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How Bearish Should We Get?
Jason Haver
While lower prices appear likely, the bigger question is: How much lower?
The market's job is to get you looking the wrong way, and to try to get you to do the exact wrong thing at the exact wrong time. It wants you to short when you should go long, and it wants you to go long when you should be shorting. Back in November, I began leaning bullish, but hesitated to commit to a long-term bull outlook until January, when I became exceptionally bullish -- probability the most long-term bullish I've ever been publicly. My updates were all about the rally continuing to new highs -- and the signs of strength I was seeing. Nobody read the darn things.
I started trying to throw in some bearish stuff so as not to lose readers completely, since most everyone thought I was nuts talking about the
(INDEXSP:.INX) rocketing upwards in a "nested third wave rally" to the 1500s and 1600s, and possibly even the 1700s. "What are ya, stupid? The world is a mess, dontchaknow." Believe me, I know. I've been fundamentally bearish for years. But I don't trade my fundamental bias -- my fundamental bias underpins my understanding, but it doesn't help me time the market.
Near the end of May, after the SPX had rallied more than 200 points from January's prices, the mass psychology has reversed. Everyone "knew" it was stupid to ever take on a short position, just like everyone "knew" it was stupid to go long back in January. I assume most thought I was nuts when, on May 28, I suggested it might be
Time to Sell the Bounce
. I myself thought I might be nuts (and I said as much), especially after the SPX had reversed directly in the middle of May's target zone of 1680-1690. Unlike most people who become more confident after a string of good calls, I become more cautious and start challenging my assumptions all the more rigorously.
I take this approach because the market will eventually rip your face off if you start assuming you are way smarter than it is. I learned that the hard way -- in fact, I'm not ashamed to admit that a little more than a decade ago, I all but completely wiped out my trading account by going "max leverage short" at exactly the wrong time, after a string of good calls. I started thinking I had it all figured out, and decided (since I could do no wrong!) that it was time to knock one out of the park with a massive put options trade. When the trade started going against me, I stubbornly held to my previous views in the face of evidence to the contrary... and I clung to the trade until it was too late. It was an incredibly painful experience. This taught me that we always have to see both sides of the trade -- at least, if we want to survive.
This is why I offer my preferred interpretation, but also try to see the other possibilities and provide levels that hopefully act as waypoints to indicate when the market is breaking from my projections and onto one of the alternate routes. I probably tend to caveat too much sometimes, but I feel this is a better approach than the alternative. People who've read me for a while eventually learn my language and grasp where I feel we're headed through all my "but watch out for this and that" warnings. I don't present alternate counts so that the outlook is "always right" -- in my mind when an alternate plays out over the preferred count, then that means I assigned my probabilities wrong -- I present alternate counts so readers can adjust on the fly and protect themselves where appropriate.
A few times over the past couple months, I've talked in brief about the fact that the recent rally has shown some of the characteristics of an extended fifth wave. I haven't focused on that option however, because up until May 23, the larger wave structure had (in my opinion) remained pointed upwards for the most part. Sometimes it's hard to sort out the options too far in advance, which is one reason I'm a firm believer in staying nimble, and recognizing when the environment may be changing. For reasons discussed above, getting married to a long-term outlook can be an account killer. Everyone can see how the "let's marry our convictions" approach has killed the bears this year, as many kept shorting all the way up, convinced that the rally was "just about to end!" So in tomorrow's article, I'll talk a little bit about extended fifth waves, since they can be big money-makers for traders and we may be unraveling one now.
One approach I take is to build a thesis in stages. I look at the near-term, and try to determine what's likely, then I project that out to the intermediate-term. From there, I envision how the charts will look if both projections play out, and I begin building a long-term thesis. Sometimes I can see how things will play directionally to a point, but there's an inflection zone at that point and I can't see in advance how the market will react to it. The high 1590s mark one such zone. Other times, the market begins to form patterns that suggest that the move will be stronger or weaker than I originally projected, and I have to adjust on the fly to what I'm seeing. This is what's happening now, which is one of the reasons I wrote, on May 23 (See:
The End of the Road for Bulls, or Just a Healthy Correction?
In conclusion, the long term presently remains pointed higher, but that may be irrelevant at the moment. We can't see around every bend in the market, but most times we don't need to: The near term appears to be pointed downwards, and the intermediate term, while too early to confirm, also looks likely for further downside. This is not a bad time to behave defensively.
Let's start off with the near-term and build from there. I completed this chart after the close on Friday, and the futures action this morning has left both options still on the table.
The biggest question in my mind is whether we're seeing the smaller wave (2) of the larger black (3) (on the hourly chart) or if this is a fourth wave correction with wave (5) of black (3) underway. I'm leaning toward the latter.
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With that thesis in mind, here's the hourly chart. Not shown on this chart is what happens if the more bearish count is underway. If the rally we just witnessed was actually blue wave (2) of black (3), then the next black (3) target zone is 1470-1480, with a final target in the low 1400s. I'm holding off judgment until I see how some other markets begin to shape up, specifically the
KBW Bank Index
(INDEXDJX:BKX) and the
Russell 2000
(INDEXRUSSELL:RUT). I'll firm up my opinion on the above matter over the next few sessions.
Be aware that markets often become very whippy around important levels, and the intermediate uptrend line on the chart below is one such level. That trend line has held every decline since November, so the market may not be ready to let it go so easily, and may return to test it before moving much lower -- not shown on the chart below is what happens if wave (5) simply makes a marginal new low and then retraces 38-62% of the prior decline, perhaps to back-test the aforementioned trend line.
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The long-term chart of the
Dow Jones Industrial Average
(INDEXDJX:.DJI) shows support in the 14,400-14,600 zone. If the market is unraveling the most bearish count imaginable (the deeply nested third wave discussed above), then forget about support. There's just no way to know for certain yet -- as I said, I want to see how some other markets react to the pattern in the next session or two.
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Below is a chart of SPX showing potential support/resistance zones and trend channels.
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The bond market looks to be in trouble, which is one sign (of several) that things may be cracking under the surface, and that the wave counts may be more bearish than shown. Again, we'll discuss those options further in the upcoming updates.
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Now, before we commit to the super-duper end-of-the-world bear view, it pays to be aware that there are several charts which are acting extremely non-committal to the bear case. One such chart is the BKX shown below. Unless BKX breaks down with conviction here, it has left itself three bullish options. One is near-term bullish, the other two are intermediate bullish. The option I'm not showing on this chart is for an ending diagonal, which would briefly break the 59.45 level, then rally back up toward the black "alt: (c)" label. The "standard" bear option is shown in blue.
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In conclusion, several markets are still poised at inflection points across time frames. The patterns are set up that if things break, they could break in a big way -- in fact there is definite waterfall potential in the charts, which makes this a very dangerous market for bulls. But at the moment, a number of charts haven't actually broken yet, which means it's not a great spot for bears to become complacent. I feel fairly confident there are lower prices coming in the larger scheme of things, and that the T3 target zone will be reached -- it's more a question of whether this is going to turn into a mini-crash and head much lower, or if the market will rally along the way and move down in a more orderly fashion. The next few sessions should help clarify BKX (and some other indices), and give us a better idea of whether we should start thinking long-term bearish or not. Trade safe.
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It had all the makings of an unprecedented disaster, the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.
The once exclusive music industry black-tie dinner/awards gala, had gone the way of all such events, opening itself to the public and moving from its traditionally staid Waldorf-Astoria Ballroom setting in Manhattan to Brooklyn's Barclays Center--to capitalize, no doubt, on inductees KISS, Nirvana and the E Street Band.
But luck was not on the RockHall's side. Internal KISS squabbling culminated with the band's announced refusal to perform. Nirvana, of course, couldn't perform as Nirvana.
