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Spanish cuisine is healthy and delicious. It features a wide variety of products, including the star ingredient: olive oil.
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Exquisite, innovative dishes with the guarantee of internationally prestigious chefs. The highest quality products from the best producers. Recipes combining popular tradition with artistic creation to offer you exciting, new flavours. Spain's culinary revolution, headed by master chefs like Ferran Adrià, Arzak and Berasategui turns the pleasure of good food into a luxury for the senses that is at its finest when savoured in Spain.
Spanish cuisine is nowadays recommended in the finest restaurants, heralded by the most prestigious critics and demanded by millions of consumers the world over. It has undergone a real revolution, which, in the space of a few short years, has put Spain at the forefront of international gastronomy. With traditional styles as the basis, a modern, innovative cuisine has developed, identified by the use of quality products and by the creativity of its chefs.
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Head chefs have nowadays become creative professionals - like great designers. This is why modern Spanish dishes now come with their own signature, like creations from the world of fashion. Chefs like Arzak, Ferran Adrià and Berasategui give their own personal seal to dishes such as seafood gazpacho, "Gaudí-style" red mullet, lamb loin with cauliflower couscous, cod in green sauce, or sea bass with scallops and a sauce of flame-grilled leeks. These dishes are imitated by dedicated admirers across the globe.
Spain, the historic cradle of universal artists, also produces some great chefs, the fruit of a traditional culinary heritage that has been passed down through families across the generations, and also of a unique gastronomic culture that, in Spain, converts the necessity of eating into the sheer pleasure of food.
Each chef has the ability to work not simply as a craftsman, but rather as an artist, and this innovative trend is now to be found all over the different regions of Spain. This is why, besides the master chefs already mentioned, names such as Pedro Subijana and Andoni Luis Aduriz in the Basque Country; Santi Santamaría, Carmen Ruscadella and the Roca brothers in Catalonia, and a long list of disciples and upcoming restaurateurs are the protagonists of this novel combination of products and flavours.
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The artists' creativity has, in turn, been backed up by the hard work and high aims of farmers, fishermen, winegrowers, industry, distributors and restaurant-owners, to come together in a common bid for quality and distinction. Spanish vegetables, meats, fish, fruit, oils and wines are nowadays approved by the most demanding palates and make up the fundamental basis of the Mediterranean diet, now considered undisputably as the best recipe for good, healthy eating. To sum up, an exceptional combination of personalities, products and recipes have helped to increase and consolidate the unquestionable success of Spanish cuisine, now recognised as one of the tastiest and healthiest in the world.
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Their Royal Highnesses The Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel are happy to announce that The Crown Princess is expecting their first child.In the Swedish version of the announcement we are also told that the Crown Princess is doing well.
The birth is expected to take place in March of 2012. No changes in the schedule of The Crown Princess's public engagements are planned during the fall of 2011.
Prince Daniel said to Aftonbladet today: - Vi är jättelyckliga och glada förstås, men vi tar en dag i taget. ("- We are very happy and pleased of course, but we take one day at a time.")
For some reason also the King of Norway, who is busy these days with the regatta H.M. Kongens Serieseilaser, was asked to comment the pregnancy news today (VG Nett): - Dette er kjempehyggelige nyheter! This is wonderful news! He declined to offer the Swedish couple some advice on the way, though.
The speculations about a name for the future heir has of course already started, and according to the betting company Unibet Gustav and Oscar are - as of now - in the lead among the male names, while Desireé seems to be the safest bet if the royal couple gets a girl. Betsson has Gustav on first place, while Oscar comes close behind. Personally I would love a future King Oscar! I haven't really thought so much about a girl's name yet, but can surely give some thoughts on it later on.
Crown Princess Victoria will, by the way, visit Norway on Sunday 21 August to attend the National Memorial Ceremony for 22 July 2011, which will take place in Oslo Spektrum. Together with her husband Prince Daniel she will return to Norway already on Thursday 25 August to attend the church service in Oslo Domkirke (Cathedral) on the occasion of the Norwegian Crown Prince couple's 10th anniversary.


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The Atlantic Plumbing building on the 800 block of V Street is getting even more new things to go with the Atlantic Plumbing Cinema and various art venues: a Japanese restaurant and a burger shop.
On Monday, Haikan, a Japanese ramen and poutine restaurant from the folks behind Daikaya/Izakaya, opened at 815 V Street NW. The spot has various kinds of ramen as well as Japanese snacks such as "poutine" with fries, cheese and miso. It's a cool space with a bar, some tables (including some benches where you are right next to the cooks, which is mesmerizing) and a general cool, modern vibe. I stopped by on Tuesday and it was pretty good, but they were still working through some opening-day jitters. The poutine wasn't as tasty as I hoped, but maybe that's because it opened the day before.
And around the corner at 2108 8th Street NW is Tasty Burger, a Boston chain, which opened in July. They have burgers, boozy milkshakes a bar and also a little walk-up to-go window (like the McDonalds at 14th and U.) They also have a pretty solid happy hour from 5-7pm according to Eater.
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Our group explores the frontier of light-matter interactions where novel atomic and molecular matterials are prepared in the quantum regime. We also control light fields that include both continuous waves and ulrashort pulses. Our experiments advance the fields of precision measurement, ultracold atoms and molecules, quantum metrology, as well as ultrafast science and quantum control. We are known for developing technologies in the areas of high-precision laser spectroscopy, atomic and molecular cooling and trapping, optical frequency metrology, quantum control, and ultrafast lasers. We apply these technologies for research in fundamental physics.
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Our group explores many facets of ultracold strontium (Sr), emphasizing precision measurement and quantum state engineering and manipulation of atomic states. The group has achieved exquisite technical control via precision stabilization of lasers and the realization of ultracold atoms in optical lattices. Early on, we focused on precision measurements of Sr electronic transitions, which occur at optical frequencies, to explore the possibility of developing an optical atomic clock. This intense research effort has... Read more
Since 1999 and 2000, there has been a remarkable convergence of the fields of ultrafast optics, opti cal frequency metrology, and precision laser spectroscopy — a convergence that our lab was privileged to help facilitate. A remarkable transformation took place in these fields as unprecedented advances occurred in the control of optical phases ranging from the ultrashort (femtoseconds) to laboratory time scales (seconds). Today, a single-frequency continuous optical field can achieve a phase coherence time... Read more
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Gising na! Wake up! Breakfast time ... that's the current theme of the 7th Lasang Pinoy ably hosted by the early-morning-food blogger Joey of 80 Breakfasts.
The traditional breakfast of Filipinos has been rice or garlic fried rice with either fried/grilled fish, tocino, or longganisa. But in our family, a lot of our mornings are filled with that ubiquitous crusty roll endemic to Filipinos called Pan de Sal (also spelled without the spaces - pandesal) which means literally bread with salt. I could imagine the original pan de sal must have been more on the salty side rather than the sweet one that is common now which is how I have always known what a pandesal should taste. There was a long time in my youth that I could not imagine a morning without a warm pandesal to satiate my hunger. It's very versatile you see, you can spread a variety of things between its fluffy insides such as butter, liver spread (pate), jams, preserves, matamis na bao, peanut butter, pancit, ice cream - you name it. Or you simply dunk it in coffee or tea.
Sometimes even in the evenings when someone in the household comes home late, passes by a bakery then buys fresh-off-the-oven pandesal. You can bet that anyone among us kids will awaken with the fragrant waft of the hot pandesal. Down the stairs we came to partake in the midnight snack. I love it smeared with liver spread. Yum!
