By Dave Bunting, Shopper Editor
GPS Week Number Rollover
Boeing’s 737Max
Super Commuters Earn More
ENJOY Your Exercise
GPS Week Number Rollover
A GPS week number rollover will occur at the end of the GPS day on Saturday, 6 April 2019, at which time the GPS week will transition instantly from week 2047 to 2048.
Because the GPS message structure broadcast by the satellites defines the week as a 10-bit binary value, in which 2047 is the largest possible number, the GPS messages will indicate that the week has changed from 2047 to week 0.
To prepare for the week number rollover, it is recommended to install the latest GPS receiver firmware version.
Most of our consumer devices, phones, tablets, computers, cars, etc. should handle this. But it’s a good time to make sure all of them including our handheld GPS receivers for hiking, etc., as well as any high precision surveying or construction GPS devices are updated to the current software version through the manufacturer.
There is a small chance the event could affect the electric transmission and distribution system (PUD, Bonneville, Pacific Power, etc.)
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Download a PDF: . https://www.gps.gov/cgsic/meetings/2017/powers.pdf
More info: . https://www.energy.gov/oe/articles/april-2019-global-positioning-system-gps-week-number-rollover
Boeing lands contract to
build 777’s in Everett
Boeing lands British Airways contract for initially 18, up to 42, 777’s, for $375 million each, 5 to 18 billion. As Airbus closes its A380 production, the current models of the 777 are the largest and longest-range airliners produced in the world. Our Washington State workers produce these planes at the rate of five per month at the Everett, WA plant, their paychecks bring about $750 million per month into the Washington State economy.
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-british-airways-huge-boeing.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777
Boeing revises 737-MAX
stall-prevention software
and training
Boeing plans to release, and the Federal Aviation Administration expects to mandate, new software revising operation of the automated stall-prevention feature known as MCAS, implicated in the October crash of a Lion Air 737 MAX. Likely the same automated feature played a role in the recent crash of an Ethiopian Airline MAX.
Boeing has been advocating comparatively limited training consisting of new written materials aviators would read. But the FAA is pushing for more extensive training, consisting of pilots engaging in self-guided instruction on a laptop.
The MCAS itself is not an autopilot; it’s a system to adjust the trim to compensate for a change in the engine from previous 737 models, which is supposed to be active only when the pilot is manually flying the plane. Airbus aircraft are known to have a similar problem which has caused incidents. The pilots who submitted reports (who were US carrier pilots and appear to have been much more careful about pre-briefing possible issues and acting quickly when an issue happened) did in fact immediately disengage autopilot and bring the plane back to correct pitch attitude when an uncommanded pitch down happened. But again, that had nothing to do with MCAS; in fact, one of the pilots noted that he had engaged autopilot on that flight earlier than he normally would have in order to remove a possible MCAS threat during a manual climb.
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Super-commuters earn more
A new study from Apartment List suggests more of Seattle area workers are super commuting (suffering through a 90-plus minute commute), working from home, or doing a combination of both. The study also shows these Seattle area people are making 5 percent more ($63,000 annually) than those whose commute is under 90 minutes ($60,000). The remote workers are making even 30 percent more at ($78,000).
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Remember those were Seattle area workers. In 2016 (the most recent year for which we found numbers), King County average annual wages were $45,878 ($22.05/hr) to $76,013 ($36.54/hr), while Lewis County average wages were $37,663 ($18.10/hr) to $39,954 ($19.20/hr).
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In active worker men,
those who can do
40 push-ups
are much less likely
to have heart attacks.
Well! Duh!
Tell us something we don’t already know.
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ENJOY your exercise.
It’s hard to do. Some of their hints:
- Focus on physical activity that you enjoy on its own merits. I enjoy walking the 1.5 mile loop at the end of my routine. I know I won’t do the routine if my walk is not included.
- Your goal should not be to achieve the perfect body. For most of us, looking like a model is medically impossible. Instead, aim to establish a habit that will improve your overall health and mood. You might schedule a workout during the work-day, using that physical activity as an excuse to get away from your desk for half an hour. This could even help you be more productive at the office. If you have other errands to run over your lunch break, turn them into your exercise of the day: Walk or bike to the store with a backpack. Even heavy exercisers can’t lose 20% of their calorie intake with exercise. The biggest withdrawal from your caloric bank comes not from that physical activity, but from your diet- be serious about 1,500 calories EVERY DAY!
- But wait, shouldn’t all workouts provide heavy, sweaty action? One expert says that it’s more about consistency than intensity: “One year, I was having some health issues, and all I did for an entire year was walk and lift some weights. And my legs were in the best shape they’d been in years,” she says. “I walked 2016 miles in the year 2016, so it was a lotof walking!” Scientists agree that even a low-intensity exercise like walking, when undertaken consistently, has real health benefits. In a 2014 Journal of the American College of Cardiology study, just five to ten minutes a day was enough to improve subjects’ health, provided they put in those minutes every single day.
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challenge is taking that molecule to a drink. The regulatory side is much harder than the science.” Because Alcarelle has not undergone safety testing yet, only Nutt, Orren and a few others at the lab have tried it, mixed with fruit juice because it doesn’t taste nice by itself. “We’re allowed to try it whenever we want,” says Nutt. “We tested a lot of possible compounds, to try to find which are most likely to work. It would be dishonest to spend millions of pounds on something when you haven’t a clue if it does what you want.”