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Co-initiated by Switzerland, the Blue Peace movement advocates for peaceful water management in various regions of the world. In Central Asia, the SDC has been working for more than two decades on integrated, transparent and needs-based water resources management in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and as such can benefit from a wide network of international and regional partners also active in the water sector. The current project and the significant momentum in cross-border cooperation in the region are expected to create real progress for the local populations and their prospects for a better life.
Blue Peace Central Asia Strengthening of the Regional Institutional Framework for Integrated Water Resources Management in Central Asia
In response to the explicit demand of the five Central Asian States, and building on over 20 years of cooperation in the field of water, SDC facilitates transboundary water resources cooperation consistent with the Blue Peace approach implemented in the Middle-East and at the global level through the establishment of a High Level Dialogue Platform, the promotion of sustainable water practices as well as capacity building of a new generation of water professionals and champions.
Country/region | Topic | Period | Budget |
Central Asia |
Water Climate change and environment
Water diplomacy and security
Meteorological services Water resources conservation Water sector policy |
- 30.09.2024 |
- University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
- National State Institute SWISS
- Other international or foreign NGO North
- Other Swiss Non-profit Organisation
- Foreign private sector North
- Swiss Private Sector
- Research Organisation of South East
- SDC Field Office
- Université Fribourg
- University of Geneva
Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation WATER SUPPLY & SANITATION
Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation Water sector policy and administrative management
Water sector policy and administrative management
Water resources conservation (including data collection)
Meteorological services
Water sector policy and administrative management
Water resources conservation (including data collection)
Cross-cutting topics Crisis prevention
Human rights
The project takes account of gender equality as a cross-cutting theme.
The project supports partner organisation improvements as a priority
Aid Type Mandate with fiduciary funds
Mandate without fiduciary fund
Project and programme contribution
Project number 7F09162
Background |
The transboundary basins of Central Asia cover extensive area of the region and are home to about 60 million inhabitants. The water they share is fundamental to their population and the economy they depend on. Unsustainable water use, a lack of cooperation and competing national interests have led to a climate of mutual distrust and reoccurring tensions among the five countries in the region. The current centralized transboundary water cooperation framework proved to be inefficient, which calls for a dialogue to shift from national "administrative" approaches to transboundary "hydrographic" water management. The Central Asian countries increasingly acknowledge the cost of inefficient water management and its impact on the environment and their societies. Switzerland is considered as a key, credible and neutral actor providing concomitantly quality expertise and honest brokerage without hidden agenda. |
Objectives |
The overall goal of the initiative is that Central Asia moves forward towards sustainable and equitable transboundary water management in a changing climate whereby the people in the region benefit from water security, peace, stability and sustainable development. |
Target groups |
The primary target group are influential policy makers at the regional, national and local level as well as water professionals. The indirect target group comprises the population in Central Asia (68 million inhabitants). |
Medium-term outcomes |
Outcome 1: Regional institutions, national and local authorities implement more effective, sustainable and equitable water transboundary policies; Outcome 2: In selected transboundary water basin relevant authorities are managing water more effectively in a sustainable and equitable way by adopting smart water practices; Outcome 3: Empowered next generation of professionals and champions takes part and influences transboundary water management. |
Results |
Expected results: An effective high-level dialogue is in place at the regional level, with insights and actions on regional transboundary issues formulated and implemented along the 3 priority themes identified previously; a cryospheric climate information base and services are improved and allow for climate resilient water and risk management; young talents are equipped and empowered through the building of a regional youth water network and access to capacity building opportunities. Results from previous phases: Through two Swiss-supported high-level events bringing together for the first time representatives from Foreign and Water Ministries and Parliaments (Basel I Conference in November 2014 and Astana Conference within the World Expo in June 2017) the countries' response to the consultation on regional water cooperation has been stated. The five countries clearly expressed the need to exchange on commonly-identified regional priorities, notably on: 1) transparent sharing of hydrometeorology data and joint use of forecast modelling among riparian countries to prevent water-related disasters and adapt to climate change; 2) investment in and joint management of transboundary water infrastructure ; 3) adoption of water quality standards and monitoring, and water efficiency interventions. |
Directorate/federal office responsible |
Credit area |
Development cooperation |
Project partners |
Contract partner Foreign academic and research organisation International or foreign NGO Private sector Swiss state institution Swiss Academic and Research Institution Swiss Non-profit Organisation Other partners SECO, World Bank, UNECE, Political Division (ECACOD) |
Coordination with other projects and actors |
The project will closely coordinate its activities and leverage synergies with the Global Blue Peace initiative, SDC and SECO regional cooperation initiatives and their partners. Close coordination and cooperation will be maintained in particular with the Berlin Process for Cooperation in Central Asia as well the high-level political process around IFAS facilitated by the GIZ. |
Budget | Current phase Swiss budget CHF 6'000'000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF 3'844'467 |
Project phases | Phase 1 01.09.2014 - 30.09.2024 (Current phase) |
A region of contrasts under increasing stress
The semi-arid region of Central Asia avails of substantial ground- and surface water resource. However, the access to water is uneven across the region, from the water-rich mountain ranges of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the desert steppes of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Moreover, the demand for water is increasing rapidly, due to steady demographic growth and expanding economies. Severe challenges relate to the pollution of surface water, and unsustainable and outdated agricultural systems and practices. Climate change acts as a "threat multiplier": higher temperature, more frequent droughts and earlier snowmelt will have a major influence on future water availability per capita. Central Asia is increasingly water-stressed; adaptation to climate change is an urgent priority.
The five countries in Central Asia recognise this reality, and the governments have embarked on significant sector reforms and enhanced national water policies. In many cases, however, the water management between the Central Asian countries is still dictated primarily by national concerns, and based on competition. More is required at the bilateral and regional levels to account for the transboundary nature of the risks, challenges and opportunities related to water. The challenge is to set up an effective cross-border cooperation to manage transboundary water resources in an integrated and sustainable manner.
Enhancing regional water policy dialogue
After numerous political consultations, the countries concerned saw that it would be opportune to entrust Switzerland with an advisory role in regard to sustainable water resources management in the region. The SDC is translating this role into practice by laying the foundations for improved cooperation at both the political and scientific level.
