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Depths of Heaven
Fantasy, Anal, Ass to mouth, Cum Swallowing, Young
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Gender: N/A Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Sun 28th of December 2014
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Suddenly the thought occurred to me, I must have gone mad. How could I be doing this? But when I look up I see her smiling broadly with eyes shining and I know that she is enjoying this as much as I am. After we finish, she curls up in my arms and purrs softly as we both drift gently off to sleep.
I met Sandy when she came to work in our office. At first I didn't think much about her, she was not really pretty although she had large breast to go with her large frame. She was thick in the thighs, but not gross or obese. She was married, had three kids, and seemed very much to be a nice friendly lady. At first we were friends, working together and playing softball on the same coed team. One day at work she explained that she was going to a friend's pool party and asked if I would like to go. By then we were good friends and I felt comfortable enough to accept.
At the party we drank a few beers, ate some food and then took a swim in the pool. We had the pool to ourselves and after playing some she came in real close and asked if I was horny. I was caught off guard, and while I was horny, I was sure that I needed to better understand what was going on. Sandy sensed this and quickly explained that after many years of marriage, her husband no longer had an interest in her sexually and they had mutually agreed that she was entitled to have her fun. He no doubt was having his fun, so she was interested in me.
We discussed this further; I wanted to make clear that I didn't want to be involved in something that would hurt her or her family. Also, I expected that at some point I would meet someone and want to pursue a relationship, so I couldn't be "romantically" involved with her. She said she understood, so with the ground rules in place we proceeded to her place for a little one on one.
When we got to her place it was already late so the kids were in bed, we got a beer and sat on the couch. She was making all the moves so this was easy for me. She showed me her breast, they were very large with huge nipples sticking up, I sucked on them greedily while she reached into my pants and pulled out my dick. She used her tits to rub my dick which by now was swollen and throbbing, I thought I'd come when she slid down and sucked me hard. I stopped her just in time, and pulled her up so that I could get into her panties.
She had a big pink pussy surrounded by pubic hair, I stuck my finger in slowly and it was instantly wet with her juices, I pulled it out and stuck it in her mouth, and then I jumped up and kissed her hard so that I could taste her juice in her mouth. As I did she reached down and shoved my dick into her dripping cunt, without any hesitation I started fucking her as hard as I could. We fucked for at least an hour before I came. I can't remember a better fuck than she just gave me, her old man was nuts to miss out on this. After I caught my breath I climbed off of her and stood up, as I did she sat up and gently took my dick in her mouth and licked me clean. She really knew what men liked and made sure that I would want more.
This story isn't really about Sandy and me, but you have to know how this starts and a few details along the way. For instance there was one time that we had been out to a local bar and had a few beers. When we got back to her place we started to play, she had her tits out and I had my dick out. I started by rubbing my dick on hers tits and proceeded to masturbating against her large nipples. I'm sure she probably wanted to have my dick inside her, but seeing me masturbate and enjoy it she encouraged me to finish. As I got ready to come she took my dick into her mouth and sucked hard, swallowing every drop. I've had blow jobs before, but this one was super intense, and at the end she looked at me and smiled to let me know that she liked making me feel good.
These kind of events occurred frequently over the next several months, we developed a strong friendship, and I even think that I loved her a lot more than I admitted to. She obviously loved me, and went out of her way to spend time with me and show me. She would spend the night at my place when she could and she would always do things to keep me interested. We frequently talked of sex, admitted to each other that we were bisexual, and even played some sex games with some other couples.
After a while I met her husband Shane and we became friends, at first it was awkward for me, then I realized that he was genuinely happy that his wife was getting what she needed and that actually worked out good for their family overall. All of this seems to be going very good, what could go wrong?
Sandy's daughter Ellen was a very young eleven when I first met her. She was very cute, with warm brown eyes, a few freckles around her nose, and beautiful long auburn hair. Her dark hair and eyes over her fair complexion was striking. Ellen really liked me, she always hugged me whenever she saw me, and I liked hugging her too, showing her attention whenever I could.
Knowing that her dad wasn't around a lot, I wasn't surprised she really loved a man's attention. Sandy actually encouraged it, commenting that she thought I was a good influence on Ellen and that she was happy we were close. By the time Ellen was approaching thirteen, Sandy and I were together on a regular basis, and looking back I think that Ellen understood that we were more than just friends.
Late in the spring while Ellen was still twelve, I had plans to go to a local car show and since Sandy couldn't go I asked if Ellen would like to join me. Sandy thought that it was a good idea, she was going to be busy with the boys and thought Ellen would be bored. So I stopped by to pick up Ellen, and off we went.
It was a hot day for late spring so I wore some cut-off jeans and a T-shirt, I noticed that Ellen had dressed up, wearing a candy stripe dress with a nice little blouse underneath. She was starting to wear make-up, but not too much, just a little color around the eyes and a soft shade of lipstick. I was surprised that I noticed, but she was definitely cute.
After trotting around the show field for a couple of hours, we were both hot and tired. It would be hours before Sandy would be home, so I suggested we go to my house to cool out and get some ice cream on the way. After arriving at my house, I turned on the TV, and told Ellen that I wanted to put on something more comfortable. I changed into an old pair of gym shorts and left off the underwear since the T shirt was long enough to cover up. As I headed to the living room, Ellen was coming out of the front bathroom; she didn't realize that I saw her stuffing something into her purse.
Also I noticed that she had freshened up her make up. I didn't say anything as we settled down on the sofa to watch TV. Neither of was really watching TV, so we just talked. As I sat there looking at her, I realized that she was a beautiful girl and my heart just melted. I really wanted to hold her, not thinking that I wanted her little girl body.
We talked and somehow ended up closer together, feeling her close just increased my desire. I gently stoked her face as I brushed back the hair from her eyes. She responded with a smile moving closer to me, and then she kissed me. Not a sweet little goodnight kiss, she kissed me on the lips and meant it. I pulled her close into my arms and kissed her again. My mind raced, I was making out with this beautiful little girl and loving it.
By now she was sitting on my lap and my gym shorts could not contain my erection as she purposefully rubbed against it. I reached down instinctively to rub her breasts, she was just starting to develop, so there weren't big full mounds to play with, but as I touched her nipples they hardened and she quivered. I stopped for a moment and she asked what's wrong,
I said that we were heading for trouble and that she wasn't ready for this. She smiled and said that she wanted me inside her, I'm not sure if she knew what that meant, but that's what I wanted too. I told her that even though I wanted her, I would go to jail if anyone knew I had touched her. She said not to worry, that she wouldn't ever do anything to hurt me.
I could resist no longer, I started kissing her again, this time my tongue was deep inside her mouth and hers was in mine. We lay on the sofa and I reached down to lift her dress, discovering that her panties were in her purse. I pulled her legs apart and placed my hand between her legs. I could feel every detail of her sweet vagina as I stroked up and down. Again she quivered, and then sighed, and then she started panting as I rubbed her soft little clit.
I felt her getting wet and all I could think of was sucking on her pussy. I moved my face between her legs and I noticed the scent of ivory soap and the sweet musty aroma of her juicy little vagina. As I started licking her clit she moaned softly, as I stuck my tongue in her vagina she came all over my face.
I pulled up slowly and she climbed on top of me, first she kissed me and said she loved tasting her cum on my lips. Next she reached into my shorts and rubbed my throbbing dick. Wow you are huge she said as she bent down to take me into her mouth. I couldn't believe she was sucking my cock, I couldn't believe how good it felt. I told her I was ready to cum, she kept sucking me, but I didn't want my first time with her to be in her mouth.
I pulled her up to kiss her and pushed her pussy down against my dick. I just kissed her while I rubbed my dick until I came, shooting a big load of cum all over her pussy and rubbed it in as it ran down the crack of her ass. When I was done, I asked if she wanted to taste my cum as I stuck my sticky wet cock into her mouth. She sucked it and licked it and smiled to let me know she enjoyed it.
I looked down and her legs were wide open, showing me the beautiful mess I had made on her pussy. I knelt down and started licking her clean, turned on by the idea of eating my cum off this fine little pussy. As I worked my way down to her ass crack and then her cute little hole she quivered again and told me that I was nasty and that she loved it.
I told her that I was turned on again and asked her if she wanted more, she asked if I would put it in her. I told her that I wasn't sure if she was ready for that, but that I would love for her to sit on my face. She got up off the sofa as I lay back on the floor; she sat on my chest facing away from me and slowly slid her pussy up to my face. I told her to lick me while I licked her and we sucked each other for a long long time. She came in my mouth a couple of times and I swallowed every bit of juice she had.
