Laura Wider Op pictures

AOPA Engine & Propeller course

Patty Shuffett Ayers

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> Patty was our friend, Beth and Amy's babysitter. What a sweetheart!
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From the closet

Garfield and Stripes are lying in the sun.
They both look half asleep--now I am done.

(probably a poetry assignment)

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

http://www.goodnaturepublishing.com/poem.htm

Carmel brought this to Thanksgiving. Recommended reading.

Stay-home Friday project.

will's speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijXmTfb_Fww

:)

Natalie's birthday

Love in a Paper Cup

Amy made a quick recording of this song, which I like. She's also got new songs on her myspace.com/amylousings.

Light up Shelbyville

A little order

Short or Soft-field Takeoff (alternating)
Vx
Vy
Cruise Checklist
Turns around a point
8s on Pylons
S-Turns
Chandelle
Lazy Eights
Descent Checklist
Emergency Procedure
Pre-landing checklist
Power-off landing or No-flap landing
After-Landing checklist

Also steep turns 50º

Mr. Clinton singing with Liel

Visit with Amy

It was great! Now we know how to do it.

Assembler game: Physics

Morning after

Mr. Spock

Still porch weather

Stew, tomatoes & cukes (yes, out of the garden, still), leaves blowing
everywhere!

Description of homemade preheater

Jeff Pardo says,

Perhaps born of Yankee ingenuity is a preheating option available in the flying club to which I belong. Years ago, some inventive soul removed the blades from a secondhand lawnmower, installed a sheet-metal cover under it, and attached a flexible hose to its discharge chute so that its main product became hot air. Even though it is the old pull-cord type, since there is no blade there is little inertia to overcome, and it's very easy to start. We simply direct the flexible hose upwards toward the engine by the nosewheel well, using any number of convenient points for attaching it via a hook installed at its business end. We are careful not to direct heated air directly onto fuel, oil, or hydraulic lines! Twenty minutes later: a warm engine. Lacking such inspiration, however, the accumulated expense of paying your FBO to send a lineman out with a preheater is still likely less than that of an engine overhaul.

Jeff Pardo is an aviation writer in Maryland with a commercial private pilot certificate for airplanes, and instrument, helicopter, and glider ratings. He has logged about 1,100 hours in 12 years of flying. An AirLifeLine mission pilot, Pardo has also flown for the Civil Air Patrol. Click link for full article.

autumn morning flight

Airworthy

Mnemonic-Pre-maneuver checklist

Always clear the area, don't be a Fool.
(fool-->)Fuel, Cool*, Mixture, Prop,
Lights, Lights, Buckle up and Go.

*cowl flaps open.

Amelia Movie get-together

Hope to see you there!
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Health-care anecdote

Not written by me.

Thu, 10/15/2009 - 22:49 — Doctors are ok with public service
My dad was a doctor in Canada BEFORE "socialized" medicine. He trained as an intern making $125.00 (yes $125.00) a month and working an average 90-hour week. When socialized medicine came in, he and his friends grumbled. A few (very few) moved to USA. Most of them continued to treat the sick for 20, 30, 40 years. They never asked any committee if it was ok to treat someone - they still don't. Canadian doctors easily make $250K a year and specialists more. It is OK.

We the patients like our doctors to do OK. We also like it that we can go and get CARE any time of the day or night - for free!! We like it that we can call an ambulance and not have to write a check. We like it that we can have an operation and not sell the house- or anything for that matter- to pay for it. We like it that the Government is the "insurer", because it is the mandate of the government to provide essential services. Yes critical heart surgery (for example) IS an essential service. Just like clean water out of your tap. Who would argue with that? Only deranged lunatic profiteers intent on commercializing every aspect of life.

Sunrise KLOU

Sunrise KLOU

Principles of Learning as per Aviation

Principles of learning Remember to REE-hash the PRI-nciples
REE-PRI
Readiness, Effect, Exercise (Thorndyke)
Primacy, Recency, Intensity

Readiness: Any learning is based on some type of previous experience that provides the foundation (no, that's not it). "Individuals learn best when they are emotionally, mentally, and physically ready to learn, and they do not learn well when they see no reason for doing it. " Instructors can be in a position to provide motivation.