This is my very first time to bake pandesal and I had to call my aunt in Cavite to get her recipe which she got from her Home Economics subject when she was studying in Teacher's College about 35 years ago. Yeah that long ago. Now I don't know if I misheard the measurement of the liquids because the dough turned out very sticky and really hard to handle. I don't know if it's supposed to be like this. I think I'll be calling my aunt again in the weekend. Despite the intense stickiness, I managed to knead it (with a lot of help from sprinkled flour) and let it rise. She said it will double in bulk after 2 hours, I think mine tripled that's one reason why I suspect there's too much yeast. Maybe the yeast that I use here is more potent/concentrated. I'll certainly have to play around with the proportions in this recipe later. It was also hard for me to cut it to uniform-sized individual rolls since it's very soft. Thank goodness it came out alright from the oven - fragrant and crusty though somewhat moist inside. I don't know if it's supposed to be like this but it certainly was good enough for my family. :)
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8 cups plain flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup cooking oil
2 1/2 cups cold water
1/2 cup lukewarm water
1 Tbsp yeast
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- In a big bowl, mix cold water with oil, salt and the rest of the sugar. Stir until sugar and salt are dissolved.
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Equity and Inclusion
Alumnus publishes groundbreaking rap anthology
December 01, 2010
Adam Bradley BA '96 asserts the vital poetic tradition of hip-hop music in his groundbreaking publication, The Anthology of Rap, released in November by Yale University Press.
Bradley is the co-editor of the anthology, which collects hundreds of hip-hop lyrics spanning the entire 30-year history of the genre.
A professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Bradley is a scholar of African-American literature and a writer on black popular culture. He published Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop, an exploration of America's least understood poets, in 2009. Also in 2009, Bradley helped bring Ralph Ellison's long-awaited second novel to life; working with John Callahan, Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities, Bradley co-edited Three Days Before the Shooting: The Unfinished Second Novel by Ralph Ellison.
The Anthology of Rap has received media attention from outlets across the country, with Bradley and his co-editor Andrew DuBois receiving praise for compiling the "English major's hip-hop bible."
Mother Jones Magazine: Anthology of Rap: The Unofficial Index (11/29/10)
National Public Radio: 'The Anthology of Rap': Lyrics as Poetry (11/7/10)
The Wall Street Journal: Hip-Hop Goes to Harvard (11/5/10)
Slate: Fact-Check the Rhyme (11/4/10)
Colorado Public Radio: The Anthology of Rap (11/2/10)
New York Magazine: Straight Outta Comp 101 (10/31/10)


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U.S. economy focus of State of the Union
The U.S. economy, the expected focus of Tuesday night's State of the Union speech, is much healthier than it was four years ago. Yet growth remains slow and unemployment high.
In early 2009, the nation's economy was in trouble following the collapse of the housing bubble and the disintegration of mortgage-backed investments. Companies were slashing jobs. The unemployment rate was surging. Auto sales reached a 26-year low.
The recovery has been agonizingly slow, but now companies are hiring modestly but steadily. Home prices are finally rebounding as sales and housing starts have recovered. And Americans are buying cars again.
Apple CEO: Shareholder lawsuit is "silly sideshow"
Apple CEO Tim Cook is calling a shareholder lawsuit against the company a "silly sideshow," even as he said he is open to looking at shareholder proposals for sharing more cash with investors.
Investor David Einhorn sued Apple Inc. last week, saying a proposal slated for a vote at the company's annual meeting in two weeks will make it more difficult to enact his plan to reward shareholders by distributing a new class of shares.
Cook said Apple's proposal puts more power in the hands of shareholders, making it difficult to understand why a shareholder would fight it. Cook also said that the company is "seriously" looking at ways to hand out more cash to shareholders.
January surplus shrinks 2013 US budget deficit
The federal government reported a rare surplus for January and is on track to run the lowest annual deficit since President Barack Obama took office.
The Treasury Department said Tuesday that the government took in a surplus of $2.9 billion in January, helped by nearly $9 billion more in Social Security taxes. Last month Congress and the White House allowed a temporary cut in Social Security taxes to expire.
Through the first four months of the 2013 budget year, the deficit has grown $290.4 billion. That's nearly $60 billion lower than the same period a year ago.
G7 seeks to defuse currency war fears
The Group of Seven leading industrial nations, which includes the U.S., Japan and Germany, warned Tuesday that volatile movements in exchange rates could adversely hit the global economy.
There have been increasing concerns around the world that countries might manipulate their exchange rates through their domestic economic policies in order to gain an edge. The process could spark a "currency war" - where countries compete against one another to get the lowest exchange rates.
The G-7 finance ministers and central bankers insisted they remained committed to exchange rates driven by the market - not government or central bank policies - and will consult closely when it comes to sharp movements in foreign currency markets.
Likely Treasury chief Lew faces early budget tests
The to-do list that awaits Jacob Lew, President Barack Obama's choice to be Treasury secretary, is daunting.
Bridge disputes in Congress on taxes and spending. Shrink budget deficits. Manage tense economic ties with China. Press Europe to reduce debts while fighting a recession. Defend the U.S. financial overhaul law. Prevent a global currency war.
And those are just the obvious challenges.
Comcast to buy GE's 49 pct. stake in NBCUniversal
Comcast says it's buying General Electric's 49 percent stake in NBCUniversal joint venture for $16.7 billion.
Comcast Corp. had bought a majority stake in the television and movie company in 2011. It had planned to take a larger stake in it over time.
Coca-Cola's profit climbs but obstacles loom
Coca-Cola is facing a tough time: People are drinking less soda in the U.S. and Europe and uncertain economic conditions around the world weigh on the world's biggest drinks maker.
The Atlanta-based company said Tuesday that its profit rose in the fourth quarter, as it benefited from growth in emerging markets and a shift in the calendar that resulted in two extra selling days for the period. But sales volume fell in China and Europe, reflecting a pullback in consumer spending.
In North America, its biggest market by revenue, volume rose just 1 percent, boosted by its Powerade sports drinks and bottled teas. The company sold 2 percent less soda.
S&P parent expects to beat gov't ratings lawsuit
Standard & Poor's is prepared to spend years beating back a federal lawsuit that accuses the company of giving falsely high ratings to mortgage investments that helped trigger the financial crisis, executives said Tuesday.
The government may seek up to $5 billion - several years' worth of profits for McGraw-Hill, it said in a civil complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court last week. The company believes the charges lack merit, but the case is likely to drag on for three or more years, general counsel Ken Vittor said on the call.
Despite what the company called "an outstanding year," analysts on the call focused on its ability to fend off the lawsuit and maintain growth in the Standard & Poor's Rating Services division.
CEO of scandal-ridden U.K. bank sets new tone
Be honest. Or be gone. That's the message from the new chief executive at Barclays, the British bank that paid a $453 million fine for manipulating a key global interest rate. As he tried to put a brave face on 3,700 new job cuts and growing financial losses, CEO Anthony Jenkins said Tuesday that ethics matter as much as a given quarter's bottom line.
"Barclays is changing," Jenkins told reporters at a news conference in London. "There will be no going back to the old ways of doing things."
Jenkins has good reason to embrace the high road. Even though Barclays avoided a government bailout during the global financial crisis- unlike British peers like Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds - the lender has faced a string of scandals that are costing it billions of pounds.
Another major Dell shareholder opposes $24.4B sale
A shareholder rebellion against Dell's proposed $24.4 billion sale to its founder and other investors is gaining more support, fueling a belief that the struggling personal computer maker will have to wrangle a higher price to get the deal done.
Mutual fund firm T. Rowe Price joined the opposition Tuesday. Price and another shareholder, Southeastern Asset Management, believe that founder and CEO Michael Dell and the investment firm Silver Lake are seizing control and ending Dell Inc.'s 25-year history as a publicly held company on the cheap.
T. Rowe Price and Southeastern are the two largest independent shareholders and own nearly 13 percent of the company combined. Michael Dell has committed his 14 percent stake toward the deal. He is the only investor who owns more stock than either of the two.
Intel working on TV set-top box to replace cable
Intel Corp. said Tuesday that it will sell a set-top box that brings Internet-delivered movies and shows to a TV set this year.
