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Brian James CarGO Connect Trailer - 5m Bed (475-5442)
- £2,739.00 (ex VAT)
- Availability: In Stock
- Brand: Brian James Trailers
- Product Code: 475-5442
Total Gross Capacity 3,500kg
At the heart of the CarGO Connect is a redefinition of a multi-purpose trailer. It means any available option can be added or removed to suit, as and when needed. CarGO Connect is certainly defined by the concept of configuration, but in addition this brand new design is completed by a multitude of new features and ideas specifically to assist users gain flexibility and easy operation.
It's standard features ensure that CarGO Connect can be just as competent loading and transporting super-cars, as tractors, mowers or heavy pieces of equipment. This is the professionals trailer.
Standard Features
- Multiple Anchor Points - Numerous strap attachment points are provided along each side of CarGO Connect. Each are located through the chassis providing ultimate strength. For vehicle transport a set of professional wheel 'sling' straps can be used for maximum security. Machine movement is made easy with many tie-down options.
- LED Marker Lamps - LED technology, super-bright and reliable lamps are fitted in front (white), sides (amber) and rear outline marker (red/white/amber) positions as well as for registration plate illumination.
- Connected - In every corner of the CarGO Connect chassis and placed at points in-between are high strength 'Connect Nodes'. Each node represents the ability to click into place a variety of posts for options such as side systems, headboards or ladder racks. No tools, no fuss
- Underside Rope Hooks - All along the underside many convenient rope hooks are provided
- Individual Lamp Array - Stylish, well protected lamps are individually replaceable in the unlikely event of damage. They feature a high quality bulb holder providing durability and a convenient twist release mechanism for easy bulb access. The fully sealed lamps are further protected by a bodywork housing preventing direct wheel spray. CarGO Connect features a junction box wiring system for easy maintenance.
- Smooth-ride, self damping - CarGO Connect trailers are designed for long distance and heavy loads. Axles and suspension technology is by AL-KO, Europe's largest trailer equipment manufacturer.
- Super-Structure - The strength of CarGO Connect is more than skin deep. Super-strength steel used in the main chassis fabrication is complemented by two additional longitudinal beams just below the 18mm thick phenol ply anti-slip centre bed. Lighter weight and improved strength, combined with the durability of a hot-dip galvanised chassis will be a part of the CarGO Connect for many years.
- Level ride - Models featuring larger wheels are fitted with a lowered overrun housing draw bar, ensuring that the tow ball is matched to the optimum height for level towing.
- Super-Strong - An 18mm anti-slip phenol ply-deck with a network of chassis supports ensures that heavy items can be transported.
- Punched steel grip deck - Forming a permanent raised profile in two tracks this feature provides permanent grip for wheeled vehicles.
Optional Extras
Enclosed Torsion Bar
Enclosed torsion option eliminates need for external springs meaning corner posts can be removed to allow loading of wider payloads. Torsion bar also allows for easy manual lifting of ramp.
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We've known the date for over a month now, but RIM finally made things official: press invitations for its BlackBerry 10 unveil went out today. The company will host its shindig in New York City on January 30.
RIM will be taking the wraps off the operating system and hardware at this event, but it will hardly be the first we've seen of either. The company has given plenty of official demonstrations of the software, with some bits and pieces coming out at the BlackBerry World 2012 conference in May and a more comprehensive preview of the gesture-heavy operating system shown off in September.
Leaks of what purports to be the final hardware have also come to light—just last week, a Vietnamese blog posted high-quality photos and video of what looks to be mostly finalized hardware and software. This trickle of information about BlackBerry 10, both official and unofficial, has kept the company in the headlines even as its new flagship products have been delayed.
Ars is working on getting invites to the event, and you can be sure that full reviews of both the BlackBerry 10 hardware and software will follow. Stay tuned!

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Well come to Yoko Higashi ArtWorks!
My Real Name:Yoko higashi
Current Residence: Hyogo,Japan
Date of birth: December 20, 1974, Japan time 0:50, Born in Kakogawa-cho, Kakogawa city, Hyogo prefecture
Sun-Sign: 27 Sagittarius 21'
Ascendant: 8 Libra 33'
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Mass-media activity: 1983 - present (mainly national level newspapers and famous magazines,etc. in Japan)


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From the conference website:
More people than ever are using mobile devices for a wide variety of purposes including communication, internet access, text messaging, and entertainment. It is important that libraries provide services on these devices as use increases.Registration is $49 USD for an individual or $89 USD for two or more people logged in from 1 computer.
The first ever Handheld Librarian Online on July 30, 2009 is the place to learn about these and other topics related to using wireless and hand held devices in your library. The program, sponsored by Alliance Library System, LearningTimes and Infoquest, will include a variety of ways to collaborate, network and learn from a great group of experts in the field. In addition to live interactive webcasts, we will have a collection of available resources, discussions boards, and access to the recording of all live events for one year after the conference.


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Oakland, Berkeley, And East Bay News, Events, Restaurants, Music, & Arts
The phone calls came almost daily. It started to get creepy.
"Hi, this is Mike from Yelp," the voice would say. "You've had three hundred visitors to your site this month. You've had a really good response. But you have a few bad ones at the top. I could do something about those."
This wasn't your average sales pitch. At least, not the kind that John, an East Bay restaurateur, was used to. He was familiar with Yelp.com, the popular San Francisco-based web site in which any person can write a review about nearly any business. John's restaurant has more than one hundred reviews, and averages a healthy 3.5-star rating. But when John asked Mike what he could do about his bad reviews, he recalls the sales rep responding: "We can move them. Well, for $299 a month." John couldn't believe what the guy was offering. It seemed wrong.
In fact, something seemed shady about the state of his restaurant's negative reviews. "When you do get a call from Yelp, and you go to the site, it looks like they have been moved," John said. "You don't know if they happen to be at the top legitimately or if the rep moved them to the top. You don't even know if this is someone who legitimately doesn't like your restaurant. ... Almost all the time when they call you, the bad ones will be at the top."
Usually, John said, he would politely decline to advertise. "Well, thanks," he'd say. "I'll talk to my partner about it." Or, "It's not really in my budget right now." But inevitably, in another week or so, he'd get another phone call. Occasionally, the voice on the other end of the phone would change, but the calls continued. These days, John chooses to not answer his phone when it's from a number with a 415 area code.
