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Disabled talent thrived during COVID, but that progress is swiftly being erased thanks to companies insisting we return to the office. He's a roundup of articles on topic: Workplace. Brittany A. I learned that the hard way with Apple TV. They've been orbiting for the last 7 years. During that time, the underlying response from investors is it's hard to believe Apple will actually build a car. The health care opportunity is measurable and is a distant third.
The Bloomberg report on the topic is noteworthily for two reasons: First, details about the current direction of an Apple Car, leading with autonomy, aka no steering wheel. Real Courage. What does this tell me?
Apple is no longer planning to make a personal EV but instead pivoting to autonomous vehicles. BMW and Mercedes have no idea how to put software in the cars. Classic disruption. BUT - it doesn't necessarily follow that that's the key point of leverage.
It's quite different to argue it could change the ASP or the margin structure. Apple has done tons of user testing on this. After an extended period of time, your arms want to fall off. They're looking years out. They spent all their leisure time in strengthening their seafaring skills in British waters. They were both mentally and physically prepared to undertake their exceptionally long and challenging sea voyage.
Describe the boat Wavewalker. Answer: The narrator wanted to duplicate the round-the-world voyage made by Captain James Cook years ago. In order to undertake this journey they got a boat built professionally. The boat, named Wavewalker, was a 23 metre, 30 ton wooden-hulled sailboat. They had spent months fitting it out and testing it in the roughest weather they could find.
Why did they take on two crewmen with them at Cape Town? Answer: Before heading East from Cape Town, they took on two crewmen who were experienced seamen. What troubles did they face after completing the first leg of their journey? But the trouble started when they left Cape Town. On the second day out of Cape Town, they began to encounter strong gales. They rose as high as the main mast. The howling of the wind and the spray was painful to the ears. Question 6. How did the voyagers celebrate their Christmas and where?
Though the sea was rough, they enjoyed a wonderful holiday. They celebrated Christmas singing carols complete with a Christmas tree with them. Question 7. How was the weather on the morning of 2nd January? On 2nd January, it got even worse. The waves were gigantic. They were sailing with only a small storm jib but still were going pretty fast. As the ship rose to the top of each wave they could see the endless, enormous sea rolling towards them.
The wind seemed to be howling. Question 8. What attempts did the narrator make to protect himself and his family from the huge waves? Answer: The waves were gigantic on 2nd January.
In order to protect themselves, they decided to slow down the boat. They dropped the storm jib and lashed a heavy mooring rope in a loop across the stem. Then they double-lashed everything, went through their life-raft drill, attached lifelines, donned oilskins and life jackets and prepared themselves for the worst case scenario. Question 9. Answer: The first indication of the impending disaster came at about 6 pm on January 2.
An ominous silence prevailed all around. The wind dropped. The sky immediately grew dark. Then came a growing roar. A huge vertical wave, almost twice the height of the other waves, came roaring towards the ship. These were the indications of the coming disaster. Question Answer: The ominous silence was the first indication of impending disaster. The wind dropped and the sky immediately grew dark. The narrator saw what he thought as an enormous cloud coming towards the ship.
With horror he realised that it was not a cloud but a wave like no other he had ever seen. It was almost twice the height of other waves. The wave hit the boat and wrecked it completely. Water gushed from all sides and the boat started filling with water.
Answer: The gigantic wave hit the boat and a tremendous explosion shook the deck. A torrent of green and white water broke over the ship.
He was almost dead and the whole ship was reduced to a wreck. Others were also hurt in the process. Answer: The narrator saw a torrent of green and white water breaking over the ship. His head had smashed into the wheel. He felt himself flying overboard and sinking below the waves. He was losing consciousness. He accepted his approaching death without murmuring.
He felt quite peaceful even when death was approaching and Wavewalker was near capsizing. How did the narrator hurt himself on January 2? Answer: The narrator hurt himself very badly on January 2 when a tremendously high wave hit their boat and he was initially thrown overboard before being tossed back by the wave to hit the boom of the boat.
Subsequent waves tossed him around the deck like a rag doll, cracking his left ribs and breaking his teeth. What problem do you think deserved his immediate attention?
Answer: The problem that deserved immediate attention was the repair of the starboard side, which had bashed open; with every wave, it was letting water enter the boat. If he did not make some repairs, the boat would have surely sunk and they would have drowned. What are Mayday calls? Why was the ship getting no replies to its Mayday calls? Answer: Mayday calls are distress signals sent through the radio by ships facing trouble in the sea. They are made to get help from other ships passing nearby.
The boat Wavewalker was not getting replies to its Mayday calls because the boat had reached a remote part of the sea where other ships did not go. What did Sue say when she was asked by her father about why she had not complained about her grave injuries?
Answer: Sue had been injured badly when the wave had hit the ship. Her head had swollen alarmingly. She had two black eyes and she had also showed to her parents a deep cut on her arm.
When asked why she had not complained about her injuries earlier, she replied that she had not wanted to worry her parents when they were trying to save them all.
Answer: This shows that she was very courageous. The speaker of these lines is the little girl, Sue. She is just 7 years old. After the gigantic wave hit the ship, she was also hurt. Her head was swollen when the narrator saw her in the cabin.
What happened on the morning of 3rd January? The narrator knew that Wavewalker will not be able to hold together long enough to reach Australia. So the narrator made some calculations and found two small islands a few hundred kilometres to the East.
They hoped to reach one of them. They somehow survived for 15 hours after the wave hit the boat. But the narrator knew that the Wavewalker was not going to hold on much longer. He checked his charts and calculated that there were two small islands a few hundred kilometres to the East.
Their only hope of survival was to reach these islands in the vast ocean. What situation made them feel so? The weather continued to deteriorate throughout the night, and by dawn on January 5, the motion of the boat brought more and more water in through the broken planks.
Thus, they felt that the boat would sink and they would all die. How and when did Wavewalker ride out the storm? How did the narrator feel at that time? Answer: The Wavewalker rode out the storm on the morning of January 6 when the wind eased. The narrator felt that they had to survive, seeing the optimism of his two children.
But he was still having doubts about it and so felt heavy-hearted. But his calculations proved correct and they reached lie Amsterdam by evening. Everybody confronted the disaster with patience, courage and determination.
Even the children showed courage. They did not give up hope even till the last moment. The narrator made all possible attempts to save their lives.
Like his father, Jon reacted very bravely that they were not afraid to die, but it would be better if they died together.
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