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Ryanair boss: UK politicians are 'headless chickens'
They are 'all running around trying to work out what Brexit looks like,' Michael O'Leary said.
Chief Executive Officer of Irish airline Ryanair Michael O'Leary | Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP via Getty Images
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September 7, 2016 5:20 pm CET
Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary said on Wednesday that the airline will base its new fleet outside of the U.K. because of prevailing uncertainty and confusion in the country after the Brexit vote.
O'Leary announced four new destinations from Glasgow Airport and explained the change of location in the interview with the Belfast Telegraph. "We're being very cautious about the amount of capacity we're allocating to the U.K. over the next two or three years until we get some kind of indication of what Brexit will look like," O'Leary said.
British politicians, who are trying to figure out a way to separate from the EU are acting like "headless chickens," with "no idea where they're going to finish up," O'Leary said.
"It's not because we're annoyed or anything with the U.K., but we have much more political certainty in continental Europe than we have in the U.K. while they're all running around trying to work out what Brexit looks like," he added.
According to an article by The Irish Times, Ryanair is moving 3 percent of its capacity from Dublin, the equivalent of about 1, 580 flights per year, to other European airports.
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Neil Gaiman revealed that Benedict Cumberbatch will play Satan in the Amazon series adaptation of "Good Omens."
Gaiman said that Cumberbatch's Prince of Darkness will be "a giant, animated Satan" who appears "400 foot high." The "Sherlock" star will appear in episode 6 of the series, which debuts on May 31.
It was previously announced that Frances McDormand will appear on the show as the voice of God. Additional cameos in the series will include Jack Whitehall, Michael McKean, Miranda Richardson, Jon Hamm, and Nick Offerman.
Based on the novel of the same name by Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, the show is set in 2018 on the brink of an apocalypse as humanity prepares for a final judgment. But Aziraphale (Michael Sheen), a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley (David Tennant), a demon, aren't enthusiastic about the end of the world, and can't seem to find the Antichrist.
"Good Omens" was Gaiman's first novel, written in collaboration with Pratchett, who died in 2015. Terry Gilliam was attached at one point to direct a film adaptation. It is the latest Gaiman television project in recent years. Fox premiered "Lucifer," inspired by the character created in Gaiman's Vertigo comics series "The Sandman" and subsequent solo series, in 2015. Starz is set to debut Season 2 of "American Gods," based on Gaiman's book of the same name, in March.
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Aaron Starr was going to play him in the english who is Aaron Starr anyway (this unsigned comment left by 4.238.180.219)
Stars wasn't dubbed, so it's impossible for Seiya to have had a dub actor. Kerochan no Miko 17:54, 28 January 2007 (MST)
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I completely disagree that Seiya was "childish" or acted as "comic relief," hence I removed that paragraph. SailorLeo, if you would like to provide reasons why you stated that, I'm open to having my mind changed. Kerochan no Miko 07:03, 26 April 2007 (MST)
I've admittedly been watching Sailor Moon on YouTube so I'm pretty sure I'm quite up to date. By comical relief I meant that he/she often played pranks on the girls like in Episode 183. It was highly amusing and was rather childish and even a few of the sailor girls actually stated that Seiya was childish in like... Episode 173 or 174. Other humorous episodes include 181 (Seiya & Usagi's heart-pounding date) and 184 (A night for just us, Usagi's pinch) in almost every one of those episodes I laughed like a silly little kid. I'm very glade you keep an open mind and I'm sorry to overload you with information. But please note that I added to the paragraph 'In the anime' so it was only applying to his/her behaviour in the anime whereas in the manga it might not be true. But truthfully I personally thought there wasn't much information concerning Seiya's very favourable character. SailorLeo 15:22, 26 April 2007 (MST)
I think what you're trying to say is that he was childlike and not childish - he's very definitely not the latter. And by saying that he was "comic relief" you're sticking him in the same category as, say, Umino, who exists only to make people laugh at him. That's why I completely disagreed with your assessment - while I would say that he has a childlike, almost carefree kind of attitude during the brief moments he forgets about his Important Mission, "childish" and "comic relief" just don't fit. Kerochan no Miko 15:30, 26 April 2007 (MST)
I'd like to see you add a paragraph about Seiya's personality then if you know what he's like. If 'chilish' and 'comic relief' don't fit then change it so it does, he isn't necessarily a comic relief but his personality compared to Taiki and Yaten is considerably lighter. I still remain firm that Seiya's article needs to be stretched a little further. SailorLeo 15:36, 26 April 2007 (MST)
I agree with Kerochan about Seiya being childlike and not childish. There is a distinct difference. Technically, "comic relief" requires presence of tension. I would say that Usagi plays the role of comic relief, at least better than Seiya, as there are times when the senshi are having a solemn meeting and she would suddenly say something silly or burst out laughing while reading one of Rei's mangas. A prankster or a joker doesn't necessary provide "comic relief". Usagi is neither. I'll say Seiya is more of a joker than comic relief. -- Secretss 15:47, 26 April 2007 (MST)
Is what I've added good enough for everybody? -- Secretss 16:19, 26 April 2007 (MST)
I tweaked it slightly, since most of Seiya's personality was seen in the anime, from what I recall. And SailorLeo, I agree that most, if not all of the character articles could be "stretched," it just needs to be accurate information that's added. Kerochan no Miko 16:46, 26 April 2007 (MST)
Well I would say that Yaten and Taiki provide most of the tension and Seiya's "childlike" behaviour is often relieving. But that statement is just stupid. The problem I think is that you took my mixed up terms as "inaccurate information"... And yes your edititingness to the paragraph is fine, Secretss. SailorLeo 23:35, 26 April 2007 (MST)
If you're using the wrong words to describe something, then it is inaccurate. Kerochan no Miko 07:39, 27 April 2007 (MST)
Oh go eat a thesaurus or something... T.T SailorLeo 15:04, 27 April 2007 (MST)
SailorLeo, please see your talk page. Kerochan no Miko 15:07, 27 April 2007 (MST)
I'm fine with Secretss's edits but if we're talking about the anime version of the civilian character, shouldn't it be "he"?--WikiSysop 17:04, 27 April 2007 (MST)
Excellent point - I didn't even notice that. ^_^; Kerochan no Miko 18:06, 27 April 2007 (MST)
"Seiya's name is associated with the sun, and accordingly he is often seen with a red rose." What is the connection between Seiya's name and the sun? The first kanji means "star" and I don't see a "sun" in there. Could someone explain? Nephrite 08:51, 13 October 2010 (MST)
Read the first sentence of that section, not just the second. In the concept of "san hikari" Seiya would be associated with the sun. --Kerochan no Miko 09:47, 13 October 2010 (MST)