There are various boxes today that bring Internet content to TV sets, with popular ones made by Roku and Apple. But Intel wants to go further and make its box and streaming service a replacement for cable.
Rumors of an Intel set-top box and video service emerged last year. Intel didn't say what the box and service would cost, or when this year such a device be available.
By The Associated Press(equals)
The Dow Jones Industrial average closed up 47.46 to 14,018.70, putting it within 1 percent of the record close of 14,164.53 set in October 2007.
The Standard & Poor's 500 gained 2.42 points to 1,519.43, also close to its record.
The Nasdaq composite was down 5.51 points at 3,186.49.
Benchmark oil gained 48 cents to finish at $97.51 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Brent crude, used to price international varieties of oil, rose 53 cents to end at $118.66 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
Wholesale gasoline rose 3 cents to finish at $3.05 a gallon.
Natural gas fell 5 cents to end at $3.23 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Heating oil rose less than a cent to finish at $3.24 a gallon.


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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
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Evidence from the 20th century demonstrated that early life stress (ELS) produces long lasting neuroendocrine and behavioral effects related to an increased vulnerability towards psychiatric illnesses such as major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, and substance use disorder. Substance use disorders (SUDs) are complex neurological and behavioral psychiatric illnesses. The development, maintenance, and relapse of SUDs involve multiple brain systems and are affected by many variables, including socio-economic and genetic factors. Pre-clinical studies demonstrate that ELS affects many of the same systems, such as the reward circuitry and executive function involved with addiction-like behaviors. Previous research has focused on …
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30 comments :
- Susie said...
Beautiful project. You did very well. Smiles, Susie
- Sunday, November 25, 2012
- Anne said...
Lynn you are lucky to be able to shop your own property for greens! Pretty wreath on your door and great tip! I will remember that for next year! I did simple this year too and I love it!
- Sunday, November 25, 2012
- Stacey said...
I'm going for simpler too. My home actually has reds, which I love, so I'll just be tweaking that some. Is your wreath built with real wreaths or artificial? Either way its very pretty.
- Sunday, November 25, 2012
- Sarah said...
Beautiful! I like to keep it simple too. Just too much to pull it all out and pack it up again. ;-)
- Sunday, November 25, 2012
- Blondie's Journal said...
What a deal on the trees...I have to see if ours have them. I love your wreath...everything is so pretty! Wish we still had evergreen trees...we removed them years ago because they outgrew our lot!
- Sunday, November 25, 2012
- NanaDiana said...
I thought I was going to simplify this year and I gave a ton of stuff away. I still had a ton of stuff and ended up dragging most of it out today. Maybe I will do simple NEXT Year- lol
My son and I went pine/green hunting yesterday and got a ton of fresh greens cut- xo Diana
- Monday, November 26, 2012
- Gabriela Delworth said...
Hello Lynn,
I totally agree with you. In fact, I am planning to decorate our place with green and live things...nature.
Greens not only look lovely but they smell wonderful.
- Monday, November 26, 2012
- Francie...The Scented Cottage Studio said...
Ah Lynn, I know how beautiful it will be when you are done. (())
- Monday, November 26, 2012
- Olive said...
I got three of those .99 cents poinsettias too. Also one big white one for my fireplace. Lowes was the only place we went on Friday. I am on a mission to just stay at home. I love the way you dressed your flowers. I tucked mine in rustic vases. Happy Christmas, Olive
- Monday, November 26, 2012
- Jen said...
I just love poinsettias! You have made them even more beautiful with your burlap, corsages and tags. =) You did good with your fresh wreath... they are so expensive and sometimes it's quite difficult to find pretty ones after they have all been smashed together. SImple decor is so pretty. I keep thinking I would like to go simple but between the hubby & kids, they won't have it!
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!
- Monday, November 26, 2012
- Mary said...
Love your stacked wreaths! I'm hoping to take a stroll and clip some cedar and pine to deck the hall later this week :)
- Tuesday, November 27, 2012
- Debra at HOMESPUN: http://www.thehomespun.com said...
What a wonderful post altogether / you had me smelling the pines and woods there for awhile : )
- Tuesday, November 27, 2012
- Eggs In My Pocket said...
I think simple is always beautiful. You did such a pretty job!
- Thursday, November 29, 2012
- Courtenay@Creek Line House said...
Great minds think alike! We've been doing the greenery round-up around our property too. I've just been carrying it in bit by bit by hand though. I didn't think to get the tractor and the cart involved too! I love your little candy canes in the silver. I'm going to go copy that one right now! :)
- Thursday, November 29, 2012
- Connie@shabbyforsure said...
Hi, I especially like what you did with the burlap and poinsettias but I love it all...Connie
- Thursday, November 29, 2012
- Creations by Marie Antoinette and Edie Marie said...
Wow Lynn,
You lucked out on the poinsettas,
Knowing you ...your home will be just to gorgeous.
I'm glad you liked the card.I knew you would like it.We both like our yard birds.I wish I could tell you the site that met my eyes this summer,but it might offend thoese who don't or never seen what chickens do...LOL.I still can't believe what I saw.CURIOUS.I'll have to email you...LOL
Bye Bye love,
Marie Antionette
- Thursday, November 29, 2012
- LV said...
You are headed in the right direction for a very pretty home. I will never get out on Black Friday.
- Friday, November 30, 2012
- Antiques And Teacups said...
Very pretty! Burlap seems to be the "thing" this holiday season. Love your touches.
- Friday, November 30, 2012
- Linda said...
Love the fresh greenery. Thanks for stopping by my blog. Have a great weekend!
- Friday, November 30, 2012
- Karena said...
Lynne, You are so fortunate to go out and gather berries, greens, and pinecones! I love it all!
2012 Artists Series and Giveaway from The House of Edward!
- Friday, November 30, 2012
- The Quintessential Magpie said...
Hi, Lynn... good to see you! And I love your wreath. I should have done that, but I cheaped out. ;-) I like a very full wreath.
My computer went south some time ago, and I'm waiting on Santa to bring me a new computer and camera. Both are on the blink. And I'm having fits with the new blogger. So I'm just visiting around when I can. I borrow Mr. Magpie's ipad to go online these days. I can't download pics and stuff, but it works okay to visit.
Hope you have fabulous holidays1
Thanks SO much for your visit. I loved seeing your name on the post.
- Friday, November 30, 2012
- Connie in Hartwood said...
You've been busy, and everything looks lovely!! So far, the only thing I've done here are the Christmas tree and lights on our front porch. No decorating at all inside yet. I'm with you on simplifying things. It's prettier and a whole lot less stressful that way.
- Saturday, December 01, 2012
- mypinkprettiesaboutme said...
Great ideas and projects. Simple and on a budget. Thx for sharing
- Saturday, December 01, 2012
- Unknown said...
Simple is the best and free is even better. I love that big green wreath on your front door.
- Saturday, December 01, 2012
- Jeanne said...
Hi Lynn, I am loving the popular use of lots of greens this year. Living in the mountains it is the perfect accent for country living. Your fresh wreath is stunning. I too like the red poinsettias. Your ideas are charming and a lovely gift.
Antiquing is my favorite shopping outing as well. Vintage items are so charming compared to the 'made in China' items that are so prevalent today.
Happy Pink Saturday,
hugs, Jeanne
- Sunday, December 02, 2012
- Melanie said...
Love the trick of stacking small, thin wreaths to make a luxurious one. Great tip! I also like how you wrapped the Pointsettia plant in burlap.
- Sunday, December 02, 2012
- bohemiannie! art said...
I love your ideas! So beautiful. We lived in the country in Virginia for years and would go out for the hunt for Christmas greenery every year. What awesome memories you've evoked.
- Monday, December 03, 2012
- Sherry @ No Minimalist Here said...
Lynn, I can't wait to see your house and porch dressed for Christmas. I know it will be fabulous! No fresh clippings available here unless you count palm fonds. Thanks for joining my party.
