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Oct 07, 2012, 07:16 PM | |
I hesitate writing this.
Sometimes I think back on the years I've been in this hobby. All the ups and downs (literally and figuratively), the blood (prop meet skin), the sweat (pouring down my face as I labor together a plane in my garage), and the tears. This beautiful Corsair of mine crashed today. The flight was going great. Then suddenly it looked like a mini-bomb exploded in the back. The entire empennage exploded away from the plane. There was nothing I could do but watch helplessly as she nose-dove straight into the ground. It is totally my fault. I don't think I screwed the stab down tight enough. Even the CA I used to seal the stab and elevator to the fuse didn't prevent disaster. This one's on me and I'm sick about it. The good news? It was all caught on video. Incredibly, the plane is pretty much intact. There's damage of course to the front end and tears along the front and in the mid-wing area under the plane. But some epoxy and elbow grease, a new hub, spinner and prop and she will fly again. I'll upload the video tonight. It's really incredible. But hey, at least my Seahawks won today or I would REALLY be hitting the sauce! |
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Oct 07, 2012, 07:21 PM | |
Tell me about it. I'm just sick about it. Such a beautiful Corsair too. Had I epoxied the back end for added insurance she would still be pristine sitting in my garage right now.
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Oct 07, 2012, 07:27 PM | |
I think Aros is one of many, my corsair luck with the big balsa birds has bern horrible. I usually get one flying all season and then have a major issue at the end of the season that means major repairs.
Any corsair over 1.5m for me means tricky tummy and terror during every flight. Sorry about the 'incident'. Good luck in the rebuild. |
Oct 07, 2012, 07:40 PM | |
I cancelled my 1700 Mustang order from FMS and asked for another Corsair instead. I won't give her up. Here's some post crash photos.
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Oct 07, 2012, 07:49 PM | |
Sorry to hear that...mon O' man...you're run of luck lately with her sucks..., but doesn't look to bad from the pics and definately repairable.
I don't have any of my stabs glued on and am just useing the supplied screws and they seem to hold on fine. |
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Oct 07, 2012, 08:15 PM | |
Man sorry to hear that Aros. Don't let it get you down pics font look like it was too much damage. However i k ow how it feels to have a cosmetically damaged plane, it hurts to look at it. Guess your asking for another corsair (#3) from FMS? Know wonder they haven't gone on sale they keep shipping em all to you. Let us enjoy em to. .
Oct 07, 2012, 09:09 PM | |
Yea that sucks Aros!
I was filming his flight when it happened, it literally made a small explosion sound when it happened, made me look up from the camera to see what the sound was, so I got some of the crash on video, but wish I would have held the camera steady to catch it all. It was flying so well up to that point, even one of the kids at the field said 'Wow! That's looks like a real plane!' You do such a great job with the scale looks Aros, and it sucks when this happens. Wow! Hold the horses! I just watched the video, and I got a perfect shot of the explosion, and I don't think it was the tail coming off! You can clearly see the tail is all on there when all hell breaks loos! Strange thing is, looks like both the canopy and the drop tanks burst off first, before anything else! Any how, dropping the video into the dropbox for you now Aros, and I'll be calling you as well to let you know. We may have to call the FAA on this one to review the tape and perform a full scale investigation on this one! LOL |
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When Autosport runs a story it usually turns out to be true. So this may be more than just a rumour. Cosworth is about to return to Formula 1 with a bang – powering half of the F1 grid.
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WEDNESDAY, March 19, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors in the Netherlands say they've found a potentially important new use for a simple old device -- the "electronic voice box." It may help hospitalized patients who've lost the ability to speak because they need tubes down their throat to help them breathe.
The electronic voice box, or "electrolarynx," was first developed in the 1920s. It's a cylinder, about the size of an electric shaver that vibrates at one end. It's been used almost exclusively to help people who've lost their ability to speak because their vocal cords have been surgically removed, often after cancer.
