fuse equal parts Texas and tandoor. My personal favorite pairing? A pint of Belgian Kwak with a "Beef & Beer Chili" basmati rice bowl. 1950 South I H 35, Austin TX 78704 (map); 512-442-5337 whipin.com
Serious Sandwiches: SXSW Sandwich Checklist
Where to Eat: SXSW 2009
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For Donald Vance, a 29-year-old veteran and an American citizen, the desire to play a small part in a big event would lead to the scariest experience of his life. While in Iraq, he was neither a victim of a roadside bomb nor taken prisoner by insurgents. Instead, he was held captive by the U.S. government — detained in a secret military prison.
"It's probably the worst thing I've ever lived through," says Vance, who along with another American is now suing his own government, which he says "treated me like a terrorist."
It all started in the summer of 2005 when Vance went to Baghdad. Born in Chicago, Vance had joined the Navy after high school and later worked in security.
He took a job with an Iraqi company, Shield Group Security, or SGS, which provides protection for businesses and organizations. Vance supervised security and logistics operations. Before long, he says he started noticing troubling things at the company — explosives and huge stockpiles of ammunition and weapons, including anti-aircraft guns. He worried they were going to militias involved in sectarian violence.
There was "more ammunition than we could ever, ever need," says Vance. "We employed somewhere between 600 and 800 Iraqis. We had thousands of rifles."
Vance became so alarmed by what he saw that when he returned to Chicago in October 2005 for his father's funeral, he called the FBI office there and volunteered his services. He says he became an informant because, "It's just the right thing to do."
Once back in Baghdad, Vance says he began almost daily secret contact with the FBI in Chicago, often through e-mails and with officials at the U.S. embassy, alleging illegal gun-running and corruption by the Iraqis who owned and ran the company.
"I really couldn't tell you how many days I thought about, 'What if I get caught?'" says Vance.
In April 2006, he thought that day had come. His co-worker, Nathan Ertel, also an American, tendered his resignation. And with that, Vance says, the atmosphere turned hostile.
"We were constantly watched," Vance says, "We were not allowed to go anywhere from outside the compound or with the compound under the supervision of an Iraqi, an armed Iraqi guard."
Vance says an Iraqi SGS manager then took their identification cards, which allowed them access to American facilities, such as the Green Zone. They felt trapped.
"We began making phone calls," Vance recalls. "I called the FBI. The experts over at the embassy let it be known that you're about to be kidnapped. We barricaded ourselves with as many guns as we can get our hands on. We just did an old-fashioned Alamo."
The U.S. military did come to rescue them. Vance says he then led soldiers to the secret cache of rifles, ammunition, explosives, even land mines.
The two men say they — and other employees who were Westerners — were taken to the U.S. embassy and debriefed. But their ordeal was just beginning.
"[We saw] soldiers with shackles in their hands and goggles and zip-ties. And we just knew something was terribly wrong," says Vance.
Vance and Ertel were eventually taken to Camp Cropper, a secret U.S. military prison near the Baghdad airport. It once held Saddam Hussein and now houses some of the most dangerous insurgents in all of Iraq.
Here's what Vance and Ertel say happened in that prison: They were strip-searched and each put in solitary confinement in tiny, cold cells. They were deliberately deprived of sleep with blaring music and bright lights. They were hooded and cuffed whenever moved. And although they were never physically tortured, there was always that threat.
"The guards employ what I would like to call as verbal Kung-Fu," says Vance. "It's 'do as we say or we will use excessive violence on you.'"
Their families back home had no idea what was happening. Until they were detained, Vance had called or e-mailed his fiancée, Diane Schwarz, every day while in Iraq — and now he was not allowed to do either.
"I am thinking, you know, he's dead, he's kidnapped," recalls Schwarz.
After a week of intense interrogations for hours at a time, Vance learned why he was detained. He was given a document stating the military had found large caches of weapons at Vance's company and suspected he "may be involved in the possible distribution of these weapons to insurgent/terrorist groups."
He was a security detainee, just like an insurgent. And he says he was treated that way.
"The guards peeking in my cell see a Caucasian male, instantly they think he's a foreign fighter," says Vance. He recounts guards yelling at him, "You are Taliban. You are al-Qaida."
Vance says the charges against him were false and mirror exactly the allegations he had been making against his own company to the FBI.
"I'm basically saying to them: 'What are you talking about? I've been telling you for seven months now that this stuff is going on. You're detaining me but not the actual people that are doing it!'"
A military panel, which reviews charges against detainees, eventually questioned Vance and Ertel. Both men were given a document that said, "You do not have the right to legal counsel." The men say they could not see all the evidence used against them and did not have the legal protections typically afforded Americans.
But they were eventually allowed very infrequent phone calls, which were very frustrating for Vance and his fiancée.