John may sound paranoid, but he's got company. During interviews with dozens of business owners over a span of several months, six people told this newspaper that Yelp sales representatives promised to move or remove negative reviews if their business would advertise. In another six instances, positive reviews disappeared — or negative ones appeared — after owners declined to advertise.
Because they were often asked to advertise soon after receiving negative reviews, many of these business owners believe Yelp employees use such reviews as sales leads. Several, including John, even suspect Yelp employees of writing them. Indeed, Yelp does pay some employees to write reviews of businesses that are solicited for advertising. And in at least one documented instance, a business owner who refused to advertise subsequently received a negative review from a Yelp employee.
Many business owners, like John, feel so threatened by Yelp's power to harm their business that they declined to be interviewed unless their identities were concealed. (John is not the restaurant owner's real name.) Several business owners likened Yelp to the Mafia, and one said she feared its retaliation. "Every time I had a sales person call me and I said, 'Sorry, it doesn't make sense for me to do this,' ... then all of a sudden reviews start disappearing." To these mom-and-pop business owners, Yelp's sales tactics are coercive, unethical, and, possibly, illegal.
"That's the biggest scam in the Bay Area," John said. "It totally felt like a blackmail deal. I think they're doing anything to make a sale."
Yelp officials deny that they move negative reviews, although such allegations have surfaced many times before. The issue is even addressed on the web site's Frequently Asked Questions page. Chief Operating Officer Geoff Donaker said advertisers and sales representatives don't have the ability to move or remove negative reviews. "We wouldn't be in business very long if we started duping customers," he said.
But Donaker's denials are challenged by nine local business owners and also by a former contract employee who worked with Yelp in its early days. That person, who is still close to some Yelp employees and only agreed to be interviewed if granted anonymity, said several sales reps have told him they promised to move reviews to get businesses to advertise. "It's not illegal or unethical," he said they told him. "We're just helping the little guy. It doesn't hurt them, it benefits them."
Such tactics may be legal, but they clearly raise ethical concerns. Yelp touts its web site as consisting of "real people" writing "real reviews." The allegations of business owners who have tangled with the company suggest otherwise.
If Yelp indeed suppresses honest reviews in exchange for its advertisers' money, it is cheating users who expect genuine consumer feedback. Conversely, if Yelp demands payment to remove even dishonest reviews, then advertisers are being cheated.
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The ¡Viva el Fútbol! video series provides a look into Crew players' Hispanic roots in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. In this fourth and final episode, Crew midfielder Bernardo Añor welcomes us into his home to discuss his friends & family, his path to Columbus and his dad's influence in his career.
Caracas FC. Before joining USF, Bernardo lead the U17 and the U20 categories of "El Rojo" to national championships. His brother (Juan Pablo) and father (Bernardo) also defended the colors of one of Venezuela's most prestigious clubs.
Oripoto, Caracas. District located within the Caracas Metropolitan Area where Bernardo grew up.
Bernardo with his grandparents.
More ¡VIva el Fútbol!
Crew defender Agustín Viana welcomes us into his house to talk about his youth in Uruguay, his love for the countryside and the traditional mate beverage.
Midfielder Matías Sánchez joins us over a traditional asado to talk about his hometown and how he stays close to his country.
Striker Jairo Arrieta talks about the honor of representing Costa Rica on the international level in World Cup Qulifying.


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How does the Presbyterian faith understand the verses that speak of "binding and loosing" as found in Matthew 16:18-19; 18:18 and John 20:23? Does the Presbyterian denomination believe the Church has any power to bind or loose men of their sins? If so, in what sense? Is this the same sense as that of the Church Fathers? What did John Calvin say about these verses? Thank you.
From these and other verses, Presbyterians have developed our doctrine of "Church discipline." Defined rather broadly, "Church discipline" refers to the processes by which people are brought into the Church, kept in the Church, and (because of unrepentant sin) removed from the Church, all by the Holy Spirit working through the elders whom the Spirit has already raised up to govern the Church. These doctrines are discussed in the Westminster Confession of Faith chapters 25 and 30 (which you can find, with Scripture proofs, here. The Orthodox Presbyterian Church's "Book of Discipline," which lays out the ways in which we believe these Biblical commands and doctrines should best be applied in the life of the Church, is on pages 91-120 of our Book of Church Order, and can be found online here.
Perhaps the best Biblical summary of the process of Church discipline is Matthew 18:15-20:
15 "If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
18 Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.
19 Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them."
In Matthew 18:15-17, our Lord commands a process for dealing with sin. The end point of that process is "telling it to the Church," which (in the context of the rest of Scripture) we understand to mean bringing the matter to the elders of the Church, who, when gathered together as a council to judge a matter upon good and sufficient evidence, have the power to excommunicate unrepentant sinners ("...let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.").
In Matthew 18:18-20, Jesus gives the disciples, and their successors the elders of the Church, an extraordinary promise. When they determine together to admit a person into Church membership, that decision shall reflect what God has already determined, which is also the case should they determine to excommunicate a Church member (Matthew 18:18-19). How can this be? Because Jesus Christ, by his Holy Spirit, will be present among the elders of the Church whenever they are gathered, under his authority, to govern Christ's Church in his name and according to his Word in the Bible (Matthew 18:20).
The rules and procedures by which Presbyterians exercise Church discipline have evolved over the centuries as we have grown in our understanding of Scripture and had more experience in applying the principles of God's Word in the government and life of the Church. As for what the Church Fathers thought about these verses, you should know that term covers a great number of men and centuries; I am not qualified to say what their consensus opinion was, if such a judgment is even possible. As for John Calvin, in his commentaries on these passages, he argues that they refer to the work of the Holy Spirit in either bringing men to salvation, or condemning them for their hardness of heart, when the Word of God is preached. This view agrees with the Presbyterian understanding because we believe Church discipline begins (and often ends) with preaching. In preaching, sin is exposed, the Gospel is proclaimed, and God's people repent and turn from their sins because of the grace of God in the Cross of Jesus Christ. Thus, while the current Presbyterian understanding of these passages is more developed and nuanced than Calvin's, it is substantially in agreement.
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Lets talk about something cheerful. How about impeachment?
Hey, its been a depressing month for news. If you want to look on the bright side, youve got to work with what youve got.
The possibility of actual impeachment is not something that keeps Barack Obama up at night. Modern history suggests theres nothing Congress could do that the American public would hate more. Yet impeachment talk has been bounding around the Republican right for ages. The South Dakota Republican Party passed a resolution calling for impeachment at their annual convention this year. (We all know the famous saying: As South Dakota goes, so goes North Dakota.) Sarah Palin brings up impeachment virtually every day. Some members of Congress use it to energize the crazy base.
