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As 21st century Americans, we rely on our home's plumbing system for efficient inflow and outgo. In layperson's terms, that can be defined as bringing in clean water for drinking and cleaning purposes, and getting rid of unpleasant household waste. Every homeowner (and renter) knows how important it is to treat this essential system with healthy respect. But what does that involve, exactly? Answer these True/False questions to test your home plumbing knowledge.
1. Use the hottest possible water to get your toilet really clean.
False. Overly hot water may cause your toilet bowl to crack. Warm water is just fine. Use a brush for scrubbing power and to avoid accidentally flushing your cleaning cloth. For a green toilet cleaner, try a 1:4 mix of baking soda and vinegar. Did you know Tucson plumbers also advise scouring your toilet tank once or twice a year (especially in New Mexico and other states with extremely hard water)?
2. Ice cubes are actually good for your garbage disposal blades.
True. Chopping up ice will give your blades a workout that keeps them sharp. Do not, however, overtax them with hard or stringy items such as bones or corn husks; put those in the garbage can or compost bin instead.
3. A tankless water heater gives you an instant supply of hot water.
True. This type of "demand" water heater saves energy by eliminating the need for standby heat. At the same time, it gives you the convenience of hot water for your shower or dishwashing – instantly. A tankless heater is also longer-lasting and space-saving.
4. The best way to reduce toilet water use is to put a brick into the tank.
False. This was once promoted as an excellent water-saving move. Problem is, inserting the brick may damage your toilet tank's flushing mechanism. What's more, the brick will tend to disintegrate over time, blocking your toilet with rubble. Better solutions are to replace your flapper or to install a new toilet with a water-conserving dual flush.
5. Commercial additives will improve the performance of your septic tank.
False. A properly working septic tank does not require the use of biological, odor control or solid reducing additives. It is designed to take care of those functions without additional help.
6. Before turning off the water supply to an electric heater, disconnect the power.
True. Allowing the water level to drop in an electric heater while it is still connected to a power source will tend to result in burn-out of the upper heating element.
7. Connect a plumbing joint securely by tightening it as hard as possible.
False. A firm connection (half a turn of the wrench more than hand-tight) is just right; an overly tight one might cause wrench damage, particularly if you have copper piping.
8. A shower strainer is a device that helps keep your drains clear.
True. A shower strainer (also called a drain cover) is a simple method of blocking hair and debris from getting into your bathroom drains. This handy device comes in different sizes for use in your shower, tub or sink. BTW, flushing hair combings and cuttings is not the healthiest thing for your toilet either.
9. Disconnecting your garden hose in the winter could save your pipes.
True. Leftover water in your garden hose will freeze and expand. This has the potential to increase the pressure on your interior plumbing, possibly causing your pipes to burst. Drain the hose and disconnect it from the outside faucet as part of your pre-winter routine preparations.
10. Don't plant grass over your septic system drainfield; it interferes with function.
False. Actually, grass will make the area look more attractive, while promoting evaporation and preventing soil erosion. Avoid overwatering and the use of sprinkler systems, though. You will also need to ensure that the roots of trees and shrubbery do not clog the pipes. NEVER tile or pave over your drainfield.
9-10 Correct: Whiz.
6-8 Correct: Well-informed.
5 or less: Time to brush up on your home plumbing savvy!
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I'll admit that I was initially skeptical of this book, which is subtitled "An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms." Past experience with books and articles in which the author reminisces about his youthful adventures as a roleplayer are typically suffused with shame and self-loathing and imply, if not outright state, that escapism is unhealthy and unbefitting "normal" people, among whom the author, of course, numbers himself. Gilsdorf does nothing of the kind. Indeed, despite its provocative title, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks is anything but an exposé about the dangers of roleplaying and related hobbies but rather a surprisingly affecting memoir, travel journal, and cultural analysis of the imaginary realms in which so many of us dwell.
Gilsdorf begins with a prolog in which he takes the reader back to 1979, when he was initiated into the world of roleplaying games. What's interesting is how similar Gilsdorf's entry into the hobby is to my own. He was a little older -- 12 as opposed to 10 -- and started a few months before me -- summer rather than winter -- but he learned from the same rulebook as I (the Holmes "Blue Book"). He even played with a guy named J.P., just as I did. Reading all this immediately warmed me to Gilsdorf; he was clearly "one of us." Unlike a lot of writers who reflect back on their "D&D days," Gilsdorf either actually remembered lots of little details, such as the fact that a wight deals 1-4 points of damage with a successful hit, or at least bothered to check his facts beforehand. That may seem a small thing, but I assure you it's not and it speaks volumes about the seriousness of the author.
While the surface details of Gilsdorf's early experiences with gaming are similar to my own, the deeper reality he lays bare in the prolog is not. A year before he discovered roleplaying, Gilsdorf's mother suffered a brain aneurysm that turned her into "the Kitchen Dragon," who endured "crippling left-side paralysis, massive changes in behavior and personality, and dangerous bouts of epilepsy." Previously a "free-spirited" and vibrant woman, Sara Gilsdorf, whom the author calls "the center of my world," was now "shifty, sickly, needy, deformed, antisocial, frustrated, volatile, closed to the world." The appearance of "the Momster," as the author also called her, forever changed his childhood and created a need for escape -- an escape that roleplaying games provided.
Like many people who played RPGs back in the 70s and 80s, Gilsdorf eventually moved on, however, despite the solace the hobby had offered during his difficult teen years:
Dungeons & Dragons began to die for me when, during my senior year in high school, 1983, I had my first kiss. My then-girlfriend's highly realistic look and feel banished those fantasy leather-clad busty she-warriors for good. That first love was serious. With something else to do on Friday nights, and a female creature to do it with, I played D&D less and less often. High school led to other kingdoms, such as college, sex, beer, cars, jobs, travel, and heartbreak. The D&D gang dispersed from New Hampshire to Pennsylvania, New York, Chicago, and Alaska. I left those dreamy medieval worlds behind and mostly forgot about my role-playing years. They dissipated and the netherworld released its grip, like a wizard dispelling a curse. I let my D&D obsession fade -- not because my longing to role-play had ceased, but because, perhaps, I sensed I was through with childish things. I had gone on one adventure too many. If D&D was a rite of passage, then I had passed through the dungeon to become a young man.The release of The Lord of the Rings movies starting in 2002 reignited Gilsdorf's mad love of fantasy. Then, one Christmas, he visited his father's home, looking to collect some of his possessions, and he discovers a twenty-five pound camping cooler, inside of which was "a stack of mold-ridden game boxes, notebooks, and books" -- his D&D paraphernalia. Comparing it to the One Ring, Gilsdorf suggests that his old gaming gear "want[ed] to be found" and, while he resisted delving too deeply into his old stuff for a while, he eventually acquiesced. Now 40 years old -- older than his mother was when she was struck by the aneurysm -- midlife was starting him in the face and it frightened him.
