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The use of wireless local area networks (LANs) is growing among businesses seeking an alternative to traditional hard-wired solutions.
Imagine an office in which employees do not have a fixed desk or work area. Instead, they are part of a team that meets in a conference room or at some other location. They carry around laptops, which almost always need a convenient connection to the hard-wired local area network (LAN) in the building. But dragging around connection cables and constantly looking for a data port can be annoying. Is there a simple solution to avoid these headaches? Installing a wireless LAN that works in harmony with your existing hard-wired LAN system is the answer.
Logistics is the driving force spurring the use of wireless LANs. Temporary or remote workers can benefit by using wireless systems anywhere an area is set up, used briefly, and then dismantled. And in most cases, the wireless system is an extension of, but not a replacement for, the wired network, which usually operates at a higher transmission speed than the wireless segment.
Adding to the benefits of this technology is the reduction in cost of wireless system equipment. One of the reasons prices have come down, and perhaps the most significant contributor to the expected growth in wireless use, is the ratification of an IEEE standard. Standard 802.11, Wireless LAN Media Access Control Physical Specification, defines a 2-megabit-per-second (Mbit/sec) transmission speed, with 1-Mbit/sec in harsh environments. Recently, the IEEE updated the standard with a 10-Mbit/sec specification.
Understanding wireless. A radio frequency (RF) wireless LAN within a building has two basic components: the access point and an interface. Connected to the wired LAN, the access point includes the radio transmitter/receiver (transceiver) and an omnidirectional antenna for propagating the signal. The interface is the wireless LAN adapter, which includes the transceiver and antenna. A small card recessed within a desktop PC, notebook, or laptop serves as a transceiver.
A second method of propagation (for low power radio signals) uses a radiating cable, which serves as an antenna. You terminate a 15/8-in. diameter radiating cable, also called "leaking coax," at the far end by a 30W, 50-ohm resistor.
You can also use a fixed wireless link when you don't want to tie two or more buildings together with a LAN using a leased telephone line. In this case, rather than using an antenna that radiates in all directions, use a directional antenna. One manufacturer offers a product that complies with IEEE Std. 802.11 and provides LAN connectivity between buildings as far as six miles apart.
By using a layout of directional antennas, another product connects a number of buildings that can be on a campus, across the street, or across town. You can connect as many as 200 network interface cards on each network segment.
The system supports IEEE Std. 802.3 (standard for an Ethernet) and Ethernet II (TCP/IP) LANs, and transmits data at up to 10 Mbit/sec through even the worst weather. This is because the unit uses direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) technology, and thus is unaffected by environmental conditions. At the same time, it is secure to the interception of data.
Let's look at a few applications where wireless is useful: An industrial manufacturer, producing heavy iron and brass products, sets up a wireless communications system in a warehouse to allow forklift operators to gather and input warehouse inventory data. Extending the reach of the facility's wired LAN with a wireless branch brings increased inventory-tracking accuracy, improved productivity, tighter control, and valuable time and money savings.
The system allows 23 warehouse personnel, using industrial-grade touch screen computers, to record inventory, receiving, moving, and shipping. Operating in the 2.4 GHz to 2.4835 GHz unlicensed band, the wireless LAN connects to the warehouse's hard-wired LAN at one of five strategically placed access points (antennas), installed at the level of the warehouse ceiling.
While the forklift operator enters most data into the touch screen computer, warehouse workers can collect barcode information through handheld scanners attached to the computer. The warehouse LAN, which uses a 10Base-T Ethernet network, transmits the collected data to a computer (server) at the corporate headquarters every five minutes, via a leased dedicated telephone line.
Another manufacturing company uses a radiating cable as the antenna system in a 300,000-sq-ft warehouse. In the past, it was difficult to contact managers working on the production floor: Voice paging would add distracting noise to the space, and it was difficult to hear the phones ringing. The solution called for a wireless distributed communications system that could serve both voice and data communications.
The new system integrates the landline phone system and a wireless data system on a combined radio frequency system backbone using a 1.2 GHz personal communications system (PCS) from a local PCS carrier. Supported on ceiling beams and fed by a coaxial cable, a run of radiating cable extends down the entire length of the factory, on either side. With this layout, an employee's handheld PCS phone is never more than 50 ft from the antenna.
These alternatives to traditional hard-wired solutions are making their way into the industry. Interoperability, added range, aggressive pricing, flexible packaging, and improved performance are all key to speeding up future applications of wireless LANs.
Sidebar: Wireless Distributed Communications
Wireless distributed communications for in-building use emerged in the mid-1900s. These systems simply provided wireless communications coverage inside buildings where radio frequency (RF) from an outside source could not penetrate. At first, these systems were primarily made up of private trunking radio services for maintenance, fire, etc. After that, the early wired data systems for LANs and other slow speed wireless data devices came on the scene.


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Steve Cram to step down as EIS chairman
Steve Cram is to step down from his role as chairman of the English Institute of Sport (EIS).
Cram has spent more than ten years as the head of the organization and a successor to Cram is expected to be announced in the autumn.
The EIS provide sport science and sport medicine to more than 30 Olympic and Paralympic sports and Cram helped the business grow.
He told Inside the Games: "I have thoroughly enjoyed my time as the chair of the EIS and am extremely proud of the way that we have grown it from two people to a world-renowned provider of sport science and sport medicine to elite athletes, employing more than 200 practitioners."
Cram had a glittering career, winning gold in the World Championships over 1500m in 1983. A year later, he picked up a silver medal in the Los Angeles Olympics.
The 52-year-old was also three times Commonwealth champion, winning over 1500m in 1982 and being victorious over the same distance and 800m, four years later.
The current BBC athletics pundit and commentator also won gold on two occasions in the European Championships, both over 1500m, in 1982 and four years later in Stuttgart.
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Columbus, Ohio - April 9, 2001-- A Johns Hopkins scientist recognized as one of the world's foremost experts in high performance computing has been recruited to give The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health and OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center) a leadership role in the new and rapidly expanding field of medical informatics.Dr. Joel H.
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Columbus, Ohio (March 22, 2001) - As part of "E-Commerce Day in Ohio," more than 100 state legislators were presented with "Wired" awards in honor of their adoption of technology. The event was held on March 6 at the Riffe Center in celebration of a joint resolution honoring the efforts of ECom-Ohio by Senator Ron Amstutz (R- Wooster) and Representative Kevin DeWine (R-Fairborn).
Columbus, OH – March 7, 2001 – A new study from the Technology Policy Group (TPG) offers a great deal of evidence that many automotive suppliers need to accelerate their adoption of e-business practices to remain competitive.
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Cluster Acquisition for Communications Optimization and Computational Steering
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Abstract: It is proposed to investigate issues related to increasing the efficiency of point-to-point and collective communication on distributed clusters consisting of SMP nodes connected by high speed networks such as Myrinet, Giganet, and Gigabit Ethernet.
Columbus, Ohio -- January 10, 2001 -- OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center) and The Ohio State University (OSU) will host their 13th annual Summer Institute, SI 2001: An Odyssey in Supercomputing, July 16-27, 2001.
Computing is not limited to academia and business anymore. It has quickly become a normal part of our daily lives. Rapid development in computing has impacted our work, play, education and commerce. Those who stay on the pulse of technological change today will be the information leaders of tomorrow.
Columbus, Ohio -- January 5, 2001 -- Bill Yang, Systems Specialist at OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center), attended a joint press conference in Washington D.C. on January 5, 2001 to officially unveil InfraGard, a cooperative venture he helped create among the National Infrastructure Protection Center, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and hundreds of partners around the country.
Major ISV and Research Software Demonstrated at SC2000 utilizing SGI Linux software for Itanium
November 1, 2000 -- The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) and OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center) announced that OSC has acquired unlimited use of the NAG C, Fortran and Parallel Libraries for use on OSC's high performance supercomputers.
Columbus, Ohio -- September 19, 2000 -- For the past 12 years, OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center) has made a place for itself in the world of high performance networking and computing. This year will be no exception when OSC showcases recent projects at Supercomputing 2000 (SC2000), an annual week-long national supercomputing conference. SC2000 will be held at the Dallas Convention Center in Texas on November 4-10.