In practical terms, it is working to make the exchange of information between the governments more systematic, and to expose the region to best regional and international practices in terms of transboundary water management. Among others, in order to produce high-quality scientific data, the SDC is supporting the efforts of a group of researchers from the University of Fribourg whose aim is to provide the latest in training to local glaciologists over the next few years.
Combating poverty and reducing disaster risks
Ultimately, it is the people living in the region who will see their lives improve – not just because they will be provided with drinking water or water to irrigate their fields, but also because security in the region will increase. When governments decide to cooperate, the risk of conflict diminishes. And as far as the climate is concerned, monitoring the process of glacier melt rigorously will make predicting natural disasters more reliable.


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Welcome to another great challenge here at Seize the Birthday! Boy oh Boy did you all knock our socks off with our Floral Topping last time. We sure had some amazing cards in the gallery to drool over! I know this week will be equally as drool worthy as it's time for our very popular Anything Goes Challenge. Just a friendly reminder that you can find our Rules and Guidelines for our challenges at the bottom of every challenge.
Have Fun and let our Birthday Celebration Begin!
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Greetings from the Department of Natural Resources Atchafalaya Basin Program!
News: LA Ag & Forestry: Emerald Ash Borer Detected in Louisiana The Advocate: Quail getting harder to find in Louisiana and South Times-Picayune:Video: A much better way to capture feral hogs Louisiana Sportsman: Louisiana Sportsman Show offers fun for the whole family Country Roads: The Ancient Oyster: Getting to know the business end of our favorite bivalve Save the Date: Friends of the Atchafalaya monthly meeting, Feb 24 at 7 pm at the Audobon Office in Baton Rouge Eagle Expo, includes boat tours into various waterways to view eagle's nests, and much more, Feb 26 - 28 in Morgan City Kayak Fishing Workshop, Feb 28 from 8:30 am to 11 am at Wampold Park Beach in Baton Rouge (registration required) Southern Atchafalaya Eagle Paddle, Feb 28 at 9am at Pack & Paddle Bayou Vermilion Novice Canoe/Kayak Lesson & Guided Paddle Trip, Feb 28 from 8:30 - 1:30 am at Vermilionville in Lafayette Rendez Vous des Cajuns, live radio show, Saturdays in Feb at 6 pm at the Liberty Center in Eunice Sinker Cypress Pirogue Auction to benefit Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, through March 1 Atchafalaya Trace Commission Meeting, March 4 at 10 am at the Capitol Park Welcome Center in Baton Rouge Online Tree Sale, through March 9 at batonrougegreen.com Manchac: In the Wake of North Pass, a visual art exhibit that explores the destructive beauty and complex role of invasive aquatic plants upon the fragile ecology of Louisiana's bayous, Jan 10 through March 15 at LASM in Baton Rouge Louisiana Sportsman Show: March 12-15 at Lamar-Dixon in Gonzales
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Let us know if you have an upcoming event to promote the Basin!
Checking the water:The information below is obtained from the USGS and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and has been compiled by DNR into this format to allow a quick look at information pertinent to the Atchafalaya Basin. Click here for current weather conditions and water levels.
Data is for 2/24/2015
Ohio River at CairoLocation: Southernmost gauge on the Ohio River in Illinois Reading significance - used to forecast rises on the Mississippi. Lag time, 4 to 6 days.Flood Stage: 40'Stage: 24.6'24 hour change: +2.9'Forecast: expect to RISE to 25.7' by 3/01
Mississippi River, just south of ORCS, at Red River LandingReading: Mississippi River south of ORCS, after the diversion into the Atchafalaya Flood Stage: 48'Stage: 25.6'24 hour change: +0.5'Forecast: expect to RISE to 27.0' by 3/01
Mississippi River at Baton RougeFlood Stage: 35'Stage: 11.9'24 hour change: +0.2'Forecast: expect to RISE to 13.4' by 3/01
Mississippi River at New OrleansFlood Stage: 17'Stage: 3.0'24 hour change: -0.1'Forecast: expect to RISE to 3.4' by 3/01
Atchafalaya River, just south of ORCS, at SimmesportReading: The combined latitudinal flows of the Red, Black, Ouachita, and ORCS flow from the Mississippi Flood Stage: 47'Stage: 11.5'Forecast: expect to RISE to 12.3' by 3/01
Atchafalaya River at MelvilleFlood Stage: 34'Stage: 7.6'Forecast: expect to RISE to 8.1' by 3/01
Atchafalaya River at Krotz SpringsFlood Stage: 29'Stage: 6.6'Forecast: expect to RISE to 7.2' by 3/01
Atchafalaya River above Butte LaroseFlood Stage: 20'Stage: 4.8'Forecast: expect to RISE to 5.1' by 3/01
Atchafalaya River at Bayou Sorrell Locks on the GIWWFlood Stage: 12'Stage: 3.1'Forecast: expect to RISE to 3.2' by 3/01
Atchafalaya at Millet (Myette) PointFlood Stage: 15'Stage: 2.6'Forecast: expect to FALL to 2.5' by 3/01
Atchafalaya River at Morgan CityFlood Stage: 6'Stage: 1.8'Forecast: expect to FALL to 1.4' by 3/01
Murphy Lake near Bayou SorrelStage: 8.99'
Lower Grand River at Bayou SorrelStage: 5.49'
Bayou CourtableauStage: 17.69'
Buffalo Cove at Round IslandStage: 3.84' Middle Fork, Bayou LongStage: 2.35'
Arm of Grand Lake near Crook CheneStage: 6.36'
Bayou Darby at Fausse Pt. CutStage: 10.51'
Lake Pelba at I-10, HendersonStage: 10.10'


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It's been a while since I threw out an edition of Monday Musings so let's try an abbreviated version to hold you over -
Next stop for Rasheed Sulaimon ... Duke University
As you know already we covered the Nike Jordan Brand All Star game this past weekend and Sulaimon showed well for the Dukies earning praise along the way from many recruiting types. Sulaimon will be on the Duke campus in early July which is just over two months away and he will take the time in between to reflect on all that has happened to date and continue his workouts. Having seen Sulaimon play in person over 20 times now, I can tell you that Duke fans will love his ability to play good defense and his first step is as good as it gets. While not a total speed demon, Sulaimon has a way of being all over the place as an active player.
