Non-Friable Asbestos Removal

Non friable asbestos refers to products which exceed one-percent asbestos content and cannot be pulverized by hand. Products which are not damaged can be removed without releasing dangerous asbestos fibers. Asbestos is contained in plaster, plumbing, wiring, floor tiles, heating ducts and wall and ceiling insulation. It is also used in ceiling treatments and roof shingles. Asbestos fibers are toxic and can have highly debilitating effects on health. Asbestos is no longer allowed in materials such as flooring felt, roll board or specialty, corrugated and commercial paper. It is also banned from being used in products that have never contained asbestos.

Categories

• Anyone involved in non friable asbestos removal must adhere to the proper protocol for the removal and disposal of this material during renovation or demolition of buildings. There are two categories of non friable materials: Category I non-friable and Category II non-friable ACM (Asbestos Containing Material).
  Category I non-friable ACM includes resilient floor covering, asphalt roofing materials or packing gaskets. It must exceed an asbestos content of one percent. Before demolition can take place, any product in this category that is in poor shape must be inspected and tested for friability.
  Category II non-friable ACM encompasses all materials that are not listed under the Category I non-friable ACM. Category II non-friable ACM products must also have an asbestos content that exceeds one percent. In addition, when the materials are dry, they should not be subjected to being crumbled or destroyed by hand. This would include cement siding or transite board shingles. Many of these products, such as shingles and siding, are subjected to harsh elements and often become friable.

Removal

• Removal procedures must be carefully planned and controlled to avoid contaminating adjoining areas. Proper non friable asbestos removal follows comprehensive safety and removal procedures spelled out by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state laws.
  Workers do not have to be licensed to remove this material. However, they must handle, transport and dispose of the material in a manner that prevents it from becoming damaged, or friable, and causing asbestos fibers to dislodge. Workers are required to wear respiratory protection, hoods, disposable coveralls and disposable shoe covers. These items are not to be worn outside the designated work area and should be immediately disposed of when the job is completed. The contractor must provide the proper area for the workers to change.
  If a building is being demolished, the asbestos materials must be removed before the demolition takes place if it is damaged or friable. Even if the building is being destroyed by setting an intentional fire, the asbestos-containing product must be extricated. Non-friable material is generally removed by sanding, grounding, abrading or cutting the asbestos. It must be wetted down as it is being removed.
  The workers must follow specific rules when wetting the material if there is a safety concern or the possibility of causing damage to equipment. The material should be immediately placed in a 6-millimeter polyethylene bag. The bag cannot be punctured or have any protruding objects. If the bag is not durable enough, place the asbestos waste into rigid containers like fiber drums. The waste container must be properly sealed, usually with duct tape, and placed into a clean 6-millimeter polyethylene bag. Seal the second container with tape and place an asbestos warning label on the container. The waste must then be transported to the proper waste facility for disposal.

Friable Vs. Non Friable Asbestos

Friable Vs. Non Friable Asbestos

Asbestos was a popular ingredient in building materials for many years because of its indestructibility, insulating properties, tensile strength and low electrical conductivity. It is still used in the U.S. today, but a distinction is made between more and less dangerous asbestos-containing material (ACM). More dangerous ACM can release asbestos fibers into the air where they can be inhaled and cause illness. Less dangerous ACM generally coats or encapsulates the asbestos fibers with cement, plastics, or asphalt so that they are not easily released into the air. The more dangerous ACMs have been banned or voluntarily replaced to a large degree, while some of the less dangerous ones remain in use.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made this distinction when first regulating ACM under the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) in 1973. They called the more dangerous type of ACM "friable." Friable asbestos-containing materials were officially defined as those materials containing more than 1% asbestos which could be crumbled, pulverized or reduced to powder by hand pressure when dry, using methods specified in the NESHAP rules.
The EPA called "non-friable" the generally less dangerous form of ACM, not very likely to release asbestos fibers into the air. A non-friable ACM is a material containing more than 1% asbestos but not able to be crumbled, pulverized or reduced to powder by hand pressure when dry, using the same methods (1).
The terms "friable" and "non-friable" are not necessarily meant to pertain to a particular material for its entire lifetime. Some materials will always be friable by their nature, particularly the lightweight uncapsulated ACM once used for insulation. But the EPA has determined that otherwise non-friable ACM can become friable if it is damaged or worn enough (2).  Cutting or grinding or sanding a non-friable material like asbestos-containing cement, as the homeowner might do during renovation, for instance, would create large amounts of dust which might contain significant amounts of asbestos fibers which had been freed from their binding material by the pressure exerted by power tools.

