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Examples for possible analysis and measurements within frequency range:
This option expands your SPECTRAN with a Peak Power Meter with full 2,5GHz of bandwidth. Furthermore it allows exact measurement of signals with high crest factor like those of WLAN technology, and even extremely short signals, like Radar bursts. What's more, measurement is performed in real-time and broadband, while at the same time being temperature-compensated. It is also an perfect solution for measurement of cable attenuation or receiver output. Depending on the actual frequency, the Power Meter provides a sensitivity of up to approx. -50dBm, while the maximum usable level is +10dBm.
Offers a MUCH higher operation time for your SPECTRAN (up to 400%). Highly recommended for autonomic measurement.
The 1300mAh standard battery will be replaced. You can find more product details in our online shop.
To connect your SPECTRAN to the PC. Special version with high performance EMC-ferrite. Highly recommended for PC use. You can find more product details in our online shop.
Protect and personalize your SPECTRAN with a sturdy rubber case and keep it scratch-n-dent free. Allows full access to all functions. Highly recommended for outdoor usage. You can find more product details in our online shop.
Detachable handle with super-practical tripod mode. It is attachable to the backside of the SPECTRAN and allows a more comfortable hand held usage or a perfect desktop stand (e.g. during PC-connection while using our analyzer software). You can find more product details in our online shop.
Highly recommended for the usage of our HyperLOG antennas: Quick and easy change of antenna polarization, perfect antenna handling (even with the more heavy HyperLOG 40xx and 30xxx series). A MUST-HAVE for any pro user. You can find more product details in our online shop.
Charges your SPECTRAN or UBBV preamplifier through the cigarette lighter. Recommended for the mobile use of the SPECTRAN Spectrum Analyzer. You can find more product details in our online shop.
High quality special SMA cable for connecting any HyperLOG®-Antenna or BicoLOG®-Antenna or the preamplifiers UBBV Series with various test equipment like Aaronia RF Spectrum-Analyzer. You can find more details about the article in our online shop.
Expands the measurement range from +20dBm to +40dBm. More product details in our online shop.
The DC-Blocker must be used if you want to measure DC powered signals like DSL/ISDN lines. It prevents the RF-input of the SPECTRAN from being destroyed by the DC-voltages. Simply connect the DC-Blocker to the SMA-input of your SPECTRAN. More product details in our shop.
Shock resistant, heavy version with foam protection. Offers space for 2 SPECTRAN units with all accessories and a HyperLOG 70xx or 60xx antenna. A MUST have for the pro user or outdoor usage. You can find detailed information about the product in our online shop.
For the pro user. Includes a detailed calibration sheet. More information about the article in our online shop.
For further information please see the detailed description of each item.
Please pay attention to the frequency range of each item!
Starter Bundle
This RF and EMF analyzer kit includes the SPECTRAN HF-2025E RF analyzer, SPECTRAN NF-1010 EMF analyzer and HyperLOG 7025 antenna.
Save € 50,- with this measurement bundle.
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Based on a patented spectrum analyzer method Aaronia can offer professional RF and EMF measurement at a spectacular price level.
Detect sources of interference, find out more about their causes, determine the frequency and intensity of the signal sources, measure limits and boost the functionality by using our high-end PC software via integrated USB.
Award winning:
All NF SPECTRAN units are equipped with our award winning REAL 3D (isotropic) magnetic sensor. In 2009 the magazine "Elektronik" (Europes most comprehensive magazine on electronics) honored the Aaronia REAL 3D sensor as "Product Of The Year" in the category "Passive Electronic Parts".
Made in Germany:
All SPECTRANs and antennas are developed, individually produced and calibrated in Germany at the Aaronia factory. This guarantees highest standard so that Aaronia can offer every customer a full 10 years warranty for all SPECTRAN spectrum analyzers and EMC antennas.
Real-time Spectrum analyzer software (included for FREE):
All SPECTRAN units offer a USB interface with real-time remote control to your PC or MAC. The free analyzer software, which is available for MAC OS, Linux and Windows, transforms any SPECTRAN into a powerful measurement solution with great features (e.g. recording, multiple window display, histogram, waterfall diagram, unlimited number of markers, enhanced limits display etc.). Please have a look at the latest version of our software at our Software Development Website .
Limits display:
All SPECTRAN units offer a powerful limits display. Just push the limits button at our Spectrum Analyzer and the high-performance Digital Signal Processor (DSP) of the SPECTRAN constantly calculates the limits and displays the results in real-time. Spectrum analyzers with this high-end feature usually cost thousands of Euro. Just save this cost by using Aaronia analyzers.
Antenna/Sensor included:
All EMF NF SPECTRANs include our award winning 3D (isotropic) sensor to measure magnetic fields and a field plate sensor to measure electric fields. Both sensors cover the full frequency range of the SPECTRAN unit.
All SPECTRAN units can be equipped with various options which highly expand the functionality. More details about possible options for this SPECTRAN are available at above section "Options".
Included in delivery:
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10. Gary Kubiak, Texans
On one hand, I feel a little bad for Kubiak, because if Houston hadn't lost Matt Schaub and Mario Williams to season-ending injuries, they would probably be the favorites to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl. You can make a decent case Kubiak deserves praise just for getting Houston to the playoffs with a third and fourth-string quarterback. On the other hand, don't feel too bad for him. Wade Phillips' essentially saved Kubiak's job this year, inexplicably turning the league's worst defense into the best (at least statistically). Kubiak spent years with the franchise stuck in neutral, in part because the focus of his team frequently wavered, and while I admire his offensive expertise, I don't think I'd wager on a coach making his playoff debut to advance beyond the first round.
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Thomas Aquinas College
Thomas Aquinas College has a single mission: the liberal education of students according to their natural powers of reason illuminated by the light of the Catholic Faith. This mission is the end by which all means are judged – from customs of community life to curricular decisions and faculty appointments to building design and forms of governance. +++ To accomplish its mission the College has a single substantially unvarying program with no majors minors or electives. It consists in an integrated and orderly study of the liberal arts and sciences beginning with the fundamental arts of the trivium and quadrivium proceeding through the natural and political sciences and culminating in theology. The College achieves its mission chiefly through reflective consideration of seminal questions raised in classical texts. These texts – often referred to as the "Great Books" – are selected by the faculty under the guidance of the Catholic tradition. In accordance with this tradition the works of St. Thomas Aquinas occupy a preeminent position in the College's curriculum. +++ Classes are seminars and tutorials: groups of fifteen to twenty students discussing the readings under the guidance of a faculty member. A laboratory program provides students laboratory experience in addition to the reading of primary texts. Tutorials seminars and laboratories are complemented by a lecture and concert series. This offers students an opportunity to witness and discuss the scholarly and artistic works of the wider community. +++ The College's educational principles and curriculum arise from an intellectual tradition which does not fluctuate with the vicissitudes of time founded as it is in a perennial wisdom by which the truth and merit of new insights and discoveries may be best understood. The College aims to sustain the natural wonder of students to develop their intellectual virtues and to help them satisfy their desire to know things noble and worth knowing.
