You might as well get used to cruising with Father Time because he's not likely to jump ship.
Soundings editor Bill Sisson asked me to write about growing old aboard, but I'm not sure what he's thinking about. True, I've got a few years on him, and I've lived aboard and cruised for 27 years, but I can still whip him with one hand tied behind my back. Actually, I could whip him with both hands tied behind my back if my right shoulder didn't hurt so bad when I reach around back there — and if I could just remember how to tie that knot. So it isn't entirely clear to me why he thinks I should be the one to write this piece.
I am not growing old on my boat; my boat is growing old on me, but that's another story. So I'll have to base this on experiences with other people I see out here. Anything I say resembling anything you may have noticed about me is purely a figment of your imagination. Even this approach will be difficult because I don't see many people growing old on boats. Boats don't let you do that. I was reading a piece about exercising in an AARP magazine a few weeks ago (the magazine was on a friend's boat), and to someone accustomed to being on a boat, the things it said to do call for the energy equivalent of dipping steamed clams in melted butter.
People have a tendency to stay young on boats because boats are great exercise machines, with benefits ranging from subtle to extreme. When your boat is falling off waves and you're hanging on for dear life with what seems like every muscle in your body, you're getting a great workout. When you're pulling in lines while docking, especially when you forget the engine is still in gear, you're getting a great workout. When you're wrapped around an engine trying to remove a critical heavy part without eviscerating a personal body part, you're getting a good workout. When you're trying to help a spouse get out of the water after he or she cut loose the crab pot line somebody just wrapped around the propeller, you're getting a good workout (not to mention your wet spouse).
In my opinion, all these workouts are much more beneficial than a trip to the gym because they never stop. You don't go home at the end of the session and sit on a couch. Boats don't let you do that. And these workouts begin as soon as you get on a boat, even if you're very young.
The more subtle forms of exercise occur constantly. For example, the floor doesn't stay still. It constantly shifts and tilts, causing your body muscles to continuously compensate to keep you upright and balanced. This can improve muscle tone. If you live in a house, you don't get this constant movement unless you drink too much or live in California. If you have back problems, you'll probably notice this immediately.
Whether it's politically correct or not, I've got to say that I'm much less concerned about people growing old on a boat than I am about people growing old and then getting onto a boat. Most "old people" I've seen on boats were that way before they ever stepped aboard.
People ashore become accustomed to being respected because of age. Institutions, customs and laws provide a cushion as people grow older. But the sea doesn't care how old you are; it has no respect. It's an equal opportunity ravager. It's just as likely to hand you your backside on a platter whether you're young or ancient. And the bottom line, like it or not, is that no equipment, no rules, no support infrastructure will change this when the chips are down.
We often see good folks who have had successful lives performing well in their careers and who are accustomed to being in charge and knowing what to do. Many think this will transfer to their retirement dream of cruising away on a boat. Not necessarily. Just because you've done a great job running a business doesn't mean you have a clue about what to do when you take over a boat. And with a body accustomed to an armchair lifestyle and regimented exercise, and with brain cells that are just a little, shall we say, "seasoned," the learning process may be much slower than that to which one is accustomed.
Getting older and getting a boat is a great way to enjoy what you've earned in life. But it takes hard work, learning, skill acquisition, common sense and a realization that you're somewhere else, as to place and body. You'll do yourself a favor if you don't wait, and start boating at a younger age.
In the Exumas (in the south central Bahamas), you can travel along the chain of islands either inside on the banks, where it's often shallow, or outside in the ocean. It's easier going out there in the ocean if the weather is good and you handle the cuts safely. One year we saw — and heard on the VHF — a fellow repeatedly go outside and repeatedly get clobbered by head seas and winds. One time he almost lost his boat and his life because the seas were too bad at the cut where he'd planned his re-entrance. Other boaters had to venture out in their dinghies in the dark into the raging cut, with hand-held radios and lights, to guide him safely through the reefs.
Why, we wondered, does this guy keep repeating the same mistakes? I saw him on the beach one day and asked him what he'd done before he retired. "I was a pilot," he said. "I made the trans-Atlantic run for a major airline." That was the answer. He was used to going when he wanted to and couldn't accept the idea that waves and wind were much more relevant to his 42-foot sailboat than his jumbo jet. He'd gotten old in a rut into which the boat didn't quite fit. We've seen other successful executives repeatedly get into trouble because they planned their cruises like their careers. They have it on their calendars, so they think they have to do it. It doesn't work this way with Mother Nature and a boat.
But to make everyone happy about all this, I'll just set reality aside and proceed on the assumption that you do grow old on a boat, and we'll talk about how to cope with it. The good thing about this is that the more you're on a boat, the less coping you have to do.
Some boats have many levels; some have only one or two levels. Some say, for example, that the typical trawler configuration is harder to grow old on. This is the one in which you have to walk up a few steps from the aft or forward section to the saloon, then climb up again to the flybridge or climb down into the engine room once you've climbed to the flybridge and discovered that the thing won't start. Others say all that climbing helps you stay young. I say this depends on the people involved. If I had the choice (read: money) I think I'd get a boat with multiple levels, not only because I want the exercise but also because I'd like the extra feeling of privacy.
Because it is a motorsailer, our Gulf-star 53 Chez Nous offers a great compromise. It has one level below that's about five feet down a companionway from the deck. This is a real inducement to staying in shape, because you sure want to be able to get up those stairs if she starts sinking. And the boat is long enough to provide plenty of privacy.
There are other levels that also retard aging in ways you might not expect. One oft-visited level is the bilge about two feet below the engine. It's a really helpful level because I know that whenever I've forgotten where I put something it'll turn up there. All I have to do is to hang upside down into the bilge and get the thing. This helps the brain because all the blood settles there while I'm upside down. The brain gets an extra dose of rejuvenating blood because first I have to find my glasses that fell off my head to the bottom of the bilge as soon as I leaned over.
The levels on Chez Nous giving the greatest exercise are the infinite number of levels of the mast. I have to visit these levels rather frequently, making stops every several feet or so to check the integrity of the rig and all of the important stuff up there. Unfortunately, I don't like heights; I hate heights. I use a bosun's chair, and Mel, my wife, uses the anchor windlass to pull me up, so you might think it'd be a cushy ride. But I use more muscles hugging that mast out of sheer terror than you'd use trying to out-hug a horny grizzly bear. All of which gives me the opportunity to point out that the few gray hairs I've developed are caused solely by my fear of heights and going up the mast. They have absolutely nothing to do with aging.
Yoga seems to be the in thing these days for staying young. If you're so inclined, you can certainly buy a yoga mat and do it on a boat. I'm not into that sort of thing, but I do it by default because I live on a boat. And I get to do it with pieces of metal protruding into various vital organs.
Machinery spaces on boats force you into positions that most yoga experts never dreamed of. The things I chant don't sound much like "namaste" or "om," but at least they're words with which I've been familiar ever since I first got my mouth washed out with soap as a small child.
It's important to age on a boat with a lot of room in all the machinery spaces and a lot of good access within that room around all the machinery. There's no way around the fact that if you spend a lot of time on a boat more than a few miles away from a marina, you're going to have to maintain and fix things, and the older you get, the more it's going to hurt when you twist your body into weird shapes. That's why people like football players, tennis stars and gymnasts stop after a while and start endorsing cereals and barbecue sauces. But you can't stop on a boat, unless you have as much money as those stars and can afford something big enough to carry crewmembers to fix things.
Some of our friends who are rumored to be aging will occasionally take on crew, particularly on the longer or more difficult passages. However, many don't want the loss of privacy or the loss of that feeling of accomplishment they get after a passage. Also, taking on unknown crewmembers requires very careful research into qualifications.
If you use crew, younger people can perhaps be more helpful in some respects than friends of the same age, particularly if those friends aren't experienced boaters. But friends of any age with boating experience and who are reasonably fit can help immeasurably with such tasks as watch-keeping, being the "gofer" during difficult repair jobs, line-handling, and other day-to-day jobs that seem to take more energy than before. Crew can be especially helpful with overnight passages. Four people to divide the watches instead of two can make a huge difference in fatigue level and your ability to respond to trouble.
Falling asleep at the wheel at night can have horrible consequences. In the old days people were sometimes hanged or keelhauled for it. General fatigue can contribute to this as well as many other problems. It interferes with one's ability to diagnose mechanical or electrical problems that must be dealt with immediately. It interferes with one's ability to interpret radar targets and their movements, to differentiate between aids to navigation, to handle the boat well during prolonged storms and in high seas. It goes to the root of good judgment, and this is a cornerstone of prudent seamanship.
We all know that staying awake most of the night increases fatigue, and this can become more pronounced as we grow older. Some people seem to need less sleep as they age, but don't count on it, especially if you've been growing old ashore. Bodies and minds accustomed to turning in at a "reasonable hour" for many years and sleeping in the comfort and security of a house will have difficulty adjusting to nighttime passages. Sure you set watches, but until you're accustomed to and comfortable with being out on a boat alone in the ocean, surrounded by a black night, you're probably not going to sleep very well on your off-watch.
As you grow older, fatigue comes on more quickly. And you can't always predict in advance the degree of impairment it'll bring. An unexpected storm, a fog bank that means you won't be able to come into an inlet, a series of small breakdowns … so many things can mount up so quickly to cause fatigue.
It becomes increasingly important to think about avoiding fatigue when you plan trips. This can mean running shorter days and planning for longer times to get from one destination to another. It may mean more marina stops. We usually stop at only a few marinas that are very special to us. While making passages, we normally ride out storms on the hook or under way if appropriate. But there seems to be less stress when we're in a marina when a strong cold front or a dangerous thunderstorm moves in.
People say that as you grow older you take less for granted. This is especially true on a boat, and it should be. Ashore you can generally take it for granted that you're probably not going to sink and that Momma Infrastructure is there to fix things that don't work. Not so on a boat. Taking less for granted on a boat not only helps to avoid fatigue, it solves many other potential problems.
I know some folks with arthritis in their hands who can't do the mechanical work they once could do easily. Also, vision changes can affect the ability to see close-up detail work (not to mention distance and night vision). Instead of assuming that aging equipment won't break — I'm talking about equipment components on the boat's machinery, not our own — it may be wiser to pay the money and get a good mechanic to replace the part, or replace it yourself before you leave. Instead of buying rebuild kits, as for water pumps, it may be wiser to buy a whole new (or rebuilt) pump so you can fix it by a plug-and-play installation, rather than spending hours trying to remove a bearing pressed onto a shaft and assembling a mess of clips and seals and bearings in the one and only manner that'll work.
Taking anchoring gear for granted has caused more than one coronary arrest. Manually pulling up an anchor on a boat, especially in current and/or wind or in a hurry (as when you're dragging down on another boat or a reef) is something that very few of us are ready for, especially the more "experienced" of us. Having a well-serviced anchor windlass and good gear, with a carefully planned and oft-rehearsed routine, can make this job relatively easy. But if you're unable to handle things if the windlass fails, you may be sitting on a ticking time bomb — like your heart.
Machinery fails. It's inevitable, especially at sea. So while you need to take every step to be sure your equipment will serve you well, you also need to be prepared with backup measures and knowledge and the physical ability to handle things when some chunk of metal lets you down. This is true at any age, but it's often far more of an issue with a bit more age.
My favorite sports are free diving, swimming and boardsailing. In the cruising Mecca of Georgetown, Bahamas, one of the most popular pastimes of cruising people of all ages is very vigorous beach volleyball. I've known boat people who have been heavily into these sorts of activities well into their 80s. Music on the beach is more likely to be island music than ballroom. Social games, rather than bingo, are more likely to be those best not discussed in print.
Lots of people think aging means slowing down; 'taint necessarily so when it comes to being on the water. It's true that some, as they grow older, want to get slower boats. These boats may be more comfortable, use less fuel, and give you a few minutes to look at that aid to navigation up ahead to figure out what it is before you hit it — or before you hit the shoal next to it. If your earlier boating has been constrained by a busy schedule ashore, necessitating fast boats so that you can actually go somewhere and be back in time for that Monday morning meeting, a slower boat such as a trawler may make a vast improvement in the quality of lifestyle aboard when you've retired and have more leisure time. It can completely redefine "boating" for you.
However, many people opt for faster, smaller boats as they grow older. Mel and I have lived and cruised on a 7.5-knot motorsailer since 1979. We're beginning to think we'd like to run faster in a powerboat. We would then need shorter weather windows, which would enable us to make more trips to the Bahamas and more offshore runs along the coast. More speed also would shorten the time of the trip up and down the coast, even when done completely in the ICW.
The fact that faster boats usually draw less and don't need as many bridge openings (because they don't have masts) would make it even better for us. With this, we'd have more time to spend visiting our daughters, whom we miss very much after having had them grow up aboard with us. In fact, we weren't able to spend Thanksgiving with our daughters — our first without them. Our schedule went out the window as we were clobbered by storm after storm on our trip south. If we had a faster boat, we could have reached our destination by running longer distances on the good days. The good news is that there are fine boats out there for whatever you want to do. The hard part is deciding which is right for you.
There are a lot of people who'll tell you they're "downsizing" because they're growing older. "It's easier to handle," they say. "There's less to maintain," they say. "You don't have so far to fall before you hit the water," I say. Larger boats can sometimes be easier to handle than smaller ones.
It's been said that it's not the size that counts; it's what you do with it. With boating, it's what you do with it that makes the size count. I regularly run a 1985 20-foot Mako with a 150-hp Yamaha that will make close to 30 knots. I also run the 53-foot motorsailer, which averages around 7.5 knots, and I run this from 3,000 to 5,000 miles a year. I also paddle a kayak, frequently run a 12-foot dinghy with a 25-hp Yamaha, and hang out on a sailboard when I get the chance. I'm not sure which of those I'll like the best when I grow up and get old, but this fall as I was heading south down Chesapeake Bay, busting into about 25 knots of headwind, I was very happy to be on my big motorsailer.
On our motorsailer we hardly feel moderate seas, and the coffee doesn't spill when we set down the cups. When I go up to the bow at 5:30 a.m. to pull up the anchor, there's plenty of room to stumble about without going over the side. I also can bend over and step back without impaling my backside on a stanchion — a decidedly unwholesome way to begin the day. When I go into the engine room to give the beasts a preflight check (OK, prayer), I'm able to actually walk around and look at most of the parts that I want, or dare, to look at.
It isn't a given that growing old should mean a smaller boat. Depending on what you want to do, where you want to go, and when you want to go, a large boat may be much more enjoyable and much easier to handle. But if, for example, my goal was to go out a few miles for some rock fishing instead of south for around 2,000 miles, I'd rather be in my Mako. Back in November, I wished I had a fast megayacht so we could have gotten to our planned destination for Thanksgiving.
The issue of handling a boat as you grow older bothers many people. Handling a boat can be a problem no matter how old you are. True, fending off pilings, bridges and other boats becomes more of a problem when your bones get brittle, but bow and stern thrusters make an incredible difference as to ease of handling. Our SidePower bow thruster has immeasurably improved our ability to control the boat, not to mention our level of stress. I can tell you from experience (other people's experience) that the cost of one collision can more than pay for the cost of a bow thruster. But we've noticed that usually the "boat handling" problems come with people who've grown old ashore with little boating experience and who then retire to a boat. They think thrusters are going to be like a magic answer — you push a button and the boat goes where you want it. This can lead to disaster.
I don't recommend using thrusters until you also know how to maneuver your boat without them. They're supplemental equipment, not a main source of propulsion — even while docking. And, like all other equipment, they fail. But when you know the basics and then add the thrusters as the pièce de résistance, you can really improve your maneuvering.
I've heard that as you grow older you have to change your pace. I'm not sure how that works with boating. For example, if I'm in the water shooting a grouper under a ledge and I see a shark coming, the last thing in the world I want to do is slow my pace. If I see a sportboat roaring past at just the right angle to throw a 10-foot wake into my beam, I can't afford to worry about any pain in my wrists or shoulders when I spin the wheel to get the bow into the jerk's wake. If I wake up at 2 a.m. while anchored in a cold, howling gale, I can't push a button and ring for an assistant when I realize the anchor's dragging. If I'm caught in the ocean in a storm and have to manhandle the wheel for hour after hour, I can't call "time out." I've just got to handle it. Momma Nature's been around a long time, and she doesn't cut any slack — for any age.
I've talked about a lot of things that help to make boating better as we grow older. I've mentioned getting a different size boat, greater reliance on mechanics, extra marina stops and much more. Perhaps unnoticed is a critical underlying element that has constantly recurred during this discussion: what it takes to enable you to do these things. And this one thing doesn't necessarily come with age. It surehasn't come with mine, because I've been on boats most of my life. The thing is money. So Bill, since you think I'm growing old on a boat, ol' buddy, ol' friend and good editor of mine, how about a raise to ease the process?
Tom Neale is technical editor for Soundings and lives aboard a Gulfstar 53 motorsailer. You can buy his book, "All in the Same Boat," at www.tomneale.com .


