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Part #2: Who is responsible for the costs of over-lashing?
Dear all, thank you for your comments, all of them. After reading them very carefully, I found out that some people think there is no such thing as under- or over- lashing. One cannot exist without the other. The question would be how to define these words?
Under-lashing seems quite easy to me, at first thought. If the cargo is not 100% lashed it is called under-lashing (not sufficient lashing). At least that was what I thought. But if the cargo is lashed 100%, one could say that it is okay. All set to go for a safe voyage. But if one chain is a little bit slack, we reach below the 100%, so initially saying that 100% is justified and safe could be argued here.
I inferred from some comments that lashing & securing calculations already have some safety build in. I fully agree with this.
In many calculations, additional safety has been taken into account, by taking the accelerations from Annex13, a safety factor from Break Lload to Maximum Securing Load of 50% (Chains) and an additional safety factor of 1.35 (or 1.5) for the capacity of each chain. (20ts BL – becomes 10ts MSL – becomes 7.41ts for each chain).
So again, is 100% safe? In my opinion it is. One could request for an additional 10-15% safety by increasing the amount of chains or stoppers. All relevant parties should agree this up front. Relevant means those who can have influence on it. This could mean cargo owners, shipping lines, insurance companies and if applicable a MWS.
So if all parties agree on the 110%-115% being sufficient for the project, the quotes of the shipping lines will be based on this information. Normally you have a long-term relationship between parties involved so you know what to expect from each other, but sometimes this is not the case.
Now the term over-lashing, too much lashing, or extreme lashing. I heard them all passing by over the years. I think it should be called over-lashing if you exceed the agreed safety percentage.
So if you exceed the 110%-115%, it should be called over-lashing. Is this a problem?
No, but it depends on how much you exceed. If you want one or two additional chains, no one will argue about this. But sometimes, someone requests so much additional lashings that could be shared “Extreme lashing”, one could ask yourself the question: Why?
“Offshore Xmas trees are often lashed to the max” I read, because the receiver or the owner of the Xmas trees insists on this up front. Maybe it is their company policy to lash all cargo 200%. So, this is where they agreed upon and the shipping line issues a price based on this requirement. But this is not called over-lashing. This is simply agreed upfront. Again, no problem.
Also, the phrase “Master decides….” Is a common heard phrase. At some point, you are right. He has a final saying in lashing & securing before getting out to sea. But if a proper plan was prepared, all calculations were presented and followed, why should he doubt that.
He can argue bad weather is coming, but all calculated acceleration forces are already calculated on these bad weathers. The considered acceleration forces are always higher than the real values. He can always add chains if he wants, these expenses are never relayed to anyone else but the shipping line.
Some load-outs are lashed without the knowledge if it is sufficient or not.
If i.e. 20 chains are applied (because of the rule of thumb), people think it is sufficient. In my humble opinion this is unbelievable. If the Master inspects it and adds another 20 chains, one still cannot say whether it is safe or not, simply because no one calculated it.
Some comments were about “One should forget about theoretical calculations…”. I do not understand this at all. Calculations are the basis!
One can be more intelligent than the other, but all can be learned. If you can calculate it, you have grounds to argue. It is also nice to argue, because you know where and what you talk about. When you found another person who also knows what he is talking about, you have a cup of coffee within the next 15 minutes because you speak the same language.
Comments about the CSS Annex 13 are well made, but if we would lash with only the CSS Annex 13 at hand, I think we would have a problem. Many of us use stoppers (brackets) to stop the cargo for sliding (shear) or for tipping (clips) but IMO does not recognize these. Hopefully some amendments will be made in that direction as we use these stoppers for many years now.
Who is going to pay the extra costs for over-lashing?
If the cargo is lashed according plan, no additional costs have been made.
No one will argue for a few extra chains. If this is lashed according plan of 125-150% lashing, it is still not over-lashing because they agreed about it and the revenue for transporting this piece (lashing, spacing etc.), in this way is all in the price. Still no additional expenses are made and no extra lay-time for the vessel. But when surveyors request additional lashing and securing, and they can prove that their calculations are correct, it can be discussed. If he is right, means that all the people who started this project did not know what they are doing, or additional information came into daylight what was not known before.
Honestly speaking, many companies know exactly what they are doing. Insurance companies have capable people who can verify calculations very well. All the additional expenses would get back to the cargo owners/insurance/freight forwarders, depending on their agreement with each other.
But if one requests more lashing and securing than needed and he cannot prove anything, why would anybody pay for it other than himself. However, I would never agree blindly to add more and more, regardless who is paying for it.
Firstly, the basis of the mentioned issues is knowledge, knowledge about this kind of work. It is not always easy to determine what you need and how you should use your knowledge, but all in all it is workable, it is not rocket-science. Some topics are easy to learn, some need more training, education or practice but it all starts with knowledge.
How far do you need to go in all this “calculations”, one asked?
We are often requested to act as an expert witness in Court and I found these court cases all very educational. Details and knowledge are eminent to each case. Therefore, I always ask myself: If my case would be in court I think you must be able to defend yourself. At least for the technical part you have been assigned for in the first place.
I challenge you to note down a percentage behind each option, based on their business share.
He can easily defend himself in court, prove and substantiate the calculations he made. He will have a good night sleep afterwards.
If something goes wrong and questions arise, this surveyor can’t really substantiate his actions. He will seek help and they will try to build case to defend the actions he did. In today’s world, many pictures are taken and videos are recorded and I feel you can never have enough pictures or video material.
If something goes wrong and this surveyor has to go to court, what will happen?
They will blame him and he has very little chance to defend himself. But in the end, someone appointed him to do a good job, probably preferably cheap.
Is there any reason to invest in people or in yourself to gain particular knowledge?
I think there are enough grounds to do.
Who wants to invest in training?

industry_corpus2: Transportation


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Making the commitment to own a dog is not to be taken lightly, intelligent, loving and loyal, dogs bring great joy to our lives. Our indoor park facility brings you so much more opportunity then just letting your dog run off some steam.
Owning a dog is a way of life, if you are new to dog ownership, you will have to change your lifestyle to suit. Had dogs for years? you will be amazed at how much you can still learn... Joining the park, yes gives you access to the safe off-lead freedom of an indoor dog park, in addition you will have experience dog loving people to guide you and help you through owning a dog... learn how simple changes to your dog's diet can improve health, condition and temperament and how simple training routines will not only improve your dog's behaviour, but will also tire your dog out faster than long walks and exercise.
Our understanding of dog ownership and how we get the most from our dogs has changed so much in the last 20 years. Come join us today for more than just a Play Park.
Thanks for getting to know us.
I spend most of my time at the Park, working in and amongst all our gorgeous dogs and supportive human members.
I see my role in Dogs Playpark as the drive behind the company, moving it forward and ensuring that we never lose sight of where and why this venture was started.
Our message is simple, 'Improving the lives of dogs with every interaction' and this is something we can all do for our dogs.
Better Diets - Better exercise - Better training - Better and Happier Lives.
After previously running my own training business for the past 4 years and offering soley 121 private training prior to this I have worked with over 1000 dogs with a variety of training and behavioural needs.
Prior to working with Dogs Playpark I have been invited into schools to help educate children on the correct way to handle and respect dogs which is something we want to continue with the Playpark.
I have a high standard of ethics when it comes to training and handling animals. It’s vital that anyone working with animals ensures they keep up to date with modern dog training and methods. This standard of ethics is seen in all our staff's in house training.
Long gone are the days where owners are encourage to physically punish their pets. We are thankfully in an age were science has taught us to instead of thinking of our dog as being bad, to think of our dog as not understanding what is asked of him/her.
This leads us to think not of punishment for the dog, but instead to think of further training to help them understand.
If you have any Playpark of training enquires please feel free to contact me at any time.
I am Jas and i supervise the Playpark team and train the training staff. Alongside this I teach a number of classes within the park and offer 121 training for a variety of behaviour problems.
I am Jackie and I work on the reception and within our Parkside pet store.
I am on hand to give you advice on the Playpark, memberships and training we offer. As well as this I have a depth of in house training to help best advise you on canine nutrition and what food or treats are suited to your dog.
Hi I'm Becca. I am one of the experienced training team here at Dogs Playpark. I offer puppy and adult dog training, life skills workshops and 121 training sessions.
I am training with our behaviourist to be equipped to offer behavioural consultations and training for more advanced cases.
Hello, I'm Adele. You'll find me behind the scenes at Dogs Daycare ensuring the best quality care for your dogs while they stay with us throughout the week and weekend and giving out plenty of cuddles between enrichment games and fun exercise.
equipment for your dog as well as undergoing a training programme to be equipped to offer basic training classes for you and your dog.
Hi, I'm Cheryl the grooming manager here at Parkside Groomers. I have been grooming dogs for over 16years working with thousands of dogs from Newfoundlands to Toy Poodles.
Hi I am Helena, you''ll see me supervising the play sessions within the Playpark, assisting the trainers with their 121 training sessions and serving cake and coffee with a smile.
During our private hire sessions I will be the one to check you in and during our dog shows I will be the one welcoming you at the reception desk.
Hello! I'm Elise, I am on of the part time Dogs Daycare assistants I work during the week with our daycare dogs.
I'm responsible for teaching the daycare dog's their 'trick of the day' and on weekends I compete with my own dogs in agility, I have even qualified for Crufts 2018! I have also qualified for second stage of the Junior Team GB Squad in Agility.

