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That does not work well when they are still in diapers Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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Wondering what the drawback to Bluetooth LE (30-45 feet from the receiver) or the wireless part is. I like it since i could get an alert if it gets moved as much as a few inches anywhere in the world so that I can see why someone has touched it. With the receiver having that range it should cover just about all areas of the home. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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I personally think that is sad about the protests. Yes, some people have the right to be upset since they may have invested time and energy into a candidate but after the initial loss is felt you need to dust your self off and figure out how to do better the next time since there will always be a next time. The solution is not to protest the results but you can use this time to organize community groups to figure out how to learn the lessons needed and to get involved in creating the change that you were hoping for but on a local level. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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How many children do you have around your home? Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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I have been looking at a few gun locks based on my needs and I was not really happy with a lot of the ones I saw in the store and I have been watching this on on some Crowdfunded sites and it looks like it might finally be entering production shortly. http://www.zore.life/ Interesting mix of security, technology and ease of use all at the same time. I really like the option to have it in a "safe but ready to fire" option or to lock it down unless you unlock it by hand with out a key. Anyone have any other recommendations on something to use to keep the guns locked up outside the safe? Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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To those who say Trump does what every man does
PhreeZone replied to wmw999's topic in Speakers Corner
I am only aware of her attempting to file a police report and it basically being dropped right away due to lack of physical evidence and a He said/she said situation. Why do women not report it? Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com -
Largest factor in decline of manufacturing jobs?
PhreeZone replied to PhreeZone's topic in Speakers Corner
Let me bring up a few other points on this also: Tariffs only work if countries and companies think that its in their best interest to move production or change their business practices to avoid losses. In some cases that the tariffs are applied they will weigh out the risk of not moving and suffering the higher costs/lower sales in terms of our lasting the tariff. That is expected to happen in this case. No Chinese company is going to suddenly shut its doors and open a factory in Wichita Kansas to sell goods here in America. They will look at the odds of the tariff expiring before the domestic industry can catch up and produce the same items. The last super successful tariff was the steel tariffs of the mid 2000's and the chip tariffs against Japan in the 1980's. The Japanese knew that with Reagan's popularity he was going to be around for 8 years and they could not out last a 100% tariff for that long of time and eventually changed their practices to avoid dumping of chips into the US markets. The Steel tariffs have had limited success since even with the tariff its been cheaper to import steel than it was to make it domestically. AK Steel and other factories have been slow to compete and its killing off the cities they are based in due to their decline. In this case there is a real split in terms of the belief that the administration would be able to apply the tariffs for more than 2 years so most companies will not be able to move manufacturing back domestically that fast so they will sit it out and wait to see if they need to move or not. The other issue is that China could introduce tariffs against US products that they import and that would kill off demand for the production of those products domestically. Heavy equipment is something that the Chinese import a lot of and if the cost on that suddenly jumps the trickle down is that US factories might need to shut down due to losing that export option. How ironic is it that by trying to increase US jobs you can end up killing them off instead? Another industry that is going to be in for a hard time in the next 20 years is going to be the transportation sector. As we look at automated cars for personal use there is a second sector that is dumping even more money into the development of it and that is automated trucking. Lots of those jobs are going to be at risk as soon as the first certified delivery system is put out there at an affordable price. No longer are truckers going to be able to make 60-80k a year because some computer and a couple of thousand dollars worth of retrofitting will be able to take a portion of their jobs. That entire portion of the workforce is going to find themselves in this same situation as technology catches up and makes their jobs more able to be replaced. What will be done to replace those jobs as they get automated? My solution to this is to spend more education dollars on STEM education and to raise the education level of the population as a whole. Lots of manual labor jobs just are not going to be coming back and those that are going to be around are going to need skilled trades such as machinists, certified welders and others. Offer free skilled trade training for the top 25 areas of labor need for all citizens with additional incentives to pursue advanced college degrees in STEM focused areas. From that higher educated work force will you get the ideas and skills that will lead to the next generation of innovation here in the US. Life time earnings by education level (40 years of working): Non-HS Graduate: $973k HS Grad: $1,300K Some College : $1,547k College Degree: $2,268K Masters Degree $2,671k Doctoral Degree: $3,252k Post Doctoral: $3,648k If you get a college degree you are more likely to make almost double that a HS grad. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com -
To those who say Trump does what every man does
PhreeZone replied to wmw999's topic in Speakers Corner
One woman I know personally was assaulted by a law enforcement officer and when she attempted to report it to the department they refused to investigate since she was not credible. That is an issue that needs to be addressed. How is this addressed moving forward from today? Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com -
I have expressed how poorly I thought that statement was years ago and I agree that Obama wasted a lot of chances to reach across the aisle and work on certain proposals. My question is around supreme count nominations - If there is a second opening in the last 2 years of his term should the opening be left open until the next election since that seems to be the precedent that was recently set. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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Largest factor in decline of manufacturing jobs?
