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The Annual General Meeting of the Cape Town Branch of the South African Institute of Measurement and Control (SAIMC) will be held at the Milnerton Caltex Refinery (using the South Gate entry off Plattekloof ...
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Wednesday 7 May 2008    Venue: University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus Room G-01, Faculty of Electrical Engineering 17:30 for 18:00 This month’s meeting will see the topic: 'Can tank gauging ...
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Everybody is talking about the South African power shortage. To be in vogue, here is my contribution.    There is an untapped natural and indestructible resource that is available countrywide. If harnessed, ...
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The first SAIMC branch activity for 2008 would have been a branch social where a group of us were going to make a site visit to the Alrode Brewery on 18 January 2008. Unfortunately, Anton Erasmus, trade ...
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During 2007, I had the opportunity to visit the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen a town on the northern side of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in southern Germany, near the borders with Switzerland and Austria. ...
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The next Johannesburg branch meeting for 2008 will be on 13 February 18h00 for 18h30, at Rivonia Recreation Club, during which we will have our Branch Annual General Meeting. Our branch chairman, Paulo ...
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My topic this month is knowledge, both factual and experiential. Factual knowledge is gained at school or university and through reading. Subjects such as mathematics and physical science are no longer ...
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I have been serving on the Johannesburg committee for six years now and 2007 has been the best year since joining. At the beginning of the year the committee sat down and decided what we wanted to achieve ...
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Still on my hobby horse concerning arithmetic and mathematical literacy, I want to tell you about a personal experience. When my children were young, one of them fell and hit his eyebrow against the coffee ...
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