I had the sense that the D&D gear would somehow solve the riddle of who I was, where I had come from, and why I still needed imaginary realms. And maybe help me understand what I still had left to accomplish.This is the beginning of Gilsdorf's "epic quest," as he investigates "21st century geekdom," from Tolkien fanatics to MMO players to medieval re-enactors and more. The author travels across North America (to Wisconsin for GenCon and Georgia for a LARP), Europe (to France where a castle is being built according to medieval techniques), and New Zealand (where he met Peter Jackson), and places in-between, as he explores the breadth and depth of contemporary fantasy and science fiction fandom. Along the way, he meets and interviews many people, each of whom offers him more food for thought on his own personal quest to discover who he is and why fantasy has proved such an important aspect of his own life.
The contents of the blue cooler had saved me once. Could they save me again?
Breezily written but moving at times, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks is a memoir that avoids being either self-indulgent or preachy, both of which are very real dangers in books of this sort. Gilsdorf offers no definitive answers to many of the questions he raises, but he does offer plenty to think about, particularly if, like him, you'd "devoted so much mental energy to a world that didn't exist ..." If the book has a flaw, it's that it can be meandering at times, feeling more like a random collection of thoughts and impressions than anything genuinely coherent, but, as I just stated, that's the nature of the beast. Gilsdorf isn't trying to advance a philosophy or a cause with this book, except perhaps that, as Tolkien reminded us, escapism can be a powerful good in one's life. It certainly was in Gilsdorf's and I can say the same of mine.
That may seem to be a fairly jejune point, but, given the popular portrayal of fantasy fans, it's nevertheless a needed one. Interestingly, it's a point that Dr. J. Eric Holmes made in his earlier Fantasy Role Playing Games, where he answers the question, "Are They Crazy?" in reference to roleplayers. Far from being injurious to one's mental health, Holmes argues, fantasy probably contributes to it positively, a truth I doubt anyone reading this blog would dispute. Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks drives this point home with plenty of examples, as Gilsdorf speaks not to "freaks" or "geeks" but to real people with real lives that are enriched through their indulgence in fantasies of one type of another. I enjoyed this book immensely and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to others for whom fantasy is a lifelong love.


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On a late night in February 2011, two Princeton University researchers packed a small object into a box and set it out for the morning mail. The engineers had spent four years developing a new type of microscope lens that focuses in response to sound waves. They were sending their invention to their first customer.
Two years and a lot of hard work later, their invention, the TAG Optics Lens 2.0, has a customer base spanning from Japan to Germany.
The lens has won numerous technology awards, including a 2013 PRISM Award for Photonics Innovation, given by the International Society for Optics and Photonics to the best innovations to come to market in the preceding year in the category of optical components. Earlier this week, R&D Magazine announced that the TAG Lens technology won a 2013 R&D 100 Award, known as an "Oscar of Innovation," given to the 100 most technologically significant products introduced to the marketplace in the past year. Additionally, the National Science Foundation announced that it was awarding a Small Business Innovation Research grant to TAG Optics to further develop the material processing aspect of the technology. Laser Focus World magazine also recently recognized the technology as one of the four most innovative technologies across the photonics industry in their annual Innovation Awards.
But the road from university laboratory to marketplace was not easy. The story of TAG Optics Inc. illustrates the roller coaster-style journey that new technologies – and their inventors – take as they embark on the path to commercialization. Its journey demonstrates the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship and how such experiences can help professors become better teachers and mentors.
The idea for the TAG Lens began to take shape in 2005 when Craig Arnold, then an assistant professor in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton, offered undergraduate Adam Hopkins of the Class of 2005 an intriguing senior thesis project: to explore how sound can bend and shape a beam of light passing through a fluid. Arnold quickly saw the potential for the project to lead to a new type of microscope.
Hopkins completed his thesis and moved on to other projects as a graduate student at the University – he earned his Ph.D. in 2012 – and Arnold continued the work with subsequent students. By 2007, Arnold and another graduate student, Euan McLeod, working with postdoctoral researcher Alexandre Mermillod-Blondin, had created a lens unlike any the world had ever seen.
Creating a new lens
The lens consisted of a clear silicone-based liquid trapped in a barrel-shaped housing containing a small speaker capable of blasting sound waves into the liquid. The sound waves created small changes in the density of the liquid molecules, altering the index of refraction of a beam of light traveling through the liquid.
It was an entirely new way of creating a lens. Most lenses, from the one found in the human eye to the ones found in microscopes and telescopes, use moving parts to adjust the focus. "Our lens uses a fundamentally different technology," Arnold said. "There are no moving parts and thus it can focus at extremely high speeds in response to electronic signals."
With the help of Princeton's Office of Technology Licensing, Arnold applied for a patent in 2007 for the invention, but he had little time to think about commercializing the lens while teaching, mentoring students and conducting other research.
Taking the first commercial steps
The lens remained a laboratory project until early 2010 when Arnold, recently tenured, began talking about commercializing the lens. The idea attracted the interest of a former Princeton student, Christian Theriault, who'd earned his undergraduate degree in 2007 in molecular biologywith certificates in materials science and engineering and engineering biology and completed a Master, Science and Engineering in mechanical and aerospace engineering in 2008.
Theriault was eager to team up with Arnold and take on the challenge of converting a laboratory-grade gadget into an industrial high-precision lens that electronic device manufacturers and medical imaging companies could use. "I knew there was no other product like this on the market," said Theriault, who, at 25 years old, was "at a point in life where I could take risks."
