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iMeter uses advantages of computer digital e-meters and adds a number of new features, which were not used in e-meter building before, but they directly flow out of the advantages of digital technologies.
We tried to get rid of anything unnecessary we could get rid of: e-meter case, cables from e-meter to computer and from e-meter to solo can, and left only things we could not get rid of: solo can, e-meter board and wireless connection between e-meter and computer.
Thus, the only logical variant remained - to put e-meter board inside solo can and leave only solo can alone, being the e-meter. To our opinion this is the optimum and most user friendly way of e-meter realization, which keeps the traditional can electrode for taking reads from the person's palm.
We didn't take into consideration other possible electrodes types, as we are followers of standard tech and established practiсes.
The only minus of such a solution is a bit heavier weight of the can with e-meter and battary inside, compared to empty can, but as we are speaking about the iMeter weight of around 120 gram - the average smartphone weight - we think that this additional weight can be neglected.
On the other hand it gives a lot of advantages. No more annoying cables and disconnecting contacts, preparing iMeter to work takes a second - just push the "on" button.
Finally a wonderful mobility is achieved - you can audit anywhere, just take the can in hand and put your smartphone in front of you. Cafe, train, park - all the world is open for your auditing.
So, iMeter is a digital computer wireless e-meter built-in inside solo can, which works via bluetooth and if needed via USB cable.
The second can is connected to the main solo can through a connector on the bottom side.
When connected, the two electrodes of the solo can are merged into one electrode and become the first can, while the additional can is connected as the second can.
The second can is connected with a short spring spiral cable which stretches when the distance between cans is increased. This is a comfortable way which does not restrain the preclear movements.
The iMeter works with computers, notebooks, tablets and smartphones with the following OS: Windows (all versions since XP including Windows 10), Mac OSX (10.7 and above), Android (3.x and above).
Unfortunately iMeter does not and will not support in the nearest future Apple iOS: iPads, iPhones and iPods.
This is due to the strict policy of Apple, which forbids to connect non-authorized bluetooth devices to iOS. We are trying to make iMeter available on jailbreak i-devices but it is not made yet.
For its work iMeter program needs the computer graphics card driver to support OpenGL. Most of modern graphic cards have drivers supporting OpenGL already installed. Sometimes older cards don't support OpenGL or don't have OpenGL drivers installed. In this case you have to download and install newer drivers with OpenGL support on the site of you computer vendor or graphic chip producer - Nvidia, Ati, Intel.
The iMeter uses a modern high quality bluetooth module providing reliable and stopless iMeter connection to computer devices in any can position on a distance up to 10 meters.
More than a year of tests of more than 50 users have not shown problems with the connection reliability on majority of devices of trusted brands.
On some devices of not so well know and mainly Chinese manufactures there can be problems with connection due to poor quality of bluetooth chip installed.
The cans are made of aluminium covered with a tin coating of 30-50 microns thick.
This thickness is enough for the solo can to serve for quite a long time. A layer of this kind and thickness allows to make a spare polish of the can.
Even if the coating wears off, underneath it is the aluminium case, which is also an allowable can material according to LRH.
Can replacement is also a simple act - turn off 2 screws, take out the cap with the iMeter board from the can, disconnect the internal connector - and the device is ready to be installed into a new can.
iMeter has a built in battery of 600 mAh which provides 15-20 hours of non-stop work of the device.
When auditing 2 hours a day, the device can work for more than a week from one charging.
A battery of this type does not make the device too heavy, the iMeter weighs around 120 gram.
On the upper cap of the device there are: power button, two leds and a miniUSB connector, through which the iMeter can be connected to a desktop computer. This can be done e.g. if your computer does not have a bluetooth module.
The iMeter is also charged through this miniUSB connector. This can be done with any smartphone charger with miniUSB connector, as well as with the included charger.
But bear in mind that smartphone charges are usually of high quality and quite expensive, so it is more preferable to charge iMeter with smartphone charger than with a less expensive one included in the pack. The one included is also OK, but who knows with these noname Chinese chargers..)) The included charger is more like the emergancy charger for those who don't have a smartphone.
The second can is connected through the mini Jack connector situated on the bottom of iMeter.
The iMeter has two indicators - work led and charging led.
The work led flashes when the device is powered but not connected to the PC and not sending data to the program. When the program connects to the iMeter and receives data from the device, the work indicator shines without flashing.
The work led color shows the remaining battery charge – if it is green, the battery is almost full, if orange, it is less than half full, if red, it is almost empty, charge is left for 1-2 hours of work and the device should be charged soon.
The charging led shines while the device is charging. If the battery is not charged, its color is red, when charging is close to finishing, its color becomes orange, and when charging is complete, its color becomes green.
Video Instructions:
Program installation: on Windows on Mac OSX, on Android.
iMeter connecting to computer via bluetooth: on Windows on Mac OSX, on Android.
iMeter connecting to computer via USB cable: on Windows on Mac OSX.
Download the archive with the program from this site, unzip it to any place on your PC or notebook, and "iMeter" folder appears in this directory.
To start the iMeter program double click on the iMeter-x.x file inside this iMeter folder.
Download the archive with the program from this site to any place on your computer, unpack the archive, after that the application with our logo icon appears in the same folder with the archive.
To start the program double click this icon.
You can move this application file to any place on your drive (for example to Application folder) and start it from there.
See below how to connect iMeter device to the program.
The easiest way is to install the program from Google Play. Open Google Play app on your Android device, type iMeter in the search line, in the list of the found apps you will see our red logotype, tap it to proceed to the iMeter app page and there click "Install".
Another variant is to install the program from our site i-meter.ru/en. From the site you can also install previous versions of the program.
Open our site from your mobile device you would like to install the program on, and download the program apk (e.g. "iMeter 2.0.apk") from the site to your device.
After download is complete, tap on the downloaded file, begin and follow the installation.
During the installation Android might tell you that you don't have the permission to install applications from non-authorized sources and point you to the settings menu to change it.
Check the item "Unknown sources: allow installing applications from sources other than Play Market" and continue installation.