NESHAP therefore regulates both friable ACM and non-friable ACM which is likely to become friable when acted upon during demolition or renovation, or when degraded during its natural lifetime by the weather or other forces it might be exposed to. Non friable asbestos ACM may be either Category I or Category II, which is generally a division reflecting its probability of becoming friable over time, and its relative danger after being disturbed or degraded. Federal laws defined by NESHAP as well as the Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rules for asbestos workers—plus more stringent laws on state and local levels for handling, transporting and disposal—will differ depending on whether the ACM in question is friable or non-friable Category I or Category II, and whether it shows damage or is likely to be damaged by the kind of action to be taken (3).

Non Friable Asbestos

Non-friable asbestos:
There are two types of asbestos- friable and non friable.Friable means which can be crushed into powder by hand pressure while non friable canot be crushed by hand.Non-friable asbestos is hard to break into smaller pieces.
Non friable asbestos is less dangerous than friable asbestos, however it should still be treated with caution and disposed of properly.
Some properties of non friable asbestos:

    * It has low probability  of releasing fibers into air.
    * Difficult to break or crush  by hand
    * Fibers are bound or locked into matrix of binder material, such as cement, vinyl or resin.

Examples of non friable asbestos :

    * base flashing
    * asphalt/cement roofing products
    * asbestos cement  pipes
    * siding
    * vinyl asbestos floor tile
    * gaskets

Categories of non friable asbestos:
Non friable asbestos is broadly categorized into 2 categories:
Category I Non-Friable: It consists of asbestos which are very tough or unlikely to be made into friable.
Examples include vinyl floor coverings, vinyl asbestos tile
Category II Non-Friable: These materials are more likely to be made friable, as they are not resistant to weathering or crushing forces.
Handling of non friable asbestos:
Never break up or smash an asbestos product this will release asbestos.
For example :If you are removing asbestos tiles, you can do so safely if the tiles can be pulled without shattering, pulverizing or crumbling.
You shouldnot sand, grind, saw, chip, pound or use hand or power tools on the VATs so that it creates dust. You must remove the tiles intact.
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Your 'Antiques Roadshow' fantasy - those old cups = $1 million

On Sunday, appraisers from the PBS hit show "Antiques Roadshow" recorded the highest-value collection ever appraised in the show's 15-year history.

The big ticket item: five Chinese carved rhinoceros-horn cups dating to the late 17th or early 18th century, which are worth between $1 and $1.5 million. An Oklahoma resident bought the cups inexpensively in the 1970s, according to a press release from the show's producers. The reason the value of the cups is so high is due to China's growing demand for Chinese antiquities.
The episode will air as part of "Antiques Roadshow's" 16th season in 2012. The name of the lucky owner of the cups was not released.

Wifecorpse Used as a Coffee Table

The husband, Jeff Green, 32, an American who lives in Arizona. Jeff's wife makes her husband died and suffered greatly. To heal the pain, Jeff did something really unusual. Lucy, the name of his wife who died, had heart disease who died at the age of 29 makes. Last sentence, "We will meet again in heaven." But the sentence was not enough to convince Jeff.

Before funeral, Jeff decided he could not let Lucy go away. Courtesy of the government, allowed to bring Jeff in his wife's corpse to the house. Because Lucy during her lifetime love of humor, Jeff thought his wife would not mind if made ​​in a coffee table. Jeff then ordered a special glass table who can stop the decay process. Price is U.S. $ 6000 table.