"It's mostly been used in the past. It's something I saw when I was a student. I saw a patient who was able to talk with the device and it made a huge impression on me," said Dr. Armand Girbes, an intensive care physician at VU University Medical Center, in Amsterdam.
The device came to mind again when a patient's wife recently came to Girbes to say that her husband, who was on a mechanical ventilator after lung surgery, was frustrated because he couldn't speak. Girbes searched the hospital to dig up the only electrolarynx they still had.
"I tried it myself. I put it on my neck," he said.
After a few minutes of practice, which Girbes said felt a little bit like lip-synching, he used his mouth and tongue to form words without actually trying to make the sounds himself -- and he was able to produce intelligible words.
His 59-year-old patient got the hang of it just as quickly.
"I still remember the first thing he said to his wife: He said 'Hello, my dear.' That was very moving to hear from a patient who was critically ill in intensive care," Girbes said.
He reported his success in the March 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
"I think it's an interesting idea," said Dr. Lindsay Reder, an assistant professor of otolaryngology at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She was not involved in the patient's case.
"A lot of these patients who are intubated are also on sedation medication because it's not the most comfortable thing," Reder said.
For his part, Girbes said a side benefit of using the electrolarynx in ventilated patients is that they might need less sedation (because of reduced stress). Delirium and oversedation are major problems for patients in intensive care units.
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The struggle I am having right now is with writing. My students have been working on letters, letter sounds, and sight words. We have a writing assessment at the end of May. The students should be able to write three sentences on a subject, know three or more sight words, and use periods and capital letters.
I am looking for ideas to help my struggling writers who don't know where to begin and who, in some cases, are still struggling with their letter sounds.
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I, too, have made that move from third grade to kindergarten, so I understand the challenge of helping kindergartners become writers. Here are two easy-to-implement ideas that will help your kindergartners love writing and prepare them for their assessments.
• Writing a sentence: I begin teaching sentence writing by using prompts. The prompts I use are sentences that contain high-frequency, or sight, words; the prompts are never longer than four words. They help teach students to begin sentences with capital letters and end sentences with periods. I use prompts in conjunction with the book Look-Alikes by Joan Steiner or with any of the I Spy books. Following are some prompts I use: I see a ____. Look at the ___. Here is a ____. There is a ___. Students can open the book and use the prompt for that day to complete the sentence with something they see.
•Writing multiple sentences on a subject: I have found that if students have a picture to look at, they have an easier time writing about it. I give each student a handout that has three simple boxes in a column. Before writing any sentences, students draw a picture in each box (story box) to tell a story. I start by having them draw a character (could be an animal) in the first box, what happens to the character (a problem) in the second box, and a solution to the problem in the last box. Have students tape their drawings on the left side of a large sheet of construction paper. Beside each box, students write a short sentence about the picture. Remind students to start sentences with capital letters and to end them with periods. If students have a hard time writing sentences, I have them at least label their pictures. They can do this by writing the first letter sound, the first and last letter sound, or the whole word. For some students, I give a prompt to get them started. Following are examples: First, my fish ____. Next, my fish ____. Lastly, my fish ____. My students love doing the story boxes. They started making them at home and bringing them in to share with the class. I even make extra handouts and put them at a center. It really is a great way to get beginning writers motivated and to help them be successful!
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I have found with kindergarten groups with little home print experiences, introducing sentences(reading and writing)in the following way to be highly effective. In September, the kiddos copy simple sentences about our day that I have pre-written on the board.Begin with only one sentence. Each word is a different color and the words are spaced a little further than normal.The children are given unlined newsprint and fat pencils. I accept all attempts and really praise those who have put forth a good effort. Then we read the sentence together. Next we count the words and clap the words. Then we count and clap the letters. We talk about the Mommy letters and Baby letters (Capital and Small). Soon the children are writing 5 sentences correctly and many begin reading the board on their own. This is done separate from the class Writing time where student work is scaffolded,dictation,kid spelling,etc.Enjoy!


