Having worked in Toronto and Calgary, I vastly prefer Calgary's +15 system. Daylight in Calgary's +15 second floor retail spaces is the only daylight exposure an office worker gets in the depths of winter.
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The Tick Key, www.tickkey.com, does the job quite well. You put it over the tick and slide the narrow slot from behind until the mouthparts are in as far as they can fit.
You may be surprised at how hard the tick holds on, but work slowly until it pops off, preferably into a container that you can put in the freezer.
Etick.ca can be used to identify and report the tick.
My cat has brought in three ticks this spring and summer that I found crawling about while he was on my lap. Cats grooming themselves seem to prevent ticks from embedding.
Doctors can prescribe doxycycline as a precaution.
You don't need explosives to take down a helo,just a good enough length of strong rope with weights to put the rotors out of balance.
You can see exactly how many people have died on their log page: https://www.multicians.org/changes-old.html
At this moment in time, 125.
20- & 30- somethings in the 80s are now mostly past retirement age. Actuarial attrition is a fact.
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Abdul Azziz al Saud, founder of Saudi Arabia, received supplicants on a near daily basis as all his subjects believed they had a right to bring their complaints to him.
In the early years of his reign, he was involved in military campaigns to expand his kingdom.
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I spent several years with DCF, Document Composition Facility, and markup languages - including one of my own. At Xerox I worked on software to enable DCF output on Xerox printers.
Much preferred Optima to the sans serif fonts.
Printer and screen resolution have a large effect on the appearance of fonts. Low resolution favors sans serif, but Garamond was pretty good on earlier IBM laser printers.
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Perhaps the question is how much misery are you willing to tolerate to prolong your life for how long?
Certain treatments take weeks to recover from while giving you months, years, even decades of life expectancy with good quality.
Other treatments of late stage terminal cancer only give you a few more weeks in the hospital.
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All modern jet engines are based on Ohain's axial flow design, not Whittle's radial flow one. Ohain's engine first ran in 1937. The Heinkel HE178 was the first flying jet airplane, with Ohain's engine.
The Me262 was the first operational jet fighter, again with Ohain's engine.
Axial flow made more demands on metallurgy of the time than centrifugal flow. The Viscount was the first turbine powered civil aircraft using RR Darts with two centrifugal compressor stages.
I enjoyed flying on the Viscount. It offered a much nicer passenger experience than the current crop of sardine cans.
Decades later I got in a lot of time flying the simulator that Air Canada donated to a tech school.
http://www.vickersviscount.net/Pages_Technical/Rolls-RoyceDa...
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I am reminded of my time at Xerox: Financialisation, making numbers, frequent reorgs, looking down on software...
But the biggest was coming up with nice new technologies, selling to customers; then not that many years later dropping support and leaving customers without a path forward.
Started programming over half a century ago. The insurance company I was working for gave me a joint life actuarial evaluation problem for which I wrote a Fortran program, picked up from a book. My uni student buddy let me use his ID so I could drop decks into their IBSYS. Turnaround was about a day. My career as a professional manual reader began.
Well yes, my high school maths were in the high 90s - more than my language scores in French, German and Latin with some off curricular Russian. I guess being a polymath helps.
Unless you are doing an engineering or mathematical application you don't need much math, especially as you can just call a function in the vast majority of the time.
I did a number of software products and operating system modifications without using any math beyond arithmetic operations.
I was a resource for other programmers including the odd math PhD.