Filing cabinets

Pump performance curves are the least used, least consulted, least appreciated, and least understood aspect of the world of industrial pumps. The plant personnel who most need their pump curves, meehanics and operators, generally don t have the curves and accompanying information at their disposal. The people who control the performance curves store them in a file, in a drawer, in a cabinet that s almost never opened. They don t share the information contained in the curves with the people who need it. Maybe it s because they themselves don t understand the information to share it. In the next few paragraphs and pages, we re going to explain the pump performance curves. This might be the most important chapter of the book. 

Since the second edition OFTHE Chemistry of Organic Fluorine Compounds Milos Hudhcky continued screening Chemical Abstracts to keep up with fluorine chem istry Some 15 000-20,000 clippings accumulated in the file cabinets in his office After his retirement, he was almost at the verge of discarding this voluminous material when it occurred to him that it could be used as a first-tier literature search for updating the book... 

Akte,/. act, deed, document, file, record. Akten papier, n. deed paper, record paper, -schrankt m. filing cabinet, -zeichen, n. file number. 

There is more to a laboratory than work benches and the instruments mounted on them. Free-standing equipment must also be considered. This includes refrigerators, safety storage cabinets for chemicals, safety shower, desk space, typewriter stand or computer terminal, or any other equipment that is not bench-mounted. File cabinets, which are real space-robbers, must not be forgotten. In one laboratory, much space was saved by placing two-drawer file cabinets beneath the large table used for sorting samples. 

A typical office desk is about 3x5 feet, though another size may be more desirable. There should be at least three feet between the desk and the wall for getting in and out of a chair. Typical dimensions for file cabinets are 15x25 inches, but the opened drawers may increase the total depth to as much as 48 inches. Bookcases are usually 9 to 12 inches deep and are available in many widths. 

Gradually all things that are to go into the laboratory, such as work benches, refrigerators, safety storage cabinets, floor-mounted equipment, desks, file cabinets, balance tables, and a myriad of other items, are in place. Now is another good time to check on traffic patterns. Will a piece of equipment stick out too far Will a desk chair cause obstruction Will the refrigerator door cause problems when open These are just a few of the questions that should be asked again. 

Chemical spills in the laboratory may be hazardous, damaging to flooring and furniture finishes, or simply messy to clean up. Laboratory equipment houses and distributors of safety equipment carry a variety of clean-up kits made for specific types of spills, depending on the types of chemicals handled. Generally, the kits contain absorbents or neutralizers, or a combination of the two, plus instructions for use. Kits should be stored as close as possible to where spills are likely to occur and not in a remote storeroom. Instructions must be kept with the kits, not in a file cabinet. Quick action in case of a spill is important in reducing both hazards and damage. 

Equipment instructions must be properly and promptly filed. A separate file should be set up for each piece of equipment and should include the smallest note packed with it. A lack of such files is an invitation to future problems. In one instance, a strip chart recorder that had not been used for several years seemed just right for a procedure but needed some minor repairs and parts. After a couple of hours of diligent search, the instruction book was finally found tucked away in a drawer. It could easily have been missed. In other less fortunate cases, it took time-consuming correspondence with the manufacturers to produce information that should have been immediately available in the file cabinet. 

Figure 1.1 Offices used by computational chemists were filled with stacks of printouts and banks of file cabinets with legacy card decks. This photograph was taken in 1982, but the appearance of the environs had not changed much since the mid-1970s.

A company makes several items, including filing cabinets. One-third of their business consists of filing cabinets, and 60% of their filing cabinets are sold to businesses. What percent of their total business consists of filing cabinets sold to businesses ... 

The Third Army had not fought on paper, they were short of file cabinets and folders. To salvage these, they tossed away vital Farben evidence. More than a hundred tons of records lay dispersed over an area larger than a city block when the Bernstein investigators came down from Berlin Northwest 7. 

She apologized as if she, rather than the United States government, were at fault. For months, file cabinets, more typewriters, and stationery had been on requisition. "I asked those two G.I. s to drop off another requisition for your desk at AMG, so maybe that will come this week." She sighed. "What s keeping them up there in Berlin "... 

Consideration should be given to certain interior items. Functional or decorative objects should not be mounted on the interior surface of an exterior wall. Rapid inward movement of the wall may dislodge objects causing injury to people or damage equipment. For the same reason, file cabinets and other furnishings should not be placed closer to the interior surface of a wall than the maximum predicted deflection of the wall. 

Personal notes, as well as some original data I retained, helped immensely. Most of these exist only in my file cabinets. Interwoven among the names and numbers, are memorable anecdotes, some personal and some that shed light on the (fynamics of a military bureaucracy including some political overtones. 

