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Kaleidoscope - observer of beautiful forms
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A kaleidoscope is a cylinder with mirrors containing loose, colored objects such as beads or pebbles and bits of glass. As the viewer looks into one end, light entering the other creates a colorful pattern, due to the reflection off of the mirrors. Coined in 1817 by Scottish inventor Sir David Brewster, "kaleidoscope" is derived from the Ancient Greek kalos, "beautiful, beauty", eidos, "that which is seen: form, shape" and skopeo, "to look to, to examine", hence "observer of beautiful forms."
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Four distinct Functional Areas around which firms are organized
- Accounting and Finance: accounting, financial reporting, performance management, corporate governance.
- Human Resources: employee recruitment, assignment tracking, performance reviews, etc.
- Marketing and Sales: managing a company's interactions with customers, clients, and sales prospects.
- Supply Chain Management: execute supply chain transactions, manage supplier relationships and control associated business processes.
Core Business Processes
- Order-to-Cash: the processes associated with selling a product or service.
- Procure-to-Pay: the processes associated with procuring goods from external vendors.
- Make-to-Stock/Make-to-Order: the processes associated with producing goods to place in stock, or to fill a specific order.
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Core Components
- Financial Management: accounting, financial reporting, performance management, corporate governance.
- Operations Management: simplify, standardize, and automate business processes to improve collaboration and decision-making.
- Human Resources Management: employee recruitment, assignment tracking, performance reviews, etc.
Extended Components
- Customer Relationship Management: sales activities, marketing, customer service, and technical support.
- Supply Chain Management: design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply chain activities.
ERP Modules
Core Components
- Financial Management: accounting, financial reporting, performance management, corporate governance.
- Operations Management: simplify, standardize, and automate business processes to improve collaboration and decision-making.
- Human Resources Management: employee recruitment, assignment tracking, performance reviews, etc.
Extended Components
- Customer Relationship Management: sales activities, marketing, customer service, and technical support.
- Supply Chain Management: design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply chain activities.
ERP Diagram
ERP Data
ERP - The most important source of information in organization.
ERP Operations Management
ERP Dashboard
Technology - powered by WSO2, betterForm, ZK Spreadsheet
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- Business Intelligence: reporting, analytics, data mining, event processing, performance management, benchmarking.
- Social Networking: sharing, communication, collaboration.
Benefits
- Getting the right information to the right people, at the right time, via the right channel.
- To provide historical, current and predictive views of business operations.
- To enhance packaged and/or legacy systems.
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âTMª I'll end in ages, but I'll ask for your Monday âTMª
âTMª Most wonderful show is âTMª
âTMª Keeping up with the Joneses âTMª
- Welcome to episode 263 of Keeping Up with the Joneses.
Mr. Jones.
How are you?
- I'm good.
I'm so good because I'm so rested.
- You don't see, sure about that.
Oh, okay, because you're so rested.
- Well, the thing that you're seeing is me just not on,
'cause I haven't done anything for seven days.
- Yes.
I've just been completely off and I have to tell you,
I feel like a new man.
- See, that's so great.
And we, and we gussied up our set.
I mean, we gussied up our set.
- We gussied up Mr. O, he's not the right way for putting it.
We Christmased up.
- Here's what I thought.
- Yeah.
- I kind of feel like I need to apologize.
And then I realize only our members are gonna see this
and everyone who's listening can't tell.
- Yeah.
- I had vast hopes of decorating our studio
in a Christmas theme 'cause we've got three more episodes,
well, two more including this one.
- Yeah, so we're gonna go like Christmas tree.
- I'm trying to get more progress with Christmas.
So I have a Christmas tree.

- Well, that doesn't say that.
- I hijacked some--
- It says A, that could be my stalking.
- Shh, I decorate as much.
Anyway, I think the last time I've learned
is I suck at decorating and it takes way more work
than just coming down and throwing a few things up there.
- Well, yes, but I was thankful
that you wanted to try because it gave me time to have a little nap.
Yeah, and a nap you did have.
I just want to go back to this talking for a moment.
For those of you that aren't members, you can't tell that all it has is the letter A
on it, just a big A.
So it actually has half of my name and only a quarter of yours, so it's probably my stocking.
[LAUGHTER]
I couldn't understand your math and then I got it.
It's like half?
What?
- Yep. - All right.
- Yep.
- The reason we're so relaxed,
and probably this episode is gonna be very all over the place.
This 'cause we're so woo-hoo, is,
and this throws it, again, depending on when you listen to it,
we're recording this at the end of our Thanksgiving week,
but this won't be coming out 'til the beginning of December.
- Yeah, yeah, comes out like 10 days later, or whatever, yeah.
- And all I wanna say is add a great Thanksgiving.
- Oh, me too, it was so good.
- So our weekly catch up is gone,
and tell us what we did for Thanksgiving.
- Well, we mostly just spent time with the kids
and ate a bunch of food, a lot of food.
- It felt weird putting on clothes today.
(laughs)
- Well, I did actually work.
- I know, but I wore pajamas pretty much exclusively
the whole time.
So I put on clothes like that, man,
these pajamas feel, oh, these are jeans.
Okay, I wonder if I can get jean-like pants
made from pajamas.
Jean-like pants made from pajamas.
- So, you know, I can go to work.
- Maybe.
- Where it looks like I'm dressed, but I'm still in pajamas.
- I think they make those.
I'm pretty sure Lulu Lemon makes something like that.
- Well, if Lulu Lemon makes it,
I'm sure they'll be quite nice,
but I was just terrified at the thought
of you doing a Google search and buying some for me.
- It seemed like pajamas, yeah.
- Yeah, we set off the kids were off.
And so we took the whole week off,
work, which was nice.
Continuing Alan A.J.'s movie review,
we watched, which I had,
minor offense and huge prejudice against, but ultimately ended up enjoying the Home Alone reboot.
So this is a neighbor of Fox, which gave them all the property rights.
And so they've rebooted Home Alone, aside from the title and a recurring cast from the original movie,
no spoilers.
It is really good.
It is a reboot.
It is a totally different movie.
A totally different movie.
But they did a great job.
Well, but I don't want to give any spoilers, but at least 75% of the way through the movie,
I was like, I don't like where this plot is going.
And then they redeemed it quite well.
Yes, I thought they did a good job as well.
And we watched the Bond movie.
We already talked about that.
This is how relaxed we are.
Oh my gosh.
It's all blending together.
Yeah.
Okay.
What I will say about Home Alone is it clearly wasn't made for a 50 year old and a 47 year
old, but are two youngest kids?
Oh, barely.
They loved it.
mean they absolutely loved it. So I thought they hit the recipe really, really well.
Yes, for their group. I got a booster shot. You did.  So I was vaccinated with Pfizer, two shots of Pfizer. And from
everything I've read, it's like, he mixed up if you had Pfizer go from a
durna, which is just so happens that the boosters that were available in my
area were Moderna. So I went and got the jab and I felt okay. And I got a
lunchtime. I got lunchtime Tuesday by like most of the afternoon, Tuesday, I felt like I'd taken
three Valium. I was like, "Ooh, you're like really drowsy." Yeah. The next day. You were useless.
I was useless. I was so tired and just couldn't think of anything.
That's sick though. Just tired. Just really, really tired. And then at about 7 p.m. I spiked a fever
And by 8 p.m. I went to bed because I couldn't stay awake.
And the next morning at 6 a.m. after an hour of sleep, I was from that to life.
But so I'm whatever that is. Yeah, I'm I'm
boosted people. I'm absolutely boosted.
I tried my bow and arrow this week.
Oh my gosh. I should I'll cut in a video right here for the members to see you
shooting your your bone.
Yeah, I took it out and I wounded myself.
I don't think we've talked about your bone arrow.
You just said, I try my bone arrow.
Like that's a common thing we've talked about.
Oh, yeah.
We haven't talked about.
Well, so here's the thing.
Like I, uh, I have thought about shooting a bow and arrow for a while.
And then when COVID was happening, I can stop you right there.
Yeah.
I thought about finding a bone arrow for a long time now.
Like what's that?
A couple of years.
Yeah.
Where'd that come from?
It came from the Hunger Games.
No, it didn't come from the Hunger Games.
It came from in Toronto occasionally when I would get really hit by the Holy Spirit and
manifest, like my body would do something.
It kind of looked like I was shooting an arrow and I had so many different people say to
me, "Oh, it looks like you're shooting arrows."
True, you do have that manifestation.
And I thought, "Oh, that's interesting."
Anyway, then with COVID getting sort of locked down and whatever, I kept thinking, "What
am I going to do to get outside and do something?"
And I thought, I actually looked up, is there an archery club in Nashville, you know, at
like a summer and a half ago, walking around the neighborhood, getting a puppy, running
on a treadmill.