Columbus, OH -- July 25, 2000 -- The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) will participate in the fifth National Computational Science Alliance Chautauqua, giving users and educators an opportunity to learn about Access Grid technologies. Registration is free for the event (see http://www.ncsa.edu/chautauqua).


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What is Urban Studies?
Urban Studies is a field of study that creates innovative, real-world knowledge of the challenges and opportunities of city life. Both inside and outside the classroom, the Urban Studies Department reaps the advantage of the immense complexity and diversity both of New York City as a preeminent global city, and Queens as one of the most diverse counties in the United States. In Urban Studies we take a multi-disciplinary approach. We combine history, anthropology, sociology, economics, political science and other fields. To a greater or lesser degree, all of our courses address the deep inequalities that rend our urbanizing world.
Our mission is to help students to understand cities and think critically about them and their environs, to prepare students for active and engaged participation in civic life, and to provide students with the knowledge and skills they will need for successful careers in the public, non-profit, and private sectors, as well as for advanced studies.
Department History. The Department of Urban Studies was founded in 1971 by Marilyn Gittell, a scholar and activist who spearheaded the movement for school equity and democratic schooling, and Matthew Edel, an urban economist who did pioneering research on the economy of cities and neighborhoods. From the start, we have emphasized participatory, community-based models of teaching and learning that take into account the needs of people and neighborhoods marginalized by race, class, gender, sexuality or nationality.
The Faculty. The faculty has expertise in a variety of fields including urban anthropology, environmental policy, geography, health policy, history, political science, public administration, sociology, and urban planning. Practitioners with extensive experience in city government and non-profit organizations, advocacy groups, community planning agencies, public policy organizations and labor unions teach many of our courses.
More information about the URBST Department
Experiential and Service Learning. Many of our courses give students opportunities to participate in community organizations, advocacy groups, social service providers, and government agencies. We believe that classroom teaching works best when combined with real-world experience. A generous grant from the Hagedorn Fund allows us to offer limited support to undergraduate majors in urban and environmental students who take our service learning course.
Collaborations across Queens College. The Urban Studies Department works with a number of other academic programs on campus, including the Labor Studies Program, the Journalism Program, the Africana Studies Program, the Asian-American Community Studies Program, the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the Honors in the Social Sciences Program.


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text: HKSS.com | Community > Discussion Forum > View topic - Music: EKIN CHENG "Discovery" Home Community Superstars Music | What's New | Help HKSS | Search* Discussions | HKE Chat | Reflections of Life | Virtual Cards | Member Galleries Please excuse our mess. HKSS is currently under re-construction and some links/sections don't work yet. What's New: Latest updates | Member Galleries | Music | HKE Chat | About HKSS.com Community Discussions HKE Chat Reflections of Life Member Galleries Virtual Cards* Play Music Superstars Profiles* Galleries* Reviews Gossip & News Other Privacy Policy Terms of Use Link to HKSS* HKSS.com What's New About Contact* Advertise* Help HKSS Links YesAsia yuenStudios Do you like HKSS? My Watched Topics | My Favorites | My Profile Private IMs Register Log in Help | Stats | Members | Groups Search Forum Music: EKIN CHENG "Discovery" HKSS.com Forum Index -> Reviews View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message MavisCrazed FanJoined: 07 Oct 2003Posts: 113 Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:43 am Post subject: Music: EKIN CHENG "Discovery" After wasting 2 (or more) years of his career at EEG doing nothing but collecting a hefty paycheque (isn't that nice?), Ekin is back. "Discovery" is his first album with his new (and former) record label BMG. "Discovery" is a 2 CD new song + compilation that includes 4 new songs. CD 1 track 1 "In the hearts" is a very pleasant tune, kinda reflects Ekin's current feelings. The current plug song on radio is CD 2 track 1 "Internal injury", a rather typical Ekin ballad. The other 2 new tracks in the album are CD 1 track 2 "Thanks for your hard work" and CD 2 track 2 "Don't let me see him". The compilation part covers pretty much all his old hits, from songs like "Days of friendship" (CD 1 track 3) to classic ballads like "Still loving deeply" (CD 1 track 13) and "Until sky and earh disappears" (CD 2 track 13). Call me old school, listening to Ekin's oldies reminded me about how bad his singing was, but it's still better than many of the newcomes today. Ekin doesn't release many compilations. "Discovery" is worth its price even just for the compilation part. Rating: 7.5/10 Buy the CD here Recommendations: CD 1 track 1 "In the heart" CD 2 track 1 "Internal injury" Almost all of the compilation part. Back to top Mikey_Life is good. Be inspired.Joined: 04 Oct 2003Posts: 1322Location: Fountain Valley, California (USA) Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 5:44 am Post subject: Isn't Discovery the title of one of his older songs? Back to top MavisCrazed FanJoined: 07 Oct 2003Posts: 113 Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 6:09 am Post subject: Yup. not sure if it's a coincidence though. Back to top ContraiFanJoined: 08 Oct 2003Posts: 57Location: greifswald, germany Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 2:18 am Post subject: ekin has this Best Show Compilations around Back to top MavisCrazed FanJoined: 07 Oct 2003Posts: 113 Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 7:14 am Post subject: Yup, but "The Best Show" was many years ago (at least 7 years ago). Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First HKSS.com Forum Index -> Reviews All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Entertainment----------------All EntertainmentReviewsGossip and NewsIdol DiscussionsMusicMoviesTV Shows Non-Entertainment----------------General DiscussionsNew MembersFun and GamesReflections of LifeHobbies, TravelFood and CookingHelp!Websites HKSS.com----------------Announcements/ What's New?Help HKSS.comFeedback/ Contact HKSS.comWishlist You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Back to top Copyright © 1996-2014 HKSS.com™. All Rights Reserved. About | Link to HKSS.com | Advertise | Contact | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use Information and images accessed from this site are protected by international copyright and/or other intellectual property rights. You may infringe these rights if you download, copy, publish, distribute, transmit, or exploit such content without the explicit consent of HKSS.com. > Site design by yuenStudios.com (2006)


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Associate Professor of Music-Applied Clarinet
Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA
Professional Society Office Held:
International Clarinet Association (ICA) State Chair for Ohio
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra
Dayton Ballet Orchestra
Dayton Opera Orchestra
Springfield Symphony Orchestra
Wright Chamber Orchestra
Chamber Music:
WSU Faculty Woodwind Quintet
Dayton Philharmonic Woodwind Quintet
The Omega Soloists, Clarinet
Tutti Soloisti, Clarinet
The Wright Profs-Faculty Jazz Combo
Dr. Randall S. Paul is a respected performer, scholar, and educator. He has performed as a soloist at the International Clarinet Association Convention, the Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium, The International Flute Association Convention, and the World Saxophone Congress. His performances have taken him as far as the Virgin Islands, Canada, Korea, China, and Japan. He has performed solo recitals throughout the U.S. including numerous prestigious venues including, The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, the Lincoln Center Bruno Walter Auditorium, and twice at Carnegie Hall. His debut performance at Carnegie Hall received critical acclaim in The New York Times as "...a dapper performance..."
Dr. Paul has over twenty years of professional regional orchestra experience performing as guest principal clarinetist with The Utica Philharmonic (NY) the Dayton Philharmonic, Springfield Symphony, Dayton Ballet Orchestra, Dayton Opera Orchestra, the Hamilton-Fairfield Symphony, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and the Richmond (IN) Symphony.
His education includes study at Jacksonville State University, Ithaca College, the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, and The University of Oklahoma, where he completed his Doctorate in Clarinet Performance. His book, published in 2010, �Successful Strategies for Clarinet Reed Making� includes interviews with such notable performers and educators as Stanley Hasty of the Eastman School, Christopher Sereque of the Seattle Symphony, Robert DiLutis of the Rochester Philharmonic, and Robert Gilbert of the Cleveland Orchestra.
