I'm not terribly out of shape. I can move some fairly hefty and awkward items like 19" CRT monitors around without much difficulty and can usually rack servers on my own up to about chest height. Endurance can certainly use some work, but the blood work shows that I'm doing well on most things except a persistent vitamin D deficiency.
Based on TFA, I started looking at stationary cycles last night in part because my fiancee has difficulty running due to a lower back injury she sustained in the military. She's a borderline Type-2 diabetic and might be willing to give this a try if I do.
Stretching doesn't help those who exercise only occasionally. There have been several studies for this. Athletes need to stretch, as do those who exercise on a frequent basis (I think it was 4+ times per week). But for those who exercise less frequently, stretching increases the chance of injury.
I walk at a fairly high speed, easily outpacing people who are a foot taller than me (I'm 5'4"), and take stairs two at a time on the way up. I can get my heart rate up to 150+ if I maintain my top walking speed. This means that I can't walk with anyone else at work as they won't keep up though I can listen to podcasts. Worse, when people do see me walking (as they will or would if work exercise starts), they're going to tease me about how fast I move and, despite knowing that it's good for me anyway, that's going to be demoralizing.
I really should get the treadmill back into a spot where I can use it. Then I don't have to worry about that. Twenty to thirty minutes on a treadmill at home while watching or listening to something to take my mind off of the effects will work wonders.
If a vessel is within a nation's territorial waters, then it may be forced to comply with safety and environmental provisions of that nation's laws and is subject to boarding for such inspections. Should it fail the inspections, it may be forced to leave national waters or seized as a safety hazard. Vessels which meet the latter condition are often evacuated and sunk (see USCG actions against the rickety boats often intercepted traveling from Cuba to the US).
It has a single forward and a single aft gear mounting, each with two tires--a bicycle configuration. While I've never witnessed one directly myself, it's always been my understanding that the plane comes to a complete stop, eases over onto a wingtip protected by a titanium plate, and then ground crews insert the pogos. It seems to me extremely dangerous to be under a wingtip while it's moving; even at slow speeds, it could move quickly and crush a man or do some serious damage to a vehicle.
I hadn't thought of it that way, but it makes sense now that I think about it. I've never flown anything bigger than a 182, so I don't have the intimate knowledge of large wingspan aircraft. I've seen some videos of landings gone bad in U-2s where they tip a bit until the wings are digging into the soil, at which point they usually yaw sharply (and the chase car comes to a rapid stop). That's not a plane I'd want to try landing without a few thousand more hours in my log book--a significant amount of which would be in craft such as the sailplanes you mention.
Even China admits publicly that it's going to take them a while to figure out how to integrate them into their naval operations. Most navies take about 20 years to do so, and those without major friends can be fearful about taking them into risky operations, reducing their effective value significantly.
The maintenance on carriers can take significantly longer than one would expect, meaning that of the 11 supercarriers, only four (Washington, Stennis, Vinson, and Lincoln) were in a deployment state. Two others (Enterprise and Eisenhower) were listed at the end of 2011 as surge-ready (could be deployed with about two weeks of prep, though Enterprise is scheduled for retirement later this year), and one (Bush) was in dock at the end of a deployment. Nimitz seems to have just finished a year-long incremental improvement, Truman has been undergoing repairs since last spring and isn't due to return to the fleet until summer, Reagan just started a year-long incremental improvement, and Roosevelt is refueling, a job that won't be done until 2013. Ford won't be joining the fleet until at least 2015.
So this means that of the 11 in the fleet, only four are deployed, two are deployable, and five are not yet in a usable state. Though the numbers vary by maintenance, repair, and refueling needs, at any given time you can figure that only half of the carriers are available. This may change as more Ford-class vessels come online, but that will take decades to complete.
They have to call out the exact altitude and information about drift to the pilot because of the unique circumstances of landing a U-2. The U-2's wings must be fully stalled to land due to the strong ground effect generated by its wings. This, coupled with the bicycle landing gear and strong sensitivity to wind make it among the most difficult planes in the world to land. The chase car provides extra guidance without which a safe landing can have very long odds.