"He's crying, you know, he's not getting any answers and I'm not able to help him," says Schwarz. "And he's not able to help himself."
The military cleared Ertel and released him after more than a month in prison. But Vance stayed locked up.
At that point, prohibited from keeping notes, he began secretly scribbling diary entries and storing them in his military-issued Bible, whenever he had access to a pen.
The military now acknowledges that it took three weeks just to contact the FBI and confirm Vance was an informant. But even after that, Vance was held for another two months. In all, he was imprisoned for 97 days before being cleared of any wrongdoing and released.
"I looked like hell, completely emaciated, you know — beard, shaggy, dirty," remembers Vance. "They showered me, shaved me, cleaned me up and dumped me at Baghdad International Airport like it never happened.
Throughout the ordeal, the U.S. military said it thought Vance was helping the insurgents. Wasn't that a reasonable basis to hold and interrogate him?
"They could have investigated the true facts, found out exactly what was happening," says Vance. "What doesn't need to happen is throw people in a cell, we'll figure out the answers later. That's not the way to do things."
Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel have now filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government and Donald Rumsfeld, who was secretary of defense when they were detained. It is generally very difficult to sue the government, but experts say this case may be different because Vance and Ertel are American citizens; they were civilians held by the U.S. military; and they were detained for such a long time.
Military officials would not comment, but a spokeswoman previously has said the men were treated fairly and humanely. The FBI also declined to comment, as did officials at SGS. The company's name has changed, but it's still doing business in Iraq. Neither the company, nor its executives, has been charged with any wrongdoing.
Vance says he hopes the lawsuit will reveal why the military held him so long, and why he was denied the legal protections guaranteed American citizens.
"This is just another step of our Constitution slowly being whittled away," says Vance when asked why with all the tragedies and injustice in Iraq anyone should care about his story. "It's basic fundamental rights of our founding fathers."


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The designer duo behind eveningwear brand Badgley Mischka just launched shoes under their contemporary Mark and James line. We visited Mark and James (the men) for the launch at Bloomingdale's in New York to get a first peek at the very pretty and chic new shoe line — which retails for under $300 — and get the inside scoop on their inspiration.
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It would be possible to create a probe that could reach the photosphere, and continue into the body of the Sun a short way. There is a lot of question as to how it might communicate out of the Sun. Communication might be possible with x-ray lasers. Anything with a lower photon energy might get absorbed pretty quickly by the plasma.
This is not a realistic plan for the short term future, but you can imagine a craft that has a mass of billions of tons, and has a mechanism for spraying an opaque cloud out in front of it to shield the vessel with disposable shielding. Alternatively, or in addition, you might have a conveyer belt of rigid shielding that only exposes the individual tiles to the Sun for a small fraction of the time. Excess heat is blown off in the opaque jets previously described, or used to heat gases to thrust out the back.
The Photosphere's density is very low. It would take quite a while for a billion ton object to be vaporized if it was well designed. Just as a wild guess, such a craft could potentially descend a thousand miles.
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QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Dec 26 2005, 02:52 PM)
Absolutely. After all, fossil fuels are nothing more than storage units for solar energy.
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. -Mark Twain
Dec 27 2005, 08:36 AM
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The trouble is that we haven't as yet come up with a way to collect and store it that's even remotely as efficient as utilizing -- at breakneck pace -- the fossil fuels that Mother Nature thoughtfully spent hundreds of millions of years accumulating for us. Talk about spendthrift heirs!
As for solar astronomy missions -- including Solar Probe -- they may have genuine practical importance. We need to know more about the Sun's longer-term activity cycles, in order to judge what effects those will have on Earth's climate that will be overlaid on top of the effects from the buildup of man-made greenhouse gases.
And, yep, the idea of Solar Probe has been around for a long, long time. Back in the early 1980s it was a big hulking thing called Starprobe that weighed thousands of kg and would have had to be launched by a Titan. Then, in the early 1990s, someone developed a way of greatly shrinking it by shaping the heat shield in such a way that it doubled as the probe's high-gain antenna. Still later, however, it became clear that electronic miniaturization has advanced to the point that we don't need that peculiar idea to build a lightweight version of Solar Probe. As with ion drives, We Have The Technology, and the only thing stopping us from doing it is the cost.
And Congress itself has repeatedly expressed some interest in this mission, and at least twice has inserted an additional $10 million into NASA's budget -- which NASA hadn't asked for -- for design studies. At some point, it WILL fly. (The analogy that comes to mind is SIRTF, which got delayed repeatedly, but in the process underwent technological evolution that both drastically reduced its cost AND increased its science output. And finally, it did fly, as the extremely successful Spitzer Space Telescope.)
One of the more mind-boggling things about this mission, by the way, is that one of its goals is to take images of the solar corona -- from inside the corona, looking out.
