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[Line in the Sand] Social is No Magic Bullet To BroadcastPosted: February 24, 2010 | Author: Dave Levy | Filed under: social media | Tags: interconnected media, Vancouver Olympics | Leave a comment
I'm very supportive of the theory that the rise in simultaneous media usage has an impact on the manner in which either online or broadcast is consumed. Brian Stelter's NY Times piece takes that notion the distance by implying that online-to-traditional media conversion is truly evident in recent media events, including the Olympics.
My issue isn't with that point – I think the first time I truly saw this phenomenon happen was during the Sunday morning Wimbeldon final last summer – because I believe that an active social media discussion can cause a slight behavioral shift towards broadcast media (although, whether that is incremental or a legit force is a debate that is worth having). There's plenty of evidence to support the high activity on digital media channels during live events like last month's Super Bowl, and Stelter cited those numbers in his case.
Up and to these points, I decently agree with him that Twitter/Facebook acted as a complement to the broadcast, and if someone wasn't already watching things like the Grammy's or Golden Globes already, there could have been a measurable, but mild, bump. However, assuming that there is anything beyond a non-immediate behavioral shift is a massive leap that the author uses very few cases to support.
My biggest gripe is that Stelter took the time to go find some sources (two in fact!) who said that they knew what happened but watched anyway:
But sometimes the effect works even when the program is not live. Rachel Velonza, a 23-year-old from Seattle, knew that Johnny Weir failed to win a medal in figure skating long before she ever turned on a television last Thursday, but she stayed up until almost midnight, enduring NBC's much-ridiculed tape delay because she wanted to see for herself why he wound up in sixth place. She knew all her friends were watching because they were talking about it on Twitter (which says it counts 50 million posts every day) and Facebook (which says it surpassed 400 million members this month).
Brad Peterson, a lighting designer in New York, heard about the skier Lindsey Vonn's crash before Thursday's replay of it on NBC, but watched regardless. After all, he said, "I didn't know when, how and who won."
Also, just an excellent use of statistics that have little direct application in the first example. But I don't feel like dwelling on that. The point is that there just isn't enough evidence to make the overall impact claim.
That's right, your friendly neighborhood prophet of digital media's value for traditional channels is drawing a line in the sand. There may be an immediate, slight impact on live broadcast events that are universal in draw and interest. However, arguing the existence long-term benefits based on an untested correlation between a well-watched media event and Web media is a jump. The Olympics may be doing better this year than 2006, but it is still well below the Nagano games:
…primetime coverage of those 1998 Games, through 11 Olympic nights, was averaging 16.4% of U.S. households.
NBC's Vancouver primetime coverage, through 11 nights of a mother lode of U.S. medals, is averaging 14.3 —down 13% from Nagano.
The notion that a more-than-immediate shift in consumption habits can be attributed to social media is dangerous. To put it in context of the conversion rates of the channel, think of it this way: I can barely get two percent clickthrough on links I send out to my Twitter followers, and I haven't done the necessary research to support the following, but my guess is that I'm on the high end of conversion within the digital channel. Do you really think this audience is going to have an impact beyond a percentage point on already high-performing broadcasts?
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Stealing Time and Filling UpPosted: July 22, 2009 | Author: Dave Levy | Filed under: social media | Tags: interconnected media | Leave a comment
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Really fantastic post from an old classmate and research colleague of mine (and all around great guy, without whom I never would have completed research for my own thesis) on coming to face the reality of wasted time. He puts it into the context of a really solid frame, "The Threshold of Care."
There will always be a unit of time, a unit of anything really, that is indivudally beneath counting or caring. That could be 3 minutes, eight-nine cents, one more bite, one more wedding guest. Individually there is always room for this unit, just beneath the "Threshold of Care" and it's usually a single noun. Psychologically it's just simpler that way, "always room for one more": person, dollar, line, guest. Beneath the Threshold of Care anything goes, that's why ninety-nine cents was pioneered as a marketing device (and later as folks got wise to the ninety-nine cent phenomenon, the ninety-five-cent and eighty-nine cent innovations).
One thing that will move that imaginary line in the sand, to me, is the barrier of entry. Cost is obvious, but what about access? Is the $1 worth it if I have to get in my car to drive past three places that are $1.29? Higg makes a great connection with a different kind of threshold – communication – and it hinges on this notion:
While a phone conversation runs the risk of going over the Threshold of Care, a text stays comfortably beneath it. Even an exchange of texts over the course of an hour can remain, at least in our minds, beneath the threshold, like those six eighty-nine cent burritos from Taco Bell.
Try to stay with me because I want to take this a step further to overprove my favorite point. Newspapers aren't "dying," (a) completely and (b) because of our shrinking attention span. Having information "first" is just a terrible business model that MSM refuses to let go over high-value content.
You remember how we always used to be told, "Don't fill up on bread" before a meal? That's what's happening – it's truly the bite-sized messages or blog posts that we don't let creep above into the realm of information overload. MSM may start writing shorter articles, but it really isn't out of a need to fit into what we want. It's not a shrinking tolerance for hard forms of media; it's the power of a crowded, specialized marketplace that is filling us up before a big meal.
Just save room for dessert.
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Could Twitter save real journalism?Posted: July 8, 2009 | Author: Dave Levy | Filed under: journalism, social media | Tags: interconnected media, Twitter | Leave a comment
One of the most shocking sports stories from the last week included the shrouded news of Steve McNair, former quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens and Tennessee Titans as well as a breakthrough college star at Alcorn State. On Saturday July 4th, news started coming from a variety of sources that McNair had been found dead in his home; a true loss for the sport overall because of the level of play, commitment, and toughness that McNair showed.
