Directions to the farm

N to JVY go north past 2nd quarry.
Veer left (before Memphis) and travel up that "valley" to Greenville. US60.
Hang a left before the lake.]

PS. I have just found out that winds "veer" to the right and "back" to the left. This leads me to think that my directions are inaccurate, as you would "back" to the left before Memphis.

BUT, that is actually wrong. When a wind veers, it is the direction the wind is coming from that changes to the right. So perhaps the wind, from its own point of view, is veering to the left.

Looking at an airplane in motion as similar to air in motion being a wind, shouldn't an airplane "veer" when it is changing direction to the left? I guess the directions to the farm stand uncorrected.

Airport Extreme Update. Whoo Hoo!!!!!

The other day I clicked thru on one of those automatic updates from Apple. One of them must have spoken to our Airport Extreme (wireless router).

This morning, I noticed that the pre-Leopard flat-panel iMac (which I just moved from the back room to the living room) had an active wireless icon on it. It was online with the wireless!!! I told Frank he could put his drill away, which he had out to drill holes in the hardwood floor to string ethernet to the living room.

THEN, I went and pulled out our Fujitsu tablet computer (running Windows 2000) and IT found the Wireless as well!!!!

So, now I have the imac flat panel in the living room. It can display family photos and play music through those wonderful speakers, AND we aren't deprived of the necessary internet port.

The tablet computer is again going be available for StumbleUpon, which makes it a wonderful interactive, portable magazine.

Comfort!!

Mima's oatmeal cookies

2 eggs, beaten
2 c light brown sugar (subst. 1/4 c gran sugar)
2 sticks butter, melted
1 c raisins
1 c black walnuts
2 c flour w. 1 t baking powder & a pinch of salt
4 c oats
1 t soda dissolved in 1 T warm water

375º for 10 minutes

Dear Oprah, Barack, Bill, and Rush

Let's encourage everyone to gift themselves, their families, the country and the world with a gift that keeps on giving. The Gift is 80%.

As we all cut back on unnecessary and un-productive consumption, we can cut the prices we charge and/or the hours we expect to work to 80% of our current (recent?) level.

Bingo. Prices are back where most people can afford them. All of us have more time to improve quality of life. No need to lay off people.

Life is good. There is plenty of work to be done. Of course we can do it.

(And let's get a move on health care reform.)

Video of Private Pilot Oral Exam

Go figure

PSYCHOLOGY: Don't Get Even, Stay Mad

Gilbert Chin
Declarations of unintentionality ("I didn't mean to hurt you") often suffice to defuse tense situations and to reduce or eliminate vengeful responses to a harmful act. But does the reining in of aggressive behavior reflect deliberate and effortful control of those impulses, or does the claim of a lack of purpose serve to dissolve one's anger?

Using a social evaluation setting, Krieglmeyer et al. obtain evidence linking the attribution of intention to a conscious overriding of impulsive aggression.

They presented students with positive or negative ratings (from an unseen partner) of their ideas for naming a new energy drink; half of the students who had received negative feedback were then told that their partner had mistaken the high-low direction of the rating scale and had in fact intended to assign them positive marks.

When assessed specifically for anger using an implicit measure and for behavior by means of the same rating scale, this set of students displayed a lower level of aggression as compared to the students whose negative assessments had been intentional (although they still exhibited a higher level of hostility than the students who had received positive ratings initially).

In contrast, learning that the negative ratings had been delivered in error and that the actual intent had been to send positive feedback had no effect on the levels of implicit anger. -- GJC

J. Exp. Soc. Psych. 44, 10.1016/j/jesp.2008.10.003 (2008).

Colin Powell and good sense. Watch the video!

Exactly! Right! Don't just read it, watch the video linked to this title.

constant-speed propeller

The short-and-sweet version, as per Jim:
Different settings for climb, cruise, etc. will be in the POH.

Remember, going uP, Prop first; going down, throttle first.

Once airborne, RPM becomes your prop reading and manifold pressure becomes your throttle reading.

To lean, you really have to use a Engine Gas Temperature gauge. Trying to do it by manifold pressure is just not good.

PS.
BJ passed his private pilot test. Ka-ching!