For instance, Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida once posted a list of arguments for impeachment on his campaign website. I am mentioning this in part because its always fun to write Ted Yoho. Also because I dont think Ive ever had an opportunity to note that during his previous election season, Ted Yoho told a church group that he wished the right to vote was limited to property owners.
Last week, the Democrats started picking up the impeachment banner in the form of pretending to take the Republican threats seriously. White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said it would be foolish to discount the possibility. Democratic fundraisers sent out warnings of impending impeachment danger to their own base and were tickled by the enthusiastic response.
Now, Republican leaders are desperately trying to change the subject. House Speaker John Boehner called impeachment talk a scam started by Democrats at the White House. Karl Rove claimed Obama was trying to create a constitutional crisis where none exists.
Do you think anyone in Washington in the GOP is serious about impeachment? demanded radio host Glenn Beck. Do you think one person? Have you spoken to one person? No one. So who wants it? The president does. Actually, as Kendall Breitman pointed out in Politico, Beck had called for impeachment his very own self about a year earlier.
Meanwhile, in the House of Representatives, the majority party was busy showing the nation its serious side by voting to sue Obama for violating the Constitution. Look, everybody has their own way of demonstrating that theyre sticking to the business at hand. Republicans are upset about the presidents attempt to deal with problems by executive order when Congress fails to address them with legislation. Obamas record when it comes to executive orders is actually rather paltry compared with some of his Republican predecessors. Nevertheless, the Republicans have many, many complaints, all of which involve mention of the Founding Fathers.
You could not help but suspect that if Boehner had it to do all over again, hed never have brought this idea up. Democrats cheerfully urged a really, really long debate on the subject, but the Republican-dominated Rules Committee decided that the whole thing should be dispatched with as quickly as possible. So fast, in fact, that it gave the lawsuit against the president the same debate time as a bill on deregulating pesticides.
The Republicans focused on yes! the Founding Fathers. It was, said Rep. Candice Miller of Michigan, a battle against tyranny, Mr. Speaker. Tyranny. She is the leader of the Committee on House Administration, the only woman to lead a House committee under the current leadership. We will not dwell on the fact that Millers committee is basically in charge of housekeeping.
Meanwhile, the Democrats kept bringing up the I-word. I sincerely believe that you are trying to set the stage for a despicable impeachment proceeding, said Rep. G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina. Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, the House Rules chairman, denied that suing the president was a step on the slippery slope to impeachment. He did that by defending the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, which was, of course, so exceedingly successful that Clinton now is the most popular individual in the nation except perhaps for Boo the Worlds Cutest Dog and the hamster that eats tiny burritos.
Rather than suing the president for everything hes ever done, the Republicans tried to improve their legal prospects by picking a particular executive order. They settled on the one postponing enforcement of part of Obamacare that requires businesses to provide health coverage for their employees. Are you willing to let any president choose what laws to execute and what laws to change? demanded Boehner.
Not a single one of them voted for the Affordable Care Act, said Louise Slaughter, the top Democrat on the House Rules Committee. They spent $79 million holding votes to kill it. And now theyre going to sue him for not implementing it fast enough.
We will look back on this moment in Washington as The Week That Irony Died.
Gail Collins joined The New York Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board.
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In Conversation with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy
Gina McCarthy, Hari Sreenivasan
Gina McCarthy is the administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Appointed by President Obama in 2009 as assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, McCarthy has been a leading advocate for common-sense strategies to protect public health and the environment. Previously, McCarthy served as the commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. During her career, which spans over 30 years, she has worked at both the state and local levels on critical environmental issues and helped coordinate policies on economic growth, energy, transportation and the environment.


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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday announced a bipartisan agreement on a budget that would boost federal spending by $400 billion or more over two years. Here's what critics are saying:
House Conservatives Aren't Happy About the Increased Spending: "This spending bill is a debt junkie's dream," Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks, who voted for the GOP tax cuts, said Wednesday. "I'm not only a 'no.' I'm a 'hell no.'" Rep. Justin Amash, a Michigan Republican who also voted for the tax cuts, tweeted: "This spending proposal is disgusting and reckless—the biggest spending increase since 2009. I urge every American to speak out against this fiscal insanity." And Rep. Mark Meadows, chair of the House Freedom Caucus, warned that the spending increases being cited would disappoint his members. If the Freedom Caucus and other conservatives balk because of the higher non-defense spending in the deal, as many as 100 Democratic votes would be needed to pass it. That might be an issue because …
House Democrats Insist Immigration Must Be Addressed: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who was involved in the negotiations on the budget deal, said Wednesday that she and many Democrats in her chamber won't vote for the plan without a commitment from House Speaker Paul Ryan to allow open debate on an immigration bill, much like the promise McConnell made to end the government shutdown last month. "Why should we in the House be treated in such a humiliating way when the Republican Senate leader has given that opportunity in a bipartisan way to his membership?" Pelosi said, according to The Washington Post. And Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-IL) said any deal that fails to protect dreamers would be "a complete betrayal" of the party's principles.
The Contrast With Obama-Era Budgeting Is Striking: "The irony here is palpable," writes strategist Chris Krueger of the Cowen Washington Research Group. "A heavily Tea Party Congress … is going to tack nearly $2,000,000,000,000 onto the government credit card. The sequester relief package combined with the three tranches of disaster relief is more than half the Obama Stimulus, which was the Bunker Hill of the Tea Party movement in 2009. On the Road to Washington, the Tea Partiers experienced a religious conversion to supply siding fiscal doves. We suspect they will re-convert to fiscal hawks once they eventually return to the minority party in Congress."
This Could Be a Starting Point for Real Progress: "The deal halts the ham-handed and destructive sequester process, gives predictability and stability to both defense and non-defense accounts, avoids another government shutdown, and holds out at least the promise that Congress can begin to appropriate and budget in an orderly manner in the future," G. William Hoagland of the Bipartisan Policy Center said in a statement. "Can policymakers now focus on the true causes of federal deficits or will they continue to cross their collective fingers and hope that the economic impact of unprecedented deficits will occur on some other Congress' watch?"