Dr. Paul is an Associate Professor of Music at Wright State University. He serves as the Ohio Chairperson for the International Clarinet Association and hosts an annual ICA Clarinet Residency called �Legends of the Clarinet�. He created and conducts the Clarinettes du Monde, a professional clarinet ensemble. He appears frequently at the Ohio Music Educator�s Convention as a performer and as a clinician. He has authored articles and appears often in The Clarinet, the official publication of the ICA, and has completed several national recording/CD projects. in 2006, he performed the United States premier of a new concerto for clarinet called Prairie Dawn by the Canadian composer Stephen Chatman.
Dr. Paul is an Artist Performer for Selmer Paris and represents the �Signature� clarinet.
"...a dapper performance..."
--Tim Page, The New York Times
�Your performance of the difficult Prokofieff was very fine and let me congratulate you once more.�
-- Gervase de Peyer, London Symphony
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-- Michael Webster, Rochester Philharmonic/ San Francisco Symphony
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I would like to present my theory of what happened to Flight MH370, using more sound judgement and scientific reasoning. I received my degree in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University, where I specialized in Flight Mechanics and Structural Failure and Fatigue. I began my career working at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston where I worked in the Flight Design and Dynamics Department for the Mission Operations Directorate. There, I specialized in crew flight procedures, radar, and navigation systems. After NASA, I worked for Boeing on the V-22 flight control system, then later for Motorola specializing in radio frequency communications and how RF signals propagated.
What most likely happened to Flight MH370, was that fatigue cracking occurred on the Boeing 777-200 series aircraft. On July 23, 2012, The FAA published an Airworthiness Directive (AD) (FAA-2012-0149-0004) for Boeing Company Model 777-200, which was prompted by reports of fatigue cracks in the lap joints, and an Airworthiness Directive to detect and correct such fatigue cracking, which could grow large and cause sudden decompression and the inability to sustain limit flight and pressure loads. This AD was updated on April 15, 2013 to include scribe lines where external decals have been applied or removed across lap joints and large cargo door hinges. In addition, on April 2, 2009 the FAA issued an airworthiness directive (AD 2009-02-05) regarding the airplane information management system (AMS) to prevent an unannunciated loss of cabin pressure, which if an undetected loss of pressure event were to cause an unsafe pressure in the cabin, the flight crew could become incapacitated.
The last known position of MH370 was at 1:21 AM at 35,000 feet, roughly 90 miles off the east coast of Malaysia. At around 1:30 a.m., the aircraft's transponder stopped responding. Under the theory that a sudden decompression occurred at that time due to fatigue cracks, the pilot and copilot would have had 15 - 30 seconds of consciousness to quickly address the problem. If they were aware of the decompression through an annunciation loss of cabin pressure, they would have put on their oxygen masks, turned off the autopilot, begin their descent to below 10,000 feet, and head for the nearest landing spot. If they did not place their oxygen masks on first before they began their descent, or if they attempted to troubleshoot the issue before putting on their oxygen masks, they would have lost consciousness before they reached 10,000 feet.
With the plane not on auto-pilot, in a descent with unconscious pilots, one may think the plane would crash, but this is where flight mechanics, aircraft stability and flight controls play a role in what happened to flight MH370. As the plane descended on its own, (without auto-pilot and unconscious pilots) it would continue to pick up speed to a point where the increasing speed creates more and more lift over the wings. When more and more lift is created, this force causes the plane to pitch up. The plane may have descended to 23,000 feet before it began the pitch up maneuver. At that point, the aircraft is pitched up and begins a climb. It will continue to climb until the atmosphere becomes thinner and thinner and less and less lift is produced over the wings. This would typically occur at 45,000 feet. This roller coaster ride would continue between those two altitudes until the aircraft no longer has fuel to power the engines.
This pitching up and climbing and then pitching down and descending, accompanied by speeding up and slowing does is one of the basic flight dynamics modes of aircraft, and is called the phugoid mode. I have to thank Dr. Pearson at Iowa State University for drilling this into me in his flight controls class and Dr. P.J. Herman who taught flight performance where we flew a plane and demonstrated the speed stability of an aircraft by placing it into a phugoid mode.
Few may remember Payne Stewart who died in October 1999 when his plane experienced rapid decompression and his plane continued to fly for almost four hours after a rapid decompression had occurred and the flight crew was incapacitated. Two North Dakota Air National Guard F-16 intercepted the plane and identified that the cockpit window was iced over and there was no movement of the control surfaces of the plane. During the plane's flight, the aircraft's altitude reached a maximum of 48,900 feet. The NTSB added a commentary on the cause of the accident that stated.
Following depressurization, the pilots did not receive supplemental oxygen in sufficient time and/or adequate concentrations to avoid hypoxia and incapacitation. A possible explanation for the failure of the pilots to receive emergency oxygen is that their ability to think and act decisively was impaired because of hypoxia before they could don their oxygen masks. Research has shown that a period of as little as 8 seconds without supplemental oxygen following rapid depressurization to about 30,000 feet may cause a drop in oxygen saturation that can significantly impair cognitive functioning and increase the amount of time to complete complex tasks.While the transponder was shut down at 1:21 AM, this could have been caused by the rapid decompression and an electrical failure, or by the pilot, in a hypoxia state attempting to set the transponder code to 7500 to indicate an emergency, and accidentally turning it off in confusion.
With regards to the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), most commercial pilots would have no idea how to disable all of the communications systems. More than likely additional structural failures occurred during the 5 - 7 hour flight while the plane was experiencing high stresses as a result of the phugoid mode that the aircraft was experiencing.
The reason the aircraft has not been located using ACARS is because one can only determine the distance the aircraft is away from the satellite based on the communications angle, it does not have enough information to determine the bearing, and thus based on the range of the aircraft, it could have flown north through China, or south in the Indian Sea. Since no radar contact occurred if the plane was on a northerly route, the plane is more than likely took the southerly route, and continued flying until 8:11 am, when the last confirmed ACARS transmission occurred.
According to a map released by Malaysian officials, the aircraft's location was along a constant declination from the ACARS satellite of approximately 40 degrees:
And given the assumption the aircraft would have been spotted by radar along the northerly trajectory, the most probable location is in the south Indian Sea, away from any land or radar.


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Sorry if this is a dumb question but I tend to believe that the only stupid questions are the ones that aren't asked.
I've just taken on responsibility for PAT testing and we've bought a new, calibrated, Seaward Supernova Elite to do this.
I've been practising carrying out PAT tests by testing half a dozen IEC leads but every one has failed.
Both ends of each lead were plugged into the tester and the IEC Lead (3m) automatic test selected (each IEC lead was less than 3m but this is the shortest test length available and I assumed it was correct in the absence of any guidance from the manual).
Visual checks, earth bond and insulation test were fine in every case but the polarity check failed with "SHORT" every time. I've tested with old (working) leads, brand new leads and the short IEC lead that came with the tester but every one failed. I'm assuming that "SHORT" means an electrical short rather than referring to length of lead being shorter than the test selected (again, the manual was not a lot of use here).
Now, it might be that every lead I've tested so far is indeed faulty but I'm beginning to suspect that either I've missed something obvious (wouldn't be surprised!) or we should get the tester checked out.
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Retirement planning has undergone a radical change in the last decade. Times have changed and so has the way people are thinking about retirement.
Before 2008 many financial planners talked to their clients about buying a vineyard or opening a New England bed and breakfast in their golden years. After all, stocks would continue to gain in value and so would the equity in their home.
Then came the reality check of 2008. Now, it seems, the goal is to just have enough money to live the rest of your life above the poverty line.
Doubts about pensions and Social Security
In the past, many could rely on pension plans and Social Security benefits, but pension plans are increasingly rare and Social Security benefits should not be used as a sole source of retirement, financial planners now say.
Problem number one is Americans are living longer. Not really a problem except that if you stop working at age 65 and live to be 95, there's 30 years of living expenses you have to cover.
According to a recent Employee Benefit Research Institute study (EBRI), nearly 47 percent of early baby boomers, ages 56 to 62, are at risk of outliving their retirement savings. To make sure that doesn't happen requires a plan. A realistic plan.
A realistic plan
"To develop a sustainable strategy that meets your specific needs, some important considerations would be your age at retirement, life expectancy, living expenses and the rate of return you expect from your investments," said Dean Urbanski, Vice President, BMO Harris Financial Advisors, Inc.