School Information10000 N Ojai Rd
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Locale: Rural: Distant
Open Admissions: Yes
Sector: Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Carnegie Basic: Baccalaureate Colleges--Arts & Sciences
Religious Affiliation: Roman Catholic
Accrediting Agency: American Academy for Liberal Education
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Imagine that you and your buddies have been planning a hunting and fishing trip to Alaska all year. You imagine the tents pitched by the lake and sitting by the fire in the cool evenings after a day of hunting moose and fishing for Pacific salmon in the Tikchik Lakes. But now it's time to finish getting the gear packed for an early morning flight to Anchorage.
Everything is loaded into the car except a small carry-on bag – and, oh yeah, a sixteen ounce can of black powder, a sixteen ounce propane camp stove cylinder and a box of wooden matches. You're not sure about bringing those things on a plane so you call one of your friends, a veteran traveler, to get his opinion. You tell him, "It says on the can of black powder 'Extremely Flammable and Explosive."
He says, "That means when the powder is out of the can. We're not going to have a chance to stop to get powder so you can either bring a center fire rifle like the rest of us or wrap the can of powder along with the propane and the matches in your rain gear and bury it in your check-in bag." You take your friend's advice and pack the can of black powder, the propane cylinder and strike anywhere matches in your check-in bag.
Imagine the next morning everything at check-in goes smoothly and you are sitting on the plane, relaxing with your eyes closed, when you feel a tap on your shoulder and a female voice calls you by name. When you open your eyes, instead of a smiling flight attendant serving coffee, a stern-faced state trooper orders you to follow her. What follows is something far more difficult to imagine.
The trooper appears agitated and asks if you packed black powder, propane and matches in your check-in bag. You admit that you did. She asks if you are aware that you have violated Federal Hazardous Materials Regulations. She's not interested in your plea of ignorance. After a severe reprimand she confiscates the offending items and tells you to get back on the plane and promises to turn the matter over to the Federal Aviation Administration.
When you get home from an otherwise fabulous trip, there is a letter from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) which reads in part:
The FAA is investigating the circumstances surrounding your alleged failure to comply with Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR parts 171 – 180).
The purpose of this investigation is to determine if you violated the HMR in that the black rifle powder, the propane cylinder and the strike anywhere matches that were allegedly in your checked baggage were not properly declared, certified, marked, labeled, packaged and in condition for transport in air commerce. Under the provisions
of Title 49, United States Code 5123 (a)(1), you could be subject to civil penalties for the alleged violations.
The following day, you receive a call from an FAA special agent requesting an interview. In the interview, you recount the circumstances surrounding your decision to pack the prohibited items in your checked-in luggage. The FAA agent was courteous and didn't make it seem like you had committed that serious a crime but then you receive another letter from the FAA a few weeks later, this time by certified mail.
Based upon the facts and circumstances of this investigation, the following Department of Transportation Hazardous Materials Regulations (Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations) were violated:
a. Offering hazardous material for transportation in commerce when the material was not properly classed, described, packaged, marked, labeled, and in the condition for shipment required.
b. Offering hazardous material for transportation without properly describing the material on the shipping paper.
c. Offering hazardous material for transportation when the package was not marked with the proper shipping name and identification number for its contents.
d. Offering hazardous material for transportation when the required markings were not durable, in English and printed on or affixed to the surface of the package or on a label, tag or sign
e. Offering a package containing hazardous material for transportation by air when the package was not properly labeled as specified.
f. Offering a package containing hazardous material for transportation by air without making emergency response information immediately available for use at all times the hazardous material was present.
g. Offering a package containing hazardous material for transportation by air without properly preparing the shipment.
h. Offering a package containing a material that is "Forbidden" for transportation aboard a passenger-carrying aircraft as indicated.
i. Offering a package containing a material that is "Forbidden" for transportation aboard aircraft as indicated.
You are liable for a civil penalty of not less than $250 nor greater than $50,000, for each violation of the regulations.
In summary, the seemingly simple, though extremely dangerous, act of carrying a one pound can of black rifle powder, a one pound cylinder of propane and a box of common wooden matches on a commercial aircraft could result in nine violations of the Hazardous Materials Regulations with accompanying fines for each violation! Violating the Hazardous Materials Regulations, even unintentionally, can turn out to be an expensive mistake.
So, what should have been done in this case?
According to an official at the Federal Aviation Administration, there are frequent issues with hunters attempting to carry propane, butane, white gas, kerosene, black powder and strike anywhere matches on airplanes in their baggage. Many commercially available items that are marked "flammable or extremely flammable, explosive hazard, corrosive, contents under pressure or oxidizer" are regulated as hazardous materials and prohibited in both carry-on and checked baggage.
If you have any doubt about an item that you are planning to bring on an airplane, don't just rely on a well-meaning friend's advice. The Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Security Administration websites contain a wealth of information regarding items that are prohibited and permitted in checked and carry-on luggage. Go to faa.gov and tsa.gov/prohibited items. You should consult these websites well in advance of your trip. Many airlines also have their own policies regarding the transportation of certain hazardous items. Be sure to check with your carrier regarding any hazardous materials policies when purchasing your ticket. If you are still in doubt you should leave the item home or if you absolutely feel you must take the item with you, show the item to the airline employee when you're checking in and ask if the item is permitted in checked or carry-on baggage.
It pays to know the rules and follow them and it can cost dearly if you don't. Imagine that.
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Clint Rand is a Director of Compliance and Security with Smith & Wesson and a retired Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


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NEW YORK — More than a decade after treatment, the average woman who has had breast cancer seems about as satisfied with her life as women who never had the disease, according to a Canadian study.
"It's been recognized for a long time that in the very short term, breast cancer can adversely affect quality of life," said senior author Dr. Pamela Goodwin of the University of Toronto.
Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation can lead to pain, nausea and fatigue, but researchers did not know how long those effects usually last, Goodwin said.
She and her co-authors followed 535 women who filled out questionnaires on their quality of life when they were diagnosed with breast cancer and soon after, beginning between 1989 and 1996.
In 2005 to 2007, the 285 women who had survived cancer without a recurrence were brought back to answer the same questions, which addressed pain, sleep, appetite and general health, for example.
The researchers compared their answers to those from a group of women of a similar age with no history of breast cancer.
Among women with breast cancer, quality of life tended to improve in the year after diagnosis, and at the end of the study was largely equivalent to that of the comparison women, according to results published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Women who had had breast cancer rated their cognitive functioning and financial situation somewhat lower than other women — by 5 percent and 6 percent, respectively, which is a small difference, Goodwin said.
"The majority of patients with early-stage breast cancer are long-term survivors with little impact on longevity," said Dr. Patricia Ganz, director of cancer prevention and control research at the University of California at Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health.
Based on previous research, she said, it has been known for some time that the 3 million breast cancer survivors in the United States more than five years past diagnosis generally have a good quality of life.
But positive outcomes like this tend not to be publicized as much as negative ones, Ganz, who was not involved in the research, told Reuters Health.
"In general, the average quality of life in our patients was pretty much the same as women without breast cancer," Goodwin said.
"But I want to really emphasize that we're talking about averages. I don't ever want to discount the small group of women who may have ongoing symptoms," such as pain, fatigue, swelling and severe body image issues, she said.
The proportion of women who experience persistent pain or swelling in the arm or chest wall is getting smaller during time as treatments improve, she added.
Women in both study groups rated their overall quality of life at a bit over 80 percent.