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At RMIB ozone soundings have been performed since 1969. During more than 30 years of observations the procedures of handling the sensors have been subject to changes. Some changes had an influence on the measured ozone concentrations. Efforts have been made to reduce the errors and to construct a homogeneous time series.
One of the most striking influences on the measured ozone concentrations during the 1970s, were the high SO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. When the ambient air is bubbled through a wet chemical cell, which is filled with Potassium Iodide solutions, the ozone molecules react with the solution producing a current in the cell. Also, when SO2 is bubbled, the sensor produces an opposite current. Sometimes the SO2 pollution in the planetary boundary layer (PBL) was so abundant, that we measured negative ozone concentrations. Therefore we had to correct for SO2.
The time series have been homogenised and are very valuable for further research. The full report about the homogenisation procedure is available here (pdf: 418 kb) and is also described in a more recent publication (link to paper).

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The triple bottom line -- people, planet, profits -- is gaining momentum, but who’s keeping tabs?
In the wake of the big bank bailout in the U.S., Canadian financial institutions were quick to establish themselves as safe-houses for your money. The question of whether those institutions are environmentally and socially responsible is a house of a different colour.
Take the Deepwater Horizon Oil disaster. Suddenly the idea that “sunlight is the best disinfectant,” as stated by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis became every investor’s personal motto when it comes to transparency, due diligence, and good governance.
What does oil have to do with responsible investing? Almost all Canadian responsible investment (RI) funds have stocks in oil sands, mining, and various other resource industries that comprise Canada’s worst greenhouse gas offenders.
“Counterintuitive, isn’t it? We hear from folks who are quite surprised to hear that socially responsible funds invest in oil sands because they don’t necessarily understand the lack of diversity in the Canadian market,” says Dermot Foley, Strategic Analyst with Vancity Investment Management.
Canada is a resource-heavy index. Trying to steer clear of oil is “obviously a preposterous investment strategy since oil runs the world economy,” says Doug Morrow, Senior Associate at Toronto ICF International. However, as a result of that necessary evil, “responsible” investment becomes relative, according to Foley.
Investors are more aware of how integral environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are to the financial bottom line—and the triple bottom line, people, planet, profits is gaining momentum, but who’s keeping tabs?
“Investors are becoming increasingly concerned about inadequate disclosure of liabilities. The recent sub-prime mortgage crisis, as well as the Enron and WorldCom scandals are all evidence of the dangers of not having thorough disclosure policies. For oil sands investors to make wise decisions and minimize uncertainties, financial reporting of assets and liabilities must be accurate and transparent,” says Toxic Liability, a report assessing oil sands reclamation by the Pembina Institute.
In Canada, companies are required to report on asset retirement obligations, such as mine closure plans, and land and water rehabilitation. But, the environmental information currently provided by companies is not necessarily complete, reliable or comparable, and it isn’t integrated into financial reporting, according to the Environmental Reporting Guidance notice issued by the Canadian Securities Administrators.
While all the major banks say they do third party due diligence in their risk analysis when assessing the ESG factors at various extractive companies, it’s difficult to compare companies and different funds when assessment styles “vary from analyst to analyst,” says Don Roberts of CIBC. Some analysts will hire third parties to review the claims made by companies, and some simply won’t.
“Are companies reclaiming land at the rate they said they would?” is a question Jason Milne, Governance Analyst at RBC Global Asset Management Inc., asks when considering various risk factors.
However, as Corporate Knights’ Responsible Investment Guide explores later, there is a $10-15 billion shortfall in the financial planning for rehabilitation of total lands used by the oil sands thus far, and this is but one extractive industry wherein RI invests. Do risk managers account for reclamation liability? According to Canada’s big five banks—RBC, BMO, CIBC, TD Bank, Scotiabank—this is risk management 101.
Part of classic investment or classic investment risk management are the 4 Ms—materials, markets, management, and money. So to the extent that reclamation liability is material, yes, it is assessed, according to Ula Ubani, Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability, BMO Financial Group.
Some financial institutions value the 4 Ms in different order, further complicating comparisons. For instance, of Canada’s 5 big banks, TD Asset Management is simultaneously the only bank that manages its own RI funds and is a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI), which are considered the “gold standard” for financial institutions to manage environmental and social risk. The responsible investment funds created by RBC, BMO, and Scotiabank are managed by signatory companies.
As evidenced by multiple countries, signing a UN document and implementing it are two different things.
While TD has some of the best performing funds, the management of those funds, like any fund, is weighted more heavily on the financial aspect than any other.
“Governance on the financial sector is a much more important component [for TD’s Global Sustainability fund], whereas in materials and mining, the environment is much more important relative to the other pieces,” says Thomas George, Vice President of TD Asset Management referring to the creation of a TD Sustainability Index which is helping TD define what sustainability means across each sector.
Ironically, while RI is performing relatively well as investments recover from the financial collapse, a misconception about the performance of RI funds is what’s hindering advancements in the field.
There is a fairly widespread belief that by concentrating an investment strategy on companies that meet certain non-financial criteria—like best-in-class or environmental impact—you’re going to limit your financial performance, according to Doug Morrow, Senior Associate at Toronto ICF International.
“It’s difficult for any mutual fund to outperform the market, but it’s a double standard. I know Jantzi underperformed in terms of the TSX benchmark, but that’s not unlike 90 per cent of all mutual funds,” says Morrow.
The fact of the matter is the TSX is home of the largest number of cleantech companies in the world (even though many of them still have relatively small market caps). And the launch of S&P/TSX Clean Technology Index to measure the performance of companies listed on the TSX whose core business is in the development and deployment of green technologies puts Canada in the forward-thinking category.
But, “the transition to a cleaner economy can’t happen overnight because of the need to invest in cleaner technologies,” and that is exactly what Scotiabank is doing according to Kim Brand, Director of Environmental Affairs at Scotiabank.
One thing that many agree stands in the way of the development of a cleaner economy is government.
“The lack of action in Ottawa and the gridlock in Washington D.C. prevents or restricts the capacity of governments to put a price on carbon, which is what we really need for clean technology to take off,” says Robert Walker, Vice President, ESG Services, Northwest Ethical Investments.
Do the stress test—does a carbon tax make sense? asks Don Roberts, Vice Chairman Renewable Energy and Clean Technology, CIBC.
Whether it be an assessment of “dirty fossil fuels,” signing documents, or financial performance, there’s a lot more than meets the eye when it comes to Canada’s big banks, RI, and Cleantech. The investment pool from which major banks draw is murky at best. For instance, RBC is currently the only major bank in Canada with specific policies not to invest in cluster bombs.
So what’s the moral of the long and convoluted story of “responsible” investing? It’s really still in its nascence. Nothing is fully established, regulated or standardized. When you’re thinking of investing your hard-earned dollars, do your research or you may end up funding something that could blow up in your face.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


text: Belmont University hosted its most successful Career Expo ever on Wednesday, with 682 students and 33 alumni registering for the day-long event. That’s double the largest attendance at any previous Career Expo. The event, held at the Curb Event Center arena, was sponsored by the university’s Office of Career Services and the College of Business Career Development. Some 64 companies and organizations were represented.

