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I sure hope some of us get a chance to be creative and paint some projects soon, our forum here is pretty inactive lately. I had a couple of patterns I wanted to try but could never seem to find just the right surface to paint them on. Maybe next year. (How many times have I said that?) LOL If you ever just want to chat and it's not Painting related, just click on "Conversations", and we can all get better acquainted there. Enjoy your day. Luvs |
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Happy Valentines Day to you Luvs! Sorry, I've only had a few seconds each day to zoom thru here. Monday is a holiday so I'm trying to get things in place to make it a painting day! My DM retired last Friday and since she still can't drive I've been her chauffer driving her around to appts and grocery shopping. Takes a big chunk out of my already busy day. It's science fair time again here so you know what that means. Big stresser for me. Plus Hawaii is sneaking up on me! Only 15 more days until we leave!! So I've had to make time for exercise and tanning. ha Big priority. ha And the ongoing bathroom saga. Did I tell you he started the tile??? Anyway, we'll hope for painting on Monday and I still need to post pics of the horse. Happy V-day everyone. ~Anj |
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Hi Anj, Congrats to your Mom, know that's a great feeling for her to get to retire. My DH is counting down the days until he can retire too. No problem with the painting, I know you are super busy. Don't worry about it, just get ready for your trip, you can paint when you get back. You're gonna love Hawaii--always takes me a couple of days to unwind from the rush rush rush over here, things are much more laid back in Hawaii. The scenery, the flowers, the ocean, the rainbows--you're gonna love it. :o) Luvs |
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SAN DIEGO, January 7, 2012 - Proponents and Opponents of the 'Affordable Care Act' (aka PPACA or Obamacare) both manage to take the same set of statistics and twist them to shape their uniquely partisan vision for health care reform in
Even the casual political observer can appreciate the brewing battle between the left-leaning federalists and the right-leaning libertarians when it comes to the 'Act'. The 'left' is looking to the government to control, save, and manage medical care, whereas the 'right' believes the smartest, safest, and most efficient health system is that which is driven by market forces primarily.
The term "essential benefits" is actually used in the PPACA legislation, and is put there for a reason. The purpose was to define, circumscribe, design, and (let's be honest) limit the services which patients can access in medical facilities. The new law seeks to create parameters for the payment of medical services—specifically, what percentage patients will pay, under what circumstances, and up to what limit. These details may seem tedious at first glance, but make no mistake about it: these are the very details which determine whether treatment and pharmaceutical options will be realistically available to health care consumers.
'Essential benefits' for patients should allow for continued access to treatments—even expensive ones! They should not be designed to exclude options which could be life-saving. They should not be mandated in such a fashion where patients find their co-payment or co-insurance to be so prohibitive that they stop using the prescribed services or products, causing manufacturers to eventually stop producing certain products and/or providers to stop prescribing them.
Why? Because, as European 'nationalized' medical systems so clearly demonstrate, the rich will just pay out of pocket to 'private' doctors and 'private' facilities to get the care they need and want, regardless of what insurance they are allowed. Alternative medical care options available for the American poor (and most of the middle class) will be essentially non-existent.
A little known secret of health care financing is that you can negatively influence consumer choice and access through the subtle manipulation of patient co-payments. With regard to medications, most patients will be unaware of potentially different therapeutic efficacies of certain generic and brand-name drugs. Most patients will be fooled into thinking that within a 'class' of drugs all of the choices are therapeutically equal. Likewise, the downstream implications for wholesale de-selection of more expensive, newer medicines could dissuade corporate investments in research and development, with long-term disastrous consequences for all of society.
Most consumers of pharmaceuticals, for instance, do not understand that a mandated 'tier system' for certain drugs, combined with the use of the more expensive 'co-insurance' clause (instead of mere $25 or $35 a prescription 'co-payments', for instance), can literally drive a particular drug out of the market altogether.
Add to this the 2009 Stimulus Bill and Obamacare provisions for 'academic detailing' (a practice that requires the Department of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations aimed at "preventing conflicts of interest and ensuring the accuracy of the pharmaceutical company educational materials"), and you have an Orwellian nightmare of epic proportions. Herein, the federal government—in pure, unregulated hypocrisy—will espouse medical guidelines for essentially political purposes. Unlike the drug companies they are purporting to counter, the government in this context will not have to obtain FDA approval or double-blinded studies to back up their positions against certain medications or treatments. They will need merely the impetus for cost-effectiveness to drive their version of the federally-funded 'truth machine'.
The implied purpose of the 'Affordable Care Act' was not just to make health care affordable, but also to more effectively make the miracle of American medicine available and accessible to millions of more Americans—and thisshould mean translating the same outcomes, benefits, and services to all patients.
In a 2007 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), for each 10 percent rise in patient cost sharing, medicine use fell between 2 percent and 6 percent. And, in a 2004 JAMA article, it was shown that doubling co-payments could lead to a 17 percent increase in emergency room visits and a 10 percent increase in hospitalizations among patients with diabetes, asthma, and acid reflux disease.