- Wednesday, December 05, 2012
- Kerryanne @ Shabby Art Boutique said...
How fabulous to be able to pop down the back yard to source your greens Lyn. It all looks lovely and I'm with you on the keeping it simple this year. Thank you for linking up at Shabbilicious Friday.
- Thursday, December 06, 2012
- The Charm of Home said...
Wonderful! Thank you for joining HSH!
- Thursday, December 06, 2012


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Sneaking into iTunes today while I wasn't looking, Street Fighter X Tekken Gauntlet pits Ryu and Kazuya against the entire mobile roster, 30 seconds at a time.
Built in the same engine as the full $.99 version of Street Fighter X Tekken Mobile (as evidenced by the lack of iPhone 5 widescreen support), Gauntlet is a "taste" of the mobile fighter. It's basically a 30 second survival mode, challenging players to take out as many opponents as possible while completing goals to replenish their vitality.
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In its final report into the loss of an Air France Airbus A330 over the South Atlantic on June 1, 2009, French air accident investigation agency BEA (Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses) has managed to explain most–but not all–of the pitch-up inputs by the pilot who was flying the aircraft at the time of the accident during the last minutes of Air France Flight 447. The report, published on July 5, said that the pilot flying (PF) kept pulling the stick and this caused the Airbus A330 to stall and prevented a recovery.
In a tense press conference held last Thursday at Le Bourget Airport in Paris BEA director Jean-Paul Troadec and his team pointed at human-machine interface issues that made the situation extremely confusing for the crew. All 228 occupants died when the aircraft, flying from Rio to Paris, crashed at night while negotiating a region with heavy thunderstorm activity. BEA had published an interim report in July 2011.
A major new finding in the final report concerned the flight director, which normally displays symbology on the pilots' primary flying displays that give guidance on control inputs to reach a desired steady-state flightpath. After the autopilot and autothrottle disengaged, as the flight control law switched from normal to alternate, the flight director's crossbars disappeared. But they then reappeared several times. Every time they were visible, they prompted pitch-up inputs by the PF, investigators determined. It took them a long time to "rebuild" what the flight director displayed since this is not part of the data recorded by the flight data recorder.
The BEA acknowledged that the PF might have followed flight director indications. This was not the right thing to do in a stall but it seems that the crew never realized that the aircraft was in a stall. Moreover, the successive disappearance and reappearance of the crossbars reinforced this false impression, the investigators suggested. For the crew, this could have suggested their information was valid.
None of the pilots recognized that the flight director was changing from one mode to another because they were just too busy. The PF may have trusted the flight director so much that he was verbally agreeing to the other pilot's pitch-down instructions, while still actually pitching up.
The BEA's report includes significant recommendations about the flight director. One of them calls for European Aviation Safety Agency to review its "display logic." The flight director should disappear or present "appropriate orders" in a stall.
The investigators made it clear that from the start the crew should have followed a procedure called "unreliable indicated airspeed," which involves disconnecting the flight director. They also concluded that the still-connected flight director behaved in a way that is not specific to the A330. However, Leopold Sartorius, head of the investigation's avionics systems working group, said he did not conduct an exhaustive study on other airliners to determine whether the flight director would have behaved in the same way.
The BEA investigation has explained why the PF pulled his stick after the autopilot disengaged. But he also pulled the stick back at the beginning of the fatal sequence. This was probably to correct what was later determined to be an altimeter error.
The only remaining question concerns the period between autopilot disengagement and the first stall warning. During these five seconds, the PF kept giving nose-up inputs to the controls, but the BEA can't say why.
The crew (or part of it) trusted the flight director but seemed to ignore the stall alarm even though it sounded more than 70 times. While this fact amazed many industry experts when it was revealed a year ago, the BEA has found possible explanations.
First, the crew was not familiar with this audio alarm, due to a lack of training. More generally, the BEA refers to shortcomings in their "knowledge of the aircraft and its protection modes." A review of pilot training "did not provide convincing evidence that the associated skills had been correctly developed and maintained."
Also, the crew may have thought the buffeting, aerodynamic noise and even an acceleration cue on the primary flight display were symptoms of excessive speed. The aircraft, in fact, was in completely the opposite situation in that it was flying far too slowly.
Another reason for having ignored the stall alarm could have been a matter of sheer perception, Troadec said. "Audio alarms are no longer heard in some situations," he admitted. This has prompted the BEA to recommend the addition of a visual stall warning.
Among the new recommendations are some relatively surprising ones, about problems with the safety oversight of Air France. The BEA refers to failures in inspections conducted by the French civil aviation authority (DGAC), which it said, "did not bring to light the fragile nature of the crew resource management." Nor did DGAC officials identify the weaknesses of the two copilots in manual airplane handling.
BEA concluded that the DGAC needs to be reorganized to make its safety oversight function more effective. Another recommendation is that there needs to be better recruitment and training of safety inspectors.
Troadec labeled the crew's work during the fatal few minutes as "destructured." One difficulty was the lack of a clear display of the airspeed inconsistencies even though the computers identified them. Some systems generated failure messages only about the consequences but never mentioned the origin of the problem. This prompted a recommendation that a blocked pitot tube should be clearly indicated to the crew on the flight displays.
Investigators determined that the A330 pilots being startled by the chain of events played a major role in the destabilization of the flight path and the BEA report recommended more training for dealing with unexpected situations. Ultimately, safety comes from both the pilots' cognitive abilities and the signals they receive, Troadec concluded.
Larry Bell (not verified)
July 9, 2012 - 11:15am
I'm not surprised that the French were so soft on the final report, as their national airline pilot training was at fault along with the poor interface that Airbus Industries puts into their aircraft. France can never criticise their own faults. My time working with Conair's export division when French training, engineering and maintenance were all at fault in various stupid fatal crashes (including one that killed a friend) were never investigated enough to lay fault where it actually belonged.
Thierry (not verified)
July 9, 2012 - 1:07pm
Thanks for your comment, Larry. If you read the story, you will see that French investigators are questioning both aircraft system design and crew training.
Micke (not verified)
July 9, 2012 - 5:23pm
Conair isn't it a long time ago ?
Jacob Damron (not verified)
July 9, 2012 - 7:25pm
I saw a similar problem when transitioning from the Lear 45 to the Cessna Sovereign. The 45 was equipped with Honeywell Primus 1000 avionics. This suite verbally announced "gear", "stall", "flaps", etc. The Sovereign with the Honeywell Primus Epic left the crew to decipher a series of bells, clacks, and horns. Pilots shouldn't have to decipher avionics sounds in a high workload environment. The avionics suite should clearly state the offending condition.
HyeProfile (not verified)
July 13, 2012 - 12:18pm
Bombardier products have typically had simple and consistent crew alerting philosophies. But then again, I'm biased because I work for them...
Hopefully, 14CFR Part 25 Amendment 25-132 & similar CS-25 Amendment 11 versions of 25.1322 will address such inconsistencies in alerts to the flight crew, cognitive and multi-sensual aspects, as well as the need for distinct alerts for situations which require "immediate" crew action, for all future products, irregardless of make or model.
matt (not verified)
July 9, 2012 - 8:11pm
Did any of the two FO's have a multi crew license that the Europeans had been pushing for in the past? If so this accident will further harden the FAA and Congress's stand against it.
norman (not verified)
July 10, 2012 - 3:14pm
Sully said it all:
"This accident will be a subject of discussion for years to come."
Trevor (not verified)
July 10, 2012 - 7:30pm
The pompous French pilots' union even refused to co-operate with the BEA's AF447 investigation. The pilot who flew it into the Atlantic held the sidestick fully back the whole time whilst the altimeter spun down uninterrupted at 10,000 feet per minute. Any sane person would avoid French aviation. Even a kid with airplane video-game experience could do better.
