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The Farmer-Helper (FH) backhoes are built strong, feature heavy lift, and major digging capacity. Built using Q-235 structural steel plate and heigh quality components the FH backhoes enable you to tackle any kind of job with confidence. They have advance features like a fully self-contained hydraulic system with dual filter system. Hydraulic systems is powered by your tractors PTO, 4th point top link stabilization system, responsive 4-way controls with exceptional feathering, hydraulic stabilizer, transport lock and a variety of heavy-duty bucket sizes up to 36" in width.
- 4-Way ISO Joy Stick Control
- Multiple Bucket Sizes from 7 to 36 inches
- Thumb and Ripper Available
- Self-Contained Hydraulic System
- Easy Clean Stainless Steel Hydraulic Filter
- Total System Design for Maximum Efficiency
- Backhoe Will Operate with Tractor at an Idle
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- Hydraulic Tank with Sight Glass
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- 3-Point with 4th Point Stabilizer
- Will connect to 3-Point Cat-I or Cat-II
- 12" Bucket Included, Exchange available
|Compact tractor horsepower
|3-Point Linkage
|Structure Weight
|1060 lbs / 480 kg
|1190 lbs / 500 kg
|Bucket Digging Force
|2818 lbs / 1278 kg
|2818 lbs / 1278 kg
|Dipper Boom Digging Force
|2105 lbs / 955 kg
|2105 lbs / 955 kg
|Digging Depth (2 foot flat bottom)
|6' / 183 cm
|7' 6" / 201 cm
|Reach from center line of swing pivot
|8' 6" / 260 cm
|10' 6" / 279 cm
|Loading Height (bucket at 60°)
|5' 8" / 172 cm
|6' 6" / 184 cm
|Transport Height (Maximum)
|6' / 184 cm
|6' 9" / 206 cm
|Extended Height
|9' 5" / 287 cm
|10' 2" / 311 cm
|Loading Reach (Bucket at 60°)
|3' 1" / 95 cm
|4' 6" / 118 cm
|Transport Overhang
|3' 6" / 108 cm
|3' 8" / 111 cm
|2' 5" / 73 cm
|2' 9" / 83 cm
|Bucket Rotation
|180 degrees
|180 degrees
|Stabilizer Spread (Up - Transport)
|4' 4" / 131 cm
|4' 9" / 131 cm
|Stabilizer Spread (Down Position)
|7' 2" / 210 cm
|7' 4" / 210 cm
|Arm Swing Arc
|180 degrees
|180 degrees
Other DetailsWarranty Information Betstco Products come with a 2 YEAR WARRANTY There is also a 2 Year Warranty Extension Available at the time of purchase for a total of 4 years. We try to keep the warranty process simple, you need your machine to work. Most warranty Claims are resolved within 48 hours, normally we just need pictures of the parts that have broken and a brief description of what was going on when it happened. Some parts are requested to be returned to us for inspection. This is a Manufacture Warranty Supported by Betst Products, llc. We provide support by phone or email during diagnostics, parts ordering, and parts replacement when necessary. We try to stock all parts all the time, sometimes parts do run out, but we have orders being delivered every week, so if we run out you will not be waiting long for a part & Air Shipping is always available. We inspect all products before they are shipped, this way we catch most problems before the ship to you. Consumable & Expendable Items (Rubber & Plastic Parts, Hydraulic Hoses, Belts, Tires, Cables, Blades, Tines, Wedges, Teeth, Tips, Chains, and Pins) are covered under this warranty for a period of 90 days against breakage due to defect under normal use. Hydraulic Cylinders, Pumps, Control Vales along with PTO drive shafts and Gear Boxes are covered under this warranty for a period of 365 days against breakage due to defect under normal use. FOR A COMPLETE COPY OF WARRANTY POLICY & REGISTRATION, PLEASE REQUEST BY EMAIL OR PHONE AT 1-877-876-7895
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It was very easy installation the only thing i had to do was shorten drive shaft 1 inch It worked great right out of box digs really well i will need more weight to rear of tractor when soil is hard as i have moist soil now i dug a trench 2 feet deep for electrical easily My tractor is a 841 ford with loader and i set mine just above idle to run backhoe off pto


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Canon has officially announced the 100D / Rebel SL1, which has become the smallest and lightest DSLR camera in the world.
Mirrorless consumers have not been too kind to Canon, as the EOS M has not been a hit on the market. However, the company has decided to take a different approach by announcing the world's smallest and lightest DSLR camera, as its measurements are closer to a mirrorless camera than to those of a DSLR shooter.
Canon 100D / Rebel SL1 finally unveiled as the smallest and lightest DSLR camera ever
The Canon 100D has been the company's worst-kept secret of 2013. Its specs and release date have been leaked multiple times in the past, making its official announcement a very formal introduction in the world of digital cameras.
Attracting more customers will not be easy, but the company is taking a huge bet with a very cheap price for a DSLR camera + kit bundle. The Canon 100D / Rebel SL1 and the new EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM kit lens will cost $799.99, when it becomes available this April.
Photographers who do not want to buy the new lens should be aware that the new EOS 100D / Rebel SL1 body-only will merely cost them $649.99.
Additionally, the Canon 100D / Rebel SL1 is even more exciting as it is 25 percent smaller and 28 percent lighter than the recently-replaced EOS 650D. It measures only 4.6 x 3.57 x 2.74-inches and weighs only 14.36 ounces.
EOS 100D / Rebel SL1 is all an entry-level DSLR photographer could ask for
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Canon says that the EOS 100D / Rebel SL1 can capture four frames per second in continuous shooting mode. The world's tiniest DSLR camera also sports the 9-point cross-type AF system with Hybrid CMOS AF II technology support in live view mode.
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Title: Damsels
Director: Michael Slovis
Writers: based on the graphic novels by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon written by Craig Rosenberg
Starring: Dominic Cooper, Joseph Gilgun, Ruth Negga, Glenn Morshower, Graham McTavish, Ian Colletti
Episode Length: 1hr
Network: AMC
Preacher picked up this week right where last week's episode left off. Viktor's men are taking Tulip captive as Jesse continues his search of New Orleans bars for God, and Cassidy continues to lounge at Dennis' place. This week's episode slowed the pace a little for the most part, saving the action for the end. Viktor continued to develop the story on two fronts; Eugene's adventures in Hell and the gang back here on Earth just like last week's show, and like that show, it had some surprises in store.
(*warnig spoilers follow*)
Hell is not a pleasant place and this week's episode provided a better glimpse of the show's vision of Hell. It's depicted to be a lot like being in prison is portrayed on TV. In fact, it's just like it. Something goes on the fritz, and all of Hell's inmates spill out into the endless corridor outside their cells as their doors open. They all seem to have a pretty friendly rapport, and it doesn't seem that unpleasant outside of them all being prisoners and it is Hell.
There's a bully who starts picking on Hitler and Eugene speaks up in his defense drawing the bully's attention to him. Eugene is subjected to ridicule for his appearance and right when it starts to look like things are going to get worse; a buzzer sounds signaling it's time to return to their cells. Eugene finds himself locked out his room and Hitler offers to let him hang out in his. He knows who Hitler is and the horrible things he has done and when he confronts him with the knowledge Hitler offers not an argument and quietly admits his guilt without emotion.
Eugene gets to see what Hitler's worse memory is and oddly it turns out to be a pleasant afternoon in a fancy little cafe in Munich. While Eugene goes unnoticed by anyone, A woman joins Hitler and encourages him to share his artwork with the owner of a gallery seated nearby, but Hitler declines to say his work is not ready yet. Suddenly the vision of the place evaporates Leaving Eugene puzzled by the innocuous nature of the scene he has just witnessed.
