1.735 pounds of standards from the Society of Automotive Engineers cost $1,636.56 for a normalized cost of $943.26/pound. This is cheaper than gold which costs $1604.43
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A medley of standards required by OSHA in Part 1926, the safety regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations. These standards cost $2,110.90 for 7.73 pounds for a value rating of $273.07/pound.By contrast, Clay Johnson's Information Diet costs $13.99 for a 2.2 pound package for a value rating of $6.35/pound. Of course, the market for diet books is a competitive one, so if you don't like Clay's book, you can buy another one or write your own.Similarly, a 1-oz tin of finest saffron costs $182.25, for a value rating of $2,916/pound. Of course, saffron is a competitive market, so you can find a variety of cheaper prices or even grow your own.
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These standards from Underwriters Lab, IEEE, ISO, and ASTM cost $1,760.57 or $2,570.17 per pound.By contrast, Sevruga Cavier can be obtained for $2,400 per pound, but of course supplies are limited and there is a marginal cost for each fish.
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The 1967 version of "Safety in Welding and Cutting" (AWS Z49.1-1967) comes from a shrinkwrap license. Compliance with this standard is mandatory in the Code of Federal Regulations, OSHA standards 29 CFR 1910.252.
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Standards purchased for $1,274.68 with a weight of 2.7 pounds for a normalized cost per pound of public safety specifications of $472.10/pound. (The package includes ISO standards, so for those of you who are internationally-inclined that works out to 812.56 Euros per Kilogram.)By contrast, Germanium costs $568.18/pound, but of course it is a non-renewable resource. Likewise, fresh black winter truffles retail for $400-$600/pound, but they taste better than paper.
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The two-headed stapler poses for a publicity shot.
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The 3-hole punch with the middle punch removed combined with the inner 2-hole punch results in a unique 4-hole punch for that distinctive look--and-feel for government documents. It takes twice as much work so it looks twice as official.
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The XHC-3300 Industrial Carl Punch. Carl Manufacturing: "Learn About My DNA!"
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The HD-530N Two-Hole Punch from Carl Manufacturing. Carl Manufacturing: "We are professional CARL!"
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A jogging station vibrates up to a ream of paper, removing electrostatic buildup and making the edges perfectly even. We use the heavy-duty Lasco Wizer LJ-2, the choice of leading paper pushers.
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The Magnetic End-User License Agreement, known as the MEULA. (Pronounced the same as moola as in $$).
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Need Access To Justice? Don't Leave Home Without It! Printed on gold foil laser labels.
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A pile of 3/8" Chicago Screws, used to bind documents together. These fasteners are also known as binding posts or sex posts.
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A drop of super glue on the back of the small 1/8" brass screws helps keep them from coming unscrewed. We also use Blue Loctite on some of the threads.
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A paper knife is used to break the stack of pads into individual components. We use a piece of chipboard under each pad, you run the knife carefully under each piece of chipboard.
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Documents are sorted into thematically appropriate collections and then bundled with red tape to await packaging and subsequent dispatch.
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The ULINE S-4827 box is 28x18x4, proudly sealed with 3" American Flag packing tape.
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As a void filler, we use red, white, and blue crinkle pak.
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On top of the four bundles of documents and the packing list is the Magnetic EULA.
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A few special rubber stamp kits have also been dispatched to legal experts such as Tim Stanley, the CEO of Justia and a member of the board of Public.Resource.Org.
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Photograph by Kirk Walter.
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Photograph by Kirk Walter.
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Photograph by Kirk Walter.
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Administrative law and legal experts received kits with "CODE IS LAW" self-inking rubber stamps. Photo by Kirk Walter.
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Self-inking stamps in a variety of pleasant colors are used to stamp the inside back cover of the documents.
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Gold foil "Seals of Approval" added to the back cover of documents.
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The CODE IS LAW red rubber stamp applied to a document.
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Many civic activities ultimately come down to collation.
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A few hours per day of collating keeps the up-and-coming bureaucrat in tip-top shape.
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Moola, the SDO Cash Cow℠ says "Got Liability?" Real Standards Cost Real Money! Many imitations, no equal.
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Smokey, the Happy © Scare Bear℠ says "Don't Play With Standards!" Printed on gold foil laser labels.
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Documents with 4 holes are bound together using brass-coated aluminum screws.
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The padding press is used to take stacks of jogged paper separated by chipboard and apply an adhesive to the edge to create pads of paper. We use a Martin Yale Jiffy padding press.
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Two colors of padding adhesive waiting to be applied. We ended up just using the red. In theory, you can put in food coloring and get any color of padding adhesive, even make patterns.
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The red adhesive dries on the back of the padding press. When done, a padding knife is used to separate this into invidual pads of paper.
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Authentic British pink legal tape is used to tie documents into bundles.
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Our shipping pallet has a base made of gator board. Mounted on the gator board is a 17x22 high-resolution photograph of the National Bureau of Standards downloaded from the Library of Congress. The photo and the gator board are then shrink wrapped to protect the photograph.
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On the pallet base go four bundles of documents and a packing list.
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The pallet is sealed off with another 17x22 piece of gator board, this one with a poster on top, also shrink wrapped. The bundle is then secured with two straps made with a sublimation printer.
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My flags are getting better! This one features 13 stripes and 13 stars. Practice makes perfect when rendering Old Glory in packing materials!
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25 boxes, each weighing 27.2 pounds, are stacked and awaiting a few more packing condiments to spice them up, then airbills, then dispatch to the intended parties.
