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Human Spaceflights
International Flight No. 218
STS-97
Endeavour (15)
101st Space Shuttle mission
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Launch, orbit and landing data
Launch date: 01.12.2000
Launch time: 03:06:00.986 UTC
Launch site: Cape Canaveral (KSC)
Launch pad: 39-B
Altitude: 352 - 365 km
Inclination: 51.58°
Docking ISS: 02.12.2000, 19:59:49 UTC
Undocking ISS: 09.12.2000, 19:13:00 UTC
Landing date: 11.12.2000
Landing time: 23:03:23 UTC
Landing site: Cape Canaveral (KSC)
Landing speed: 361 km/h
Landing rollout: 2,427 m
Vehicle weight at liftoff: 2,052,238 kg
Orbiter weight at liftoff: 120,740 kg
Orbiter weight at landing: 89,756 kg
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alternative crew photo
No. Surname Given names Position Flight No. Duration Orbits
1 Jett Brent Ward, Jr. CDR, IV 3 10d 19h 57m 22s 170
2 Bloomfield Michael John "Bloomer" PLT, RMS-2 2 10d 19h 57m 22s 170
3 Tanner Joseph Richard "Joe" MS-1, EV-1 3 10d 19h 57m 22s 170
4 Garneau Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc MS-2, RMS, IV, FE 3 10d 19h 57m 22s 170
5 Noriega Carlos Ismael MS-3, EV-2 2 10d 19h 57m 22s 170
Crew seating arrangement
1 Jett
2 Bloomfield
3 Tanner
4 Garneau
5 Noriega
Orbiter : OV-105 (15.)
SSME (1 / 2 / 3): 2054-2A (2.) / 2043-2A (5.) / 2049-2A (4.)
SRB: BI-103 / RSRM 72
ET: ET-105 (SLWT-10)
OMS Pod: Left Pod 04 (22.) / Right Pod 01 (29.)
FWD RCS Pod: FRC 5 (15.)
RMS: 303 (13.)
EMU: EMU No. 3011 (PLSS No. 1011) / EMU No. 3013 (PLSS No. 1013) / EMU No. 3016 (PLSS No. 1016)
Launch from Cape Canaveral (KSC) and landing on Cape Canaveral (KSC), Runway 15.
During the sixth mission to the ISS, the primary objective was completed, which was to deliver and connect the first set of U.S.-provided solar arrays to the International Space Station. The astronauts completed three spacewalks, during which they prepared a docking port for arrival of the Destiny Laboratory Module, installed Floating Potential Probes to measure electrical potential surrounding the station, installed a camera cable outside the Unity Module, and transferred supplies, equipment and refuse between Endeavour and the station.
Flight Day 2 was a day of preparation for Endeavour's crew as the astronauts activated and checked out the Shuttle's robotic arm using it to conduct a survey of the cargo latched into the payload bay; check out the Space Vision System that will provide Marc Garneau with visual cues as he unberths the P6 truss from the payload bay on Flight Day 3; inspect the space suits that will be worn by Astronauts Joseph Tanner and Carlos Noriega on the spacewalks; and begin activating wireless instrumentation systems that provide temperature data on the cargo mounted in Endeavour's payload bay. Also, the ODS centerline camera was installed with no misalignment noted.
Endeavour's rendezvous with the International Space Station began with its precisely timed launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The primary pre-rendezvous activities included a check-out of the orbiter's remote manipulator system, or robot arm, (RMS), the extravehicular mobility units (EMUs), the Ku-band antenna, the orbiter docking system (ODS), and the ground command system.
Final rendezvous operations began about three hours prior to Endeavour's docking with the ISS. Endeavour approached the ISS from below, in what is referred to as a plus-R bar approach, to minimize the effects of jet thruster firings on the station and its solar arrays. About 40 minutes prior to the terminal initiation burn (Ti burn) when Endeavour moved within 135,000 feet (41,148 km) of the station, the Shuttle's rendezvous radar system was activated to provide supplemental navigation information. Prior to initiating the Ti burn, the crew powered on the ODS and activated Endeavour's docking lights. A series of course correction burns brought Endeavour to a point almost directly below and behind the International Space Station, at which point Commander Brent Jett initiated the manual portion of his approach to the ISS.
Endeavour intercepted the R-bar at a distance of about 600 feet (182.9 meters) below the station. Brent Jett slowly moved Endeavour to a point about 500 feet (152.4 meters) below the station before performing a 180-degree yaw maneuver to position Endeavour in a "tail forward" attitude for the final approach and docking. As Brent Jett gently moved Endeavour toward the station, the Shuttle held stationkeep at distances of 170 feet (51.8 meters) and 30 feet (9.14 meters) before initiating the final approach and docking. Solar arrays on the Zarya and Zvezda modules were feathered (or positioned) and locked during the 170-foot (51.8 meters) stationkeeping phase. Feathering was initiated by a command to reposition and hold each beta (and alpha) joint at a predetermined angle, which will limit the induced loads.
Endeavour docked with Pressurized Mating Adapter (PMA) 3 located on the nadir port of the Unity module on December 02, 2000. This new docking port was installed during the STS-92 mission in October 2000.
At initial contact and capture, the ISS automatically switched to free drift, and Endeavour went to free drift to avoid imposing excessive loads on the orbiter docking system (ODS).
After capture, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on PMA-3 blinked confirming the ISS was in free drift. The crew was able to see the red indicators through the overhead window on Endeavour's aft flight deck and verify that the ISS was in the free-drift mode before beginning the automatic rigidization and retraction process and closure of the capture latches between the two docking hatches.
Once a "hard dock" was confirmed, the ODS was deactivated, Zvezda and Zarya solar arrays were resume sun tracking, and the Endeavour-ISS complex was maneuvered to the mated attitude.
After the orbiter docked with the ISS, the crew entered PMA-3 to install ground straps, and perform a pressure leak check and center disk removal to prepare for their later entry into the Unity module of the ISS for supply transfer.
After Endeavour docked to the International Space Station, Marc Garneau used the Shuttle's robot arm to lift the P6 structure out of the payload bay where it remained attached overnight. Prior to the start of the first spacewalk, he used the arm to move the 35,000-pound (15,876 kg) assembly to the "low hover" position adjacent to Endeavour's payload bay.
The first EVA by Joseph Tanner and Carlos Noriega was performed on December 03, 2000 (7h 33m). They performed preparation work for the mount of the energy module and checked the docking to P6/Z1.
Once the P6 was in its low hover position, the EVA crew exited Endeavour's air lock and began assembling the tools and hardware they used during the spacewalk.
Joseph Tanner and Carlos Noriega took positions on the forward and aft sides of the Z1 truss, respectively, to provide robot arm operator Marc Garneau with visual cues as he unberthed the P6 structure. Marc Garneau's primary cues came from the Space Vision System that provided him with a closed-circuit television view of targets located on the P6 and the ISS, but Joseph Tanner and Carlos Noriega provided verbal confirmation and additional visual cues throughout the unberthing process.
Once Marc Garneau moved the P6 within its capture envelope, Joseph Tanner and Carlos Noriega verified the ready-to-latch position and activated the capture latches on the Z1 truss, initiating a coarse alignment between the P6 and Z1 truss. Carlos Noriega then drove the capture latch assembly to bring the P6 into fine alignment. After the structure was secured in place - by 127 turns of the Capture Latch Assembly (CLA) - Joseph Tanner and Carlos Noriega began securing bolts on each of the four corners of the P6 before releasing the capture latch to allow loads to be carried through the primary bolts.
At that point, Marc Garneau released the robot arm's grip on the P6 structure and maneuvered it into position to allowed Carlos Noriega to attach an articulating portable foot restraint. At this point in the spacewalk, Pilot Michael Bloomfield assumed responsibility for operating the robot arm using it to maneuver Carlos Noriega as he connected the nine power, command and data umbilicals from Z1 to the forward face of the P6 that will provide power to the Orbital Replacement Units in anticipation of the deployment of the large solar arrays. Marc Garneau, the back-up EVA crew member, then turned his full attention to acting as the on-board choreographer for the remainder of the EVA's.