Eugene returns to his cell only to find out the problem is still not fixed and the large woman we met last week which seems to be in charge has him follow her to an office. In her office, Flanking her is a foreboding monster of a man who stands silently by her side. He only moves when she makes a point by showing Eugene things could be worse by showing him "the hole" which is a hole in the floor of her office. The hole, she warns, is where she puts inmates that displease her. She warns him being a nice, caring person is not acceptable behavior in Hell.
She sends Eugene to a prison lounge where he rejoins Hitler and the others. Apparently, they all get to hang out in this room while the problem is repaired. The bully is there, and he starts in on Eugene again, and this time it's Hitler who intercedes on his behalf. I suspected Hitler might have some unique ability in Hell and that is why he was brave enough to stand up to the bully, but that was not the case. The bully punched him in the face knocking him down, and he and the other prisoners start kicking Hitler while he is on the floor while chanting Sieg Heil! Eugene speaks up it seems to stop the beating, but instead, apparently taking the warning not to be a kind person seriously, he joins the others in mistreating his new acquaintance.
Meanwhile back on earth, we find Tulip arriving at an impressively large mansion, the home of Viktor (Paul Ben-Victor). This is Tulip like we have never seen her, she seems genuinely scared. We have been led to think this mysterious man is someone she wronged in such a serious manner it could cost her her life.
Viktor confronts her, and she apologizes but that he says is not enough. He gives her time to wander the house while she thinks of a better way to explain herself, She knows the place and the people. They are distant towards her and aloof. She finally gives in to being Tulip meaning she turns to being impulsive and violent, She gets a gun and finding Viktor she threatens to kill him if he doesn't let her go. His men tackle and disarm her moments later.
Jesse finally shows up at Dennis' and Cassidy tries to tell him that Tulip is missing, but Jesse is convinced she is just being Tulip and has gone missing because they're in a fight. He takes a nap and prepares to go out in search of God again when Cassidy spots the man who appeared in the vision of God back in the church appearing in a commercial on TV. They put two and two together and track him down to a local talent agent who is deaf to anything he doesn't want to hear. Pretending interest in hiring the fellow, they finally get the agent to admit he doesn't know where the faux-God is, but they find out he does have an audition tape which he gives them and when they watch it shows the actor was killed right after the audition. He was shot right there on the spot immediately after they agreed to hire him for the part. Jesse remarks they had to kill him to get him to heaven.
Right after that Cassidy brings up Tulip again and Jesse finally realizes she might be in trouble. He tracks down the location of Viktor's house and using Genesis on everyone he encounters he begins searching the house for her. He meets Viktor's torture guy who wears ear buds all the time and so Genesis doesn't work on him. They have a knock down drag out fight. This guy is really tough, but eventually, Jesse gets the best of him impaling him on a long metal shaft.
Jesse rushes to rescue Tulip who he finds sitting on a bed with Viktor chatting. The preacher is so fired up he doesn't consider the situation might not be what he thinks, so he hits Viktor and begins choking him. Tulip yells for him to stop but he continues until she tells him Viktor is her husband. Tulip's big secret is finally revealed for what it is.
This last scene is followed by a shot of the Saint of Killers as he arrives in New Orleans. He is shown crossing a bridge that leads into town. So much for things going at a mellower pace.
It was not as memorable an episode as the last few. The show couldn't be expected to continue at the action packed race season two has been going at since it began. It still portrayed a good mix of the dark humor and surreal events this series has become known for, and although it was measurably mellower it still had some important events and developments that added to the series narrative in an enjoyable and entertaining manner.


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Firefighters are battling to contain larger-than-usual wildfires in the Chernobyl exclusion zone as radiation levels spike at their center.
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Japan's New Environmental Minister Calls for Closing Down All Nuclear Reactors to Prevent Another Disaster Like Fukushima
Japan's new environmental minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, called Wednesday for permanently shutting down the nation's nuclear reactors to prevent a repeat of the 2011 Fukushima disaster, comments that came just a day after Koizumi's predecessor recommended dumping more than one million tons of radioactive wastewater from the power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
Solar Plant Opens at Uninhabitable Chernobyl Nuclear Site
A site once a symbol of one type of apocalypse is now helping to stave off another.
Ukraine opened a solar plant on Friday in Chernobyl, a little more than 100 yards from the power plant that caused the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986, AFP reported.
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By Kieran Cooke
It was the worst nuclear accident in history, directly causing the deaths of 50 people, with at least an additional 4,000 fatalities believed to be caused by exposure to radiation.
The 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine also resulted in vast areas of land being contaminated by nuclear fallout, with a 30-kilometer exclusion zone, which encompassed the town of Pripyat, being declared in the area round the facility.
A building in the abandoned town of Pripyat, which sits inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone.Ryan Roberts / Flickr
Solar Power Plant
Now two companies from China plan to build a one-gigawatt solar power plant on 2,500 hectares of land in the exclusion zone to the south of the Chernobyl plant.
Ukrainian officials say the companies estimate they will spend up to $1 billion on the project over the next two years.
#Chernobyl Could Become World's Largest #Solar Farm https://t.co/4RBpJDI4a9 @greenpeaceusa @Greenpeace @mzjacobson @sierraclub @NRDC @foe_us— EcoWatch (@EcoWatch)1470407874.0
A subsidiary of Golden Concord Holdings (GLC), one of China's biggest renewable energy concerns, will supply and install solar panels at the site, while a subsidiary of the state-owned China National Machinery Corporation will build and run the plant.
"It is cheap land and abundant sunlight constitutes a solid foundation for the project," said Ostap Semerak, Ukraine's minister of environment and natural resources.
"In addition, the remaining electric transmission facilities are ready for reuse."
In a press release, GLC state work on the solar plant will probably start this year and talk of the advantages of building the facility.
"There will be remarkable social benefits and economical ones as we try to renovate the once-damaged area with green and renewable energy," said Shu Hua, chairman of the GLC subsidiary.
"We are glad that we are making joint efforts with Ukraine to rebuild the community for the local people."
Radiation that escaped as a result of the explosion at Chernobyl reached as far away as the mountains and hills of Wales in the UK, and a substantial portion of the radioactive dust released fell on farmlands in Belarus, north of Ukraine.
Till now the exclusion zone, including the town of Pripyat, has been out of bounds for most people, with only limited farming activity permitted on lands that are still regarded as contaminated.
Many former residents of the area are allowed back only once or twice a year for visits—to their old homes or to tend their relatives' graves. However, a growing number of tourists have been visiting the Chernobyl area recently.
There has also been renewed interest in Chernobyl due to recent major engineering work at the plant, with a new steel-clad sarcophagus—described as the largest movable land-based structure ever built—being wheeled into position over much of the structure, to prevent any further leaks of radiation.
As yet, neither the Ukrainians nor the Chinese have disclosed the safety measures that will be adopted during the construction of the solar plant.
Chernobyl Wildlife
Ecologists who have visited the exclusion zone around Chernobyl say that there is an abundance of wildlife in the area, with substantial populations of elk, deer, wild boar and wolves.
Other researchers say there is still evidence of contamination, with limited insect activity and disease in many smaller mammals.
Reposted with permission from our media associate Climate News Network.
Legacy of Lies and Cover-Ups Leaves Nuclear Energy Revival Elusive
By Paul Brown
There have been three well-documented major nuclear accidents in the last 60 years, each one accompanied by official lies and cover-ups. There have been other less well-known serious accidents that have been so effectively hushed up that decades later there are only the sketchiest details available.
The legacy of these disasters is a deep distrust of the industry by many voters. In some leading industrial countries this has led to governments being forced to abandon nuclear power altogether, while others face such strong opposition to new stations being built that they have abandoned the idea, although they still keep the old ones operating, at least for now.
'Nuclear Industry in France in Crisis,' 20 Reactors Shut Down https://t.co/oGRWhZ4ZB2 @W_Nuclear_News @StopNukePower— EcoWatch (@EcoWatch)1478731810.0
This checkered history of the industry matters. It has caused a global split. While many scientists and politicians concerned about climate change believe that nuclear power is vital if governments are to meet their commitments to curb dangerous global warming, just as many do not.