We hardly knew you ...
Word started to leak out yesterday that Michael Gbinije would transfer and this has long been floating around the rumor mill. Well, it is all but a formality at this point and we should hear official word from the Duke Sports Information Department any time now. Gbinije has a history of transferring from schools, several stops in high school and seems to be having trouble finding the right fit. We wish Gbinije the best and it looks as if he will take a long look at Big East and Virginia are schools. He is a talented young man and a great student, so he will do well. Normally, the school handles official announcements but the rush for a scoop caused a lot of issues. The sad truth is any kid transferring is not newsworthy enough to have been handled in the way it was and bordered on being meddlesome but that is simply one mans opinion.
Amile Jefferson come on down ...
Duke still has a shot at Amile Jefferson who is still deciding between several schools making hard, late runs for his services. I expect we'll know what the deal is as early as this week. The general consensus is that he is the last prospect Duke has a shot at in 2012.
Unless ....
Unless, Tony Parker comes around at the midnight hour. Sources have told Blue Devil Nation that he will make his selection known at his high school on Friday of this week. Parker was rumored heavily to be UCLA bound this weekend, but he has been the center of many rumors and many national analyst washed their hands with him once he started being all over the place with his comments. Parker shows little respect for most of the media and is a young kid funning about with the process. In the end, do not be shocked if he stays in state and goes to Georgia, His recruitment has frustrated many fans, especially those of Duke for there is a glaring obviousness that he has a spot at Duke where he would play. I am think the parents who strongly favored Duke will settle for him staying near home. Parker is a good kid with a nice skill set but looking back on his decision will be interesting. Who knows, maybe he will have another last minute change of heart but I would not wager the house on it at this point.
Nike EYBL kicks off this week
The Nilke EYBL gets underway at Minneapolis, Minnesota this week and Duke will have a bevy of prospects there. The coaches will be out in full force this week during an earlier open period than years past. The bigger names they will watch are Jabari Parker and Julius Randle but several others are on the radar which members of the Blue Devil Nation know about. For more on the recruiting front, join BDN Premium as we start our unmatched AAU coverage which has now become a site tradition.


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- Major Ryan Bankhead—Brother of Eryn Orlowski
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- The family of Ethel Goehring
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Lichgates: Book One of the Grimoire Trilogy
By S.M. Boyce / Genre: Fantasy / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
The Grimoire turns its own pages and can answer any question asked of it, and Kara Magari is its next target.
Kara has no idea what she's getting herself into when she stumbles across the old book while hiking a hidden trail. Once she opens it, she's thrown into Ourea: a beautiful world full of terrifying things that want the Grimoire's secrets. Everyone in this new world is trying to find her, and most want to control the new-found power the book bestows upon her. Even if Kara does escape, Ourea will only drag her back.
Braeden Drakonin grew up in Ourea, and all he's ever known of life is lying. The Grimoire is his one chance at redemption, and it lands in his lap when Kara Magari comes into his life. He has one question to ask the book—one question that can fix everything in his broken world—and he's not letting Kara out of his sight until he gets an answer.
There's no going back now.
Free as of 11/16/2012 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.
Dream War
By Stephen Prosapio / Genre: Horror, Science Fiction / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
1980. Hector Lopez joins a CIA enterprise capable of entering dreams and extracting information. Lopez saves hundreds of hostages' lives by dream-linking to terrorists and foiling their plans. When the Red Brigades, an Italian terrorist group, kidnaps a US General, Lopez and his team execute every technique available for extracting information–including one that links our world to a dimension never meant to be discovered.
Present Day. The Sogno di Guerra–a Red Brigades sect–plans the slaughter of millions. And they've the help of Luzveyn Dred, the entity ruling the dimension the CIA inadvertently opened a portal to–the Spatium Quartus.
Aided by an aging expatriate, a recovering alcoholic, and a mysterious girl, Lopez must overcome memories of past failures and defeat evil–in this world as well as in a dimension of nightmares.
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Frozen Past
By Richard C Hale / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Luke is only fourteen. Eliana is his whole world and for a fourteen year old, the burden is immense. You see, Eliana is being stalked. Stalked by a madman who wants nothing more than to see her dead. The madman knows things that no one should know and sees things that no one should see. He tells them if they say a word to anyone, they will both die. And Luke can't let that happen.
Eliana's past is catching up with her and Luke must do anything to save her. Anything.
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Tracy Rozzlynn
By Tracy Rozzlynn / Genre: Science Fiction / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
If your world suddenly crumbled, leaving you with nothing but heartache, would you risk your life for a chance at a new beginning on a new world?
Brett Bradbury's parents are dead, her boyfriend's a cheater, and her best friend essentially dumped her. Truly alone in the world, Brett agrees to help colonize the newly discovered planet, Verita.
Now Brett's on a strange new world. She quickly makes friends and starts her assigned job. Verita begins to feel like home, but it's far from perfect. Brett has an overwhelming attraction to Brody, despite the fact that he's entirely not her type. Her colleague, Ryan, utterly hates her for reasons out of her control. And there are creatures in the forest that would like nothing more than to devour everyone for dinner.
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The Belly Fat Diet: Lose Your Belly, Shed Excess Weight, Improve Health
By John Chatham / Genre: Diets, Women's Health / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Belly fat: Either you have it, or you are doing everything you can to keep it off.
Despite what the headlines on the newsstands claim, achieving a flat stomach is not a ten-minute transformation; it's a lifestyle transformation.
In his latest work, bestselling author John Chatham blasts the myths surrounding belly fat. The groundbreaking research in The Belly Fat Diet reveals a science based approach to healthy eating and looking good, and it doesn't involve starving yourself.
Achieving a flat stomach is not about doing hundreds of crunches or worrying about how much you eat; it's about what you eat. The Belly Fat Diet teaches you how to eat more and weigh less, so there's no need to ever go hungry.