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Well, if one gets to think into the really long-range future (think decades), then a Solar Sample Return mission from the corona (or even the photosphere, if you want to get REALLY fanciful) might finally find a use for Bussard's beautiful yet cosmically inefficient ramjet.
Use electromagnetic fields to collect hydrogen from the corona to fuel a fusion rocket, in order to collect samples and fly back to Earth. It'd be a project of stunning magnitude-thousands of tonnes, probably-but what's a few billion to a thought experiment?
Dec 28 2005, 11:53 AM
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Dec 28 2005, 12:05 PM
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You're all missing the obvious way to design a Solar Probe, although ISA already described a most persuasive mission scenario.
Just build one and launch it at night!
(Ducks and runs!)
Bob Shaw
Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
Dec 28 2005, 12:08 PM
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QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Dec 28 2005, 01:05 PM)
You're all missing the obvious way to design a Solar Probe, although ISA already described a most persuasive mission scenario.
Just build one and launch it at night!
(Ducks and runs!)
Bob Shaw
Sorry, I forgot - ISA is the Irish Space Agency. Actually, they were going to send three spacecraft originally, with two levels of redundancy. To be sure, to be sure!
(Ducks, runs, and hides up a tree)
Bob Shaw
Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
Dec 28 2005, 12:30 PM
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A limitless, though relatively small, source of energy is the mouth-flapping of "zero-point energy" and the like folks. Considerably more abundant is the hot-air from politicians and we-know-what's-best-for-you advocates.
Dec 29 2005, 05:05 AM
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I recall a sci fi story from long ago about a manned station and manned boats on the surface of the sun. The three main obstacles to operating on the surface of the sun are:
1) intense heat
2) no solid surface
3) 32G surface gravity
The solutions are as follows
1) Carry a large supply of carbon, and pump it out of the surface of your platform. The carbon vaporizes and carries off the heat. Use carbon since it has the highest known melting and vaporization temperature of any substance. It acts like an ablative heat shield, or as the story described it, the bottom layer of a water drop in a hot pan.
2) Carry a big particle accelerator torus, and put a bunch of plasma in it and run it around the right direction such that it generates a magnetic field counter to the sun's magnetic field. If it is strong enough and controlled well enough, it will support the platform
3) Put this torus on the roof of the platform. Run the torus fast enough that through special relativity it gains enough mass to generate a 31G field in the up direction.
In the story, the mission of the platform and boats was to induce precisely controlled solar flares which would impact the atmosphere of the Earth, and in this manner they could control the weather. There was a vast representative democracy back on Earth, the Weather Congress, to decide what weather to have. There was a vast scientific institue, the Weather Advisors, to figure out how to implement the decisions of the Weather Congress. And there was the Weather Service, manning the base and boats on the sun, to carry out the plans of the Weather Advisors.
Now I know that there are dozens of reasons why the solutions proposed could not work (Where does all the carbon come from? What is the power source? What about tides from the gravity generator? Can you really use a plasma torus like that? The photosphere is hundreds of miles thick. Solar flares can't really influence Earth's weather that much. Even an enormous nuke is a mere sparkler on the sun, flares can't be induced.) but it is still interesting that someone actually considered a solution for landing on the sun which doesn't involve landing at night.
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Dec 29 2005, 08:20 AM
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QUOTE (edstrick @ Dec 28 2005, 12:30 PM)
Considerably more abundant is the hot-air from politicians and we-know-what's-best-for-you advocates.
perhaps it is this which creates climate change. We could eventually find a linear relationship between the temperature increase and the number of forgotten promises by politicians.
Dec 29 2005, 11:37 AM
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That story was Theodore Taylor's "The Weather Man". Interesting idea, but even at age 12 it struck me as being a wee bit implausible. (He later wrote a sequel involving a suicidal trip to the CENTER of the Sun to stop an instability therein.)
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Dec 29 2005, 02:56 PM
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Dec 29 2005, 04:38 PM
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So THAT'S how they got so pink.
By the way, Solar Probe originally started out as one of that very unlikely trinity of missions that were set up under Goldin's tenure to supposedly develop the new technologies necessary to go to "the most difficult destinations in the Solar System" -- along with Europa Orbiter and the Pluto flyby. This program was commonly called "Fire & Ice", but had the awkward official name of "Outer Planets/Solar Probe". (Back in 1999 I wrote to Chris Chyba suggesting that it needed a better name, and proposing -- roll of drums -- "New Frontier". He was noncommittal. Alan Stern later told me that he'd considered that name for New Horizons, but decided that the JFK reference might make Bush even more hostile to the probe than he then was -- only to have O'Keefe later give that name to the entire middle-price planetary-probe program.)
