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Good leaders prioritize things; they tackle the most important problems first, and leave the less important problems for later.
Unfortunately, Brockport's new code enforcement officer, David Miller, doesn't seem to understand that.
In his "2014 Street By Street Exterior Property Maintenance Inspection Schedule" of the southwest quadrant, Miller started with the best and left the worst til last.
That's bass ackwards.
But that's the way new code enforcement officer David Miller planned to do things, and he has clearly stated that he will not change his plan for any reason whatsoever, regardless of how bass ackwards it is.
If Miller knew how to prioritize things, he would have started his inspection tour on Clinton Street, where the worst looking house in Brockport is located; Bob Webster's pig sty at 65 Clinton Street, where about a third of the exterior siding has already fallen off.
Then he should have moved his inspection tour south to Holley Street, Erie Street, and Monroe Avenue where the vast majority of Brockport's poorly maintained properties are located.
Instead, Miller started his street by street inspection of the southwest quadrant of the village by going to Coleman Creek and Centennial Road, two of the most well-kept streets in Brockport.
During the second week of his street by street inspection tour Miller inspected properties on Allen Street, Mercer Street, and Chappell Street. None of these streets have the reputation of being eyesores.
During the third week of his street by street inspection tour Miller inspected properties on Brockway Place, and Adams Street. These are two fairly normal looking Brockport Streets, and neither has the reputation of being a center of run-down houses.
Last Monday, at the start of the fourth week of his street by street inspection David Miller finally started getting to the core of the problem, by inspecting properties on Maxon Street and College Street.
The exterior of Fred Webster's property on Maxon Street hasn't seen a drop of paint in at least 31 years, and beyond a doubt, that property has the worst reputation in the neighborhood.
Unfortunately, Miller has already issued nasty letters to the owners of two adjoining properties on Adams Street, both of which are well kept and attractive homes.
So what can he possibly say about Fred Webster's property on Maxon Street, which is the most poorly maintained houses in the neighborhood? Miller has already shot his wad bashing the owners of the houses that look just fine.
If a the owner of a nice looking house on Adams Street gets a three page nasty letter threatening legal action from Miller, what can Miller possible say about Fred Webster's ugly green house on Maxon Street?
If Miller treats both houses equally, the Village may go broke buying enough paper to hold the description of the violations on the green house on Maxon Street.
This week, Brockport's new code enforcement officer, is going to inspect the houses on the West side of Main Street.
What can he possibly say about the dump Fred Webster owns across the street from Nativity Church?
After nit picking the property owners on Adams Street, there are no words left in the vocabulary to accurately describe some of the pig sties that pass for college rental housing on Main Street.
The week of August 4th, Miller will inspect the properties on Utica Street, Merchant Street, and Clinton Street. Let's see if he starts at 65 Clinton Street where Bob Webster Owns the most disgusting looking house in Brockport.
After yeahstub.com publish an article about the Biggest Garbage Dump in Brockport, Bob Webster clean up the yard enough so the ground is finally visible, but the exterior is still in gross violation of the village Code. We're not talking about a few loose or missing shingles; huge chunks of shingles are missing all over the place.
Starting on August 11th, Miller will finally inspect the houses Holley Street and Beach Street. Miller better plan to work some long hours that week, because Holley Street has much more than its fair share of shabby housing.
Then during the week of August 18th, Miller will finally get to inspect the houses on Monroe Avenue and Perry Street. He might want to plan for some long hours that week too. Some of the houses on Monroe Avenue are in disgraceful condition.
From August 25th to August 29th, Miller is going to visit Erie Street and Lincoln Street (the street that runs alongside the parking lot behind Chase Bank and Arjuna Florist). Once again, Miller better plan to work long hours because Erie Street is infamous for the code violations in the college housing there.
During the last week of his scheduled inspection tour, starting on September 5th, Miller is going to visit King Street, Queen Street, and Gardiner Alley. Not a day goes by when there isn't garbage piled by the curb somewhere on King Street.
Too bad Brockport's new code enforcement officer, David Miller, doesn't bother to prioritize.
Maybe David Miller should take a lesson from history.
During the Battle of the Philippine Sea in 1945, the outcome of the battle depended on how well the American commander, Admiral Raymond Spruance, prioritized his attacks and Spruance modified his plans to meet the actual situation.
The American invaded Saipan on June 15, 1945. The Japanese retaliated by sending a huge fleet to destroy the American fleet protecting the invasion force.
The Battle of the Philippine Sea started at 10:00 AM on June 19, 1944 when 268 Japanese planes attacked the American fleet. The air attacks on the American fleet lasted all morning and all afternoon and the American naval crews were exhausted.
But Spruance knew that his main priority was to destroy the Japanese aircraft carriers, so even though the Japanese fleet was so far away that the American planes would barely have enough fuel to fly there and back, Spruance ordered the planes to attack anyway.
Because of all the maneuvering they had to do during the attack, many of the American planes did not have enough fuel to return to their carriers and had to ditch in the Pacific Ocean.
To make matters worse, it was getting dark and many of the American planes were not equipped for night landings and many of the aircrews were not trained in night time carrier landings.
So Spruance modified his plan and did the unthinkable. He ordered his carriers to turn on their lights do the returning airplanes could locate the carriers and land.
This was a tremendous risk because it meant that the carriers would be sitting ducks for any Japanese submarines in the area.
That night, 80 American planes were lost when they crashed on the deck or went over the side while landing. But because of a massive rescue operation by the US Navy only 49Americans were lost during the night time carrier recovery operation.
Admiral Raymond Spruance won the Battle of the Philippine Sea because he was smart enough to prioritized the tasks at hand and then modified his plan when he ran into problems.
For example, David Miller could have started his inspection tour at the corner of Maxon Street and Utica Street where Pat Doherty's rental house at 176 Utica Street has had extremely dangerous scaffolding attached to the front of the house since at least October of last year.
But David Miller seems to be too pre-occupied granting special favors to college landlords, like Bob Webster to bother learning a lesson from history.
It's been five days and counting since David Miller decided that he would just talk to Bob Webster rather than issuing Webster a nasty letter or an appearance ticket about repairing the damage Webster had done by illegally widening the driveway at 57 State Street.
With today's heavy rain, there is now evidence that some of the dirt bank Bob Webster left behind when he illegally expanded the driveway is starting to erode away.
How many more days will it take before Brockport's new code enforcement officer, David Miller, realizes he's been had?
How many days will it take before Mayor Margay Blackman realizes that she should show some leadership by telling her hand-picked code enforcement officer, David Miller, to prioritize things and attack the obvious problems first, rather than looking for every minute code violation on the planet?


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You might thing with all the work you put into your dissertation that once you hit save the beast is done. Unfortunately, there are a few more things you need to sort out before you can put it away for good. One of those things is a literature review. This is not a bibliographical analyses or a brief summary of your work, this is an in-depth review of the texts you used. Still confused? Don't worry, follow these tips to perfect your review.