As Carlos Noriega connected the umbilicals, Joseph Tanner set to work releasing first the starboard and then the port Solar Array Blanket Boxes (SABB) by releasing a series of 5/8" bolts - two on the nadir and six on the zenith ends of each SABB.
Carlos Noriega's next task was to release the starboard Solar Array Wing (SAW) Beta Gimbal launch restraint (BGA) by releasing a pair of retention bolts and allowing the BGA to swing outward and upward or downward into its deployed position. Following the release of the starboard SAW BGA, Joseph Tanner performed a similar function on the port side of the structure.
Both Joseph Tanner and Carlos Noriega then began deploying the SABBs by releasing a pip pin on the mast canister and then rotating the boxes 90 degrees from their launch position to their deployable position. Once in the deploy position, a locking arm holds each box in position. The spacewalkers then released three bolts that hold the mast tip fitting releasing it from the top of the mast canister. At that point, Brent Jett commanded the mast to deploy, beginning the unfolding of the large solar arrays.
One of the solar arrays failed to unfold in a first attempt. A second attempt was needed to unfold the solar array properly.
The second EVA by Joseph Tanner and Carlos Noriega occurred on December 05, 2000 (6h 37m). The astronauts connected electric power cables between the new P6/Z1 and the module Unity. The port wing successfully spread after the second spacewalk.
The second spacewalk was designed to reconfigure electrical connections so that power from the newly-installed P6 solar arrays can be distributed to the U.S. elements of the ISS.
Carlos Noriega worked on the port side of the truss structure reconfiguring cables and moving them from one connector to the other to support the transfer of power and then removing a thermal shroud from a DC to DC Conversion Unit (DDCU). Joseph Tanner removed a similar shroud from a baseband signal processor (BSP) and prepared to relocate the S-Band Antenna Subassembly (SASA) from its location on the Z1 truss where it was temporarily stowed by the STS-92 crew in October 2000.
The thermal shrouds were removed to allow the DDCU and BSP to dissipate heat as they began operating off of power generated by the P6 arrays.
One of the major elements of this second EVA was the relocation of the SASA as Joseph Tanner and Carlos Noriega moved it from a temporary stowage location on the starboard side of the Z1 truss to its new location on the top of the P6 array. Joseph Tanner removed the power connections that provide maintenance power to the Z1 truss as he unbolted the SASA. Michael Bloomfield maneuvered the arm to Carlos Noriega's location tethered to the Integrated Equipment Assembly (IEA) where, in a series of "leap frog" like exchanges, Joseph Tanner and Carlos Noriega did alternative possession of the SASA until the antenna assembly was installed in its operating position on the IEA. They removed its thermal shroud and gimbal locks, readying the SASA for operation.
Joseph Tanner then descended from the truss assembly to connect thermal system umbilicals between the Z1 and P6 truss assemblies, while Carlos Noriega resumed work mating umbilical cables to the Z1 patch panel.
The remaining EVA tasks were designed to pave the way for the arrival of the U.S. Laboratory Destiny early 2001. Joseph Tanner mounted the robotic arm to mate a prerouted cable for the centerline berthing camera to the early communications system antenna to provide the STS-98 crew with camera views to aid them in attaching the large lab module. Joseph Tanner and Carlos Noriega then removed umbilicals from Pressurized Mating Adapter-2 (PMA-2) connecting them to a dummy panel located on that docking port preparing it for relocation to the aft end of the Destiny module during the STS-98 mission.
The third and final EVA was conducted by Joseph Tanner and Carlos Noriega on December 07, 2000 (5h 10m). First, they had to repair a solar array wing. Later they installed Floating Potential Probes to measure electrical potential surrounding the station, installed a camera cable outside the Unity Module.
After that the crew of the Endeavour turned over to the ISS and its current resident crew (December 08, 2000). Until then the shuttle and the station had kept one hatch closed to maintain respective atmospheric pressures, allowing the shuttle crew to conduct their spacewalks and mission goals. After a welcome ceremony and briefing, the eight spacefarers conducted structural tests of the station and its solar arrays, transferred equipment, supplies and refuse back and forth between the spacecraft, and checked out the television camera cable installed by Joseph Tanner and Carlos Noriega for the upcoming mission.
On December 09, 2000 the two crews completed final transfers of supplies to the station and other items being returned to Earth. The Endeavour crew bade farewell to the first expedition at 15:51 UTC and closed the hatches between the spacecraft.
Before Endeavour undocked and departed, ground personnel updated the ISS vector and mass data. These data included attitude departure maneuver data, attitude hold data, post-departure mass properties, and post-departure attitude maneuver data. A navigation platform alignment was performed. Zvezda and Zarya solar arrays were commanded to stop sun tracking and was feathered to the edge-on position.
In preparation for undocking from the ISS, the STS-97 crew once again powered-up the orbiter docking system, turned on the Shuttle's docking lights, terminated all OIU operations, and enabled the Shuttle's navigational aids.
Following its undocking from the ISS, Pilot Michael Bloomfield slowly backed Endeavour away from the ISS at the rate of about 1/10th of a foot-per-second (3 centimeters per second) before beginning a flyaround of ISS. Endeavour moved to a point about 450 feet (137.2 meters) below the station before beginning a tail-forward circuit of the station, arriving once again at a position approximately 600 feet (182.9 meters) below the ISS. At that point, Michael Bloomfield performed a final separation burn to move Endeavour away from the station. Once Endeavour was about 30 feet (9.14 meters) away from the station, the Expedition One crew activated the station's attitude control systems. The Zvezda module then maneuvered station to is normal orientation for orbital operations, the solar arrays were commanded to resume sun tracking, and the station docking system and lights were deactivated.
EVA data
Name Start End Duration Mission Airlock Suit
EVA Tanner, Joseph 03.12.2000, 18:35 UTC 04.12.2000, 02:08 UTC 7h 33m STS-97 Endeavour - ISS EMU No. 3011
EVA Noriega, Carlos 03.12.2000, 18:35 UTC 04.12.2000, 02:08 UTC 7h 33m STS-97 Endeavour - ISS EMU No. 3013
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Changes in Wiima Board of Directors
Feb 17, 2021 | 2020 | 0 comments
We are delighted to announce the appointment of a new Chairman and a new Member of our Board of Directors.
Topi Saarenhovi, EVP at Kiwa Group, has been appointed as the Chairman of the Board effective January 1st, 2021. He will be replacing Heikki Heinonen, who has been appointed as the CEO of the company. Heikki will continue as a member of the board. Topi has been in Wiima Board of Directors as a Member since March 2014, and he has brought Wiima Board a lot of vision, structure, and strategical insight. "Topi's skillset and background is perfect for developing Wiima to the next level", says Heikki Heinonen, co-founder and CEO.
Effective February 1st, 2021 Mr. Mikael Nurmi has joined Wiima Board of Directors as a new Member of the Board. Mikael has an impressive background in leading technology organizations and managing enterprises through digitalization change or technology shift. "I am excited to have Mikael joining our Board of Directors. He has delivered innovative technology solutions, led digital transformations and driven both Cloud and Saas based technology sourcing projects during his career. Wiima is in the middle of technological breakthrough and this is just the expertise we need in the Board", says Topi Saarenhovi, Chairman of the Board.
Mikael Nurmi currently works as Managing Director of Sofigate Aps. in Denmark, an IT management company providing expertise in strategy transformations and digitalization projects. He holds a MSc in Industrial Economics and has been working in several CIO/CTO/CEO positions during his career. He was recognized as the "CIO of the year 2015" in the Nordic region by Management Events.
"I am really looking forward to work with Wiima in a board position. Wiima has a very modern and innovative offering in the logistics market and I see a huge potential in this approach. I hope I can with my technology and IT background help Wiima to move forward in the chosen strategic direction. I have worked a lot also in the logistics field and I am really happy to again be engaged in this field as well."
Welcome to the team Mikael!

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Clips From Last Night: Jermaine Jackson on Michael's use of sleeping pills; Conrad Murray
Piers Morgan interviewed Jermaine Jackson last night for the hour, and the two talked about Michael Jackson's use of the drug Propofol. "He's lived all this time doing Demerol and sleeping pills and also pain pills," he said. "We didn't know about Propofol...if you look at the past tours, you never heard about these symptoms: Michael Jackson not knowing whether to go right or left when he comes on stage."