If the purpose of the new health care law is to restrict care, ration services, and deceive consumers with classic bait and switch tactics, then we should not be arguing at all about the merits of the law itself, but rather about the implementation of socialized medicine in the
If, on the other hand, the proponents of this law are serious champions of maintaining the superior nature of American medical care, we must give credence to the Obamacare opponents (seemingly a majority) and allow the opportunity to re-do the PPACA's sloppy 2,700 pages—some of which are specifically designed to micro-manage, restrict, and curtail patient choice and patient treatment options.
With great change comes great responsibility. Mastering the science of health care reform means not only reading legislation before we pass it, but also understanding the real-world dynamic of health care economics at the level of the board room and the bedside.
In a cruel misconstruction of fate, Obamacare will serve to further ostracize mainstream Americans from the privileged upper echelons of
Most know that the AMA represents a slim minority of practicing physicians and yet proffered to speak for all of them in support of the PPACA law. Most also know that the AMA receives tens of million of dollars annually (72 million in 2010 alone) from a federally-sanctioned copyright royalty on all medical billing codes.
It is ironic then, that the AMA's own 2010 'Code of Conduct' manual—a well-written document designed to protect the rights of patients (and even, frankly, to safeguard the independent practice of medicine by physicians)—contradicts the very health care reform legislation which they helped get passed.
Note Section 5, bullet # 4 of the AMA's "Health Insurer Code of Conduct Principles — Standards for health insurers' administrative and clinical processes":
"No care may be denied on the grounds it is not 'medically necessary' except by a physician qualified by education, training and expertise to evaluate the specific clinical issues."
To understand this concept, one only has to consider these facts: Obamacare does not save money; Obamacaredoes not sideline abusive trial attorneys; Obamacare does not increase the role of medical doctors; Obamacare does not simplify the essential and sacred doctor-patient relationship; and, Obamacare wastes billions of dollars building dubious governmental oversight and unnecessary new agencies. What the 'Affordable Care Act' does do is create layers of bureaucracy and red tape, serving only to fritter away dwindling resources and grind the mainstream medical establishment to a halting, mediocre pace.
Acquiescing to Obamacare would be akin to national suicide because it reflects a fatalist's view of life—a slumping of our hopeful posture that there can be a better tomorrow.
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Is this the year, Chargers fans? Do you finally go to a Super Bowl or get knocked out of the Divisional playoffs again? Phillip Rivers is an elite quarterback, but is the rest if the supporting cast good enough? How does Norv Turner still have a head coaching job? Shawn Merriman did not practice today same with backup quarterback Billy Volek, meaning that the Chargers only have one quarterback on their Depth chart.
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I remember seeing one here and (maybe) on Houzz. Does not have to be for spices. I remember some for hanging kitchen towels and such. However, Rev-a-shelf has only 3" and 6" ones and I am only finding tall pantry pull-outs by Hafele. I need one that is for 4" or 4.5" "filler" cabinet. Could you help? TX! |
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I have seen 5" ones, but the next step down that I recall is to the 3". I wonder if it would be very difficult to make one in a 4.5" width from the parts of a different size? Is 4.5" the total width of the frame opening (which would call for a pullout less than that)? |
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Thank you! How did you even find them? I found one of these on Amazon and another on PullsDirect but when I search Hafele's website for these numbers, I find only some unrelated articles. |
Just got off the phone with Hafele on another issue, and it was explained to me that they have many, many parts in stock that are no longer in their catalogs or on their website. He recommended that we hang on to all catalogs forever . . .so we can go back and reference old parts that they may still have, but no longer advertise. He actually directed me to a page on Amazon to see what it looked like (rather than their own website). Weird. I can't imagine why they would do this . . .but they do. |
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KALISPELL- Authorities cited nearly 20 minors for Minor in Possession of Alcohol Saturday morning at a house party in Evergreen.
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DIY: Adding SSD or HDD storage using an optical bay caddy
Introduction - This article contains details on how to make best use of an optical bay caddy to extend notebook storage with a 2.5" SSD or HDD in place of the standard or slot-loaded optical drive. Included are links to buy the correct caddy plus some configuration items: hotswapping, setting spindown timeout on secondary HDD.
Benefits of using an optical bay caddy
- Inexpensive. Ebay caddy is only US$12-US$26 delivered worldwide.
- Identical faceplate. Transplant your ODD's faceplate to an ebay Fenvi or some newmodeus caddies to achieve identical appearance to your current optical drive drive. 9.5mm ebay | 12.7mm ebay
- Improve performance and extend battery life using a hybrid SSD+HDD system. A small, fast SSD hosts your os and apps in your primary bay. A 2.5" HDD in optical bay caddy, in battery-efficient spindown mode when inactive, provides a decent sized data repository.
- 1TB/1.5TB/2TB of storage capacity using a combination of 9.5mm 500GB and 12.5mm 1TB 2.5" HDDs.
- Hotswap versatility. Allows the optical bay caddy and optical drive to be swapped in/out as required if used with a primary SSD/HDD. Eg: Can access an optical drive when needed to say load software or watch DVDs, then hotswap back in the HDD in caddy to access your repository of multimedia or document files.