Brian (not verified)
July 10, 2012 - 9:06pm
Why didn't the crew use the GPS speed? I have used it for over 15 years and NEVER had a problem. How sad that they did not use a simple $50 tool to tell them that the plane was moving too slow.
HyeProfile (not verified)
July 13, 2012 - 12:27pm
GPS only reports ground speed: if you're climbing or descending (especially at high rates like 10,000 ft/min), GPS readings will not give you accurate data of your true airspeed, especially in a stall situation where your attitude & AoA has a high rate of change. It might however allow you to validate the primary airspeed indications (cross-check) and identify any possible discrepencies...
But more importantly, an airplane design (especially a FBW one) must be robust to failures of primary air data sources (especially from common causes, such as icing), especially with an increasing number of valid alternate sources (such as IRS and GPS, and good old trusty AoA vanes) that could be used.
don (not verified)
July 12, 2012 - 7:14pm
It is simple. you get what you pay for. When you put two under-qualified
pilots in a complex aircraft and let them wander into dangerous conditions people
end up dead. Airbus has decided that the aircraft they build are smarter than the pilots; so Air France has decided: why invest in competent pilots?
A very smart man told me once: you cannot buy experience, but you will
certainly pay for it.
HyeProfile (not verified)
July 17, 2012 - 1:01pm
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel that the 224 page final report doesn't adequately analyise the A330's handling qualities or controllability in alternate law in cases of failures of primary air data sources (such as the probes icing up) as a possible contributing factor? Although the PF's unexplained nose up inputs are obviously ones the main contributing factors, can we really explain all the lateral and directional deviations (and associated compensating PF control inputs) recorded by the FDR?
Jean Ubota (not verified)
July 22, 2012 - 4:52pm
The primary cause of the AF447 crash was the lack of leadership of the aircraft captain. He was unable to exercise a basic understanding over the situation in taking charge of the problem and in controlling the other 2 pilots actions. Effectively nobody was really in charge on board: all pilots were doing their silly things without central coordination of actions and without specific directions of the aircraft captain.
The pilots were overreacting to flight displays and bells warnings generated by the aircraft avionics in total disorganisation ans despair without any coordination of efforts and applied knowledge of the very basic flight mechanic principle. They had forgotten how to fly an airplane!
A reading the report strongly suggests that pilots were not trained at working as a team but rather as individuals with their own view of the situation and character.
The lost of this AF447 planes and its 227 passengers is a consequence of inexistent leadership on board and without this basic ingredient all recommandations of the report will be ineffective in the future.
Trevor (not verified)
July 27, 2012 - 10:42am
The official report was a whitewash of total pilot incompentence.
Trevor (not verified)
July 27, 2012 - 10:42am
If the returning captain had said, "C'mon lads, let's have a Gauloise and a coffee in the galley", thereby allowing the plane to level-off by itself at altitude, they would have lived to tell the tale!
Nalliah Thayabharan (not verified)
August 1, 2012 - 7:27pm
The accident was caused by the co-pilot induced stalled glide condition and remained in that condition until impact. To recover from stall is to set engine to idle to reduce nose up side effect and try full nose down input. If no success roll the aircraft to above 60° bank angle and rudder input to lower the nose in a steep engaged turn. Pilots lack of familiarity and training along with system malfunction contributed to this terrible accident. Also the following contributed to the accident
(1)the absence of proper immediate actions to correct the stalled glide
(2) Insufficient and inappropriate situation awareness disabling the co-pilots and the captain to become aware of what was happening regarding the performance and behaviour of the aircraft
(3)lack of effective communication between the co-pilots and the captain which limited the decision making processes, the ability to choose appropriate alternatives and establish priorities in the actions to counter the stalled glide
During most of its long descent into the Atlantic Ocean, Airbus A330-203 was in a stalled glide. Far from a deep stall, this seems to have been a conventional stall in which the Airbus A330-203 displayed exemplary behavior. The aircraft responded to roll inputs, maintained the commanded pitch attitude, and neither departed nor spun. The only thing the Airbus A330-203 failed to do well was to make clear to its cockpit crew what was going on.Its pitch attitude was about 15 degrees nose up and its flight path was around 25 degrees downward, giving an angle of attack of 35 degrees or more. Its vertical speed was about 100 knots, and its true airspeed was about 250 knots. It remained in this unusual attitude not because it could not recover, but because the co-pilots did not comprehend in darkness, the actual attitude of the aircraft. The co-pilots held the nose up. If the co-pilots had pushed the stick forward, held it there, and manually retrimmed the stabilizer, the airplane would have recovered from the stall and flown normally.
Air France complained that the copilots did not have enough time to analyze the situation. Gravitational stalled glide does not allow timeouts, to thoroughly discuss the situation to find out what went wrong. The co-pilots - 37 year old David Robert and 32 year old Pierre-Cédric Bonin missed the cardinal rule that first they must fly the airplane, and after start analyzing the situation, since a falling airplane is not going to wait for them. If they did not understand the instruments, then instead of pondering on it they should have come to the quick conclusion that they did not understand those instruments, and apply the unreliable airspeed procedure clearly prescribed for that situation, which is a blind, given thrust and pitch setting for the given configuration, and let the airplane fly itself, and only after get to analyzing what went wrong, and by the time they finished, the root-cause (pitot icing) would have probably cured itself. It was the safe solution to the problem, but not applied.
The Airbus A330 performed exactly as it was designed and described when the stall warning cut out at the end of valid values, except the co-pilots did not know it. Unfortunately, it happens too often with catastrophic results that pilots are not familiar with the systems of their own airplane, such as in the case of American Airlines 587 over Queens, which was clearly the airline's fault.
Air France also argued that the stall warning system in the A330 is too "confusing". Every modern airplane is quite a confusing piece of machinery. It is full of buttons, levers, all kinds of red, yellow, green lights with buzzers, and a host of other indicators and controls inside, which can look very confusing indeed, but it is the pilot's duty to reign on them, or not to be pilot.
Airbus A330-203 is a new generation, highly automated piece of equipment with drastically simplified controls, displays, and instrumentation compared to older models. Still, pilots with the same human capabilities as the ones on Air France flight 447 could very well stay in full control in those planes, and many times acted heroically saving situations much graver than where the plight of Air France flight 447 started, such as United Airlines flight UA232 at Sioux City, or Air Canada flight AC143, the Gimli Glider. If those pilots could perform well in those older, much more complicated aircraft in tougher situations, then there is no excuse for the co-pilots of AF flight 447 to be confused in a generally much simpler and easier-to-fly aircraft.
The Airbus A320 is a digital fly-by-wire aircraft as the flight control surfaces are moved by electrical and hydraulic actuators controlled by a digital computer. The computer interprets pilot commands via input from a side-stick, making adjustments on its own to keep the plane stable and on course, which is particularly useful after engine failure by allowing the pilots to concentrate on engine restart and landing planning. Some say the Airbus A330 is a "video-game" airplane due to its side-stick control, which does not match up in real hard situations. But who can say that after the successful ditching of US Airways flight 1549 on the Hudson River? It was an Airbus A320 with the same side-stick control, and it matched up with the hardest situation very well with an experienced 57 year old Captain Chesley Sullenberger at the command. The Airbus A330 is not a video-game airplane, it is the airlines that make it a video-game by cutting corners, taking advantage of its superior automated capabilities thinking that it flies by itself, and no training and no knowledge of even the basics of the principles of flying is required in them for their pilots, as was demonstrated by the co-pilots of flight 447, who seemed to be incapable to react even on a basic level to the phenomenon of the aerodynamic stall. The co-pilots had not applied the unreliable airspeed procedure. The co-pilots apparently did not notice that the plane had reached its maximum permissible altitude. The co-pilots did not read out the available data like vertical velocity, altitude, etc. The stall warning sounded continuously for 54 seconds. The absence of any training, at high altitude, in manual airplane handling and in the procedure for "Vol avec IAS douteuse" (Flight with questionable Indicated Airspeed) caused this terrible accident. Evidently, it might not be what Airbus had on its mind designing the aircraft. They might have meant the best of the both, an airplane with superior controls, matched with seasoned pilots with superior education in the principles of flying and the handling of hard situations, best of the best, as airlines are prone to boast of their flying personnel, to represent quality improvement in flying safety by this pairing. Now, if this piece of equipment falls in the hands of the airlines who use it as a video game to save training costs, telling only their pilots that "if the red light on the right side blinks, just pull the stick back as hard as you can, and let the system do the rest", they can get away with it as long as everything is normal, the airplane is good enough for that, but in unforeseeable situations, such as the flight 447 en-route to Paris on that night, without any independent knowledge of flying in general, the video-gaming with the aircraft may ultimately come to a fatal end.