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From the new Captain Marvel to the always entertaining She-Hulk to the new and exciting Angela, we have more female-centric Marvel books at this point than I can remember ever having in my comics-reading lifetime, which is almost as long as my actual lifetime. With this increased focus on female-led series, though, there is one character for whomI have to wonder why Marvel isn’t pushing as much as they could.
That’s right, that’s Lady Sif, one of Asgard’s greatest warriors and certified true badass. Created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee (at this point, someone will want to comment with “Stan and Jack didn’t create Sif; the Vikings did,” which, congratulations, you people have mastered the nuance of semantics) to be Thor’s traveling companion and second girlfriend, after Jane Foster, Sif has a pretty strong central concept: she is the fiercest female warrior in all of Asgard, and next to Thor, the best warrior who doesn’t run in a pack. She’s also had a fairly simple history despite being around since the 60s. Ignoring an unfortunate stretch of time when she and Jane Foster shared a body (we will never speak of this again, ever), Sif’s just a warrior. Sometimes she dates Thor, sometimes she doesn’t, but her priority is the safety of Asgard.
There hasn’t been much effort in the way of solo Sif stories, which is surprising to me because she seems to be a character rife with possibility. (To be fair, we could say this about Thor’s entire supporting cast, which is arguably the richest supporting cast next to Batman, in terms of being able to stand on their own without the lead character. Not much effort has been made to do much with them.) But last year, Kathryn Immonen, Valerio Schiti, and Jordi Bellaire used her for a short run to end the Journey Into Mystery series. And they knocked it out of the park.
Starting with the premise that Sif wants to be a better warrior, we follow Asgard’s premiere fighter as she gets cursed with a spell that triggers her berserker rage. Hooking up with a bunch of other warriors who all fell for the same curse millennia ago, Sif has to save the Earth from a bunch of monsters. Along the way, she gets to show off her fighting skills.
She also gets hit on by the Superior Spider-Man, which is how I realized how buried in Marvel’s lineup this run was. I was buying Superior Spider-Man at the time and still wasn’t aware of this appearance until almost a year after it happened.
Here’s a cute Easter egg. Spot the South Park residents!
Schiti really took it to a whole new level in the next storyline, “Seeds of Destruction,” in which Sif teams up with Beta Ray Bill to save Gaea and Bill’s girlfriend, Ti Asha Ra. He pulls off a neat trick here with polyptychs that give a sense of movement throughout the page while being able to zoom in on Sif’s expressions.
Schiti’s just a master of expressions in general. He’s like this generation’s Kevin Maguire, only without the inexplicable need to have everyone mug for the camera all the time.
And look at that color palette too. Just vibrant and bold color choices by Jordie Bellaire throughout the entire run.
Kathryn Immonen’s dialogue brought out an innocence in Sif that balanced out her aggressive personality, and a kind of naivete about human dynamics and the way things work. At the end of the day, Sif’s as simple as her concept. She wants to fight to protect Asgard, and she’ll… fight to… keep fighting, I guess.
This run was cancelled after “Seeds of Destruction,” and giving Sif more chances seems to be an issue of marketability. It’s not really a cool name. I know “Thor” is just a name, but there’s an oomph factor to it that “Sif” doesn’t have. It’s kind of like how in basketball, the best guys always have cool names. The number 1 pick in the 1996 NBA draft was Allen Iverson, a guy who had many shoes, a rap album, and changed NBA culture as we know it. The number pick in the 1995 NBA draft was a dude named Joe Smith. Names have power.
But wait, you say. Loki has his own series, and Angela will soon as well. They both have subtitles: “Agent of Asgard” and “Asgard’s Assassin,” respectively. Why not give Sif a new title? I don’t know what it would be, but now would be the time to do it. We’ve got an actress in Jaimie Alexander that loves playing the character (her guest shot on Agents of SHIELD was the best part of an otherwise mediocre season). The multimedia profile of the character will likely never be higher than this. So as a company overall, why not push Sif along with everyone else?
Is money really a reason? Can we really say Angela is going to absolutely make more money as a lead? Maybe before the movies, sure, but now I don’t think you can make that claim. The Immonen/Schiti/Bellaire Sif comics were as good as any superhero comics in existence, and proves that the character is rife with possibility. In Marvel’s entire catalogue, it seems like a shame to overlook her.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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Many residents of Haines have discovered back pain can happen just about anywhere at any time. Practically anyone can experience back or neck pain in their life; it does not discrimate. Chronic back pain can also be caused by factors such as lifestyle habits, accidents, or injuries, leading to a weakened spine. A laser spine surgery facility in Haines may be able to help you get back on track to living with a pain-free neck and back.
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Rosendale leads Tester, 47 to 45 percent, in a recent poll conducted by WPA Intelligence for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). Five percent of Montana voters remain undecided, and the race has a four-point margin of error. The survey questioned 600 likely Montana voters from August 20 through 22.
Rosendale won the Montana Senate Republican primary in June, while Sen. Tester hopes to secure his third term in the Senate this November.
Both Rosendale and Tester had similar favorability ratings. Forty-four percent of Montana voters had a favorable impression of the state’s auditor, while 46 percent had a negative view of Rosendale. Forty-nine percent have a favorable opinion of Tester, compared to the 46 percent who had an unfavorable view of the two-term senator.
Tester faces an increasingly competitive race against Rosendale, as President Donald Trump won Montana by 20 points in 2016. Fifty-four percent of Montanans approved of the job the president is doing, while only 44 disapproved of Trump’s job performance.
WPA Intelligence surveyed Montana voters after Sen. Tester’s campaign became engulfed in controversy in August after a Pearl Jam poster for a get-out-the-vote campaign promoting Tester featured a dead Donald Trump and an American bald eagle eating the remains of his corpse. Tester is close friends with Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament, who designed the poster.
Tester’s campaign, not Tester himself, disavowed the concert flyer only after the media shed light on the inflammatory poster. Three weeks after the poster was revealed to the public, Tester has yet to personally disavow it.
Rosendale told Breitbart News Tonight in a recent interview that he found it “very disturbing” that Tester has not personally condemned the controversial Pearl Jam poster.
Calvin Moore, an NRSC spokesman, said last week that Sen. Tester “showed his true colors by refusing” to condemn the poster and suggested that if the Montana senator will not do the right thing, Montanans should–by voting him out of office this November.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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Is there significant amounts of EMF from LED Lights?
A designer client of mine had a job she was working on, where her client, a homeowner, was concerned about the magnetic fields in her home. She was designing a remodel, which included the kitchen, and the designer had specified recessed can lighting in the kitchen. The homeowner’s son’s bedroom was located directly above the kitchen and several of the can lights. The designer wanted to specify LED lights not only for energy efficiency, but also light quality, brightness, and color saturation (as compared to CFL or other choices). The question asked was “Should we worry about EMF from LED lights? Are low frequency alternating current magnetic fields, and would any fields propagate far enough to affect the occupants in the kitchen or the bedroom above?
The designer and I went to a San Francisco lighting showroom and tried to test several models on display. However, due to the large number of light fixtures, all energized at the time of sampling, the background MF readings were so high as to make any readings we made useless. So we picked out two possible candidates for her client’s kitchen and purchased the LED engines & housings, and a dimmer switch. Our plan was to hook up the can lights and test in a cleaner environment, one in which the background EMF was minimal.
A Lutron Diva CFL-LED DVCC-153P-WH dimmer was used with both units.
Measurements were taken with a Tenmars Triaxial Magnetic Field Meter Model TM-192D.
Turns out, by no accident, that my home has very low background EMF. I set up a test platform and took readings of both LED lights with the dimmer attached. I de-energized all the other circuits in the house except the circuit to power the test, to further reduce background EMF.
First, I took several background readings with the LED lights powered off. Not all LEDs are the same, and EMF from LED lights varies considerably.
Next, I energized each LED light and took magnetic field measurements at 2” and 12” with the dimmer set at full. Then, I next dimmed the lights to the dimmest setting and again measured the MF at 2” and 12”. I then measured the MF at the dimmer switch at 2”, 12” and 24”. The results are as follows.
The dimmer appears to produce the strongest and largest magnetic field, starting at 2.0 mG and not receding to background levels until 24 inches away.
Both LED can lights produced a measureable magnetic field, but the strength was low, below 1.0 mG and dropped to background levels at 12 inches away. This is not surprising as magnetic fields are directly related to the amount of current running through a device and both of these lights are low wattage devices, with the Halo drawing 15 watts and the Cree 9.5 watts at full bright settings. The lower readings of the Cree are likely due to the decreased wattage of this model. This would also explain the lower MF readings when dimmed, as when dimmed the devices draw less current, and thus produce lower magnetic fields.
As these lights are going to be installed in a ceiling, presumably at least an 8-foot ceiling, the effect on occupants in a kitchen should be minimal, as most people will be over 12 inches away from where the fields have a measurable increase over the background. For the floor above the effect should be the same. The floor joists should be at least 8-10 inches and thus, even lying on the floor above, one would be close to 12” away from the lights in the ceiling below. Standing, sitting, or on a bed, any occupant would be much farther than 12” away from the LED can lights and thus the effect of the magnetic field generated by these lights should be negligible, and any field measured should be indistinguishable from the background.
It is worth noting that the Cree model did not dim smoothly and cut out completely at low settings. The Halo model dimmed much lower and more smoothly. This could be due to the dimmer used, but the representative at the lighting showroom said the Lutron dimmer was appropriate for both LED models.
I would conclude that from an energy efficiency standpoint, light color and quality, and EMF exposure, I would be comfortable recommending both LED recessed can light models for any remodel or retrofit project. I have no reason to believe that any other model or brand of LED light would be dissimilar, as they are all low current devices, and thus should not emit high levels of MF, and that the field should dissipate into the background within 12”, if properly manufactured, wired, and installed.
Let us know if you’d like an EMF expert to evaluate EMF from LED lights and other appliances in your home or workplace.
Hello, I suppose there could be concerns about the light quality (curtains), electric fields (shielding) and/or dirty electricity (high-voltage transients – line conditioners). Black-out curtains and no artificial lights in the room are probably a good place to start.
What can we done when the city puts up the new LED street lights around you? Just use emf reducing curtains and try to block out the insane brightness and emfs?
Dirty Electricity, or high voltage transients, was always intended to be another blog. Just never got there. Your best best in addressing dirty-electricity is to remove or power off the offending device, or install some sort of line conditioner or dirty electricity filter. To start with you might experiment with the inexpensive plug-in types from Graham-Stetzer or GreenWave, but there are larger units that can address specific point sources, a sub panel, or an entire building. Good luck!
And how about dirty electricity?? I’m finding significant increases in my house when some LED bulbs are on, and a horrific increase with an LED under-cabinet light.