The difference in financial satisfaction might relate to employment, since some women choose to work less or stop working when diagnosed with breast cancer, or may even be laid off, Goodwin said.
Since the study was conducted in Canada, the financial cost of cancer treatment would have been almost negligible, she said, compared to the United States, where cancer treatment can leave survivors deeply in debt.
Women with a history of breast cancer rated their memory and ability to organize and plan activities slightly lower than their peers, which could be due to long-term effects of chemotherapy or might be a flaw in the questionnaire, researchers said. Breast cancer survivors tend to score as well as other women on direct cognition tests.
The post-breast cancer group reported less overall pain than the comparison group, possibly because the cancer patients adapted to higher levels of pain during treatment, Goodwin said.
Quality of life improved significantly during the first year after diagnosis, so women may not have to wait too long to see positive changes, which she said is reassuring.
"To me, it's remarkable that the majority of women find ways to adapt and come out the other end quite strong," she said.
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Interviewing the former Massachusetts governor in O'Reilly's "No-Spin Zone," the host challenged Romney's stated readiness to "make sure we have military options, combined with crippling sanctions."
"Of course we we have military options," O'Reilly replied. Romney insisted the options must be "developed in a way that Iran understands we would use military options."
"You're a tough guy?" O'Reilly asked, challenging the candidate. "You're going to stare them down and say 'Look, I'm gonna use them'? If you bomb Iran, that starts World War III. You know that. They're going to try to block Hormuz. Oil will double. The unintended consequences to the United States all across the Muslim world will be horrible. That's what Iran is banking on."
"Then there's the other side of the story, not taking crippling sanctions and treating them as the pariah they are and preparing military options," Romney countered. "If you don't do those things, Iran has a nuclear weapon, nuclear material will ultimately be used." Romney said there steps the U.S. could take short of military action, "but we have to prepare for military action to concentrate their minds, for Pete's sake."
It's not altogether clear if O'Reilly was arguing his own position in that exchange or playing "devil's advocate," as he often does with his guests. Nor is it certain, given his hawkish statements in the past, if O'Reilly is for or against World Ward III. But he is far from alone in his assessment of the "horrible" consequences of forcing a confrontation with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Last July, Stephen Hadley, National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush, warned of what would happen if Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, linking both Iran and Saudi Arabia to the Arabian Sea.
"The price of oil would skyrocket," Hadley said. "I am sure you would see more than 200 barrels — dollars a barrel for oil. The economy would be in severe straits. Our military will tell you that in time they will be able to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but it wouldn't have to be closed very long to have a devastating impact on our economy and the global economy."
Warnings about Iranian nuclear weapons have been issued, on and off, for more than 30 years and predate the Islamic Revolution in 1979 that led to the overthrow of the Shah of Iran, the seizure of the American embassy and the holding of Americans as hostages. Prior to that, the United States had received intelligence reports that the Shah had set up a "clandestine nuclear weapons development program." At the same time, the Christian Science Monitor noted in its recently published history of such warnings that Iran was "on a nuclear-energy spending spree" with the United States, France and West Germany that led to the acquisition of 20 nuclear reactors. Prior to the overthrow of the Shah, the United States had been supplying highly enriched uranium for Iran's nuclear energy program. In 1984, West German engineers visited the unfinished nuclear reactor at Bushehr and soon after West German intelligence officials were quoted in Jane's Defence Weekly as predicting that Iran's production of a nuclear bomb "is entering its final stages."
While rich in oil, Iran has no refinement capacity and its government maintains its nuclear program is for atomic energy, rather than weapons production. A United States National Intelligence Estimate in 2007 stated with "high confidence" that Iran had abandoned its weapons production program in 2003. A report of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee In May 2009 said,"There is no sign that Iran's leaders have ordered up a bomb."
A report last month by the International Atomic Energy Agency expressed concerns about a "possible" weapons development program in Iran. The November 11 report of the agency's director to its Board of Governors said in part:
Since 2002, the Agency has become increasingly concerned about the possible existence in Iran of undisclosed nuclear related activities, involving military related organizations, related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile, about which the agency has regularly received new information.
The Board of Governors has called on Iraq to "engage with the agency on all outstanding issues in order to exclude the existence of a possible nuclear weapon," the report said, adding that since August of 2008, "Iran has not engaged with the Agency in any substantive way on this matter."
Yet given the certainty American officials expressed about Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" prior to the 2003 invasion of that country and the nearly decade-long war that followed, many Americans are skeptical about possibly starting another war over what Iran may or may not do with a weapon it may or may not have at some point in the near of distant future. Phil Giraldi, a former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer, has warned of the serious consequences of a war with Iran.
"War is serious stuff, as the past 10 years have surely taught us, and Iran, which has had seven years to prepare for an attack, is a much larger and tougher nut than Iraq and Afghanistan combined," Giraldi wrote in a recent column on Antiwar.com: "Numerous commentators have observed how fuel prices would soar because of threats to close the Straits of Hormuz. Many in the Pentagon, including current Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and former Secretary Robert Gates, oppose such a conflict in recognition of the fact that Tehran would have the ability to hit U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. As the subsequent involvement of Hezbollah from Lebanon is a near certainty, the strike against Iran would quickly escalate into a regional war and would spin out of control."
The Israeli government, viewing Iran's enmity toward the Jewish state as an "existential threat," has called for measures to ensure Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon, giving rise to forecasts in the U.S. and world media of plans for a bombing of Iran's nuclear sites by either Israel or the United States. But former Israeli Mossad chief Meir Dagan has called bombing Iran "the stupidest idea I've ever heard. Speaking at a conference at the Hebrew University in July, Dagan said attempting to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities would be more difficult than the successful Israeli bombing of an Iraq nuclear reactor in 1981, because the operations have been spread out among the civilian population. Some of the work could be going on in the basement of a school, he said.
"It will be followed by a war with Iran," he said. "It is the kind of thing where we know how it starts, but not how it will end."


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Another great LP graciously lent to GC by one Mr.Jason Urick. This fresh set of Ivoirienne funk was recorded at Studio JBZ in Abidjan, 1982. Haven't found much of anything in the way of group or artist bios, but more fine sounds from Stanley Murphy & Les Grands can be enjoyed at the always outstanding Oro blog.
Les Grands Colombias Du Peuple & Stanley Murphy -– Dans Becheke Pi (Côte d'Ivoire, 1982)
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Protect your most confidential papers and valuables when you store them in FireKing's Two Hour Fire and Burglary Safe. This highly secure safe meets or exceeds the toughest standards for fire, burglary and impact protection. The durable welded steel safe carries a UL Class 350 two-hour fire rating, which means the internal temperature of the safe won't exceed 350 degrees for at least two hours when exposed to external temperatures up to 1700 degrees. The safe comes with a UL-listed relocking device for extra security and has a UL RSC burglary rating. A drill-resistant steel hard plate protects the combination lock from tampering and vertical and horizontal bolts resist prying. When the door is closed, a special security feature automatically extends the bolts 1". The safe has also passed the UL's impact test, which requires the safe to be heated to 1550 degrees for 30 minutes then dropped from 30 feet; the safe is then inverted and the process is repeated. A good impact rating is important because safes involved in a fire often fall through caved floors and walls. This FireKing Two-Hour Rated Fire Safe and Burglary is 41 1/8" high x 25 1/2" wide x 22 7/8" deep and comes backed by a one-year warranty.