But I wonder if I could join an archery club.
I didn't know why.
I just always wanted to try it.
And so, and then in October, I did the Southgate Ladies Retreat and we got to try archery.
And you know, we each got to shoot like five or six arrows, but I loved it.
And you know, the guy was like, actually, you're naturally pretty good at this.
And I was like, very cool.
So I decided for my birthday that I would put that on my like Amazon list.
I would like a bow and arrow and some arrows in a target.
And so some sweet friends bought it for me.
And all the stuff came in like the glove and all that.
And so I was like, "Babe, I'm going to set it up and shoot it."
So you came and you filmed my first--
I did.
My first five arrows, my first quiver of arrows.
You did a great job.
Thank you.
I'm also thinking that over there, you could set up an indoor firing range.
Yeah, I could.
There's like nothing in there.
But I don't think it's going to be good for the arrows to potentially, if I did miss
and hit the concrete, then I would ruin my arrows.
We can stick up some of those boards.
We'll figure it out.
- In fact, in decorate a set like a boss.
And by the way, you chose to come dress the Santa Claus,
which I thought was really sweet that outfit.
Then I can set up a firing ring.
- Listen, I kinda match you.
You're in blue and red.
- Yeah, I know.
- I'm in jeans and red and white.
- We did mistletoe over here.
Can you work your magic and make this more Christmas-y?
- Oh, I'll see what I can do by next time.
- Yeah, all right.
Okay, watch.
It's gonna have snow, there's gonna be penguins, ice skating.
It's gonna be marvellous.
- Anyway, I managed to wound myself.
- Shull on the wound.
really? Okay. I can't. I'm wearing long sleeves. Okay. I'll post a picture right now. That's
what it looks like. Yeah, it's awful. I and it's from two badly done shots. So basically,
you know, there's certain form to doing it and you're supposed to keep your front arm
slightly bent so that the string doesn't catch your arm. And turns out that's pretty important.
Yeah, so I only shot maybe about 30 arrows, but twice I didn't pay as much attention to my front
arm as I should and hit the exact same spot twice because I straightened my arm fully.
And I have a Bruce roughly the size of a baseball.
You have a belter of a bruise.
Oh, yeah. It's black and blue mostly with some green. So, you know, it's festive.
You shot 30 arrows? How many arrows did you get?
I only have five.
Oh, okay. You went back.
- I know went back, pulled them out,
but I have it on my Amazon list to get another set.
- You should get trick arrows like on Hawkeye.
- No, yeah.
- It's on all of them.
- In addition to being on Thanksgiving,
our tradition is to set up our Christmas decorations
the next day.
And so now our house is decorated for Christmas.
- We are.
- Good to go.
And I raked the front yard.
And I don't think all rakes are created equal.
I think we have a horrible rake.
- Wouldn't surprise me.
I did no research on the purchase of that rate.
- I am shocked in a pod.
- So that was our week.
If you're American, I hope you had an amazing Thanksgiving.
- Yeah.
- It's a thing I love, now that I've been here,
now that I'm an American, I think I get Thanksgiving.

- Okay.
- Does that make sense?
'Cause like now I can't wait for Christmas.
- Yes.
- You know, just a week of just eating amazing foods
and you made a cheesecake that was phenomenal.
- A keto cheesecake.
Which, honestly, is better than any cheesecake I've ever had.
It's grain-free and sugar-free.
- Yeah.
- And it is amazing.
- It's really good.
I really like it.
- Sometimes the keto stuff has this kind of alcohol,
chemical alcohol aftertaste.
That thing did not.
- No.
- And it wasn't too sweet.
- But I think that's 'cause it's made with swerve.
Swerve doesn't have that taste to me.
- Okay.
Well, either way, it was absolutely delicious.
- Yeah.
So, there you go.
- All right, you have a cheeky grin on your face.
You think about cheesecake?
You're thinking about me.
- Well, yes.
Hello. Hello. All right. Our topic for this week. Yes. Honestly, because we're not
like a lady because we're relaxed and unwinding. Yeah. We were thinking about like, you know,
what are we going to talk about? And we've thrown around this for a couple of weeks and
just kept putting it off. Yeah. We want to talk about five things we did not know about
living in the South. Yes. Okay. Caviat. Yes. What's our caveat? Well, the South is a generic
term for the southern states of the United States.
Yes.
And I'm sure all of the south isn't the same.
I'm sure if you go to the Carolinas or Louisiana or Texas, it's going to be very different
from Tennessee.
So we are talking about our Allen AJ's experience, things we did not know before living here.
And now we do like all of us.
I don't know what's on your list.
You don't know what's on mine.
I want to go first this week because you got to go first last week.
Okay.
I'm worried you're going to take some of mine.
Go ahead.
And I took a leaf out of your book,
and I'm actually reading a book right now.
Look at my list.
Look how short it is.
Last week, Asia was like, "Ah, babe,
"you've just got written prose."
But when I sit down and think about what I wanna say,
I can't stop all the thoughts, I just write them down.
That's why this doesn't have prose.
But I've been reading this book,
and it's talking about actually being less,
doing what I do and being more spontaneous,
and I'm gonna give it a shot.
And my thought is it's gonna make me a less engaging podcaster,
but you know what, science, let's try and see what happens.
- Okay.
- All right, here's my...
- Number one.
- I appreciate it in these episodes.
Here's my five things I don't know about living in the set.
- Number one.
- Number one.
- Yeah.
- How stinking relational it is.
- How stinking relational like...
- How relational?
Like the way of life here is super relational.
And I had to have that pointed out to me.
I remember meeting with a friend because I don't know,
I'd go here maybe like within a year, two years,
and I just couldn't understand why everybody
wanted to meet with me.
Like all the time, they wanted like breakfast or lunch
or let's do coffee and you know,
I'd be like, I don't even drink coffee.
And my friend had to sit down and go,
"Yeah, it's not about the coffee."
And I was like, "What do you mean?"
He said, "Ellen, look at where we're sitting.