Industry seemed eager for the lens as well, judging from the response to Theriault's presentation about applications of the technology at an academia-industry partnership meeting in late 2010. "The next thing you know I got a call from someone asking, 'Where can I buy your lens?'" Arnold said.
A few months later, in January 2011, Arnold and Theriault started TAG Optics Inc. and the truly hard work began. Arnold was on sabbatical that semester, and the two worked around the clock to make a prototype lens.
By February, the two-person company was ready to ship its first unit. "I can still remember packing the first lens that we sent out," said Theriault. "It was about 3 a.m. The package contained the lens and an instruction manual that was five lines of text."
Just days later, Arnold and Theriault received an important lesson in product development when the customer called to ask: "How do you turn it on?"
Into the 'valley of death'
The customer's question illustrates the divide between invention and product. Invention is creative and dynamic, while product development can seem mundane, according to Arnold. "As a university researcher, my job was to create fundamental knowledge and new technologies," said Arnold. "I didn't think about the difficulty that people would have in operating the device."
The gap between innovation and product development has earned the nickname "the valley of death" because many new inventions fail to successfully transition from the laboratory to the marketplace. Often the problem is finding funding to support the essential steps of product development, such as building a sturdy housing so that the item will not break if dropped.
Early research on the TAG Lens had been funded by government research grants from the Air Force Office of Sponsored Research, but federal guidelines bar the use of these funds for product development. Sales of the first TAG Lenses helped, but the team needed money to try new housing materials, new ways of sealing the device and other improvements. "I said to Craig, we cannot sell a product that takes a Ph.D. to operate," Theriault said.
Just as lack of money started to become an issue, the new technology received a much-needed financial boost in spring 2011: It won first place and a $25,000 prize from the Keller Center Innovation Forum, in which University-based teams compete for funds to support their business plans for technologies they've developed.
Throughout 2011, Arnold and Theriault worked long hours to improve the lens. Arnold focused on publishable research – such as extending the lens's capabilities. Theriault worked on what he called "product-ization" – making sure that the lens could survive in the real world where items get dropped and temperatures change – in other words, non-laboratory conditions. They contracted with external vendors to make an aluminum housing and software to control the lens. Another critical influx of money arrived in early 2012. The University's IP Accelerator Fund, a program designed expressly to support development of early-stage products, awarded $100,000 to the project.
By spring 2012, the company launched the next iteration, the TAG Lens 2.0., which shipped with a "driving kit" consisting of software and electronic components to control the lens. And yes, the device featured an "on" switch.
Throughout 2012, customer orders arrived, primarily from electronics manufacturing companies in Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom. "Our business became 24/7," said Theriault. Arnold and Theriault talked by phone around midnight every night, discussing the orders and refinements to their technology.
To fill the orders, Theriault hand-assembled each lens, conducted quality control testing, and packed them for shipping. That summer, the team won the Siemens' Technology to Business Center's national business and innovation competition.
Filling a niche
Today, Theriault holds in his hand an object roughly the size and shape of a spool of thread capped on either end by clear glass windows.
Because there are no moving parts, the lens can focus thousands of times faster than a conventional lens, said Theriault. The lens can focus through its entire range – imagine zooming in all the way and out all the way with a digital camera lens – up to 700,000 times per second, whereas the next fastest competitor lens can change focus only about 150 times per second. "We can quickly increase the depth of field, or focus through an object, to capture a three-dimensional picture in the time it takes to snap a photo," Theriault said.
That speed has enabled the technology to fill a niche: that of high-precision manufacturing of electronic components for cellphones, handheld computers and other technologies. The TAG Lens focuses laser light that etches circuit designs into silicon or other materials. The electronic controls direct the laser to fire at different focal points in the material with high precision and speed.
Industrial manufacturing has commanded the majority of sales so far, but Arnold and Theriault are working on adapting the lens for use in imaging-related applications where the lens provides technological benefits for cancer diagnosis and quality control assessments. According to Theriault, the TAG Lens could become an integral tool in molecular biology research, where its speed will allow researchers to drastically reduce the time it takes to acquire images and produce 3-D images.
Long-lasting impact
Since that long night in 2011 when Theriault and Arnold packed the first TAG Lens, the work has been hard but extremely rewarding, according to the two researchers. "Our motivation for these hours of long work came from the desire to see a worthwhile technology succeed and translated into a commercial success," Theriault said. "As engineers, you want to make a difference," added Arnold.
Arnold said the experience has helped him become a better teacher and mentor. "I can now stand in front of my students and teach them from firsthand knowledge the steps involved in becoming an entrepreneur."


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What Cloud? U.K. University Tries Tape For Backup
Anyone who says tape is 'dead' should talk with the University of Bristol IT team backing up 125 TB of data per week.
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Harvey Ditchfield and his boss, Graeme Cappi, spent years hemming and hawing about whether they should buy an archive for all that data growing bigger and bigger in the corner.
Finally, they gave in -- and say it was one of the best decisions they've ever made.
"We always suspected a lot of that data we were backing up constantly was no longer active," Ditchfield, a senior systems operator, told Information Week.
"But when we finally got round to archiving it, even I was surprised at how old some of this was and how long it had been since anyone had touched it. There's a real hidden data mountain here; I think having this archived is going to make a big difference for our backup capacity."
Ditchfield and Cappi, who is a senior systems administrator, both work in systems and operations, the central IT function of the U.K.'s University of Bristol, a major higher education institution which has more than 5,300 employees and around 20,000 students. All of whom generate a lot of data; Ditchfield estimates the team backs up around 125 TB a week from 450 to 500 servers. "The ability to move infrequently accessed data off primary storage and into an archive is an essential part of our future strategy," he stressed.
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Ditchfield said the team spent about a decade working up to the decision to get help on managing all this mountain of information. Last March that finally changed, when it tested technology from backup and archive specialist Spectra Logic, a trial so successful it's led to Bristol now going into production with a new tape-based platform, the T680.
While we all talk about cloud, said Ditchfield, tape still has a very large part to play. "We like the idea of having the data still easily at hand; we feel tape gives us that bit more control, too," he said.