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Converting Blank Page to Enthralling Episode
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I've learned some great lessons by paying attention to TV and screen writers' methodology. What I've learned has helped me – I hope – to improve the quality of my own books. Most importantly for me – and my readers – I've made two significant observations:
Action shows begin with action! In the gool-ol' days, movie goers expected to see the movie begin with the title, and the names of the stars they came to see. Then they munched on their popcorn while enduring the obligatory tribute to writers, musical artists, cinematographers, and producers. At length, the viewer knew the movie was about to begin when they saw the name of the director displayed on the screen. Today, viewers expect an immediate onslaught of dramatic music and sound effects designed to blast the ear drums of elderly folks like me. They do this, of course, to heighten the intensity of beginning an action movie. The viewer loses control of the popcorn (50% of which now ends up underfoot on the theater floor). It's time to buckles up! The credits now displayed are almost invisible as viewer attention is focused intently upon the ebbing intensity of action on the screen.
Dramatic TV show writers work their artistic craft by skillfully conjoining episodes with an ominous and opaque backdrop of suspense. Something sinister is brewing in the background. It's an adjunct to the main plot, but viewers are enthralled by it; almost distracted by the dark shadow of intrigue that threatens to upset the apple cart. The viewer is given just enough information to realize that something ominous and unsettling will – at some point – rear its ugly head to obliterate lesser concerns. The viewer will enjoy a satisfying conclusion to the episode, but will be left in suspense, wondering when the mystery of the ominous specter will be resolved. A skilled writer will keep this foreboding monster alive through two or more seasons of episodes.
Fortunately, I'm at a stage in my current writing project that I can implement that which I've learned about these two important lessons. Converting a blank page to an enthralling episode is not easy, but the challenge of doing so is an enjoyable task.
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Germon says, "I don't need to be told I know it."
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Germon already had three dots and three dashes. He himself says, "The way I see the other answer, I can tell what the last answer is."
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"It's enough, Reina. Stop there." Another voice came. Jon recognized this voice and said, "It's been a while, Mr.Zel."
"Yeah! Jon. And I'm sorry my subordinates are causing trouble for all of you." He says.
Zel then told the truth, "The choice he gave you was false. The correct choices were eight dots, five dashes, and three dots, or one dash."
"Oh! I see now." Germon says.
"Don't worry you've all passed this stage. You can move on." Zel responds.
Jon asked, "Why are you helping us?"
"Don't get it wrong, I'm not helping you. I want it to be fair and square. From the next stage my people will be the host and they won't trouble all of you." He says.
He then freed us from the cage, gave us the key as it was the second checkpoint and another key to release the hostage who was ahead.
When Jon and Ashya came out of the cage, they ran towards Germon and hugged him. Jon says,"You really freaked us out." Ashya agrees with that. Germon answers,"Yeah I planned that, so you and Ashya sometime can agree on the same thing." Then they all laugh. Kyora also praised him by grabbing the princess because she was still sleeping.
They thought of going ahead on the next stage but the princess is still asleep, so Germon puts her on his back again. When they approached the exit of the sixteen compartment, they found a man in a blue waistcoat, his leg was chained. And he was also unconscious. They went there to see him closely.
Zel put Reina in some chamber and said, "You didn't have to go that far, Reina. You know our mission is not just to make them erased, He will rage on you."
"I don't want to hear anything from you, traitor." She answers.
Zel laughed,"That's why you are there and I'm here." He left, then he reached some place like the big hall. He kneels down and says, "As you order, I have put Reina in the isolation chamber, Your Excellency."
Now in the East Japan Railway Company, when Rasya arrives and shows a letter on desk. She opens it and quotes,"Rasya, I'm going out somewhere to meet someone until then please take care of the thing while I'm away."
The place where Chairman Ryochi Sougo went in the early morning and the person he wanted to meet was none other than Mr.Tarahashi. When he enter the office, he asked the receptionist to say Mr.Tarahashi that Chairman Ryochi Sougo has come to visit him. But Sento Kadokawa showed him to a nearby receptionist, recognised and took him to where Mr.Tarahashi was.
Mr.Tarahashi was in a different cabin,drinking beer and thinking when his son would come back. With earpods in his ear.
Then Sento informs Rongi that Chairman Ryochi is here. He told Sento to Tell him to come inside. Chairman Ryochi entered the cabin and as he sat on a chair, he asked,"Do you know anything about Eiji Mikawa?"
"Why are you interested in him?" Rongi suspiciously asked. Then he added," Leave that, have this earpod and listen."
He gave earpod to Chairman Ryochi, he was shocked to hear what Rongi was and then frustrated he said," You were spying on me."
"Of Course! You Sougo's are really sometimes a pain in the ass." He says as turning his chair to look at the face of Chairman Ryochi.
"But when?"Chairman Ryochi asked.Then he remembered,"Oh! That's why you came early yesterday to not visit me because you wanted to spy on me."
"Sorry but I had to do that, to know how you are finding the way to save those passengers." He says and apologizes.
Chairman Ryochi asked,"So, now you also know the story, tell me the whereabouts of Eiji Mikawa?"
Before answering that, Rongi tells Sento to bring some tea for them. Rongi then replies,"Before we start talking, why don't you freshen yourself with some tea?"
Sento put two cups on the desk and poured tea. Then chairman Ryochi took the first sip and said," Now answer my question."
"But why are you asking about him?" He questioned.
Chairman Ryochi tells Rongi that some pages are missing from the diary and if he guesses, that remaining page is with Eiji Mikawa. Because Eiji and his dad were very close friends.
Rongi says,"If it is the case, then come with me. I think I have an idea." They both left the Tarahashi Company.
On the other hand,Germon had unchained the blue waistcoat hostage man. And Jon was shaking his head very fastly to awaken him. When Germon showed his face clearly he recognised him and said," Shingo Suzuki, Father of Yua Suzuki."
He opened his eyes and saw Five people were in Front of him. But his eyeball is only able to see those three gallant girls. He looks up and says,"Looks like I'm again dreaming about the Harem situation."
Kyora whispers in Ashya's ear," Aren't he saying like a pervert?" Ashya replies," Don't worry, just stick to me."
Germon bent down and asked," Are you okay,Mr.Suzuki?" He saw Germon closely and said," Oh! Germon, it is you. It's been such a long time, we last met."
Germon stood him and said,"Yes! Mr.Suzuki. Can you walk? He says." Yes!"
"For now let's go from here." Jon says.
They all went for their seventh stage with one more member adding with them.