Meanwhile, inductee Linda Ronstadt, no longer able to perform due to illness, was not going to attend. Neither was initial Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, who was being inducted with the Beatles' Brian Epstein as the RockHall's first artist manager inductees.
"I think those people basically hijacked the name 'rock 'n' roll,'" Oldham said in March. "I won't be there. I'll tell you why: It's a television show. Twenty years ago it was an incredible party in the Waldorf-Astoria where everybody could behave exactly as they could 20 years ago. And then it became a business."
True indeed, yet surprisingly, at least in HBO's three-and-a-quarter hour-long 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony presentation—which premieres Saturday night (May 31)--the event isn't the total train wreck it might well have been, probably due in large part to the editing. All former and current members of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band were inducted as recipients of the RockHall's Award for Musical Excellence (formerly the Sidemen category) and reportedly took forever in their acceptance speeches; HBO wisely cut it down to short soundbites interspersed with Springsteen-led performances of "E Street Shuffle" and "Kitty's Back."
Nirvana survivors Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic commendably went with four gals to sing in place of Kurt Cobain—Joan Jett, who led with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (and as Novoselic rightly introduced her, "a lady who I can't believe is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"); Kim Gordon ("Aneurysm"), St. Vincent ("Lithium") and Lorde ("All Apologies"). But they all showed just how hard it is for anyone but Cobain to sing his songs.
The similar KISS problem apparently could not be surmounted, as there was no performance in their honor shown on HBO. But the absence of Ronstadt was made up beautifully by a sensational superstar quintet of Carrie Underwood ("Different Drum"), who was joined by Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris on "Blue Bayou," with Sheryl Crow coming out to take the lead on "You're No Good" and then a surprisingly gutsy Stevie Nicks (she said that hearing Ronstadt sing "Different Drum" inspired her to sing) doing the same on "It's So Easy" before Underwood took over the lead on "When Will I Be Loved?"—sounding so much like Ronstadt and essentially making her elders her backup singers.
In the other inductee performances, Hall & Oates were fine on "She's Gone" and "You Make My Dreams," same with Peter Gabriel, who was accompanied by Chris Martin on "Washing of the Water" and by Youssou N'Dour on "In Your Eyes."
The most problematic performance—though no one made note of it, if they noticed—came from Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens, who turned in acoustic versions of "Father and Son," "Wild World" and, vocally backed by a chorus, "Peace Train." In an introductory film segment, Yusuf—the name he now goes by professionally—noted how he had slipped away from his Cat Stevens persona and assumed Yusuf Islam after converting to Islam.
"You can argue with philosophy, but you can't argue with a good song," he said, and Art Garfunkel, in inducting him, related how Yusuf "turned his back on money and acclaim and walked away from it all" as a "most sincere seeker, a loving man with an ever expanding embrace." Beautifully put, but "Peace Train" or not, Yusuf never turned his back on his support of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, though it was never brought up.
In his disappointing acceptance speech, Yusuf professed his atypical rocker lifestyle of no sex, drugs or rock 'n' roll, and seemed to make a gratuitous slap at KISS ("I never thought I'd be on the same stage as KISS!"). Of all the 2014 inductees, of course, KISS was the one that most lived up to the sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll fantasy, yet have long been dismissed by both critics and the RockHall.
The band was inducted by Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, who plays with the E Street Band. He said that KISS was his favorite band growing up, but that it wasn't always easy being a KISS fan, what with being as "relentlessly persecuted in school" as the band itself was by the critics.
"But KISS was never a critics band," Morello maintained. "KISS was a people's band." Declaring that the criteria for RockHall induction should be "impact, influence and awesomeness," he noted that "KISS has all three in spades."
"Critics be damned!" cried Gene Simmons in his acceptance. Paul Stanley thanked the Kiss Army and said, "This is vindication."
Stanley added: "The spirit of rock 'n' roll means you follow your own path regardless of the critics and your peers. We've done that for 40 years. Here we are tonight basically being inducted for the same things that we were kept out for."
Nodding again to the fans, he concluded: "Let's not forget that these people make it all possible. We just benefit from it."
Glenn Frey had an easy time in submitting the impact, influence and awesomeness of Linda Ronstadt—since she hired him and fellow future Eagle Don Henley to play in her backup band.
"From the first rehearsal I thought it was a style of music I'd never heard before, and a couple years later they called it 'country rock,'" he said, adding that through everything, Ronstadt "remains nothing but authentic," living "in a place where art trumps commerce, where hard work and integrity trump fame and failure."
Questlove inducted Hall & Oates, and cited his Philadelphia compadres for "staying true to their soul roots." Hall expressed his regret that he and Oates are now the only two Philly RockHall inductees, and listed Todd Rundgren, The Stylistics, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes and Chubby Checker as equally worthy.
Michael Stipe predictably gave the most somber speech in inducting Nirvana, at first insisting that the role of the artist is something about "exposing the zeitgeist" and "waking us up and pushing us forward toward our collective and individual potential," then invoking the Reagan years with their Iran-Contra, AIDS and whatever else that he felt Nirvana "blasted through" in "capturing light in a bottle"—though in Grohl's memory, "we were in the f---ing van buying corndogs from t-shirts we had sold."
Whatever. Stipe was no doubt right, though, in saluting the band for manifesting the development of an "outsider community," and Grohl praised his parents who "never told me not to listen to f---ing Slayer because I was finding myself."
Bruce Springsteen is never much of a public speaker, either, but he did give a nice summation of his E Street Band.
"Real bands are made primarily form the neighborhood--from a real time and a real place that exists for a little while and then changes and it's gone forever," he said. The E Street Band "struggled together and sometimes struggled with one another…enjoyed health and suffered illness, aging and death together [and] told a story that was and is bigger and better than any I could ever have told on my own [and] that is the hallmark of a rock 'n' roll band."
But Peter Gabriel, whose induction opened the program, threw down words that no one topped. Music, he said, "should come with a health warning: It can be dangerous. It can make you feel so alive, so connected to the people around you and what you really are inside, and make you think the world should and could be a better place--and just occasionally make you very, very happy."
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In the spring of 1957 Korolev organised project section 9, with Tikhonravov at its chief, to design new spacecraft. Simultaneous with this they were building the first earth satellites - the PS-1, PS-2 and Object D (which would be Sputniks 1, 2, and 3). By April they had completed a research plan to build a piloted spacecraft and an unmanned lunar probe, using the R-7 as the basis for the launch vehicle. Studies indicated that the R-7 with a third stage could lift 5 tonnes into low earth orbit.
The manned spacecraft work led them into new fields of research in re-entry, thermal protection, and hypersonic aerodynamics. The initial study material was reviewed by mathematicians at the Academy of Science. It was found that a maximum of 10 G's would result in a ballistic re-entry from earth obit. From September 1957 to January 1958 Tikhonravov's section examined heating conditions, surface temperatures, heat shield materials, and obtainable maximum payloads for a wide range of aerodynamic forms with hypersonic lift to drag ratios ranging from zero to a few points. Parametric trajectory calculations were made using successive approximations on the BESM-1 electromechanical computer.
It was found that the equilibrium temperatures for winged spacecraft with the highest L/D ratios exceeded the capability of available heat resistant alloy construction methods. These designs also had the lowest net payloads. The final conclusion was:
The necessity to refine and qualify the lifting design seemed a major impediment to meeting a quick program schedule. Then in April 1958 aviation medicine research using human subjects in a centrifuge showed that pilots could endure up to 10 G's without ill effects. This allowed a pure ballistic design, removing a major stumbling block, and allowing the study to move quickly to the advanced project stage. Detailed design of the spacecraft layout, structures, equipment, and materials were all done in parallel. This required everything to be redesigned 2 to 3 times, but resulted in a quick final design. The advance project was completed by the middle of August 1958. Konstantin Feoktistov was one of the leading enthusiasts in this effort.