In practical terms, the T680 is a 2-petabyte box where Cappi and Ditchfield can offload less-frequently accessed data from their primary disk storage to an active tape archive. StorHouse software from supplier FileTek is starting to be used to move the data from primary disk storage to the active tape archive, he added. That is expected to save some money, but the focus is less on immediate cash savings, said Ditchfield, than boosting overall storage and backup capacity across the university.
Ditchfield looked at other archive offerings, but says he really likes working with Spectra Logic, which he describes as a real "engineer's company." He also lauds its quality approach, citing how impressed he was by the fact that all physical media get swept by a special carbide cleaner before shipping to maximize its cleanliness, or how each tape is linked to a radio ID tag so managers always know each step of its journey through a system. The system's BlueScale encryption provides 256-bit AES security for stored data, and the built-in management system records more than 40 data points every time a tape is loaded.
"I also like the fact that this company wants to break into new markets like ours, so I feel it's 'hungry' and really wants to support us and do a good job," he added.
The next step will be to look at archiving not just the university's day-to-day data, but the swelling store of research the institution's academics and postgrads build up. To do so, he said, there is serious talk of buying a second library -- which sounds like pretty rapid progress for Bristol's data managers after so much initial hemming and hawing.
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HEADLEE: You know what that means. It's time for Three-Minute Fiction, our contest where listeners come up with original stories in under 600 words. The challenge this round was to write a story that revolves around a U.S. president - fictional or real. Our judge, the writer Brad Meltzer, will be deciding the winner in just a few weeks. Until then, here's an excerpt from one standout story.
SUSAN STAMBERG, BYLINE: (Reading) President Williams sits nursing a beer in his private quarters. He feels confined, like a goldfish in a bowl. Between the Secret Service, his aides and the constant presence of the media pool, he rarely has a moment to himself. He wishes he could have just one day where he could disappear for a few hours. Pierre Dumand is summoned to the White House the next day. The Hollywood makeup artist receives many strange requests, but this is a first. He waits in a basement room and fidgets with the two suitcases he brought.
The door opens and four Secret Service agents enter, followed closely by President Williams. Putting out his hand, the president says: Pierre, you come highly recommended. Let's have some fun. Over the next two hours, Pierre utilizes all his skills. He applies pouches, wrinkles, wigs, prosthetic teeth, scars and body-shaping pads. He selects appropriate clothing to complete the look he's after.
The group is driven to a remote parking lot. One by one, they exit the car. The president is the last to get out. He leans forward on his cane, adjusts his ball cap and overcoat and steps away from the car. He hasn't been anonymous since a couple of years before he was elected. All he wants is a day in the sun and a reprieve from thinking about polls and his current likeability ratings. It's a gorgeous day. People are walking dogs, having picnics, tossing Frisbees and riding bikes.
The president steps onto a walking path that circles a lake and begins to smile. This is exactly what I need, he thinks. Maybe I'll have Pierre come once a month. At that very moment, he hears a piercing scream and turns to see a small child sinking below the surface of the lake.
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RIM says users line up to try new BlackBerry 10 platform
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is helping customers prepare to switch to its soon-to-be-launched BlackBerry 10 smartphones that it hopes will help it reclaim market share from rivals such as Apple Inc.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is helping customers prepare to switch to its soon-to-be-launched BlackBerry 10 smartphones that it hopes will help it reclaim market share from rivals such as Apple Inc.
RIM is betting that the new range of touch-screen and keyboard devices, set for a January 30 launch, will revive its fortunes.
The company was 'very enthused by the engagement and response of our customer base' to a program aimed at persuading them to adopt the BlackBerry 10 devices, Bryan Lee, senior enterprise accounts director, told Reuters on Wednesday.
Indeed, whether it will be successful in clawing back market share will depend on the response from RIM's top clients, like companies and government agencies, who have long valued the strong security features that BlackBerry devices offer.
Lee said more than 1,600 customers in North America had registered for its recently launched BlackBerry 10 Ready Program and more than a thousand were actively using the program, which offers customers access to services, information and tools to ease their transition to the BlackBerry 10 and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server 10.
RIM also said its BlackBerry Enterprise Server 10, which runs the new devices on corporate networks, was in beta testing with more than 130 major government agencies and corporations in North America.
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Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM, a one-time pioneer in the now ultra-competitive smartphone industry, has bled market share to Apple's (AAPL.O) iPhone and devices powered by Google's (GOOG.O) market-leading Android operating system, even among enterprise clients who once used BlackBerry devices exclusively.
Early adoption of the long-awaited BlackBerry 10 devices by government and corporate clients will help breathe new life into the struggling company, whose shares are down 90 percent from an all-time high of more than $148 in 2008.
Still, shares of RIM, which fell as low as $6.22 in September, have more than doubled in value over the last four months as the BlackBerry 10 launch approaches.
Lee said clients that were beta testing the new BlackBerry Enterprise Server 10 included more than 60 Fortune 500 companies and top North American government agencies.
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Dear God:
I apologize for contacting you in such a public manner but there is an issue here in Georgia I need to discuss with you pronto.
I thought about bringing it up in my prayers, but, frankly, I have so many sins teed up to apologize for that my knees would likely give out before I ever got to this matter.
I don't claim to be a theologian but I know in my heart that you like Georgia better than any place on this planet and I thank you for that. (There is some question about Malfunction Junction, aka the city of Atlanta, where the sewers don't work and neither do a number of its residents. I'm not sure how Atlanta ended up in Georgia, but if you created the duck-billed platypus, I assume there is also some reason for Atlanta.)
Here is what I wish to discuss: Recently, a fellow by the name of Ed Buckner discovered Gideon Bibles in a cabin he had rented at Amicalola Falls State Park in north Georgia. He promptly complained to park employees who removed the good book, lest they offend him. I assume the employees thought you would be OK with that.
Attorney General Sam Olens said Bibles are permissible in the park because taxpayers hadn't paid for the books; the folks at Gideon had. Gov. Nathan Deal (as you know, he is our earthly governor) put the Bibles back in the cabins and lodges in our state parks.