Woo, when did that happen.?..This was in my drive...or rather just past my drive.
The wrecker finally made it and pulled her out.
but atlas, my poor mailbox didn't get up and walk away..but as DH slowly walks back to the house the light came back on and all returned to normal and I started taking my pictures again.
Now there you have my day in a nutshell.
Sorry about having to put a copyright stamp on my pictures. I posted some of my pictures on Face Book and a friend in Canada saw them and sent me a post that a lady up there had done with my pictures on them. She was claiming them as her own. So I bought a watermarks program to mark mine with. I don't mind anyone using my pictures, if the just ask first.
What an exciting day Molly! Did the girl offer to pay for your mailbox?
I can't believe someone would take your pictures and say they were theirs! Gee!
Okay - you are really seeing some action there aren't you girl? Accidents and power lines and snow.
May your dear mailbox R.I.P.
Well, you'll just have to find some sort of an indestructible mail box Molly! The terminator mail box!
What a day...snow sure can stir up some excitement!
Such a crazy winter. Your bird pics are wonderful, such a full feeder in that one shot.
Your pictures are wonderful and we all enjoy seeing them. And then some jack--- decides to steal your work and take it as their own.. that is one sad person. It may be pictures..but a thief,is a thief..is a thief. That's just wrong to take your work..
Wow, that was a lot of excitement for one QUIET snowy day!!!
Do you think this will cut down on your junk mail?
I hope she at least offered to pay for it! How rude to claim your pictures as their own.