The manner in which the story broke on the holiday led to several more examples of the Statusphere vs. Mainstream Media. There were some that were brutally scathing of MSM's coverage, such as Aaron Brazell's piece over at Technosailor:
WKRN, in Nashville, was the first with the news and it quickly disappeared off their page – a result of too much traffic or erroring on the side of caution, who is to really know.
NBC Affiliate WTVF, Channel 5, was the second to report it filling the gap where WKRN dropped off.
It was a long time (30 minutes or so) before national media picked it up. ESPN, the Worldwide Leader in Sports by their own slogan, didn't have it. No one did. We were left gasping for more. Is the rumor true? Can anyone confirm? Can police confirm?
Was any of us on Twitter making calls? Maybe. A few possibly. Not many.
There were a few other comments in and throughout Brazell's post, as well as follow-up from the readers questioning his rush to blame, but I think that he may have taken it too far to the end of the spectrum. When it comes to a story surrounded by so many circumstances, it is obviously in the best interest of the journalistic community to get the story right. 30 minutes to check the story is better than getting it wrong, correcting it, and making the error the story, not the event.
On the complete other end of the spectrum is an old media guy accusing Twitter of being too involved in the conversation about the former-MVPs passing. Tim Keown, a long-time writer at ESPN put together this piece in response to the reaction of another NFL QB's wife that was captured in the midst of the coverage. The same negativity Brazell had toward ESPN for failing to report the story, Keown has toward Twitter for pressuring MSM to respond:
The problem is, there is a widespread attempt in the media to bring validity to the enterprise. There's pressure to get stuff out there, to be connected to the story. CNN wants us to follow it on Twitter, when following it on CNN should be about all it demands of us. Viewers are invited to respond, and there's nothing quite like the awfulness of a guy reading a truncated, abbreviated, code-language message from someone with no expertise beyond opposable thumbs.
(And I'll say it before you do: There are exceptions, and the election protests in Iran are a big one. Without Twitter, the amount of useful information leaving that country would be minimal at best. This leaves aside the validity of the information being Twittered — or whatever the heck you want to call it — but that's secondary to the importance of the technology in spreading useful information.)
The bold in the above section is mine. Also, I wanted to include Keown's waiver to not completely throw him under the bus, but that shouldn't be a complete hand washing for the piece.
Twitter has broken stories, we know that. Folks in DC will recall when Twitter was in its mainstream infancy and news about Tim Russert spread, in addition to the reference Keown makes and the many other breaking outlets. Remember: that's not what Twitter's purpose is, to be a journalistic mainstay. It's for information sharing, not confirmation; we need to recognize the bridge between the two.
Sure, as a reporter, you have to move a little quicker now, but let that be an advantage, not a hurdle. Keown opined that this stuff will sink the media ship, but he places to high of a premium on what it means for journalism to be accompanied by "You heard it here first." That's ignorant, to me.
For journalists, the service should be used like a hiker uses a compass: it doesn't show you the trail, just points you in the right direction. We are telling you where to go, just don't get lost along the way and everyone stays happy.
Interconnected Media 1, Traditional Media 0Posted: June 8, 2009 | Author: Dave Levy | Filed under: Department of Broadcast, social media | Tags: interconnected media, late night | Leave a comment
Conan O'Brien's first week as Tonight Show host actually went pretty well – it was enjoyable and it's clear that he isn't giving up on the type of humor that got him to where he is today. And throughout the week, social media had a decent footprint – a nice little hat tip (and a great "YouTwitFace" joke) to his audience. There was one big win that is really interesting to track in terms of the future of mainstream media.
You can give the assist to Conan on this, but I actually think the MVP is in fact Aaron Bleyaert (aka BigBley), who has stuck with Conan O'Brien's staff on the way out LA from his old position as the now-defunct Late Night Blogger.
Time for the context: last Wednesday afternoon, a blogger makes the catch of the lifetime and whips out the photoshop to prove his point. The art-deco backdrop of Conan O'Brien's new set happens to have the exact same features as the Nintendo classic, Super Mario World. As these things are apt to do, they ladder up through the Twittersphere, and TV-bloggers, and gaming bloggers decently quickly:
You can go ahead and file this in the "I need an example of blogs making an appearance on television," because here's where the story gets great for those of us wondering if traditional media mainstays are paying attention. The story didn't stop with a joke on a minimally trafficked (now majorly relevant) blog like Serious Lunch – because Bleyart was paying attention.
On Friday's show – and this was interestingly hinted at for the last few days on Bleyaert's Twitter feed – Conan gave a direct mention to the blog and the author's serendipity find:
I don't have the facts behind this – but this may be the first ever direct reference to Blogspot in non-Cable, broadcast history. It's pretty impressive to think that what we write and say as we participate in our own communities online could actually impact and become a bit on a major network show.
Bleyaert's role may be growing with this event. If he continues to play along with the conversation, it stands to grow the audience of the actual show. Next time you get that question about what social media can do, you can probably save this.
Now, I've been watching Conan every night (or on DVR early the next morning). I enjoyed being in on the joke when he finally gave the acknowledgement to the set's Super Mario allusion. But which part of the audience was I in? The geek-will-inherit subsect? Or is it safe to say that it was not just a lay-up to his small clique of online choruses and, in fact, the audience as a whole would warm up to the reference.