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If you're looking for legal ways to watch NCIS online, you've come to the right place. Check out our complete guide to legal NCIS streaming options!
It’s time for another season premiere of CBS hit show NCIS, which will air on September 25 at 8/7c. You won’t want to miss a second, and you don’t have to thanks to all of the new ways you can watch NCIS online.
For anyone looking to find the latest episodes digitally on demand and live streaming, here’s a guide that will get you exactly the right information you need to watch NCIS online.
For those of you that don’t know, CBS All Access is the best place to find any of your favorite CBS shows right after they air. All Access (complete review) is the standalone streaming service created by the network. It includes a huge library of episodes of all CBS hit shows, and it’s a good way to watch NCIS online after it airs.
New episodes are typically available very shortly after they air. And for those living in roughly 80% of US cities, you can watch NCIS online live as it airs on TV. That means that if you’re in any one of those locations, you be able to watch the September 22 premiere when the East Coasters do!
The All Access pass currently costs only $5.99 a month, but it comes with a free one-week trial, so you can try it out before you buy.
If you’re looking for a great, free place to enjoy your favorite NCIS full episodes, CBS.com should definitely be on your list. Because they host a plethora of television shows, they usually have a somewhat limited selection of popular episodes. Typically, a new episode won’t be available for at least days on CBS.com for free streaming, and often times, the videos won’t remain up for a long period of time. But it’s a 100% free service, so it’s an okay way to watch NCIS online to catch an episode or two.
Because NCIS airs on CBS, most people can watch it for free over-the-air with an antenna, like the Mohu Leaf 50. Just find your local CBS affiliate and tune in when the show airs to enjoy it live.
And just because you got rid of cable doesn’t mean you have to do without a DVR. There are many great DVRs available for over-the-air recording. The Tablo DVR is my personal favorite because it lets you record shows, pause and rewind live TV, and most notably, watch your recorded shows and live TV from your antenna on any connected device, anytime, anywhere you want! It’s another convenient way to watch NCIS online.
If you’re a diehard fan of NCIS and you just know you’ll be buying the box set, there are a few other options to consider, such as iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon Instant. These next-day, on-demand digital video services let you buy episodes individually. Each episode will cost anywhere from $1.99-$3.99, though your best bet would be with the season passes. On both iTunes and Amazon, pre-ordering the season will cost $39.99, a fraction of what you would pay if you did each episode singularly. However, this is still a far more expensive option than CBS All Access, and it can get pretty expensive if you’re a fan of other shows.
If you have any questions about where you can find the legal, online ways to watch NCIS online this season, leave us a comment down below and we’ll find an answer.


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The amount of money flooding into our field is indicative of the value that our field can provide. How it will function and end up is widely speculated. This teaser from a podcast episode with Rick Kubina, Dimitri Makridis, and myself (RYANO) includes one view that this may serve a phase change in the culture, in a sense altering the standards of our field. Check it out below, share your thoughts on the implications, and check out the links below.
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Hey, I'm Ryan. I usually go by Ryan O or RYANO. I hail from northern Nevada in the grungy, yet surprisingly classy, (and newly renovated) Reno, Nevada . I like my climate like I like my data: evolving, uncompromising, and progressive. I am a master of science; that is, I have an M.S. in Applied Behavior Analysis, however my interests have grown to include many other interests, including entrepreneurship and capturing perspectives and stories through various mediums. These interests and skills have allowed me to work with a lot of great people. I've started three businesses, started numerous active joint venture agreements, a behavioral think-tank, a podcast, a professional development movement, helped organizations that support people with Intellectual Disabilities, to list a few. Currently I'm on a "gap" year where I make content for behavioral science enthusiasts and prepare for my next big venture (TBA in 2019). I focus outside this role on building a community of thought leaders and doers to create content that increases the transparency of behavior analytic technologies with the hopes of creating a platform that truly saves the world. My interests are all over, from artificial intelligence and machine learning applications to the theory and philosophy behind Why We Do What We Do (wwdwwdpodcast.com). In my spare time you can find me consuming social media, prepping/climbing a giant mountain, or walking around with my camera in my hand (and, occasionally, all simultaneously). Connect with me personally on most all social platforms via @TheDailyBA and let me know what drives you to pursue the Behavior Analysis vision.