After selection of the ballistic concept, the shape of the re-entry vehicle had to be symmetrical. A sphere was the simplest such form, having the same aerodynamic characteristics at all angles of attack and all velocities. By putting the centre of mass aft of the centre of the sphere, the re-entry vehicle would naturally assume the correct orientation for re-entry.
Redundancy of all systems became a new strategic design principle for this first manned spacecraft. The final report 'Material on the research question of a manned Sputnik' (OD-2) gave the following flight characteristics:
Redundancy features for manned flight included:
In June 1958 the principal findings were already in and Korolev took personal management of the project. A section devoted to the spacecraft was formed on 15 August 1958. A last look at the headlight-shaped lifting capsule was made. It had the potential of cutting the mass of the heat shield in half, but there was simply no time to do the research on the flight characteristics of such a design. The final project was signed by Korolev on 15 September 1958. This allowed for full production drawing release to the fabrication shops and the beginning of tests of the spacecraft systems.
Due to a bitter fight with the military over the nature and priority of the manned spacecraft and photo-reconnaissance space programs, the final decree for the Vostok was not issued until 22 May 1959. This authorised production of a single design that could be used either as a manned spacecraft or as a military reconnaissance satellite.
Altogether 123 organisations and 36 factories participated in the project. The leading members of the industrial team that built the Vostok included:
The detailed mass breakdown of the 3KA manned flight version was as follows:
The most crucial on-board system was the guidance system. A May 1959 report covering ballistic computations of variances in landing from orbit showed that the biggest danger was incorrect orientation for retrofire. B E Chertok was in charge of the orientation system. It consisted of two redundant systems: an automatic/solar orientation system and a manual/visual orientation system. Either system could operate two redundant cold nitrogen gas thruster systems, each with 10 kg of gas.
The automatic solar orientation system consisted of solar sensors, DUS-L2 angle of flight sensors, and an SRB analogue computer unit. The TDU would only fire if the sun sensors - consisting of a slit arranged over three photocells - indicated correct orientation. The DUS-L2 angle of flight sensor utilised two-step double gyroscopes with mechanically opposed directions. The SRB used these inputs and generated impulses to carry out the burn.
The cosmonaut could also take manual control of the spacecraft and manually re-enter. This was done by using the ingenious Vzor periscope device mounted on the floor of the cabin. This had a central view and eight ports arranged in a circle around the center. When the spacecraft was perfectly centered in respect to the horizon, all eight of the ports would be lit up. Alignment along the orbit was judged by getting lines on the main scope to be aligned with the landscape flowing by below. In this way, the spacecraft could be oriented correctly for the re-entry manoeuvre. This manual system would obviously only be used during daylight portions of the orbit. At night the dark mass of the earth could not have been lined up with the optical Vzor device. The automatic system would work day or night.
10 minutes after TDU cut-off after the retrofire burn the PO separated from the KA.
1960 was a year of intense testing. In test rigs the hatch seal was tested 50 times, spacecraft separation from the last rocket stage 15 times, SA/PO separation 5 times, and separation of the retaining straps form the SA 16 times. The SA capsule was dropped from an An-12 aircraft at 9 to 12 km to test the parachute and ejection seat systems. The life support system was tested at altitude in a Tu-104 aircraft and in thermal chambers. The ejection seat was tested from 4 km to the altitude of cut-off of the first stage of the Vostok rocket, simulating cosmonaut escape during launch vehicle aborts. Seven spacecraft were built for flight tests. Korolev personally hand-picked the equipment to be used on these spacecraft.
From the end of 1960 to the beginning of 1961 the 3K unpiloted version of the spacecraft was built and tested. To guarantee their reliability Korolev prohibited introduction of changes not only in the technical documentation but also in the technician staff that prepared them for flight. The military developed the recovery forces and techniques, including appropriate aircraft, helicopters, and handling equipment. At that time it was felt that there was a 60% chance on each launch of an abort requiring rescue operations for the cosmonaut.
The official draft project for the 3KA manned spacecraft was not completed until the end of July 1961, long after the first flight of the actual spacecraft.
The Vostok and Voskhod spacecraft, like the U.S. Mercury, could not perform orbital manoeuvres - they could only be translated around their axes. The main engine was used only at the end of the mission for the re-entry braking manoeuvre. However Korolev, before being authorised to proceed with development of the Soyuz, did study the Vostok Zh. This would have been a manoeuvrable Vostok that would have made repetitive dockings with propulsion modules - a method of achieving a circumlunar mission using only the Soyuz booster. Later on manoeuvrable versions of the Vostok were developed as Zenit reconnaissance satellites.
The Vostok could not be used for circumlunar missions or earth missions with non-astronaut qaulified crew due to the 'Sharik' reentry vehicle design. The spherical design itself was ingenious - it has no manoeuvring engines to orient it, since it is like a ball with the heavy weight concentrated at one end - if you throw it in the air (or re-enter the atmosphere with it ) it will automatically swing around with the heavy end downward. The only problem is that it is only capable of a purely ballistic re-entry, which means 8 G's for the occupant from earth orbit and 20 G's from the moon. Mercury was ballistic, but Gemini, Apollo, and Soyuz all had the center of gravity offset, so they could produce lift, lower the G forces, and manoeuvre somewhat to vary the landing point. This reduced G's to 3 G for earth orbit returns and 8 G's for lunar returns. First manned spacecraft. Derivatives were still in use over thirty years later, for military photo-reconnaissance, earth resources, mapping, and biological missions.
In the spring of 1957 Tikhonravov began study of a manned orbital spacecraft. The April 1958 preliminary design indicated a mass of 5.0 to 5.5 tonnes, 8 to 9 G re-entry, spherical capsule, 2500 to 3500 deg C re-entry temperatures. The heat shield would weigh 1300 to 1500 kg, and the landing accuracy would be 100 to 170 km. Operating altitude was 250 km. The astronaut would eject from the spacecraft at an altitude of 8 to 10 km.
Construction drawings were issued beginning in the fall of 1958. The official decree to begin development was issued only on 22 May 1959. From the end of 1960 six unmanned Vostok variants were launched. The military developed the recovery forces and techniques, including appropriate aircraft, helicopters, and handling equipment. At that time it was felt that there was a 60% chance on each launch of an abort requiring rescue operations for the cosmonaut.
The Vostok crew accommodation was for one cosmonaut, in a spacesuit, equipped with an ejection seat for launch aborts and for landing on the earth. The spacecraft had two windows: one above the cosmonaut's head in the entry hatch, one at his feet, equipped with the Vzor optical device for orientation of the spacecraft. Attitude control was by cold gas thrusters for on-orbit orientation; passive control for the capsule during re-entry. A single parachute allowed recovery of the capsule. There was no soft-landing system; the pilot ejected for a separate landing under his own parachute.
The Vostok and Voskhod spacecraft, like the US Mercury, could not perform orbital manoeuvres - they could only be translated around their axes. The main engine was not restartable and was used only at the end of the mission for the re-entry braking manoeuvre. However Korolev, before being authorised to proceed with development of the Soyuz, did study the Vostok Zh. This would have been a manoeuvrable Vostok that would have made repetitive dockings with propulsion modules - a method of achieving a circumlunar mission using only the Soyuz booster. Later on manoeuvrable versions of the Vostok were developed as Zenit reconnaissance satellites.
Instrumentation on the Vostoks was rudimentary in the extreme. There was no gyro platform and no eight-ball for manoeuvring as on Gemini. The re-entry manoeuvre was normally handled automatically by radio command. The spacecraft was oriented horizontally using infrared sensors. Alignment along the orbital axis was made using sun and star sensors.
