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The next wave: Wireless/wireline hybrids?
Once disparate broadband access strategies are beginning to coalesce around a tightly integrated, hybrid wireline/wireless platform that could pose significant new challenges to the dominant wireline players in cable and telephony.
The idea of mixing fixed wireless and wireline components into a single network to accomplish wide and rapid penetration of the local marketplace started to take off this past spring when NextLink Communications Inc., one of the concerns cellular pioneer Craig McCaw is backing, suddenly bought out the LMDS (local multipoint distribution service) holdings of WNP Communications, the leading bidder in last year's auctions with 40 licenses in major markets nationwide. "That was a shot that was heard throughout the industry," says Tom McCabe, vice president of SpectraPoint Wireless LLC, the new firm created in the buyout of Bosch Telecom's LMDS unit by Motorola Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. Now, with MCI WorldCom and Sprint acquiring MMDS (multichannel multipoint distribution system) spectrum in markets representing about 26 million households each, and AT&T quietly moving forward on various other wireless fronts, the message to the vendor community has been amplified many times over: hybrid wireless/wireline is the wave of the future.
"It's not just a matter of the radio link on the air interface providing bandwidth on demand," says Margaret Marino, vice president for network development at NextLink. "It's a question of, 'how can I make sure that I can bill for that service and provide for the OSS (operations support system) over that interface the same way I do over my wireline connections'."
NextLink is now the biggest player in LMDS, which operates at the spectrum tiers of 28 GHz and 31 GHz. Along with acquiring A block (1.15 GHz) licenses to 39 markets representing a population of 98 million people from WNP, NextLink has taken full control of 13 additional A and 29 B block (150 MHz) LMDS licenses by buying out Nextel Communications Inc.'s 50 percent interest in the two companies' joint wireless broadband venture, NextBand.
"The ability to combine fiber and wireless to reach small- and medium-sized businesses gives us an enormous advantage over companies that are either all-wireline or all-wireless," asserts NextLink spokesman Todd Wolfenbarger. In the wireline mode, he notes, the company can cost-justify extending fiber to buildings only about a quarter of a mile from the fiber rings it is installing throughout the metro regions of the country, which would mean it would have to lease T-1 facilities from telcos for deeper reach into these markets if it didn't have access via wireless broadband.
"Wireless gives us buildings two-and-a- half miles away from our rings and allows us to own the facilities," Wolfenbarger says. Eventually, he adds, the company will be able to extend the reach deeper, possibly moving fiber to the first points of wireless connection as the revenue streams build, and shifting the wireless transmitters further out to encompass ever more territory.
Wireless-wireline integration is also key to the MMDS strategies of Sprint and MCI, though their agendas differ from each other and from NextLink's.
"We intend to accomplish our local service goals using a patchwork of overlapping networks, including DSL (digital subscriber line), fiber, wireless, cable or other means," says Robert Finch, vice president of strategic development at MCI WorldCom. His company's move into MMDS assumes the platform will become an integral part of this local mesh, he says.
In MCI's case, use of the MMDS spectrum being acquired with the buyouts of Prime One and CAI Wireless and its affiliates will be focused on meeting the surging demand for high-speed data services in the small business and institutional markets, Finch says. "We also want to serve residential customers," he adds, but makes it clear the service will be designed to accommodate serious users with business-oriented applications.
"We hope to provide multimedia and video services," Finch says, but he indicates this is not a top priority.
Sprint, too, wants to be able to mix the use of DSL with MMDS to deliver ION (Integrated On-Demand Net-work) services in the local market, says Kevin Brauer, president for national integrated services at Sprint. In fact, he adds, the company wants to be able to integrate with its mobile PCS platform as well. "In bridging services like unified messaging, you lose the distinction between wireline and wireless," Brauer says.
But, in contrast to MCI, Sprint, with its acquisition of People's Choice TV and American Telecasting, will also design services, including TV entertainment, to accommodate the residential market, Brauer says.
America Online is making clear it believes the ability of carriers to integrate across multiple access platforms is vital to its plans to deliver broadband services ubiquitously across the country. "As we look at broadband, we're looking at a tapestry of network platforms," says George Vradenburg, senior vice president at AOL. Even if AOL wins the battle for open access over cable, it will still need the other platforms, he adds.