They have front porches to sit laminated and sweet tea on.
They have fire pits out the back like the whole of the South is built with
relationship in mind.
Oh, yeah.
That's really good.
And I was like, yeah.
So if you think about it, that now that I think my favorite thing, I'm
in Soak's Day because this is partly why I didn't know about living in America,
too.
But in my whole life, in living in Scotland and living in Canada, it never,
ever occurred to me to go out for breakfast.
The breakfast is not a meal that I'm going to eat out at.
I'll meet you for lunch.
I'll meet you for dinner.
But the south is so relation.
It's like, let's go for breakfast.
Yeah.
I see.
I'm trying to think if I ever went out for breakfast.
But and when you go to breakfast, it's packed.
Like there are restaurants here that are breakfast only restaurants.
Plenty of them.
And when you go there at like seven a.m.
packed and packed often with one of my upcoming points. But that was the thing that I was so
odd to me. And I now so deeply and richly appreciate. I just think even about our community. It's
always fire pits or it's always hanging out. I think about like, you know, one of my closest
friendships I have like every Friday, it's a bit too cold now, but every Friday we'd sit on this
porch and we just sit in a rocker and we would just talk for hours.
And I love that.
I love it.
That's a really good one.
That's number one.
Yeah, I like it.
Number two, which is kind of similar.
OK, now it's also worth pointing out that the passion with which I'm talking
doesn't mean that what we have is better than what you have.
It's just it's just different.
Right. Right.
And so the one I'm about to mention sounds like it's comparative.
And it's only comparative to what we know.
It's not comparative as in better or worse.
- Yeah, I mean, I think part of our excitement
about talking about this today is we were out for lunch
with some new friends from California.
And they're new to Tennessee, have just moved here.
And we sort of got excited about Tennessee things.
- Right, what we love.
- What we love, so.
- Right, number two.
- Yes.
- The slow pace of life.
- Yes.
- Now, a couple of things I want to mention is,
You could argue that we don't have a slow pace of life,
but I would say that Nashville Franklin,
where we live is slower pace than anywhere else I've lived.
- Yeah, so I agree.
- All right, and people would argue,
so funny story, before we even moved here,
we came to kind of like see what is it like,
is their favorite here,
we've probably told the story before,
we come, we check in to a hotel,
we pick three different hotels to see,
three different parts of the city,
and we check in hotel in downtown Nashville.
And we wanted to go, where did we want to go?
We wanted to go down to Franklin.
And it was about, it was Friday night,
it was about 4.30, quarter five,
and as we're heading out, the concierge in the hotel said,
you know, do you need a car, do you need a cab?
And we're like, no, no, we got our own car.
We're headed down to Franklin.
And he was like, that's probably the wrong time ago,
you know, like traffic will be a nightmare.
- Right.
- And we were like, you know, even if it is,
we don't mind.
- We're from Toronto.
We just want to look around, we want to have a feel.

And we just giggled because we were like, oh.
- 'Cause it's still moved.
- I'm like, this is not right.
This is, to what we were used to,
how many lanes is the four or one?
- It places 20 something lanes across here.
- So like the level of traffic that we were used to.

- Way more laid back, yeah.
- And I love it.
I love the pace of life in general
and I love the pace of our life.
- And I would say that's evidenced in the driving as well.
I'm like the first couple of years.
Can you grow up?
- Is that on your list?
- No.
- Okay, you can have some time.
- Would you grow up driving in Toronto?
- Yeah.
- Basically, if you are not an aggressive driver in Toronto,
you are not going to change lanes.
- You keep saying aggressive.

I just mean decisive.
- Decisive.
- I'm going and you know I've gone 'cause I've gone.
- Yeah, but I mean, you have to just be
kind of in it to win it.
- I'm mostly your way in.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then you come here and like half the time people
aren't even driving the speed limit,
they're just having a nice time looking around
and I'm like, what are you doing?
Yeah, so it took me like years, literally years,
to not be frustrated by the driving here.
- Are you claiming that you've now moved past frustration?
- Well, I'm pretty sure I was in the car with you.
This is we.
- I'm in a much better place than I was,
is all I'm trying to submit.
- Okay.
- All right, number three.
- Yes, number three.
- The food.
- Yes.
- I didn't know it, but I was built to live in the south.
- Yeah.
introduced a whole of the foods that I did not know exist, which are perfectly curated for my pallet.
Yes.
You talked about a church this morning.
I did.
You spoke, but let me just, you know, how I love the let me list some things like
pimento cheese.
I didn't know what pimento cheese was.
Pimento cheese is like the most delicious cheese on the planet.
Is it though?
See, she has got irony of irony.
I grew up in Scotland.
I grew up in Great Britain,
where what's the thing that everybody drinks all of the time?
Iron brew.
Tea.
Oh, tea.
(laughing)
Love your favorite, too, so.
(laughing)
Whiskey.
What?
(laughing)
The thing that everybody would drink all the time
is tea, do you want a cup of?
And ironically, I never drank tea.
Right.
The whole time I get here,
and I discover the way to get out and drink tea
is just serve it cold over ice.
It's delicious.
Sweetened.
I have unsweet tea.
You do now.
- Yeah, but when we first moved here,
you were like, you were a walking sweetie.
You would get so excited, we would go out
and you'd have like three or four sweetie at one meal.
And then you'd be like, I don't know why I can't sleep.
I was like, ooh, pick me, pick me, I know why.
- Okay, thank you for empty.
- I mean, didn't Jeff once say,
just because they've offered you a refill,
doesn't mean you have to take it.
(laughs)
- Well, don't even get me started on refills.
That was a paradigm shifter, but I lived here so long.
That's not just picking the norm.
But I remember when they were like,
they give you free?
Yes, they'll.
- Free refills a lot.
- They give you free refills.
But tea, like I never drank tea growing up.
And now I've made up for lost time.
I love ice tea.
- Yeah.
- Biscuits and gravy.
Now, this is what was so confusing
because in Great Britain, biscuits is something
you have with your tea.
You dip your biscuits.
- Yeah, they're like cookies, like biscotti
and things like that.
- Yes. - Yeah.
- Yes, sure.
Biscuits over here are the closest we have to scones.
Like a savory scones.
- Scones are denser.
Biscuits are like a little bit fluffy.
- As somebody had eggs benedict on biscuits today,
I can tell you it was a scone.
- Okay.
- But biscuits and gravy,
the thought of having like a rich tea biscuit
or a digestive biscuit with brown gravy over it,
it was horrifying.
So I stayed away from it for like 12 years.
It was only this year I was having breakfast,
out for breakfast with a friend at the country boy.
(laughing)
There's a restaurant that is older than me
called the country boy in Leapers Fork
and it's an experience to go there.
And so I thought, I'm gonna have biscuits and gravy.
And I was like, where have you been all my life?
And it's, you know, it needs a branding,
needs a marketing overhaul for foreigners, but it was delicious.
It was scones with like sausage.
Oh, no, stop.
It was delicious.
But you're talking about that banana pudding.
Like Southern white.
I'm talking about that.
That's what you're talking about.
Disgusting.
Gross.
Have you actually had it?
No.
Yeah.
I'm taking you to the country boy.
I'm not having it.
You are selling your best table, please.
The lady and I will have some.
This is crazy.
You will love it.
I'm just, but the food is, you know,
anything deep fried?
Yeah. Deep fried okra.
Everything is deep fried.
Oh, waffles and chicken.
Well, I can see the deep frying thing
being appealing to you because the Scottish like to deep fry things like Mars bars.
Yeah.
Things like that.

