As these things usually go, I have been distracted. This blog was great, needed, therapeutic. I was into it, gung-ho! Yet as much as I felt I needed this blog I inevitably got distracted with Life. Life has a tendency to do that to me. My mind is always going in a new direction and when I focus on a direction, I go! Then, as I'm going, I see something else or think of something else and think, "Ooh, I really need to do that" or "Ooh, I really need to tend to this". Life never fails to distract me from what it is that I'm doing. And with that distraction, I have now neglected the thing that was so necessary. The thing that I felt was SOOO good for me has now been cast aside in lieu of doing Life – buying a house, buying a new car, starting a new job, raising the kids.
And now here I am, a year and a half since my last writing, looking at my life thinking, "Man, things have kind of gotten fuzzy." I feel as though I have lost some clarity in my life. I don't necessarily feel like I'm "lost" or anything, unable to "find my way"; I feel as though my focus is lost. I have lost the ability to clearly think about the things most important to me – family, love, faith – and I have allowed my mind to be cluttered with the supposed importance of various accouterments to Life and have, in the meantime, lost the focus on the importance of living Life itself. Have you ever reached a point where you're coasting? On cruise-control – your body gets up, goes to work, eats, plays with the kids, watches TV, goes to bed, does it all over – but your mind, your heart, your Soul is apparently out of the office? It's an unnerving feeling to come to the realization that that's where I am mainly because it makes me think about what Life I've missed while in zombie mode. Have I hampered my relationship with my kids? Have I hurt my wife in some way? Have I been rude? Have I been selfish? Have I ignored, pushed aside, disregarded, overlooked, mismanaged, mishandled, damaged, thwarted, or impaired? I have an idea that it's been kind of okay, but I really have no idea because I've been absent.
Admitting your guilt is the first step to recovery, many would say. So, Guilty. Having somehow awakened recently to a life of sleep-walking I feel an urgency to correct, an eagerness to fix, to repair, to mend. I have taken a sabbatical from Facebook for a month starting yesterday. There is nothing wrong with Facebook. In fact, many more people would read this post if I posted it on Facebook. What's wrong with it in my life is that I have allowed it to distract me. Every day I read a story that gets me all revved up about injustice in the world, how ignorant people can be, how dishonest politicians are now, how messed up our world is in general. And then I go home and tell my wife about it, I get irritated, allow that to affect my attitude with my kids. The other thing that's wrong with Facebook in my life is that I get caught up. I post videos, I re-post articles, I comment, I like, I friend, I unfriend, how many likes did my picture get, how many comments have I gotten, what's going on in my friends' lives…these things begin to consume me, it consumes my time, it consumes my mind. It seems silly and petty when you write it out, but don't judge. Honestly look at yourself, reader. How many times a day do you check your Facebook? How do you compare yourself to your friends and contacts via Facebook? Tagging pictures, checking in, sharing, commenting. I never felt like I was one who would allow myself to get entangled, but I have. And now, it's time to loosen the noose that is strangling the Life out of me.
Is is only Facebook? Absolutely not! Something else that has taken a part of me is smoking. I smoked cigarettes for a number of years, eight I think. I quit a while ago, a year or so. Just about the time we started the process of looking for a house to buy, maybe the beginning of 2015, I started casually smoking again. Of course, that's not possible when you've been a smoker before. You fall right back into the habit. I wasn't smoking a lot, but it was taking away from my life. It was taking time from my wife and kids, it was taking time at work, and it was taking my health. Yet another thing that was distracting me. So, as of yesterday, I have quit again. Cold turkey is the only way I can go. It's hard, I get cranky, I get tired, but it's the only way for me. The struggle reminds me why I'm doing it. Reminds me that anything worth doing is never easy.
Now that I'm minimizing the things that I feel were distracting me, I have to be careful to replace them with something else. If you stop one bad habit, and don't replace it with a good one, you just start another bad habit…I've done it, I know! So, now I have to fill those voids with something. The things I'm focusing on are quite simply the opposites of those things that I felt were distracting me – instead of smoking, I'm focusing on healthy eating and I'm starting that with a juice cleanse (save the comments on whether or not you believe a juice cleanse is good for you, please); instead of Facebook, I'm focusing on writing my book that I started a long time ago and reading books that I've wanted to read for a long time, and most importantly I'm focusing on time with my wife and kids.
I know there's no switch you flip and all of a sudden are fixed! A lifestyle is comprised of a long string of daily decisions. This is not a lifestyle "diet", if you will, to make me lose a couple "pounds" and then go right back to the fattening, unhealthy stuff. This is, hopefully, the recognition of a need. That need is a long string of daily decisions. That need is to amend my lifestyle. This is a lifestyle choice, one that I will need to make many, many more times in the days, weeks, and years to come. Send me your vibes, your juju, your voodoo, your prayers, your mojo, whatever you have that you'd like to send my way to help me, I'll take it. No one that I know has ever been able to drastically change their lives on their own power. It takes a village to raise a child, and it takes the same to help a man change.
Maybe in a month, I'll update you on Facebook.


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Tech-savvy teachers push schools to new teaching apps
Nishat Kurwa Sep 6, 2013
https://www.marketplace.org/2013/09/06/tech-savvy-teachers-push-schools-new-teaching-apps/
Annual testing may be here to stay, but states are expected to have more leeway. PIERRE ANDRIEU/Getty Images
In public schools around the country, it's not uncommon for the same textbook to stay in classrooms for six or seven years. But the latest generation of teachers is finding ways to get their own teaching tools, online.
Public school teachers can't hit up Facebook and Twitter throughout the workday for help on the job. They're often blocked from accessing social media.
"What happens too often is that a teacher is basically on a lonely island in their classroom," says Michelle Best, a vice president at the education site Edmodo.
Sites like Edmodo are password protected for use inside schools. They provide everything from learning games to classroom management tools for frustrated teachers who can't tap the wilds of the internet.
"They don't have a safe means of collaborating and sharing content, ideas, building lessons together," says Best.
That's what Edmodo's built for. In fact, it looks and feels a lot like Facebook. And it's racked up 22 million users.
Adam Seldow is Chief of Technology for Chesterfield Public Schools in Virginia. He says so many teachers were already using Edmodo, it made sense to try it out district-wide. Especially because Chesterfield schools could scale up these digital learning tools for free.
"And we can now put the money toward excellent digital content," says Seldow, "which is really where the bread and butter is for teachers."
There's no charge for a lot of the Edmodo apps. But districts can pay for premium content — and that's where Edmodo makes its money.
That revenue potential has attracted investors like Jon Sakoda. He's a partner at the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates. He says the market for online instructional materials is worth at least $20 billion. But it's only in the last five years or so that startups have been able to compete with established publishing companies like McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin.
According to Sakoda, "Cloud computing and the internet enables students and teachers to try a product without ever talking to anyone, or having a salesperson show up."
All this disruption does hold risk for school districts, though. Administrators and teachers might commit to an online tool, only to see it disappear the next school year.
But if startups can continue to scale up for tens of thousands of students, they might just give Big Education a run for its money.
This story was produced by TurnstyleNews.com, a project of Youth Radio.
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Hiring program should be updated on the latest research. Also, significant is the increase of participation of married women with children under the age of six from 45% in 1980 to 63% in 1996, based on the 1998 statistics released by the U. My basic job role could be described as a telecommunications agent, with my duties including handling a number of calls for different clients, made up mainly of small order lines and charity donation lines. In addition, Motorola stated that most of the job sharing workers are women where most of them are unable to work as a full time workers according to their family life and commitments. Outrageous Employee Benefits: A Strategy to Keep Your People Happy Is Sound Business.
