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There is help on the way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuO0tdF3ySA

Thats the training that over five decades of active carrier operations will illustrate. That China will have to learn when it places its carriers into operation. As for the new Ford class carrier USN mismanagement is at work as well. "The new Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) has yet to be tested with a live aircraft, and the Ford is expected to begin sea trials this fall with the system installed but not fully proven. The Navy is concerned enough to have reviewed the implications of returning to its tried-and-true Mark 7 landing system for the Enterprise, the third ship in the class." http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense-news/2016/07/11/pentagon-inspector-general-navy-aircraft-carrier-general-atomics-advanced-arresting-gear-aag-shipbuilding-ford-kennedy-enterprise/86932922/ “The Advanced Arresting Gear has become a model for how not to do acquisition of needed technology,” a senior Navy official told USNI News on Tuesday. “Exactly how we move forward is still being worked out.”.... “Doing a detailed engineering assessment we recognized the water twister was under-designed,” Rear Adm. Tom Moore said. “GA was responsible for the design — remember they’re on a firm fixed price contract — so the vendor was responsible for the fix.” The fix delayed the testing schedule by two years. https://news.usni.org/2016/05/24/19801 "The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday blasted the U.S. Navy’s Ford-class aircraft carrier program as an acquisition debacle. Sen. John McCain, a Republican from Arizona who served as a naval aviator during Vietnam, didn’t waste anytime launching into his criticism of the sea service’s $40 billion effort to develop the first three new supercarriers. “The Ford-class aircraft carrier program is one of our nation’s most complex and most expensive defense acquisition projects,” he said in his opening statement during a hearing on the matter. “It’s also become, unfortunately, one of the most spectacular acquisition debacles in recent memory — and that’s saying something.” http://www.dodbuzz.com/2015/10/01/mccain-ford-class-overruns-may-mean-fewer-carriers/

There are great hospitals in the US, Germany, Canada, Japan and elsewhere. Don't think that the average hospital in the US that advertises how great they are. Are that great. Advertising and promotion doesn't make best. Americans have crossed the border for a decade now to buy cheap drugs in Canada. Because the US pharma industry has bought off congress and the price is 1/3 to 1/2 less in Canada because of collective bargaining with that same industry. The average hospital in France, Canada, England is absolutely as good as the average US one. The US one will have you under a MRI, have all the blood tests back in 24 hours. Whereas the average French or Canadian one would take a couple days on the tests and pass on the MRI. The bill 1/3. The medical outcome? The same treatment profile. I was talking to a guy on a dive boat last winter in Cozumel. A guy from Montana who was a carpenter/contractor had just had a complete set of dental implants done in Mexico. He was ecstatic about the results and service. At 25% the amount a Montana specialist had quoted him. Medical tourism is coming of age. Expectantly so now that the populations of western economies are ageing. Pardon the pun! Malpractice insurance in the US is going to be a problem. So are overprescribed, unnecessary procedures.