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The SouthWest Writer's Annual Writing Competition in 2014 continued a long tradition of offering a platform for authors worldwide to display their talents. By entering the contest, authors can get their work in front of professional literary agents and editors without having to write a query letter. This year, the contest's 32nd, two literary agents requested contact information for four of our contestants in the Mainstream/Literary Novel and the Mystery/Suspense/Thriller/Adventure Novel categories.
In all, there were 432 entries in this year's competition from 40 states and six foreign countries: 38% from New Mexico, 44% from the next 14 states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, and Washington), 13% from 25 other states, 3% from Canada, and 2% from five other foreign countries.
The most popular category was Mystery/Suspense/Thriller/Adventure with 18% of the entries, followed by Mainstream/Literary Short Story with 14%, Poetry 13%, Children's Picture Book 10%, Juvenile/Young Adult Novel 9%, Creative Nonfiction/Memoir 8%, SciFi/Fantasy/Horror 6%, Essay 6%, and Women's Fiction with 4% of total entries.
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The children in the neighborhood like to play marbles in Roy's backyard, for it's the flattest area around. One of the neighbors is Angel, who lives a few houses away from Roy. They like to play together.
Sometimes Roy would see Angel walk by his house on Saturday morning. He knew that she was going to the Adventist church at the end of the block. He thought it was strange that people go to church on Saturday.
One Saturday morning Roy was sitting on the front step of his house. He was bored, and there was no one to play marbles with. Then Angel walked by and stopped in front of Roy's house. "Come with me to church!" she called to him. "It's fun!"
Roy ran into the house and told his father that he was going to church with Angel. His father nodded, and Roy quickly changed into clean clothes and ran outside to meet Angel, who was waiting for him. They walked together to the church.
Roy had been to his mother's church on Sunday, but he had never gone to the Adventist church. He was curious to see what the Adventist people do at church. But as he neared the church, he became shy and wasn't so sure he wanted to go in.
Angel took his hand and encouraged him to hurry. "The children's Sabbath School is starting soon," she said. Angel showed Roy to the class for children his age and introduced him to the teacher. She promised to meet him after Sabbath School.
For a moment Roy stood by the door, unsure whether he wanted to stay. But the teacher greeted him with a smile and introduced him to Gabriel, who walked up, shook his hand, and offered to sit with him. Roy felt better already.
The children sang songs and prayed. Then the teacher told them a mission story. Some children recited their memory verse, and the teacher told them a Bible story. Before Roy knew it, Sabbath School was over.
Roy found Angel, and the two sat together for worship service. During the sermon a train roared by right behind the church. It was so noisy that the pastor stopped speaking until the train was gone. Nobody seemed to care; they were used to the trains.
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The next Saturday Roy got up and dressed and walked to the church alone. He didn't need to wait for Angel to take him. He wasn't a stranger anymore.
Roy attends the Adventist church every week. "I like Sabbath School and Adventurers the most," he says. "I like the singing, and I'm learning a lot about God and nature and the Bible."
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A homeowner came home to find traces of a burglary: A broken kitchen window and blood. He didn't have to look far for the intruder—he found him passed out, drunk, in a second floor closet, police said.
Here's what happened, according to police spokesman Officer Dave Hartman:
At 12:10 a.m. on Sunday, police responded to Ivy Street on a report of a burglar in someone's house. The homeowner told cops he came home and found a broken window and blood. He searched his home and found a 52-year-old man in his bedroom closet. He was passed out and bleeding.
Once roused by police officers, the 52-year-old man told cops he'd broken in. He was taken to the hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening lacerations, and arrested on burglary and criminal mischief charges.
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Five Knives & A Gun: At 3:55 p.m. on Friday, Officers Ryan Kajtor and Carlos Conceicao spotted a Nissan Altima parked in a residential zone at the corner of Greenwood and Gilbert streets in West River.