A realistic retirement should include these steps:
- Reduce living expenses
- Develop a withdrawal strategy
- Carefully allocate your assets
- Choose a post-retirement career
- Improve your health
While most planners begin their strategy on the income side, it may be best to look first at the expense side and housing is one of the biggest expenses. If your home is nearly paid for, step up efforts to pay it off early.
If you still have a large mortgage consider downsizing. If you have equity in a home consider selling it, now that the housing market is beginning to recover, and relocating to an area where the cost of living is less. Living without a mortgage is an excellent way to make your retirement funds go further.
Withdrawal strategy
If you have retirement savings, you must come up with a withdrawal strategy. Knowing how much money should be withdrawn from your retirement savings each year is a critical factor in building a retirement plan.
Withdraw too much and you are likely to outlive your assets; take too little and you may unnecessarily sacrifice your standard of living, especially in the early years of retirement.
Asset allocation
Asset Allocation is another important consideration. As individuals seek increased income in retirement, they often shift their holdings more toward bonds and cash. This may or may not be a good move, as there are other key investment considerations beyond having a need for income. Confer with your financial advisor to determine the appropriate allocation for your needs, investment objective, risk profile and time frame.
If possible, your retirement assets should keep working, providing an income stream. This income can be used to meet your day-to-day expenses.
One possible option is to allocate a portion of your savings to an annuity. Annuities are an investment tool that can provide guaranteed income for the rest of your life, no matter how long you live.
While not guaranteed, another source of income are stocks that pay dividends. While many retirement people shy away from equities, a diversified portfolio of income producing stocks and funds reduces some of the risk while providing steady cash flow.
Have a plan
"Whatever your specific plans, it's crucial that you enter retirement with a strategy for turning your savings into a retirement 'paycheck' that will allow you to live retirement on your own terms," Urbanksi said.
In addition to the "paycheck" you receive from your retirement savings, consider an actual paycheck from a full or part-time job. In other words, just because you retire doesn't mean you have to stop working.
Many people, however, can't wait to retire. The last thing they want to do is consider another job. But consider this: most people don't hate work, they just hate their jobs. What if you could find a job doing something that actually gives you pleasure, even at a reduced paycheck? The income from that job would supplement the income from your investments, pension and Social Security.
Finally, remaining in good health during retirement will have a major positive economic effect. Staying active in both mind and body will help you be more productive and, should you choose to, work longer.
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Solutions for water efficiency and wastewater management in the Pacific were core topics at the annual GEF IWRM Steering Committee Meeting, which took place from 25-29 July 2011 in the Cook Islands.
The 3rd Meeting of the Global Environment Facility's (GEF) Pacific Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) Programme brought together more than 70 water experts from Pacific Island Countries to review progress and discuss solutions in achieving the Programme's objective. Improving water resources management and efficiency in order to balance overuse and conflicting use through policy and legislative reform is the main objective of the GEF IWRM Project in the Pacific.
"The annual GEF IWRM meeting has been attended by the IUCN Oceania Water Programme for the past two years. It has been very useful in developing our work programme further and in establishing and strengthening our collaboration with partners and water networks in the Oceania region", said IUCN Oceania Water and Wetlands Coordinator Dr. Milika Sobey.
The meeting, organised by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community's Applied GeoScience and Technology Division (SOPAC), brought together project managers, focal points, implementing agencies and donor partners to review progress and discuss steps ahead.
Co-funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the European Union (EU), the project aims to build capacity of Pacific Island countries to manage water resources more sustainably. More than 14 demonstration projects have been implemented in over 13 Pacific countries to show the practical benefits of integrated sustainable water resources and wastewater management.
The Nadi Basin in Fiji is the IWRM Demonstration site supported by IUCN's Water and Nature Initiative (WANI), together with SOPAC, to improve flood preparedness and integrate land and water management planning.
For more information, please contact Dr Milika Sobey, IUCN Oceania Water Coordinator: [email protected]


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Secondly, men do not hate God because of the world he created, they hate God because he is good and they are not. However consciously or unconsciously, they hate him because he is altogether different than they are. They do not understand him and if they did they would not like what they found. The Bible teaches that men love darkness because their deeds are dark and that God is light. (John 3:16-20) Men will naturally hate that which brings judgement to their deeds.
So people are created sinners and they naturally hate God, right? They could try to love God under the influence of teaching but it's just forced change of their nature through mind (so to speak) and when they experience lots of suffering, it is going to break them at some point and they will realize that they don't really feel the love. Unless of course God has blessed them to love him, in which case they will feel the unconditional love for God. But they have no influence here.
Those who (through God's intervention in giving them a new heart) chose to hate sin and love God on earth ...
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Rams Fall 1-0 to #20 Rowan
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Glassboro, N.J. - Farmingdale State fell 1-0 to #20 Rowan University (9-1-1) in a non-conference women's soccer game on Thursday night in Glassboro, N.J. The Rams outshot Rowan 9-7, but could not capitalize as they fell to the nationally ranked squad.
After allowing a first half goal in the 19th minute of play by junior Linda Sierra (Marlton, N.J./Cherokee), the Rams (10-3) outshot Rowan 7-3 in the second half, but freshman goalkeeper Deana Wood (Voorhees, N.J./Eastern Regional) made four saves en route to her sixth shutout of the season to secure the 1-0 win for Rowan.
Junior goalkeeper Amanda Maass (Mastic Beach, N.Y./William Floyd) made one save in defeat.
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WASHINGTON—Veterans with disabilities have unique needs in transitioning to and retaining civilian employment, and many are unaware that they are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a panel of experts told the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) at a public meeting held today. The panel included representatives from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Department of Labor (DOL), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Department of Defense (DOD) and private sector stakeholders, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The meeting was one of a series the EEOC has held to examine barriers to employment.
"Today's Commission meeting provided an important opportunity to learn effective ways to remove barriers to employment for veterans with disabilities," said EEOC Chair Jacqueline A. Berrien.
"Veterans with disabilities often remain a distinct segment of the disability community, which challenges traditional avenues of outreach," said Heather Ansley of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities. Moreover, veterans with disabilities "are not immune to the myths that surround the employment of people with disabilities."
Panelists pointed out the important role of employment in easing a veteran's return to civilian life and recovery from injuries. The VA and DOL have programs providing vocational rehabilitation services and job training for veterans with disabilities. DOL also enforces a specific law prohibiting discrimination against former service members—the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act. Additionally, the DOL's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) insures that federal contractors comply with laws giving veterans priority referrals to job openings and not discriminate on the basis of disability, Claudia Gordon, special assistant to OFCCP director Patricia Shiu told the Commission.
Ruth Fanning, Director of Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Services for the VA, stressed the need for early intervention in the transition from active duty to civilian life. Encouraging injured veterans to plan and work toward civilian career goals "reduces the risk of homelessness, underemployment, or unsuitable employment after discharge from the military." As George M. Parker, Director of Compliance and Investigations of the Veterans Employment and Training Service (VETS) of the DOL put it, "for wounded and injured veterans, employment can play a significant role in the road to recovery."
Disabled veterans face special challenges, a number of panelists told the Commission, especially those returning from service in Iraq and Afghanistan who may have traumatic brain injuries (TBI) or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which many employers do not know how to accommodate. The DOL's Job Accommodation Network (JAN) provides special resources for employers who need to learn more about how to accommodate veterans with PTSD and TBI, said Anne Hirsh, JAN's co-director.
Ironically, the increased attention to veterans with conditions like TBI, PTSD and other mental health issues has made some employers hesitant to hire veterans at all, believing that all veterans are likely to have these conditions, Ansley told the Commission. Stereotypical views of mental health issues, rooted in suspicion and fear, "often lead to widespread discrimination against people with conditions like PTSD."
The EEOC works to combat these myths and stereotypes about veterans with disabilities, said EEOC Senior Attorney-Advisor Joyce Walker-Jones. In 2008, the Commission issued two guides—one for veterans, the other for employers—explaining how the ADA and USERRA protect veterans with disabilities. "We issued the guides because we wanted veterans to know what the ADA is, and employers to know that many veterans with disabilities are able to—and want to—work," she stated.