I started sticking my tongue in her ass and she moaned softly "I love that". I couldn't keep going, I had to come, reaching down I grabbed my cock and pulled it out of her mouth. I stroked it against her lips a couple of times and started spurting cum on her face. She opened her mouth and swallowed all she could catch. I pulled her up to me and licked my cum off her face, sharing it with her as we kissed. Again she swallowed as I put more cum in her mouth. We were both pretty happy by now, so we curled up together and started talking.
I asked her how she knew what was going on, she just said that she had seen things and heard things and was figuring the rest out as we went along. I asked her if she had ever had a dick in her pussy before, she said no, but she had been fingered a couple of times and she liked fingering herself. I told her I would like to watch and she said I could if I would lick her ass like before. I said I can do better than that, but it would have to wait because I needed to take her home soon.
We both took a few minutes to clean up and then headed out the door to take her home. By now I was getting worried, if anybody knew I would go to jail or worse. I talked to her about it and she promised that she would never tell anyone or let me get in trouble. I'm not sure that I felt any better about it. Also I told her I was worried that I was ruining her life, she just smiled and said she was fine and that she was glad we were together.
When I got her home it was late so Sandy asked me to stay for supper, I agreed and stayed. After supper the kids went off to bed, but Ellen came back to hug me goodnight, with her mother watching, she said she had a great time today and kissed me on the lips. I tried to look surprised, and Sandy took it in stride and didn't say a thing.
Later Sandy and I started fooling around, I was a little nervous, but she didn't say anything. Did she taste her young daughters cum on my lips, if she did she must have liked it because she fucked me a lot, insisting that I play with her ass. I fingered her ass and licked her ass before sticking my dick in her ass and shooting a big load of cum in there. After I was done she sat on my face and licked my sticky cock and balls while I licked the cum running out of her ass and into her vagina. Once again, I was turned on by eating my nasty cum from her nasty well fucked ass. After we were done we laid there naked and she asked if I had a good time with Ellen today. I just said yes she is very nice, she smiled and said "I know she is, I'm glad you were with her today". Before I left she asked if I would like to come over for dinner on Sunday. I said sure, but I was still a little nervous.
The next day I was even more paranoid than before, I just knew that by now Ellen was regretting having sex with me and that the police were on their way. I calmed myself with the realization that a few minutes with her was worth years in jail, I can't remember ever being so much in love and lust at the same time. By early afternoon I headed over to Sandy's house, when I got there I found out that the boy's had just left to go camping with their dad overnight.
That meant that it would just be me, Ellen, and Sandy for dinner. Again I got a little nervous, but Ellen smiled at me and I knew that it was alright. After a quiet dinner, we all settled on the couch to watch a little TV, Cindy offered up a bit of wine to sip on. I knew that wine made her horny, when she offered a small glass to Ellen, I wondered if it would make her horny too.
After Cindy and I had a couple of glasses of wine we were feeling good and joking around. She moved closer to me on the couch and kissed me, she had never done this in front of Ellen before. I looked over but Ellen had gone upstairs and changed her clothes for bed. When she returned to say goodnight, she had on a t-shirt and pink panties that the shirt did not quite cover.
I couldn't help the erection as I looked at her and thought about the day before. She must have sensed that I was thinking about it as she came over and crawled into my lap. Sandy poured us another glass of wine and offered another small glass to Ellen. Ellen sipped her wine quickly as she leaned against me. I wasn't thinking straight, I wrapped my arms around Ellen and my erection grew, she could feel it on her bottom and wiggled gently to arouse me even more. By now Sandy has leaned over on my shoulder and is nibbling at my neck while Ellen takes my hand directly to her crotch and is rubbing herself with my hand.
I am sure that this is going to end badly and I gently move Ellen up off my lap, as I do she spins around and starts kissing me on the lips, in the meantime Sandy has gotten up off the couch and is bent down unbuckling my pants and pulling them off. Next goes my underwear and I'm sitting there with Ellen kissing me and Sandy staring at my naked cock standing straight up.
Suddenly Ellen jumps up beside her mom and they both take off their clothes. Ellen is naked first and she is right back on my lap with her pussy rubbing my cock while she kisses me. Sandy pulls me down along the couch and straddles over top of me so that I can watch her finger herself good. She is facing Ellen and she leans over and gives her a hug then she reaches down and holds my cock upright so that Ellen can get on top of it.
As Ellen gets my throbbing dick started into her tight wet little vagina, Sandy gets back to fingering herself while I start licking the juices at the very bottom of her cunt. I can feel the head of my cock bumping into Ellen's virginal wall; she cries just a bit as it breaks and my big hard dick slides deep into her tiny pussy. I reach around with my left hand and start fingering Ellen's cute little ass and at the same time I reach up and finger Sandy's ass with my right hand.
The wine must have made both of them very horny; Sandy's cunt is squirting hot juice down into my mouth and Ellen's bucking wildly while her juice runs down my cock and into my ass crack. Sandy comes twice in a row, she pulls my finger out of her ass and sucks on it, and then pulls her finger out of her cunt and rubs it all over her large nipples. Then Ellen starts sucking her nipples and cums at least twice. Finally I cum hard filling Ellen's hot little vagina until it runs down my cock. Sandy pulls my finger out of Ellen's ass and sucks on it, smiling when she is done.
As my dick goes soft Ellen starts to climb off of me, but Sandy pulls her vagina over to my face and tells her to suck my dick. I pull Ellen's sticky wet pussy to my mouth and eat her cum soaked cunt while she's licking me clean. I finish her pussy and start sucking on her ass, swirling my tongue in and out of her sweet little hole.
Sandy lays on the floor next to the couch and starts fingering herself again, she calls to Ellen and pulls her face down to her pussy. Ellen lays on Sandy and eats her pussy while Sandy reaches up and pulls Ellen's tiny little cunt to her mouth. Watching mother and daughter eating each other has me fully erect again, looking down at Ellen's sweet little ass I can't resist. As I get in position behind her Sandy licks Ellen's ass to make it wet for me.
Ellen's ass is tighter than her pussy was, but with persistent effort I manage to get my cock inside her. She cries again so I take it slow. It doesn't take long before she's pushing back on me and I start to fuck her long and slow. Ellen must be a good little cunt eater, because I can tell Sandy is coming again. I can hear Ellen lapping up the juice, and looking down I can see Sandy swallowing every drop of juice from Ellen's cunt. I can see Sandy's big tits and nipples under Ellen so I reach down and grab them to get leverage so I can fuck Ellen harder.
This really worked well, I am all the way into Ellen's ass and the strokes are hard and fast, she cums into her mothers mouth while her mother cums in hers. Both of them are moaning, squirting, sucking, licking, and cuming. I can't hold back any more, I shoot a massive load while Sandy licks at the juice running out of Ellen's ass and down to her cunt. When I pull my cock out Sandy tells Ellen to sit up, as my cum run's out of Ellen, Sandy hungrily laps it up, licking her clean and giving me a smile. I turn Ellen around and offer her my dick which she takes into her mouth and sucks, licking it clean before giving me a smile. We all crawl back on the couch and lay there quietly fondling, kissing, and licking each other.
After a while Sandy went upstairs, I whispered to Ellen that I loved having sex with her but that I'm disappointed that she told her mother and asked who else she told. She said she did not tell her mother, that actually the whole thing was her mother's idea. Sandy returned with a big shopping bag, poured us all another glass of wine and looked very pleased with herself. I asked her what was going on.
She explained that first she loved me and the sex was very important to her, but she had realized several months back that I loved Ellen and that Ellen loved me. She also knew that Ellen was ready to be interested in boys, she wanted her first experiences to be with someone who would make her feel good and to her that person was me. Finally she was worried that if something happened between me and Ellen, that there would be too much going on for us to still have our wonderful relationship. Especially since she knew that eventually Ellen would be ready and interested in boys her own age and then we would both end up alone.
I was surprised, but I could see where this was going. Still I told her I'm worried, because on one hand everyone is being open and honest, but at the same time we had to keep this a secret. After all, now we would both go to jail if anyone found out. She just laughed and said that this would be a family secret and now I was family. Then I asked about her husband knowing, she said to relax that he already knows and he is part of it. He has been getting horny with his daughter since she was ten, they both love it. He didn't want to be the one to break her cherry, so he was glad to have me do it so now he could fuck her himself.