"The car didn't belong there," said Hartman. "The car's engine was running and it was occupied by two men who were drinking beer. The officers approached the vehicle as Officer Anthony Maio pulled up."
After asking him to step out of the car, the cops asked the driver if he had any weapons on him. He told them that he might have a utility knife. "In fact, he had two utility knives in his right pants pocket," Hartman said. "He had two more in his left [pocket] and a fifth had been at his feet in the car." In the car's center console, police found a Colt .38 revolver, for which the driver had no permit.
Police charged the man with drinking in a motor vehicle, carrying a revolver without a permit, weapon in a motor vehicle and improper parking. They let the man in the passenger seat go.
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Cops took the woman to the hospital for evaluation. "When the doctor came over and asked if she was experiencing any physical pain, she replied, 'Yes.' When asked where, [the woman] replied, 'Here,' and kicked the Doctor in the face," Hartman said.
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In the 4th Q they turned on the sideline mic and you could hear someone yell, Will move...cut to the basket. You could see the other guys calling him out too. Then he made his move and it was lame. Like he didn't want to cut to the basket but made a curved line to the lane and out again. I think with a full offseason with Frank, they'll be able to execute a ton better.
This win was impressive. Max is a much better defensive rebounder, he seems to get a thrill out of boxing his guy out and inhaling the ball as it comes off the rim. Coach after coach has tried to get Max to buy into rebounding on the defensive end and Frank seems to have cracked the code. AWESOME! The physical nature of defense from Max and Ben has been stellar and Frank seems to understand the best pairings, like Lee said, he's limiting the Monroe/JJ and Max/Ben pairings. I also like how he's using JJ in a more limited role, it's actually made him (JJ) more effective off the bench, 20-24 hard, tough, energetic minutes off the bench seems to be his niche. I still don't like BK7, but he's getting better. Winning 6 of 8 with Max starting at PF makes me realize that we don't need to pair Monroe with an All-Star at PF, a solid and strong defender, who can score 8-10ppg and grab 7/8 Rpg is all GM needs next to him, Monroe and Dyess would be perfect complements to one another. Really hoping we go hard after Jeff Greene and/or Wilson Chandler this summer, both are upgrades over Tay.
Part of the agreement struck after the lockout: http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7...15-trade-deadline-other-key-dates-sources-say "Between Dec. 25 and Feb. 6, teams will be able to dress and play 13 players instead of the usual 12. After Feb. 6, teams can dress 13 players but only 12 can play." This still wouldn't explained what happened last night? Perhaps that modified the dates? Perhaps Boston broke the rule last night and no one noticed?
Let's not get too depressed about all these wins, guys - they've played a stretch of bad teams and benefited from playing against Boston without Garnett twice. Even if they play .500 the rest of the way, they should still end up with a top-10 pick.
I was thinking if the ref just would have caught the ball instead of letting it bounce off of him, it wouldn't have been an issue.
Disagree...I think the toss was planned to catch the ref by surprise. Didn't toss til the ref raised his arm....tossed at that very moment. Also...............He was close and the toss had no arc....
This game puts us at .333, I feel like that's right where we are, we're better than the really bad teams (about 1/3 of the league) and we can compete with lower seed playoff teams and beat them half the time we play them in Auburn Hills. We're a team not very deep into the lottery but I think we're 1 move away from being a .500 team in contention for a playoff spot next year.
Good points........We can only hope that JD can come up with that 1 move.......wether the lottery draft....or by other means.
Yeah, I agree. And the way Rondo just walked off immediately as if he knew he'd get tossed is telling. If what I've heard is right, that kind of action is an automatic ejection + suspension.
I watched the Celtics/Mavs last night and they said Rondo has done this 3 or 4 times before and this was just the tiping point. So, you were right...Rondo has a problem with this.
Perhaps Sheed taught young Rondo a few things (like how to mail it in when you don't feel it on a given night) before he departed....


