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Posted: June 25th, 2014 | By: Russell Rawlings
The North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA) is pleased to announce the recipients of the NCBA Citizen Lawyer Award for 2014. Among the 19 lawyers selected from a statewide slate of nominees have been chosen for this recognition, five are Wake Forest University alumni. The award ceremony took place June 20 at the NCBA 2014 Annual Meeting in Wilmington.
The Citizen Lawyer Award recognizes lawyers who exemplify the ideals of a citizen lawyer: public service in appointed and elected positions, work with non-profit charitable and political organizations, military service and volunteering with youth sports programs and with religious organizations.
The 2014 Citizen Lawyer recipients are:
C. Christopher Bean (JD '74), Chief District Court Judge, Edenton
Judge Christopher Bean has devoted the past 35 years to preserving and promoting the town of Edenton, the former capital of North Carolina and one of its grandest historical treasures. True to that tradition, Bean has chaired the Edenton Historical Commission, served as president of the Edenton Historical Foundation, and has been a member of the Edenton-Chowan Community Foundation. He also serves on the board of the N.C. Museum of History Associates.
Edenton "is a place where history lives," Bean stated, "and there is great pride in preserving that history and the structures that make it unique and beautiful. As one who also loves history and architecture, my work along with so many others to meet the necessary need to preserve and protect has given me a real sense of personal purpose and satisfaction."
Bean is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Wake Forest University School of Law.
Nancy Borders Paschall (BA '82, JD '85), Mullen Holland & Cooper, P.A., Gastonia
If there's a group doing good work for the community in Gastonia or Gaston County, there's a good chance Nancy Paschall has helped it. She has served on the board of directors of the Gastonia Police Foundation, chaired the Gaston Regional Chamber of Commerce, Gaston County United Way and the Gaston County Chapter of the American Red Cross, and served as president of the Gastonia Civitan Club. Paschall currently serves on the board of directors of the Catawba Lands Conservancy, Covenant Village, Inc. and Carolina Trust Bank.
"It never fails that I benefit more from being involved with an organization than the time, effort or support that I give to that organization," Paschall said. "Involvement in a myriad of organizations has introduced me to new friends, afforded me different opportunities for personal growth, and instilled in me a deep appreciation for my numerous blessings. These diverse experiences have splashed my life with color, given texture to my experiences, and pieced together many friends to create my beautiful quilt of life both professionally and personally."
Paschall is a graduate of Wake Forest University and the Wake Forest University School of Law.
John W. Lassiter (BA '76, JD '80), Carolina Legal Staffing LLC, Charlotte
John Lassiter is the consummate citizen lawyer. He has served on the Charlotte City Council and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education. He has served as president of the Mecklenburg County Bar and the Children's Law Center. Lassiter presently serves as chair of the N.C. Economic Development Board.
"As members of the legal profession, we have an obligation to engage in addressing the pressing issues of the community around us and in many cases provide critical leadership," Lassiter said. "Our training and experience are valuable in analyzing complex issues as well as managing sensitive matters. Lawyers are uniquely qualified to serve and in my mind, are expected to provide thoughtful leadership and direction. The reward of service is easily seen in the improvements you help make in the world around you."
Lassiter is a graduate of Wake Forest University, Wake Forest University School of Law, and holds a Master of Public Administration from North Carolina State University.
Gemma L. Saluta (BA '99), Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP, Winston-Salem
Before entering law school, Gemma Saluta spent a year with AmeriCorps, where she helped the working poor in Columbus, Ohio. The experience made a profound impression on her, as evidenced by her commitment to volunteerism and pro bono service as an attorney. She has provided volunteer leadership to Family Violence Impact Council of United Way of Forsyth County, HandsOn Northwest North Carolina and the Women's Fund of Winston-Salem, and pro bono service to the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits and Legal Aid of North Carolina.
"I think that volunteering in your community benefits everyone," Saluta said. "The recipient of your work obviously benefits. However, the community benefits from having more stable members. The volunteer benefits in a number of ways: honing their craft, expanding their network, meeting a challenge, developing new skills, feeding a passion, filling a gap, and defining what you want to be."
Saluta is a graduate of Wake Forest University and the North Carolina Central University School of Law.
Michael F. Royster (BA '68), Royster & Royster, Pilot Mountain
Mike Royster divides his citizen lawyer service between leadership roles that help the community at large and coaching roles that serve youth in particular. At the end of the day, it all helps make his community a better place to live and work. He has served 22 years of the Surry Community College Board of Trustees, including four years as vice chair and chair, and chaired the Pilot Mountain Foundation. He's been a head coach for 13 years for the Pilot Mountain Little League and the Pilot Mountain Recreational Basketball League, and has played Santa Claus at two local elementary schools for 20 years.
"I feel the good Lord blessed me with certain talents, and that it was my duty as a lawyer to help my fellow citizens in the community," Royster said. "When a 15-year-old high school student looks you in the eye with tears streaming down her face and tells you, 'You have changed my life,' it makes it all worthwhile."
Royster is a graduate of Wake Forest University and the Cumberland School of Law.


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Upon hearing that my husband was laid off a few weeks ago, both of us found ourselves surprised by our own relief. Obviously for many families losing a job can be tremendously stressful—especially with young children involved. In fact, if my husband would have been laid off a few months later we would have been in serious trouble. By that point I would have signed a half time teaching contract for next year which wouldn't have been enough income to support our family. Thank goodness I still have the option to teach full time next year and we have enough of an emergency fund to ease us through the summer.
We know there will be financial sacrifices with my husband staying home to care for our kids, but for the last three years we have embraced the adventurous life of voluntary simplicity. In the past, we didn't need to shop at thrift stores, give home haircuts, or make our own cleaning supplies, but we enjoyed the challenge and delighted in the fact that we were helping the planet and beefing up our savings account. Every month we dutifully deposited money in our emergency fund, thinking we wouldn't need it anytime soon.
The down side of all of that working and saving was that we always felt harried. We spent weekends catching up on family time and chores. When our son would get ill, we had to cobble together daycare coverage using our sick leave with occasional help from friends and family. There wasn't any flexibility in our schedules and we felt overwhelmed by the pace of our life—especially since our second child is due in just a few weeks.
Now that my husband is an official "domestic engineer," I don't have to rush home from work to cook a meal while trying to spend quality time with my son. Instead when I arrive on our doorstep, dinner is in the oven and my family is completely relaxed. I'm also amazed by how much the bond between my son and my husband has grown over just a few weeks. Here they are enjoying swimming lessons together–something that never would have fit into our work schedules before.
Over the summer we'll have to be careful with our budget, but next school year (which starts in September) we'll actually be better off financially with me working full time and my husband staying home. When we sat down and crunched numbers it occurred to us that the savings in taxes and childcare are impressive. What a thrill to be able to have more family time and save money too!
So, my official Thrifty Green Thursday tip is to set up your emergency savings fund! Even if you can only sock small amounts of money away each month, it's worth it to know that you'll have a bit of padding in these rough financial times. It's amazing how powerful that saving momentum can be once you start trimming here and there and seeing your balance inching up. Since we believe going green truly involves simplifying, buying less, and buying used, you really can go green and set some green aside in case of a rainy day.
We would love to have you join us with your tips on saving money and the planet. Just be sure to add a link on your post that directs readers back to this post. That way they'll have the chance to explore everyone's tips. For directions on where to begin, just click here. Thanks for joining us this week for Thrifty Green Thursday!

