Green Energy Power, Industrial Strength

By Robert Holdsworth

Today's energy conscious climate has motivated many to do what they can to become more efficient and conserve energy and money. Unfortunately this same climate has prompted others to take advantage of unsuspecting consumers' wishes to save energy and reduce expenses.

Companies that tout power factor improvement (kVAR correction) and transient voltage suppression are a good example of this bad trend. Lately we are seeing more and more of these companies cropping up and feel it is time to set the record straight.

First, transient voltage surge suppression (TVSS) plays a valuable role in improving power quality to protect sensitive equipment inside a facility. However, TVSS does not save energy. TVSS's are only active a tiny fraction of a second to protect against voltage surges which only last for less than a millisecond. To actually reduce energy consumption the TVSS would need to actually cut power consumption for an extended period of time which is not what they are designed to do. Again, TVSS is important to protect sensitive electrical equipment but buyers should avoid vendors promising, or even guaranteeing, that they will reduce energy consumption.

Now what about vendors who claim that improving power factor will save 15% or 20% or 30% of energy consumption and corresponding cost? This one is a little trickier.

For residential applications, power factor does nothing to save energy because the typical home already has an average power factor of about 0.97 which is almost the perfect power factor of 1 or unity. In addition, the device (called a capacitor) is placed at the main circuit breaker. According to IEEE 5.5.3.3 capacitors must be situated at or near the respective inductive loads to reduce power system losses by reducing heat and distribution losses known as I2R losses.

So what about commercial and industrial facilities using power factor correction to reduce energy costs? It is perfectly appropriate for a company that is incurring penalties or a kVA billing structure from the utility company to improve the facility's overall power factor by employing a capacitor bank at the main service entrance or individual capacitors at or near the respective motor loads. Doing so will eliminate the power factor penalties and/or reduce the kVA demand charges on the utility bill which can save significant money and provide a significant ROI on the investment.

But what about power factor correction reducing kWh consumption? IEEE also tells us that I2R losses only account for 2 to 5% of the total load in a facility. Simple math tells us that it would be against the laws of physics to get the 15% to 30% energy reduction claimed by some vendors. Think about it. Even if your facility had 5% distribution losses and you could correct 100% of the problem via power factor correction at every load (which can't be done) you would still only save 5% at the most. No where near the claims of some capacitor vendors and manufacturers.

All that said, power factor correction when done properly will eliminate utility penalties and kVA demand charges, improve facility power quality, increase electrical system capacity, and save a little energy when applied to the appropriate motor loads.

So make an investment in transient voltage surge suppression and power factor correction when appropriate and necessary. But caveat emptor!

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Baby Dress Shoes - Cool Baby Shoes

By James Lee

It is a common fact that toddler's feet grow very fast, you need to replace the adult's shoes extremely swiftly. It is vital that you ensure that your youngster's shoes will fit perfectly. Fitting and tight shoes will cause wounds for fragile kid's feet. The toddler should choose shoes both with comfort and style. It's best to choose shoes with the appropriate arch support as it will help the child to have healthy posture. It will be ideal that the infant dress shoes are made of tough materials to prevent tear and wear.

if you are hunting for infant dress shoes you must consider the sort of closure, whether it is snap or ties. It will be snug for a child to wear shoes with non lace or snaps options are available. Some company's offers great choice since it will allows children to put on and take away the shoes easily.

During hot weather sandals are a good choice. You can keep your kid's feet remains cool with sandals as compared to shoes with closures. It's also ideal for pool or beach activity. It is generally made wth water resistant resources and it is stress free for you to care and clean it. It isn't tough to do at all .

infant shoes can be bought in the malls and online . Many kids stores offer wide variety of infant dress shoes which will suit whatever occasions it could be. Child shoes are available with different designs and colors and you will certainly like. You've got the option to choose from standard sandls to more expensive shoes for formal occasions and for parties.

Cartoon characters are the most typical character that you can see in some child dress shoes. Your toddler will love the cartoon character designs and there is not any need to force then to wear this kind of shoes. It's important that if you shop for the best shoes for your youngster it's best that you consider some factors in buying. Style, design, color and the most essential factor the size must be consider. If you focus on the following factors you will find the best shoes for your kid. You won't have tough time selecting the best shoes for your child.