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Film(ish) - Ilvermorny, the North American School of Magic
Pottermore unveils new writing by J.K. Rowling about Ilvermorny, the North American School of Magic...
Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the second instalment in a collection of new original writing by J.K. Rowling entitled "Magic in North America," has been published exclusively on pottermore.com. "Ilvermorny" (Ill-ver-morn-ee') provides a vivid and captivating backstory of the great North American school of magic, founded in the 17th century.
The new writing, and the short video that accompanies it (below), provide a rich background for the upcoming Warner Bros. feature film "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," which will be released November 18, 2016. The film, which marks J.K. Rowling's screenwriting debut, is an all-new adventure starring Eddie Redmayne as magizoologist Newt Scamander, who arrives in New York in 1926.
The work of fiction begins in Ireland, where an orphaned young girl who is a descendant of Hogwarts co-founder Salazar Slytherin escapes her evil aunt and sets sail on the Mayflower. Landing in Massachusetts with little more than the clothes on her back and a stolen wand, she ventures out on her own, wandering in the wilderness until she encounters several mysterious creatures and discovers she is not the only magical person in the New World. But she will also have to overcome great challenges and face new dangers on her way to establishing what will become the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at the peak of Mount Greylock in Massachusetts.
In addition to publishing the second instalment of "Magic in North America", Pottermore announced that, for the first time ever, users of the website will be able to be sorted into one of the four houses of Ilvermorny. The Ilvermorny Sorting Ceremony consists of questions and answers written by J.K. Rowling. The answers to the questions determine into which Ilvermorny house users will be sorted. The houses are named after the following creatures, which have been described as follows in the writing:
• Horned Serpent; a "great horned river serpent with a jewel set into its forehead"
• Pukwudgie; "a short, grey-faced, large-eared creature"
• Thunderbird; a creature that "can create storms as it flies"
• Wampus; "a magical, panther-like creature that is fast, strong and almost impossible to kill"
In March, Pottermore published "History of Magic in North America," the first instalment of "Magic in North America." The writing, which was posted over four consecutive days, took readers into the history of North American witches and wizards.
About "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them":
"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is an all-new adventure returning us to the wizarding world created by J.K. Rowling. Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne ("The Theory of Everything") stars in the central role of wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander, under the direction of David Yates (the last four "Harry Potter" features).
"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident…were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt's fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.
"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" also stars Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Ron Perlman, Carmen Ejogo, Jenn Murray, Faith Wood-Blagrove, and Colin Farrell.
The film marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, whose script was inspired by the Hogwarts textbook "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," written by her character Newt Scamander.
The film reunites a number of people from the "Harry Potter" features, including producers David Heyman, J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram.
Opening November 18th, 2016, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
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Is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a popular tourist destination in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam. The Halong Bay is a beautiful natural wonder in the north of Vietnam near the Chinese border. Ninh, Halong Bay, Vietnam.
is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a favourite tourist resort in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam. This bay has tens of thousand of limestone karst and islands in different forms and heights. The Ha Long Bay is the centre of a wider area, which comprises Bai Tu Long Bay in the north-east and Cat Ba Island in the south-west.
This bay is made up of a thick pile of about 1,600  limestone monoliths, each covered with thick jungles and towering out of the sea. Some of the island are concave and have huge caverns. The Hang Dau Go (wooden pegs cave) is the biggest cavern in the Ha Long area. At the end of the 19. cent. French tourist came to visit the cavern and called it Grotte des Merveilles.
It has two major islets, Tuan Chau and Cat Ba, which have constant residents, as well as touristic establishments such as hotel and beach. On the smaller island there are a number of nice sandy areas. Most of the island have got their name from the interpretations of their uncommon forms.
In 989 of the island were given a name. Some of the island also have bird and animal life such as bantam, antelope, monkey and lizard. Here you will find a variety of wildlife. Nearly all of these islets are single tall spires in a classical fengline scenery with altitudes from 50m to 100m and altitudes up to about six.
The Dau Go Isle in the western part, Ba Ham See in the southern part and Cong Tay Isle in the eastern part. Coastal climates are tropic, humid, sea islets, with two seasons: warm and humid in summers and cool and dry in winters. Only about 40 of the 1,969 Ha Long Isles are populated.
Those archipelagos stretch from ten thousand to thousand of acres, mainly in the east and southeast of Ha Long Bay. Over the last few dozen years, there have been literally thousand of village dwellers settling on the untouched island and building new municipalities such as Sa Tô Island (H? Long City), Th?ng L?i L?i Island (Vân ??n district).
Currently, the Ninh province governs a relocation program for Bay residents in order to stabilise their lives and preserve the cultural landscapes. Three times, in the maze of canals in the Dang River stream near the island, the Viet Nam military kept the Chinese from land.
Many of the canals between the Vietnam War isles were severely dismantled by the United States Navy during the Vietnam War, some of which still represent a menace to navigation today. The Ha Long Bay was on flat water during the time of the Carbons and Permians (340-250 million years ago). Dominant elevation movements of neoctonics and younger tectonics profoundly affected the area' s geography, and the present marine island scenery was created about 7 or 8000 years ago by marine invasions during Holocene trangression, which began about 17-18000 years ago.
By combining at the same time perfect elements such as thick, faint, gray and thick calcareous rock formations made up of fine-grained material, warm and humid climates and slower tectonics as a whole, Ha Long Bay has had a total Karstevolution for 20 million years. The bay has many different kinds of karstic features, such as the karstic area.
The Ha Long Bay is a ripe karstic scenery created in a temperate, humid and tropic clim. Progression of phases in the development of a karstic environment over a 20 million year span will require a mix of several different factors, among them solid calcareous rock thicknesses, a humid temperate environment and gradual upwelling.
