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It is a well-known fact that a team that works well together is much more productive than a group of individuals.  Creating a workplace environment where everyone works together takes planning and effort, but the rewards are more than worth it.  A popular way to achieve this is by using team-building exercises. What Are the Benefits of Team Building Exercises? The purpose of team-building activities is to motivate members of a group to get to know and respect one another using games, meetings, or events.  They can be short activities taking place at work or more extended day or weekend events taking place offsite.  These activities are designed to build trust and communication among people who regularly work together professionally.  Whether big or small, team-building events have many benefits.  Normal businesses do not usually keep things like a mechanical bull or inflatable games in the cupboard for the next event but it is easy to hire them from party rental companies when needed....

Everyone who uses a light source is interested in how long they will last. For most traditional lighting products, the manufacturers provide information on “rated life.” Rated life tells the user how long the products will last. For conventional lighting products, (incandescent, fluorescent or high intensity discharge lamps), the rated life often refers to the lamp life. The general definition of rated life is, “The period for which an appliance, equipment, or machine is stated to last by its manufacturer under specified conditions of use.” Life of a lamp can also be expressed as the average rated life, also referred to in the industry as B50, which indicates the hours it takes to when 50 percent of the lamp sample in a test group fail during a life test.  While B50 is the most common expression of lamp life, more stringent lamp rated life characteristics such as B10 and B3 are used in different applications. B10 and B3 correspond to the hours it takes when 10 percent or 3 percent of t...

Torque is one of those words we see in car advertisements and hear petrolheads refer to but the average driver has no idea what it actually means.  Is it important, how is it calculated, are the any benefits to increasing it and is chiptuning worth it?  This article will answer these questions so that next time you come across a reference to torque you can be confident about what it means. What Is Torque? Besides being a great word for Scrabble what is torque? The definition of torque is a force that causes something to rotate or turn in a circle around a central point, such as an axle, or the power of such a force.  So when you use a wrench to turn a bolt you are applying torque. Torque is measured in pounds-feet and it is the amount of force multiplied by distance.  So if you are using a wrench with a handle two foot long and applying 50 pounds of pressure the torque on the bolt will be 100 pounds-feet.  If use a wrench with a handle two foot long and apply 100 pounds of pressure th...

We all want to be as fit and healthy as we can be and to help with that most of us take a multivitamin daily.  We hope it will improve the way our bodies function but most of us are unaware that there are some dangers posed by taking multivitamins.  Multivitamins tend to contain a mixture of vitamins and minerals.  Most of the problems occur when people take too high a quantity of their vitamins or they mix their multivitamins with other supplements. What Quantity of Vitamins and Minerals Do We Need? You may have heard references to something called the Recommended Daily Intake (RDI).  This is set by the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine in the United States.  It is calculated to show how much of a particular nutrient is enough to meet the requirements of 97.5% of healthy individuals in each life-stage and sex group. By checking how much of your RDI you are getting from your food you can make sure you don’t get too much of any particular nutrient. Labels on food sh...