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The magical combination of weighted blankets and glass beads.
In a modern society with a fast pace of life, a large number of people have sleep problems, and a small number of people even have serious problems with insomnia. So now many people will buy a weighted blanket of their own, releasing their anxiety from the day and find secure feeling, so that they can sleep peacefully.
In the beginning, the weighted blankets on the market used plastic beads or polymeric materials as fillers. But after a period of production and sales, some customers who sleep shallowly said that the plastic beads in the weighted blanket would make some subtle sounds, sometimes affecting their sleep.
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More importantly, the process improvement of this filler change is not only a simple material change, but also from the perspective of the customers’ health – because glass beads are safer and more reliable than plastic beads. It doesn’t have Bead-related residue and pollution problems like plastic beads, all aspects of the indicators have reached the safety standards so that children can use.
As a professional weighting blanket manufacturer, YNM not only has advanced technology and amazing ideas, but also has a whole design team and its own production factory. After entering Amazon shopping platform, online customers also like our products. The YNM Weighted Blanket has always been a popular item on Amazon, and by looking at the content and reviews on the website, you can have a more detailed understanding of our products.
In the years of entering the weighted blanket industry, YNM’s goal can be said to be “going above and beyond” The strongest R&D team we have is always leading the way in technological innovations across the industry, such as the glass bead technology innovation mentioned above. Today, we are still insisting on innovation and change, hoping to bring more peace of mind to more customers through our own work.
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For popular Juju musician, Yinka Ayefele, it was an unbelievable sight to behold as the Oyo state government lived up to their threat to demolish his 800 million naira Music House which houses Fresh FM.
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Almoner for Saint Lupus of Troyes and Saint Camelianus of Troyes; legend says that his wine barrel never ran dry. Hermit in a place now known as Saint-Aventin, France in his honour. People and animals sought refuge with him – animals hiding from hunters, people from their temptations.
One day, according to his custom, Aventine quitted his cell and betook himself to a grove overlooking the vale of Aosta, that he might pray there quietly amidst its mysterious shade. On his knees, with uplifted eyes and glowing heart, he blessed God whom he inwardly adored. A very deep silence favoured his recollection, and his happy soul seemed to be as serene as paradise. Suddenly the silence was broken hy the plaintive roar of a bear which was laboriously coming down from the mountains. Aventine saw it, but was not alarmed; he knew that He who watched over Daniel in the den of lions would also watch over him. It was not the wild animals of the forest that were to shed his blood – this blood was reserved to gratify the rage of human persecutors far more savage than they. As if led by an invisible hand or by some kindly instinct the wounded animal came straight to him as quietly as a lamb, and lifted its heavy paw in which was a long thorn, and laid it quite confidingly in the hands of Aventine, as if imploring help.
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An article published in today’s Pioneer Press reports that, despite beliefs that the current economy has prolonged retirements, Baby Boomers are indeed retiring. Based on Social Security data and projected population growth, the state demographer’s office projects 59,000 retirements this year, 62,000 next year, and then increases each year throughout the decade.
“The 2010s will…be a decade of great transition,” according to “The Long Run Has Become the Short Run,” a report from the Minnesota State Demographic Center. “Retirements will increase sharply through 2013,” the report adds. In the current decade, nearly as many people in Minnesota and the U.S. will turn 65 as in the previous four decades combined.
I’ve had the opportunity to chat at length with our state demographer, Tom Gillespy, and we both agreed that most employers remain in denial about the approaching shift in human capital. As both of us go about our work researching and presenting on the topic, we find that business leaders cling to the hope that the Boomers will prolong their retirements, younger generations will somehow morph into Boomers, and generational differences and talent gaps will just disappear.
Herein lies the problem: most business executives are Baby Boomers themselves. Always dubbed the ‘me-generation’, some of those self-centered tendencies are popping up now, as they worry endlessly about whether or not Boomers will retire and when and if they can continue on as consultants and board members and linger in power a little longer.
The fact is, the business world needs to worry a whole lot less about the Boomers leaving (because they will) and worry a whole lot more about whether they can keep Generation X and if they’re prepared for the arrival of Generation Y.
While the economy has kept some people in the job market longer than they anticipated, factoring that dynamic into retirement assumptions doesn’t have much of an effect on the anticipated waves of older workers who are expected to retire. In other words, we can’t stop people from aging. All the data still points to the largest shift in human capital in history.
Here’s why employers should be more concerned about who’s moving in, rather than who’s moving out.
With almost every company expecting to lose a portion of their employee base through retirements, competition among employers is likely to heat up, making talented, and therefore desirable, workers more difficult to recruit and retain and more expensive due to the increased need for their skills.
Also, a key side effect to the Boomer reason is the loss of the knowledge, skills and abilities — collectively known as KSAs. After having been entrenched in the workforce for decades, Boomers often occupy positions that require a high level of technical expertise, business acumen or, at the very least, industry experience.
As Generations X and Y — the ‘replacement workers’ — move into the positions vacated by the Boomers, the odds that these new workers will be able to function at the same level as their experienced and knowledgeable predecessors are very low, and succession planning therefore becomes a critical concern.
This KSA vacuum plays into another business concern: lost experience. Even if a recent college graduate can demonstrate the technical or business skills necessary for a position, how can businesses replace the savvy, historical perspective of their former employees?
The answer is that they cannot. Some experience can be passed on with mentoring programs and other succession planning efforts, but most companies fail to see that as an option or make meager attempts to implement such programs. That’s because most companies remain immobilized by fear–the fear of what they will lose or have to change.
Dear business executive, there is only one certainty in this world and that is change. Rather than fear the future and focus on loss, think about the new opportunities that lie ahead and what you have to gain. Prepare for the infusion of new knowledge and new skills that the next generations have to offer.
Time is running out. The Boomers are retiring and without Generations X and Y, your company doesn’t have a future.


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When creating your optimal circuit board design, one factor that must be considered is the solder mask and whether to go with matte finish solder mask or gloss finish mask for your final product. Usually, most designers don't specify their preference and end up leaving the decision to the PCB fabricator. Most fabricators will likely default to a gloss surface finish, the more popular choice of the two.
Should the PCB designer be concerned with the mask finish?
What are the differences, and possible final results, of the two mask finishes?
There are no different requirements between the two types when discussing solder mask standards. Information on their use is contained in IPC-SM-840C Qualification and Performance of Permanent Solder Mask. The specification is intended to facilitate evaluation of solder mask by a vendor using a standard board system, and to enable the designer, manufacturer, and user to collectively qualify a production board process.
The primary differentiation between the two types is aesthetics. Gloss solder mask will be light reflective and lighter in color, whereas matte will have no shine and appear darker. Matte solder mask also tends to present as softer (porous) while gloss has a hard shell finish. In printed circuit board fabrication, there is no difference in the processes, and little difference in cost if any.
A matte finish may be more prone to scratching due to the softer finish, but scratches are more visible in gloss finishes. Matte is also more likely to show surface cosmetics and white haze/residue. Gloss finish boards do not display this as much; however, gloss solder mask can cause issues with vision systems at assembly due to its high reflectivity. Mask clearances around fiducials play an important role with vision systems when using gloss finish mask.
There are many reports from Contract Manufacturers (CM) that matte finish is less susceptible to solder ball formation. When questioned, CMs will rank the mask type as the #1 reason for solder ball formation with flux type also playing a major factor. There are several causes that result in solder balls, which are usually present on the bottom side of printed circuit boards. The increased use of no clean low residue soldering has resulted in more attention on the problem.
Does Matte Finish Minimize Solder Ball Formation?
To date, the exact mechanism is still not fully understood although surface roughness has always been a major factor in solder ball generation. A technical report from Vantico (formerly Ciba Specialty Chemicals), showed that molten solder on a rough (matte) surface behaves differently than molten solder on a smooth surface - for a variety of PCB solder masks, and laminates. On a rough surface, the molten solder forms a convex meniscus, and on a smooth surface the molten solder forms a concave meniscus. The convex vs. concave meniscus reduces the area of solder ball attachment, so solder balls do not adhere as well to a matte surface as a smooth surface.
There have been numerous studies performed on “gloss levels” and the correlation with soldering defects. Photo imaged gloss levels were found to affect the number of solder defects created during the circuit board wave soldering process. These solder defects (solder balls, solder shorts, solder bridges) were proportional to the gloss level. As the gloss level is reduced, the level of solder balls is reduced at a faster rate than the number of solder shorts and bridges. In other words, to reduce or eliminate solder shorting, the required gloss level is lower than required to reduce solder balls.