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Venus at Sunrise
Photograph by David Cortner, Galaxy Picture Library/Alamy
This Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on where you live, sky-watchers around the world will be able to see a cosmic spectacle known as a transit of Venus. The events are so rare that only six Venus transits have been observed since the invention of the telescope more than 400 years ago. (See a telescope time line.)
Transits happen when a planet crosses between Earth and the sun. Only Mercury and Venus, which are closer to the sun than Earth, can undergo this unusual alignment.
The last Venus transit was in 2004—above, the planet glides across the rising sun in a picture taken during the event from the North Carolina coastline. After 2012, we won't see another transit of Venus until 2117.
(Find out how to see the 2012 transit of Venus.)
"People watching this event through some form of safe solar viewer will see the small, dark silhouette of Venus crossing the sun's face over the course of about six hours," said Jay Pasachoff, an astronomer at Williams College in Massachusetts. (Read a Q&A with Pasachoff about Venus transits.)
"The effect won't be visually impressive, but that black dot against the sun is a remarkable thing to see."
—Andrew Fazekas
Published June 4, 2012
Evening Star
Photograph by H. Baesemann, Blickwinkel/Alamy
Venus hangs low in the evening twilight near a razor-thin crescent moon in an undated picture taken from Troms County in northern Norway.
As a prelude to this week's transit, nighttime observers may have noticed that Venus seems to be sinking toward the western evening horizon, as the planet appears to approach the sun.
Transits of Venus are so rare because the planet's orbit is tilted just over three degrees from the plane of the solar system. This means that most of the time Venus passes above or below the sun's disk, as seen from Earth.
On average, we see four transits of Venus within 243 years. The events happen in pairs spaced eight years apart, separated by more than a century. (Related: "Venus Spinning Slower Than Thought—Scientists Stumped.")
Published June 4, 2012
Purple Haze
Image courtesy ESA/NASA
A crescent Venus shines in an ultraviolet snapshot taken by the NASA-ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. As Venus circles the sun, it appears to go through phases that mimic those of our moon when seen through a telescope. (Related: "'Hot Jupiter' Planet's Phases Seen—A First.")
Venus has been getting closer to Earth ahead of the 2012 transit, and the planet's disk has been appearing to not only grow bigger but also to morph from a full disk to a thinning crescent.
In the final few days before the transit, the ends of the crescent will appear to wrap around the planet's disk, forming a ring. This phenomenon is caused by dust in Venus's upper atmosphere scattering sunlight.
Published June 4, 2012
Safety in Stargazers
Photograph by Itsuo Inouye, AP
Japanese schoolchildren huddle around a projected image of the sun at the Yokohama Science Center during the 2004 transit of Venus.
Staring directly at the sun without eye protection can concentrate incoming ultraviolet and infrared radiation, damaging retinal cells and possibly causing blindness. To watch safely, observers should always use special "eclipse glasses" or telescopes equipped with solar filters.
Perhaps the safest way to watch the transit of Venus is to make a pinhole camera, said Pasachoff, who is also a National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration grantee. (National Geographic News is a division of the Society.)
To do so, cut a hole about a quarter-inch (0.6-centimeter) wide in a piece of cardboard paper, and use the hole to project an image of the sun onto a flat surface, such as a wall or sidewalk.
Published June 4, 2012
Sunrise Transit
Photograph by Jim Tiller, Daytona Beach News-Journal/AP
Venus—and a pelican—glide across the solar disk in 2004, when viewers on Flagler Beach Pier, Florida, saw the sun rise with a Venus transit already underway.
During the 2012 transit, "Venus's diameter will appear only about a 30th the diameter of the sun, so it will be ... like a pea in front of a watermelon," barely visible to the naked eye, Pasachoff said.
Published June 4, 2012
Edging Closer
Image courtesy TRACE/NASA
NASA's sun-watching satellite Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) caught an extraordinarily clear closeup view of Venus entering the sun's disk during the 2004 transit.
Scientifically, the most important parts of a Venus transit are the moments when the planet appears to enter and leave the sun's disk, Pasachoff said.
