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^^^ China announced that they are developing their own version of the Patriot missile system. They have the transporter. Now for the control unit.

Not bad but I do like lightening bolts.

^^^ I would have preferred one of those lightening bolts he allegedly hurls from on high. Or a Storm Shadow.

Do you have HRV? What is HRV? Can you get HRV with a side of fries? Heart rate variability. In simple terms, if you heart beats with the precision of a Swiss watch say one beat every 1000ms (1 second) then you would have a heart rate (HR) of 60 BPM but no HRV. If, on the other hand, the interval between beats was slightly erratic say 950ms, 1050ms, 900ms, 1100ms then you would also have a HR of 60 BPM but with HRV. If there is no underlying disease or cause then a high HRV is good. HRV can be considered an indication of overall fitness. HRV reduces naturally with age. Over training can reduce HRV. There is an app, ithlete - https://www.myithlete.com/, that some people use to plan their training days. In my younger days I used it all the time. For some reason I always found it necessary to restrict myself to a light workout due to a low HRV, well I thought it was low. Polar HR monitors calculate a thing called fitness based on HRV. HRV is measured when you are at rest. Polar, for example, suggest you wear your chest strap and device when you sleep to get the best reading. Any device/app combination that communicate over BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) should be able to calculate HRV because the protocol for BLE HRMs requires they supply the heart rate interval in binary milliseconds (1024ths of a second).Devices which use photoplethysmography are not considered as accurate as those which detect the heart beat electrically. e.g. chest strap. Why did I make this post. Wel I thought it might be of interest and then @Yessongs posted a photo of his oximeter and I remembered the oximeter I got during the pandemic also displayed HRV. This one It is unbranded but the model is YWK-J1 and available from a number of sellers on Aliexpress so shop around if interested. The app is called Oximeter-H. PI stands for perfusion index. There's plenty of information on the internet about HRV so do your own research. And yes, photoplethysmography is a real word. Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a simple optical technique used to detect volumetric changes in blood in peripheral circulation. It's the little green LED that flashed on the underside of wrist fitness devices etc.

Swimmer refuses to leave the water complaining that the helicopter with siren blaring is disturbing his swim. 4 metre Great White shark as seen from helicopter.

If it were a female pilot then pilot induced oscillations may be correct. Otherwise Pilot-induced oscillations (PIOs), as defined by MIL-HDBK-1797A,[1] are sustained or uncontrollable oscillations resulting from efforts of the pilot to control the aircraft. They occur when the pilot of an aircraft inadvertently commands an often increasing series of corrections in opposite directions, each an attempt to cover the aircraft's reaction to the previous input with an overcorrection in the opposite direction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot-induced_oscillation

Actually I think it might have been pilot error albeit due to difficult conditions. That video is 11 hours long with aircraft landing every 2-3 minutes and that was the worst landing that I saw although there were a number of other go arounds. No, I haven't seen all 11 hours. They were sent away for about 40 minutes. You can see the second attempt at 6:54:13. I am not a pilot!

Keep your seatbelt fastened until the aircraft comes to a complete stop. Video positioned for the three bounce landing, bit of PIO there.

If you have his email you could always send him the link so he can watch 2 hours of landings before it's his turn.

Another go around. They're having a hard job getting the aircraft to stick to the ground.

And now another go around.

Mr Touch and Go got it down on the second attempt but really smoked the tyres.

Mr Touch and Go has been taking the scenic route before trying again.

A three bounce touch and go.

Hard place to find though.

Does he smoke a pipe?

If it's a Thai affair I would have thought a keg of Coke and a keg of "Roy Pipe" would be what's required. Roy Pipe

A bit more in vehicle CO2 monitoring. Prior to starting each leg had the monitor in fresh air to purge. First leg, AC on, fan on, recirc on. 23/02/2024 19:43 431 23/02/2024 19:44 953 23/02/2024 19:45 1216 23/02/2024 19:46 1316 23/02/2024 19:47 1561 23/02/2024 19:48 1680 23/02/2024 19:49 1763 23/02/2024 19:50 1837 23/02/2024 19:51 1924 23/02/2024 19:52 1985 23/02/2024 19:53 2056 23/02/2024 19:54 2105 23/02/2024 19:55 2224 Second leg, AC on, fan on, recirc off. 23/02/2024 20:09 436 23/02/2024 20:10 829 23/02/2024 20:11 751 23/02/2024 20:12 706 23/02/2024 20:13 623 23/02/2024 20:14 581 23/02/2024 20:15 509 23/02/2024 20:16 474 23/02/2024 20:17 507 23/02/2024 20:18 497 23/02/2024 20:19 533 23/02/2024 20:20 523 23/02/2024 20:21 642 The 497 reading was immediately after I pulled off the road into the driveway. The following three readings were when I was parking the car and sitting in the cool using my phone to turn off the house security alarms. I guess the takeaway is to keep the fresh air vents open.

These work a treat. Not sure about which direction you need to rotate a tick Tick mouthparts Tick mouthparts, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). The mouthparts of a tick consist of three visible components. The two outer jointed parts are highly mobile palps. Between the palps, at centre, is a rod-shaped structure, the hypostome. The palps do not enter the skin of the host while the tick is feeding, while the hypostome is inserted into the hosts skin. The backward-pointing projections prevent easy removal of the tick.

It is called a SCAN. Senior Citizen Afternoon Nap.

