Another lost flight - The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 remin...Richard Kelley
The loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is similar to the unsolved loss of Pan American World Airways Flight 7 while flying from San Francisco to Hawaii in 1957.
BRAVO ZULU 2019 Q1 News Magazine F17 USCGAUX - ROGER BAZELEY PA1-final-r5Roger Bazeley, USA
1st Quarter 2019 BRAVO ZULU News Magazine:
Articles + Content
FYI: Point Bonita Light House History
USCGC George Cobb – SF FLEET WEEK 2018, USN Blue
Angles, USS BONHOMME RICHARD (LHD 6) - Recap
Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco SFO
TEAM COAST GUARD - USCG Auxiliary Food
Service Caters USCG Air Station Holiday Event at
SFO Air Museum; AUXFS Program
FELLOWSHIP – 2012 Air Station SF, SFO
USCGC Robert Ward Commissioning:
March 02, 2019 at Sector SF (Fast Response Cutter)
USN TULSA – Advanced Littoral SF Commissioning
Auxiliarist Bill Burns Aviator Interview
MEMBERS DECK & FYI RBS ALERTS
FLOTILLA EVENTS – FEB 09 COW –
USCG Island, Alameda; Awards, Certificates, Oath
BRAVO ZULU 2019 Q-1 USCGAUX News Magazine - Roger BAzeley PA-1 EditorRoger Bazeley, USA
Quarterly USCGAUX D11N Publication that highlights District and USCGAUX Flotilla events, articles, and photojournalism concerning District Eleven Coast Guard partnership events that reflect TEAM COAST GUARD participation. Four issues per year are published with past 2017-2019 posted on Slide-Share.
Another lost flight - The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 remin...Richard Kelley
The loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is similar to the unsolved loss of Pan American World Airways Flight 7 while flying from San Francisco to Hawaii in 1957.
BRAVO ZULU 2019 Q1 News Magazine F17 USCGAUX - ROGER BAZELEY PA1-final-r5Roger Bazeley, USA
1st Quarter 2019 BRAVO ZULU News Magazine:
Articles + Content
FYI: Point Bonita Light House History
USCGC George Cobb – SF FLEET WEEK 2018, USN Blue
Angles, USS BONHOMME RICHARD (LHD 6) - Recap
Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco SFO
TEAM COAST GUARD - USCG Auxiliary Food
Service Caters USCG Air Station Holiday Event at
SFO Air Museum; AUXFS Program
FELLOWSHIP – 2012 Air Station SF, SFO
USCGC Robert Ward Commissioning:
March 02, 2019 at Sector SF (Fast Response Cutter)
USN TULSA – Advanced Littoral SF Commissioning
Auxiliarist Bill Burns Aviator Interview
MEMBERS DECK & FYI RBS ALERTS
FLOTILLA EVENTS – FEB 09 COW –
USCG Island, Alameda; Awards, Certificates, Oath
BRAVO ZULU 2019 Q-1 USCGAUX News Magazine - Roger BAzeley PA-1 EditorRoger Bazeley, USA
Quarterly USCGAUX D11N Publication that highlights District and USCGAUX Flotilla events, articles, and photojournalism concerning District Eleven Coast Guard partnership events that reflect TEAM COAST GUARD participation. Four issues per year are published with past 2017-2019 posted on Slide-Share.
World War II; America Fights Back in the PacificWayne Williams
World War Ii in the Pacific Theater; pivotal battles, leapfrogging strategies, Bataan Death March, Iwo Jima, Battle of Okinawa, Kamikaze strategy following the Battle of Leyte Gulf, damage to the USS LaGrange at Okinawa
The historic War of 1812 Battle of Crysler's FarmFergus Ducharme
A historic battle in the War of 1812 between the British Armies and Canadian Militias versus the formidable United States Armed Forces. The American's plan was to invade Canada and force the British to leave North American once and for all. Well, guess what! The British and Canadians won not only the battle but the war too! One of the first times US Forces lost a war! And the bonus is that the British and Canadians, having occupied large swathes of the United States - especially Washington, DC which they, in fact, torched - burning the Hall of Congress and believe it or not the White House, too!