Anyway, the idea -- which in retrospect seems utterly cockamamie -- was to connect these three utterly different missions by using the same "core spacecraft" for each of them. Goldin then decided to make things even worse by overriding the recommendation of COMPLEX that the Pluto probe -- which, unlike the other two, actually required NO new technology -- fly first in 2003; he ordered instead that Europa Orbiter be flown before the Pluto mission. The result, naturally, was to delay the Pluto mission further and further as the impracticality of doing Europa Orbiter any time in the near future became obvious -- but I was told at the October 2000 meeting of the Solar System Exploration Subcommittee that Goldin told an aide that he had actually done this (along with insisting on totally impractical super-miniaturization of the Pluto probe) as a subterfuge for getting rid of the Pluto mission altogether, on the grounds that "Nobody gives a damn about Pluto."
This is where, to my lasting amazement, I enter the story. I did an August 2000 piece for "SpaceDaily" proposing that not only did the Pluto mission not require any new technologies at all (unlike the other parts of OP/SP), but that it could be flown much more cheaply by simply mildly modifying the design of either of the two existing Discovery comet probes, Stardust and CONTOUR. A month later, NASA surprised everyone by suddenly putting out an AO for ideas for a cheap Pluto probe design -- which they made very clear they were doing extremely grudgingly, and with no desire to really fly the thing.
When I got to the SSES meeting in October, there were stacks of my article on the information table; and on the first day two guys from Lockheed Martin got up and presented the company's proposal for modifying "Stardust" for the Pluto mission -- which reflected my own suggestions down to the very last goddamn detail, except that the launch would not be possible before December 2004 and so required a bigger booster than my suggested November 2003 launch. They told me later that Lockmart had come up with the idea completely independently, which I believe -- it had not exactly been a hard idea for me to come up with. But, to my stupefaction, although I had come to that meeting just as a reporter, I discovered that in the process of asking the assembled scientists for information on various subjects I was also GIVING them some information, and so Michael Drake ended up letting me take a bigger role in the debate over Pluto than he was legally supposed to do. While there was universal agreement that the argument for a near-future Pluto/Kuiper flyby was overwhelmingly strong, on the last day there was a debate over whether they might "anger NASA" by recommending it, and I ended up giving them a mini-Agincourt speech to the effect that their official job was simply to recommend the best scientific strategy for flying planetary missions, that the Pluto mission was clearly part of this, and that if NASA turned it down anyway for non-scientific reasons the agency had no reason to blame them for recommending it.
Whether this made a difference or not, they DID very strongly advocate the mission in their report, and the scientific pressure for it simply got stronger and stronger, until we finally had the spectacle -- almost unprecedented at the time -- of the GOP Congress telling not only NASA but the White House itself to go a kite, and ordering inclusion of money for the mission in the NASA budget. (The 2002 Decadal Survey report forcefully recommending it was probably the last impetus necessary for this.)
I'm still trying to determine just how important my role in all this actually was; but it seems certain that Simon Mansfield (the editor of "SpaceDaily) and I had SOME effect. I later learned that NASA was actually shutting up any engineer or scientist from publicly proposing an economically designed Pluto mission by threatening to cut off their grants, and so Simon and I ended up innocently belling the cat by publicly proposing the idea for the very first time and thus making it impossible for NASA to hush up the idea any longer. This may or may not have been what forced it to put out that reluctant AO for ideas on just this subject a month later; but judging from my treatment at that SSES meeting a month after that, my article played at least some contributing role in getting NASA's planned cancellation of any Pluto flyby mission reversed.
New Horizons, of course, IS based on CONTOUR -- although much more loosely than its competitor "POSSI" was based on Stardust -- but I can't believe that I inspired that idea; there were surely engineers already thinking about it. But -- because, by pure dumb chance, Simon and I happened to be in exactly the right place at the right time -- I did play a role in getting it flown. I take for granted that I will never get the chance to do anything remotely as important for the rest of my life. (Not that I've quite given up the hope that someday lightning might strike twice -- although my recent plan to push a penetrator as a small piggyback lander for Europa Orbiter turned out to have a subtle but very important flaw in it pointed out at the recent COMPLEX meeting. Oh, well. Back to the drawing board.)
Anyway, in retrospect it's perfectly obvious that Europa Orbiter was the most complex of the three OP/SP missions and should therefore have been flown last, with the Pluto flyby going first and Solar Probe second. Thanks entirely to Crazy Dan Goldin, this didn't happen -- or we could have seen the Pluto mission launched, with considerably lower cost and more science return, in November 2003 (which would even have allowed it to do a very close Io flyby en route!) And Solar Probe is STILL a very important mission -- in terms of practical human benefit, maybe the most important of the three -- and badly needs to be flown.
Dec 29 2005, 04:45 PM
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Careful there Ted, or Crazy Dan might try to pull strings to have you nominated as the command pilot of a (briefly) manned Solar mission!
Of course, he'd stand every chance of getting the second seat reservation for himself...
...I wonder who'd get the third slot?
Bob Shaw
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