You can go to the Main settings menu/Security settings yourself and check this item, then you can begin the installation once again if it was stopped. After installation is complete, an iMeter icon with our logo will appear in your applications. You can move it to one of your screens for easier access.
To start the program, tap on the applicaton icon.
Besides program installation you have to connect the device to your computer, notebook or mobile via bluetooth.
This pairing is done with the standard means of each of the three operating systems. If you don't know how to do it, watch educational videos on youtube or our video instruction above.
While connecting, the system might ask you to confirm the code sent to the device, this is OK, confirm it.
If you cannot connect the device with the automatic code (this is possible on older Mac OSX versions, for example), choose the option "insert code manually" and type in the code "1234".
On Windows, a bluetooth device is installed on a new com-port (communication port - a kind of a channel which the device sends data through) with a number (ex. COM26), and it will appear in the OS. You can see the installed com-ports in the Control Panel/System/Device manager in "Com and LPT ports" section.
You can pay attention and remember com-port number which iMeter device is installed on during bluetooth pairing.
After iMeter is paired in Windows, go to the iMeter program "Settings" menu in the upper right corner of the program window. Go to the "Other sett." plate and choose from the drop-down list the right device com-port in the "Choose device port" section. After this is done, click the OK button and this port will be saved.
After that click the "connect" button in the upper left corner and allow for a couple of seconds to connect. If needle is moving, everything is OK, if not, try to choose a different com-port in the drop-down list until you find the right port, on which program connects to iMeter and needle is moving. You have to choose COM-port just once, after that each time you start the program it will automatically connect to this port and thus to the iMeter and receive data from it.
Every time program starts up it tries to connect to iMeter device on the selected and saved com-port, if the iMeter is powered off at program start up, it will not find it and will not connect. In this case you can power on the iMeter by pressing the power button and connect it manually by clicking the "Connect" button in the upper left corner of the program main window. Or you can shut down the program and start it again and it will connect to iMeter on start up.
Mac OSX
On Mac OSX, the device will be installed on a com port with the name something like "iMeter-AMP-SPP", thus the right port in the program is usually choosen automatically. And when you start the program it will automatically connect to the iMeter.
If this is not the case, just choose the port named "iMeter-AMP-SPP" in the drop down list as explained above. Click OK and the port will be saved. Afterwards the program will always connect to this port on start up or when "Connect" button is clicked.
In Android, after you installed the program and paired the iMeter, you just switch on bluetooth and iMeter and start the program. It will connect to the iMeter automatically.
You can also use the connect/disconnect button in the upper left corner to connect or disconnect the device.
For this, in Windows you will have to download a USB port driver from our site and install it.
Unzip the archive with the driver. In the unzipped folder you will see 2 files – drivers for 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows. Install the file corresponding to your OS.
To learn which OS you have – 32 or 64 bit - watch educational videos on youtube or our video instructions above.
After installing the driver you can connect the iMeter to your PC with a miniUSB - USB cable (included).
Connect and switch on iMeter or visa versa. The OS will install the device on a new com-port.
You can see all installed com-ports in Control Panel/System/Device Manager in the "Com and LPT ports" section. The needed port will have the name something like STMicroelectronics Virtual COM Port (COM26), remember COM26.
Go to iMeter program Settings (click Settings button in the upper right corner of the program, below Time), go to the "Other Sett." plate and choose this port "COM26", for example, in the drop down list in the "Choose device port" section, click OK. Now the program will automatically connect to this port either on start up or when "Connect" button is clicked manually in the upper left corner of the program window.
Mac OSX
In Mac OSX you don't need any drivers.
Connect the iMeter by USB cable, OS will install the device automatically.
After it is installed choose the right port in iMeter program Settings, as described above. It will have the name something like "usbmodem<number>".
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|Program can not be installed
Contact us by e-mail indicated on the site.
Your OS is not supported, check the supported OS list above.
The program needs graphics card OpenGL driver to work, some older computers have drivers or graphics card without OpenGL support. So you should try to install a newer driver with OpenGL support, or a newer graphics card.
This can happen also due to viruses in your OS, which destroyed some system files. If you have old computer and haven't reinstalled your OS (Windows for example) for many years, this can be a possible case.
Text in the program looks blurred and noncontrast
This shows that your graphic card driver doesn't support OpenGL, which is needed for program to work.
90% of graphic cards have newer drivers with OpenGL support, so please download newer driver from the site of your graphic card chip manufacturer (Intel, Ati, Nvidia) and install it.
|Device doesn't connect to PC
Read or watch device connection instruction and try again.
If it doesn't help, ask some computer enthusiast or specialist to help you, if it also doesn't bring to a result, connect us by e-mail.
Device worked, the needle was moving, but then it stoped working, needle is not moving, no connection to device.
After device disconnection it can not be connected again
Try the following:
1) Check if the device is switched off.
2) Click "Connect" button in the upper left corner of program window or close it and start again. The program will again establish connection to the device, if it was lost for example due to device was switched off.
3) I doesn't help, restart the device (switch it off and then on again). Sometimes after restarting the device OS can have failure to recognise it, usually it can happen if you restard device, connected to computer, several times in a short period of time. Another restart usually solves this problem.
4) Eject and insert again USB cable if device is connected by USB.
5) Restart bluetooth module in PC or mobile. It should solve the problem if it is caused by failure in bluetooth module.
6) Restart PC or mobile. Will solve if the cause of problem is bluetooth module or Windows or Android OS failure.
7) Delete iMeter from the list of bluetooth devices and re-connect it again.
8) Delete and re-install USB driver for Windows.
Using the last two quite radical methods (reinstalling device in the OS) is a very rare ocasion, but this happened in my practise a couple of times during development. Sometimes Windows connection settings are damaged due to some Windows failures and so on. This should mainly happen due to often installations and deinstallations of device, which are needed during development and testing.
The most widespread case is failure #3, which is solved with device restart.
Bluetooth connection is poor and not stable, deviсe disconnects periodically.
Needle seals and reacts poorly
Bad needle reaction, when it seal and doesn't react normally is caused by poor bluetooth connection.
This is due to poor bluetooth module installed in your desktop or mobile. Usually it happens with not well known chinese brands. Most devices of well known brands are equiped with good and modern bluetooth modules which allow the device to work well on a distance of up to 10-15 meters.