There are five phases in the karstic forming proces, the second of which is the forming of the characteristic do line karstic. It is followed by the evolution of the karstic system of Mount Fuengcong, which can be seen in the hill groups on Bo Hon and Dau Be Inland. The Fenglin karstic is characterized by precipitous single turrets.
Centuries of cliffy island with the bay's stunning and renowned scenery are the single spires of a classical Fenglin scenery where the intermediate levels have been inundated by the seas. The majority of turrets are 50 to 100 metres high with a width to elevation relation of about 6 The karstic rocks have been inundated by the ocean and are the wealth of seas that lies within the calcareous islets.
Dau Be for example has six encircled seas at the estuary of the bay, among them the Ba Ham seas, which lie in their Kencong karstic. This bay contains samples of the landscapes of Mount Gengcong, Mount Fenglin and Mount Kars. They are not separated evolutions, but the results of unevenly occurring naturally occurring phenomena when a large amount of lime is exposed.
Sea erosion caused grooves, which in some places were turned into caverns. Sea kerbs are a characteristic trait of the calcareous coast, but in the Ha Long Bay they have recreated the ripe scenery. Inside Ha Long Bay, the most important open caverns are the older passageways that survived from the period when the karstic system developed through the different phases of Fengkong and Fenglin. Here, the most important ones are the old one.
There are three major kinds of caverns on the calcareous islets ( Waltham, T. 1998): First group of caverns are old groundwater caverns including Sung Sot, Tam Cung, Lau Dai, Thien Cung, Dau Go, Hoang Long, Thien Long. Today these caverns are located on different high heights. The Sung Sot Grotto is located on the Bo Hon islet.
The Tam Cung is a large groundwater cavern, which evolved in the storage levels of the lime stone and which divides the cavern into three caves. The Lau Dai is a grotto with a set of passageways that extends over 300 metres and opens on the southern side of the Con Ngua islet. The Thien Cung and Dau Go are remains of the same old system of caves.
Surviving at 20 to 50 metres above sealevel in the north part of the Dau Go islet. A second group of caverns are the old carst caverns, which includes Trinh Lu, Bo Nau, Tien Ong and Trong. Footshales are an omnipresent characteristic of karst sceneries that have achieved a stadium of wide-spread side kernel intersection at basalline.
You can stretch back into labyrinth caverns of creek caverns that drain from major cavern system in chalk. One of the largest footsteps in Ha Long Bay, Trinh Nu, with a blanket about 12 metres above water surface and about 80 metres long, was designed in several phases.
The Bo Nau, a grotto with old stone stalactites, crosses the 25o depression of the camp area. A third group are the ocean grottoes, which are a particular characteristic of the Ha Long Bay karstic area. Seawater dissolving, which affects the lime stone, and waves eroding the rock by means of boxes form grooves at the bottom of the cliff.
Under favourable circumstances, the disintegration of lime stone allows continuous deepening of rock grooves and their expansion into caverns. Much of it extends at altitude through the calcareous rock formations to drop down sinkholes, which are now intertidal seas. One of the distinctive features of the naval cavities is an absolute flat and flat slab carved through the lime stone.
A number of ocean burrows had not been created on today's ocean surface, but old ocean surface related to ocean surface changes during Holocene transgressions, incident on Plistocene ocean surface. Several of them have conserved the evolution of the old karst root cavern in the continent or the remains of older groundwater wells.
The Bo Ham Sea Group is one of the most uncommon characteristics of the Ha Long Bay with concealed seas and their connection tunnels - Kerbhöhlen on the Dau Be Isle. There is a 10 metre broad and almost darkly curved cavern from the edge rock of the archipelago, about 150 metres from the 1. Luon cavern is located on the archipelago of Bo Hon and stretches 50 metres to a closed Tidensee.
There is a solid statalactite that hangs 2 meters lower and is cut off at the current tide well. Because of all these reasons, visitors to the Ha Long Bay are pampered not only with one of the world's great marvels of nature, but also with a valuable open-air gem collection that has been conserved over the last 300 million years.
340,000,000,000,000-240,000,000,000 BClater carbon and perm periodsThe calcareous layers are more than 1,000 meters thick. Two types of calcareous rock were formed: the Cát Bà stratum from the Early Carbonic Age ( 450 metres thick) and the Quang Hanh stratum from the Central Carbonic and Early Perm stages ( 750 metres thick).
Most of the bay's islets are made up of these two strata. 68,000-9,000 BCmiddle and later Pleistocene epochsThe period when the area' s caverns and grottos developed. Early Holocene epochThe Ha Long Bay today' s island is essentially the remains of these submerged hills. Rain water was flowing into fissures in the lime stone which had been created by means of active tectonics.
2000-1000 B.C. With the ocean in a constant cycle of economic decline, the Ha Long civilization began to evolve. The beginning of the holocene period The waters began to rise again, building a swampy bottom of channels and brooks and creating the watermarks that can be seen on today's rocky outcrops.
There are many other types of marine life on the many islets that cover the bay, among them (but probably not restricted to): 477 magnolias, 12 peris, 20 saltwater meadow vegetation; and 4 amphibians, 10 reptiles, 40 birds and 4 mammals. 1962 the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism named Ha Long Bay a "Renowned National Landscape Monument".
By October 2011, the WoM Fund closed the bay of the WoM Watch 2012 and cited the pressure of tourist activity and its associated developments as a threat to the site that needed to be tackled. The New 7 Women's Foundation in 2012 formally appointed Ha Long Bay as one of the world's seven new natural miracles.
There are only two kinds of material that have been selected from so many different ones to paint, to paint, to sculpt, to make everything... It is quite possible that here is the picture of the next world". ls it the landscape in the whole wide open space or somewhere? The Dau Go Grotto (literally: "the end of the wood sticks" grotto): These wood sticks in this grotto are remains of sharp wood pillars constructed on behalf of Tr?n H?ng Tr?n ??o Commandant under the surface of the sea to submerge the vessels of Indonesian inventors in the thirteenth centuries.
It is said that the Golden Tortoise has swum towards the Baltic Sea (international name: South China Sea) after bringing back the sacred blade that King Lê Thái supported T? in the fight against Ming intruders from China. A tortoise was tired and killed in a den.
Consequently, the name of the cavern was the Golden Turtle. Report on the 24th Meeting of the World Heritage Committee, Cairns, Australia. World Heritage Committee. Report on the Eighteenth Meeting of the World Heritage Committee, Phuket, Thailand, December 12-17, 1994. The UNSECO World Heritage Committee. H? Long Bay - UNESCO World Heritage Site".
World Heritage Centre UNESCO. The most beautiful bays in the world. The most beautiful bays in the world.


