Helluva_Engineer

It's like you're trying to make the union look bad.

Maybe you aren't ready for the committee position if you have trouble ensuring safe working conditions for your "brothers." Your basic responsibility at work should be to do everything you can to make sure everyone goes home safely whether or not you're the steward. Every single worker has that burden. You've clearly seen something wrong and you should handle it before the consequences are more dire than somebody's feelings. Take it to whoever you need to to get him off the job, be it rehab or termination of employment, and make sure you document it in writing and keep a copy because I'm sure "he was my brother" won't hold up in a court of law when another brother's family is suing you. P.S. clearly this struck a chord.

Out of curiosity, which charter? I was considering going there this summer.

I don't get sea sick, but my wife does. Ginger pills night before. Dramamine when you wake up. Sea sick parches. Try the whole bag. Only thing that helps her is if she's having fun and keeping her mind off of it (wine, cheese & crackers, her gal pals being on the trip). Bring lots of snacks (just no bananas), you can't get sick if you're eating.

I've done the same thing. I had just caught one and set my line back out and was reorganizing my stuff. Drag starts screaming so fast I forgot it was still set tight, I swing it around my back and over I went. 150+ tarpon dancing away and I'm just holding onto an upside down yak.

My first house

I would divorce for way less than that. It's not so much about the fishing, it's about contributing to the marriage. Infidelity is the truest way to demonstrate someone's not committed to the relationship, but so is laziness. Your friend needs to show some respect for himself and keep his kid for the child's sake. Adios to Queen B*. Life is too short for high drama people and no woman is worth that.

Used to play high school football and college rugby until I broke my collarbone pretty severely. Was a pretty competitive sailor at one point (nationals for laser). Have been too busy with work and the whole starting up life thing to keep that up. My main sport is now keyboard jockey.

Consultant in the nuclear power industry

Jealous

I typically use a short 1'-3' mono leader 20-40 lbs depending on targeted species. For tarpon, find the birds and long line a bait out in front of the feeding frenzy.

Trust me, there's not an asian on that newspaper staff.

I have a penn fierce 5000. Match it with a 7' or 7'6" rod and it will do you well. I've fought 100+ lb tarpon out of a kayak with that setup and use it as my daily rod when walking the beach so it's very versatile. Mirrolures are my go to for that type of fishing. Bring some gold spoons as well. Do a google search for rigging live shrimp, I'm terrible at it and always lose the fish when using shrimp because I get a poor hookset. If the conditions are right, you may be able to go offshore as well. Do a search for some bottom spots and bring a couple chicken rigs and flatline out a sardine or ballyhoo on a second rod.

I have a hard time classifying anyone as an athlete when the most physically taxing aspect of their sport is holding their bladder as long as they can to milk another hour out of the day. So, while the argument can certainly be made that it's a sport, why bother?

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You clearly haven't been down here long enough. All you needed was the one for ice. Plus, all your neighbors will just stock up a couple weeks months worth of supplies and wait until it all melts.

That's going to be an unnecessarily difficult task to keep out all Chinese baby products and it won't always result in you having higher quality products. The vast majority of recalls are not much more than fear-mongering in our hover parent society. I read an article the other day about why our grandparents had less allergies and chronic conditions which boiled down to exposure and Americans are pretty much robbing our kids of the ability to naturally develop a functioning immune system. Information is the key and the earlier comment about unbiased reviews is sound advice. All that being said, I'm a big fan of used baby stuff. If you see a healthy kid running around, it's safe to buy. Bottles and pacifiers I'm buying American, everything else I'm looking at how it was manufactured to make sure it was molded, not painted if it's coming from China.

Are you familiar with Occam's razor? Just as a tip for future real estate deals: 1) don't find yourself as the capital behind a general contractor's attempt to become a developer 2) don't have an investment property in between your lakehouse and the boat ramp. It just adds insult to injury.

Well, some of us have heard of lake burton, maybe even been there a few times. Stop being dense. Note that in your post you asked: "How in the world does a football coach gets $20 million in debt with ALUMS over real estate" You seem capable of answering this one yourself: Invest in high end real estate and commercial real estate circa 2007-2008. I provided a link to the most commonly known instance, but what isn't exactly hard to deduce is that someone doesn't invest nearly multiple millions of dollars in their first real estate deal. Furthermore, you don't make money off of real estate investments by sitting on the property. So yea, I call that a terrible real estate decision.

http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index.ssf/2013/07/nick_sabans_1095_million_lake.html Not that I agree Saban will leave or is ticked at the fanbases in particular, but it's somewhat known he makes terrible real estate decisions.

Last black eye I got was when I was working nightshift. I came home around 4 am and the wife and dog didn't stir a bit as I walked into the room so I didn't turn any lights on. I figured I'd give my wife a surprise by jumping onto the bed...It's a sad realization that you've been falling for too long because there's nothing you can do at that point. I didn't even touch the bed, I'd jumped clear over the corner. Landed smack on my face so hard my whole body hurt for a day or two.

I don't feel like it saves much money, but it is pretty darned good.

I foresee some drunk posting...

Did you watch Pandora's promise? I wouldn't consider it the end all, but it was a worthwhile watch as far as trying to put into perspective the different events. They even showed that, for the most part, it's ok to still live near chernobyl. It was psychological why people left. Heck, they still kept operating the other units at that site for years afterwards. A lot of people don't realize it, but the typical coal power plant emits much more radiation than a safely operating nuclear plant. It's hard to say exactly how much radiation was released during the fukushima event, but depending upon who you trust it's anywhere between less than the yearly radiation release of worldwide coal production and 1/4 of the radiation release of a single coal plant.

Something that the article does a poor job of explaining is that nuclear reactors are designed with many different layers of defense in order to mitigate the consequences of an accident. They also fail to account for the energy required to breach the fuel assemblies, reactor pressure vessel, the fact that there is typically a primary and secondary containment, and of course dissipation of heat to the environment even if we completely ignore any plant safety systems. So, while the article says that a meltdown cannot be ruled out as a possible consequence of a LOCA, plants are specifically designed for these events and each plant has an analysis which demonstrates the reactor response to a LOCA and other transients. Plants are fully capable of safely shutting down during a LOCA event with no human intervention. In fact, Three Mile Island would've never been an accident if the Operators hadn't overridden the automatic plant response. There have been many NRC regulations throughout the years which have introduced the concept of Beyond-Design-Basis events which our plants are compliant with which make the plants even more safe. Due to the Fukushima event, US plants are expanding the current Station Blackout (SBO) response in order to ensure that plants are capable of safely shutting down during an Extended Loss of AC Power (ELAP). I'll spare my rant, but I think it is important to note that the Tsunami which triggered the Fukushima event was a severe enough event that there were over 18,500 dead or missing in one of the most advanced countries in the world and exactly 0 deaths are or will be attributed to radiation. Furthermore, the Japanese did not have measures in place which are required in the US that would have kept the plant in a safe condition. The plant responded exactly as expected during the given conditions (I happened to be in the office running a similar analysis for another BWR when the event happened) which could be seen as a success of the design of a very very outdated reactor. Speaking of outdated reactor designs, Chernobyl didn't even have a containment building. It's scary how lax the Russians were with their early era plants, it NEVER would happen here.