Yes.
Nevertheless, still stuff I would never think that.
The only thing I haven't been persuaded by is grits.
- Grits, awful.
- I mean, it sounds awful,
it needs a marketing overhaul.
- It is, it is.
- But anyway, the food I was built to live in the South.
What are you gonna say?
It looks like you've got a low-QC comment.
- No, I mean food is on my list too.
I'm gonna wait until I get to do my list.
- All right.
- Yeah.
- Okay, that was food.
Buh, buh, buh, buh, buh.
Number four.
- Yes.
- This has, well, this isn't all like good things.
Right? This is just things we didn't know.
Yeah, yeah.
I did not know what it was like to live in the Bible Belt.
Yeah.
Now again, the Bible Belt is just kind of thrown around term.
And I'm sure you could visit lots of countries, countries, lots of states in the
south and experience a different facet of the Bible Belt.
Yeah.
But I remember when we moved here, have it moved from Toronto, which would be
decidedly not only multicultural, but multi-faith.
Multi-faith.
Yes.
right?  And there would be like maybe a men's group having a Bible study,
you know, at lunchtime, and nobody's back in eyelid, totally normal music playing in, you know,
in Walmart or in department stores or not odd to go out for lunch and see a table just by their head
in prayer to say grace and nobody's batting an eyelid.
Right.
That Christianization has both good and bad elements to it.
Okay.
The good is like it's really easy to talk about, you know, Christian things.
There's a cultural thing that you can tap into, which is really, really easy.
Um, there is very strong sense of Christian values.
Like our kids are in public school.
They're not in private schools.
are not in Christian schools and is very clear as we've met our teachers that they are practicing
Christians.
Right.
It's not that they have posters, it's not that they talk about it, but it's just by lifestyle,
it's very evident to tell what that's going on.
The downside to that is, as we were talking to a friend today, I asked her for permission,
I'm not going to use her name, but she was talking about what has been like dating in
Nashville.
And she was like, the problem with dating in Nashville is everyone is a Christian,
but you have to find out what that term means to them.
Right.
And I love the way that she said that, because by and large, everyone you meet
is a Christian, but I'm a Christian means different things to different people.
Because there's an aspect of being Christian means I was just raising church,
and it might not mean they actually have a personal faith with Jesus.
Or it might be that they pray the sinners prayer back in sixth grade, but they've moved no further forward that in the kingdom.
So that becomes really, really difficult with evangelism when you're trying to introduce people to Jesus,
because they might think they already have them when probably biblically they don't.
It also means anybody who's been hurt by Christians, by a church, by a church organization,
you're automatically tarred with the same breath.
So there's good and there's bad about that.
that. I was just shocked about how pervasive Christianity is in our culture. I was not prepared
for that. Yeah, I agree. It's really easy when you go first. All right, number five.
I remember we visited our friends in Shalot, North Carolina. Shalot!
And this is before we'd ever moved to South. And we were hanging out with some friends who were
our age. And we were over some other friends of ours who were probably our parents age.
Yeah. Right. And we would call them, you know, Ron and Clarisse.  Yes, please,
Ronnie, I have one of those. But whenever our friends who lived there would respond to Ron and
Clarisse, they would always call them Mr. Ronny and Miss Clarisse. Yeah. And I was like, is it
because they don't know them that well? And I remember asking them, why do you,
why? Like once I hung out with them and I realized, no, no, these guys have known each other for years.
I was like, you know, when I grew up, I had my real aunt and uncles, right?
You know, antigen and uncle Pete, like biological, and some uncles.
Yes. And then I also had, you know, an anti-an an uncle gym.
They were just my parents, friends, that when you were a little kid, you called
them. Like our kids have. Maybe it's a cultural thing.
So I asked them that and they're like, no, no, it's just, that's what we do.
They didn't even know how to answer it.
My point is number five would be the yes, sir.
No ma'am. Yes, Mr. Allen. Hi, Miss AJ.
Titles.
You're our pastor.
Yeah.
Yes, pastor. No pastor. Yeah.
That I was not, I was not ready for that.
And now I love it.
Now that I have kids. Yes.
I love hearing my kids.
I don't let my kids call me, sir.
And they don't call you, man.
Like that's the thing in the Southern.

I don't want to ever my kids to think of me as sir or ma'am, right?
But I love watching my kids use sir and ma'am with other friends or if they're they're closer friends
You're Mr. Chris and yeah, you know, I think that's really sweet that I don't know if it's politeness
I don't know if it's honor. I don't know if it's just a cultural
Not but I like it and I'm converted. I like it too. I've even
- That's weird, it was so weird when we moved here.
- So weird.
It is not my preference to be called Pastor Allen,
but I've given up asking people to stop calling me Pastor Allen.
Like I'd prefer they just call me Allen,
but people do all the time.
And I'm like, okay.
- But equally we have people that just call us Allen or AJ.
- Of course, of course, people who know it,
still don't know what people are like,
excuse me, Pastor, can I ask you this question?
And I'm like, okay.
I've fully asked you a thousand times,
please don't call me Pastor.
But there you go, that's my--
- But I think that's an honor thing.
- I think so too.
Yeah, I think so.
- Yeah, I don't know anything.
- All right.
- All right.
- Let me look at my five.
- All right, hit me with your one.
- So my first two are about food.
- You got two about food?
- I did.
- I feel like I failed.
- Yeah, well, I mean--
- If number one is sweet tea and number two is,
I'm sweet tea you've cheated.
- No, my first one was I did not know
that certain vegetables existed until we moved here.
And I was trying to think of all the different ones
that I've been shocked by,
The main ones were okra, never heard of it, never had it, never wanted to have it, mac
and cheese is not a vegetable, and collard greens.
I had charred, which is similar, I think, but anyway, collard greens and okra.
I don't think you can get them in Canada.
But also okra, the first time I'm right in thinking about it, the first time we ever
had both of those things was a daily dish and they were both gross.
Yes.
And then we just slimy.
Then we discovered two pillow honey.
And how do they serve there?
They do them blistered.
So they're not breaded.
They're basically baked or roasted in an oven.
I'm yummy.
I'm in my tongue.
So good.
So I bake them that way at home now.
But yeah, the first couple of times I had okra, I was like, but then we ended up trying
it because somebody else ordered it blistered and I was like, oh, yes.
I will have this.
I will have those.
I'm still not a collard greens fan.
And you know, I'm always worried when we do podcasts like this because inevitably when
I say I don't like grits and I don't like collard greens, what people say is, but you
haven't tried mine.
And when we first moved here, I must have tried eight different people's grits and I
just, it's the texture.
Can't do it.
- Same with meatloaf.
You're just not a meatloaf.
- I cannot do meatloaf.
No, no, it shouldn't be formed into a breadloaf.
It's not right.
My second one was--
- Other food related.
- Other food related was, yes,
we already talked about white gravy, yuck.
It's not gravy, it's flour and white stuff.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait, you've lost me.
Your number two is you're arguing about gravy.
- Yeah, well sort of.
- So white gravy is not gravy.
- Other wonderful foods.
So my number one was these vegetables I did not know existed.
Number two, continuing on food theme is weird foods that I've encountered here.
So white gravy versus brown gravy.
Why, why would, why?
Right.
I think you just admit that white gravy, the biscuits and gravy isn't gravy.
It's not gravy.
It's a completely.
And I'd be fine if people just called it biscuits with lumpy white sauce or liquidized
sausage.
(laughs)
Which granted I don't like sausage either.
But I understand from talking to people today.
Do you like breakfast sausage?
No.
Oh.
That some white gravy has sausage in it
and some is just flour and milk.
Well, that's not gravy.
So that's all I wanna say about that.
So, and when we moved here
and I would order gravy at a restaurant,
and I love gravy, I mean, I love gravy,
When the white stuff would show up,
I would get so confused because I think it's wrong
that it's called gravy.
- You start asking for brown gravy
and getting weird looks.
- Yeah, and then they'd be like, we don't have that.
I'm like, okay, then don't say you have gravy.
- Yeah, I just had a one person mission
to educate the South.
Is there other weird foods in that category?
- Yes, I felt like everything got made into a casserole.
Like there was so many--
- Grieving casserole?
- Yeah.
- Sweet potato casserole?
- So when we first moved here,
We got invited to tons of people's houses for food and we have lots of casseroles and I don't think I'd ever eaten
Casseroles as like a we even had mac and cheese casserole. Yeah all kinds of casseroles
I mean it just felt like you know anything could be hiding in there. What what makes a casserole a casserole?
I have no idea. Maybe you cook it in a casserole dish and ta-da. It's a casserole
Usually it's got some kind of sauce and usually it's hidden under some kind of cheese. It seems like sounds like an anacolada
- But it could be anything in there.
- Hmm.
- Yeah, so casseroles.
And then you already mentioned this,
but I cut you off banana pudding.
Where was banana pudding all my life?
Goodness.
It is so good.
- Do you know another thing that's on my list
that I forgot to mention?
- What?
- That might fit under this?
- Yeah.
- Is brisket.
Barbecue brisket.
I mean, I had brisket before.
- Oh, barbecue brisket.