Then she went on to explain that they had a really open relationship and that they had sexual relations with all of their children. She even went on to explain that since I was bisexual, I would be invited to participate in family adventures that included him and the boys. Then I asked her what's in the bag, she smiled and pulled out some ropes, some toys, and a belt and told me that they were bad girls and that I should punish them.
Okay, but let's finish our wine first.
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Anonymous reader
2011-06-14 23:46:54
I really liked this start to the mother and daughter sex thing. Sex with the little 11yo girl is great and having moms ok is the greatest. I love little girls. Likeemyoung!!!
anonymous reader
2010-11-01 05:39:49
i like the getting to fuck the girl. but i'd hafta draw the line at fucking the boys and the dad! sorry my ass has exit only on it. other then that good story.
Anonymous reader
2010-09-23 10:44:09
Sandy or Cindy? Try to keep your characters straight. Outside of that and few spelling/grammar errors, good plot and story.
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Follow-on Science Instrument
Monthly Status Report Number 022
Science Theme: X-Ray Binaries, Part II |
Prepared in accordance with DR 972MA-002; DPD #972
Prepared for
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama 35812
Center for Space
Research; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA 02139
1.0 Distribution List for Monthly Status Report
MIT-External Electronic:
FD03/Mike Smith, MSFC email@example.com
PS41/Wayne Harmon, MSFC email@example.com
SD50/Martin Weisskopf, MSFC firstname.lastname@example.com
MIT-External Hardcopy:
None specified.
MIT-Internal Electronic:
Elaine Tirrell email@example.com
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MIT-Internal Hardcopy:
Claude Canizares Room 3-234 (via Gail Monahan)
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Please send distribution requests and other comments on this document to firstname.lastname@example.com .
2.0 Schedule of Past and Future Events Relevant to HETG
Date |
Past Events |
Comment |
Dec. 8-12 |
Multiwavelength AGN Surveys, Cozumel, Mexico |
M. Jimenez-Garate, J. Gelbord |
Dec.15 |
Chandra Cycle 6 Call for Proposals issued |
Jan. 4-8 |
203rd AAS meeting, Atlanta GA. |
Flanagan, Ishibashi, Marshall, Gelbord, Porro, Jimenez-Garate, Wise, Lopez, Wojdowski, Jeltema, Juett |
Jan. 12 |
Chandra User Committee meeting |
Date |
Future Events |
Comment |
Jan. 15-16 |
Studies of Dark Energy & Cosmology with X-ray Surveys, Greenbelt, MD. |
Feb. 3-6 |
"X-ray and Radio Connection", Sante Fe, NM. |
J. Houck, G. Allen |
Feb. 8-12 |
Polarimetry meeting, Stanford U., CA. |
H. Marshall |
March 1 |
GTO target selections due to CXC |
March 3-4 |
Chandra Quarterly at MSFC |
D. Dewey |
May |
Wyoming meeting |
B. Ishibashi |
May 12-14 |
Conference: "Beyond Einstein: From the Big Bang to Black Holes", Kavli Institute, Stanford U., CA.. |
K. Flanagan |
May 18-24 |
5th Microquasar Workshop, Beijing, China |
H. Marshall, S. Heinz |
May 30-6/3 |
AAS Meeting, Denver, CO. |
N. Schulz |
June 21-25 |
Astronomical Telescopes and Inst., SPIE Meeting, Scotland. |
K. Flanagan |
June 20-25 |
Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context, Garching, Germany. |
H. Marshall, S. Heinz |
July 5-9 |
13th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Hamburg Germany |
N. Schulz |
July 18-24 |
35th COSPAR meeting, Paris France. |
C. Canizares, K. Flanagan, H. Marshall |
3.0 Instrument Status and Science Support
3.1 Flight Events and HETG Instrument Status
The HETG continues to function with no outstanding issues.
In December 2003 there were 2 obsids using the HETG: targets Epsilon Ori and a TOO of Her X-1 (HETG PostDoc Mario Jimenez-Garate PI).
3.2 Science Support to CXC, SWG, etc.
Parameters for an improved ACIS contamination file were created and sent to CXC for creation of a CALDB product, an "N0003" version of contaminant response is the goal.
Working with CXC to create an HETG proposal planning thread for Cycle 6 use.
4.0 GTO Science Program
4.1 Observations and Data status
No new GTO data were received in December. Progress in on-going analysis is given in the GTO observation list of Appendix A --- not included this month, however.
4.2 Science theme progress
The HETG GTO science efforts span a range of "science themes" given in the list below. For this report we present in the following pages an update on the status of the X-Ray Binaries GTO observations.
GTO Science Theme |
Abbreviation (for App'ix A) |
Researchers (HETG in caps) |
Date of recent [previous] reporting Contributor of theme material |
"Cool" Stars |
Cool Star |
dph,nss,psw |
Oct.&Nov., 2003. [Sept.2002] Dave Huenemoerder |
"Hot" Stars |
Hot Star |
nss,dph,psw,bi |
Oct.&Nov., 2003. [Oct. 2002] N. Schulz, P. Wojdowski |
X-ray Binaries & Accretion Disks |
MJ-G,AY,AJ,nss,hlm, man, jmm, psw |
December, 2003 [Dec. 2002] Many contributors. |
Supernova Remnants |
KAF,DD, AF,jh,gea,mds |
August, 2003. [May, 2003] Dan Dewey |
Isolated Neutron Stars |
iNS |
hlm, nss |
January, 2003. Mike Stage, Herman Marshall |
Galaxies & Clusters of Galaxies |
Gal., Clust. |
TJ,AY,mw,jh |
August, 2002. Michael Wise, Tesla Jeltema |
Active Galactic Nuclei and Jets |
AGN, Jet |
RG,MJ-G,AY,hlm, man,jcl,sm,jg,scg |
September, 2003. [June, 2002] Andy Young and Rob Gibson |
Inter-Stellar Medium |
AJ,nss |
February, 2003. Adrienne Juett, Norbert Schulz |
Inter-Galactic Medium |
RG,hlm,tf |
July, 2002. Taotao Fang |
X-Ray Binaries Progress, Part II (January '03 – December '03)
Summary of X-Ray Binaries Observations and Activities
Eleven XRBs are included in cycles 1-5 of the HETG GTO program, covering a range of types as indicated in the Table below. In the past year the two Cycle 4 observations, 4U 1626-67 and Sco X-1, were carried out and data are being analyzed, see examples that follow. Progress has also been made in understanding photoionized emission from EXO 0748 and Her X-1, in analyzing piled-up XRB observations, and in modeling the jets of SS 433 --- this latter activity yielded a press release at the recent AAS meeting in Atlanta.
Aditionally, because many XRBs are bright continuum sources they can be used to probe the absorption details of the interstellar medium (ISM); a figure from the recent ApJ paper by Juett, Schulz, and Chakrabarty (2003) will appear in the upcoming Chandra Newsletter demonstrating the detailed Oxygen absorption due to the ISM.
Obs cycle |
Obsid(s) |
Name |
Type* |
Period |
Comments |
5 |
4552 |
--- |
LMXB: BH or NS ? |
9.3 h |
Warped precessing disk, 2 orbits |
4, 1 |
3504, 104 |
--- |
42 m |
Magnetic NS; ultra-compact |
4 |
3505 |
Sco X-1 |
Yes |
18.9 h |
Bright! Fe XXV, ADC, ISM (XAFS?) |
3 |
3354 |
Yes |
14.9 d? |
ISM Fe-L and O edges |
2 |
1016 |
Cyg X-2 |
Yes |
9.8 d |
Bursts, super-orbital P, 0.5 Crab |
2 |
1017 |
--- |
3.8 h |
Bursts, eclipses, dips |
1, 2 |
1020, 1019, 106 |
--- |
13 d |
Precessing jets, super-orbital P |
1 |
103 |
--- |
41.5 d |
Eccentric orbit, wind accretion |
1 |
102 |
Vela X-1 |
--- |
9 d |
Winds |
1 |
105 |
Yes |
3.8 h |
Bursts |
1 |
107, 1511 |
Cyg X-1 |
Yes |
5.6 d |
Fe-line structure, wind |
* Key: Z =
Z source, A = Atoll source, PS = X-ray pulsar, NS = neutron star, BH = black
4U 1626-67 – second observation.