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Who Will Be the Next Victim of the Grand Bounce? A nonpartisan, nonjudgmental look at the "Hair-Trigger" Form of Government
Saturday, March 16, 2019
North Dakota: Arnegard Mayor survives recall vote in recall rerun
Mayor Virginia Elliot survived her recall vote against former Mayor Jeff Kindel, 63-47. Elliot, who has been on the council for more than 20 years and was previously mayor, beat Elliot in June 35-31. The recall claimed that Elliot committed nepotism by hiring her son's construction company. There is also a claim that she is facing an investigation into mail fraud.
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Liter Biers, Jager shots that literally come with a spank, and delicious German food, Hofbrauhaus in St.Pete, FL is sure to be a good time especially after the sun goes down. At the end of last year, a friend of mine (we'll call her A) and I went to the Haubrauhaus for a couple of drinks. As some of you may know, I've been to Germany on a couple of occasions, but I've never been to the Hofbrauhaus before. (Hofbrauhaus has multiple locations such as Vegas, St. Pete, Hamburg, and the original in Munich.) Of course, I've heard stories from friends of liter beers, amazing food, and traditional Bavarian attire, but I had never seen it in person. After that night I was so thrilled that I had tried it out. So I've decided to share with you guys my top 3 reasons to visit Hofbrauhaus in St. Petersburg, FL.
1. The Drinks!
As we were being sat by the hostess I couldn't help but see the GIANT beer mugs in passing. And I couldn't resist, I wanted the full experience, so of course, I ordered the liter beer, which I could barely even pick up with one hand. A good friend of mine who joined me wasn't expecting any of this so naturally, she was very surprised to see a beer that big. And to be honest I was pretty surprised as well. But what I found to be the most surprising was when neighboring tables began taking Jager shots.
2. Atmosphere
Now keep in mind, by the time we had arrived the majority of the patrons in Hofbrauhaus were more than a couple drinks in, and many began taking shots. One of the guy at the table next to us ordered a Jager shot, and next thing you know his friend has a paddle in his hand and is spanking him (rather hard I might add.) At first, I assumed that it was just a random one-time occurrence, but nope it definitely was not! As the night went on more patrons were taking Jager shots and getting spanked by friends. (Just as a note the spanking isn't a German tradition, it's one that was created by Americans at Hofbrauhaus in the Vegas location.) Needless to say, the atmosphere is lively, fun and definitely great for people watching.
3. The Food
While we were there we ate pretzels with beer cheese but the menu had a plethora of some of my favorite food choices such as Shnitel, currywurst, and much more! Most likely I will be going sometime soon we will be going for dinner. I'll let you know what I think of the food more when I go back. If you click here you can check out the menu.
Overall, if you are looking for a fun night full go good food, great drinks, and an amazing atmosphere with friends Hofbrauhaus in St. Pete, FL is the place to go.


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Department of Applied Mathematics
Department of Combinatorics and Optimization
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Department of Pure Mathematics
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Please note: The University of Waterloo is closed for all events until further notice.
The sense of accomplishment you get when interacting with students is the most rewarding thing about teaching. Engaging students in some thought, getting them to think about a problem at hand and solving it, is very satisfying.
The students are quite cool. They're all for the most part our top students, as you need to have very high grades and lots of extra-curricular interests to get admitted into this program. It's a very diverse program. The students are getting two degrees, they learn about all sorts of areas in the business program; and they're also doing math.
In the mathematics program, they could be studying pure math, actuarial science, combinatorics and optimization, etc.; the breadth is quite interesting and the same is true for the fields they work in: marketing, finance, actuarial science and accounting. It's this diversity among the students in the program that I find interesting.
Pursuing a double degree program is a hard choice to make. Getting two degrees at the same time is a big time commitment. The Business Administration and Mathematics Double Degree Program is very structured, there are lots of required courses, and students get almost no course choices during the first three years.
If you are eager to begin studying Actuarial Science, Accounting or other majors; I would suggest considering a single degree program, where you will start taking your major specific courses in second year, as opposed to the Business Administration and Mathematics Double Degree Program; where you wouldn't be taking these courses until fourth and fifth years.
If you're on the varsity swim team, you'll probably see me at the pool quite often.
Read more about Professor Freeland.
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Georgian College is hosting an event next Tuesday to support mature students who are interested in going back to school.
The event will allow participants to get one-on-one support researching part-time and full-time programs, go on a campus tour, get help with college applications and speak with college admissions and recruitment staff as well as a career consultant.
Georgian College receives $2M grant
If people apply to the school in person at the event, Georgian College says it will pay the Ontario College Application Service fee.
"If you're thinking of training for a new career but aren't sure where to start, our knowledgeable and friendly staff from our student recruitment team, part-time studies and academic upgrading are here to help with ideas and provide information about how to take that next step," said Kailey Hawkins, Georgian College's interim manager of student recruitment, in a statement.
"We can make the process easier for mature learners."
Georgian College in Barrie to reopen Thursday following fire
The upcoming event will take place at all seven Georgian Campus locations in Barrie, Midland, Bracebridge, Orillia, Owen Sound, Orangeville and Collingwood from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Aug. 20.
Anyone who is interested in attending the event should RSVP.
Parking is free for all attendees, and participants will receive detailed information about the event when they RSVP.
WATCH: Making the transition back to school easier
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Lindsey Wofford is a minor character featured in Red Dead Redemption 2.
Lindsey Wofford is a former Confederate soldier and leader of the Lemoyne Raiders. He is wanted Dead or Alive by the Saint Denis Police Department, for un-American activities, murder and adultery.
Events of Red Dead Redemption 2
When in Saint Denis, the protagonist can get a bounty poster from the police station for Lindsey Wofford, who is wanted for $100. He can be found at Fort Brennand, an abandoned military fort containing a large number of Lemoyne Raiders. Once arriving at the fort, the player calls out for Wofford, at which point he and his men will charge out to kill him. Wofford can either be killed or hogtied during the skirmish, before being taken back to Saint Denis.
If Lindsey Wofford is captured alive, he is placed in a cell within the police station and is later publicly hanged at Saint Denis. If he is killed, Police Chief Benjamin Lambert tells the player to dump his corpse on a cart behind the police station.
Mission appearances
- Red Dead Redemption 2
|Damn traitor's bed! Get me off of here.
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Today we finish our post-Christmas series titled 'Yes You Can.' In todays service we talk aboutr being able to accomplish it: whatever it is you need to get done amidst all the rest of lifes complexities.
We're in a post-Christmas/New Year's series I've entitled: Yes You Can. Three words the Lord gave me when praying about this series. What we're discovering, hopefully, is a God-dependence which allow us to go through and accomplish things because we've learned to put our total trust in Jesus and God's promises of Christmas and how that affects our futures. We've already discovered that we can "Believe" all of what God has promised at Christmas and that we can "Handle" and endure whatever comes at us. Next week we'll see we can "Accomplish"(Gideon) what God has purposed. This morning we're looking at why you can overcome it. Whatever that thing is that continually nags at you and won't go away. In the Christmas Story…Mary and Joseph had to overcome so much, not least of which was the opposition to the birth of Jesus as the promised Messiah. Herod the King looking to kill him.