- If prefer not to hotswap, can use an usb adapter/enclosure to allow either the optical drive or caddy to be used externally. Eg: PATA: 9.5mm & | 12.7mm | adapter, SATA: e-sata/usb cable or enclosure
- Use SATA drives in older PATA-only systems. Latest 250gb-per-platter SATA HDDs are faster and cheaper per GB than 160gb-per-platter IDE HDDs and are well matched to ICH2M+ 83-87MB interface speed. SATA SSD a good performer over sata-to-pata bridge as astericksed here. SATA SSD/HDD can be transplanted in newer SATA systems in the future. Older notebooks can be resurrected as fileservers or media centers, conditional on 48bit LBA bios support to allow full use of > 137GB storage.
- Can be better bang-per-buck than a system upgrade. When you consider how a primary bay SSD can provide day-and-night improvements in os and app performance improvements over a HDD.
- Can provide lower running temperature of HDDs compared to using the primary bay [user reported]
Optical bay caddy configuration matrix
BayOptical Bay Caddy Product Link Example link/caddy usedebay & newmodeus0 ICH2-8M pata or
sata1pata23 7.0mm sata-to-pata
9.5mm pata#1
12.7mm pata
9.5mm pata
12.7mm pata
sata-to-pataHP 2510P 9.5mm sata-to-pata,pata/newm+ebay
Dell M1330 9.5mm pata [slot]/newm
Dell Vostro 1400 12.7mm sata-to-pata/ebay
HP 8710W 12.7mm sata-to-pata/newm
Clevo M570RU 12.7mm sata-to-pata/newmICH9M or
newersata sata 9.5mm sata
12.7mm sata9.5mm sata
9.5mm sata
12.7mm 9.5mmClevo P150HMA 14mm/ebay
Toshiba R830-835 9.5mm/ebay-Fenvi
Alienware M14x 9.5mm/ebay-Fenvi
Dell E6400/E6500 9.5mm sata/ebay &newm
HP 2530P 9.5mm sata/newm
HP Envy14 9.5mm sata/newm
Sony Vaio Z12 9.5mm sata/newm
Lenovo E420 12.7mm sata/newm
Sony Vaio FW51JF 12.7mm sata/ebay
HP 8730W 12.7mm sata/newm
Dell XPS 1647 12.7mm sata [slot]/newm
Alienware M17xR2 12.7mm sata [slot]/newm
0 5% discount coupons on their facebook page. Their slot-loading products the same as others linked above minus the faceplate. Their 12.7mm product allowing the use of your optical drive's faceplate as shown here.
1 SATA SSD performs best when installed in primary SATA bay. ICH8M: CAP.ISS shows if 1.5Gbps cap applies.
2 if sharing PATA bus with primary bay drive, a master/slave jumper gives more config flexibility.
3 sata-to-pata chip adds power consumption overhead. newmodeus(Sunplus)=0.8W, ebay (Marvell)=1W. The newmodeus caddy has issues with SSD TRIM - the ebay caddy doesn't. Intel ICHxM UDMA5/ATA100 PATA interface measured to give maximum read of 83-87MB/s. This post compares power consumption/performance for PATA and SATA-to-PATA caddies, benchmarks show great SSD/HDD performance.
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#0 can be modified to improve functionality: faceplate strength for hotswap ability, master pinmod, HDD LED.
#1 rear connector unscrews to reveal JAE50 like shown here.
Hotswapping the optical drive and 2.5" drive in optical bay caddy
Hotswap! provides a Safely Hotswap Hardware system tray icon to simplify disabling the device prior to removal or scanning the system when inserted. Allows hotswapping in/out the optical drive and 2.5" drive in optical bay caddy if using a primary SSD or HDD. Hotswapping is supported by the ICHxM SATA/PATA interfaces. So can for example watch a DVD with the optical drive then swap in a 2.5" HDD to access your multimedia files or documents.
Setting standby idle standby timeout to improve battery life
hdparm allows control of individual drive standby timeout periods to spindown the HDD if it's idle to conserve power. This would be recommended if running a primary bay SSD and optical bay 2.5" HDD at the same time. The commands below are easily added to a batch file to run in Windows startup folder.
- Download hdparm for Windows.
- Identify the drive you wish to operate on:
hdparm -i /dev/sda
hdparm -i /dev/sdb - Set a batch file to run in startup with standby time of your choice, example 1 min. Refer to the -S parameter in the hdparm commandline options. hdparm can also be used to set drive transfer mode, eg: 'hdparm -X udma5 /dev/sdb'
hdparm -S 12 /dev/sdb &REM set standby timeout=1min
hdparm -y /dev/sdb &REM standby the drive now
Versatility: using 9.5mm caddy in other 9.5mm/12.7mm optical bay systems
The newmodeus 9.5mm SATA-to-PATA/PATA caddy slides straight into a 12.7mm PATA optical drive bay. A great way of sharing data at full speed between hosts, without having to setup a network or be limited to USB speed. Can then hotswap the caddys between multiple systems. The SATA version likely to offer same versatility.
Adding a 1.8" SSD/HDD in a 2.5" drive bay
1.8-to-2.5" adapters allows a 1.8" SSD or HDD to be installed in the optical bay caddy or 2.5" primary bay. SATA adapters shown here. PATA adapter is available on ebay for a few dollars.