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Work-Family Benefits: Which Ones Maximize Profits? If there is a choice between work and their private lives work will most certainly loose. Office workers stare at the computer as much as at least eight hours a day, maintain the same posture for a long time, and because of lack of exercise, people are suffering from the bitter from occupational disease. According to Robert Taylor 2001 , over-work is considered as the mainly reason for the growth of ill health in both aspects. There are hundreds of problems about work and life that need people to cope with, and the invisible and potential stress is always surrounded in either workplaces or home. Work and Life Integration: Organizational, Cultural, and Individual Perspectives. Dinner and meals would at no cost be skipped- they provide a quality time for whole family to be together. Current issue According to the current work life balance issues in diversity management, it suggested it become an very popular issue to debate over the world and more people and management are paying attention to it, where it increases the conscious of people aware of this problem.
Organizations are still seeking to develop the diversity management, therefore, it is important to provide a positive workplace environment for employees as well as the equality. Life is and should be more fluid than that. In fact, there exist a significant deviation between the ideology of work-life balance between North-American and Chinese work practices and this will affect the applicability of research depending on the country and the culture present. The function of a literature reappraisal is to detect replies to a research job. Our colleagues willingly gave up their weekend for a leisurely and friendly welcome dinner. It measured the amount of time on the work compare with the time on spending with family or other leisure activities.
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It allows anyone reading the paper to set up why you are prosecuting this peculiar research plan. Public Policies In response to economic and cultural trends, many with focus on women and parents with children, a range of public policies supporting work-life balance has been developed. According to Robert Taylor 2001 , work-life balance is the existent relationship between the paid work and the lives people own without their jobs. But imbalance is killing people! Compared to a decade ago, 5 out of 100 companies have over half of their workers telework remotely from the office. Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 33 2 , 121-40. It will not be the typical classroom setting. Overwork breaks the balance and finally lead to stress and illness.
Concerning this, it is obvious that more flexibility is necessary in order to cover for the huge demand of goods and services. Abstract Achieving the balance between work and personal life is becoming increasingly difficult due to the pressure current society has placed on individuals. A short and valid measure of work-family enrichment. Broader set of skills is made available to the company. The issue of work life balance has taken attention of employers, researchers, executives, psychologists as well as a huge number of other professionals. Conclusions In conclusion, after discussing the assumptions and current issues of work life balance as well as the problems highlighted, it suggested that it is difficult to measure the effectiveness of work life balance.
They should learn that working is just part of life, work to live a better life, not live to work their life off!! It could be related to your personal life or career path. The telework report however, increased awareness among federal employees and media about the telework legislation. This should have been fulfilling, right? Survey data show that full-time workers show a decline in satisfaction with work and family balance. This is significant because nature, business, and people live in cycles Valadez, 2000. Difficulty in recruiting job sharers.


In a city as hectic as Paris, what could be more pleasant than taking a detour through one of the capital's historic passages couverts? Originally designed as the very first shopping malls in France following the revolution; with the rise of the middle and upper-middle class, these covered shopping districts offered a place for ladies to shop, protected from the elements, as well as from pick-pockets or disreputable men. Frozen in their early 19th century splendor, removed from the hustle and bustle of street traffic, these shopping arcades have welcomed pedestrians for over 200 years. A shelter from rain and wind, against heat or cold, Paris' passages couverts are always there to offer us respite.
Although almost all of Paris' 150 covered passages were destroyed during Haussmann's renovation of Paris, 24 remain in-tact and open to the public, all on the Right Bank. Read on to learn more about these architectural delights and follow our guide to discover them for yourself.
We begin this list with one of the oldest covered passages in Paris, built in 1799. With original light fixtures and decor, the atmosphere of Passage des Panoramas is sure to plunge visitors back in time.
Continuing northward from Passage des Panoramas, walkers crossing boulevard Montmartre will stumble immediately upon Passage Jouffroy. This is the first passage to have heated floors and steel structuring, an architectural revolution at the time.
After exiting Passage Jouffroy, walkers continuing northward will cross rue de la Grange Batalière and hit Passage Verdeau. This is one of Paris' most charming arcades with its antique dealers and other unusual shops.
This is Paris' chicest covered passage, with its gorgeous mosaic floor, glass ceiling, and luxurious high-end boutiques.
Connected to Galerie Vivienne, Galerie Colbert is the only one of Paris' covered passages that doesn't house shops or boutiques. Instead, it is home to the Institut Nationale d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA) and the Institut National du Patrimoine (INP), as well as several university research labs specializing in art history and French cultural studies. Open to the public, walkers are invited to wander freely before stopping for lunch at la brasserie du Grand Colbert, located near the entrance and famous for its Art Deco style. Heading south from either Galerie Vivienne or Galerie Colbert walkers can cross rue des Petits Champs to discover le passage des Deux-Pavillons, which leads to the Jardin du Palais Royale.
A short walk from the Jardin du Palais Royale lies Galerie Véro-Dodat. From 1966 to 2004, the affluent Tout-Paris swarmed the shop of Robert Capia, French actor and antique dealer. Nowadays, the upper-class elite have an equally spectacular store to visit, that of Christian Louboutin, who opened a boutique here last year.
Le Passage Grand-Cerf is one of the tallest and most beautifully lit passages in the capital, boasting a 12 meter high ceiling with an immense glass roof. Crossing rue Saint-Denis from its western entrance, strollers will arrive at le passage du Bourg-l'Abbé.
At 370 meters long, the Passage du Caire is not only the longest in Paris, but also one of the narrowest and oldest, built in 1798 and boasting a fishbone glass roof. Branching out from this passage lie Galerie Saint-Denis and Galerie Sainte-Foy. If exiting east through Passage Caire, walkers can turn left onto rue Saint-Denis and will see Passage du Ponceau immediately on their right. Afterward, head north on boulevard Sebastopol to hit le passage du Prado near the intersection of boulevard Saint-Denis.
This passage garnered much attention in the 70's when luxury brand Kenzo opened a boutique there, although later moving to nearby Place des Victoires. These days, the passage remains relatively calm, although it did undergo renovations in 2013. This passage intersects passage Sainte-Anne.
Although it extends from busy place de la République, this passage is relatively uninhabited by shops. It is still, however, one of the 19 covered passages of Paris classified as a historic monument.
This passage is known for the unique way in which its buildings are numbered. Starting at the eastern entrance, on rue Saint-Martin, building numbers increase on the right side of the passage. Then, once reaching the western-most entrance, the numbers continue to increase on the other side of the passage, creating a counter-clockwise path of increasing numbers. This passage is also one of the few that is uncovered.
Known as "Little India," Passage Brady is one of the few discontinuous passageways, cut in half by boulevard de Strasbourg since 1852. One half is covered by a glass roof and shelters Indo-Pakistani, Mauritian, and Reunionese restaurants and shops, while the other is open-air.
This L-shaped passage is home to several toy stores and video game shops, delighting young and old alike. It was the last one to be built during the Haussmann era.
Right off of busy place de la Madeleine, this small, quiet passage is a pleasant place to have a drink. Nearby, the uncovered passageway of le Village Royale is worth visiting, temporarily exhibiting sculptures along Cité Berryer. Until the end of April, 800 colorful umbrellas have been suspended above this tiny pedestrian street; an awe-inspiring promenade definitely worth exploring. To finish off your tour, head north to passage Puteaux, a short, 7-minute walk away.
This large passage formerly housed fish shops and model railroading stores. It was rebuilt in the 90's to keep up with the surrounding hustle and bustle of the Saint-Lazare/Opéra area and is now a modern shopping mall, housing 40 shops on two floors.


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Retiring councillors reception and variety concert keep...
Retiring councillors reception and variety concert keep Mayor busy
Council Published on 20 Nov 2015
A reception for retiring councillors and a variety concert by Steve Perry to raise funds for the Mayor's charities are among the dates in the mayoral diary next week.
Monday 23 November: The Mayor, Mayoress and Deputy Mayor will welcome guests and formerly open the book launch of The Heritage History of Bainse Rajputs in the Reception Room, Town Hall, Bridge Street, Peterborough between 11.15am and 1pm.