What a tangled-Web we live in, eh?
Where does social media fit in media history?Posted: April 30, 2009 | Author: Dave Levy | Filed under: social media | Tags: interconnected media, social media | Leave a comment
I'm sitting in the communications department here at Boston College, having just finished up my first foray as "Prof. Levy," thanks to friend and mentor Ken Lachlan. As promised, here's the presentation I gave this morning, entitled "Old Media's Rules in a New Media World."
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A collection of thoughts on where social media fits in the lineage of mass media history. As presented to Prof. Ken Lachlan's Survey of Mass Communication class at Boston College on April 30, 2009
Two Stories I Don't Want to See about US Airways Flight 1549Posted: January 15, 2009 | Author: Dave Levy | Filed under: journalism, social media | Tags: flight 1549, interconnected media | 1 Comment
I think this should be a series.
Everyone is safe from the Thursday afternoon incident in the Hudson river. Which means people are going to take about a five-second deep breath and then jump right into to over-analyzing.
Yes, the first images broke on Twitter. Absolutely fascinating, if you ask me, because of the angle and the style. I don't know if I would have seen that photo without Twitter, this is true.
But, it doesn't mean you can write the following two stories:
1) Citizen Journalism + Twitter = Heaven. No, it's a valuable resource that provides a unique, first-person snapshot of events. Twitter is bite-sized, which means its great for fast reactions or pictures, but we aren't going to see the end of all top-down media because we are all equipped with camera phones. It's a reaction – not the vehicle for analysis. A couple of reasons, but "Retweet" doesn't imply a conversation – especially when, by that point, everyone had turned to CNN to watch unfold.
2) Social media provided all of the comfort when everyone was OK. Twitter/Facebook helped get the word out about how everyone was safe, but I'm sure that people directly impacted wanted to hear a voice, and traditional media played a big part on getting to the scene with more images. There's an important lesson in the value of Breaking News in all of this, but something should be said for personal interaction to those who's loved ones were involved.
I think we got an incredibly interesting perspective out of social media, but let's take it for what it is and not too much more. Everyone's safe, that's what matters.


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Here he has introduced us to his debut collection called Chin-suru, which is a verb meaning "warming up food in a microwave" or simply "a microwave" in modern Japanese slang. He has managed to capture the ideal combination between surreal and practical, print and use of colour, and still let it breathe into a cultural influence of Japanese lifestyles. The lookbook offers us a look into his process by including the muse of the collection. Presented as a water creature, there is an animated graded hue in the Khoi fish that gives the garments its design. Implementing the cut-out couture in his jackets, there seems to be an underwater flora/fauna theme that shadows such depth and creativity within one item. The fish scales come to life in cropped wide shouldered tops, swimsuits and patches within headwear that takes advantage of something foreign to the fashion eye. The patches belong to the opportunity of meshing the cap and hooded headpiece, an idea come together by a zip. Mrzyglod has really shown us how fashion can be a developmental art platform. Here the lookbook is his performance art. These days the competition lies in who can outdo the next with what they have to offer. Mrzyglod has certainly made me a believer of the platform. The feet wear bare the talent of narrow walkers and slim fitting strolls. With great shape contours that give the shoe a classic design of statement and comfort, I love how the mini stilts (even though impractical in the real world) prop up the pieces to imply that this pair could be something you would feel like you are floating in.
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I'm glad you're so upbeat about it, Pen! You haven't left my prayers, and you're Not old!!
Take Care, Pen. I hope all goes well for you
Stay encourgaged in the Lord Pen and He will see you through as He has been doing all along.
Good luck Pen. You'e faced far worse, so I'm sure you'll do well. Hurry back.
Good thoughts coming your way Pen! and take care ...
I'm glad you are improving. I bet you'll feel so much better after the surgery- maybe not RIGHT after but very soon! You will be in my prayers friend.
Good luck Pen, I hope everything goes well and you're back with us again soon. Hugs, Fifth
I hope everything goes fine as well, Dale.
Take care and get well soon, Pen!
I'll be thinking of you tomorrow. I am sure everything will go just fine.
Glad to hear your kidneys are improving.
Take it easy afterwards, and pls let us know the outcome when you can.
I'm glad to hear your health is improving, Pen. I've been wondering how you were doing. I'm keeping you in my prayers. Just keep hanging in there being your courageous self.
I've been looking out for you every day, Dale. What a relief to hear you feel better. The relaxation along with your family will do you heaps of good, I trust. And, before you start, you might go to the 'Get well Pendragon' thread in the General Chat area (if you haven't done so already). You will see how many litnetters expressed their best wishes for you because they love you and miss you. All the best, Barbara
It's incredibly good to hear that you are on the mend! I hope you get completely better very soon, and that you enjoy your vacation and are able to relax there and have a great time.
Get on well soon and have a nice vacation mr.poet
Hope you are well enough to enjoy the Cape. Rest well friend.
It was great to hear from you, Pen. I really hope that you can have the opportunity to get some rest and relaxation with the trip you mentioned -- you surely need/deserve it. Please take care, we are all thinking about you. ~~ Kizzo ♥
Nice to see you back Pen. Rest, relax, enjoy yourself and keep smiling
The few times I've been somewhat seriously ill (nothing like you of course) I've clenched my teeth and said to myself I'm going to beat this son-of-*****. Keep fighting Pen. You can beat this thing. Don't give up.
good to know you are starting to feel better. I hope you get to go on vacation and just relax. Hang in there!!