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Leading 10 Ideal Universities in the Planet
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The college rankings across the countries and the globe are outlined by considering several items. Of course, it is the strong faculty, the intelligence of the students and the scholarly excellence that occur 1st to estimate the rankings. Up coming the campus, the ambiance, the services that the universities provide the learners and the involvement of the institutions in producing the new researchers, engineers, lecturers and medical doctors of the long term are judged to integrate the names of the Universities between the toppers.
Though, it is a very challenging and tough method to choose the best ten greatest universities in the world since how an American University can be the very best amongst the universities in China and vice-versa! On the opposite, it is fairly difficult to manage a difficult combat between the Ivy League institutes with that of the century-outdated educational institutes of the European nations around the world, specifically Uk -The Great Britain. Even the College of California is counted by a lot of among the best 10, but it is not an Ivy League. Then how can anybody judge that the excellent point out college is anyhow inferior to the Ivy Leagues?
Below is the list of the prime ten ideal universities in the Globe soon after counting and judging the quantities of the college members who are Nobel Laureates. Winners of Philosophical Modern society, Winners of the US Presidential Medal of Flexibility, customers of the National Academy of Science, MacArthur Fellows and the significantly prestigious Pulitzer Prize winners of the wonderful universities.
Harvard University (1st in the United States)
Harvard College is a yardstick to measure the research standards of other folks. This is one of the premier residences of education that has been ever challenged. Positioned in the Cambridge, US the College was started in 1636. The faculty designed its cash from $four.six billion to $twenty five.8 billion in the final fifteen years below the leadership of Jack Mayer. In addition to monetary wealth, the correct treasures of the Leading College are the forty seven Nobel Laureates, forty eight Pulitzer Prize winners, 32 Heads of State it has made from its legislation, medical and company colleges. yurtdışı yüksek lisans on its Widener Library – the world's biggest educational library with in excess of six million volumes of guides of various disciplines.
Stanford College (2nd in the US)
Situated in the coronary heart of the Californian Silicon Valley, the Stanford College was started in 1891. This is the world's 2nd very best analysis and teaching university focused to offering the best quality training to get management through the seven educational institutions- Humanities & Sciences, Business, Engineering, Regulation, Drugs, Education and learning, and Earth Sciences.
Massachusetts Institute of Engineering (MIT) (third in the US)
Because its basis again in 1861, MIT slowly has grow to be the world's preeminent heart of scientific lookups and instructing. The School offers on the legions of researchers and engineers it has developed. There are 80 Nobel Laureates, 43 McArthur Fellows, 28 winners of National Medal of Engineering and Innovation, fifty six National Medal of science winners.
University of California (4th in the United States)
Berkeley is a single of the elite universities across the world. More than 350 programs are supplied to 36,000 students and the college is very best recognized for the PhDs it makes each year. There are seventy seven Fulbright Students, 39- Members of the American Philosophical Culture, 32 MacArthur Fellows, and 22 Nobel Laureates and between the Nobel laureates eight of them are current school users.
University of Cambridge (United kingdom)
Founded in 1209, Cambridge is one particular of the world's oldest establishments. It has constantly been one particular of the best rivals of its contemporary Oxford. It is truly tough for the US college toppers universities to give a challenging combat from the abroad. There are over 18,000 students across one hundred thirty five nations around the world and there is a report of earning 80 Nobel Prizes by their faculty.
Princeton College (5th in the US)