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Fly Fishing In Maine and Casting For Recovery renew their partnership this June 4th with the 11th annual day camp for alumni of Casting For Recovery. This years' camp will be hosted by the Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust (RLHT) at the Cupsuptic Lake Campground on Route 16 in Rangeley. "We wanted to change things up a bit and when the opportunity to partner with the RLHT came up, we jumped at it. The campground sits right on Cupsuptic Lake and the facilities are awesome", said Ken Beaulieu of FFIM. The event will host 20 alumni from Casting For Recovery. Each of the alumni will have their own guide for the day and will spend the day on Rangeley's famed waters in search of brook trout and salmon. "This is one of, if not the best day on the water every year for me, said guide Greg Hutchins. It's so much more than the fishing and although it may sound cliche, it's really about the experience of being able to share a little with these ladies who have been through so much". The weekend kicks off with a welcome reception on June 3rd to be held at the Outdoor Sporting Heritage Museum in Oquossoc. Author and Rangeley resident Bob Romano will make a presentation on fishing in the region to get both the sports and their guides excited for the following day.
The reception and day camp are being sponsored by Oxbow Brewing, Baxter Brewing, Bald Mountain Camps, Oquossoc Grocery, Rangeley Region Sports Shop and the Boothbay Lions Club.
The photo above was taken by Brian Donaghy at 2015's CFR Day. Please check out the wonderful film he did in 2013 on the event by clicking here.


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For all their efforts, Twitter and Facebook remain big question marks when it comes to their marketing reach, and an IBM's Black Friday report you likely heard yesterday says it's worse than you may have thought. According to IBM, Twitter was responsible for 0.0 percent of referral traffic, while Facebook referred just 0.68 percent this year the day after Thanksgiving. Dismal numbers; so how accurate are IBM's findings?
There's no doubt about it that this year's Black Friday was successful, driven by an increase in online sales, which grew year over year 20.7 percent for the weekend according. A report by Market Watch on a study by ShopperTrak corroborates the increase of in-store retail sales as well, which edged out last year by 2.7 percent. The Thanksgiving weekend as a whole (not including Cyber Monday), drove a record $59.1 billion in sales, and 40.7 percent of this came from online sales according to the National Retail Federation.
And if Facebook and Twitter aren't driving sales like they've been promising they can, then business may start rethinking their social media strategies. While social in general is an unproven resource, it all seemed a little suspect, so we decided to dive a little deeper into the report.
Admittedly we can't tell you what IBM's methodologies were when the company decided to publish these metrics, and we've reached out to them for some answers – but you might not want to read too deeply into that 0 percent number attributed to Twitter. If you go back to November 23 on Twitter, you'll immediately see users tweeting, retweeting, and favoriting deals published on the social network. While this doesn't indicate conversions, nor does it mean that tweets have been driving traffic, it's some evidence that Twitter was successfully encouraging some users to click on ads published on the platform on Black Friday. And clicks are a big part of what Internet marketing is all about.
Cory Huff, a digital strategist, tells me that from his experience working with clients that include mom-and-pop shops, artists, and Fortune 500 companies in retail and media verticals, he's skeptical about IBM's findings. While he can't tell me what the figures looked like on Black Friday, he says that "Twitter and Facebook have been definitely responsible for conversions."
It's fairly well known by social media strategists that Twitter and Facebook aren't significant drivers of referral traffic. Pinterest, for that matter, fairs far better – even excels – here. "Click-to-conversion has been a long time goal for social marketers, and an area of both challenge and opportunity," says Jason Weaver, CEO of Shoutlet a social media management software company. Weaver, however, declined to comment about the IBM study.
While we reached out to major retailers including Macy's, Walmart, Kohls, Costcos, for their findings, these companies have remained mum. Mid-sized retailers like SellCell.com, the Kayak of the phone trade-in world, on the other hand supported IBM's figures. "Our figures back up IBM's statement. We see few actual referrals from Facebook and Twitter, but Facebook and Twitter are only two of many touch points we have with our customers. They give us a wonderful opportunity to interact with our customers on a regular basis and to share content that they value," says Colin White, managing director of SellCell.com.
But Huff says that he's confident that the referrals are better than the abysmal numbers IBM reported. I asked him for a ball park figure, if possible, and based on his experience he told me generally between five and 10 percent of referrals come from social networks depending, on the client.
Adobe Digital Index tracked social traffic share from Black Friday and found that Facebook and Twitter accounted for 77 percent of referral traffic among social networks, an increase of one percent year-over-year, while Pinterest's share grew 115 percent, giving it 15 percent of social traffic. However, citing Monetate, AllThingsD reports that Facebook traffic has been on the decline. In Q1 2011, Facebook made up as much as 88 percent of social traffic for retailers, while Pinterest amounted to one percent at the time.
What's worth noting from my conversation with Huff is that he's found that enterprises have more of a challenge than the small businesses in engaging with its fans. The local factor of small vendors tends to translate into sales thanks to social interaction much more easily than it does with enterprises. Enterprises are dealing with a larger volume of sales and a more diverse clientele.
Target declined to comment on their sales figures and social data coming out of Black Friday, but a spokesperson confirmed with me that social media was a channeled used specifically for Black Friday. "We know Target guests used social media to plan their Black Friday shopping, learn about great deals, redeem Facebook Offers as well as share feedback during their shopping experience." Target offered some additional insight into how its Facebook platform may have performed during Black Friday. "We first revealed our Black Friday deals in an interactive Facebook App and had nearly a million users in just four days." Of course this doesn't answer how the referral traffic from Facebook and Twitter was for the company, simply how well it was able to connect with users via the network.
Melissa Salas, Director of Marketing at Rakuten Buy.com told me that during Black Friday, the e-commerce retailer, which serves 18 million customers, saw a significant increase in social traffic this year that in part fueled an increase of 74 percent year-over-year in transactions and sales. While Salas declined to offer exact numbers about their social media referrals, she informed me that leading the way by "a lot" among social networks was Twitter. She added that social media was an integral part of Buy.com's marketing strategy. "It allows us to create an exciting and entertaining shopping experience that includes informative video reviews, gift suggestions and social media contests. Our customers know they are getting a great deal and are willing to share the news with their friends and family via social media channels."
DataSift, one of three Twitter partners for syndicating the Firehose, who we reached out to earlier about this article conducted a cursory study about Twitter and Facebook activity on Black Friday and its spokesperson told us that IBM's results might be giving retailers the wrong impression. While DataSift's study was a quick turn around, even the cursory look at Black Friday on Twitter was evidence that IBM might have missed the mark. DataSift found "50M tweets relating to Black Friday/Cyber Monday, with peaks of almost 100 tweets a second."
Coming out of the study, offline retailers were benefiting significantly from online coupons published to social networks. "There were several million posts worth of coupons," and most surprising of all is that DataSift found that out of all retailers, "Radio Shack even beat both Apple and Amazon as far as DataSift could tell in terms of virality around coupons." DataSift concludes by saying that it's possible that IBM underrepresented the impact of social on retailers by focusing on just online retailers, when many deals that were being shared were for offline retailers.
It could be, as Josh Constine of TechCrunch suggests, that Twitter doesn't have downstream conversion tracking so the results were underreported. And Twitter just a week ago reported on a study where Compete analyzed over 7,600 user's shopping habits with 700 retail outlets during the back to school shopping season. This doesn't go without mentioning that the study is food for thought and should be taken with a grain of salt considering that it was conducted during a busy shopping season, and um … commissioned by Twitter. But the important take away from the report is that Twitter users made purchases 33 percent of the time when "exposed to a tweet," compared to the 27 percent that made purchases from a retail site.