Exercise: Any skill, whether manual or cognitive, must be repeated and/or applied regularly or it will be lost. Better: "Those things most often repeated are best remembered. This is the basis of drill-and-practice." I need to repeat this a lot. This says a lot for the CAP-style practice of maneuvers in a consistent sequence.

Effect: (beats me. I couldn't remember this one in college, either). "Learning is strengthened when accompanied by a pleasant emotion." Oh, yeah. I can picture one of my professors who used the word a lot, but I can't remember her name. She was an exceptionally good school principle who eventually got swallowed up by the computers at Spalding U. That was in the years when all the very best people in all the schools got suckered into setting up and maintaining the obsolete IBM computers that the schools insisted on buying, and 10 or 15 years drained into a bottomless pit. A lot of unpleasant emotion floating around during those years. Negative EFFECT had quite an effect.

Primacy: The first learning of a skill or concept is the strongest, therefore it is essential that things be taught well the first time. "Things learned first create a strong impression in the mind that is difficult to erase." Well said. Somehow good lesson plans fall into this category. ??!

Recency: "Information acquired last is usually remembered best." The instructor can repeat, restate & reemphasize at the end of the lesson to take advantage of this.

Intensity: The highly emotional or otherwise multi-layer experience will be more strongly learned than a simple experience. "A sharp, vivid, exciting, emotional experience teaches more than a routine or boring experience." Ahh. Enter scenario-based flight training.

REE-PRI

When you're READY for EFFECT in the EXERCISE of flight,
PRIME the engine, and lock the knob in tight.
Not RECENT, but clear, is the crucial lesson learned--
INTENSITY unwanted for lack of metal turned.

gah.

Laura's NPR interview "Life in Berlin"

Laura Bean on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

Article about Laura's neighborhood in Berlin

Surfacing - A Berlin Hub’s Arty Spinoff - NYTimes.com

N41639 art deco

Eagle Flyer for Peter

Who wants the last stuffed pepper?

for newsletter, etc.

America's Heart & Soul: George Woodard, Charles Jimmie Sr., The Vasquez Brothers, Frank Pino, David Pino, John 'Yac' Yacobellis, Patty Wag

Amazon.com: America's Heart & Soul: George Woodard, Charles Jimmie Sr., The Vasquez Brothers, Frank Pino, David Pino, John 'Yac' Yacobellis, Patty Wagstaff, Paul Stone, Ed Holt, Weirton Steelworkers, Rev. Cecil Williams, Janice Miriktani, Louis Schwartzberg, Brian Funck, Brian E. Frankish, Grady Candler, Jake Eberts, Vincent Ueber: Movies & TV

We just watched the most engaging, engrossing film. Came in the middle of it, and didn't know what we were watching, but I was totally hooked. Then I went to the link above to buy it.

Levi

Chef Alex

Today's entertainment

99s, Shawnee Student Pilots, Alex & Cozy Mark IV

Chicken n dumplings

Today we wandered around the "World's Most Amazing Flea Market" for a few hours, and then came home to chicken in the pot.

A Brief Guide to all the Races

Interesting.

Touring Machine Company � Blog Archive � Garmin GNS 430W/530W—Basics

Touring Machine Company � Blog Archive � Garmin GNS 430W/530W—Basics

To Brett Guthrie (R)

I was sorry to receive your email that did not support the White House's call to pass health-care reform. I have good insurance, and I am constantly aware of the work that is done in our family's behalf to keep the employer/union benefit plan solvent. My oldest daughter was caught by a "glitch" in her insurance. The health-care provider and the insurance company, between them, left us with a $85,000 bill that we had to pay cash for, for necessary services that should have been covered. This is a difficult debt to be paying down. Our youngest daughter is 25, with no benefit plan from her employers, and is struggling to figure out what she will do in two months when she comes off our family insurance.

And we are the lucky ones.