Fwd: Amy& Cayuse reunion

pax,

Maggie

http://randomlight.blogspot.com

"The difference between one and more than one is all the difference in the world.  Indeed, it is the world."  --LeGuin

Begin forwarded message:

From: Maggie Hettinger <mhettinger@mac.com>
Date: August 19, 2008 11:09:17 AM EDT
To: Beth Peña <bethpena9@hotmail.com>, Amy Hettinger <amyhettinger@gmail.com>, Laura Hettinger <laurahettinger@gmail.com>, Natalie Hettinger <natalie.hettinger@wku.edu>, Frank Hettinger <iueclou@bellsouth.net>, Marcella Herde <maherde@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Amy& Cayuse reunion

pax,
Maggie

http://randomlight.blogspot.com

"The difference between one and more than one is all the difference in the world.  Indeed, it is the world."  --LeGuin

Dad is heavy into research. Loves the Internet.

parachute usage

Do I need to wear a parachute when doing aerobatics in my homebuilt?


Parachute usage is covered in 14 CFR 91.307. Section (c) of this regulation applies to aircraft during aerobatic maneuvers. It states:

"(c) Unless each occupant of the aircraft is wearing an approved parachute, no pilot of a civil aircraft carrying any person (other than a crewmember) may execute any intentional maneuver that exceeds --

(1) A bank of 60 degrees relative to the horizon; or

(2) A nose-up or nose-down attitude of 30 degrees relative to the horizon."

Note that this regulation states that, during aerobatic flight, all persons in the aircraft must have a parachute whenever people OTHER THAN CREWMEMBER(S) are carried. Therefore, when the only person on board is the pilot, and no others are carried, a parachute is not required. However, when a passenger is carried in an aircraft during aerobatics, all persons on board INCLUDING crewmember(s) are required to be wearing parachutes

PSYCHOLOGY: Socialized Learning

Gilbert Chin
The ventral and dorsal neural streams that mediate the visual processing of objects have been described as specializing in what and where, respectively; that is, information about object identity flows through a different channel than that about object location. A related distinction applies to object perception for the purpose of action (where my car is parked) as contrasted with the purpose of recognition (my car is green). Yoon et al. demonstrate that pre-verbal infants (9 months old) form object representations that exhibit a similar dissociation between location and identity--and that the mode of information transmittal dictates the channel of reception. Introducing an explicitly social teaching context by having an actor point to an object while speaking to the infant biased the infant to remember the object's features such that a subsequent presentation of the same object at a second location did not evoke surprise (as assessed by looking time), whereas displaying a new object at the original location did. Conversely, reaching toward an object while verbalizing in an impersonal fashion primed the retention of where information rather than what. Adults, of course, have no difficulty in retaining and retrieving both types of representations, but the nascent neural processing capacities of infants appear to be influenced by social context as well as visual fundamentals. -- GJC

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 105, 13690 (2008).

Patrick's piano lesson

Parallels Fix

I spent all morning trying to fix a problem with Parallels (or the WinXP hard drive file) or whatever. In the process I learned a lot about Time Machine (but not enough to reinstall Parallels).

The actual fix (crossed fingers that it's complete) I came upon by accident. I had been reinstalling Parallels from CD, but something was still missing from drivers or something. Looking for tech support, I tried to figure out what version I had, and for no reason clicked on Upgrade (or was it update?).

The update (to version 3) downloaded, installed itself, installed ParallelsTools, and seems to be working fine. Whew!

I leave this note to remind myself to Reinstall from the web next time instead of going back to the old CD's.

I have to have Parallels to run XP to run Ground School and AOPA Flight Planner.

Michelle & Patrick's big shoes

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Kim (from girl scouts) and Caleb

Kim recognized me at the grocery.  Caleb is 13 months old.  They live in Shepherdsville. Kim and Sarah R and one of the other girls from our troop still hang out together.  We should get together.

Obama: What you didn't see at the Republican Convention.

(My response to video above. Click title to see video.)

Dear Senator Obama,
Thank you for your amazing effort.

We are heartened to hear your support of Unions, union goals (regarding healthcare & benefits), also (I'm assuming) your understanding that much of the work a union does is fight to maintain standards of safety and healthcare for the members. I also hope you understand that this particular fight anchors the safety and healthcare standards of all workers at the same time.

We would be very heartened if we heard these concerns and commitments expressed to other-than-union audiences. I have had my belly full of politicians who "tailor" their message to the audience to gain their approval, but don't hold that same message for the general public.

Give us a sign! ...ummmm, maybe more than one.

Sarah Palin: Reigniting the Culture War

Clearly the pick of an anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-science extremist wrapped in a folksy hockey-mom package has fired up the base in ways that even McCain's pledge to pack the Courts with right-wing judges has failed to do.

Lima beans for soup tonight