In the event of failure of the automatic systems, the cosmonaut could take manual control of the spacecraft. This was done by using the ingenious Vzor periscope device mounted on the floor of the cabin. This had a central view and eight ports arranged in a circle around the centre. When the spacecraft was perfectly centred in respect to the horizon, all eight of the ports would be lit up. Alignment along the orbit was judged by getting lines on the main scope to be aligned with the landscape flowing by below. In this way, the spacecraft could be oriented correctly for the re-entry manoeuvre.
To decide when to re-enter, the cosmonaut had a little clockwork globe that showed current position over the earth. By pushing a button to the right of the globe, it would be advanced to the landing position assuming a standard re-entry at that moment.
This manual system would obviously only be used during daylight portions of the orbit. At night the dark mass of the earth could not have been lined up with the optical Vzor device. The automatic system would work day or night.
The Vostok could not be used for circumlunar missions or earth missions with non-astronaut qualified crew due to the 'Sharik' re-entry vehicle design. The spherical design itself is ingenious - it has no manoeuvring engines to orient it, since it is like a ball with the heavy weight concentrated at one end - if you throw it in the air (or re-enter the atmosphere with it ) it will automatically swing around with the heavy end downward. The only problem is that it is only capable of a purely ballistic re-entry, which means 8 G's for the occupant from earth orbit and 20 G's from the moon. Mercury was ballistic, but Gemini, Apollo, and Soyuz all had the centre of gravity offset, so they could produce lift, lower the G forces, and manoeuvre somewhat to vary the landing point. This reduced G's to 3 G for earth orbit returns and 8 G's for lunar returns.
In the West, the failed Venera 4 launch is being analysed as an attempted manned flight. Some Italians claim to have picked up voices on radio from the satellite. Kamanin describes all of this as unfounded speculation -- the Soviet Union will not risk a man's life until two fully successful mannequin flights demonstrate safe recovery.
Afterwards the cosmonauts develop the radio communications plan for the flight. During the 710-second ascent to orbit, and after landing, they are to use the UHF radio. The HF and UHF radios can be used from orbit, but only over the USSR. Plans for filming the cosmonaut in flight are also discussed.
The pace quickens leading to the first human spaceflight. Kamanin coordinates matters with Korolev and Voronin, and then discusses the ECS problems and cosmonaut landing issues with Dementiev. Plans are made for a meeting with Ustinov and Kozlov. In the evening a meeting of the General Staff is held. Decisions made: 1) Announce the name of the cosmonaut as soon as he is in orbit; 2) improve VVS support (aircraft, helicopters) needed to pick up the cosmonaut immediately after landing; 3) issue a formal letter to Moskalenko on rules for filming of the cosmonaut at the launch site; 4) organise an examination of the 11 cosmonauts not in the group of six now being prepared for flights.
The payload included life-support equipment and radio and television to relay information on the condition of the pilot. The flight was automated; Gagarin's controls were locked to prevent him from taking control of the ship. The combination to unlock the controls was available in a sealed envelope in case it became necessary to take control in an emergency. After retrofire, the service module remained attached to the Sharik reentry sphere by a wire bundle. The joined craft went through wild gyrations at the beginning of re-entry, before the wires burned through. The Sharik, as it was designed to do, then naturally reached aerodynamic equilibrium with the heat shield positioned correctly.
Gagarin ejected after re-entry and descended under his own parachute, as was planned. However for many years the Soviet Union denied this, because the flight would not have been recognized for various FAI world records unless the pilot had accompanied his craft to a landing. Recovered April 12, 1961 8:05 GMT. Landed Southwest of Engels Smelovka, Saratov. Additional Details: here....
Kamanin has continued arguments over the reorganisation of VVS space units and the role of IAKM. Korolev has never supported a leading role for the VVS or Kamanin in the Soviet space program. He is complaining about the 'offences' of the VVS, Kamanin, and the cosmonauts. Korolev cites Gagarin's trauma and Titov's motor accidents. He believes cosmonauts should be selected only from OKB-1 engineers. He also believes the cosmonauts are wasting too much time on publicity tours. Vershinin and Keldysh are hearing all of these complaints.
Despite the conditions, Popovich felt able to go for the full four days scheduled. But before the mission, Popovich had been briefed to tell ground control that he was 'observing thunderstorms' if he felt the motion sickness that had plagued Titov and needed to return on the next opportunity. Unfortunately he actually did report seeing thunderstorms over the Gulf of Mexico, and ground control took this as a request for an early return. He was ordered down a day early, landing within a few mintutes of Nikolayev. Only on the ground was it discovered that he was willing to go the full duration, and that ground control had thought he had given the code.
The State Commission met again at 17:00, to decide whether to extend Popovich to a fourth day as well. Smirnov and Korolev have already discussed this with Khrushchev. It all right with them, and there are no technical reasons not to. But Popovich is much more active than Nikolayev, since he wasn't expecting a four day flight, and he has not conserved his resources as Nikolayev has. At 12:00 the spacecraft temperature was down to 11 deg C, with low humidity. Kamanin objects violently, and finally it is decided to ask the cosmonaut directly if he feels able to go for the extra day. Popovich, when contacted, immediately declares himself ready to go for an extra day and a 65 orbit mission. It is decided to study expected landing conditions for an extended mission and the physical condition of the cosmonaut before making a final decision.
Nikolayev's post-flight debriefing: The rocket vibration was not great initially, but very forceful at the end of operation of the second stage. There was quite a shock on separation of the spacecraft from the third stage. 15 minutes before the launch of Popovich's spacecraft I oriented the Vostok and at 11:03 the spacecraft was at the correct 73 degree pitch attitude. However I was unable to see either Popovich's spacecraft or his booster rocket. I had bad communications with Zarya on the first day. On the fourth revolution, during the communications session with Khrushchev, I could not hear, but then during the second, third, and fourth day of the flight communications were clear. The Globus instrument was valuable. Zero-G was not unpleasant, and on the fourth day I sharply turned by head to the left and right but could not force any bad reactions. I felt fully trained in use of the equipment. Over Turkey I could see airfields, cities, paved roads, and ships at sea. The TDU retrorocket operated for 42 seconds. The re-entry capsule revolved randomly on reaching the denser atmosphere and I pulled 8 to 9 G's on re-entry. There were many boulders in the landing area, but I was able to guide my parachute to land in a 2 x 2 m clear area.
Popovich debriefing: I could easily see the earth flowing below. Manual orientation using this by day or the stars by night was possible. There was lots of static on the UHF band on space-ground communications. Space-to-space communications with Sokol were very good, especially over the equator. Moving my head caused no motion sickness problems. After ejection, I secured my reserve parachute (as had Nikolayev). I saw a search aircraft twenty minutes after landing. The NAZ antenna did not deploy (as with Nikolyaev).
After the debriefing, a celebration is held with the cosmonauts, State Commission, and local officials. Everyone gets pretty drunk. Kamanin is finally instructed to take Nikolayev and Popovich to bed at midnight. The rest continue until 2 in the morning.
Kamanin considered Tereshkova as the leading candidate for the first flight, with Solovyova as her back-up. In personality they were equivalent to Gagarin/Nikolayev - indeed, Tereshkova was considered 'Gagarin in a skirt'. Ponomaryova and Yerkina were equal candidates for the second female Vostok flight. The group would go to a resort in the Urals from 30 November to 10 January. The final decision as to which one would fly would only be made 3 or 4 days before the flight.
Mission objectives were officially: further study of the effect of various space-flight factors in the human organism; extensive medico-biological experiments under conditions of prolonged flight; further elaboration and improvement of spaceship systems.
Vostok 5 was originally planned to go for a record eight days. The launch was delayed repeatedly due to high solar activity and technical problems. Finally the spacecraft ended up in a lower than planned orbit. Combined with increased atmospheric activity due to solar levels, Vostok 5 quickly decayed temperatures in the service module reached very high levels.