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A young Nigerian woman has been arrested in connection with the alleged murder of her South African lover.
The suspect, 26-year-old Gift Mike was over the weekend picked up for the murder of 50-year-old Daniel Grant at Emerald Cove Hotel in Victoria Island Lagos on Saturday the 5th of May 2018.
According to police investigation, the deceased and his girlfriend checked into the hotel around 7pm and later went out for a drink before retiring into the hotel.
Sadly, the lifeless body of the deceased was found hanging from the ceiling the next day.
Police revealed that the suspect who later framed up suicide story had earlier called a friend of the deceased, an Indian expatriate named Piyush Pirasata to inform him that she woke up in the middle of the night to find her boyfriend dead.
The suspect later attached the body of the deceased to the ceiling fan with the help of an undisclosed accomplice in order to clear her self from the alleged murder.
On arrival at the murder scene, the team of detectives found out that the death of the South African might have been stage-managed.
On the spot investigation showed that though the deceased was found to be hanging from the ceiling, his legs were still on the floor, raising suspicions. The belt he was supposed to have committed suicide with was still tied round his neck.
I think I'm being vindicated in truth when I said no real man should wife a Nigerian b*tch Cus 80% of them are rude piece of trash that ain't worth sh*t. But they tend to acting like princess because of they SIMPs male musician who always hype their asses.
@ Stanley , that includes your sisters, any woman can commit any crime regardless of where she comes from. Please stop talking trash.
Rip man! But datz how una police dey shoot our guys for s/africa for nothing sake,sorry broda.


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How long it takes to make chief: The latest stats
150916-N-IX020-092 HAMPTON, Va. (Sept. 16, 2015) Chief Engineman Stephen Payton, assigned to Pre-commissioning Unit Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), receives his cover during a pinning ceremony held at the Hampton Roads Convention Center. Forty-five Gerald R. Ford Sailors were frocked to chief petty officer during the ceremony. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ryan Litzenberger/Released)
A lot of old salts say the Navy is minting chiefs too young these days. The data says otherwise.
The average sailor advances to chief petty officer at around 13.5 years, after having spent roughly five years as an E-6, according to Navy advancement data. The numbers fluctuate slightly each year, but never more than a percentage point in the past decade. But there is a growing number of high-performing sailors who earn their anchors in less than eight years.
Though the averages stay the same, what the data also does shows is that due to changes in the rules — allowing early promote sailors to compete after only two years as a first class — allow more to hot-runners in more career fields to earn their anchors by the eight-year mark. numbers are rising in the number of career fields seeing more new chief's at the eight year mark and below.
In 2015, among the 90 competitive groups at the E-7 level, most of the selectees had between Navy ratings advances to sailors to chief petty officer somewhere between nine and 18 years of service. But there were exceptions — the most junior chief made it at 5.5 years, while the most longest in the tooth had got their anchors at 21.5 years of service.
Three times in the past five years, a sailor has made it to the goat locker in under six years. But never more one in each of those three years.
This year, after two years with no five-year chiefs, Chief Damage Controlman (SW) Jose Rosario — was selected at 5.5 years of service while on an nearly promote waiver; he'd only been a first class for two years. with only two years time as a first class.
He isn't the only one, however. But e wasn't the first
In both 2011 and 2012, this highly rare feat was accomplished in 5.67 years of service with 2.5 years in grade by an intelligence specialist and again the following year in 5.83 years of service and again, 2.5 years in grade by an operations specialist.
But while that's rare, An analysis of the data shows that though breaking the six-year barrier is quite rare. However, the number of ratings to pick at least the numbers ratings that advance at least one six- to eight-year CPO as well as those advancing between six and eight years is on the rise.
In 2011, along with the one five-year chief, six sailors put on anchors in six years; 17 in seven years and another 16 with eight years. with 17 ratings advancing someone in seven and another 16 in the eight year point. The bottom line was that Over a third of the career fields advanced someone in eight years or less — and in the years since that's now doubled.
That number rose to 50 in 2012; dipped to 46 in 2013; and increased to 52 in 2014. Last year, it rose to and rose last year to 58 of the 90 ratings advancing someone in under eight years.
Navy-wide averages
In 2015, sub-qualified nuclear electronic's technicians had the lowest average advancement to chief with 28 sailors putting on anchors in an average of just under 10 years of service and four and a half years in grade as a first class. The earliest advanced in 7.4 years; the longest it took anyone any in that rating advanced was 16.3 years.
On the other end of the spectrum is the Seabee construction mechanic rating, which advanced 11 to chief in 2015 in an average of 16.83 years, after spending an average of just over eight years as a first class. The earliest any of them put on their anchors was at 13 and a half years, and they even had someone make it with more than put on chief with over 20 years of service.


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2 Thus speaketh Jehovah the God of Israel, saying, Write thee in a book all the words that I have spoken unto thee.
3 For behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, when I will turn the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith Jehovah; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
5 for thus saith Jehovah: We have heard a voice of trembling, there is fear, and no peace.
6 Ask ye now, and see, whether a male doth travail with child? Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail; and all faces are turned into paleness?
8 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more reduce him to servitude.
9 But they shall serve Jehovah their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
10 And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith Jehovah; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for behold, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and at ease, and none shall make [him] afraid.
11 For I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to save thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee; yet of thee will I not make a full end, but I will correct thee with judgment, and will not hold thee altogether guiltless.
12 For thus saith Jehovah: Thy bruise is incurable, thy wound is grievous.
13 There is none to plead thy cause, to bind up [thy wound]; thou hast no healing medicines.
14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not. For I have smitten thee with the stroke of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine iniquity: thy sins are manifold.
15 Why criest thou because of thy bruise? thy sorrow is incurable; for the greatness of thine iniquity, [because] thy sins are manifold, I have done these things unto thee.
16 Therefore all that devour thee shall be devoured, and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be for a spoil; and all they that prey upon thee will I give to be a prey.
17 For I will apply a bandage unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith Jehovah; for they have called thee an outcast: This is Zion that no man seeketh after.
18 Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will turn the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his habitations; and the city shall be built upon her own heap; and the palace shall be inhabited after the manner thereof.
19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving, and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be diminished; and I will honour them, and they shall not be small.
20 And their sons shall be as aforetime; and their assembly shall be established before me; and I will punish all that oppress them.
21 And their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to approach, and he shall draw near unto me. For who is this that engageth his heart to draw near unto me? saith Jehovah.
23 Behold, a tempest of Jehovah, fury is gone forth, a sweeping storm: it shall whirl down upon the head of the wicked.
24 The fierce anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he have executed, and until he have performed the purposes of his heart. At the end of the days ye shall consider it.