He also talked specifically about Dr. Conrad Murray:
Jermaine: "I didn't know who he was, but I said, 'there's something strange about this guy, he's acting strange.'"
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Post by: Steve Krakauer
untill now no answere...for nothing waitining. I WILL SEE.you tonight ..thank yous.
September 16, 2011 at 11:58 am | Report abuse | Reply
I want you to know it did happen for years children sleep in adult people beds and there was nothing wrong with it and it does make me sick to think that people with sick minds made this wrong. I never would touch my child and they sleep in my bed and still do some times and after this happened to michael it made me feel as if it was wronge. Everyone has to make things something that its not if they did not have it happened to them so someone things its wrong.
September 19, 2011 at 10:47 pm | Report abuse | Reply
ITA,It 's hard to even hug your own daughter if you're a father anymore,people and their sick minds!
It's a shame!
October 4, 2011 at 3:01 am | Report abuse |
alli13941
Piers is an excellent interviewer. He treats people with respect.
silvana Esposito
Michael Jackson is not the only patient who has died from Propofol (Diprivan). So did my 15 year old daughter in a hospital setting. It is a shame that no one cares to listen to our story. I guess you just must be famous for someone to care.
seeingheaven
Silvana,
I'm so sorry to hear about your daughter. God bless you.
I am so sad for your loss please tell us your story! May you find peace and love !
Even when you are famous people don't care. People care about money, ratings and selling papers.
I wouldn't say people don't care, they do care; but I guess when you are a celebrity it's more notorious.
Cornelyu
Here is my take:so what? addcit, not an addcit.. he is a patient.This means that Murray had prior knowledge of Michael's disease and not only did not treat it.. but rather mistreated it. Would you leave drugs around an addcit ?Either way Murray is responsible.. more so.. if he knew Michael had this terrible disease. (Many folks on the jury are familiar with addcition).I wonder if Michael gave him permission to record this?what would a reasonable doctor do if they had recorded this?What should a dr do?I hope you post this and the prosectuion sees this..
September 8, 2012 at 2:34 pm | Report abuse | Reply
Jadzia
It is hear-wrenching to have to watch it happen, but it sdnuos like Michael learned about consequences the other day. I was no different when I was little; heck, even today-the only way you're going to learn a lesson that's going to stick is when you learn it first hand. People can tell you about consequences until they're blue in the face, but it has no impact until it happens to you personally.
September 10, 2012 at 1:03 am | Report abuse | Reply
once again jermaine lies to the world about his relationship and knowledge about all things Michael. Michael refused to associate with him for more than 20 years what a sad sick man to constantly make up stories about michael.
August 25, 2013 at 8:26 am | Report abuse | Reply
Jermaine is disgusting, he has his kids living with his mother so they can be supported by Michael's money, now he is trying to profit from a book to make us think he actually has something new to say, He knows those kids are not Michael's and everyone eles knows that, but he won't admit it, why would he want to risk getting those kids removed from his mothers house. This family lies and will always live off Michael.
Susan62509
Michael used surrogate's like Debbie Rowe for his children. Whether Michael's own sperm was used or a sperm bank, NO ONE knows except MJ and the bank. Surrogacy is legal in the U.S. just like adoption. MJ took each child within hours of the birth and reared them to the beautiful, well-mannered, intellilgent children they are today.
Actually, you don't know squat.
Your suggestion that it is somehow Jermaine's or any family members responsibility to answer questions about the heritage of Michael's children is not only irresponsible, it's extremely offensive and no one's business. The privacy of those children, which should be paramount, obviously means nothing to you. Shame! By the way Susan62509 answered the question beautifully! Thank you Susan!!
Why do you have to be so mean? What has happened to people in this world, they just seem to be getting more critical and hurtful, yet they dont want their own lives to be put under a microscope. My heart goes out to the family and to Michael. Those who criticize have never made mistakes? Lost a loved one to drugs? While I feel people need to start being responsible for their own actions and quit playing the blame game, they also need support and encouragement and to feel loved. We are so quick to talk about negatives but not acknowledge the positives people do. There is too much finger pointing without proof. There are people to anxious to "get the gossip", then talk horribly about others behind their computers. How interesting it would be to track people with such hate in their hearts and words and see who they are and dig up some of their own dirt and broadcast it on the news and the net. To me, people who spew hatred and gossip either want attention, think they are always right, or have a low self esteem themselves and the net provides them with an avenue to feel "bigger", butin your heart should make you feel "smaller". Its fine to have opinions, but must we keep on bashing people? Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
That is right on the money we all can belive differnet and still have respect for othiers can't we? What happened to manners?
September 19, 2011 at 10:54 pm | Report abuse |
isabeau61
Ann, you are SO right... your words are wise
September 29, 2011 at 9:11 am | Report abuse |
Exactly! None of them gave him the time of day and now defacing him,even Latoya says now the abuse wasn't that bad,,almost funny? KJ got his money so now they all kiss her azz to get money I'm sure,theres a reason MJ didn't want them around.....people don't just cast you out for nothing! MJ was way to caring to have done that if there was no reason for it jmho
October 4, 2011 at 3:05 am | Report abuse | Reply
Those are Michael's kids.....if you love them, take care of them then they are your kids. You don't have to birth them for them to be your kids.....
January 20, 2012 at 1:38 pm | Report abuse | Reply
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June 27, 2012 at 11:11 pm | Report abuse |
Pitachu
That was so nice for them to come I now that she is work on a movie and had to stop and come so that was a good thing for her to do where are the other sisthers and brhtoer because we didn't see them at all what ther mother or the other what is up what that.
I watched Piers interview with Jermaine last night. It was an hour long. I was impressed that Piers was an MJ fan and not only knew of MJ's past history and attended 2 of MJ's concerts but also that Piers was up-to-date with the CM trial and what has been ongoing since MJ died. I felt Piers asked the most intelligent questions of any interviewer I watched in the past 2 years. Kudo's to Pier's. Pier's covered a variety of topics in MJ's life.
Jermaine has 2 goals in life, just as the other family members. Those goals are to always blame others not taking any responsibility themself and always preach the family bond. This has been programmed into them since childhood by their parents. The facts are the family has been split with internal differences for years which is obvious to any MJ fan that has followed MJ for years.
Jermaine, the answer to Pier's questions is: Yes, propofol is a anesthetic. It puts you in a short temporary coma. Propofol is not a sleeping aid. Your brain is not sleeping, you are knocked out. Demerol is used for pain, not sleep.
Jermaine blames every person at rehearsals including AEG for not contacting a family member that something was wrong with MJ. Excuse me, but on May 14 if the family couldn't tell that MJ looked like walking death, the family would be the last people I would have called. I think the Jackson family is a cult brainwashing the children since birth especially since they continually excuse Joseph for his beatings/torture and mama's a saint for kissing their wounds. Michael is the only one that saw through the cult and split. Jermaine also implied MJ had been using propofol for years because he couldn't sleep. My question is who was providing it to MJ in Bahrain and his years in Las Vegas. I assume MJ was using it periodically, not continually.
Neither you nor Jermaine were at the Staples Center. The autopsy says that Jackson was relatively healthy for a 50 year old. The people at the Staples Center said he was in good shape. Even Murray's defense attorneys who watched the unreleased film footage from "This Is It" said he look good even on his bad days and decided not to use the film in Murray's defense.
I had read the he used propofol on the History tour, he had an anesthesiologist on tour with him. But everyone needs to understand, no matter how much he used it, it should not have killed him and would not have killed him had he been monitored.
TV can say all they want to say. MJ had been sick long before CM was hired to take care of him. They are looking for someone to blame. CM was not the first doctor to give MJ propofol. MJ was addicted and it doesn't matter if CM was there to wean him or not.
MJ had less than 1 year to die, hence, a little tweaking by any doctor wouldn't have saved his life at all. Everyone is trying to blame it on CM and milk money from this situation, write books about their encounters with MJ true or false.