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Hewson attempts to unveil aspects of the unconscious mind by adopting an instinctual approach to image making in conjunction with research of psychological theories. Each painting of vibrant patterns and layers acts as a documented glimpse of a broader self investigation.
New Release, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin /June 2017.
The International Biennial of Humour and Satire in Arts, House of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo, Bulgaria /May 2017.
Tara x Iverna, The Tara Building, Dublin /April 2017.
VUE Art Fair (Hillsboro Fine Art Gallery) The RHA, Dublin /Nov 2016.
RHA Open Studio – A Conversation on Drawing – The RHA, Dublin /Sept 2016.
186th Annual Exhibition – The RHA, Dublin /March 2016.
Peep – Hive Emerging, Waterford /April 2015.
Goblin Market: Irish New Contemporary Art Book Launch and exhibition – White Lady Art, Dublin /Nov 2012.
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Visualizing Albuquerque is a comprehensive overview of twelve thousand years of artistic activity in the central Rio Grande Valley.
Only two years after Coronado’s expedition to what is now New Mexico, Spanish officials conducted an inquiry into the effects of the expedition on the native people Coronado encountered. The documents that record that investigation are at the heart of this book.
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The Chocolate Factory’s Siro Carraro is taking part in The Open Art Competition at The Prince’s Foundation Gallery. This runs from 25th October to the 1st of November with a preview evening on October 24th from 6-9pm.
Prince’s Foundation Gallery, 19-22 Charlotte Road, Hoxton, London EC2A 3SG.
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The so-called “pump-n-dump” stock scam dominated the spam arena in 2007. It fueled the increase in “image” spam and was contributing to over 30% of total spam volume sent.
In 2008, the stock spam was barely noticeable. The decline could be attributed to the efforts by the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). But I would also hope that anti-spam filters have significantly reduced deliverability rates for this kind of spam making it much less efficient and financially rewarding.
Subject: Amazon.com have some troubles.
Why does not work Amazon.com?
Amazon.com In what a problem?
There were no links, phone numbers, stock symbols or attachments in the e-mail. It wasn’t a phishing attempt either. At first, I thought it was one of the “broken” spam runs, when spammers send irrelevant content by mistake or as a test run. But the determination of this spam run suggested something different. It seems like someone is deliberately trying to impact Amazon’s reputation. The only reason I can think of would be to temporarily affect its share price.
A potential future drop in the price allows someone to sell borrowed stock at a higher price than they need to pay in order to return it back. This type of stock trading is known as “short selling“. But if the stock trader relies on misinformation to manipulate the stock price, it’s known as “short-and-distort” trick.
The stock price for Amazon had started to fall last Friday, most likely in response to the technical issues experienced by their website. The trend continued on Monday and I would not be surprised if the spam campaign had made it worse.
The “pump-n-dump” spam was taking advantage of “penny” stocks and was going after small companies. If “short-n-distort” is a new trend in stock manipulation spam, then it will target big, well-known companies.


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It’s said that every cell in our bodies regenerates over the course of seven years, making us different people than we were before. It’s a different Sonya Kitchell who returns after seven years with We Come Apart, her first full-length album since 2008. The 12-track collection is due Jan. 22 on Rockwood Music Hall Recordings/Thirty Tigers.
We Come Apart caps a period of growth and reinvention for Kitchell, who was 17 when she released her first album This Storm in 2006. Since then, she moved from her hometown in the hills of western Massachusetts to New York City, spent time in parts of Europe and Asia, worked as a side musician and a songwriter-for-hire, released the Convict of Conviction EP of chamber-pop in 2010, learned the technical side of recording music and dove deeper into photography and film. She also recorded We Come Apart two different times, once with money she raised through a PledgeMusic campaign and the second time with funds she scraped together herself.
You can hear it in the drowsy sensuality of “Mexico,” where Kitchell sings in alluring tones over a classic-pop blend of piano, little sunbursts of guitar and a restless bassline that moves things along. Album opener “Follow Me In” has a folkier feel, with chiming guitars and ukulele chasing Kitchell’s voice into its breathy upper register; while “This Feeling” rides a stomping beat through walls of corrugated guitar as Kitchell sings with raw intensity. The album completes a cycle of its own by ending with the title track, an aching piano ballad that subtly underscores the theme of renewal.
She recorded the bones of We Come Apart in a farmhouse in western Massachusetts, not far from where she grew up, working by herself and with multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily. Kitchell took the rough tracks back to New York, where she recruited friends to help her flesh out arrangements that include drums, percussion, horns and strings. The result is an album that feels true to her, a concept that Herbie Hancock had emphasized when she worked with the legendary jazz pianist.
In addition to Hancock, Kitchell spent time playing and touring with bassist Tal Wilkenfeld (Jeff Beck, Jackson Browne) and the Brooklyn shoegaze band Blue Foundation. Kitchell teamed with the bassist and composer Garth Stevenson on Convict of Conviction, and also studied writers who inspire her, from Shakespeare to Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, deconstructing their work to peek at the innards. When she was home, she was in New York, which can be a hard, if rewarding, place to live.
The body of knowledge she acquired has led her to a moment of transition on We Come Apart, an album that stands at the borderline of her musical past even as it offers hints of directions she could well go.
We Come Apart explores the remnants of things, the space in between our atoms. The album represents years of Kitchell’s learning from masters, unlearning expectations, and re-emerging as a vivid, fresh voice.


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Genealogy research can be done by visiting the cemetery offices during normal business hours or by visiting the Greenmount GIS database. Records are available to the public for Greenmount and Animas City Cemeteries.
Then in “Quick Search” you can search by the last name, first name, dates, years, if a veteran, by typing in service, exp, Army, Navy, etc.


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Some definitions: share is the percentage of the total, engagement is the ratio of time spent on the site having used that keyword (so the word that generates the most stickiness is 100, in this case that's "access to work") and effectiveness is a kind of visitors * time spent combination so that you can determine the most effective keyword.
Compete estimates site traffic and engagement metrics based on the daily browsing activity of over 2,000,000 U.S. Internet users. Compete applies a rigorous normalization methodology, leveraging scientific multi-dimensional scaling (by age, income, gender and geography) to ensure metrics are representative of the U.S. Internet population. Compete members are recruited through multiple sources, including ISPs, the Compete Toolbar and additional opt-in panels to ensure a diverse distribution of user types and to facilitate de-biasing across the data sources.
So maybe there are a bunch of UK people who have installed the compete toolbar widget? The idea that Americans might be searching a UK site for "disability living allowance" seems far fetched.
As another angle, here's some data from Alexa - I don't know that this helps or hinders (it measures "reach" which is apparently a combined view of page views and unique users, again using a toolbar that you download and that collects data on sites you visit - they don't say how many people have downloaded said toolbar). This appears pretty consistent with the Google Trends data in the last post.
On the "Is it a fair comparison?", I don't know - I'm game to try other ones. suggest a few sites that I should compare and I'll post the results here.
And, to help answer "What are they doing" ... this is what google says are the top few search terms for direct.gov - none of them are "access to work" you'll see. The plain conclusion from these google results is that Road Tax is by far the most attractive offer for direct.gov.uk.
Some other stats that I have - from a very short sample period in January 2008 - show the following as the top 20 terms that people used to get to direct.gov.uk from external search terms. The sample period is only a few days so the numbers aren't very relevant ... but they do show that "Road Tax" isn't the biggest thing, although there's no question it's a big driver (ha!). The sum of these visits is just over 100,000 and about 20% of those are car related (including theory test etc). What is interesting is that people use google to search for "direct gov" and "direct.gov" (and there are appearances lower down the list of direct.gov.uk and even direct.gov.uk/motoring - and I suspect that this somewhat discredits the view of another commenter that the "e" in e-government stands for elitist! There are also plenty of people who searched for www.dvla.gov.uk and found themselves at direct.gov.uk.
Finally, to help the "What are they doing?" point,next to the external search engine figures I've put the top 20 search results from the internal direct.gov search engine - i.e. what people searched for once they arrived at the site (from the same period as the figures above). Again, car related topics feature often.
anything on Sir David Frost's use of the hinternet?