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Шаламовский дом — двухэтажный особняк в Вологде на улице Сергея Орлова дом №15 за Софийским собором, построен в конце XVIII века. Изначально принадлежал Вологодской епархии и использовался как жилое помещение для служителей Софийского собора. В этом доме 18 июня (5 июня) 1907 года в семье священника родился Варлам Тихонович Шаламов, автор знаменитых «Колымских рассказов», где прожил до отъезда в Москву в октябре 1924 года.

В 1990 году при входе в здание была установлена мемориальная доска . Её автор — Федот Сучков, московский скульптор, друг Варлама Шаламова.

Музей

В настоящее время в доме находится мемориальный музей В.Т. Шаламова (1907—1982), открытый в 1991 году на первом этаже в южном крыле здания, где жила семья Шаламовых. Одновременно с музеем в доме располагается один из выставочных залов Вологодской областной картинной галереи. С момента открытия музея дом стал местом паломничества всех, кому дорого литературное наследие Шаламова.

Экспозиция музея включает в себя документы эпохи, публикации автора, его личные вещи — полевую сумку и часы, переданные музею Ириной Павловной Сиротинской. А символом музея стала лиственница, доставленная с Колымы. В 2008 году фонд музея пополнился единственным прижизненным портретом В.Т. Шаламова, который экспонируется в Вологодской областной картинной галерее.

Каждый год в музее проводятся литературные вечера, 18 июня в день рождения писателя и 17 января в день памяти.

См. также
 Достопримечательности Вологды

Ссылки
 Фотоэкскурсия по музею
 Страница о музее на сайте «www.cultinfo.ru»

Примечания

Музеи Вологды
Варлам Шаламов
Достопримечательности Вологды
Литературные музеи России

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Founded in 1836 as the Botanical Society of London and welcoming both professional and amateur botanists. The society focuses on the study of botany in the British Isles.
A society for amateur botanists and wild flower lovers in the UK. They organise frequent field meeting across the county to obsurve and photograph plants in their natural habitats.
Everything you might want to know about this society, including details of their field meetings, lectures and nature reserve.
Plantlife is a charity dedicated to conserving plant life in its natural habitat.
For the study and conservation of mosses and liverworts worldwide.
The English Hedgerow Trust is a charity dedicated to the conservation of hedgerows.
An on-line photographic reference and identification guide for everyone interested in the wildflowers growing in Ireland.
A site on the flowering plants and ferns of Warwickshire, including information on current projects and events.
Home of the Shropshire Botanical Society Database. A searchable database of the flora of Shropshire with distribution maps and details of each site.
Run by Ulster Museum this site provides stacks of useful information on the Flora of Northern Ireland. There are pictures, distribution maps and descriptions of the plants.
Information on the plants and animals of Derbyshire.
A well constructed site with an Atlas of the plants of Hull. Hopefully, sites like these will become more common.
Not the most glitzy website, but packed with information.
Lots of information about the botanic gardens and their research. Also, several searchable databases, including the Database of the Flora Europaea.
Lots of information about the gardens, the herbarium and the research that goes on there.
Other databases, picture libraries etc.
A comprehensive photo library of northern European plants. It is based in Belgium but has a version written in English.
A site dedicated to the wildlife of Britain. It contains many pictures and descriptions of plants, animals and fungi.
A Multi-Lingual database for the Vernacular Names of European Wild Plants.
A Checklist of the vascular plants of Poland.
An international project based at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, documenting and promoting the knowledge and sustainable use of native plants in the Celtic countries and regions of Europe.
This site offers a large selection of pictures of Natural History objects, mostly British in origin.
This Photo Flora picture library contains many thousands of photographic transparencies and is entirely devoted to all aspects of Europe's wild flora.
A large site which includes Den Virtuella Floran, a searchable flora of Sweden.
The home of the postcode plant database. Information on native plants and a database that will make a checklist of your local flora and fauna.
This site is what its name suggests. It is designed with the professional or knowledgeable amateur in mind and is a gold mine of information.
A guide to the common names of plants in several european languages by Henriette Kress.
Aichele, D. (1994). Was bluht denn da? Franckh-Kosmos, Suttgart.
Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Warburg, E.F. (1952). Flora of the British Isles. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Davis, P.H. & Cullen, J. (1965). The identification of flowering plant families. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2nd ed. (1979).
Fisher, F. (1932). The English Names of our Commonest Wild Flowers. T. Buncle, Arbroath.
Godet, J-D. (1995). Knospen und Zweige der einheimischen Baum- und Straucharten. Naturbuch Verlag, Augsburg.
Heywood, V. (1993). Flowering Plants of the World. Batsford, London.
Hubbard, C.E. (1954). Grasses. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth. 2nd ed. (1968); 3rd ed. (revised by Hubbard, J.C.E.) (1984).
Nisson, S. (1977). Orchids of Northern Europe. . Penguin Books, Harmondsworth. Translation (1979).
Polunin, O. & Smythies, B.E. (1973). Flowers of South-West. Europe. Oxford University Press, London.
Rose, F. (1981). The Wild Flower Key. Frederick Warne, London.
Runkel, S.T. and Bull, A.F. (1994). Wildflowers of Illinois Woodlands. First Iowa State Unversity Press, Iowa.
Schuyler-Mathews, F. (1955). Field Book of American Wild Flowers. (Revised by Taylor, N.). G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York.
Stace, S. (1991). New Flora of the British Isles. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2nd ed. (1997).
Yeo, P F. (1991). A Taxonomic revision of the Euphrasia in Eur., Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 77: 223-334.


Feeling guilty about debt can be a real struggle. It can be especially harmful for our older generation.
As more and more seniors are carrying debt into retirement, it can have a serious effect on their wellbeing.
Research has shown that it's not uncommon for seniors to go to great lengths, like skipping meals or forgoing much needed home or car repairs, in order to keep up with their debts.
Why? Because many feel that not paying their debts, or filing for bankruptcy, is worse than struggling to get by. This is called bankruptcy stigma.
We recently sat down with one of our Licensed Insolvency Trustees in Quebec City, Laurier Richard, to learn more. What kind of people did he help get through the bankruptcy process? He told us about one person in particular.
Marie-Christine had accrued about $30,000 in credit card debt. With interest rates around 20%, this is a dangerous type of debt to carry that can take a long time to pay off. Marie-Christine also had a car loan of about $8,000. As a retiree, with meager earnings, she had trouble making a dent in what she owed. On the one hand, she wanted to reduce her debts, but on the other, she valued her quality of life.
She knew that something had to give. In an attempt to free up some extra money in her budget, she made some extreme sacrifices.
Marie-Christine decided to move in with her daughter in another province. The culture shock was hard. A native Quebecker, she really didn't feel at home. Although she appreciated her daughter's hospitality, she longed for the comfort of her old life.
It's at this point, when she missed her independence and her friends the most, that Marie-Christine took the initiative to get help for her debts. Hoping one day to return home, she wondered how she could make this happen sooner. What kind of debt solutions were there that could make her life a little easier?
She decided to meet with a Licensed Insolvency Trustee (LIT) at BDO. The idea of a consumer proposal appealed to her. Marie-Christine wanted to pay back as much as she could; she didn't want to admit defeat. Her debts, she said, were her own problem. She felt guilty and the morality of her debt situation weighed on her heavily.
When Marie-Christine arrived at the BDO office, she was very stressed, worried and ashamed about her debts. Despite the language barrier, she was able to convey to Licensed Insolvency Trustee that she wasn't the type of person to not respect her financial obligations. For her, deciding to get debt help was a sign of failure.
Our Licensed Insolvency Trustee listened to her story carefully, but referred her case to Laurier Richard, who could work with her in French, in her hometown. Laurier explained to Marie-Christine that there were other debt solutions to consider and that sacrificing her independence, but also her dignity, wasn't necessarily the best course of action. Marie-Christine hadn't thought about it like this before.
Laurier presented all the options available to her. They considered the consumer proposal, but there was a concern with the amount of time this would take. Marie-Christine wanted to solve her debt problems as soon as possible so that she wouldn't inconvenience her kids if she were ever to encounter any health issues.
Bankruptcy is never an easy decision. But it can be a the most effective solution for people who need immediate relief from their debt and a fresh start. Your LIT is there to guide you through the process so it is less intimidating. Marie-Christine hesitated a long time before finally deciding to file for bankruptcy. But during the process she felt respected and heard. She was able to get past her feelings of guilt and has since started smiling again.
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Pub chain JD Wetherspoon is set to open a new boozer in the city centre
The English pub giant has just been granted planning permission to refurbish a former church on Abbey Street
Emma Nolan
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Pub chain JD Wetherspoon is set to open a new boozer in the city centre.
The English giant has been granted planning permission to refurbish a former church on Abbey Street.
It is expected that up to 50 new jobs will be created.
The property was bought for €1.4m in 2015 after a bidding battle with Irish Life, which owns a neighbouring development.
Wetherspoon gets the green light for city centre pub and hotel
The plans include outdoor seating areas and a glazed link to connect the two buildings.
The company had previously been granted planning permission for a 98-room hotel and bar complex on Camden Street.
Although concerns were raised by locals about the development, Dublin City Council granted permission, subject to 20 conditions, earlier this month.
They included a ban on amplified music that can be heard on the street.
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A date for the city centre openings has not yet been announced but Wetherspoons currently has other pint shops in Dun Laoghaire, Blackrock, Swords, and Blanchardstown, as well as in Cork.
A spokesman for the chain said: "We are buoyed by their success.
"We don't see any issues with opening in the city centre.
"We are keen to open more pubs in the Republic of Ireland and will continue to search for sites, but won't commit to a number in five years."