- But barbecue brisket?
- Yeah, 'cause my mom makes a mean brisket,
but it's a roasted brisket.
- She, no.
- Fair play, Patricia, you do, you make a very good brisket.
- Yeah.
- It is not, it's like gravy and gravy.
Her brisket and--
- You're talking smoked brisket.
- Two different things.
- Oh, so good.
- But we never had that before.
- No.
- So we move here.
- Yeah, and that's why we need a smoker.
So we can provide ourselves with more red meat.
- Oh, Santa's coming, babe.
(laughing)
Yeah, the carnivore diet.
- Yeah.
Oh, number three would be the American thing
of celebrating everything.
I remember--
Southern thing or that's just an American thing, but you discovered it by living in the South.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know. It might be an American thing or it might be a Southern thing,
but I remember to begin with, I was like, you're having a graduation party for your kindergartener
or your preschooler, or like there's, we're having a party or a celebration to celebrate
anything and everything. And to begin with us, I don't get it. And then I thought, actually,
this is brilliant, like celebrating every milestone, even little ones.  But it took me a
while, like to begin with, I was just shocked. And I mean, it comes down to everything. I
I mean, they're going to celebrate every holiday here.
It just seems like it's sort of more lights, more decorations, more,
whatever than I've ever seen.
Um, but I think it goes along with this American thing of actually.
And kind of celebrate.
Yeah.
Celebrating.
I'm just so good at it.
So good, which I thought it to begin with found really challenging.
And then I was like, actually, I need this challenge.
You know, so it's really good.
So number four, you already kind of said this, but that people are so warm
and welcoming.

They're just super kind.
You don't tend to walk by each other.
You are raking leaves.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Neighbors walk by and say hello.
I used to think that was an American thing.
And then I learned it's not because you got a New York, go to New York City.
Right. Well, there's no yards to rake in New York City.
But different. I mean, so here's the thing.
Anywhere from the UK in America is going to have miles better customer service.
Yeah, just general. Yeah.
But then when you saw that's America in general, but then you're right.
When you moved to the south, I don't know if it's more
more genuine, more frequent, more culturally the norm.
- Yeah.
- But yes, people are sing song and friendly.

Like that would be totally normal thing to do.

- Yeah.
So anyway, I just thought that really struck me the sort of friendliness of everybody.
And then number five was big thinking.
I think there's, and maybe this is an American thing as well, maybe not just a Southern thing,
but just the thing of like, hey, this sky's the limit.
I think I trained myself to think reasonable things,
have reasonable dreams, that kind of thing.
And it feels like what's in the air here is
you could do anything.
Yeah, so that was my number five,
was just a challenge of big thinking.
- I also think about like we just personally,
we've seen that big thinking lived out
in many of our friends lives, where they don't just have a dream, they head towards that
dream and something happens. And that's remarkable to see. All right, well, there is our five things
that we did not know about the South till we lived in the South. There you go. Let us know what we
missed. If you live in the South, I wonder if because you live in the South, these will sound
normal to you because it's all you've ever known. Well, but so many people have migrated here.
That's true that they might have different experience.
What do we miss?
Yeah, yeah.
What do we miss?
Plenty.
I mean, like four of ours were about food.
So, you know, if you're not a foodie, there might have been other things that we're
impressed upon you.
Yeah.
Um, well, we didn't even touch the love of hunting and football.
We didn't even get into rivalry.
We don't know anything about hunting or football.
Really?

You've got a bow and arrow.
You're going to go bull hunting elk.
It's going to be awesome.
Oh, yes. No, I've been told that a hunting bow,
like my bow has 20 pounds of pressure and a hunting bow has upwards of 55,
I think 55. I think of the brews you can get with that.
I can't imagine the brews. I think I would have just dropped to my knees.
I have a listen's question. Yes. That is so good. Oh,
and I'm going to let you answer it. Okay. No pressure.
And it's a brilliant question. All right. Yeah.
And it is, I'm so sorry that you did send this in
and it's taking me a while to get to it.
But I've loved it, right?
So here's the question.
Hey guys, I've got a question regarding one of Alan
and AJ's favorites, Zelda.
My boys have started playing the game with my husband.
There are elements that I really like about it,
like the Exploring and Problem Solving.
However, I don't love that they go to shrines
and wing things called "spirit orbs" and other "new-agey" I guess you could call it "nots".
They're also getting into Pokemon cards.
My husband says that these things like potions and magic wands are in most all of video games.
I'm just trying to know how to guide my kids to be wise about witchcraft without making it weird.
I don't want to be the super sheltering mom,
and I also don't want them to be confused about play magic and real magic.
I wasn't into much of this growing up,
And I don't want to make decisions about it out of fear, but out of wisdom.
We'd love to hear your insight on how you make these decisions about what's
okay in regards to games for your kids and how you talk to them about it.
Thank you guys.
Good question.
Well, I'll start by saying I don't really know much about Pokemon.
OK.
I never got into Pokemon.
I do remember hearing some sermons about not getting into Pokemon.
I don't remember what they said.
So I can't really speak about that.
Zelda.
So there are parts that I don't love.
I don't love that it's called a spirit orb, but for me, those things are not real
like spells and things like that.
Those can be real things.
Spirit orbs are not a real thing.
It's a thing that got made up for this game.

You don't go in there and Zelda doesn't worship anything or link or whatever.
He just runs through and solves a puzzle in that the end, he gets this circular thing called a spirit orb.
So for me, that doesn't, it doesn't really trigger anything.
I don't love the whole scene where the because they're basically like a little guy.

I just fast forward it.
Like we just skip the visuals of that.
Um, and so for me, yeah, most of the game is running around, exploring, making foods,
but there, um, let me, let me play devil's advocate here because there's
Also, the overarching thing is that, you know, in the history of Zelda, there's the goddess
Hylia.
Right.
We don't like goddesses.
Right.
Right.
We have a god.
Yeah.
You do trade the spirit orbs in by praying at a statue.
Yeah.
So there's something like there's some really questionable stuff there.
Sure.
That I'm so curious isn't a stumbling block to you.
I think I know why.
I'm so curious to ask you about like, what is that?
- I think because none of it registers as a real thing for me.
I'm praying is a real thing,
but like trading in again,
nebulous orbs for a heart,
you know, like things like that, I'm like, okay.
- Or stamina wheel. - Or stamina wheel
or whatever, like all that to me is just like,
oh yeah, it's just the story that they've written for the game.
But there is, I know there's like a little dark guy somewhere where you can trade things in, whatever.
I never do that.
I don't do it because I'm just like, that's, I have to do, like I have to finish the shrines to finish the game.
You don't even, like, you don't even, but I trust the justification.

I don't actually have to interact with the little dark guy to finish the game.
Right.