Bykovsky also experienced an unspecified problem with his waste management system (a spill?) which made conditions in the cabin 'very uncomfortable'. He was finally ordered to return after only five days in space.
To top it all off, once again the Vostok service module failed to separate cleanly from the reentry sphere. Wild gyrations ensued until the heat of reentry burned through the non-separating retraining strap.
Kamanin is disturbed by the decision. He recalls that in 1961 flight of the Vostok with two or three crew was discussed, with flights to occur in 1962-1963. But at that time Korolev cancelled the plans, saying the Soyuz would be used for such missions. Now Soyuz will not fly until 1965, and he has changed his tune. Furthermore, the modified Vostok is inherently risky, with no way to save the crew in case of a launch vehicle malfunction in the first 40 seconds of flight. Unlike Vostok, the three crew will not have individual ejection seats or parachutes to give them a chance of escape in the event of an abort. The crew will be subject to 10 to 25 G's during an abort. There is no assurance the environmental control system can be modified to handle three crew. It all seems very unsafe, and Kamanin believes the six consecutive successful Vostok flights have given Korolev's engineers a false sense of the safety of the Vostok system. Kamanin is perplexed. How does he plan to convert a single-place spacecraft to a three-place spacecraft in a few months? Korolev has no clear answers, but asks for the cosmonauts' support of the scheme.
There is no high-level support for moving space activities away from what Kamanin calls 'the artillery people' - it is known that Ustinov has made his career in building up the RVSN, and he is not about to criticise them.


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Bigfoot invades the Ned Smith center for Nature and Art, located at 176 Water Company Road in Millersburg, PA- in the form of numerous films with themes involving the infamous urban legend. Coined as the Bigfoot Film Festival, and sponsored by Harrisburg's very own progressive and popular film cooperative, Moviate http://www.moviate.com the showcase will cover two days, starting at 6:00pm on January 29 and ending Jan.31st it will include a lecture (Bigfoot in Film) by local filmmaker Jim Hollenbaugh. Also slated, the screening of two films: Yolanda and The Hairy Horror, directed by George Kuchar, the twin brother of indie cinema giant Mike Kuchar. http://imdb.com
On January 30th watch the film Capture of Bigfoot, and then stick around for a lecture with Eric Altman-the President of the Bigfoot Society-which also includes a guided walk on one of the Ned Smith Center's trails. Other lectures include "Boggy Creek, Bigfoot and Beyond" conducted by Crypto-zoologist Loren Coleman. Following the lecture the film Legend of Boggy Creek will show.
The last day, January 31st is family day. Wear your best Bigfoot costume, join in the fun family activities such as: Animal Tracks, and take in the last lecture of the festival: Modern Mountain Lions in Pennsylvania being conducted by the Patriot-News' http://pennlive.comOutdoor Writer Marcus Schneck. To end the festival on a humorous note the last film will be Harry and the Hendersons.
So be sure to start your film festival hunt off on the right foot. (Really, no pun intended)
For a detailed schedule go to: www.nedsmithcenter.org/BFFsched_public.pdf


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Ever since November I have been in this downward slump in my motivation. No energy, no desire to workout, and no desire to eat sensibly. It has been up and down at times with a good week here and a good week there.
But today while sitting on the couch I was surfing my spark page, which by the way I have been keeping up on, and decided to re-evaluate my measurement. Oh boy was that not such a good idea, or perhaps it was. Although I have been in a slump I have noticed I managed to stay within my current weight give or take, mostly give, a couple of pounds (which has increased my BMI, but that is a subject for another time).
So as I was doing this I decided it was time to get off the couch and get a workout in. I am up, and my son is still sleep, so this is the perfect time to do it. Boy that was the eye opener, my fitness level as decreased a bit and I know I need to be more consistent. I just don't want this to consume my life to where it becomes stressful, like it did last summer.
Although I do enjoy working out and finding new ones to do, it became stressful to find the time to fit them in. I am a single mother and my child craves all of my time, something I enjoy don't get me wrong, but it difficult to find that "me time" we all need.
So, Dear God I do pray that this is the beginning to a new start by incorporating what I had before but with much less stress and much more enjoyment. Although this is not a resolution it is always good to re-evaluate ones place from time to time.
I have rambled enough and although this is not a venting session this has been quite freeing.
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It's all so true. Sorry, I don't have words of wisdom for you, just understanding because I'm there with you.
It seems unfair that I've lost my endurance and get winded easily when I didn't give up, I just took a step back to find balance. Balance is so hard as a single parent. I find myself constantly trading which gets highest priority rather than balancing.
I've seen the articles about how to blend two priorities saying "Take your kids on a walk to the park! Have your child pick out and prepare the veggies for the family meal!" Still haven't made them work for me when the park is covered in two feet of snow, and dinner is rushed between school and keeping the house clean and discipline and bedtime.
You've got a great strategy, prayer and re-evaluation is good. And it seems like you're committed for the long haul (even if it means just maintaining until the duties of child raising take a bit less time.) You can do this. Hang in there.
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Next up is our favorite, Dark and Daring. This blend of coffee is absolutely fantastic in all phases and really has given us a new roast to enjoy. One of the biggest victories we experienced with Dark and Daring is the acidity. There wasn't any bite to this roast and after trying the Happy Medium, Dark and Daring was that much better.
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Choosing a vegetable for dinner can be simple and other times seem like the same ones are chosen over and over without much thought. It doesn't take ant work at all to put together a wonderfully tasting vegetable dish to serve with dinner that will attract attention and bring new life to a favorite veggie.
If you like Au Gratin potatoes you will also like eating these vegetables. The principle is basically the same but with a different vegetable texture and variety. You will have your side dish prepared in a snap. So try a new way to serve those plain old green beans. Everyone is entitled to a little flare every now and then. Just think what your taste buds will be telling you.
- 2 ½ cups of cooked string beans (save water from cooking)
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- ½ teaspoon salt
- Few shakes of paprika
- Preheat oven to 350'.
- Cook string beans in sauce with some water. (Save bean juice in a glass for later in the recipe)
- Grease a 2 quart casserole dish.
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- Melt butter and add flour and seasonings.
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For picky eaters and to cover up the green try:
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I realize I am like a broken record. Since I have written many columns on why I feel we should have a new National Anthem. In fact, in 1969, with the backing of many top singers headed up by Andy Williams, I put together a petition of 30,000 signatures to change the Star Spangled Banner to a more singable, musically correct composition which words and lyrics made more sense.
Thanks to the late "Tip" O'Neill, at the time Speaker of the House, it got to congress. It never came to a vote. In this column, I once again plead my case. Especially, since this past 4thj of July weekend with so many personalities singing the song on both radio and TV. Much of what I heard was grating to my ears… not unlike fingernails on a chalk board.
Understand, I am a veteran from the Korean era and I truly love my country. However, whenever I was responsible for working with a performer who had been asked to sing at Halftime of a Football Game, the Opening of a baseball game, or any public event for that matter, my artists would sing either the more manageable "America the Beautiful, or God Bless America".
As I write further, my explanation should accurately explain how deeply I feel. First, let's look at the history of the Song.
Although it was penned during the War of 1812, it became our National Anthem in 1931, four months before I was born. Yet, when I attended Elementary School, we continued to sing "God Save the King Queen).
It wasn't until I reached the 5th grade, did my school change over from the British Anthem to the Star Spangled Banner, which had been British Soldiers' Drinking Song. After the Battle for Fort McHenry in Baltimore when he saw that our flag, though tattered and torn, was still standing, Frances Scott Key was inspired to put new lyrics to the bawdy tune.
Here are three that I believe art solid reasons why we should change!