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- Backed by a one-year warranty
- Material: Heavy-gauge welded steel
- Fire Rating: UL Class 350 1-Hour
- Burglary Rating: UL Residential Security Container rating
- Impact Rating: 30' UL Impact Rating
- Lock: Combination
- Interior Dimensions: 18 1/2"W x 15"D x 30 1/2"H
- Width: 25 1/2"
- Depth: 22 7/8"
- Height: 41 1/8"
- Made in the USA
- Lead Time: Ships within 4 - 5 business days
- Shipping Method: Freight
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What better way to spend some holiday free time than flat-out on the virtual limit. We're giving away copies of F1 2011 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Forza Motorsport 4 for Xbox and Dirt 3 for both systems.
We also have an Xbox wireless steering wheel bundled with Forza 4, and the grand prize is a Dirt 3-branded Playseat, a Kinect special-edition Xbox 360 250 GB and copies of F1 2011 and Dirt 3.
Between Nov. 29 and Dec. 21, log on to Twitter daily and mention either @AutoweekRacing or @AutoweekUSA, plus the hashtag #AWgames.
We'll select winners randomly and announce them via Twitter. Only one entry per person per day.


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Drug Cartels Could Defeat Trump's Wall
My real-estate firm found a tunnel from Mexico to California.
By Jeremy Bagott
Apiece of precision equipment about the size of a tractor could defeat a key mission of any new wall along the southern U.S. border, even before the foundation is poured. Horizontal directional drilling—known in oil-and-gas parlance as "HDD"—made the fracking revolution possible. But an unexpected early adopter near this California border town is a drug cartel.
The kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera is being held in a hardened Manhattan jail cell, but nobody does cross-border digging better than his Sinaloa Cartel. The drug lord escaped from prison in 2015 after a crew tunneled to retrieve him. Soon all-but-undetectable boreholes may whisk cylindrical containers across the border from Mexico, wall or no Wall.
Last year, while doing work linked to the modernization of the Calexico border crossing, my firm's research department, sifting through property records and interviewing buyers and sellers, stumbled onto what's believed to be the first real-estate purchased in the U.S. expressly to mask the exit of a drug tunnel.
The site had already been raided and its owner arrested. A house had been built around a hole leading to a 32-foot vertical shaft and then the main tunnel. It was an engineering marvel, with rails and lighting, running 415 yards across the border to the back of a restaurant in Mexicali.
The feds have discovered more than 80 cross-border smuggling tunnels since 2006. Most have been man-sized, but those may soon be obsolete. A used directional-drilling rig—say, the Vermeer Navigator D10x15 or the Ditch Witch JT25—can be bought online starting at about $100,000. The low cost could "democratize" drug tunneling and render obsolete the antidrug mission of a Trump-esque wall.
The technology requires almost no manual labor. A rig can drill a tube, from 8 to 80 inches in diameter, for a mile horizontally, "geo-steered" to hit a precise target. The driller can monitor his progress in real time while the system automatically lays pipe behind the drill head.
In Calexico, seven trafficking operations involving HDD rigs have been discovered since 2008, sometimes when the drill bits hit city infrastructure, as Jason Kersten reported for GQ in 2014.
He explains that in 2011 the Calexico Fire Department responded to a report of a foul odor from a motorcycle shop. A hazmat team broke inside and found a Ditch Witch JT8020—one of the so-called maxi-rigs. Smugglers had planned on drilling underneath a canal to reach Mexico.
Ground-scanning radar may be able to help uncover such plots, but the technology has not kept pace. San Diego's Tunnel Task Force reportedly uses its units only rarely. "The tunnel task force has experimented with ground-penetrating radar devices," a reporter for the Voice of San Diego wrote last month, "but rocky soil and a web of interconnecting sewage systems that run through the area interfere."
The reality is that there may not be a ready solution to fight these illicit subterranean activities.
But one thing that clearly won't work is a big, beautiful wall.
Mr. Bagott is a real-estate appraiser for Bender Rosenthal in Los Angeles.


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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Pierre-Marc Bouchard scored the go-ahead goal late in the third period and the Minnesota Wild snapped a three-game losing streak by beating the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-2 on Tuesday night.
With the Wild seemingly on their heels after giving up a two-goal lead, Bouchard took a pass from Torrey Mitchell near the blue line, zoomed past two Columbus defenders and beat goalie Steve Mason above his right glove.
Mikko Koivu and Tom Gilbert also scored for Minnesota.
Mark Letestu and Jack Johnson had goals for the Blue Jackets.
After Columbus beat Dallas to snap a four-game skid, the Blue Jackets' flight to the Twin Cities on Monday night was canceled because of fog, forcing the team to leave on Tuesday at 11 a.m.
Columbus looked sluggish early and trailed 2-0 after the first period.
Koivu took a rebound, skated to the side of the net and banked the puck off Mason to open the scoring midway through the first.
Gilbert flicked the puck into an open net after corralling a deflection off a Columbus player's shin pad late in the first to make it 2-0.
Zach Parise appeared to make it 3-1 late in the second, but the goal was disallowed after replays showed the puck going in off Parise's extended forearm.
The Blue Jackets have struggled to score after trading Rick Nash to the New York Rangers in the offseason. Columbus has allowed the first goal in five of its first seven games and has just 13 goals on the season.
The Blue Jackets managed only five shots through the game's first 31 minutes, and didn't register a second-period shot until 11 minutes had elapsed.
But just as it did Monday night after falling behind early against Dallas, Columbus came back.
Letestu made it 2-1 late in the second after a long sequence in the Wild end without a whistle.
Johnson's shot from the point on a power play tied it 7:32 into the third. It was Columbus' first goal in its last 23 power-play opportunities.
Mason robbed Matt Cullen of a goal early in the second, then did the same to Parise on a wraparound attempt late in the second to keep it close heading into the final period.
Bouchard's go-ahead tally was a big boost for the Wild's confidence beyond their first line.
Minnesota's top line, led by Parise and Koivu, has done most of the scoring for the Wild this season.
NOTES: The game was stopped briefly midway through the second after linesman Thor Nelson was hit in the side of the face with the puck on a clearing attempt. Nelson completed the second period, but didn't come out for the third. The third period was played with just one linesman. ... Koivu has 24 points in 24 career games against Columbus. ... Jared Boll fought Clayton Stoner in the second. Boll entered the game leading the NHL in fighting majors. ... It was the Wild's 500th game at the Xcel Energy Center.


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Senate legislation defunds local agency, providing money and duties to the state Commerce Department.
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Or, that�s what the backers of S.B. 127 believe, which defunds regional economic development entities and directs the money to the state Department of Commerce. From there, economic development resources would be pooled and coordinated, administered over several regional districts.
�I think the feeling was that the district groups were really not bringing jobs to the areas, and that the money could be better spent through the Department of Commerce,� Sen. Louis Pate, R-Wayne, said.
North Carolina�s Eastern Region, headquartered in Kinston and begun in 1993 as the Global TransPark Development Commission, would lose about $450,000 of its estimated $1.5 million budget. NCER works with 13 counties to attract companies and encourage business growth in the area, in collaboration with a multitude of groups, agencies and universities.