Many pieces vital to such visions are coming together, starting with advances on the wireless side that provide for the provisioning flexibility and quality-of-service options that are common to wireline platforms. Moreover, some entities are already focusing on the integration issue with new products that employ IP (Internet Protocol) and other formats over ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) as the primary means of tying transmission elements together at the local network edge points.
For example, Motorola Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. have agreed to pool resources in an effort to create an IP-based, industry-wide framework for integration of the wireline and wireless domains. The two companies have pledged to spend $1 billion on the process, which they say could take as long as four years, though they're already beginning to deliver initial product lines built to suggested specifications of the framework.
"The reason we're moving with Motorola on SpectraPoint is we want to get the best of breed RF (radio frequency), fixed wireless broadband integrated into that architecture," says Skip Stritter, director of market development for broadband wireless at Cisco.
SpectraPoint has a strong headstart in the direction of facilitating multi-platform integration via IP and ATM, having been working with Cisco for most of the past year to integrate router switches and other IP components into the LMDS access system. "A lot of thought has gone into the integration of our system with Cisco's products," says SpectraPoint's McCabe.
The big performance gains in LMDS and other spectrum applications of point-to-multipoint wireless broadband start with greater flexibility in the use of bandwidth than was possible heretofore. For example, McCabe says, SpectraPoint will introduce product next year that supports dynamic changes in modulation from the more robust, low bits-per-Hertz levels to the noise-sensitive, high-capacity levels as weather conditions change or customers shift the tradeoffs they want to make between bandwidth efficiency and quality of service.
"The radios we're shipping with our 2200 system (slated for commercial rollout in the fourth quarter) support QPSK (quadrature phase shift key) and 8, 16 and 32 QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation)," McCabe says. "By mid-2000, we'll have software that supports dynamic shifts from one modulation level to the next." One of the innovations vendors are applying to LMDS and other fixed wireless products is the ability to transport everything in ATM while using time division multiple access multiplexing technology to dynamically alter the amount of bandwidth devoted to any one user's needs, McCabe says. This way, all the users on a single RF LMDS channel, now at up to 45 megabits per second and moving to 155 Mbps next year on SpectraPoint's system, can pay for services on an as-needed basis, allowing service providers to more efficiently allocate bandwidth that's not in use from one moment to the next.
Another glimpse of what is to come can be seen in the plans of Ensemble Communications Inc., a San Diego-based startup that demonstrated the first iteration of its "adaptive IP" platform at Supercomm in June. As described by Ensemble marketing Vice President Carlton O'Neal, the system uses a number of innovations to greatly simplify the end-user connection process while allowing service providers to deliver a given channel of frequency on a shared-use basis to multiple buildings.
"With current generation systems, you have to engineer every link to the customer individually and allocate bandwidth on a fixed basis to every link," O'Neal says. "With our system, customers will be able to take our CPE (customer premises equipment), hook it up and turn it on, just like people do today with cellular and PCS systems."
Another leading LMDS supplier, Newbridge Networks Inc., is promoting tight integration of multiple delivery platforms via TDMA/ATM interface cards, which employ compact design capabilities obtained through the firm's recent agreement to acquire Stanford Telecommuni-cations Inc. The Newbridge MainStreet Xpress ATM switch is designed to aggregate LMDS, MMDS, DSL, and eventually, cable, each with its own interface card, at a local service node which can also serve as the wireless base station, says Bernard Herscovich, vice president for broadband wireless at Newbridge.
"Our vision is to support a multiple-service network," Herscovich says. "Basically, we've made the ATM switch a base station by designing an interface card that directly integrates ATM functionality into the RF signal, which turned out to be a very difficult thing to do."
At the same time, the company is developing a voice-over-DSL interface in conjunction with the DSL card that slides into the same ATM switching module that is used for the wireless components, thereby providing for the complete integration of voice and data services over various wireline and wireless platforms at the base station/switch, Hersovich says. This new voice capability for DSL will use the GR-303 switch interface that allows the call provisioning and feature functionalities of central office switches to be supplied to the packet voice streams in the DSL connection, which is the approach to voice delivery being taken by most players in the DSL arena.