Funny Or Die Creates Field of Dreams 2—Lockout

If you build it, they will come. But will they be able to play? With the NFL Lockout in its 114^th day, Funny Or Die (funnyordie.com) debuted “Field of Dreams 2: Lockout,” a spoof on the 1989 film “Field of Dreams.”

The spoof made its debut Wednesday morning on ESPN’s “SportsCenter.” Remember how ESPN evp, content John Skipper told advertisers at the net’s upfront that there was enough programming to keep fans interested if play is interrupted? Perhaps ESPN plans on having Funny Or Die fill its Monday Night Football schedule if the lockout doesn’t end soon.

 

In this version there is something in it for football fans as well as tweens: “Twilight” series star Taylor Lautner plays Ray Kinsella, Kevin Costner’s role in the original movie. Ray Liotta, Shoeless Joe Jackson, appears this time as NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

 

A few NFL stars surface from the cornfields to enjoy some football, including Tony Gonzalez, Dwight Freeney, Ray Lewis, DeSean Jackson, Shawne Merriman and Antonio Cromartie. Even anchors get some play, with ESPN SportsCenter’s Steve Levy and the NFL Network’s Rich Eisen. In place of James Earl Jones is Dennis Haysbert, from Major League and the Allstate Insurance commercials.

 

The video, shot last week in Thousand Oaks, CA, is the biggest online production in Funny Or Die’s history.

The world's longest name

Captain Fantastic Faster Than Batman Superman Spiderman Hulk Wolverine And The Flash Combined, is a 19-year-old boy's name from English. George Garratt is the previous name of the boy.

The name is claimed is the world's longest name. The name is derived from online services and the cost of 20 usd. But the young man must deal with the grandmother who was angry because the name change. which makes the grandmother did not want to talk with her​​.

I wanted a unique name and decided themed superhero, the reason the young man change his name.

Animal Picure Funny

Below I show pictures of animals funny

Household's unique interior

1. White sofa with legs fused to the wall

2. Mirror sharp saws
Glance this thing looks scary, it is a mirror that resembles a sharp saws

3. Hot stove as a wardrobe

Tradition elongate ears

The tradition of extending ears by Dayak tribe began to diminish and even now almost extinct, but in East Kalimantan Dayak tribes still exist some who maintain this tradition.

In East Kalimantan, this tradition is still carried out by people Dayak Kenyah, Bahau and Kayan. Among the Dayak Kenyah people, both men and women have deliberately stretched earlobes, but the length varies between men and women. Men should not be lengthened beyond his ears to his shoulders, while women should grow it out until the extent of the chest.

Earlobe piercing process itself began in childhood, ie since the age of one year. Then every year they add one fruit or earrings silver earrings. Earring silver earrings or even used different styles of earrings of different shows differences in status and gender. Such as the nobility has its own style of earrings that should not be used by ordinary people