John Chaffee, NCER president and CEO, said the legislation would affect the organization seriously, especially in the short term.
�We have outstanding grant agreements the people expect us to perform, and those extend way beyond July 1, 2013,� Chaffee said, referring to the date the legislation would take effect. �They extend into next year. Some of those involve (Department of Defense) grants or contracts, in terms of we�re dealing with part of the Office of Economic Adjustment, which is part of DOD and tied to our military-related activities.�
He said NCER isn�t unopposed to going private, or consolidating activities under state control. Chaffee said the real concernlies with NCER�s complex financial structure, and resolving issues with losing state funding by July 1.
AdvantageWest, based in Asheville and serving 23 counties, would lose $1 million of its $2.2 million budget. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported AdvantageWest Chairman Tom Alexander believes defunding local agencies would result in a disadvantage for rural areas versus cities.
The Senate passed the bill May 14, just ahead of the crossover deadline when legislation needs to pass either the House of Representatives or the Senate, or be considered dead for the remainder of the session. The vote was 33-15, with all Republicans voting aye and all but one Democrat voting no.
�I believe it�s in the wrong direction, when we should create jobs,� Sen. Don Davis, D-Greene, said. �What this bill does, it takes local people that�s on the ground � removes them from the process, or at least creates an added layer.�
Democrats have been vocal opposing GOP efforts to take what had been under local control and place it under the authority of the state government. Davis considers it �overreaching into local communities.�
Pate said economic development efforts would still be connected to localities through contact with county groups, like Lenoir Committee of 100.
S.B. 127�s chief sponsor is Sen. Harry Brown, R-Onslow, who also represents part of Jones County. A call left for Brown was not returned by press time.
The bill was referred to the House Committee on Commerce and Job Development. If it passes, it will then go to the House Transportation Committee for consideration.
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text: Bradley Cooper wants to play Lance Armstrong in a movie.The 'Silver Linings Playbook' actor has expressed his desire to portray the "fascinating" disgraced cyclist - who was stripped of his titles between 1999 and 2005 after it emerged he had taken performance-enhancing drugs - in J.J. Abrams' upcoming biopic about his rise and fall from grace.Bradley told BBC news: "I would be interested in [playing Armstrong]. I think he's fascinating. What a fascinating character. I remember Matt Damon was going to do his autobiography at one point years ago."I remember thinking, that would be a great character, I'd love to play that character. I would love to do something, I think he's pretty fascinating."'Star Trek' helmer J.J. and his Paramount Pictures partner Bryan Burk recently snapped up the screen rights for 'Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong', a new book by New York Times sportswriter Juliet Macur, who has covered the drugs cheat for over a decade.Matt Damon and Matthew McConaughey are allegedly hot contenders to play the infamous cyclist in the Bad Robot project.Sony Pictures were previously lining up Jake Gyllenhaal to play Armstrong, but dropped their film proposal when the seven-time Tour de France winner's reputation was damaged.


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Dr. Pissy: "Dave's Deli? Why? What did I ever do to you?"
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Why I call him that
Dr. Pissy: "Dave's Deli? Why? What did I ever do to you?"
Posted by Grumpy, M.D. at 4:00 AM
6 comments:
- Officer Cynical said...
Sounds right up my alley. At a minimum, he should do guest posts.
- June 20, 2013 at 10:08 AM
One of my reps told me they can spend $10.00 per person on meals to the office ($15.00 if they are exceptional). So that eliminates a lot of the better places.
- June 20, 2013 at 2:08 PM
Maybe Dr. Pissy should do a better job at throwing himself at the eye candy if he wants a more satisfactory lunch?
- June 20, 2013 at 3:00 PM
- Ms. Donna said...
Does he know something we don't? Check the health ratings!
- June 20, 2013 at 3:40 PM
- Loren Pechtel said...
Drug reps can still provide lunch? I thought all gifts were stopped a few years ago.
- June 20, 2013 at 9:21 PM
Loren, 'precisely'! (Doesn't sound as if drug reps have been disallowed from non-gifts; as if a gift is in the eye (or stomach) of the beholder.)
There is no restriction for representatives from pharmaceutical companies to provide 'lunch & learn'.
- June 22, 2013 at 12:18 PM
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Golf Courses on the North Oregon Coast - Oregon Coast Activity #23 of 101 Things to do on the Oregon Coast
You won't find any world class golf courses on the north Oregon coast, but don't let that stop you. Some are quirky, some are historic and some are just plain fun.
|Chinook Winds Golf Resort
The 18-hole Chinook Winds Golf Resort in Lincoln City, OR is a semi-private golf course that opened in 1926. Chinook Winds Golf Resort measures 4636 yards from the longest tees and has a slope rating of 102 and a 62 USGA rating. The course features 3 sets of tees for different skill levels. The greens are bent grass and the fairways are winter rye.
|Alderbrook Golf Course
Opened in 1924, Alderbrook Golf Course is one of the oldest courses along the Oregon Coast. 95 acres of dairy farmland were transformed into this scenic and challenging 18-hole layout. Originally a nine-hole course, the layout has undergone major renovations over the years, including its expansion to 18 holes. Despite the changes, Alderbrook has retained its classic character and still gives golfers a classic round. The mountains that enclose the course provide a stunning backdrop and the rugged terrain of the foothills is ideal golfing ground. Forests of mature cedar and fir trees blanket the landscape, which is also dotted with natural springs. Alderbrook's 16th hole is memorable for its extremely steep incline, but a panoramic view of the Tillamook Valley offers some scenic respite.
|Manzanita Golf Course
The golfer who likes to play different kinds of courses will enjoy the uniqueness of Manzanita Golf Course, located off HWY 101. The 2,192-yard, par-32, 9-hole layout is constructed on a beautiful hillside that faces the pounding surf.
The course has many majestic fir trees, lush fairways, and well-cared-for greens. Hole #5 is a particularly interesting hole. The tee area is 80' above the fairway and provides a wonderful view of the hole. Only 280 yard from the back tees will provide the golfer with a great opportunity for an eagle.
Steve Erickson, owner and manager, and his friendly staff will ensure your round is enjoyable and satisfying. The pro shop has the latest in golf equipment and apparel and the snack bar can provide you with your favorite foods and beverages.
|Seaside Golf Club
The 9-hole Seaside Golf Club in Seaside, OR is a public golf course that opened in 1921. Designed by H. Chandler Egan, Seaside Golf Club measures 2593 yards from the longest tees and has a slope rating of 104 and a 33.3 USGA rating.
|Gearhart Golf Links
Although records indicate that the golf course at Gearhart was established in 1892, tradition has it that several Scotsmen laid out four holes on the wind-swept dunes in the 1880s. Gearhart Golf Links is the oldest course in Oregon.
Originally a nine-hole course, Gearhart Golf Links was extended to 18 in 1913. Today the golf course is 6,218 yards, par 72 and stretches for about a mile from north to south, with the width equal to about three fairways. The elevation is fairly constant, but the up-and-down roll of the sand dunes over which the golf course is built, makes a flat lie a rarity. Gearhart Golf Links' sand base makes for excellent drainage, and the encircling condo-motel units provide considerable shelter from the coastal winds. The golf course is generally wide open, easy to walk, and a pleasure to play.