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COLD PURSUIT – which could be called HELLY HANSEN PRESENTS 'COLD PURSUIT' in my opinion – is an odd duck of a Liam Neeson vehicle. His character Nelson "Nels" Coxman is a man with a very particular set of skills, but they mostly involve driving a snow plow. He lives a simple life in a big house in a tiny ski resort town 3 and a quarter miles from Denver, Colorado. It's one of those places where people have to be kinda rugged but they're also laid back and individualistic. It's always cold outside so they mostly just find ways to relax in their big houses. Nels's wife Grace (Laura Dern, WILD AT HEART) smokes a joint while cooking up some meat from the reindeer that Nels and their son Kyle (Micheal Richardson, VOX LUX) hunted a while back.
Nels is a little nervous about having to make a speech after winning Citizen of the Year. Otherwise they seem to have a nice comfortable lifestyle going when all the sudden Kyle turns up dead – we know he was murdered by drug dealers, but the coroner (Jim Shield, SHANGHAI NOON, who looks like a more hard living Chris Pine) says it was a heroin overdose. Nels is so broken up he puts a shotgun in his mouth but when he's interrupted by Kyle's bloodied and apologetic friend Dante (Wesley MacInnes, POWER RANGERS) and learns what really happened, it's not long before he's sawing off said shotgun to fit in his jacket and go trying to find the people responsible. (read the rest of this shit…)


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Pulse-Eight USB CEC Adapter Review
by Ganesh T S on January 24, 2012 7:45 PM EST- Posted in
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- Pulse-Eight
Pulse-Eight traces its roots to XBMC and concentrates on hardware products (such as pre-built XBMC-based HTPCs and HTPC accessories). One of their most attractive products is the USB CEC adapter, aimed at providing PCs with HDMI CEC functionality. While almost all HTPC oriented GPU cards have HDMI outputs, none of them have CEC functionality. There are a number of CEC solutions for PCs, but none of them are as affordable as the Pulse-Eight USB CEC Adapter that we will be talking about.
Before going into the details, let us have a small detour to talk about HDMI's CEC feature.
HDMI CEC - A Primer
CEC stands for Consumer Electronics Control. It is implemented as a single wire bus in the HDMI connector (pin 13). It allows various HDMI-enabled products to connect and communicate with each other. The intent is to enable one remote control to interface with all the A/V components. Before we go into further details, let us get the Wikipedia link out of the way. It provides a very high level view of what CEC can do for the end user, and the various names under which it is advertised by the TV manufacturers. Various message opcodes can be exchanged between the connected systems in order to do device specific actions (like recording on a STB/DVR) or get general information across (like transferring remote control key press details).
In any HDMI setup, the display is considered to be the root, and gets allocated two special tags, a physical address of 0.0.0.0 and a logical address of 0. In any given system, all CEC enabled devices have both physical and logical addresses, while the non-CEC devices have only physical addresses. Physical addresses are taken up based on the position of the device with respect to the root. For example, if an A/V receiver's output is connected to HDMI1 of the TV, it gets the physical address 184.108.40.206. A device connected to the first HDMI input port of the A/V receiver would get the address 18.104.22.168, while one connected to the second HDMI port would get 188.8.131.52. Logical addresses are taken on by the devices depending on their functionality (as mandated by the CEC specifications document). When the HDMI device menu is brought up on the display (On a Sony KDL46EX720, this is achieved by pressing the Sync Menu button), the display sends a broadcast over the CEC wire to all the downstream devices. It then collects the responses arriving over the CEC wire and presents the user with a list of CEC enabled devices. Choosing one of them ensures that future remote key presses are transferred by the TV to that particular address.
If you are interested in learning about the bus protocol and a bit more in-depth overview, I suggest taking a look at QuantumData's excellent CEC whitepaper (PDF). For more details on the various messages which can be exchanged between the devices, the full CEC specifications from the official HDMI documentation may be perused (PDF).
CEC Solutions for HTPCs
CEC is more popular in consumer electronics equipment compared to HTPCs. As of December 2011, none of the video cards with HDMI output support it. The closest we have come to a big vendor officially supporting HDMI CEC is the Intel DH61AG mini-ITX board with its HTPC header, but it still requires a third party board (something that is not available in the market yet). The HTPC header provides a number of useful features such as a recording LED pin and a CEC pin which can be used by third party boards to implement CEC functionality. You can find out more about the DH61AG itself on MissingRemote.
CEC functionality has been an oft-requested feature from home automation solution developers as well. The first step towards getting CEC functionality in PCs involved some hardware mods as described in this link. A few companies built upon this solution and offered plug-and-play gadgets currently priced around $75. RCAware and RainShadow Tech are the players in that price range. Kwikwai's HDMI CEC-Ethernet-USB-Serial bridge is for high end home automation and is appropriately priced around $370. Kwikwai also runs the CEC-O-Matic website, which helps developers in decoding and creating CEC frames for communication. For the general user, it also gives an idea as to what can be achieved in a home automation system using CEC.
Pulse-Eight's solution, coming in at $48 is the cheapest and most recent option to come up. Since Pulse-Eight works closely with XBMC, support for the CEC adapter comes built into XBMC Eden. In the remainder of the review, we will take a look at the USB CEC adapter package, a description of our testbed, and how we went about installing the drivers. Following this, we take a look at how the adapter works in conjunction with XBMC Eden. In the final section, we will see what lies ahead for Pulse-Eight and its CEC initiative.
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NickB. - Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - link
Really appreciate the love and attention for the HTPC and XBMC world. -
shadowarachh - Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - link
it's mini USB.
just sayin... -
ganeshts - Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - link
oops! sorry, corrected now -
r3loaded - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - link
Why is this tech not integrated into any graphics cards (whether that be Intel/AMD/Nvidia)? It's so useful, a box like this shouldn't have been necessary in the first place. -
Malard - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - link
lots of various reasons, mainly support, there are so many variants of the CEC implementation that it is not financially viable for all the vendors to re-roll the CEC library required each time, on top of that, then needing to expose it at the driver level.
If they advertise that their GFX card supports CEC and it doesnt work with that particular TV as expected then the customer will return it, despite the graphics card being fine. Resulting in an expensive lost sale -
mckirkus - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - link
Hence "This is an unsupported beta feature" -
Malard - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - link
Well, its not unsupported in our adapter, but GFX card vendors stay clear etc -
MobiusStrip - Saturday, April 7, 2012 - link
What percentage of TVs support CEC? And how is that distributed across models from the last few years? How new does a TV have to be for there to be a reasonable chance of it supporting CEC? -
Jsw98765 - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - link
Im really hoping ivy bridge motherboards start including the htpc header. Ivy bridge sounds like a htpc wet dream. I'd love to get rid of the extra wires that my harmony rf extender brings into the picture.