1) The lyrics are almost impossible to sing. Especially when you the word "free" is almost out of reach. Listening to most celebrated singers, or for that matter any singer, it's like they are begging to have hernia... there is so much stress in straining to hit the right notes. Of course, when you heard the late Whitney Houston, the Dixie Chicks, or the reunited Destiny's Child, you heard only beauty and the way it should be sung. Basically, an anomaly in the scheme of things.
However, if I you were personally right now to sing the Star Spangled Banner by yourself with no words to look at, or prompt you with signs, or for that matter, other people in an audience where you can emulate their lips, you will not be able to do it.
2) The lyrics are warmongering and militaristic glorifying conflict. I worked in countries all over the world… have no doubt about it, we have never been liked, but in the past, we were always respected… The Star Spangled Banner sends the wrong message.
For those who are not sports nuts, but musical nerds, the questions many times ask who will be singing the National Anthem? It is a song all wish to conquer with their own inimitable style. Most of the time, they are defeated. It is too tough to sing!
3) The words are incomprehensible. The phrases are full of half thoughts, interrupted by tangents that complete themselves four lines later. Musically, over the years it has gone back and fourth between 6/8 time and 4/4. For example, in 1983, the late Marvin Gaye transformed the anthem into kind of sexual national hearing.
It has been bastardized in so many ways. To sing it right, it is always a perilous fight which occurs daily prior to many of our country's sports events, an all-out war between and their voice to pay homage to our nation while not embarrassing themselves. Most singers are defeated.
The lyrics are not that great and the song is really hard. I think the lyricist's name should been Francis Scott "off" key". To me, as an American and a veteran, the Anthem should portray our country and be easy to sing. The Star Spangled Banner is neither.
Michael Bolton, the late great Robert Goulet were among those who flubbed the lyrics. According to numerous polls, the worst rendition ever was that of Comedienne Roseanne Barr. At a San Diego Padres game in 1990, Barr had three strikes against her… number one, no voice… number two, grabbing her crotch as she reached for a high note … and number three, spitting on the pitcher's trying to be funny and imitate many pitchers. As bad musically as the song is it deserves respect it still represents our country.
Then there are all those pop singers who attempt to change the tune by adapting the anthem to their personal style: i.e. Michael Bolton (2003), Aaron Neville and Aretha Franklin (2006), Steven Tyler (2001 and back for more in 2002), Christina Aquilerra (2011) plus Josh Grobin (2009). A small part of the list of those who failed miserably.
Waiting in the wings we have two great Americana songs: America the Beautiful and Gold Bless America. Both are inspirationally beautiful songs with easy to sing lyrics and music. They both give out a message of national pride when sung before the rest of the world. The message we need to portray, today more than ever. The Renditions of "America the Beautiful" by Ray Charles and "God Bless America" by Kate Smith are classics.
Call me sometime on my cell phone! Kate Smith's God Bless America is my Ringtone.
Wouldn't it be great if we had an anthem that is foot-stomping and hand clapping as many of John Philip Souza's Marches. The Marine Hymn tops my list.
I'm probably still spitting in the wind, but I hope it gives you food for thought.


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STANFORD, Calif. – In a complete team effort, the seventh-ranked Stanford men's volleyball team swept UC San Diego, 25-14, 25-16, 25-16, Friday, at Maples Pavilion in Stanford, Calif. The Cardinal improves to 6-4 overall and 3-4 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, while the Tritons drop to 0-10 on the year and 0-9 in conference.
As a team, Stanford hit .375 and notched a 74 percent sideout rate. The Cardinal put down 12 service aces, led by senior Brian Cook and redshirt junior Daniel Tublin with three apiece. Stanford held UCSD to a .100 attack percentage, a season-best against an opponent. The Cardinal also out blocked the Tritons 8.5 to 2.0.
"I liked our demeanor tonight and our focus," said head coach John Kosty. "I think we did a good job against their players. Our keys were to slow down their middles and focuse on their pin hitters. We did a nice job with the game plan."
Sophomore setter James Shaw controlled the offense with 23 assists, while also registering seven digs, three kills, two blocks and two aces. Cook led the squad with eight kills on 14 swings with no errors to hit .571. Senior outside hitter Steven Irvin added six kills, two aces and a match-best eight digs. Senior opposite Eric Mochalski also recorded six kills to go with five digs and two blocks.
Several Cardinal players came off the bench to contribute in the sweep. In total, 14 players saw the court against the Tritons. Sophomore Madison Hayden played in all three sets, finishing with two kills, two digs and two blocks. Sophomore setter Joe Ctvrtlik tallied four assists and a dig, while junior Spencer Haly hit .500 (4-1-6) and posted three blocks.
"A lot of guys are earning playing time, and in this league it is tough to find it sometimes," added Kosty. "I thought everybody did a really nice job. Our starters were great and the guys off the bench did a nice job. Madison Hayden played well and Joe Ctvrtlik came in and ran a nice offense. It was great to see those guys step up."
UCSD was led by senior Matt Brunsting's seven kills and seven digs. Redshirt junior Scot Metzger added five kills on a .400 attack percentage.
Stanford will have a quick turnaround as it hosts No. 9 UC Irvine on Saturday, Feb. 8 at 12:30 p.m. PT. The Cardinal and Anteaters will meet live from Maples Pavilion on Pac-12 Bay Area.
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In addition to public works vehicles, Sam Lamerato, superintendent of fleet maintenance in Troy, Mich., maintains police fleets from his own city as well as from other Detroit suburbs. Photo: City of Troy
Where do in-sourcing customers come from?Of the nearly 900 people who responded to an exclusive survey, most answered that maintaining other city departments' fleets was on the top of the list These fleets might include fire, police, or other maintenance vehicles. Source; PUBLIC WORKS
Why don't you do in-sourcing?Many fleet maintenance departments are stretched too thin to be able to do any kind of in-sourcing. Most respondents (70%) who do in-sourcing charge time and materials costs for their work. Source: PUBLIC WORKS
Charlie Caudill (right), fleet manager, and Oliel Gonzalez, fleet maintenance supervisor in Yuma, Ariz., in-source some fleet maintenance work to help balance the budget. Photo: City of Yuma
David Higgins, director of fleet maintenance Boston's Central Fleet Maintenance division, does all equipment tracking electronically. Photo: City of Boston
Training technicians is especially important to Lamerato. He seeks to schedule 40 hours of training each year for every technician. "I bring in trainers to our facility, and we invite surrounding communities to join us," said Lamerato. "We have training on brakes, on suspensions, on wheel chair lifts, and more—and I can send more people if it's onsite here."
As co-chair of education for the Michigan Chapter of the American Public Works Association, Lamerato heads statewide technician training efforts. Recently he held a wide-ranging training session at Shanty Creek Resort in Bellaire, Mich., where 122 people gathered to learn about engine emissions, brake linings, and drivelines. Speakers included officials from Caterpillar, Dana Corp., and CCG Systems.
Boston's CFM provides technician training on an as-needed basis. "When we hire them we have a record of who's been trained on what," said Higgins. "So we know who needs a certain kind of training, whether it's hydraulics or engine ignition or whatever. We try to get everybody trained."
And they are. Boston's CFM shop has been appointed to do in-house warranty work for General Motors. CFM has established a commercial driver's license (CDL) school for city employees and requires all technicians to have a CDL.
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Where are the Seven Hills?
Istanbul's proverbial seven hills fall inside the ancient land walls in the area known today as the 'Historic Peninsula'.
Istanbul naturally springs to mind at the mention of the 'city of seven hills', even though it is not only Istanbul but Rome too that claims this epithet. And the connection between Istanbul, strung out opposite Asia along the confluence of the Bosporus, the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara, and Rome on the banks of the Tiber in the heart of Europe is stronger and more vital than is often thought.
