Model Airplanes

If anyone ever confronted Trump with Kirsebom’s insult, he’d probably have a hard time comprehending her complaint. In Trump’s world, treating a roomful of women as an IRL round of Hot or Not is neither vulgar nor misogynist. It’s how men and women are meant to interact. To Trump, “tits” and legs—plus a little child care, maybe—comprise the entirety of a woman’s existence. She is a collection of fleshy, bony, smooth, or spotted parts that, when taken together, add up to something either fuckable or unfuckable.

Article source: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/10/04/donald_trump_almost_made_a_model_cry_by_judging_women_s_tits_at_a_1993_dinner.html

Some of the information is missing

Eric Holdeman | October 2, 2016

As I read this article, Pacific coast tsunami-risk maps: Building codes tweaked so we’ll survive, I was thinking about all the bad information that people are picking up from it and the maps. It appears to me that the average person reading this information and viewing the different maps would be thinking that the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake is going to cause a tsunami in Puget Sound that could be catastrophic.

The reality is that the map models shown for inundation areas in the Puget Sound are for a Seattle fault. For instance, the Port of Tacoma it is 15 feet of water at what is now the Port administration building. The Cascadia fault could cause some tidal water fluctuations in Puget Sound, but not to the extent of what these maps show. I would not be loading and unloading ships or ferries, but there will be no “significant” wave action like on the Washington Coast. There the maps are very accurate as to the impact.

It is a pretty common question I get about the threat of a tsunami in Puget Sound from a Cascadia Subduction Earthquake. It is important that we give people good information so that they understand what the risks are for each hazard. 

In this case there was not enough information given to differentiate between tsunamis or seiches.

The other item I’ll mention is that it is unlikely that people will spend the extra money to

Article source: http://www.emergencymgmt.com/emergency-blogs/disaster-zone/tsunami-maps-for-the-west-coast-of-the-united-states.html

We have all read those Internet stories that one of our relatives sends us that claims this or that knowledge. This one below came from my sister, Cheryl. I’ve redacted some of it that I have absolutely no knowledge of and left the rest. I don’t know about all the numbers and predictive dates for events, but the gist of the message is clear. Technology is changing everything. I call it an era of “Hyper-technology” and it is already upon us.

It would be better for everyone to look at their world and work with a new set of eyes that have a technological lens.

 The Future?

In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85 percent of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, its business model disappeared and Kodak went bankrupt. What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 years – and most people won’t see it coming. Did you think in 1998 that three years later you would never take pictures on film again?

Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975 [Kodak was a leader]. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels but followed Moore’s law. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a long time before it became way superior and got mainstream in just a few short years. It will now happen with artificial intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs. Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution. Welcome to the exponential

Article source: http://www.emergencymgmt.com/emergency-blogs/disaster-zone/the-future.html

Inside a hangar across from the runway and terminal building at Helena Regional Airport, history is being restored.

Fabric and sheet metal, steel tubing, gas tanks, cables, rivets, wheels, wings and struts are all coming together, and out of it is emerging a 1946 Piper Cub Super Cruiser.

Some of the airplane’s fabric skin already has the white paint with distinctive red striping it will sport the day it rolls from its hangar, and with the flip of a switch the engine coughs to life and the prop begins to spin.

“I’m five years into a four-year project,” said Doug Monger, who spends his summer days in the hangar restoring the airplane that was all but lost to a 2001 crash near the rural airstrip outside of Benchmark on the Rocky Mountain Front.

He acquired it from another owner who had purchased the wreckage and was collecting parts to use in its restoration. What Monger received, he said, “was just a pile of parts.”

“My goal was to have this flyable by the time ski season started this year,” he said and smiled.

An opportunity for travel, one he said is too good to pass up, will interrupt his work later this year. The arrival of ski season will seal the delay.

Assembling a future

This is the second airplane Monger has restored. The first one, also a 1946 Super Cruiser and just a few serial numbers distant from the one he’s currently working on, sits in a nearby hangar. Its appearance belies its 70 years. It leaps

Article source: http://helenair.com/news/local/top-headlines-at-helenair-com-sept--oct/collection_6bd852e2-8997-11e6-a0eb-2f49654d1d61.html

Watchmakers in Switzerland are reeling from fourteen straight months of falling exports, but a small firm in Henley-on-Thames, England — better known for its annual Royal Regatta than fine timepieces — is rowing against the tide.

Aided by a plunge in the pound, U.K. sales of Bremont watches have surged since the country voted in June to leave the European Union, co-founder Giles English said. That’s helping the company overcome a steep drop in watch sales in Hong Kong that’s contributing to the Swiss woes.

“It’s been very positive,” English said in an interview in a Portakabin conference room, one of four erected outside the chalet-style headquarters that the firm has outgrown. “Suddenly, it’s put Britain on the map again, in a weird way. We’ve always been waving this flag. Our whole thing’s been telling the story of British watchmaking.”

The success of Bremont shows how the Brexit referendum is helping some U.K. luxury goods companies, at least in the short term, as the country draws wealthy visitors lured by lower prices. While Bremont is closely held, shares of other U.K. luxury-goods companies, including Burberry Group Plc and Mulberry Group Plc, have surged since the referendum.

Swiss Brands

Swiss watch brands owned by the likes of Cie Financiere Richemont SA, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE

Article source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-03/brexit-boosts-british-watchmaker-bremont-as-swiss-suffer