The IBM report isn't without merit, the main point being that social media traffic is just a fraction of total referrals. Really, the study just emphasizes the idea that social marketing is a mixed bag that we're navigating. But amid the confusion there's a clear winner emerging, and it's Pinterest.
A BizRate Insights study shows that Pinterest is the fourth largest driver of traffic, which we mentioned earlier, and 70 percent of users will browse
The big picture here? Don't get too swept up in reports claiming social doesn't work – it does, it just works differently. It plays a longer tail game by communicating and connecting with consumers and building relationships there. The direct ad click to buy isn't necessarily how many retailers are using social media – although, it's something that site's like Twitter and Facebook are certainly trying to ad to their arsenal. But don't count social out of the holiday shopping quite yet – the season, and social networks, are just getting started.
Edit: Updated the article with comments from DataSift
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Alexandra Jardvall on her album 'Aurora Skies'
Alexandra Jardvall is not here for celebrity. She simply wants to do what she loves: make music.
She has been composing, producing and performing successfully for over 20 years as an independent artist. A natural entertainer, she booked her first paid gig in 1987.
Today, Alexandra plays over 100 gigs a year all over Scandinavia. On the small stage and in large arenas, she accompanies her powerful, husky contralto with guitar and harmonica.
Alexandra has played for everyone from the Swedish Royal Family to the KFOR forces in Kosovo and Macedonia yet you can still find her live show in intimate settings like pubs and on the popular cruises between the Nordic countries.
As a solo artist she has two albums under her belt: 'As Good As It Gets' (2009) and 'Aurora Skies' (2016).
Rings + Things caught up with Alexandra to talk about her influences and her latest studio offering.
Influences and inspiration for 'Aurora Skies'
Alexandra, in your live performances, you often pay homage to musical giants from the 1960s like Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen and Neil Young. What is it about music from that era that inspires you?
I love music in all forms, but I do prefer "the real deal" as in real musicians playing real instruments. That's inspiring.
In September you released your second studio album 'Aurora Skies' containing only original songs. What was your inspiration?
I wasn't planning a second album actually, but at one of the ships I work on, I started discussing music with a fellow musician and found out we both liked that Americana tainted music.
As a joke I said "text me the first line of our new song and I'll text back the second line". That continued and in a couple of months we had ten ready songs, without even meeting in person.
It was great and forced me to step out of my comfort zone in many ways, like not writing about death, loss and sadness. It was also the first time I really wrote songs together with someone.
Real scary but fun and educating.
Alexandra Jardvall on her influences
What is it that you love about the sound of Americana?
To my ears, it's simple and straight forward. I understand it.
What is your favorite song on the album? Why is it special to you?
"Hero" cause that's what we are, all of us. It's just hard to remember sometimes. My sisters kids sing in the end and that always puts a smile on my face.
What do you want listeners to take away from your songs?
From 'Aurora Skies', I'd say recognition and a huge smile.
Being an independent musician in the digital age
Technology has changed the music industry in a big way since you started out. What has this meant for you as an independent artist?
– It's a lot easier to reach out to my fans and also easier to get new fans, all over the world. Saying that, it's sadly impossible to earn any money from digital music services.
If you could go back twenty years ago when you were just entering the music business, what advice would you give yourself?
– Same thing I tell myself today; trust yourself and your guts. Never doubt your musicality. Your own chosen path is the right path. Show respect and be grateful.
You're booked for gigs almost every week of the year. During your performances you have a very unique way of engaging the audience and getting them involved in the music. It's clear that you're passionate about what you do. What motivates you as an performer?
– There's no motivation needed. Playing music and performing keeps me alive. Always has, always will.
Thank you, Alexandra, we wish you continued success!
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Viral Rap Video: "The Bixi Anthem" from Da Gryptions
In the last few months we've seen some great environmentally themed rap songs, notably John Forté's "Oil on the Shore" and 350's "A Rap for Copenhagen." Now Montreal-based Da Gryptions have laid down a track to celebrate bike sharing: "The Bixi Anthem."
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Video Credit: Da Gryptions via YouTubeIt was just over a year ago that Montreal unveiled Bixi, its bike share program. Since then, Bixi has grown in not only size (from 3,000 bikes last summer to 5,000 today) but in popularity- proven by the new song from Apso Bibi (aka Circumflexxx), Dark Science and Future Shark.
Sporting old-school Expos jerseys and referring to Bixis as "chrome chariots," Da Gryptions have given the Montreal bike share a very cool anthem! And seeing as "Bixi Anthem" is to date their only song, we can only hope they'll take on some more green topics- maybe composting?


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Saturday, October 30, 2010
Teddybears with Personality
Little teddybear holding a string of holiday stars on a sunny background. Cute postage for the holiday season.
A great Christmas card to send out featuring this little bear holding a string of stars on a pretty background with stars and little snowflakes.
A customizable apron for the kids, personalize with their name. They'll love this bright and cheery holiday teddybear.
This little bear with his bright string of holiday stars is on a blue and green background with pretty snowflakes. A great Christmas gift.
Say Merry Christmas with this cute little teddybear and his stars on this fun magnet. A perfect stocking stuffer.
Teddybears have a way of making you smile! It's funny that no matter how old we are we all probably have memories of teddybears from our childhood or perhaps ones that our children played with. I love drawing and creating unique teddybears with different personalities and styles depending on the expressions I give to them. It's fun to give a gift that you know will brighten someone's day and I think these teddybears will do just that! Above you'll see some of my latest creations. Come by my store for more selection, Designs by Shell
Monday, October 25, 2010
Ideas for Decorating for the Holidays
This design of 'Wrapped with Love' won me a TBA (Today's Best Award)
A non-traditional background color accents these wrapped holiday gifts.
Dancing snowflakes on a shimmery background of blue and mauve.
More dancing snowflakes in white accented by a shimmery blue and mauve background.
A cozy Christmas scene, viewed from the window. A Christmas tree all trimmed with a stack of pretty gifts beneath it.
A hot mug of coffee paired with Christmas and holiday magazines, the perfect way to relax on a rainy day! This weekend I picked up the Nov. issue of House and Home magazine. I love getting this holiday issue to see what new ideas or themes are being encouraged for the Christmas season. Do you have a favourite Holiday magazine that you love to glean ideas from, do tell? I've been creating some new Christmas designs of pretty snowflakes, cozy Christmas scenes and jolly little snowmen. I hope you enjoy those that I've shown you above. Come by my store to see many more cute designs. Designs by Shell This weeks special is $5 off all white t-shirts! Use code OCTSHIRTSALE
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Gifts of Love
Another sunny October day today... had a lunch date with my Honey at a cozy restaurant. I also went for a walk with a friend I hadn't connected with in a long time. Talked to some of my family today and was encouraged. So that's why I wanted to share some of my 'love' designs. Love can be shown in so many different ways. Small ways and big ways! Perhaps by a phone call, an e-mail message, a lunch date, a visit over coffee, or a walk with a friend. So I encourage you to reach out to someone over the next week, maybe connect with someone you haven't seen in awhile, you never know how much that could be appreciated. Pop by my store to see more designs.