This has gotten atheists in a stew. They want to place their books about all the benefits of being an atheist in the same cabins and lodges. (I'm guessing it is going to be a short book.)
Gov. Deal says whatever floats your boat. He has more important matters to attend to, like trying to prevent Republicans from killing each other. I don't know how much You keep up with politics on earth but Republicans can be weirder than a duck-billed platypus. They have yet to figure out that Democrats are their problem, not each other.
I know you know everything and therefore telling you I am acquainted with Ed Buckner and that he is not a bad guy will come as no surprise to you. In fact, I have found Ed easier to deal with than a lot of Bible-thumping, scripture-quoting, humorless ideologues who think we are all going to hell in a wheelbarrow if a (shudder!) woman steps in the pulpit.
The guy I feel sorry for is David Silverman, who is president of American Atheists and who seems particularly fired up about Bibles in our state parks. Not only does he have a big shock coming when he meets you face-to-face, he has to spend his living days on earth in Cranford, N.J. The guy just can't catch a break.
Anyway, I just wanted you to know that when atheists have finished putting their books in our park facilities, I expect to see them create a sunset over the marshes of Glynn. Or conjure up a waterfall to match the spectacular sight of Amicalola Falls.
If that is asking a bit much, maybe they can provide a new model of the sea turtle that you created, oh, maybe a hundred million years ago. Or, an ordinary painted bunting. Surely, they can do that. It's not like I'm asking them to replicate the stars or grow an oak tree or create human life or even to take a shot at a duck-billed platypus.
You see where I'm going with this.
Sometimes, we get so caught up in proving who's right and who's wrong in how we worship you or even whether or not we should worship you at all, that we miss the obvious signs you have put right under our noses. This is Yyur universe. You are not dead but sooner or later the rest of us will be and then we will understand what you have been trying to tell us all along. You are omnipotent. We are not.
As for me, I don't mind the atheists putting their material in our parks. Just to show them my heart is in the right place, I plan to devote a beautiful Georgia morning reading what they have to say about why you don't exist as I watch the sunrise over the Blue Ridge Mountains. Then I will laugh my head off at the irony.
God, I love you and your sense of humor.
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One of the most widely cited predictions attributed to Baba Vanga for the year 2024 is the emergence of a devastating earthquake. According to her prophecy, this earthquake will have far-reaching consequences, causing widespread destruction and loss of life in the affected regions.
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Nothing special to "lead" the blog this morning. Just a hopscotch of somewhat interesting storylines to be tracking...
CWS: How can you NOT be rooting for the CWS-newbie UC-Irvine Anteaters, who won in extra innings for the second straight game?
NFL, union cozy up on concussions: Yay, we all agree that concussions are terrible for the sport. (And, presumably, in 10-15 years when we realize there's even MORE damage to players from playing, they'll modify it again.)
Will Tiger play the Buick next week? SHOULD Tiger play the Buick next week? This is sort of like "Should LeBron play in Game 5 of the Finals if his wife is giving birth," except (a) Tiger's baby will already be a few weeks old, and (b) in LeBron's case, it turned out to be a VERY moot point. I think Tiger is in the clear to play, especially because Buick is one of his biggest sponsors. How else will little Sam ride in that Bugaboo if Daddy Tiger doesn't make the money to pay for it? And it's not like he's missing Sam's birth to play in the tournament. My only thing is that if his first few weeks were any like mine (or any parents), he'll be exhausted – but guiltily probably happy to get out of the house for a few days. (Did I just say that? Eh: Yeah, I did.)
More Tiger: Here's a great prop bet – 10,000-to-1 that Sam will win more major titles than Tiger. And 50-to-1 that Sam will be on the LPGA tour. (Yes, but what are the odds that she'll be on the PGA Tour?) All odds via USA Today via Ladbroke.
Orioles interview Joe Girardi: This seems like a natural fit. How long will it take to make it official?
Elijah Dukes Watch: Yes, because he's earned that title. Check out this MLB Fanhouse post from Postman R about Dukes' crazy sports-radio interview.
MLB Stud: Ryan Howard, who had 4 RBI and a mammoth 450-plus-foot HR.
(By the way, I was at Coors Field last night -- my first trip to that park... or
MLB Dud: Randy Johnson has some kind of herniated disk in his back. And Dontrelle Willis had to leave the game last night with a forearm strain.
Schilling Watch: An MRI might show no structural damage to his shoulder. But what else could explain his sorry pitching of late? Oh, right: How about, "He just don't got it right now."
(Better news for Red Sox pitching: Beckett won his 10th.)
Vick Scandal Update: Nike cares more about Michael Vick than it does about criticism from the Humane Society. It remains to be seen whether Vick's problems translate into fewer shoe sales or a negative p.r. image as it relates to him promoting Nike products.
NBA Draft: What about Yi? Will Yi Jianlian drop to the Sixers at No. 12? Why else would Philly go to a private Yi workout in SoCal yesterday?
NBA Coaching: Kings hire Theus. Today's drinking game (coffee or soda only). Take a sip every time a blogger references the old Saturday-morning TV show "Hang Time" when talking about Reggie Theus joining the Kings.
NBA Trade Rumors: I was disappointed to learn that the rumor of Antawn Jamison for Shawn Marion was bunk.
Wie drops out of Deere: This is a smart move for Michelle. Not only is there a backlash, but her game is WAY off. The last thing she would need is to embarrass herself against a field of men.
Sports Media: Mike and Mike continue their takeover. They will be in the booth (along with Mike Ditka – "Mike and Mike and Mike," apparently) for the second Monday Night Football game of the season-opening weekend. Hey, Jaworski was on the 2nd team a year ago and look at him now. Watch your back, TK...
Speaking of new dads, Jeff Gordon's wife is due any minute now. Wow: Big week for sports-celebrity baby-watching.
Steroid Watch:
R.I.P., Terry Hoeppner,
Bias, belatedly: Maybe it was because I was on the road yesterday, but I missed mentioning the anniversary of the death of Len Bias, my favorite player of all time. His death remains the most visceral sports memory of my lifetime.


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Generally, I find my practice works best when I get paid in dollars. They're convenient. They can be transmitted electronically between bank accounts. Mary and Annie like them. I can spend them by swiping a credit card.