We've started a post-Christmas/New Year's series I've entitled: 1a.Yes You Can. What we're discovering is a God-dependence which allow us to go through and accomplish things because we have put our total trust in Jesus and what God is doing in sending Him at Christmas, and seeing what that means for the future. We've already discovered last week that we can "Believe It", the story of Christmas, it's meaning, its promises and how that affects us daily. Next week we'll see we can "Overcome It"(Esther), and the last week why, you can, *"Accomplish It"(Gideon). This morning though we're looking at why you can 1b.handle it, or take/bear the load. In the Christmas Story…Joseph was understandably confused, bewildered, and questioning the why of his predicament, and how he could handle it, bear the load of it. But God in His faithfulness, knowing Joseph, was saying "yes you can, handle it." How could he?


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Eve of Man Trilogy, Book 1
Against all odds, she survived. The first girl born in fifty years. They called her Eve.
The world had waited for her arrival with bated breath.
She is the last girl on earth, and all her life Eve has been kept away from the opposite sex. Kept from the truth of her past.
She's the answer to their prayers, their final hope.
But at sixteen it's time for Eve to face her destiny. Three potential males have been selected for her. The future of the world is in her hands. She's always accepted her fate.
Eve is the saviour of humanity.
Until she meets Bram. Eve wants control over her life. She wants freedom.
I am Eve.
How do you choose between love and the future of the human race?
Eve of Man is the first in an explosive new trilogy by bestselling authors Giovanna & Tom Fletcher.


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Fakeaway Pizza
This recipe uses wholewheat tortilla wraps as the pizza base which makes a lovely thin and crispy crust, and is much healthier than a regular pizza! This is a great recipe to do if you're craving takeaway pizza..it is just as tasty and only a fraction of the calories!
You can mix and match with your favourite toppings and it is ready in minutes!! Enjoy :)
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Group Finance Manager
|Job Title:
|Group Finance Manager
|Contract Type:
|51000 - 70000
|Contact Name:
|Laura Beamont-Scott
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|Job Published:
|June 25, 2019 19:41
Job Description
We have a fantastic opportunity for a qualified Finance Manager to lead and develop our Group Management Accounting team at our Slough Head Office in Berkshire.
This role is important,you'll be working closely with Divisional Finance Directors and Business Partners, providing accurate financial information and meaningful analysis to key stakeholders including senior management.
You'll also be responsible for the following:
- Producing monthly financial information through timely closing of books and performing month-end actions.
- Managing and developing a Management Accounting team of 12 people.
- Managing process of Software Revenue recognition in accordance with IFRS and monitoring deferred and accrued revenue balances.
- Preparing monthly balance sheet reconciliations for divisional entities.
- Working closely with FD and Business Partner to analyse results and provide meaningful insight.
- Assisting with annual audit including working with auditors on testing and assisting with preparation of Statutory Accounts.
- Building relationships with other functions and with key stakeholders to enhance collaboration across the business
- Utilizing various systems and data warehouses to deliver and enhance the management information that drives the Accountancy business unit.
- Monthly review of actuals versus forecast and budget.
- Sharing best practice with the finance leads of the other business units
- Supporting provision of consolidated group Board Reporting
- Promoting the IRIS brand in a friendly, professional manner.
What skills and experience do you need to have?
Ideally suited to someone who has recently left practice, this role gives the opportunity to gain experience of a large and evolving Group finance function, whilst also having the opportunity to create real impact and shape the reporting process for the Group.
Additionally we're looking for someone with the following skills and experience:
- Degree educated
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified
- Excellent Reporting skills
- Evidence of providing a value added service to the business
- Strong technical accounting knowledge
Who are we?
IRIS Software Group is the laregest privately owned software business in the UK. With 40 years' experience, the IRIS Software Group is a leading provider of business critical software and services to the UK accountancy and payroll sectors in the UK. IRIS continues to be a leading supplier to the UK accountancy sector with over 20,000 Accountancy Practices relying on IRIS every day to run their business, and IRIS meets the needs of over 80,000 SMEs through its leading bookkeeping, payroll and HR software solutions, with 14% of UK companies paying their employees through IRIS. The Education division of IRIS also provides software to over 10,000 schools and academies, and 51% of UK academies are powered by its PS Financials software.
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Do you remember when you first started running? You could do no wrong. You got better no matter what you did, even if you know now that it wasn't very sound training.
Now, if you're an experienced runner, every bit of improvement takes a monumental effort.
This, in a nutshell, is the clean slate phenomenon. When you're first starting something new, almost no matter what it is, you improve by leaps and bounds. As time goes on, improvements become more difficult to come by.
This is why new runners improve so rapidly but more experienced runners require much more work to get even close to the same improvement.
To take this phenomenon a step further, think back to the last time you excluded speed work from your running for a while. Remember what happened when you added it back in? Yes, the first workout was brutal. Then you improved rapidly for a month or two before leveling off.
You were practicing a "new" skill that you hadn't practiced in a while and were, once again, experiencing the clean slate phenomenon.
Why does this matter? For two reasons:
First, if your training is lacking something, don't get too worried. Add it back in and, within a month or two, you'll gain some major ground.
Second, there are times when we need to keep this in mind. If you add something into your training and see rapid improvements, that's wonderful but don't expect to keep improving rapidly for the long term. What works for the short term may not be the best option for long term development.
So be sure to take advantage of the clean slate phenomenon. As a goal race nears, use that last 2 months, give or take, to add in something that has been lacking in your training. However, don't get caught in the trap of thinking that, just because adding some element to your training created big initial gains, this means keeping it around will bring continued rapid improvements. It's not always that simple.


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Sunday, 6 August 2017
Second Zika cluster reported at Serangoon North Avenue 1
A second Zika cluster has been reported at Serangoon North Avenue 1, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said.
There were four cases of the locally transmitted virus infection in this cluster, with all of them involving residents of blocks 109, 115 and 116, NEA added.
The first Serangoon North Avenue 1 cluster, which was announced on Jul 26, comprised three cases made up of residents living in blocks 125, 126 and 127.
As of Aug 3, more than 940 premises in the first cluster have been inspected. Nine breeding habitats - six of which were in homes and three in common areas - were found and destroyed, it said.
Ref: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/second-zika-cluster-reported-at-serangoon-north-avenue-1-9093588
Eating protein at all three meals could help seniors stave off muscle decline
New research from Canada suggests that over-60s should eat protein at all three daily meals to help stave off age-related muscle decline, which can contribute to loss of independence and falls.
Older adults tend to get most of their protein from just one of their daily meals -- dinner -- whereas to help preserve their physical strength, protein consumption should be spread out throughout the day, the researchers conclude.
Food with high contents of protein include:
Ref: https://sg.style.yahoo.com/eating-protein-three-meals-could-help-seniors-stave-131701247.html
Older adults tend to get most of their protein from just one of their daily meals -- dinner -- whereas to help preserve their physical strength, protein consumption should be spread out throughout the day, the researchers conclude.
Food with high contents of protein include:
- oat,
- soy,
- milk, cheese,
- yogurt,
- dried spirulina seaweed,
- egg,
- cauliflower,
- spinach,
- fish - salmon, cod, herring,
- meat - chicken, pork,
- cashew nuts,
- wheat germ,
- chia seeds.
Ref: https://sg.style.yahoo.com/eating-protein-three-meals-could-help-seniors-stave-131701247.html
Exceptional people: Rizan wins WBC Asia Continental bantamweight title
Singaporean boxer Mohamad Nor Rizan's never-say-die spirit was rewarded when he knocked out Thailand's Piched Chianawa in the ninth round to win the World Boxing Council (WBC) Asia Continental bantamweight title at The Pavilion at Far East Square last night.