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These days, we're redefining relationship conventions left and right. "Women want marriage with room for independence," says anthropologist Helen Fisher, Ph.D., author of Why Him? Why Her? Pursue a big career while your man stays home? Spend your money how you see fit? Marry a shorter guy no matter who says it's odd? Yes to all of it. This freeing attitude seems to be good for relationships; 51 percent of pairs say they're closer than their parents were (5 percent feel less so), a study by the Pew Research Center notes. Here's a look at what's working in our new age of romance:
66% of single women would like separate accounts when they partner up, a Match.com survey finds. Why the preference for my money/your money? "I've seen that some financial separateness reduces fighting, as there's less micromanaging of spending," says marriage therapist Michele Weiner-Davis, M.S.W., author of Divorce Busting.
Make it work for you Open a joint account for paying bills, and transfer in equal percentages of your earnings. Then separate the rest of your funds, suggests Manisha Thakor, 40, founder of the Women's Financial Literacy Initiative. "My husband and I have complex income situations, so that system makes sense for us," she says. "I think we feel more like a team because we don't nitpick every household bill—we just pay from our joint fund."
11% more women are the taller spouse, compared with 1986, an analysis of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics finds. "Height has traditionally been seen as an indicator of health and reproductive fitness in men," says Dalton Conley, Ph.D., dean of social sciences at New York University, who crunched the numbers. "Now societal success depends more on intellectual heft." Rachel Lewis, 41, from Columbus, Ohio, realized something similar when she fell for a guy a few inches shorter. "I consciously thought about what really matters—that he's smart and a great kisser and our personalities mesh well," Lewis says.
Make it work for you If you're feeling anxious about a height disparity, retrain your brain by writing down your fears. Science reports that transferring worries to paper can ease stress and clarify your thinking so you can make better decisions. (As in, do I want to let someone's stature ruin my happiness?)
45% of men say they're game to become a househusband, the Match.com survey reveals. That may explain why the number of stay-at-home dads has more than doubled since 1994. (There has been an 8 percent uptick in the past five years.) Clearly, couples are more open to flipping traditional gender roles. Only 30 percent of adults say marriages function best when the man does the earning and the woman stays at home, compared with 43 percent of people who believed that in 1977, the study from Pew Research Center finds.
Make it work for you For smooth sailing, define your spheres. "Breadwinner wives often end up overseeing chores and bills, too, because they worry they'll burden a stay-at-home spouse or bruise his ego," Thakor says. "But this can lead to resentment and tension." Instead, divvy up responsibilities according to your strengths and schedules. Melanie Mannarino, 38, of Springfield, New Jersey, whose husband stays home, says, "He's developed a great laundry system, so he's in charge of that, and I love to cook, so dinner is my thing." Sounds like a recipe for a happy bond.


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Work Closely With Your Doctor - Working With Doctors in the Hospital
When you're in the hospital, it may take extra effort to be an active patient and to communicate with all the different doctors, nurses, and other providers you will work with.
It's important to remember that even though you're in the hospital, you still have the ability to speak up and make decisions. But instead of just talking to your doctor in his or her office, you'll be talking to a variety of providers who come to your room.
Your attending physician
Your main doctor in the hospital is called your attending physician. Your attending physician is like the head coach of your health care team. He or she is in charge of coordinating your care and making sure that all the players are doing their jobs.
If you're in the hospital for surgery, your attending physician might be your surgeon. If you're in the hospital for an illness, your attending physician might be your family doctor or a specialist you were seeing before you were hospitalized.
Or your attending physician might be a doctor called a "hospitalist." A hospitalist specializes in treating hospitalized patients and doesn't see patients outside the hospital.
Attending physicians check on their patients during daily "rounds." This is your attending physician's time to see how you are doing and answer your questions. Your doctor or your nurses may tell you what time of day you can usually expect rounds. But don't be surprised if your doctor comes much later than expected on some days.
Before you go into the hospital, you may want to ask your primary care doctor these questions:
- Will you be my attending physician?
- If not, how will you keep in touch with me while I'm in the hospital?
- How will you communicate with the hospital doctors?
Remember that doctors aren't on the job all day and all night every day of the week, so your attending physician may change on certain days. Find out who your attending physician is, and ask to be notified if that person changes.
Other health professionals you may meet
During your hospital stay, you'll be cared for by a number of different health professionals, depending on the reason you're there.


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Scratchbox - June 01, 2012
Issued: 16:27hrs Friday 01th June 2012
Simon: I know how many jubilee plans are in place for Sunday, sorry not better news, here is the rain forecast for Sunday afternoon. The really light blue shows areas of patchy rain, but where the blue is darker is where there is likely to be more persistent rain.
Issued: 08:24hrs Friday 01th June 2012
Simon: Best sunshine in Scotland today. Cloud tending to break elsewhere over UK and Ireland, just a few showers developing.
Issued: 07:21hrs Wednesday 30th May 2012
Simon: Looks like some heavy showers forming this afternoon, mainly through central and eastern England. Some of these could be thundery at times.
Issued: 08:12hrs Tuesday 29th May 2012
John: Warm in the south, but not quite as warm as we've seen lately. Eastern areas will have some low cloud and mistiness with some good sunny spells for the rest of the country. Scattered showers will develop across northern England down through the Midlands through southeast England, a few of these heavy with the risk of thunder across southeast.