This Deal Shows How Broken Our Governing Process Is: Fiscal hawks warn that Congress is knowingly ushering in an era of permanent $1 trillion deficits, and doing it at a time when the economy is strong and the national debt is high. "This deal represents budgeting at its worst – each party is giving the other its wish list with all the bells and whistles included and asking future generations to pick up the tab," Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said in a statement. "It's one thing to have trillion-dollar deficits during a deep recession, but to create permanent trillion-dollar deficits projected during a time of economic expansion is the definition of irresponsibility. It's a stunning fiscal picture and an unprecedented reckless path."
Even Some Fiscal Doves Are Dismayed About the Deficit: Jason Furman, chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, tweeted: "I consider myself a deficit dove. I'm comfortable with 3% GDP deficits--and higher in downturns. I don't think deficit reduction should be our top priority. But, deliberately sending an essentially full employment economy into deficits of 5% to 7% of GDP is nuts."
And the IPAB Repeal Shows How Hard It Is to Deal With Health Care Costs: "Tack on another $17.5 billion to deficits this decade, and possibly much more in the future as this eliminates one restraint on long-term Medicare spending," Loren Adler of the Brookings Institution tweeted. And Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation tweeted that "Potential repeal of IPAB, along with continuing delays in the Cadillac plan tax, reveals a bipartisan consensus that health care cost containment generally seems better in theory than in practice."


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is no doubt a very irritating and even debilitating condition to have. The shortness of every breath, the coughing up of phlegm, and trouble falling asleep serve as constant reminders that an individual is inflicted with the condition. In the latest stages of the disease the individual may notice labored breathing (hyperventilation), hypoxemia (insufficient amounts of oxygen in the blood) and failure of the right side of the heart. So, is there a cure for chronic
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Conventional Medicine In healthy people who have normal lungs and no chronic health problems, antibiotics are not necessary, even when the infection is bacterial. The productive (phlegm-producing) coughing that comes with acute
is to be expected and, in most cases, encouraged; coughing is your body's way of getting rid of excess mucus. However, if your cough is truly disruptive -- that is, it keeps you from sleeping or is so violent it becomes painful -- or nonproductive (dry and raspy sounding), your doctor may prescribe a cough suppressant. In most cases, you should simply do all the things you usually would do for a cold: Take or acetaminophen for discomfort and drink lots of liquids.
Helpful Herbal Treatments For This Disease Aside from regularly taking the medications your doctor prescribes, you may also try some herbal and nutritional alternatives that have been noted to possess anti-pneumonia fighting qualities. However, you need to first consult with your doctor before using any of these herbs.
In lieu, of injections, it is also suggested that a patient take a mixture of Baikal skullcap and either of these herbs: barberry, goldthread, goldenseal, Oregon grape and/or yellowroot. Baikal skullcap may be quite hard to find in most herbal health shops and tores, however it's readily available in most Chinese herb stores.
The bacteria that causes this infectious disease are so abundant in hospitals that according to a US health care report, an estimated 4 percent of all patients develop the infection, most likely as a direct result of their hospital stay.
3. How Do I Know It Is Not Pneumonia? In healthy, non-elderly adults, pneumonia is uncommon in the absence of certain signs. The classic signs of pneumonia include:
4. What Can Be Done To Help Me Feel Better? Since antibiotics are useless in killing viruses, the key is to manage your symptoms. Expectorants to help you bring up phlegm, ibuprofen or acetaminophen, and sometimes an inhaler will help reduce your symptoms. Keep in mind though that your cough will probably be the last thing to clear up.
Other Useful Tips Avoid Polluted Air: Air pollutants such as dust, fumes and second hand smoke can irritate the lungs to worsen the condition. Get Vaccines: Since
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The Social Costs of Pneumonia It is estimated that around 40,000 elderly Americans die of pneumonia each year, so it's not an ordinary disease to simply shrug off. Other individuals at risk include those with alcoholism, cancer, cirrhosis, heart or kidney failure, sickle-cell disease, spleen, disorders or recent organ transplant patients.
Sore throat Fever (in few cases) Conventional Medical Treatment If you are diagnosed with
, your physician will encourage you to rest as much as possible, increase your fluid intake, and use a vaporizer to keep phlegm loose enough to be easily coughed up. A physician may even advise aspirin or a non-prescription cough medicine.
Unfortunately, there is no known cure for chronic
to date. However, there are ways to curb the symptoms and slow down its progression. With proper medical treatment in combination with necessary lifestyle changes, a person with chronic
has every chance of enjoying life and extending his/her lifespan. Some of these treatment options are mentioned below.
- Baikal skullcap (Scutellaria baicalensis). Scientific data from China indicates that the root of this plant, which is closely related to skullcap, has potent, broad-spectrum antimicrobial effects. This herb helps inhibit flu viruses and several pneumonia-causing fungi, and in some cases, Chinese physicians sometimes inject a solution of Baikal skullcap, goldthread and amur cork tree extracts to alleviate or treat pneumonia, flu and other respiratory infections.
Mucolytics: These drugs makes mucous less viscous and easier to cough up. Oxygen therapy:
Chronic bronchitis
makes it difficult to breathe oxygen into the lungs. Oxygen therapy is sometimes administered to increase oxygen content in the body to acceptable levels.
Some people are more susceptible to
than others: the elderly, infants, smokers, asthmatics, alcoholics, individuals with compromised immune systems, people with lung or heart problems, individuals in poor general health, and people who live in moist, polluted environments.
Acute bronchitis (short term bronchitis) is caused by the same viruses that cause the common cold or the flu. This article deals with the symptoms and treatment of acute
- Echinacea Antibiotics may be indicated in treating bacterial pneumonia, however in any type of infectious pneumonia, which could either be bacterial, viral or fungal, herbalists recommend herbs that enhance the immune system, and among the herbs they recommend is Echinacea. Many scientific studies indicate that this herb aids the body in warding off all sorts of bacteria, viruses and fungi.
Changes in air temperature (going from a warm house to the outside), cigarette smoke, chemical odors etc. can often trigger a coughing spasm. That is why if you smoke, please try to stop during your illness (in fact, now might be the time to stop for good!).Wear a muffler to protect your nose and mouth when you go outside into the cold.
Although there is currently no cure for
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, one can still seek treatment to alleviate the symptoms and to prevent any further complications from the disease from developing. The best thing an individual can do if they are suffering from chronic
is to quit smoking and start eating right and getting plenty of rest. Those that follow this routine will find a reduction in the symptoms of their chronic
, and will have taken the right steps in preventing the disease from developing into emphysema or other conditions.