The boxer turned 39 last month while his opponent is 24.
Ref: http://www.tnp.sg/sports/others/rizan-wins-wbc-asia-continental-bantamweight-title
Exceptional people: Hand-stitched with love: Tote bags to raise funds for ChildAid
1,324 Pupils, with parent volunteers and teachers from Yu Neng Primary School have been sewing buttons on eco tote bags with owl motifs to be sold to raise funds for ChildAid, an annual charity concert jointly organised by The Straits Times and The Business Times.
The bags will be put up for sale at urban food hall Timbre+ and at the year-end ChildAid charity concert, held at Resorts World Sentosa on Nov 24 and 25.
The tote-sewing initiative at the school is part of its Pay-it-Forward programme, a collaborative effort between Yu Neng Primary School, its parent support group and non-profit arts and culture organisation The Rice Company Limited.
Ref: http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/hand-stitched-with-love-tote-bags-to-raise-funds-for-childaid
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Global Bunker Fuel Market 2014-2020
Albany, New York (PRWEB) January 13, 2015
Transparency Market Research has released a new market report titled Bunker Fuel Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast, 2014 - 2020. According to the report, the global bunker fuel market stood at 372.30 million tons in 2013 and is expected to reach 460.00 million tons in 2020 at a CAGR of 3.1% from 2014 to 2020.
Bunker fuel prices account for over 70% of the cost of operating a vessel. Any substantial fluctuations in fuel prices will have a knock-on effect on profit margins of shipping agencies. In the bunkering industry, there are two primary kinds of fuel currently being used: distillate fuel and residual fuel. Among the two, residual fuel accounted for the majority share of the global bunker consumption in 2013. However, with the decreeing of major transit routes as emission control areas (ECAs), the fuel consumption trend is anticipated to change gradually in future. The vessel operators sailing in ECAs have to switch to low sulfur and middle distillate fuels to comply with the sulfur limits imposed in these areas. Securing bunker fuel of an acceptable quality depends on several factors such as the bunkering port, choice of suppliers, and blending facilities available in the port. The bunker fuels traded by supplying companies should meet the fuel specifications set out in ISO 8217. Several bunker testing agencies have been established to monitor and ensure that shipping agencies meet the fuel specifications.
Browse the full Bunker Fuel Market with TOC: http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/bunker-fuel-market.html
Currently, Asia Pacific is a major market for the bunker fuel industry, with Singapore and China being the primary contributors to this market. Increasing traffic of containerized vessels and oil tankers in the Asia Pacific region are some of the major factors driving investments in the marine fuel industry. Europe closely follows the Asia Pacific segment in terms of consumption of bunker fuel. Russia is the major supplier of fuel oil lies in this region and as a result, fuel suppliers are able to supply fuel at comparatively lower prices in Europe. The bunkering port facilities in Europe are also highly developed, which culminates into low turnaround times for vessels fueling in the region. Several ports such as Rotterdam, Antwerp, and Piraeus have emerged as major bunkering destinations in this region. The North Sea and Baltic Sea areas of Europe have been declared as ECAs. As a result, shipping agencies operating in these areas have taken initiatives to use clean marine fuel grades in the ECAs.
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The marine fuel grades have been broadly segmented into four major categories: IFO 380, IFO 180, IFO Others, and MDO/MGO. The IFO Others segment includes fuel grades IFO 500, IFO 700, LS 380, and LS 180. IFO 380 is the most traded marine fuel oil grade globally, is easily available at all bunkering destinations in the world, and is more economical when compared to other fuel grades. The requirement for bunker fuel is relatively high in bulk and general cargo vessels. Bulk carriers are generally used for transporting coal, steel, and iron, among others. However, the major demand centers for these commodities such as China have been recently exhibiting a decreasing trend in demand. On the other hand, the requirement for bunker fuel in the container ships segment is anticipated to grow at a substantial rate in the future. Rapidly increasing demand for manufactured and finished goods especially in developing countries of Asia Pacific is the major factor that has led to increasing trade of containerized cargo.
Other reports by Transparency Market Research
- Global Biofuels Market: http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/liquid-biofuels-market.html
- Liquefied Natural Gas Market: http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/liquefied-natural-gas-market.html
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The Economics of Climate Change is Flawed
I recently attended a talk by Gernot Wagner (with some commentary by Richard Zeckhauser) on the implications of the IPCC's widening of their "likely" 2100 global temperature rise from 2.0 to 4.5 degrees to 1.5 to 4.5 degrees. It is entitled: "Expecting a Black Swan but Getting a Dragon: Deep Uncertainty and Climate Change"
The major point of their argument was that a shift in the kurtosis of the distribution (made by taking out the "most likely" estimate of climate sensitivity) increased the net cost (in a metric known as willingness to pay (WTP)) by increasing the uncertainty of future predictions. There is nothing wrong with this as an exercise: two different pdfs passed through a certain set of filters and evaluated will produce different things. In this cases, pdfs of varying kurtosis produce more of a net WTP as the kurtosis increases. Nothing to see here.
The problem is that this is taken incredibly seriously by the public, as the results from this and similar studies have been used to price carbon. This increase in IPCC related uncertainty has the potential effect of doubling the cost of carbon from $40 to $80 per ton, though this depends on your pricing metric. These exercises are interpreted (and the author's are entirely complicit, spending a majority of the presentation talking about climate science) as being real authoritative pricing schemes, which they can not be.
Suppose I have a pdf of future warming which peaks at 3 degrees with a kurtosis of 2, and variance of 1 degree, a gaussian. The IPCC's release would indicate that the mean of the distribution would shift by half a degree, the kurtosis would increase, and so would the variance. So why is this not considered? How can we price carbon using the kurtosis shift but not include the mean shift too? It's a damning question, but not one that is considered. The authors, when confronted, go at great lengths to discuss the limitations of the model. Yet when left to speak freely, and in publications, the results are discussed as saying something real about the world. The rather bald-faced contradiction is difficult to swallow.
A link to the discussed paper is here
Here is a link to a recent paper discussing the negative correlation between African literacy rates in the colonial and post-colonial times and the "slave export intensity" during the pre-colonial era.
Cherokee Gothic rightly points out that this is an example of economic path-dependency, a concept familiar to mathematicians: for certain quantities, it isn't where you end up, but how you got there.
Example: if one pegs their net worth at the value of the stock AAPL, and through some sorcery predicts every upturn and downturn in the stock price, liquidating at peaks and converting all cash to stock at local minima, in a year that person would have a considerable amount more money than the person who held the stock fixed, and much more than the person who made the opposite choices. The path taken to the end is what caused the discrepancy in wealth after a year.
Path dependancy is a familiar trope in political theater and is, depending on the political and philosophical bent of the person, the reason for gender and race gaps in education, poverty, and incarceration. It can be summarized (thanks to Scott E. Page) in the "old Bostonian jump roping rhyme"
I eat my peas with honey. I've done it all my life. It makes 'em taste quite funny, but it keeps them on the knife.
And so this recent paper attempts to gauge the level to which slave export has biased literacy rates in African countries over the proceeding centuries. The answer? According to the abstract: "a negative and signicant relationship between slave
export intensity before the colonial era and literacy rates during the colonial era."