Quirks applicable to Sandy Bridge HP Probooks/Elitebooks using Insyde BIOS
How to enable Upgrade Bay Hard Drive boot: so can hit F9 and boot off an optical bay caddy HDD or SSD.
Quirks applicable to PATA optical drive interfaces (ICH8M or older)
1. Some system's bios sets the pata optical interface into slow UDMA2 mode. See nbruser's software and/or MBR workaround.
2. Some system's bios sets the timings to use 33Mhz rather than 66Mhz timings. Notably HP 2510P which then caps write performance to < 30MB/s. See software workaround. Consider too hardwiring the caddy Pin 34 (-CBLID) to GND to set "80-pin cable mode" which uses 66Mhz timings.
3. Phoenix bios directs boot to optical caddy HDD. See software workaround.
4. Some Toshiba systems whitelist the HDD in a sata-to-pata caddy. See here
5. May need to do a slave_mod & to get an ebay caddy running as slave. Mod works with the topda branded ebay caddy.
If using an optical bay caddy to extend system storage, please post some details as examples. Eg:
- which caddy you are using, eg: ebay or newmodeus
- the look, feel and performance of the caddy. Photos against the chassis compared to original optical drive
- any gotchas or tips and tricks
- any mods, eg: on/off switch on the sata-to-pata caddy to conserve power if using it with a SSD.
Note I have no commercial affiliation with any of vendors whose products are highlighted in this article. This information is provided to assist others in creating a great bang-per-buck storage expansion/performance upgrade.Last edited by User Retired 2; 8th September 2012 at 09:42 PM.
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Great guide - I've always been interested in using the optical bay for a hard drive, especially if I move to a smaller SSD. This way, I can keep the HDD for movies, music, etc.
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The hotswap software is very useful, now I can switch from my 500GB HDD to my DVD drive without restarting.
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Interesting indeed, looks like the newer ICH9 and ICH10 I would guess get full speed due to a SATA interface for the optical drive correct?
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this is really GREAT I never thought in a thing like this. great find!
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Confirmed to be correct with the ICH9M equipped Lenovo T400/T500. It can do full uncapped 3Gbps on their primary and optical bay SATA interfaces.
I will elaborate more on this below as it's important to know if you have a capped primary bay SATA interface to see full streaming performance with the latest SSDs capable of 220MB/s+ (OCZ Vertex, G.Skill Falcon, Intel X25-M), which are otherwise capped to ~140MB/s on a 1.5Gbps interface.
I/O Chipsets and their 1.5Gbps/3Gbps SATA interface
ICH5/6/7/8M have both a PATA and a SATA interface on the chipset, with PATA used for the optical drive and either SATA or PATA for the primary drive. Since around ICH6M the trend has been to use a SATA primary drive with the deviations like the HP 2510P and Dell D420/430 ultraportables using a 1.8" PATA primary bay interface instead.
ICH9M and newer use a SATA interface for both the primary drive and the optical bay.
ICH8M and newer are SATA-II 3Gbps transfer capable, a drawcard to upgrade from ICH5/6/7/M's 1.5Gbps maximum. You can check if your ICH8M or newer chipset is 1.5Gbps bios capped by viewing the the CAP.ISS value as shown here. If you find you are capped, the could request a bios upgrade from the system manufacturer.Last edited by User Retired 2; 21st July 2009 at 01:28 PM.
13th June 2009, 10:12 PM #8
Incredible guide, nando4, thanks for posting.
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Is this compatible with the Nvidia 9400M chipset?
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Since nobody responded to this question, I punted. First of all I discovered each one was one seed and not a seed pod. So I potted the them and covered them with potting soil leaving the already germinating growing tips out, and bagged the pots to hold moisture in. I got nothing! After a few days I removed the seeds from within the soil, laid them on top of the soil and re-bagged them. They immediately started to grow. (Note to self: don't cover Clivia seed.) They are doing well. Hope this helps someone else. |
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Going crazy looking for a color to work with the floor -- chocolate and cream checkerboard tile. Want to "match" the cream tiles -- but they themselves shift in the light from cool ivory to much warmer/creamier. They have little almost invisible flecks of grey, pink, yellow that probably contribute to the color shift. The light comes from an east window. The lighting is GE Perfect Color low voltage halogen. I have been sampling light tans/creams. BM Lighthouse Landing looks neutral with lights on but orangey in daylight. Everything I try shifts from either too grey/cool to too rosy/orange. Barbados Sand comes closest so far but just isn't as pretty a color as some others. Would love some suggestions for neutral to warm cream/tan that tends not to shift or advice on which colorants seem to drive greater color shifts. Planning on Aura but welcome opinions. |
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Yes. And some paints that look the same on a chip will shift more than others from a different manufacturer. There is more than one way to get a pale cream, and more than one colorant to think of. The easiest way is to use your lighting, your eyes, and your room: Go get a bazillion BIG paint chips from different manufacturers in the general shades you are thinking of and lay them on the floor tile ... remove the ones that clearly look "wrong", but leave the ones that are "pretty close". Leave them there a few days, and check them at various times as the light changes. Remove any that have shifted into "wrong" at any time of day. When you have narrowed it down to a few stable or at least tolerable colors ... sample them, and do NOT change manufacturers. If you like a Behr color, get Behr, because matching it with a paint that uses other colorants might not work. If nothing is really good, pick the one that is best during the hours you are most likely to be using that room. |
lazygardens, thanks for your response. I have a SW sample here ("Creme") that seems to be emerging from the pack. Are you saying that I cannot hope to get a good match to this in BM Aura? I am not dead set against using SW Duration but seem to have read here and elsewhere that man/most prefer the BM. If I were to try to match, do you think that the My Perfect Color does a good job of matching or should I go to the local store? Or not try to match at all? |