Where MMDS is concerned, operators are just now moving to the digital TV delivery capabilities that will allow them to go from about 30 channels of analog service to 100 or more digital channels. And they are also just introducing two-way, high-speed data capabilities, widescale deployment of which depends on what FCC officials at press time say is the imminent issuance of orders in the reconsideration process attending last year's grant of two-way authority to the MMDS sector. At the cutting-edge on both the video and data fronts is one of Sprint's targeted acquisitions, PCTV, which now has 160 channels of video along with a 60 megabit-per-second downstream/10 Mbps upstream data service underway in Phoenix, according to PCTV CEO Matthew Oristano. The two-way data capacity "can be repeated ad infinitum with various forms of spectrum multiplexing," he says.
Expanding that data carrying capacity is a top priority for both MCI and Sprint, starting with use of multiple transmitters and sectorization of those transmitters, in contrast to today's deployments where one transmitter, as in Phoenix, serves an entire metropolitan area. Sectorization means that each area served by a specific transmitter is divided into segments served by separate beams. In some vendor iterations, all of the sector beams operate over the same 200 MHz of frequency through use of some means like reverse polarization to prevent interference at the sector edges, while, in other design approaches, adjacent beams use different frequencies in an alternating pattern that allows only 100 MHz to be used over any one beam. This latter approach, used, for example, by Spike Technologies, permits a much higher degree of sectorization, where, in Spike's case, a dozen sectors divide the territory into small slices of users contending for the 100 MHz of available bandwidth within each slice.
Ironically, MMDS, with a signal reach of 35 miles, could readily serve a metropolitan region with a minimum number of transmitters, if it had the amount of bandwidth made available at the much higher frequencies set aside for LMDS, where licensees must cellularize to accommodate a signal reach of only three miles or so. The spectrum allocation differences result from the fact that there are many competing applications in the low-frequency tiers where MMDS resides, whereas it was not until fairly recently that it became technically feasible to use the tiers occupied by LMDS for point-to-multipoint applications.
There's considerable confusion about how these and other wireless tiers can be scaled over multiple cells and what the effective comparative bandwidth-to-user ratios are from one tier to the other. Given the great disparities among them, which also include the 24 GHz category where about 400 MHz is available; the 38 GHz tier, where several 100 MHz blocks might be amassed in any given marketplace; and the much more bandwidth-restricted categories in cellular at 800 MHz and PCS at 1.9 GHz; the players are always looking for ways to make their chosen tier look good against the others, which has produced some interesting claims.
For example, some experts are claiming the effective available bandwidth using MMDS technology at 200 MHz per territory is on a par with the bandwidth efficiency of LMDS at 1.15 GHz per license. But such claims often demonstrate a lack of understanding of all the factors that must be considered in weighing relative efficiencies among various wireless broadband spectrum tiers, where the propagation characteristics deteriorate as the frequency level goes up, notes Bob Foster, chairman and founder of Wavtrace Inc., a supplier of wireless broadband access systems at the millimeter wave frequencies at and above 28 GHz.
"What you have to realize is that, when you go to multiple cells, the limiting factor in terms of frequency reuse becomes the signal-to-interference ratio, and that's directly related to the modulation level you use, independent of what frequencies you're operating at," Foster says.
In other words, the sensitivity to interference at 64 QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) is the same whether the propagation frequency is 2.5 GHz or 28 GHz. This means that, with its much greater signal reach, cell-to-cell interference for MMDS comes into play at far greater spacing of cells than is the case for LMDS, so that any effort to chop a territory into a lot of MMDS cells in order to reuse the limited frequency to the point that it begins to even out the bandwidth advantage of LMDS is going to be hampered by the S/I problem. "With MMDS, you're not going to be able to get away with 64 QAM if you're counting on a reuse strategy to compensate for the limited bandwidth," Foster says. Thus, with the loss of the higher bit rate per Hertz of 64 versus 16 QAM, for example, which translates to about five bits per frequency cycle versus two, the 200 MHz of frequency loses a lot of its aggregate throughput in exchange for a move to multiple cells.