I know you represent a "conservative" area, but why are the good "conservative" folks so easily stampeded? A few years ago they were whipped up by "issues" of gay marriage and faux-patriotism. They were told to elect GBush to end abortion, so they elected him. The ones who wanted to nuke the middle east to glass were happy to tag along, and Bullitt County rolled right with it. Now it's all going again.

What about you? I'm really tired of the rabble-rousing. Health care and life issues are taking us all down the tubes, and I expect you and your staff to be working to give the small business workers and the self-employed and unemployed and the currently-uninsurable the same types of opportunities as you and I have, including the opportunity to understand and participate in meaningful dialogue on end-of-life issues.

In advance, thank you for your civility, good sense, and hard work.

Bliss!!!!!

The monster plumbing project is well in hand.

Aircraft Ownership: Economical Cooperatives | by Sean Fulton

Welcome to Aviator's Guide - Plane Talk

Taylor's catching up to Leah

Maggie& N41639

Maggie flies!

JDT Mini-MAX -- Light Sport Aircraft and Ultralight Flight Aviation Kit Building and Flying

JDT Mini-MAX -- Light Sport Aircraft and Ultralight Flight Aviation Kit Building and Flying

Natalie's new babies

Michelle sings "Alleluia! Raise the Gospel"

Kaden & dad

Seaplane base

One corner of KidVenture

Sunrise

Frank talks to a 99 fom London at the Oshkosh booth

Maggie and Bob(standing in for Kaye) at 99s Oshkosh

Frank Elvis

Dream Plane

Campsite at Oshkosh

One-man-band at Oshkosh

Baby Birds

Juanita, Viviana and Joanna go out with Alex and Ben to check on the baby birds.
Happy Birthday, Amy

Lee Bottom

Outdoor and nature-y songs

Whipporwill
You and Me we're gonna be partners
Swinging along the Open Road
Oh, how lovely is the evening
The rattlin' bog
Tell me why the stars to shine
I see the moon and the moon sees me.
(So run along home...)
Green trees around us, blue skies above
Day is Done, Gone the Sun
Sailin' Away
Oh it ain't gonna rain no more no more (Mosquito he fly high)
You take a stick of bamboo
Peace I ask of thee, o river
Shenandoah
For so long as we receive the light of day, we may greet one another as kindred.
Skeeters am a hummin' on the honeysuckle vine (Kentucky Babe)
The Road goes on (Tolkien)
Happiness Runs
The Bear Went over the Mountain
Down on the banks of the Hanky Panky, where the bullfrogs jump from bank to bank-ee with an eep, ipe, ope, op, knee-slap-a -dilly and a schlllp-PLOP!
Green grow the rushes-o
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea
Where have all the flowers gone?
Catch the Wind
Land of the Silver Birch
My Paddle's Keen and Bright
One Elephant went out to play upon a spider's web one day.
Paradise
Edelweiss
Crawdad Hole
Bye'n'bye, bye'n'bye, stars shinin' , number number one, number two, number three O Lord, bye'n bye, bye'n bye, O Lord, bye'n'bye.
White Coral Bells
Wimuway
Spider's Web
On the Loose
Earth my Body, Water, my blood, Air my breath and fire my spirit.
Gat goon went the little green frog one day
How Great Thou Art

Blackberries!

Kickball before supper

Repair Project

MobileMe Gallery

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com

Flew with Beth, Alex and Israel

Beth, Alex and Alex's cousin Israel (from Texas) came to the airport. We started out by giving everyone a booklet like the one I'm using for the Girl Scouts next weekend. They did the ID page. We talked to a paramedic watching the STATcare helicopter. We flew out past six-mile island. Some banks and turns, not too much more, and came back. Israel took video the whole time. Then we checked out the other airplanes on the site, including one with an owl on the tail. Alex jumped in and did all the pre-flight he knew, which was a lot.

Lose It iPhone app

I just started using this calorie-counting app, and it seems to be really helpful. Super easy to use. I'm surprised.

Here's hoping!

Car Games

How-to video

I wanted to keep a link to this video. It's not the content, but the presentation. Nice and easy, nice and slow, no hurry. Clear, comfortable.