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Two 4"x8.5" labels are ganged up on the back of the box. The 78 point font helps deliver the John Adams message that knowledge and democracy go hand in hand.
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In addition to big boxes, smaller ones containing two rubber stamps have been dispatched to leading academics throughout the country.
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A total of 25 27.9 pound big boxes were constructed. Twenty-two of them have been packaged for delivery.
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Completed box await their dispatch.
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A box for the general counsel of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
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One of two carts heading off to the warehouse to be met by the Federal Express Courier.
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Photograph by Kirk Walter.
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Need Access to Justice? Don't Leave Home Without It. Photo by Kirk Walter.
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A Gator-brand case used to hold mixing boards works great for standards incorporated by law. This case holds 60 pounds of technical standards, fits in the back of my Jeep so it can be brought to public exhibition sites. Have law, will travel!
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Bindings, staples, and other accoutrements on incoming documents are removed.
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Documents are digitized using dual Xerox 2450/S scanners.
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At the end of a week of digitization, documents await filing and boxing.
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Incoming packages of used documents at the beginning of the standards processing workflow.
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Today's stack of incoming standards documents is 49" tall. It consists mostly of random volumes of the ASTM Annual Book of Standards as well as a 24 kilogram stack from India.
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The incoming volumes are unpacked and sorted.
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The extracted standards are trimmed or any glue, pages are checked to see if they are neatly separated so they will go through the double-sided scanning devices.
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Bindings are removed from volumes and targeted standards are extracted.
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The table of contents of each volumes are checked against a master list of ASTM standards incorporated into the Code of Federal Regulations.
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Post-digitization form factor.
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Pre-digitization form factor.
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Standard for Fire beaters from the Bureau of Indian Standards
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25 kilograms of standards awaiting processing.
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The IRS open government contribution. Each DVD has up to 60,000 1-page TIFF images on it. This stack is about 5 years of nonprofit tax returns.
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Staples are removed from documents in preparation for scanning.
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DVDs from the IRS are initially brought into the modern world by attaching 6 DVD readers on a Mac.
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A critical public safety standard from India.
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28 grams of staples extracted from standards docs.
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IRS DVDs scanned the week ending August 10.
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Standards from India, vital to the public safety.
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Scanning for the week ending August 10. The stacks with brown card stock on top have been scanned, the remaining have yet to be done.
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After documents are scanned, a careful check is made to make sure we haven't skipped pages. Often, pages or addenda are glued together and will pass through the scanner unheeded. The QA step makes sure we have all the data necessary to make informed public safety determinations.
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This standard has accumulated some serious frequent flier miles before reaching elite status as a 400 DPI scan.
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Representing all Form 990 filings from exempt organizations from 2002 on, these DVDs weigh 98.7 pounds.
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Representing all Form 990 filings from exempt organizations from 2002 on, these DVDs weigh 98.7pounds. Photograph by Audrius Reskevicius. You can now access this data at bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/eo/readme.html
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Documents arriving for initial processing, where they are destapled, despined, and put in stacks with a piece of chipboard between each document.
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Blank Page. Protected By Copyright. [sic]
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The UK National Annexes to the EuroCode. The EuroCode is required law and the British Standards Institution has 49 mandatory national annexes.
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The Notice of Incorporation was sent to 7 government officials and 10 Standards Development Organizations. None availed themselves of the opportunity to comment.
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Bundles of standards, secured with authentic British Pink Legal Tape.
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Velvet ropes and stanchions are used to secure the area.
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Standards from Serbia, legally mandated in all countries of the European Union.
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Standards from Philippines, Japan, and Australia taking a well-deserved break after passing through the scanning machines.
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The Indian National Electric Code was scanned and posted as part of a release of 703 vital public safety standards published by BIS.
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A view of the standards factory. On the wall are high-resolution photographs of Smithsonian staffers which were obtained from the Library of Congress.
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Books being used to prepare a memorandum of law.
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Bundles of materials that were sent out to standards bodies requesting their input.
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To the left are a pile of 6 Drobo raid arrays, holding the archives of 14,000 hours of congressional video.
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Copies of the ASTM book of standards procured on the used market. On top are spools of authentic red tape.
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Using a neighbors ladder, a birds-eye view of the ingestion stations.
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The mailing table holding various materials for postal dispatch. The big pink jars of goo in the upper right are "padding gum," used to make pads of paper.
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Big piles of standards from New Zealand.
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More New Zealand standards, including important public safety documents detailing emergency response protocols for situations such as chemical spills and earthquakes.
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Caution, billions of dollars are needed now! Photograph from the Library of Congress.
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Our standards factory is configured on a shotgun model, materials coming in one end and going through the stages of destapling, debinding, trimming, stacking, scanning, and restacking.
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ASTM Annual Books are ordered on the used market, then we look for specific documents incorporated into the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations. If we're lucky, a book will have 2-3 standards included. The books are sliced apart and the relevant standards scanned. We have over 100 of these volumes in various stages of disrepair.
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Important agricultural standards from Malaysia on the irradiation of food.
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For use in preparing the readme file, the relevant literature is assembled.
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Standards are placed in bankers boxes (appropriate given the prices!) in case they are needed for rescanning.
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A cover page is prepared for PDF documents from each jurisdiction. Careful attention is paid to cultural issues and avoiding looking like we are acting as an agency of the state. Our agency is reserved for the people.
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