In cycle 4 we again observed the binary 4U 1626-67 (in June '03) but this time for 2.5x as long as our earlier cycle 1 observation (Sept. '00): 100 ks as compared with 40 ks. We have also obtained and are analyzing an XMM-Newton observation of the source taken in August '03, see Figure below left. The emission lines are very broad and continue to show a double peak structure, for example, in the Ne X line show in the Figure below right taken from the second Chandra observation. The exact line structure of the double peaks, their location and relative intensities, appears to have changed between the two Chandra observations. Analysis of these data are on-going.
Sco X-1 Observed!
On July 21 2003 Chandra pointed at the brightest continuous X-ray source in the sky –-- Sco X-1 --- as part of the HETG GTO cycle 4 program. Because the source is so bright there was fear that if the zeroth-order image fell directly on a FI CCD damage could result; the observation was monitored in real time by operations personnel and the observation was a success. In addition ACIS was run in CC mode and offset in SIM-Z so that the zeroth-order landed off-chip so that only a single arm of each of the MEG and HEG intersected the ACIS-S array. This is a far-from-standard configuration makes the data analysis tricky. For example, the "order plot" shown in the Figure below left has HEG-only on the left side and MEG-only events on the right side. The software is assuming both sides are MEG and so the HEG events show up as even-numbered MEG orders. A preliminary spectral extraction of the MEG data, Figure below right, shows a nice spectrum but also a slight mis-registration of the response and the data at around 23 A --- a symptom of not having an accurate zeroth-order location. We expect to overcome these difficulties - stay tuned!
EXO 0748 and HerX-1
A key feature often seen in the spectra of binaries is the signature of photo-ionized emission coming from the matter (accretion disk) orbiting the compact object. In high inclination systems the bright continuum emission from the central source can be eclipsed by the companion star and/or attenuated as warps or bulges in the accretion disk come into the line of sight. By looking at the spectra in these dips and eclipses (and also Type I bursts from the compact object surface) the accretion disk structure can be probed. HETG Post Doc Mario Jimenez-Garate has developed and applied photo-ionization models to data from our GTO target EXO 0748-676 (ApJ 590:432-444, 2003) and to his own recent GO ToO observations of Her X-1.
In the case of Her X-1, in a paper submiited for publication, Jimenez-Garate presents measures of the He-like triplets in the data and uses the R-ratio (f/i) from Mg XI, lower left Figure, as one ingredient in constraining the density and location of the emitting material, lower right Figure.
Survey and Analysis of Piled-up HETGS Binary Observations
In general pileup in the HETG spectra is not a problem – but for bright X-ray Binary sources pileup may be the rule rather than the exception especially around 2 keV in the MEG spectra. John Davis and Norbert Schulz, both of the CXC at MIT, have started an analysis of all available HETG binary observations focusing in particular on including the effects of pile-up in the dispersed spectra.
"Some of these sources are so bright that there are many counts in a bin. Hence, the chi-square values are driven by systematic uncertainties in the data," says John Davis. In the Fall of 2003 he developed a new model that would better account for differences between the front-side and back-side chips; it adds three additional fixed parameters per CCD. When those parameters were (laboriously) fit by simultaneously fitting several data sets the chi-square values dropped from, e.g., 7 per degree-of-freedom to less than 2 –-- a very significant improvement in the fit quality, e.g. see the Figure at right where systematics are generally below 5%.
The values of the new parameters depends on the calibration of the ACIS detector and the FI and BI QE values in particular; once these values are updated and released this project is ready to move on to the next stage.
SS 433 Results and Press Conference in Atlanta
The HETG group was quite pleased to have HETG data from GTO target SS 433 featured in a press release at the Atlanta AAS meeting:
X-Ray Binaries Plans and Further Work
• Analyze Cycle 5 observation of 4U 1957+11 for warped disk signatures.
• Continue a catalogue of spectra from bright X-ray binaries corrected using pileup model.
• Continue to investigate the details of SS 433.
• Study the effect of resonance scattering in ionized stellar winds.
• Study models of photoionization in illuminated accretion disks.
• Study the X-ray spectra of black hole candidates with respect to their binary orbit, e.g. Cyg X-1.
• Look for absorption lines in X-ray burst spectra.
4.3 HETG-related Software: Development, Evaluation, and Support
Analysis Software
Pileup correction software is used for the dispersed grating spectra for many XRB sources because they are so bright. Likewise, Continuous Clocking (CC) mode is often used for these observations and so CC software improvements have been driven by XRB observations. The brightest of all, Sco X-1, will allow/require light curve and timing software that works on dispersed data. The use of diffraction orders higher than the first is possible and necessary for these sources and so analysis s/w and calibration values for high-orders are put to use.
Modeling Software
In-house resonance scattering code is being developed for stellar wind systems. As mentioned above, we are carrying out photoionization modeling of accretion disk atmospheres.
4.4 Presentations, etc. (December and Jan. AAS Atlanta meeting)
Jimenez-Garate, "Using the X-ray Emission Lines of Seyfert 2's to Measure Abundance Ratios", poster at Conference on Multiwavelength AGN Surveys, Cozumel Mexico, Dec. 2003.
K. Flanagan, "SNR 1E0102.2-7219 from a new angle", poster at the 203rd AAS.
T. Jeltema, "Cluster Substructure and its Evolution with Redshift" talk at the 203rd AAS.
M. Jimenez-Garate, "Accretion Disk Atmospheres around Kerr Black Holes", talk at the 203rd AAS.
A. Juett, "[Oxygen edge measurements in the ISM]", poster at the 203rd AAS.
L. Lopez, "Diagnostics of the Relativistic Jets of the Galactic X-ray Binary SS 433 Using the Chandra HETGS", talk at the 203rd AAS.
P. Wojdowski, "Constraining the Wind Geometry in the High Mass X-ray Binary SMC X-1 with XMM/RGS Spectroscopy", talk at the 203rd AAS.
4.5 Publications (December), see also: http://space.mit.edu/csr_pubs.html
K.A. Flanagan et al., "Chandra High-Resolution X-Ray Spectrum of Supernova Remnant 1E 0102.2-7219", astro-ph/0312509, ApJ accepted, April 2004.
5.0 Systems and Engineering Support
5.1 Documentation and "Design Knowledge Capture" and 5.3 Anomalies, Insert/retract, etc. Support
5.2 Spares Retest and Test Instrumentation
No activities in these areas in December.
6.0 Management
6.1 Program Office & NASA Support
No activities in this area in December.
6.2 MIT-internal management activities
In December Post Doc applications began arriving for the HETG Post Doc open starting September 2004.
7.0 Open Issues, Problems, etc.
There are no open issues or problems regarding the HETG.

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Science is exciting! These pages keep you up to date on what is happening at the Physics Department: scientists report on research and campus life.
2015-04-23 –
2015-03-27 – The latest DNA nanodevices created at the Physics Department of TUM – including a robot with movable arms, a book that opens and closes, a switchable gear, and an actuator – may be intriguing in their own right, but that's not the point. They demonstrate a breakthrough in the science of using DNA as a programmable building material for nanometer-scale structures and machines. Results published in the journal Science reveal a new approach to joining – and reconfiguring – modular 3D building units, by snapping together complementary shapes instead of zipping together strings of base pairs. This not only opens the way for practical nanomachines with moving parts, but also offers a toolkit that makes it easier to program their self-assembly.
2015-03-27 – Topological insulators are an exceptional group of materials. Their interior acts as an insulator, but the surface conducts electricity extremely well. Scientists at Physik-Department have measured this now for the first time directly, with extremely high temporal resolution and at room temperature. In addition, they succeeded to influence the direction of the surface currents with a polarized laser beam.
2015-03-21 – Die Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften hat elf Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aufgrund ihrer wissenschaftlichen Leistungen als neue Mitglieder gewählt – darunter auch Prof. Matthias Rief, Lehrstuhlinhaber für Molekulare Biophysik am Physik-Department.
2015-03-20 – Reinhard Kienberger, Professor at the Physics Department, receives an ERC Consolidator Grant. The European Research Council will support his project "Attosecond ELectron Dynamics in Molecular Systems (AEDMOS)" for 5 years and will spend up to 2 Million Euros on it. Thus the Physik-Department at TUM continues to be one of Europe's most successful faculties in attracting ERC funding.