You can check the quality of your bluetooth module by checking how far from your PC or mobile iMeter can work. If this distance is considerable and iMeter works well at least 5-7 meters away from your tablet for example, you can be sure that it will work perfectly OK on its usual usage distance of 1 meter.
|The needle has horisontal gaps during its movement
You need to solve problems with monitor/graphics card vertical syncronisation, possibly with the help of computer specialist.
For example some programs recording screen video can change sync settings and bring to such situation. After stopping this program and restating PC, the settings should come to normal.
Session counter speed is faster than normal (usually around 2 times)
I ancounted this effect, when using screen video regording program. On some of its settings such programs insert changes in PC sync and timings and cause the mentioned effect along with screen desyncronization and the needle gaps.
Possibly some other programs can insert such sync settings changes. After PC restart in my case the settings returned to normal and the effects disappeared.
You think that iMeter shows wrong TA - for example raises it too high
This is not possible if the device is not damaged, as it doesn't need calibration. The action principle of modern ADC (anolog-digital converters) is based on continuous self calibration, each measurement is achived in the process of ADC calibrating itself unless is signal is equal to the signal of measured object. Thats why measurements can not go away from the right ones during usage.
If TA shown is really wrong, then the cause of it most likely is the defective cable connectiong device plate and the solo-can.
You can check if TA is right very easily - just buy in any electronics shop a 1% resistor for 5 or 12,5 kOhm, and then close two halfs of the solo-can with this resistor (pay attention not to hold it with a naked hand or it will show the resistance of your body also - do it through some isolator - a piece of paper, etc.). The program should show TA 2 or 3, plus-minus (resistor inaccuracy can be 1% or even 5%, if it is 5% the differene can be up to 0.15 TA). If it so, then device shows perfectly right TA and you can use it.
If TA differs from this value for more than 0.15 TA for 5% resistor or 0,03 TA for 1% resistor, you need to contact us to remove this defect of the cable contact.
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ISLAMABAD – Ministry of Housing and Works has launched an operation against the illegal occupants of the Federal Lodges and Gulshan-e-Jinnah.
According to sources, three cases of illegal occupation of lodges had arisen in Gulshan-e-Jinnah and action is being taken against them. The residents of the lodges, who had not paid rent of their residences for long now, had also been served notices, while a strict action would be taken against the defaulters, the sources added.
The Housing Ministry wrote a letter to the Pakistan Public Works Department (Pak PWD) for the renovation of and maintenance of Federal Lodges, Gulshan-e-Jinnah and Fatima Hostel.
The letter written to the Director General of the Pak PWD stated that the condition of buildings of the government residences was not up to the mark, the sources said.
The ministry asked the Pak PWD to renovate and redecorate the buildings and change the old furniture.

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"1% Of One" by Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks which clocks in at 9:13
Achtung! We are set for another guest post here on EAR FARM's 8+ series. This one comes to us from my good friend Mike. You may remember reading a contribution or two (or three or four) from him here on EF in the past... If you missed those previous posts, fear not. I'll tell you all you need to know in one simple sentence: Mike's immense desire to stalk and grope Stephen Malkmus is only surpassed by his immense desire to talk about Stephen Malkmus and the music he makes. And I'm only half joking. Excited? Heck yes. Want to contribute yourself? Go ahead then, send me something. In the meantime, let's have your full attention focused on Mike.
1% Of One. The title alone scares up an image of the Malkman chewing on a pen cap and thinking of clever new ways to smoosh words and phrases together as a reminder that he's smarter than us. How much is 1% of one? I try not to think about that; math slows my breathing. Just say it out loud though - 1% Of One - sounds cool, right?Buy Pig Lib HERE on Amazon.
Yes, and the actual song sounds nice too. Real nice. And isn't that the point? How much meaning are we to glean from a blind soundman in the Netherlands mixing a record that sounds both a bit like the Zephyrs and a bit like the Jicks? I don't know. I don't think Malkmus knew either, which is why at around 1:08 he nudges and winks at us saying, "And there my friend the story ends, short though I know it may be," and then proceeds to shred our collective faces for nearly the next eight minutes with an absolutely jamming breakdown.
Here is the fact: Malkmus is the best guitar player on the face of this earth. No, he doesn't have his own model of Fender Strat like Yngwie Malmsteen (or even the guy from Blink-182 for that matter). No, he's not the most technically efficient. You won't see a Malkmus DVD showing on loop behind the counter at Guitar Center. But, similar to his way with words, he has an uncanny ability to attack melodies, toying with them and rearranging them in such a tasteful and endearingly sloppy way that you can't help but want to drink a bottle of Robitussen and play along on air guitar.
And there my friend the story ends, short though I know its not. Over nine minutes of Malkmus perfection. Carry on.
EAR FARM's 8+ is a weekly feature that showcases songs longer than 8 minutes. In the recent past these songs were featured on EF's 8+:
British Sea Power - "Lately"
Islands - "Swans"
Isolée - "Pillowtalk"
Animal Collective - "Banshee Beat"
Wilderness - "Post Plethoric Rhetoric"
The Wedding Present - "Interstate 5"
Sleater-Kinney - "Let's Call It Love"
My Morning Jacket - "Dondante"
Wilco - "Spiders (Kidsmoke)"
Isis - "From Sinking"
Lemon Jelly - "A Tune For Jack"
Herbie Hancock - "Sly"
New Order - "Temptation"
Polvo - "El Rocio"
Pulp - "Countdown"
Morrissey - "The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils"
Dungen - "Du är för fin för mig"
Loose Fur - "Wreckroom"
The Who - "A Quick One, While He's Away"
Destroyer - "Rubies"
Neu! - "Fuer Immer (forever)"
Iggy Pop - "Mass Production"
The Cure - "Fascination Street" (Extended Mix)
Yo La Tengo - "Let's Be Still"
George Michael - "I Want Your Sex, Pts. 1 &2"
Digital Underground - "Doowutchyalike"


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Salma Hayek without makeup before and after.