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European Parliament discusses situation with migrants along EU-BiH border
EP building in Brussels; Photo: European Parliament
BRUSSELS – Croation MEP Ivan Jakovičić has initiated a debate in European Parliament on the situation with migrants along his country's border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. Members of Parliament discussed Bosnia's administrative and technical capacities, but also the possibility of radicalisation and terrorism.
Jakovčić complained about the schizophrenic situation his country has found itself in – on the one hand, it is accused of mistreatment of migrants, but, on the other, it us urged to protect EU's external borders. He assessed that BiH needs help, because its institutions are not living up to the task.
MEP from Sweden Jasenko Selimović reiterated this assessment, emphasising that the EU lacks both financial and administrative capacities to tackle the problem. "The citizens and the country have so far done their job reasonably well, but the situation has become critical. I have received information from the ground that the police on the Croatian border has used force and violence against the migrants", he stated.
EP Rapporteur for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cristian Dan Preda, pointed at the unconstructive politization of the events, while Vytenis Andriukaitis of European Commission reminded of the 30-million-Euro worth of financial assistance EU sent to BiH in 2017, including the 2-million-Euro humanitarian assistance.
In the past few months alone, EU has donated more than 9,2 million Euros through various projects in order to help migrants and refugees on the ground and strengthen its capacities of border management. Migrants were provided with accommodation and medical assistance.
Some MEPs from Italy and Croatia, including Marijana Petir, warned of the potential for radicalisation among the migrants, some of them even claiming that ex-ISIS members are among them.
On the other hand, MEPs coming from the left-oriented parties criticized Croatia's conduct and accused their colleagues of abusing Strasbourg attack for spreading Islamophobic ideas.
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She said she would get unemployment down.
Now at its lowest level since 1975.
slowdown in wage growth. I wonder who profits by that?
the same time as vacancies for skills and labour were growing.
the same time as vacancies for ...[text shortened]... labour were growing.
The economic theory says that there should be a strong correlation between wage growth and unemployment, which makes sense. If there are jobs with nobody to fill them, employers have to improve their wage offer to "fight" for workers. The UK has certainly tested the strength of this correlation, although the labour market has not been this tight for a long enough period of time to confirm whether it has had an effect on wages or not. Wages have shown some improvement this year at least.
Productivity remains key to improving growth and living standards. Britain has had ghastly productivity growth since the crisis. I would say that this is because low interest rates keep "zombie firms" in business, lowering productivity. Higher inflation because of low interest rates (Mark Carney's August 2016 rate cut) exacerbated a squeeze on the British consumer last year that is now ended. The economy is not in crisis anymore and hasn't been for a number of years so why do we still have crisis-era interest rates? It makes no sense and I wish that the BoE would stop dithering with the rate rises already.
And most sincerely very welcome they are too.
Of course this is irrelevant to the issues of unrestricted migration and free movement.
And irrelevant to the price of bread.


