October 6, 2016
I like to add some variety to my adventures. Some weeks my New Thing can be done during a quiet evening at home. Other weeks it involves running and jumping off of a cliff. This week was the latter. I have had my eye on paragliding since I first tried hang gliding a few years […]
via Paragliding Over the Sequatchie Valley — 52 Things 52 Weeks
October 6, 2016
Load Factor Operating above the maximum weigh (wt) limitations compromise the structural integrity of the aircraft and impairs performances… Load factor is the ratio of max load that the aircraft can sustain to the gross weight of the aircraft… measured in G’s (the acceleration of gravity)… excessive G-forces can be experienced in steep turns or […]
October 6, 2016
Not much you can say other than…amazing. Having attended a number of similar days in the past I knew the routine and the usual suspects from the Battle of Britain Memorial flight performed admirably in lovely clear blue skies. The star of the show, as expected, was our very own Lancaster Bomber PA474, or Thumper […]
October 3, 2016
Education, Research, Social Media, Uncategorized Leave a comment
Children who have smartphones and spend long periods of time playing computer games are performing relatively poorly in reading and maths, new research shows.
The findings are contained in a study of 8,000 children in 150 primary schools across Ireland which assessed students’ reading and maths performance.
Overall, the study found that parents have a major impact on their children’s performance, with pupils performing better in homes where there are rules over completing homework.
Access to technology is not necessarily a negative factor. For example, children who have access to broadband and educational games perform better than those who do not…
September 11, 2016
“Writing on Lenny Letter, Alicia said “Women are brainwashed into feeling like we have to be skinny, or sexy, or desirable, or perfect. One of the many things I was tired of was the constant judgment of women. The constant stereotyping through every medium that makes us feel like being a normal size is not normal, and heaven forbid if you’re plus-size. Or the constant message that being sexy means being naked.”
“Every time I left the house, I would be worried if I didn’t put on makeup: What if someone wanted a picture?? What if they POSTED it??? These were the insecure, superficial, but honest thoughts I was thinking. And all of it, one way or another, was based too much on what other people thought of me.”
It’s great to not wear makeup, but it’s great to wear makeup too, if it makes you happy. If you like how you look with a full face, contour and some serious lashes, you do that, and SLAY. But if you like yourself bare-faced, go forth and slay like that too. You do you.
Alicia finished by saying, ‘I don’t want to cover up anymore. Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Nothing.’…
She looks beautiful
September 1, 2016
Uncategorized flying in the gambia, free the freedom, Madox Air Sports, madox microlights, peter singhateh, Peter Singhatey Leave a comment
Checkrides can be scary, especially your first one. But there’s good news: a lot of other people have taken them, and you can learn from their mistakes.
Source: The 5 Most Common Checkride Failures For Private Pilots | Boldmethod
1. Weather. Who loves weather reports and forecasts? Not too many people. Unfortunately, you’ll need to know it all. METARs and TAFs aren’t so bad, but when you start digging into AIRMETs, Winds Aloft forecasts and Area Forecasts, things can get ugly. Need some help getting prepped on weather for your examiner? We can help with this one too.
September 1, 2016
Uncategorized International Security, Julian Assange, People & Society, wikileaks Leave a comment
Julian Assange was in classic didactic form, holding forth on the topic that consumes him — the perfidy of big government and especially of the United States.
Mr. Assange, the editor of WikiLeaks, rose to global fame in 2010 for releasing huge caches of highly classified American government communications that exposed the underbelly of its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and its sometimes cynical diplomatic maneuvering around the world. But in a televised interview last September, it was clear that he still had plenty to say about “The World According to US Empire,” the subtitle of his latest book, “The WikiLeaks Files.”
From the cramped confines of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he was granted asylum four years ago amid a legal imbroglio, Mr. Assange proffered a vision of America as superbully: a nation that has achieved imperial power by proclaiming allegiance to principles of human rights while deploying its military-intelligence apparatus in “pincer” formation to “push” countries into doing its bidding, and punishing people like him who dare to speak the truth.
Notably absent from Mr. Assange’s analysis, however, was criticism of another world power, Russia, or its president, Vladimir V. Putin……
Source: How Russia Often Benefits When Julian Assange Reveals the West’s Secrets – The New York Times
August 24, 2016
STANFORD (CBS SF) – For many, using speech recognition on a smartphone has been at times a frustrating experience. Now, researchers at Stanford say the technology has advanced to a point where it is faster and more accurate than typing. Researchers devised an experiment where participants took turns inputting about 100 different phrases, either through…
via Stanford Study Finds Voice Recognition Sofware Types Faster, Better Than Humans — CBS San Francisco
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