However, beyond the reasoning and explanations there is still some eeriness about the crash, taking in consideration that Air France flight 447's pilots just sat there in daze squeezing the control stick, barely being able to do more than commenting on how the airplane was falling out of the sky until crashing into the Atlantic Ocean, the arrival of the 58-year-old flight captain Marc Dubois in the cockpit not making much a difference either. The question might arise whether weren't the pilots in a mentally incapacitating state of shock and disbelief? Whether do or can Air France test pilots of how well they can keep their mental stability under the duress of a catastrophic situation? None of it seems to be the fault of the Airbus A330, which needs only good, trained pilots to give superior performance for the good of the flying public. Very similarly 3 decades ago Captain Madan Kukar's mistaken perception of the Air India Flight 855 situation resulted in causing the Boeing 747-237 to rapidly lose altitude and the airplane hit the Arabian Sea at 35 degree nose-down angle.
Practicing recovery from "Loss of Control" situations and improve flight crew training for high altitude stalls (simulator training usually has low altitude stalls which are significantly different due to energy status of the aircraft) should become the mandatory part of recurrent training.
Hoss (not verified)
August 7, 2012 - 2:15am
Very well said... Thank you...
Uolevi Styrfalt (not verified)
December 30, 2012 - 10:44am
Your description and conclusions are superb. I agree with You 100%. By the way. The automation and operations of an Airliner like A330 has gone too far. Pilots do not properly learn how to fly these planes. They are too complicated in their automation and smartness. The flying should not be so complicated as it is today. As a former B767 pilot i allready at that time 12 years ago felt like the automation had gone too far. The most common pilots question when flyin should not be."What the hell is happening. Why is it behaving like this. How shall we get out of this?
Parsons (not verified)
August 3, 2012 - 10:54pm
A question to the bus pilots. With the side stick, is the stick shaker stall warning gone and it is only an Audible alarm now.
sclytrack (not verified)
August 4, 2012 - 2:22pm
I propose the following vocal schemes.
(1) "AUTO throttle 100 percent"
This happens when the the plane flies too slow. It automatically increases the thrust to attain a minimum speed. This is done by the autopilot.
(2) "WARNING overspeed.", "Warning too slow.", "Warning stall.", "Warning too high."
Indicates a status it shouldn't be in. Prior to maybe the auto pilot taking over control like above.
(3) "PILOT gear down.", "Pilot flaps 10."
When the pilot puts his gear down, the on board computer verbally tells the pilot that the gear is down. This gives information to not only the pilot but also the copilot.
These 3 types of verbal or auditory information must be done with 3 different voices. One of which must be Captain Picard. :-)
Maybe there is a possibility to add one more.
(4) "STATUS fuel 20 percent."
There should be a master switch to turn the autopilot off. But litterally everything off. Even when the plane flies too slow. The auto throttle shouldn't turn on. It should stall. It's everything on the pilot.
A on board flight simulator wouldn't hurt. Pilots could use it for training or in their spare time and passengers can use it for a fee.
William S. Vaug... (not verified)
August 7, 2012 - 2:14am
Two comments. First, had any of my student pilots (who recover from stalls numerous times in their pre-solo training alone) been on that flight deck, they would have been screaming "Release back pressure!" Second, Airbus wanted their advanced flight deck to be as different and futuristic as possible (in their mind, "so much more advanced") than Boeing's. SO, they incorporated side stick controllers that the PNFs could not directly see what pitch angle was being commanded. Had this been a Boeing cockpit, I have to believe that at some some point in this event, one of the PNFs would have seen the yoke pulled back in the PF's lap, had an epiphany, and said "Release back pressure! We're in a stall!"
Nick Miller (not verified)
August 7, 2012 - 1:57pm
Flight Director: Tells what to do: Pitch up or Down, sometimes in spite of aircraft configuration, attitude, or actual flight path.
Flight Path Marker: Tells what the aircraft is doing, either assending or descending, whether nose up or nose down. Example: In nose up attitude but descending, the Flight Path Marker will display the aircraft's actual flight path below the horizon.
I'd suggest in this situation, many pilots might have bought the farm on a pitch black night with confusing Flight Director cues. Lets think about the average guy suddenly faced with confusing nightmarish information, none of which seemed to make any sense. More training and CRM? Of course! But lets look at the equipment, too.
Tom (not verified)
August 7, 2012 - 11:34pm
Do you think the PF, out of fear, was pulling back in hopes of topping what must have been a horrific weather event?
Trevor (not verified)
September 21, 2012 - 5:31pm
Yes but he omitted to realise he didn't have Concorde's engines on full after-burner to pull it up.
Slim (not verified)
September 28, 2012 - 3:54pm
understanding the comment in the report that suggests that successful recovery was not possible even as early as when the Captain returned to the cockpit, yet the a/c was still above FL300.
oltunc (not verified)
September 30, 2012 - 5:46am
Warfare will continue until 2 big manufacturers possibly with others sit down and re write the rules of aviation again... This accident although it still looks very strange to me, was caused by a pilot error. Two relatively young pilots with chain of misfortunate happenings, were left with their blinded abilities due to complex automation... The complex automation now exists in everywhere and everything including in our household equipment, a pressure drop voltage failure whatever you name it appears on a display to puzzle whom looks at that without having a clue.. I dont accept the fact that Air france did not train its pilots for stall training whether it is low or high altitude.. Secondly, Airbus with all its safety reputation made its airplane somehow interestingly illogical at certain point where 2 sidesticks movement are all the time averaged and resultant direction steers the aircraft..
Another issue is the relying only and solely on pitot tubes which have been proved to be susceptible to any type of atmospheric phenomena..
Concluding this, To save airliners future for keeping the low budget flights, this is actually what you pay for .. sometimes our lives... The re current training of safety of aircrafts to all pilots, introducing extra safety measures to existing aircrafts are extremely costly.. Grounding a fleet for those modifications can result in bankcruptcy..
Somehow we are all victim of the developments and AF 447 will be another example of making the avitation safer in other words making Man machine interface much simpler in this case.
Andy Dill (not verified)
October 13, 2012 - 7:17pm
Learning how to fly an airplane safely is very important, and also very costly. One resource I've found is skypark.tv, which is trying to return some focus of the aviation world to small airports and private aviators.
Clarisse Clemes (not verified)
December 15, 2012 - 1:20pm
I am sorry to interrupt your conversations but I am intrigued by what you say for my 39 year old uncle was on that flight and I felt as it was my fault for I had never been nice as I should have to him... I was about seven an dit corrupted my learning and I still feel quite horrible... Anyway we know the cause of that accident was the black boxes and for a ten year old child such as me that is enough... My father was vice-president of an association that had lost their beloved ones and he made the search continue their search... sorry of topic anyway, it is the black boxes that were giving false information to the pilot so it is a faulty airplane and not a crew members fault.