Other panelists included Dinah Cohen, Director of the Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program of the Department of Defense, and Ray Decker, Assistant Director for Veterans Services at the U.S. Department of Personnel Management.
In an unrelated matter, the Commission voted 3—2 at the meeting to approve the "Final Regulation on Disparate Impact and Reasonable Factors Other than Age" under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. The regulation now goes to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. Upon OMB approval, the text of the regulation will be made public in the Federal Register.
The EEOC enforces the federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. More information is available at www.eeoc.gov.


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And then there are the vineyards. Yes, you've passed many wineries to get here, but in The Vineyards, nearly every home proudly cultivates their grapes right there in the front yard. The homes, primarily Mediterranean in style, are palatial yet subdued, even with fountains and pools tucked in the terraces. The lilacs, lavender, and wisteria scale the opulence back to high-end elegance and underline the natural beauty of the area.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Agilent Technologies Inc. A, -0.83% on Thursday reported a fiscal first-quarter profit of $195 million, or 58 cents a share, compared with earnings of $179 million, or 51 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Revenue remained flat at $1.68 billion. Excluding one-time items, Agilent would have earned 67 cents a share. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had forecast Agilent to earn 66 cents a share on $1.69 billion in sales. The company also said it has chosen Keysight Technologies as the name of the electronic measurement business it will spinoff later this year. Agilent shares were down by more than 5% in after-hours trading as the company gave a weaker-than-expected second-quarter forecast.
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Friday, April 2, 2010 | 12:10 p.m.
- What: Barry Manilow
- Where: Paris Las Vegas; 946-7000
- When: 7:30 p.m., April 2 through June 4
- Cost: $95-$299
Barry Manilow has moved. To Paris.
I hear some of you cheering. Knock it off: He's still in town — at Paris Las Vegas. Scoff, sneer, swear you'd never see his show, or that you don't know that tune (or that one or that one). But Manilow is undeniably the best showman and biggest star abiding in this patch of desert. Respect.
Manilow's Paris occupation is a good move for the entertainer: He's now represented by concert production/promotion giant AEG Live, and his show benefits from an all-around technological upgrade, a more expansive stage and a swanky, scarlet-draped showroom.
The show opens with a montage of Gallic imagery, then a widescreen MANILOW blazes blindingly in amber lights, and Manilow strikes a melodramatic, messianic pose, introducing "Could It Be Magic."
Winking and twinkling in a black brocade tux jacket, his trademark shock of hair an elfin mashup of Keith Richards and Kate Gosselin, Manilow is charmingly in on the joke.
And he's in fine voice, seemingly smiling even when singing of things that used to be. He had me at "This One's For You," with all its emotionally manipulative modulations.
Manilow has kept some of the best bits from his previous shows — the sentimental homage to his grandfather, a duet with his recorded self as a 4-year-old on "Nature Boy" (this "very strange enchanted boy" hits a few blue notes worthy of Billie Holiday), and on the cusp of '70s stardom, performing "Mandy" with his original nose on The Midnight Special.
The new show was directed and choreographed by Jeffrey Hornaday, an alumnus of High School Musical, though Manilow, like the similarly 60-something Cher, makes the most of minimal movements, occasionally cocking an (expensive) hip to loud, lustful (really!) screams.
The now-obligatory video screens are put to the best, and least-obtrusive, use I've seen on the Strip, offering framed sepia-toned seascapes, Brooklyn Bridge views and Impressionist details as backdrops for songs.
I wondered how Manilow was going to top the Star Wars-style skybridge that cantilevered him out over the Hilton crowd during the mandatory "Copacabana" finale. But he's done it here, with a giddy burst of animated rococo psychedelia blooming on the high-res screens behind him.
Where his earlier shows (Music and Passion and Ultimate Manilow) were relentlessly energetic, focused on the hits and only the hits, his Paris revue is more measured, sophisticated and self-indulgent. There are occasional lulls — notably when Manilow is shilling his current album The Greatest Love Songs of All Time — but soon enough he's back to the hits, and all is well.
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Re: "An open process for Jeffco schools," May 23 editorial.
Thank you to the Denver Post editorial board for asking for an open process for Jeffco schools in the district's search for a new superintendent. The editorial did an excellent job of addressing the draft contract for Daniel McMinimee. What it did not address is the less-than-open process of the candidate selection itself.
Parents, educators and other community members understood that the board would create a slate of two to five candidates from the search pool for further evaluation. The final choice would have the approval of all five members.
Instead, the board majority dropped the semi-final step and offered the position to their candidate without the approval of the minority members.
Selecting a candidate based on a consensus of all five members was a community hope.
Renee Farrar, Lakewood
This letter was published in the June 1 edition.
Re: "Douglas County shadow over potential Jeffco schools superintendent," May 27 news story.
Based upon this article, it would seem that the teachers union is waging an all-out attack against Daniel McMinimee. It should never be forgotten that the students come first. Next come the teachers/educators who play a part in molding these young people into viable contributors to not only the community but also perhaps the global community. And lastly come both the school and union bureaucracies.
As a Jefferson County resident who, like all others, funds this operation, I expect the fiscal emphasis to be on our children. Anything other than that is feeding a parasitic system.
Bill Leake, Evergreen
This letter was published in the June 1 edition.
Re: "Jeffco Schools board OKs hiring of Daniel McMinimee by 3-2 vote," May 28 news story.
The good citizens of Jefferson County have seen the future and many of them do not like it. Their school board is now controlled by three ideologues who have shown that they will only countenance the smallest degree of public participation as they implement their agenda. They have also demonstrated that responsible stewardship of the public purse does not apply when the issue is rewards for their cronies.
The behavior of the Jeffco school board demonstrates, once again, that elections do, in fact, have consequences. All those people who did not bother to vote in the last Jeffco school board election have received their just deserts. Unfortunately, it is their children who will have to live with the consequences of their apathy.
Guy Wroble, Denver
This letter was published in the June 1 edition.
This school board was elected by people like me who were unhappy with our schools and the direction they were taking. I have had four kids and grandkids in Jeffco schools over the last 30 years, so I know what has happened and I was very unhappy.
Ron Biggerstaff, Arvada
This letter was published in the June 1 edition.
The Jefferson County school board must believe in continuing the pay disparity between men and women. The previous superintendent, Cindy Stevenson, was making a base salary of $205,000 a year and the board is proposing to pay Dan McMinimee $280,000.
The wage gap in Jefferson County Public Schools is alive and well.
Kenneth Ayars, Littleton
This letter was published in the June 1 edition.
It's early and I promise to reserve judgment, but if Daniel McMinimee wants to be judged on his merits, it would be in his best interest to deviate from the new Jeffco school board majority's lead of secrecy and subterfuge. Unlike the board majority, whose first act was to hire a lawyer, McMinimee should address the greatest fears of constituents and staff: pink-slipping teachers and implementing unvetted changes to the performance review process, a la Douglas County. If that is what they plan on doing, then get it over with and confirm that the new board majority is, in fact, a duck.
Bruce Blakeslee, Arvada
This letter was published in the June 1 edition.
In its May 27 article about the hiring of a new superintendent for Jefferson County schools, The Denver Post cited "controversial reforms" that had been made in the Douglas County system. I would argue that the term "reforms" is overused and makes a judgment for the reader. It implies that there was something wrong with the system that needed to be fixed. The writer would have done better to choose a neutral term such as "changes."
Pamela Porter, Denver
This letter was published in the June 1 edition.
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PIANY: Cuomo's advice shows need for standard deductible triggers
ALBANY, N.Y.-Praising Gov. Cuomo today for reminding homeowners that they should proactively verify they have adequate coverage in the case of storm losses, the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc., once again called for legislation to protect homeowners from the problems associated with insurance companies use of widely varying deductible triggers.
The trade association, which represents thousands of professional independent insurance agents across New York state, has long fought to raise awareness of the potential coverage crisis and has sought legislation to protect consumers.
"We praise Gov. Cuomo for raising awareness of this important issue, and hope lawmakers will take notice, step up, and help New Yorks homeowners by standardizing the triggers each company uses to initiate policy deductibles," said PIANY President Rich A. Savino, CIC, CPIA.