Monday 23 November: The Mayor, Mayoress and Deputy Mayor will welcome the past Mayor and retiring councillors to a reception and Alderman Award Presentation evening. The Mayor will say a few words and present a gift to those councillors who have retired or who were not elected. In addition, there will be a Honorary Alderman Award presentation to former councillor Pamela Kreling. Councillor David Over will also be at the event as the retiring Mayor.
The evening will take place in the Reception Room, Town Hall, Bridge Street, Peterborough between 6.30pm and 8.30pm.
Tuesday 24 November: The Mayor and Mayoress will attend a Celebration Event of Guiding in the Dogsthorpe, Millfield and Park areas of the city. The Mayor will make a speech to open the event. They will be joined in the celebrations by Peterborough Rainbows, Brownies and Guides and their leaders. The event will start with a short celebration in All Saints' Church followed by fun activities and refreshments in the church hall. The evening will take place at All Saints' Church, Park Road, Peterborough between 5.45pm and 7.45pm.
Wednesday 25 November: The Mayor and Mayoress will attend a VIP Reception Corporate Partnership launch. This will promote Vivacity's Corporate Offer to businesses with a mini tour of the Vaults including wine tasting. The visit will take place at Peterborough Museum, Priestgate, Peterborough between 6pm and 8pm.
Wednesday 25 November: The Mayor, Mayoress and Deputy Mayor will attend the 'Your Army' Reception and Briefing by the Army Engagement Team and Brigadier J Bourne OBE. The Army Engagement Group tours the country talking to a wide variety of people to give a greater understanding of the British Army. The Deputy Mayor will visit the event between 6.30pm and 9pm and the Mayor and Mayoress will attend between 8pm and 9pm. The presentation will take place at Thomas Deacon Academy, Queens Garden's, Peterborough.
Saturday 28 November: The Deputy Mayor will make a speech and propose a toast at the End of Year Celebrations. This event has been organised by Extended Hands, a not for profit organisation that supports vulnerable and isolated women in Peterborough. Extended Hands plans activities that reduce social exclusion, improves social capital within the community and enhances women's well-being. This celebration meal has been organised for the most vulnerable women and their children and the event will take place at the Millennium Centre, Dickens Street, Peterborough between 2.15pm and 4pm.
Sunday 29 November: The Mayor and Mayoress will attend Steve Perry's Variety Concert. The concert is to support and raise funds for the Mayor's charities. These are Age UK Peterborough, Hope into Action, Scout and Guide Movement and Combined Cadet Force. Tickets are still available by contacting Helen at mayorscharities@civicpeterborough.co.uk or 07506 388718. The concert will take place at The Parkway Club, Maskew Avenue Peterborough between 10.30am and 3.30pm.
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Economical for short run of production parts that require wide range of operations to be performed. Scalable volumes from one to 100,000.
Prototypes generally large and bulky parts are economical by CNC prototyping compared to rapid prototyping processes because most of RP proprietary materials are expensive.
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Need to spend considerable time for programming before actual machining.
Sometime sharp corners are difficult to machined due to cutter radius which need to be sharpened by secondary operation.
Undercuts are difficult to machine so sometimes parts need to be made in sections and glued to accommodate undercut features.
Deep and narrow pockets/slots could be difficult to machine due to cutter size constrains.
Some features, such as square cornered keyways or undercuts, can be difficult to machine and may involve the use of EDM or wire EDM.
CNC machined vs. rapid prototype parts?
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WayKen stocks a variety of production-grade plastics and various metals that are available in the sheet stock we use in our process. While WayKen's material choices are much broader than those available with rapid prototyping, they are nevertheless more limited than in injection molding. Most materials are available in only one or two grades and in one or two colors — typically Black and Natural or White. Some materials are only available in certain thicknesses. Your quote will allow you to evaluate the cost of different material choices. You can view the materials available that visit our Material Selection page.
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Saves set up time, increasing machining productivity.
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Work pieces are not moved through several workstations, reduces error and fixturing costs, less time hand benching.
Milling and drilling with compound angles. Improved tool life and cycle time as a result of tilting the tool/table to maintain optimum cutting position and constant chip load.
Shorter and more rigid tools may be used. Higher spindle speeds and feed rates may be achieved while reducing the load on the cutting tool.
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WayKen's in house prototype finishing is capable of providing the best post-finish including assembling & form fitting, fastening & metal inserting, sanding & polishing, blasting & brushing, painting & printing. We also offer a wide array of specialty surface treatments, including laser etching, anodizing, electroplating, chroming, chemical finishing, powder coating, etc. To provide a fast emulated prototype as same as the final product to client, we support one-stop surface finishing operations for client's convenience.
Can WayKen provide optical quality on my transparent parts?
Yes. We combine the machining capabilities of the best combined 3-axis, 4-axis or even 5-axis CNC milling machines. We also have adopted the latest diamond machining technology in ultra-precision manufacturing. This is a technique called Single Point Diamond Machining (SPDM or SPDT) that can match the ability of 5-axis micro-milling to produce a range of lens and light guides types of excellent optical quality in an array or freeform pattern. With the rich polishing experience, we can get amazing appearance on both inside and outside of the parts, providing fully support to clear and optical prototype development projects.
What are the material choices for WayKen's CNC machining?
Vacuum casting (also known as polyurethane casting) can be used to closely simulate final injection molded parts or finished products. Generally, molds are made from silicone rubber and use a CNC or SLA part as a master pattern. These molds duplicate details and textures and give consistent finishes from one part to the next. You can get production-like results including mechanical properties, colors, and finishes.
What is the difference between RTV molding and silicone tooling/cast urethane?
RTV molding and silicone tooling are synonymous terms for the same process. RTV (room temperature vulcanized) describes the kind of silicone used in the mold making process.
Why it is important to have a quality standard master?
The quality of the casting parts is determined by the quality of master pattern.When the requirement of a client comes to high tolerance, glossy finish or even optically clear parts, the master pattern will be manufactured with CNC machine which is characterized with high specification precision machining and high-quality surface finish.
In the meantime, we also can paint parts surface for texture or satin effect to simulate the final mold texture of the product. The silicone molds will copy the details and textures from the original master, so the casting parts will come out the same as the master without any extra finish on the surface.
What is the mold life for a silicon mold?
The service time of the silicone mold is directly related to the complexity of the casting part. Generally, it outputs 12-15 pieces before degradation. If the structure of the part is simple, one mold might be able to cast 20 parts; while if the part requires high quality such as the clear complicated part, one mold can only make 12 or even 10 casting parts.
How to create a silicone mold?
The master needs to be stuck with some thin films to make the mold easier to be cut, which will act as a seam for the final mold.
The master model is suspended in a box with the gates and vents attached; risers are put on the part to allow air to escape from the final mold.
Silicone is poured around the master and vacuum is used to remove all air. This then is cured in an oven, at a temperature of 40℃. It generally takes 8-16 hours depending on the volume of the mold.
Once the silicone rubber has cured, the box and risers are removed; as the master is removed from the silicone to form a cavity, a complete silicone rubber mold is made.
What material you use for vacuum casting?
WayKen offers various materials to meet your applications, including Hei-Cast from Japan and Axson from France. Materials with certain properties are similar to engineering production plastics, such as ABS, PMMA, PC, PP, PA, and so on. Casting parts can be varied from transparent, translucent to colored and from soft rubber to hard plastic. Various materials contain those impact resistant, high temperature resistant (120℃) or fire resistant (UL94-V0), and glass filled resins and different hardness silicone.
How to do the urethane casting process?
First-phase preparation, the silicone mold is placed in an oven and heated to 60°C-70°C.
Assemble the mold before casting the polyurethane. Choosing right mold-release agent (and using it properly) is very important to avoid stickiness and surface defects.
Prepare the polyurethane resins to preheat it to about 40°C before use. Mix two-component resins in exact proportions, and then fully stir and degas for 50-60 seconds under vacuum.
The resin is poured into the mold inside the vacuum chamber under computer control, and cured again in the oven. Average cure time: 1-3 hours for small parts and 3-6 hours for big parts.