The question that everyone is running from is:
If Jackson had been admitted to sedatives and was insomniac, why would his managers want him to perform on tours? How was he supposed to be energetic enough to perform in 50 tours? Didn't they care to get him in perfect health before suggesting tours? It seems he was forced against his freewill. In my world, I would blame the managers and organizers of the shows. Killing CM or whatever doesn't solve this puzzle. We have to GET those managers....#Greedy Idiotic Folks
October 6, 2011 at 10:54 pm | Report abuse |
ChattyCathy
He was the only one there,the only one who ordered all that propofol,the only one who left him,the only one who didn't know cpr,the only one with a medical liscence and could have said NO! I am a recovering addict and I am clean for 7 yrs this April,So if a dr. ignnores me do I deserve to die?
jelly gamat
cant you explains your word, i dont undarestand abaut it. jelly gamat gold g
January 29, 2015 at 11:56 pm | Report abuse |
AMEN Paul!
I do wonder though,the cream DM ordered to make injections painless,Lidocaine IIRC? I wouldn't doubt DM put that crap on him and when he was asleep he wouldn't know maybe,look at how sedated he was? DM had an agenda so why not,why record all that? Who knows that he didn't question MJ about things in that condition,hoping he'd get a confession that didn't exist period! That cream came right to his mind when he asked MJ's aid to take him to the house? May be far fetched but what DM was doing certainly was too? jmho
October 6, 2011 at 11:01 pm | Report abuse | Reply
Thanks Piers for distinguishing between Michael's medical condition, (severe insomnia ) rather than recreational drug use in relation to Propofol.
Everyone should ask the question. Why Michael could not sleep?. Michael complained about the lack of sleep while he was still attacked. Michael was sick. He had lupus, vitiligo. And again: Why Michael could not sleep?. The process of Michael's from 2005. How could he sleep after something like that ?.
Linda Fairchild
I understand Michael endured a lot of pain during his life due to the burns to his head,lupus,a huge fall with a bridge on the set on tour that injured his back and his dancers feet.he had more surgeries to his head due to nerve damage through the years,It just makes me sick how they keep showing that clip where he shows up for court in his pj's, where he had slipped and injured his back and went to the emergency room and the judge ordered him to court or he'd go to jail.His lawyer told him to get there anyway as is.The media preys on anything to put him in a bad light.Why don't they focus on the good he done like visiting hospitals in every city of every tour he done and donating proceeds from his tours to those less fortunate.He was a non stop giver.
Monika Franz
Thank you to you al MICHAEL´s FANS! This interview makes me angry! Why did Jermine write a book, for what interest? For wht good? We know who Michael was, I call him a GIFT FROM GOD! People who brought him down, they should apologize...where was his brother, or others, when MJ was "Painful lonely" as he himself once said in an interview? This Jacksons are in some way not okay,lying, (MJ was not beaten, "we treated them(the children) with love...MJ was true and he did right to seperate himself from members of the Family, because he knew them.
Poor Michael, YOU WERE VERY ALONE!
I agree with you Dan L. You really just can't know how evrhnteiyg was gonna turn out with Hill. He didn't play all that much like you said and it would have been nice to see him burn a bit more to get a better grasp on his talents and potential, but your reasonings for him not playing with regard to trade value decreasing actually make some good sense. It just didn't pan out the way Donnie probably wanted it to and he had to make a few extra cuts here and there to free up the space to meet his plan.Regardless of the outcome, I have to give credit to Donnie for sticking with what he said when he got here and getting the Knicks as much money to spend as possible for next year. There are far too many criticisms of this plan before it actually gets the Knicks a chance to reep some benefits this summer. I find it so hard to imagine how a Knicks fan can't be completely excited. I know there have been a few moves made that the majority doesn't see as a positive step.. but all these steps have gotten Donnie to his goal of maximum money. That's what he said he would do and that's what he did. The fans should have thrown him out from day one rather than turn on the plan just because it isn't going the way that they have drawn it up. There are usually many paths to get from A to B, and not everyone will take the same steps. I am excited for all of it and give alot of credit to Donnie and Mike for giving the Knicks a chance to do something great.
September 8, 2012 at 9:45 am | Report abuse | Reply
I agree that Piers questions were better than most interviewers. Piers didn't appear to hammer away at the false notion of MJ being an addict and did address the fact that MJ did actually have real medical issues he struggled with apart from any alleged and unproven "addictions." Jermaine, on the other hand, seemed clumsy in some of his answers, such as the drug issue. On the one hand he says his brother was not a drug addict and then speaks of his brothers perhaps excessive use of perscription meds? To me it sounded like he said my brother's not a drug addict but he is a drug addict. Ugh!!! How can Jermaine know anything about Michael's alleged use of Demerol or any other drug for that matter? And why didn't he reference the autopsy report on this subject? Also, Jermaine claimed to have done all kinds of research on Propofol but stumbled when asked about the drug and what he learned about it for the book. As for the upcoming trial, I was glad that Jermaine kept the focus on Conrad Murray in this interview as opposed to suggesting the guilt of un-named others as he has done in the past. Although I agree he may very well be RIGHT, any un-named others are clearly beyond the scope of this trial and will have to be an issue for another day. As for Jermaine's publication of this book I'm still undecided as to what to think...:-( Many will want to ascribe a purely self interested motive to this release. I think it's a lot more complicated than that and is unfair to reduce it to that alone. Money has long since complicated the relationships in this family, as it would with any family. That won't change. And certainly MJ chose to keep his family at arms length at times for many different reasons while still professing his love for them. But this is still a family with a long history together and strong emotional ties to one another despite what any of the members have said in public about each other over the years. Despite the complicated relationships, Jermaine, for the most part, has stood by his brother and frequently defended him in public, albiet clumsily at times. I do commend him for that effort.
I agree Sandy K, Michael's family all stand by him in the long run. They didn't always get it right in the past ( like all of us, we all make mistakes ) but I still think they were a close family, especially when it mattered. As a fan, I prefer to support Michael's family when they're trying to support him.
Michael should not have been forced to attend court when he was ill with back pain, how cruel.
dr.black
What do you guys expect Jermaine to say? His brother was indeed a drug addict but it hurts to admit that.
The family knew that Mr.Jackson had a problem with prescription drugs. Janet said they tried to have interventions and Jermaine says here he knew about the Demerol,etc. At his death scene, there were multiple sleep aid/anxiety prescription bottles that overlapped and were from different doctors. There were fake names used to obtain the pills. The La PD described him as "a known addict" and they could not do so without evidence like that. And one problem lead to another: Mr. Jackson became immune to the sleep drugs because he overused them and he became very tolerant so he turned to anasethesia to deal with the insomnia.
And people who do not understand autopsies need to stop acting like his autopsy cleared him of drug abuse. It did not. While the liver was in good condition, there are other signs of substance abuse on autopsy. The autopsy showed needle marks everywhere–consistent with the reports of injected pain meds and sedatives. Needle marks all over a body are a hallmarks of substance abuse. His autopsy showed tolerance in its body fluid/organ data as it showed Lorazepam had reached the hepatic circulation, a secondary circulation. This means he was used to Lorazepam,etc, at high doses and lived long enough to metabolize it in the liver instead of dying immediately(he had an OD of Lorazepam and Valium,etc, as well as Diprivan). His body fluid data also showed Ephedrine, a stimulant illegal in the US, in his urine but not his blood which means he took it prior to his last day as it was completely metabolised. This is another sign of substance abuse as patients who uses downers also often use uppers to counteract the effects. He was underweight. There are reports that Mr.Jackson was having chills and saying he felt hot/cold and this can be seen in withdrawal of drugs; Kenny Ortega admitted he left one rehearsal with these complaints.
All of this is consistent with substance abuse. Jermaine has his faults but he is between a rock and a hard place so he is trying to hedge a bit about saying his brother was an addict but it will be clear in the trial that there were drug problems with Mr. Jackson.
Just because there was a drug problem does not mean that Mr. Jackson deserved to die as he did. He should have gotten help and Dr. Murray was negligent in not getting him into a medical rehab and in not monitoring him on a very dangerous drug.
I respectfully disagree with you, sir.
Y do you disagree? You believe what the TV says? MJ was an addict, but CM didn't do his job well. My question is: Why would the managers and organizers of the show want MJ to perform on tours when he was not strong enough? They need to be called to order....
The presence of Ephedrine is inconcluse re drug abuse/addiction and specualtive at best.