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John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. (NIV)
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Time to Pick up Your Holiday Cards
Yesterday the sales for Christmas and holiday cards started happening! Now's the time for business'owners, bosses, and everyone else that sends out cards to find the perfect design for your friends, families, neighbours and employees! I have several designs in my store to choose from. Themes of snowmen, winter scenes, Christmas trees and ornaments, nutcrackers and shepherds. Something for every personality and style. Stop by for a look around you never know what you'll find!
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There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear." John 4:18
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Something New - A Utube Experience
Well this post is a little different from my usual posts but I wanted to share this with you. Actually it came about because my husband Brian came home with a new flipcamera and needed to practice using it. So of course I got the job of being his interviewy (is that a word?) or camera subject. All in all we had some fun with it and I did a little interview about Squidoo. By now I'm sure you've heard me talk about writing lens' for squidoo. As you can see in the sidebar I have over a hundred of these mini-articles featured. So instead of me writing about 'What Squidoo Is and why you should use it, I want you to watch and listen to my Utube talk.
As you know I use Squidoo to help market my Zazzle store and in a future post I'll share another talk about how I started my own unique store. Here are a couple of my recent products for you to view. For lots more interesting designs come by for a visit. Designs by Shell
As you know I use Squidoo to help market my Zazzle store and in a future post I'll share another talk about how I started my own unique store. Here are a couple of my recent products for you to view. For lots more interesting designs come by for a visit. Designs by Shell
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Music Touches Us All
Isn't it wonderful how it doesn't matter what country or place someone comes from music has a way of bringing everyone together. Now that's not saying we all like the same type or style of music but just that music has a way of touching all of us. Whether it's the words of a song that speak to us or just the melody that soothes us. So you guessed it, I've been designing music items for my store. I have especially been focusing on guitar themes. I created business cards, magnets and mugs with a musical theme. I also wrote a lens (mini-article) about Unique Gifts for Acoustic Guitar Players, come and have a look! Never too soon to start thinking of gifts for the holidays or birthdays! Zazzle has a sale on this weekend called the Columbus Day Sale. Use code 1492COLUMBUS to receive 14.92% off your order.
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To my Canadian readers, Have a great Thanksgiving weekend and don't over do it on the turkey! :-)
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Holiday Handbags
Holiday apron for the fashionable cook or baker
A cute fashion magnet for the girls or woman in your life - Glamour
A cute black holiday handbag with the message 'sparkle' accents this t-shirt
A great holiday tote, perfect for shopping or would make a nice reusable giftbag
Pretty holiday postage featuring a red handbag and a plaid design
What a gorgeous day today, the sun is shining and the sky is so blue! No matter how much sleep you've had the sun makes you feel brighter and more alert. I haven't had a great nights sleep in about 3 weeks again. Can't wait til this insomnia passes... can anyone relate? If anyone has any great remedies or tips please do tell! Oh well, I don't let it stop me from being creative and coming up with new designs for my store. This week I've been working on some cute holiday fashion designs kind of to go with the shoe theme from last week. Some trendy handbags in holiday colors. I've put these designs on postage, business cards, t-shirts, mugs etc. Lots of cute gift ideas. Stop by for a visit to see more of my creations.
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Moonbat "Science" vs. Reality
There's been quite a kerfuffle around the 'net because of a study released by The Lancet saying there have been about 655K "excess" civilian deaths in Iraq since March 2003. Idaho überblogger Clayton Cramer got Instalanched for discussing the report, and Julie at Red State Rebels mentioned it in a supportive way. Many of those on the left who are reflexively supporting the study (because, while they might not admit it -- even to themselves -- it feeds into their preconceptions that the American military is full of blood-thirsty animals who are slaughtering Iraqis for fun) claim that those of us questioning the report's outlandish conclusions aren't finding any problems with the methodology -- only the result. Well, here's a critique of the methodology...
The survey relied on doing interviews in "clusters" of homes. From the report:
By confining the survey to a cluster of houses close to one another it was felt the benign purpose of the survey would spread quickly by word of mouthThey also tried to verify each death; amazingly, in 90% of the cases they families of the "dead" were able to provide a death certificate. The problem with this is that the surveyors didn't record the names of the dead for comparison later. In the West, this might not be a problem, but it's different in the Middle East. Arab culture is built around the extended family; therefore, many people are likely to say that someone who had died (especially a "heroic" death) would have lived in their home. This is especially true when Iraqis know that Americans often pay "blood money" to the families of those who died accidentally in coalition attacks. So here's an Iraq family, and these Americans come to their door and ask if anyone has been killed lately by Americans. How do you think they'll respond? Since they did the study in a "cluster", I could see people running a "death certificate" from house to house ahead of the surveyors -- "Hey, show this to these Americans, and we might get blood money. Those Americans sure are stupid."
among households, thus lessening risk to interviewers.
This is the problem with "moonbat" science -- failure to adjust their assumptions for clearly outlandish results. Any normal scientists, seeing results that were completely outside the expected range, would check their assumptions and methodology to see where they went wrong. (Actually, for this group, they were clearly hoping for a high number, so they had no incentive to question their methodology.) It's the same thing with the supposed "discrepancies" in exit poll numbers in the last two Presidential elections; the people running the exit polls, to their credit, took steps to fix their methodology -- realizing that, for some reason, Republican voters were more likely to refuse to answer the exit poller's questions. Moonbats, on the other hand, take the results and spin them into a huge conspiracy theory where hundreds of computer programmers (a notoriously conservative lot, I know) conspire to make electronic polling devices all change enough votes to the Republicans so that they win by just a little bit.
Those of us who appreciate real science should continue to speak out against the fake science of both the left and the right -- even if people accuse us of a "lack of regard for human life".
Update 2207 14 Oct: Huckleberries Online linked to this post (Thanks, Dave!), which generated some interesting discussion in the comments.


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Posted by Jennifer Essick on 11/6/2016 to Nursery Ideas & Design Inspiration
We know the ABC show The Bachelor is a big hit, but we think this adorable nursery is too! If you're a fan of The Bachelor, we think you will love the New Arrivals' nursery we designed for Sean and Catherine Lowe! The nursery designed for Samuel Thomas Lowe has a warm and cozy feel featuring neutral colors and some pops of color to brighten it up and give it a retro touch. New Arrivals' owner Tori Swaim worked with Sean and Catherine Giudici to create the perfect space for their new baby Samuel Thomas Lowe. They collaborated with Wayfair to design an dreamy baby's room in Catherine & Sean's home in Dallas, Texas. We are in love with the simplicity of the nursery, and hope you are too!
Before getting started on the nursery, Tori wanted to see how Catherine and Sean envisioned the nursery. Some of Catherine's design ideas for baby Samuel's nursery: "Since we won't be finding out gender (and it's our style regardless), I think it's a good idea to keep it all neutral--whites, creams, light greys--with lots of texture and playful accents. I enjoy playing with proportion and incorporating animals-polar Bears, elephants, white tigers, birds, etc.--without having it be "farm-y" but more fun! Besides aesthetic, I'm not too sure about what the room will need apart from a changing table, dresser, crib, rugs and a GREAT nursing chair (super important to me!). If you could enlighten me, I would so appreciate it! I know I'll be spending a lot of time in there so I want to make sure it's cozy for all of us!" They began the design process by creating a Pinterest board with products and ideas for the room.