PhreeZone replied to PhreeZone's topic in Speakers Corner
We have not lost ground at all.The products being produced via US factories are some of the highest quality, have the lowest rejection rates and tend to be delivered on time at a far higher rate than overseas companies. The issue is the cost of goods being produced. No one wants to pay what it would cost to have just domestically produced products. Consumers demand cheaper products (look at the rise of Walmart) but are unwilling to pay for domestic products. I just saw an article that they are estimating the average Walmart shopper might be looking at bills being 18-22% higher in a year for the same products being purchased and it will impact the lowest 60% of income earners the hardest since they will be using more of their paycheck to afford the increased cost of goods. The impact could easily be worse then when gas was over $4.00 a gallon since everyone then at least had to purchase gas, now consumers facing larger bills might just chose not to purchase goods and that will decrease over all spending. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com -
Largest factor in decline of manufacturing jobs?
PhreeZone replied to PhreeZone's topic in Speakers Corner
So how do you address that issue? The jobs are gone and are unlikely to return unless tariffs or VAT are added to every product produced in a country that has a lower cost of living than the US. Will you be willing to pay 45% more for every product produced in China since that is the proposed amount of the tariffs to tell the companies to move their jobs back to the US? The amount of money in your pocket does not change but every import just cost you 45% more if it comes from China or 35% more from Mexico. This will apply to everything from electronics, toys, building materials, etc. The end goal is to make domestic products cheaper than the imports but it will take years for domestic industry to get spun back up to product same or similar goods and in the mean time the consumer is the one that pays the increased costs of goods. There is also no protection to keep the domestic producers from raising their prices since now they do not suffer from the same competition to keep their prices low to fight against the cheap imports. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com -
Largest factor in decline of manufacturing jobs?
PhreeZone replied to PhreeZone's topic in Speakers Corner
I would consider that to be cheap imports undercutting domestic product. This is a situation that also will never be solved because its at the root of capitalism and globalism. As an executive I am driven to provide the largest value for my share holders and that is be making the largest profit possible at the lowest cost possible. My labor costs tend to be one of the highest expenditures I have so I need to keep a tight control on those expenses. If I am the only business owner of a small shop in my local town then I will look at options such as offering a lower expense benefits package, hiring cheaper labor, not giving large raises and other cost control mechanisms since I do not want to relocate and need to stay with my business. This activity is needed and required for a capitalistic society to run. If I was going around giving out 50% raises to every employee every year I would quickly go bankrupt so I need to limit my expenditures to stay in business. If I was a larger organization that has the option to change my location and still produce the same products then I can use the free market to move to a location that is more friendly to making more money. We see this in terms of Airbus moving facilities from Europe to South Carolina to get access to the cheaper skilled labor that is provided there. The flip side is that if the labor needs are not for skilled labor then I am encouraged and expected from my shareholders to use the cheapest labor possible to maximize value. The American minimum wage automatically puts those recipients in the top 20% of all income earners in the world when 50% of the worlds population earns less than $2.50 a day. http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats That is a lot of potential labor that is available for usage at a rate much lower than an American is asking for in a single hour. As a capitalist I am basically being forced to consider that as a serious option if I have the option of using it. Not saying I like this at all but I am happy when my stocks and retirement go up since X company was able to drive down costs and had more profit this quarter even though it was only possible since they eliminated jobs either via attrition, firings or relocation. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com -
Largest factor in decline of manufacturing jobs?