Foster says the best way to look at the two types of platforms is to view LMDS as ideally suited for high-capacity service requirements in urban areas, while MMDS is better for lower capacity requirements in less dense residential areas. "The bottom line is, LMDS has the bandwidth advantage, but MMDS has the propagation advantage, and it's best to design systems accordingly," he says.
With only 200 MHz to work with, Sprint CTO Marty Kaplan says cellularization is a likely step in his company's efforts to maximize bandwidth. "I doubt that we'll put just one stick up in an area," Kaplan says, adding that the company is also looking at use of "intelligent waveguide" technology as a means of expanding bandwidth efficiency.
MCI is thinking along the same lines, Finch says."We will break the serving areas up into smaller cell sizes," he says, noting that this would add substantial costs to the approximately $1 billion MCI is spending to acquire the wireless cable properties.
Eventually, both companies intend to use the MMDS spectrum for delivering multiple line packet voice services, though it remains to be seen how soon such services will be possible. Brauer says Sprint will focus on delivering high-speed data next year, postponing to some undetermined time in the future the rollout of voice over MMDS.
While Oristano says that PCTV has already tested use of an IP voice phone over the firm's two-way data channels and found the quality to be on par with circuit switched service, Finch cautions that it will take operators a long time to achieve the back office and operational integration essential to supporting voice services.
In fact, Finch says, the technical challenges associated with use of wireless broadband have made the topic "one of the most difficult questions for our senior management to answer." But, he adds, with demand for high-speed data connections surging and the advantages MCI sees in owning broadband facilities rather than leasing telco lines, as it must do with use of DSL technology, the company concluded it had little choice but to make a move into fixed wireless services once it became clear that two-way services were technically feasible.
Now MCI, which, like Sprint, will have coverage reaching some 26 million households and businesses through the announced acquisitions, is considering further moves in this direction, Finch says. "My guess is that you haven't heard the end of it yet," he says.


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Isn't it nice that the state of Vermont has decided to subsidize Greyhound bus service to "Southern Vermont," meaning South eastern Vermont, after the company announced it intends to end service to Brattleboro and other Vermont communities, not including Bennington. Read more
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Subsidize your food, subsidize your healthcare, subsidize your heating bills, subsidize your property taxes, subsidize your schools, subsidize your WalMart Super Center so Stevie can purchase 5 gallon jars of pickles and most importantly, subsidize your sewage treatment plant because God only knows Bennville is a leader in producing shit.....
Dear Editorial Person,
This is not the 50's and 60's when Bennville received bus service from what, five different bus lines???? By the late 70's all were gone having been swallowed up by Greyhound or they went belly up
due to poor ridership.... In the 90's Greyhound files Chapter 11, but then finds itself also being swallowed up by Laidlaw transportation of Canadia.... From 92 to 97 Greyhound was losing millions and finally showed a profit in 98 after being acquired by Laidlaw.... In 2001 Laidlaw petitions for Chapter 11 and in 2005 just as they are pulling themselves out of debt in walks First Group, a company based in Scotland, and buys them up debt and all, making it the largest transportation company in the world with 2.5 billion passengers per year, of which 20 million are Greyhound U.S. and Canadia passengers.... To put this into perspective, First Group employs over 136,000 people worldwide, 12,500 for Greyhound alone.... How do I know this???? I've owned their stock for the last 5 years.....
Now that you know who you're dealing with, what makes you think they are any different than any other large corporation in that they have stockholders to answer to for lost revenue in areas such as Bennville or Vermont for that matter????? How much money do you think these buses are generating going from Bennville to Albany with 3 passengers on board????? That's a 45,000lb vehicle which gets 10MPG if your lucky and a driver making $25 an hour....
My suggestion would be for Bennville County to establish their own transportation authority, funded by federal and state cash, to pick up where Greyhound left off.... First Group also operates
fixed route transportation on a smaller scale and works with counties and cities to see if they are beneficial in rural areas... That subsidiary works under their First Transit moniker
and also offers wheelchair assessable vans.....