The needle marks were created primarily by Dr. Murray with the balance created by the paramedics while they tried to revive a dead man. They do not proove drug addiction/abuse by patient, only abuse by the doctor in this case.
The autopsy did not show that there were needle marks everywhere. Where are the references ?
There were reports of needle marks when the autopsy report was released. Soon after he died, there were sensational reports that were false, about just how emaciated he was. Later, the official report found him relatively healthy, but there were needle marks. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/doctor-reveals-details-of-michael-jacksons-autopsy-report/
Jermaine never has anything helpful to say – I have to believe he sincerely wants to help – but this interview does nothing to enhance his late brother's reputation, unfortunately.
If you look at the official Autopsy Report it mentions needle marks as, (12, page 3, " Evidence of Recent Therapy), during resuscitation procedures, not recreational drug use. There is also a detailed reference to the Intra-venous catheter used for the propofol. Two rounds of Epinephrine and Atropine were given during CPR, although some assumed this to mean that MJ was "on" Ephedrine.
As you say, many newspapers sensationalised the findings in the report, in fact they had a field day but got most of it wrong.
September 19, 2011 at 3:45 pm | Report abuse |
Mrs. Cheryl Cofield
I believe Dr. Murray warn Micheal of the dangers that he would cause when he would administer this drug. I can not fall sleep unless I take a muscle relaxer. I lay in bed refusing to take this pill but I end up taking this pill because time passes by and I have not fallen a sleep. I was born in September 1958 and Micheal was born in August. Maybe Micheal did not want the Dr. to call his family members especially if this has been ongoing prescription care.
Piers asked some really terrific questions. However, Jermaine was inarticulate in answering them. His evasive answers showed that he did not know Michael very well and did little to inform. Just another money grabbing attempt, IMHO.
He did say that MJ had an anesthesiologist for sleep issues. That was a shocker!
RIP MJ
Yassess Leves From TMZ
Nice Interview! Catch That On TMZ!
donnalyn
WHY DID ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO WAS JERMAINE GOING TO WRITE A "TELL ALL" BOOK ABOUT HIS BROTHER MICHAEL AND ALL OF HIS DRUG USE .. ECT??
NOW.. ALL OF A SUDDEN HE IS THE LOVING ADORING BROTHER... WELL HE HAS TO SELL HIS BOOK.. TALK ABOUT PEOPLE MAKING MONEY OFF A PERSONS DEATH... WOW.. HE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF.. #1 FOR NOT TRYING TO HELP HIS BROTHER LONG AGO BEFORE HE GOT SO ADDICTED AND TOO FAR GONE... AND #2 FOR TRYING TO CASH IN BY NOW WRITING A BOOK AND DOING THE TALK SHOW CIRCLE!!!! DR MURRAY DID NOT KILL MICHAEL JACKSON IN ANY WHICH WAY SHAPE OR FORM.... MICHAEL KILLED MICHAEL... PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY... HIS FAMILY SHOULD HAVE SEEN HE HAD GOT HELP LONG BEFORE HIS ADDICTION GOT SO OUT OF CONTROL.... TALENTED? YES.... SEVERE DRUG ADDICTION? YES... FAMILY IN DENIAL? YES...... DON'T USE DR. MURRAY AS YOUR SCAPEGOAT!!! THE ADDICT IS THE ONE TO BLAME... NOONE WANTED HIM DEAD.. NOONE!!! ONLY HIMSELF... SAD ...
Michael was the most attacked a man in America. No man could stand it all. An innocent man was crucified. This is a big scandal. Michael gave the world his heart. The American media should now behave decently. The media should make amends. Repair is simply true. Michael was innocent, all the fans know this, because they understand him. MJ loved the children. Media turned his pure love for children against him. It was a peak of cruelty. All this (the whole cruelty) had to have an effect on his health.
KeepinItReal
@donnalyn, it would appear that the coroner disagrees with you. Michael's death was officially declared a homicide, in other words, he died at the hands of another person. It is clear that Murray is guilty of medical malpractice. It is also clear that he is guilty of criminal negligence. It will be up to a jury to determine that not only was this doctor guilty of medical malpractice and criminal negligence, but also involuntary manslaughter as charged. To say that Michael Jackson is the only one responsible for his own death makes NO sense and is rediculus and cruel in the extreme. Please read this quote from Dr. Barry Friedberg (board certified anesthesiologist) from September 9, 2011:
"The presumption of innocence normally accorded the accused has been lost because of Conrad Murray's publicly uttered statements ("I gave Michael Jackson propofol," & "I left the room.")
Any prospective juror must would likely be aware of these comments.
With those statements, Murray has publicly incriminated himself for patient abandonment.
Since 1989, hundreds of millions of patients have safely received propofol in various doses because someone was watching and monitoring them.
So it is not the dose of propofol, or who may have given it that is at question, but the flagrant absence of well-established propofol safety protocols that is the cause of involuntary manslaughter.
Murray having left the room without any remote monitoring devices subjected Jackson to a patently unsafe propofol practice that directly led to the predictable, avoidable death of Michael Jackson.
No amount of defense tactics can relieve Murray of his absolute responsibility to have watched & monitored Jackson."
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/story/2011-09-09/michael-jackson-conrad-murray-trial/50339596/1#uslPageReturn
Common, if you are going that route, then I can gladly agree that CM is at fault and he shoud be jailed and the case dismissed. However, I would also sue and murder everyone involved in the tour. MJ was apparently sick, and not strong enough to perform on tours. They were so greedy and selfish, wanted to milk him out. Y would I organize a show/tour/social event or whatever with an unhealthy, dying man? So if you say CM is the murderer, then the organizers are also murderers, they didnt' care about MJs well being, and I can see MJ being forced to tour when he couldn't. STOP USING CM AS A SCAPEGOAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He didn't look decrepit the day before at rehearsal?
October 7, 2011 at 12:09 am | Report abuse |
America should be proud of Michael. Michael was a great man. Fans and children – only they understand Michael. Media all tangled and mixed up in a terribly messy knot. Time to fix it. Have mercy on us all. What he has done wrong to you, so treat him?. It is high time that Michael was completely rehabilitated. He was innocent. He loved children. He was the father. He gave an example, he gave a great testimony. Why he could not sleep?. This question everyone should ask themselves?. Michael was treated in an inhuman manner. As a person outside of America I saw how he was treated in his country. He loved America. He was Your countryman. Bring back the truth about this man.
WE ARE THE WORLD.
Stacey Cole-larson
Joy Behar is an insinuating nasty b____! So accusatory. Funny how she can be so ignorant when she lives in the pathetic media world. She should try doing some research and investigate how everywhere Michael went he made it a better place. Maybe she should try reading Dancing the Dream by MJ and realize he was on a conscious level that most human being never get too. Especially Celebrities.
Yea,for sure,I totally agree!
I loved The Jackson 5 and later The Jacksons once Randy joined the group and they left Motown. I would still jump up and start dicnang like crazy if someone started playing Enjoy Yourself. I used to love that song and play it over and over. Gwyneth
mr. niceguy
It's truly sad the way the family chooses to deal with thier loss. What I think is even more sad is the fact that they no longer have the centerpiece of thier interconnected careers. I am sure Michael loved his family but they were a constant reminder of his sad childhood. "HIStory" is all that remains.
orrie
during the course of this interview, jermaine said that michael wrote man in the mirror. i think he was mistaken. here, eg, it indicates that others wrote the song:
http://www.ask.com/web?qsrc=178&gct=hp&o=102808&l=dis&dm=all&q=who%20wrote%20man%20in%20the%20mirror
I watched the cooartn as well. My brohers and I would also get out my mother's afro wigs and pretend that we were the Jackson 3. My older brother always wanted to be the younger Michael.One more thing...in school during art we would always draw these figures with big afros and high heeeled stacks. 🙂
June 27, 2012 at 1:04 pm | Report abuse | Reply
Jurldine
Unfortunately Jermaine is in denial about Michael's drug abuse. He was addicted to those substances, I am a licensed chemical dependency counselor and the drugs that Michael took are addictive. They attach themselves to the dopamine receptors in the brain which in turn causes tolerance to build and addiction is the end result. That is why addiction is identifed as a brain disease. It is too late to minimize his use of these substances and say he just wanted to get some sleep. Yes these drugs produce a sleep state but that also does not come without the ugly outcome we all know as addiction. Piers I must commend you on an excellent interview. Job well done. Just ask Dr, Drew Pensky he will agree with my assessment.
