Sunday, May 4, 2014
Saturday, May 3, 2014
The Mach Loop in Wales
Over at Chant du Depart, there's a post up on what is called the Mach Loop in the UK, used to train military pilots in low level, high speed flying.
The map of the loop.
Some awesome flying.
Dude sits down at a public piano in a railway station,
and proceeds to light the ivories on fire! Preach it, son!
Newspapers are fast fading from the American landscape
From Frontpagemag:
"Newspaper print advertising revenues of just $17.3 billion in 2013 fell to the lowest level of print advertising since the NAA started tracking industry data in 1950. In constant 2013 dollars, advertising revenues last year were $2.7 billion (and 13.5%) below the $20 billion spent in 1950, 62 years ago. Print advertising last year was almost $2 billion below the level of $19.2 billion in 2012, which was the first year that print advertising revenues fell below the 1950 level."
That's a "crash and burn" statistic if there ever was one. Soon, physical newspapers will join the buggy whip manufactures in the dust bin of history.
The local rag here in Sacramento is admittedly better than it used to be in the amount of rank political bias it tries to sell, but it is still, by and large, a propaganda organ for the dominant political party.
My wife likes the routine of reading a paper with her coffee every morning, so we still subscribe, but I last read one over a decade ago. As soon as I found the internet, I realized I could get my news at least a day earlier and without the bias my local bleat tries to push. That's not to say the internet is always accurate, or without bias, but there they are at least up front about where they are coming from, and the better sites are quick to correct any errors.
The future is electronic, and up front about the world view they are coming from. It will be better for everyone when that transformation is complete.
"Newspaper print advertising revenues of just $17.3 billion in 2013 fell to the lowest level of print advertising since the NAA started tracking industry data in 1950. In constant 2013 dollars, advertising revenues last year were $2.7 billion (and 13.5%) below the $20 billion spent in 1950, 62 years ago. Print advertising last year was almost $2 billion below the level of $19.2 billion in 2012, which was the first year that print advertising revenues fell below the 1950 level."
That's a "crash and burn" statistic if there ever was one. Soon, physical newspapers will join the buggy whip manufactures in the dust bin of history.
The local rag here in Sacramento is admittedly better than it used to be in the amount of rank political bias it tries to sell, but it is still, by and large, a propaganda organ for the dominant political party.
My wife likes the routine of reading a paper with her coffee every morning, so we still subscribe, but I last read one over a decade ago. As soon as I found the internet, I realized I could get my news at least a day earlier and without the bias my local bleat tries to push. That's not to say the internet is always accurate, or without bias, but there they are at least up front about where they are coming from, and the better sites are quick to correct any errors.
The future is electronic, and up front about the world view they are coming from. It will be better for everyone when that transformation is complete.
How do the climate change computer models take events like this into consideration?
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) photographed these striking views of Pavlof Volcano on May 18, 2013. The oblique perspective from the ISS reveals the three dimensional structure of the ash plume, which is often obscured by the top-down view of most remote sensing satellites.
Situated in the Aleutian Arc about 625 miles (1,000 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage, Pavlof began erupting on May 13, 2013. The volcano jetted lava into the air and spewed an ash cloud 20,000 feet (6,000 meters) high. When photograph ISS036-E-2105 (top) was taken, the space station was about 475 miles south-southeast of the volcano (49.1° North latitude, 157.4° West longitude). The volcanic plume extended southeastward over the North Pacific Ocean. Image Credits: ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.
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