Now what's cheaper, subsidizing a 12 passenger van or a fcking Greyhound bus?????
Would you please investigate the reasons why before establishing an opinion which is shit.....
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I have two autumn blazes. One turned a beautiful color this year but the other was all pale and not nearly as pretty. Any ideas what caused that? They both get the same amount of sun. The one not getting as much color is planted about ten feet from a pond. Could that have been the reason?
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Robert Glennon (Arizona) and Andrew M. Reeves (JD candidate, Arizona) have posted Solar Energy's Cloudy Future. The abstract:
With governments and environmental groups both clamoring for clean alternatives to fossil fuels, the future of solar energy looks bright. To date, however, solar power produces less than one percent of the U.S.'s electricity needs and, despite unprecedented subsidies since the 2008 passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, very few utility-scale solar projects have broken ground. Solar remains an emerging technology not yet price competitive with fossil fuels, but this efficiency gap alone does not account for the lack of a burgeoning utility-scale solar market - especially when subsidies are considered. Instead, as this article explains, large land and water requirements for utility-scale solar technologies, the arduous permitting process required for proposed sites on public lands, disincentives created by a preference for agriculture, and stringent objections from politicians and environmentalists toward actually siting utility-scale solar projects, better explain the state of solar power in the United States. This article will suggest that solar companies would be wise to focus their efforts to site their projects on private or tribal lands. And, it will suggest that, if solar is ever going to contribute significantly to this country's energy needs, we must minimize the disincentives and strike a balance between the opposing environmental goals of preserving pristine land and reducing carbon emissions.
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Most people spend too much time comparing themselves to others," Zooey Deschanel says. "Stop and ask yourself a few questions, and think about you." One simple know-yourself query that Deschanel, star of (500) Days of Summer, suggests: What have been your favorite projects ever? Your answer might pinpoint what will most fulfill you going forward. (Deschanel's picks: "My high school plays and the records I've made with my band, She & Him.")
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Brewster's Cape Rep Theater is bringing activist, actor and model Omar Sharif Jr. to Cape Cod to help raise money for human rights.
Renowned poet Martín Espada fondly remembers the somewhat grand entry Joe Gouveia made at a conference in Boston.
Edward Hopper had just finished a painting of two forlorn-looking houses on a stretch of sandy road between Truro and Wellfleet.
A small art installation at the Cahoon Museum titled "Changing Images of American Women in the 19th Century" depicts images of women in the 19th century, as staid "stay-in-place" portraits intermingle with active images of women as they begin to take on different roles in society.
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Goalrilla GS60 In-Ground Basketball Hoop
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Experience unrivaled playability with the Goalrilla® GS60 Basketball Hoop System. This exceptionally durable in-ground basketball goal system features a clearview tempered glass backboard that offers the feel and look of an arena-style goal while maintaining an appropriate size for the home. Corrosion-resistant hardware and tough powder coating provide unmatched quality and durability outside.
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After more than 20 years of research, Sonoma State University geology professor David Bero has published detailed maps of Ring Mountain and the Tiburon Peninsula. He presented these new maps as the featured speaker of the SSU Geology Club's lecture series on February 19.
Geologists around the world are known for their love of the outdoors, and Bero, who has been lecturing at Sonoma State for the past eight years, is no exception. He has spent nearly every weekend during the past 20 years hiking the trails and enjoying the sweeping vistas of his native Marin County. But unlike day hikers gazing at the panoramic ocean views, Bero's focus is on the rocks beneath him.


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Peter Blegvad mentioned in the sleeve notes to another cd that Slapp Happy fans are an 'exclusive club', which is probably the nice way to describe a cult following.
Have been into this band for ages and they've always delivered brilliant music, off kilter pop in the best tradition and it was great to see them live earlier this century.
This album is well up to the standard of previous efforts and it's a great surprise that 'Scarred for Life' hasn't been covered to death.