If your breathing becomes especially labored, a bronchodialator drug may be prescribed to open narrowed bronchi passages. And if your phlegm becomes gray or green, your physician may put you on an antibiotic. If treated properly, an episode of
typically clears up within 1 1/2 weeks with no lasting effects.
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? Bronchitis is an inflammation of the large bronchial tubes, the main airway of the lungs. There are two types of bronchitis: Acute and Chronic. Chronic bronchitis occurs as a result of the lungs being constantly irritated and inflammed. Cigarette smokers generally end up developing chronic
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Pneumonia is an infectious disease which lies deep in the lungs, as in contrast with bronchitis, which is an infection in the gateway to the lungs, or the bronchial tubes. Among the noted infectious diseases in the US, pneumonia is currently the nation's leading killer and the nation's fifth leading cause of death overall, claiming more lives annually than AIDS.
According to health experts, most of those deaths come from two sources; first is influenza, which may progress to pneumonia, particularly in the elderly, and hospital-acquired infections in those who are ill from other causes but develop pneumonia because they have weakened immune systems.
This infectious disease may be caused by bacteria, fungi, protozoa or viruses, therefore it would be wrong to self-diagnose, much less self-medicate. The diseases' symptoms include shortness of breath, chest pain, coughing, difficulty breathing, as well as fevers and chills with shaking. For individuals who develop pneumonia-like symptoms, it would be best to promptly consult with your doctor.
- Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) A large number of clinical trials have analyzed and demonstrated dandelion's potency against pneumonia,
and upper respiratory infections. In preparing a solution, it is suggested to cook the greens and roots. Afterwards, drink the juice that remains after the greens are cooked. You can also drink tea made from the dried herb, or you can also take this in capsule form.
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Helpful Lifestyle Changes for Chronic Bronchitics Quit Smoking: Smoking is one of the leading causes of
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, and continued smoking when one already has the condition will definitely worsen things and can lead to an exacerbation of
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fever greater than 101 rapid heart rate rapid breathing In addition, listening to your lungs with a stethoscope will let your provider know if your lungs are likely to be infected.
- Astragalus (Astragalus, various species) This herb, which is also called huang qi, astragalus is a potent immune booster and traditional Asian medicine's answer to our own echinacea.
Common Medical Treatments for Chronic Bronchitis Bronchodilators: Administered through an inhaler, these drugs act to dilate the airways in the lungs to help the patient to breathe more easily.
# Drinking fluids is very important because fever causes the body to lose fluid faster. Lung secretions will be thinner and thus easier to clear when you are well hydrated.
occurs when the mucous membranes that line the lung's air passages (bronchi) become inflamed. The condition is actually a common one, affecting most people at least once, if not several times, during their life. However, it's when
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A chest x-ray is generally not needed unless your cough continues for more than 3 weeks in the absence of other known causes such as allergies, asthma or gastroesophageal reflux (GERD).
This cough can last 3 weeks.
is sometimes referred to as a "chest cold". In 90% to 95% of cases, it is caused by a VIRUS. Antibiotics kill BACTERIAL infections, not VIRAL infections. That is why antibiotics are generally not prescribed.
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Proper Exercise: Sometimes, doctors will recommend an exercise program called pulmonary rehabilitation to chronic
patients. This program involves teaching the patient certain exercises that aim to strengthen breathing muscles to make breathing easier.
The same viral infection that causes the common cold is the one most often responsible for causing acute
. The infection spreads from the head into the bronchi and lungs, changing from a cold to
. Influenza and strep throat can also cause the bronchi to become inflamed, resulting in
. If
does not clear up, it can become pneumonia.
You should start to feel better in 7 to 10 days, but your cough may linger for up to 3 weeks. If your cough has shown no improvement by then, you will need to see your provider.
Signs and Symptoms A hacking cough that produces mucus Wheezing Shortness of breath Burning, soreness, and/or feelings of constriction in the chest
Eat Healthy: The necessary vitamins and minerals will strengthen the immune system to guard against the infections that chronic bronchitics are so prone to.
2. What Are the Chief Symptoms of Acute Bronchitis? cough shortness of breath chest tightness or wheezing Bronchitis usually starts as a cold with symptoms such as sore throat, runny nose, or sinus infection which then settles in the chest. The large airway becomes inflammed and produces excessive mucus (can be yellow or brown), cough and shortness of breath.
If you are in one of the high-risk groups, your doctor will most likely prescribe all the above, but may also take a chest X-ray and phlegm culture to determine the seriousness of your condition and to rule out other conditions.
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If experience is a good teacher, then students in Jake Graham's IST and SRA classes are the beneficiaries.
The career of Col. Jake Graham, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired) and a professor in Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology, has seen him at the controls of an AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter and overseeing tactical nuclear weapons from a command post in Stuttgart, Germany, where he was on duty during the Sept. 11 attacks.
Graham was chief of operations to the Northern Task Force commander during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He's piloted such dignitaries as Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Pope John Paul II and George H.W. Bush on Marine One, the U.S. presidential helicopter.
"We have this phrase: theory to practice," Graham said of his work in IST's classrooms. "My job is to operationalize the practice piece of it — try to put hands on, make it tactile, get your hands and feet moving, and actually touch it and feel it a little bit."
This past academic year, Graham's first with IST, students in SRA 211 were immersed in an exercise called "Show Me the Money," which had them trying to thwart the intentions of destruction-bent terrorists by analyzing their associations with one another, as well as their financial transactions and communications. For the project, Graham, IST senior research associate, wove together fiction with a bracing dose of real people and detail.
In an era when state-sponsored and freelance cyber-attacks are less the stuff of thrillers and more the realities of the news, these lessons are important.
"Security is not a problem that is going away soon," the Marine veteran said.
"Whether it's security based on a terrorist threat or security based on a criminal threat or security based on a cyber-threat, these are interest areas that are going to last for a long time, if not forever.
"Cyber-security, identity theft — those kinds of targets of opportunity are just growing by leaps and bounds," Graham went on. "The more we are tied to technology, the more we are vulnerable to that same technology."
Information technology also has opened new realms for warfare involving both state-sponsored and rogue elements, which seek to take down or compromise our information infrastructure.
Graham said there's been a move from physical battlefields to cyberspace.
"They're not wearing combat uniforms or carrying rifles," he said of these emerging foes. "They're in offices with keyboards in front of them."