Jerrri
October 2, 2011 at 7:35 pm | Report abuse | Reply
Michael had severe insomnia.
Denial? He's screaming it to the roof tops? JMO
If we are going to portion blame out here, lets be realistic. Michael was a kind generous and sensitive soul, who only wanted to bring happiness to other people and help where he could. Greedy people took advantage of his good nature, they used and falsely accused him. I think the world can now admitt all the accusations were greedy lies. The tabloids made his life a misery. Watching his every move and only ever bringing to light what they thought was wrong about him, calling him a freak. Never once bringing to light all the individuals and organisations he helped. How much is one person meant to take, how much can you bear before you want to numb some of it away, sleep so you dont hear it. Jealous people were never going to stop, everyone wanted a piece of him, right up until the day he died. Everyone involved in the comeback shows DID know he wasnt fit, not phsically and definately not mentaly. To say the doctor is just doing what MJ wanted is a joke. Supply and demand. A doctor has a code of ethics, its his JOB not to over prescribe, any other medications he took supplied by any other doctors were sat on the bedside where Murray was treating him. It was his JOB not to give him what he didnt need or what potentially wasnt good for him. I can stand my kids in a sweet shop and they will want everything, but I dont let them have it all!!!. However you look at this, the Doctor is guilty, he wasnt watching his patient and he lied. What kind of Ethical doctor tapes his patients? For what reason? If Michael wasnt happy he could fire him, but at least he'd have the tapes to sell.Lets not forget, while Michael is slurring, he is being monitored by a doctor, who he clearly trusted. So whatever he has taken, the doctor gave him. It really is all about the money. Show organisers didnt care IF he was fit, just that they could get him through the medical for insurance purposes.
IF Michael Jackson was an addict, he was still the greatest Entertainer that ever lived. He still done more for humanity than all of us put together in out lifetimes. He gave his soul to the world only to be persicuted, the fact that he couldnt handle it shows he had a heart. It would never make me think any less, admire him any less or feel any less pain for his loss.
You are a carpenter cause you just hit the nail right on the head! Exactly how i feel about it to a tee! It broke my heart yesterday to hear the other recording of how much he wanted children to be happy,Dr.Murray IMVHO was recording him and no dount was going to use the info to his advantage until he killed him accidently maybe? I don't think he planned it i mean 150,ooo a month.......wow
Dr.Murray gave him propofol;,no equipent and did not even know cpr? Bottom line to me!
Jo jackson took his son's life before he was 5 yrs old and sorry but his momma stood by while it happened and now all the family are money and fame hungry,they couldn't compete with MJ On his worst day!
Shaming a man they shaped by what they did and now stand in line to disresepect him after death,I guarantee you though,MJ is the caretaker in Heaven now for children!
October 6, 2011 at 10:45 am | Report abuse | Reply
Yes,and they still are,Funny how they all started performing again,even Rebbie? I never heard of her in my life,king of pop's gone so now they're in a race and kissing KJ's azz because she got the money!
worst thing though is defacing their own blood for it,he died and they want to shine!
No family member would say what these greedy people are saying and especially if they ever cared,theres a reason MJ didn't want to see them? It's a disgrace,Jo always made fun of MJ's nose,well wonder why he tried so hard his whole life to change it till he hardly had on period and look at Jo's,he looks like one of them big wrinkled bulldog's with evel eyes! Latoya came out with her abuse story but now it "wasn't so bad" pffffffft 2 faced! I don't believe MJ confided in her about a dang thing,if he had it would have been Janet? JMHO Mike and Janet are/were the only decent ones out of the entire bunch! JMVHO
@Abby
Amen Abby, Amen.
Celestin
What happened to MJ is so sad...He did well for the world He came to my country Gabon in 1992 and He blessed kids there and I really appriciated what he did on that time...I have few questions to you all!! Why MJ couldn't have his own kids??#1 One day the kids will know that MJ was not or is not their biological dad!!! so what will happen??? they can misuse his fortune and ruin his legacy.....he left this world by leaving confusions with his kids....DM won't go to jail...He didn't kill Him....Let Him Rest in peace...wherever you may be God bless MJ!!
David Cobbs
I think this is the greatest post ever made and I will find out more at google.
Lenyn
I caught the Jacksons was rtveied, I should say but not the other.I guess I came out in the same place you did, surprised at the maturity level (or lack of) in some cases. Still, I also came away with a sense of true brotherhood. They love each other, first and foremost, even if they never get the music right. Katherine and Joe Jackson did some things right.
clifton earl June 27, 2009 at 10:46 am This is one of the better blog wtsbiees I cruise, I was hoping that every blog would have a MJ tribute or post at the very least, he was and is a larger than life figure, especially in the music world. Your post made me think that there are people that are still okay, and love music for the right reasons.Thanks for a heartfelt post, and making my day a little bit more bearable.Best,Huge MJ & Wavesatnight fan
I love how you are thinking. BTW a feollw youTuber shared this will me, FYI: Anyone that has MJTE on Xbox and? haven't gotten the special achievement yet can put the game on Monday and get the achievement for his birthday!! Enjoy your MJ weekend.
September 9, 2012 at 11:26 pm | Report abuse | Reply
Pharmd385
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Maria Copelli
Paul first of all i want to say thank u for having a warm heart and wisdom regarding Michael! You have shown a consistent measure of respect ,and for this we all thank u so much! Justice still needs to be done..for this wonderful human being !
February 23, 2013 at 3:49 pm | Report abuse | Reply
This comment is for all of you ,who Love michael and beLIEve in Him...I would Love to see ,some of the L.K.L. Bloggers right back here ,whenever there is a topic ,related to Michael or his family ! Lets Unite and keep showering His name with the Love he so deserves to have ! Love u All.Maria C.'
Jermaine has essentially been estranged from Michael for over 20 years. He has no intimate knowledge of his daily life. Jermaine, however, has made a career claiming to have "inside" information about his brother when nothing could be further from the truth. He does, however, seem to get his "inside information" about his brother from the same publications Michael was embattled with throughout his life – the tabloids. IF Jermaine had bothered to pay attention to the facts presented in the Murray criminal trial it was made crystal clear by the coroner/medical examiner that Michael Jackson was NOT an addict. It was also reiterated by a drug addiction expert as recently as the AEG trial now occurring that Michael was NOT an addict. I tend to lend them more credibility than the tabloids or Jermaine. Jermaine remains a perfect example of the strife Michael had to contend with throughout his life – not only from the media but from members of his own family who in their own ignorance perpetuated lies. Instead of being a big brother who Michael could rely on to be there to champion him and defend him he was simply one of the jackals attacking him. Jermaine should stick to speaking only about that which he knows, which isn't much, like what it is like to be a deadbeat dad who won't pay the child support he owes and has jail time hanging over his head.
Jermaine Jackson's wife Halima won't be criminally charged for biting her hubby in the leg, because of what he did to her .


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Berkeley Lab tests cookstoves for Haiti
Published: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 13:37 in Physics & Chemistry
The developers of the fuel-efficient Berkeley-Darfur Stove for refugee camps in central Africa are at it once again, this time evaluating inexpensive metal cookstoves for the displaced survivors of last year's deadly earthquake in Haiti. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have teamed up with students from the University of California (UC), Berkeley to run a series of efficiency tests comparing the traditional Haiti cookstove with a variety of low-cost, commercially available alternatives. The long-term goal is to find the safest and most fuel-efficient stove -- or to design a new one that would win favor with the cooks of Haiti -- and tap the resources of nonprofit aid organizations to subsidize its manufacture in local metal shops.
"A more efficient cookstove would not only save Haitian families and aid organizations money on fuel, but could also reduce pressure to cut down trees in this already heavily deforested island nation," says Haiti Stove Project leader Ashok Gadgil, director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Berkeley Lab and the driving force behind development of the Berkeley-Darfur stove. "More efficient stoves that emit less carbon monoxide and smoke could also help reduce the adverse impacts of these emissions on the health of the cooks in Haiti, who are mostly women."