Libel laws were present long before the Constitution was written, but it wasn't until the 20th century that current libel concepts were applied. You don't have the right to print whatever you want, and before 1734, if you printed something defamatory--even if you printed the truth--you were subject to damages and imprisonment. (This didn't always stop publication of pamphlets and newspapers containing defamatory and/or false statements, often in ways that make modern mudslinging seem polite.)
You do have the right to print the events as you see them (subject to narrow limitations like libel), and in those cases you probably fall under journalistic protection laws if you're merely reporting on the event. If you're participating in the act, you're unlikely to be protected. The place of weblogs and similar small-scale sites has yet to be fully fleshed out because in five minutes, someone can set up a site, toss up a couple of posts, and claim protections when they're just trying to be obstructive.
There have been for a long time. They're called press credentials, and they're supposed to mean that the journalists are there to observe and report on the events, not take part in them. They're not generally required, but are considered to be useful for authorities to know who is probably not partaking in the activities and to grant them leeway. Press credentials may also get a person into limited-access events such as certain press conferences where allowing the general public would create too much of a crowd management problem.
Journalists do get special protections which vary but which the courts have often (though not always) recognized as essential to freedom of the press including the right to withhold the identities of sources. If you're not a journalist and someone tells you something that is critical to a case, you may be compelled by the courts to do so. Journalists generally are free of this to protect sources from reprisal, though in many cases it's not codified into law and journalists in the US have served time for contempt of court for refusing to reveal the sources. Some states have passed laws specifically addressing this, but to date there is no federal law providing such protection.
A decision to not prosecute does not necessarily mean that a crime was not occurring. It may mean that the evidence is not strong enough to get a conviction worthy of the resources spent on it or that the potential downside of continuing the prosecution (as of a journalist) outweighs the punitive measure against the accused.
I do believe that journalists should largely be left alone except in cases of safety problems (and even then sometimes it's their call), but it's getting tougher to nail down who is a journalist these days. Anyone with a webpage can claim to be a journalist. Anyone caught being part of the events should lose their journalist protections, but sometimes it's hard to tell when someone is part of the events or just in the crowd getting reactions.
I went into the ER for severe abdominal pains a couple of months ago and was there for about four hours. One doctor, two nurses, one dose of Dilaudid, and some lab tests on one vial of blood for various possible causes of the pains racked up some $3000, and they weren't able to pin down the cause. Insurance covered two-thirds of it, but I still had to shell out for a little over a grand. (I have a PPO, so I expect to pay more in most cases, but if I'd known it would be that much out of my pocket, I might have tried to tough it out.)
And that's for a retrofit. What does one do (if something must be done) about units like a Garmin G1000 or the Avidyne units that have been installed in Cirrus planes for years? Factory-installed units intended to be core to aircraft operations are even more expensive than that.
New fancy plastic minesweepers are still easily targeted by missile or gun. Dolphins are harder to find and even if you do find them, you can't be sure that you're looking at one from the US Navy until you actually haul the carcass aboard.
It's due to a hoax that made the email rounds years ago and it's never been completely eradicated. People keep it going because of irrational fears and conspiracy theories.
My boss's boss is like that. He has every Wednesday evening blocked off with a note that he is "available only for life and safety issues." The reason? He goes surfing every Wednesday.
It's an example to his staff. He also knows when to be here, and asks if he's needed if he's not sure. We tell him in most cases that no, he's not needed, and we will call if he is. Maybe it's because he's a surfer. Maybe he just likes his employees sane.
I've teased past girlfriends when they complain about my hours. I would respond, "Work is all. All is work. Play is illogical." Probably why some of them are exes. My fiance not only doesn't tolerate such behavior, she also knows where I work (past ones did not) and how to get in touch with my colleagues. It helps to keep me from doing things like that.
Speak for yourself. I take an hour a day, and so do my colleagues. My boss does not, but we get on his case all the time about it. I'm in the top 20% of earners now, but I was not so long ago barely in the top half. That hour of lunch--almost always away from my desk--is what keeps me sane and gives me some time to not think about work, which actually improves my work.