• Neutral Colors: We left the walls in the room a soft gray. For the crib bedding and curtains, we chose neutral khaki, gray and white fabrics. The white crib, changing table and slip covered Hailey Swivel Glider pop in front of the gray walls, and also kept with the neutral colors of the room.
• Texture: We had fun with texture by adding the wooden storage bench and the slip covered cushion we covered in our soft plush sherpa fabric. The moroccan leather pouf not only gives texture, but also adds a contrast of color. Catherine loved the trend of layering rugs, so we added the white Polar Bear Faux Fur Shag rug on top of the Nasir Denim area rug which gives the room an urban vibe.
• Animals: One of Catherine's favorite items on from Wayfair, were the sweet framed animal prints over the crib. Those were one of the very first items we selected for the room! The stuffed zebra was also a fun addition.
Of course, our favorite part of the nursery is the adorable Dalmatian Spots Crib Bedding (no longer available) designed by Catherine and Tori. Whimsical and fun, this unisex crib collection is perfect for a neutral baby's nursery. This crib set features a sweet khaki Dalmatian Spots Crib Sheet and a coordinating striped crib skirt. The baby blanket is backed with our super soft and plush sherpa fabric to keep your baby Samuel warm and cozy.
Baby Lowe's myRoom Convertible Crib from Smartstuff Furniture makes a grand statement in the room! The light washed wood headboard paired with the white and khaki crib bedding is the perfect touch to create a comfy and rustic feel in the nursery. We also love the Gray Owl Baby Mobile that any baby would love to watch and fall asleep to! It plays a lullaby that will help your baby drift into a sweet peaceful sleep!
The wooden storage bench is another favorite, as it adds an element of depth to the room and provides great storage to keep nursery necessities out of sight. The detailed wood draws your eye to it and gives the room texture. It was Catherine's idea to cover the bench pillow in our furry fabric. Tori accented the seat by adding fun and colorful throw pillows. The Khaki Curtains with pom pom trim are the perfect frame for the bench seat and also create a comfy sitting area. The large window gives the room an abundance of natural lighting along with a great view!
Throw Pillow Collection
The door entering the nursery features our popular Small Polka Dot Letters in Gray spelling "Samuel" and our "You are our Greatest Adventure" doorknob sign adorns the handle.
Nothing completes a nursery like the perfect accessories. The large Sun Burst Mirror above the Mid Century White Changing Table (which features our Taupe Chevron Changing Pad Cover) is gorgeous and brightens up the room! The White Floating Shelves of books spice up the wall and supply endless nights of story telling books for baby Samuel! The sweet felt Pom Pom Nursery Garland adds a whimsical touch!
In this full shot of the nursery, you can see how spacious the room looks. Everything is placed to create a functional nursery. The Leaning White Ladder Shelf against the wall is unique, and creates a space for toys, keepsakes and more.
A few of our other accent pieces include the embroidered pouf, circular wall shelf, and animal portraits shown below.
Catherine was involved in every aspect of the nursery design, including her very own custom wallpaper printed by Spoonflower! You have to read her funny and sweet messages to her new baby!
We are hoping baby Samuel loves his new room as much as we do!
"The Lowe's were such a pleasure to work with!" says New Arrivals' owner, Tori Swaim.
We would love to thank Catherine and Sean for letting New Arrivals be a part of creating this amazing room, and wish them the best with their sweet new baby boy!
See all of the items in Samuel's Nursery on Wayfair.com
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Teaching Style, Touch, Dynamics and Harmony
Ruthann is a firm believer that beginning students do not have to sound like beginning students. She is aware that musical training expands learning, mindfulness and helps develop success in other areas of expression—for instance school subjects and sports. She emphasizes style, touch and dynamics to help individuals develop the "normal" style and then unfold their unique style! Phillip Keveren an editor and teaching consultant with the Hal Leonard Company emphasizes duet playing for modeling style techniques. Ruthann agrees. Playing duets also teaches the importance of listening, respecting and responding to others and prepares students for further musical ensemble work, as they pick up other instruments. Students and parents alike are delighted with mini performances with duet triumphs.
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Ruthann Pippenger, BS in Music and English; MA in Guidance and Counseling, Ball State University. Ruthann, a church and high school orchestra pianist by age 14, began teaching piano at age 16. She combines her background as an international consultant in expanded human potential, coaching, interfaith studies and stress release with teaching. She integrates this knowledge including Chi Gong and Brain Gym to meet individual needs. She accompanied the Ball State University Chorus and the Concert Choir, plus numerous instrumental, vocal artists and choruses before, during and after university. Her piano professor at Ball State, Mildred Milford, and her high school piano teacher were both in a direct line of training from Beethoven. She is a member of Sigma Alpha Iota, the National Music Honor Fraternity for Women.
Students Ranging from Age 5 to Age 78
Ruthann's students range from age 5 to 78. She enjoys teaching young people and adults who are interested in beginning or returning to earlier studies.
Special Needs Students
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Ruthann hosts an optional recital-reception in her home at the winter holidays to honor students' efforts. A less formal recital is held in the spring time.
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Pre-readers use the engaging writing and lessons books, My First Piano Adventure for the Young Beginner by Nancy and Randall Faber, published by Hal Leonard.
Children from age 6-9 use the Hal Leonard, the All-In-One Piano Lessons series. This offers an easy, thorough and fun beginning to the essentials of keyboard/piano playing and provides a basis for interest in all styles of music.
Older beginners and adults start with the Faber Piano Adventures material published by Hal Leonard.
Students are encouraged to choose supplemental materials for their individual interests: classical, boogie and blues, jazz, spiritual, etc. Publishers most often used are Bastien, Alfreds, G. Schirmer, Inc., John Thompson and The FJH Music Company Inc.'s Recital Series.
Edna-Mae Burnam's, The Dozens a Day series, is Ruthann's favored exercise material.
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Because I enjoy seeing students succeed, I encourage parents to be involved. I remember fondly my mother's support coming from the kitchen as she cooked and I practiced. She empowered my growth as an artist and expanded my artistic thinking.
Since you are investing money, please sit in on the last 5 minutes of every lesson to track my progress with your child. At home, it takes 15 seconds to start the lesson timer and 5 minutes at the end of the practice session to give support and hopefully be impressed. Your child will be grateful. Your investment of time and money will be insured!
Many parents believe that their child/ren should be and will be self-starting with music lessons. I can assure you that 99% of students are not self-starting. I have had one student who was. Her motivation was to earn a scholarship to a college music program. She also had daily parental involvement from her father sitting in his office a few feet away from the piano! She earned that scholarship and is winning awards for song writing!
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Enjoying every minute being in Holland..and stroopwafels all the wayyy!!
PS: Already bought 12 packets!! :p
OK! So I have problem understanding all those 'we buy' 'we sell' thingy whenever i go to the money changer counter. Most of the time I will just go there and change without understanding anything! But now I'm curious to find out what are those 'we sell' 'we buy' and how they calculate.
Now I found out that it's actually quite simple.
