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  2. Well I knew that Google manipulates their search results, but I did not appreciate the degree to which they do this. I wanted to get info on books written by Jordan Peterson, so searched his name. All kinds of critical stuff came up . . . including Southey’s silly piece in MacLeans (cited here earlier in the week.) So I tried searching his name on Bing and got much better results . . . a mix of informative sites, links to his lectures and some critical (including the foolish Southey piece also, but at least there were alternatives. No more Google for me.

  3. The Old Lady in danger as Bank of England ditches gendered language –
    The old lady of Threadneedle Street might be no longer after the Bank of England promised to banish gendered language from its rulebooks.
    The Bank, nicknamed The Old Lady for most of its 300-year history, will stop using masculine words such as “chairman” and “grandfathering” – a clause put in place between two sets of rules – in a bid to make sure its documents and letters are viewed as gender neutral.
    Making the announcement in a 337-page update on the regulation of bank and insurance bosses, the plans also include changing how individuals are addressed as “his” or “her” in policy documents.
    The proposals were made by the Bank’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), which supervises banks and insurers and said the move reflected its “commitment to encourage equality and diversity at regulated firms”…
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/12/13/old-lady-danger-bank-england-ditches-gendered-language/
    ———————————————————————————
    Identity politics displacing the tradition of hierarchies of competence at the Bank of England?
    Is Canadian P.M. Justin Trudeau, a secret advisor to the U.K. Prime Minister May?
    Maybe so, no one else will give him the time of day.
    Will the Queen wave her sceptre saying “No, you May not!”, when she is later removed from bank notes.
    Then nothing like having the Pound Sterling neutered to inspire economic confidence.

  4. Communist China has many thousands of internet censors working 24/7/.
    Google must have found that positively inspirational.

  6. A couple hours in and they are still reporting no fatalities. I hope that remains the case. No details yet as to whether the airplane became airborne but seeing as the aircraft is “within a kilometre” and there are no fatalities I doubt they left the ground. It sounds like the crew may have had a reason to abort above decision speed and chose to ride it off the runway and through the trees rather than take it airborne. It is usually a unique instance when an aircraft of that class aborts above decision speed; wildlife on the runway would be but one reason. An aircraft of that class departing a 3800 ft strip is committed to becoming airborne for what could be called “not an inconsequential amount of time”. Good job on the part of the aircrew if they made the split second decision to sacrifice the hull to save all souls on board.

  8. I also wonder if icing was a factor. There was some freezing drizzle in the area at the time and, if memory serves correctly, the ATR 42 and 72 have had difficulties with icing before.

  9. That’s exactly what I was thinking.
    Current METAR is 140459Z AUTO 31005KT 9SM OVC019 M09/M12 A3013 RMK SLP227 so the dew point is pretty close to ambient, not sure what it was four hours ago.
    WEW282 had about about a two hour turnaround after landing from PA. I doubt the airport has de-icing facilities, but West Wind might.

  10. Mother f#$ker!! as an AME ireally take this personal. its horrible when we see this happen you can bet we will talk analyse and pray for the people involved its painful hurtful crushes your feels especially if its a mechanics fault…usually pilot error 90% of the time but when its not its really painful.
    as an aside send your aircraft to third world nations through “freetrade” …not so free trade after all is it. iam a global free trader but i am a snob i want highly skilled sophisticated educated nations doing these important tasks not cheap central american labourers who dont care. and no they dont i work with central americans who ware from brazil , columbia chile and guatemala all of them agreed the standards are rediculous.
    we need a trump in canada . a real trump not a cuck like sheer

  12. FOND DU LAC, Sask. – RCMP say all 25 people who were on board a plane that crashed in northern Saskatchewan Wednesday night have been safely removed from the crash site.
    There were no fatalities.

  13. Here’s the ob from that time:
    CYSF 140116Z AUTO 33005KT 300V010 9SM OVC017 M09/M10 A3008 RMK SLP210
    That said, it’s an auto (AWOS, to be exact) and they don’t report freezing drizzle so even if it were happening it wouldn’t have been in the report.
    The nearest staffed ob is Fort Smith, NWT, and they had freezing drizzle on and off all day.
    Whatever the cause, I do hope everyone is okay.

  14. Johann, the accident you are referring to is almost 20 years ago and likely isn’t a factor in this one. The accident you recall resulted in the ATR deicing boots being redesigned to reach farther back onto the wing to be more effective in severe icing. Also, the crew did a thing or 2 wrong in that accident. After the autopilot lost control of the aircraft the flight crew recovered from being inverted then they re-engaged the autopilot. They didn’t recover from the second loss of control. It has some similarities to the 2009 Q400 crash in Buffalo where the crew allowed the autopilot to fly the approach through icing until it disconnected when the stick shaker activated. Incorrect control inputs from the flight crew following the autopilot disconnect secured both aircrafts’ fate along with all souls on board in both instances.