Part of the reason they stopped lending is the changing requirements for on-hand capital. The numbers have been going up because the Fed doesn't want a replay of the events of 2008, especially not if it's going to take a BofA or JP Morgan-Chase with it. Banks have been increasing the amount they're holding in anticipation of rules requiring such increases (and have been right in part). Some of them are also getting hit with large fines or are being sued and thus setting aside money so that they still make the reserve levels and aren't force-sold to other banks.
I do work for an American company. When I take vacations, I inform my colleagues that if they would like to call my Blackberry, they'll hear it ringing because it's on my desk. If they really, really have to get in touch with me, they (not the company) have my personal contact information, but my manager knows that a 15-minute call means the company eats the vacation time for that day. There are no unions in the company to my knowledge and I don't know of any major lawsuits.
I get three weeks of vacation a year. Because of a past issue with an employer telling me I was doing great and then turning around and firing me less than six weeks later with no explanation, I keep a minimum of two weeks of vacation in the bank, but I have never hit the 180-hour cap because I make sure that I use what I have. I also make use of comp time and have yet to have any significant amount drop off at the end of the year. But then, I'm also often the first to volunteer for overtime, weekends, and the like, and I work to know the systems better than most. Maybe that helps somewhat.
Iran signed a treaty saying that they wouldn't try to build nuclear weapons and that all of their nuclear facilities would be open to the IAEA. They can bail out of it as North Korea did, but that's only going to raise suspicions further and basically confirm that the program is not for peaceful purposes.
It's a constitutional amendment from being sold off. The Supreme Court held back in the late 1800s that there is no mechanism by which a state can leave the union. I forget the actual case, but it was around debts accumulated by Texas after it seceded in the Civil War.
I run into some of these problems all the time where I work. We still have Java 1.3 installed in some cases because the applets will not work with newer versions, but this creates a security nightmare as more malicious Java applets are being written that look specifically for vulnerable versions. I'd love to know if there's a way to repackage the older applets so we can at least test them on newer versions.
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So you would be one of those who exercises on a frequent basis and therefore benefit from stretching...
I'm not terribly out of shape. I can move some fairly hefty and awkward items like 19" CRT monitors around without much difficulty and can usually rack servers on my own up to about chest height. Endurance can certainly use some work, but the blood work shows that I'm doing well on most things except a persistent vitamin D deficiency.
Based on TFA, I started looking at stationary cycles last night in part because my fiancee has difficulty running due to a lower back injury she sustained in the military. She's a borderline Type-2 diabetic and might be willing to give this a try if I do.
Stretching doesn't help those who exercise only occasionally. There have been several studies for this. Athletes need to stretch, as do those who exercise on a frequent basis (I think it was 4+ times per week). But for those who exercise less frequently, stretching increases the chance of injury.
I walk at a fairly high speed, easily outpacing people who are a foot taller than me (I'm 5'4"), and take stairs two at a time on the way up. I can get my heart rate up to 150+ if I maintain my top walking speed. This means that I can't walk with anyone else at work as they won't keep up though I can listen to podcasts. Worse, when people do see me walking (as they will or would if work exercise starts), they're going to tease me about how fast I move and, despite knowing that it's good for me anyway, that's going to be demoralizing.
I really should get the treadmill back into a spot where I can use it. Then I don't have to worry about that. Twenty to thirty minutes on a treadmill at home while watching or listening to something to take my mind off of the effects will work wonders.
If a vessel is within a nation's territorial waters, then it may be forced to comply with safety and environmental provisions of that nation's laws and is subject to boarding for such inspections. Should it fail the inspections, it may be forced to leave national waters or seized as a safety hazard. Vessels which meet the latter condition are often evacuated and sunk (see USCG actions against the rickety boats often intercepted traveling from Cuba to the US).
It has a single forward and a single aft gear mounting, each with two tires--a bicycle configuration. While I've never witnessed one directly myself, it's always been my understanding that the plane comes to a complete stop, eases over onto a wingtip protected by a titanium plate, and then ground crews insert the pogos. It seems to me extremely dangerous to be under a wingtip while it's moving; even at slow speeds, it could move quickly and crush a man or do some serious damage to a vehicle.