And I don't go and sell monster parts either.
Not that monsters are real or that I just don't.
I like the running around.
So OK, yeah, but I get that.
Yeah.
- So it's gonna sound like I'm arguing against you.
I'm just trying to tease out.
Because we're in the realms of vagueness here.
Because I could equally bring up
a completely different franchise
and apply the same rules that you've given me,
your internal rules for what's okay and what's not.
Like Lord of the Rings.
And you've got a very strong reaction
to not wanting to be part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Don't want the kid watching it, you don't like it.
And yeah, I could equally argue.
- But this for me, they are, it is casting spells
and chanting and all that kind of stuff.
It's not, to me, it's not the same thing at all.
- So you don't wanna go speak to Kilton,
who's just made up, but you're happy to pray statue,
your in-game character,
you're happy to take your in-game character
and make him pray, do you know what I mean?
There's like...
- I don't think that's the same thing
as the Lord of the Rings though.
I think that's completely different.
Right, but somebody who's like, we've got lots of friends who are great Christian believers.
Yeah.
Fanatical about the Lord of the Rings.
Yes.
I haven't read the Lord of the Rings or watched it.
I was so bored, you know, I was like, what is going on here?
Yeah.
All right.
So I don't have enough to argue about it, but I'm sure the internal rules that you've got
to keep yourself safe in Zelda could equally be applied to different franchise.
Now, I'm just, I'm trying to get your thing to break down.
Maybe to different.
Yeah, maybe two different video games, maybe.
You know what I think answers?
What my guess would be that you're trying to put a rational reason to what you feel in your spirit.
OK, because my experience of you is I can be playing some music or I can be doing something
and your spirit is just like, what is that?
Turn it off without you ever knowing what it is to weigh whether it's good or not.
Does that make sense? Yeah.
Like you are so spirit led.
Like you have like a attuning fork in your spirit.
Yeah.
And so yes, on paper, what you've just described about that Zelda game sounds
horrendous.
Like, could you imagine knowing nothing about the game and say, oh, yeah,
my kids are playing this great game and they collect spirit orb from monks in
shrines and then they trade them in by praying to a goddess and she gives them,
you know, stamina vessels and heart vessels.
You'd be like, there's no way my kids going to play that game.
Right.
On paper, that sounds absolutely horrible.

And you loved it and it never raised any flags for you.