The opposition is based on the belief that the industry has lost all integrity and credibility and that renewables are a cheaper, safer and all-round better bet. This view is reinforced by the inability of the industry to deal with its waste. Renewables can easily be recycled, but nuclear waste remains dangerous for thousands of years, leaving future generations to pay for it.
But it is the three major disasters that are at the root of this fierce debate. They happened over a span of 60 years and all had different causes. But all followed a familiar pattern.
The first was at Windscale in north-west England in 1957, when a plutonium-producing reactor caught fire. The second was Chernobyl on the border of Ukraine and Belarus in 1986: the top blew off one of the reactors and there was a serious fire. The third was at Fukushima in Japan in 2011, when an earthquake and a tsunami caused meltdowns at three reactors.
5 Years After Fukushima, 'No End in Sight' to Ecological Fallout https://t.co/aStkiZlZ7Q @foeeurope @DefraGovUK— EcoWatch (@EcoWatch)1457268021.0
Official Concealment
All three accidents had startling similarities in the official reaction. In each case the governments involved, the nuclear regulators and plant owners tried to hide the scale of the disaster from the public who were most in danger. In each case this resulted in unnecessary exposure of the population to harmful radiation.
Second, the possible long-term health effects to the people involved were hotly disputed. In each case this took the form, both at the time and ever since, of governments and the industry playing down the health risks.
There is still an argument about whether the Windscale fire caused a leukaemia cluster in children in the neighborhood. After Fukushima, governments and the industry claim, very few or no deaths at all resulted. Expect the argument to continue for decades.
Third has been the underplaying of the enormous cost and intractable nature of trying to clean up the mess. For example, people who are evacuated are told the move is only temporary, when it could last for decades, possibly generations.
Again, the official estimate for "compensation" for the Fukushima accident rose from ¥5.4 trillion (£40bn) to ¥8 trillion (£70bn), a fact only slipped out at the end of November 2016, nearly five years after the accident.
Technically Insurmountable
In each case, even after the Windscale accident 60 years ago, the clean-up of the actual nuclear pile that caught fire has several times started and then been abandoned as too difficult. They are not expected to be completed for decades.
There is no hope of cleaning up Chernobyl or Fukushima this century. A new concrete shell over Chernobyl to replace the existing crumbling structure should be in place by 2017 at a cost of €2.1—but this is designed only as a temporary structure, to last 100 years.
Governments tried hard to cover up what happened. At Windscale, the British government subsequently admitted it had deliberately covered up the seriousness of the accidents to keep its nuclear weapons program on track.
In Chernobyl's case it was the sky-high radiation readings from as far away as Scandinavia and Germany that led the Soviets to admit what had happened. Thirty years later the real health effects of the accident are hotly disputed.
Thousands of children have had their thyroids removed and there have been many birth defects and cancers. Belarus, worst hit by the disaster, is anxious to play down the long-term effects to avoid frightening potential foreign investors in the country.
The nuclear industry has been trying hard to put all this in the past. In response to public concerns it has come up with a whole series of "safer" designs for nuclear power stations. As a result, some countries like Finland and Britain are encouraging the building of a new generation of French, Japanese, Chinese and American designs.
This time, however, it is not just safety that is at issue. For the last 35 years not a single nuclear power station in the west has been built to time or on budget. It undermines the claim that nuclear power will be able to compete with other fuels on price. It has repeatedly been shown that, without government subsidy, nuclear power cannot survive.
7 Reasons #RenewableEnergy Will Soon Surpass #Coal & #Nuclear Power https://t.co/txOdDwM97J @UCSUSA @EIAgov @mzjacobson @elonmusk @solarcity— EcoWatch (@EcoWatch)1468503493.0
The latest evidence for this is the two new power stations being built in Finland and France. Both are nearly 10 years behind schedule and have more than doubled in cost.
The original claims that the price of the electricity the stations would produce would be competitive cannot be true. Wholesale prices must already have more than doubled before a single watt of power has been produced.
Yet, despite this track record, the nuclear industry hopes to keep on growing and claims it is expecting to do so—and many governments continue to pour money into research and development. They do so in the hope that one day nuclear power will provide a safe and economically viable method of producing electricity.
So far, however, there is no sign of the long-predicted nuclear renaissance. The costs of a safe design continue to increase as the industry and governments attempt to live down the legacy of misleading the public for the last 60 years. It seems that if the climate is to be saved from overheating, we shall have to do this without the aid of new nuclear power.
Reposted with permission from our media associate Climate News Network.
Three decades after the worst nuclear power plant catastrophe in history, a site in Chernobyl is being reimagined as a solar energy farm—one that would be the world's largest once built.
Thirty years after the nuclear disaster Greenpeace revisits the site and the Unit 4 with the New Safe Confinement (NSC or New Shelter). Denis Sinyakov / Greenpeace
The 1986 meltdown, which released radiation at least 100 times more powerful than the radiation released by the atom bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, rendered roughly 2,600 square kilometers of the area unsuitable for habitation. Greenpeace found that animals living within the exclusion zone have higher mortality rates, increased genetic mutations and decreased birth rate.
But in a twist of poetic justice, the Ukrainian government has expressed ambitions to turn 6,000 hectares within Chernobyl's "exclusion zone" into a renewable energy hub. The proposed plant would generate 1-gigawatt of solar power and 400-megawatts of biogas per year, the Guardian reported. The country is pushing for a six-month construction cycle.
According to
PV-Tech, ecology minister Ostap Semerak has visited the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) with the plan. The proposal has since been issued to investment firms in the U.S., Canada and the UK. If it gets the green light, the renewable energy farm will generate about a third of the electricity that the former nuclear plant generated when it was running.
"The Chernobyl site has really good potential for renewable energy," Semerak said during an interview in London. "We already have high-voltage transmission lines that were previously used for the nuclear stations, the land is very cheap and we have many people trained to work at power plants. We have normal European priorities, which means having the best standards with the environment and clean energy ambitions."
Three decades after the worst nuclear power plant catastrophe in history, a site in Chernobyl is being reimagined as a solar energy farm—one that would be the
Semerak said that two U.S. investment firms and four Canadian energy companies have already expressed interest in the Chernobyl's solar potential, the Guardian reported. The project is
estimated to cost between $1 and $1.5 billion.
"The EBRD may consider participating in the project so long as there are viable investment proposals and all other environmental matters and risks can be addressed to the bank's satisfaction," an EBRD representative said.
However "nothing is imminent," the spokesperson added. "We are keeping an open mind. But it's important not to read too much into it at this stage."
"The Ukraine has indicated it will open the exclusion zone, and we welcome that. Renewables are one of our priorities, and as soon and as long as they secure investment then we will discuss the project and provide co-financing," the bank rep said.
The renewable energy project isn't just good news for the environment, it will provide Ukraine some energy independence, as the country currently gets the bulk of its natural gas from Russia,
Business Insider pointed out.
If construction is approved, Chernobyl's solar farm will hold the title of "World's Largest Solar Plant" before Dubai's massive concentrated solar plant
catches up to it.
Dubai to Build World's Largest Concentrated Solar Power Plant https://t.co/rSqqIZWmrD @solarthermalmag @pvmagazine— EcoWatch (@EcoWatch)1465257909.0
The under-construction Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai will produce 1 gigawatt of electricity by 2020 with ambitious expansion plans of 5 gigawatts by 2030.
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From his California beach house at San Clemente, Richard Nixon once watched three reactors rise at nearby San Onofre. As of today all three are permanently shut. It's a monumental victory for grassroots activism. It marks an epic transition in how we get our energy.
In the thick of the 1970s Arab oil embargo, Nixon said there'd be 1000 such reactors in the U.S. by the year 2000. As of today, there are 100. Four have shut here this year. Citizen activism has put the "nuclear renaissance" into full retreat.