Source: http://www.maybank2u.com.my/mbb_info/m2u/public/forexExchangeRates.do?channelId=BTRE-Treasury&cntTypeId=0&cntKey=BTRE04.01&programId=BTRE04-Rates&chCatId=/mbb/Business/BTRE-Treasury
Example 1:
I am in Malaysia and going to Europe. I want to change RM1000 to Euro. To know how much Euro I will get, I will need to use this formula:
Money to exchange (MYR) / Selling rate x Unit
= RM1000 / 4.2010 x 1 = Euro 238
Now I just came back from Europe and I have 100 Euro with me. If I want to change back to MYR, I need to use this formula
Money to exchange (Euro) x Buying rate / Unit
= 100 Euro x 3.9980 / 1 = RM399.80
Example 2:
I am in Malaysia and going to Indonesia. I want to change RM1000 to Indonesian Rupiah. To know how much Indonesian Rupiah I will get, I will need to use this formula:
Money to exchange (MYR) / Selling rate x Unit
= RM1000 / 0.0335 x 100 = 2,985,074 Indonesian Rupiah
Now I just came back from Indonesia and I have 1,000,000 Indonesian Rupiah with me. If I want to change back to MYR, I need to use this formula
Money to exchange (Indonesian Rupiah) x Buying rate / Unit
= 1,000,000 Indonesian Rupiah x 0.0290 / 100 = RM290
If you want to get more money, look for lower selling rate and higher buying rate
Craving for some Stroopwafels! Luckily I'm going to the Netherlands in few days time & the first thing I will do after touch down (after 13 hours 35 minutes sitting on a plane!) is to get myself a STROOPWAFELS!! wooohooo!!
If you don't have any idea what Stroopwafel is, it is basically a waffle made from 2 thin layers of baked batter with caramel-like syrup in the middle. Also known as Syrup Waffle in English.


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Thread: I-Beam Load/Span?
I am trying to determine the size of I-Beam needed to support a given weight at the center of a known span.
I.e., if I am building a bridge hoist for a trolley and chain fall, and the span is 9 feet between supports, what size beam do I need to support 3,000 lbs.? I have looked in Machinery's Handbook, but the info there is more than a bit confusing to me.
Can someone point me to any information regarding beam sizing/load for modern I-Beams?
wilbilt, a number of configurations/shapes might suit your application. Do you already have a beam selected (or on-hand material to weld up one)?
If so, you could provide us with the dimensions and material type - someone can most likely give you an estimate of the suitability for your needs.
I don't have a beam or other materials yet. I am hoping to be able to determine which size/material I should be looking for.
A local general engineering contractor has a pile of galvanized I-Beams from highway signs, but they may be much larger than what I need.
02-27-2005, 10:43 PM #4A local general engineering contractor has a pile of galvanized I-Beams from highway signs, but they may be much larger than what I need.
Not trying to finesse your question about how to select the right structural shape but there are a few things to consider in the process, particularly where safety is concerned. This is one of those situations when hasty or incorrect information could lead to catastrophe.
Generally, few people would be comfortable providing design information long-distance but if you have a length of material, we might give you a conditional indication of whether the material is suitable for the application that you describe.
I have a gantry frame crane with a 7" 15.3 lb (per foot)I beam with supports nine feet apart. I have had 3500-4000 lbs hanging on it. This is a home built affair, been in service over 15 years.
I have a table here. Lessee. A 9 foot span with a concentrated load of 3000 lb in the center. Hmm.
My table shows a 5" x 3" 10.0 lb per ft American Standard I beam will support a 3800 lb concentrated at a 10 ft span given a 24,000 psi max fiber stress resulting in a 0.4" deflection. I would go to a 6" section unless you had some form of lateral stiffening to keep the upper flange from buckling.
Be VERY careful !
It's not a good idea to design from a set of generic tabular data without applying some thought to the problem ...
Rolling loads (the trolley), for example, can induce up to twice the static stress on the beam. And how about the effects of acceleration/deceleration? (Would you want to be underneath the load if the chain hoist slipped six inches and then caught?)
For safety, the beam should be rated for at LEAST ten times the static load requirement, IMO.
This isn't a simple problem and simple answers can be sloppy ones. If a quick answer is required, find a commercial unit with similar (or greater) load capacity and copy the beam design.
Copying an established design provides reasonable assurance that the problem has been considered, analyzed and that the appropriate safety margin has been included.
In fact, the company lawyers have probably looked over the engineering calculations
The Americian Institute for Steel Construction publishes tables of load capacity of various sections. Perhaps that was the one Forrestt was quoting. This is the standard reference. Maybe your Public Library has one in their reference room. This book is full of footnotes, all of which are important. The most important is the laterally unbraced length. A beam has to be braced against lateral movement if it is longer than a certain length. If you do not do it, the beam can collapse under less than design stress, suddenly, without warning. NOT GOOD. In some cases, bigger beams with the wrong shape can have a lateraly unsupported length shorter than smaller beams with the right shape.
Because of this, I agree with the advice to copy an existing commercial design.
02-27-2005, 11:27 PM #9In fact, the company lawyers have probably looked over the engineering calculations
Using the 7" x 3.660" 15.3 lb/ft beam as an example, I applied my dull mind to the formula in Machinery's Handbook and came up with 6,000 lbs. maximum fiber stress at the center of the span (assuming I used the right equations).
There are terms used in the book such as "moment of inertia", which I assume has nothing to do with the inertia of a "drop and stop" with 3,000 lbs. on the hook.
Thanks for the replies. I will investigate the locally available material for suitability. A 10X safety factor might require a beam that significantly reduces headroom in the shop, though...
02-27-2005, 11:29 PM #10jfsmith Guest
Call up a big building materials supply house they can give you the specs on I-Beams. But always figure 20% over your need for the work load. Then the question is how are you going to suspend this hunk of steel. What are your supports made out of?
6 Inch I Beams would work, with diagonal support at 70 degrees with strength equal to the 6 inch I beam and reinforce your uprights with 6 inch I Beams also. But I can not recommend this and take no liability in this matter, I asked my brother who is an ME and an NDT III.
I am planning to build the supports from the same material as the beam with diagonal bracing.
The supports will have footplates and be encased in 30" deep concrete footings (no frost here).
3,000lb loads would be an extreme, with "normal" loads in the 650-1000lb range.
I understand dynamic forces, safety factors and "the weakest link". I also understand liability.
Whatever I end up with, it will be overbuilt, but I still won't get under it.
This is a structural engineering problem, not mechanical. Allowable loads from the Steel Manual (this is the bible for this stuff and surely available in your library) incorporates safety factors suitable for buildings. I agree that a crane that will hoist estimated loads, experience impact and rolling loads, and whose failure will cause injury or property damage, should be more conservatively designed, especially as you are only buying one of these, not a whole skyscraper full, and you don't have redundant members. But there's no point going overboard or there's no end to it. If you hurt yourself placing an oversized member (or have to skimp on some other piece of safety equipment because you spent too much on this), you haven't made a good deal.
Steel beams are rolled in three basic shapes that you might find used: wide flange columns, wide flange beams, and I-beams (American Standard beams), an obsolete shape but still provided in small sizes (what you want). Each size (height) comes in different weights per foot, and the strength of "a 6" beam" can vary widely.
You may also need to consider deflection; a very strong long (in proportion to its height) beam might still sag enough to start your hoist rolling toward the center from a quarter point.
