I had a 9/80 schedule for two summers, and I greatly enjoyed it. To me, once I get to 10 hours @ work per day, my productivity drops, so the 4/10 schedule could get a bit tiring. The 9/80 schedule is a great balance in providing every other Friday off.
Plus, on the Fridays that I did work, the office was quieter, since others had the day off, so I was more productive.
I'd imagine that the boss/environment would affect how successful such a schedule is, but I loved it, personally.
Simplistically, this psalm expresses grief and revenge by those who had been captured by the Babylonians.
(And "blessed" means "happy", not "God condones this and will bless you")
Looking into it more, though, I learned of a larger historical context (Taken from here):
"It is important to remember that the curses of Psalm 137 are not originally the psalmistâ(TM)s curses. They are the Lordâ(TM)s curses which the psalmist has made his own. The destruction of Edom was the fulfillment of prophecy, particularly the prophecy of Obadiah. In Isaiah 13:16, which was written about 200 years before Babylonâ(TM)s fall, the destruction of Babylon was prophesied in almost the exact terms used in Psalm 137. The destruction of the children who were too young to be transported into slavery was a common practice in ancient warfare. Since this cruelty was apparently practiced by the Babylonians during their campaigns of conquest against Israel, Babylon would receive from its Persian and Median conquerors the same treatment which it had inflicted on Israel (Jeremiah 50:29; 51:56). "
...you're his dad. The time you spend with him will be one of the highlights of his life, and will determine how he, in turn, raises his kids. Whether you suck as a teacher or not isn't even on the scale. Try to learn. Do the best you can and encourage him to let his interests take him to other sources. ALWAYS answer his questions.
Sorry for the polemic, but believe me, your son will stretch himself to understand you far more than he will even for the most gifted teacher. What I owe to my parents can never be repaid, and there isn't a day goes by that I don't miss them.
Very, very well said.
My dad is an electrical engineer and spent a lot of effort trying to get me interested in programming (BASIC, etc.) and electronics kits. They really didn't hold my interest like Legos, woodworking, and other things did, which he also spent time working on with me. I started out as a mechanical engineering major in undergrad, but the switch flipped (pardon the pun) sometime late in undergrad, and I now work as an engineer programming robots, designing circuits, and doing mechanical design.
I'll always be thankful for those memories, even those times when I was bored out of my skull by staring at traces on the oscilloscope, etc. Because of his example, I'll strive to spend time with my future children--at the expense of almost all else.
There is development currently underway (called TraumaPod) of a robotic telesurgery platform that will be deployable and can get to soldiers almost immediately after being wounded. These systems would provide trauma-mitigation care during transport to a facility where more advanced care can be given.
For now, telesurgical systems are focused on expanding the surgeon's "reach" to those who don't have access to surgical care (on the very front lines of a battlefield, in space, remote locations, etc).
The robot used for this mission was developed by SRI International, a non-profit research firm; one of whose spinoffs is Intuitive Surgical.
This two-armed robot was developed initially for open trauma surgery for the military, and was upgraded before the NEEMO 9 mission as a deployable system.
Here's a link with some information (note that the pictures are rather old; the surgeon side of the system looks different now): http://www.sri.com/esd/med_devel/telepresence.html
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I had a 9/80 schedule for two summers, and I greatly enjoyed it. To me, once I get to 10 hours @ work per day, my productivity drops, so the 4/10 schedule could get a bit tiring. The 9/80 schedule is a great balance in providing every other Friday off. Plus, on the Fridays that I did work, the office was quieter, since others had the day off, so I was more productive. I'd imagine that the boss/environment would affect how successful such a schedule is, but I loved it, personally.
Simplistically, this psalm expresses grief and revenge by those who had been captured by the Babylonians.
(And "blessed" means "happy", not "God condones this and will bless you")
Looking into it more, though, I learned of a larger historical context (Taken from here):
"It is important to remember that the curses of Psalm 137 are not originally the psalmistâ(TM)s curses. They are the Lordâ(TM)s curses which the psalmist has made his own. The destruction of Edom was the fulfillment of prophecy, particularly the prophecy of Obadiah. In Isaiah 13:16, which was written about 200 years before Babylonâ(TM)s fall, the destruction of Babylon was prophesied in almost the exact terms used in Psalm 137. The destruction of the children who were too young to be transported into slavery was a common practice in ancient warfare. Since this cruelty was apparently practiced by the Babylonians during their campaigns of conquest against Israel, Babylon would receive from its Persian and Median conquerors the same treatment which it had inflicted on Israel (Jeremiah 50:29; 51:56). "
Now that the site is Slashdotted, one begins to wonder if a single forum bully was the least of his concerns!
Slashdot. Bringing websites to their knees. With baseball bats.
In other news, a cameraman fell down and split his head open after being driven dizzy chasing down a small mechatronic dragonfly....
Sorry for the polemic, but believe me, your son will stretch himself to understand you far more than he will even for the most gifted teacher. What I owe to my parents can never be repaid, and there isn't a day goes by that I don't miss them.
Very, very well said.
My dad is an electrical engineer and spent a lot of effort trying to get me interested in programming (BASIC, etc.) and electronics kits. They really didn't hold my interest like Legos, woodworking, and other things did, which he also spent time working on with me. I started out as a mechanical engineering major in undergrad, but the switch flipped (pardon the pun) sometime late in undergrad, and I now work as an engineer programming robots, designing circuits, and doing mechanical design.
I'll always be thankful for those memories, even those times when I was bored out of my skull by staring at traces on the oscilloscope, etc. Because of his example, I'll strive to spend time with my future children--at the expense of almost all else.
There is development currently underway (called TraumaPod) of a robotic telesurgery platform that will be deployable and can get to soldiers almost immediately after being wounded. These systems would provide trauma-mitigation care during transport to a facility where more advanced care can be given.
For now, telesurgical systems are focused on expanding the surgeon's "reach" to those who don't have access to surgical care (on the very front lines of a battlefield, in space, remote locations, etc).
For more info: http://www.sri.com/news/releases/03-28-05.html
The robot used for this mission was developed by SRI International, a non-profit research firm; one of whose spinoffs is Intuitive Surgical. This two-armed robot was developed initially for open trauma surgery for the military, and was upgraded before the NEEMO 9 mission as a deployable system. Here's a link with some information (note that the pictures are rather old; the surgeon side of the system looks different now):l
t hescenes/training/html/jsc2006e13997.html
http://www.sri.com/esd/med_devel/telepresence.htm
You can read more about the mission here and see a very cool picture of the robot suturing with fish in the background:
http://www.sri.com/news/releases/04-20-06.html
Not long after suturing was demonstrated at lunar latency; rock samples were picked up with the same manipulators, demonstrating the application flexibility of the robotic arms.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/behind