All the other western societies do it, and you will manage too. You already spend more per capita on health care than anyone else. Yes, which is contributing to our debt and the impending financial collapse that you were referring to. 6 trillion of that debt is own by people like you - thanks! I'm sure there's more where that came from. Quality is expensive. Buddy... you've been drinking the kool-aid of the US health care industry. Three links to separate stories covering virtually all the issues uf US heath care. IMO health care, drug industry and special interest lobbying control US government policy. http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21645855-growth-americas-health-care-spending-slowing-will-obamacare-cut-costs https://epianalysis.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/usversuseurope/ "One reason for the more expensive mix in the U.S. is it produces more income for drug manufacturers, specialist physicians, and others who have considerable influence on policy. Second, some patients prefer the more expensive mix, just as some prefer to shop at Whole Foods rather than Walmart. Third, some workers mistakenly believe that employers pay for their healthcare and that more expensive means better care. Health economists believe that the premiums for employer-sponsored insurance come out of potential wages. Similarly, the extra money the government spends for health could be used for education, infrastructure, the environment, and other public investment, but these alternatives are not readily apparent or agreed upon. Does the more expensive mix result in better health outcomes? There are no definitive studies to answer this question. Superficially, it appears that the systems in the other countries are more effective because their life expectancy is higher. But their advantage may be attributable to non-medical factors such as significantly lower poverty rates. A second important reason for higher healthcare spending in the U.S. is higher prices for inputs such as drugs and the services of specialist physicians. The prices of branded prescription drugs in the U.S. are, on average, about double those in other countries. The fees of specialist physicians are typically two to three times as high as in other countries. The lower prices and fees abroad are achieved by negotiation and controls by governments who typically pay for about 75 percent of all medical care. Government in the U.S. pays about 50 percent, which would still confer considerable bargaining power, but the government is kept from exerting it by legislation and a Congress sensitive to interest-group lobbying. The third and last important reason for higher spending in the U.S. is high administrative costs of insurance. This includes private insurance which covers more than half the insured population. Each year scores of insurance companies must estimate appropriate premiums for plans they wish to sell to several million employers plus 20 to 30 million individuals. In addition, hospitals, clinics, and individual physicians incur substantial costs in billing for each test, visit, and procedure regardless of whether they are covered by private or public insurance or self-pay. Many of our peer countries have lower administrative costs through more coordination, standardization, and in some countries a single national system or several regional healthcare-insurance systems, even when the provision of care is primarily a private-sector responsibility." http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/why-do-other-rich-nations-spend-so-much-less-on-healthcare/374576/ ^^^^ Many other good points in the story.

Race relations in America are definitely improving. Despite the recent events. Y'all still have a lot of work to do, but at least you're talking about it. We are still a very segregated society. What we need is an inner city refugee program so blacks can spread out beyond the long arm of the law. - like 1 black per 10 whites in any given city. We have like 10 black people up here in a population of 1000 - and they love it. We certainly can find room for about 90 more. Anton plays charity poker with us and runs the bowling alley karaoke on Friday and Saturday nights - tho sometimes it goes to his head a bit. He reminds me a little bit of Chris Rock and Tim Meadows in the movie Grownups: These are My White People https://youtu.be/gOmdVGrQUlA?t=17 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/a-matter-of-black-lives/399386/ ^^^ a good read on Black on Black violence.

The Dallas shooting has reinvigorated the gun community in a new drive to buy more guns. "In the wake of the Orlando shooting The FBI conducted more than 2.1 million background checks for gun purchases in June, an increase of 40 percent from 2015. In June 2015, the FBI conducted about 1.5 million background checks, which is done every time someone tries to buy a gun from a federally licensed dealer. In total, the FBI conducted over 23 million background checks last year. The spike comes after 49 people were killed in the June 12 shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, which resulted in calls for tighter gun control. According to the FBI, 2016 is on track to break last year’s record for background checks. In the first half of this year, the FBI has already conducted almost 14 million background checks, CNN Money reported. Mass shootings and acts of terrorism tend to spark increased gun sales because Americans fear for their safety and also because gun advocates worry that the mass shooting will initiate stricter gun control." http://time.com/4393715/fbi-gun-background-checks-increase/ In the gun forums(yeah I go there too). People that already own enough guns for a squad are buying more guns. Enough guns for a platoon and even in some cases a company! No need for kitchen renos when the money is better spent on a couple glocks and ar-15s. Increased background checks will continue right through to the election.

Well its cheaper there anyway!

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Agree on the great job. A golf course landing is a short field landing, par five fairways aside. I would concede. If you had perfect technique in the aircraft, forty flaps(no power) would allow you to really stick a landing. Given soft field, trees, power lines, etc. Full 40 degree flaps are really designed for power on landings. When the prop blast can act directly on the flaps alot of lift is created. Without power only airspeed is acting as lift and the increased drag at 30 and forty degrees bleeds off airspeed and energy.Energy that can be used for a more nuanced rotation on landing. Very high decent rates can develop with full flaps. Without power and 40 flaps the rotation has to be near perfect because the airspeed will bleed off quicker. This sets aside the issues of trim, 40 degrees produces high nose down pitching and normally requires substantial trim adjustment. If the trim wasn't adjusted and 40 degrees was just initiated from climbing flight. There would be an issue of how much elevator authority would be left to rotate with. Given the control yoke would be already quite far back. Trim, pitch is adjusted by changing the entire horizontal stabilizer's angle of attack. There are great videos on you-tube of the short field landing contests in Alaska. Super cubs at full power, full flaps, brakes locked, 15-20 and even 25 degree positive angle of attack landings. All designed to bring the aircraft to full stop in twenty to thirty feet. The record 13'. Thats if they don't nose over from the brakes being locked. This video shows a C-150 full flap short field landing. Its the first AC in the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuE2cW8NMx8 Anyway, with 45 hours TT , 17 years old I wouldn't expect a Sullenberger result.