Growing up I was promised a future of flying cars and hover boards, but I'll settle out of court right now for the removal of wires. Induction power, and everything else communicating wireless. Maybe someday, but the cec stuff does sound pretty awesome until then. -
nubie - Thursday, January 26, 2012 - link
If I read this correctly, all one needs to do is solder a single wire on the HDMI port to enable this on any motherboard or graphics card?
Sign me up, I have plenty of re-work style wrapping wire. I don't need a lousy "htpc" header.
If the internal style would plug directly into the usb header and then I solder 1 wire, I would be completely set.
I don't own an HDMI TV unfortunately, but the day will come, and I will be ready.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Warning of a potential surge in anti-Americanism, Vice President Joe Biden is tearing into Donald Trump's views on foreign policy and urging the country not to follow the presumptive Republican nominee down a path of isolationism and bigotry.
Biden, in a speech Monday to the Center for New American Security, planned to deliver a point-by-point rebuttal of Trump's ideas on immigration, terrorism and relations with Russia. In excerpts of his speech released in advance by the White House, Biden cautioned against policies he said would make the U.S. and its neighborhood poorer, less democratic and less secure.
"Wielding the politics of fear and intolerance, like proposals to ban Muslims from entering the United States or slandering entire religious communities as complicit in terrorism, calls into question America's status as the greatest democracy in the history of the world," Biden planned to say.
Biden's speech to the Washington think tank was to form his most concerted and lengthy rebuke to date of Trump, and comes as Biden and President Barack Obama are increasingly inserting themselves into the election in an attempt to stop Trump. Earlier this month both Biden and Obama endorsed Hillary Clinton, and both Democrats are expected to start campaigning aggressively for her in the coming days.
Although Biden didn't mention Trump by name in the excerpts of his speech, his intended target was clear.
On Sunday, Trump went beyond his previous calls for temporarily banning Muslim immigration by suggesting the U.S. should consider profiling Muslims already in the U.S. The Republican has also called for reinstating waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods to try to prevent terrorist attacks.
"Adopting the tactics of our enemies — using torture, threatening to kill innocent family members, indiscriminately bombing civilian populations — not only violates our values, it's deeply damaging to our security," Biden said. He echoed Obama's argument that demonizing the world's Muslims would actually help the Islamic State group by playing "into the narrative of extremists."
Biden, who considered running for president before bowing out last year, said the country was at an "inflection point" in which hard-fought gains of the past several years risk being squandered. He dismissed those who "seek sound bite solutions in a world defined by complexity," in another clear swipe at Trump.
"If we build walls and disrespect our closest neighbors, we will quickly see all this progress disappear, replaced by a return of anti-Americanism and a corrosive rift throughout our hemisphere," Biden said.
The vice president also sought to undercut Trump's argument that if elected, the U.S. would enjoy a more constructive and friendly relationship with Russia, following a dysfunctional relationship under Obama. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has praised Trump's intelligence in the past, more recently dodged questions about whether he prefers Trump or Clinton and pledged to work with whoever wins.
"Embracing Putin at a time of renewed Russian aggression could call into question America's longstanding commitment to a Europe whole, free and at peace," Biden said. "But neither is it time to dust off the Cold War playbook."
Though the U.S. cut off formal military ties with Russia in 2014 to protest its actions in Ukraine, the two militaries have sought to maintain lines of communication to avoid an inadvertent confrontation in Syria, where both militaries are fighting the Islamic State group but backing opposing sides in Syria's civil war. Biden said that as new military technologies raise the risk of a mistake or escalation, the U.S. needs to find "new channels with Moscow to clearly communicate our intentions."


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If you've ever wanted to shred it up like Shinedown guitarist Zach Myers, here's your chance: the axeman is giving lessons Thursday, March 15, via a video stream on Shinedown's official site.
Shinedown recently held a contest along with Jammit and Tokbox that asked fans to submit videos. Three lucky winners will get a lesson from Myers through Tokbox, a service that lets multiple users interact with an artist through video and audio.
Even though there were just three winners, the lesson will be streamed on the band's website at 3:30PM ET, during which time any of the band's fans can get some guitar-playing pointers and tips.
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The following story considers only the industrial model of meat production. There are other better alternatives. Actually the water usage per animal in the big beef plants is around 730 gallons per head, not 132 gallons. James McWilliams is right on with his analysis on water hungry alfalfa – why export our precious water?
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Meat Makes the Planet Thirsty
By JAMES MCWILLIAMS MARCH 7, 2014
AUSTIN, Tex. — CALIFORNIA is experiencing one of its worst droughts on record. Just two and a half years ago, Folsom Lake, a major reservoir outside Sacramento, was at 83 percent capacity. Today it's down to 36 percent. In January, there was no measurable rain in downtown Los Angeles. Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency. President Obama has pledged $183 million in emergency funding. The situation, despite last week's deluge in Southern California, is dire.
With California producing nearly half of the fruit and vegetables grown in the United States, attention has naturally focused on the water required to grow popular foods such as walnuts, broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries, almonds and grapes. These crops are the ones that a recent report in the magazine Mother Jones highlighted as being unexpectedly water intensive. Who knew, for example, that it took 5.4 gallons to produce a head of broccoli, or 3.3 gallons to grow a single tomato? This information about the water footprint of food products — that is, the amount of water required to produce them — is important to understand, especially for a state that dedicates about 80 percent of its water to agriculture.
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But for those truly interested in lowering their water footprint, those numbers pale next to the water required to fatten livestock. A 2012 study in the journal Ecosystems by Mesfin M. Mekonnen and Arjen Y. Hoekstra, both at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, tells an important story. Beef turns out to have an overall water footprint of roughly four million gallons per ton produced. By contrast, the water footprint for "sugar crops" like sugar beets is about 52,000 gallons per ton; for vegetables it's 85,000 gallons per ton; and for starchy roots it's about 102,200 gallons per ton.