This fall, upper-level students in IST 402 (Emerging Issues in Technology) will examine the implications of developing an application in response to a perceived threat — from budget to policy conflicts to implications for civil liberty. The focus in Graham's class will be on homeland security.
What if, he asked, a system for border control turned out to control immigration? What are the economic implications of that, who pays and who's impacted?
Looking ahead to the semester, he said, "I'm excited."
Born in Nevada and raised in Harrisburg, Graham holds a bachelor of arts in architecture from Iowa State University and a master's degree in public administration from the University of Oklahoma. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1981 and had a Marine Corps career that spanned 26 years. He retired from the service in 2007.
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North Eastern ThailandKevin (เควิน) Khaosan
Isan covers an area of 160,000 km and much of the land is given over the farms and paddy fields as agriculture is the main economic activity. The region of Isan has a strong, rich and individual culture. Examples of this can be found in the folk music, called mor lam, festivals, dress, temple architecture and general way of life.
The main regional dialect is Isan, which is actually much more similar to Lao than central Thai. Unfortunately, because the rainfall is often insufficient for crops to grow properly, Isan is the poorest region of Thailand, and many people leave the province to seek their fortunes in the bustling metropolis of Bangkok.
The average temperature range is from 30.2 C to 19.6 C. The highest temperature recorded was a sweltering 43.9 C, whilst the lowest was a freezing -1.4 C. Unlike most of Thailand, rainfall is unpredictable, but it mainly occurs during the rainy season, which takes place from May to October.
Although completely unique, Isan food has adopted elements of both Thai and Lao cuisines. Sticky rice is served with every meal and the food is much spicier than that of most of Thailand.
Popular dishes include:
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Isan people are famous for their ability to eat whatever happens to be around, and lizards, snakes, frogs and fried insects such as grasshoppers, crickets, silkworms and dung beetles often form a part of their diet.
Both men and women traditionally wear sarongs; women's sarong often have an embroidered border at the hem, whilst those of the men are chequered. Much of Thailand's silk is produced in Isan, and the night markets at many of the small towns and villages are good places to find a bargain.
There is no major airport in Isan, but the State Railway of Thailand has two lines and both connect the region to Bangkok. This is also a good place to enter Laos via the Thanon Mitraphap ("Friendship Highway"), which was built by the United States to supply its military bases in the 1960s and 1970s. The Friendship Bridge - Saphan Mitraphap - forms the border crossing over the Mekong River on the outskirts of Nong Khai to the Laos capital of Vientiane.


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Editor's Note: Mary Ellen Gilliland is the author of the ever-popular "The Vail Hiker" book. She just released a full-color, sixth edition of the guidebook, available for purchase at The Bookworm of Edwards and outdoor stores for $19.95. The Vail Daily will be excerpting hikes from the book each weekend this summer.
Treat yourself to spectacular Gore and Sawatch Range views on the Bowman's Shortcut ridge. Enjoy a trek that's well over 7 miles but mostly downhill.
The trail follows a rolling grade to Two Elk Pass. Then it drops through forest to beautiful Timber Creek and emerges onto the Vail Pass recreation trail ending near Gore Creek Campground. In winter, this trail begins the Commando Run, Colorado's top-rated ski tour, a challenging all-day excursion for experts only. Be it July or January, you'll find it worthwhile to tote a camera. Choose a clear day to maximize the views.
Two cars are required: leave one car at trail's end above the Gore Creek Campground. Drive 2.3 miles east from Interstate 70 East Vail exit 180 on Bighorn Road to the closure gate at the Vail Pass bikeway.
Drive a second car to the Vail Pass summit rest area and pick up the Shrine Pass Road, no. 709, just west of the exit. Shrine Pass, 11,050 feet, was the shortest (and toughest) route from Denver to Glenwood Springs before the Vail Pass highway was built in 1940.
Follow the Shrine Pass Road past a Holy Cross view sign at 3.75 miles. Continue to the junction with the Timber Creek Road at near 4.0 miles. Go right for 0.5 miles to an intersection with the Lime Creek Road, no. 728. Go left here 0.1 miles to the trailhead at right which is marked with a wooden pole inscribed "Colorado Trail." (The Colorado Trail has since taken a different route, using Kokomo Pass from Summit to Eagle County.)
The trail begins on a level path through the woods, followed by a marked ascent. Views open up quickly: the glacier-carved Gore Range, visible from trail right, is displayed in all its jagged splendor. Copper Mountain's ski runs appear, with the massive Ten Mile Range as a backdrop. Avoid a spur downhill right at less than 1 mile.
Emerge from woods to enter a large open meadow. The trail played out here in past years but a tread has reappeared with increased use. You may have to use map and compass in the meadow to follow the route. The trail goes north-northwest; use your compass and map to strike in that direction. Keep the Gore Range in view. (The tendency is to go downhill left, leaving the Gore view and the ridge. Wrong!)
Come to a wooden marker at meadow's end and pick up the trail again. Follow the ridge. Soon you'll encounter a major trail sign.
Passing this sign, proceed downhill right to pick up the trail. Drop into the trees, climb, then drop sharply to Two Elk Pass with its great photo opportunities. A sign points out the Two Elk Trail to Minturn (no. 8) and the 1.8 mile route to I-70 via Timber Creek. This hike follows the trail to I-70, which heads downhill east. After a steep downhill trek with occasional views to the Gore, traverse a hillside meadow to the creek.
A cool pleasant creek side walk brings you out of the narrow canyon, to pass under I-70 and climb a short hill to the paved old Vail Pass road, now a recreation trail. Turn left and walk 1.8 miles to the closure gate and your car.
This column is copyrighted 2012 by Mary Ellen Gilliland. Hiker, historian and author Mary Ellen Gilliland lived first in Vail and then Summit County since January 1970. She has skied and hiked backcountry trails for more than 40 years. She has written 16 books. For more information, visit summitandvailhikes.com.
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Department of Media Studies (Intstitutionen för mediestudier - IMS) is home to four main subjects: Cinema Studies, Fashion Studies, Journalism and Media and Communication Studies.
The hallmark of the Department is the international profile in both research and education. We have three two year International Master's programmes - all completely taught in English by our staff. We also have a number of free standing independent courses on both first and second cycle level - likewise taught by our staff, and in English of course.
This means that we can accomodate both long term international Master's students as well as a shorter stay like exchange students - both from our partner universities and from other universities with agreements with Stockholm University.