Remove the resin part from the silicone mold after cured. Remove the gates and vents; leave an exact copy of the original.
What tolerances can WayKen vacuum casting hold?
We provide a standard tolerance on ± 0.15mm/100mm, with the highest precision able to reach ± 0.05 mm.
What is a typical lead time for this process?
Lead times are always dependent on current shop capacity and the individual project, however, a standard lead time for the silicone tooling and cast urethane process is 2 weeks for the first article shipment.
What kind of production can apply vacuum casting?
Can urethane parts be used as final products for end users?
Yes they can, and they are. While this process is utilized for prototyping more often than not, often customers will use this as a bridge tooling process to get product out into the market while production tooling is being made. For very specialized products, such as medical devices, this process is used for production as very low up-front cost is attractive for short runs. Production quality appearance and urethanes developed for the purpose of functionality make this process great for end use.
Rapid injection molding known as Rapid Tooling is one of the real injection molding way that can solve the first hundreds of Trial production before mass production. Rapid injection molding is striving for low volume injection molding parts by using rapid tooling or soft mold. In prototype area we call it prototype injection molding because this is the easy molding way without complex hot or cool runners which will reduce the cost compare to mass production mold, but can use the real injection molding material for production all the same. When your production tooling won't be ready for months, rapid tooling is a great way to receive parts quickly and inexpensively.
Our rapid injection molding process bridges the gap between prototype and production, so you can get your functional and form-fit tests done quicker, and it allows you to show potential consumers and salesmen a definitive finished product, and lets any issues to be discovered and corrected well before them transferred to manufacturing. With our industry leading process, we can build your mold and ship an unlimited quantity of parts until your production tooling is ready.
What are the cost-saving mold manufacturing processes for WayKen?
In order to fully satisfy the need of rapid production and cost reduction, normally we utilize the Master Unit Die (MUD) systems to quickly change mold bases which are proven to save tooling time and reduce costs. Even more importantly, engineering changes involve only the MUD mold insert, not an entire standard mold base. You can also group several similar parts together on what is known as a family tool for greater savings. In addition, manual or semi-automatic inserts are also often used in rapid mold tooling.
What are the advantages of WayKen's rapid aluminum tooling?
With optimized mold designing and machining, our aluminum molds have far exceeded its projected tool lifespan. A 100,000 product life expectancy can be achieved with aluminum cavities.
Aluminum can be used to make MUD molds, which mean lower tooling costs and faster production changeovers, and offer the remarkable flexibility approach for just-in-time scheduling.
Faster machining efficiencies of aluminum allows us to machine the mold directly, for instance, the ribs, radius, sharp edges and so on. It shortens the time to do EDM and Wire EDM treatment.
Aluminum is a very strong conductor of heat. Quicker cooling generally means substantially reduced cycle time and faster parts, and allows us to process without machining some cooling channels.
Aluminum tools are easier to machine than steel tooling. So iterative design changes or creating modifications are typically less burdensome and less cost impact.
Are there limitations to rapid injection tooling?
No! At WayKen we do not cut out any steps from conventional tooling or molding. By use of common mold components, state of the art equipment and a well trained staff coupled with an unsurpassed process flow, give us the competitive edge over our competition and the ability to call our injection molding process rapid.
How does WayKen ensure the quality of my parts?
WayKen takes a proactive approach to plastic projects, providing cost-effective and rationalized advice from designs, materials, production processes, manufacturability, etc. We determine your best pathway to the marketplace based on your project's goals and expectations. Our engineers and master molders can make this process less painful and time consuming to make sure your part can be molded as intended, from the start.
Once your order is confirmed, we will perform a full Design for Manufacturing (DFM) review to point out any issues that our engineers feel may affect the quality of your parts.
All incoming materials will meet your design specifications.
Final inspection reports before shipment.
We have the ability to share inspection data with you in real-time so we can work together to address any quality issues you may have during production.


Young adults are having a hard time moving on post breakup.
A new report from the Pew Research Center finds nearly half (47%) of twentysomethings, ages 18-to-29, admit to "checking up" on their exes on social media, including Facebook (NASDAQ: FB). Only 31% of this same age group say they post details or pictures from a date. Those ages 30 to 49 were checking up on exes less frequently at 31%, compared to 16% of those ages 50 to 64, and 7% of those aged 65 and up.
It can be understandable that former flames would want to know what their exes are up to, but dating experts say this habit can make it harder to move on.
The popularity of cyber snooping on exes has grown because it's easy to do and doesn't leave a paper trail, says dating coach Donna Barnes.
"The lure is just overpowering because it's just so easy," Barnes says. "There is hope that you will feel better if you do this, but it rarely has that feeling." She adds that most exes aren't looking to make sure the other person is faring well, and it's more about a competition to see who appears to be in the lead post-breakup.
Prenups on the rise… but why?
The amount of time we spend in front of a computer makes it tempting to do a quick search on a former significant other, so Barnes offers some simple advice to tale away the enticement: de-friend all exes.
For those that still have the urge, think about what would happen if the person found out about the actions. Barnes says if checking up couldn't be done anonymously, most people wouldn't do it.


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Man leaves a woman
To get some peace and quiet.
He hallucinates.
I live in perpetual confoundment of Bob Dylan songs containing the name Angelina. (There are two, but they're both strong confounders) The first of the two, "Farewell Angelina" from 1965, went unreleased until it appeared on the Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 installation in 1991. The second, "Angelina," from 1981, appears on the same collection, having been left of the album "Shot of Love." "Farewell, Angelina" was possibly intended for inclusion on the album "Bringing It All Back Home," and to me it carries that same kind of sour-tongued fever dream Book of Revelations daytime nightmare feeling as "Gates of Eden." Lyrically, it feels like a dress rehearsal for "Desolation Row" and its rogue's gallery of hallucinatory Fellini extras. I say that I am confounded because neither "Farewell Angelina" nor "Angelina" yield their secrets easily. It might be that there are none, though I feel more confident saying that about the older song than the newer. Whatever Dylan thought of it, I don't know, but most of the exposure that the song has had to the public has been from Joan Baez, who named one of her albums after the song and has performed it often. Here is the song, deconstructed:
What Dylan must do: Go, follow the sound of triangles, leave, leave, be gone, go where it's quiet.
What the sky is doing: being on fire, trembling, folding, changing color, being embarrassed, erupting.
Other nouns and verbs: Bandits (stealing bells of the crown), triangles (tingle), trumpets (play slow), jacks and queens (left the courtyard), 52 gypsies (walking past the guards), deuce and ace (ran wild), cross-eyed pirates (shooting cans), neighbors (clapping for the pirates), King Kong and elves (dancing the tango on the rooftops), makeup man (hands shut dead people's eyes), machine guns (roaring), puppets (throwing rocks), fiends (attaching bombs to clock hands), Angelina (Calling Bob whatever she wants)
Posted by Robert MacMillan at 11:39 AM
Labels: 1965, Farewell Angelina, The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991
David George Freeman March 6, 2017 at 9:33 PM
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Gender Gap – How India Fares
by Centre for Social Research November 1, 2016 December 2, 2016
And it what can definitely be termed as progress, as per World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2016, India has climbed 21 spots to rank 87th, which is a definite improvement from being 108 in 2015. The improvement in ranking, the report says, is driven largely by major improvements in education, where it has managed to close its gap entirely in primary and secondary education. With this jump in ranking, India has now overtaken China which is ranked 99th out of 144 countries. Iceland tops the latest rankings followed by Finland, Norway and Sweden.
The report measures gender gap as progress towards parity between men and women in four areas – educational attainment, health and survival, economic opportunity and political empowerment. On education attainment India has made moved up from 125th rank in 2015 to 113th in 2016. On economic participation and opportunity too, India has moved up to 136th rank in 2016, from 139th. But on health and survival, it has made little progress moving up by a mere one place over last year to rank 142nd in the world. On political empowerment it continues to be ranked 9th in the world, which is a major achievement.