If you are interested in Aura paint, I believe the Affinity colors are the only "full-spectrum" colors. Aura is quite good (IMO) for any color, but it is very special in Affinity colors regarding light shifting and depth of color. Maybe you need an affinity color to do the job??? personally, I do not like to do color matching. It is too risky if you ever need more to get an exact match. I even use the same store whenever possible if I need more of the same. It is possible that brand-name colors *might* be okay in another brand if the brand formula is in the computer and they are not matching. Also, I noticed that you said you put the samples on the floor. Samples on the wall will play much differently with light and thats what is going to count with matching the floor tiles. Did you look at Aura "Frappe" (affinity). That is my kitchen cream cabinet color and I like it a lot. I think the color is pretty consistent. The MyPerfectColor.com sample looks beige, but it is really very light. |
- Posted by debbiedoes (My Page) on Sat, Oct 23, 10 at 9:08
Although Aura has special pigments it is not full-spectrum. Donald Kaufman, Citron & Ellen Kennon are full-spectrum. I've used Ellen Kennon in my entire house & her colors are constantly shifting. Also less expensive than Aura. |
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What's really driving me crazy is that the color seems to shift so dramatically from the floor (very light) up to the ceiling (much darker and warmer). I've tried Lighthouse Landing (BM), Barbados Sand, Frappe, Barely Beige -- it is the same phenomenon with all of them. It seems more dramatic in daylight where the color also shifts from cool and light near the floor to warm and darker higher up. Really light ivories/whites do not shift but any color with slightly more intense chroma seems to shift significantly. My other main rooms are papered with a Nobilis paper in a pale-medium yellow gold color. The color shifts dramatically from sun to clouds to night, but not from floor to ceiling! What is going on here????? |
- Posted by lazygardens (My Page) on Sat, Oct 23, 10 at 16:49
What's really driving me crazy is that the color seems to shift so dramatically from the floor (very light) up to the ceiling (much darker and warmer). Yup. That's what color does. When you get a few you like, tape them in various places and see what happens. I like the way colors change with the changing light. |
The idea of assembling a wad of randomly chosen paint chips from the stores boggles my mind. I've said many times before that I do not agree with that method. Just because you, the consumer, doesn't have to pay for those paint chips, someone does. One round of refills for color selectors (chip racks) can cost a paint store on average $3,000 - $5,000 or maybe more. Thousands of dollars of collateral that people totally take for granted; parents use the color displays to keep junior busy while they shop, people remove chips and put them back "where ever", etc.. Stores would rather you just lay the chip down on the counter if you don't want it - don't put it back in the wrong place in the rack. I guess I have to take solace that on the other side of this incredibly inefficient process, at the very least, all these unwanted, unused chips are being properly recycled. Yes, it is true that the price of color collateral (paint chips, etc.) is built in to the price per gallon. But it's a moderate, reasonable, average margin. The margin isn't huge to support each person taking a "bazillion" paint chips. And if you make an effort to properly educate yourself on even the basics of color, there is no need for a "bazillion" paint chips to begin with. Not to take a "scolding" tone, it's just there's absolutely nothing about the suggested process that I agree with or think is a good plan. Strikes me as wasteful and a little lazy to be honest. I agree, however, that you should never look at wall color on a horizontal plane. Walls are vertical and that's how you should evaluate the chips/sample boards. Debbie is correct, Aura/Affinity colors are not full spectrum What makes Aura special is the actual paint, not the color palette. If you want SW Creme via MyPerfectColor, you have a really, really good shot at getting the best match possible in a BenM base to a SW color. I know the quality standards for color matching from My Perfect Color and they are best-in-class. They ship paint/color and they fully "get it", they understand the need for precise calibration and standards. MPC is a good option. As far as individual colorants and formulas - there isn't any one data point *within* a paint color that you can identify as more constant or not constant. It's all the factors wrapped up together that contribute to more constant or less constant. A general rule of thumb - not set in stone rule - is the fewer colorants in the can, the less shifting will occur. Black in the formula also aids in capturing light beams and stopping them from reflecting back into the space. Some people equate that to more constant paint colors. Others label it as "dead" color. The expectation that color should not shift or change is, arguably, the core issue. Perhaps it's not the color that needs adjusted as much as the expectation for how the color & light relationship is suppose to work. |
Just want to say thank you to all who responded and especially funcolors who took the time to respond to my questions about matching in the post above. Consistent with what funcolors has said, it does seem that the colors that have a slightly more grey tendency are also the ones that manifest more of a shift in value from floor to ceiling. Frappe, which seems to have just a touch of gray shifts more than Subtle, for example. Tans seems especially tricky and also seem to be a class of colors where all these discussions about full spectrum versus traditional really matter. For pure colors or very very light colors, there is not likely to be a lot of grey or black in the formula no matter what system they are mixed in. But for tans, greige, grey, whether you mix from color plus black, versus using complementary colors, is likely to make a noticeable difference. May-be that's what I'm experiencing since I am looking at these nuanced colors. I think if I can get the chroma right (i.e works with the tile and also a pleasing color) I can "adjust" to the shifts in value. |