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Dr. Mohler is a Purdue University Faculty Scholar, a member of the Purdue University Teaching Academy and a past faculty fellow for the Discovery Learning Center and Owen and Tarkington Residence Halls. Dr. Mohler is a member of Purdue's ADVANCE team and has served as a Diversity Catalyst at Purdue University for the last two years. He has served as a facilitator for diversity training at the university and has been actively engaged in the college relative to efforts regarding equity, inclusion and advocacy for faculty, staff and students. Dr. Mohler is also a Guest Professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology in the People's Republic of China.
Over the last 10 years Jamie has taught graduate courses on research methods, perception and visual intelligence, and university honors courses on various computer graphics topics. He has or continues to work with 10 PhD students as committee chair or co-chair. He has or continues to serve as a member of 10 other PhD or MS graduate committees. He continues to teach the required course for all technology MS and PhD students, TECH 646 - Research Methods for Business and Industry.
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Well I've been planning this trip for as long as I've been with Abby, about 10 years, I've postponed it the last 3 years for various reasons, but I'm done. I have to do this.....On the R1 too. I plan on leaving sometime the first week of august. I know it is hot, but I'll be riding a lot of high mountain passes. The extremes will be around 112 in Death valley during the day and 35 in Steamboat Co at night. Looks like I will be either buying a Subaru and fixing ti up and towing the bike out there. Selling it and continuing my trip, starting in Albuquerque NM heading north to Steamboat Co and making a left, taking lots of back roads all the way Death Valley and making another left more back roads to Roswell NM and making another Left and heading back to Albuquerque. From there head to Suches Ga to meet up with the COG group and camping with them until sept 11th and heading home.
I should be postponing again, since I quit my job (asshole boss) to concentrate on a rental property to finish and I'm broke.....BUT, I did almost die from a work accident last May, so I want to do this.....Then again since the accident I've had constant pain on my shoulders and elbows. Haven't been able to lift weights (with I do sporadically), MTB, Shooting Range and had to cut down on the riding as well.
I might actually take my truck to Albuquerque and drive to Suches and back home, but I'll decide that the week before.
Anyways, I thought I would share with my TSB friends!
Oh yeah, I also bought Stevefl's Concours do to my accident just in case..... Love the bike, but it just isn't as fun as the R1, but I do love both. Oh yeah, that's my first rental behind the bikes.


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Boehner: Fiscal Cliff Negotiations At A 'Stalemate'
President Obama traveled to the the Philadelphia suburbs on Friday. He visited the maker of Tinker Toys and talked about the impact of tax hikes on consumers this Christmas season.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
I'm Melissa Block. And we begin this hour with this word - stalemate. That today from Republican House Speaker John Boehner describing the current state of budget talks with President Obama. As for the president, with little apparent progress inside Washington, he took his case on the road. He visited a toy factory in Pennsylvania, where he argued for extending middle class tax cuts while allowing rates to go up for the wealthiest Americans. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.
SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: President Obama toured the K'nex factory outside Philadelphia that makes popular Tinker Toy-style sets likely to show up under many a Christmas tree this year. Mr. Obama marveled at a set that lets children build their own model roller coaster and joked the factory's workers are Santa's extra elves.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I've been keeping my own naughty and nice list for Washington, so you should keep your eye on who gets some K'nex this year. There are going to be some members of Congress who get them and some who don't.
HORSLEY: So far, the president and congressional Republicans haven't had much nice to say about one another. House Speaker John Boehner complains the president's deficit-cutting proposal is not serious. Mr. Obama wants more than one and a half trillion dollars in additional taxes over the next decade. He said that plan is negotiable, but that he will insist on higher tax rates for the wealthy, a promise he made plain in his bid for reelection.
Unless the two sides cut a deal, taxes for everyone go up automatically in the New Year. Mr. Obama's urging lawmakers to extend low tax rates for the middle class, then deal separately with taxes for the top two percent.
OBAMA: The key is, though, that the American people have to be involved. You know, it's not going to be enough for me to just do this on my own.
HORSLEY: The K'nex CEO, who knows something about assembling working models, says he's confident the two sides will put together a deal. Even if his own taxes go up, he says, that's preferable to the big drain on consumer demand that would come from going over the fiscal cliff. Scott Horsley, NPR News.
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At Club Industry, you will have an opportunity to look and play with the software and take a few minutes to sit down with our sales team to determine which of our solutions is right for you. Motionsoft has different platforms to meet the specific needs of our clients. Whether you are a commercial gym, corporate or hospital-based wellness center, or a university, we have the right solutions for you. When you come by the booth, look at the myClub online member portal that allows prospects to sign up online and members to fully access their accounts from the comfort of their own home. Take time to learn about our fully integrated scheduling module or our best-in-breed billing and receivables options. They can help free up your resources and help you operate with financial confidence ensuring better management of your facility.
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The final quarter of 2012 treated Corporate America well, as most companies inaugurated the New Year with a batch of quarterly earnings that beat the market's lowered expectations.
Still, most corporate chiefs say uncertainty remains the order of the day. High stakes policy skirmishes in Washington loom, which some fear could undermine the U.S. economy's budding recovery.


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The Society of The Ark and The Dove was founded in 1910 to perpetuate the memory of the first families of Maryland and to provide opportunities for fellowship for all those who trace their descent from Lord Baltimore and from those who came on the Ark and the Dove in 1634 to settle the proprietary province of Maryland. The society also encourages research in early Maryland history and promotes its dissemination by enlisting knowledgeable speakers for its assemblies and by contributing to the support of such appropriate institutions as Historic St. Mary's City, St. Clement's Island Museum and the Maryland Historical Society. [1]


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Hello, hello! I'm back after a bit of a blogging vacation to bring you a new color palette from colourQ! I can hardly believe that it's been 12 whole days since I've posted anything here and I'm feeling a bit rusty in the ol' craft department. But here goes!
I liked the celebratory feel of these colorful mason jars so I thought some stars would be a good idea to carry out that theme on my card. I really need thank you cards after Christmas so I used an old favorite "thank you" sentiment instead of something a little more festive. Duty calls, after all!
I'm also playing along with the 100th challenge at Can You Case It! What a fantastic milestone and congratulations to them!
As you can imagine the colourQ design team has made some beautiful cards with these colors so I hope you have a chance to check them out and join us in the gallery with your own creation! We'd love to see you there!
Thanks for stopping by!
Stamps: Much Appreciated (SU)
Paper: White (Spectrum Noir); Coastal Cabana, Gold Foil, Vellum (SU)
Ink: Black Stazon
Accessories: Starry Nights stencil (Memory Box); white embossing paste (Dreamweaver); 3 Stitched Star die (My Creative Time); Pierced Rectangle STAX (My Favorite Things)
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On Wednesday, April 16, at 12 p.m., I joined a group of activists at a press conference outside the offices of senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer at 780 Third Avenue in Manhattan.
The demonstration, organized by Food & Water Watch, New Yorkers Against Fracking, 350NYC and NYPIRG, was intended to urge our senators to vote "no" on a bill that would fast-track liquefied natural gas exports. As speakers Alex Beauchamp and Pat Almonrode aptly stated, the oil and gas industry is exploiting the crisis in Ukraine to increase natural gas production under the guise of helping Europe wean itself from Russia's fossil fuels.