When asked the reasons behind such sharp improvements, a WEF official said the Global Gender Gap Report uses data from UNESCO for the primary school enrolment and secondary school enrolment indicators. Their data is updated periodically for all countries and last went through a major update for India in 2015. The new data indicates that India has indeed closed its gender gaps in these two areas. However, enrolment in both primary and secondary education (for boys and girls) needs to be improved, the official said.
Gender gap in different domains is a very serious issue, and remains both a cause and effect of female subjugation across the world. While we are happy with the progress that India has made with respect to its ranking last year, we can't help but point out that we're still lagging far behind in the global stage.
All aspects of gender gap as delineated by WEF need to be considered individually, as well as in relation to each other. We had earlier written about pay gap, which is an issue which affects every country. Just last week, Iceland made headlines across the world, when women protested the 14% pay gap between men and women by leaving work earlier. Political empowerment, health, and educational attainment, are also serious issues, which need to be addressed separately, as well as in tandem, so as to lessen and eventually remove the gender gap completely. Only when women are treated on par with men in all domains, can we truly move towards being a gender just society.
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' To find out other theories about its origin and also to see some photos, check out: Calle de los Suspiros. Museo Portugués (Portuguese Museum) This Portuguese house dates back to 1720 with some Spanish influence added at the end of the same century.
It displays 18th century furniture and ceramics as well as weapons that the Portuguese and Spanish used at the time.
Once where a factory was, the only remaining part is a tall brick chimney.
The area now contains a cultural center and if for whatever reason you cannot enter - you need to go through the cultural center's doors - you can get another great view from the yachting club wharf.
The house has been restored to recreate the way people lived in the colonial period. Museo Municipal (Council Museum) Another Portuguese construction dating to the first half of the 18th century, this building had a second floor added to it in the Spanish period (1801).
The building was known as Admiral Brown's house but he may never have actually owned it, just used it. Casa del Virrey (Viceroy's House) Ruins of the magnificent Portuguese House of the Virrey. Museo del Azulejo (The Tile Museum) If you like tiles or collect them yourself, then you will want to visit this museum dedicated exclusively to tiles.
Schaber Sacramento County Courthouse or you can contact the California Department of Justice On October 1, 2013 the Sacramento Superior Court began charging public entities the statutory fee rate for regular and certified copies in criminal and traffic cases.
For more information, some photos and a video from the top of the lighthouse, check out our Lighthouse of Colonia page. Museo Casa Nacarello (Nacarello's House Museum) This Portuguese house dates back to the beginning of the 18th century still has its original stone walls and floor.For non-criminal cases, local and state entities outside of California will be charged for regular and certified copies.The fees have been implemented pursuant to Government Code Sections 7063 If you need to speak with someone you may call 916-874-8881.You will be notified (by mail or phone) should the cost exceed .00.Checks and money orders should be made payable to "Sacramento Superior Court" and mailed to: Sacramento Superior Court 720 9th Street, Room 101 Sacramento, CA 95814 Attention: Criminal Correspondence Unit.
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Traces of History
By Brian PJ Cronin on July 3, 2015 Comments Off on Traces of History
Group show opens at the Howland Cultural Center
By Brian PJ Cronin
For over 10 years, Dia staff has come together on their own to organize an annual art show featuring their own works. This year's show, Traces, opens at the Howland Cultural Center at 477 Main St. in Beacon with an opening reception on Friday, July 3, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
"I really wanted a venue in which we could have it up for a longer period of time," explained Joanna Ferrin, who took on the task of organizing the show this year. "In the previous venues, the show was only up for three or four days, but this year the show will be up for a month. But I also wanted a space that we could dance in, and have a nice big opening reception."
Ferrin chose the theme Traces in order to honor not only the history of Beacon, but the vast cultural history that she and her co-workers get to experience at their day jobs. "I wanted a theme that was really ephemeral and related to what the city of Beacon was about," she explained. "Beacon is making a comeback, but that comeback is built upon the traces of the past. We are influenced so much by the art that's around us at work, but also the work that we see from all of the artists in Beacon, and that culminates in the traces we see in our work."
"In Lies the Problem" by Riana Casas, part of the show "Traces" at the Howland Cultural Center
Those traces of history weave throughout the show in surprising ways. Take the triptych of photos by Jesus Pacquing, for example. The striking black-and-white shots feature female DJs in states of meditative focus and rapture. The cross-faders and turntables may signal the modern age, but their poses and the arrangement recall triptyches of saints that one might stumble upon inside a Renaissance-era church in a back alley in Venice.
Matt Held's "Float of the Medusa" is a playful takeoff of Théodore Géricault's "Raft of the Medusa," only the shipwrecked sailors have been replaced with drunken Vikings surrounded by disgruntled Boy and Girl Scouts, the raft has been switched out for a parade float, and the entire frame is filled with confetti. And the Romantic-like paintings on wreathed woodcuts by Katelyn Stamper look like they could have been taken from an abandoned 18th-century cottage deep in the woods that that has long since been overtaken by nature.
There are traces of the local landscape as well, from the swirling horizons in Claire Lofrese's work that suggest views of the Hudson River and the Hudson Highlands on a foggy March morning to Kathleen Anderson's "Main Central Vertical Flow: Hudson River." In Anderson's painting, the river is superimposed over a painting of the human spine, with river towns standing in for the primary chakras that flank the spine: Beacon and Newburgh for the solar plexus chakra, New Paltz and Poughkeepsie for the heart chakra, and so on.
Not all of the artwork featured is static. Dan Wolfe will be premiering a new video by his band Breakfast in Fur, who recently played at Beacon's Riverfest. John Nobile will be presenting both video and canvas works. And the installation by Riana Casas entitled "In Lies the Problem" encourages the viewer to collaborate in the continued creation of the work. A thicket of dangling ropes made out of prints contains lies that Casas has written down.
"Main Central Vertical Flow: Hudson River" by Kathleen Anderson
On the walls are new prints in which the viewer is encouraged to write additional lies. Those prints will then be turned into new ropes and added to the instillation. "It represents how we get tangled up in our own lies and that relates to the feeling of vertigo you get as you stand beneath it," said Ferrin.
Even some of Ferrin's co-workers who come from an art-history as opposed to a studio-arts background were inspired to create work for the show as well, so that they could participate in the exhibit. Ferrin explains this is fitting, since it's the show's deep roots in history that bring it all together.
"No matter what type of medium they're in or what type of subject they have, they all have a common thread, which is that they're very rooted in art history," she said. "I feel like even if we didn't work together and we just knew each other from town, that connection would still come about — that connection between being an artist and the very fruitful environment we're in here that allows us to express that."
Photos courtesy of Joanna Ferrin
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In the Capital Market
Vol. 28, Issue No. 3-4, 16 Jan, 1993
Updated on 16 January 1993
Oswal Fats and Oils
Oswal Fats and Oils Oswal Fats and Oils is a profit-earning and dividend-paying company engaged in the manufacture of fatty acids, stearic acid, industrial oil, de-oiled cake, edible oil, toilet soap and distilled glycerines. The company's Rs 10 paid-up equity share had a book value of Rs 83.51 as on March 31, 1992 and an earnings per share of Rs 37.28. Profit after tax was Rs 14.90 crore against a turnover of Rs 71 crore. Oswal Fats is diversifying in the field of paper and vanaspati ghee. It is setting up a 33,000 tonne writing and printing paper mill and a vanaspati unit of the same capacity at Shahi in Pilibhit, UP. The project will be implemented in two phases at a cost of Rs 162,54 crore. The first phase, to cost Rs 121.41 crore, is to be financed with a rights-cum-public issue of equity shares at a premium aggregating Rs 97 crore, issue of non-convertible debentures with detachable warrants aggregating Rs 7.50 crore and internal accruals amounting to Rs 16.90 crore. The second phase is to cost Rs 41.13 crore and is to be financed through issue of equity shares on exercise of option by warrant holders amounting to Rs 15 crore and through internal accruals amounting to Rs 26.13 crore. The paper project will be purely an agro-based project and envisages use of agro-based raw materials like bagasse and rice/wheat straw, etc, instead of wood- based raw materials which are difficult to procure and entail high cost. UP is the country's largest rice producing state and rice/wheat straw is available in plenty. Bagasse is also available from sugar mills situated within a radius of 30 km from the plant. The technology to manufacture writing and printing paper using bagasse straw as primary raw material is well established in the country. The main raw material for production of vanaspati ghee, viz, cotton seed oil, rice bran oil, til oil, rapeseed and mustard oil, etc, are all available indigenously. The company is entitled to exemption of sales tax liability up to Rs 18,169.46 lakh for a period of nine years on implementation of the above projects which are expected to result in a quantum jump in turnover and profitability. In the year 1994-95, the first year of full production of the proposed projects, the EPS is expected at Rs 23.94. In order to part finance the diversification, the company is entering the capital market with a public issue of equity shares. While the premium for the rights offer has been fixed for Rs 90 per share, the same for the public offer has been fixed at Rs 110 per share. The rights issue will aggregate Rs 40 crore. The public issue will total Rs 57 crore, including reservation for NRIs aggregating Rs 951 lakh. The public issue will open for subscription on February 9.