Cinema Studies examines the history, theories, aesthetics and features from early films to today's multimedial landscape. We are one of Europe's largest disciplines in Cinema Studies, and one of the leading research areas in the humanities at Stockholm University. We are in the Film House at Gärdet, a unique building that was built as a tribute to the film and today is a gathering place for all kinds of film activities. Moving image media - movies, television and digital photos - play an ever increasing role in an increasingly globalized world.
The subject of Cinema Studies provides critical tools for analyzing moving images on a human-historical and cultural theoretical basis both in historical and contemporary perspectives. The discipline is interdisciplinary, intermediary and pluralistic in both historiographical and theoretical terms.
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Fashion Studies examines fashion history, social functions, theory and aesthetics. Fashion is analyzed and theorized from a multidisciplinary perspective, including aesthetic object, cultural phenomenon, industrial system and identity marker. The education at the undergraduate, postgraduate and postgraduate level offers a varied and multifaceted approach to the various aspects of fashion.
Fashion Studies can include studies of fashion on the catwalk, street, home, business, everyday life and party. It can happen globally or locally. As a student in Fashion Studies you will be able to study and analyze fashion as process and fashion in its different forms from the introductory course.
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The fact that the section provides academic education both in studies for professional journalism and in journalism studies and media and communication studies emphasizes the culture and the environment of the unit. This is not least because experiences and competencies from journalism's professional areas and academic studies and research are mixed.
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"I Saw The Light" Biopic Flops at the Box Office
The final chapter has been written on the highly-anticipated and much maligned movie on the life of country music icon Hank Williams, at least until the DVD is released. I Saw The Light—starring Tom Hiddleston as Hank, written and directed by Marc Abraham, and based off of the Hank biography written by Colin Escott—is a commercial flop. This is on top of receiving terrible reviews, being pushed back from November 2015 to April 1st for the national release, and being criticized for its novice director and the selection of Hiddleston as the leading man.
I Saw The Light made only $45,000 the first week after the limited opening on March 25th, but it was only shown in a total of 5 theaters in New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville. The next week the film entered a total of 741 theaters nationwide, but could only squeeze out a combined total of $745,000 in revenue, or just over $1,000 per screen. Reports from theaters were of mostly empty seats. Hopes that high-profile interviews and press with star Tom Hiddleston would help bolster the film didn't do much more for the second full week of the movie. Dropping down to 548 total theaters showing the movie, revenue dropped 55% to $307,000. These are the disappointing stats from the movie site The Numbers.
The massive second week decline and $1.4 million gross total so far pretty much ensures I Saw The Light will be a financial bust. The budget for the film was $13 million. Director Marc Abraham's Rat Pack Entertainment also produced and financed the film.
Many critics skewered the film for a terrible screenplay, while sparing the actors—including Hiddleston—for doing the best they could under the circumstances. In Saving Country Music's review, the movie was given credit for being slightly better than expected given the bad reviews, and for having some good individual scenes, but it's still hard to say that I Saw The Light in any way held up to the standards of other country music biopics such as Coal Miner's Daughter or Walk The Line set, or to the compelling real story of Hank's brief and troubled life.
All Hank fans can hope for now is that in the future another Hank Williams movie will be made that can be the definitive work on the country legend's life, if the financial flop of I Saw The Light doesn't make the prospects for another movie that much more difficult.


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OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) The most telling image of Baltimore's game against the Denver Broncos last month was Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco lying flat on his stomach near the goal line after his futile pursuit of cornerback Chris Harris.
Baltimore was poised to score a touchdown in the closing seconds of the first half to pull within 10-7. Instead, Harris intercepted an ill-advised, hurried pass from Flacco and took it 96 yards into the end zone.
Denver won 34-17.
``Stuff like that happens sometimes, and believe me, I'm the last guy that wants it to happen,'' Flacco said of the interception. ``But you've got to go out there and keep your head up and play the game. I think I did a great job of rebounding from that, and I think our whole team did. That's why we are where we are right now.''
In spite of that lopsided defeat, the Ravens won the AFC North title and advanced to the second round of the playoffs by defeating the Indianapolis Colts 24-9 last weekend. That set up Flacco and Baltimore (11-6) for another shot at the Broncos (13-3) on Saturday.
``They beat us up pretty good a couple weeks ago,'' Flacco said. ``But I think you always have that little chip that you want to go out there and prove to people that you're a good football team.''
Flacco is the first starting quarterback in NFL history to lead his team into the playoffs in each of his first five seasons. He's never missed a game since taking the reins at the outset of his rookie year, and this season he set career highs in completions (317), yards passing (3,817) and 300-yard games (five).
There have been more highs than lows for the former University of Delaware star, which is why Flacco found it easy to quickly dismiss that awful sideline pass against the Broncos on Dec. 16.
``It stuck with me a couple minutes, and then I moved on and went out there and played some more snaps,'' he recalled. ``And then when we lost, it stuck with me for a couple minutes again. Then we started getting ready for the next game and we went out and won it.''
Flacco rebounded to throw for 309 yards and two touchdowns in a 33-14 rout of the New York Giants. Flacco made a brief appearance in the meaningless finale at Cincinnati, then threw for 282 yards and two scores against the Colts last weekend.
It's been nearly a month since that awful interception against the Broncos, enough time Flacco and the Ravens to put it behind them.
``That's not in my mind at all going up to Denver,'' Flacco said. ``We feel confident, and I think we should.''
Taking advantage of a moving pocket, Flacco was sacked only once against Indianapolis. That should work to Baltimore's advantage against Denver, which registered three sacks for 32 yards in the first game between the teams.
``Whenever you have great edge pass rushers, you need to move the pocket,'' coach John Harbaugh said. ``Joe can run. He's faster than people think, so he can get out of there and run for some yards, too. Yes, it's something they have been working on.''
Much of the talk leading up to Saturday's game has been about Denver quarterback Peyton Manning, who will be making his first playoff start for the Broncos after a splendid run with Indianapolis. Flacco knows that his team's success will depend heavily on whether he can generate enough offense to outdo Manning - while at the same time keeping the ball out of his counterpart's hands.
``Our goal is to go in and score touchdowns,'' Flacco said. ``Obviously, they have a high-powered offense and can score at a pretty high rate.''
Perhaps the biggest obstacle for Flacco and Baltimore is playing on the road. The Ravens went 7-2 at home (including last week) and are a very mediocre 4-4 on the road. In addition, Flacco has thrown 17 of his 24 touchdown passes this season in Baltimore.