Here's the data used to support that claim, buried in a plot in the supplementary material. This image plots literacy rate against some normalized quantity representing pre-colonial slave exports as a percentage of the extant population. Where's the trend?
To me (and this is just me), this appears to be a classic case of oversimplification. If the author wrote this paper with the exact opposite conclusion, I would be equally swayed. What causes the four outlier groups in slave export to be there? Why is there seemingly no trend? Why did the author connect two clusters with a line and call it a trend?
Bad science, even in Path Dependancy
More Science with Cellphones
A new Nature highlight of a GRL article discusses attempts made to reconstruct temperature records from the battery temperatures of smartphones. Since smartphones natively keep track of their battery temperature for safety purposes, they also help to keep track of the external temperature. This is used to obtain temperature in the "urban canopy", aka the low atmospheric boundary layer in which humans live that is often much warmer than the atmosphere just a few tens of meters high.
Whether this will actually work is a secondary question, because at best battery temperatures are a poor proxy for atmospheric temperature. They are altered by not only the ambient temperature but the physical location (inside, outside, in a pocket, in direct sunlight) of the phone, as well as the memory/CPU usage of the phone. Overeem (not this guy) et al. used a "straightforward heat transfer model" to gauge air temperature.
With T0 a constant equilibrium temperature, Tbat the observed battery temperature, m a transfer coefficient, and epsilon white noise. In other words, the temperature in the urban canopy relates linearly to the temperature of the battery. Presumably there is some "resting" battery temperature, and so integrated over the entire domain
In other words, in general, batteries are anomolously warmed by the temperature of the boundary layer by heat conduction. Seems fair to me. While I sincerely doubt that error is white noise (there is absolutely a bias associated with the fact that cell phones are typically inside of something, be it a climate-controlled office or pocket), its an interesting use of modern proxies nonetheless.
Despite how sincerely marketers would like you to believe it, there hasn't been much innovation in transportation over the last 50 years. Excepting Ralph Nader, automobiles are more or less the same as they were in the 70's. The average age of the airplanes in the sky is 14 years. Amtrak runs on the same rails it has since the 80's. It is enough that Tyler Cowen claims: "
When it comes to transportation at least, There is a Great Stagnation" Yet when Iron Man himself comes and suggests there's a new way of doing things (even though it is a very old way indeed), people get excited.
There's a cycle of popular opinion which follows the advent of new, fanciful, catch-all ideas. We see it with wonder-drugs, wonder-food, and wonder-engineering, each cultivated by their own niche of bloggers, supporters, and idealists, and it has a name: the "Gartner hype-cycle":
Gartner Research posited the existence of the hype-cycle to explain the wild ways in which expectations grow, diminish, and plateau for new technology, and also to suggest how far away emerging technology was, all the way back in 1995. It applies just as well for new engineering developments.
So while dozens of people have written about the impossibility of the hyperloop project, its "Astronomical Pricing", and exhibited general skepticism, its worth noting that Elon Musk is to date the only person willing to put enough money into R&D to attempt such a project. Thats interesting enough, even if he fails.
Over the next few years, however, remember the Hype-Cycle. By tempering expectations, we'll temper disillusionment, and appreciate how fun (if arrogant) thinking this big actually is.
The Placebo Effect in Rats
A pretty interesting article from Massey University a few years back attempts to understand how much of the placebo effect is related to the conditioning effect (when I take a drug, I am conditioned to believe I will feel better because of my surroundings, so I feel better) or the expectancy effect (when I take a drug, I expect that it will work, so I feel better).
A number of interesting conclusions come out of this, notably that our tolerance to drugs is associated to our surroundings (as an example, consider examples of "learned tolerance", whereby drugs like alcohol affect people differently depending on their surroundings, leading to overdoses for alcoholics who find themselves drinking in unfamiliar places).
But my favorite one concerns the fact that, like humans, rats exhibit the placebo effect. This can serve to root out the misconception that the placebo effect is some mystical, made-up response at a high intellectual level. Rather it is an innate physical mechanism which exists across the animal kingdom. This can help to explain its complete prevalence (and its relationship with confirmation bias) among those susceptible to believing pseudoscience, and the reason we have such a hard time getting rid of it.
The Leech Fever Pump and Dump
Over the last decade or so the phenomenon of the penny-stock "pump and dump" scam has risen in prevalence, mostly thanks to a variety of email spammers (I get something like 10-20 emails a day on the subject). The general idea behind the process is simple:
This tactic is usually used in the lightly regulated "pink slip" stock exchanges, and often triggered on small fluctuations in spammed-about stocks. It is not to be confused with HFT (high frequency trading), in which much smaller gains are accomplished by exploiting latencies in network connections. As is the case in the world, these scams provoke Golden Age theories (see comments) decrying technology and its corruptive, harmful role in society. Of course this is baloney, because the "pump and dump" scheme is as old as time.
Here's an example, from an article in the vietnam vet about the "Leech Fever" taking over some villages in Vietnam. A group of wealthy investors comes in and buys up leeches, for reasons unknown. This causes a tremendous flux of people out of their jobs and into the rivers, trying to catch the abundant leeches to sell them. Local "businessmen", called "collectors", aggregate leeches by paying larger and larger prices for them, banking on the demand caused by the foreign investors. As this false demand grows, so too does the prices of leeches. The investors then sell their initial supply, make a tidy profit, and disappear to a town covered in dried leeches.
So this is not a high-tech development, just a new and creative scam. Moral of the story: If you are buying something which you know to have no value beforehand, don't be mad when you get left with a bag of leeches.
An interesting thought:
Paraphrased from George Philander:
The hierarchy of science: Mathematics atop Physics atop Chemistry all the way down to the social sciences, is also an inverse hierarchy of simplicity. The problems which can be simply described and for which there can be no disagreement lie at the top, and the most difficult ones, the ones which permit a type of field-wide dissonance lie at the bottom. The most complicated and most relevant problems are those ones which are the least "pure"
This hierarchy of purity was once cartooned by Randall Munroe of XKCD:
North Korea as a controlled experiment
Here's two interesting images thanks to Eugenia Kalnay:
The first is a plot of output (metric tons) of different crops in North Korea over time, the second fertilizer use, also in metric tons. Notice that there is a sharp drop-off of over 70%. This coincides with the 1991 end of perestroika, or the final collapse of the Soviet Union. Around this time, the rapid denationalization of fuel industries in Russia and economic turbulence resulted in an elimination of oil aid from Russia to North Korea.
Similarly, the lack of fossil fuels limited the ability to produce and implement nitrogen fertilizer in North Korea, especially compared with other Eastern countries.
Say what you want about North Korea, but its incredible isolationism has made it well suited to gauging the impact of macroeconomic policy, and here serves to prove the point that availability of fossil fuels, not cropland or technology, is the leading order determiner of agricultural capability.
If you've been under a rock the last week, former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has been indicted for first degree murder. Anyone owning an Aaron Hernandez jersey is allowed to exchange it for any other actual Patriots player's jersey for free, the reasoning being that having NFL fans wearing the jersey of a suspected murderer is not good publicity for the league or the individual team.
Lemon Laws were initiated in the United States to counteract information asymmetry between the buyer of a product and the seller. Buyers are at an immediate information disadvantage to sellers, since the seller has much more of an understanding of the flaws of the product he is selling. When the product turns out to be worth less than the price the buyer paid based on prior knowledge available to the seller the buyer is defrauded, and depending on the product, has some legal ability to recoup losses.