Just two of 54 reactors now operate in Japan, where Fukushima has joined Chernobyl and Three Mile Island in permanently scarring us all. Germany is shutting its entire fleet and switching to renewables. France, once the poster child for the global reactor industry, is following suit. South Korea has just shut three due to fraudulent safety procedures. Massive demonstrations rage against reactors being built in India. Only the Koreans, Chinese and Russians remain at all serious about pushing ahead with this tragic technology.
Cheap gas has undercut the short-term market for expensive electricity generated by obsolete coal and nuke burners. But the vision of Solartopia—a totally green-powered Earth—is now our tangible long-term reality. With falling prices and soaring efficiency, every moving electron our species consumes will be generated by a solar panel, wind turbine, bio-fueled or geothermal generator, wave machine and their green siblings.
As of early this year, Southern California Edison's path to a re-start at San Onofre seemed as clear as any to be expected by a traditional atomic tyrannosaur. But with help from Sen. Boxer (D-CA) and Senator-to-be Markey (D-MA), a powerful citizen uprising stopped it dead.
So did the terrifying incompetence and greed that has defined the nuclear industry from the days of Nixon and before. San Onofre Unit One shut in the 1990s due largely to steam generator problems. In the early 2000s, Units Two & Three needed new steam generators of their own. In the usual grasp for more profits, Edison chose untested, unlicensed new designs. But they failed. And the whole world was watching. In the wake of Fukushima, two more leaky tsunami-zone reactors surrounded by earthquake faults were massively unwelcome.
So a well-organized non-violent core of local, state and national activists and organizations rose up to stop the madness. At Vermont Yankee, Indian Point, Seabrook, Davis-Besse and dozens of other reactors around the U.S. and world, parallel opposition is escalating.
Make no mistake—this double victory at San Onofre is a falling domino. Had the public not fought back, those reactors would have been "fixed" at public expense. Today, they are dead. Worldwide, there are some 400 to go. Each of them—including the 100 remaining in the U.S.—could do apocalyptic damage. We still have our work cut out for us.
But a huge double-step has been taken up the road to Solartopia. There will be no Fukushimas at San Onofre. A green-powered Earth is that much closer. And we have yet another proof that citizen action makes all the difference in our world.
Visit EcoWatch's ENERGY and NUCLEAR pages for more related news on this topic.
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Inconsistency in Maintaining Plant Safety Plagues Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Union of Concerned Scientists
Many of the significant safety lapses at U.S. nuclear power plants in 2011 happened because plant owners—and often the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)—either tolerated known problems or failed to address them adequately, according to a report released Feb. 28 by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
The report, The NRC and Nuclear Power Plant Safety in 2011: Living on Borrowed Time, is the second in an annual series on the performance of U.S. nuclear plants and the NRC. This year's report documents the special inspections the NRC conducted in response to safety equipment problems and security shortcomings at 13 plants. None of the 15 "near-misses" that triggered special inspections in 2011 harmed plant employees or the public, but their frequency—more than one a month—is high for a mature industry.
In addition to reviewing the special inspections, the report provides examples of where the NRC did an outstanding job addressing safety problems before they could lead to a potentially dangerous situation. It also covers instances in which NRC negligence has allowed plant owners to flout agency regulations, sometimes for decades.
"Last year's record shows that the NRC is quite capable of being an effective watchdog that protects the public and saves the nuclear industry from its worst tendencies," said Dave Lochbaum, the author of the report and the director of UCS's Nuclear Safety Project. "But the agency too often does not live up to its potential, and we are still finding significant problems at nuclear plants that could too easily trigger a serious accident."
The 13 plants that experienced special inspections last year were Braidwood and Byron in Illinois, Callaway in Missouri, Cooper in Nebraska, Millstone in Connecticut, Monticello in Minnesota, North Anna in Virginia, Oconee in South Carolina, Palisades (two incidents) in Michigan, Perry in Ohio, Pilgrim (two incidents) in Massachusetts, Turkey Point in Florida, and Wolf Creek in Nebraska. The near-misses at Millstone Unit 2 and Pilgrim were the most threatening. Both involved an infrequently performed operation—a test of the valves controlling steam to the turbine at Millstone and a reactor startup at Pilgrim.
Three plants where the NRC nipped a problem before it became serious were Fort Calhoun in Nebraska, which was surrounded by Missouri floodwaters last summer; the Hatch plant in Georgia, where NRC inspectors found that safeguards instituted years before were inadequate; and LaSalle in Illinois, where agency inspectors identified a safety deficiency that had been overlooked for decades.
Conversely, lax NRC oversight has allowed some problems to fester for decades. For example, the report points out that nearly half of the U.S. fleet—47 reactors—still do not comply with a fire regulation the NRC established in 1980 and amended in 2004. Fire represents 50 percent of the risk of reactor core damage. In other words, fire hazards are the equivalent of the risk from all other causes of core damage combined. Likewise, the NRC is aware that 27 reactors are currently operating with inadequate protection against earthquakes. The two reactors at the North Anna plant in Virginia, which sit 12 miles from the epicenter of the 5.8 quake that happened last August, are on that list.
Although UCS reviewed all the special inspections from last year, it did not cover all NRC actions, so the examples in the report do not necessarily represent the best and the worst of 2011. Regardless, these case studies shine a light on patterns of NRC behavior that contributed to both good and potentially dangerous outcomes.
"The serious accidents at the Fermi plant outside Detroit in 1966, Three Mile Island in 1979, Chernobyl in 1986, and Fukushima Daiichi last year happened when a handful of known, uncorrected problems resulted in a catastrophe," said Lochbaum, a nuclear engineer who worked at nuclear plants for 17 years. "The fact that U.S. plant owners could have avoided nearly all the near-misses in 2011 if they had addressed known problems in a timely manner suggests that they and the NRC have not learned the lessons of these accidents. Someday their luck may run out."
Note—For more information about the safety status of each of the 104 operating nuclear power plants across the country, check out the Nuclear Power Information Tracker on UCS's website.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Aug 30, 2018: Sensational Country singer and songwriter Jamie Suttle is set to release her new single titled "Patsy was Right" on September 7 weekend in conjunction with Patsy Cline's birthday (Sept. 8)
"Patsy was Right" is a simple song about listening to records and feeling broken. Jamie Suttle beautifully illustrates the creative process and delivers the lines as if she's dictating what's happening as it occurs. The vocals are minimal and nice. You can almost see the words floating around in the air, rearranging themselves until they make sense.
With an outstanding talent, Jamie's credibility is based on her ability to be genuine. "Patsy was Right" has one of the most gripping and chilling lyrics in a song ever. Jamie's passion and dedication bleeds into her lyrics and they suck you into the story that she is a genius. This song will forever be etched into your psyche.
"Patsy was Right" promises to be a classic record. It is a song that will keep you at the edge of your seat and one you don't want to miss. The delivery, the simple effective melodies and everything about it just makes it an incredible song.
Jamie's touring band played on "Patsy was Right" and recorded it all live. She is currently shooting a theme based video in Historical locations in Dayton, OH.
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Lurker – Fix it!
Carrying on the theme of DIY democracy, this month we have 2 sister sites to last month's freedom of Information requests site.
Our 2 featured sites are fix my transport, and fix my street
Fix my Transport is still in its BETA or testing stage, but it is up and working.
You can use the site to contact any transport operator in the UK – they send your message direct to their Customer Services department. Of course you can do this yourself, but the advantage here is that they put the problem and the response on their website, and as we know, public information has a habit of getting things done!
Our other site of the month is fix my street.
It is like the transport one, but about problems like potholes, broken lights, blocked dropped kerbs etc on your street.
Have a look around, and tell us what you think
One Voice is run by and for disabled people, and has lots of information for disabled people, friends, family, carers, collegues, and anyone else who want to know about issues affecting disabled people's lives.