I hadn't thought of it that way, but it makes sense now that I think about it. I've never flown anything bigger than a 182, so I don't have the intimate knowledge of large wingspan aircraft. I've seen some videos of landings gone bad in U-2s where they tip a bit until the wings are digging into the soil, at which point they usually yaw sharply (and the chase car comes to a rapid stop). That's not a plane I'd want to try landing without a few thousand more hours in my log book--a significant amount of which would be in craft such as the sailplanes you mention.
They use Mustangs, Camaros, and GTOs, as far as I've heard.
Even China admits publicly that it's going to take them a while to figure out how to integrate them into their naval operations. Most navies take about 20 years to do so, and those without major friends can be fearful about taking them into risky operations, reducing their effective value significantly.
The maintenance on carriers can take significantly longer than one would expect, meaning that of the 11 supercarriers, only four (Washington, Stennis, Vinson, and Lincoln) were in a deployment state. Two others (Enterprise and Eisenhower) were listed at the end of 2011 as surge-ready (could be deployed with about two weeks of prep, though Enterprise is scheduled for retirement later this year), and one (Bush) was in dock at the end of a deployment. Nimitz seems to have just finished a year-long incremental improvement, Truman has been undergoing repairs since last spring and isn't due to return to the fleet until summer, Reagan just started a year-long incremental improvement, and Roosevelt is refueling, a job that won't be done until 2013. Ford won't be joining the fleet until at least 2015.
So this means that of the 11 in the fleet, only four are deployed, two are deployable, and five are not yet in a usable state. Though the numbers vary by maintenance, repair, and refueling needs, at any given time you can figure that only half of the carriers are available. This may change as more Ford-class vessels come online, but that will take decades to complete.
They have to call out the exact altitude and information about drift to the pilot because of the unique circumstances of landing a U-2. The U-2's wings must be fully stalled to land due to the strong ground effect generated by its wings. This, coupled with the bicycle landing gear and strong sensitivity to wind make it among the most difficult planes in the world to land. The chase car provides extra guidance without which a safe landing can have very long odds.
Libel laws were present long before the Constitution was written, but it wasn't until the 20th century that current libel concepts were applied. You don't have the right to print whatever you want, and before 1734, if you printed something defamatory--even if you printed the truth--you were subject to damages and imprisonment. (This didn't always stop publication of pamphlets and newspapers containing defamatory and/or false statements, often in ways that make modern mudslinging seem polite.)
You do have the right to print the events as you see them (subject to narrow limitations like libel), and in those cases you probably fall under journalistic protection laws if you're merely reporting on the event. If you're participating in the act, you're unlikely to be protected. The place of weblogs and similar small-scale sites has yet to be fully fleshed out because in five minutes, someone can set up a site, toss up a couple of posts, and claim protections when they're just trying to be obstructive.
There have been for a long time. They're called press credentials, and they're supposed to mean that the journalists are there to observe and report on the events, not take part in them. They're not generally required, but are considered to be useful for authorities to know who is probably not partaking in the activities and to grant them leeway. Press credentials may also get a person into limited-access events such as certain press conferences where allowing the general public would create too much of a crowd management problem.
Journalists do get special protections which vary but which the courts have often (though not always) recognized as essential to freedom of the press including the right to withhold the identities of sources. If you're not a journalist and someone tells you something that is critical to a case, you may be compelled by the courts to do so. Journalists generally are free of this to protect sources from reprisal, though in many cases it's not codified into law and journalists in the US have served time for contempt of court for refusing to reveal the sources. Some states have passed laws specifically addressing this, but to date there is no federal law providing such protection.
A decision to not prosecute does not necessarily mean that a crime was not occurring. It may mean that the evidence is not strong enough to get a conviction worthy of the resources spent on it or that the potential downside of continuing the prosecution (as of a journalist) outweighs the punitive measure against the accused.
I do believe that journalists should largely be left alone except in cases of safety problems (and even then sometimes it's their call), but it's getting tougher to nail down who is a journalist these days. Anyone with a webpage can claim to be a journalist. Anyone caught being part of the events should lose their journalist protections, but sometimes it's hard to tell when someone is part of the events or just in the crowd getting reactions.