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Juan Andres Palese, a marijuana grower in Uruguay, shows his crop on the outskirts of Montevideo in December 2013. Palese was using a fake name when he founded Uruguay's first marijuana growing store, where he made sure not to sell any illegal seeds or plants. But he's operating in the open now that Uruguay's pot laws have changed. (Matilde Campodonico, Associated Press file)
Would you pay these dues to join pot-growing club in Uruguay?
Published: Jun 25, 2014, 8:39 am • Updated: Jun 25, 2014, 6:17 pm
By Leonardo Haberkorn, The Associated Press
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — A group has taken steps to become the first officially recognized marijuana-growing club in Uruguay, where lawmakers have made their country the world's first national marketplace for legal pot.
The Association of Cannabis Studies of Uruguay began the process by registering with the Education and Culture Ministry, Drug Control Chief Julio Calzada said Tuesday.
The club will have 40 members and will be headed by Laura Blanco. She told the Uruguayan newspaper El Pais that members will pay $300 each to join, and a monthly fee of up to $65. Some of the members will use the marijuana to treat medical conditions.
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Lawmakers in December approved Uruguay's experiment with marijuana, giving the government the power to oversee production, sales and consumption of a drug illegal almost everywhere else.
Joining a growing club is one of three legal ways to obtain pot under the law.
Licensed buyers will be able to purchase up to 10 grams a week or 40 grams a month from a network of pharmacies that is expected to be functioning by late 2014 or early 2015.
Uruguayan citizens and legal residents 18 or older can also register to obtain licenses giving them the right to cultivate up to six marijuana plants per household and harvest 480 grams a year, or join a marijuana-growing club with between 15 and 45 members and no more than 99 plants.
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This story was first published on DenverPost.com
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Hub-and-Spoke Cartels
Why They Form, How They Operate, and How to Prosecute Them
Luke Garrod, Joseph E. Harrington, Jr., Matthew Olczak
The first comprehensive economic and legal analysis of hub-and-spoke cartels, with detailed case studies.
A cartel forms when competitors conspire to limit competition through coordinated actions. Most cartels are composed exclusively of firms that would otherwise be in competition, but in a hub-and-spoke cartel, those competitors ("spokes") conspire with the assistance of an upstream supplier or a downstream buyer ("hub"). This book provides the first comprehensive economic and legal analysis of hub-and-spoke cartels, explaining their formation and how they operate to create and sustain a collusive environment. Sixteen detailed case studies, including cases brought against toy manufacturer Hasbro and the Apple ebook case, illustrate the economic framework and legal strategies discussed.
The authors identify three types of hub-and-spoke cartels: when an upstream firm facilitates downstream firms to coordinate on higher prices; when a downstream intermediary facilitates upstream suppliers to coordinate on higher prices; and when a downstream firm facilitates upstream suppliers to exclude a downstream rival. They devote a chapter to each type, discussing the formation, coordination, enforcement, efficacy, and prosecution of these cartels, and consider general lessons that can be drawn from the case studies. Finally, they present strategies for prosecuting hub-and-spoke collusion. The book is written to be accessible to both economists and lawyers, and is intended for both scholars and practitioners.
Luke Garrod:
Luke Garrod is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University in the UK. Joseph E. Harrington, Jr., is Patrick T. Harker Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Theory of Collusion and Competition Policy (MIT Press) and other books. Matthew Olczak is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Aston University in the UK.|||Luke Garrod is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University in the UK. Joseph E. Harrington, Jr., is Patrick T. Harker Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Theory of Collusion and Competition Policy (MIT Press) and other books. Matthew Olczak is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Aston University in the UK.|||Luke Garrod is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University in the UK. Joseph E. Harrington, Jr., is Patrick T. Harker Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Theory of Collusion and Competition Policy (MIT Press) and other books. Matthew Olczak is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Aston University in the UK.
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Publication Date Nov 16, 2021
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Announcement - New BFE Committee Members and new BFE Administrator
Following the recent call for nominations to the BFE Committee, Fiorella Montero-Diaz (Keele University) and Simon McKerrell (Newcastle University) were nominated for election. Two vacancies on the Committee became available due to Amanda Villepastour and Noel Lobley stepping down, so the Committee is delighted to announce that both Fiorella and Simon are deemed to have been elected to the committee for 3-year terms.
Both Fiorella and Simon have agreed to take on new roles on the Committee. Fiorella will be the Development and Strategy Officer, helping the BFE to grow by designing strategies to boost membership and by promoting dialogue and events, which bring together the diverse BFE membership. Simon will be the External Relations Officer, with responsibility for collaborating with other institutions, and for promoting ethnomusicology and the BFE across the British Isles and Ireland.
In addition, Jonathan Stock, the Ethnomusicology Forum Representative has also stepped down from the Committee. The new EF Representative on the Committee is the incoming co-editor of Ethnomusicology Forum, Shzr Ee Tan (Royal Holloway).
A warm welcome to the new members of the Committee, Fiorella, Simon and Shzr Ee, and sincere thanks to the outgoing committee members, Amanda, Jonathan and Noel. Amanda worked tirelessly for the BFE before, during and after her tenure as Chair; Jonathan has made an important contribution to the Committee while also being co-editor of Ethnomusicology Forum; and Noel has done a great deal for the Committee over many years, especially in relation to BFE conferences and study days. Thanks again to you all for your service to the BFE.
Finally, I'm extremely pleased to announce that Morgan Davies has been appointed as the new BFE Administrator. As well as working for the BFE, Morgan is a sāraṅgī performer and recently submitted his PhD thesis on Western Rajasthani folk music. Morgan replaces Fiorella, who did an incredible job. During her tenure as the Administrator for nearly 3 years, Fiorella was the driving force behind many significant developments for the BFE. So, many thanks to Fiorella and welcome to the BFE team Morgan.
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The Associated Press (AP), via Inquirer.net, reports that "a costumed 9-year-old girl was accidentally shot outside a western Pennsylvania home during a Halloween party by a relative who thought she was a skunk."
The Associated Press (AP), via Inquirer.net, reports that "a costumed 9-year-old girl was accidentally shot outside a western Pennsylvania home during a Halloween party by a relative who thought she was a skunk." The report quoted the New Sewickley Township police, who revealed that "said the girl was over a hillside and wearing a black costume and a black hat with a white tassel" when "a male relative mistook her for a skunk and fired a shotgun, hitting her in the shoulder Saturday night, October 20."
The report noted that "the girl was alert and talking when she was flown to a hospital in Pittsburgh, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) away."
For more on this story, read the AP article posted on Inquirer.net.