The calculations are not daunting and you can learn how to do them for a simple shape like this, or a portal (the beam plus its columns) in any structural design textbook. Or perhaps you can swap some machining service with a civil or structural engineer in your area for help with this design.
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Find a copy of Kent's handbook. It has simple formula-based span info. Point and distributed loads, etc, etc, etc.
You might need an older one, I haven't seen a new one.
If you might have to meet a building code, the code already has the requirements spelled out for ordinary situations, no need for much calculation.
02-28-2005, 04:16 AM #14jfsmith Guest
My Brother is a ME and NDT III that does testing on bridges, factory buildings and other industrial structures.
I am the Civil Engineer in the family, but I don't do that stuff any more, I do my metal art and leave the techy stuff to others.
Machinery's Handbook is confusing because it's just a reference, not a how-to -- it assumes the reader has studied structural engineering and just needs to look up the formulas and constants. But calculating deflection of a point load on a simple beam is extremely easy. There are only three things you need from the book: 1) the modulus of elasticity (known by the symbol "E") of the material, 2) the moment of intertia of the beam shape (symbol "I"), and 3) the formula to calculate the deflection for your configuration.
All of these are in the chapter "Strength of Materials". Look at the section with tables for "Steel Wide-Flange Sections". Wide-flange is the standard construction shape that most people colloquially call "I beams". I-beams are actually a different and mostly obsolete shape but still available, as someone else pointed out. Wide-flange beams are known by a designation like "W6x25", "W14x136", etc. The first number is the height and the second number is the weight per foot. There are typically around a dozen different weights for each height. The weight, and structural properties, vary because the width and the thickness of the flanges varies for each size within a given height. The Wide-Flange table in the Handbook lists the full dimensions of each size, along with the moment of inertia for each shape.
Moment of Inertia (I) is too complicated to explain and not necessary to understand beyond knowing that it is a number that reflects how rigid a given cross section is. For example, a solid round is more rigid than a tube of the same diameter, and has a different I (the specific value which of course varies, depending on diameter and wall thickness) For your purposes, you just need to find out the I value for the beams you might choose to use. These are in the Handbook tables.
Modulus of elasticity (E) is a very simple concept. It is merely a measure of how much a material stretches under load. Every linear elastic material has a constant E, and you just need to know what it is and plug it into the formulas. (A linear elastic material is one that will strech a given amount per given load. In other words if you applied n pounds of tension to a wire and it stretched x inches, and you apply 2n pounds and it stretches 2x, it is linear.) Steel is linear elastic, and its E value is 2.9E7. It varies slightly depending on alloy, but not enough to be relevant here.
Then there are tables titled "Stresses and Deflections in Beams", which has a series of drawings showing beam and load configurations. For example, a simple beam with a single load in the middle; a simple beam with a single load at some point that is not the middle; a beam with a uniforming distributed load; etc. The pictures are largely self-explanatory. Foe each configuration, the table lists formulas to calculate stress and deflection at any given point along the length of the beam, as well as handy shortcut formulas for common things, like maximum deflection at the center of a beam.
So, with I and E (which describe the material and the shape of the beam), plus your parameters of length and load, you have all the ingredients to do the calcs. Note that for a simple point load at the center of a beam, the maximum deflection is simply the formula:
W * length^3 / 48 * E * I
So if I pick a W6x12, its moment of inertia (I value) is 21.7. Plugging your parameters in, gives us this:
3,000 pounds on the center of a 108" long W6x12 will cause it to sag 1/8" in the middle.
So that's how you interpret what you saw in Machinery's Handbook.
Here's the formula applied to the example Forrest cited from some handbook:
I of S5x10 = 12.3 (I-beams are designated "Snxn")
His book said it would sag .4", so we're basically dead-on here.
In closing, I would note that your question was what size beam is "needed to support", but the need must be defined. Probably you mean "need not to break and fall on your head." But note that no material starts out rigid and then just breaks. First, metals flex under load and return to prior shape when the load is removed; this is the elastic range. Second, when the load is high enough, the material flexes under load but does not return to prior shape, ie it bends. Third, when the load is really high, the material may break.
3,000 pounds is not a lot of weight relative to Wide-Flange beams, and even small ones will not bend, let alone break under a static load (3,000 pounds dropping 50' and hitting a W4x13 would be a different story of course.) So in many applications, deflection is the design constraint, not failure. For example, the Uniform Building Code specifies minimum building floor joist sizes not to a safety standard, but to a comfort standard -- people don't like to feel the floor under them flex, even if it is perfectly safe.
So in summary, something from an S5x10 to a S7x15.3 (like John has) would be in order. A middle ground is a S6x12 which is twice as strong as a S5x10, and about 60% as strong as the 7 incher. None of these pose a failure risk in a relatively static load, home shop environment -- they will just vary in the amount of flex.
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You can do a good calculation using the formula S=Mc/I.
S= stress (psi)
M= bending moment (must be inch-lbs)
c= distance from neutral axis to max stress (inches)
I= moment of inertia for the cross section (in^4)
I'm purposefully making this a little technical so nobody gets hurt by just plugging in some numbers.
The span is 9 feet, 108" and the max stress will occur at the middle, at 54". The bending moment applied is then 54 x 3000 = 162000 in-lbs.
Since we are sizing for "c" and "I" simultaneously, we'd better plug in some values rather than trying to solve for them.
S, the allowable stress in the beam, definitely needs to be below 36ksi. But for lifting structures there MUST BE A SAFETY FACTOR of 2 to 5. Let's pick 4, so we want the S to be below 9ksi.
For a 6" S-shape x 12.5 lbs/ft (S is most common, the Wide Flange W or "H" beams are not as common), Ixx = 22.1 and c = 3. We get 22 ksi. Too much stress.
The right choice is a S10 x 25.4, Ixx = 124, and c = 5. S = 6.5 ksi. Anything smaller and you are making a foolish choice that will get somebody hurt.
So you want a 10" I-beam (measured vertically parallel to the web). It weighs 25.4 lbs per foot of length, so the total beam is going to weigh 230lbs....better plan ahead for handling it while mounting or hanging...nothing worse than wrestling a monster piece of steel up in the sky and your arms getting tired. If you give out it's gonna nut you in the head....
BTW: Nothing personal to anybody but I would not trust my life to any calculations done based on beam deflection.
Good luck.
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Go down to your local demolition or salvage yard and buy a 12 inch thick wall Ibeam for a hundred bucks and forget about it.Nine feet is nothing and bolt everything together so movement will not crack anything.This is if you have the height which you did not say anything about.I say if this collapses than sue me,I stand behind my over engineering.
If you look in the Grainger catalog there are several gantry cranes, in the material handling section. They have the specs in the catalog, for various sizes. The 400# gantry shows an 8" beam 4" flange, with a max span of 10'. These are supported with beam going straight down to the base. These are commercial use products. You could check McMaster-Carr's web site also, they have gantrys too.
Diclaimer, I have no connection with either company and assume no risk in you using their design.
I agree with the others use as big a beam as you can get and put up, you may want the extra capacity later on.
Do you have room to add some welded on triangulation to the length of the I-Beam?
That, combined with angled side supports may do it for you.
I am a mechanical engineer and have designed and used beams and channels to suport loads of 2000 pounds over about a span of 9 feet. It worked for me and corresponds with some of the replys, but I do not quarantee any advice I give here.
