#THE STANLEY CIP .

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KICKING MY LEGS GIGGLING LAUGHING CRYING OVER KUWTU OROCHIMARU

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I agree with tinstol here

You talk about children like middle aged men

Little Timmy with a single abusive father whose been bullied for "effeminate" traits isn't going to get better when he go online in the future and sees radfems spewing bullshit.

No misandry isn't the only factor, but it sure as hell perpetuates the problem.

Here's other things that have caused the rise in alt-right followings in young men

Toxic masculinity

Lack of third spaces

Modern school atmosphere

Unregulated social media access

Homophobia

Transphobia

Lack of mental health resources

Racism

Child Abuse

Parental Issues

Sexual Assault/Hypersexualization

Poor Sex Ed

And misandry/radfems

For just one moment, I want you people to remember being a middle schooler. Now imagined being one today. Think of how social media has just affected little girls; anorexia, sephora kids, Stanley cip craze, tradwives, bbls, buckle fat removals, the eyelashes

That same thing happens to little boys, but with all the opposing values; tufforexia, Hyper masculinity, grindsets, mogging, sport shoes, aggression, those toxic little YouTube shorts with the faceless buff men spouting intense rhetoric

They're Children guys! Genuine kids growing up and this is all they see.

If all we have for boys growing up is sports and online spaces, they're not going to turn out normal. Advocate for your local community centers, better team coaches, pursuits in diverse passions, and those organizations that strive to connect young men with Masculine figures in their life that actually care about them.

"as a guy who escaped the alt-right pipeline, [*blames it on Misandry*]"

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Learning from the master

The letter from Richard L. Collins, on engraved FLYING Magazine letterhead, was terse: “Why don’t you call me and we will set up a time to interview.” That was it. But for a recently-graduated English major living in New York City in 1982, that was enough. I first met Dick in the Park Avenue offices of FLYING Magazine, but I got to know Dick – and learned to fly – in Dick’s real office, the cockpit of 40RC, his Cessna P210. During my years at FLYING as a staffer and then as a freelance columnist, I made about 110 flights in over 500 hours in 40RC. They all began with my taking the train from Manhattan to West Windsor, New Jersey. Because Dick and Ann got up early and retired early, I received permission to dip into the special bookshelf at Dick’s home that held every issue of the original Air Facts. I spent hours reading articles by Dick and his father Leighton not to mention others, like Wolfgang Langewiesche who were, or became, historic figures.

Flying with Collins meant flying 40RC – in all kinds of weather.

Our flights from Trenton began early, and we brought lunch, prepared by Ann, which consisted of baloney on white bread, Fritos, and Coke, or later Diet Coke, served from a Stanley thermos. It seemed as though all of the controllers knew 40RC, and it was not at all unusual to receive our initial altimeter setting followed by “Hey Richard.” According to my logbook, we flew cross-country twice and made countless flights from Trenton to Wichita or Kerrville or Vero Beach (I still have a Mojave model given to the press by Piper at the original Malibu/Mojave rollout). Then there were the one-off flights, like the time we took 40RC to Edmonton for a story on commercial flights near the North Pole, or the trip to Oklahoma City to see the Gulfstream single-engine jet prototype called the “Hustler.” And of course, there was the annual flight to Green Bay for the Oshkosh airshow.

Flying left seat with Dick Collins was an experience that some dreaded, but which I came to love. Prior to planting myself in the left seat of 40RC, I had flown nothing more complex than a Cessna 172, and was in the midst of a multi-year effort to obtain my instrument rating. I was a rank beginner and a very marginal pilot, but I had the extraordinary good fortune to have been paired with perhaps the best flight instructor of all time. He was not just my flight instructor, he was the world’s flight instructor, and though I did not realize it at the time, my job was not just to write stories for FLYING, but to provide clinical data for Dick on how marginal neophyte pilots come to mischief. I did at least one of my jobs well, and we carried the formula through two books presenting a Socratic dialogue between student and master.

The cockpit of 40RC was a place where the pilot flew, not the autopilot. I know that the airplane was equipped with a basic wing leveler, but I did not know how to turn it on, and that was fine, since I would never have dared. While I would not trade the Garmin autopilot in my Cirrus today, neither would I trade a moment of those hours droning along in 40RC – striving for perfection – only to hear the drawl beside me: “Patrick, don’t chase that needle, the VOR is 150 miles away.” Or, when about to dip more than 90 feet above or below our assigned altitude, “Patrick, you may want to retrim the elevator.”

On our flights across the country we, of course, encountered weather. In fact, for Richard Collins, weather was what made things interesting. Richard Collins loved flying because of the challenge of understanding and safely outwitting the weather through knowledge and skill. In the days before onboard Nexrad and CIP/FIP plots, I do not recall Dick cancelling a flight, although deviations and route changes were common. Most importantly, Dick understood aviation weather better than most meteorologists, and we students of Richard Collins read each month his caution that, regardless of what the forecast said, you really could never know the weather for sure until you got there. “What you see is what you get.” And he said it over and over: in a head-to-head between a thunderstorm and an airplane, the thunderstorm will win.