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Personally, I'm not a big fan of SUVs. Slightly because I'm still a 'boy-racer' at heart and mostly because I'm not married and have kids yet. But if I was married and had kids I would definitely go for Ford's latest installment of it's full-size SUV - The all-new 2018 Ford Expedition. All jokes aside, this SUV is spacious... like super-roomy spacious. A small-person can definitely do a back flip in there once you lay all the seats down. Besides being spacious, Ford's new SUV is more rugged than your typical three-row crossover and it feels as if you were travelling in a coach, once again thanks to its spacious ergonomics. Based on the traditional F150 Pickup truck frame, the Expedition is our top pick if you need a full-size SUV that can haul a family (or families) from one destination to another and back - comfortably. It seats up to eight people, has a powerful turbocharged V6 engine and can tow more than 4,000kgs. Family trips have never been more exciting.
Inside, the cabin looks and feels great. Its quality build may surprise you with materials that are nicer than most of its rivals. In higher trims, the level of luxury is more on par with its luxurious sibling Lincoln than with what you'd expect in a ford. Standard features in the Expedition include a nine-speaker audio system, satellite radio, four USB ports and Ford's famous SYNC connectivity system with a 4.2-inch display screen, Bluetooth and voice recognition. But for a little extra 'faloos', you can opt for a 12-speaker Bang & Olufsen audio system, wireless charging, a Wi-Fi hotspot, navigation, rear-seat entertainment and the SYNC 3 infotainment system with Apple Carplay, Android Auto and an 8-inch touchscreen. "But wait! There's more!" - The Expedition has more-than-average cargo space, even by the standards in its class. With all seats in use, you get 20.9 cubic feet of space which jumps to 63.6 cubic feet with the third row folded and 104.6 cubic feet with the second and third rows folded.
The new look is the most obvious change. The new Expedition matches the looks of Ford's other crossovers and pick-up trucks. The Expedition is the also biggest SUV among its competitors and honestly, it shows. Measuring at 81.6" in width and 210" in length, it looks like a behemoth driving on the road but at the same time quite easy to drive and look out of. Think of it as an F-150 pick-up truck but with more seats and with a cohesive shape that looks both modern and conservative. I personally like the arrow-straight beltline which in a way contributes to the open sensation in the cabin. Well done Ford.
Unlike most large SUVs in its segment that feature a loud, heavy, thumping V8 engine - the Expedition features a more environmentally friendly 'Eco-Boost' twin-turbo V6. But don't let that fool you since the V6 it carries generates plenty of power - 375 to 400 horsepower, depending on the trim level. Surprisingly it also provides quicker acceleration than you'll get from most of its rival. Thanks to a well-matched 10-speed automatic transmission, it allows the engine to reach its full potential. Ride quality is generally pleasant, which isn't always the case for a body-on-frame SUV but Ford has managed to pull that off remarkably well. Though in my opinion, it doesn't exactly put the "sports" in sports utility vehicle, the rear-wheel-drive Expedition has a respectable amount of agility for a large vehicle as long as you don't go full 'Schumacher' around corners. Even when it came down to soft off-roading, it handled the terrain gracefully with almost zero hesitation.
The new Expedition shares virtually nothing with its predecessor and is definitely a clear leap forward in terms of power, refinement and capability of over the outgoing model. With a starting price of just BD15,995, It's easy to see why other manufacturers are having a tough time competing with the Ford Expedition. It gives you all that you'd expect from a full-size SUV: tons of interior space, great cargo and a smooth ride for you and your family.


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Die Spiele der Frankophonie () umfassen unterschiedliche Kunst- und Sportwettbewerbe in verschiedenen französischsprachigen Ländern, die seit dem Jahr 1989 ausgetragen werden.

Ziele
Die Satzung der Spiele der Frankophonie definiert ihre Ziele wie folgt:
 Sichtbarmachung der Gesamtheit der frankophonen Länder und ihnen die Rückwirkungen aller Art zu sichern,
 die Annäherung von Ländern zu erlauben, die den Gebrauch des Französischen gemeinsam haben,
 das Besondere der frankophonen Kultur bekannt zu machen, sowohl in seiner Einheitlichkeit als auch in seiner Verschiedenheit und den kulturellen und künstlerischen Austausch zu entwickeln,
 beizutragen zur Vorbereitung des frankophonen sportlichen Nachwuchses auf die großen Sportveranstaltungen der Zukunft,
 die Jugend und besonders die Frauen der Länder in Bewegung zu bringen, die das Französische teilen, durch die Teilnahme an der Entwicklung der kulturellen und sportlichen Aktivitäten dieser Länder und das Beitragen zur internationalen Solidarität,
 beizutragen zur Förderung der französischen Sprache.

Veranstaltungen
 1989:  Casablanca und Rabat – 8. bis 22. Juli – 38 Nationen
 1994:  Paris/Évry-Bondoufle – 5. bis 13. Juli – 45 Nationen
 1997:  Antananarivo – 27. August bis 6. September – 30 Nationen
 2001:  Ottawa-Gatineau – 14. bis 24. Juli – 51 Nationen
 2005:  Niamey – 7. bis 17. Dezember – 44 Nationen
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Haydren sighed; he needed to play. The two greatest gifts he had received since enrolling in the School were a small harp and the lessons to be able to play. Often, when frustration overwhelmed him, the music would calm him. He sat up, reaching under the bed to retrieve the instrument. After pulling it out, he leaned back and rested his fingers on the strings. He closed his eyes, and began with a familiar slow tune as he allowed his thoughts to drift.
The song took him back to a broad plain, with the wind sweeping through the grasses. He was sitting on a newly bundled sheaf, the smell of fresh-cut hay in his nostrils. A few broken bits of straw drifted on the breeze. In his mind, beside him, a man of nearly thirty worked with a scythe; a man with bright chestnut hair, and dark black eyebrows.
Haydren opened his eyes, stilling the strings. Something was tugging at him, something about the notes he had just played. Still without looking at the harp, and as he tried to return in his mind to the images he had just seen, he played tentatively.
The notes that followed were notes he had never been taught, but that rang in him with a familiarity that brought tears to his eyes. He knew there were lyrics attached to the song, lyrics about war and grief – but he could not remember them. He played the song over and over, the notes purging him of all thoughts yet leaving him with a sense of fullness that welled in his eyes. He played until exhaustion tripped his fingers upon the strings; he stopped before the discordant notes shattered the delicate construction within him. The notes continued ringing in his ears long after he stopped playing, and they continued to echo through his dreams that night.