She always looks good with or without makeup. There's some very subtle aging on Salma Hayek's face, but it's not much. Even with makeup on, she wears a pretty modest amount. Salma Hayek has always been a natural beauty and always will be.


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Gudiyattam is a small town in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The nearest major urban agglomerations are the cities of Vellore and Bangalore at the distances of 32 km east and 169 km west respectively. One will have to pass through this town while heading to Bangalore from Chennai or vice versa. Travellers can stop by in order to grab a bite here.
Places to Stay
Despite the medical town of Vellore being close-by, the best place to put up in the area would be Bangalore. There are a couple of good budget hotels in the city. Some of the options which are worth a try are Suntrupthi Residency (Tariff – Rs. 950), Citizen Lodge (Tariff – Rs. 850), The Royal Nest (Tariff – Rs. 900), Vijaya Residency (Tariff – Rs. 900) and others.
The official language of the area is Tamil. English and Hindi are also understood and widely spoken.
The important festivals of the area are Pongal in January, Ganesh Chathurthi in August-September, Diwali in October-November, the fasting month of Ramadan, the two Eid(s), Easter and Christmas.
Places of Interest
Places of interest in the area are Gangai Amman Temple and the 1000-year old Arulmugu Punganoor Amman Temple. Some of the places worth trying out in Bangalore are Bangalore Palace, Lal Bagh, Cubbon Park, Bannerghatta National Park and Vidhana Soudha. Hosur can also be accessed by those who want to experience the pleasant England-like weather of the town. Wonderla Amusement Park at a distance of 28 km is popular with youngsters and children looking for a break on weekends.
How to Get There
The nearest airport is the Chennai International Airport in Bangalore at a distance of 159 km.
The town has its own railway station. The major stop nearby is Vellore Town Railway Station in Vellore at a distance of 33 km.
Various state transport buses as well as private buses pass through the area. SRS Travels is one of the major operators in the city as well as the region. Buses to the area are available from both Chennai as well as Bangalore. Opt for online bus reservation through Ticketgoose.com and avail of a number of discounts.


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It seems like it is only a matter of time before mobs of incredibly violent teens manage to beat someone to death in Memphis, Tennessee.
A man by the name of Orrden Williams Jr. was the latest victim of a mob attack, swarmed for doing nothing more than walking an elderly woman to her car:
A man was viciously attacked in broad daylight by a mob of teenagers while helping an elderly woman at a gas station.
Orrden Williams Jr. recounted his frightening experience tonight with Sean Hannity.
He said that an elderly woman told him that she was nervous about walking to her car alone from inside the Memphis, TN gas station's store.
Williams explained that the woman was scared of a group of teenagers who were outside loitering and throwing gang signs, so he decided to walk the woman to her car.
As soon as he stepped outside with the woman, the teens charged and began violently attacking him with punches and kicks.
Williams told Hannity that he considered using the gun he had in his car to protect himself and his family, who were inside his vehicle at the time of the attack.
Williams made the decision to leave his sidearm in his vehicle when he entered the store, and that decision nearly cost him his life. One good punch or kick to the head during this mob attack could have rendered him permanently disabled or dead.
This sort of mob attack isn't new in Memphis, but is part of an increasingly violent series of actions by violent young criminals who attack law-abiding citizens for their amusement, without regard for life.
In early September, another mob of young criminals attacked a man outside a Memphis Kroger without provocation, and also attacked the Kroger employees that attempted to rescue him. The customer and one of the employees were knocked unconscious, and could have easily been killed.
In late September, another teen mob attacked Memphis citizens without provocation. Sharon Mourning, one of the victims of the attack, warned that if the violent mobs weren't controlled, Memphis was going to burn.
These violent mobs don't appear to have racial motives, and are simply attacking random people on a whim for their depraved amusement.
The only rational response to these attacks—since neither the Memphis government nor police nor parents of these violent teens seem to be able contain them—is for citizens to carry duty-grade, regular-capacity handguns on their bodies for their person protection at all times against mob attack.


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The US bishops stick with a losing political strategy
By Phil Lawler | October 04, 2011 4:54 PM
My college tennis coach never tired of repeating his simple strategic guide: "Never change a winning game; always change a losing game." If what you're doing is not working, he said—and his logic was impeccable—you should be doing something else.
That advice came to my mind when I learned today that the US bishops are re-releasing their voter guide from 2007: the oft-criticized Faithful Citizenship.
My eyes glazed over when I first tried to read the entire 44-page text of Faithful Citizenship, when it first appeared on the scene in the fall of 2007. In their instructions to voters, the bishops dutifully call for opposition to abortion. But they mix that admonition with so many other considerations that the overall effect is weak. Faithful Citizenship does not draw the necessary, clear distinction between the issues on which good Catholics might disagree (such as economic policy) and those that are non-negotiable (such as abortion)—not to mention the distinction between issues on which prudent compromise is wise (economics again) and those on which compromise is odious (abortion again).
Faithful Citizenship was itself clearly a compromise of sorts, cobbled together to maintain the peace within the bishops' conference. The final document was not entirely satisfactory to anyone on either end of the political spectrum, nor did it prevent public disagreements about American bishops during the ensuring election year.
And the net effect? Archbishop Raymond Burke believes that Faithful Citizenship helped ensure the election of President Obama, since the crucial Catholic vote swung toward the Democratic candidate. But that may be an exaggeration; survey results show that most Catholic voters were blissfully unaware of the bishops' advice, and probably would have ignored that advice even if they had heard it.
By any reasonable standard, Faithful Citizenship cannot be classified as a resounding success. So why would the bishops want to issue the same questionable advice again this year? Consider what has happened in the four years since the guide was first published. The new presidential administration (which may have been installed in part because of Faithful Citizenship) has been relentless in promoting abortion and trampling on Christian consciences. Catholic voters today are even more likely to ignore their bishops' advice; Catholic politicians are even more likely to ignore the moral teachings of their Church.
Does this sound to you like a winning game? As my old coach reasoned, time and again: "If you're losing, and you keep doing the same thing, you're likely to keep losing."