The Haitian government estimates that 316,000 people were killed and more than 1 million made homeless by the January 12, 2010 magnitude 7.0 quake that left the capital city of Port-au-Prince in ruins (although some international organizations estimate the casualties to be lower). That suffering and devastation was readily apparent when Gadgil sent a team to Haiti three months after the quake on a mission to evaluate the need for cookstoves among survivors.
Their findings underscored both the promise and challenges facing any attempt to apply the Darfur cookstove experience to the Haitian situation. "The Darfur stove is a wood-burning stove. It didn't work as well in Haiti, where most people cook with charcoal,'' says UC Berkeley combustion engineering graduate student Katee Lask, who is supervising the stove-testing. "Since there were already so many charcoal stoves on the market, we decided to look at the ones that were already being disseminated there and provide an unbiased assessment. This is valuable information for the nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, who do not have the technical capacity for assessment of efficiency and emissions."
The team brought back for testing a traditional Haiti stove, which is typically fabricated with perforated sheet metal, and several "improved" commercial designs also available there. In a scientific kitchen set up with a fume hood in a warehouse at Berkeley Lab, the performance of the traditional stove was compared with that of four alternatives made of metal or metal-ceramic combinations. UC Berkeley undergraduates carried out most of the combustion efficiency tests. One set of experiments matched the five charcoal stoves' performance at the simple task of boiling water; a second set of experiments involves cooking a traditional Haitian meal of beans and rice.
The four nontraditional stoves tested at Berkeley Lab included the Mirak, which was originally designed by the humanitarian organization CARE. Mirak copies are built and sold in Haiti for about $3.75, the same price as a traditional stove. Others tested were the EcoRecho, a ceramic-lined metal stove that costs about $25 (and sold at a subsidized price of $11); the Prakti Rouj, a compact, insulated metal stove (no price available); and the StoveTec, a metal stove with clay insulation sold for $15.
These first water boiling tests did not identify a clear-cut winner. Nevertheless, they provided researchers with valuable information that helped inform subsequent cooking tests and offered insight into factors that designers of a more efficient stove for Haiti must consider. In general, the newer models outperformed the traditional stove in most categories, but fell short in some crucial ways.
In tests of "thermal efficiency," a measure of the fraction of the charcoal's energy converted into hot or evaporated water, the best-performing of the newer stoves was clearly superior to the traditional design. In a test of average efficiency (from start to boil, and then holding the water at a simmer), the Prakti model was rated at 37 percent, the traditional stove at 22 percent. The remaining three stove designs were rated near 30 percent, but the tests performed did not find significant distinctions among those three.
The testers confirmed that the newer stove designs used substantially less charcoal fuel than the traditional stove, particularly during the "simmer" phase that accounts for most of the fuel consumed. In one series of tests, the traditional stove took an average of 978 grams of fuel to bring a liter of water to boil, while fuel consumption among the newer models ranged from 479 to 591 grams.
Yet in a simple test of "time to boil" the traditional stove appeared to have a clear advantage over its fancier brethren. A pot of water was brought to a boil in 36 minutes on the traditional stove, while the four "improved" stoves were clustered between 51 minutes and one hour. This is a serious problem for the more efficient stoves. The researchers in the field found anecdotal evidence that Haitian cooks reject stoves if they are slow to boil.
"The traditional stoves are inefficient but cook quickly, because they put out more thermal power,'' notes Kayje Booker, a UC Berkeley PhD student in Ecosystems Research, who was a member of the field research team. "Even some of the respondents who had tried the more efficient Mirak stoves to save charcoal had gone back to the traditional stove because it cooks quickly."
More efficient stoves were often also plagued with design problems, such as holes that would become clogged during cooking, diminishing airflow and efficiency. "The traditional stove has the benefit of simplicity,'' says Booker.
A complete report on the results of the water-boiling tests is posted at cookstoves.lbl.gov/haiti.php.
Source: DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Testing cookstoves for Haiti
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Snooker Prose
Inexpert opinions and slipshod insights on professional snooker extemporaneously delivered to you at random intervals throughout the season
International Championship - Opening Rounds
There's lots of places you can find the draw for the 2012 International Championship, but this isn't one of them. To make sense of what I'm yammering about in this article, please consult Wikipedia here: 2012 International Championship
Well, since I did my initial write-up on this event, Ronnie O'Sullivan has pulled out of the event, Graeme Dott has indeed been beaten by Dominic Dale and the bold form of Stuart Bingham revealed in last week's premier league whitewashes over Selby and Robertson has been brought to a screeching halt as he trails India's Aditya Mehta 4-0. It is for these reasons, and many others over the years, that I only place monetary bets on snooker in sums no greater than $1.00 apiece.
Dott: The draw's really opening up for--oh, wait...
Photo by Monique Limbos
Turning to the matter of O'Sullivan, I understand that he's pulled out of this event for health reasons after completing several Snooker Legends exhibitions over the last several weeks in apparently quite able-bodied shape. The only thing predictable about Ronnie's behaviour has become his sheer unpredictability and though I wouldn't explicitly call him out on being too ill to travel in this particular case, but the sudden decision is somewhat suspect and will leave many fans disappointed.
When I first read the story though, I was less surprised than I was excited for Graeme Dott, who was slated to meet Ronnie in the second round. Dott has seen a bit of form returning now that the season has really gotten going and I expected him to be able to come through against Dominic Dale in the first round. However, Dale is quite unpredictable and he's looked like beating many players ranked well above him at ranking events over the last couple of seasons. Normally, he can't quite get over the line as he demonstrated in his two recent first-round meetings with Judd Trump, but in Chengdu, he disposed of Graeme Dott quite handily and played so well that I can't even be too disappointed. His safety in the ninth and final frame kept Dott tied in knots and it was clear that Dominic Dale had no intention of playing a tenth, effectively quelling a signature Scottish fightback before it could even really get started.
That section of the draw has gotten a little strange as 14 year-old Lu Haotian, who entered as a wild card and defeated his second successive qualifier in a deciding frame to enter the main draw with a 6-5 win over Welshman Michael White. White continues to reaffirm his membership in my honourary Bottleless & Overhyped Tour Player Club alongside the likes of Sam Baird, but I don't mean to suggest that he should've necessarily had this win because Lu Haotian is a bit of a scary young player who seems to play with no fluctuations in expression or emotion whatsoever. So it'll be Lu Haotian vs. Dominic Dale in what should've been Dott-O'Sullivan and frankly, I don't know if I can back Dale in this contest in spite of his excellent performance to knock out Graeme.
Stephen Maguire: Might be due for a win.
The winner of that contest will face either Neil Robertson or Matthew Stevens. Stevens was given a right scare against the Zhao Xintong yesterday who, trailing 4-1, fought back to force a decider after also winning the decider against Ken Doherty in the wild card round. Marco Fu was involved in another deciding frame before coming out on top against Martin Gould and will move on to face Mark Davis who caused a bit of a shock by defeating Mark Williams 6-4 for the first time I can recall in a major ranker since the 1995 World Championship qualifying competition.
Most of the other rounds have gone according to plan, with Mark Allen beating Robert Milkins 6-2, Stephen Maguire winning 6-3 using his ample experience playing Jamie Burnett over the years to come through quite easily and Mark Selby setting the tone with a 6-3 win over Ali Carter. Shaun Murphy shut out Andrew Higginson 6-0 in the only whitewash of the Last 32 in a match that was terribly one-sided in more ways than just the scoreline, reminiscent of his 5-0 win in the Brazil Masters final over Graeme Dott last season.
If Stuart Bingham is unable to come back against Aditya Mehta today, that will still only be the second-biggest shock on the drawsheet as the Crucible conqueror of Mark Allen claimed another big scalp in Chengdu. Cao Yupeng has eliminated John Higgins 6-3 yesterday and will continue to move up the rankings inevitably if these kinds of results keep coming in on his side. Other matches yet to come to a close today include Judd Trump, who looks good to progress against Fergal O'Brien as he currently holds a 5-3 lead. Meanwhil, Lu Ning, another victorious wildcard who won a marathon match (in yet another deciding frame) to send Barry Pinches back home, trails Ricky Walden 3-2 in a match that doesn't seem to be moving very fast either.