The New York State Assembly passed legislation (A.3282-A/S.3387-A) sponsored by Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg this spring to address the problem, but the Senate failed to pass the bill before adjourning or before hurricane season began this year.
"The majority of homeowners are unaware that insurance companies use different triggers to apply deductibles to their policies. This means one homeowner could have a completely different deductible trigger than his next-door neighbor, and the circumstances for which each policy covers windstorm damage could be different for both of them," Savino said. The next storm to hit New York could result in rightful outrage from consumers over this complicated puzzle of windstorm insurance deductibles and triggers. We hope the governors message reaches lawmakers and inspires them to take action by standardizing these triggers."
PIANY is a trade association representing professional, independent insurance agencies, brokerages and their employees throughout the state.


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Preparation time: 10 minutes
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Frazier finds a home
Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier wisely jumped out of the GOP Senate race this week and instead will try his luck against Congressman Ed Perlmutter in the 7th Congressional District. It's a good move.
Republican Senate frontrunner Jane Norton will dry up all of the money in that race, and in the 7th, Frazier will get the kind of exposure only a multimillion-dollar campaign can buy.
He's only 32 years old. If he doesn't win, a strong showing and honest campaign could set him up nicely for future high-profile campaigns.
Even though it's extremely tough to knock off an incumbent congressman, who can use the power of the office to increase his visibility, there's definitely an anti-incumbent mood sweeping the country. Having been elected to the at-large seat in Aurora, Frazier should have decent name recognition in the district since a good chunk of it already has voted in two elections with his name on the ballot.


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Effects wow but story limps in 'Avatar'
By JAKE COYLE
AP Entertainment Writer
When a film brashly asserts that it will change moviemaking forever, one feels the urge to either take its "king of the world" arrogance down a notch or hail it as the masterpiece it claims to be.
But -- and forgive us if this sounds too much like the dialogue in President Obama's war room -- what if there's a third option?
James Cameron's 3-D "Avatar" has all the smack of a Film Not To Miss -- a movie whose effects are clearly revolutionary, a spectacle that millions will find adventure in. But it nevertheless feels unsatisfying and somehow lacks the pulse of a truly alive film.
"Avatar" takes place in the year 2154 on the faraway moon of Pandora, where, befitting its mythological name, the ills of human life have been released. The Earth depleted, humans have arrived to mine an elusive mineral, wryly dubbed Unobtainium.
The Resources Developmental Administration, a kind of military contractor, is running the operation. At the top of the chain of command is the CEO-like Carter Selfridge (an excellent, ruthless Giovanni Ribisi), who's hellbent on showing quarterly profits for shareholders. His muscle and head of security is the rock-jawed Col. Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), who curses Pandora's inhabitants (the Na'vi) as savages and considers the place worse than hell.
In fact, it's a paradise. In Pandora, Cameron has fashioned a sensual, neon-colored, dreamlike world of lush jungle, gargantuan trees and floating mountains. Its splendor is easily the most wondrous aspect of "Avatar."
Cameron, like the deep sea diver that he is (his only films since 1997's "Titanic" have been underwater documentaries), lets his camera peer with fascination at the glow-in-the-dark plant life, the six-legged horses and -- especially beautiful -- the nighttime frog-like creatures that, when touched, open a bright white sail and spiral into the air.
It's this sense of discovery -- in Pandora, in the wizardry of the filmmaking -- that makes "Avatar" often thrilling.
Our main character is Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a brawny former Marine who lost the power of his legs in battle on Earth. His scientist twin brother has just died and Sully, having a matching genome, is invited to replace him in a mission to Pandora.
He joins a small group of scientists led by Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver) who are attempting to learn more about the Na'vi by conducting field studies and doing a bit of undercover science. They've created avatars of themselves to go about Pandora as a living, breathing Na'vi, while their human bodies lie dormant in a sort of tanning bed (they return to them when their avatars sleep).
The Na'vi are a 10-foot-tall species with translucent, aqua-colored skin, 3-fingered hands and smooth, lean torsos. They have long, neat dreadlocks for hair and wide, feline foreheads. The smart freckles on their brow faintly light up like tiny constellations.
With beady headdresses and skimpy sashes, the Na'vi are clearly meant to evoke Native Americans, as well as similarly exploited tribes of South America and Africa. They pray over slain animals and feel at one with nature. Their tails (oh, yes, they also have tails) even connect -- like nature's USB port -- to things like mystical willow branches, horse manes or the hair of pterodactyl-like birds.
It's no coincidence that the Na'vi chief Eyukan is played by the Cherokee actor Wes Studi, whose credits include "Dances with Wolves," perhaps the film most thematically akin to "Avatar."
"Avatar," which Cameron wrote as well as directed, is essentially a fairy tale that imagines a more favorable outcome for the oppressed fighting against the technology and might of Western Civilization. Sully, who quickly takes to life as a Na'vi, begins to feel his allegiances blurred.
Though he has promised Quaritch to spy on the Na'vi (their home lies atop an Unobtainium deposit), he begins to appreciate their ways. He also falls for Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), the Na'vi princess and the one who introduces him to the tribe.
Many Na'vi are suspicious of Sully -- "a demon in a fake body" -- but they eventually embrace him. They accept him as a leader, even though he occasionally goes limp and vacant when his human body isn't connected. This off-switch makes for questionable leadership skills -- as if George Washington had been a narcoleptic.
The inevitable battle has overt shades of current wars. Quaritch, drinking coffee during a bombing with a cavalier callousness like Robert Duvall in "Apocalypse Now," drops phrases like "pre-emptive strike," "fight terror with terror" and even "shock and awe," a term apparently destined to survive for centuries in the lexicon.
These historical and contemporary overtones bring the otherworldly "Avatar" down to Earth and down to cliche. The message of environmentalism and of (literal) tree-hugging resonates, but such a plainly just cause also saps "Avatar" of drama and complexity.
It's also a funny message coming from such a swaggering behemoth of technology like "Avatar." As for the effects, they are undeniable. 3-D has recently become en vogue, but only now has it been used with such a depth of field.
The movie is also a notable advance for performance capture, which is how the Na'vi were created. As was done with Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings" and King Kong in "King Kong," the Na'vi were made with cameras and sensors recording the movements of the actors and transposing them onto CGI creatures.
Seldom has this been done in a way that captured the most important thing -- the eyes -- but Cameron employed a new technology (a camera rigged like a helmet on the actors) to capture their faces up close. The green, flickering eyes of the Na'vi are a big step forward, but there's still an unmistakable emptiness to a movie so filled with digital creations.
Ultimately, the technology of "Avatar" isn't the problem -- moviemaking, itself, is an exercise in technology. But one need look no further than Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" to see how technique -- whether it be antique stop-motion animation or state-of-the-art 3-D performance capture -- can find soulfulness at 24 frames per second.
"Avatar," a 20th Century Fox release, is rated PG-13 for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking. Running time: 161 minutes. Two and half stars out of four.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (-- A Tennessee man who appeared on "The Millionaire Matchmaker" is accused of trying to extort $2.5 million from a nuclear weapons plant in exchange for 1,200 slides that he allegedly claimed would be damaging if released publicly.
According to an affidavit filed in federal court last week, Adam Winters sent an email on May 8 to Babcock and Wilcox, the contractors operating the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The email also was sent to the FBI's Knoxville office and to Vice President Joe Biden, the affidavit said.
The email states that Winters has slides that contain "evidence from testing the bombs, to documentation on how much radiation was used on animals and contamination of the plants," according to the affidavit.
The Knoxville News Sentinel reported that Winters' family in 1993 sought money from the government and the news media for the same slides, which were accidentally left in an old storage cabinet sold at auction. The U.S. Department of Energy refused to pay for the slides, some of which show government research on the effects of radiation on animals.
Winters told The Associated Press in an email that he's the same Adam Winters who appeared as "the Beverly Hillbilly" on a Feb. 6 episode of "The Millionaire Matchmaker."
Although Winters said he was a millionaire entrepreneur on the show, the court last week found Winters didn't have funds to retain a private attorney and appointed a federal public defender for him.
In a telephone interview Thursday, Winters said he now has a private attorney, and he referred questions to the lawyer. The attorney didn't return a call seeking comment.