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Toulon is a port city positioned on southern France's Mediterranean coast and is lined with sandy beaches and shingle coves. The crystal blue water of the Mediterranean is just breathtaking and makes this coastline the perfect destination wedding.
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The rare beauty of the "Sorrentine Peninsula and Sorrento" with its cliffs and wonderful villages, brings to mind ancient memories that date back to Greek and Roman times. History has left deep marks on each shore, each promontory and each mountain of these sunny lands embraced by the Bays of Naples. Sorrento, a lively little town built on a tufa terrace facing the Vesuvius and plunged into an extraordinary bright blue sea, is the pearl of the Sorrentina coast. The colour of the tufa, a porous rock of volcanic origin, bind perfectly to the green countryside all around and the scent of the orange and lemon in which the little town is fully immersed creates its enchanting atmosphere.
The hypotheses advanced by scholars about the exact time and origin of the people who founded the city are still conflicting. It is very likely that Sorrento, around the 11th century BC. It was inhabited by indigenous peoples, perhaps the Ausoni, but between the eighth and seventh centuries it constituted, for the Greeks and the Etruscans, thanks to its strategic position between the gulfs of Salerno and Naples, an important base for commercial traffic in the lower Tyrrhenian Sea.
However, the character of the finds dating back to that period suggests that the Greek-Etruscan frequentation of the places was initially limited only to the commercial landing points; in fact, being in the middle of the route between Pontecagnano and Cuma. Sorrento and the peninsula were therefore equipped with the necessary support and support structures for ships. Sorrento would have acquired the structure of a real city only much later and that is during the domination of the Osci who endowed the city with a regular "checkerboard" layout and decreed its belonging to the Nocerina League together with Nocera, Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabia.
The urban layout has substantially been preserved in the medieval and modern plan. The urban layout applied is of the so-called Hippodamian type, with hinges and decumans that intersect at right angles within a rectangular perimeter.The narrow via S. Cesareo-Fuoro, which crosses the entire city straight from east to west and which joined the two now disappeared gates of Piano and Massa represents the Decumanus Maximus. The Cardo maximus crosses it in the middle of Via Tasso, which descends from the Sovradonno or Parsano gate to the Prospectus and overlooks the sea near the birthplace of the poet Torquato Tasso. of their narrow and shady depth in two orders in an intersection of parallel streets, they cut the plain of Sorrento like a chessboard.
In the extreme western part of the city, at the intersection of the two main streets, the Forum stood as evidenced by some excavations and the place still retains its name. Between the 1st and 3rd centuries BC during the imperial era, the city began to be occupied by large villas that the wealthy Romans had built in the most enchanting places on the coast. They were generally large coastal villas with private landings and fish ponds.
Unfortunately, we do not know the precise location or their extent, but there are sources and archaeological finds preserved in the Correale Museum that provide us with some more accurate information. The choice of Sorrento as the ideal place for the construction of the villas was favored, both by the beauty of the places, and by the period of peace (the pax augustea) of the Roman Empire. However, villas also arose within the city that generally occupied more than one insula of the ancient layout and this involved partial alterations of the symmetry of the same.
In 1818 the Cesarano bridge was built and the convent of S. Antonino was repaired to use it as a municipal house. In 1834 the Panoramica Sorrento-Castellammare state road was completed and Meta in a single municipality called Sorrento. The Sorrento Peninsula in recent years has grown a lot and has made great progress and has undergone great transformations all aimed at offering more and more comfort but always keeping intact its charm and its breathtaking views.
The Greeks or Osci encircled the city with walls whose course was interrupted by at least five gates, two of which facing the sea and one on each side facing the land. west and north-east of the inhabited center) opened in correspondence of two stepped paths in direct and immediate relationship with the marinas and therefore this suggests that trade flows, in pre-Roman and Roman times, were entrusted exclusively to the sea. It was with the Romans that the road was built which, following the coast lines of the peninsula, connected Sorrento with Stabia and with Capo Ateneo.
Here the Greeks built a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena then consecrated by the Romans to Minerva. It was also a landing place for the island of Capri. The Roman road was perfectly inserted into the decumanus maximus by means of two gates located at the opposite ends of the decumanus itself (Porta Minerva to the west and Porta del Piano to the east) today unfortunately destroyed. remains of the bridge that spanned the deep ravine that delimits this side of the town. Two pillars of it have been preserved with the attachment of the arch; the pylons about ten meters high and set on the rock, are in cement conglomerate with a reticulated opus facing and tuff blocks; the span of the arch is about five meters.
The work dates back to the type of construction technique in the Augustan age. The wooden bridge connected to the Massa gate rested on the brick bridge. Of the Porta del Piano, located to the east of the decumano maximus, there are only a few illustrations by Giacinto Gigante preserved in the Capodimonte Museum since the ancient gate was destroyed in 1866 to expand Piazza Tasso and build the main street parallel to the decumanus major. The Porta del Piano or di Stabia rose at the entrance to the city and overlooked the moat to the east also crossed by a bridge now walled up.
Until 1866 on the Porta del Piano there was also the statue of S. Antonino, the patron saint venerated in Sorrento, later moved to the center of Piazza Tasso. Incorporated into the walls to "guard the city and the gate" there was also a castle built in 1272 several times destroyed and rebuilt over the centuries. The door that gives access to the Marina Grande, as in ancient times to the port, is undoubtedly ancient despite the various renovations it has undergone. Built in square work with limestone blocks arranged alternately at the head and edge, it follows the curvilinear course of the climb, cut at the foot of the cliff, thus resulting in a pentagonal space, perhaps covered by an irregular vault.
In the absence of excavations, it is difficult to establish a chronology; the most likely proposal seems to be that of a dating within the fourth or third century BC. The door of the Marina Grande still arouses unpleasant memories for the Sorrentines today as it is from this door that on June 13, 1558 the Saracen pirates entered who sacked and devastated the city. The door of the Marina Piccola is located at the end of a short ramp that borders the side of the ravine and flanks the ancient church of S. Antonino.
On the southern side we can see the Porta di Sovradonno or Parsano which connected the city with the farmhouses in the hills and is located at the end of the cardo maximus. This side was also protected by a moat which joined, on the western side, with that of the Porta di Massa This door was widely used in the Roman period as it was the access to the countryside and to the rustic domus. The interests towards the hinterland must have been rather scarce, in the following period and up to the viceregal era, since the door fell into disuse and was reduced to a simple passage.
It was reopened only in the eighteenth century and called "Porta di Parsano Nuovo". Today the Porta di Parsano Nuovo has been renovated and excavations have been carried out at its base, thanks to which it is possible to see the ancient Greek-Oscan foundation placed under the road level. The walls that ran along the east, south and west sides, leaving open (but not defenseless) the north side facing the sea, the city touched, as it still does today, the highest points of the precipices; that is, it stood sheer above the moats.
Here and there are still found in its foundations square blocks of the ancient plant. The perimeter of the walls was about 1600 meters and surrounded the flat area of the city which was 29 hectares; about half of the Pompeii area. With the passing of the centuries the design changed, but not the layout of the curtains and, only towards the middle of the fifteenth century, the curtains, no longer resisting the impact of heavy attacks, collapsed ruinously.
The factory remained in ruins for many years until, between 1558 and 1567, the reconstruction work began (i.e. immediately after the terrible Turkish invasion.) We know from some documents that already in 1532 the viceroy Pedro Alvarez De Toledo had established that the burden for the construction of the fortified walls fell to the city which necessarily had to provide itself with a defense "in proportion to the greater danger that the coastal ones ran".
The old and weak walls were demolished and the ramparts were built. The ramparts were more effective at a defensive level as there was a mass of earth within the walls of the ramparts, placed at the corners of the enclosure; in addition, the pentagonal bastions had a salient angle towards the countryside.
Today what remains of the fortification is the long section of southern masonry including the Porta di Parsano with its ramparts and the final stretch towards the sea to the west called the Manganella. This section of masonry is lower as it is located on the cliff and therefore "safe from any climb" and ends with the Porta della Marina Grande. The two bastions are still visible on this stretch too.
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Here's What Students Need to Know About the SAT Reading Section
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We're almost a year removed from The College Board's rollout of the 2016 SAT test redesign, so students and parents by now have a better sense of the test's layout—that the reading section, for example, contains 52 questions and is timed to 65 minutes. There are however a couple of major conceptual changes in the SAT reading section that will be helpful for how students and parents approach preparing for the test.
Why the Change?
Recent changes to the SAT stem from two fundamental motivations: to borrow from the successes of the ACT test, and to more closely resemble the form and content of advanced school curriculum. The former motivation is the reason why, for example, each SAT reading section now includes three social science or natural science passages; the latter motivation is the reason why the SAT has specifically curated passages and question types to resemble those of the AP Language and AP Literature Tests. Consider, for example, the similarity in wording between the College Board's description of what skills the SAT reading section tests—"information and ideas, rhetoric, and synthesis"—and what is tested in the AP Language and Composition Test—"Synthesis," "Rhetorical Analysis," and "Argument." Both the ACT and the AP Language test requires, in the AP Language Test overview's words, "Analyzing graphics and visual images both in relation to written texts and as alternative forms of texts themselves." Now, so does the SAT.
Content vs. Skills
One very important consequence of the SAT Reading section's particular evolution to resemble advanced school curriculum is that the test is no longer just about gauging a student's general reading comprehension skills—it's about whether a student is familiar with, and has been exposed to, what the SAT calls "founding documents" –canonical texts from writers early in America's history such as Abraham Lincoln, Alexis deTocqueville, or Harriett Beecher Stowe. Every reading section will always include at least one "founding document." The science passages also skew toward topics that are culturally specific to the United States; one social science passage from a released official SAT test, for example, is titled "The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City."
Close Reading vs. Speed Reading
A classic topic that perennially comes up during test prep is speed-reading (also a 90s fad!)—how do I read passages faster? The SAT, in trying to resemble advanced school curriculum, changes the conversation from speed-reading to close reading. "Reading Closely," as Collegeboard calls it: "questions that deal with interpreting what an author has said explicitly or implicitly and applying that information to new contexts." This is the SAT Reading's biggest point of departure from that of the ACT: a student has around one minute and 15 seconds per question for SAT Reading; for the ACT reading, it's about 52 seconds per question. More time than the ACT, but SAT passages are harder, denser, and older—the "founding documents" passages will always be from the 18th or 19th century.
The Venn Diagram below shows just how heavily the SAT reading passages are based in what we call "US Specific" texts—passages that are either "founding documents," recognized texts taught in the US, or texts that are culturally specific to the US. The 35 passages listed in the diagram are from all seven previously proctored, official SAT tests recently released from The Collegeboard.
Prep and prep early.
The SAT reading section is one that responds best to a slow and steady approach, matching school curriculum to test-specific preparation as much as possible. Incorporating SAT style questions and assignments to reading that the student is doing concurrently in school is a classic two birds with one stone scenario, and is the most efficient and painless for the student. Take challenging humanities courses at school—the content will give you a decided edge for the SAT reading section. International students who do not take a U.S. History course or do not cover American literature and culture in their classes will be at a disadvantage.
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why wouldn't you use some pneumatic pistons instead of motors to open the door(s!)?
Curious about the scope trace of the hall sensors in the pic above. What would it look like if they were properly commutated?
Good question. I think the mechanical guys were thinking of using Elephants at some point, but only if we could bring them across the Alps first.
Actually, I think I mislabeled those traces. Looking at them again, they're almost certainly the traces taken directly off the BLDC coils. That explains the rise and fall times and the fact that the v/div shows something like 10V on the top two traces.
And they wouldn't look THAT different really. If you had your probes attached in a sensical way, you'd want to see the first coil go high, then the second, then the third — in that picture, it would be "right" if you moved the top trace to the middle. But, that's just the position of the scope probes.
Noteworthy on those traces are the dips in the middle of the top and bottom plateaus. That means that the voltage there is dropping when the next coil is switched on, which indicates a current spike. Depending on the supply you're using and the motors, the magnitude of this spike can tell you a lot about losses in your system.
Another way to figure out the commutation order on the halls is to apply current to one winding. The motor will then lock to one position. Read the states of the halls and move to the next position. Compumotor lists the process in more details in their drive manuals for people wanting to hook up motors from other manufacturers.
I'm interested of your door opener mechanism. How does it look like? How does it work? I ask because I want to implement a door opener in my room. Thanks.
For sure. That, along with the Maxon manual, was how I figured out the commutation pattern initially. Good call.
Do you have a link to those Compumotor manuals? I'd love to link them in here for other people trying to figure this stuff out. Thanks!
I'm afraid I can't tell you about the opener mechanism. The project is NDA'd so I can't talk specifics, which is why this post is so vague. But a good place to start is always http://www.mcmaster.com/# — do a search for openers and see what you can find. Even if the mechanism you want isn't there, it'll help narrow down the terminology which makes trolling the internet for what you want a lot easier.
My favorite method of aligning commutation sequence and hall sequence it to compare the motor's back EMF to the hall sensor outputs. (I've built a lot of BLDC and PMAC drives using poorly documented motors).
Grab a scope with at least two inputs. Put one hall sensor's output to scope channel 1 and the voltage between two of the motor leads (using a decent differential probe!) to channel 2.
Then connect an electric drill to the motor shaft (a piece of garden hose and a couple of hose clamps works wonders) and spin. Observe which hall outputs correspond to the generated phase voltages and design your commutation sequence accordingly.
I am newbie to bldc motor and driver control.
I have an eval-board motor driver whose hall-commutation sequence is 1 step (60 degree; ie. 612345) different from the motor's hall-commutation sequence as provided by the manufacturer (ie. 123456).
In this case, is the motor considered not operating correctly at all?
If yes, is it mandatory to change the driver code to make it match 100%?
I would assume the motor is operating correctly (ie. no extra power should be drawn), because the driver is just not energizing the coils in the same hall-sensor sector only (ie. not following a textbook example), but as long as the commutation-sequence is adhered to.
1) Change driver code to match motor hall-commute sequence?
2) And/or, match hall sensor wire connection to driver input?
3) And/or, match motor winding wire connection to driver output?
So, the basic idea is that the hall sensors tell you when you are in the right place to energize a coil. Driving a motor correctly requires a.) correctly interpreting the hall sensors and b.) correctly updating the coil drivers when the hall sensors change.
If you have the _order_ on the hall sensors correct, AND the _order_ of the coils correct but the two are slightly out of phase, you MAY still get the motor to turn. However, your coil drive will be effectively "leading" or "lagging" the position of the rotor. This usually gives you less torque, and will usually not start up about 1/6th of the time, and will sometimes have trouble reversing. It's best to get this right.
If you aren't sure what changing various parameters will do, my recommendation is to hook everything up on the bench. Use a current limited supply so you won't blow anything up, and try changing things. It will help you get a good intuition about how BLDCs work.