This is what Naomi Klein calls the "shock doctrine" – the knack for exploiting crisis for private gain. We well know that Europe does not need American natural gas given the major strides it has made in renewable energy production. In addition, this fast-track bill will not promote U.S. energy independence because the majority of it will likely be shipped abroad.
Moreover, due to the many hazards of fracking and liquefied natural gas as an extremely volatile substance, this fast-track bill would only bring harm to U.S. communities.
At the close of the press conference, we delivered 15,000 petition signatures opposing the fast-track bill to our senators. In light of the most recent United Nations climate report put forth by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which calls for a swift switch to clean energy sources in order to avoid climate catastrophe, we hope the our Senators will hear our voices and choose public will over dirty fossil fuel interests.
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The Nintendo Wii U's processor is slower than its counterparts in the years-old Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and the Wii U graphics chip either matches or is slightly faster than its rivals' graphics chips. That's another affirmation that Nintendo rarely cares about being on the bleeding edge of performance when it comes to loading up the features in its brand-new game consoles.
GamingBolt reported that a hacker Hector Martin, who goes by the name Marcan, discovered that the Wii U's IBM PowerPC central processing unit runs at 1.24 gigahertz per core, with a total of three cores. By comparison, the PS3's Cell processor and the Xbox 360's Xenon run at 3 gigahertz per core.
Martin said that the Wii U is not so hard to hack. He says the security processor is dubbed Starbuck, versus the Starlet on the Wii, and it "seems to be about equally vulnerable, too." He also said "clock for clock" comparisons with the older Xbox 360 chip aren't strictly valid.
The Wii U's graphics processing unit (GPU) is made by Advanced Micro Devices. Marcan says it runs at 549 megahertz. [Update: Rob Wyatt of Otoy points out that the PS3's graphics chip runs at 550 megahertz (which is effectively the same clock) and the Xbox 360's GPU runs at 500 megahertz.]
Of course, clock speeds are only one measure of performance. The number of cores is also relevant as is the processor's architecture. But for the most part, this means that the Wii U is underpowered compared to the 7-year-old Xbox 360 and the 6-year-old PS3.
In a statement, Nintendo said, "We understand that people like to dissect graphics and processing power, but the experience of playing will always be more important than raw numbers."
Expanding on that, I think Nintendo's natural comeback is that the innovation lies in the Wii U's tablet game controller and the new asynchronous gameplay it enables. The Wii U also has sufficient processing power to display games in high-definition.
But clearly Nintendo has made sacrifices. One of the big drawbacks is that the processor/GPU combination is too slow to power the displays for a TV and for two tablets at the same time when running high-speed games. Right now, Wii U games make use of only a single tablet controller played with a TV. To run a game with two tablets used at the same time, Nintendo will reportedly have to scale back the framerate of a game, running it at perhaps 30 frames per second instead of 60 frames per second.
That certainly means that the Wii U performance leaves something to be desired. But Nintendo has been able to keep the cost of the console relatively low. The Wii U debuted with a high-end model price of $349, compared to $399 for the Xbox 360 and $599 for the PS3.
When Microsoft and Sony launch their new consoles soon, it won't be very hard for them to include hardware that runs circles around the performance of the Wii U.
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|When creating materials and News items for your online classrooms, consider using images to draw attention to your postings. A natural "chunking" of information can be achieved with strategic placement of a few key images within lengthy sections of text.
|Good: A simple piece of clip art or a photo related to the season or holiday will add interest to your announcements and will provide an updated, current feeling to the classroom. Images of students participating in the learning process can impart a sense of academic community and engagement. Pictures of the campus will encourage familiarity with various buildings, and can foster a greater sense of belonging.
|Better:You can increase the value of adding graphics by having images relate directly to the field of study. For example, a course in Spanish could utilize images from various aspects of Spanish cultures: city streets, homes, market places, etc. Courses in the College of Nursing could integrate images of medical personnel performing various tasks or using innovative equipment.
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|Best: The ideal use of images is to enhance the learning process by providing actual examples with a narrative, description, or explanation. A microbiology course could provide full color enhancements of various bacteria, fungi, protozoans, or viruses. These electronic images viewed within an online classroom offer greater detail and clarity than those displayed on a screen at the front of a lecture hall and can be used for review by students.
|Optimizing Images: Images used for web-viewing do not need to be extremely high resolution, nor should they be. Cropping and resizing them in PowerPoint or a Word document does not reduce the file size. Images have to be edited in a specialized program (such as Adobe Photoshop), and then placed into the file. For example, an image that is 200 x 150 will cover about one-fourth of your screen. Images to be used in News posting can be much smaller.
Consider that a 12 megapixel digital camera produces images approximately 4272 x 2848 pixels. Images used in your course Content should not exceed 1024 x 768 pixels. In comparison, PowerPoint slides are set to 1000 x 750. As you can see, there may be a need to optimize many of the images you would like to use.
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Plans for Nebraska Innovation Campus continue to move forward, with an initial leadership team to oversee development of the project now in place.
During its April 2010 meeting, the University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved appointments to the Innovation Campus Development Corporation Board of Directors. The board includes five members from the private sector and four from the University of Nebraska.
Private-sector members are: Tom Henning, CEO of Assurity Life Insurance Co.; Dana Bradford, president of McCarthy Capital Corp.; Matt Williams, president of Gothenburg State Bank; Tonn Ostergard, president and CEO of Crete Carrier Corp.; and JoAnn Martin, CEO of Ameritas Life Insurance.
University representatives are: NU President James B. Milliken; University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman; Prem Paul, UNL vice chancellor of research and economic development; and John Owens, vice president and vice chancellor of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
"We could not be more pleased with the commitment of the business community to the success of the Innovation Campus," Milliken said. "The outstanding private-sector membership of the initial Board of Directors for the Innovation Campus Development Corporation reflects this support and enthusiasm. We are looking forward to working with them on this important development."
The Board of Regents has also approved articles of incorporation and bylaws for the Innovation Campus Development Corp.
Innovation Campus is a public-private partnership that will occupy a 251-acre site near UNL's City Campus. The university took ownership of the property, formerly the home of the Nebraska State Fair, on Jan. 1, 2010.
The theme of Innovation Campus is "food, fuel and water" – reflecting University of Nebraska research strengths in agriculture, water for food, biofuels, energy, nutrition and other areas. Innovation Campus will allow the university to collaborate with the private sector and government to create new jobs and technologies that benefit Nebraska's economy and quality of life. Students will have new opportunities for internships and jobs, allowing Nebraska to retain more of its best and brightest young people; and business leaders will have opportunities to serve as guest lecturers in university classes.
The first phase of development at Innovation Campus is expected to include a federally funded Agricultural Research Services facility, a companion UNL research facility and some infrastructure and landscaping. Also during Phase I, the 4-H Building will be renovated into a central commons area, paying homage to the State Fair's long history in Lincoln.
Future development will include additional research and office space, retail, recreational space, residential living and perhaps a hotel. In all, about two-thirds of Innovation Campus will be privately developed, and one-third publicly developed. The campus will reflect a commitment to sustainability.
A team of consultants has estimated that when fully developed over the next 20 to 25 years, Innovation Campus could create 5,525 new jobs and grow Nebraska's annual payroll by $267 million.
