At the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Ks, USA there is an extremely popular minor to Liberal Arts degrees. It is in "Business". It appears to cover much the same ground an Associates degree in Business does while still allowing a Liberal Arts student to get a Liberal Arts major and Education.
I was working on contract at a large Fiberglass business in Toledo, OH many years ago. I ran into an MBA working in an entry level Executive program there. She had a undergraduate Music degree. With a minor in Accounting.
A bachelors degree without loans seems to be the best choice anymore for anyone insisting on getting a degree.
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association).
Okay you asked for a story so here's one...my first ship was a Supply Ship, dry goods and frozen and refrigerated stuff as well out of Norfolk, VA, I was a Fire Fighter, welder, carpenter and a plumber but was assigned to the Flight Deck to bundle supplies in a big net so one of the two CH46 helicopters, the ones with the stubby wings, could pick them and deliver them to the other ships in our group, we always were with a carrier as one of her group of ships. We would pull up alongside a ship, sometimes the carrier, some other ship and sometimes have a ship on each side of us and steam around the Med at 12knots until all the supplies were transferred to each and every ship. sometimes we would even give out fuel oil to a smaller ship like a destroyer as we would be heading over to the tanker to get refueled ourselves saving a trip for the Destroyer. Anyway one day the helicopters were picking up supplies and bring back the old nets and they dropped the old nets right on some special nets that we had to swing down to catch things from falling overboard. They broke one of the special nets brackets right off and the only way to fix it was to weld up a new bracket. Guess who they told to do that and WHEN...yup ME and RIGHT THEN AND THERE!! We were still tied up to the other ship and they put my butt in a 'bosuns chair', a slice of wood with ropes on each side and lowered me over the side, NO ropes typing me into the chair just me trying to hold still while I tried to heatup the bracket, bend it back straight and then reweld it so it didn't break again. It is NOT fun trying to use a torch or do stick welding, that's all we had, with HUGE waves soaking you to the bone every 30 seconds or so!! Oh and btw I was lowered down BETWEEN the ships to do all of this!! That was my first taste of welding and getting shocked at the same time!!
Hey, that sounds dangerous and not just uncomfortable! As you know the hydrodynamics changes when ships are that close and so it'd be brown trouser time if it was me. A bosun's chair ...... cripes.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Hey, that sounds dangerous and not just uncomfortable! As you know the hydrodynamics changes when ships are that close and so it'd be brown trouser time if it was me. A bosun's chair ...... cripes.
Yup the USNavy does the replenishment of ships that way while the Russian Navy picks a shallow spot, drops the anchors and ties up next to each other.
I was young and they knew it so I was the one picked to do it, after I was done the other guys in the shop said 'I would NEVER have done that!!'
It's kind of like when I was on the dry dock and they needed someone to be hoisted up, again in a bosuns chair, to cut off unneeded metal brackets etc that were left over from 50 years of the dry dock doing whatever. I was volunteered, no I didn't tell them I was in the chair before' because I was the thinnest guy and the guys could lift me up the 40+ feet easier than guy who really 'filled out' the chair. Anyway I was cutting a bracket off and a piece of it went in my boot and down onto my instep, they couldn't get me down fast enough before the skin was burnt crispy. We quit for the day but the next day I was back up there with a MUCH bigger fire resistant blanket on my lap!!
Tom M wrote: A simple way to
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I've had my phone set up in almost exactly this way for quite some time now. Would recommend it to minimize distractions and clutter.
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/26/economy/job-market-recent-grads-colleges/index.html
At the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Ks, USA there is an extremely popular minor to Liberal Arts degrees. It is in "Business". It appears to cover much the same ground an Associates degree in Business does while still allowing a Liberal Arts student to get a Liberal Arts major and Education.
I was working on contract at a large Fiberglass business in Toledo, OH many years ago. I ran into an MBA working in an entry level Executive program there. She had a undergraduate Music degree. With a minor in Accounting.