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One of our french users observes non-negligible differences between the stresses displayed at the nodes (here von Mises, averaged corner data in the figure below, but the other display options also show differences) and the corresponding stress evaluated by the tool.
Does the value "stress" on the graph correspond to the requested invariant, von Mises here? Should the values at the ends of the line not correspond to the calculated values by NX Nastran in our case ? How are the stress tensor values treated at these ends before the computation of membrane , bending and in our case von Mises stress ?
Could you help me to understand why this difference ?
Stress linearization tool : 371.7 MPa.
If the above requirements were met, there would be no discernible difference.
The Stress Linearization Tool requires the Stress Tensor at every point along the SCL. An interpolation routine is called in FEMAP to find the stress tensor at that location. It uses a similar approach, all of the tensor data is averaged at the nodes, and a value is interpolated out of that field. In this high stress gradient area, the shear stresses go from +17,000.0 to -17,0000, averaging to 0.0 at the SCL, reducing the calculated von Mises stress there.
This value is then used in the Stress Linearization Algorithm to compute a von Mises value, and is transformed to the SCL for linearization calculations. We have discussed different methods for interpolating the tensor in a mesh, i.e. within a single element only, however this would lead to wild swings in this coarse mesh, and in the coarse mesh from the original query. As outlined above, for a proper SCL, the shear stresses should not be the driving influence on stress, SCL transformed in-plane stresses that drive the calculation of linearized stress.
Many thanks,Mark, for these quick and clear explanations !


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Or, Do You Have a Right to Lie?
Do you find the two-part title of this webinar to be somewhat… provocative?
Worry not! That was my smiling intention.
To help you always remember this webinar later (i.e., to be “sticky” in your memory).
Without it, most of us could really “care less” about such an otherwise “dry topic” as analyzing a ballot.
Yet, despite any potential “dryness,” learning this information is still extremely important for all of us who are Toastmasters – especially when it comes to being an official JUDGE at our Contests at every level.
You might perceive the second part of the title as provocative. You might even think it is going in a direction that it honestly is NOT.
Even though this is “purposely, positively provocative,” I encourage you to continue on… and you will thereby see where I am ACTUALLY going with this.
Not only that, but as we proceed through this webinar, we are also going to have some fun along the way, too!
So, now that I have your attention, I also have to explain the purpose of the INTRODUCTION.
Unquestonably, the JUDGE’S BALLOT is a comprehensive topic.
As such, to credibly teach this material, I believe that one has to be a proven expert in the material – especially because this subject matter can, does, and will cause questions for many people. I have performed every role in numerous Toastmasters contests, have competed several times, have won up to the District stage a number of times, and have trophied in the District 45 International Speech Contest. I have both purchased and intensely studied the speeches of various years of WCPS, World Championships of Public Speaking. But that’s not all that I have done.
In order for viewers to have confidence that this webinar has been presented by someone who is experienced, dedicated, and knowledgeable on such Toastmasters issues, that is why I believe it was necessary that I provide a specific pre-written INTRODUCTION for the webinar’s host to use to open the webinar. I do this so that you may know that I really do bring an extensivee set of qualifications to this presentation so that you may be assured to have confidence in what is being taught here. That is, this INTRODUCTION is shared for your benefit, as readers and viewers.
You may simply click this link, “INTRODUCTION,” to read it in full-printed PDF form directly.
The following pictures are screencaps while that INTRODUCTION was being read by the host. The corresponding captions will also include links for your further verfication.
– Including completing 8 Competent Communicator manuals.
own original workshops at District Conferences.
on the District-level Contest stage a number of times.
Rather than have this webpage here “give away the goodies” of this webinar, the following pictures are screencaps of the OUTLINE and its 6 Sections. A link is also included with each screenshot so that readers here may go directly to each specific time-start section in the video. This way, you may use this webpage here as a resource for re-locating information within each specific section.
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While there is so much more to see in the Video, the following pictures are a few more screenshots to give you a quick tease of what you can look forward to seeing.
Can Contest Judging be Objective?
Do you want to learn how to more objectively judge a Toastmasters contest?
Are you ready to listen to the “Singing Contest” and enjoy a good laugh?
Do you want to see how the “Basketball Contest” proceeds?
Are you “Quite Quite” or “Barely Barely” ready to learn how to determine contest Judging Points?
Do you want to know what the (“purposely, positively provocative“) second part of the title means?
Well here it is… the video of this webinar. ENJOY!
OUTLINE begins in the video at: 4:33.
Section 1 – Categories (Rows) begins in the video at: 4:52.
Section 2 – Points begins in the video at: 8:40.
Section 3 – Common Claims begins in the video at: 20:00.
Section 4 – Ballot Categories – Explained begins in the video at: 25:18.
Section 5 – Ballot Points – 2 Questions begins in the video at: 38:05.
Section 6 – Recommendations begins in the video at: 48:16.
Judge Contests Objectively Using the Ballot Rows Point System – Or, Do You Have a Right to Lie?


