Month: November 2017

If you are a high school or post high school student interested in joining the United States Military, you will first have to take the military version of an entrance exam. The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, also known as the ASVAB. This exam will test your math skills among other topics. The kicker, you are NOT allowed to use a calculator What? No Calculator? Many potential recruits are thrown off by this concept. Living in today’s modern age, where everything is a smart-phone app or computer click away, the idea of doing math without a calculator may seem preposterous But in fact, this is a genius step on behalf on the military testers. You see, they are not looking to see if you can regurgitate information you have learned over the course of your high school and perhaps college schooling. Instead they are trying to test the knowledge, comprehension, and inference skills you have picked up along the way In the military, they are not interested if you can push a few buttons to get a response. Instead they want to see if you can reason your way through a potentially simple, and even some difficult problems. For this reason, instead of providing complicated math questions that can be solved with the push of a button, they provide you with a mix of simple and complex math reasoning...

There are many stages during the manufacture of a product: sourcing, parts manufacturing, etc. But for products complied with many different parts and components, the final stage (or penalty stage if to be tested before sale) is the assembly. Assembly lines are some of the most important procedures in the manufacturing industry, and some are so complex that only a few Subcontract Assembly Assembly has the space and means to tackle them. Assembly lines were, in fact, not simply 'thought-up' or 'invented' by one individual, but rather evolved over the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A famous example of an assembly line is that of the Ford Model-T: considered to today the first full mass-production assembly line. Ford realized that to really produce a car (still a novel item at that time) they would have to be able to assemble them extremely quickly. So, instead assembling each car individually, they devised a huge assembly line: so that whilst one car was having the chassis bolted, another was having the glass installed, and another was having the wheels put on, while another was being painted etc. This paved the way for modern high-production assembly. Assembly lines remain very similar today as they were in the time of Henry Ford. However, a new factor in assembly is the introduction of robots, commonly found in many large-scale production facilities across the...

The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a publicly available collection of books owned by the UK Governments’ Office of Government Commerce (OGC). After the first publication of ITIL, the amount of books quickly grew to about 30 volumes. The second set of ITIL publications (v2) was published with a specific goal of ensuring ITIL was more accessible to those interested in it, and to consolidate the information into sets that grouped these guidelines in to differing aspects of applications, IT Management and services. However, the cost of these ITIL manuals is still significant, particularly for non-commercial use. ITIL version 3 outlines a broad set of testing guidelines and best practices. It does not restrict the project to following one testing methodology, but rather encourages the selection of principles that best fit the requirements. It does emphasize the need to reduce risk early in the project lifecycle and provides several suggestions as to how to do this. Test processes are outlined within the Service Transition portion of the ITIL lifecycle covering the management of change, risk and quality assurance. Prior to Service Transition, project management is encouraged to develop policies that apply to the project as a whole. These include: Service Quality; Risk, Service Transition, Release and Change Management policy. One of the primary goals of Service Transition is to ‘minimize the risks from transitioning the new or changed services...

There are many stages during the manufacture of a product: sourcing, parts manufacturing, etc. But for products complied with many different parts and components, the final stage (or penalty stage if to be tested before sale) is the assembly. Assembly lines are some of the most important procedures in the manufacturing industry, and some are so complex that only a few Subcontract Assembly Assembly has the space and means to tackle them. Assembly lines were, in fact, not simply 'thought-up' or 'invented' by one individual, but rather evolved over the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A famous example of an assembly line is that of the Ford Model-T: considered to today the first full mass-production assembly line. Ford realized that to really produce a car (still a novel item at that time) they would have to be able to assemble them extremely quickly. So, instead assembling each car individually, they devised a huge assembly line: so that whilst one car was having the chassis bolted, another was having the glass installed, and another was having the wheels put on, while another was being painted etc. This paved the way for modern high-production assembly. Assembly lines remain very similar today as they were in the time of Henry Ford. However, a new factor in assembly is the introduction of robots, commonly found in many large-scale production facilities across the...

There are around five benefits of fish oil pills that are deemed very important and are backed by clinical studies. Fish supplements have gotten to be very popular after it was learned that it contains numerous benefits. But not everyone knows that not all fish all are health beneficial, because not all contain Omega 3 fatty acids. So when you happen to find omega 3 fish products in the market, do not buy them without first determining their components. What you need to watch out for in particular is the ratio of EPA to DPA – it must be 3: 1 or at least 2: 1. You also have to see it that the fish supplement is molecularly distilled because then you can be almost sure that it does not carry any toxic substances. As you must know, many fish sources of omega 3 do not swim in clean waters. The environmental situation has gone from bad to worse. Toxic materials are being thrown into the ocean where the fish swim. Over time, these toxins accumulate in the fish's body. Apparently, it is not enough that you will certainly wash the fish before eating it or before processing it to turn them into supplements. To effectively remove the toxins, the fish oil must go through molecular distillation. Not all manufacturers of fish supplements do this. Some are claiming that...