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Hawk Girl tops the DC Super Heroes Cosplay Competition at SM City Bicutan
Earlier today, cosplayers gathered at the DC Comics Super Heroes Cosplay Competition at SM City Bicutan. 13 contestants came dressed up like their favorite super hero and/or heroine.
It is amazing how much work the participants have put into their costumes! There are so many characters to choose from, so each one has the potential to look awesome and stand out.
The runway performances were remarkable! Contestants acted in a skit, danced and presented their character's demeanor in an amazing cosplay. Some used their props well in striking a pose. Confidence shows if cosplayers feel really great about what the are doing. And this makes a difference.
Winners were chosen based on the following criteria:
Creativity – 40%
Accuracy – 30%
Stage Performance – 20%
Audience Impact – 10%
Hawk Girl bested them all. Wonder Woman came in as a close second while Black Canary bagged the 3rd place. These three winners qualify for the next round happening on April 18, in which they get a chance to snag the following prizes:
First prize - P 20,000.00
Second prize - P 15,000.00
Third prize - P 10,000.00
This Sunday activity culminates the series of pocket events held at the 13 different SM Malls in preparation for the DC Comics Super Hero World Record Event slated on April 18 at SM City North EDSA. So be there and get to witness this momentous activity.
Manila (the only Southeast Asian Nation) joins the other fourteen cities around the world in an attempt to set a world record for the largest gathering of people dressed as DC Comics Super Heroes held at multiple venues around the globe within 24 hours this April 18th. The DC Comics Super Hero World Record Event will kick off in Queensland, Australia with a celebration at Movie World Australia theme park, and come to a commemorative close in Los Angeles, California, USA at Hollywood and at Highland.
Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) and DC Entertainment (DCE) invite fans of all ages to participate in setting this heroic world record by dressing from head-to-toe, close to the original DC Comics' Super Hero's costume as possible that has been featured in a DC Comics published book, television program or film.
Find out more at www.worldofdcph.com
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Franc April 15, 2015 at 10:10 PM
Congrats to Hawk girl for topping this one. She really rocked her outfit. The others were also great in their characters.
Roch April 16, 2015 at 10:16 AM
Wow, I would also love to be part of a cosplay event however I'm too shy to perform on stage while wearing costume. It's just good to take pictures with the characters and enjoy the activities. :)
Peachy @ The Peach Kitchen April 21, 2015 at 3:30 AM
Congrats to the winner. The prize is well deserved!