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K-Pop Turns to Pole Dancing
After School, a popular eight-member K-pop group, returned to the stage in Seoul last week with "First Love," the title track of their new mini album. But the song played background to what the group was doing on stage: pole dancing.
Most of the group was dressed in shorts and black midriff-baring tops. Performing to a crowd of young K-pop fans, they climbed or dangled from four poles planted on the stage, gliding down them in circles.
With scores of new groups hitting the K-pop scene annually, older groups are having to find new ways to differentiate themselves from the growing pool of competition. For girl groups, this has meant more complicated dance routines and a sexier image. Four-member girl group Sistar, for example, dropped their new album and title track "Give It to Me" last week with a seductive performance and sexy dance moves—one that notched above their previous releases. Korea Real Time has more.


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DVD-ROM Window with Blue LED Mod. GuideFormer staff writer -
For the placement of the LEDs, I decided to use a indentation in the top cover. I drilled two holes toward the window to place the blue and white LEDs. Then drilled another hole toward the back of the unit to pass the LED power cables through. If you have a flat-top drive with no indentations. You could glue or tape your LEDs to the underside of the top cover.
Now it is time to place the LEDs. To hold the LEDs in place I used some good old-fashioned hot-glue. Next, I did some tests. I put a CD into the drive and put the cover back on. I will be powering the LEDs with 7v from the power supply. To get the 7v I need I will pull power from the 12v and the 5v lines. The yellow cable being 12v and the red being 5v. I used two 5mm LEDs that have a voltage range of 3.5v to 5v and wired them in series. Looks sweet, Now a shot in the dark!
Now that's what I am talking about! Time to wire it up permanently.
For cable I used two 22AWG stranded core, each about 8 inches long. I pulled these cables out of an old case. I soldered one end of each cable to the LEDs and covered them with heat-shrink tubing. Make sure you slip the heat-shrink on the wire before you solder the connections. Then I ran the cables through the hole I drilled on the other side of the indentation.
Here you see the cable sticking out the back of the optical drive after the top has been put back on. The cable will run to an unused molex connector from the power supply. The next pic is of the drive put back together with the face-plate back on, ready to go into my computer.
The optical drive back in my computer, doesn't that look sweet! I did not use any plexi on top of the drive for clearance reasons. Plus the drive sits close to the window on top of my case.
Lights Out, Looking Good!!!
Great Mod if you have a window in the top of your case. It really looks good at night when a disc is spinning away.


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Is anyone else having a hard time believing that we are heading into our second week of November? For months I've been anticipating the NCTE Annual Convention and now I only have to wait 10 days! I'm hoping that somehow the fiddling of the clocks yesterday will make time slow down... Its hard to savor precious moments when life's a whirlwind. Well, take a stop-the-clock moment to read my favorite education links on twitter last week!
November Education Calendar via @TeacherVision
Incorporate holidays, celebrations and historical events into your classroom with this awesome calendar for educators.
Using Social Media to Inspire Concise Writing via @NYT
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Post subject: 21 yr old expecting her first baby! Any tips or suggestions?
Hello everyone, my names Dawn I currently live in Northern Maine I'll be 21 in June and I just found out the other day that I'm pregnant! I'm engaged to a wonderfull man, have been for 3 years and we're both VERY excited! Im still very nervous though, and such a wuss when it comes to pain! I've been reading on everything and anything on pregnancy just so I can make sure I do everything right! My mother was NOT there for me, and to be honest, she wasn't a mother at all, she left me and dad when I was young and popped in and out of my life growing up, all she cared about was drugs. So i KNOW I'll be a much better mother than she ever will. I'm just so scared and nervous about well.. everything! So, I guess I'm here to try and meet other mothers, wheather it's your first child, or you have 8 I'm all open ears on what to do, what not to do. As much info and topics as I can inhale! I go to my first ultra sound apt June 4th ( 2 days after my birthday yay!) and so I guess i'll findout for sure when I'm due then. We're thinking around January though. I have yahoo - horserider6288 msn- firstname.lastname@example.com and AIM - naughtybtch2690 . So if anyone wants to chat, I'm open to everyone! I really need help, and is it normal to be THIS nervous but excited and thrilled all at the same time! Well hope to talk to everyone!
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I'm Katie and i have a 6 month old daughter called Carmen, i was the same as you, i found out i was pregnant at 20 and i had my 21st when i was 7 months!
I was extremely nervous about everything and anything and read EVERY bit of info i could get my hands on! lol
Everyone on here is sooo friendly and any questions you have, someone will have the answer for u!
Katie xxx
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From a first time mother to another - it is nice to hear someone who is as nervous and excited as me...lol It is the most fantastic and scary experience rolled into 1.
Like you i have read every bit of info and tried to do everything it says - aw your scan will be fantastic, mine was unbelievable i have my next one on 22 May 2009 - can't wait should find out what i'm having then...YAY!!!
Hope all goes well for you.
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Hiya! Congratulations on your pregnancy & Welcome to Askbaby
Im Kerryn, 20 and mummy to Ruby 4 1/2 months, I too was clueless when i fell pregnant but i found this website so helpful, i also bought a lot of pregnancy books too. The most helpful thing i felt was talking to other mums2be & there are plenty of lovely ladies on here who will be able to answer your questions/worries including me x


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pyFormex 0.9.1 is available for download from
While there are no predominant new features in this release, there are lots of new functions in the core, adding to the already wide applicability of pyFormex.