We know that mesothelioma patients would rather stay local when receiving treatment,rnso we will review options for private medical centers, surgical consultants, clinical trials,rnand match you up with friendly, local physicians wherever we can.
http://www.worldwar2facts.org/battle-of-midway-facts.html
The Battle of Midway is considered to be one of the most important naval battles of World War 2. The battle saw the Empire of Japan and United States Navy fight between June 4th and June 7th, 1942 and resulted in a major victory for the United States and Allied Powers. Soon after Midway, the Allies would go on the offensive against Imperial Japan.
World War II; America Fights Back in the PacificWayne Williams
World War Ii in the Pacific Theater; pivotal battles, leapfrogging strategies, Bataan Death March, Iwo Jima, Battle of Okinawa, Kamikaze strategy following the Battle of Leyte Gulf, damage to the USS LaGrange at Okinawa
The historic War of 1812 Battle of Crysler's FarmFergus Ducharme
A historic battle in the War of 1812 between the British Armies and Canadian Militias versus the formidable United States Armed Forces. The American's plan was to invade Canada and force the British to leave North American once and for all. Well, guess what! The British and Canadians won not only the battle but the war too! One of the first times US Forces lost a war! And the bonus is that the British and Canadians, having occupied large swathes of the United States - especially Washington, DC which they, in fact, torched - burning the Hall of Congress and believe it or not the White House, too!
We know that mesothelioma patients would rather stay local when receiving treatment,rnso we will review options for private medical centers, surgical consultants, clinical trials,rnand match you up with friendly, local physicians wherever we can.
http://www.worldwar2facts.org/battle-of-midway-facts.html
The Battle of Midway is considered to be one of the most important naval battles of World War 2. The battle saw the Empire of Japan and United States Navy fight between June 4th and June 7th, 1942 and resulted in a major victory for the United States and Allied Powers. Soon after Midway, the Allies would go on the offensive against Imperial Japan.
For decades, The Atlantic Ocean’s fabled Bermuda Triangle has captured the human imagination with unexplained disappearances of ships, planes and people.
Richard's aventures in two entangled wonderlandsRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
Deep Behavioral Phenotyping in Systems Neuroscience for Functional Atlasing a...Ana Luísa Pinho
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides means to characterize brain activations in response to behavior. However, cognitive neuroscience has been limited to group-level effects referring to the performance of specific tasks. To obtain the functional profile of elementary cognitive mechanisms, the combination of brain responses to many tasks is required. Yet, to date, both structural atlases and parcellation-based activations do not fully account for cognitive function and still present several limitations. Further, they do not adapt overall to individual characteristics. In this talk, I will give an account of deep-behavioral phenotyping strategies, namely data-driven methods in large task-fMRI datasets, to optimize functional brain-data collection and improve inference of effects-of-interest related to mental processes. Key to this approach is the employment of fast multi-functional paradigms rich on features that can be well parametrized and, consequently, facilitate the creation of psycho-physiological constructs to be modelled with imaging data. Particular emphasis will be given to music stimuli when studying high-order cognitive mechanisms, due to their ecological nature and quality to enable complex behavior compounded by discrete entities. I will also discuss how deep-behavioral phenotyping and individualized models applied to neuroimaging data can better account for the subject-specific organization of domain-general cognitive systems in the human brain. Finally, the accumulation of functional brain signatures brings the possibility to clarify relationships among tasks and create a univocal link between brain systems and mental functions through: (1) the development of ontologies proposing an organization of cognitive processes; and (2) brain-network taxonomies describing functional specialization. To this end, tools to improve commensurability in cognitive science are necessary, such as public repositories, ontology-based platforms and automated meta-analysis tools. I will thus discuss some brain-atlasing resources currently under development, and their applicability in cognitive as well as clinical neuroscience.
THE IMPORTANCE OF MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE SAMPLE RETURN.Sérgio Sacani
The return of a sample of near-surface atmosphere from Mars would facilitate answers to several first-order science questions surrounding the formation and evolution of the planet. One of the important aspects of terrestrial planet formation in general is the role that primary atmospheres played in influencing the chemistry and structure of the planets and their antecedents. Studies of the martian atmosphere can be used to investigate the role of a primary atmosphere in its history. Atmosphere samples would also inform our understanding of the near-surface chemistry of the planet, and ultimately the prospects for life. High-precision isotopic analyses of constituent gases are needed to address these questions, requiring that the analyses are made on returned samples rather than in situ.