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Upset Recovery Training
More and more pilots are beginning to understand that anyone can find themselves in unusual attitudes
By James Lawrence
Published July 1, 2001 Updated February 6, 2016
I hate roller coasters. Little tykes who are barely out of their diapers scamper away from the Superman Ride giggling and laughing. I, on the other hand, stumble away with nausea, posttraumatic stress and a desire to sue the park for mayhem, reckless endangerment and domestic terrorism.
So what am I, a nonaerobatic pilot, doing here at 7,000 feet—with my eyes closed, mind you—falling inverted out of a tailslide in an airplane I've never flown before?
Answer: taking one for the team—that is, you, dear reader. Why? I want you to learn how to save your life in any out-of-control flight situation you may wind up in.
I've been tasked with flying myself out of this incipient disaster. Did I mention that my eyes are closed?
"Okay," comes Bill Finagin's voice over the headset, "open your eyes!" My eyes pop wide. I'm inside a tornado. Everything's a spinning blur. Where's the ground? Where's my stomach?
An hour earlier, Bill Finagin, a master Pitts instructor pilot and a man with a mission (creating supersafe pilots), had offered to teach me this simple, bulletproof flight-recovery method that supposedly works for any flight attitude.
"Any?" I asked, beginning to tap my fingernails on the table.
"Any. It doesn't matter if you're in a spin or just fell out of a hammerhead stall—maybe you don't even know what happened, but you've lost control of the airplane."
"Don't tell me...you're going to demonstrate this with me in the front seat of the Pitts, right?"
"Right." Is he smirking? "It's like drown-proofing a swimmer. Every pilot should know this."
Note to self: Start finding ways to weasel out of this flight without making cluck-cluck or weasel sounds.
"I usually ask someone," says Finagin, "'What's your criteria for determining when an airplane's out of control?'"
I sit there with a blank look on my face, weighing my exit strategies.
"When do you decide?" he continues. "Unfortunately, many pilots haven't thought about that. So I'm going to define it for you."
Out of control, I think to myself, is probably when the screaming starts.
"The airplane is out of control when it no longer performs what you expect the next event to be. If you're flying straight and level and it goes to the left, you should assume it's out of control." I routinely have that experience on snowboards.
"Anytime the plane departs from what it should be doing," he continues, "it's out of control. So that's the first step in this recovery method: learning to recognize out-of-control situations."
"That makes sense," I say. In fact, I'm beginning to lose bladder control this very second.
He shakes his head and grins. "You'd be amazed. Most people will hesitate. There's a built-in mechanism that prevents us from admitting we've lost it. That kills a lot of pilots."
In his many years of instruction (10,000 hours in aerobatics alone), Finagin's seen it all. And his favorite tale is of a student who took 22 seconds to admit he'd lost command of the airplane. In flight, that's a lifetime—literally.
"People freeze; their brains lock up; their egos won't let them recognize they're in trouble," he says. I wonder, is this before or after the screaming part?
"The first thing I ask people is what spin experience they have. The answers are all over the map, from none to a lot. Then I ask them basic questions." He leans forward on the table and looks me square in the eye. I feel the urge to cluck. "For instance, when we enter a spin today, where do you expect the ball to be on the attitude indicator?"
Hmmm. Spins? I fumble out some lame answer about all the way left or right depending on the spin direction, but confess that I'm not sure.
"Instead of telling you, we'll wait until the flight. But you'll be surprised, I can guarantee you that," he responds. The inevitability of my imminent upside-down/inside-out spinning grows more tangible by the sentence. Surely there's a family emergency that needs tending to...where's that dang cell phone?
"Next question: If you're in a multiple-turn spin, what's the airspeed indicator going to show you? In other words, after three turns, or five, or after 10? Will your airspeed show faster, slower or the same."
"Uh...uh..." Ten spins?! After 10 turns I'll be praying for a gurney ride to the ICU. "Hell, I don't know...faster? Hey, aren't more than three spins unrecoverable in most airplanes?"
He smiles. "That's what I call a 'mythstake.' Today, because spins aren't required for a pilot's license, many instructors have never spun an airplane! You can get your ticket simply by verbally demonstrating knowledge of them."
Finagin goes on to tell me about a former student who had a panic attack during spin training. He had asked the pilot-in-training, "What's the problem?" No answer. "He was blitzed, a complete vegetable in the cockpit. I couldn't even get him to talk to me on the intercom. After we landed, he told me his private ticket instructor taught him that after three turns in a spin, the airplane would start coming apart! So he was truly fearing for his life."
He gives me a sobering look. "This happens all too often. His fear was reinforced by the gospel of his instructor. That's terrible. Spin training is important so that people will understand what's happening in flight. These misconceptions perpetuate through generations of pilots, then the myths develop."
I'm caught in a similar dilemma myself: I've been "mythstaken" for a flyboy who's willing to endure spins and other traumas.
"For your recovery training today," he prattles on, "we'll do a few spins, just to familiarize you with the tension of the maneuver." Tension. There's a concept.
"I'll have you close your eyes, then I'll roll inverted or put the airplane into a hammerhead or a spin, something completely unfamiliar to you. The main thing to remember is this: It doesn't matter where the airplane is. The recovery technique will always be identical."
Then he tells me the four vital steps I must remember for a perfect recovery every time. "Say them over and over, like a mantra. Once it's automatic, you'll have a confidence you never had before, anytime you're flying." He gets up from the table. There's no way out. "One more thing—when I tell you to open your eyes, I want you to call out each step so I can hear you."
"You mean out loud?"
Wonderful. Roller-coaster flying is bad enough. Now I also get to experience the classic actor's nightmare—naked on stage before a full audience, and I don't know my lines.
I open my eyes. Everything's a spinning blur. Where's the ground? Where's my stomach? Oh. My. God. Self-preservation hormones flood my endocrinal thingies.
"Throttle!" I bark, yanking the throttle full off. Hey, I remembered! The world rotates, my stomach counterrotates, my head tries to leave my body.
"Neutral!" I center the stick-and-rudder pedals. The airplane hangs weightless, does a sickening flop over onto its back, then points straight at the ground.
"Wait for 100!" My wobbling eyes try to find the airspeed indicator...there it is...85...90...100.
"Four G's!" I pull back hard and smooth on the stick, watching the G meter. I have to keep the pullout forces from exceeding four G's. Cheek and chin flesh head for my lap, and I'm only pulling two G's.
"Harder!" barks Finagin. "Pull harder!" I pull. Two and a half G's. Crikey, I already feel like I weigh more than Michael Moore on Jupiter.
The airplane rounds out smoothly to straight-and-level flight.
"Good job!" says Finagin.
"Yeah? By God," I say, smiling, "that was fun! Can we do another one?"
Am I outta my mind? Don't I remember what happened to Oliver Twist when he asked for "more"?
But it really was fun. We did a 10-spin maneuver. Wow! Then two more recoveries, once from a spin...I think. I have no idea whatsoever what attitude he put the airplane into for the third recovery. But each one was nominal. Translation: The airplane didn't self-destruct, I didn't shriek like a Tim Burton character, and normal flight was resumed readily.
Finally he had me pull a loop, stall at the top, call out when I thought I was out of control, then recover using "The Method." Roll over, Brando. I'm now a contendah.
"You can recover from any situation," says Bill, back on the ground for the debrief, "in about 900 feet, if you follow the four steps without deviation or hesitation."
Okay class, you get recess as soon as you repeat the Fearless Finagin Recovery Mantra after me:
1. Slam the power off as quickly and forcefully as you can.
2. Quickly force the controls to neutral. If a stick, center it. If a yoke, center it and hold it where it would be for straight-and-level flight. Rudder pedals should be neutral, too.
3. Now for the most difficult thing of all: Wait! Do absolutely nothing. Keep power off and controls neutral until you see 100 mph on the airspeed. Why 100? "It's an easy number to remember," says Finagin. "And it ensures a margin of flyability well above stall speed. If I told you 85, you might suddenly jerk back on the yoke and high-speed-stall it. Not good."
4. And the easiest step of all: Simply pull out of the dive that you find yourself in. Just don't exceed four G's on the G meter. Once you're straight and level, add power.
The nose will always be sharply down before pullout, but you've completed the hard part, which was to keep yourself from panicking and fighting the airplane. Instead, you just got out of its way and let it fly itself out of trouble.
"If you repeat that mantra to yourself a few dozen times every time you fly, you'll be ready," Finagin promises. "What's amazing is how predictably the airplane recovers—every time.
"I wanted you to get the word out," Finagin concludes, "because I believe learning this recovery technique should be mandatory for every pilot's license."
I nod, I grin, I trash the barf bag I filled just after landing. I'm woozy, but I'm a believer.
One last thing: What does the airspeed indicator read in a spin? Zero knots. In a spin, the wind relative to the airplane is corkscrewing up from below your feet. Airspeed pitot tubes are only set up to read straight-ahead velocity.
Allllrighty then! Bring on them sissy roller coasters!