Clarisse Clemes (not verified)
December 15, 2012 - 1:20pm
I am sorry to interrupt your conversations but I am intrigued by what you say for my 39 year old uncle was on that flight and I felt as it was my fault for I had never been nice as I should have to him... I was about seven an dit corrupted my learning and I still feel quite horrible... Anyway we know the cause of that accident was the black boxes and for a ten year old child such as me that is enough... My father was vice-president of an association that had lost their beloved ones and he made the search continue their search... sorry of topic anyway, it is the black boxes that were giving false information to the pilot so it is a faulty airplane and not a crew members fault.
joep (not verified)
February 28, 2013 - 8:09pm
I'm sorry for your loss, Clarisse Clemes, but despite what you say it yes most certainly was partly the fault of the crew, this terrible airline disaster.
George Bleyle (not verified)
May 27, 2013 - 4:02pm
During descent to the sea, what did the FMAs (Flight Mode Annunciators) indicate? If his F/D was still in the altitude hold mode, it would have commanded a "nose up" attitude to return to its captured altitude/flight level. If, on the other hand, the pilot flying had pushed the throttles up to TO/GA, the F/D would have commanded a safe flying speed above stall and not a command to return the previously captured flight level.
Among other errors, this crew failed to look at/understand what mode(s) the flight director was commanding.
Kit Chambers (not verified)
June 2, 2013 - 8:49am
Anyone know if Air France has made any changes to aircrew training or flight deck procedures as a result of the loss of AF447.
Has Airbus made any changes?
Was there an alternate airspeed feed if the pitot tube froze?
Kit Chambers (not verified)
June 2, 2013 - 8:49am
Anyone know if Air France has made any changes to aircrew training or flight deck procedures as a result of the loss of AF447.
Has Airbus made any changes?
Was there an alternate airspeed feed if the pitot tube froze?
March 10, 2014 - 1:29am
Being an Airbus pilot I can assure you that Air France and Airbus are covering up what really happened because Airbus does not want to fix thousands of defective rudders that come off in turbulence. If you are interested check out the number of world wide crashes involving Airbus A-300 and you will see that I am correct.
Four (4) A-300 series Airbus aircraft have crashed and all of them encountered strong turbulence then lost their rudders because the rudder attachment is too weak and would require about 500 additional pounds of reinforcing metal and materials to beef it up properly at a cost of about $72 billion dollars.
This is precisely what happened to AF-447 because the rudder was found floating 50 miles south of the main wreckage with no leading edge damage. The rudder photos clearly show the AF-447 rudder came off in flight because the leading edge is undamaged.
In order to simulate the Air France crash condition one needs to use a flight simulator. Once the rudder comes off the aircraft pitches up dramatically due to cabin pressure escaping out which in-turn pushes the tail down and the nose up. This is exactly what happened to AF447. The first automatic alarm transmission was that the cabin lost pressure (which occurs when the rudder is ripped off) followed by an low airspeed alert which is caused as the aircraft is pointed up it loses airspeed, followed by the auto-pilot being disconnected, followed by a stall not because the pitot static probes iced ups because the probes are always heated in excess of 250 degrees and will not ice-up as claimed. In any case, there are three probes and all three will not ice-up at the same time and it cannot be duplicated and is Bull Shit. Iced up pitot static probes will not and cannot happen as Airbus wants us to believe. As the airspeed slows down with the nose pointed up the pitot static probe temperatures will actually increase because high airflow removes heat and low airspeed allows the probes to heat to temperatures above 350 degrees and ice will not form and there is not science in that theory.
I hope there is a forensic journalist who would like to take this case on because it will save lives if the Airbus rudders are ultimately repaired and we can show the world that cover ups hurt everyone.
In the Airbus simulator one cannot duplicate what Airbus wants you to believe that 3 well trained pilots would try to stall the aircraft then hold it in the stall for 4 minutes and 19 seconds. The fact is that no pilot would do that and it cannot be shown in a simulator because it did not happen. The only way the aircraft will climb after entering turbulence is if it rudder which opens a hole allowing cabin air to shoot up.
I hope that the AF 447 investigation is reopened and that Airbus is compelled to repair the rudders before this happens again. Remember the B-737s of which three different aircraft rudders reversed with two crashing and one recovered in flight which showed why the first two crashed. Four (4) Airbus A 300 series have crashed and all of them first lost their rudders in turbulence… then they all crashed and everyone was killed.
I hope the fleet is repaired before we have another Airbus A-330 crash killing innocent people. No pilot will purposefully stall and aircraft then hold it in the stall for 4 minutes 19 seconds.
Captain James Venetti
March 12, 2014 - 8:48am
Dear Capt Venetti,
Your coment is truly troubling if you are in fact a pilot as you claim. If you take the time to read the accident report and the cockpit voice recorder transcripts you will understand what the pilot(s) must have thought they were doing when the incident occured. Airbus A330s are fly-by-wire aircraft, side-stick controlled, with built in envelope protection. Under normal circumstances, they cannot be stalled as the flight control algorithms prevent the pilot from inducing excessive angles of attack, in the case of AF447 the iced-up pitot tubes caused wild fluctuations in airspeed reading. The flight controls then defaulted to 'alternate law' due to the airspeed disagree condition, but the pilots continued to fly the aircraft as if normal envelope protection was still active (where it is still possible to fly with the stick full back without stalling) - perhaps one or both of the pilots believed this was necessary to bleed off what they thought was excessive airspeed? - We will never know, but the ensuing confusion and intermittent stall warnings failed to alert the crew to the severity of their situation and the resulting stall caused the crash. The ultimate 'cause' of the accident was the combination of weather-induced pitot tube failure leading to inappropriate crew response to what was essentially an airspeed indication failure, this being evidently due to deficient training in Airbus flight control laws at Air France. All they had to do was fly straight and level.
The rudder problems on A300 were and still are serious, but that is not even relevant to AF447, it is truly troubling that someone who claims to be in command of an aircraft could so wrongly and flagrantly attribute cause and blame in such a manner. I sincerely hope, for the safety of your passengers, that you are not in command of an Airbus, as it's clear you simply don't understand how they work.
In fact, I will go one further and openly appeal to any Airbus pilots reading this, that if you do not know and understand the severity of what 'ALTERNATE LAW' means, please educate yourselves. Your airline is failing you if you are not trained how to appropriately control an Airbus when envelope protection is switched off, or what to do when your instruments fail.
Anonamous concerned systems engineer.
June 1, 2014 - 1:04am
Wouldn't it be cool to have a set of instrumentation gauges that provide basic altitude, longitude, speed, and some other basic readings BUT relying on their own power source, independently from the main aircraft? This way, if the aircraft's instrumentation fails, pilots would have a back-up to orient themselves specially at night or in thick clouds.
October 6, 2014 - 3:20pm
Yclax and others: This Airbus, as all transport aircraft. WAS equipped with a small, independently powered "attitude indicator" which displays the aircraft's orientation to the earth's horizon. For those unfamiliar, it is the globe like instrument easily seen when boarding your flight which is brown on the lower half and blue on top depicting the ground and sky.
Any aircraft can be kept in level flight by using the stick or control column to keep this indicator on or slightly above the horizon line, and manually adjusting the power levers to give sufficient engine thrust. No other information, including airspeed indication, is required for one pilot to keep the keep the plane safely flying while the rest of the crew works on restoring the slightly less critical features such as navigation and altitude data.
What is very surprising, and somewhat disturbing, is the use of the standby attitude indicator was not once mentioned by participants in this old thread over the years it has been up on AIN.


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Flights of Canada geese are filling the skies around here in numbers rarely seen.
For weeks, birders have reported seeing enormous flights of Branta canadensis — or Canada geese — all across the western part of the state.
"The fields along the Lake Ontario plain west of Braddock Bay were loaded with geese," a bird spotter wrote on March 22 in GeneseeBirds, an e-mail newsletter sent from SUNY Geneseo.