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LPL Financial and IHT Wealth Management Welcome Ric Kellogg
LPL Financial today announced that Ric Kellogg has joined LPL's broker/dealer platform and aligned with IHT Wealth Management (IHT), an independent advisory firm on LPL's hybrid registered investment advisor (RIA) platform. Kellogg reported that, based on prior business*, he served approximately $123 million of client brokerage and advisory assets, as of March 29, 2018.
Based in Southlake, Texas, Kellogg is a veteran financial advisor providing financial planning, wealth management and qualified plan consultation services. He holds his CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ designation, the Chartered Retirement Plans Specialist designation (CRPS®) and is a candidate for Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®).
"I always think about my clients' best interests in every aspect of my work, and that includes the firm I choose to partner with," said Kellogg. "By joining LPL and IHT, I have access to a broad range of products and services along with specialized resources and support that can enhance the service I can provide to my clients. In addition, I'm excited to partner with IHT to build their presence in Dallas and Las Vegas and to have the opportunity to mentor and collaborate with other advisors."
"The independent model continues to be an attractive alternative for advisors who are seeking more control and innovative solutions to serve investors' best interests," said Craig Kamis, LPL executive vice president, Business Development. "We welcome Ric to LPL and IHT. We are pleased he has chosen to move to our independent platform and that he can play a role in supporting IHT's continued growth."
"We are excited to welcome Ric to the IHT family and are looking forward to working with him to expand our presence in Dallas and Las Vegas, in addition to other offices opening in San Diego and Scottsdale over the next 60 days " said Steve Dudash, president of IHT. "At IHT, our goal is to create a network of entrepreneurial, like-minded advisors and provide their clients with the best specialized services in the marketplace. Ric is a great fit for IHT's culture and business model and we look forward to supporting him for years to come."
*Asset numbers reported are based on prior business and have not been independently and fully verified by LPL Financial.
LPL Financial and IHT Wealth Management are separate entities.


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1896 is where we start this episode. Don't worry, if you think my normal episodes get long at around an hour….imagine how long this is going to take! I'm joking – we're starting in 1896 with an idea, which will quickly evolve into a powerful reflection for you today.
You've probably seen, either in school or university lessons, or even the rare Linkedin or Facebook meme, that the world's wealth is quite unevenly distributed. In fact, there are very few individual people who have most of the wealth, which means that the vast majority of people have little to nothing of economic value to their name.
This is a pattern has become somewhat of a fascination for economists and regular people alike. It all began with an Italian guy called Vilfredo. I don't know whether he was smart, but what he taught us didn't come from smarts but from simple curiosity. He wanted to know, who owned all the land in Italy? So he did some research, and he found that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the citizens.
Like many ideas, this took time to spread. In fact, it was really through the work of Joseph M Juran, a Romanian immigrant to America, which brought this simple concept to life. During WWII, Juran was seconded to the government to improve supply chain management, when he came across this principle from Professor Wilfredo Pareto. It was Juran who gave it a name – the Pareto Principle – and coined the use of the short hand 80/20, to describe its basic insight.
The interesting thing is that Juran wasn't an economist. He was in fact better described as what we would now call a quantity management consultant, and much to my surprise he is probably responsible for much of the quality management thinking which we credit to W Edwards Deming. Anyway that's enough of a history lesson to get us started.
Since Pareto, and Juran, many others have explored this idea of the Pareto Principle, and found it can be observed in a remarkable number of situations, not always exactly 80/20, but in principle. Richard Koch made it even more famous when he wrote a business book about it.
What is the principle here? That there is a disproportionate relationship between many pairs of related but independent variables. For the real nerds out there, it describes a type of power law function in mathematics.
The Pareto Principle has been observed in a range of economic areas, like global individual wealth distribution I mentioned earlier, but sovereign wealth, quality defects (few defect types cause majority of quality costs/rework time), innovations (where only a few members of staff will provide the majority of innovation ideas), decision making (where only a small proportion of time in a meeting results in the majority of decisions), and complaints (where only a few aspects of your services will result in the majority of your complaints).
Where this gets interesting, is that it enables us to understand how to move away from slow and incremental improvement, to improvement which is disproportional to our time and effort.
How do you decide how you spend your time?
This is one of the most fundamental reflections in my life, and it seems to resonate with the people I coach and speak with.
How do you decide how you spend your time? If that's a hard one to digest, especially if you are listening to this say on the train early one morning, let's flip it around. I'm sure you have heard of people talking about the end of their life, right? A bucket list is a list of things someone wants to experience before they depart this world. Bucket lists usually start appearing in peoples thinking and conversation, and on their credit card bills spending their kids inheritance, when they realise there is a finite amount of time left in their life. Motivational speakers often trot out the line "what do you want to be remembered for? What do you want them to write on your headstone?". In Australia there is a wonderful charity called the Make a Wish Foundation, which effectively exists to give children with terminal illness the opportunity to have a dream come true because their precious time is so limited.
You see health and safety already incorporates elements of the Pareto Principle. Risk assessment is based on the idea that we need to prioritise our focus, and resources (including time) on the things which will cause harm. Now this gets into semantics of course, when we start seeing lots of focus in the high probability but low severity types of incidents, chasing slips and band aids and paper cuts. One of the many lessons we learn from major disasters is that we Pareto safety to focus on these more trivial things, and don't focus enough on the few things which will cause catastrophic incidents (which by the way, is an equally valid application of the Pareto Principle).
But it's not all about risk. As people who are, and have, limited resources, many of us subscribe to the ideas of management systems – create a replicable system for the entire organisation to use, to do things like manage risk. By extension, this involves identifying and enhancing competency, engaging stakeholders in the process, communicating clearly, reviewing and evaluating how we are going, and preparing for and learning from when things go wrong. We Pareto our time by creating systems which should give us replicable results. The thing is, sometimes we lose sight of the decision we made based on that principle, so we focus on the system as the outcome, as opposed to the system being the enabler of the outcome.
If you listen carefully, which I've only realised in retrospect, you will hear the Pareto Principle at work in so many of the Safety on Tap episodes you've listened to. Ep56 'Know your customer' encourages you to get laser focussed on who you are serving – makes sense that they're likely to embrace what you're trying to do if you understand and serve them, right? Ep28 and 29 with Rosa Carrillo on Relationship Centred Safety, is based on her Pareto Principle that investment in relationships will give you the biggest return in safety outcomes. Jen Jackson in Ep 22 had a few examples of her Pareto Principle – when you communicate, communicate like a human being. If you spend a little time pointing out the elephant in the room, you will save a bunch of time later not dealing with that issue. Ep23 with Tim Allred talks about leveraging your own learning through reflection – a little time reflecting, means a lot of learning. Charles Jennings expanded on this in Ep 36, explaining most learning comes from experiential and social sources, with information being only a small proportion. His Pareto logic is, focus your approaches to learning with this in mind, and you will get the greatest return.
It just keeps going on and on! In Ep 89 I reflected on the idea of creating time and space, and that if you do not much more than bring people together with even the loosest of intentions, they will get great value from that, versus other means of enabling collaboration. In Ep92 you heard me explore some of the emerging research from friends of the show Drew Rae and Dave Provan, which delineates a difference between things we do which actually affect the safety of work, versus things we call safety work which have other purposes. Drew Rae expanded on this idea in Ep95 explaining the term safety clutter, which gives a definition and a name to the sometimes numerous things we do which don't have any connection with real safety – the opposite of the Pareto Principle.
I could go on – it seems like the Pareto Principle emerges in so many things. But not without critique.
It's fair to say that I'm kind of guessing that a concept like the Pareto Principle applies in all these perspectives. That's true. The thing is that the Pareto Principle isn't about a clear mathematical rule, always 80/20. It has been proven in lots of different ratios, but the principle stays the same, which is that it shows a disproportionate relationship. This is what I want you to deeply reflect on – the few things that will give you the biggest result. Since you're listening, you must be a leader, who wants to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety right?
Another critique of the Pareto Principle, which is more of an obvious limitation, is that it is descriptive. It only describes the existing relationship. We know, that workers compensation premiums will drastically reduce if we really well manage a few individual open claims, & focus on a few causes of claims. But that doesn't help us manage catastrophic risk, because the data isn't there to support the relationship.
