BENEFITS OF THE SPACE PROGRAM

WIM’s DESK
Is the cost worth it?
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For all those inventors out there
NASA's Publication Spinoff
Spinoff is NASA's annual premiere publication featuring successfully commercialized NASA technology. For more than 40 years, the NASA Commercial Technology Program has facilitated the transfer of NASA technology to the private sectors. The resulting commercialization has contributed to the development of commercial products and services in the fields of health and medicine, industry, consumer goods, computer technology, and environment. Through distribution and outreach activities, NASA technology has benefited global competition and the economy. Since 1976, Spinoff has featured between 40 and 50 of these commercial products annually. Spinoff maintains a searchable database of every technology published since its inception.

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KNOW YOUR STAINLESS
What does the "L" designation mean?
The use of the letter L after the grade number, i.e., 304L, means that the carbon content is restricted to a MAXIMUM of 0.03% (normal levels are 0.08% max. and in some grades can be as high as 0.15% max.). This lower level of carbon is usually used where "welding" will be performed. The lower level of carbon helps to prevent the chromium from being depleted (by forming chrome carbides at the weld site) and therefore allow it to remain over 10 ½% so it can form the "passive" oxide layer that gives stainless its corrosion resistance.

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SELF IMPROVEMENT
Ten Ways to Improve Your Communication Skills
We all have people with whom we have to work to get things done. Our ability to communicate with clients, customers, subordinates, peers, and superiors can enhance our effectiveness or sabotage us. Many times, our verbal skills make the difference. Here are 10 ways to increase your verbal efficacy at work: (One per day)
7. Make eye contact – One technique to help with this is to consciously look into one of the listener’s eyes and then move to the other. Going back and forth between the two makes your eyes appear to sparkle. Another trick is to imagine a letter “T” on the listener’s face with the cross bar being an imaginary line across the eyebrows and the vertical line coming down the center of the nose. Keep your eyes scanning that “T” zone.

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NICKEL PRICE
LME Official Prices (US$/tonne) for 14 July 2005
CASH BUYER - $ 14705
SELLER & SETTLEMENT - $ 14710
3 MONTHS BUYER - $ 14550
3 MONTHS SELLER - $ 14575
LME Official Opening Stock (in tonnes) NICKEL = 6840

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COMPUTER TIPS
MORE PASSWORDS
Passwords for individual files in MS Word.
1. In the Menu Bar go to Tools
2. Click on Options…
Choose the Save Tab and at the bottom enter a password to either Open the document or to Modify the document.

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THE ASTUTE JAMMY LEXICON EXPLICATED
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
- Rudolf Arnheim
Explained: Distinguishing the materialistic insertion of “WordArt” relative to the unsystematic reproduction of database dynamic.