A bird count generated by Braddock Bay Hawkwatch listed 4,250 Canada geese on March 20 — by far the highest count of any of the 46 species observed that day at the Braddock Bay Bird Observatory, on the south shore of Lake Ontario northwest of Rochester.
The March 21 count noted a whopping 5,200 Canada geese. The March 25 count was 7,600.
Populations of snow geese, too, are "growing exponentially in most parts of their ranges," according to Cornell University's All About Birds Web site.
Closer to home, large gaggles of both types of geese have been spotted around Canandaigua and Honeoye lakes.
"What's going on right now is that migrant (Canada) geese that breed in the arctic and winter in New York, and as far south as Maryland and Virginia, are moving north," said Mike Wasilco, regional wildlife manager for Region 8 of the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
The Finger Lakes region is a "main flyway for Canada geese," he said — migratory populations often rest in this area waiting for the ice to thaw and the snow to melt off fields farther north before they return to their summer homes.
The presence of migratory Canada geese isn't the only factor boosting local geese populations. There's also a hearty, growing population of geese who live here year-round, said Wasilco.
According to the DEC Web site, the year-round resident New York goose population is about 200,000. That number grew from just a few Canada geese released in the early 1900s by people in Hudson Valley and on Long Island. Additional game-farm geese were released in wildlife management areas north and west of Albany during the 1950s and 1960s.
"The resident goose population has been building for years," said Wasilco.
Although visually stunning in large groups, Canada geese are seen by some as a nuisance species; they can be aggressive when defending their nesting areas, they sometimes over-graze lawns and they are known to festoon shorelines and docks with their droppings and feathers.
Those droppings have the potential, though minimal, to cause disease. Wasilco said there have been "limited cases" where goose droppings were found to carry high levels of E. coli, but that "it is generally not a form of the bacteria that is harmful to humans."
The DEC relies on two primary methods to manage the goose population — hunting and disrupting the incubation of eggs.
The regular goose-hunting season, held in November, targets resident and migratory geese. An early season in September targets just resident geese, since the migratory birds haven't come through yet.
This year, for the first time, the DEC opened an additional season for goose hunting (from March 1 to 10), but only in the Southern Tier, where the overwhelming majority of Canada geese are residents rather than migratory birds.
All Canada geese are protected by federal and state regulations, but those regulations are more strict for migratory birds, since they cross state lines and other jurisdictions, said Wasilco. The Southern Tier was judged to be a good place to open hunting, since the brunt of its geese are the more loosely protected resident birds.
In urban areas where hunting is not an option, the goose population is controlled by preventing fertilized eggs from hatching — either by coating them in corn oil, which essentially suffocates them, or by puncturing them or shaking them, a method known as "addling."
If the addled or oil-coated eggs are left in the nest, the mother goose will continue to sit on them rather than going elsewhere to lay more eggs, said Wasilco.
Granted, it's not a warm and fuzzy process. But according to Genesee Valley Audubon Society President June Summers, the burgeoning population of Canada geese has made population control — through hunting and egg destruction — a necessity.
"We as human beings have created this problem," she said, referring to the original release of the birds in a habitat not their own. "Now we have to solve it."
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Dealing with foul fowl
The state lists the following suggestions for discouraging nuisance geese:
• Discontinue feeding — feeding can cause more geese to gather than an area can naturally support. Human feeding also reduces the bird's natural fear of humans and can make the geese ill and disrupt their migration instincts.
• Allow hunting — it can slow the growth of resident goose flocks.
• Modify habitat — allow vegetation to grow to its full height around bodies of water. Geese prefer short, green grass.
• Install grid wires — suspending wire over a body of water prevents geese from taking off and landing on the water and makes the habitat unappealing to them.
• Install fencing — fencing is an effective deterrent in places where geese tend to land on the water and walk up to adjacent lawns to feed or rest.
• Use visual scaring devices, noisemakers or dogs — all will frighten the geese and make the habitat less appealing.
• Apply goose repellent — the DEC and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have approved one product, ReJeXiT®, for use on lawns, but not in ponds or wetlands. A DEC permit is required to use ReJeXiT® within 100 feet of a regulated wetland.
• Control goose nesting — private individuals can destroy goose eggs on their property if they have registered to do so with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Applications are available at https://epermits.fws.gov/eRCGR.
— New York state Department of Environmental Conservation


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Apple Fans Count Their iOS 6 Blessings
Sep 20, 2012 8:47 AM PT
As the clock ticks down to the iPhone 5's Friday delivery date, diehard Apple fans can sate their hunger with Apple's other shiny new toy: iOS 6, which became available on Wednesday.
Its new features include vector-based Maps functionality -- perhaps the highlight of iOS 6 -- with upgrades including detailed graphics and text, visual and spoken turn-by-turn navigation, and real-time traffic updates.
Siri also received an update and now speaks in more languages and has additional capabilities.
Tighter integration with Facebook and other social networks is part of the iOS 6 mix; now users can post to the social network without having to leave an app. They can share photos from the camera or photos section, or post a location from Maps, for example.
Passbook is another new feature. It stores boarding passes, movie tickets, retail coupons and loyalty cards. To use or redeem any of these, users scan the display on their iPhone or iPod touch.
FaceTime works over cellular networks as well as WiFi in iOS 6.
There are new calling features, such as replying with a text message to an incoming call you have declined or setting a callback reminder.
Mail in iOS 6 now lets users set up a VIP list.
Finally, Web browsing has been enhanced, and there is Guided Access for people with vision, hearing, learning and mobility disabilities.
The Great and Not So Good
The top improvements of the new release, according to Kevin Y. Kim, cofounder of AppOrchard, are built-in integration with Twitter, Facebook and Sina Weibo; the non-Google Maps functionality; and Passbook.
Passbook is possibly a stealth e-wallet move, he told MacNewsWorld.
On the negative side, Siri is still lacking, Kim said, and the map search for vendors represents a step back in functionality.
The Marketer's iPhone
The iPhone 5 will be a marketer's dream device -- and iOS 6 is the perfect complement, said Matevz Klanjsek, chief product officer at Celtra.
"With larger screen size and the same aspect ratio as the one available on most Android smartphones, the iPhone 5 will make it easier for advertisers to create one ad and run it across both platforms," he told MacNewsWorld. "But much bigger changes for mobile advertising are coming not only with the new iPhone but with iOS 6."
There's the introduction of Advertising Identifier, for example, which Klanjsek described as having "a profound effect on ad targeting -- it will make it significantly more accurate and reliable. But on the other hand, it will give a control over targeting to use, and some will certainly opt out."
On the ad creative side, "iOS 6 will finally allow advertisers access to the camera and image and video libraries," he continued, "which will open many exciting new opportunities for even more effective, engaging and fun ads."
A Developer's Dream
iOS 6 -- particularly its new mapping function -- is also ideal for developers, said Chuck Goldman, founder and CSO of Apperian.
It will be easier to use core location as metadata to make enterprise data smarter, he told MacNewsWorld.
"For instance, when a salesperson uses turn-by-turn information to get to an appointment, developers can now integrate it with CRM data to add information -- like sales orders and other information that loads in the background -- so the salesperson can have all that information on one dashboard just in time for the meeting."
Limited Compatibility
One downside of iOS 6 is that it can't be installed on older devices, noted Dave Meeker, the director of emerging technology at Roundarch Isobar. "That is a bummer to a lot of consumers that already own legacy Apple products including the original iPad and iPhone 3."
To a certain extent, it is understandable from Apple's perspective -- the older devices would not be able to support iOS 6, and Apple is all about providing an optimal customer experience. It also should "push owners of legacy products down the upgrade path," Meeker told MacNewsWorld.
Even for those who can't migrate, user interest in iOS 6 is high, Oliver Bussman, CIO of SAP, told MacNewsWorld.
"Even if they're running on an older OS or won't be moving to the iPhone 5, they're still drawn to the spectacle," he noted, "which is good for the whole mobile industry."