Regardless how they are made or in what medium (dyes/fabric, inks/printing or colorants/paints), beiges tend to be somewhat inconstant and will indeed shift with the light regardless how many different colors were combined to make them. Your own observations about the BM colors that perhaps have 2 or 3 colorants is a testament to this. Once you narrow, sampling (painting a large piece of foam core) a few of the finalists is your best bet. |
Just as an observation, there are some thing learned from fine art painting that seem to apply here as well. I paint portraits and am gaining experience in mixing flesh tones --i.e. "beiges." One of the things that surprised me is how cool or "blue" skin tones really are. Most people start out mixing too warm. One of the traditional methods is to start with no color which is really a cool grey monotone -- this used to be called dead color. This is to help keep the bias more cool and add the warmth over the top gradually. So many of the paint chips I saw that I originally liked turned out to be too rosy or gold -- too warm. Then I started looking at cooler ones, which still had warmth in them. The other observation about number of colorants also applies in fine art painting. Students are told that you should use the fewest number of colors to mix the color you need -- two, and no more than three. You often learn color by doing the entire painting with white plus one warm and one cool color -- it is amazing the range that can be achieved. I've now narrowed down some more and am looking at Benjamin Moore Opaline. It is similar to Najaho white. There is a grouping of BM whites-- marble, spanish white and niveous that are very interesting colors. |
- Posted by lazygardens (My Page) on Wed, Oct 27, 10 at 13:48
I think the whole "complex color" concept is as much a marketing point as anything else. |
The best advice I ever was given, and it works, is to put some color chips (even if you need 4 strips to make a 3 x 3 square) and tape it to the wall in the darkest part of your room. Furniture, flooring, lighting all effect/reflect the color throughout day/night! Then look at it from a distance, not close-up. If you can narrow down your color and can get a sample jar, paint the color on foam core poster board (3 x 2 feet) and again put it up in the darkest portion of the room and watch it for several days. Remember that light coming through windows also change through the seasons! Example: getting the right color for my dining room incorporated all that I stated above, but I also viewed the room from the living room where my eye looked at the oriental rug on the living room floor and followed into the dining room through the arch way. It was worth it in the long run to take all these steps to find just the right color! Just thought I would pass along these tips. |
treeskate, thanks for the tips. I think you are right -- I have always been told to squint and/or to look from further away -- helps you see the value of the color more truly. I have been sitting in the dining room where I have my MAC, and looking at large test swatches on the far wall in the kitchen which is also the main wall opposite the window. From here I seem to be able to get a better feeling for how the color I'm testing will work in the room overall. |
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We had our back porch redone and in the process the back yard was completely excavated. They un-earthed a few treasures including this wedge with an insulator on one end. The insulator is obvious, but any guesses on why it is attatched to a wedge? I just thought it would be fun to show pictures and see what people thought/know. |
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I'm going to guess that the wedge is how it was mounted, possibly to your house Check out this online book: http://www.insulators.info/books/mpet/chap05.htm#para092 |
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- Posted by chrisrich_2010 (My Page) on Fri, Aug 27, 10 at 17:24
I think Tricia560 has it. The wedge must have been the original support for the insulator. That's interesting because you don't usually see them mounted on anything these days. Did you find any other interesting things? |
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- Posted by mrsrichards (My Page) on Fri, Aug 27, 10 at 19:11
That is it *exactly*! Right down to the screw holes in the exact same places as they appear on the wedge we found. I was surprised to see it attatched to anything, and never figured that was part of it's original function. Thinking maybe it was added to something later to serve some other purpose. We also found a piece of tile that matches the tile surrounding our fireplace. The fireplace tiles are all in tact, so this may have been a broken piece during installation? There was also a brow glass bottle with stopper in place and a small blue bottle. THanks Tricia, that is it for sure! |
- Posted by mainegrower (My Page) on Sat, Aug 28, 10 at 6:01
Old glass insulators, especially ones with attractive colors like yours, have become collectors' items. I'm sure you could find some site online that would give you some idea of the value of this one. As for the use... The service wire which ran from the street power line to individual houses were attached to insulators like ths one. The connection was then made from there to a heavy wire that connected with the fuse panel. |
This type of insulator was intended to be used to support bare telegraph wires so it would probably have been attached to a pole. It's the more common threaded type so it was made after 1865. There are books about the different types and collectors often meet for shows and swaps. |
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- Posted by mrsrichards (My Page) on Sat, Aug 28, 10 at 8:08
Great resources, thank-you! I tried to do an on-line search, but didn't come up with anything this useful. THere is a patent date on it of 1893. Now to decide what to do with it. I would love to use it as a decoration somewhere in the house, along with a few other relecs that we have found. Thanks again for all of the great information! |
- Posted by carol_from_ny (My Page) on Tue, Aug 31, 10 at 16:19
Why not remount it on the house as a conversation piece. It belongs on the property it was part of the house at one time I think it'd be neat to put it back up. |
It is not likely that a telegraph line would have been mounted on a house unless it was originally a train station. |
- Posted by mrsrichards (My Page) on Wed, Sep 1, 10 at 11:59