Meanwhile, according to Dayak Kenyah people, ear leaf elongation among the Dayak traditionally serves as a marker of their human identity.
According to researcher Dr. Yekti Maunati who visited the village of Long Blooms, a Dayak Dayak village where the "authentic? similar to the Dayak people who live in rural living, it turns out the villagers of Long Blooms themselves do not all have tattoos and long earlobes. Later, it is evident that this is only partly true, because many people who have their ears cut off leaves that [had already] long. Cutting the ear itself is done in the hospital through a small operation. Only a few residents who still have long ears, and even then most of the elderly aged over 60 years. Dr. Yekti Maunati then told about perbincangannya with an older woman named Mamak middle, which since kedatanganya in Long Blooms past had originally cut the length of his ears. Here are the contents of his conversation.
"I am ashamed of the long-eared. So I cut it as did many others. I had a bad experience when people laugh at me because my ear that long. When I went to Samarinda for the first time once, people came and surrounded me and looked at me as if I was a freak. They said, 'He's ... he ate the Dayak people.? They touched my ear that long. I feel very offended. I was treated as if I was an object. I decided to cut my long ears that people were not always watching me and thought I was eating a human. That way people will not think that I am a Dayak. Of course, people can still see my tattoos, but I can hide them by wearing long skirts and long-sleeved shirt. "
If we further analysis, the emergence of shame is also caused by modernization and globalization that began to permeate the life of the Dayak people. Globalization is then made Dayak people become less appreciate the cultural values ​​they have, because they become more appreciative of the values ​​prevailing in the international world. Habits lengthen the ears unusual in the international community to make the Dayak people in a quandary about should they preserve their cultural values, which are now considered no longer fit with the changing times?
In the past, before globalization and modernization into the life of the Dayak people, they appreciate the cultural values, in this case extend the ears which is considered as a sign that they are a civilized nation. However, since globalization came in, came the notion that a civilized nation is not like what they were thinking during this. They began to feel they are different from other nations or tribes, which is branded "civilized" over them.
difference was then raised doubts in them, so eventually they become cultural values ​​that extend the earlobe is a sign of a civilized nation. Rejection of cultural values ​​is then led to only a few Dayak people, especially young people, who still runs the habit of extending ears.
Though such long ears that are unique, admired by non-Dayak community. Dayak community should not be ashamed of these physical markers, because of the embarrassment it can eventually cause the extinction of one of the values ​​in the Dayak culture.

Cremation IN BALI (INDONESIA)

Ngaben or sometimes called pelebon ceremony is performed the cremation in Bali, especially by the Hindus. The ceremony was made to the person who has died, it is considered very important, busy and lively, because the meaning of the cremation ceremony of the family can be liberating spirit of the deceased from his worldly ties to heaven, or transformed back into the world through rienkarnasi.
In the Panca Yadnya, the ceremony is included in Pitra Yadnya, the ceremony devoted to ancestor spirits. A Rauh or pastor says humans have Bayu, Word, IDEP, and after death Bayu, Word, IDEP was restored to Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva.
Day of Ngaben determined by finding a good day which is usually determined by Rauh. Ngaben ceremony is usually conducted by family relatives of the deceased, as an expression of respect of a child against his parents. Before the ceremony begins Ngaben, his family and friends came to pay their last respects and is usually served just to eat and drink.
At noon, the body is cleaned or commonly called "Nyiramin" by society and family, "Nyiramin" is led by people who are considered the oldest in the community. After that the bodies will be fitted with traditional Balinese dress like people who are still alive. And taken out of the house to be put in "Bade or ox" which has been prepared by the residents, then carried rollicking, lively, accompanied by rumbling sounds of gamelan and "bhajans" headed to the ceremony.
"Bade and Ox" This is where the bodies for the implementation Ngaben. "Bade and oxen" made of bamboo, wood, paper of various colors in accordance with the class or socioeconomic status families concerned. In front there is a white cloth Bade significant long as paving the way towards the spirit of the place of origin.
Then bade paraded and at each junction or intersection of Bade will be played 3 times, with the intention that the spirit of the dead man becomes confused and can not return to the family that can cause interference. The ceremony is usually performed with a lively, no sobs, as in Bali there is a belief that we should not mourn those who have died because it could hinder the journey toward the spirit of place.
Arriving at the cemetery, a ceremony conducted by Ngaben laid in "Cow" which has been prepared, beginning with the other ceremonies and prayer mantra of Ida Rauh, then "Cow" burned to the Abu. Ash is then discharged into the sea or rivers are considered sacred. This is a series of final rites for the dead, then the family can quietly heart in a temple honoring the spirits of the family, after all this time, spirits are believed to return to the world.
This is what causes the family ties in Bali is very strong, because they always remember and respect the ancestor and his parents. Status rebirth of the spirit of the dead is closely related to karma and deeds and behavior during the previous life. In general, the Balinese feel that the spirit is born again into the world only within the family circle who have blood relations with him.