One of the few groups to give quirky a good name! ;o)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent Art-Pop,
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Ca Va, maintains Slapp Happy's literate, musical style, though perhaps at a slightly more accessible level than their earlier work. Perhaps the added years have given an increased sense of maturity. The sense of eccentricity and adventure is undimmed, however, the song 'Byron as an embryo' being a highlight of the album. All in all a great place to start exploring a stimulating and under-reported band. John Peel likes them you know!
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Some of my favourite Slapp Happy tracks are on this album.
Scarred for life, Moon lovers are just brilliant. Dagmar's singing is at its quirky best here, and the instrumental accompaniment is spot on.
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New Orleans VooDoo: 2 Tickets
Mercedes-Benz Superdome • New Orleans, LA
Use between Wednesday, June 19 – Saturday, July 20
What you get
- Two Lower-Level Tickets
- Choose Between Two Exciting Home Games!
Fall under the exciting spell of arena football with this offer for tickets to catch the New Orleans VooDoo: For $20 ($128 value), you'll snag two Lower-Level tickets to see the New Orleans VooDoo play at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome and take on either the San Antonio Talons on Saturday, June 22 or Jacksonville Sharks on Saturday, July 20.
about arena football
While played on a field half the length of traditional American football gridirons, arena football delivers all the action and excitement you'd expect from a full-contact sport. Arena football's slightly modified rules allow for faster-paced and higher-scoring games. Since its creation in 1981 the sport has garnered a well-deserved and fanatic following and has launched multiple professional and amateur leagues. Many arena football players go on to play in major American football leagues, though many prefer the fun of the indoor alternative. Don't let the tiny field fool you; this sport still packs big-time fun.
Fine printREFUND POLICY: This event is nonrefundable. No full or partial refunds are given to customers who miss an event. In the event of a cancellation, your voucher will be fully refunded. • Each voucher is good for 2 people • The deal is valid only for tickets on the date[s] of the event as listed and may not be exchanged or redeemed for any other dates • Reservations are required and subject to availability; seating is for best available in the 100's section only • Groups wishing to sit together must reserve their seats together • Purchaser may change the name of the individual retrieving tickets up to 24 hours in advance of event via the LivingSocial website event details section; no name-changes or alternate pick-ups permitted without notice at venue • Seating chart: www.superdome.com/footballchart • Entire value must be used in a single visit
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Will doing a system restore on my laptop affect....
Use of my iPad, husbands iPhone? I don't want to mess up these two! This computer challenged mind doesn't understand the least bit regarding syncing these other systems!
Laptop is a 2006 Toshiba Satellite. Been having problems with it being incredibly slow and I want to set it up to do a club newsletter and website.
Thx for your input.
Shouldn't have any effect at all.
Unless if you use Itunes on this PC with the iphone, and the restore date is before when Itunes was installed. If so, you'll have to reinstall it.
If you know your itunes store user name and password (which many people forget), it should be no problem.
How to Restore the Toshiba Satellite A135 Laptop
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Here is a link that might be useful: a135-laptop
Tried going into system maintenance to use Restore option. I don't see where I can get it to go back to factory defaults. It just wants to take me back to several update dates, these falling in this calendar month. Tried setting a restore point bt typing in Factory Defaults, but that didn't work. Any suggestions?
Then you will need to restore from a disc that came with the computer.
Restore from Recovery Media
9 Insert the first recovery disk into your optical drive, then restart your computer.
10 Press "F12" as the computer begins to boot up and you see the initial BIOS screen.
11 Select "CD/DVD option" in the menu by using the arrow keys, the press the "Enter" key.
12 Click on "Recovery of Factory Default Software," then "Next."
13 Click on "Recover to out-of-box state," then click on "Next."
14 Click on "Next" to begin the restoration process.
15 Allow the Toshiba recovery program to work. This may take several minutes.
16 Press any key on the keyboard when prompted to do so to restart your restored Toshiba Satellite A135 laptop.
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Thank you Zep15' worked like a charm.
Now a couple more questions. Years back I had installed AVG Anti Virus, Super Anti Spyware and Malware bytes. Are they still the main recommended protection for the computer? Are the free editions still adequate for a casual surfer of the net? McAfee seems to be already installed, but I know I used AVG.
