Isabella Caldwell

A belated video sharing.😂 Nobody knows what will happen in 2026, but so far everything is moving in a better direction.🇺🇸🇺🇸

Hurt in an accident. Betrayed by their lawyer. Our latest documentary shares the true stories of people victimized twice — first by an accident, then by unethical personal injury lawyers who put profit over people. Watch:

This is the ultimate backyard upgrade 😮

Baked Lemon-Garlic Cod with Butter Sauce

Venice, Italy

What's your favorite street in Paris? I love the Rue de Rivoli and its arcades

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home." — Edith Sitwell

You don’t grow by avoiding the fight. You grow by trusting God in it. Have you persevered through a trial and come out better on the other side? Let me know. Follow for real talk on faith

I don’t know who needs to hear this… But filling your life with beauty deliberately, every single day can change your brain, your mood, and even your sense of purpose. Go seek it. Twice a day. Three times if needed.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; In one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence. Khalil Gibran

Monet’s garden at Giverny

Arc de Triomphe, Paris France

God will make a way.

Secretary Duffy Should Ask Congress for More than Money for ATC Modernization In a previous post I asked the question – what is the FAA doing well. My answer – nothing. This answer derives from a look at four major areas of FAA responsibility and failures in these. What are these areas and what is the evidence of failure. Regulatory failure with the 737 Max accidents providing significant examples. Safety failure with examples including the 737 Max, numerous runway incursion incidents, and the recent collision over the Potomac. Failure to maintain adequate controller staffing - a well-publicized topic. Finally, failure to maintain critical infrastructure launching Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy’s $42B Brand-New Air Traffic Control System initiative. What has led to all these failures. One could try to enumerate the causes – the wrong people in important positions, rampant DEI policies since the 70s (it used to be called affirmative action, but the same emphasis), Congressional interference, whatever. All of this summarizes to one salient problem – the FAA is a government organization. While the regulatory failure belongs to the FAA safety organization (AVS), the rest belong to the part of the FAA that provides air traffic control services and infrastructure – the Air Traffic Organization (ATO). As I mentioned, the functions of the safety organization are inherently governmental. The ATO, however, is an Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) and does not need to be a part of Government. As I stated previously, If we really want to solve the problems with ATC, it is time to separate the ATO from the FAA and give the resulting organization the autonomy to efficiently provide air traffic control service and maintain its infrastructure. Are there examples of this being done elsewhere? Emphatically yes. Salient examples include Nav Canada, UK NATS, and Airservices Australia. As a case study let’s consider Nav Canada. Nav Canada was chartered on November 1, 1996, with air traffic control functions and infrastructure transferred to it from Transport Canada. Nav Canada was chartered as a private, not-for-profit corporation operated as a non-share capital entity with no shareholders. It is funded entirely through customer service charges. It is managed by a 15-member board of directors representing key stakeholders. This structure emphasizes stakeholder involvement and operational independence. What have been the results of this change in the structure of ATC in Canada. Overhead staffing reductions and procurement efficiencies resulted an overall user fee reduction of between 30% and 50% in inflation adjusted terms while ensuring focused and efficient technology insertion maintaining the infrastructure at the state-of-the-art. This has occurred while delivering operational cost, efficiency and safety metrics superior to the FAAs. Relevant to Secretary Duffy’s modernization initiative an example reported in the press is that under Nav Canada radar installations were streamlined providing a 67% reduction in cost and a 90% per unit time savings. Secretary Duffy if you really want to modernize the U.S. ATC system, while you are lobbying Congress for $20B in additional budget authority, lobby it to separate the ATO from the FAA and place it in an independent corporate structure.

The art of cooking eggs

Missing the snowy charm in Montmartre ❄️

This administration is making sure that every American family has access to real, whole food, at prices they can afford.

They give you a statin for your cholesterol. Then, when your muscles ache and your brain is foggy, they sell you another pill for that. It’s a racket, not a solution. It’s time to break the cycle. It’s time for Red Yeast Rice. 1. The Racket. It’s a.… twitter.com/i/web/status/2…