2015-03-03 – Magnetic vortex structures, so-called skyrmions, could in future store and process information very efficiently. They could also be the basis for high-frequency components. For the first time, a team of physicists succeeded in characterizing the electromagnetic properties of insulating, semiconducting and conducting skyrmion-materials and developed a unified theoretical description of their behavior. This lays the foundation for future electronic components with purpose-designed properties.
2015-02-27 – Magnetic nanoparticles can increase the performance of solar cells made from polymers – provided the mix is right. This is the result of an X-ray study carried out in collaboration with Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY). Adding about one per cent of such nanoparticles by weight makes the solar cells more efficient, according to the findings of a team of scientists headed by Prof. Peter Müller-Buschbaum from the Physik-Department. They are presenting their study in one of the upcoming issues of the journal "Advanced Energy Materials".
2015-02-27 – Ein neuer Algorithmus für eine verbesserte Computertomographie, der am Physik-Department entwickelt wird, wurde jetzt mit einem TUM IdeAward ausgezeichnet.
2015-02-26 – High performance materials for gas storage, thermal insulators or nanomachines need a thorough understanding of the behavior of the material down to the molecular level. Thermodynamics, which have been developed two hundred years ago to increase the efficiency of steam engines, typically observes and averages over a large number of molecules. Now a team of scientists has developed a methodology, to investigate the equilibrium thermodynamics of single molecules.
2015-02-10 – Nuclear particles called pions contribute significantly to the strong interaction. This force is responsible for binding nuclei together and accounts for most of the mass of the visible matter surrounding us. Now, for the first time, physicists have succeeded in precisely determining the deformability of pions. The result, to which researchers from the Technische Universität München (TUM) contributed considerably, is in close agreement with the theoretical predictions. It also revises earlier measurements that were incompatible with the standard model of physics.
2015-02-09 – The Universe is pervaded by a mysterious form of matter, dubbed dark matter, about five times more abundant than the ordinary matter – made of atoms – we are familiar with. Its existence in galaxies was robustly established in the 1970s. Scientists now obtained for the first time a direct observational proof of the presence of dark matter in the innermost part our Galaxy, the Milky Way.
2015-02-09 – Insgesamt 120 Physiker, Mediziner und Vertreter der Industrie aus aller Welt trafen sich vom 29.-30.01.2015 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen zum vierten "International Symposium on Biomedical Applications of Phase Contrast Imaging, IMXP", einem interdisziplinären Symposium zur Phasenkontrast-Bildgebung mit Röntgenstrahlen. Hauptthema waren Fortschritte in der Technologieentwicklung und Bildverarbeitung, sowie neue Entwicklungen in der biomedizinischen Anwendung.
2015-01-27 – Elements of cosmic origin on the floor of the Pacific Ocean provide new insights into supernova explosions. An international research team with participation of the Physics Department at Technische Universität München has analysed a deep-sea manganese crust on their content of particularly heavy elements thought to be from supernovae. It was found that the amount is much lower than expected. The researchers therefore assume that the heavy elements found may not be formed in standard supernovae.
2015-01-23 – TUM's Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) awards one of its Carl von Linde Senior Fellowships to Professor Franz Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer will use the Fellowship to develop a novel prototype for X-ray computed tomography (CT): the up-scaling of recent advances in dark-field X-ray imaging from in-vivo studies on small animals to first clinical studies for human diagnostics. The novel techniques promise X-ray tomography with unprecedented detail and thus may greatly enhance early detection and screening of important diseases, including lung emphysema or cancer.
2015-01-14 – How fast do electrons whiz through the atomic layers of a crystal lattice? A team of scientists led by researchers from the Technische Universität München (TUM) joined by colleagues from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), the Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität Munich and the Technical University of Vienna has now investigatigated this fundamental question. The researchers measured the time electrons needed to travel through a film consisting of a few layers a of magnesium atoms.
2015-01-07 – Gelatin is used in the pharmaceutical industry to encapsulate active agents. It protects against oxidation and overly quick release. Tiny pores in the material have a significant influence on this, yet they are difficult to investigate. In experiments on gummy bears, researchers at Physik-Department of TUM have now transferred a methodology to determine the free volume of gelatin preparations.
Lecture Series "Introduction to Current Aspects of Scientific Research": Molekulare Dynamik von Molekülen: Simulationen am Computer
Lecture Series "Introduction to Current Aspects of Scientific Research": Wie blieb die Materie im Universum, wie wurden die ersten Elemente gezeugt und welche Wege nutzt die Natur, um Quarks und Gluonen zu binden
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With the resurgence of a lo-fi production and aesthetic continuing to grow in the U.K it was only a matter of time before Manchester's charming solo artist Pierre Hall came to light. The son of a father from Trinidad and Tobago and a Mauritian mother, Pierre Hall is otherwise known as Golden Glow, who's debut album 'Tender In The Night' is due for release on 21st June via Mush Records. 'Tender In The Night' is a captivating mix of Shoegaze and Brit-Pop, filled with beautiful and delicate songs, which have been fuelled by a car accident that left Pierre's unable to walk for 6months. Opening track 'Adore Me' starts with guitars aching to the links of Gang Of Four and The Editors, capturing that distinctively British guitar tone that we have come to love over the years. With a more indie edge on the guitars a pounding Joy Division-esque bass line and Ian Curtis styled distorted vocal overlaying 'Adore Me' sets the tone for what is to follow, a captivating mix of 80s post-punk and early 90s Shoegaze and Brit-pop. Fourth track 'The Blizzard' sees the direction of the album shift slightly, with Hall harnessing a more droning Shoegaze influence, delivered with an almost spoken word vocal line, rather than sung melody, which sits underneath a cascade of droning synths and sound-scaping distorted guitars. However it is 'At A Lose' that captures the essence of the album, fusing together a perfectly balanced blend of guitars that are a mix of an 80's reverb distorted drone and a clear cut Brit-Pop riff. Fittingly album closer 'Start Again' continues with the overall laid back summer feeling of Tender Is The Night, providing a dreamy haze of happy-go-lucky indie-pop guitars overlaid with a Curtis styled vocal, which encapsulate Tender Is The Night. In all Tender Is The Night is an album consisting of 11tracks that never peak beyond the 4minute mark and that you can enjoy for their simplicity and charm offensive. An album that won't win any awards for its production and won't go down as an historic album. However what it does offer is a production quality that adds to Pierre Hall's charm and shows us that there is enough here to start getting excited about. - Middle Boop Mag |


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Oaxaca and the 43
In Oaxaca, the number is everywhere – 43. As are the words – Ayotzinapa, desaparecidos, justicia. And the faces – Jose, Julio, Luis, Carlos and more, all young men, all dead, all still missing.
The memory of the murdered students of Ayotzinapa is inescapable. Their faces stare out from posters plastered to walls. Banners hang from every public school denouncing their deaths. Arcing strands of black graffiti damn the government and demand answers.
In the zocalo, the city's social heart, the faces of the victims hang from long strands of colorful construction paper, mixing with the Christmas lights and the blue tarps and orange and green tents of the unionized teachers who have lived in the square for months and have now incorporated the students of Ayotzinapa – who were studying education – into their grievances. The effect is cartoonish, but terribly sad.
Passersby ignore the signs and walk past the tents. The shoeshine men buff boots beneath silent, staring faces. Mariachis play. Life goes on – for all but the 43. They are Mexico's sordid past. They are Mexico's violent present. They are Mexico's precarious future.
#43 (en Español)
43 estudiantes. 43 jóvenes secuestrados en la noche. 43 hijas t hijos asesinados por las manos de la corrupción. 43 cuerpos descartados y quemados como la basura de la casa. 43 oportunidades perdidas por un futuro mejor. 43 más razones para llevar luto por México.
Los 43 alumnos universitarios asesinados murieron debido a que el 26 de septiembre apropiaron unos urbanos y bloquearon una carretera, una forma común de protesta política en México, y al hacerlo se metieron en las planes de la esposa del alcalde de Iguala, una de las más corruptas y violentas ciudades en Guerrero, uno de los más corruptos y violentos estados en México. Ella estaba en rumbo a dar un discurso, encontró la calle bloqueada, hizo una llamada a tu esposo. El Alcalde, José Luis Abarca ordenó a la policía local atacarlos. La policía entregó los alumnos a una pandilla criminal asociada con los narcos que controlan la región. Y los jóvenes desaparecieron.
