Model Airplanes

Civilizations rise and fall, and the West is in the autumn of its ascendancy, many prognosticators have warned. Among them is Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (shown, right), who said Friday that “the Western, liberal model of society is dying, and a new world order is taking its place,” as Tsarizm relates it.

Of course, this would just be the new, new, new, new world order (unless I’m missing one), or, maybe, New World Order 4.0. The NWO idea dates back to the end of WWI and President Woodrow Wilson’s vision for world peace; the phrase was uttered a bit later by Adolf Hitler; much later by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev; and, most famously, by President George H.W. Bush in a 1991 speech.

Yet what Lavrov is actually talking about is the New World’s (and Europe’s) disorder, which is leading to their decline. As Tsarizm also writes, “Lavrov declared today [4/12] that the Western, liberal model of society is dying, and a new world order is taking its place. Lavrov made the comments at his annual meeting with students and professors at the Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy, reported Russian state news agency TASS.”

“The Western liberal model of development, which particularly stipulates a partial loss of national sovereignty — this is what our Western colleagues aimed at when they invented what they called globalization — is losing its attractiveness and is no more viewed as a perfect model for all. Moreover, many people in the very western

Article source: https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/32022-the-new-new-world-order-and-the-russian-care-bear

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Insiders recognize that Larry McKay is a rare species in the lumber processing industry.

As the owner of Mountainside Unloading Ltd., he is under contract to operate the Louisiana-Pacific woodyard in Swan River, MB. “I am pretty blessed that they’ve given us this good job,” he said. “L-P usually likes to run its own yards, with its own equipment. But we’re providing a good service to them and they seem to like us.”

Mountainside Unloading opened for business in 2006, across the road from L-P’s OSB mill 300 mi. northwest of Winnipeg. At that time, McKay took over the yard from the original owners who founded it. L-P has diversified Swan River’s product range since then including OSB. Today the mill is processing approximately a million board feet of finished product per day.

“We Do It All”

Mountainside Unloading handles all the yard duties for the mill: unloading trucks, stockpiling the yard and feeding wood to the mill’s six conditioning ponds. When McKay acquired the business, it came with seven Prentice ATL 625 loaders. Last year, he sold off the last of his 625s and completed his transition to an all-green fleet of SENNEBOGEN 830 M-T log handlers. “I loved those old red machines,” he said. “Prentice made a good machine. But now they’ve been replaced by a great machine.”

The Sennebogen 830 M-T is a purpose-built model for woodyard applications. It is a compact 91,300-lb. loader mounted on

Article source: https://www.constructionequipmentguide.com/mountainside-unloading-services-mill-with-sennebogen-log-handlers/44613

Susan Orlean is the best-selling author of such books as The Orchid Thief and most recently The Library Book, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker. She is also obsessed with luggage, is a firm believer in carry-on luggage, and prefers to travel without any plan. At all. “It puts you in touch with how ignorant you are and how wrong you are,” she says. “I think it’s the only authentic way to travel.”

What does your travel schedule look like?

I travel a lot—I do a lot of lectures, and that’s separate from the book tour. Probably 10 – 12 a year. And then we [Susan and her husband and son] go back and forth to New York when we can. It would be a very rare month that I didn’t travel. I don’t want to complain because obviously it’s a marvelous thing but there are times when I think, oh my god, I really want to be home.

Do you ever just go to a beach to relax?

We’re not beach people. We’re not good at going and doing nothing. We’d much rather go somewhere interesting and beautiful than just beautiful. 

Packing

Do you keep a packing list?

I’ve tried lists and they never work for me. The closest I’ve come to a list is to have a short list of the things that

Article source: https://lifehacker.com/im-susan-orlean-author-of-the-library-book-and-this-i-1834084691

The individual parts for the previous wing were cut using a waterjet system, and it took several minutes to make each part, Jenett says. The new system uses injection molding with polyethylene resin in a complex 3D mold, and produces each part—essentially a hollow cube made up of matchstick-size struts along each edge—in just 17 seconds, he says, which brings it a long way closer to scalable production levels.

“Now we have a manufacturing method,” he says. While there’s an upfront investment in tooling, once that’s done, “the parts are cheap,” he says. “We have boxes and boxes of them, all the same.”

The resulting lattice, he says, has a density of 5.6 kilograms per cubic meter. By way of comparison, rubber has a density of about 1,500 kilograms per cubic meter. “They have the same stiffness, but ours has less than roughly one-thousandth of the density,” Jenett says.

Because the overall configuration of the wing or other structure is built up from tiny subunits, it really doesn’t matter what the shape is. “You can make any geometry you want,” he says. “The fact that most aircraft are the same shape”—essentially a tube with wings—”is because of expense. It’s not always the most efficient shape.” But massive investments in design, tooling, and production processes make it easier to stay with long-established configurations.

Studies have shown that an integrated body and wing structure could be far more efficient for many applications, he says, and with this system those could be easily built, tested, modified, and

Article source: https://www.ecnmag.com/news/2019/04/mit-and-nasa-engineers-demonstrate-new-kind-airplane-wing