``You just have to be ready to go into a hostile environment and play your best football,'' he said. ``It's not going to be up and down with the crowd; they're going to be in it 100 percent for the whole game. The bottom line is we have to go in there and just make sure that we have a good, sound week of practice and we work on all the things that could possible go wrong - just because of all the noise and things like that - and make sure we have an answer for it.''
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How to upgrade your video card
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Our current crop of popular PC games has shown us that the video card has now become the most important component in a gaming system. The CPU and the video card used to be of equal importance in the past, but games have become increasingly dependent on video cards as developers have been cranking up the graphics levels.
In recent games like Call of Duty 2, F.E.A.R., and Quake 4, a strong video card improves game performance and image quality much more than a strong CPU does. Newer games also default down to uglier graphics if the game detects an older card. And some games remove support for older cards altogether. When a highly anticipated game like Battlefield 2 no longer supports GeForce 4 level or older cards, it's time to consider starting on that long-overdue upgrade.
Do I have PCI Express or AGP?Before you run off to buy that graphics upgrade, you have to find out if your current system will be able to handle a new video card. Video card requirements have changed over the years, and older PC systems might not have the necessary hardware to be compatible with the latest video cards.
Take a look at your system motherboard to see if it has an AGP or PCI Express card slot (it will be the topmost expansion slot on the motherboard--your monitor should be connected to the card currently sitting there). Older systems have AGP card slots, but more recent systems (made in the past two years) have PCI Express card slots.
If your system has a PCI Express slot, you're in luck. All the latest video cards use the PCI Express form factor. Your upgrade options will be much more limited if you find an AGP slot staring back at you. All the best cards come out in PCI Express first, followed months later by scaled-back AGP versions, if they're made at all. Consider upgrading to a PCI Express motherboard if you want to get the most powerful video card options. If your system is more than 5 years old, you might have an ancient PCI slot for graphics. In this case, the best thing to do would be to put that Pentium II out to pasture and upgrade to a completely new system.
Note that newer systems might also have two PCI Express slots for dual video card configurations. However, for the purpose of this guide we're going to assume that you have an older system that doesn't have two video card slots, since anyone with an Nvidia SLI or ATI CrossFire system should be playing F.E.A.R. at 1600x1200 with all the settings maxed out instead of reading this guide.
While you're looking at the video card slot, check to see how much space is available beneath the card slot, as some video cards have extra-large cooling units that double the height of the card. If you only have room for a normal-sized card, consider moving the card located directly beneath the video card to a lower slot if possible. However, if that isn't possible, or if you have a small form factor system that only has room for a single-slot video card, then you'll have to make sure your new video card is a single-slotter.
How much power do I have?
After determining what kind of card slot and how much space you have for it, you'll need to find out the power rating on your system power supply. Today's performance video cards require lots of power, and some power supplies might not have the wattage to support a system loaded with extra drives, a fast processor, and a new power-hungry video card. If you're lucky, the power supply will have its maximum wattage listed on the back, visible from outside the case.
Otherwise you'll have to crack open the case and look for the rating sticker on the power supply. The bare-minimum wattage you're looking for is 350W, but you'll be able to get a more powerful card with a 400W or 450W power supply, and you'll need 500W or more for a dual-card setup. Check the power supply requirements printed on the outside of the video card box to make sure your system can support the card.
The hardest part about upgrading your video card is actually just figuring out what kind of card your system can handle. Check out our recent Call of Duty 2 and F.E.A.R. hardware performance guides to see how the current graphics cards compare.
Assuming you did your homework and picked a card that's compatible with your system, installing the card is very easy. First, switch off the system and unplug the computer. Use a Phillips-head screwdriver to open up your case and unscrew the video card. The video card might have a retention mechanism located at the base of the slot, and you should be able to jiggle it open and slide out the card without a problem. Next, plug in your new video card and replace the screw to secure the card in place.
If you have a power-hungry card, you'll need to plug an auxiliary power source into the board, usually one or two 4-pin hard drive power connectors or a 6-pin PCI Express power connector. Video card manufacturers will often package a power splitter or a dual 4-pin to 6-pin adapter with the card in case your system doesn't have enough free power connectors, but you can order the cables online for less than $5 in case you get a bare-bones card bundle.
Replace the case cover, attach the monitor, plug in the power cable, and fire the system up.
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Use the camera in your Android smartphone to detect radiation with the Radioactivity Counter app from Rolf-Dieter Klein. Just place a small piece of black tape over the camera lens, calibrate for ambient noise, and you'll be ready to take readings in no time. The app uses the device's built-in CMOS sensor to detect primary gamma radiation and some higher beta radiation. It's not as sensitive as an actual Geiger counter, but it does read some common radioactive sources like airport X-Ray machines and certain mushrooms. The app itself was developed in response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. [via Hackaday]
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The Tigray Trust
The Tigray Trust supports village communities in Tigray, Ethiopia in finding ways to make their lives sustainable in the face of extreme poverty and the ever-growing threat of drought and famine exacerbated by climate change.
The Tigray Trust is a British registered charity that was set up some three years ago by a group of London-based friends. Its Director is Louise Schofield — an archaeologist who has been working in Ethiopia for five years. Her first archaeological, conservation and development project, in 2007-2009, (under the auspices of the Eyesus Hintsa Trust) transformed a barren prehistoric river valley in Tigray into an archaeological and environmental park.
The trustees:
Chairman: Janet Slee
Harriet Rosewell
Nicola Jennings (The Guardian)
Sophie Cohen (Consultant)
Simon Harrison (Simon Harrison Jewellery)
Ethiopia is one of the very poorest countries of all and the people of its north-eastern region of Tigray have had an unenviable recent history beset by civil war, border conflicts with neighbouring Eritrea, drought and terrible famine the worst in 1985 when a million Ethiopians died. Tigray is now politically stable but drought, crop failure and famine are an ever-present danger to communities so entirely dependent on subsistence farming for a living.
In the face of all these hardships the people have maintained their dignity and their wonderful indomitability of spirit. But they need our help in finding new ways of making their lives sustainable.
The Tigray Trust works at a grassroots level with each community designing and implementing holistic projects incorporating food security, crop diversification, reforestation and the promotion of the regions extraordinary cultural heritage to encourage ecotourism as an additional and sustainable source of income.
Our partners in Ethiopia include the Centre for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (CRCCH) in Addis Ababa, the Tigray Commission for Tourism and Culture and the local authorities in Hawzien.
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