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VOX Amplification USA yas announced ToneLab Tour, a free CD that provides an in-depth audio introduction to the ToneLab and ToneLab SE amp and effect modelers.
The CD offers an audio tour of each product, multi-genre demos by VOX Product Specialists, quotes from VOX artists and ToneLab Support Documentation. Guitarists can hear what the power-charged ToneLab and ToneLab SE sound like in action — from their tube sound and amp modeling, through their range of effects capabilities — in the comfort of their own home or car.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
I Ain't Got No Monies
I have a job.
Thank my lucky stars – because I'm poor babies. Last night I was online shopping for some Christmas gifts and I decided to check my credit card statement. The sucky thing is that my credit card is through Bank of America. My checking account is through Bank of America, as well. So if I'm checking one balance, I end up having to check them all. Savings Account = zilch (thanks Starbucks!) Credit Card balance… smallish amount, but checking account… so small nearly induced a heart attack.
I saw the amount.
I hyperventilated.
I freaked out more.
And I immediately was placed back to 18 years old. Sitting in my car at a gas station. A man just pumped the gas then took my card for payment. I gave him my card. He came back. "This card was declined." "But that's the only card I have!" "Well, it was declined, you don't have any cash?" "No, I don't!" And then I freaked out, and freaked out – and had to call my sister to give me her CC number to give to the guy so I could pay my $10 for gas.
But, then, at the age of 18 – during the summer of 2004 – I didn't have a job. I was living off graduation money! And you know what I spent nearly every cent of that money on? Starbucks! I went to Starbucks everyday! I had a car! So, basically, Starbucks has been ruining my life for like… 6 years.
It took texting the first person I could think of that A) I wouldn't be too embarrassed to tell the amount of money in my bank account and B) who I know for sure has had the same problem numerous times… and them reminding me I get paid on Friday. Cause I have a job. That's right. I have a job. In fact, I'll get paid from TWO jobs on Friday! So, then I will be able to spend spend spend and rack up more $130 bar bills!
So now I'm okay.
Plus once I collect the nearly $500 that people owe me, then I'll be more than okay!
And also, I like some things about my job. Like, flirting with delivery guys! And, sending out emails that say "You have a package!" and giggling at the innuendo, and sometimes even referencing the innuendo or having it referenced back to me. And I like the satisfaction of a job well done, even if it's not a job I'm 100% into. I like knowing I'm awesome at anything I put my mind into doing – am I right? Great.
I had a Venti Starbucks drink this morning – RUINING MY LIFE – so I'm wired like a maniac. In a couple of hours I'll crash and become manically depressed. But until then!
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Frederik Neyrinck
- 1985
- Composer • Performer (piano)
Frederik Neyrinck studied in Brussels with Piet Kuijken (piano) and Jan Van Landeghem (composition). In 2008-2009 he studied composition with Marco Stroppa in Stuttgart and in October 2012 began composition studies with Clemens Gadenstätter in Graz.
He has worked with various ensembles and soloists like Klangforum Wien, Ensemble L'itinéraire, Nadar Ensemble, Quatuor Bozzini, Spectra Ensemble, Jan Michiels, Neue Vocalsolisten, Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon, Revue Blanche and Symphonieorkest Vlaanderen.
His works have been performed at festivals and cultural centres such as TRANSIT Leuven, November Music Den Bosch, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Gaida Festival Vilnius, Konzerthaus Vienna, ISCM World Music Days, Contagious Sounds New York, Acanthes Metz, Concertgebouw Bruges, BOZAR Brussels and Forme Uniche di Continuità nello Spazio Melbourne.
In 2013 the CD Works for Wind Instruments was released played by I Solisti del Vento.
He is composer in residence and one of the founding members of the Odysseia Ensemble, he is involved in TIK TAK TOE, a yearly festival for "recent" music organized at the art gallery D'Apostrof in Meigem and works with the Platypus Ensemble (Vienna) as a pianist.
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SUBJECT: Defence Cooperation
Australian Warship HMAS Darwin to visit Ho Chi Minh City
HCMC-Australian Navy warship HMAS DARWIN is to pay a diplomatic visit Vietnam from 28 September to 2 October 2009. The tour is expected to strengthen the goodwill and nation to nation ties between Australia and Vietnam through personal relationships established during the port visits.
HMAS DARWIN will arrive in Ho Chi Minh City with a total of 206 officers and crew aboard. The crew will meet with senior officers and sailors from the Vietnamese People's Navy. The crew will also participate in a friendly sporting activity and play Australian Rules Football against the Vietnam Swans at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Ho Chi Minh City Campus. While in Ho Chi Minh City, the crew intend to conduct charity work as well as explore the beautiful country of Vietnam.
Colonel Stuart Dodds, Australian Defence Attaché in Vietnam stated, "Since the establishment of Defence Relations in 1999, fifteen Royal Australian Navy ships have paid goodwill visits to Vietnam and these visits have been one of the highlights in the defence relations between the two countries. I am confident that this year, HMAS Darwin will have another successful visit and the crew will be able to explore some of this beautiful country, meet with the friendly Vietnamese people and enjoy sporting competition and professional interaction with fellow sailors".
HMAS DARWIN is commanded by Commander Christopher Smith, CSM, Royal Australian Navy. HMAS DARWIN is a long-range escort frigate that undertakes roles including area air defence, anti-submarine warfare, surveillance, reconnaissance and interdiction. The ship is capable of countering simultaneous threats from the air, surface and sub-surface.
HMAS DARWIN 's principal weapons are the Standard medium range anti-aircraft missile and Harpoon anti-ship missile, both of which are launched from the Mk 13 launcher on the forecastle. A 76 mm gun to counter both aircraft and surface threats is fitted forward of the funnel and one 20 mm Phalanx close-in weapon system for anti-missile defence is located above the helicopter hangars.
For long range anti-submarine tasks, HMAS DARWIN is equipped with a flight deck and hangars for two Seahawk helicopters. The Sikorsky S-70B-2 Seahawk is an all weather, twin engine, 3 crew helicopter. Its primary role is Undersea Warfare for which it carries a range of sonobuoys and can deliver up to two torpedoes. Other roles include over the horizon targeting, surveillance, boarding support, Search and Rescue (SAR) and utility operations. Its sensors include Radar, Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) and a Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD). For close-in anti-submarine defence the ship is fitted with two Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes.
The ship's sensor package includes long range radars for air and surface surveillance, electronic warfare surveillance sensors and the Australian Nulka Anti-Ship Missile Defence system. HMAS DARWIN is also fitted with the Electro Optical Tracking System (EOTS) with combined optical and infra-red sensors for detection and tracking. An Australian software based command and control system processes information as well as target data linked from other ships and aircraft.
HMAS DARWIN have been deployed to the Persian Gulf a record five times in 1990, 1991, 1992, 2002 and 2004. She was deployed to East Timor (Timor-Leste) in 1999 and was also involved in operations in the Solomon Islands in 2001.
In this 10th anniversary year of the bilateral defence relationship between the Australian Defence Force and the Vietnamese People's Army, it is particularly pleasing that Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh City have been able to host another Australian ship visit. This is further evidence of the continued growth in Defence relations between the two countries.


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Heike Makatsch
Heike Makatsch was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. At the age of 16, she debuted as the host of Viva, a music channel. Later, she would grace the screens of Bravo TV. Producer Detlev Buck realized her potential and persuaded Heike to transition to the world of cinema. Her striking penchant for the unusual marked films like Jailbirds (1996), Love your neighbour (1998) and Aimee & Jaguar (1999).
Far from being a one-trick pony, Heike, with her versatile performance, would be considered a true chameleon. Juggling thrillers like Resident Evil (2002) and Anatomy 2 (2003) with romantic comedies like Love Actually (2003), Heike breached acting stereotypes and achieved national and international acclaim. But if Heike still needed to convince the public of her talents, the role of Margarete Steiff in the eponymous television film of the same name garnered recognition from her peers. Along with an Emmy nomination, she received a Bambi and Bayerischer TVpreis award.