Factor in the kind of water required to produce these foods, and the water situation looks even worse for the future of animal agriculture in drought-stricken regions that use what's known as "blue water," or water stored in lakes, rivers and aquifers, which California and much of the West depend on.
Vegetables use about 11,300 gallons per ton of blue water; starchy roots, about 4,200 gallons per ton; and fruit, about 38,800 gallons per ton. By comparison, pork consumes 121,000 gallons of blue water per ton of meat produced; beef, about 145,000 gallons per ton; and butter, some 122,800 gallons per ton. There's a reason other than the drought that Folsom Lake has dropped as precipitously as it has. Don't look at kale as the culprit. (Although some nuts, namely almonds, consume considerable blue water, even more than beef.) That said, a single plant is leading California's water consumption.
Unfortunately, it's a plant that's not generally cultivated for humans: alfalfa. Grown on over a million acres in California, alfalfa sucks up more water than any other crop in the state. And it has one primary destination: cattle. Increasingly popular grass-fed beef operations typically rely on alfalfa as a supplement to pasture grass. Alfalfa hay is also an integral feed source for factory-farmed cows, especially those involved in dairy production.
If Californians were eating all the beef they produced, one might write off alfalfa's water footprint as the cost of nurturing local food systems. But that's not what's happening. Californians are sending their alfalfa, and thus their water, to Asia. The reason is simple. It's more profitable to ship alfalfa hay from California to China than from the Imperial Valley to the Central Valley. Alfalfa growers are now exporting some 100 billion gallons of water a year from this drought-ridden region to the other side of the world in the form of alfalfa. All as more Asians are embracing the American-style, meat-hungry diet.
Further intensifying this ecological injustice are incidents such as the Rancho Feeding Corporation's recent recall of 8.7 million pounds of beef because the meat lacked a full federal inspection. That equals 631.6 million gallons of water wasted by an industry with a far more complex and resource-intensive supply chain than the systems that move strawberries from farm to fork.
This comparison isn't to suggest that produce isn't occasionally recalled, but the Rancho incident reminds us that plants aren't slaughtered, a process that demands 132 gallons of water per animal carcass, contributing even more to livestock's expanding water footprint.
It's understandable for concerned consumers to feel helpless in the face of these complex industrial and global realities. But in the case of agriculture and drought, there's a clear and accessible action most citizens can take: reducing or, ideally, eliminating the consumption of animal products. Changing one's diet to replace 50 percent of animal products with edible plants like legumes, nuts and tubers results in a 30 percent reduction in an individual's food-related water footprint. Going vegetarian, a better option in many respects, reduces that water footprint by almost 60 percent.
It's seductive to think that we can continue along our carnivorous route, even in this era of climate instability. The environmental impact of cattle in California, however, reminds us how mistaken this idea is coming to seem.
James McWilliams is a professor of history at Texas State University and the author, most recently, of "The Politics of the Pasture: How Two Cattle Inspired a National Debate About Eating Animals ."


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[final online version January 2, 2008; the print version is available from Cambridge University Press, Amazon and hopefully your local bookstore.] VISIT OUR BLOG Coming soon: The Paperback Reviews: Stephen Spear November 2007 review in the Focus Konstantin Sonin July 2008 review in Vedomosti a translation of sorts here Crosbie Fitch July 2008 review in Digital Productions Alex Tabarrok August 2008 review in Marginal Revolution at The Cato Institute November 2008 Jeffrey Tucker January 2009 review on the Mises Blog Alistair Kelman June 2009 review on www.alikelman.com George Leef October 2009 review at Cato Richard Gilbert June 2011 Journal of Economic Literature David Gordon June 2011 Mises Daily It is common to argue that intellectual property in the form of copyright and patent is necessary for the innovation and creation of ideas and inventions such as machines, drugs, computer software, books, music, literature and movies. In fact intellectual property is a government grant of a costly and dangerous private monopoly over ideas. We show through theory and example that intellectual monopoly is not necessary for innovation and as a practical matter is damaging to growth, prosperity and liberty. Credits (pdf) Chapter 1: Introduction (pdf) An overview of the central theme: intellectual property is in fact intellectual monopoly and hinders rather than helps innovation and creation. Chapter 2: Creation Under Competition (pdf) Would the world be devoid of great or lesser works of art without copyright? Chapter 3: Innovation Under Competition (pdf) What would happen to innovation without patents? Chapter 4: The Evil of Intellectual Monopoly (pdf) Why are patents so bad anyway? Chapter 5: The Devil in Disney (pdf) What is the big deal with copyright? Chapter 6: How Competition Works (pdf) How would artists and innovators get paid without copyrights and patents? Chapter 7: Defenses of Intellectual Monopoly (pdf) What is the conventional wisdom and why it is wrong. Chapter 8: Does Intellectual Monopoly Increase Innovation? (pdf) This is the heart of the matter: there is no evidence that intellectual monopoly serves the purpose that both the U.S. Constitution and economic logic dictates. There is no evidence it "works" to increase creation and innovation. Chapter 9: The Pharmaceutical Industry (pdf) But what about life-saving drugs? Chapter 10: The Bad, the Good, and the Ugly (pdf) A look at various policy options. References (pdf) entire book as a single file (pdf) Previous Version Errata for First Hardback Edition:


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It's game balls all around for the Jacksonville Jaguars, who are winless no more.
They can thank the Tennessee Titans for helping them finally get that first victory of the 2013 season.
Owner Shad Khan gave first-year coach Gus Bradley a game ball, and the coach made sure both his boss and general manager David Caldwell each got one, too, after the Jaguars held off the Titans29-27 Sunday. All the Jaguars will be receiving a game ball to remember this very big win.
"What I'm excited about is that we improved in many areas," Bradley said. "On my call sheet I was writing down things that were really good that were happening during the game. They just kept piling up. I thought, 'this is how it feels.'"
Maurice Jones-Drew and Jordan Todman each ran for a touchdown as the Jaguars left Tampa Bay at 0-8 as the only winless team left. The Buccaneers host Miami on Monday night.
The Jaguars (1-8) scored the most points in a game this season. They never trailed and forced four turnovers which they turned into 17 points.
"It's definitely a great feeling," Jaguars quarterback Chad Henne. "Hopefully we can build on this. We can't become complacent and say we got our first win ... we've still got to improve on what we've done today and get better individually."