McAfee's a trial version that came pre installed, I would consider a free version for casual user like AVG, Avast or Microsoft Security Essentials anyone of them is ok. SuperAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes are both good ideas to have too.
Just make sure only 1 Anti Virus is installed.
Free AVG:
Free Avast:
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Free Microsoft Security Essentials:
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You should first remove the McAfee anti-virus before installing another AV program. Don't be surprised to see more updates than the 79 you have already gotten. Remember, this restore took the computer back to the date it came out of the box, so any updates since that time will have to be installed again. Also, any programs or applications that you installed since it was new will need to be installed again if you want them.
If you haven't used the McAfee consumer product removal tool, that would be a good idea to make sure all residual files are removed that could cause conflict. Be careful when downloading to prevent from installing any foistware that is offered with the download. See link below:
Here is a link that might be useful: McAfee Consumer Products Removal tool


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Just got a new WASR-10 in the mail today from CTD. Going to shoot it in the morning, so far I am happy. The price was right that's for sure. They sent me 4 mags instead of 2 as well.
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Sweet gun. I've been wanting to add one like that to my collection. Let us know what you think of it after you shoot it.
Great gun, now go shoot the snot out of it!
Take pics and come back and do a range report.
Where is the Bayonet?
Very cool. And they sent you a couple of extra mags? Doesn't get much better...
Right on Blaine! I second the request for a range report!
It's like paradise on Earth, enriched with the ever so sweet nectar of
elk urine.
When you're out there by yourself, you become who you really are.
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Prezi is a cloud-based (SaaS) presentation software and storytelling tool for presenting ideas on a virtual canvas.[1][2][3][4][5] The product employs a zooming user interface (ZUI), which allows users to zoom in and out of their presentation media, and allows users to display and navigate through information within a 2.5D or parallax 3D space on the Z-axis. Prezi was officially established in 2009 by co-founders Adam Somlai-Fischer, Peter Halacsy and Peter Arvai.
Prezi (or Prezi.com) was created by the support of Kitchen Budapest and Magyar Telekom in 2008 in order to replace the ordinary slide based presentations. Today the project is assisted by Sunstone Capital.[6] [7] The actual development was done by Zui Labs led by its three Hungarian founders Péter Árvai, Szabolcs Somlai-Fischer and Péter Halácsy. The word prezi is the Hungarian short form of presentation.
The Prezi online and offline ZUI editors employ a common tool palette, allowing users to pan and zoom, and to size, rotate, or edit an object. The user places objects on a canvas and navigates between videos, images, texts and other presentation media. Frames allow grouping of presentation media together as a single presentation object. Paths are navigational sequences that connect presentation objects for the purposes of structuring a linear presentation.
Prezi Desktop[8] allows Prezi Pro or Edu Pro subscribers to work off-line and create and save their presentations on their own Windows or Mac systems. Prezi Desktop Editor allows users to work on the presentation off- line which come in .pez file format. Users can have files up to 500 MB in size when signing up using a school login e-mail address. This storage capability doesn't affect when users use an appropriate third-party conversion software with FLV or SWF format.[9]
Prezi Collaborate is an online collaboration feature that allows up to ten people (co-located or geographically separated) to co-edit and show their presentations in real time. Users participate in a prezi simultaneously, and each is visually represented in the presentation window by a small avatar. Although Prez Meetings can be done simultaneously that is not the only option. Participants can be invited to edit the Prezi presentation at a later time if they wish. A link will be sent and the participant has up to ten days to edit the presentation. Prezi Meeting is included in all license types.
Prezi Viewer[10] is an app developed for the iPad for viewing prezis created on one's Prezi online account. The iPad touchscreen and multi-touch user interface enables users to pan, and pinch to zoom in or out of their media.
Prezzip also offers templates for PreziU, with tool kits and visuals for file presentations.[11][12]
Prezi uses the freemium model. Customers who use the product's Public license must publish their work on the Prezi.com website, which is publicly viewable. Customers who pay for a Prezi Enjoy or Prezi Pro can make their presentations privately. Only Pro license users have access to Prezi Desktop, which enables offline editing. Prezi also offers an educational license for students and educators.