You can permit your youngster to choose what he would like. Once you both agree on one shoes it is best to buy that shoe so long as it provide comfort and satisfaction to your child's tiny feet. Purchasing shoes is hard and fun at the same time. To make things simplier for you it's best that you know precisely what to purchase before going to a mall or buying on the internet. Price is also a major factor when purchasing your child dress shoes. There are shoes that cost less but will less quality. Many parents select shoes that are made by widely known professionals when it includes infant shoes. You do not want to land on cheap shoes with less quality. It's best to choose something that is cheap but with high quality and make sure that it'll stay longer.

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Fashion Careers

By Katya Kurnenina

Who do you think creates these beautiful dresses during the Oscars or MTV Awards? Who do you think makes that favorite jacket or suit hanging in your closet which feels just right? Who do you think gives you ability to choose from dozens of shirts for the night on the town? All these questions come to one answer - a designer. One of the most important questions, how did Karl Lagerfeld, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Giorgio Armani get their skills, they have attended the world's best fashion schools.

People, who are best known as fashion designers, are trying to bring out the best out of their clients by making them look flawless. In order to create that perfect fit for their client, they need years of experience and lots of effort, at the same time, they need to attempt to please the rest of the world around them. Designers who are mentioned on the ages of fashion magazines and sold in the high end store, have also attended some of the best fashion schools in the world where they have learned everything from merchandising to sewing.

One of the first steps in achieving your dream career is to pick the right school. You need to identify what is important to you and how you would like to start your research. You need to refer to schools website or online education review where you can browse through people's comments and rankings. You will be able to identify the average test scores, school's reputation, current overall standing, after graduation employment rate, availability of financial aid as well as the percentage of job placements and after school programs.

After obtaining a fashion degree, you will open many roads in your career path. You will be able to offer your creations to people that are in need of something unique, high quality and perfect fit. In the fast growing industry like fashion, you need to be competitive with the desire to built clothes for people of different ages, preferences, sizes. One of the steps is to make sure you have gained experience in the merchandising field, retail , later moving up to being a buyer or a store manager and last step in the process, is becoming a fashion designer or editor.

Designer degree is an ultimate way to launch your career in this industry. Gaining one will provide you with a chance to stand out from the rest. Fashion industry is very fast growing, full of talented & inspired people who are looking to become successful fashion/apparel buyer or coordinator, visual merchandiser, and merchandise manager.

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Selecting a fashion school may not be easy. However, by reading these tips and genuinely knowing what you require, you can make it a really easy experience for yourself and have career in fashion design. You can get useful information about fashion schools on www.fashionschool.biz

Kids Room Decorating - Hit A Home Run

By Kirsten Packs

Baseball is a sport which most little boys enjoy. Hitting a ball with a bat and watching it go far and running all those bases is great exercise, so why not make that their theme in their bedroom? Yes, you can in fact make a great baseball theme room for your child no matter their age, toddler to teen. There are just a few rules which you need to make this room a great entertainment area for their friends.

Build a simple dug out by fastening together three pieces of plywood and attaching to the wall. Paint with home team colors and slide the bed inside the dug out. This disguises the bed so that it does not detract from the theme of the room. It also adds a personal touch that will relax your child and increase their enjoyment of the room.

Paint is another easy technique unless you want to be technical and add art. You can paint one wall as if it's the stadium with little people. If you aren't artistic try finding a wall sticker which gives you this wonderful feeling. Next you'll need a scoreboard. Try to find the chalkboard paint which is wonderful so your child can change the scores as if he's in charge of the game. And of course you'll need to make an outfield scene. It can be easy and inexpensive if you're able to find the wall stickers to help you with the artistic design.

You can't forget the home plate so choose a wonderful white throw rug or area rug for their room. Along with the warmth the rug will bring and of course the theme needing a home plate, it will protect your floor from any scuffs or accidents which may occur in this wonderful area.

If you have a baseball room you'll need bats, balls, and mitts! Since you know children don't listen when you say "no ball playing in the house" invest in soft Styrofoam items so if they don't listen it won't damage anything in the room.

This amazing design may be slightly expensive, but it is worth every dime. This colorful theme will brighten every morning for your child. Give your child a place to learn and grow through a sport they dearly love. A room like this can inspire a child to reach for their goals, so encourage your child by giving their dreams a chance.

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You Need Power Factor Correction and TVSS Do Not Save Energy

By Robert Holdsworth

In today's energy climate more and more people have become motivated to accomplish what they can to become more energy efficient to conserve energy and money. Regrettably this same climate has encouraged some to take advantage of innocent consumers' desires to save energy and reduce operating expenses.

Vendors that advertise power factor improvement (kVAR correction) and transient voltage suppression to save energy are a good case in point of this bad trend. Recently we are seeing more and more of these businesses cropping up and we believe it is time to set the record straight.