I was a bit confused by the possibility of a telegraph line on a house; the home was originally owned by a doctor who, supposedly, ran his clinic out of the home for some time... For sure not a train station, though! So either the doctor had a lot of communication going on, or it landed in our yard by accident? Either way, it is a fun converstaion piece and I will find a place for it in our home decor. Thanks for the feedback! |
Is there a railroad track near you? |
- Posted by mrsrichards (My Page) on Wed, Sep 8, 10 at 9:56
Technically, there is a railroad track running to the lumber company that is across the street from our house. It is a single line used to deliver goods to the lumber yard. The actual track is approximately 1 block away. The main rail is about 3/4 of a mile away. We are also 1 block from what used to be a very large pickle factory. |
The telegraph line would have run along the train right-of-way with telegraph stations at the railway stations. Your bracket appears to be intended for support of a single line on a pole. The insulator was designed to not only avoid grounding the line but to shed moisture from dew and rain. |
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A Brief History of the Security Alarm
Oct 1, 1998 12:00 PM, Steve Filippini
It is 3 a.m., and the dog is sniffing at the back sliding glass door in your dining room. This is your cue to let the dog out to relieve a little built-up pressure. As you open the door to let her out, your sleeping brain struggles to remember what it is you are forgetting to do. The bells and whistles shrieking from your security system jogs the memory. You have just created a false alarm. The first thing you worry about is waking up the family. The second thing to worry about is waking up the neighborhood. What is sometimes overlooked is worrying about your alarm company's dispatching the police to your residence. You make the call to the monitoring center, and after identifying yourself, you cancel the dispatch with a promise that you will do better next time.
It is embarrassing, but you are not alone. Everyone who uses a security system has done it, or will do it. It becomes second nature to arm and disarm your system. It is the change in the daily routine that tags you. The question will come up as to whether or not you want to have your security system monitored. It seems like such a hassle, why put yourself through it?
Having a security system monitored means that you are willing to pay a monthly fee to a monitoring center. This fee is used to hire people to sit and watch for and react to your security system in the event it calls in to report an alarm condition. Sound simple? It is.
Most of the security companies on the market today either provide or have ties to a monitoring center. Whether it is a local presence or national operation is not the issue; it is how well they provide the service that is important. But first, a little history lesson.
Way back in the days of people much older than I, people would rely on simple means to alert others of a breach in security. Little bells attached to a door that rang when it was opened, tin cans tied to a string across a pathway, that sort of thing. One day, someone placed a large bell into a metal enclosure and placed four lantern batteries (remember those?) inside of it with a relay and mounted it to the outside of the building. From the enclosure, there were two sets of wires, one for the door contacts and one for the keyswitch that turned the bell on and off. This technology is commonly referred to as a "local bell." Maintenance was a snap. Depending on the usage, these batteries could last up to a year. When the bell rang weakly, you replaced the batteries. The hardest thing I have ever had to deal with when working on one of these was the hundreds of bees and hornets that were magically drawn to them.
This simple system used the relay to monitor the door contacts. The keyswitch was located outside, and the owner would close all of the doors and turn the key at night. If the doors were open with the keyswitch on, the bell would ring. Closing the door would not stop the bell; only by turning the key could you silence it. The local bell uses a wiring scheme that latches the relay contacts into an alarm condition.
This was very popular for a while, that is until people figured out that the bell could be yanked from the wall and quickly silenced. The other flaw was the locations of some of these businesses were way out in the toolies. The bell could ring all night and bother only the local night critters.
So, someone came up with the idea that a pair of wires from the premise could be tied into the local police station through the telephone lines. These lines were dedicated to the alarm panel only. In the police station, there was a rack of modules that had dials and meters on them. The security panel back at the premise used a series of large resistors, and the police station had a room with a whole slew of car batteries that pumped voltage on the phone line to create a current source. The resistors would be tuned to send back a specific current level. This level was reflected on the dials at the police department. If the line were to be compromised (cut/bypassed), the dial would drop its reading, and the police would be dispatched. This was referred to as a DLPD (Direct Line Police Department). These systems were popular with managers of jewelry stores and high-security-minded business owners. Problem was, a lot of phone lines were being used up, and the police department was chasing tons of false alarms on a daily basis.
Next came "McCulloh." Same principle as the DLPD, but with a twist. Instead of a dedicated pair of phone wires from the premise to the police department, the phone company ran a pair of wires out to a location and allowed multiple premise units to be wired in series with the main feed. The main feed was routed to a secure location, which will be referred to as the monitoring center from here on (call it what you want, it still had a room full of car batteries) and tied into a machine with spools of paper and little probes with ink at the end. The premise units were replaced with a device that used a wheel with spokes protruding from it. As the wheel turned, it opened and closed a set of contacts that sent a series of Morse Code-like pulses to the monitoring center. At the monitoring center, each pulse would cause the probes to release ink onto a thin spool of paper. For example, if the premise unit's code wheel had two spokes followed by three spokes followed by one spoke on it, the monitoring center would see lines of ink that when counted, identified premise unit number 2-3-1.