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Epson Desktop Scanners
Epson takes the 3 most popular scanners and announces New Year special pricing for the Epson DS-510, Epson DS-760 and the Epson DS-860 document scanners. All of the Epson scanners ship with Epson Scan Software, ISIS & TWAIN Scanner drivers, EMC Captiva Capture Pro Software, USB Cable, Power Cord and the provided roller kit to get you up and scanning in no time at all. All of the Epson Document Scanners ship with a 1 Year Manufacture Warranty.
If you are looking for a front office scanner or a scanner for the home office "SOHO" look no further. The DS-510 is a popular scanner for the low end scanner user. The scanner scans at 26PPM and duplex (Double Sided) Speeds up to 52 images per minute. The scan feeder holds up to 50 sheets of paper and can support up to legal size document scanning.
Epson DS-760 & the Epson DS-860 are very much alike for features and specs. The only difference in the two document scanners is the SPEED. The Epson DS-760 has a scan speed up to 45 PPM and the Epson DS-860 will scan up to 65 PPM. Both are Duplex scanners and support B&W/Color scanner up to 600 DPI Optical Resolution. The other most distinctive difference would be the Daily Duty Cycle. The Epson DS-760 is rated at 3,000 pages per day. This is not bad for a scanner that scans at 45 pages per minute. The Epson DS-860 is comparable to the Fujitsu 7180 at 6,000 pages per day Duty Cycle. The only other scanner close to this unit would be the Canon M160II with a Daily Duty Cycle of 7,000 pages per day.
People who purchase these types of scanners are usually scanning more paper than the small office home user. These users are scanning at the front desk or in a department that requires day to day scanning to maintain thousands of pages per day from stacking up on the desk or in a file cabinet. You could very well use these types of scanner in a medical practice (Healthcare), schools (Education), small law firms (Legal), (Manufacturing) small company or departmental scanning for large corporations.
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Affordable Date Ideas for Over-50 Daters
Copyright © 2014 AARP. All rights reserved.
Most people date quite a bit before they find "the one." Even if all your dates are just dinner and a movie, dating can get expensive. Some men and women split the bill, but if the man or woman is traditional about who pays, dating can become very pricey for the guy. There are quite a few ways to have an inexpensive date that doesn't feel cheap.
Here are a few ideas for inexpensive dates to consider:
Search the city for great food trucks. Finding them is fun, and the food is always reasonably priced.
Go to new wineries and get free tastings. The fancy established ones may have a tasting fee, but the newer ones are trying to build up a fan base, so they're usually free.
Join your local film society and go to free or cheap screenings of movies. This is one of the best values, and if you're a movie buff dating another movie buff, this could be the best date possible.
Explore "intellidates." There's so much talent giving free lectures or performances on university and college campuses that you'll have a hard time choosing among your options. Check the websites of local institutions for free or inexpensive music, theater, dance, and lectures.
Do something outdoors to preserve nature. Join a conservation crew for a day: Participate in trail cleanup or other environmental group activities.
Attend dog shows, horse shows, or agricultural shows. If your date is an animal lover, these events are typically free — or at least inexpensive — and a great way to bring out your date's softer side.
Go to your local poetry society, library, or bookstore and listen to free readings from visiting authors. Sometimes they're well-known, and the readings are usually intimate affairs where you can have good conversation about the poems or book.
Do something a little quirky and fun. You can put up a tent and camp — even if it's just in your own backyard! Or plan a picnic in your living room if you're not interested in really roughing it.
Experience the everyday majesty of nature. Get up very early and watch the sun rise, and enjoy a nice breakfast afterward. Or go see the stars on a clear night, preferably a bit out in the country where the city lights don't obscure the view.
Cozy up together. Rent the first season or more of a great TV series or miniseries, and make your own popcorn.
Cook together! Baking is particularly fun and sensual because the aroma is tantalizing long before you actually get your first bite.


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Once as common as backyard gardens, home canning declined as a mainstream kitchen activity after World War II. Today, however, it's making a comeback, and for good reason: It's an ideal way to preserve a garden's yield and support local farms by buying in bulk.
Beyond eco-benefits, there are health ones, too. For starters, you control what's in the jar. So that's sugar in your jam, not high-fructose corn syrup, and dill in your relish, not MSG. Home-canned foods can even have an edge over fresh; for instance, our bodies more readily absorb the antioxidant lycopene from canned tomatoes than from those straight off the vine. Plus, once canned, food is stable and high-quality for at least a year.
Expect your foray into canning (preferably with help from friends or family) to be hot, sticky work that consumes all your counter space and clean kitchen towels. But the rewards -- particularly when homemade chutney gives September's golden spark to a winter meal -- are glorious.
Supplies are sold at hardware stores, supermarkets, Amazon.com or Freshpreserving.com (the official website of Ball, the consummate canning resource). Expect to pay $40 to $80 for a complete boiling-water canner set. Here's what you'll need to get started.
1. Gather all the necessary equipment, and prep it in advance.
2. Wash jars and lids with soapy water, dry bands, and set aside.
3. Place jars in a large pot and cover with water. Bring to a simmer. Put lids in a separate pot of hot water. Leave jars and lids in water until ready to fill.
Safety note: Make sure to use a safety-tested recipe printed after 1989, when the USDA added new guidelines for home canners.
Today: Put up firm, unblemished tomatoes at peak ripeness. Tomorrow: Enjoy sensational soups and sauces.
Cutting an X in the bottom of a tomato will help the skin peel off more easily when blanched for 15 seconds.
Slide a nonmetallic spatula or chopstick between tomatoes and jar, pressing on tomatoes to release any trapped air bubbles. Repeat around inside of jar two to three times.
Cucumbers brined in vinegar solution and shot through with pepper and spice make spirited -- and addictive -- snacks.
When pickling cucumbers, it helps to lay jars on their sides and fill edges first, then center -- this keeps the veggies from falling over.
Use a pickling spice -- made from 3 tablespoons whole black peppercorns, 3 tablespoons yellow mustard seeds, 4 teaspoons allspice, and 1 cinnamon stick, crumbled -- to add flavor to canned cucumbers and other veggies.
Savor the plummiest of jams on toast, spooned over thick Greek yogurt, or as a chutneylike partner for sliced turkey.
A potato masher will come in handy to mix and break up ingredients such as fruit, sugar, lemon juice, and salt.
Boil the jam mixture -- stirring frequently and skimming scum off the top -- until bubbles slow, you can see chunks of fruit showing through the top, and the mixture clings to a spoon, falling off in languid clumps.
Check your supplies. Bands should screw evenly over lids; jars should be free of scratches or chips, which could cause seal failure during processing or sealing.
Don't reuse lids. Jars and bands can be recycled, but the flat lids are one-time use only.
Cool carefully. Never place hot jars directly on kitchen counters; the glass might crack. Use a dish towel or a cooling rack instead.
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We Read It
Sheet Metal Bible
This book landed on our desk about a month ago, and we've been perusing it ever since. It is a definite easy read and provides tons of good information without feeling like a textbook, or the actual Bible, for that matter. Information is presented in a series of vignettes detailing a few different builders making a variety of parts using steel and aluminum, from motorcycle tanks to Alfa-Romeo valance panels, and it is cool to watch sheets of metal get twisted, hammered, heated, shrunk, stretched, and rolled into shape. Yes, there are some expensive tools used in some of the processes, but there are a lot of clever, low-buck things used as forming devices, too. The best is an old tree stump one of the metalmen used to put a curve in a motorcycle fender (he also uses the seat of a wooden bar stool as a hammering block). There is plenty of good information on gas and TIG welding, too. Have a look.
How Much: $29.95
Learn More: Sheet Metal Bible, by Timothy Remus; Wolfgang Publications; Stillwater, MN; WolfPub.com
Carbs for Mods
What It Is: Carbureted manifolds and distributor conversions for modular engines
Why You Care: Yeah, so the engines are huge and hard to swap into early unibody cars, but that shouldn't stop an ambitious builder. Electronics, on the other hand, can trip up even the best of us, and coming up with an engine management system for a modular swap can be enough of a hassle to keep people away. The guys at Jail Bait Cycles & Rods are fans of the mod motor and are advocates of swapping them into things. To facilitate that, they've designed a sheetmetal manifold that bolts to the engine's existing lower intake, and they can make it to fit any carburetor bolt pattern. Jail Bait also makes a kit that allows you to bolt a distributor to one of the cams through a fitting in the timing cover. With a carburetor and a cam-driven distributor, there is no need for an ECM, expensive sensors, or laptop tuning to keep you from putting a mod motor in your car.