The Titans scored twice in the final 4:15; the last on a 14-yard TD pass by Ryan Fitzpatrick to Delanie Walker with 40 seconds left. But Johnathan Cyprien recovered the onside kick to seal the victory.
On a day the Titans (4-5) held a moment of silence for late owner Bud Adams, they got caught looking ahead to Thursday night's AFC South game with division leader Indianapolis. The Titans also lost Jake Locker to an injured right foot that had him on crutches and in a walking boot in the second half.
The Titans were coming off an emotional win over former coach Jeff Fisher in St. Louis, and they looked flat from the start - even Adams' family was late to the stadium and a news conference introducing the owners was scratched before kickoff.
"We had a lot of things happen today that should never happen to us in any game," coach Mike Munchak said.
The Jaguars took advantage despite being outgained 362-214 in total offense. Henne threw for 180 yards.
Outscored 70-15 in the first quarter of the first eight games combined, the Jaguars jumped to a 13-0 lead with Paul Posluszny stripping Chris Johnson of his first fumble this season on Tennessee's first offensive play, and Dwayne Gratz intercepting a Locker pass.
The first turnover set up Jones-Drew for three straight carries capped by a 6-yard TD run. Josh Scobee kicked his second field goal, a 44-yarder, after the interception, which gave the Jaguars' their biggest lead in any game this season, 13-0 early in the second quarter. The Jaguars could have had a bigger lead if not for a shotgun snap bouncing off receiver Ace Sanders as he ran in motion.
Not even Munchak seemed ready. The Titans coach wanted to challenge a 22-yard sideline catch by Cecil Shorts III, but threw the flag as the Jaguars snapped the ball. Munchak said later he was waiting for a better replay before deciding to challenge.
Locker hurt his right foot in the second quarter at the end of an option keeper. He was so hobbled he couldn't connect with Johnson on a handoff on the next play, and the Jaguars recovered with 6:22 left. Locker was on crutches after the game and said he will have more tests Monday. NFL Media's Albert Breer reported that the Titans believe Locker will miss the remainder of the season with a Lisfranc injury.
"I was tired of having to come off the field because I was hurt," Locker said.
Fitzpatrick replaced Locker, and he threw for 264 yards and two touchdowns. He also ran for a 4-yard TD with 4:15 left trying to rally the Titans. But after the Titans forced the Jaguars to go three and out, Fitzpatrick was sacked by cornerback Will Blackmon, who stripped him of the ball and ran it back 21 yards for a 29-20 lead.
The Jaguars also held the Titans to a pair of field goals by Rob Bironas in the second half. Bryan Anger pinned the Titans at their own 1-yard line with a 42-yard punt, and the Jaguars got a safety when rookie right guard Chance Warmack was called for holding Sen'Derrick Marks in the end zone. That safety with 7:44 left was the winning margin.
"It's something we can build off of," Marks said.
NOTES: The Jaguars now have won four of the past six in this series. ... Jaguars receiver Stephen Burton suffered a head injury in the fourth quarter. ... The Jaguars had been outscored by an average 22.3 points through the first eight games. ... Johnson passed Earl Campbell for second all-time behind only Eddie George for most yards from scrimmage in franchise history.
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Five years later and he's still everything I could ever want (and more than I ever knew I'd need) in a partner.
I am so grateful for these years and how we've grown together. Matt and I have changed a lot since we first started on this journey ten years ago, but we've always evolved in the same way and along the same path. At the end of the day, I know I'm married to my best friend, and you really can't get luckier than that.
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PowerDrive V-Pulleys are precision-engineered components designed to play a vital role in power transmission systems. These pulleys are part of the PowerDrive product line, which is known for its commitment to quality and efficiency in industrial applications.
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Coasters don't have to be basic. Case in point: Nir Hod's decadent four-piece set is inspired by the artist's groundbreaking oil-on-mirror paintings appropriately entitled 'The Night You Left'.
Hod explains: "There is a certain magic in loneliness, you have to be alone to create. It's not about drugs or glamour, it's about the inside world, where you can dream and love and seek a greater truth."
Topped with a reflective mirrored finish featuring printed and raised white powder, each coaster is lined in non-slip velvet and comes packaged in in a sleek matte black box. The perfect gift for your hedonistic friends or the attention-getting centerpiece of cocktails for four, these drinking accessories are all lined up and ready for extra-strong cocktails served with a side of high-quality...well, you know what we're talking about (hint: it starts with a 'c').
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The Night You Left, 2016 |
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Open edition. |
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Set of 4 acrylic coasters with velvet backing. |
About Nir Hod
The Thinker.
You can't help but be drawn into Nir Hod's pieces, so deep and magnetic is their pull. Hod's art begs an emotional investment – or at least an investment of serious contemplation, or conversation. Primarily a painter, Hod also works in sculpture, film and canvas. He explores themes of beauty, sexuality, decadence and lost innocence. Some of his work could be described as abstract, and his paintings often have a glamorous feel thanks to his use of Old Masters techniques. Other pieces mix and merge styles and are clear depictions of the contrasts that can exist in people: that fine line between innocent and narcissistic; highly polished and slightly askew. These contrasts can feel exposing and uncomfortable to look at, but this is deliberate – Hod's work is never naïve. His aim is not to express, or even encourage judgment. Instead, it's to control and draw attention, invoking curiosity. Everything is raw and visceral.


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Charges for the carriage of pets will be the normal excess baggage charges. The animal and container are not allowed to count as part of the free baggage allowance.
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Al-Kabir Town Administration has announced a new deal Umar Block 7 Marla residential plots in Al-Kabeer Town Phase 2.This new deal is a prime opportunity for investors looking to make a profitable investment in a secure locality.
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Two massive Shell Oil Co. drilling rigs left a Seattle dock early Wednesday, starting the long trek to Alaska's Arctic waters and leaving behind years of legal battles and regulatory hurdles in a quest for riches under the sea.
With little drama, the Kulluk -- a 29-year-old conical Arctic drilling rig that spent a dozen years mothballed in Canada -- launched for Dutch Harbor, a supply stop on the way to the far north, just before 8 a.m. Seattle time. The Noble Discoverer -- a 1960s-era vessel used as a log carrier before being converted for drilling -- was right behind, said Curtis Smith, an Anchorage-based Shell spokesman in Seattle for the sendoff.