"Three Dallas police officers and one DART officer have been killed and several others were injured after shots were fired in downtown Dallas during a rally and march Thursday night. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20160707-10-officers-shot-3-dead-sniper-sought-after-shots-fired-during-downtown-dallas-rally.ece LE officers will be more inclined to shoot first and ask questions later after something like this.

Minus $4-5000 for resale value on a aircraft with damage history. Prop $2000 engine $7000 carb box 800 nose gear $2000 firewall 2000 engine mount 1000 both wings 8000 paint 7000 Its a 71 and probably books at 28-32K. Just M.O.

The reserve is in a a deployment bag with a handle on it. You grab the handle pulling the whole reserve out of the container and throw it away. There is a long 20' bridal cord specifically designed to allow the canopy to get away from the glider in case its spinning or the glider trys to entangle the canopy. About 2:45 there is a deployment but the parachute is not connected to the harness. Thats why he continues to fly uninterrupted. The velcro is designed to peel and they are trying to pull in the wrong direction. Practice makes perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNuU2ntbBI0

Great story. Just don't be getting any ideas, ""There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes.." a C140 isn't all that fast. OK, I'm not a pilot, but (depending on her speed at that point) I wonder if flaps might have made things worse when she was "launched" back into the air by the hill. I'm imagining something like flaring a canopy too high and then dropping straight down. (maybe an invalid comparison?) Most of my time is in a C-182 with manual flaps. Four notches with 10,20,30 and forty degrees of deflection. The first two settings produce more lift than drag and the second two more drag than lift. But the flaps are still producing lift at the 30 & 40 degree deflection settings. With power(65% or better) you can have a slower stall speed with 30-40 degree settings and without power 20 would be the best setting. At 400 feet AGL which is supposedly the altitude where the engine failed. You would have time to lower the nose, to maintain reasonable airspeed, identify a landing spot and shortly thereafter you would be on the ground. If she was really on the money she may have had time to check fuel on both tanks, mags both, power full, mixture full rich... oh oh on the ground. Don't get sidetracked when aviating. Four hundred isn't four thousand or fourteen thousand feet. Cessna electric flaps are slow. Five to six seconds per 10 degrees seems about right. When flying jumpers in the summer you get some great thermals. On occasion I would get into a strong thermal which would increase the climb rate from 400-600 FPM climb to 700-800 fpm. In order to stay in the core of the thermal I would drop two notches of flaps which would allow 60-65 indicated and 20-30 degree banking. I could stay in the lift for 3-4 minutes. I've also seen 1200' FPM with four jumpers. The change in pitch from power to without power can catch a novice by surprise.Pitch is decreased to maintain airspeed to preclude possible stall or reduced control authority. About 25 years ago I got a chance to fly a hang glider towed behind a boat.Like this one:https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/87571 Previously the hang gliders I'd flown had 8 - 10 to 1 glide ratios. These first generation hang gliders as pictured above have a glide ratio of about 3-4 to 1. Anyway I released the tow rope at about 600' above the water and pulled the nose down about 15 degrees. Nothing to much effect. So I pulled it in another 5 degrees and still no real control authority. So I yanked back on the control bar another ten degrees and low and behold its flying nicely. All in about five seconds. I'm thinking wow what a pig. Was still fun none the less.

Great story. Just don't be getting any ideas, ""There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes.." a C140 isn't all that fast.