Now the non-ironic value of a Hernandez jersey is zero, and the average Patriots fan had absolutely know idea how bad of a guy he was, though it appeared to be common knowledge to insiders. His jerseys are lemons.
The Patriots are enacting an even stronger warranty (maybe a double-lemon law?), since even they didn't know Hernandez was as bad a guy as he turned out to be. So Hernandez is partially to blame for the lemoning of his own jerseys. This is sort of like a car company knowing its cars' third-party manufactured brakes wouldn't last the life of the car, only to find out that, unbeknownst to them, the brakes didn't work at all!
Who should really be responsible for covering the "loss of value of Hernandez jerseys?" (assuming of course people who bought them actually care). Perhaps both the Patriots and Hernandez are equally at fault. I'm not sure how exactly to answer that question.
At least here it is refreshing to see information asymmetry work in both directions.
Tyler Cowen has a blog series called "Markets in Everything" where he links to examples of bizarre areas of specialization for which there is a market... for example the market for coats made out of chest hair, topless paintings of Bea Arthur, etc, etc...
I'd like to start my own: Bad Science in Everything. Just like market economies exist for even the strangest of goods, bad scientific research permeates all corners of human existence.
Todays example: a study marked by Outside Online as STUDY: LONGER RUNS ARE EASIER. 25 runners tried to do a 200 miles race. They were tested three times along the races path for their nueromuscular fatigue and other body indicators. These results were compared to runners tested running 100 mile races and less, and lo and behold, the 200 mile runners performed better. The culprit, sleep deprivation, perhaps. This provides for great copy and has done so all over the web, from CBS News to Deadspin.
It is also some bad, bad science.
Of the 25 runners, just 9 completed the race. They were only tested 3 times. Let me repeat. 25 runners. 9 finishers. Over 60 % of the runners who even though they could finish a 200 mile race could not. This subset was then compared against runners running 100 mile races, 50 miles races, and marathons.
So all 9 of these runners' bodies were capable of running 200 miles, which makes them utterly unique, both for human beings and for ultra-marathoners. To compare them to runners running a considerably smaller distance implies that anyone who is capable of running a marathon, or even a 100 mile race is capable of running a 200 mile race, which clearly is not the case, even for those who train for it.
So here we have 9 highly specialized data points which are probably not even useful for comparison to other long-distance runners. Yet they are also being used to make an inference about the other 7 billion human beings.
I think I could probably run a marathon after a few months of training, but I would be utterly wrecked. To say that if (and I couldn't) I ran 200 miles I'd be feeling better? Thats some bad science.
You might argue that this isn't the implication of the study, that the point is that ultra-hyper-marathoners have special fatigue properties of their neuromuscular system. This is probably true. Yet it is certainly what is being inferred in the press.
Bad science in everything.
Oceanographer, Mathemagician, and Interested Party
March 2017


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According to a tool created to measure Australian night-time economies, foodies are fuelling Canberra's $3.2 billion night-time economy, with more than 300 new restaurants and cafes opening over the last eight years.
But who is fuelling the venues? Well, that would be Catering Equipment Central (CEC). Largely behind the scenes, or not if it's an open kitchen where the kitchen is relied on to bring liveliness and vibe to the space. The increased use of open kitchens allows restaurant guests to see the chefs at work. This trend stems from people being interested in where their food is coming from and wanting to see it being cooked. We are all guilty of having a stickybeak into back-of-house while waiting for order and thinking 'wow I wish I had a dishwasher like that at home,' or 'imagine what I could cook on that four-burner.' Well, chances are that's CEC.
An online hub offerings modern catering equipment for over 6 years in commercial kitchens. Anything from cooking appliances, preparation surfaces, refrigeration, blast chiller, shelving and storage options, and dishwashing units.
Whether you're looking to set up a restaurant, café, bakery or bar, CEC is your go-to for easy solutions. If you're already established, their easy online ordering system means you can place an order from the confront of your venue without wasting any time shopping around. Their prices are competitive, and they promise fast deliveries.
From cooking to cleaning and easy disposable takeaway packaging, you can buy commercial grade kitchen equipment online and direct from the website even while on the job.
We were shocked to discover CEC facilitate any job from delivering a commercial fridge to Antarctica, to kitchen benchtop items like blenders for our local coffee shops. No job is too big or small – and it's hard to imagine this is a Canberra company stocking all the best brands on the market.
CEC have the widest range of catering equipment by Waldorf, Simply Stainless, Roband, FEDeral Specialty Equipment, Woodson, Williams, Skope, and Stoddart – you'll be able to find exactly what you are looking for.
Starting a business comes with a lot of overheads, that's why CEC work closely with Silverchef, specialists in helping companies who need a little extra for equipment to further their business by offering finance options.
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I love it. Female empowerment, feeling strong and sexy, overcoming character defects (or trying to at least) AND singing about it! Lizzo, you got me girl.
The only thing is, I'm the most socially awkward book nerd of a woman you'll have ever met.
I might have had it all wrong. When I thought of "bad bitch" I thought of push-up bras, salon nails, freshly done hair and a confidence in the way she walked.
Yes, this could all be true.
upon further investigation a bad bitch is someone who has massive amounts of self-respect, a moral compass of loyalty – honesty – accountability.
A bad bitch is courageous, talented, intellectual, artistic.
Most importantly, a bad bitch knows she can be or do whatever she wants.
So the only definition is the one that means something to YOU.
This means EVERYTHING.
How you define yourself is what matters. It doesn't matter what your parents think, your dog thinks, your teachers think.
It doesn't matter what your neighbours, your mail carrier, your taxi driver thinks of you.
First and foremost is ALL in how you think of yourself, how you carry that image in your daily life, and how that image reflects back to you in the relationships you've built with others.
I forget where I heard "sometimes you have to shake hands with who you are".
Sometimes despite our wanting to be tall we will undeniably be short.
Once we shake hands with that and embrace it, we become MORE empowered to build up the areas of our life that we can have an impact on. Our vision becomes clear and we begin to put our energy where it is most useful.
Once this happens most always, we begin to propel forward.
There's nothing wrong with pushup bras or salon nails. Nothing wrong with them at all.
Just checking in though. How's your inner spirit, how's your drive, your passion, your attitude towards life?
How do you feel about yourself? Your community? Your relationships?
Bad bitches have a hold on their finances, their studies, their mental health…
but sometimes, they don't and they're just working through some shit and that's okay too. Sometimes real life happens and your still a badass despite ALL the shit being thrown your way.
Sometimes it takes a badass to stop cycles, break down stigmas, to reinvent themselves into who they know they are.
Here's to you girls wherever you are, whatever you're doing. The single girls, the committed girls, the socially awkward book nerds in the back.
Here's to singing Lizzo's lyrics and feeling like a badass each. and. every. time.
Love to you all,


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Opening night at The Murphy's Cork Oyster and Seafood Festival - Limited tickets to this event
The Murphy's Cork Oyster & Seafood Festival will take place from Friday 20th of September until Sunday 22nd of September 2019.
The opening night will feature a superb line up of entertainment including -
* The Cork City Samba Band
* Access to Paddy Casey
There will be a super display of Oysters with Simon Lamont, The Lazy Chef, Virgin Media TV along with World Champion oyster shucker "Paddy Shucker".