Todo esto sucedió con la misma impunidad por la parte del alcalde, la policía y los narcos que infecta todo México y literalmente ha permitido asesinos de todos tipos para irse sin miedo de ser castigados por décadas.
Desde el comienzo de lo que ha venido a llamarse la guerra contra el narcotráfico en México, que se emprendió en el 2006 por el entonces presidente Felipe Calderón contra la red de los carteles que generan hasta $500 millones de la venta de drogas ilegales anualmente y controlan 90 por ciento de la cocaína que entra a Estados Unidos, la cifra oficial de la violencia entre los carteles, entre el gobierno y los carteles y entre los carteles y los ciudadanos inocentes de México – como los 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa — ha alcanzado 60,000 muertos. Eso es el numero oficial. Extraoficialmente, observadores de los derechos humanos calculan que el numero es 120,000.
Para poner esa cifra en perspectiva, hay que considerar que 58,220 Americanos murieron en la guerra entre Estados Unidos y Vietnam, un conflicto que incitó a la generación mía a llenar las calles de la capital estadounidense en protesta y eventualmente causó cambios vastos en la sociedad Americana.
Por supuesto, Vietnam era una guerra Americana y existía un reclutamiento que fomentaba más resistencia contra el conflicto, pero todavía se puede imaginarse que una guerra de letalidad similar que esta ocurriendo en un país visitado por 6 millones de Americanos cada año achisparía un poco de rabia aquí.
No es asi.
Hasta ahora, la posición oficial de Estados Unidos ha sido poco más de una tracción de hombros. La administración del Presidente Obama ha descrito el destino de los 43 alumnos y la respuesta insípida del gobierno del Presidente Enrique Peña Nieto como "preocupante."
Eso puede cambiar. Las manifestaciones callejeras que comenzaron en Iguala después de la desaparición de los estudiantes se han extendido a lo largo del país y se han vuelto violentas en el D.F. Peña Nieto, que ignoró los secuestros por muchos días antes de mencionarlos públicamente y luego salio del país para una conferencia de comercio en China, ha regresado a escuchar a un número cada vez mayor de gritos pidiendo su renuncia (avivados en parte por la revelación que él y su esposa, una estrella de telenovelas, tiene una casa secreta con un valor de $7 millones en un enclave adinerado de la capital.)
Los medios de comunicación estadounidenses están reportando cada vez más el escándalo y las comunidades mexicana-americanas en Estados Unidos están organizándose y marchando con la esperanza de incitar más atención publica. Una de esas marchas ocurrió el sábado pasado en San Francisco, cuando 500 personas se encontraron en la esquina de los calles 24 y Mission, el corazón de la comunidad Hispana en San Francisco, para caminar al centro. Más manifestaciones están planeadas, una en coordinación con una huelga general establecida a ocurrir en México el 20 de noviembre, el aniversario de la revolución Mexicana, y otra en diciembre en 43 ciudades estadounidenses.
¿Que puedes hacer? Muchas cosas. Ya sea poco o mucho.
Escribe o tuitea a tu congresista. Dile que estas enojado, que estas harto, que quieres que el gobierno estadounidense reclame que su segundo mayor socio comercial limpie su casa. (El comercio entre México y Estados Unidos que suma en total a $6,000 millones en 2013.)
Si fumas marihuana o usas cocaína (¿y porque lo haces?), para. Casi toda la cocaína y mucha de la marihuana que los Americanos consumen viene a través de México. Tu diversión apoya los carteles, que a su vez corrompen el gobierno más, que engendra un estado de la impunidad, que permite crímenes de todos tipos – desde la evasión de los impuestos a la matanza en más – para continuar sin ser castigados.
Marcha. Camina en las calles con los Mexicanos que han venido a nuestro país, legalmente e ilegalmente, para escapar la misma corrupción que ha causado la muerte de los 43 estudiantes. Con más de 33 millones de persones que tienen origen Mexicano viviendo en Estados Unidos, esta guerra es tan nuestra come es de México.
43 students. 43 young people kidnapped in the night. 43 sons and daughters murdered by the hands of corruption. 43 bodies discarded and burned like household trash. 43 chances for a better future lost. 43 more reasons to mourn for Mexico.
The 43 slain university students of Ayotzinapa died because on Sept. 26 they commandeered several public buses and blocked a highway, a common form or political protest in Mexico, and by doing so interfered with the wife of the mayor of Iguala, one of the most violent and corrupt cities in the Guerrero, one of Mexico's most violent and corrupt states. She was en route to give a speech, found the road blocked and called her husband to demand he do something about it. The mayor, José Luis Abarca, ordered the local police to attack them. The cops handed them to a criminal gang associated with the narcos who control the region. And the students disappeared.
All this happened with the same impunity on the part of the mayor, the police and the narcos that infects all of Mexico and has quite literally allowed killers of all political and illegal persuasion to get away with murder for years.
Since the beginning of what has come to be called the Mexican Drug War, launched in 2006 by then-President Felipe Calderón again the web of cartels who generate between up to $50 billion in illegal drug sales annually and control 90 percent of the cocaine entering the United State, the official death toll of the violence between the cartels, between the government and the cartels and between both of them and the innocent citizens of Mexico – like the 43 students of Ayotzinapa – has reached 60,000. That's the official number. Unofficially, human rights observers put the estimate at 120,000.
For some perspective, consider that 58,220 Americans died in the Vietnam War, a conflict that compelled my generation to fill the streets of the U.S. capital in protest and led to vast changes in American society.
Of course, Vietnam was an American war and a draft existed that pulled those who could not dodge the conflict directly into it, but still one might imagine that a war of similar lethality occurring in a country visited annually by more than 6 million Americans would spark a modicum of outrage here at home.
Not so.
Thus far, the official U.S. response has been little more than a shrug. The Obama administration has described the fate of the 43 students and the insipid response of the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto as "worrisome."
That may change. The street protests that began in Iguala after the fate of the students was learned have spread throughout the county and turned violent in Mexico City. Peña Nieto, who ignored the kidnapping for 33 days before speaking publicly about and then left the country for a trade conference in China, has returned to hear a growing number of cries for his resignation (fueled in part by the revelation that he and his wife, a soap-opera star, had a secret $7 million house in a wealth enclave above Mexico City).
American news media are increasingly covering the issue and Mexican-American communities in the United are organizing and marching in the hope of galvanizing more public attention. One of those marches happened Saturday in San Francisco, with 500 people walking from 24th and Mission, once of the heart of the city's Latino community, to Powell and Market streets. More protests are planned, once in conjunction with general strike set to occur in Mexico on Nov. 20, the anniversary of the Mexican revolution, and another in 43 U.S. cities in December.
What can you do? Many things. From a little to a lot.
Write or tweet your congressional representatives. Tell them you're outraged, that you've had enough, that you want the U.S. government to demand that is second-largest trade partner (U.S.-Mexico trade totaled $600 billion in 2013) clean house.
If you smoke dope or do coke (and why do you?), then stop. Nearly all the coke and much of the weed comes through Mexico. Your high supports the cartels, which in turn corrupt the government further, which engenders a state of impunity, which allows crimes of all sorts, from tax evasion to mass murder, to go unpunished.
March. Walk in the streets with the Mexicans who have come to our country, legally and illegally, in order to escape the very corruption that lead to the deaths of the 43 students. With more than 33 million people of Mexican origin living in the United States (and that's not counting second-, third-, fourth-, etc. generations of Mexican Americans) this is as much our war at it is Mexico's.
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Also tagged 53, Ayotzinapa, cartel, Iguala, Mission, narco, Pena Nieto, protest, San Francisco, The Mission
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Mary Ellen Mark, Me & Mexico
I returned to Oaxaca this year to take a second photography workshop with Mary Ellen Mark. Here is an account of that trip — and its impact on me — that I wrote for a local magazine. It is an updated version of the story of my first workshop a year ago.
No Bull!
Discovering charros and more in Mexico with Mary Ellen Mark
By Tim Porter
The bull had been chased at survival-of-the-fittest speed by a charro on horseback, grabbed by the tail, and then flipped nose first upside down into the dirt, where its rolling bulk created a sideways tornado of dust and grit that hid all but its whirling hooves and horns.
Now, it was coming my way — one ton of off-the-hoof, out-of-control hamburger on a collision course with me and my Nikon. My options were few. A brick wall behind me. A cluster of horses, ridden by wranglers waiting for the bull to come out of the spin cycle, in front. A flimsy metal gate to my left.
