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Mankato’s Minneopa Valley Press intends to publish books that capture the “complications and complexities” of rural life. The press can be proud of its first endeavor, Jill Kalz’s debut short-story collection “The Winter Bees.” Although I have reservations about the book, one thing I don’t doubt is Kalz’s reading of the human heart.
Set in and around New Ulm, Minn., these 10 intertwined stories concern Ana Zins, bartender; Shirley Reichman, bookstore owner; and Herman Engelmann, farmer/aviator, among others. I appreciate Kalz’s writing about them and about German-Americans, an ethnic group generally ignored in American literature. I also appreciate her ability to find beauty in this small town, where images of bees, flowers and honey sometimes comfort the lonely.
In “Last Call,” nothing new happens in Ana’s Saloon — night after night the same talk about the weather, about sauerkraut and potato dumplings, about the owner’s psoriasis. Encouraging a potential suitor to stay in town, a lonely, aging Ana Zins says, “The whole southern Minnesota is in some sort of watch. … Looks like we’re right in the middle of it all. Montevideo clear down to Albert Lea.” Before the visitor leaves once the weather clears, perhaps forever, he buys Ana the painted tulips “her cousin Otto made from wood.”
Life is also bittersweet for Shirley Reichman in “The Humming Bee.” In her bookstore, she must deal with a “slow” Joe Portner, who claims he’ll eventually buy all of her books about bees. Seemingly one of the few contented characters
Article source: http://www.startribune.com/review-the-winter-bees-by-jill-kalz/500084631/
TL;DR
It appears that crypto has come a long way in recent years. The industry’s supporters and community members have been pushing hard to secure wider adoption, and those efforts have already felt. While cryptos are still far from becoming a mainstream form of payment, a lot of online shops are already accepting them.
One such shop is a venture named Pilot Shop, belonging to a startup called Aeron, which offers items related to aviation. Among other products, the shop recently offered an airplane, more specifically — 2007 Columbia 350 SL. The model can be purchased for €268,000, which is currently equal to 31,603.77 BNB, or 446,666.67 ARN. Right now, the plane is being kept in Austria, and it has had 604 flight hours during its lifetime.
— Aeron (@aeron_aero) November 8, 2018
The owner of the aircraft is probably unknown, but their decision to accept crypto as a form of payment is fascinating to a lot of people. Furthermore, the decision to receive BNB payments was welcomed by a lot of outlets, which have announced that they might do the same.
This might lead to an entirely new use
Article source: https://cryptopotato.com/an-airplane-on-sell-for-bnb-will-the-binance-token-become-a-mainstream-crypto-way-of-payment/
Some challenges require more than just logging on to the world’s largest search engine.
Take, for example, the design and construction of Google’s new offices in Playa Vista: a four-story office built inside the historic Spruce Goose hangar, which is not only the size of six football fields but is made almost entirely out of wood making it arguably the city’s largest wick.
Last month, the doors to Google’s new offices quietly opened and on Thursday Google employees, the architects behind the design of the new office — ZGF Architects — along with several elected officials including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and local council member Mike Bonin and guests were on hand for a limited tour of the new space. Photos, even those taken by Android phones, were prohibited.
At 450,000 square feet, the structure was at one point the largest all-wood structure in the world and the space is packed with interesting design components that melded the old and the new while offering up relics of L.A. and Hollywood history (the hangar has been the setting for a handful of movies including Titanic and Transformers among others). It is replete with every office amenity that a Silicon Valley engineer can dream up: conference and phone rooms, several food spots, a fitness center, Instagram walls, a
Article source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/inside-googles-playa-vista-offices-haunted-stairwells-paper-airplane-pads-1159730
Ever since the Wright brothers developed their airplane that flew (on my birthday 22 years before I was born) and Henry Ford set up production lines for his Model T flivvers, people have been dreaming of flying automobiles.
So far the skies are filled with airplanes and the freeways are filled with cars, but they are two different species.