Timing exactly when the planet crossed the solar limb from different locations helped 18th-century astronomers more precisely measure the distance between Earth and the sun. Today scientists hope to use the Venus transit to study the planet's upper atmosphere.
(Related: "Venus Craft Reveals Lightning, Supports Watery Past.")
Published June 4, 2012
Hole in the Sun
Image courtesy TRACE/NASA
An ultraviolet view from TRACE shows Venus as a dark dot on the sun during the 2004 transit.
For the 2012 transit of Venus, scientists will use the Hubble Space Telescope to help improve techniques for finding and characterizing planets around other stars, aka exoplanets.
The hope is that Hubble's activity will be a good parallel to observations currently being carried out by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which looks for dips in starlight caused by planets transiting their host stars, as seen from Earth.
(Related: "NASA Finds Smallest Earthlike Planet Outside Solar System.")
Published June 4, 2012
Admiring Beauty
Photograph from Science Museum/SSPL/Getty Images
A satirical 1793 print plays on the public interest in Venus transits, which were of great historical significance.
During the transits of the 18th century, astronomers went on treks across the globe to time how long it took for Venus to cross the solar disk. (Related: "Journals of Captain Cook Go Online.")
"In 1716, Edmond Halley figured out how, if you could time a transit's duration from places both far north and far south on Earth, you could make a long skinny triangle to Venus and figure out how far away it is, by seeing where on the sun Venus's silhouette is projected," Pasachoff said.
This simple trigonometry allowed scientists to calculate a more exact distance between Earth and the sun, which in turn gave astronomers a way to measure distances to the other planets in the solar system.
Published June 4, 2012
Lovely Landscape
Image courtesy SVS/Magellan/NASA
Orbiting spacecrafts can map the planets of our solar system in detail, as seen, for instance, in this 1991 topographic map of Venus by NASA's Magellan probe.
But transits remain among the best methods for hunting and characterising planetary systems around other stars.
NASA's Kepler, for example, has racked up 61 confirmed planets and more than 2,300 planetary candidates by watching for the tiny dips in starlight as exoplanets transit their hosts.
Published June 4, 2012
Venusian Skies
Image courtesy CIL/GSFC/NASA
Rays from the sun pierce Venus's thick, cloud-covered atmosphere and light up the barren landscape in an artist's illustration.
Transits of planets around other stars are being used to search for worlds that may harbor life. A tiny portion of the light from an exoplanet's host star will pass through that planet's atmosphere, which could reveal properties such as the telltale presence of water or methane. (Related: "First Exoplanet With CO2 Heats Up Hunt for Other Earths.")
However, "since the stars are so far away that no details can be seen, those exoplanet transits are visible only in the total light of the star," Pasachoff said. Scientists therefore have to make a number of estimates when analyzing transit data to tease out a planet's atmospheric properties.
Watching how the sun's light changes during the 2012 Venus transit can show astronomers whether their calculations capture the known properties of a nearby planet, helping them to refine their models for studying more distant worlds.
"Understanding the details of a transit in our own system can be the key to unlocking the transits of exoplanets in faraway solar systems," Pasachoff said.
Published June 4, 2012
Day at the Beach
Photograph by Tracy Boulian, The Plain Dealer/AP
Telescopes at the ready, amateur astronomers stake out a picturesque outcrop to watch the 2004 transit of Venus from Huntington Reservation in Cleveland, Ohio.
The 2012 transit promises to be one of the most observed and most recorded astronomical events in history, in part because it'll be visible in its entirety from the western Pacific, eastern Asia, eastern Australia, and high northern latitudes. (See a visibility map for the transit of Venus.)
For North America, the first half of the transit will be visible late Tuesday afternoon, while for much of Europe the sun will rise on Wednesday with the transit already in progress.