A multi-talented beauty, Heike Makatsch published a novel recounting her thoughts during the filming of No Songs About Love (2005). In 2006, Heike, a supporter of humanitarian causes, became the ambassador of Oxfam International, an organization that strives to fight hunger and social poverty.


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Andrew A. Smith
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DC Comics has released another clutch of books collecting stories from its superhero and horror lines, and master storyteller Scott Snyder has a gem in both Column A and Column B.
American Vampire Volume Five ($29.99) is my favorite, which should come as no surprise to regular readers of this column. In American Vampire, Snyder has created a vampire cosmology that is not only cohesive and (for comics) plausible. He has a lot of fun playing in the sandbox he's created, which is infectious.
This hardback collects the five-issue American Vampire: Lord of Nightmares miniseries and issues #28-34 of the ongoing American Vampire series. That means two separate stories, by two different artists, about two different sets of characters – all they have in common is that both use characters Snyder has previously established, and both are set in 1954.
First up is Lord of Nightmares, and – minor spoiler – that lord is Dracula. I really didn't expect Snyder to try to integrate the most famous blood-sucker of all into American Vampire, given how much baggage is attached to the name. But not only does he maintain the vampire lord's mystique without undermining his own mythology, he uses the character to explain why the Carpathian breed of the monster is so prevalent, and why so few of the other strains still exist. No spoiler here, I'd expect: The answer to both questions is Dracula. The hows and the whys of it are explained through the lens of the vampire-killer organization called Vassals of the Morning Star, who – in 1954 – had the Romanian count under lock and key.
Emphasis on "had." Dracula escapes, resulting in a strange-bedfellows adventure as several hounded-to-extinction breeds of vampire, VMS agent Hobbes, half-vampire Felicia Book and her no-one-knows-what-he-is-yet adopted son Gus find themselves forced to cooperate to prevent the vampire lord from creating an army that no one will survive. It's a rip-snorting adventure ranging from London to the steppes of Russia, tinged by desperation, fueled by past horrors and laden with foreboding. With Dracula involved, you just know it's not going to end well.
That should be enough, but DC has added the second story, featuring series regulars Pearl Jones (reluctant vampire), her aging husband Henry Preston (non-vampire musician), Calvin Poole (reluctant vampire, and also a VMS agent), and Skinner Sweet (the first American vampire, and not reluctant at all) battling a resurgent cell of vampires infiltrating the high and mighty of Beverly. Hills, that is. Swimming pools. Movie stars.
I can't say much more without spoilers, but I will say that this is a turning point for Pearl, my favorite character in the series. It's actually a couple of turning points, along with the introduction of a new Big Bad called the Gray Trader. That makes for a bang-up story here, while setting up elements I'm sure Snyder will follow in Volume Six – a journey I can't wait to make.
And while I was still smiling from American Vampire, I turned to another Snyder story I was eager to read. When DC re-launched its superhero "New 52" line in 2011, they wisely hired Snyder to write Batman, one of their most important books. And he promptly rewarded that confidence with a jaw-dropper titled "The Court of Owls," which ran for the first 10 issues of Batman, crossed over into a half-dozen or so other Bat-titles about halfway through, then finished up in Batman again – and in the process, added to the Dark Knight's mythos a spectacular new element, a chilling cabal that has secretly run Gotham City for centuries.
Batman Vol. 1: The Court of Owls collected the first seven issues of Batman and ended on a cliff-hanger, while Batman: Night of the Owls collected the stories depicting Batgirl, Batman, Batwing, the Birds of Prey, Catwoman, Nightwing, Red Hood, Red Robin and even Jonah Hex battling the Talons, the Court's undead (and sorta Wolverine-like) assassins, to a standstill. So you can imagine how impatient I was to see the end of the story.
Now comes Batman Vol. 2: The City of Owls ($24.99), collecting Batman #8-12 and Batman Annual #1. Thankfully, it delivers a satisfying finish, even for a story with such a preposterously huge build-up.
The first volume showed Batman and his "family" reeling from the Court's onslaught. This volume shows the Dark Knight counter-attacking, which allows for all those great Bat-moments Snyder is so good at. When the most dangerous man in the world sets his mind on doing something, there's really no other character in fiction quite so satisfying. And, while the Court is ancient, rich, confident and powerful, you know they're going to end up getting plucked.
Part of what makes this collection so good is artist Greg Capullo's contribution. Capullo may be my favorite Bat-artist currently, one who combines the power of David Finch (Batman: The Dark Knight) with some of the Rafaelesque rendering techniques of classical artist P. Craig Russell. It's a seamless mix, too, and the result is somehow both powerful and pretty.
Batman pretty? Well, sometimes, and Capullo makes it work.
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I'm getting behind on my American Vampire reading: just getting to Vol. 4 this weekend. Vol. 5 is the final collection after the series hiatus, isn't it?
I dunno. Anybody else know?
I'm behind, myself (just started vol. 3), but I'm pretty sure it is. I think #34 was the last published issue.
That means the wait for Volume Six will be considerable ... Nerts!
Are the backups included as part of the Batman trades?
Since I don't know what those back-ups are, I'm thinking "no." :)
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The famous singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, a friend of the late Martin Luther King Jr. and his family, has sued the estate of the Reverend King after the estate supposedly prevented Belafonte from selling off some historic artifacts that once belonged to King.
Belafonte claims that he is the legitimate owner of three documents, two of them speeches written by Dr. King himself. Belafonte says that one speech was left behind in his home after Dr. King had been working on it, and the other speech, which was found on him after he had been shot and killed, was a gift that had always been intended for Belafonte but which wound up in the hands of another friend and co-worker of King's for a number of years.
Belafonte claims that King's widow gave him the last document, a sympathy letter from the President on the occasion of King's tragic death, about 10 years ago after she visited Belafonte's home.
Belafonte tried to sell these documents at auction in 2008, but the heirs to Dr. King's estate stopped the sale, which has been postponed until the estate and Belafonte can resolve their differences. Belafonte's suit seeks an order determining that he is the owner of the documents and also seeks monetary damages. Belafonte's argument is that these documents were gifts to him.
One issue that may arise during a contested estate administration is whether a person received a piece of property by gift. Usually, if the person can prove that his or her dead friend or relative gave them a piece of property, he or she will be allowed to keep that property. However, proving whether a particular asset was a gift can be tricky, and in experienced professional knowledgeable in estate litigation may therefore be of valuable assistance.
Source: USA Today "Belafonte sues Martin Luther King Jr. estate," Oct. 15, 2013


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14-karat rose gold, this five sliced diamond pendant is fixed to a delicate chain. Earthy, yet luxurious, this necklace features five beautiful sliced diamonds, each surrounded by white diamonds.
- Fixed to an 18 inch, 14-karat rose gold link chain
- Five sliced diamonds totaling .65 carats with total .26 carats of diamonds surrounding
- Pendant measures 2 inches total with each individual sliced diamond measuring approximately .25 inch in diameter
- Natural stone imperfections shown on slices as customary for sliced diamonds
- Spring ring clasp hooking to three wearable length hoops (16, 17, or 18 inches), depending on your mood


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Inspired by the delightful flavors of spring and crafted with extraordinary detail.
Nearly half of all domestic abuse victims delay leaving because they don't want
to leave their pet behind, yet as few as 10% of domestic violence shelters accept pets.
The Purple Leash Project is working to change that.
Made with ground chicken, slow-cooked in a delicate glaze.
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Finely ground with real chicken in a savory glaze.
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The world of wireless tech and connected devices allows us to work free of cables and traditional wired devices. However, before you can hook up your smart TV or browse wirelessly on a tablet, you need to set up your home network.
This guide gives you the basic information for setting up a home network and explains what you need to go wireless in your home.