First off, transient voltage surge suppression (TVSS) plays an important part in improving power quality to guard sensitive equipment inside a facility. However, TVSS does not save energy. TVSS's are barely active an infinitesimal portion of a second to defend against voltage surges which only last for less than a millisecond. To actually decrease energy use the TVSS would need to essentially cut power consumption for an extended amount of time which is not what they are designed to do. Again, TVSS is essential to protect susceptible electrical equipment but consumers should steer clear of vendors promising, or even guaranteeing, a reduction in energy consumption.

And what about salespeople who maintain that increasing power factor will save 15% or 20% or 30% of energy consumption and resultant costs? This is false but also a bit trickier.

For homes, power factor correction does zero to save energy because the average home already has an average power factor of approximately 0.97 which is nearly the perfect power factor of 1 or unity. Additionally, the unit (called a capacitor) is installed at the homes main circuit breaker. According to IEEE 5.5.3.3 capacitors must be located at or near the individual inductive motor loads to decrease power system losses by reducing heat and distribution losses known as I2R losses.

So what about commercial and industrial facilities looking to use power factor correction to shrink energy expenditures? It is completely appropriate for a business that is incurring penalties or a kVA billing structure from the utility company to improve the facility's overall power factor by installing a capacitor bank at the main electrical service entrance or individual capacitors at or near the particular motor loads. Doing so will do away with the power factor penalties and/or reduce the kVA demand charges on the electric bill which can save considerable money and provide a significant ROI on the investment.

But what about power factor correction reducing kWh consumption? IEEE also tells us that at most I2R losses only account for 2 to 5% of the total load in a facility. Simple arithmetic tells us that it would be in opposition to the laws of physics to obtain the 15% to 30% energy reduction claimed by some vendors. Consider it. Even if your facility had 5% distribution losses and you could correct 100% of the predicament via power factor correction at every load (which can't be done) you would still save no more than 5% at most. No where close to the claims of some capacitor reps and manufacturers.

All that said, power factor correction when done appropriately will eliminate utility penalties and kVA demand charges, improve facility power quality, increase electrical system capacity, and save a modicum of energy when applied at the proper motor loads in an industrial facility.

So make an investment in transient voltage surge suppression and power factor correction when appropriate and necessary. But caveat emptor!

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Save Money On Your Company's Energy Bill, visit Energy Edge Technologies site for strategies on saving a tremendous amount of capital on your Corporate Energy Bill or call 888-729-5722 Ext. 100.

Do You think You're Ready To Raise Capital for Your Business? Most Likely . . . You're Not!

By James Scott

Whether you're trying to raise debt or equity capital there are still certain unwritten rules that apply that cater to the mentality of today's investor and funding community. Certainly there are scores of private placement memorandum and business plan chop shops that wouldn't know how to properly consult with your company or write a fundable document even if they wanted to but they will gladly take your money to throw together a template and try to pass it off as custom work.

The issue is this, it's not necessarily the consultant, though these fly-by-nights shoulder a large portion of the blame, but the client usually doesn't even have the proper structure in place to attract a funding source even if they had the most incredible PPM and business ever to hit the venture capital marketplace. Here is a simple (very basic) way to evaluate your company to find out if you are properly structured to attract capital. Have a corporate meeting and ask yourselves the following questions: What type of corporate structure do you have and why did you choose that particular structure? Break down your executive infrastructure, where do your individual executives stand in your industry, do the unthinkable, Google everyone's names; are the people running your company real industry players? Are all the basic positions accounted for (president, CFO, controller etc)? Next, look at your advisory board and board of directors. If by some miraculous act of God you actually have these two groups represented in your company, how did you qualify them? Sorry but if you have an attorney on your board because he's, um...well, an attorney, that's not good enough.

You need an industry specific legal guru who not only spells out the intricacies of your business genre's regulation but they must also be actively qualifying potential strategic partnerships as alliances for your company. He should be reaching into his client base and actively picking companies that could enhance your company in distribution or in any other way that will have a profitable outcome for all involved. Each of the members must be serving a similar purpose.

Next, on what criteria are you basing your share price or loan amount? If you don't have a clear cut 'use of proceeds' model, you need one. This and many, many other questions need to be asked before you are actually ready to raise capital and in all reality, until your corporate structure is in place you shouldn't even attempt to write a business plan or a private placement memorandum. If you are serious about setting up your company to attract investors you need a turnaround consultant, you can't do this on your own. There is an entire industry that centers around structuring companies for their first and ongoing capital raise.