A bachelors degree without loans seems to be the best choice anymore for anyone insisting on getting a degree.
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association).
I was at a Truck Stop out
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I was at a Truck Stop out west of Kansas someplace. (Retired Truck Driver)
And there was a Truck Driver there killing a Banjo. He was professionally good.
Someone asked why he wasn't playing in Nashville.
He said, "Can't make a living playing a Banjo."
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association).
Okay you asked for a story so
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Okay you asked for a story so here's one...my first ship was a Supply Ship, dry goods and frozen and refrigerated stuff as well out of Norfolk, VA, I was a Fire Fighter, welder, carpenter and a plumber but was assigned to the Flight Deck to bundle supplies in a big net so one of the two CH46 helicopters, the ones with the stubby wings, could pick them and deliver them to the other ships in our group, we always were with a carrier as one of her group of ships. We would pull up alongside a ship, sometimes the carrier, some other ship and sometimes have a ship on each side of us and steam around the Med at 12knots until all the supplies were transferred to each and every ship. sometimes we would even give out fuel oil to a smaller ship like a destroyer as we would be heading over to the tanker to get refueled ourselves saving a trip for the Destroyer. Anyway one day the helicopters were picking up supplies and bring back the old nets and they dropped the old nets right on some special nets that we had to swing down to catch things from falling overboard. They broke one of the special nets brackets right off and the only way to fix it was to weld up a new bracket. Guess who they told to do that and WHEN...yup ME and RIGHT THEN AND THERE!! We were still tied up to the other ship and they put my butt in a 'bosuns chair', a slice of wood with ropes on each side and lowered me over the side, NO ropes typing me into the chair just me trying to hold still while I tried to heatup the bracket, bend it back straight and then reweld it so it didn't break again. It is NOT fun trying to use a torch or do stick welding, that's all we had, with HUGE waves soaking you to the bone every 30 seconds or so!! Oh and btw I was lowered down BETWEEN the ships to do all of this!! That was my first taste of welding and getting shocked at the same time!!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/INS_Vikrant_%28R11%29_getting_refuelled_by_INS_Deepak_%28A50%29_at_sea.jpg/260px-INS_Vikrant_%28R11%29_getting_refuelled_by_INS_Deepak_%28A50%29_at_sea.jpg
That is a tanker and a carrier doing an underway replenishment(unrep)
Here is a longer page about it:
https://man.fas.org/dod-101/sys/ship/unrep.htm
Hey, that sounds dangerous
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Hey, that sounds dangerous and not just uncomfortable! As you know the hydrodynamics changes when ships are that close and so it'd be brown trouser time if it was me. A bosun's chair ...... cripes.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson wrote: Hey, that
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Yup the USNavy does the replenishment of ships that way while the Russian Navy picks a shallow spot, drops the anchors and ties up next to each other.
I was young and they knew it so I was the one picked to do it, after I was done the other guys in the shop said 'I would NEVER have done that!!'
It's kind of like when I was on the dry dock and they needed someone to be hoisted up, again in a bosuns chair, to cut off unneeded metal brackets etc that were left over from 50 years of the dry dock doing whatever. I was volunteered, no I didn't tell them I was in the chair before' because I was the thinnest guy and the guys could lift me up the 40+ feet easier than guy who really 'filled out' the chair. Anyway I was cutting a bracket off and a piece of it went in my boot and down onto my instep, they couldn't get me down fast enough before the skin was burnt crispy. We quit for the day but the next day I was back up there with a MUCH bigger fire resistant blanket on my lap!!
Thank you for the story
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Thank you for the story Mikey. I am very glad you are here to tell the tale.
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association).
Stories are great, keep them
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Stories are great, keep them coming.
https://www.npr.org/sections/
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https://www.npr.org/sections/space/
Here is a focus on space stories. It even has a Seti related story in what I am looking at.
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Tom M wrote:Thank you for
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Thanks me too!!