I went into the ER for severe abdominal pains a couple of months ago and was there for about four hours. One doctor, two nurses, one dose of Dilaudid, and some lab tests on one vial of blood for various possible causes of the pains racked up some $3000, and they weren't able to pin down the cause. Insurance covered two-thirds of it, but I still had to shell out for a little over a grand. (I have a PPO, so I expect to pay more in most cases, but if I'd known it would be that much out of my pocket, I might have tried to tough it out.)
And that's for a retrofit. What does one do (if something must be done) about units like a Garmin G1000 or the Avidyne units that have been installed in Cirrus planes for years? Factory-installed units intended to be core to aircraft operations are even more expensive than that.
New fancy plastic minesweepers are still easily targeted by missile or gun. Dolphins are harder to find and even if you do find them, you can't be sure that you're looking at one from the US Navy until you actually haul the carcass aboard.
It's due to a hoax that made the email rounds years ago and it's never been completely eradicated. People keep it going because of irrational fears and conspiracy theories.
My boss's boss is like that. He has every Wednesday evening blocked off with a note that he is "available only for life and safety issues." The reason? He goes surfing every Wednesday.
It's an example to his staff. He also knows when to be here, and asks if he's needed if he's not sure. We tell him in most cases that no, he's not needed, and we will call if he is. Maybe it's because he's a surfer. Maybe he just likes his employees sane.
I've teased past girlfriends when they complain about my hours. I would respond, "Work is all. All is work. Play is illogical." Probably why some of them are exes. My fiance not only doesn't tolerate such behavior, she also knows where I work (past ones did not) and how to get in touch with my colleagues. It helps to keep me from doing things like that.
Speak for yourself. I take an hour a day, and so do my colleagues. My boss does not, but we get on his case all the time about it. I'm in the top 20% of earners now, but I was not so long ago barely in the top half. That hour of lunch--almost always away from my desk--is what keeps me sane and gives me some time to not think about work, which actually improves my work.
Part of the reason they stopped lending is the changing requirements for on-hand capital. The numbers have been going up because the Fed doesn't want a replay of the events of 2008, especially not if it's going to take a BofA or JP Morgan-Chase with it. Banks have been increasing the amount they're holding in anticipation of rules requiring such increases (and have been right in part). Some of them are also getting hit with large fines or are being sued and thus setting aside money so that they still make the reserve levels and aren't force-sold to other banks.
I do work for an American company. When I take vacations, I inform my colleagues that if they would like to call my Blackberry, they'll hear it ringing because it's on my desk. If they really, really have to get in touch with me, they (not the company) have my personal contact information, but my manager knows that a 15-minute call means the company eats the vacation time for that day. There are no unions in the company to my knowledge and I don't know of any major lawsuits.
I get three weeks of vacation a year. Because of a past issue with an employer telling me I was doing great and then turning around and firing me less than six weeks later with no explanation, I keep a minimum of two weeks of vacation in the bank, but I have never hit the 180-hour cap because I make sure that I use what I have. I also make use of comp time and have yet to have any significant amount drop off at the end of the year. But then, I'm also often the first to volunteer for overtime, weekends, and the like, and I work to know the systems better than most. Maybe that helps somewhat.
Iran signed a treaty saying that they wouldn't try to build nuclear weapons and that all of their nuclear facilities would be open to the IAEA. They can bail out of it as North Korea did, but that's only going to raise suspicions further and basically confirm that the program is not for peaceful purposes.
It's a constitutional amendment from being sold off. The Supreme Court held back in the late 1800s that there is no mechanism by which a state can leave the union. I forget the actual case, but it was around debts accumulated by Texas after it seceded in the Civil War.
I run into some of these problems all the time where I work. We still have Java 1.3 installed in some cases because the applets will not work with newer versions, but this creates a security nightmare as more malicious Java applets are being written that look specifically for vulnerable versions. I'd love to know if there's a way to repackage the older applets so we can at least test them on newer versions.