Before you blackball your company by prematurely attempting to raise capital, the critical concepts you need to keep in mind are (precisely in this order): corporate structure, infrastructure, advisory board, board of directors, use of proceeds, business plan, private placement memorandum, investor finder, funding. Look at each aspect listed here as its own item, break it down and analyze every minute aspect of each element and look at everything objectively and eventually your company will evolve into a structure that is fundable and stabilized for years to come.

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Philadelphia Has No Trouble With Struggling Washington

By Ross Everett

The 'new look' Washington Redskins offense under Sherm Lewis looked much like the old offense under Jim Zorn, and the Philadelphia Eagles had little trouble as they opened a 27-10 halftime lead en route to a 27-17 victory on Monday Night Football. DeSean Jackson scored a long touchdown both rushing and receiving, and Donovan McNabb threw for 156 yards and a touchdown with no interceptions in the victory. The Eagles improved to 4-2 on the season, while the Redskins dropped to 2-5.

The Eagles also rewarded NFL betting enthusiasts with the pointspread cover as -8' road favorites. Philadelphia is now 4-2 against the number while the Redskins continued their struggles against the NFL pointspread dropping to 1-6. The 44 combined points went OVER the posted total of 38.

Jackson's only complaint after the game was that a sore ankle undermined the artistry of his post touchdown tap dance:

"I was out there having fun, man, honestly. My ankle was kind of hurting. I really didn't feel it, but it did kind of affect my dance a little bit. I could put it to perfection a little bit better than that."

Redskins' defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth suggested that this team has to learn to play as a unit:

"You can say but so much. You've got to actually want to. So once we get to that point -- where we want to do something -- then we'll do something. But if we just keep going our separate ways, then we'll just keep getting slaughtered like we have."

Jim Zorn was apparently more interested in playing 'gotcha' with the management that replaced him as the Redskins' offensive play caller than in analyzing the game:

"Well, the result was the same. We got 17 points. It was difficult for me. It was difficult to stand and watch. The hard part is to keep your mouth shut."

Washington running back Rock Cartwright expressed Washington's struggles in a philosophical light:

"You have to take the bitter with the sweet. And right now we're at a bitter moment."

The Eagles will host the New York Giants this Sunday, with the game currently 'pick'em' and the total posted at 44. They'll host the Dallas Cowboys the following Sunday before hitting the road to play the San Diego Chargers on November 15. The Redskins have a much needed bye week before they travel south to play the Atlanta Falcons on November 8.

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Ross Everett is a freelance sports writer specializing in casino gambling, entertainment and sports betting. He has appeared on a number of TV and radio programs offering strategies for successful NFL football betting. He lives in Southern Nevada with three Jack Russell Terriers and a pet llama. He is currently writing a biography of former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf.

Music and Learning = Smarter Babies

By Edie Mindell

Music stimulates children's thinking skills, encourages creativity, and develops musical ability. Introduce music to babies by singing, humming, and chanting. It doesn't matter if the songs are sung off-key; babies love hearing sounds, especially those made by their parents. They are also riveted by rattles and other noisemakers.

Toddlers can already clap and dance to music, so introduce them to nursery rhymes and songs they can dance to. This helps develop their motor and verbal skills.

Preschoolers love musical instruments like xylophones, drums, toy keyboards and guitars. Musical books and CD's would also be greatly appreciated.

Experimenting with sounds stimulates a child's brain. For example, parents can make a guitar out of rubber bands and a cereal box. Just stretch rubber bands of different thickness around the box and pluck to create sounds.

Musical toys, as we all know are very popular for the children. MUsical toys vary from those that produce soothing sounds to relax your baby's mind, to noise-making variety that interests the child. These toys are also designed to fit in any age group.

In newborn babies, crib mobiles are a big hit because of the soothing sounds it create that help ease and relax the baby especially during sleeping time. These mobiles are also fun to look at because of the colorful figures attached to it.

Baby rattles are also perfect as musical toys because of the varied sounds it create whenever the baby take a grasp of it and start shaking it.

Musical toys are very important for the child's development. These toys hone the child's senses and ability to create and appreciate music in any form. These toys are specifically designed to entertain the child, at the same time educate him about music.

They are designed to entertain babies in musical ways that encourage speech development, motor and skills development, and deep appreciation to the music world. Learning music is very vital for the child's proper growth development.

There are many ways to introduce music to your child. From toys, to musical CD's, and just by simply singing to him a beautiful song, your baby can be exposed and learns to appreciate music in his life. With introducing and learning music, you are opening the world to him in new and exciting ways.

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