How Much: They'll sell it all for $1,099.00.
We Say: Now get to work cutting out those shock towers.
Learn More: Jail Bait Cycles & Rods; Republic, MO; JailBaitCyclesAndRods.com
Engine Hoist Helper
What It Is: The Pivot Plate from Mac's Tie-Downs
Why You Care: Make engine R&R a breeze with this new thingy from Mac's Custom Tie-Downs. You just bolt this sucker to your intake manifold and crank it to the angle you need to get your engine and trans out without scratching your firewall, fenders, front valance, or shins. The Pivot Plate was made to accommodate most two- and four-barrel carburetors, and adapters are available for LS and other fuel injected applications. It will lift up to 1,500 pounds.
How Much: Pivot Plate costs $149.95. Prices for the adapters vary between $50.00 and $150.00.
We Say: This is the tool used in the Car Craft Engine Swap Challenge at Holley's LS Fest.
Learn More: Mac's Custom Tie-Downs; Sagle, ID; 800/666-1586; MacsCustomTieDowns.com
New, Better, Faster
What It Is: An attention-grabbing headline
Why You Care: Because MSD has totally redesigned America's favorite spark box. The 6A and 6AL have been around for longer than some of our readers; it's a staple of the industry and one of the first bolt-ons guys with distributors do to their cars. The new 6A and 6AL are fully digital, so they take less current to operate but deliver more power to your plugs and can maintain that power through 15,000 rpm. The footprint is the same, but the height of the boxes is lower than the outgoing versions, and the connector is changed to a locking-type, sealed clip. On the AL, the rev limiter is now controlled by a dial rather than those little pushpins.
How Much: Don't know, their BUY NOW! button wasn't working yet.
Learn More: MSD Ignition; El Paso, TX; 915/857-5200; MSDIgnition.com
Take Back Control
What It Is: A mechanical throttle-body from Ford Racing Performance Parts
Why You Care: Because it replaces that annoying electronic throttle-body on '05-and-later Ford engines. This is awesome for race cars and engine swappers alike because you don't need to rig up the electronic accelerator pedal. Several versions are available from FRPP ranging from twin 62mm blades to twin 65mm blades. There's even a huge oval blade version. This will work on all 4.6 three-valve and 5.4L GT500-based engines, but you have to use a pre-2005 factory ECM or an aftermarket system.
How Much: No info yet. The electronic version sells for $679.95. We'll guess it's more affordable than that.
We Say: It's an NHRA-approved replacement for the electronic throttle-body.
Learn More: Ford Racing Performance Parts; Dearborn, MI; 800/367-3788; FordRacingParts.com
Fullsize Muscle Truck
What It Is: Hotchkis' complete suspension package for C10 trucks
Why You Care: While Tech Editor Smith gets to work on Project Sten, the compact muscle truck, you can get to work building its big brother. A C10 can look awesome when it sits right, wearing good wheels with big, wide tires. Make that thing handle with Hotchkis' new Total Vehicle Control system. It includes just about everything you'll need to totally transform the old parts hauler into a cool ass-hauler. Check out the tubular upper and lower A-arms, the monster sway bars, custom springs and the Hotchkis/Bilstein shocks. The press release promises supercar handling and a perfect, slammed stance. Build it and send pictures.
How Much: $5,280.95
We Say: Can't afford a muscle car? Build a muscle truck.
Learn More: Hotchkis Sport Suspension; Santa Fe Springs, CA: 877/466-7655; Hotchkis.net
Threaded Exhaust Clamps?
What It Is: Pro-Clamp exhaust couplers from Juliano's
Why You Care: We were intrigued by these things, but we're not sure how practical they are. Juliano's sells these interesting couplers in diameters up to 3 inches. Paraphrasing from company's literature: They allow the system to be easily disassembled to accommodate muffler changes or periodic polishing of the exhaust system. That kinda makes us think this is more for show cars. They look really cool, but we wonder how they would stand up to daily driving. A definite advantage to these couplers is the tapered seat design. It seals completely with no gaskets to blow out. Plus, they are made from 304 stainless steel, so with a little antiseize on the threads they'd give you years of trouble-free, and leak-free, operation.
How Much: Prices start at $100.00.
We Say: You can use a spanner to undo your exhaust instead of a torch.
Learn More: Juliano's Hot Rod Parts; Ellington, CT; 860/872-1932; Julianos.com


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you know what would be a good design an Atmega32u4 on a circuit board not much bigger than the processor it'self with a hole in the top left corner to fit on your keyring smiley-grin some kind of plastic any old house would be used to mount it or soldered on later on if required smiley - it would be good to be able to pop the device off your keyring and stick in the back of someone's computer and then have the program do "spooky" things..like move your mouse around and type messages from "beyond the grave" you'd need to be quick though, next time April Fool... move the mouse around say you have $1Million Owing, all you do is stick it in someone's pc at work or a laptop and walk off and wait smiley-grin - since you're able to control the mouse click the keyboard, you could have a lot of fun, you could include discrete components, eg a listening device a pizeo speaker on an analog pin.... or some trickery for system commands, think the Leonardo but on a keyring, you're essentially putting as minimal components with a bit of the board that sticks out and acts as the male USB plug, a little push clip to release it from your keyring, when nobodys looking, place it in.... since it acts as a HID, there's (not that i know of....?!?! and where if so? lol) no way of reading from other USB devices, eg, you can't keylog a user, i'd like to be able to press 2 keys on the keyboard and have the device perform an action?... i really hope i'm wrong because i got a great copy and paste tool using a virtual keyboard, but if i can't activate it via some key press to use the function there's little point really is there...cheap as possible in mass design, with chip, without chip etc, how about some kind of Vote to idea's put forward to actually prototype and sell, i'm not here to make money and if this suggestion turned out popular and you make a little fortune from it , all that i ask is one thing.... Send Me one or 2 smiley Please smiley lol... and if not you, whoever can or is willing? smiley
the chip can emulate a keyboard mouse > have a look at the leonardo examples for controlling mouse/kyb


text: In 1938, the discovery of a large, unusual fish turned the scientific community on end. Dubbed a "living fossil," the discovery of a coelacanth in South Africa shocked scientists around the world who thought this type of fish had died out millions of years prior during the process of evolution. Living fossils are organisms preserved in the fossil record that still exist in similar form today. If the core concepts of the theory of evolution presuppose change over time, then how can these living fossils exist for millions of years remaining virtually unchanged? Whether a shark, leaf, frog or crab, living fossils are a challenge for evolutionary theorists and create a fascinating debate among scholars. homeschoolers or easily integrated into existing curricula.


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Bonding is among the easiest and least expensive cosmetic dental procedures. The resin used in bonding can be shaped and polished to match the surrounding teeth. Tooth bonding benefits both your oral health and improves your appearance. It may be recommended for several reasons:
- Repairing chipped or cracked teeth
- Fixing gaps in teeth
- Concealing discoloration
The Bonding Procedure
The bonding process can be completed in one visit, usually taking between 30-60 minutes to complete.
- Initially, a shade of composite resin is matched to the shade of your teeth as closely as possible.
- Then, an adhering liquid is applied to help the bonding material hold to your teeth.
- Once the resin adheres, it is smoothed to the desired shape and hardened with a high-intensity light.
- Once hardened, some final touchups are made, and the area is polished to resemble the rest of your teeth.
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This is a great smoothie for people starting out with greens in their smoothies. Even though I'm not starting out, I have it all the time because it's my personal favorite!
- big handful of spinach
-2-3 peeled oranges
-1 peeled banana
-approx a cup of frozen blueberries
-1 small container of blueberry (or plain) greek yogurt
-water/ice to get the consistency you would like