Didn't see wing damage. The firewall will need some work after the nose wheel bent back. Fuselage damage? Boy howdy. I think she did great. Did you see this pic? Well the plane is a write-off no question about that. Considering that she is a student pilot,17 , still completing her license. I'd say she did a great job. By the looks of the hole in the piston investigators may want to start with the maintenance logbooks. It looks as if a valve let go contacting the piston during operation. http://www.cbs46.com/story/32379506/teen-walks-away-from-plane-crash-scratch-free?autostart=true

I would agree with you, it is only about half dead, so Obama will be safely out of office by the time Obamacare meets its just and predictable demise. Which is a shame because he wasted all of his political capital in the first year of his Presidency on Obamacare. Had he focused on entitlement and tax reform, he could have gone down as one of the greats. http://www.iwf.org/blog/2800704/Three-Ways-ObamaCare-is-Failing The legacy of Obamacare is that in the end it will be the first step in the journey to real socialized medicine in America. Canadian style. You're welcome. So one day the US will be as great as Canada... Or Belgium for that matter. Thanks? www.facebook.com/techinsider/videos/534267343438293/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/01/20/these-are-the-worlds-best-countries-sorry-america-youre-number-4/ Obama's approval rating is only 2% lower than Regan at this same time in his presidency:http://www.gallup.com/poll/116479/barack-obama-presidential-job-approval.aspx

Is this the justification you need to make what she did ok? Why is it any worse than Rice or Powell using a private server, or the Bush White House deleting over a million emails? Were you outraged over those? If they were indeed guilty, then yes. I didn't know about it. Was Powell having a private server illegal, did he pass classified, secret, top secret documents through it? If he did - throw the book at him. Same with Condi. How about an enquiry into something worthwhile, like why you guys invaded Iraq? Millions spent on emails, where there have been no consequences. No money spent on wrongly invading a country, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths and the rise of ISIS. Keep doing the important work!! Come on everybody knows why! "U.S. Navy ships launched 23 Tomahawk missiles against the headquarters of the Iraqi Intelligence Service yesterday in what President Clinton said was a "firm and commensurate" response to Iraq's plan to assassinate former president George Bush in mid-April. The attack was meant to strike at the building where Iraqi officials had plotted against Bush, organized other unspecified terrorist actions and directed repressive internal security measures, senior U.S. officials said. " http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/timeline/062793.htm Bush junior was pissed that all that was done was 23 piddly tomahawks for trying to kill daddy. He wanted to send Saddam to Allah personally. A tomahawk is $1 million a pop and Bush junior wasn't going to count the pennies. "The costs of the 2003-2010 Iraq War are often contested, as academics and critics have unearthed many hidden costs not represented in official estimates. The most recent major report on these costs come from Brown University in the form of the Costs of War, which totaled just over $1.1 trillion." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War

"U.S. intelligence agencies are said to be closely watching Russian online blogs and other postings for any signs that Moscow hackers have covertly obtained the bulk of Hillary Clinton’s email messages stolen from her private email server and are preparing to make them public. A U.S. intelligence official told Inside the Ring that the indications of the email release are being closely watched, although the veracity of at least two postings on the matter could not be confirmed as authoritative. A State Department official has said Russia is one of at least three foreign governments likely to have obtained the full content of the former secretary of state’s server through covert hacking operations. The other two are China and Israel. Russian intelligence agencies are suspected of cyberintrusions that obtained sensitive political information contained in Democratic National Committee networks. Last week, reports surfaced that computer networks of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation were also compromised, also by Russian hackers. Russian intelligence is considered to be the most capable nation-state cyberespionage and cyberwarfare power, and its intelligence-gathering operations in the U.S. are said to be going at Cold War levels...." http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/29/hillary-clintons-emails-in-vladimir-putins-hands/

^^^^ this I can admire a guy that has made his choice, but doesn't just blindly support the entire party line. We have enough sycophants. The rest of the right and the entire left could do with more of this. The fact that he is talking to specific issues instead of just fanatically playing D vs R is heartening. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yes to both. Its unfortunate that US voters have such a pair of bad choices this election cycle. Most mainstream voters believe that both candidates are natural liars and not to be trusted. Meanwhile public perceptions of the state sink to: "New low: Gallup poll says only 52% are ‘extremely proud’ to be Americans http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/3/new-low-gallup-poll-says-only-52-are-extremely-pro/