Istanbul has been surrounded by walls ever since the original settlement which was located in the area containing the Hagia Sophia, Topkapı Palace and Seraglio Point. Less than a hundred years after the construction of the 'new' land walls traced in person by the Roman emperor Constantine with the tip of his mace, Emperor Theodosius II had the land walls that we can still see today built starting from Ayvansaray on the Golden Horn and stretching as far as the settlement of Kazlıçeşme on the Sea of Marmara, thereby outlining the city's boundaries for the last time. But where on the Historic Peninsula that we call 'the original Istanbul' are those seven hills?
Sought in the geography of the Historic Peninsula, the hills lie more or less within the three corners of this triangular shaped city. The city's three highest hills are separated by the Bayrampaşa River (the Lycius), two of them lying parallel with the Golden Horn, the other further south. Including the first and second hills, the central ridge that rises starting from Seraglio Point extends westwards parallel to the shores of the Golden Horn and is divided near Unkapanı into a valley perpendicular to the estuary. In this sense the city's geography can be said to consist more of high ridges separated by valleys than into discrete hills with slopes and summits. What needs to be asked however is where the remaining four hills are, or, more precisely, where we should seek them. Are these seven hills really in the city's geography? And if they are not, then what is the source of this image of a 'city of seven hills' that resides in our collective memory?
Ever since the Babylonians, the number seven has been ascribed a sacred place - in mythology, in paganism, and in all the monotheistic religions as well as other faiths. This mystical number, which crops up in various forms in all these belief systems, was also a determining factor in the legend surrounding the city of Rome, which was built on seven hills owing to the sacred significance attributed to this number. In emulation of the Old Rome, the New Rome too had to be built on seven hills so as to be at least as sacred as its ancient counterpart. Hence both cities were defined as cities of 'seven hills', the number seven thereby creating seven focal points in each one.
Just as Romulus founded Rome in 753 B.C. by boring a 'mundus' through the Palatine Hill in 753 B.C., so did Constantine in 330 A.D. found the New Rome by boring a mundus through the city's second hill. The 'mundus' was a hole that went straight to the heart of the city of Rome. The Romans built their cities in keeping with a basic plan. The planners would examine the sky and, taking the movement of the sun as the east-west axis and the movement of the stars perpendicular to this as the north-south axis, represent the two on the earth. As the intersecting point of the Decumanus maximus or east-west axis with the Cardus maximus or north-south axis, the 'Cardo' was regarded as the city center, or 'umbilicus'. It was easy to determine the sacred boundaries of the city once its main axes and their point of intersection had been established in this way.
Known as the 'Mese', Istanbul's east-west axis starts from Auguesteion Square in front of the Hagia Sophia and extends westward along the central ridge which boasts six of the city's seven focal points. Near the Şehzade Mosque it divides in two, meeting with the land walls at two points, which also mark two of the city's main gates: Edirne Kapı or Gate (Charisius) and the Yaldızlı Kapı or Golden Gate. The north-south 'Kardo' axis, meanwhile, forms port city Istanbul's relationship with the Golden Horn to the north and the Sea of Marmara to the south. The Mese and the Kardo are thus the city's two main thoroughfares, and the stopping points along them its squares and forums as defined by the buildings that surround them. Within 100-150 years of its founding, seven forums would be constructed in the New Rome: Augusteion, Constantine, Theodosius (Tauri), Philadelphion, Amastrianon, Bovis and Arcadius. Apart from the Forum Bovis, which lies in the valley of the Lycius, all these fora are at least forty meters above sea level and situated approximately equidistant from each other. Over time these fundamental elements of New Rome's structure suffered serious depredations due to civil wars, natural disasters and economic crises, and most notably in the 13th century when they were burned to the ground. Although a restoration was undertaken following the destruction caused during the Latin Empire of the Fourth Crusade (1204-1261), the economic collapse of the Byzantine Empire meant that the city never recovered its former splendor until the Ottoman conquest in 1453, at which time it came under the rule of a dynasty in the ascendant and was once again revived as a city of seven hills.
In the Roman era, a column dedicated to the emperor was erected at the center of each forum. Forming a line that joined sky, earth and the underground, this vertical axis possessed a mystical significance. In the Ottoman period, domes and minarets replaced these columns as the basic elements in the city's skyline.
The six hills on the Golden Horn side of the city were crowned with imperial mosques that gave the city its Ottoman stamp. Marking the city's focal points, these imperial mosques confront us today as the fundamental components of the city's image in the Ottoman period. Its vital thoroughfare was the Golden Horn, and in the Ottoman period monumental structures were therefore erected in such as way as to dominate the skyline as seen from the estuary. Despite the extraordinary situation of the Süleymaniye Mosque in the city's skyline among the monumental buildings on the third hill, the unsuitability of the terrain here for construction must be taken as evidence that this choice of location was no accident.
On the first hill, the Hagia Sophia or Church of the Holy Wisdom was converted into the city's great mosque and the Topkapı Palace constructed adjacent to it. The Sultan Ahmed or 'Blue' Mosque took its place directly opposite the Hagia Sophia at the beginning of the 17th century. The Nuru Osmaniye Mosque on the second hill immediately next to the Çemberlitaş, or Column of Constantine; the Şehzade, Beyazıt and Süleymaniye Mosques on the third hill, where the first palace in the Ottoman city was built; the Fatih Mosque on the fourth hill; the Mosque of Selim I on the fifth hill and the Mosque of Mihrimah Sultan at Edirnekapı on the sixth are all monumental structures bearing the Ottoman signature. These complexes, each with its mosque, soup kitchen, religious college and hospital, defined not only the religious but also the political, social and culture centers of the city as the mosques' central domes and semi-domes rising in tiers formed virtual manmade hills of their own. Perfected in the Ottoman period by the architect known simply as Mimar Sinan, the mosque dome represents the finest feature of the city's seven hill structure.
The Ottomans created the city's image anew in monumental works of architecture that reflected their own unique culture. But this re-creation posed no obstacle to the continuation of the existing urban structure in a dialogue with the past. The Ottoman Divan Yolu, for example, followed the course of the Roman Mese. And games of jereed replaced the chariot races that had not been held on the Hippodrome for centuries. The palaces were relocated to the second and third hills. Thanks to the mosques, urban focal points were created and their environs revitalized, as, for example, in the case of the Forum Tauri, which has survived to our day as Beyazıt Square. The historical strata of Istanbul can therefore be read in its skyline, in which both the geography and the world of meaning that formed the basis of the city's founding have a share. The seven hills must therefore be sought as much in our memory and in the city's history as in the geography itself.
This article is based on two books, 'Istanbul, Cradle of Civilizations: Urban Memory/Spatial Continuities' (2007) and 'The City's Maps of Meaning: Istanbul in Engravings' (2008).


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Former SMU tennis player Alex Skrypko represented the Mustangs well at the 2012 U.S. Open, as a member of Victoria Azarenka's staff.
DALLAS (SMU) -Alex Skrypko had just come off of a knee injury, and was poised to start climbing the collegiate ranks once again. He had started his junior season at SMU ranked No. 36 in the country, and was regaining his form. Loaded with confidence, he qualified for the 2006 ITA National Indoors which is considered the most-elite of all collegiate tournaments, in Columbus, Ohio. His first-round opponent was second-seeded John Isner from Georgia. Skrypko won the first set, and nearly won the second, but ultimately fell in the match, 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5). Skrypko, a native of Belarus, was disappointed that he could not come away with the victory against a player he had never even heard of.
Fast-forward six years, and both Isner and Skrypko are in elite international tennis company. Isner is the No. 10 men's player in the world, and Skrypko, a 2008 SMU graduate, is a member of Victoria Azarenka's coaching staff. Azarenka is No. 1 in the women's rankings. Skrypko is also Belarus' Fed Cup head coach, and helped his nation earn two medals at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, including a gold in mixed doubles by Azarenka and Max Mirnyi.