Published June 4, 2012
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Qantas staff cuts vital for profit goal
PUBLISHED: 21 Nov 2011 00:01:14 | UPDATED: 21 Nov 2011 08:00:30PUBLISHED: 17 Nov 2011 PRINT EDITION: 21 Nov 2011Peter Wells
The most striking aspect of the Senate inquiry considering amendments to the Qantas Sale Act 1992 was that it generally failed to ask questions relevant to the future prospects of Qantas. Further, when relevant information was given, the implications were largely ignored.
The real challenge for Qantas is a lack of profitability. In 2010-11, it provided a return on equity of only 3.7 per cent and while this was an improvement on the previous two years (2 per cent), it was indisputably inadequate.
Simply put, shareholders would be better off putting their money in the bank.
That is why Qantas's share price languishes at $1.61, well below its high of $6 in 2007 and considerably less than its book value of $2.72 a share. It has not paid a dividend for two years. Unless Qantas can improve its profitability, it will find it difficult to access the necessary finance to continue its operations.
If Qantas is to persist with its current business model, it will require government support. Shareholders will not keep footing the bill.
If the government is not prepared to support Qantas, it must change its business model to improve its profitability.
It is not surprising management has focused on staff costs. These were the largest cost item in 2010-11 and represented 25.1 per cent of total revenue. The corresponding figure for Virgin Australia was 22.7 per cent; for Singapore Airlines it was 13.2 per cent.
No one asked why Qantas's staff costs were so high. Available seat kilometres (ASK) are a common measure of productivity in the airline industry. The ratio of ASK per staff member is 35 per cent greater at Virgin Australia and 95 per cent higher at Singapore Airlines. If Qantas had the same ASK per staff member ratio as Virgin Australia, it would have 7500 less staff. This isn't a few extra pilots.
No one asked why Qantas has so many staff (a problem common to many legacy carriers). Nor for a breakdown of the workforce and how it compares with other airlines.
The average staff cost at Qantas in 2010-11 was $114,000 – 8 per cent higher than at Virgin Australia and 24 per cent higher than at Singapore Airlines. No one asked why this is so high at Qantas.
A mistake people commonly make when evaluating business decisions is that doing nothing is an option. Qantas cannot continue to operate as it currently does. Even without industrial action, it faces death by a thousand cuts.
Regrettably, at the Senate inquiry, no one asked any questions that showed an inclination to really understand the problems facing Qantas. It was all about superficial political point-scoring and chasing the media sound bite.
Peter Wells is head of the school of accounting at University of Technology, Sydney.
The Australian Financial Review
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How much luck did Jaguar Racing get on this one... beaten by everyone in qualifying, even the Minardi and Toyota... they managed to finish with one car in the points...
But it's what happened up front that I find amazing... and the reactions... I was watching the rerun last night on Speed Channel... Barichello changed his line at least 2 times, or evn 3 depending on how you count... to finally swerve in front of the Williams...
if it had Michael Schumacher, everybody would have been howling about his agressivity... but coming from Barrichelo... who always whinning about everthing it seems like the fingers are pointed at Ralf...
The rules allow for one blocking / defending move... not 3 !
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I watched, and there is no doubt Barichello was at fault. However, he drives a Ferrari, and everybody knows Ferraris are holier than the Pope....
There are some knowlegeable people betting now that Jaguar will be out of F1 before the end of the season. Apparently the expenses for F1 are taken out of Jaguar Cars' budget and not Ford's. So we better hope they sell a million X-types or the British Racing Green may disappear from the grid.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A Kansas Department of Corrections official says it has plans for adding space for 640 inmates at the state's maximum-security prison outside El Dorado by July 2019.
Director of Capital Improvements Michael Gaito discussed the department's plans during Wednesday's meeting of the Legislature's Joint Committee on State Building Construction.
The department is planning two major projects at El Dorado, with a potential total cost of nearly $38 million. Gaito said the plans are driven by projected increases in the state's inmate population and added that the department might back off the projections change.
One project would add two new housing units for 512 inmates by July 2016. The other would add a new mental health unit for 128 inmates by July 2019.