Now then, let's revise these predictions:
Haphazard Semifinalist Predictions:
(NOTE: Predicted results are made with my head, not with my heart--but generally speaking, it doesn't make them any more accurate)
Marco Fu
PREDICTED WINNER: Stephen Maguire
HOPE LEFT THAT GRAEME DOTT WILL WIN THIS EVENT: Kill me.
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Board index » ModelWarships.com general forum » Calling all Ship Fans » CASF » Cruisers
Calling all USS Cleveland class (CL) fans
Rick E Davis
Post subject: Re: Calling all USS Cleveland class (CL) fans
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 6:50 am
I guess I should have stated that she is in "port". I had two images of USS DENVER I scanned dated in April 1943, the other image of her is a starboard side view showing that she is stationary, that I was looking for rafts. Plus the seaplane in the water confused me. Actually the seaplane could belong to the ship that took the photo.
On the question about rafts on USS DENVER, I wonder if more than two rafts are stowed between the stacks, with at least four being likely, but maybe even more.
The early CLEVELAND class units had a variety of configurations as the class evolved.
DrPR
Location: Corvallis, Oregon, USA
I was just nit-picking about the ship being anchored. When I look closer I think I see a bit of a wake around the port quarter, and the flat water off the port stern makes me think the ship was moving slowly and turning to port. There are bunch of guys standing around on the bow. I'd bet they were the Special Sea and Anchor Detail, and the ship was maneuvering into position to drop the hook or tie on to an anchor buoy.
I suppose the Cleveland blueprints contain a list of rafts and such - there is a list of furniture - but I am sure I have never scanned it. Anyway, as soon as the war started I'm sure they added more rafts, floater nets, life jackets, etc., especially since they eliminated the midships boat farm. So the original blueprints won't be of much help.
The USS Miami CL-89 "Booklet of General Plans" General Information page (page 2) lists 33 rafts and 23 float nets. This is probably a good approximation of what the ships carried during the war since the Miami was built and commissioned during the war. Looking at the deck plans I found these rafts:
2 Frame 28 Main Deck port and stbd sides of turret #1 - one each side *
1 Frame 45 Communications Platform centerline fwd of Mount 51 - one on deck
2 Frame 55 Communications Platform port side of O1 deck house - two stacked
1 Frame 64 Main Deck stbd side on side of deck house
4 Frame 65 Communications Platform port and stbd outboard of deck house O1 level - two stacked each side on framework
2 Frame 74 Communication Platform centerline stbd above potato stowage - two stacked
2 Frame 76 Communications Platform centerline stbd above potato stowage - two stacked
? Frame 78 Communications Platform on deck aft of potato stowage **
8 Frame 97 Communications Platform port and stbd outboard of deck house O1 level - two stacks of two each on framework
1 Frame 101 Main Deck stbd side of deck house
2 Frame 118 Main Deck port and stbd sides of turret #4 - one each side *
4 Frame 129 Main deck port and stbd sides under catapult - two stacked each side
2 Frame 137 Main deck port side under catapult - two stacked
Total: 35 - two more than listed in the General Information
* Note: The plans show 6 floater net stowage on top of 6"/47 turrets #1 and #4. The plans do not show the top of 6"/47 turrets #2 or #3. However, the outboard profile shows floater nets on the tops of all four turrets. That accounts for 24 floater nets - one more than in the General Information.
** Note: These two life rafts are shown on stbd profile but are not on Communications Platform deck plan.
A collision at sea will ruin your entire day. Aristotle
Beautiful photo of Denver. I definitely concur the mainmast air search mattress is SA - the rounded corners of the reflector are visible when you blow up the photo. Rick you've given me an idea for my next project!
James Grace
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 10:29 pm
Thanks for posting the blow-up photo of the DENVER. So many more details are now visible--the life rafts you mentioned and the mwb davits.
There is a photo taken the day she returned to Mare Island, showing where she was hit. It also shows that several changes from your photo had been made.
First, there is a platform just below the foremast head that seems to have the SG although something is still at the masthead (can't tell what it is). Second, the 40mm director tub abreast the aft funnel appears to have been removed. Instead the 36" searchlight position on the foremast looks smaller to me as if the director is there now. Photos from the end of her refit show this to be the case. Finally the ship is now in Measure 22 (Navy Blue & Haze Gray) It would be interesting to know when/where these changes were made--some time between April & November '43.
Jim Grace
Quick note...
The old Midships 1/700 Miami is listed here for $14.95.
https://freetimehobbies.com/1-700-midsh ... t-cruiser/
DougC
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 11:48 pm
Who is reissuing the Midship models?
Paul Helfrich
Location: Dayton, Ohio, USA
I saw that Midships release! Pretty low price given what the Skywave Cleveland went for/goes for now. It said the kit did not include decals, but still...$14.95 is a pretty amazing price for any 1/700 release of a cruiser size subject. New destroyer releases seem to be at least $25...
I took a look at the link below for the Midships model of the USS Miami CL-89.
The first thing I noticed was the rangefinder extension to turret #1. The later Clevelands didn't have the rangefinders in turret #1. But I have several photos labeled "USS Miami" that show these rangefinders on turret #1. These appear to be early photos right after commissioning, possibly on the shakedown cruise in early 1944. But 1945 photos clearly show the rangefinders to be gone from Turret #1 - a topside weight reduction measure. So this model must be the early 1944 configuration. I don't know when the rangefinders were removed, but it was done on many of the later ships.
NONE of the Clevelands had rangefinders on turret #4. I can't tell from the picture of the box artwork if the model has rangefinders on turret #4.
The model also has two 20mm guns outboard port and starboard of turrets #2 and #3 on the main deck. This was the shakedown cruise configuration, and many ships were initially fitted out with 20mm guns there. But July 1945 photos show twin 40mm guns at these positions. So this is definitely a shakedown cruise version of the ship.
The Miami had the trash burner smoke pipe on the front of the after smoke pipe - the model shows it outboard to port at the rear of the smoke pipe. The earliest Clevelands had it there. Miami did not.
The motor whaleboats are missing just aft midships port and starboard. They were carried on davits. These were on the ship immediately after commissioning in early 1944 and were still there in July 1945.
Mount 54 (port aft) appears to be on a platform with a walkway under it. The dual 5"/38 mounts rode on a handling room "box" that extended to the sides of the ship with no walkways around them.
These are pretty basic mistakes that makes wonder about the accuracy of the model. Maybe they are just box artwork mistakes.
However, the mounts 54 and 55 dual 5"/38 mounts do appear to be positioned correctly for the square bridge ships - about 12 feet farther aft than on the round bridge ships. This means it isn't a minor rework of a model of the early ships with just a square bridge substituted.
Nino wrote:
This is same kit as the Pit Road/Skywave kit but also marketed by Midship back in the day when they did the 1500 ton DDs. You can find it on Freetime's site with this link so see if you can place an order. I did and it seems to work. If it bounces, I'll get a refund. At the price it is certainly worth it. Possibly Brandon found several in the "warehouse". BTW Midship also did a Cleveland kit also the same as the Pit Road/Skywave kit.
tjstoneman
The Pitroad kit of MIAMI is reviewed on this site at http://www.modelwarships.com/reviews/sh ... miami.html.
Responding to Phil's post - noting that I am referring to the original PitRoad offering, which I believe has the same plastic as the Midships Model version:
Rangefinders are provided in the kit for all four turrets, but are separate pieces, so can be fitted as required - the instructions do, however, indicate they should be fitted to all four.
The emplacements for all four pairs of 20mm guns outboard of the inner 6" turrets are separate pieces, and, again, can be fitted as required.
The trash burner uptake is not provided in the kit.
The motor whaleboats and davits are provided in the kit, and the location indicated in the instructions.
The handling rooms under the twin 5" mounts are provided as part of the superstructure deck, and extend nearly to the ship's side. The Booklet of General Plans for MIAMI (http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/089/cl89.pdf) shows that they did not extend to the deck edge, leaving space for a walkway outboard of them, so this is correct - if the builders followed the plans.
There are many other differences between this kit and that of CLEVELAND, and most (but not all - eg trash burner uptake) of the changes in the real ships appear to have been made in the kits.
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 12:02 am
Thanks. Sounds like the plastic is more accurate than the box art.
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