See file ReleaseNotes for more details.
New Debian packages will be available soon in our local repository http://bumps.ugent.be/repos. See the install manual for how to use it.
Getting the packages into the official Debian repositories may take a little longer ;)
pyFormex 0.9.0 is available for download from
Most important new things:
- WebGL export
- PySide as Python bindings for Qt4
- import of DICOM images
- marching cubes algorithm
- VTK, VMTK interfaces
- fullscreen mode
See file ReleaseNotes for more details.
New Debian packages will follow soon.
pyFormex can now directly export (most of) your current scene to a WebGL web page that makes your 3D scene viewable from a WebGL
enabled browser (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari).
You can even manipulate the model with your mouse: rotate, move, zoom. And you get some GUI elements where you can change attributes like color, transparency, visibility.
Check the example(s) at http://www.nongnu.org/pyformex/webgl.html (if you have a conforming browser).
New Debian(sid) packages are now available from our local repository.
To access it, add the following two lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
Then do:
This new release comes close after the previous one, because some people experienced installation problems with 0.8.8 (esp. those installing in a VirtualBox).
Still there are some interesting new things: update tutorial, some improved and new examples (e.g. BorderExtension), start of interfaces with Calculix FEA code.
We have uploaded a new release of pyFormex: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/pyformex/pyformex-0.8.8.tar.gz
This release comes with many new features and improvements, compared to release 0.8.6. There are also many new examples.
And there is an initial release of the much awaited hexahedral bifuraction mesher.
Many of the new features have been under development under
0.8.7-aN release numbers. Note though that there is no official
0.8.7 release.
You can also expect Debian packages for 0.8.8 to appear soon.
We have released pyFormex 0.8.6: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/pyformex/pyformex-0.8.6.tar.gz
The major change of this release, which comes close after the 0.8.5 release, is the improved installation procedure, which has become more standards compliant and will facilitate creation of packages for major distributions.
More details are in the file ReleaseNotes.
A new release of pyFormex has just been made available.
You can grab it here: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/pyformex/pyformex-0.8.5.tar.gz
This release has some important new features (like partial DXF import) but also many minor improvements (e.g. in the installation procedure). Finally, there has been a lot of code cleanup largely triggered by our move to Savannah.
More details are in the file ReleaseNotes.
We completed the migration of the pyFormex project from BerliOS to Savannah. Well, there may be a few things left to do, but we completed at least 95% of the work. So it is time to declare this place as the One and Only Official Home for pyFormex.
As of now, users and developers should use this site for development and documentation of pyFormex.
Our thanks go to the Savannah hackers for providing these facilities. And also thanks to the good people at BerliOS for the past seven years of hosting.
We got our project approved on Savannah and thus have a new home for pyFormex :)
During the next weeks we will start to move things (source, website, docs, etc.) over from BerliOS. We will post a message when something gets ready for use. By the end of the month, migration should be completed.


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A Game of Thrones
by George R. R. Martin
Justice and Judgment Quotes in A Game of Thrones
How we cite our quotes: (Absolute Chapter, Character Name, Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
The crowd roared, and Arya felt the statue of Baelor rock as they surged against it. The High Septon clutched at the king's cape, and Varys came rushing over waving his arms, and even the queen was saying something to him, but Joffrey shook his head. Lords and knights moved aside as he stepped through, tall and fleshless, a skeleton in iron mail, the King's Justice. (66 Arya 5.77)
Although this is a terribly unjust sentence, to the commoners, it's just a fun bit of entertainment. Thank goodness for YouTube, right?
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He wondered what Lord Eddard might have done if the deserter had been his brother Benjen instead of that ragged stranger. Would it have been any different? It must, surely, surely... and Robb would welcome him, for a certainty. He had to, or else... (71 Jon 9.20)
Since justice is often in the hands of powerful nobles, it relies a lot on how principled the nobles are. Here Jon worries that his dad – Mr. Principle – might be so stuck in his ways that he wouldn't even pardon his own son. After all, no one is above the law, right? (Eddard learns this the hard way when he is executed for a crime he didn't commit.)
Quote #9
It was your doing, yours, a voice whispered inside her. If you had not taken it upon yourself to seize the dwarf... (72 Catelyn 11.16)
When Eddard is in prison, he comes to a similar conclusion as Catelyn does here, blaming himself for what's happened (59 Eddard 15.4). We're not sure if Catelyn and Eddard are right to blame themselves, but it's nice to see people who could get away with almost anything holding themselves to high standards. That is, in the end, maybe the judge that matters most for these good, principled people is themselves. (Too bad there aren't more of them.)


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Programs of Study (POS)
Programs of Study are based on the National Career Cluster Initiative. Idaho agriculture and natural resources programs each have selected Programs of Study that fit their community, curriculum, regional labor needs, and student aptitudes.
Agriculture Pathways with Capstones
Agriculture Technical Skills Assessments (TSAs)
Agriculture Welding TSA Application
A program of study is defined as a sequence of four courses that are sequential in nature ending with a capstone course. Courses are assumed to be one semester in length.
Agriculture and Natural Resource POS Declaration Forms
Agribusiness Systems POS Declaration Form
Animal Systems POS Declaration Form
Environmental Systems POS Declaration Form
Food Products and Processing POS Declaration Form
Natural Resources POS Declaration Form
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True Beauty Scarfs
I am part of a knitting project to make scarfs that will be donated to The Support Network for Battered Women. http://snbw.org/. My scarfs will be made out of novelty yarns. We as a group are looking for donations of remant yarns that you may have left over between 10-25 yards.