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Stanislaus Rücker, auch Rückert genannt, (* 17. Dezember 1649 in Giehren, heute zu Mirsk; † 14. April 1734 in Berlin) war preußischer Akzisedirektor und Stadtrat in Berlin.

Leben
Rücker wurde als Sohn eines Bergschreibers geboren und erlebte in seiner Jugend die Wirren der Reformation und Gegenreformation mit. Das prägte sein ganzes späteres Leben, denn er selbst hatte Mühe, eine Schule zu besuchen. Schließlich kam er als junger Mann bettelarm nach Berlin und erhielt eine Stelle als Lakai am Hof des Großen Kurfürsten. Durch seinen Fleiß, seine Zuverlässigkeit und seine Bescheidenheit konnte er hier aufsteigen, er wurde zum Aufseher über die Porzellankammer berufen. Bald wurde Stanislaus Rücker Accise-Director und Stadtrat in Berlin und kam zu bescheidenem Wohlstand. Seine eigenen Erfahrungen veranlassten ihn, als Mäzen zur Förderung des Schulwesens in Berlin und in seiner schlesischen Heimat aufzutreten. Dort unterstützte er durch Zuwendungen die während der Gegenreformation unterdrückten Schulen der lutherischen Gemeinden.

In Berlin gründete er mehrere Frei- und Armenschulen, später auch eine nach ihm benannte Stiftung. In der Lindenstraße Ecke Neue Kommandantenstraße der Friedrichstadt erinnerte seit seinem Todesjahr 1734 eine Gedenktafel an den Stifter der ersten dieser Schulen.
1733 stiftete er ebenso in der Königstadt, Landsberger Straße 45 (am ehemaligen Georgenkirchplatz 18), die Armenschule Zum armen Lazarus. Zur Erinnerung daran führte eine 1856 errichtete benachbarte Gemeindeschule seinen Namen. Die heutige Heinrich-Zille-Grundschule in Berlin-Kreuzberg beruft sich auch auf eine Gründung durch die Rückersche Stiftung.

Nach Stanislaus Rücker wurde 1862 die Rückerstraße in Berlin-Mitte benannt. Das Museum der Bundesfinanzakademie erinnert auch an ihn.

An der Kirchenmauer der Nikolaikirche befand (oder befindet sich noch?) eine Sandsteintafel mit folgender Inschrift: Hier hat  Stanislaus Rücker seine letzte Ruhestätte gefunden. Das erinnert an das Engagement Rückers für das Armenschulwesen in Alt-Berlin.

Literatur
 Gustav Schön: Stanislaus Rücker, ein Wohlthäter Berlins und der Evangelischen Schlesiens in trüber Zeit. Berlin 1890

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can i use this on my itouch (4th generation) ?
i just want to know if i can use this app on my itouch since it has a camera and everything.
Having photos taken being stored in-app and possibly being able to put it in the camera roll?