The U.S. Coast Guard was to escort the Shell ships as far as Port Angeles, Smith said.
The Kulluk will be towed by the Aiviq, a new icebreaking ship built in Louisiana for Shell's Arctic mission. In all, Shell plans to stage more than 20 ships, drilling rigs and support vessels in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas this summer.
Decades ago, Shell pioneered drilling in Cook Inlet and also drilled the majority of early exploratory wells in the Chukchi Sea and others in the Beaufort.
The oil industry, regulators and environmentalists all will be watching closely as Shell works to become the first to produce oil in the fragile ecosystem off Alaska's north shore. So will Alaska Natives who depend on the sea.
This summer, Shell plans to drill three exploratory wells on its Burger prospect in the Chukchi and two wells on Sivilluq prospect in the Beaufort.
Each drilling rig will be equipped with two blowout preventers, one for the well being drilled, and a backup in case a relief well must be drilled. Each blowout preventer is beefed up with two sets of blind-shear rams designed to slash through drill pipe to close off a malfunctioning well.
Shell owns the rights to more than 2 million acres off of Alaska. It established itself as the major explorer in 2008 when it paid $2.1 billion for its Chukchi leases. But its plans to explore have been delayed for years by lawsuits and permit challenges as well as tougher oil spill prevention requirements put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.
On Monday in Puget Sound, Shell tested its capping stack, a newly engineered unit designed to kill an out-of-control well or, if that doesn't succeed, funnel the oil into a containment system. Regulators from the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, which has signed off on Shell's overall oil spill response plan, said it successfully deployed in 200 feet of water. The capping stack will be housed on the icebreaker Fennica, which will be stationed roughly halfway between the drilling prospects.
Shell still must get well-specific permits from the bureau before drilling can begin. The test of the capping stack was one step toward those well approvals. The containment system also must be tested before the drilling permits are issued. That should happen in July, the agency said.
Shell started its journey quietly and closely guarded its schedule for pushing off.
In February, a group of Greenpeace activists including the actress Lucy Lawless, famous for her role in "Xena: Warrior Princess," boarded the Discoverer in New Zealand to protest Arctic drilling. They were arrested, and Shell went to court to keep Greenpeace away from its drillers. U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason has ordered the environmental group to stay a kilometer from Shell's drilling rigs within 200 miles of shore.
Greenpeace says it never planned any shenanigans for the send-off, though it participated in a pre-launch party hoax earlier this month. A model of a drilling rig that was supposed to be tapped for alcohol instead spewed it everywhere. Shell had nothing to do with the party -- it was staged to put attention on the dangers of drilling, said Travis Nichols, a Greenpeace spokesman in Seattle.
Greenpeace opposes any drilling in the Arctic because of the risk of a spill or other damage, Nichols said. The organization already has a ship with scientists aboard under sail for the Chukchi. The Esperanza is carrying two small submarines, which Greenpeace plans to deploy to document pre-drilling conditions, he said.
"What we're working against is the industrialization of the Arctic," Nichols said. "We want to keep the Arctic in its pristine form. So definitely, no drilling in the Arctic."
Shell, finally under sail too, doesn't anticipate any last minute obstacles. It expects to begin drilling in late July.
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Echo Array Maker
Complete Control of Liquid Transfers
Transfer samples and reagents to user-defined patterns. Echo Array Maker software enables users to graphically design custom patterns and formats for transfer. This can be used to transfer samples and reagents onto microarrays, chips, or to multiple locations of a microplate well.
- Create custom destination formats for protein crystallography, MALDI, and more
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Pre-configured for out-of-the-box use
NETGEAR IGMP Plus™ enables instant multicast functionality for most AV over IP installations
Dedicated AV web-based GUI interface
Unique interface designed for the AV professional with color-coded, port-based profiles
Profiles for common audio protocols
Quickly assign profiles to ports for Dante, AES67, and AVB audio configurations. AVB Requires a separate license
Video profiles built-in
Special profiles for NVX, SVSI, Q-SYS and Dante video profiles can be easily assigned to ports as needed
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Auto-trunk and auto-lag functionality automatically configures other M4250 switches for use in star topology
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The AV-oriented, web-based GUI permits factory or user-specified profiles to be assigned to individual ports as needed.
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Adjustable fans can be turned off if certain conditions are met. Even the default Quiet mode is quieter than most other switches
Get up and running fast with little engineering time required
Our NETGEAR IGMP PlusTM feature is set from the factory to ensure out-of-the-box functionality for most AV over IP installations.
Multiple mounting options provide ultimate flexibility
Threaded mounting holes sized to industry standards are built into the chassis for mounting behind a display or clamped to a truss.
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1 Gigabit
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48 (40x 1G PoE++, 8x SFP+)
PoE Ports / Budget
40 PoE++ (90W/port), 2,880W Budget
IGMP Support
Enhanced (NETGEAR IGMP Plus™)
Jumbo Frame Support
Yes, up to 12kb
AVB Support
Yes. Electronic license required, activation key sent via email (AVB4248UX-10000S).
Fanless or 60dB@25ºC
Power Consumption
Single AC With PoE: 912W/3113.57Btu/hr
Dual AC With PoE: 1998W/6821.17Btu/hr
Tripple AC With PoE: 3523W/12027.52Btu/hr
Without PoE: 82.6W/282Btu/hr
Standby without any port connection: 68.5W/233.86Btu/hr
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Dimensions (WxDxH) : 40 x 350 x 86.4 mm
Weight : 9.76Kg (21.51lb)
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M4250-40G8XF-PoE++ (GSM4248UX)
Power cord(s)
Console USB Type-C and RJ45-DB9 cables
Rack-mounting standard brackets
Longer brackets for recessed mounting
Rubber footpads for tabletop installation
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Roadrunner Limousine offers some of the most competitive rates of all the airport limo services in Los Angeles serving LAX. With an array of luxury vehicle types to choose from and our flat rate airport transportation schedule we are the obvious choice for the executive traveler. We offer a variety of different types of executive transportation services that can be designed to meet every client's needs.
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