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*this is me deliberating :)
I really liked the image of the "elf" dude with the light. It would be cool to see a modified version of that for the postcard! Maybe something spring related as well? =)
hi thanks for stumbling on my blog :)
snow sucks, you can take it all!
since your writing a children's book you should make a cartoony postcard, yeah?
hope you had a good new year's ever :)
The Chinese New Year is coming up and it's the Year of the Rat. I say celebrate!
Spring would be nice too, maybe a combination that would defy common perceptions of rats. They aren't all filthy. :)


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Change of Water Properties with Temperature
As water heats up, the molecules gain thermal energy, and overcome the hydrogen-bonded network present in normal liquid water. This results in some properties of water changing more than would usually be expected with temperature. As the critical point is approached, some properties undergo very rapid change. The following figure shows how several properties change along the saturation line, i.e. at sufficient pressure that liquid water is in equilibrium with the vapour (1 atm at 100°C). (Data for figures and following discussion taken from NBS/NRC Steam Tables, Lester Haar and George S. Kell, Taylor Francis 1984. ISBN 0-89116-354-9).
Enthalpy of Water
The energy needed to heat water is often calculated as:
Energy = (mass) x (temperature difference) x (specific heat capacity).
This would be correct if the heat capacity was constant with temperature, which is not actually the case. Over fairly narrow temperature ranges under 100°C the variation is quite small, and errors correspondingly small. For example, at atmospheric pressure, the specific heat capacity at constant pressure changes from 4.183 kJ / (kg K) at 20°C to 4.194 kJ / (kg K) at 80°C, a change of only 0.3%. However, when superheated water is considered, the variation of heat capacity with temperature (and to a lesser extent pressure) should be accounted for. At 350°C (200 bar) it is 8.138 kJ / (kg K), nearly twice that at 20°C and the same pressure (4.125 kJ / (kg K)). The heat capacity increases with temperature partly because the extensive hydrogen bonding interactions break down and the extra energy needs to be put in to break the bonds. A graph of heat capacity at constant pressure (250 bar) against temperature is shown below. As the critical point is approached, the specific heat capacity at constant pressure rises towards infinity. At constant pressure, the fluid expands when the temperature is raised, and work must be done against the intermolecular forces and the atmosphere. In the critical region, a very large volume change is required to maintain the same pressure, and hence the energy goes towards expansion rather than raising the temperature.
Use of enthalpies to calculate energy requirements for superheated water plant
The following discussion will use a hypothetical plant using 1 tonne (1000 kg) per hour of water.
We wish to pressurise this water to 50 bar, and heat it to 250°C. What are the energy requirements?
The enthalpy, or amount of "heat energy" contained in water is shown in steam tables under different conditions. The enthalpy of water changes very little by increasing the pressure.
1 bar, 25°C, enthalpy = 105 kJ / kg,
50 bar, 25°C, enthalpy = 109 kJ / kg.
Therefore, at 50 bar, each kg of water only "stores" 4 kJ of energy, or it only requires 4 kJ to pressurise water to 50 bar. For our hypothetical plant, this means a pump of 4000 kJ / hr, or 1.1kW. The temperature of the water will be almost unchanged during the compression, as the pumping is isentropic, and entropy of liquid water changes very little with pressure.
For the heating, the enthalpy at 250°C is 1085 kJ / kg, so the heat required is simply 1085 – 105 = 980 kJ / kg. For our 1 tonne per hour plant, this means 272 kW of heating. This is quite a large amount of heat. However, this assumes the heat energy is not recovered, so in practice, as we will see later, this heat requirement can be significantly reduced.
Now, if we wished to dry the product by evaporating this water, we could simply depressurise and allow the water to "flash" off couldn't we? Actually, in practice this is not the case due to the large latent heat of evaporation of water. Using the steam tables again, we can find the energy released by depressurising the water and allowing it to use the heat energy to boil off the excess water. At atmospheric pressure, the enthalpy of liquid water at 99°C is approximately 410 kJ / kg, and the enthalpy of steam at 100°C is 2676 kJ / kg. This gives us the latent heat of vaporisation of 2266 kJ / kg. The energy we release from cooling water from 250°C at 50 bar to 99°C at 1 bar is (1085 – 410) = 675 kJ / kg. This is enough to vaporise only 300g / kg steam leaving 700 g / kg of water at 99°C. Therefore "flashing" off the water is not a very effective method of drying.
However, all is not lost, as it is quite easy to recover most of the energy from the hot water by pre-heating the incoming water in a heat exchanger, thereby cooling the process water. It is quite reasonable to recover 75% of the energy, leaving only 25% to be added by the heater (see the example here). Therefore, once the plant is warmed up to operating temperature, the heating requirements drop from 272 kW to 68 kW. Ideally the product will separate from the water as either a liquid or solid phase. Most of the water can then be separated, and only a small amount of residual water need be evaporated to dry the product.
Methods for
calculating the properties of water are continually reviewed by the
International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam, who provide the
equations for calculating steam tables (http://www.iapws.org). For approximate calculations over the
range 10 to 300°C the calculation below can be used for the enthalpy of
water. This is enough to provide an
indication of the heat requirements; individual enthalpy values are within 1.5%
of the steam table values. Enter the start temperature, the final temperature
(Temperature 2) and the calculator will display the enthalpies at the two
temperatures and the difference betweeen them.
°C Temperature 2
Enthalpy 2
Enthalpy Difference
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DeMar DeRozan scored 26 points, and the Toronto Raptors went on a 18-4 run to close the third quarter and end the Nets' five-game winning streak with a 96-80 victory at home on Saturday.
Paul Pierce scored 15 points and Alan Anderson had 13 for the Nets, whose season-best streak came to an end one night after their most impressive performance: a double-overtime victory over the two-time defending champion Miami Heat. The Nets, when playing on consecutive days, are now 1-6 in the second game.
Toronto won for the seventh time in nine games. Patrick Patterson had 14 points and 12 rebounds, Terrence Ross added 14 points and John Salmons 13 for the Raptors.
Joe Johnson scored 11 for the Nets.
The Nets squandered a 10-point lead in the final minutes of the third quarter, and then missed six straight shots to start the fourth. They were scoreless in the final period until Pierce made one of two from the free-throw line with 8 minutes 10 seconds left.