If you've ever been a college student, you are familiar with the lack of cash-flow that we experience. I am a first year grad student, so I am starting my 5th year of college. Wow. 5 years. Someday, I will finish…maybe. So far, I'm still loving it. However, when you spend somewhere between 15 and 30 hours in class, studying, or practicing, it's hard to keep a full-time job. Really, it's hard to even keep a part-time job. So how are we supposed to have any money?
For me, working a college job on campus has meant having a job that paid less than other jobs I've held, but at least it coincided with my class schedule. While I'm thankful for my job, I still look for extra ways to bring in income. Which, by the way, is something everyone can do no matter what kind of job they have.
So, I gave it a try. My second year of college I rented the books that I owned and made a couple hundred bucks. This covered purchasing my books for that semester. I realized that if I purchased a book used on Amazon.com, then I could rent it for the next two years.
Think about it, maybe you spend $100 for a textbook on Amazon. Then you rent it for $30 per semester for four semesters. That book has paid for itself by that fourth semester plus put an extra $20 in your pocket. Nice.
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"Hmm, ok!" I began accumulating extra books to rent. If a book was free and currently used for a class, I would take it and rent it. If a book was a commonly needed textbook for math or history, I would buy it for a cheap price and rent it for a reasonable price. This let me give people a deal, while still making money on the side.
Now that I'm in grad school, my book collection has grown because I have taken so many classes. This allowed me to make about $800 last year on renting books. Not a bad chunk of change! If you own textbooks, this is a great way to easily make money on the side. Let me share a few tips with you that may make this process easy and quick.
As with any business, being organized can help you quickly rent your textbooks without feeling like you're spending a ton of time on the process. Keep a spreadsheet or chart with the books that you have and the price you're willing to rent them for. I also recommend adding a column for the author and a column for the edition.
Pay special attention to a book that may be older. If you hear rumors that the teacher is considering requiring the new edition next year, SELL your edition this year. Unless of course, you want to keep the book for personal use. My teachers have always been very good about warning people when they intend to switch editions.
When keeping your chart, be sure to put down someone's full name, email, and phone number when you agree to rent to them. I even have a column for how I originally contacted them.
I find most of my renters on social media sites. My school has a Facebook group that students put together. You can go on that group and list books that you need or books that you'd like to rent. If your school doesn't already have something like this, consider piloting it! I bet you anything that it will grow quickly.
I also use email and a website associate with my school to get the word out about books that I am renting. Don't feel ashamed about emailing students that you know may need certain books and offering them a good deal. Nobody wants to spend a ton of money on books. You could be helping them save.
When you rent a book, it is important that you communicate exactly how the process will go, especially if you're renting to a new student. Go ahead and specify whether or not it's okay to write or highlight in the book. Specify when you're going to contact the renter to get the book back.
It's always nice to mention something positive about the class if you took it and enjoyed it. Also, renters need to have your contact information before you hand them a book and walk away. I like to put my name and number on the inside cover so that they cannot lose it or forget who owns the book.
Let renters come to you.
When I first started renting, I would meet up with people at their convenience all over campus. I found myself running around here and there sometimes only to make $5-$10.
Now, I've learned to let my renters come to me. I like to contact them the week before school offering several meeting times. I have an office on campus, so I ask that they come during my office hours to meet up. Even if I just plan to hang out with friends at our campus snack shop, I can tell people to come by then. That way, I'm not going out of my way to track them all down.
Sometimes I have even left books in my locker and had students retrieve them and leave money there. At my school, most people are pretty honest and stealing isn't a big issue. However, I know not every school is so fortunate in that respect.
Realize that some renters may be struggling to cover their expenses for books that semester. Try to give students the best price you can, but realize that you aren't just giving away books. If a student comes to me to rent and promises to bring the money later, I decline. Don't just trust.
Think about having change on hand. For example, if you are renting a book for $15, it might be best to bring at least $5 with you in case the renter brings a $20 bill. Thinking through change might save you having to meet up again.
If you don't plan to have change for renters, then let them know ahead of time that they will need to bring exact change. I have even let renters write checks to me because that is easier for some people. Again, decide how flexible you can be without gipping yourself.
I hope these tips have been helpful to you as you consider how you might make a little extra on the side. I even knew one girl in college who charged people a percentage to work as their "renting agent." She would rent books that others owned and keep a portion of the profit as their agent. Smart girl.
Renting your books might not be a full time job, but it might be a way to help pay the rent or the astronomical coffee bills for the semester.
Wonderful!!! 🙂 thanks for sharing these tips!
No problem, Alyssa! Thank you for mentioning the idea!


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Terry Gou is a Taiwanese business giant who founded the company Foxconn. Check out this biography to know about his childhood, family life, achievements and fun facts about him.
Birthday: October 8, 1950
Nationality: Taiwanese
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Also Known As: Guo Tai-ming
Born in: Banqiao District, Taiwan
Famous as: Founder of Foxconn
Spouse/Ex-: Delia Tseng (m. 2008), Serena Lin (m. 1974–2005)
children: Gou Shou-shan, Gou Shou-zheng, Gou Xiao-ling, Gou Xiao-ru
Founder/Co-Founder: Foxconn
education: Taipei College of Maritime Technology (1966–1971)
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Terry Gou was born on October 8, 1950 in Banqiao, Taipei County, Taiwan. His father was a career police officer. His parents had lived in mainland China's Shanxi Province until 1949 when they fled to Taiwan.
He was the first-born son of the couple. He had two younger brothers, Tai-Chiang Gou and Tony Gou both of whom became successful businessmen as well.
Gou received his formal education from an elementary school post which he attended college.
Upon graduating from college, Terry Gou started working in a rubber factory. His early days also included stints working at a grinding wheel and a medicine plant. Working odd jobs continued until he turned 24.
In 1974, Gou founded his own company Hon Hai. With as little as just $7500 and a staff of ten elderly workers, he started the business of manufacturing plastic parts of television sets in a rented shed in Tucheng, a suburb of Taipei.
The initial breakthrough in Gou's career came when he received an order to make console joystick from Atari in 1980. Not only did it give his business a new prospect but it also helped him in achieving economic prosperity.
With a vision to further expand his career, Gou went on an 11-month trip to the US, looking for customers. Blessed with aggressive sales skills, he contacted many companies despite being uninvited and managed to get additional orders.
In 1988, Gou set up his first factory in mainland China in Shenzhen. Till date, the factory remains the largest one amongst the many that he has. Expansion took a colossal size when he started vertically integrating the assembly process. The campus site where his factory was located turned into a single-place solution for Gou with all facilities streamlined within it – housing, hospital, dinning, chicken farming, and even burial ground.
In 1996, Gou's company, Hon Hai started building chassis for Compaq desktops. It turned out to be a highly profitable venture for Gou. Very soon Gou started building bare bones chassis for other high-profile customers including HP and IBM. When Gou inked a deal with Apple Inc, it marked the beginning of an era of unprecedented growth and profitability for his company.
Hon Hai, which was soon re-christened with a trade name Foxconn, became a giant in consumer electronics production. With a clientele comprising top brands under its belt, it rose phenomenally, becoming the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer.
In 2012, Foxconn acquired a 10 percent stake in the Japanese electronics company Sharp Corporation, for US $806 million, and purchased up to 50 percent of the LCDs produced at Sharp's plant in Sakai, Japan. Four years later, Foxcomm bought the company, making it the first foreign takeover of a major Japanese electronics company. Foxconn also acquired Nokia mobiles in 2016.
Gou's company, though known globally as a manufacturing giant, has acquired a bad reputation due to the spate of suicides committed by Foxconn workers. At least 14 workers killed themselves in 2010 due to poor working conditions in the Foxconn factories.
Terry Gou's career touched great heights after his company started building chassis for Compaq desktops in 1996. This served as the biggest breakthrough for Foxconn as the company went on to become the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer.
As per company reports in 2015, Foxconn generated a revenue of $136.12 billion, making it the fourth-largest information technology company by revenue. Gou's net worth which was worth $5.6 billion in 2016 rose dramatically to $10.6 billion in 2017, as per a report by Forbes. Foxconn also holds the position of the largest private employer in China and one of the largest employers worldwide.
Terry Gou's first wife was Serena Lin. The couple welcomed two children, a son and a daughter. While Gou's son works in the film and real estate industries, his daughter who worked in the financial sector took up leadership of her mother's charity after the latter's death in 2005.
In 2007, Gou's youngest brother, Tony Gou died of leukaemia. The following year, he married his second wife, choreographer Delia Tseng on July 26. Tseng and Gou have three children. Together, they have decided to give 90% of Gou's wealth away.
Gou has been involved in a lot of charitable works. He has funded non government organizations and charitable institutions.
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