Maker of water-drop tanks William H. 'Bill' Mensing dies at 88.jpg-20120802

William H. "Bill" Mensing, owner of a commercial aircraft sheet metal the best drop of water tanks to helicopters to the Los Angeles Fire Department in early 1970, he published, he is dead. He was 88.

Mensing died July 26 at home in Santa Paula, after a brief illness, his family said.

A veteran of World War II, Mensing opened a business called Precision sheet metal Sheetcraft Northridge in 1960 and became known for his ability to make new parts for damaged planes and helicopters.

In 1970, he was offered a different type of work by Los Angeles County Fire Department, which in 1957 had been a pioneer in the use of water tanks fall into the bellies of helicopters fire.

Reconstructors aircraft, the company that had tanks for firefighters, was no longer in business and the Department wanted to replicate the business of the last tank Mensing.

Working with Doug Matthews, director of the helicopter fire, Mensing made a series of innovative changes in the tanks of 360 liters, began production for the department.

"When Mensing understood, we have continued to improve," the now retired Mathews, recalled Thursday. "He came with a lot of ideas, but came up with some ideas."

Mensing has not only made the Gavarra-tank to internal changes, but they change a tank of a single drop of a drop-tank separation: instead the pilot drop the whole load of water , can be downloaded half a load at once.

"It's commonly known as the tank or tank Sheetcraft Los Angeles," said Mathews, adding that the U.S. Forest Service, the State of California, Los Angeles City Fire Department and the Ventura County Department Firefighters are among the most Mensing later began using tanks.

"He was a pioneer in the production of helicopter drop water tank and did a great job improving," said Mathews.

During the next 30 years, the product has come to dominate the activities Sheetcraft Mensing, with its tanks in use as far as Sardinia, Italy, China and South Korea.

Mensing, who has moved his operation from Whiteman Airport in Pacoima, Santa Paula Airport in 1975, he retired a few years ago.

He was born April 25, 1924, in Calexico, and later moved with his family in North Hollywood.

After graduating from high school in 1942, he joined the Navy and spent most of his time of service as aviation mechanic. After his release in 1948, he attended the School of Mechanical Mensing Aviation in Glendale California.

Leaves his wife, Alice, his children, Lisa Morgan, Kelly Mensing, Mindy Foley, Robert Moore and Barbra Mensing, her sister Prudence Safady, 19 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

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Singer Tony Sly Dies at 41

Tony Sly, the frontman of the punk rock band, based in Northern California, died for reasons not yet revealed. He was 41 years.
"E" with great sadness that we say goodbye to Sly of No Use For A Name Tony, "read a statement on the website of his label.
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"We received a call the day of his death, I am devastated and have lost an incredible talent, friend and father, one of the truly great [Producer] Fat Mike said the following: .." One of my closest friends and favorite is songwriters gone too soon. Tony, you are sorely missed. "

Sly joined the band in 1989, replacing founding member John Meyer, and Incognito have released the following year.

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No Use for a number of past members, as they became less hard and more in tune with the years, Sly and the group was the longest service of veterans at the time of his death.

"We covered Chasing Rainbows No Use For A Name in our set today as a tribute," wrote guitarist Ryan Mendez of Yellowcard. "RIP Tony Sly, which were a big influence on us all."

"We are truly sad news of the death of our friend Tony Sly" banda de punk Twitter race against the rise of Chicago. "It was an amazing songwriter and an amazing person. RIP Tony Sly."
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Bad Religion Twitter: "Goodbye to a good friend, Tony Sly."

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"It is very sad to hear of the passing of Tony Sly. One of the best players in history. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. It will make out very mancanza.-N," Noodles of The Offspring Twitter.

His last studio album of Fat Wreck Chords label was 2008's record year of good feeling, and Sly had said in 2010 that he was writing songs for a new release.

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Pioneer in Cognitive Psychology George A. Miller Dies at 92

The psychological investigation was in a sort of slot in 1955 when George A. Miller, a Harvard professor, presented a report entitled "The magical number seven, plus or minus two", which helped to trigger an explosion of new ideas and thinking about opening a new field of research known as cognitive psychology .

The dominant form of psychological study, while behaviorism, had rejected Freud's theories of "mind" as too intangible, vaguely mystical and verifiable. Its researchers have studied the behavior in the laboratory, observation and recording of the test subjects' responses to stimuli administered with care. Mainly, we studied mice.

Dr. Miller, who died July 22 at his home in Plainsboro, New Jersey, for 92 years, has revolutionized the world of psychology, which shows in his article that the human mind, although invisible, can also be observed and tested in the laboratory.

"George Miller, more than anyone, deserves credit for the existence of the modern science of mind", the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, and the author said in an interview. "He certainly was one of the most influential psychologists of the XXI century experimental 20".

Dr. Miller borrowed a test pattern of the emerging science of computer programming in early 1950 to demonstrate that the short-term memory in humans, when faced with the unknown, could absorb around seven new things at once.

When asked to repeat a random selection of letters, words or numbers, he wrote, people are stuck "somewhere in the neighborhood of seven years."

Some may remember the new list items, some less than seven years. But part of what they remember, words color words, foods, numbers with decimal numbers, no decimals, the consonants, vowels, seven was the average statistics for the short-term storage. (Long-term memory, cognitive formula that has followed another, was almost unlimited.)

Dr. Miller could not say why he was seven. He suggested that survival may have helped early humans could keep "some information about a lot of things" rather than "a lot of information about a small segment of the environment."

But this, he concluded, was the point. He had expressed an idea that became a touchstone for cognitive science: that whatever the brain, was an information processor, to systems that obey mathematical rules, which could be studied .

Dr. Miller, who was trained in behaviorism, was the first of many researchers and theorists to question the scientific principles in 1950. He and a colleague, Jerome S. Bruner, has named the new field of research, when he established a laboratory of his own psychology, the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard in 1960. Only the word "cognitive", considered a taboo among the behaviorists, that marked a break with the old school.

"Using" cognitive "was an act of defiance," Dr. Miller wrote in 2006. "For someone raised in respect of reductionist science," cognitive psychology "has made an accurate statement. This meant that I was interested in the mind."

This new approach to psychological research has come to be known as the cognitive revolution.

The first and most long-term interest as a scientist, Dr. Miller was the language. His first book "Language and Communication" (1951), is widely considered a key work in psycholinguistics, the study of how people learn, invent and use language.

He has worked with the linguist Noam Chomsky's revolutionary papers on mathematical language and computer problems involved in interpreting the syntax.

He conducted some early experiments on how people understand words and phrases, the speech of the information technology-based recognition. "Plans and the structure of behavior" (1960), written with Eugene Galanter and Karl H. Pribram was an attempt to synthesize the research of Amnesty International with psychological research on how humans act - essentially, a book on how to build better robots.

Since 1986, he oversaw the development of WordNet, an electronic database of reference designed to help computers understand human language.

His colleagues said they had a role in many of his boldest thoughts of the time on the human mind and artificial, in general, then moved to other projects.

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