SMU Head Coach Carl Neufeld remembers Skrypko's beginnings as a freshman.
"He was 17 when he started at SMU," Neufeld says. "He was a very quiet, unassuming young man. He really evolved, not only as a player but as a person."
Skrypko, whose hometown prior to Dallas was Minsk, Belarus, was an incredible player before stepping foot in University Park.
"He was one of the top juniors in the world," Neufeld remembers. "He even had wins against Novak Djokovic as a junior."
Yes, that Djokovic. The man who waved the Serbian flag at the Olympic opening ceremony, has won five Grand Slams, and is fourth on the all-time ATP earnings list.
Skrypko's early career was like that of a budding tennis star. He represented Belarus in the 2005 Davis Cup, where he ended up playing in the semifinals against American Andy Roddick on ESPN2, losing 6-4, 6-2. Skrypko was a First Team All-Conference USA honoree his sophomore and junior years at SMU. He also earned All-Academic honors and received an economics degree, proving his intelligence both on and off the court. Neufeld recalls that Skrypko had a "world-class tennis mind."
Set back by an injury in the middle of his SMU career, Skrypko had to watch from the sidelines as his team fought on. The injury might have played a crucial role in Skrypko's future endeavors.
"He endured a knee injury, which in a way may have been a blessing for him," Neufeld said. "He learned great work ethic through rehab. It was part of his transformation. It gave him some perspective that now helps him as a coach."
Skrypko has taken what he learned under unfortunate circumstances at SMU with him globally as Belarus' Fed Cup coach and to help Azarenka, who first garnered the No. 1 ranking on Jan. 30. Azarenka won her first Grand Slam with Skrypko's help, the 2012 Australian Open in January. Azarenka defeated then-No. 4 Maria Sharapova in straight-sets, 6-3, 6-0, winning the last nine games of the match.
Neufeld recently saw Skrypko at the U.S. Open in New York City, where Azarenka is preparing to meet Sharapova Friday in the semifinals. Seeing one of his former players in such a prominent position is a proud sight for Neufeld.
"I'm proud of all our tennis alumni," Neufeld said. "But clearly Alex has got the highest-profile coaching position of anyone, and it reflects well on our program."
While hanging out on the practice courts of the U.S. Open, Neufeld and Skrypko ran into Djokovic, and the two Europeans chatted for about 15 minutes like old friends do. The respect that tennis' elite have for Skrypko is evidence enough of his achievements and accolades. His career certainly has reflected well on SMU.
"We're very proud of Alex and how he has represented SMU," Neufeld said. "Not only as a student, but as a top-professional tennis coach."


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Jake Gyllenhaal Comes Clean: Gwyneth Paltrow Is Not a Human
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Last night in front of a crowd at Elle's Women in Hollywood tribute, Jake Gyllenhaal bravely revealed a secret about Gwyneth Paltrow, one he has been keeping to himself since he co-starred with her in 2005's Proof, according to Us:
"Bottom line, she is not a mere mortal like the rest of us. She is an Internet-savvy, award-winning, lifestyle guru, making all of us look lazy. She doesn't just find a nice guy to settle down with — she marries a rock star and then domesticates him. She doesn't just cook — she goes to Spain with Mario Batali and then domesticates him! She is not just a lifestyle guru, but she invents a whole new fitness movement and then convinces me to try it, and I do it, and I am, therefore, domesticated ... sweating my ass off in spandex, which is humbling and embarrassing."
Alas, his message was not heard. The audience just clapped inanely, mistaking his words for a compliment instead of the cry for help that it so clearly was. Don't worry, Jake. Your effort was not in vain. Someday, everyone will realize you were speaking the Truth. Hopefully before it's too late.
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Modern art is an art form that has enjoyed a rich heritage throughout the past two centuries...many modern art enthusiasts consider artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cezanne pioneers of the many forms of modern art we enjoy today. The modern art genre began with paintings in the 1860s in an effort to put aside past artistic traditions to experiment with the world around us.
Since the times of van Gogh and Cezanne, modern art has transcended from the realm of two dimensional paintings to three dimensional art forms such as sculpture, architecture, and even the fashion and jewelry design platforms. Independent jewelry artisans have long embraced the "modern art" form of jewelry design. Central Kentucky is home to countless independent artisans who work with many unique forms of jewelry mediums.
One of those artists is John Leeds, owner and operator of Leeds Jewelry. Leeds hails from Richmond, Kentucky, and has an extensive resume in the field of jewelry design. The artist can trace his love of jewelry design as far back as 1992, when he first opened his brick and mortar location in the heart of Richmond. Leeds graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a Bachelor of Art, and has studied jewelry design abroad in Florence, Italy.
Leeds is a fine art connoisseur who specializes in agate gemstones and acid metal etchings. Leeds also does repairs on heirloom jewelry for his customers, and creates custom designs upon customer request. All of Leed's designs are original work, and can be distinguished from works by other independent artisans- all of Leed's one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces are signed and numbered by the artist himself.
The designs created by Leeds imbue spiritual exploration and experimentation that is the basis of the modern art form. Leeds' work is known for evoking emotion of anyone who encounters his designs.
"I enjoy working with rock that has usual markings and color combination; these gems add unique flare to my hand crafted jewelry. At the end of the day, I have just one goal in mind and that is to create some form of art that makes a person want to stop, look, touch and even try it on and create wearable art that is true object of desire," states Leeds.
Leeds' specialty is agate gemstones, and many of his metalworking contains a touch of Celtic influence, which Leeds attributes to his Irish heritage. Many of his Celtic inspired rings and pendants feature Celtic knotwork, gold antiquing, and gemstones reminiscent of the Emerald Isle.
Currently, Leeds is a member of an array of Kentucky jewelry artisan guilds and has attended craft shows and fairs throughout the state to showcase his original artwork. To view Leeds' impressive gemstones and metalwork, visit his website and view the online gallery.


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At SIU: Earned all-conference honors in the indoor weight throw (2nd) and shot put (5th) in 2005...won the weight throw three times during the indoor season, while adding 11 top-five finishes...provisionally qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the weight throw and advanced to nationals, where he fouled out...regionally qualified in the hammer, shot put and discus during the outdoor season...however, he did not compete due to injury...earned 10 top-five finishes in outdoor competition...was named MVC Field Athlete-of-the-Week twice (Dec. 14, Feb. 1)...currently ranks fifth all-time at SIU in the outdoor hammer (189-07) and second in the indoor weight throw (67-11.75).
Pre-SIU: Set career indoor best of 58-0.25 in the weight throw and career indoor best of 53-8 in the shot put at SIU-Edwardsville...also attended Rend Lake College, where he placed 10th in the shot put and 11th in the weight throw at the Junior College Indoor Nationals...tossed record-breaking throws of 148-10 in the discus and 155-2 in the javelin...owns all throwing records at RLC and was a six-time super regional champion...named all-conference in the discus, shot put, 4x100 and 4x200 at Altamont Community HighSchool...qualified for the state meet in the discus...also a state qualifier as a member of the golf team.
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Bill Hamilton, assistant professor of biology, and Deborah Sillman, instructor in biology, are a team at Penn State New Kensington who oversee the maintenance of the campus Nature Trail that was constructed in 1985. Each spring, the biologists write a blog about the birds, insects, mammals and flowers that herald the arrival of spring.
On their blog site, "Ecologist's Notebook: Reflections on the Natural World of Western Pennsylvania," they report on their observations around their Apollo house and on local nature trails, as well as the campus trail. The sixth blog, "Way Early Wildflowers" was written by Sillman on March 24. The seventh blog, "March-Summer," was written March 31 by Hamilton. More will follow in the coming weeks.
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