Safety factor was mentioned a few times but one was about 1-1/2 to one, no way would I use that low number. I also think 10 is an overkill. Machinery's handbook sugest 5 as a safety factor for structial steel if it has no unusual conditions like a moving load. I use that 5 number.
In the 12th edition of Mashinery's page 376 has a very simple formula that is simple when using standard American beams. It is for a concentrated load at the center ( worst case). It is s=Wl divided by 4Z. s is the stress at the beams center,W is the load in pounds. l is the span in inches. Z is the section modulus of a beam which is listed on pages 368 and 369. The Z very much simplifies the problem.
So using the formula s=Wl divided by 4Z and solving for the Z that fits the required beam you want. Here is my take Z= load times length in inches divided by 4 times stress you use.
So Z=3000 X 9 X 12 all divided by 4 X 6000 ( 6000 is the safety factor of 5 by dividing 30,000 psi yield strength of structal steel beams)
Z=13.5 . On page 369 a beam of 8" X 17.5 lb./foot at14.6 works. Or any of the other 8" will work.
If you support on pipe or similat you have to be very careful of buckling which is another problem.


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Kunimitsu Sekiguchi, whose contract with Cerezo Osaka already expired at the end of the last season, is apparently participating in the U-23 team's training session according to some tweets from supporters.
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The U-23 team played a training match against Osaka Toin High School today. According to a supporter, Sekiguchi played in that match wearing the no. 35 shirts which is originally Masaki Okino's number.
What this means is unclear at the moment. One certain thing is that, contrary to my (and probably many supporters') prediction, Sekiguchi has not signed with any club yet. Maybe he's in talks now and participating in the training camp just for conditioning. Other possibilities include Cerezo re-signing with him, but my guess is that the possibility is low. It's true that they may lack enough strikers now as Ryuji Sawakami and Ricardo won't be available for next 3 or 4 months, but as to wide midfielders, they have enough after reinforcing with new signings like Toshiyuki Takagi.
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Tractor Trails Review—Keep on Tractorin'
While PlayStation Mobile hasn't exactly gotten off to a great start in terms of game quality (with a few exceptions), it actually has a lot of quantity. It launched with about 20 games and has added about two games a week since, so it's easy for some games to get lost in the crowd, particularly during the launch rush. Tractor Trails, a puzzle game from Origin8, is one of those titles that has been overlooked, which is a shame, as it's a quality title, albeit not one original or exclusive to PS Mobile.
Maybe this sort of puzzle game is common on touch devices, but it's new to me. You simply have to guide a tractor plowing a field. The catch is that it moves straight until it hits something (either the end of the field or a tree), and trees pop up immediately where the tractor moves. So you need to figure out how to plow the field in a limited number of moves, with no backtracking. Fields start off fairly simple but get more and more complex as you progress through the game. While this really doesn't bear any relation to actual farming, it's surprisingly fun. Probably because it bears such little resemblance to actual farming.
After finishing each level, you get rated with a number of stars, one star for running over Moley the mole (apparently he's a masochist and likes this), one star for plowing the entire field, and one star for completing the level under the time limit. These stars are not just level goals, as they are also how you progress in the game. Ten levels are unlocked at first, and you need to accumulate stars to open up additional levels. There are 130 in all.
This is actually pretty clever. You have enough levels to play that if you can't figure out a level, you're not stuck at progressing in the game (unfortunately common in puzzle games). You do have to get 3 stars on most of them, which requires playing until you figure out a level, then playing it again once more just to beat the time requirement. In a way, it's almost a memory game, since you need to remember all the moves to beat the time requirement.
The way the game unlocks is also very well done. Rather than finish one terrain and move onto the next, it has something of a staggered unlock. You unlock the next terrain, then back to the old one, and so on. Mixes things up very nicely. It has unofficial trophies/achievements, and it keeps track of all sorts of stats.
You also earn money (well, corn) that you can use to buy upgrades or cheats. For instance, letting you queue up a move (rather than waiting for the tractor to stop), going just a little bit faster when you hit a cornstalk, and even simply giving you a clue by telling you the first two moves on a level. Some of these are merely helpful, while others you really seem to need to progress in the game—queuing up moves in particular really cuts down on the level completion time, because the tractor no longer starts and stops as it changes directions, but instead keeps going.
The touch screen is very responsive—I swear, some of these PS Mobile games make me wonder if my Vita is defective, the touch is so bad. But here it works perfectly, very responsive to the touch. The interface is also really well done. You can pause the game and restart without leaving the level. All too often in puzzle games, you have to exit the level screen, go back to the level select menu, and go once more back to the level in order to restart. Even though it's so obvious a design feature to have in a puzzle game, it's refreshing when it's actually in a game.
The presentation in Tractor Trails is very cute, with often amusing dialogue, that forms the tutorial, between you (Red the tractor), Moley (possibly a former Templar), and a chicken (possibly named Chuck) who rides on your back. But the cuteness extends to the animations in the game, which are excellent.
Tractor Trails is one of those rare games that is full of polish, extremely well designed, and original to play, despite its seemingly cliched setting. About the only negative I can mention about it is that it's not exclusive to PS Mobile but rather a port, and there is some occasionally slow loading. When it loads a level, it goes from 0% to 80% really quick, then takes a while to go from there. But it's really been my most enjoyable experience with PS Mobile so far.


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REPORT: Trump Asked Comey to Investigate Reality of Pee Tape, Probably Got Peed On
The rumor of a supposed "pee tape" has been a tiny ray of hope in the hearts of everyone thoroughly annoyed at this presidency — the idea that somewhere, out there, there is footage of Donald Trump hiring prostitutes to pee everywhere. The original concept of the pee tape came from the "Steele Dossier" — Buzzfeed leaked a document which had in it a lot of salacious details about Donald Trump's campaign.
One of the most insane ones was the story of how Putin put Donald Trump into a room Barack Obama slept in, knowing that he couldn't help to control his hatred, and indeed this was the case when Donald Trump hired two prostitutes to pee all over the bed. The implication was that Donald Trump was being blackmailed with videos of the footage, and hence popular mythology online and beyond was inundated with footage of the "pee tape" — the tape that when exposed would at long last take down the Trump administration (or at least embarrass him quite a bit).
Well, the myth of the everlasting pee tape has gotten just a little more real when it was revealed in James Comey's new book that Donald Trump asked him to investigate whether or not it's real. Gasp! Why would Trump have Comey investigate a tape of something unless it 100% happened? Gasp!
According to the book, Trump told Comey that he was doing it to reassure Melania (as if there was even a 1% chance the tape exists it would upset her). Of course, then there's the obvious question, as posed by Comey on an episode of 20/20 set to air on Sunday —
"I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don't know whether the current president of the United States was with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow in 2013. It's possible, but I don't know… I remember thinking, 'How could your wife think there's a 1 percent chance you were with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow? I'm a flawed human being, but there is literally zero chance that my wife would think that was true.' So, what kind of marriage to what kind of man does your wife think [that] there's only a 99 percent chance you didn't do that?"
So, for all of you hoping to see the president standing next to a puddle of urine with his allegedly comical looking penis hanging out — folks, your incredibly disgusting dreams are a little bit closer to reality.
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