Model Airplanes

The nature of this blog is to build awareness about the interconnectivity and interdependence that has emerged, in this era of globalization, between local economies and the global market system.  I am a strong believer that local economies like Maine’s will increasingly become more intertwined with the global market system, and less dependent on the New England economy and the national economy.  If this is true, and I am convinced it is, then citizens should be more informed about the dynamics of globalization.  New generations should be introduced to this reality early on, policy makers should be focusing and strategizing around this emerging dynamic, and business leaders should be projecting their long-term strategy toward this inevitable path.  Nevertheless, we remain in constant denial.  We still believe that we live in our own little bubble, protected from the impacts of globalization.

Our energy grid, once a public asset, is now controlled by Spanish and Canadian interests. Central Maine Power, a subsidiary of the Spanish public multinational electric utility company, Iberdrola, controls a considerable share of the market.  Emera Maine, a subsidiary of Emera Incorporated from Nova Scotia, Canada, controls the other portion of the market.[1]

When you go to the grocery market, the chances are that you are shopping in a supermarket owned by a foreign company.  When shopping at Hannaford you are actually doing business with the Netherlands-based company, Ahold Delhaize.  If you prefer to buy your groceries at Trader Joe’s then you

Article source: http://glocal.bangordailynews.com/2019/07/10/home/welcome-to-maine-open-for-international-business/

Ali Bramson clutched her neon pink umbrella as she trekked across the frozen lava that spilled from Amboy Crater in California’s Mojave Desert. She and her fellow University of Arizona graduate students were tasked with identifying the boundaries of different eruptions of the extinct volcano, then unfurling their bright umbrellas to mark the spot. From an airplane overhead, her professor and another student photographed the sites to record the findings.

“We compared where we had mapped the different lava flows from the ground to where we had mapped the lava flows based on images taken from above by airplanes and satellites,” said Bramson, who is now a postdoctoral research fellow at the UA’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, or LPL. “It was a great way to learn about how looking at geological features from different perspectives and spatial scales affects your interpretation.”

Bramson was one of the latest in a long history of LPL graduate students to take a planetary geology field trip to learn how Earth’s geological formations can serve as analogs to formations on the moon, Mars and beyond.

The tradition began more than 50 years ago – before Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin left their bootprints in the moon’s powdery soil – when UA researchers led by Gerard Kuiper worked with NASA to map and understand the Moon’s surface from a geological perspective.

To do so, Kuiper’s graduate students studied field geology, which spurred the formation of the UA Department of Planetary Science and the field trips within it.

“The smallest features

Article source: http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/A_desert_portal_to_other_worlds_999.html

Printed headline: MRO on the Go

The evolution of business models including Amazon Prime, Uber and Postmates has led to the average smartphone user having quick, easy access to products and services delivered to their doorstep on demand. The convenience factor of this business model is undeniable for consumers, but is it something that could be leveraged in the MRO space?

Engine repair and overhaul provider Dallas Airmotive thinks it can. The company says its F1rst Support field services model is targeted at providing the same type of instant satisfaction for customers needing help with aircraft-on-ground (AOG) events, unscheduled repairs and scheduled maintenance.

“If your aircraft is down in the middle of a desert or has to make an emergency landing in an unplanned destination due to an engine emergency, the operator only has to make a call or submit an online form to our website to get assistance, and our field service dispatchers will send a technician on-site as soon as possible,” says a representative for Dallas Airmotive.

The company says its field service technicians can be dispatched to an aircraft operator’s site within hours to provide engine repair, maintenance and troubleshooting support for business, general and military aviation as well as helicopter operators. The field service team is made up of more than 50 technicians who handle more than 5,000 field service events per year.

New Hampshire-based Pro Star Aviation provides a similar service called On-The-Fly Maintenance, which has seen the most success for AOG situations or avionics installations. Jeff Shaw, the company’s business

Article source: https://www.mro-network.com/operations/mro-delivered-your-doorstep

Products/Patents

These are the things that customers keep coming back to, even when they know that their privacy, security, etc are in question. So it’s a very important topic.

Samsung appears to have solved the screen problems that led it to recall its $1,980 Galaxy Fold soon after launch in April this year. A new class of phones that will help users double the screen size when required, but otherwise keep it small enough to fit in the pocket, the flexible design means a foldable screen that can peel off or crease, leading to malfunction of the device. This problem appears solved now, which means Samsung will have it for the holiday season, and possibly, challenge Apple AAPL, Huawei and other Chinese makers. But we don’t have a release date yet.

Apple will be having live concerts for people 16 years and older, featuring popular artists like Khalid, Bad Bunny, Jessie Reyez, King Princess, Lewis Capaldi, Daniel Caesar, and Ashley McBryde. The goal is to bring traffic to the stores and also promote Apple Music.

XDA Developers has discovered, according to endgadget, special Snapchat-like “Effects” in the camera that Google appears to be testing. There are five effects available, including your face in the middle of a cartoon airplane that flies away, balloons that float around your face, fireworks doing a similar thing, a

Article source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-roundup-litigation-products-prime-220010578.html

Ali Bramson clutched her neon pink umbrella as she trekked across the frozen lava that spilled from Amboy Crater in California’s Mojave Desert. She and her fellow University of Arizona graduate students were tasked with identifying the boundaries of different eruptions of the extinct volcano, then unfurling their bright umbrellas to mark the spot. From an airplane overhead, her professor and another student photographed the sites to record the findings.

“We compared where we had mapped the different lava flows from the ground to where we had mapped the lava flows based on images taken from above by airplanes and satellites,” said Bramson, who is now a postdoctoral research fellow at the UA’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, or LPL. “It was a great way to learn about how looking at geological features from different perspectives and spatial scales affects your interpretation.”

Bramson was one of the latest in a long history of LPL graduate students to take a planetary geology field trip to learn how Earth’s geological formations can serve as analogs to formations on the moon, Mars and beyond.

The tradition began more than 50 years ago – before Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin left their bootprints in the moon’s powdery soil – when UA researchers led by Gerard Kuiper worked with NASA to map and understand the moon’s surface from a geological perspective.

To do so, Kuiper’s graduate students studied field geology, which spurred the formation of the UA Department of Planetary Science and the field trips within

Article source: https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/desert-portal-other-worlds

Boeing Co. is poised to lose its place as the world’s largest plane maker to Airbus SE after a reign of seven years, as its jetliner deliveries fell by more than a third in the first half of 2019 with the grounding of its 737 MAX aircraft.

The U.S. aerospace giant’s best-selling MAX has been barred by safety regulators from flying passengers for almost four months, far longer than Boeing, its investors and airlines expected. Consumers have expressed misgivings about getting on the plane again, and a dearth of new sales to…

Article source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-737-max-grounding-hits-jetliner-deliveries-11562686324