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Browse: Home / 2016 / February / 02 / Offshore Wind Turbine Maintenance Cost Fiasco: “100 Times More Expensive Than A New Turbine Itself”!
A press release by Germany’s Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft reports how offshore North and Baltic Sea wind turbines need to be in operation for 25 years before they become profitable, but that they are prone to shortened lifespans due to rust from the harsh sea environment.
As a result the wind turbine installations need extra and very costly maintenance to ensure that they survive long enough. It’s turning out to be an insurmountable challenge.
Maintenance to turbines cannot be done at a dry dock, rather, because they are permanently fixed out to sea, repair work and maintenance have to be done offshore in raw and windy conditions. Not only is this expensive, but it also puts the lives and limbs of repair personnel at risk.
This is the reason engineers and researchers are trying to find ways to better protect offshore wind power systems from the brutal elements. Protection of vulnerable metal surfaces is planned to be achieved by developing and applying new surface films, but this is still very much in development.
This is yet just another huge and costly technical obstacle faced by offshore windparks. It’s going to be an expensive mess come clean-up time.
It’s the German Moonlanding project: It has no economic benefits whatsoever but it’s expensive, complicated, dangerous and very exciting.
Let’s try to use it to distract the stoopid masses from the child rapes in their neighbourhood!
Ohhh.. & me silly, thought that it was to SAVE the PLANET ??
1. The topic is about painting. The price for painting might be much higher on sea, but the total price is next to irrelevant to the price of the whole machine.
The same is true for ships. and even for cars. How much more expensive is a paint job as a repair than the original colouring in the factory (for a part that is difficult/impossible to remove from the car, we might get similar factors!)?
2. there is a real problem with the costs of repairs for offshore wind. Right now, every time a wind plant is build, they also build custom made ships for repairs and for building them. This will change a lot, when more countries start building offshore wind.
So expect repair (and paint) jobs to significantly drop in the rather near future!
If renewables are economic in the future, as you always tell us, why are we doing a massive rollout in the present?
Because what is driving the costs down are economics of scale, mass production and experience.
By doing nothing (or only theoretical research), you would not drop the price by a single cent.
Our massive rollout has not brought down the price to economic levels. So we’ve used up the experience curve. What do you suggest? Doubling the numbers per year AGAIN and hope THAT suffices for economics?
So come on sod, get the coefficients for the experience curves for solar and wind and tell us HOW MANY we need to build so they become economic.
But wait, again and again you claimed wind *IS* already economic. Now you say, no, it will be in the future?
You wing it as you go along; you are probably economically dependent on wind turbine subsidies.
The siren song of the Statist is always suffer now for the “future” .
3. Currently, offshore crews wait in containers for weeks for moments when the North Sea is calm enough AND a service ship is available.
This will change in the future! Because there will be no more heavy sea in the North Sea! Why you ask?
In the near future, we will have a different situation. Currently we have every single wind park inventing its own solution for repairs and maintenance. It is done by ships that were either not build for that purpose (really difficult) or that were specifically build for this single purpose (really expensive).
Most of it is done by people, who have zero experience with offshore wind parks, because the majority of the projects is a first for that company.
In the future, maintenace will be outsourced to companies specialising in that work, using ships and other equipment (robots crawling up the turbine mast) build specifically for that purpose. And this equipment will be made by “mass production” 8as far as the term applies to such specific tools).
Please keep on dreaming, as the real world will demolish these wind mills soon now.
I am so grateful that economic fools like Sod are not in charge.
Oh fubar!!!,what am I saying, they are!
Because specialty helicopter and vessel fleets, which themselves require dedicated on-call highly trained maintenance and operating crews, will very soon become a free service. Hey, it’s THE FUTURE!
All that nonsense to prevent more plant food from “contaminating” the air. And just to be sure we prevent any unauthorized food from entering the pipeline, we’ll turn it into ethanol to reduce auto mileage.
What genius thought that up?!
Ah, the fabled robot future will fix it. Yeah, robots will repair broken crap.
I see you do not have the slightest idea of robotics as well.
Robots are good where things are NEW and have exactly specified properties.
Robots are LOUSY when coping with old broken crap of unknown properties.
That’s why they are not used in repair shops but in factories.
Now you learned something again. But I’m amazed again about HOW MANY fields you can be ignorant.
Don’t get me started! Last time I had my car painted at sea, it cost me a bundle. I’ll never do THAT again.
Well, at least they keep some ship builders are employed.
We could of course have held those expenses to zero from the get-go by just not having wasted resources putting the #%!@$ things up in the first place.
Did the message go over your head again?
Look at one of the new cars with that funny and utterly stupid) two colour scheme.
It will cost you basically nothing to get such a car (in comparison to a “normal” one colour version).
Now visit your next repair shop and ask them to do the colour scheme on your existing one colour car.and tell me the difference in prices.
You can’t compare OPTIONAL ELECTIVE silliness with MANDATORY ESSENTIAL maintenance. Well, normal people don’t equate them, in any case.
No such thing as ‘once and done’ painting of any metallic surfaces at sea.
Yes. Thank you for pointing out that repainting is expensive. And of course routine repainting even more so. I wonder why we didn’t think of that?
“Look at one of the new cars with that funny and utterly stupid) two colour scheme.
So… I’m not surprised… you NEVER USED A CAR CONFIGURATOR TOOL to find out what paint for a new car costs what.
And yes, we must have the wind turbine colour match after a repaint/recoat. Better get some detailers out there with sanders and polishers as well to match the peel and reomve any swirls.
“Near future” The eternal bleat of Greenies when discussing renewable energy projects.
Water – salt – rust, who’da thunk it.
Never underestimate the determination of a complete fool?
Simply put, when the service contract for the product costs more than the product, leave it with the cashier, walk out of the store and don’t come back.
OH, the progress they’ve made!
ASIDE – 2013 Analysis of planned off$$$$hore wind folly in N.J.
Ah, linking to a site funded by no less than the Koch brothers who are vehemently anti-renewables because coal is their thing.
I should maybe have used World Wildlie Fund?
During the depression, my parents kept themselves warm and cooked their food with coal. I like coal.
And you are worried about the Koch Bros because they are rich and are for coal? That’s all you’ve got? And you have no problem with Al Gore?
Why is it that greenies fear the Koch brothers? Do they have so much more money than greenies? Not really. Greenies have the government money and blessings. They fear the Koch brothers because these two are included in a small group of people who will not bow down to greenies. Exxon, BP, Chevron, etc all figured out they could make billions from taxpayers putting up worthless turbines while building the backup plants with the tax savings, subsidies and 20 year contracts. Apparently, the Koch brothers did participate in this ruse and are threat to the greens, not because of money, but because they refuse to sell out.
IF PIERRE DOESN’T DELETE MY LAST, WHICH IS THE UNEDITED POST, I APOLOGIZE FOR IT. HERE’S THE CORRECT ONE.
During the depression, my parents families kept themselves warm and cooked their food with coal. I like coal.
And Al Gore – liar and crook.
You are worried about the Koch Bros because they are rich and are for coal? That’s all you’ve got.
Thanks, Kie, for giving me an opening to vent.
The moon project gave us the non-stick frying pan and a pen that can write upside down.
Maintenance cost associated with producing electric power from wind would be about same as producing power by other common methods, such as nuclear, fossil fuel and solar. The cheapest way of producing electric power (by far) is hydro-power.
So you are saying that the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Applied Material Science are lying or just a bunch of fools?
Yes, once set up, a hydro scheme probably does have the lowest running costs for electrical power generation. But are you including the infrastructure (and environment) cost of the hydro installation? It is substantial.
About the same? Why not a tenth? Why not ten times as much?
You compare maintaining several thousand wind turbines off shore with maintaining one One GigaWatt GE Mark 1 nuclear reactor? What gives you the idea that maintenance costs are even in the same ballpark?
Sod says “painting” but that’s not quite right. Salt speeds up the process of corrosion – the transfer of electrons from one substance to the other. Paint only hides the result. An approach that does work in some situations is cathodic protection (CP). This works by forcing a protective flow of electrons across the metal. It has been used on many structures and systems including sea going ships, buried pipelines, and even reinforced concrete.
Yes, the future may show better results. Meanwhile, the many hundreds of towers and turbines that stand near or above the sea will need the costly maintenance or they are destined to fall apart.
zincs slows corrosion, but don’t prevent it, especially above the water line.
Sounds like something people say to each other about a serious problem that they have to live with, but can’t do anything much about.
Three isn’t a paint yet made that will stop corrosion at sea. You can slow it down a bit, but that’s all. Metal surfaces require constant maintenance. And the longer you let it go, the worse it gets.
…unless they make them out of platinum, which, by the time were done paying for this fiasco, would probably have been cheaper to do in the long run.
But we must forge ahead with wind and solar, because someday they’ll catch up to, and eventually surpass coal and oil. Any day now.
I prefer Oil, especially Diesel Oils that can be grown on anyone’s property year after year. Fat Oils are an excellent energy source for man and machine alike.
How does fuel expenditure for cultivation and processing compare energetically to the energy gained? I know that given enough subsidies politicians can turn everything into a profitable enterprise for a subsidy taker but what is the EROEI? Honest question because I don’t have the slightest idea.
I just read this report, it says nothing about this being only about paint cost. It specifically says total maintenance is 100’s times more than the original total construction cost. Which means that they will never pay themselves off. It probably also means they will never be energy positive.
sod reminds us that there are special ships built for erecting every offshore project, and presumably are involved with the maintenance. When ships require major maintenance they come into dry dock etc. so the obvious answer is to put each offshore turbine on its own ship.
That way it can come into port when it needs maintenance rather than having crews wait for suitable weather. A further advantage is that when a country tires of paying subsidies the turbine can be re-located to some country where they are still gullible enough to believe in this way of generating electricity.
em guys What’s the context of the info of this post ?
It’s a press release from an institute looking for funding (I guess) to develop a better solution.
…”In addition, the project partners AirRobot GmbH explores ways with drones to inspect coatings and determine the repairs needed.
as i said above, this is for painting. Having your car repainted can be much more expensive than the original paint during production (no surprise).
The idea that repairs of wind turbines could cause 100x the original price is obviously plain out stupid. It is accepted here, because most comments here really hate wind power and accept any negative information about it.

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DYMASTRIP is a remover/stripper for water based metallised floor polishes.
Dilute 1 part of DYMASTRIP with 10 parts of clean hot water. Mop this diluted solution liberally onto a section of the floor to be stripped. Allow 10 minutes soaking and then scrub floor with a suitable machine, using, if necessary, a black pad or stiff brush. Mop or wet vacuum the resultant polish/stripper slurry from the floor. Repeat this operation until the whole of the floor has been stripped. The floor must be rinsed thoroughly with water and be allowed to dry before the application of any polish. A little vinegar should be added to the water used for rinsing the floor. This will neutralize any remaining stripper residue. N.B. Do not attempt to strip too large an area of floor at any one time. The stripping solution of the slurry must not be allowed to dry before removal. DYMASTRIP is unsuitable for use on unsealed wood and cork floor coverings.
Composition A blend of nonionic and anionic surfactants, sodium metasilicate, sequestrants and solubilising additives, in a clear water based liquid.