Electric flaps on that model "Peachtree City Fire Rescue in a statement said, “At approximately 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday evening our units responded to a report of a plane crash near the 11th tee at the Planterra Golf Course. Upon our arrival we found that a small single-engine plane had crashlanded on the fairway with one person on board. The scene was secured and left for investigators.” Bergh said a posting on the police department’s Facebook page by mom Steph Lund recalled the crash and the response of others at the scene. “Sierra was in the process of completing one of her solo (flights) which is a requirement for student pilots. After take-off she had to make an emergency landing,” Lund said. “As a parent of a student pilot you often wonder if your child will stay calm and recall what she has been trained to do. (I’m) happy to report that Sierra did just that.” Lund expressed her gratitude to first responders and to those who made kind comments in support of her daughter’s efforts. “Never underestimate this rising generation. So many of them are doing amazing things,” said Lund." http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2016/07/cessna-150l-n1567q-incident-occurred.html

California Governor Signs Legislation Limiting Assault Weapons "LOS ANGELES — Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday signed legislation that would impose new restrictions on assault weapons and regulate the sale of ammunition in California, cementing the state’s reputation for enacting some of the most stringent gun regulations in the country. Propelled by the reaction to mass shootings in San Bernardino, in Southern California, and Orlando, Fla., the gun regulations are the latest example of how this state, where the Legislature is under Democratic control, has been able to enact a legislative agenda on issues that have deadlocked Congress. The legislation in Sacramento was passed with overwhelming Democratic support, and was largely opposed by Republicans who make up a small minority in the Senate and the Assembly." "A separate bill banned semiautomatic weapons with “bullet buttons,” which make it easy to quickly remove a magazine and replace it with another." For the uninitiated thats another name for a magazine release button. Which releases the empty magazine and allows the insertion of a loaded magazine. Yikes... i like some liberals and believe they have a positive effect on society but sometimes a absence of neurons in the cranium is problematic for them. Full story:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/us/california-guns-jerry-brown.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news California will now be so much safer. They should outlaw IS as well.

Quite right. A hard pull, for whatever reason on a reserve with a soft handle could be an issue. The largest issue are jumpers who have little fundamental understanding or inquisitive interest in the functioning of their equipment. This is not limited to skydiving as all sports have this problem. Some people just want to "do it". The maintenance, function and operation of the equipment are distant priorities in the total context of the sport. There are skiers and snowboarders who wax their bases once a year whether they need it or not. Scuba divers that rinse their gear every five years or so, etc. etc.

BUT... i thought it was already illegal for felons to buy guns. There are enough no buy lists already:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/opinion/a-no-buy-list-for-guns-is-a-bad-idea.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region Anyway ther is already a irrefutable source on the truth and facts on all aspects of guns: https://home.nra.org/ Every US gun owner should buy their children a lifetime NRA membership as a birthday present when they get their first gun. These are great guns to start your kids off with when they are ten years old and up. http://www.crickett.com/crickett_rifles.php about $129 at Cabelas. NRA lifetime membership only: https://joinnra.nra.org/join/Life.aspx

"Refugees Encounter a Foreign Word: Welcome How Canadian hockey moms, poker buddies and neighbors are adopting Syrians, a family at a time." http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/world/americas/canada-syrian-refugees.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Bear in mind that the Vancouver housing market is absolutely insane at the moment. The cost of a "benchmark" (= "average") detached house in the entire greater Vancouver area is now over $1.4 million dollars, and has been increasing by about 10%/year. If someone bought a house to live in, and a couple as rentals/investments, 15-20 years ago, they could easily have over $5 million in assets, and also owe property taxes on that $5 million. In most places, owning 3 houses would not make you a "multi-millionaire". Considering that the median income in Vancouver is only about $77,000, I wonder how sustainable the real estate bubble will be. Don As long as the people keep wanting to get their money out of China. It could go on a while. There are 1.3 billion plus Chinese. A million in a Vancouver house thats worth $500k is still better than having money in a communist country that might impose currency controls, asset seizures without lawful reasons, yuan devaluations, etc. Vancouver is talking about a special property vacancy tax. To tax vacant houses owned by non residents. But I'd put my bets on the Chinese owners to find a quick way around that nutty idea to avoid that sham.