This presentation explores a brief idea about the structural and functional attributes of nucleotides, the structure and function of genetic materials along with the impact of UV rays and pH upon them.
Introduction:
RNA interference (RNAi) or Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing (PTGS) is an important biological process for modulating eukaryotic gene expression.
It is highly conserved process of posttranscriptional gene silencing by which double stranded RNA (dsRNA) causes sequence-specific degradation of mRNA sequences.
dsRNA-induced gene silencing (RNAi) is reported in a wide range of eukaryotes ranging from worms, insects, mammals and plants.
This process mediates resistance to both endogenous parasitic and exogenous pathogenic nucleic acids, and regulates the expression of protein-coding genes.
What are small ncRNAs?
micro RNA (miRNA)
short interfering RNA (siRNA)
Properties of small non-coding RNA:
Involved in silencing mRNA transcripts.
Called “small” because they are usually only about 21-24 nucleotides long.
Synthesized by first cutting up longer precursor sequences (like the 61nt one that Lee discovered).
Silence an mRNA by base pairing with some sequence on the mRNA.
Discovery of siRNA?
The first small RNA:
In 1993 Rosalind Lee (Victor Ambros lab) was studying a non- coding gene in C. elegans, lin-4, that was involved in silencing of another gene, lin-14, at the appropriate time in the
development of the worm C. elegans.
Two small transcripts of lin-4 (22nt and 61nt) were found to be complementary to a sequence in the 3' UTR of lin-14.
Because lin-4 encoded no protein, she deduced that it must be these transcripts that are causing the silencing by RNA-RNA interactions.
Types of RNAi ( non coding RNA)
MiRNA
Length (23-25 nt)
Trans acting
Binds with target MRNA in mismatch
Translation inhibition
Si RNA
Length 21 nt.
Cis acting
Bind with target Mrna in perfect complementary sequence
Piwi-RNA
Length ; 25 to 36 nt.
Expressed in Germ Cells
Regulates trnasposomes activity
MECHANISM OF RNAI:
First the double-stranded RNA teams up with a protein complex named Dicer, which cuts the long RNA into short pieces.
Then another protein complex called RISC (RNA-induced silencing complex) discards one of the two RNA strands.
The RISC-docked, single-stranded RNA then pairs with the homologous mRNA and destroys it.
THE RISC COMPLEX:
RISC is large(>500kD) RNA multi- protein Binding complex which triggers MRNA degradation in response to MRNA
Unwinding of double stranded Si RNA by ATP independent Helicase
Active component of RISC is Ago proteins( ENDONUCLEASE) which cleave target MRNA.
DICER: endonuclease (RNase Family III)
Argonaute: Central Component of the RNA-Induced Silencing Complex (RISC)
One strand of the dsRNA produced by Dicer is retained in the RISC complex in association with Argonaute
ARGONAUTE PROTEIN :
1.PAZ(PIWI/Argonaute/ Zwille)- Recognition of target MRNA
2.PIWI (p-element induced wimpy Testis)- breaks Phosphodiester bond of mRNA.)RNAse H activity.
MiRNA:
The Double-stranded RNAs are naturally produced in eukaryotic cells during development, and they have a key role in regulating gene expression .
2. Bermuda Triangle
In Power Of Nature
Feb10,2010
The Bermuda Triangle is a place where Hundreds of ships have been disappeared, leading to
strange rumours of paranormal activity and alien invasions. The Bermuda Triangle is a region
in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean in which a huge number of aircraft and
surface vessels were disappeared in a Mysterious manner that cannot be explained by human
error, piracy, equipment failure, or natural disasters.
But the ships disappearances could simply been caused by methane bubbles escaping from
the sea bed, according to a new report by Scientists. The principle phenomenon is - if you
mix enough bubbles into water, it lowers the density of the water so that anything floating on
its surface will sink. A group of American scientists came up with a simple way of putting
this theory to the test.
They made bubbles in a beaker of water by feeding air into the bottom of it. Then they
dropped in balls of different weights, to see which would float. Balls that floated in still
water, sank when the bubbles were switched on. The same mechanism could explain why
ships sink in the Bermuda Triangle. Michael Denardo, who led the team, said "If a
phenomenon can be made to occur in a lab, it probably happens somewhere in the natural
universe."