  17. Mother f#$ker!! as an AME ireally take this personal. its horrible when we see this happen you can bet we will talk analyse and pray for the people involved its painful hurtful crushes your feels especially if its a mechanics fault…usually pilot error 90% of the time but when its not its really painful.
    as an aside send your aircraft to third world nations through “freetrade” …not so free trade after all is it. iam a global free trader but i am a snob i want highly skilled sophisticated educated nations doing these important tasks not cheap central american labourers who dont care. and no they dont i work with central americans who ware from brazil , columbia chile and guatemala all of them agreed the standards are rediculous.
    we need a trump in canada . a real trump not a cuck like sheer

  19. Per mile aircraft are the safest, but per trip and per hour traveled they don’t come out nearly so well…
    http://observer.com/1998/03/driving-versus-flying-the-debate-is-settled/
    But if you measure fatalities per hour , rather than per mile, then cars and commercial flights come out just about even. Meaning that you have just about the same chance of dying during a three-hour flight as you do in a three-hour car trip.
    This conclusion is based on the number of deaths per passenger hour traveled in the year 1995, a fairly unremarkable year for transportation fatalities. Here’s what you get (discounting the deaths of drunk drivers themselves, but not their victims): In cars, one person died per 5.5 million passenger hours traveled, versus one death per 6 million passenger hours in commercial airline flights-a slim difference at best!

  22. Punishment for Disobedience
    Lev 26:36  And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 
    NEOCON WARLORD TRUMP SIGNS MASSIVE MILITARY BILL
    http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/12/13/545415/Donald-Trump-defense-policy-military-might-NDAA
    US President Donald Trump has signed into law a massive defense policy bill to bolster the country’s military and modernize its services.
    The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was approved with bipartisan support on Tuesday.
    It is worth nearly 700 billion dollars allocated for the fiscal year 2018.
    Trump called on Congress to fully fund the measure and lift the budget caps that have forced limits on US defense spending for several years.

  26. AGW Kills.
    “Alberta Is Making the Leap Toward Renewable Energy” (blmbg)
    “Scheduled closure of UK coal-fired power stations on track
    London (Platts)–24 Mar 2016”
    …-
    “From global leader to crisis: how did the UK lose its grip on gas?”
    “But this week, an explosion almost 1,000 miles away caused gas prices to rocket, exposing the growing reliance on other nations to power the energy system.
    In an Austrian town of fewer than 200 people a fatal blast ripped through the European gas markets driving UK prices to highs not seen since early 2013.
    The UK was already reeling from the shock shutdown of the North Sea’s most important pipeline system, just as freezing temperatures swept the country in the first winter since the country’s main gas storage facility shut down.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/12/13/global-leader-crisis-did-uk-lose-grip-gas/

  28. AGW RIP.
    …-
    “La Nina Will Probably Be Sticking Around Through All of Winter” (blmbg)
    …-
    “The global cooling trend since the 2015/16 El Nino peak has resumed”
    “HadSST is generally regarded as the best of the global SST data sets, and so the temperature story here comes from that source, the latest version being HadSST3.
    The chart below shows SST monthly anomalies as reported in HadSST3 starting in 2015 through November 2017.”
    https://www.thegwpf.com/global-ocean-cooling-continues-2/

  30. My favourite quote of the day concerning the US mediocracy hand wringing to the GOP rejection of their “transpartisan” wisdom:
    “The conservative movement didn’t “reject” journalism, science, and the academy. Those institutions (especially journalism and the academy) became so astonishingly, uniformly left-wing that they rejected the conservative movement.”
    Now they’re mired in their own ideological monoculture, marinating in their own confirmation bias.”
    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454573/media-bias-against-trump-stems-from-progressive-monoculture

  33. Just a sidebar story to the plane crash. At least one of the victims was brought to Saskatoon for surgery. Her mother arrived at a hotel near my Saskatoon store after driving 16 hours. Within 2 hours of checking in, her car was broken into and a laptop and important documents were stolen. The hotel has no security cameras, but just paid upwards of $100,000 or more for a new LED billboard and sign. Their response to the customer was she should call the police. Certainly a hotel that doesn’t deserve customers.

  37. http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/ups-loses-familys-dollar846000-inheritance/ar-BBGJ3Oy?li=AAadgLE&ocid=ientp
    from the link:
    The couple say they also asked bank staff what kind of provisions were in place in the unlikely event the draft was lost or stolen.
    “I was told there were procedures to deal with that,” John said. He added they were told they would just, “fill out some documentation and a new draft would be issued.”
    Now, almost 10 months later, the family is still waiting for their money.
    the ‘procedures’ appear to be to ignore the situation. aka tough luck der cussomer . . . .

  38. Me No Dhimmi: Go here for Vasily Grossman.
    http://www.xoxol.org/dem/grossman01.html
    “Just after the Red Army reached Polish territory, Grossman was one of the first correspondents to enter the death camp of Majdanek near Lublin. He then visited the extermination camp of Treblinka, north-east of Warsaw. His essay, ‘The Hell Called Treblinka’, is one of the most important in Holocaust literature and was quoted at the Nuremberg tribunal.”

  40. Same old garbage. Is anybody still swallowing this nonsense? I am not saying Trump never had dealings with the Russians — many business people do — but no one has ever stated how the Russians could possibly have influenced the election. They could not. They did not.

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