Guests will be treated to either a pint of Murphys or a glass of wine with 2 Oysters on arrival - and then enjoy the fun atmosphere for the evening.
For the full line up of entertainment, see www.corkoysterfestival.com
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Tips to Walk Away from a Fight
The world today is much different from the world of yesterday. It is plagued with violence with people bullying others mercilessly, killing them if they provoke them. However, the location for violent outbursts is not just the school or the house, as it can happen almost anywhere.
The key for individuals suffering the taunts of a person prone to violence is to remain his/her calm. They need to keep the individual from lashing out at them violently is by doing the following things to walk away from it:
Trick #1: Do Not Care
If someone approaches you to start up a fight, let him/her shout at you. They want to aggravate you so you will raise your hand or your voice, giving them a chance to strike you violently. If a person with a destructive personality comes up to you, you need to remain your cool. Let them talk while you remain unresponsiveness.
Trick #2: Travel with a Group
A bully will come up to you if he/she spots you walking alone in the streets. If you walk with a huge group of people, they will unlikely follow you. Try to take with you your biggest and most muscular friends with tattoos and an attitude so others know not to approach you, as your entire group will have your back.
Trick #3: Pretend You Have Ties with the Local Police
Now, this may or may not work, as largely depends on how bold and fearless your bullies are. If you want to use this trick, here is what you will have to do—take out your cell phone, pretend to dial numbers, and with confidence, tell them if they do not back away; they will have the entire police squad out hunting for them.
Trick #4: Have a Can of Tear Gas
If the bullies weapon is their fist, you weapon is a can of tear gas. If you encounter someone who wants to pick on you for no reason, smile, and take out your can of tear gas. Next thing you know, they will be the ones running away crying.
Trick #5: Go to a Crowded Area
Bullies will not lift a finger on someone who is amongst several people as they would easily if someone was alone. If you suspect the bully to use more than his/her words, quickly move towards a crowded area.
Trick #6: Admit You Are the Worst
Remember, no reaction is the best reaction! If the bully is threatening you or saying something awful about you, nod your head and agree. When you agree with all of their statements about you, they might soften and explain the reason why they wanted to pick a fight with you or perhaps, just leave you alone.
Have you encountered a bully before? Do you know any tricks our readers can use to combat bullies? You can tell us about your or someone's else experience with a bully and how it was handled by commenting below.
A Selection of Fighting Quotes
"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Nobody can hurt you without your permission." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die." ~ Herbert Hoover
"I've been fighting to be who I am all my life. What's the point of being who I am, if I can't have the person who was worth all the fighting for?" ~ Stephanie Lennox
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MUNSCH at ACHEMA 2018
Munsch Chemical Pumps are presenting themselves at this year's ACHEMA with a significant expansion of their pump range.
Presented as a cutaway model, the CM series magnetic pumps have experienced a significant increase in performance in their conveying distance to up to 85 metres. They are intended to convey critical or environmentally harmful liquids, or liquids that are hazardous to health such as acids, alkalis, solvents and chemically contaminated materials containing few solids. The new CM-FA series magnetic pump, however, presented for the first time at Achema 2018, is also suitable for conveying material containing solids. The spacer can of the CM series is designed as a vacuum-tight, metal-free double-wall composite unit with the advantages:
- no edgy currents, meaning no heat transfer to the material being pumped
- no loss to magnetic performance, meaning no losses to efficiency
- the spacer can is protected against mechanical contact with the drive rotor; an electronic monitor is also possible as an option
Besides this, the company is introducing an expanded NPC series - armoured pumps with a die-cast chassis, which up until now were only available in a partially-armoured version. They have higher pressure stability, are suitable for ATEX applications and are UV-resistant. These are the armoured versions of the previously un-armoured NP series which have been expanded by a few sizes. The pumps in this series can also be equipped hydraulically for customer-specific requirements.
Presented as a cutaway model, the chemistry standard pump series CS are also armoured pumps, adapted to meeting requirements when handling chemicals and solvents in a process design. The REAFS mechanical seal, developed specifically for these plastic pumps, guarantees a high level of operational safety and a long service life. It can be assembled and repaired easily thanks to its compact design.
In addition, a dry-run safe vertical pump in cantilever design will also be shown. This is a vertical spiral-cased centrifugal pump with a radial impeller, single-entry, single-stage and with no base bearings: the shaft bearing is located outside of the area where fluid is conveyed. The pumps in this series are specifically designed to pump acids, alkalis, chemically contaminated and corrosive media and waste. They also pump fluids containing solid material directly from pump sumps, tanks, storage containers or basis in both wet and dry arrangements.
Main uses for the pumps:
Type TCP-M dry-run safe cantilever vertical pumps are used to pump acids, alkalis or chemically contaminated waste containing solids. They can also be used if there is a danger that the pump will be operated over a long period of time without anything to pump. Their areas of application are electroplating, steel or stainless-steel picking lines, evaporation and regeneration plants, flue gas cleaning after the burning of waste as well as exhaust air treatment and industrial waste treatment. The pumps can also be produced for use in explosion hazard areas.
Depending on the series, the pumps are equipped for temperatures of up to 85, 95, 115 or up to 180 degrees Celsius. The materials used for the pumps, or their interior lining, consist mainly of high-performance plastics PE (polyethylene), (PP) polypropylene, PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride) or PFA (Perfluoro ether). PE in particular is interlinked at a molecular level and therefore highly wear-resistant. Its wear-resistance is almost that of ceramic materials. All pump materials coming into contract with the product, both the high-performance plastics mentioned and the silicon carbide sealing parts and sealing elastomers are highly resistant.
As well as this, the sensors for the pump monitoring is also part of the exhibition. This allows you to monitor and detect motor currents, fluctuations, pressure, safety distances from rotating parts, storage temperatures as well as media temperatures. This allows the affected pump to be triggered to switch off on time. The pump protection here allows you to determine values to support preventative maintenance. Remote monitoring is also possible. This represents another step in the direction of intelligent pump operation for industry 4.0.
Even in the production of the pumps, Munsch is on the path towards an extensive digitisation of the processes. The first transitions in the production have already been achieved.
Munsch Chemiepumpen GmbH is exhibiting together with their sister company Munsch Kunststoff-Schweisstechnik GmbH in Frankfurt.
The power of innovation of both these areas of the company is also reflected in the innovation prizes they have been awarded: in 2007, it won the Rheinland-Pfalz innovation prize as well as the success prize for the development of the "Munsch Mini" hand-held welding extruder. In 2013, it won the Rheinland-Pfalz innovation prize again for the Wedge IT-Multi hot wedge welding tool with data recording.
In 2014, it won the innovation prize again for the largest plastic pump in the world, the "Mega Mammut".
Both companies are exhibiting in hall 8.0 stand H4.
Please contact:
Munsch Chemie-Pumpen GmbH
Johann Dausenau
Management Service and Marketing
Im Staudchen
56235 Ransbach-Baumbach
Phone: +49 – (0)2623 – 898 - 11
Email: email@example.com
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Recent Posts
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Memories Monday: In which I express strong feelings about 70s fashion and design and the color orange
I remember the 70s, having lived through its entirety. Looking back at the clothing, most of it was what I would call good and acceptable, except for that ghastly pair of red-black-yellow-and-white plaid stretch trousers my mother bought and forced … Continue reading
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In which I say hello to the internet
Hello Internet! My name is Bobbie Laughman, and I've been online since before ever hearing the word "internet" – although I really didn't know what I was doing back in the days of electronic bulletin boards. At that time I … Continue reading
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36,746 vacant posts in ministries: State Minister
The government is filling over 36,000 vacant posts at various ministries to bring back dynamism in public services, says State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain.