"The last six minutes of the third was tough on us," Pierce said. "Maybe it was fatigue, I don't know."
The Nets' Shaun Livingston, who played 51 minutes Friday, was 3 for 11 from the field against the Raptors, but said blaming fatigue was the "easy way out."
"That's a game I'd like to have back," Livingston said.
Back-to-back layups by Amir Johnson and Patterson gave Toronto a 78-65 lead with 7:24 remaining. The Nets responded with 6 straight points, but Lowry hit a 3-pointer and Patterson made consecutive jump shots to restore a double-digit cushion, 85-71, with 3:46 left.
Mason Plumlee made his first career start for the Nets in place of Kevin Garnett, who had the night off after playing 36 minutes in Friday's win over Miami. Plumlee fouled out with 6 points.
The Nets' next game is Thursday in London against the Atlanta Hawks.
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Smith was involved in several big plays — good and bad — in the final half-minute. Smith's 3-pointer as the shot clock expired put Detroit ahead 108-105 with 26.8 seconds left, but he then fouled Gerald Green, who was putting up a 3-point shot. Green made all three free throws to tie the score with 4.3 seconds remaining.
Smith took the inbounds pass near the top of the key, drove to the right and then switched hands, making a tough shot while being tightly defended by Channing Frye. NUGGETS 120, MAGIC 94 Kenneth Faried had 17 points and 9 rebounds, Randy Foye and Evan Fournier scored 18 points apiece, and host Denver won its fifth straight.
Tobias Harris had 22 points and 9 rebounds and Glen Davis scored 20 points for the Magic, who have dropped seven in a row.
MAVERICKS 110, PELICANS 107 Dirk Nowitzki scored a season-high 40 points, 20 in the third quarter, and Dallas recovered from a cold start to win at home.
Anthony Davis had 28 points and 14 rebounds for New Orleans, which lost its fifth straight and dropped six games below .500.
ROCKETS 114, WIZARDS 107 James Harden scored 25 points, Dwight Howard added 23 and Terrence Jones had 17 rebounds to lift visiting Houston over Washington.
Trevor Ariza had 23 points and 14 rebounds and John Wall scored 23 for the Wizards. A leak in the roof of Verizon Center caused two delays.
BULLS 103, BOBCATS 97 D. J. Augustin had 20 points and 12 assists and Joakim Noah added 19 points and 14 rebounds to lead host Chicago.
Chicago had seven players in double figures in its fifth consecutive victory. Charlotte has dropped three straight. Gerald Henderson had 30 points, and Kemba Walker scored 29.
THUNDER 101, BUCKS 85. Kevin Durant scored 33 points, Serge Ibaka had 17 points and 17 rebounds and host Oklahoma City ended a two-game losing streak.
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King of Fighters XIII was released in Japan in July 2010, with Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 versions released in November 22, 2011 in North America. The King of Fighters game series previously had an online anime series (The King of Fighters: Another Day by Production I.G in 2005-2006) and manga spinoffs including The King of Fighters: Kyo and The King of Fighters '94.
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The focus of this project is on the variability of circulation, water mass properties and freshwater distribution in a region that lies north of the Canadian Archipelago and Greenland, extending from the continental shelf into the central Arctic Ocean.
This region is just upstream of the freshwater exit points to the North Atlantic Ocean in Nares Strait and Fram Strait. There is evidence that circulation in this region is highly variable on interannual time scales, which may be tied to large-scale climate signals such as the Arctic Oscillation, and results in variability in the export of fresh water to the North Atlantic.
This region is covered by thick ice and is difficult to reach by icebreaker, so aircraft operated out of the Canadian military base at Alert are used to obtain data and water samples by lowering a CTD and a small diameter modular rosette through a hole drilled in the ice.
Annual hydrographic surveys are carried out using two types of aircraft, a helicopter to obtain close spaced stations across the shelf break and down the continental slope using only a CTD (University of Washington) and a twin otter fixed wing aircraft to obtain courser spaced stations extending into the interior with the CTD/rosette system (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory).
Up to 12 water samples are collected with the rosette on the Lamont twin otter stations and a surface sample is collected on the helicopter stations. These samples are analyzed for salinity, dissolved oxygen, nutrients, the transient tracers CFC-11, CFC-12, CFC-113, SF6, tritium, He-3, and I-129, the O-18:O-16 ratio and Ba. The transient tracers provide information on the circulation time scale and salinity, oxygen, nutrients, oxygen isotopes and barium provide information on the freshwater content and sources, and variability in water mass composition.
The backbone of the survey is a line of stations extending from the continental shelf to the North Pole and stations are taken to the east and west of this line, time permitting. This survey is closely coordinated with the twin otter survey carried out by the North Pole Environmental Observatory program each year.
The CTD/Rosette consists of 4-bottle sample modules that are stacked over a CTD module. The volume of each of the water bottles is 4 liters. At the end of a cast, the sample modules are placed in coolers and the end caps, which are connected by an epoxy coated stainless steel spring inside the bottle, are secured externally so they cannot open. Bags of snow are placed in the coolers to provide thermal stability close to 0 deg.C and the modules are returned to the base camp for sub sampling.
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"Act of Valor" premiered this week on Sunset Blvd. As you may know the film stars active duty Navy SEALs, and residents of Hollywood had themselves a momentary scare as the stars of the film parachuted down to the Red Carpet. The film was Directed by Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh and the Cinematography was accomplished by Shane Hurlbut.
While there have been tons of HDSLR films out in the wild by now (a report stated that more than 70% of the films screened at Sundance in 2010 were shot on HDSLRs) Act of Valor should occupy a special place in HDSLR history books. Mike, Scott and Shane were some of the first to jump onto the HDSLR bandwagon three years ago as they shot this film (and were forced to keep quiet about it as with any film in production – let alone one shot w/ the cooperation of the special forces) and what they pulled off is pretty spectacular.
Shane says that 75% of the film was shot on the Canon 5D MKII and the other 25% with film cameras. This makes sense as it was nearly impossible to use the 5D MKII on remote/stabilized helicopter mounts in the early days of HDSLRs for example (there was no way to control the camera let alone start/stop it.)