I defied the complaints of aging knees, muttered a silent namaste of thanks to my yoga teacher and leapt for the gate.
A second later the bull gained its footing, arose from the ground like a drunken frat boy who had been ejected from a hipster bar, and looked for something two-legged on whom it could exact revenge. Its eyes, angry and aflame, found mine, doe-like and frozen, in my perch three feet above him on the gate. The bull swung his heavy, bony head into the gate, rattling my nerves and my bones. Then the charros, emitting whoops and wielding lassos, chased off the beast.
I checked the camera, noticed bull spittle on my jeans, moved back down along the wall and waited for the next animal.
Just another vacation day in Mexico.
Years ago, I worked at a newspaper in San Francisco with a British reporter who had done several stints with the London tabloids and he liked to say of a hard-to-believe yarn, "Hey, it's a great story even if it's true."
This bull story is no bull. But there are greater truths to be told here.
My nose-to-nose encounter with the bull happened while I was photographing the second day of a charreada, a traditional Mexican rodeo that took place about 10 miles south of the city of Oaxaca in a town called Tlalixtac de Cabrera. There, teams of charros, the iconic Mexican horsemen whose tight-fitting suits and wide-brimmed sombreros remind tourists of mariachi bands but whose history is rooted in the horse culture brought to Mexico by the Spanish conquistadores, competed for the state championship.
I was in the lienzo charro (the arena) because of one woman, Mary Ellen Mark, the iconic photojournalist who has worked for Federico Fellini, and Life and Vanity Fair, but is best known for her lifelong pursuit of documenting those who inhabit society's fringes — street kids, circus performers and prostitutes.
She was a hero of my youth, the reason I became a photographer. My two days with the charros were part of a 10-day photography workshop she led in March in Oaxaca.
I first learned of Mary Ellen when I was in my 20s. The '60s had come and gone and I was living in the wake of the period's wanton indulgences. I'd gotten a low-level job in a swanky Nob Hill hotel and returned to college, but I had no plan. School was merely a way out of a life I could no longer live.
One day I saw two photographs in a magazine, both taken in India. In the first, a boy sat at table in a cafe. His hair was long, his shirt torn. He leaned, dreamy-eyed, toward a glow coming from a nearby window. The second photo showed a hippie couple resting on a beach. They wore white, wispy clothes. The boy's hands rested on a harmonium, an Indian hand organ. He and the girl gazed languidly toward the sea.
In those lost children, I saw myself. The images embodied the untethered wandering that defined the era and that had led me, unwittingly, down shrouded paths from which many never returned. I've never forgotten those two photos.
Mary Ellen Mark was only 31 when she made those pictures, but she was already accomplished — assignments worldwide, a Fulbright, her mind and her camera focused on the social trends of the day. She has said of those years, "I'm just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven't had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence."
Her desire inspired me, a confused young man who had passed from adolescence into adulthood along those same edges. I bought a camera. I learned to develop film, found a job in a darkroom and began shooting on the street, joined the community college paper, and started shooting news. There was plenty of that in those days — kidnappings, demonstrations, strikes. I used the camera to both open the world to me and to shield me from it. In journalism, I'd found a purpose. I freelanced and hoped for a career in photojournalism .
But it wasn't to be. My work wasn't that strong. I was too timid, too distant. More than that, I allowed insecurity to ride roughshod over passion. To stay in journalism, I started writing, which came more easily than photography. Ambition took hold and I followed the opportunities — editor of this, editor of that, editor of whatever came along.
Then it was over. That's too long a story to tell here. Suffice to say that 30 years after finding myself, I was lost again. Time passed. One day I took out my old Nikon, loaded some film and wandered about the suburban marshes. Just like that, it all came back.
My wife, more perceptive about me than I am, gave me a small digital camera. I learned the software. I bought a bigger camera. I found work with a local magazine that needed someone who could both shoot and write. Over time, more work came. And better cameras. And lights. And a studio. I became, at last, a photographer.
Happy ending, right? Boy wants girl. Gets rejected. Wins over girl years later. Fade to black. Roll credits.
Hold the Hollywood moment.
There was still that itch, unscratched — the edge, the margin, the harder truths. Don't get me wrong. Living and working in Marin is a good life that many would like to have. But edgy it ain't.
Then, 18 months ago serendipity struck. I learned of Mary Ellen Mark's workshop in Oaxaca (where my wife and I had built a house). So tantalizing, so coincidental it seemed impossible — Mary Ellen (my inspiration), photojournalism (my abandoned child) and Oaxaca (my adopted city) all combined.
I joined the workshop last year. I met Mary Ellen (an extraordinary woman of relentless authenticity). I photographed in garbage dumps and garlic fields and the bedrooms of transvestites. I jabbered all day in Spanish. I came home with several good photos and a vow to return — which I did in March.
This year, when I returned home from Oaxaca, a friend asked, What did you learn?
I didn't have a thoughtful answer at the time and instead something about getting closer with my camera. Since then, I've considered the question more and here is what Mary Ellen taught me:
- That photography soothes me with its seeing and excites me with its engagement.
- That I am moved by the tenacity and spirit and generosity of those who struggle daily for survival. I wish I were more like them.
- That I remain, after all these decades, hesitant in the face of challenge, overly self-critical on the verge of success and easily distracted from the pursuit of the long-term by the gratifications of the short.
Good lessons, yes, but truthfully I knew all of those things before I went to Oaxaca in March, so you might say I learned nothing. You would be wrong.
What Mary Ellen Mark taught me most of all was to trust who I am. In that sense, I learned everything.
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Finding Photography
Years ago, after the '60s and all the wanton indulgences of that time, I'd regained enough of myself to return to college. I had no plan, no major, no desire to be anything in particular. School was an escape, a way out from a place I could no longer be and still stay alive.
I had a job, my first in years. It was a hotel, a new, fancy one on Nob Hill. I set up tables and chairs for meetings and cleaned the rooms afterwards. I swept, I vacuumed, I emptied trash. I enjoyed the orderliness after a long time of disarray. The job was union and paid decent. After rent and food, there was enough to buy things.
One day I saw two photographs in a magazine. Life, I think, but I'm not sure now. In the first, a boy sat a table in a café. His hair was long, his shirt torn. He leaned, dreamy eyed, toward a glow coming from a nearby window or open door. He was in Bombay. He was me, a blond version, untethered, ungrounded. In the second, a young couple, also hippies, rested on a beach, also in India. They wore white, wispy clothes. The boy's hands rested on a harmonium, an Indian hand organ. He and the girl gazed languidly toward the sea. They, too, were me, looking searching, in between places.
They were the first pictures I'd seen that captured the disconnection I felt during those years. I've never forgotten them. Nor the name of the photographer: Mary Ellen Mark. She was young then, just past 30, but already accomplished – assignments worldwide, a Fulbright, lens focused on all the social trends of the day. Later she said of those years: "I'm just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven't had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence."
She inspired me. I bought a camera, a Pentax. I learned how to develop film, got a job in a darkroom and started shooting on the street. I was terrible, too timid, too afraid to approached people. I joined the community college paper, started shooting news. There was a lot in those days, kidnappings, demonstrations, strikes. Plenty to point a camera at. I got less terrible and used the camera – now a Nikon – to hide behind and overcome my timidity. At once, it opened the world to me and shielded me from it. I'd found a love. I wanted to be a photojournalist.
It never happened, though. And why that was is too long a story to tell here. Here's the short version: I did freelance. I chased the little jobs at little magazines. I did PR work. I made money. But I didn't commit and that showed. My work was distant, a long way from terrible, but just as far from great.
Small newspapers offered me jobs. First one in an oil town, then another in a farm town. I said no. I worked part-time at a big San Francisco daily, the Examiner, as a gopher, and I saw the bright lights and that's what I wanted. I got an interview. It went badly. The head of photo told me I didn't have it, not the talent nor the desire. Best get out of it he said.
Dejected, despaired, defeated, I took his advice. I left town for one of those small newspaper jobs. I shot pictures, but I also began writing. The editor was a redneck, a cowboy and a grind. Writing came easily to me, more so than photography, and when an editor's slot opened I took it in order to move up the chain and get more leverage.
Ambition hooked me. The photography stopped, then the writing and I moved where the opportunity led – editor of this, editor of that, editor of it all. Lots of work, even more stress.