You're way more spiritually challenged by environments and content than say I am.
And I would say I'm fairly sensitive to a lot of stuff.
- Sure.
- Right?
So it was just, it was,
I'd always wondered, why did that not?
And there's other video games that I have downloaded
and I have played and I thought,
"I can't have this content on here
"and expose the kids to it."
And actually on paper, it's not that different from this.
So why is one okay and one is not?
I'm like, I'm just trusting my,
like the big argument that people make is,
'cause you love the Chronicles of Narnia.
- Yes.
But you don't like Lord of the Rings.
I'm not a literary person.
I don't know.
There's of course, Tolkien and C.S.
Lewis were friends and it's a fantasy world, but one doesn't
trouble your spirit and the other does.
Yes.
That's what I think is going on.
I don't know if that's true.
You're trying to use what your spirit feels and put it into a structured form.
But the trouble is the structured form can easily be.
It's easy to point out the inconsistencies in your
structure form.
I think if the little guy in the game, if Link in the game had
to go and cast spells to get a heart or go and whatever,
I would not play it because that would disturb me.
- Right, but praying to a goddess doesn't disturb you.
- Well, I guess it does, because--
- That's what I'm trying to say, like on April,
they could be the same.
'Cause the Bible says, like, you shouldn't have any
of the gods before me and witchcraft is bad.
- Yeah.
- And that's what I mean.
Like it's not something up here that you're rationalizing
'cause it's inconsistent up here.
But in here, it's very consistent with,
like your bead on what's right or wrong
has stayed consistent the whole time I've known you.
- Yeah, yeah, it doesn't bother me.
And sometimes, I mean, there's been some other games
that you've tried playing where I'm literally,
I can't be in the room.
- That's what I mean.
And you haven't even looked at it to object to maybe the graphical content or the,
you know, it's just like, whatever that is, could you not play around me?
Yeah.
And by and large, if the games I'm thinking of, I haven't continued playing them.
Yeah.
So I haven't enjoyed them.
Yeah.
But that's, that's what I think is going on.
Yeah.
So the, because I can think of movies that you've, that you have maybe two movies,
and I can't even think of them talk in my head, but I know this has been true
where we've watched two movies, broadly similar story, broadly similar context,
and one is fine, and the other's like, "My spirit doesn't feel good about this."
Yeah.
And I'm like, "Okay, I trust your nose on that."
Yeah.
And if I go down the line of, "Yeah, but why are you like this, and why don't you like that?"
That's not where the decision is being made up here and down there.
Yeah.
So how do we answer this person's question?
She's a mom.
She's been disturbed by some content.
Is this okay?
What do I do with it?
Yeah.
What would your wisdom be?
I guess talk talk to your husband and arrive at a place together
Would be my I mean that's the thing Alan and I don't always agree on
Everything in terms of content or whatever
But we can hear each other's no especially with the kids like if we're like actually I'm really not I really don't want
You know that game or to participate or to watch this movie or whatever
We're we're fine to disagree and still agree that if one of us has a no, then we have a no
So I would say yeah talk to your spouse and see if you can sort of you know
It's it sounds like from your question you're able to identify what it is it bothers you
Yeah, and also listen to what bothers you and take it to the Lord. Yeah, like have you know have a conversation about it like what?
Hey, Lord, you know my you know
Is this you is this me is this my you know objections yeah, and and see where that goes
Boy like we're so much for just throwing to your right brain and just clumsily
Podcast episode, but that's that's the best I've got in terms of my in terms of my my thinking is
Following the piece of the Holy Spirit and the radar that comes with that
Yeah
But now describing how what you do in Zelda sounds so odd. It does it definitely does yeah, all right
We're gonna burn every copy of Zelda and I have no one up
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| CliveL 27th Dec 2010, 14:04 permalink Post: 1026 |
A pot pourri of responses after my Christmas reading!
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This actually is interesting in that the n umbers show one of the fundamental features that made the Ol 593 such a good choice. If you look closely at the TO and cruise values you will find that at TO the overall compressor pressure ratio is 13.5 the compressor exit temperature 460 degC and the turbine inlet temperaure is 1152 degC. In cruise the pressure ratio is 10.5, the compressor exit is 565 degC and the TET 1100 degC. Somebody, I can't find the exact post, was asking whether the elevated cruise total temperatures affected engine life, and here we see why this is so. As Christian said in another posting, when you compress air it gets hotter - from 21 degC to 460 degC at take off and from 127 degC to 565 degC in cruise. A fundamental limit on engine operation is the turbine entry temperature. Not only does it affect the maximum TO thrust you can get but also the continued exposure to cruise TETs has a very big effect on engine fatigue life, and engine manufacturers have shown extremes of ingenuity when developing new materials and ways of cooling the blades to increase allowable TET. The problem with supersonic operations is that you start from an elevated intake delivery temperature so that when the flow exits the compressor it is already very hot 565 instead of 460 to be exact. But the maximum temperature one can stand for fatigue reasons is limited, therefore the amount of fuel you can pour in must be limited also, and the thrust you can develop per pound of airflow is roughly proportional to the fuel input/temperature rise. To get any sensible cruise thrust then one must squeeze the cruise TET as high as you dare for fatigue reasons but also you need to keep the compression ratio down so that the temperature going into the combustion chambers is as low as you can get away with. This tend to drive engines designed for extended supersonic operations to having a low pressure ratio. This is against the trend in subsonic operations where compression ratios have been steadily increasing along with bypass ratios. The net result then is that the engine must be designed with a low OPR and must operate with cruise TET much closer to its TO TET value than would be necessary, or indeed desirable, on a subsonic design.
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Actually, here, as on some other apparent carry-overs, one should look at the equipment supplier rather than the aircraft manufacturer to trace continuity. Here we have Messier supplying Concorde's gear and Dowty (OK they are now part of Messier) supplying the A330. And having worked on both, I seem to remember that the means of doing the shortening are quite different.
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Yes, they both came out of the Bristol drawing office. One minor anecdote: the 'ramshorn' stick was a novelty to the Concorde flight test crews but they got to like it, or at least put up with it. All went well until it came to the time when Dave Davies, the ARB Chief Test Pilot, came to put his rubber stamp on the aircraft. Concorde's seats, just like those on your car, could be moved back and fore to get your legs on the pedals and up and down so you could see over the bonnet (sorry, instrument panel). The control column of course stayed in one place, so the relationship of the 'horns' to ones thighs varied with ones height. Andre Turcat was about 6ft 2in, Trubbie and the others of average height. The smallest regular pilot was Jean Franchi at, I suppose, about 5ft 7 or 5ft 8. No problems. But Dave Davies was short like me and he found that he could not get full back stick and full aileron because the ramshorn fouled his thighs. Consternation! Completely unacceptable! I don't know what arguments they used to convince him it was all OK really, but it got through certification. I would certainly be interested to learn from the pilots in this group as to whether it was ever a problem.
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I can't resist this one!. Has anyone ever noticed/wondered about the tiny bit of the outer elevon that has been chopped off? That was my first real input into the design as a young erk looking at variability of touchdown conditions and coming to the conclusion that if the pilot got into trouble and was trying to pick up a trailing wing with too much AoA as well then he was likely to hit the ground with the downgoing elevon. I persuaded my boss that this was so and we made a small adjustment. In self defence I am going to plead that this was well before the days of the Type 28 nozzle, so the issue of buckets contacting the ground first never came up!
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To the point where an American Airline maintainance engineer, watching a prototype taking off and with full benefit of being located strategically for maximum sideline noise, remarked on what he described as 'visible acoustic radiation' On another occasion, it was reputed that Stanley Hooker, watching a TO in the company of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, remarked that "You know Sir that that noise represents less energy than it takes to boil an egg". to which he got the reply "Then I must congratulate you Sir Stanley, on producing so much noise for the expenditure of so little energy".
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There was an effect and in consequence the aircraft performance brochures were formally calculated for north/south flight. Pity really, it would sometimes have been nice to be able to fly guarantee performance demonstrations in the most favourable direction That's enough for today! CliveL |
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| DozyWannabe 27th Dec 2010, 21:19 permalink Post: 1027 |
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I've said something similar (while at the same time being full of admiration and effusive praise for M2Dude). It's worth bearing in mind that at the time (2003 or thereabouts), AI were fighting a battle to keep the A380 project viable (like Boeing with the 747, they'd effectively "bet the company" on the project's success) - and sadly, in terms of business realpolitik Concorde was costing them money, being just a small-run legacy airframe capable of operating profitably for a single customer. Things weren't going to get any better, and as such AI's decision was as understandable as it was regrettable. I have far less sympathy for BA, who acted with what seemed to me indecent haste to permanently mothball the airframes (the press at the time speculating that Branson would try to get his hands on at least one of them), and while the UK Concorde community have a right to feel aggrieved at the way things panned out - the fact that what was left of BAe effectively bowed out of the Airbus consortium, the better to focus on military hardware with the Americans, meant that we'd thrown away any chance of having a say in what happened to Concorde in the end. EDITED TO ADD : In reference to Bellerophon's post below - this was *not* intended to take the technical discussion off-course. I was simply trying to thank Clive for summing up how I felt about the whole situation far better than I ever could. Sincere apologies if this was misconstrued as such. Last edited by DozyWannabe; 29th Dec 2010 at 01:21 . |
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| ITman 23rd Apr 2011, 19:53 permalink Post: 1320 |
May I ask you guys another question relating to the book I mentioned earlier, in the same book it shows a Concorde with a Airbus sidestick control. I wondered if anymore information is known on this modification I suspect t must have been quite an systems integration exercise.
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| ChristiaanJ 23rd Apr 2011, 22:19 permalink Post: 1322 |
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I haven't seen any of the detailed (block) diagrams, so I'm not sure at all how the sidestick was "hooked into" the AFCS. Don't forget Concorde already used "electrical flying control signalling" (aka "Fly-By-Wire")., so system integration would have been easier than on some other aircraft. For those unfamiliar with the story... F-WTSB, very late in its career, was used for some flight trials with a sidestick controller fitted to the left-hand position (the right-hand seat controls still being the normal ones,and with the right-hand seat occupied by a 'safety' pilot). The flight test data were later "fed" into the A-320 programme. How much of the "rate" control and other A-320 control logic was already implemented in the test system is unknown, AFAIK .... Would be interesting to know some more about it, I agree! CJ |
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| M2dude 24th Apr 2011, 14:09 permalink Post: 1331 |
I personally doubt very much if the Emergency Pilot would be the 'way in' for the sidestick input. EFC