PhreeZone replied to PhreeZone's topic in Speakers Corner
In light of the recent election results I am curious what the general opinion is on the single largest cause of the decline of manufacturing jobs in the rust belt states and the best way to address the issue. A lot of promises to bring the jobs back were made during the election but the root causes never seemed to be discussed and that is now leading to a lack of a clear policy to address those issues. I unfortunately feel that the largest cause of the decline is tied to the automation of jobs. This means that the jobs just can not come back at all if they are able to be replaced directly by technology. If you look at an automotive plant a single robot replaced 10-15 welders plus all the other jobs that are indirectly tied to those positions. That is 10-15 positions that will never be able to be recreated even if every trade deal was reversed and huge tariffs were enacted on other goods to try to balance out any issues on those fronts. Yes a job was created to do the robotics repairs that is a much higher paying position than the welders but that is still a 90% reduction in the workforce via automation. Multiply that over an entire factory and its easy to see how Ford, Chevy and Caterpillar are able to have higher production numbers but their staffing requirements are now reduced by as much as 60% over what they used to be and the positions still around are now non-skilled labor that they feel no longer deserves the $30-45 per hour that they were paying previous generations of workers. I remember the days of driving past some of the local auto plants and the parking lots were full all the way to the fence since that was the number of workers needed at shift changes. Now those same facilities are tearing up the parking lots since they have not been needed in years but they are still sending the same number of cars per month out the door. If Automation of jobs is the largest root cause how do you address this issue? Taking this even further the military is even looking at technologies that will be reducing the number of personnel that need to be engaged in activities due to automation. The lastest class of destroyers to launch needed 40% less crew despite being larger, faster, having better weaponry and better sensors due to all the automation that was built in. The new Gerald Ford class of aircraft carriers is looking at a 15-25% reduction of active crew over existing carriers and when we look at the drone programs most of them are flown out of domestically operated facilities when means the only people that need to deploy are maintenance crew and even that MOS does not need the same staffing levels as before. Those jobs in the military are just not going to be needed anymore moving forward. If the military thins down 10-15% while still maintaining the same levels of operational readiness what is the intent for those positions moving forward? Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com -
I see the original seller of these has now disappeared online. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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Great news is you can look him up on the FAA site and see if he still has a valid pilots license and medical for free. If so and he has access to the planes I'd take a flight thats for sure. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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Candidate that did the largest "Self-Funding" in the last month - Clinton with a $50k donation to her own PAC. So much for Trump not needing anyone else's money to win. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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Non-Airworthy P-38's are pretty rare too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_Lockheed_P-38_Lightnings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_Douglas_A-26_Invaders Its possible a bird is not on the This is by far the best list I have found of old warbirds: http://www.warbirdregistry.org/index.html List of all registered P-38's and A-26's with an N-number in any shape: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/AcftRef_Results.aspx?Mfrtxt=&Modeltxt=P-38&PageNo=1 16 total aircraft recorded http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/AcftRef_Results.aspx?Mfrtxt=DOUGLAS&Modeltxt=A-26&PageNo=1 29 but several are expired or are marked as being sold and no longer valid. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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I'd be really curious to see which ones he owns since there are only 9 airworthy P-38's in the entire US. P-38F 41-7630 Glacier Girl - Lewis Air Legends in San Antonio, Texas. P-38F 42-12652 White 33 - Returned to airworthiness Oct. 2016 by WestPac Restorations for Jim Slattery in Colorado Springs, Colorado P-38J 44-23314 23 Skidoo - Planes of Fame in Chino, California. P-38L 44-26981 (unnamed) - Allied Fighters in Sun Valley, Idaho. 44-27053 Relampago - War Eagles Air Museum in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. 44-27083 Tangerine - Erickson Aircraft Collection in Madras, Oregon 44-27183 (unnamed) - Yanks Air Museum in Chino, California. 44-27231 Scat III (Formerly Ruff Stuff) - Fagen Fighters WWII Museum in Granite Falls, Minnesota. 