But, in a remarkable effort to win the "Let's See How Stupid I Can Sound" award, a Nevada candidate for U.S. Senate has proposed ditching the idea of paying doctors in money, and going to a barter system with them. Specifically, she suggested paying us in chickens or house painting.
Sue Lowden is the gem who hatched this idea. In fact, she was given a chance to explain it, on the assumption that she misspoke. But nope. When given the opportunity to clarify her point, she again clearly stated that medical services should be reimbursed by bartering goods, such as chickens, and not by paying money. She specifically indicated it was to pay doctors, and didn't say if it should be applied to other businesses (such as buying your meds at the pharmacy, or groceries at the store). She even said she wasn't going to back down from the idea.
Barter is not a bad thing. In some situations it works. Most civilizations used it before the advent of money. But the majority of human cultures eventually developed cash of some form. Because let's face it: It's hard to carry around enough chickens to buy a car. And they're messy. And, unlike coins, they require feeding.
This idea may work for some docs, but not me. I personally don't want to collect co-pays in chickens. Or goats. Or frying pans. Or anything other than money. This is also a matter of cleanliness: my migraine patients are sensitive to smells. I don't think they want to sit in a lobby filled with the livestock someone else brought to settle their bill.
And I don't have enough space in my yard to handle all those co-pays. Mary and Annie are also not going to be thrilled to be told that instead of money I'm now going to pay them in sheep and legumes. It's a baaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhd idea.
The logistics of making an ER co-pay become especially daunting, paticularly if you're now in a wheelchair but need to use the space in your car for bushels of corn and some turpentine.
And just try giving your kids a handful of chickens to spend at Chuck-E-Cheese's. Have you ever had to clean feathers out of a skee-ball machine? It's trickier than it looks.
We will also need to re-do medical school curriculum, to include care and feeding of livestock, as well as how to run your own slaughterhouse (for us non-surgeons) when turning your co-pays into dinner.
Ms. Lowden, to verify the usefulness of your idea, why don't you try a simple experiment- go into any large casino in Las Vegas. With a chicken. And try to bet it on any game. Or stuff it in a slot machine. And then see what casino security thinks about being paid in something other than money. I suspect they'll be as fond of the idea as I am.


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"Amsterdam, girl cycling from A to B, multi-tasking, like so many do" by Amsterdamize / RateMyVelo.com
You have heard it a million times before: Cyclists don't deserve any respect on our streets until they obey all of the laws. The implicit message in this fallacy is that drivers have a right to be angry and be aggressive towards cyclists because some cyclists run red lights.
Perhaps the most troubling part about this statement is that it's often made by cyclists themselves to other cyclists. The last thing cyclists need is other cyclists justifying road rage against cyclists based on some motorist utopian dream world where every cyclist puts their foot down at a stop sign before proceeding.
Given how popular it is to chastise cyclists in the mainstream media – while giving motorists a free ride – it was refreshing to see an article highlighting the hypocrisy of motorists who say cyclists don't deserve respect on our streets until they start obeying the laws like motorists.
The Vancouver Sun ran the article entitled "Being driven insane – Does anyone observe speed limits?" The article begins:
"For the sake of your own edification, try an experiment I have been conducting for the past two months. Try it for a single day.
Drive the posted (maximum) speed limit. I don't mean just on the highway. I mean everywhere – down neighbourhood streets, on major downtown arteries, through school and hospital zones. Especially try it during rush hour.
It isn't easy. I'm not even sure it's advisable. You will feel as if you were being pushed down a hallway against your will. A parade of cars will stack up behind you. Some will tailgate so closely as if to send you the message, via your rear-view mirror, "Hey, granny! Get a move on!" (Sometimes those tailgaters will be grannies.) Some drivers, angrily jerking their cars into the passing lane, will pull up beside you to get a look at the jackass ruining their day, then cast you a look of disgust before shooting off in an exclamatory burst of octane. The urge to speed up, if just to give into the peer pressure, will be overwhelming for you. After a day of this, you will come to the conclusion that you may be the only driver on the road observing the speed limit."
The story goes on to highlight an important point that seems to get lost in the anti-cyclist rhetoric – the danger of speeding cars:
"Most drivers, however, recognized that speeding was the most significant cause of accidents collisions. More drivers than not also felt roads were becoming more dangerous.
But most drivers also felt that their level of speeding did not endanger anyone, despite numerous studies that show even a few kilometres over the speed limit increases the risk of an accident collision exponentially."
Drivers feel their own speeding is justified, but at the same time feel that the roads are becoming more dangerous due to speeding.
Read the full article on the Vancouver Sun.
As we have pointed out countless times – the damage a car can do to a pedestrian or a cyclist increases substantially as its speed increases. A UK study found that a pedestrian hit at 40mph (64km/h) will die 85% of the time, while a pedestrian hit at 20mph (32km/h) will die just 5% of the time.
Our society seems to think it's okay for drivers to speed, but if a cyclist doesn't come to a complete stop at a stop sign it is grounds to be threatened by motor vehicles.
In an effort to improve road safety, the colourful professor Dr. Steven Fleming over at Behooving Moving proposes a novel idea: ban seatbelts from automobiles so that drivers will be more cautious to others around them.
The professor asserts:
"you can give someone a car that is 10% safer, and they will drive with 20% more abandon"
James D. Schwartz is the editor of The Urban Country. You can contact James at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him on Twitter.
Thanks to reader Trevor Keen for passing the link to the Vancouver Sun article.
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- "The Fixer" Not Fixing Anything (July 2011)
- Our Backwards Approach To Road Safety (July 2011)
- No Cars. No Traffic Signals. No Deaths. (June 2011)
- Responsibility & Accountability On Our Streets (April 2011)


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Glossary of CCTV Terms
Anti-Passback is an access control security measure that prevents a Cardholder from passing his or her access card to an individual behind them, and allowing them access into a secured zone.
The term "tailgating" refers to instances when one person swipes their access card and another person or vehicle "tailgates" them on the entry. Anti-Tailgating is an access control security measure that will not allow a Cardholder to exit a Zone that they never entered as a valid credentialed user.