For more information about Nebraska Innovation Campus, visit innovate.unl.edu.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Longtime Dallas Cowboys guard Larry Allen didn't have to think long before knowing who would introduce him in Canton in August when he's inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2013. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is the choice.
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"He's been like a father figure to me," an emotional Allen told NFL Network's Chris Rose after learning of his induction.
"Larry is one of the greatest players in Cowboys history, and arguably the very best guard to ever play the game," Jones said after the announcement. "He was obviously a special talent, but the fierceness and tenacity that he brought to the field separated him from the rest of the pack. I have never been more proud of anyone who has reached the Pro Football Hall Fame. Larry Allen represents the best of the very best."
Allen, known as perhaps the most fearsome offensive lineman of the last 20 years, couldn't help but cry when he learned the news. He repeatedly said that he was overwhelmed and thrilled to have made it to the Hall of Fame. Although he wouldn't be Larry Allen if he didn't say something a little intimidating.
"My thought process when I played the game was I tried to make the other guy quit," Allen said.
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Adobe has announced the availability of its business-focused Acrobat X document exchange services. Designed for professional use, this new offering facilitates creating and sharing higher-quality data content with the ultimate aim of driving tighter collaboration and productivity across teams.
"Acrobat X addresses today's critical challenge of communicating and collaborating with widely dispersed teams of colleagues, partners, and customers in a compelling way," said Kevin M. Lynch, vice president and general manager of Acrobat, digital enterprise solutions group, Adobe. "Our new Acrobat.com services tackle the need to have access to, exchange, retrieve, and view documents reliably from anywhere."
Using a new 'guided' Actions function, Adobe says that Acrobat X software users can automate routine and multi-step tasks to then share them with collaborating coworkers, reducing the burden of training. With the new layouts, visual themes, and color palettes in the PDF Portfolios function, business professionals can change how users view and interact with content and its context.
According to Adobe, "With the new Acrobat X Suite, users can maximize the power of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat to capture, edit, and combine digital content right from the desktop and easily create dynamic communications. New Microsoft SharePoint integration enables consistency of Adobe PDF documents across the enterprise; users can check-in and check-out PDF files for reviewing and editing shared documents. A streamlined process lets large organizations deploy, configure, and manage updates and conform to ISO standards, in both Adobe Reader X and Acrobat X, including support for Microsoft SCCM and SCUP."
Also announced alongside the new Acrobat X document exchange services, Adobe has unveiled SendNow — a new document exchange service that lets users send, download, track, and manage large files and documents so that users can upload files from a web browser or directly from the share pane in Adobe Reader X.
Using a central dashboard, users can use this new technology to send large files from their computer to one or many recipients, view files that they've sent off, see when and to whom they were sent, get delivery receipts, and watch for files that have been sent to them. The proposition is that with Adobe SendNow, users avoid e-mail gateway issues, FTP servers, or the costs of expensive overnight mail.


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DEARBORN, MI (TOLEDO NEWS NOW) - Ford Motor Company announced in a news release Thursday the investment of more than $773 million in plants across southeast Michigan to support its growth plan.
The investments will create 2,350 new hourly jobs and allow the company to retain an additional 3,240 hourly jobs, the news release states. The new positions are part of the 12,000 hourly jobs that Ford plans to add across the U.S. by 2015.
Over the next six months, Ford will upgrade stamping operations at Michigan Assembly Plant and Dearborn Stamping Plant, as well as finalize work at Flat Rock Assembly Plant to produce the new Fusion. Specifically, Ford is making investments at the following Michigan locations:*Michigan Assembly Plant - $59.4 million for stamping press line expansion
*Dearborn Stamping Plant -$305 million for plant modernization, new press lines, scrap conveyor system and other machinery and equipment
*Flat Rock Assembly - $161 million for machinery and equipment to assemble the new Ford Fusion and as an additional production facility
*Sterling Axle Plant - $86 million for machinery and equipment investment to meet axle demand increase and future model changes
*Van Dyke Transmission - $87.7 million for machinery and equipment investment to meet capacity expansions for 6F35 and 6F50 transmissions
*Livonia Transmission - $74.7 million for machinery and equipment investment for transmission expansion and test equipment.Get more details from the Detroit Free Press.


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As many of you may know when it comes to sewing the main expert on that in this family is Jon! Last summer I tried to conquer the sewing machine and even made a couple of toss pillows, which came out great, but in the end me and the sewing machine decided we were better off as friends.
Which means I leave all of the sewing in the hands of my seamstress or my husband.
For weeks now I've had fabric sitting in my craft closet just waiting to be turned into a roman shade. Now for my seamstress to do it that would be around $130 bucks and Jon is not that handy to make one from scratch so I took matters in my own hands last night.
Here are my supplies:
– Iron
-Heavy Starch
-Spray Glue
-Stapler – That's right an office stapler! I said no sewing!
-Striped Fabric
-White canvas fabric to use as a backing
-Ribbon Trim
-Hot Glue Gun
-Piece of wood cut to the size of your window
-Wooden or metal dowels
-Tape Measure
Step 1: Measure your window. My window was 34" wide so I added an extra two inches on each side and made sure I had a 38" wide piece of fabric. The length of it is up to you and how many folds you want to make. I made my piece 60" long.
Step 2: Iron everything with heavy starch.
Step 3: Get a nice fold on each side of the shade and secure the white backing to your fabric with a light mist of spray glue.
* Before you spray glue measure you piece one more time and make sure that you still have the right the width. We had an extra 2" on each side to fold over.
Step 4: Start making your folds. Due to the heavy starch your fabric will be nice and stiff so it will help you make your folds. Once you find a size you like just staple away!
* Use a tape measure and make sure each of your folds are equal.
Here are my 4 folds all finished and individually stapled:
Step 5: Is optional. Since I had extra fabric I decided to wrap my mounting piece in fabric so that you didn't see exposed wood on the sides of the shade.
Step 6 is attaching your faux shade to the mounting piece of wood. We had a bit of extra fabric so we decided that we just wanted the shade to cover 23" of the window. So that is where we stapled the shade to the wood.
Step 7: After stapling our faux shade to our mounting piece we realized we need a little bit more support in the folds so we stapled the folds to each other.
Step 8: We also added metal dowels to hold the space:
Step 9: To make sure our folds weren't going anywhere we also flipped our shade over and spray glued each fold to the backing.
These folds aren't going anywhere and we didn't have to use a needle and thread anywhere!
Step 10: To hide our staples simply use a glue gun and add some decorative trim.
* Don't you love my manicure? I got my nails done on Friday and come Monday night they were trashed.
Voila all finished! To hang you faux shade you can either use the mounting piece to screw it directly in your moulding or ceiling or pick up some L brackets and use that instead.
Here is a side shot:
We used existing hardware from an old shade we use to have in the space. I think I want it to lay a bit flatter to the window so we are going to mount it directly to the moulding this evening.
Because this is a faux roman shade it will not go up and down. This is not a problem, because we have a roller shade installed behind it that can easier be rolled up or down.
I know there are bunch of versions of faux roman shades, but I wanted one with absolutely no sewing, because for me even a straight line can be tricky. This fit the bill and works great in my space.