44-53095 Thoughts of Midnite - Comanche Fighters LCC in Houston, Texas. The list of A-26's that are Airworthy in the US is about the same size but it does not look like the owner lists overlap at all. A-26B 41-39427 437140 Commemorative Air Force, Meacham Field, Texas. N240P A-26B 44-34104 N99420 1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum, Geneseo, New York A-26B 44-34313 434313 Black Crow Aviation, Santa Rosa, California. N4313, Named "Miss Michelle" A-26B 44-34520 434520 Lauridsen Aviation Museum, Buckeye, Arizona. N126HP, Named "Lu Lu" A-26B 44-34602 434602 Nordic Warbirds, Västerås, Sweden. N167B, named "Sugarland Express" A-26B 44-34749 434749 Abrams Airborne Manufacturing Inc, Avra Valley, Arizona. N4959K, Named "Puss & Boots" A-26B 44-34766 N26BK H.B. Keck / Thermco Aviation, Thermal, California A-26B 44-34778 RCAF 098 Air Ross (1980) Inc, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. C-GWLT A-26C 44-35456 N5625S Wade Eagleton, Shafter, California. N5625S A-26C 44-35562 NL7079G Alien Invaders Inc, Medina, Washington. Named "Sexy Sue" A-26C 44-35708 435708 Classic Aircraft Aviation Museum, Hillsboro, Oregon. N26PJ A-26C 44-35788 N126HK Cactus Air Force Wings & Wheels, Carson City, Nevada A-26C 44-35898 VH-VNI R.W. McFarlane / Aviation Investments Pty, Archerfield, Brisbane, Australia A-26C 44-35911 435911 George W Lancaster, Wilmington, North Carolina. N6840D, Named "Spirit of NC" Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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The jumper had over 30 years experience, over 5,000 jumps and was doing a 2-way RW jump with a friend on borrowed gear. He was current and has jumped at Dillingham Airfield many times.The digital altimeter worn by the jumper showed that he deployed his ca
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Jumper was jumping in high winds and had a hard landing while landing off airport
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We just committed to spending 22 Billion dollars for new Zumwalt class Navy destroyers. Cost: $22.5 billion program cost (FY15) $3.96B/unit (FY15 excl R&D) $7.5B/unit (incl R&D) as of 2016 In commission: 15 October 2016 Building: 1 Planned: 32 Completed: 2 Cancelled: 29 Total number of ships that are going to be built is 3 - average cost is going to be around $8.9 Billion each with R&D costs included. The new USS Gerald R. Ford is the first ship in the new Ford class family of aircraft carriers and came at $13 Billion for the first one. Costs for the second one is going to be even more since they are going to building a all new laser weapons system with an estimated cost of 1.5 Billion being spent on it. Cost: Program cost: $36.30 billion(FY15) Unit cost: $10.44B(FY15) Building: 1 Planned: 10 Completed: 1 (awaiting commissioning) Lets not even get started on the F-35 and its costs and overruns. Program cost US$1.508 trillion (through 2070 in then-year dollars), US$55.1B for RDT&E, $319.1B for procurement, $4.8B for MILCON, $1123.8B for operations & sustainment (2015 estimate) Unit cost F-35A: $98M (low rate initial production without engine, full production in 2018 to be $85M) F-35B: US$104M (low rate initial production without engine) F-35C: US$116M (low rate initial production without engine) In February 2011, the Pentagon put a price of $207.6 million on each of the 32 aircraft to be acquired in FY2012, rising to $304.16 million (a total acquisition cost of $9.7 billion for 32 aircraft) if its share of research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) spending is included. We are the best equipped military force on Earth by an almost immeasurable factor over every other country out there. What more do you want? Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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At this point I think the Libertarians are just trying to get 5% of the popular vote to free them up in terms of getting federal funding for the next election cycle and reimbursement for funds spent this year on certain items. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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Anyone taking odds on a Third party in Utah actually being able to get the electoral vote for the first time since 1968? 538 has it currently at 2.4% of happening. Surprisingly it does not look like it might be Johnson but instead another third party candidate that has the best chance of this happening. http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/utah/ Two recent polls: Clinton 28% Trump 34% Johnson 9% McMullin 20% Clinton 26% Trump 26% Johnson 14% McMullin 22% Not bad since he is only on the ballot in a few states and has no money to spend at all since he was a last minute candidate. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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3 Arrested for planning attacks using weapons of mass destruction
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Potential terrorists arrested - anyone want to guess the religion of the attackers? Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com -
Military style jumpers using a civilian Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft experienced an premature deployment of the reserve canopy inside the aircraft. The canopy was pulled outside the aircraft and the jumpers body struck the door frame and severely damaged t