Slick enough, but easy to compromise. If you went to an unsecured premise unit, cutting the phone line would disable all of the premise units on that feed. Another hurdle to overcome---if more than one premise unit tripped at the same time, you would see a clash of pulses that was hard to decipher. Even more of a concern, maintaining all of those car (later they were marine) batteries.
The next step Then came digital communicators. These devices used the same principle as a phone call to the police, but better. The digital communicators would be programmed to call a digital receiver at the monitoring center. The premise units were assigned a premise number that was programmed into these dialers. When the alarm tripped, the digital dialer would call the digital receiver and report the location and area of protection violated. This information would be first displayed on a small LED screen, then later printed out to a spool of paper for later reference.
No more rooms full of car batteries or dedicated phone lines. With this came an added bonus---this also allowed the monitoring center to analyze the alarm signal before dispatching the police. This reduced the number of false alarms, much to the relief of the local police officers. One further note, the digital dialer was/is able to send alarm signals that alert the monitoring center to dispatch the fire department or paramedics as well.
Since the introduction of digital dialers, the phone company has raised the cost of a dedicated phone line to the point of discouraging further requests for the line. The police departments no longer offer DLPD service, and car battery sales have dropped off significantly. At this point, you would think all was right with the world.
As the technology grew, so did the ingenuity of the burglar. All they had to do was cut the phone line. If the line is unprotected, it is just a matter of cutting the right pair that the alarm uses. Actually, they take out full banks of phone wires, hoping the right pair is included in there somewhere. Read the papers; you hear about these incidents every now and then.
Now the need for a backup communicator was needed. How do you make a phone call without phone lines? You use a cellular dialer to make the call for you if the normal line is not available. Cellular was expensive at first, but the cost has been coming down as the public embraces cellular phones. There is also a line of long-range radios that can transmit alarm signals across the country in seconds. Microwave technology is also used in some areas. If your security installer looks like he or she has a headache, you know why. As the industry develops better and faster ways to send the alarm signals, your installer needs to absorb as much of the new stuff as possible.
Enough of the history lesson. What happens to the alarm signal when it reaches the monitoring center? In today's centers, the signal is routed into an automation system that has all of your customers' information stored. The automation system looks at the signal and attaches it to the appropriate customer. From there, the customer's name, address and phone numbers are at the operator's fingertips. Special instructions requested by the customer are also displayed, and the operator can then take the necessary steps to dispatch the correct emergency agencies properly.
Why would you monitor a security system? As tight as you might be with the neighbors, they are not always home to watch the house for you. If your security system rings the bell on a daily basis, they are going to ignore it or take out the bell with a sniper's rifle. Monitoring your security system provides peace of mind. In the event of an emergency, it is nice to have one less thing to remember to do. During a fire, the priority is to get family members out of the house quickly. During a burglar alarm, getting to a phone may not be practical. Let the security system do all the work.
Now, this is when I like to pass on some lessons I have learned over the years. Let's start with local bells. I mentioned the bees and hornets. I carried two cans of Raid Insta-Kill everywhere I went. I learned if the bug spray smells like lilacs, it attracts, not repels, angry flying insects. I also learned to check the enclosure that is mounted outside of the building for a tamper switch. I once was on top of my work van with a ladder to reach the bell enclosure. As I was removing the locking screws that kept the lid secure, I had the feeling I was forgetting something. I remembered 1/10th of a second before the lid swung open on the enclosure that there was a tamper switch protecting the alarm, and the bell rang (as it should) in all of its glory. My partner swears I bounced off the hood of the van, but I remember nothing.
Direct wire was another lesson learned. Those car batteries I keep referring to are wired in series to supply roughly 90 V to 120 V to the phone line. A common practice, in the days of old, was to wire the phone line through a thin strip of window foil. This foil was glued to the glass around the outer edge (sometimes the installer would impress us by including patterns and designs) of the glass. That way, if the window was broken, the foil would tear and open the phone line to alert the police of a problem. Anyone who has worked with 24-hour foil (that's what it was called where I'm from) willagree with me when I say, you do not locate the open in the foil circuit by licking your thumb and running it along the foil to find the hairline tear. Trainees do that. Once.
McCulloh taught me that using a metal file to scrape the contacts that open and close the phone line (90 V to 120 V) during an alarm transmission is not the smartest thing I've ever done. I was working on a panel several years ago when I kept getting bitten by the phone line while I was trying to secure a circuit inside the control panel. I decided that removing the phone line from the safety of the terminals was my only course of action. I hate getting bitten by electricity. I was careful to remove the wires and extend them away from the control panel to give my hands plenty of room to work. I dropped my screwdriver and as I bent down to pick it up, the open phone line dragged across my sweaty forehead. I saw major blue streaks in my head as it snapped back at least 2 feet (0.6 m) from my shoulders.
Digital dialers are safer to work on. Although, as many of you know, you don't hold onto the ends of the phone line when a call is coming in. I hate getting bitten.
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