[Psml] PSML Digest, Vol 16, Issue 4

Wed Dec 5 13:49:25 EST 2007

To: Rich Stidger

You might try changing your organization type to "Other Organization and Training Activity.  Subtype "Other Instruction and Training".  I don't know if that will work for adobe.  It did work for microsoft.

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>   1. How to qualify to buy Adobe SW from Techsoup? (Rich Stidger)
>   2. MARYLAND DRN PROMOTES UNSAFE VHF USE (John & Judy Gill)
>   3. Stability with Deck Flooding (jeff at usps-atlanta.org)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:08:47 -0500
>From: "Rich Stidger" <rich.stidger at verizon.net>
>Subject: [Psml] How to qualify to buy Adobe SW from Techsoup?
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>Our squadron has been unsuccessful in qualifying to buy 
>Adobe software and Ulead software from Techsoup.  We have 
>no problem qualifying to purchase Microsoft and Symantec 
>software.
>
>USPS can fit into several different descriptions of organization 
>type and subtype and we have used "Employee or Membership 
>Benefit Organization/Other services or benefits to members or 
>employees" and "Inner cities or community 
>activities/community promotion".
>
>Neither of these descriptions of type and subtype will allow us 
>to purchase Adobe or Ulead.
>
>Has anyone successfully purchased either Adobe or Ulead 
>software, and if so, what type and subtype did you use to 
>describe yourself?
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>P/C Rich Stidger, SN
>Berkshire Sail & Power Squadron
>District 2
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>Message: 2
>Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 21:15:22 -0500
>From: John & Judy Gill <twojscom at quadnet.net>
>Subject: [Psml] MARYLAND DRN PROMOTES UNSAFE VHF USE
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>MARYLAND DRN PROMOTES UNSAFE VHF USE
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>We recently received a 2008 Boating Tips 2 page flier with our dinghy  
>registration and noted on page 2 under VHF FM MARINE CHANNEL 16 the  
>following:  ?The primary marine distress frequency is monitored  
>continuously by the U.S. Coast Guard.  Please keep Channel 16 clear  
>-- someone's life may depend on it!  Use Channel 9 for non-emergency  
>hailing and then switch to another working channel for routine  
>conversation.?
>
>Maryland Department of Natural Resources (marine police) is  
>apparently advocating that mariners Only monitor Channel 9 and use it  
>for hailing purposes.  And, use Channel 16 ONLY for May Day, Pan Pan  
>and Security calls.  Not monitor Channel 16 or use it for "Hailing"  
>purposes.  This means that Maryland Natural Resources Marine Police  
>is effectively eliminating the Federal Communications Commission  
>requirement for mariners to Monitor Channel 16 when their radios are on.
>
>This means that May Day, Pan Pan and Security calls on Channel 16 to  
>the Coast Guard only (only ones listening) may not be rebroadcast on  
>Channel 9 (there is no requirement for the USCG to do so).  This in  
>turn means that pleasure craft and watermen may not hear a call for  
>assistance by other vessels and they will have to wait for the Coast  
>Guard to come, or send commercial assistance?  This seems like a very  
>dangerous recommendation or law and could delay a good samaritans?  
>help or rescue, particularly those of USCGAux or USPS.  It is also  
>doubtful whether the MD. DNR Marine Police or USCG has the authority  
>to negate FCC CFR's.
>
>This same practice was tried on Lake Michigan back in 2003 and  
>resulted in several ?serious incidents? and from what I later  
>learned, caused the Coast Guard to recind non monitoring of Channel  
>16 vs Channel 9 there.
>
>Yours in Safe Boating,
>D/Lt John Gill, AP (Pennsway, D/5)
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>Message: 3
>Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 21:23:34 -0500
>From: <jeff at usps-atlanta.org>
>Subject: [Psml] Stability with Deck Flooding
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>In studying for my Masters, I ran across the following equation for
>"reduction in metacentric height" due to deck flooding.  Obviously it is not
>an equation for reduction in GM, but rather an equation for GM which
>includes deck flooding, ignoring factors of downflooding angle, dynamic
>acceleration in the listing moment (sloshing), clearing time, and other free
>surface effects.
>
> 
>
>GM ? (L x B^3) / [420*(D+W)] 
>
>where L=wetted deck length(ft), B=Beam(ft), D=displacement(tons), W=weight
>of the deck water(tons)
>
> 
>
>What I'm trying to find is the derivation or a discussion of the equation.
>I've checked the MSM-Volume IV, and a few other sources, but haven't found
>the exact equation.  It's obviously close to other B^3 equations, and I'd be
>willing to accept D+W term, but I'd still like to see a
>discussion/derivation.  Does anyone know where it comes from?
>
> 
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jeff, 
>
>D-17
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> 
>
>PS, I wonder if the judge who ruled that the EPA couldn't exempt
>recreational boats from deckwater runoff regulations considered that his
>ruling will kill people by increasing free-surface water on decks and in
>bilges. ;-)
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