Wireless communication is the "transfer of information and data between two or more points that are connected by an electrical conductor". In simple terms wireless networking allows you access to the internet anywhere within your network. In this case it's usually around the house, via the router sent to you by your broadband supplier, BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Virgin, etc…
The ability to set up a wireless network allows you to avoid the mess of cabled connections. Wireless is mobile, reliable and allows for transfer over a longer distance.
If you're still accessing the internet using a cable connection and want to switch to wireless, all you need to do is upgrade your router to one that includes the latest Wireless AC technology.
As with the rest of the tech world, router technology varies depending on the models you select. There is a difference in the technology for the routers available in the marketplace, each type providing a different internet connection speed rate.
Check out our selection of wireless routers here.
Fast internet connection means:
- Webpages will load quicker when you're browsing or shopping online
- Uploading and downloading files, photos and documents will be faster
- Enjoy seamless streaming of video and audio without buffering
- Online gaming without lag
There are 2 frequencies that routers run on – some are single band and others dual-band.
Router also run on 2 wireless bands – 2GHz and 5GHz. You can think of wireless bands as bus lanes for wireless signal to travel though. With 5GHz, you will achieve the greatest throughput as the number of routers accessing the band is lower than that using the 2GHz frequency. 5GHz is like a bus only lane that allows buses to move through the traffic and congestion quicker, making journeys faster. The 2 GHz band is like a road with no bus lane and that is accessed by all vehicles including buses. The 2 GHz lane still works perfectly well but the 'traffic' that travels through that lane if much busier.
Helpful Equipment
Equipment available to set up the most efficient home network that ensures connectivity and coverage:
- Access Point: allows you to add wireless capabilities to a non-wireless router.
- Powerline: uses your home's existing electrical wiring to connect everything together, simply by plugging them into standard mains sockets.
- Wireless range extenders: allows you to extend your wireless networks to areas of the home where the signal may not be strong enough.
When To Use The Equipment
Scenario 1: No signal problems in the house, but want to wirelessly connect to your network
Scenario 2: There are signal and coverage issues in the house when connecting from upstairs for instance. In order to increase the coverage and signal everywhere around the house, you will need to add an access point to your network. The access point will use the same SSID and password as the router allowing the 2 to communicate.
Scenario 3: Want to be able to receive internet connection where signal cannot penetrate – a basement, shed or garage for instance then you will need to add a powerline and range extender to your network.
What about storage?
So you have backups of all your documents, files, music and videos, you can add a Network Attached Storage (NAS) Device to your home network. A NAS also allows you to access these files wirelessly, meaning you can stream media direct from the NAS to your table tor TV.
In order to make it easy for you to access these items from your NAS device, there are a host of cloud services available to you.
We recommend NAS D-Link's ShareCenter™, it lets you store and manage all your digital content and connects directly to your router, making it easy to share content with everyone on your network.
ShareCenter™ can be configured for ultimate remote access and management in the palm of your hand – simply log into your personal account via mydlink.com or mydlink™ Access-NAS mobile app on your iPhone, iPad or Android device and access or share digital content to your computer, tablet, and smartphone from anywhere.
ADSL vs DSL – which one should you choose?
For a while, voiceband modems were used to connect to the Internet. Voiceband was the old system that converted the digital data of a computer into sound signals. These signals were then transmitted through the telephone channel, when you connected to the internet.
As every user of dial-up will remember, the problem with this format was speed- It was so slow when it came to browsing. Thus, the DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) came into existence. This technology uses the same telephone lines, this time, made of copper, to carry data using a very high bandwidth. This not only increased the speed of transmissions, but the same telephone line can be used to make calls, whilst still connected to the network.
The DSL modem allows data to be transmitted and received at a higher speed. All that is required is that a DSL modem is connected to the user's terminal and a similar DSL modem is connected at the service provider's terminal.
Technology has evolved, and now an ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) modem is available.
The difference between ADSL and DSL is that data is sent and received at different speeds. It means that your modem sends data to your service provider at one speed and the downstream data, (the data that you receive from the service provider) is at a different speed- Hence, the word 'asymmetric' in ADSL. The service in general is tiered; hence you pay different rates for different speeds.
For faster transmission of data and in turn quicker browsing, downloading, uploading and streaming, ensure that the modem you have is ADSL.
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Rich Lowry has this on Colorado:
Outside the merits of the immigration issue — its costs, its implications for security and national cohesion — the partisan dynamic is clear: Higher levels of Latin American immigration benefit the Democrats, while digging an ever-deeper demographic hole for Republicans. Pro-immigration conservatives fool themselves into believing that being pro-immigration will make it possible for the GOP to convert large numbers of Hispanic voters to their side. This is a party strategy that could have been crafted in Oregon, since it amounts to a kind of partisan assisted suicide.
What does that have to do with Colorado? Read the whole thing.


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Dealerscope Hall of Fame - Anne Howard
Howard: Leading Sharp with Dignity
Those around Anne Howard say she knows her market. Howard, herself, says she is her market.
Not only does she own and use a microwave from her own company, Sharp Electronics, but she knows what she looks for in an appliance, which helps her identify the needs of others.
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Trial order of GN shaker screen will get a 10% discount before September 1st,2010.
GN supply replacement shaker screens of Derrick, Brandt, MI-Swaco, Kemtron, Fluids system, etc.
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Leading and Breaking Barriers is a dynamic speaker series promoting participation in undergraduate research. With outstanding, diverse speakers from academia and industry, the Leading and Breaking Barriers speaker series will share stories and practices of leadership innovation in STEM fields to inspire students to discover research, and to overturn stereotypes and misperceptions about what research is and who can participate in it.
Events are open to everyone – students, staff, faculty, and the community.
Leading for Equity in Higher Education
Oscar Dubón, PhD
Professor of Material Science & Engineering
Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion
University of California, Berkeley
Please RSVP
Oscar Dubón is Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on understanding the role of crystalline imperfections on the electronic behavior of materials for applications in semiconductor technologies. He received a B.S. from UCLA in 1989 and M.S. and Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1992 and 1996.
Dubon brings a dual perspective to breaking barriers. "I personally have been in the UC system as a minority student since I was 17 years old. As an undergraduate, I was exploring questions about voice and community....Obviously, I'm an engineer, but I'm an engineer with certain identities and these intersections really do matter. It's something I've thought a lot about over the last few decades when I've seen equity and inclusion issues come up over and over again.
"Engineers sometimes give themselves too much credit for solving the problems of society, but oftentimes what we don't do is really listen to all the voices that need to be at the table in order for those solutions to truly matter. That's something that's resonated with me for a long time — having this mindset of solving problems and innovating, but also taking into account who we're solving problems for and what is their role in articulating the problem and the solution." Quoted in Dubón aims to innovate as new vice chancellor of equity and inclusion, Berkeley News, June 22, 2017.
About the Series:
Leading and Breaking Barriers is a speaker series created by Lolita Adkins, Program Manager in the Undergraduate Research Center and funded by a Diversity and Inclusion Innovative Grant. The series is a collaborative project by staff in the CAMP, MCNAIR, MURALS, MURPPS, and UC LEADS undergraduate research programs.
The series is co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Research Center, and receives additional support from Undergraduate Education, and various departments.