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commands were inputed from the SFC computer to the Autostab computers as 'stab demands' and therefore drove the MIDDLE and OUTER elevons only for roll. To make matters worse, if your test flight was really 'exciting' and you found yourself at any time at Vmo + 20 KTS, roll control would be through the middle elevons ONLY. I'm with CliveL in that the most likely scenario would be for the demand would feed via a D/A converter somehow. (It would be great to find out though).
I would have thought that the whole venture was a proof of concept by SFENA for future implementation in the Airbus family. This excersise would have been both costly and highly complex at system level, any other reason would really have been quite daft. Best Regards Dude Last edited by M2dude; 24th Apr 2011 at 15:08 . |
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| ChristiaanJ 25th Apr 2011, 17:26 permalink Post: 1339 |
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Do you (or does anybody ele) have a schematic of the Vulcan system? It should be on my CD of the Vulcan manual, but unfortunately my CD drive is on strike..... MFgeo , I think we're talking Europe here... the Avro Arrow was Canadian,so I would think it unlikely the flight test results would have been available to Airbus. CJ |
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| CliveL 21st Jun 2011, 06:14 permalink Post: 1385 |
Thanks for that much better picture Bellerephon.
I have a bit more information now, although my French is very rusty so I may not have it all correct - CJ can probably correct me if necessary. They did 8 flights over 10 hrs, preceded by about 30 simulator 'flights'. Most of the flight testing was looking at low speed behaviour, since that was where they expected to see most gains on Concorde, and where the most problems might be expected, but they did go up to 2.04M. The primary advantage was seen to be the possibility of using very aft CGs for takeoff to reduce trim drag - they flight tested as far back as 56% at around 0.4M (no consideration of limits from U/C location of course for this sort of testing). In addition they were predicting a weight saving of around half a tonne. The simulator work sorted out the basic laws, where they tested a pure pitch rate feedback and a C* law with load factor and pitch rate terms. The pilots preferred the latter (which became in time the basis for the A320 laws). The simulator was also used to establish the best ergonomics (movement and force harmonisation) of the sidestick. The 'blue' electrical signalling system for elevons was replaced by the digital control and sidestick arrangement, keeping the 'green' signalling as a safety backup. Normal rudder control system was retained, as well as the mechanical backup. In the general arrangement of the digital control system one can see clearly the genesis of the A320 design - two computers with the software written by separate teams etc. Pilot reaction seems to have been very favourable, the aircraft being somewhat easier to fly than the basic Concorde (which was already pretty good ....). In particular the paper suggests that the precision with which the aircraft could be positioned was much improved. Stick force per 'g' was pretty much the same throughout the speed range at about 7daN/g, whereas on Concorde it varies from 20 to 40 daN/g - but on a sidestick rather than a control column of course. One problem that did show up, although not peculiar to Concorde, was the sensitivity of these systems to structural response, particularly during ground roll. Not contained in the report, but in a side letter from Dudley, is a remark that the guy most responsible for the development of the Concorde basic system and later in charge of the Airbus system thought that these Concorde experiments were the key to the success of the A320. 'Nuff said! CliveL |
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| stilton 22nd Jun 2011, 04:33 permalink Post: 1393 |
Did the Sidestick controller have the same authority as the Conventional Control yoke or were there 'hard limits' a la Airbus 320 and on ?
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| Shaggy Sheep Driver 16th Aug 2011, 10:03 permalink Post: 1434 |
I think the estimate is that the supersonic passenger requirement today could be satisfied by ten airframes. Hardly an attractive economic proposition for a manufacturer. If it were otherwise, Boeing and Airbus would be addressing that market with a state-of-the-art SST.
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| M2dude 17th Aug 2011, 09:30 permalink Post: 1435 |
Future SST
I think we could all speculate until the cows come home just how many SSTs could be built. To put my own two penny worth in here, personally I tend to agree with Steve that to justify the huge capital investment required, a hypersonic aircraft with just about antipodal range would be required. Here in the UK, the Reaction Engines Lapcat A2 project seems to be the way to go. Fueled with liquid hydrogen, making London to Sydney in just around 3 hours carrying THREE HUNDRED passenger. All this using four Scimatar hybrid engines. Contrast this proposal with the clumsy Airbus ZEHST effort that has to use THREE different types of engine for the flight cycle, carries only 100 passengers and won't be around (acording to them) for FORTY YEARS!!. Both imagination and practicalilty seem to be totally absent here.
It seems that the technology required for an HST already exists in the UK (the Scimitar engine is a deritive of the engine originally designed for HOTOL, thanks to the genius of Alan Bond and Bob Parkinson) but we need partners for obvious economic reasons, (probably not European), the will, and most of all, as I mentioned before, the vision to do great things again. In my humble opinion Lapcat A2 should be the true successor to Concorde. If only...... Best regards Dude Last edited by M2dude; 17th Aug 2011 at 18:56 . |
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| ChristiaanJ 1st Nov 2011, 22:00 permalink Post: 1472 |
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The first question : why? The old analogue systems still worked well. Second question : who? There were only 14 aircraft in service... who would paid the immense bill for redesign and recertification? A third question : we know one of the major factors in the 'end of service' decisions were related to the rapidly increasing maintenance costs (as billed by Airbus). A complete upgrade of the avionics (digital, glass cockpit, etc.) would not necessarily have resulted in less maintenance costs.... it would still have been for only 14 aircraft. In the end, the only real and 'visible' avionics upgrade was the installation of TCAS, and that was only because it was made mandatory. CJ |
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| ChristiaanJ 27th Jan 2012, 23:59 permalink Post: 1541 |
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So no, I don't have all the block diagrams and circuit diagrams in my head any more... I'll have to look through what I still have in the way of documentation. i'll try to give some quick answers. Da-20 monkey , Yes, Concorde had "artifcial damping", or "autostabilsation" as we called it, on all three axes (pitch, roll and yaw), even if it could be flown without it. On the prototypes there were three separate computers (one per axis). On the preprod and production aircraft the A/S function was 'compressed' into a single unit (I still have one). CliveL has given the basic answer. Don't confuse the Concorde FBW (which we referred to as "electrical signalling") with the current "Airbus" digital FBW. One, rather than in previous-generation aircraft, the pilot no longer pushed and pulled on cables and rods to move the control surfaces. Instead, when he moved the controls, those movements were translated into electrical signals that were sent to the electro-hydraulic control surface actuators (even if in the Concorde days there still was a mechanical back-up). Two, the entire system was "analogue". A concept difficult to explain in these days, where nearly everything is digital..... Very briefly, you can convert 'physical' data, like control positions, or altitude, or pitch or roll rate, or Mach number, into 'analogue' electrical signals. You can then perform all kinds of 'computations' on those signals, like filtering them, or add or subtract them, or even multiply them, using electronic circuits based on 'operational amplifiers'. In digital systems you go one step further.... you convert all those data into digital values, and use a digital computer to perform all your calculations, in accordance with the 'system software', then convert all the results back into physical data, such as control surface commands. In analogue systems there is no "software". The entire system is defined by 'control laws ' (not the same thing at all as in the Airbus FBW aircraft) that are fixed in terms of 'transfer functions' of the various control loops. Those in turn are determined by the values of the components in the various electronic circuits (resistors and capacitors mostly). So in those golden days.... we didn't re-write and re-program software.... we changed resistor and capacitors, and re-wired logic circuits. I admit, you almost have to have been there to understand it.... I'm not sure whether it's worth starting an entire new thread on 'analogue computing' (maybe there's something on wikipedia, I haven't looked).... CJ |
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| dixi188 28th Jan 2012, 19:59 permalink Post: 1545 |
Analogue computers are still very active on the Airbus A300-B4 100/200 srs.
A lot of the Concorde technology was transferred to the Mark 1 Airbus, and it still works very well. We are Cat IIIa certified and I have never had a failure when it was needed. Yes we get a lot of drop out of things, but usually they work after a reset. |
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| DozyWannabe 18th Oct 2013, 18:23 permalink Post: 1733 |
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Ergonomically speaking, both engineers and pilots of the era write of Concorde's flight deck being the best possible balance of form and function available at the time - sure it looks cluttered to the modern eye, but everything was placed in a logical manner and the sheer number of systems used in the aircraft made the accessibility of all that information a basic requirement. It's worth bearing in mind that even those not particularly well-disposed to Airbus will grudgingly admit that the flight deck ergonomics on those types are extremely good - and a lot of the lessons learned were from cramming all that information into Concorde's limited space. As for the cabin, again appearances are deceptive - I have sat in one of those seats and they are extremely comfortable for the size. Also one must bear in mind that unlike the subsonic Atlantic crossings, these were happening in about 3 hours - so no need to be particularly wide or convert into a bed like we see in Business and First today - not to mention less chance of a queue for the WC! I have to thank EXWOK for explaining the windows - but I'll add the more prosaic reason that you don't need a particularly large window to see the curvature of the Earth in all its splendour - which is for the most part all you'd be seeing during the flight! [EDIT : I should also confirm that EXWOK is also correct in stating that BA had Concorde turning a profit from the early-'80s onward, and it took a combination of a financial downturn and the fallout from the terrorist attacks of September 2001 to end the service. While Concorde herself never recouped the development money granted by the governments of the UK and France, the infrastructure and R&D her development put in place paved the way for the Airbus project which, as we know, ended up becoming a leading player in airliner design and manufacture in the West. ] Last edited by DozyWannabe; 18th Oct 2013 at 18:34 . |
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| DozyWannabe 18th Oct 2013, 19:26 permalink Post: 1735 |
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| Trackdiamond 23rd Oct 2013, 11:32 permalink Post: 1748 |
cocncorde thrust levers
I know Concorde engines were FADEC. Were the Thrust levers gated like on Airbus? I noticesd cocncorde pilots shovved the levers forward for take off thrust..not the gentle easing forward like most other turbojets..why was there this need?Did they take too much time to spool up?
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| CliveL 23rd Oct 2013, 13:49 permalink Post: 1751 |
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| MrSnuggles 3rd Nov 2013, 01:01 permalink Post: 1756 |
Concorde hymn...
Thankyou.
Thankyou all, EXWOK, Bellerophon, CliveL, ChristiaanJ, M2Dude, Brit312 and landlady for providing these wonderful stories directly from "the horse's mouth". I love it. Please, since landlady is already publishing her piece of history, maybe you others could at least join forces and use this excellent, brilliant and awesome thread as inspiration? I have read this thread for breakfast every day the past week and finally catched up and never got this sorted out.... HOW is it possible that Airbus now "operates" (weeeell, you know what I mean...) Concorde? I have tried to follow all clues, looking up companies on Wikipedia and who was subcontractor to whom, but it's just a big mess and I need help to sort it out. Is there anyone who might help shed some light onto this? Sorry if my post is long, but this is such an amazing aircraft and since I come from Sweden where all we have is a tiny (but hugely effective!!) SAAB Gripen I am in awe to you who have created a milestone in aviation. |