Dick’s amazing skills as a pilot and instructor became most apparent when the weather was bad. I remember a story that we did shortly after I earned my instrument rating while at FLYING. We were discussing a spate of accidents caused by pilots busting minimums and Dick had the idea of taking me on a flight in low IMC conditions – I was the guinea pig for a number of his stories – where I would have to encounter an actual missed approach for the first time. We flew the approach, and if it were possible to strangle an airplane with a choke hold on the yoke, 40RC would have died then and there. But in an airplane with Richard Collins present, the cockpit always was a place of calm.

The guinea pig for many of Richard’s flying experiments.

Dick talked me through the procedure, step by step. “Okay, you’re on the localizer, get ready for descent.” “Keep up your scan.” “How much further to minimums?” “100 feet to minimums.” “You’re at minimums.” “You’re AT minimums.” Richard Collins never raised his voice, but he spoke the words with an intensity that caused me to regain focus. I was confused by my ability to see straight down, but there was nothing at all in front of us. Can we descend further? Is this the airport environment? Negative. Power and pitch, flaps and gear and away we went. That was an incredibly valuable lesson to me. One of hundreds that I received in the left seat of 40RC.

In the years that followed our flights in 40RC, Dick and I spoke regularly about aviation and accidents and airplane safety. When I got my first Cirrus, I brought it to Frederick. Maryland, to show him the airplane. I hoped that he would be pleased that those hundreds of hours of lessons were not wasted. Today I use my Cirrus in much the same way he used 40RC – as year-round transportation though all sorts of weather. On that day, his only words were, “Fly safely, Patrick.”

But that was enough, because Dick had said and written so much that I carry with me to this day. And when I am flying a low approach or finding my way through an area of thunderstorms, or when my focus wants to drift at the wrong time, I still hear Dick’s calming words from the right seat. I am proud to be among a generation of pilots who had the honor and opportunity to learn from a true master and a true gentleman.

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SAVO RUSSELLS AND CIP GOV’T COMMENCE FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Regardless of the country’s current Covid-19 State of Emergency, the Savo-Russell constituency in collaboration with the Central Islands Provincial Government has commenced work to develop the fisheries sector in the Russell Islands group. Fisheries is one of the untapped resources that has the potential to improve livelihoods in the Russell Islands once it is properly developed and managed at the rural community level to supply both local and regional markets. A memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Constituency, the Central Island Provincial Government (CIP) and the Russell Islands Investment Forum (RIFF) was signed today (30th April 2020) to pave the way to begin the development process. The signing between the Savo-Russell MP Dickson Mua, CIP Premier Stanley Manetiva and RIFF Chairman Lesley Assad Norris was a culmination of tireless consultative and mapping efforts by responsible national government officials and other stakeholders early this month that organized fishermen and women in the islands into distinctive village fisheries committees.  A total of 9 villages were identified to work within the fisheries framework which has targeted a total of 300 fishers to kick off the project. During the recent site identification process, the Yandina Fisheries Centre and the constituency fisheries center has been considered as suitable centers that provides facilities to assist fishermen to stock up supplies for the fisheries development programme.  It is anticipated that proper facilities in the Fisheries Centres will enhance the capacity to store, handle and transport fish to markets. These fisheries centers will soon be rehabilitated to minimum standard for fish storage and handling requirements. Following a recent follow up assessment on the project area and sites, Provincial Fisheries Officer Mr Jacob Piturara has indicated positive positions outcomes for the project. All communities consulted during the discussion phases were pleased with the fisheries initiative and had pledged support to organize and develop their fisheries resources.  An elder in Russell Islands stated, that ‘while the fisheries development programme undertaken by the Province, Constituency and people from Russell Islands, it is also important to develop proper management and sustainable practices”.  A woman in Alokan, an island off Banika, expressed that her husband has been a fishermen for the last 20 years and she saw the challenges and hardships that fishermen faced in trying to meet ends.  In supporting the programme, she is pleased that Russell fishermen will be able to get organize and share experiences and at the same time work on how best they could handle their fishing and basic needs. Hon Dickson Mua is optimistic to the plans of all parties in moving forward together to assist ordinary fishermen and their families.  Fishing is a key income activity in most of the Russell communities apart from coconut and copra. Mr Mua, is looking towards organizing his people in the agriculture sector, he stated there are more opportunities in the agriculture sector especially the coconut industry. In supporting the programme, the Premier Hon Stanley Manetiva is in Honiara this week to forge a partnership MOU between the parties and to set the momentum for the fisheries programme.  “We are happy to have a plan moving forward and the most important thing is the people must benefit from their resources and improve their everyday livelihood,” Premier Manetiva sai. “Organization is key and as the Premier for Central Islands Province, I will fully support initiatives that will place my people in a better position,” he added. The signing of the MOU for the Russell Islands Fisheries Development project was witnessed by interested fishermen from the Malaita Outer Islands (Lord Howe) who have also express interest in developing a similar project for their rich fishing grounds. Read the full article