Now, in a magazine called The Future of Everything, I found an article by Dan Neil, who primarily reviews the latest cars for the Wall Street Journal, reporting he has test flown an electric aerial vehicle that he calls an aeromobiles-aeros. The headline on the story warns readers not to call them “flying cars.”
The new generation of aeros are vertical-take-off-and-landing vehicles, or VTOLs.
What he tested was a Kitty Hawk Flyer.
“Kitty Hawk has set up its base on the sunny shore of Lake Las Vegas in Nevada, a sort of training range and party spot, with a beached houseboat for a reception area and paddleboards sprinkled amid the Quonset-like hangars,” he wrote.
He explained “The single-seat open-cockpit, 10 rotor machine is designed to give civilian guests – VC funders, policy makers, even car reviewers – a first taste of VTOL flight. Kitty Hawk’s management believes the aeromobile industry’s long play requires building grass-roots support. Actually, with only a 20-minute flight time, the Flyer isn’t good for much more than evangelizing.”
Five of the rotors turn clockwise and the other five spin counterclockwise to provide stability during the flight.
He wrote, you would have to very dull not
Article source: https://www.avpress.com/valley_life/forget-flying-cars-aerial-vehicles-get-a-new-lift/article_3bcbd280-e314-11e8-a5b7-9f0de2064502.html
Boeing has issued a safety bulletin to all airlines that operate the Boeing 737 Max aircraft, and the Federal Aviation Administration is expected to follow with an Airworthiness Directive mandating safety protocols for U.S. carriers.
The moves by Boeing and the FAA follow the Oct. 29 crash of a 2-month-old Lion Air Boeing 737 Max jet that killed all 189 onboard when the plane plunged into the sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia.
Safety regulators of other nations typically follow directives issued by the FAA.
The focus in the crash investigation appears to have turned to the flight data sensor and the possibility it returned erroneous readings.
Two U.S. airlines fly the Boeing 737 Max 8. Southwest has 26 while American Airlines has 16. Combined, the airlines have hundreds more on order.
United Airlines flies another variant, the 737 Max 9, which also is covered by Boeing’s bulletin. None of those U.S. airlines have reported the issue covered by Boeing’s bulletin regarding its 737 Max aircraft.
Bloomberg News was the first to report that the FAA planned to issue an airworthiness directive for the 737 Max. Bloomberg wrote that “under some circumstances, such as when pilots are flying manually, the Max jets will automatically try to push down the nose if they detect that an
Article source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2018/11/07/boeing-737-max-faa-sensor-safety-updates/1918205002/
Zhu Yue and his friends build a full-scale replica of the Airbus A320 plane, in Kaiyuan, Liaoning Province on April 3. Photo: VCG
Zhu Yue, a 40-year-old farmer turned mechanic, has built an airplane. Even though it can’t fly.
Hailing from Kaiyuan, Northeast China’s Liaoning Province, Zhu made a life-scale replica of an Airbus A320 measuring 37.8 meters long, 36 meters wide, and 12 meters tall.
The airplane has almost finished construction and is now having its cockpit built and interior furnished.
“Although it can’t fly like a real A320, I want to make it the most authentic model of an A320 in China,” Zhu told the Global Times. He said so far, he had spent over 2.6 million yuan ($380,000). He has used over 60 tons of steel, the first of many reasons it could never fly.
Zhu Yue welds a model turbine on the plane in Kaiyuan, Liaoning Province on April 3. Photo: VCG
Flying dream
In 1986, China Central Television aired the news of how American aviators Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world on Voyageur, an airplane designed by themselves. The news marveled many Chinese who hadn’t yet had a chance to fly, including Zhu, who was then 8 years old. He hoped he could make a plane and pilot one, just like the two Americans.
But Zhu knows with his knowledge and budget, he would never be able to build a plane that flies. Like may children in China’s rural areas, he dropped out of
Article source: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1126614.shtml