The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean in which a
3. huge number of aircraft and surface vessels were disappeared in a Mysterious manner that
cannot be explained by human error, piracy, equipment failure, or natural disasters.
The above image was taken by NASA. The mysterious Devil's triangle covers
boundary between the Straits of Florida, the Bahamas and the entire Caribbean island area
and the Atlantic east to the Azores.The most of the accidents occurred along the southern
boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.
The area is one of the most heavily-sailed shipping lanes in the world, with ships crossing
through it daily for ports in the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean Islands. Cruise ships are
also plentiful, and pleasure craft regularly go back and forth between Florida and the islands.
It is also a heavily flown route for commercial and private aircraft heading towards Florida,
the Caribbean, and South America from points north.
List of Bermuda Triangle incidents:
* Flight 19:
US Navy TBF Grumman Avenger flight, similar to Flight 19. Flight 19 was a training flight
of TBM Avenger bombers that went missing on December 5, 1945 while over the Atlantic.
The picture shown above is the picture of US Navy TBF Grumman Avenger flight.
4. * Adding to the mystery, a search and rescue Mariner aircraft with a 13-man crew was
dispatched to aid the missing squadron, but the Mariner itself was never heard from again.
Later, there was a report from a tanker cruising off the coast of Florida of a visible explosion
at about the time the Mariner would have been on patrol.
* While the basic facts of this version of the story are essentially accurate, some important
details are missing. The weather was becoming stormy by the end of the incident, and naval
reports and written recordings of the conversations between Taylor and the other pilots of
Flight 19 do not indicate magnetic problems.
* The mysterious abandonment in 1872 of the 282-ton brigantine Mary Celeste is often but
inaccurately connected to the Triangle, the ship having been abandoned off the coast of
Portugal. The event is possibly confused with the loss of a ship with a similar name, the Mari
Celeste, a 207-ton paddle steamer that hit a reef and quickly sank off the coast of Bermuda on
September 13, 1864. Kusche noted that many of the "facts" about this incident were actually
about the Marie Celeste, the fictional ship from Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "J.
HabakukJephson's Statement" (based on the real Mary Celeste incident, but fictionalised).
* The Ellen Austin supposedly came across a derelict ship, placed on board a prize crew, and
attempted to sail with it to New York in 1881. According to the stories, the derelict
disappeared; others elaborating further that the derelict reappeared minus the prize crew, then
disappeared again with a second prize crew on board. A check from Lloyd's of London
records proved the existence of the Meta, built in 1854 and that in 1880 the Meta was
renamed Ellen Austin. There are no casualty listings for this vessel, or any vessel at that time,
that would suggest a large number of missing men were placed on board a derelict that later
disappeared.
* The incident resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy not
related to combat occurred when USS Cyclops, under the command of Lt Cdr G. W. Worley,
went missing without a trace with a crew of 309 sometime after March 4, 1918, after
departing the island of Barbados. Although there is no strong evidence for any single theory,
many independent theories exist, some blaming storms, some capsizing, and some suggesting
that wartime enemy activity was to blame for the loss.
5. * Theodosia Burr Alston was the daughter of former United States Vice President Aaron
Burr. Her disappearance has been cited at least once in relation to the Triangle. She was a
passenger on board the Patriot, which sailed from Charleston, South Carolina to New York
City on December 30, 1812, and was never heard from again. The planned route is well
outside all but the most extended versions of the Bermuda Triangle. Both piracy and the War
of 1812 have been posited as explanations, as well as a theory placing her in Texas, well
outside the Triangle.
* S.V. Spray was a derelict fishing boat refitted as an ocean cruiser by Joshua Slocum and
used by him to complete the first ever single-handed circumnavigation of the world, between
1895 and 1898.
* In 1909, Slocum set sail from Vineyard Haven bound for Venezuela. Neither he nor Spray
were ever seen again.
* Schooner Carroll A. Deering, as seen from the Cape Lookout lightship on January 29,
1921, two days before she was found deserted in North Carolina. (US Coast Guard)
* A five-masted schooner built in 1919, the Carroll A. Deering was found hard aground and
abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina on January 31, 1921.
