Emergency procedures training is done so routinely in simulators by professional pilots that when something happens habit takes over and provides the foundation for your actions. You might have noticed that as she was leaving the frequency to switch to the tower she told the controller to have a good day. Why? Because that's how she leaves a channel (it's a common practice) and that's how she leaves a channel during emergency procedures training; so that's how she left the channel during a real emergency. One emphasis is to keep your emergency procedures as similar to your normal procedures as possible precisely so that you have that automatic framework -- the flip side of that is, to the degree possible, make sure that your normal procedures are compatible with the emergency procedures.

The best definition I run across ever. Even in much much simpler activities, it is like that.

Nice, William.

 

This is interesting. But I'm not sure if it's a good idea... I guess we'll have to wait and see:

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/license-plates-are-getting-tech-makeover-here-s-why-ncna867251

The company says its plates give motorists a new way to customize their vehicles — for example, letting them add personal messages (subject to approval from the Department of Motor Vehicles) or mentions of their favorite causes and charities. And the plates give authorities a new way to broadcast weather updates and emergency messages.

 

This is interesting. But I'm not sure if it's a good idea... I guess we'll have to wait and see:

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/license-plates-are-getting-tech-makeover-here-s-why-ncna867251

And, of course, no one would ever consider hacking them to display someone else's plate number when they want to do something that they would rather not be associated with.

 

Plate Porn.

 

 

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...o-marijuana-420-hippie-hill-golden-gate-park/

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Hundreds gathered on and around Hippie Hill in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park Friday, celebrating the first 4/20 day since recreational pot became legal in California.

The unofficial pot holiday started by five friends at a Marin County high school in 1971 and has grown to where festivities were planned worldwide, culminating with a synchronized smoke at 4:20 p.m.

 

You never know if today is the last day.

 

Goodbye, Mini-me :

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture...ho-played-mini-me-austin-powers-films-n868121

 

Goodbye, Mini-me :

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture...ho-played-mini-me-austin-powers-films-n868121

R.I.P.

 

He needs a Z axis: Freedom.

 

An unavoidable truth:

http://www.iflscience.com/health-an...g-diseases-may-not-be-economically-valid/all/

... the therapy cures most patients so thoroughly they're finished treatment within 12 weeks. Better still from a social perspective, but worse for profits, once treated people no longer transmit the virus, preventing new infections.

 

This is impressive. The images are stunning:

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...st-and-cosmic-rays-raining-down-on-comet-67p/

 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6069878/poundland-stop-selling-knives-london-stabbings/

POUNDLAND has banned the sale of kitchen knives across the UK in response to the crime wave hitting the country.

 

http://metro.co.uk/2018/04/25/powerlifter-punched-man-grabbed-bottom-told-probably-liked-7496266/

Leanna Carr, 26, was having none of it when a man groped her while she was visiting Dublin, in Ireland, last week.

 

 

The eternal cat:

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/backlash-after-yellow-fever-restaurant-opens-inside-whole-foods-365/

The reaction was similar on social media, with one person tweeting, "Well, I guess Whole Foods is out of the closet with their racist Asian fetish."

Another retweet of 365's photo read, "Today in 'bad product ideas.'"

Owner and chef Kelly Kim, has run other Yellow Fever locations in Venice and Torrance for years. CBS Los Angeles featured Kim and her Venice location earlier this month, after the restaurant announced it was going cashless. She said she didn't face any blowback until she teamed up with Whole Foods.

"We've been in business for four-and-a-half years; any backlash or any negativity has been almost none," said Kim.

Looks good to me!

 

I heard that and thought it was a great name.....but I don't eat Asian.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/copywritten-so-dont-copy-me/557420/

The Great American Novel enters the public domain on January 1, 2019—quite literally. Not the concept, but the book by William Carlos Williams. It will be joined by hundreds of thousands of other books, musical scores, and films first published in the United States during 1923. It’s the first time since 1998 for a mass shift to the public domain of material protected under copyright. It’s also the beginning of a new annual tradition: For several decades from 2019 onward, each New Year’s Day will unleash a full year’s worth of works published 95 years earlier.

 

Another way to lose your money in Vegas.

http://www.latimes.com/travel/lasve...s-may-mean-fewer-visitors-20180501-story.html

Daily resort fees and parking charges are rising and spreading in Las Vegas, adding as much as $45 a day to visitors' hotel bills. The publisher of Las Vegas Advisor blames the extra charges for a recent decline in the number of visitors.

"Everyone hates resort fees, but the parking [fee] is even worse," said Anthony Curtis of Las Vegas Advisor. "Everyone wants some kind of comp, [and] the most basic comp is free parking. That was the one comp that everyone got."
...
Visits to Vegas has dropped in each of the last 10 months, a fact that Curtis attributes to the frustration with fees.

"I really do think that these fees are starting to cause people to second-think a trip here," he said.

At least they don't charge these fees for comp'd rooms to 'guest of the Casino' yet. If they start I'm never going back if I have to pay for a 'free' room. All my current Vegas offers at the '$45 extra for nothing' hotel are 'fee' free.