That's where you depending your professional competence will pay off. That's where you focussing on evidence based practice will pay off.
The final criticism of the Pareto Principle, and especially the way I'm talking about it, is that it is reductionist – it's simplifying what are otherwise complex variables and relationships. Dr Jason Fox an I waxed lyrical on this idea in our chat on Ep 96, which didn't particularly go anywhere, but that was kind of the point. Not everything can be reduced to a 5 step process, a 6 stage model, or even a few takeaways at the end of a podcast. I accept the reductionist criticism, if that's what you were thinking, since I have been guilty of generalising it without much support. That was my point I suppose, use it as a thought experiment. However, there is one variable to which the Pareto Principle applies without question.
The old adage is that safety people find it hard to show their value, since how can you value the cost or savings associated with things that don't happen?
This is where our understanding of the Pareto Principle links in with another economics concept.
In 1748 Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a young man, who asked for his advice. Ben's response was entitled 'Advice for a Young Tradesman'.
Benjamin Franklin is known for lots of quotes. This letter is a beauty, and describes what economics would later call 'opportunity cost'. Benjamin Franklin is also known for his more succinct quote on the same topic: Time is Money.
The economists describe opportunity cost as the relationship between scarcity and choice. When you make a choice, the potential benefits of other choices are no longer available – so they become a cost. Benny Franklin pointed out that the lazy worker doesn't just incur direct costs of his food and whatever else that day, but indirect costs associated with loss of income from half a days work.
As complex as life is, there is one simple variable to which the Pareto Principle applies universally. That, is time.
Life is a terminal condition, and it marches on relentlessly towards the end. I know that sounds morbid. But the simple fact is that time is limited, we can't get more of it, and we can't get it back from the past.
So here's the thrust of my message. Flip it around. What time have we got. And how are we spending it. What are the few things we can do, that will give us the biggest result. How can we Pareto our time.
Two examples from my life might help illustrate what I mean. Safety on Tap is one. I've always been passionate about health and safety, and frustrated with my perceived lack of impact. Part of that might have been me doing lots of safety work, busy work, but lots of it saw me using my skills and strengths to help other people. I only have 40 or 50 or shamefully sometimes 60 hours a week to make a difference in the world. Safety on Tap is a mission which enables me to try different things to turn my 40 odd hours into time that influences your 40-odd hours. If you listen to this podcast, and do one thing differently which makes one day of your week more effective, my one day of effort multiples by however many of you as individuals improve for the better. Is it Pareto? I don't know, but that's my hunch. I'd love to find out. Safety on Tap is designed to make the world a better place through disproportionate or drastic improvement. It's in our DNA.
The second example is a new adventure for me, a new quest. Two years ago I shared some public reflections and writing about me trying to make decisions about my career and business based on the things that will have the greatest impact. That logically started with small and medium business, because they are the almost-forgotten half of the economy when it comes to health and safety. They employ just as many people as big business, and struggle with what good health and safety looks like, get taken advantage of by snake-oil consultants and scare-mongering regulators. They are confused. I had a good crack at innovation in that space, and realised I was spread too thin, and not getting traction.
One part of that small business picture is primary production businesses – farmers, graziers, fishers, growers. This sector is almost always at the top of the scoreboard on fatalities, and the injury and illness iceberg is large beneath the surface of the water. Focussing on this sector was me focussing on the Pareto Principle – the space where I can have more impact.
But I was troubled because there is already lots of 'health and safety' effort in this space, but the results aren't changing. To me, it looks like good intentions, translating big corporate approaches to health and safety into scaled down, small, complex agricultural businesses, and a more questions than answers about what good looks like.
Long story short, if it wasn't long enough already, that has led me to spending part of my time launching a new industry collaboration. This is founded by the Rural Research and Development Corporations, whose responsibility it is to invest money on behalf of producers to undertake research and influence practice to drive improvement. Health and safety is only a part of their focus, but a number of changes in this new collaboration will mean we have a better chance of investing limited funding into better applied research which does give us answers to that question: 'what works?'.
Because, you see, we don't have time to waste. On average, every week, another person dies growing our food and fibre.
So I'm Pareto-ing part of my time to focus on that new mission, which I think will have the greatest potential for impact based on my limited time. I'm not saying I have all the answers, rather this is the best fit for my time and skill set to connect the right people, with the right questions, and some money, to create evidence for even more Pareto's – the few things that will have the greatest impact, across the entire agricultural sector. I've written an article which explains this in a little more detail if you want to have a read, the link is in the show notes.
You've heard some of my suggestions about this previously, like Ep 57 how to find more time in 2018, where I focus on email as one area you can change to get lots of time back – apply the Pareto Principle to one thing to get a disproportionate result. Nat Boehm Talked about this in Ep 70, in the context of health programs, where only a few things will make the biggest impact on your workforce only as long as you understand what those few things are for your specific workforce. And you can even apply the Pareto Pricniple to itself, where if you 80/20 the 80/20, you get 64% of your results from just 4% of your time or effort, kind of like a fractal which is a self-repeating pattern, like a snowflake . An example of that is back to Rosa's insights about relationship centred safety. If you don't focus much time on relationships now, starting will give you a great return. That's the first Pareto. But even inside that change, if you 80/20 which specific relationships you build, focussing on those critical influencers, leaders, decision makers, your results will be even greater.
Where does this all come back to, how does it all tie in together?
There are certain milestones in our lives which give us pause to reflect, and take stock. In the western world, one of those is in the lead up to the end of the calendar year, and for many Christian and non-christians alike, Christmas and the turn of the new year are two of those specific points. We give thanks. We take a little, or a lot of time off to rest, have fun, and recuperate.
We spend time with important people. We buy gifts and we give them freely, openly, and generously to those we love, whether that's family members, or strangers far away who benefit from our charitable donations. We have gratitude for what we've got.
We've all got the same number of hours in a day, days in a week, and most of us have a similar amount of time in our lives in total. But it disappears every day. I give thanks for the time I've got, and have benefited from reflecting on the Pareto Principle, and how I can apply it to my limited time. I hope the small amount of time I've taken to prepare this episode, and all of the work at Safety on Tap, has a disproportionate impact not just for you, but the global Safety on Tap community.
Is what you are doing now, today, this week, really the best use of my time?
What else could you be doing that will provide a more valuable return on your investment of time?
How do you decide what's important? What makes a difference? What will give you a result?
How can you become curious, interested, or obsessed with the few things, that will give your investment of time a disproportionate result for the people you serve?
Finally, I have great gratitude for you. It gives me great pleasure to hear from your, whether it's something that I'm doing well, or something I can improve. It all helps me, and helps us get even more connected.
Until next time, what's the one thing you'll do to take positive, effective or rewarding action, to grow yourself, and drastically improve health and safety along the way? Seeya!


The Walt Disney Concert Hall is one of the most famous designs of world-renowned architect Frank Gehry. And these billowing steel forms, well, they were inspired by Gehry's love of sailing. But quite tricky to create, though, and in the end, they had to use some special computer software that was normally used for designing fighter aircraft. You won't find many steel rivets or welding in the structure either because those steel panels, they're all stuck on with a special adhesive tape called Permasteelisa that holds it in place - is actually strong enough to hold two train locomotives together. When the Concert Hall was first opened, there were a few teething problems. It was found that some of steel structures were focusing the rays of the sun to create hotspots on the nearby sidewalks and buildings. That was soon sorted out with a little bit of sanding down of the offending panels and today, the building's better known for its beautiful form on the outside and its near perfect acoustics on the inside. Lillian Disney, the wife of Walt Disney, donated $50 million to get the project started here and the architect, Frank Gehry, knew that Lillian loved both flowers and Deft porcelain and he decided to thank her with both, creating this lovely fountain here in the shape of a rose and covered with a mosaic comprised of thousands of pieces of Deft porcelain.


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