And then it ended. Another long story. Here's the short version: Thirty years after finding myself, I was lost again. Years went by. I moved out of the city. I was working, but had time on my hands. One day I took out an old Nikon, loaded some film and wandered about the suburban woods and the marshes. Just like that it was there again, the rectangular image, the clarity of the prism, the reassuring clunk of the mirror, and, most of all, the precious instant of seeing, the moment the image became mine with the press of the shutter button.
My wife, more perceptive about me than I am, gave me a small digital camera. I returned to photography. I learned the software. I bought a digital Nikon. I found work with a local magazine that needed who someone who could shoot cheap and also write. (That's me: under-priced and multi-talented). Over time, more work came. And better cameras. And lights. And a studio (shared). I became, at last, a photographer.
Happy ending, right? Boy wants girl. Gets rejected. Wins over girl years later. Fade to black. Roll credits.
Hold the Hollywood moment. One thing went wrong: the boy got the wrong girl. I didn't get Mary Ellen Mark; I got a version of Real Housewives. Not quite. But I do spend an awful lot of time making good-looking people and good-looking places look even better. It's a good life. Many would like to have it, but there's that itch, still unscratched.
Then, serendipity struck. A few months ago I was in Oaxaca, Mexico, where my wife and I built a house (here's that long story). I saw a poster touting a documentary photography workshop led Mary Ellen Mark. So tantalizing, so coincidental it seemed impossible – Mary Ellen Mark (my inspiration), photojournalism (my abandoned child) and Oaxaca (my new love) all combined.
I signed up. I went. And I'm back. What happened during those 10 days in Mexico is yet another lengthy narrative I won't relate here. For now, I can say what I learned. And that is this:
I love photography. I am fascinated by the imagery, with its patterns of light and shadow and shape and color. I am addicted to the capture, to the preservation of the moment. I find peace in the seeing.
I am drawn still to journalism and documentary, especially as tools for social change and justice. I am moved by the tenacity of humans whose lives are a daily struggle for survival and I am heartened by their humor, spirit and generosity toward others (even those, like me, who have much more than they). I admire those who celebrate this humanity.
I remain, after all these decades, hesitant in the face of challenge, overly self-critical on the verge of success and easily distracted from the pursuit of the long-term by the gratifications of the short.
I relish the company of smart, creative, genuine people. I want to be one myself.
Truthfully, in my heart I knew all these things before I went to Oaxaca, so you might say I learned nothing. Still, the workshop – and Mary Ellen Mark (an extraordinary women of relentless passion and authenticity) — taught me to trust what I know, so in that sense you might say I learned everything.
I finally found photography. Now I need to put it to good use.
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Periodismo Peligroso
Mexico is becoming an increasingly dangerous place to be a journalist. Three photojournalists were found dead and dismembered Tuesday in the Gulf state of Veracruz, bringing to 44 the number of journalists killed in Mexico in the last six years, according to Article 19, a press freedom group.
While that number pales next to the more than 50,000 Mexicans killed in the same period during the government's war against the narco cartels (and cross-cartel fighting), it elevates Mexico to No. 8 on the Committee to Protect Journalists' 2012 Impunity Index, "which spotlights countries where journalists are slain and their killers go free." Sadly, the year is still young.
Here's what CPJ says about Veracruz:
… a battleground for the Zetas and Sinaloa cartels, is one of Mexico's most dangerous states for the press, according to CPJ research. Four journalists were murdered there in 2011, and on Saturday, the body of journalist Regina Martínez Pérez was found strangled in her home in Xalapa."
I have a long history with Mexico, including being the owner of a house I built there, but with many Mexicans clamoring for an end to the violence, the repressive PRI party on the verge of regaining the control of the presidency that it held for more than 70 years; the cartels becoming increasingly entrenched in local and national politics, and a the country's always ethically tenuous journalistic institutions fighting — quite literally — for their lives, I fear the worst for the country in the near term.
You think I'm being overly dramatic? Read this story about the threats against Jorge Medellín, a reporter for the national newspaper Milenio. An excerpt:
Mexican journalists take the smallest hint of a threat seriously because they know that killing a reporter is so easy to get away with. The word for this is impunity–killing with no consequences. None for the killer, at least. But the consequences for the Mexican people are that journalists are afraid to report the news.
Learn more: New York Times story on the latest killings; Committee to Protect Journalists; Article 19; Coverage in El Universal, a centrist paper from Mexico City
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Pobre Mexico
A few days ago the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy story about the ominous criminal, political and social conditions in Mexico that have combined to degrade civil society in many parts of the country to the brink of public disorder.
Fueling this collapse are two evils — the ravenous appetite of the narco cartels for control of the border, of law enforcement and of the proverbial hearts and minds of Mexico's impoverished citizens; and the endemic, ubiquitous and persistent corruption of government on all levels.
The Journal piece focused on the implications for the United States should the rule of law fail in Mexico. It quoted a high-ranking official in the country's current ruling party, the PAN:
"The Mexican state is in danger. We are not yet a failed state, but if we don't take action soon, we will become one very soon."
For me, it's more personal. I have good friends — Mexicans and Americans — who live there. I have a house in Oaxaca, Mexico's most beautiful state and also its poorest. I have seen the country's working people, through resilient desire and endless effort, carve out good lives for themselves amid a system that favors the wealthy, the connected and the corrupt. And, sadly, I have witnessed well-off people I considered friends express disdain for the poor and for the creation of a society of laws. They are, after all, the beneficiaries of the current system.
I don't cry easily. The scar tissue laid on during 20 years of daily journalism usually keeps the tears in check. But these days Mexico makes me cry.
I cried right there as the video played. A woman next to me, dressed in the traditional apron of a southern Mexican housewife, saw me, an aging gringo journalist laden with camera gear, and said, "Que triste. Que triste." How sad. How sad.
A few days later, local thugs — some say off-duty cops — opened fire on a protest march, killing freelance American journalist Brad Will. (Here's a picture — not mine — of the shooting.)
The resulting international outrage — far beyond any that accompanied the earlier deaths of dozens of Oaxacans — prompted the federal government to send troops into the city restore order.
More than two years later, nothing has changed for the better in Oaxaca. The economy, highly dependent on tourism, has yet to recover. The governor who attacked the striking teachers remains in power. The leaders of the strike are jailed. The killers of Brad Will are free. (The photo at the top of the post is from an anniversary march in Oaxaca's main square two years after the 2006 attacks.)
Multiply this one incident — a strike, a shooting, a disregard by the authorities for even the facade of justice — throughout the country and amplify it along the drug-trafficking lanes in the border cities and you begin to get grasp of the severity of the challenges Mexico faces. Here's one fact: 6,000 people were killed in Mexico last year in drug-related violence. The U.S. dead in Iraq for six years of war is 4,200.
Perhaps you wonder why you should care about what happens in Mexico. After all, aren't the beaches in Baja still beautiful and the pina coladas in Cancun just as tasty? De veras, they are. But Mexico is much more than an American playground.
First, it is also, as the Journal points out, the largest U.S. trading partner and with our economy already on life support we don't need to lose our best customer.
Second, if you think having more than 4 million undocumented Mexican immigrants living in the United States is troublesome, then imagine the immigration pressure on the border should the Mexican government collapse. Says the Journal:
"It has 100 million people on the southern doorstep of the U.S., meaning any serious instability would flood the U.S. with refugees."
Finally, there is morality. What is happening in Mexico is simply wrong. It is wrong to oppress the poor so the wealthy can prosper. It is wrong to deny people jobs because they belong to an opposing political party. It is wrong to glorify crime and drug use. And, it is wrong to kill journalists. (Read this report, or this one, or this one from the Committee to Protect Journalists.)
Poor Mexico. I cry for you. I wish I could do more.


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DramaShow Period
1999 - nowProduction Company
NBC, Studios USA Television, Universal Network TVCast and Crew
Juan J. CampanellaScreenwriter
Dawn DeNoon, Lisa Marie PetersenMain Cast
- Mariska Hargitay as Det. Olivia Benson
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola
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- Michael Luggio
- Valerie Mahaffey
- Cloie Wyatt Taylor
- Kathleen Goldpaugh
The stepdaughter of a judge (played by Keir Dullea) is raped and killed. The judge is known for throwing hard sentences on sex offenders. However, his stepdaughter also had a troubled past that involved relationships both with her father's court's sex offenders and within her own family.


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