While I'm sure there may be a little grumbling from some folks given the nature of the film – I would recommend ALL DSLR shooters go check it out. Shane and the Bandito Brothers were generous enough to treat me to a screening of the film a little over two months ago. I went in not knowing what to expect – my main concern was that the stars were active duty Navy Seals – not actors. I was incredibly surprised at how well they came off on screen and how incredibly good the film looked on screen as well.
There is a very good chance this will become a modern "Top Gun" for the Navy. As you may know "Top Gun" led to an incredible surge in sign ups to the Navy's fighter wing. As the Navy and US Military moves more towards covert ops – expect signups to be way up next year thanks in part to this film (not to mention the recent news in Pakistan and Somalia.)
I definitely hope you get to check the film out – It is definitely one of the more masterful uses of an HDSLR I've seen – and the results are even more impressive on the large silver screen.
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We are excited to present the 20th annual Recipes for the Road. Over the last two decades we have made a positive impact to help keep people safe on our roads during the holidays. Many thanks to the volunteers and sponsors that share our passion and goal of reducing alcohol-related traffic crashes and fatalities in our communities. These people and organizations have been instrumental in the book's creation and continued success.
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Something he might not have or need,
Or even consider to believe is superior,
To the wealth of knowledge he can conceive.
What's sleep to the energized?
Those that love to run, jump and fly,
Just another thing that may take away,
The thrill of living a full life.
What's faith to a non-believer?
Concepts made to distract his thoughts,
Of things he thinks are not just thoughts,
But facts of a fact that he does not believe.
What's a set of rules to an outsider?
The ropes wrapped around society's throats,
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web service, e-mail and messaging on Blackberry devices will be cut off starting in October. To make matters worse for those doing business in the emirates, the ban will affect tourists as well as those who receive their service through the government's cell provider.
In the old days it was fairly easy to cut off the flow of information -- erect a wall around the town and restrict access to the inner city. Since news traveled by word of mouth, the residents of the walled city had no access to the outside world.
When the wall came crashing down it was a reminder that barriers to information were doomed to fail.
The North Korean and Chinese governments have also put forth their best efforts to prevent their citizens from finding out what's happening outside their walls. The Chinese government realized the error of their ways when citizens were accessing the internet through Google's portal in Hong Kong (which was not censored) and threatened to cut off Google's access to the country if it didn't kowtow. Google, putting profit before right, then bowed and kissed the emperor's feet.
And now the government of Dubai has decided that not having access to the encrypted messages sent and received on Blackberry devices makes it harder for them to limit the flow of information in and out of the country. The solution? Cut it off.
When will the dictators learn that the flow of information is something that can't be stopped. Radio waves, television signals and satellite reception don't stop at artificial borders drawn on maps? Not only has technology made it easier to communicate (remember mailing letters), the barriers that limited the number of information-providers have crumbled, increasing the supply of information. Cable news networks, the internet, blogs, cell phones with internet access have made it easier both to receive and to supply information.
The same problem presents itself in the courtroom when a judge admonishes a jury not to do any research on their own -- the panelists have cell phones, internet access and television.Telling them not to use those resources to find out more about any given case is the modern-day equivalent of the Maginot Line.


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Grasmere History Group is a group of local people who meet monthly to discuss matters of local history. It is a very friendly, informal gathering at which we share our interests and ask questions of others who might know the answers we seek. We have a wide range of interests and in recent years we have produced exhibitions about Grasmere in the First World War and the early years of tourism in the Lake District.
New members from near or far are very welcome, we are always looking to meet more people with fascinating stories to tell about Grasmere and the Lake District.
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|Tue 3 Mar 2020
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- Coach parties accepted
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- Gift shop
- Regional Tourist Board Member
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- Dogs not accepted (except guidedogs)
- Smoking not allowed
As Dove Cottage is an historic building, we have been unable to make provision for disabled access. However most wheelchairs will find the ground floor accessible.
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|Wed 11 Dec
|Yuletide Traditions
|Sat 14 Dec
|A Handmade Tale
|Tue 17 Dec
|The Women Who Created the Cottonian Libraries
|Wed 18 Dec
|Finishing The Prelude
|Thu 19 Dec
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By Bus: Hop on the regular 599 open top service from Bowness, Windermere and Ambleside. Sit back, relax and admire the stunning views across the Lakes. The 555 also runs regularly between Keswick, Grasmere, Windermere and Kendal. The bus stops just across the Road from Dove Cottage.
By bike: There are cycle parking stands near the attraction's restaurant.
On Foot: There is an easy and safe two-minute walking route from Grasmere to Dove Cottage along Stock Lane. There is also a lakeside path or the Coffin Trail Bridleway which links Grasmere to Rydal near Ambleside. Both are fairly easy-going routes with great views.
By Car: Leave the M6 at jct 36, follow signs for Kendal, Windermere and Ambleside. Dove Cottage, the Wordsworth Museum and Art Gallery is located on the A591, the main Kendal to Keswick road through the Lake District, just South of the Grasmere mini roundabout.
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The Lake District Raft Building Hen Party Activity
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The Lake District Raft Building Hen Party Activity with Pop the Fizz
This is a great Lake District Hen Party activity and one that is very popular. The task is to design a raft, build it and race it.
We offer this activity on either Ullswater Launching from Park Foot Caravan Park or on Dewent water if you prefer.
This is one of those activities where it doesnt matter about the rain because your going to get wet anyway!
You will need.
Clothes to wear whilst your rafting
Spare dry clothes and a towel
Spare footwear for after the activity
We will provide you with a helmet, bouyancy aid, cag and wetsuit if its cold.


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Colourful Cuba (cos your gray ain't my grey)
Posted by jembendell on October 26, 2006
I sometimes chat with my flatmate about what it was like growing up in the Communist East. We joke about how grey it was. In my books and films it was grey… the buildings, people, all shades of dull depressed and repressed grey. She tells me that books about the West that she read in East Germany showed the West as… also grey! "OK, so it was so grey in the East, that even our pictures of the West were grey!".