Some users at the World Economic Forum are currently using Prezi for their presentations.[13] Many TED Conference speakers have used Prezi, including TED curator Chris Anderson, who used a Prezi for his TEDGlobal 2010 presentation: How Web Video Powers Global Innovation.[14] Michael Chasen, President/CEO of Blackboard, Inc., used Prezi to deliver the keynote at their BbWorld 2011 annual users' conference.[15] FBLA members have recently started using this software.[citation needed]
Prezi is used at Oregon State University,[16] as well as at the Dwight School[17] and elsewhere in primary education and higher education.[18] It can be used by teachers and students to collaborate on presentations with multiple users having access and the ability to edit the same presentation,[19] and to allow students to construct and present their knowledge in different learning styles.[20] The product is also being used in e-learning and edutainment.[21] However note that Prezi is considered by Web2Access to be an 'inaccessible service'.[22] Educators have been advised that Prezi is not ADA/508 compliant and that an accessible PowerPoint version of the presentation should be provided online for students where a Prezi has been used.[23]
In July 2011, The Guardian used Prezi to publish a new world map graphic on their website, for an article about the newly independent South Sudan.[24]
Prezi is developed in Adobe Flash, Adobe AIR and built on top of Django. It is therefore compatible with most modern computers and web browsers. However, it does not comply with web standards, since it is still necessary to install the Adobe Flash plug-in.
From July 2014 viewing Prezis is also possible without Adobe Flash, using only Javascript.[25]
Some users[who?] have criticized Prezi's "zooming user interface (ZUI)," claiming it can induce nausea.[citation needed] The company has acknowledged this potential effect and offers tutorials with recommendations for use of layout to avoid excessive visual stimulation.[26] Others have criticized the Prezi's lack of font and color options. Notably, Presentation Zen author Garr Reynolds once stated that he had never seen a good presentation using Prezi and was looking for one;[27] in a later post, he refers to Chris Anderson's talk at TED Global 2010 as one of the best TED talks ever, commenting that it was a good use of Prezi.[28]
Unfortunately, as Prezi is a Flash-based online zooming tool, most elements of the presentation cannot be read aloud by users with disabilities by means of a screen reader (e.g. it is not possible to add alt tags to images and iframes used for the page design, and templates, have been built to work within without accessibility options). Prezi is considered by Web2Access to be an 'inaccessible service'.[29] Educators have been advised that Prezi is not ADA/508 compliant and that an accessible PowerPoint version of the presentation should be provided online for students where a Prezi has been used.[30]
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Experience Streets On Lock 2, the latest tape from Migos & Rich The Kid. It dropped on Tuesday, October 1st, 2013. Migos & Rich The Kid's odds keep getting better with each new leak, and Streets On Lock 2 will undoubtedly improve his chances of winning. It's a worthy addition to a respectable catalogue that has seen a lot of growth since Migos & Rich The Kid debuted in this game. We're looking forward to the follow-up.
The following artists are featured on the project: PeeWee LongWay, Chill Wil, Yakki Diviosi, Chill Will, Jose Guapo. The following producers soundtracked the mixtape: Murda Beatz, Zaytoven, MPC Cartel, StackBoyTwan, MurdaBeatz, KnuckleHead, Mercy.
Let us know what you think, folks.
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01. Intro
02. Carbon (Prod By Murda Beatz)
03. Rocky Balboa (Prod By Zaytoven)
04. Diamonds (Prod By MPC Cartel)
05. Dope In My Sock (Prod By Murda Beatz)
06. TrapAHolics (Prod By StackBoyTwan)
07. Fly With A Fish (Prod By Murda Beatz)
08. Water Whip (Prod By MurdaBeatz)
09. Water Bitch l (Prod By Zaytoven)
10. My Momma (Prod By Zaytoven)
11. Sean Kemp
12. Talkin Bout Nun (Prod By KnuckleHead)
13. Momma We Rich (Prod. By Zaytoven)
14. Piped Up
15. Jumpin Like A Jordan (Prod By Mercy)
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