Rumors and more at the time indicated the Deering was a victim of piracy, possibly
connected with the illegal rum-running trade during Prohibition, and possibly involving
another ship, S.S. Hewitt, which disappeared at roughly the same time. Just hours later, an
unknown steamer sailed near the lightship along the track of the Deering, and ignored all
signals from the lightship. It is speculated that the Hewitt may have been this mystery ship,
and possibly involved in the Deering crew's disappearance.
* On December 28, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, number NC16002, disappeared while on a
flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami. No trace of the aircraft or the 32 people onboard
was ever found. From the documentation compiled by the Civil Aeronautics Board
investigation, a possible key to the plane's disappearance was found, but barely touched upon
by the Triangle writers: the plane's batteries were inspected and found to be low on charge,
but ordered back into the plane without a recharge by the pilot while in San Juan. Whether or
not this led to complete electrical failure will never be known. However, since piston-engined
aircraft rely upon magnetos to provide spark to their cylinders rather than a battery powered
6. ignition coil system, this theory is not strongly convincing.
* G-AHNP Star Tiger disappeared on January 30, 1948 on a flight from the Azores to
Bermuda; G-AGRE Star Ariel disappeared on January 17, 1949, on a flight from Bermuda to
Kingston, Jamaica. Both were Avro Tudor IV passenger aircraft operated by British South
American Airways.[43] Both planes were operating at the very limits of their range and the
slightest error or fault in the equipment could keep them from reaching the small island. One
plane was not heard from long before it would have entered the Triangle.
* On August 28, 1963 a pair of U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft collided and
crashed into the Atlantic. The Triangle version (Winer, Berlitz, Gaddis) of this story specifies
that they did collide and crash, but there were two distinct crash sites, separated by over 160
miles (260 km) of water. However, Kusche's research showed that the unclassified version of
the Air Force investigation report stated that the debris field defining the second "crash site"
was examined by a search and rescue ship, and found to be a mass of seaweed and driftwood
tangled in an old buoy.
* SS Marine Sulphur Queen, a T2 tanker converted from oil to sulfur carrier, was last heard
from on February 4, 1963 with a crew of 39 near the Florida Keys. Marine Sulphur Queen
was the first vessel mentioned in Vincent Gaddis' 1964 Argosy Magazine article, but he left it
as having "sailed into the unknown", despite the Coast Guard report, which not only
documented the ship's badly-maintained history, but declared that it was an unseaworthy
vessel that should never have gone to sea.
* One of the more famous incidents in the Triangle took place in 1921 (some say a few years
later), when the Japanese vessel RaifukuMaru (sometimes misidentified as RaikukeMaru)
went down with all hands after sending a distress signal that allegedly said "Danger like
dagger now. Come quick!", or "It's like a dagger, come quick!" This has led writers to
speculate on what the "dagger" was, with a waterspout being the likely candidate (Winer). In
reality the ship was nowhere near the Triangle, nor was the word "dagger" a part of the ship's
distress call ("Now very danger. Come quick."). Having left Boston for Hamburg, Germany,
on April 21, 1925, she was caught in a severe storm and sank in the North Atlantic with all
hands while another ship, RMS Homeric, attempted an unsuccessful rescue.
* A pleasure yacht was found adrift in the Atlantic south of Bermuda on September 26, 1955;
it is usually stated in the stories (Berlitz, Winer) that the crew vanished while the yacht
7. survived being at sea during three hurricanes. The 1955 Atlantic hurricane season lists only
one storm coming near Bermuda towards the end of August, hurricane "Edith"; of the others,
"Flora" was too far to the east, and "Katie" arrived after the yacht was recovered. It was
confirmed that the Connemara IV was empty and in port when "Edith" may have caused the
yacht to slip her moorings and drift out to sea.
* A Cessna piloted by Carolyn Cascio, on June 6, 1969, with one passenger, attempted to
travel from Nassau, Bahamas to Cockburn, Grand Turk Island. The plane was witnessed by
many air traffic controllers in Cockburn's airport to circle the island for 30 minutes, after
which, it flew away apparently for another island. All attempts from the ground to raise
Cascio on the radio failed.