When donating we are asking that a short letter or postcard is included with the following
My name is(your name)
This yarn is from (yarn brand), it was leftover from (project name)which was created for (person who received it) I consider this project to be special because(why it was special). I hope my contribution will help a truly remarkable and beautiful person.
There are other yarn types going to different knitters that I'm sure would also accept your yarn if they are not novelty yarns. The yarn types are
Novelty Yarns, Multi Colored Sock Yarn, Multi Colored Yarn for Crazy scarf, and Solid Yarns.
There is a group on Ravelry titled True Beauty Scarf Project for anyone who would like to join.
If you have yarn you can leave me a reply on this thread and I will PM you my address.Thank you for any donations that you may be able to give.
Thank you for any donations that you may be able to give.
I'll be more than happy to send you LOTS of novelty yarn. I already have your address, so I'll box it up and send it your way! :)
thank you so much for you contribution.
There is a post at Rav for yarn that may be good for this...
Thank you for the info. I have posted over there. We do have a group on Ravelry called True Beauty Scarfs.
I sent a HUGE box of yarn to you today, so keep your eyes peeled for it! :)
Here's the delivery confirmation number:
0308 0730 0001 2452 7530
Have fun. :hug:
thank you. it is greatly apprecitated. Will post pics as soon as I have some sort of progress on the scarfs
I received the box of yarn on Saturday. Thank you so much. I will knitting scarfs until my fingers fall off with all that yarn. It is such a great contribution. I started knitting with the white on Sunday and it's almost done.
Again thank you so much.
You're very welcome! :muah:
A lot of it was donated to me for charity knitting, so it was the PERFECT thing to send your way. :thumbsup:
I have one scarf finished. One on the needles and I have recruited my 14 year old son, so he has one on the needles too.
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September 4, 2007
GRANITEVILLE, S.C.---There could be good news for Graniteville. An investment group is trying to buy several closed textile mills there to reposition them as apartments, condominiums, offices and shops, while maintaining their historic character.
Weldon Wyatt is leading a group of investors who want to buy 1700 acres of industrial property. He wants to turn the area into a destination and plans to maintain the old Graniteville Mill, turning it into a textile museum.


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Python is a general-purpose high-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive. Its use of indentation for block delimiters is unusual among popular programming languages.
Python supports multiple programming paradigms (primarily object oriented, imperative, and functional) and features a fully dynamic type system and automatic memory management, similar to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, and Tcl. Like other dynamic languages, Python is often used as a scripting language.
The language has an open, community-based development model managed by the non-profit Python Software Foundation, which maintains the de facto definition of the language in CPython, the reference implementation.
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Long time Erie Lawyer John G. Gent, age 82, died Friday, October 22, 2004, at St. Mary's at Asbury. He was born December 14, 1921 in New York City, a son of the late Harold and Louise Colwell Gent. He graduated from All Hallows Institute in New York City, Georgetown University in 1942 and the University of Michigan Law School in 1948 where he was a member of Phi Delta Phi. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was admitted to Pennsylvania bar in 1949 and was an active civil trial lawyer in all phases of civil litigation in Erie since 1948, most recently with the McDonald Group Law Firm. He was a member of the Civil Procedural Rules Committee of the Supreme Court of PA 1964-1986, a permanent member of the Judicial Conference of the Third Circuit, a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a Fellow of the American Bar Association Foundation, a member of the American Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Erie County Bar Association where he was president 1966-67, American Arbitration Association and was an associate member of the Collier County Bar Association in Florida. He was a former member of Presque Isle Rotary Club and the Choristers of the Danish Club. Mr. Gent was a Trustee of Gannon University, Director and president, Gannondale, president, Erie Club and president, Kahkwa Club. He is survived by his wife, Emily O'Brien Gent; three daughters, Anne Gent of Indianapolis, IN, Cathleen Gent of Burlington, VT, Joan Bilharz and her husband Robert of Exeter, NH; two sons, John G. Gent, Jr. of Milwaukee, WI and David Gent of Chicago, IL; two grandchildren, Elizabeth and Stephen Bilharz; and a sister, Mary Louise Blosser of Orange City, FL. Friends may call at BURTON FUNERAL HOME, 602 West 10th St., Saturday 3-5 pm & Sunday 2-6 pm and are invited to a Mass of Resurrection at St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church, 2801 West 6th St. Monday at 11:00 am concelebrated by Msgr. Robert Brugger and the Rev. James R. Conroy, S.J. Interment Calvary Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Gannondale, 4635 East Lake Rd., Erie, PA 16511 or Gannon University, University Square, Erie, PA 16501 or to a charity of one's choice.
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The Colwell – Tierney Link
When I first took over the family genealogy project from my Uncle Lloyd Lewis, there was one page of his notes that I ignored for some time because the notes he had on the names were scarce.
On the top of one page, he wrote the name Kate Sproul Colwell.. Next to it were the names; Lou Colwell Gent, Mary Lou Gent and John Gent. Now, the name Spoul was familiar to me. It happens to be the maiden name of my great, great grandmother, Mary Sproul Tierney (b. abt 1829 in Ireland), who married James Tierney (b. abt 1826 in Ireland). I have seen several variations of the Spoul name including Sproul, Sproule and Sproull.