Automatic Gain Control is an electronic circuit that amplifies the video signal when the strength of the signal falls below a certain value.
Angle of View
May be expressed in Diagonal, Horizontal or Vertical. Smaller focal lengths give a wider angle of view.
The opening of the lens that controls the amount of light reaching the surface of the pickup device. The size of the aperture is controlled by the iris adjustment.
Aspect Ratio
The ratio of width to height for the frame of the televised picture. 4:3 for standard systems
Auto Balance
A system for detecting errors in color balance in white and black areas of the picture and automatically adjusting the white and black levels of both the red and blue signals as needed for correction.
Auto Iris Lens
A lens with an electronically controlled iris, allowing the lens to maintain one light level throughout varying light conditions.
A mechanical adjustment in a camera that moves the imaging device relative to the lens to compensate for different back focal lengths of lenses. An important adjustment when a zoom lens is fitted.
A transformer that levels out impedance differences, so that a signal generated on to a coaxial cable can be transferred on to a twisted pair cable.
The dark parts of a video signal corresponding to approximately 0.3 volts.
A feature of modern CCD cameras, which electronically compensates for high background lighting, to give details that would normally be silhouetted.
Video connector used in CCTV installations.
Camera Format
The approximate size of a camera image pickup device. This measurement is derived from the diagonal line of a chip. Common formats are 1/6″, 1/4″, 1/3″, 2/3″, and 1″.
Charge coupled device, a flat thin wafer that is light sensitive and forms the imaging device of most modern cameras. Size is measured diagonally and can be 1/3″-1/2″ or 2/3″. There are two types, frame transfer and interline transfer.
The European 625 line standard for the video signal.
An industry standard for mounting a lens to a camera with a 1″ x 32 thread and a distance from the image plane of 17.52mm from the shoulder of the lens. A C-mount lens may be used with a CS-mount camera with a 5mm-adapter ring.
Coaxial Cable
A type of cable capable of passing a wide range of frequencies with very low signal loss.
The reduction in gain at one level of a picture signal with respect to the gain at another level of the same signal.
An industry standard for mounting a lens to a camera with a 1″ x 32 thread and a distance from the image plane of 12.52mm from the shoulder of the lens. A CS-mount lens may not be used on a C-mount camera.
Depth of Field
The in-focus range of a lens or optical system. It is measured from the distance behind an object to the distance in front of the object when the viewing lens shows the object to be in focus.
Depth of Focus
The range of sensor-to-lens distance for which the image formed by the lens is clearly focused.
Digital Signal Processing
An algorithm within the camera that digitizes data (the image). Examples include automatic compensate for backlight interference, color balance variations and corrections related to aging of electrical components or lighting. Functions such as electronic pan and zoom, image annotation, compression of the video for network transmission, feature extraction and motion compensation can be easily and inexpensively added to the camera feature set.
The deviation of the received signal waveform from that of the original transmitted waveform.
Electronic Industries Alliance. Monochrome video signal standard used in North America and Japan: 525 lines 60Hz
An electronic circuit that introduces compensation for frequency discriminative effects of elements within the television system, particularly long coaxial transmission systems.
The most widely used LAN transmission network. Based on a bus network topology, it runs at a maximum speed over 100 meters of 10Mbit/s. It operates over conventional co-axial cable, thin wire co-axial cable and unshielded twisted pair cabling. This has several implementations – 10Base5 for use over conventional co-axial cable, 10BaseF for use over optic fiber, and 10BaseT for use over Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) cabling.
Field of View
The horizontal or vertical scene size at a given length from the camera to the subject.
Indicates the brightness of the image formed by the lens, controlled by the iris. The smaller the F-number the brighter the image.
Focal Length
The distance from the center of the lens to a plane at which point a sharp image of an object viewed at an infinite position. The focal length determines the size of the image and angle of field of view seen by the camera through the lens. This is the center of the lens to the image pickup device.
The number of frames per second that the camera produces.
A term used to indicate the speed of a lens. The smaller the F-number the greater amount of light passes through the lens.
An increase in voltage or power, usually expressed in dB.
This is one method used on Auto Iris and Direct Drive lenses to move the iris vanes, open and closed using a coil operation.
An electronic correction carried out by the camera circuitry to balance the brightness seen by the camera to that of the monitor.
A node that allows connection to another network using another protocol.
An alternating current (AC) that can be produced in a cable. This is usually caused by parts of the system being fed from different electrical sources resulting in different earth potentials at each end of the signal path. This results in interference of the video pictures in the form of a black shadow bar across the screen or as a tearing effect in the top comer of a picture.
An isolation transformer. There is no direct connection between input and output.
HERTZ (Hz)
The number of variations per second (e.g. picture frames, alternating of the current, etc).
Hyper text transfer protocol.
HTTP Port 80
Normally this is the HTTP port address that cameras can communicate over.
Impedance (input or output)
The input or output characteristic of a system component that determines the type of transmission cable to be used. Expressed in ohms.
IP Address
The network location of an IP camera, which can be located using a Web browser on a PC. (example – 192.168.1.100)
Mechanism within a lens to regulate the amount of light that passes through, and falls upon, the image sensor. It can be controlled manually or automatically.
Small, rapid variations in a waveform due to mechanical disturbances or to changes in the characteristic of components. Supply voltages, imperfect synchronizing signals, circuits, etc.
A transparent optical component consisting of one or more pieces of optical glass with surfaces curved (usually spherical), so that they converge or diverge the transmitted rays of an object, forming a real or virtual image of that object.
Lens Format
The approximate size of a lens-projected image. In most cases the lens will project an image slightly greater than the designated image size to insure the pickup device is completely covered. It is recommended that camera and lenses are the same format size. A lens larger format size can be used on a smaller format camera, however a smaller format lens should never be used with a larger format camera.
Lens Speed
Refers to the lens aperture or its ability to transmit light. This is measured in F-stops.
Line Locked
A camera that is synchronized to the frequency of its AC power supply.
A unit of incident light. It is the illumination on a surface one square foot in area on which a flux of one lumen is uniformly distributed, or the illumination at a surface all points of which are at a distance of one foot from a uniform source of one candela.