"We've taken an initiative in this regard following the Prime Minister's directive," he told UNB in an exclusive interview.
Farhad said they will approve the ministries' applications for filling vacant posts instantly. "Hopefully, we'll be able to fill them up very soon."
He also promised to do everything to bring back dynamism in the public administration, saying: "We've taken steps to make the administration dynamic to take the country to a middle-income status from a lower-income one."
Asked about the allegation that people are often harassed by district and upazila-level administrations, State Minister Farhad said they are taking steps to build a pro-people administration. "We're trying to fulfill our goal of delivering quick services to people."
"I myself saw that the general people can't go to government offices and even if they do, they don't get proper respect. There're quite a few errors in this system. We want to build the administration as a pro-people and welfare-oriented one," he said.
Farhad said the government has taken various programmes in this regard and his ministry has sent messages to grassroots officials. "We're trying to remind them that people are the source of all power and the administration has to work as service providers," the state minister said.
People-first policy
Asked about steps taken to make the administration corruption free, he pointed out that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been leading the ministry for 10 years. "She's ordered zero tolerance against corruption. I'm following that policy," he said.
He recalled Bangabandhu's statement that the service seekers are "our siblings, our relatives" and that they have to be given the respect they deserve.
Farhad said the government is working to fulfill these goals and hoped that the standard of public service will rise.
"We want to be prosperous, not individually but collectively," he said. "We want to make the public administration very people-friendly. In the future, it'll be of international standard. People won't be deprived of their desired services if we can build our officials efficiently. We'll able to reach our goal within five years."
The state minister said the district and upazila administrations have been ordered to hold weekly hearings to learn about people's sufferings. "We're trying to deliver the people's desired services," he said.
Farhad said the government wants to ensure good governance at the order of the Prime Minister. "Good governance means showing proper respect to people and delivering their desired services as public servants," he said.
"I'll try my best to serve people," the state minister said.
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Madden 19 - Searching for some admonition for a beginner
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My system has 4GB of RAM installed but the OS shows only 989MB usable and the PC is very slow. How can I resolve this?
My system has 4GB of RAM installed but the OS shows only 989MB usable and the PC is very slow. How can I resolve this?
What does System Properties show as the amount of RAM in your computer? (Shortcuts: Press the Windows key + Pause/Break; or click Start -> Computer -> right-click and select Properties.)
If your computer has 4GB of RAM, the line "Installed Memory" should show at least 3.25GB, depending on if you have Windows 32-bit installed or have a graphics card that's built into the motherboard (not a card in a slot). If it shows less than 3GB, then at least one DIMM in your computer has gone bad or is not properly seated (locked in its slot).
I would highly recommend against cleaning the registry unless you know exactly what you are doing; if you are not careful and mess up the wrong registry key, your system can wind up unusable and unable to start after reboot.
I would suggest reseating the memory modules (take them out and place them back in tightly but carefully), try reseating the processor (check to see if there are any bent pins first), check the BIOS settings for memory options, make sure that the wiring inside the pc is plugged in properly and tightly, etc. Worst case scenario would be a bad motherboard that needs replacing.
You might have not cleaned your PC's registry. When you uninstall a software it lefts some of its registry behind which makes our system slow. One more reason can be that you might have not cleaned garbage data from your PC.
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How much total RAM is the computer seeing? If the OS can see the entire address space, your problem is with something that is being loaded and sucking up all of that space. Otherwise, you have at least 1 bad DIMM/SODIMM.
maybe you have to clean your computer (viruses, malwers) ...
The fastest (and expensive) solution would be to replace all memory cards since it's highly likely one or more failed. A cheaper but time consuming approach would be to remove cards one at a time. Once it won't boot, you've located the "good" one. replace the others.
which windows version you have?
open msconfig, then go to boot-advanced options, tick maximum memory and enter 4096.
There are all sorts of possible scenarios here. Where does the figure of available memory come from? Is it from the system properties window or somewhere else? Also, if you know how to get into the BIOS, can you do so and see if the PC detects the full 4GB?
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andy-g, on May 17 2012, 07:03 PM, said:Nope??
According to Autodata upto 2010 the replacement is 100000 or 10yrs .
Looks like vx recommend 100k/10yrs for early oil burners and 100k/5years for later versions.
Even if I had an early version (mine's a my2011) think I'd still be going for the 5 years to be on the safe side.
Looks like the same sort of confusion over their mk4 zlet astras, some schedules said 4 years others 6 I went for 4 with mine!


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My student Harry from China asks: (edited)
Dear Joe,
Could you please tell me which kind of certification is the most popular for Electrical Engineers in the US? Also, which certification can be got through examination useful all over the world.
Thank you for your kind help.
My answer:
I don't know :) I'm not an expert on electrical engineering (EE) and the only electrical engineers I know are in China, but I've done a little searching on the web and I'll give the results here.
Jobs websites
As examples, I'll give some links in this article to job advertisments on US jobs websites, but links to specific jobs might stop working once the employer finds an employee. If so, try making new searches for "electrical engineer" at these websites:
Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE / BSc)
It seems the basic qualification in the US is a BSEE (Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering) from an accredited university (usually the university must be accredited by ABET ).
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CV & resume
Update 2017-01-08: Fixed a few links.
Update: 2015-09-25: Fixed a few links.
The UK & Europe
In the UK, Europe and other parts of the world, you send a CV (or curriculum vitae) when you apply for a job.
The US
In the US and some other places, you send a resume (or résumé or resumé) when you apply for most jobs.
In the US and some other places, you send a CV (or curriculum vitae or sometimes vita) when you apply for a job in fields like science and education.
Difference between CV & resume
So what's the difference between a CV and a resume?
Tencent won't let me log in, so I can't access my Tencent microblog at all.
Even though I'm putting in the right password, I get an error about "restricted account access".
I clicked on the link, and it all changes to Chinese. So much for the international version in English. As soon as there's a problem, it all reverts to Chinese, with a lot of important text (e.g. action buttons) actually presented in image format, so I can't use translation software to help me understand it.
I tried guessing and various things but eventually got stuck here:
I tried googling and tried one piece of advice on the web, which didn't work but I did end up with the e-mail address for QQ International help.
I emailed them, and they sent me back a link to a blog post with instructions in case of a lost password. I didn't lose my password, but I'm trying it anyways.
That post explains in English how to get a new password (the whole process in Chinese again) using annotated screenshots.
I've managed to complete the first couple of steps, but then comes one that's not explained. It asks for 3 "Friend's Account Numbers". Which is fine if you use QQ instant messenger and have those numbers saved or written down somewhere.
But I don't use QQ messenger, I only use Tencent for microblogging. So I don't have any such numbers. I can't even access the IDs of my microblog followers (to try using those instead of QQ numbers) because I have to sign in to see those.
I've posted a comment on that blog article about this problem, and I await an answer. If there isn't one, I'll try writing QQ International support again.
The irony? When I have a China-related tech problem, I tell people and ask for help using Tencent Weibo. But this problem means I can't even do that.
I'll post about any future developments.
G.A.L.E.S.L. / joe3
Some tips and links on learning English.
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