So what are the readings? Hanging slack - ok Horizontal - monitor Poke your eye out - time to do something

Tourist stabbed during massive brawl with Thai sex workers A group of male tourists ended up in a massive brawl with Thai prostitutes over a money dispute during a sex party. A sex party with Thai prostitutes and British tourists turned into ‘World War Three’ when the men refused to pay, police said. The tourists allegedly called the five transgender escorts to their villa for sex along with two other women on the island of Phuket, southern Thailand, in the early hours of Thursday morning. But midway through the party there was allegedly a disagreement over prices, sparking chaotic scenes that woke up the whole street. Shocking footage shows naked sex workers running into the street as the two groups hurled glasses and garden pots at each other over the garden wall. Inside the property, broken glass littered the floor and blood was splattered across the walls — among empty bottles and cigarettes. A terrified neighbour watching from his balcony can be heard in the video saying: “My god, they’re killing each other in there.” “It was like World War Three. Everything was being thrown around. I wanted to get a helmet for my own safety.” Police who arrived at the scene treated Joseph Abadi-Johns, 23, from Bristol, for a stab wound to his stomach before he was bandaged up and rushed to hospital. Officers said the other men in the group were also British. In the video police lieutenant Phuwadech Rodthongdee can be heard asking the tourist if he is OK. “No, not really, my stomach hurts, my core area, I’ve got no power, I need stitches,” Mr Abadi-Johns responds. The fight is said to have erupted when one of the disgruntled prostitutes grabbed a wallet belonging to one of the Brits because they felt short-changed. One of the tourists was then allegedly stabbed with a kitchen knife when a prostitute grabbed items from the drawers during the fracas. Police arrived shortly after 4am questioning those involved in the mass brawl that took place in the Kata district of the popular holiday island. “We received a report of an incident at the Kata Ocean View residence at 4am,” Police Captain Surasak Sudmuang said. “When we arrived we learned that the foreign tourists had reached out to three transgender prostitutes to come to their villa and agreed to pay them 4,000 Baht each ($170). “After this, there was a disagreement and the altercation began. We are also interviewing the property owner who rented it to the tourists.” Police said that during the party, two of the sex workers were asked to leave and the group then only paid the remaining sex worker 2,000 Baht ($85), which was half the rate of 4,000 Baht that is said to have been agreed upon. One of the tourists was taken to hospital for a stab wound and the other two were treated for minor injuries at the island’s Dibuk Hospital. Additionally, one prostitute sustained injuries to her head and arm and was taken to Chalong Hospital. Two other prostitutes sustained minor injuries and were taken to Karon Police Station for further questioning and legal proceedings. Police captain Surasak Sudmuang added: “We do not have the details of everybody involved in the case and we have not charged anybody yet”. “We are still waiting for all of the tourists to return from the hospital to give statements at the police station. “The prostitutes told us that the tourists started the fight. We must check both sides of the dispute. “We want to protect tourists from being involved in dangerous situations but they also must take extra care themselves to avoid trouble.” https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/tourist-stabbed-during-massive-brawl-with-thai-sex-workers/news-story/0949dd296bdd507108611d7463fab548

I had been thinking about making a post on "How do you take your blood pressure". Maybe now is the time. Usual caveats. This should not be taken as medical advice blah, blah, blah. My thoughts. Use a blood pressure monitor that has been validated against one of the recognised protocols. BIHS, British and Irish Hypertension Society in the UK or AAMI, Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation in the US. There are some other protocols. BHIS validated monitors can be found here https://bihsoc.org/bp-monitors/for-home-use/ This site is more for the US. https://www.stridebp.org/bp-monitors/ Make sure you check the validation against the list suitable for the market you're buying in. Omron, for one, uses different model numbers for the US compared to Australia so it's pointless trying to check a model available in Australia against the US list. Validation is a statistical exercise where the monitor under evaluation is almost correct most of the time when compared to a mercury or aneroid sphygmomanometer. It's not like a tyre pressure gauge or a volt meter where you would expect the same result each time. Follow the instructions that came with the monitor for taking a reading. Do not try to take a reading while having a wank, after a stimulating beverage like coffee, after a meal or exercise etc. Use a cuff suitable for your arm circumference. Fit the cuff according to directions, usually 2 finger should fit comfortably under the cuff when deflated. Too loose or too tight a cuff can give incorrect readings. An abnormally slow or fast heart rate can give an incorrect reading. Unless otherwise specified, center the tube down the middle of your arm, palm facing upwards. Some cuffs may have a mark indicating the cuff to be lined up with the brachial artery. The brachial artery can be located towards the inside of the elbow, palm facing up. How many readings? I've seen various recommendations. One reading , just like your doctors office, and that it. Three readings 1-2 minutes apart and average the results. Three readings 1-2 minutes apart and take the best one. The one that works for me at the moment. 3 readings 1-2 minutes apart. Discard the first reading, it was seating the cuff. Average the second and third readings. I use the Samsung health app on my Samsung phone, it averages however many readings entered so I have a record of the individual readings and the average. The various validation protocols I have read all discard the first reading and only take note of subsequent readings. On the website of a company that manufactures both home and clinical blood pressure monitoring equipment they said that lab testing indicated 15 seconds between successive readings was sufficient. That's my thoughts. What do you do?

That's the big brother of the AX5500 I have. Good for 90 square metres. I was going to get one until I saw the size of the unit. Settled for the AX5500.