Was an absence of neon lights and bright paints and colourful advertising actually grey? Its amazing how urban our thinking is… nothing is as colourful as nature. Walking through the UN today I saw paintings from an exhibition sponsored by Cuba. The artist from this communist country, Luis Antonio Espinosa Fruto, chose to paint all his pictures in… grey. But hey, they are bright, brilliant, beautiful images. They are all paintings of the natural environment in Cuba (continues below…).
Cuban nature is mentioned in the depths of a report published by WWF earlier this week. The Living Planet Report tells a shocking story of what we are doing to ourselves and our planet… as Frank Dixon said at a talk on Monday, "the science is telling us we are like the meteor that hit the Yucatan and wiped out the dinosaurs, we are the new great exterminator". We really are behaving on this planet like we have another one to go to.
On page 19, in a section comparing the amount of resources each country is gobbling up in comparison to the social development they have acheived, as indicated by the UN's Human Development Index, shows that only one country has achieved a level of social development and environmental protection that can be considered "sustainable development". That country? Grey-painted communist Cuba. The journos seem to have missed that one in their coverage of the report.
This state of affairs should make us ask some serious questions about current forms of economy and capitalism… are they helping us get what we really want? Is the world any more colourful for its shining lights and gaudy adverts, if these help melt the glaciers, dry up the lands, and degrade nature? Is it any more colourful when people run the rat race to souless material excess while others are malnourished and oppressed?
I guess one reason Cuba comes out on top is because the HDI statistics dont place decisive weightings on certain political freedoms. Cuba probably comes out on top environmentally because of the US embargo has encouraged local production of foods for local consumption. Organic market gardening isnt a lifestyle choice for the middle classes wanting some more meaning to their lives, but a basic necessity for many Cubans. Whats the policy conclusion? That everyone needs to be embargoed by the US?
Open borders only work when you've got a fair game going on, with ground rules that mean you dont trade away the environment or people as mere 'externalities' that can be disregarded. The evidence from the Living Planet Report is more an indictment of the West than it is praise for Cuba. But, well done Cuba for reminding us that our brains are the only grey matter in nature, and its our choice to make them vitally brilliant or deadly dull.
2 Responses to "Colourful Cuba (cos your gray ain't my grey)"
November 21, 2006 at 5:07 am
Pssst……link to Living Planet doesn't work.
Fabulous photo by the way.
December 14, 2006 at 4:55 am
nice piece. Although I don't think this report is merely an indictment of the west. Cuba is the ONLY country found by the report to have discovered sustainable development. Which means it includes every other "non-western" country on the planet in the list of unsustainable countries. Cuba is also not the only country ever under embargo. Iraq for instance was under embargo, and rather than forming sustainable developement, disease and malnutrition spread like wildfire killing over a million Iraqis. Cuba is ecologically and economically sustainable for far deeper reasons. What makes cuba stand apart from every other country on earth is that it is the only state where a workers and farmers' movement kicked out the capitalist class, institutionalized their power to some degree and where a bureaucracy with interests opposed to the workers and farmers has not taken power and crushed the revolution. (the workers' movements of the USSR, Soviet block, China and North Korea were all crushed by a bureaucratic caste that acted as agents of capitalism inside those countries) Capitalism's ability to exploit and dominate workers is DEPENDENT upon the creation of unsustainable relationships to the larger ecological system. It's ability to expand is dependent upon gobbling up more than is there and more than is needed. It constantly requires new markets and so it constantly create new needs. It has the paradoxical effect of sucking up resources at a rate that prevents their renewal while impoverishing, enslaving and starving humans (not to mention other animals) in degrees that were not even imaginable in earlier epochs. When we build a greater power out of political mobilization of the masses and dismantle capitalism, we can, for the first time in human history, use the vast resources of human civilization towards the ends of human need (which inherently requires winning harmony with nature) instead of profit (which requires declaring war on nature) Contrary to the environmentally destructive policies of the Stalinist bureacracies in the USSR et al Marx and Engels (yes! Even in their time!) developed some very advanced analysis of these relationships. For a deeper look at all this check out John Bellamy Foster's "Marx's Ecology" (although I recommend skipping the introduction which requires an inordinately extensive knowledge of philosophical history) for a more in depth look at the socio-economic and political forces in Cuba I recommend Arthur Saney's "Cuba: A Revolution in Motion", for other analysis of Cuba and more recent analysis of the effects of capitalism I recommend the http://www.socialistaction.org website.


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Pareto Networks Names New Top Executive, Offers Channel Partner Program
Pareto Networks Inc., a Sunnyvale, CA-headquartered provider of cloud-based networking, said that it has hired Daniel Ryan as president and chief executive, a month after initiating a channel partner program.
Ryan, who previously served as McAfee Inc.'s executive vice president and general manager, network security business, said that he was "drawn to Pareto's unique position to drive complexity and large capital investments out of the network and accelerate an enterprise's ability to securely scale their distributed network."
Pareto, which launched operations in 2007, offers enterprise cloud services aimed at streamlining networking and security in corporate branch offices, using a pay-as-you-go subscription model starting at $228 per location, per year, for up to 30 users.
The idea is to manage networking functions and associated security to branch offices and remote locations through the cloud. Accordingly, the Pareto Branch Gateway--of which there are three models based on an end customer's needs--offers remote management through the vendor's cloud for functions such as VoIP, video, IP address management, SSL VPN tunnels, authentication and Web security.
"It's not every day you have the opportunity to revolutionize an industry," Ryan said. "It's been almost 15 years since networking underwent any serious change and I am excited to be at the company leading the charge," he said.
Ryan brings a substantial background to his position at Pareto. He previously served as Secure Computing's president and chief executive, moving to McAfee when it acquired Secure in 2008. Prior to Secure, he was senior vice president of enterprise content management products at Oracle Corp.
Last month, Pareto rolled out a new channel partner program, offering solution providers a quick entry into the cloud market.
The program is tiered by two levels, appropriately termed Stratus and Cirrus, and offers training, sales and marketing tools and other resources to help channel partners work their way into a recurring revenue model.
Pareto said that it has signed Computerlinks North America, an IT security and Internet technology solutions distributor based in Austin, TX, to carry its products, recruit partners, host training sessions and assist partners in day-to-day business operations.
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