Luminous intensity (photometric brightness) of any surface in a given direction per unit of projected area of the surface as viewed from that direction, measured in footlamberts (fl).
International System (Sl) unit of illumination in which the meter is the unit of length. One lux equals one lumen per square meter.
Manual Iris Lens
A lens with a manual adjustment to set the iris opening (aperture) to a fixed position. This type lens is generally used in fixed lighting conditions.
Matrix Switcher
A combination of electromechanical or electronic switches which route a number of signal sources to one or more designations.
Black and white with all shades of gray.
Moving picture experts group, version 4. A form of compression that makes transmission and storage of images easier.
ND Filter
A filter that attenuates light evenly over the visible light spectrum. It reduces the light entering a lens, thus forcing the iris to open to its maximum.
The word "noise" originated in audio practice and refers to random spurts of electrical energy or interference. In some cases, it will produce a "salt-and-pepper" pattern over the televised picture. Heavy noise is sometimes referred to as "snow".
Network time protocol.
NTP Server
A central source that can set the time of all network devices.
National Television Standards Committee. Color Video Signal standard used in North American and Japanese: 525 Lines, 60Hz.
The signal level at the output of an amplifier or other device.
A device that can be remotely controlled to provide both vertical and horizontal movement for a camera.
The measurement of a video signal from the base of the sync pulse to the top of the white level. For a full video signal this should be one volt.
The ability to delay the line locking process so as to align cameras fed from AC voltages of different phases.
A device at the receiving end of an optical fiber link that converts light to electrical power.
A device that automatically switches on the infra-red lights when light levels fall to a pre-set level.
An electronic device that superimposes the view from one camera over that of another.
A product that can display the views from 4 cameras simultaneously on one monitor. It is also possible to select any individual camera for full-screen display on real time monitoring, dependent on model.
A method of combining two fields to make one frame where strict timing is not a requirement.
The ratio of light returned from a surface expressed as a percentage.
Scene illumination multiplied by reflectance. This is the amount of light returned to the camera and determines the quality of picture.
A description shown in the form of a diagram illustrating how the optical density of an optical fiber alters across its diameter.
Devices placed at regular intervals along a transmission line to detect weak signals and re-transmit them. These are seldom required in fiber optic systems. (Often incorrectly referred to as 'repeaters').
A video switcher to which the cables from the cameras are connected and which contains the switching electronics. This unit may be remotely located and connected to a desktop controller by a single cable for each monitor.
For a camera usually specified in lux to provide indication of light level required to gain a full video signal from the camera.
Ability to control the integration (of light) time to the sensor to less than 1/60 second.
Signal-to-Noise Ratio
Signal to noise ratio, a measurement of the noise level in a signal expressed in dB (decibels). In a video signal values from 45dB to 60dB produce an acceptable picture. Less than 40dB is likely to produce a "noisy" picture.
Spot Filter
A neutral density filter placed at the center of one of the elements (or on an iris blade) to increase the high end of the F-stop range of the lens.
The system by which a signal is transmitted to a remote location in order to control the operation of equipment. In CCTV systems this may include controlling pan, tilt and zoom functions, switch on lights, move to pre-set positions etc. The controller at the operating position is the transmitter and there is a receiver at the remote location. The signal can be transmitted along a simple twisted pair cable or along the same coaxial cable that carries the video signal.
The unit that is at the control position of a CCTV system and contains the keys, joysticks etc. for the remote control of pan/tilt/zoom cameras.
The video cable requires an impedance of 75 ohms at normal video signal bandwidth. This is often called 'low Z'. There is a switch on the back of the monitors to select either 75 ohm or 'high Z' (sometimes 'high/low'). If a signal is looped through more than one monitor all should be set to 'high' except at last, which should be to 'low' or 75 ohm.
A type of cable in which the optical fibers are tightly bound.
A type of industrial video recorder that can be set to record continuously over long periods. Typically, this can be from three hours to 480 hours, achieved by the tape mechanism moving in steps and recording one frame at a time. This means that if set to record over long periods much information can be lost. For instance, in the 72-hour mode, only 3 frames/second will be recorded instead of 25 frames/second in the real time mode. On receipt of an alarm signal these machines can be automatically switched to real time mode. With rapid advances in digital storage and retrieval techniques the mechanical video recorder is now nearing the end of its life in industrial security systems.
A composite video signal, transmitted along a coaxial cable, is an example of an unbalanced signal. (See balanced signal).
Video input of apiece of equipment, wired so as to allow the video signal to be fed to further equipment. Does not necessarily include extra sockets for the extra cables.
UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply)
A battery, attached to a piece of hardware, for example a server, that provides back up power for conducting an orderly shutdown if the server's normal power supply fails.
UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair)
The standard cabling used for telephone lines. The standard IEEE 802.3, 10BaseT, defines use of Ethernet over UTP for rates up to 10Mbit/s. The general LAN medium of choice for the 1990s.
Vertical Resolution
The number of horizontal lines that can be seen in the reproduced image of a television pattern.
Video Amplifier
A wideband amplifier used for passing picture signals.
Video Band
The frequency band width utilized to transmit a composite video signal.
Video Signal (Non-Composite)
The picture signal. A signal containing visual information and horizontal and vertical blanking (see also Composite Video Signal) but not sync.
WAN (Wide Area Network)
A network that covers a larger geographical area than a LAN and where telecommunications links are implemented, normally leased from the appropriate PTO(s). Examples of WANs include packet switched networks, public data networks and Value Added Networks.
Compression that is optimized for images containing low amounts of data. The relatively inferior image quality is offset against the low bandwidth demands on transmission mediums.
The brightest part of a video signal corresponding to approximately 1.0 volt (0.7 volts above the black level).
Term used freely to mean a PC, node, terminal or high-end desktop processor (for CAD/CAM and similar intensive applications) – in short, a device that has data input and output and operated by a user.
A color camera producing separate luminance (Y) and chrominance (C) signals to provide greatly improved picture quality from video recorders. These type of cameras can only be used with a restricted range of equipment.
To enlarge or reduce, on a continuously variable basis, the size of a televised image primarily by varying lens focal length.
Zoom Lens
An optical system of continuously variable focal length, the focal plane remaining in a fixed position.