text: Váša Příhoda (1900-1960) was a famous Czech violinist known for the perfection of his technique and the beauty of his tone. He was considered a Paganini specialist, and his recording of the Dvořák's Violin Concerto in A minor on the Supraphon Czech Label is still very highly praised. His artistry was controversial, and tended to polarise listeners. He studied privately with Jan Mařák (a student of Otakar Ševčík), making his first public concert at age 13, playing the Mozart's 4th Violin Concerto. He was said to have been given Niccolò Paganini's own violin on which to play. He toured Brazil and the United States in 1920, and the USA in 1921. Příhoda concertized extensively all over the world and made a number of recordings when the industry was in its infancy. Unfortunately, some of his recordings were not well-produced so the sound quality is poor. He played in the U.S. many times and was greatly admired for his style, dazzling technique, and finesse. Critics have suggested that Heifetz was jealous of him. His original recording of Mozart's Concerto kv.216 on the Cetra Italian label played with Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della Radiotelevisione Italiana, is one of those rare and sought-after LPs that he recorded. - Saulo Zucchello


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In the last few years of teaching, I have been persuaded by a few friends to include annotated bibliographies as assignments in some of my classes. Such an assignment gets students experience with some of the important steps of literary scholarship: finding secondary criticism and digesting it. While I could just assign the standard end-of-term research paper, that often results in students looking around for any quotations they can throw in to meet the arbitrary requirement of sources. I think that annotated bibliographies can provoke students to read the other sources more carefully, reading for the source's own argument rather than how it can fit into one's paper that is due in 12 hours.
In this semester's Reading Media and Technology in Contemporary Literature and Theory course (I know, it's an awful name), I have decided to ask my students to contribute to a group Zotero library. This has the advantage of teaching them a very useful tool as well as allowing us to share our knowledge with one another.
In particular, I am wondering:
- Should I require students to read not just articles, but one full book?
- Should I stipulate that a particular source may be posted only once and by only one student?
- Should I give them a single due date for the assignment or due dates following each of the three units?
Here's a draft of the assignment, and I'm interested to hear what you think.
Annotated Zotero Group Bibliography
This assignment asks you to summarize and critically assess 6 sources and contribute them to a shared, collaborative, online bibliography using the Zotero 2.0 beta plug-in (www.zotero.org) for Firefox.
For each of the 3 units of the course, you will find 2 articles or books that comment or expand on the texts and/or subjects we have been considering. An online source is only acceptable if it comes from a peer-reviewed journal. (Feel free to run sources by me if you are not sure that they are scholarly.) You should write a minimum of 2 paragraphs on each source. The write-up should provide a summary of the major concerns of the text, perhaps with a representative quote or two, and should indicate how the piece contributes to your body of knowledge about its subject. For example, you might write about how Hamlet on the Holodeck imagines the changes that will be made to fiction through the ever-increasing use of the computer and also discuss how Murray's work amplified your conception of the reader's active role in making meaning from any text.
At least one of your sources must be on something broader than a single text/author.
Once you have created your entry from your source in Zotero, you will place your write-up in the "Abstract" section of the source's entry. You should also tag your entry with your name using the "Tags" field. Finally, you will need to drag and drop your source into our class's group library.
- Download and install Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html), if you don't already have it.
- Download and install the Zotero 2.0 beta plug-in for Firefox (www.zotero.org). N.B. You must use the 2.0 beta plug-in. I have been using this plug-in for months and have had no stability issues whatsoever.
- Watch the video explaining Zotero at http://www.zotero.org.
- Join our class group (http://www.zotero.org/groups/reading_technology_english_465).
- If you'd like to know more about Zotero, watch a few more screencasts at http://www.zotero.org/support/screencast_tutorials.


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If there isn't a "World's No. 1 Mom" mug at Amy Satterthwaite's home, it's time to get one. The New Zealand captain has been on maternity leave since August 2019 expecting her first child with wife and team-mate Lea Tahuhu but, due to a quirk of the ICC rankings system, she has become the world's top-ranked batter in ODI cricket despite not playing a 50-over game in seven months.
The 33-year-old had been in glorious form in 2019, scoring 346 runs in six innings, including a best of 92 against Australia.
India opener Smriti Mandhana had held that position at the last update but she missed the recent three-match series against South Africa with a toe injury and has now dropped four points behind the new leader.
South Africa's young opener Laura Wolvaardt climbed six places to break into the top ten after her scores of 39, 69 and 23 against India this month. She is currently on the eighth position with 685 rating points. South Africa's fast bowling duo of Marizanne Kapp and Shabnim Ismail also strengthened their position in the bowling chart. Kapp climbed two places and occupies the fifth spot while Ismail gained one place to move to seventh.
India's Jhulan Goswami, who failed to pick any wickets in the second ODI and didn't play in the third, slipped four places and is currently at the sixth spot in the table headed by Australia's left-arm spinner Jess Jonassen.
Apart from picking up four wickets, Kapp also scored 94 runs in three innings that helped her jump six spots in the ODI allrounders' rankings. She is in the second place with 370 points, but well behind Australia's Ellyse Perry, who has 523 points.
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[Australian History, 783 words, Genre: Realistic Fiction/Mind Fudge]
* Image courtesy of Dirk de Bruyn
The prisons in England were overflowing. There were too many criminals and not enough prison cells at the time. This had something to do with how the English were managing their own country at the time. As a matter of effect, it always comes down to wealth distribution. Without proper wealth distribution, you create the conditions in which crime takes place. Without those conditions, without poverty, the desire to take part in criminal activities is lessened. So at the time, because England was not managing its problems of poverty at the time, the prisons were overflowing with criminals.
They didn't know what to do with all the criminals. And so they came up with a plan. And that plan was Australia. Captain Cook had just discovered the continent for the fourth time in history. The first time it had been discovered was by the native indigenous people of Australia. The second time it had been discovered was by the Chinese, who left it alone. The third time it had been discovered was by the Dutch, who also left it alone. For one reason or another, perhaps because they recognised the native inhabitants or they saw the continent as uninhabitable, they left it alone. Then the English and Captain Cook discovered it for the fourth time.
At the time England had this problem of overflowing prisons due to their poor management of the country. They thought to themselves, 'There's land there in Australia. We can just send the convicts there.'
I imagine they would have looked up the reasons for settling a country at the time. There were three reasons or circumstances that one country could inhabit the land at the time. Those circumstances were mutually agreed upon by the European nations at the time and those reasons were: (1) by persuading the indigenous inhabitants to submit themselves over to its overlordship; (2) by purchasing from those inhabitants the right to settle part or parts of it; and (3) by unilateral possession on the basis of first discovery and effective occupation.
So the King, Queen and whoever was in charge of England at the time got together and Captain Cook said that he had discovered this new land. The English were enthralled because this meant a resolution to their overflowing prisoner population as it came under section (3), which was terra nullius.
Now for the convicts who were being sent to Australia. It's not like they had a choice at the time. They were prisoners and being sent to a place unknown to them as part of their prison sentence. The guards didn't have a choice, because they were just doing their jobs. So off to Australia, across the seas, they travelled.
Now, when they got to Australia. The convicts and guards noticed the indigenous people. There would have been some argument amongst them saying something like, "Oh my god, there are people here, you said there weren't any people here. We have effectively broken the European nations treaty. Fuck! What are we going to do? What are we going to do?"
So they sent word back to the King, the Queen, or whoever the hell it was. I don't know what they really said in response to there being people there. Perhaps they said something like, "Let's hope nobody notices." Or they could have said, "Treat the indigenous people as you would your own." And from that point on, it has been a shit storm of cultural miscommunication between the settlers and the indigenous population.
Meanwhile the other European nations noticed that the treaty had been broken and so people from all nations migrated to the land. They migrated to the land for the gold rush and to take part in the bountiful harvest of land in the country.
Some people are still talking about it. Still saying, "We have effectively broken the European nations treaty. Fuck! What are we going to do? What are we going to do? There are people here, oh my god, there are people here." And then they turn around and see someone else from a different country and ask, "Excuse me, but who the fuck are you?"
"Oh, we're Russian." Or, "We're Greek." Or, "We're Indian."
And they're freaking out saying, "Oh my God! There are people here! There are people here!"
There sure are.
And just like with the convicts and guards at the time of Australia's settlement, they didn't have much of a choice in coming to Australia, many of them have little choice in where they live. Most people are just seeking a better life for themselves. And in the larger expanse of history, it was inevitable, as most things and progressions usually are.