I still have his unpublished experimental data in my filing cabinet. Years later, I came across a journal article reporting the effect of LSD when given to chess masters. The results were very similar, suggesting again that even the best brains lose some of their analytical powers in the presence of relatively small doses of LSD. 

What I knew about the CIA in 1970 could fit on the back of a cocktail napkin. What I knew in 1980 could fill a chapter. In fact, it finally does, right here. But would have, could have..Two decades passed before I finally read what had been sitting on my garage shelves and in file cabinets for more than 30 years. And it wasn t until I started writing this chapter that I found the way some dots from the early 1960s could have been connected in ways that could have been obvious in 1975, if I d done the reading and thinking when first I had the chance. 

Exposed ordinary combustibles (Class A) should not be permitted to accumulate in the control room area. Process data printouts, batch records, shipping documents, and other paper in the open should be minimized, preferably limited to one-day s output. Where longer-term storage of such paper files or storage of supplies is required, closed-door metal cabinets should be provided. Metal file cabinets should be provided to store drawings, electrical diagrams, manuals, equipment catalogs, etc. 

Instrument cabinets should not have pockets, shelves or other devices that encourage the storage of drawings or other combustible materials inside the cabinets. Metal file cabinets or shelves preferably in the control room area should be provided for the storage of drawings, manuals, etc. Closed-door metal cabinets should be provided for the storage of any spare parts that must be kept in the area. 

A math word problem is full of words — big surprise Word problems really represent the real world. When you have a problem to solve at the office involving ordering new file cabinets, you don t sit down to write out your times tables, and you aren t handed a piece of paper with an algebra problem asking you to solve 2x + 3 = 27. To be successful with a word problem, you... 

The Problem The 17 office workers and 4 managers at Super Mart all need new file cabinets before the end of this month, which has 31 days. The file cabinets cost 300 each, and the supplier of file cabinets will haul away the old cabinets for 5 each. How much will it cost to replace the file cabinets if each of the office workers takes his old file cabinet home and each of the managers elects to have them hauled away ... 

There s a lot of information in this problem, but you need to first look for the question — what is it that you want to find Look for what, how many, how much, when, find, or other questioning or seeking words. Ignore the rest for now until you determine what you re looking for. Is it a number of file cabinets Is it an amount of money Is it a number of people Get your question nailed down, and then worry about how to put it all together. In this problem, the question is basically How much money ... 

If you can t stand to let a problem go unanswered and you want to solve this one, the answer is 6,320. You figure out how much money it costs by determining how much was spent on each office worker and then adding the total to how much the managers spent. Each of the 17 office workers spent just 300 (just the cost of the cabinets), so 17 x 300 = 5,100. The managers had their file cabinets hauled away, which added 5 on to the cost. The total for each manager is 305, so 4 x 305 = 1,220. Add the amounts together, and the cost of the file cabinets for the entire office is 5,100 + 1,220 = 6,320. 

Cabinet aircraft programme , note of meeting of ministers, 31 May 1956, Gen 514/ 2nd meeting, PREM 11/1712. Macmillan had sent a copy of an official steering committee report on The Soviet economic offensive to Eden the previous month, and the report had been approved by the Foreign Secretary Foreign Office records, series 371, file 120804 (FO 371/120804), TNA. 

Bob wants to tear out the benches, sinks, and hood in our central work room and replace them with office furniture to better accommodate our burgeoning staff of junior associates, their desks, their file cabinets, and desktop computers. Knowing how much more expensive, hence valuable, wet lab space is than dry, I am resisting this change vigorously even as the pressure mounts. Bob says, Just cut off the pipes and cap them, when I ask how he intends to effect the change. 

Your participation is strictly voluntary. You have the right to leave the experiment at any time you wish, without any penalty or hard feelings. Such a decision will not influence any other relationship that you may have to the experimenters (Jane Doe) in any way. There are no right or wrong answers in these tests. It is your unique ability to detect odors that we are interested in. After the experiment, your data will be kept in a locked file cabinet. In any electronic records, you will be identified only by a code number. Your personal data will never be displayed in any presentation or publication with your identity revealed by name or initials. 

Theories perform several functions in science. They help us to organize observations, which I like to call their filing cabinet or mapping function. Instead of memorizing thousands of separate observations, you memorize a theory from which you can predict these observations, which constitutes quite a saving of work. Theories also make predictions about where we should look for other data that may be of value to us. But they are never quite final. A theory is always subject to test as new predictions evolve from it. This applies even to so-called scientific laws. A scientific law is simply a theory that has worked so exceptionally well in untold thousands of trials that we have taken the human step of believing that it is a true statement about the ultimate nature of the universe, rather than a theory or concept that we have about it. The so-called law of gravity, for example, is a scientific theory about the effect... 

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