So, based on my Uncles notes, I assumed that Kate Sproul Colwell, is the sister of Mary Sproul, wife of James Tierney. Several weeks ago, I decided to investigate this branch of the family a little more in-depth. So, my first step was to talk to my Mom. She remembers a Lou Gent being referred to as "Cousin Lou". She was a school teacher in New York City. So with that small amount of information I was able to find Lou Gent in the 1930 census records. She was married to a Harold G Gent and had twins; John and Mary Lou. In this census, her occupation is listed as a "teacher". So at least I know I found the right Lou Gent.
Now that I found Lou, the rest of the family was fairly easy to find, working backwards. Lou was the daughter of Louise and John S. Colwell. So obviously my next step was to pull the death certificate of John S. Colwell. It was fairly easy to find, but here is where my trouble began. It lists his parents as Catherine Tierney and Michael Colwell. WOW. My first reaction was to assume that this was a mistake and that the informant had taken the married name of Catherine's sister and used it. I've seen lots of mistakes like this on death certificates before.
So Michael Colwell (b. abt 1832 in Ireland) and Catherine (b. abt 1826 in Ireland) had six other children besides John S. Colwell. I haven't bothered researching all of them yet as I am still looking for resolution of Catherine's maiden name. I soon found Catherine Colwell's death certificate at the New York City Archives. Awesome! Now I can finally put things to rest. Wait a minute, not so fast. It lists her father as "Frank Tierney" and her mother as "Unable to state". Now I'm really confused. I know there was a Frank who was the son of my gr, gr grandfather. Could this also be a mix up? Could Frank be the fathr of James and Catherine Tierney?
Based on her death certificate I was able to determine that Catherine was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Flushing, Queens, not to far from where Mary Sproul Tierney is buried. James could be there too, but I have not yet confirmed it with any type of record.
So, to try to put this issue to bed, I decided to pull the death certificate of one of Catherine and Michael Coldwell's other children to see if it can give me a last name of Catherine. His name was Thomas W. Colwell. I just received it today. It lists his mothers name as "CATHERINE TIERNEY"
Pending some further investigation, it does appear that instead of Catherine being the sister of Mary Sproul, she is the sister of James Tierney, my gr, gr, grandfather. Since James Tierney died almost two centuries before Mary Sproul Tierney, it is conceivable that relatives, who passed information onto Lloyd may have had their facts a little mixed up. They may have thought Catherine was related to Mary because James had not been around for so long. Who knows? Whatever the reason, all evidence now is pointing to Catherine Colwell being a Tierney. So it appears that all the Colwell's and Gent's are cousins through the Tierney side of our family. I know there are members of those families out there. Now I just have to find them.
Hayes Branch Cemtery Headstone Photo Album
The Hayes Branch Cemetery Headstone Photo Album contains pictures from various cemteries for the following surnames.
- Lewis
- Tierney
- Beattie
- Hayes
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Hey guys,
I'm troubleshooting our 10 year old Great Lakes Spa. It's equipped with a Balboa-Pack and a 2 speed Sav-Rite Durajet Motor/Pump.
Here is what's happening..
When you plug the Spa in. Everything seems to be fine, no error-codes on the LCD. You hear the Relay Click to engage the Low-Speed/Thermo Circuit. But nothing happens. If you press the Jet button to engage the high-speed, I hear a click, but nothing happens.
I've tested voltage on both low and high-speed relays and all is good. I have checked voltage on the motor (High/Low speed Connectors) and all is good.
Here is the interesting thing. When press the Jet button to engage the high-speed, it doesn't come on. But, if you push the contactor in, the motor starts and it engages perfectly fine. So basically, the high-speed will only work if you push the contactor in. When it's running, if you press the jet button to go back to the low-speed, it cuts out. Nothing.
Does this sound like a motor issue even though High-Speed engages when pushing in the contactor on the end of the motor? I'm so confused by this.
Thanks for all reads and insight!


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This leads to a bigger underlying issue for all of us: How are we ever going to change anything? How is there going to be less aggression in the universe rather than more? We can then bring it down to a more personal level: how do I learn to communicate with somebody who is hurting me or someone who is hurting a lot of people? How do I speak to someone so that some change actually occurs? How do I communicate so that the space opens up and both of us begin to touch in to some kind of basic intelligence that we all share? In a potentially violent encounter, how do I communicate so that neither of us becomes increasingly furious and aggressive? How do I communicate to the heart so that a stuck situation can ventilate? How do I communicate so that things that seem frozen, unworkable, and eternally aggressive begin to soften up, and some kind of compassionate exchange begins to happen?
Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate relationship with the parts of ourselves that we feel are not worthy of existing on the planet. If we are willing through meditation to be mindful not only of what feels comfortable, but also of what pain feels like, if we even aspire to stay awake and open to what we're feeling, to recognize and acknowledge it as best we can in each moment, then something begins to change.
Pema Chodron
Source: When Things Fall Apart : Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
Contributed by: Siona
As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.
Ayya Khema
Source: Being Nobody, Going Nowhere, Revised: Meditations on the Buddhist Path, Pages: 166
Contributed by: bobJuan
Today, however, as we live and work in a world of far greater complexity, where the apparently simple acts of buying and selling have repercussions on people's lives around the world, the ethics of right livelihood must be accordingly reevaluated. The implications of even driving a car or drinking a cup of coffee have social, environmental, and economic consequences far beyond the limits of our immediate experience, which we are morally obligated to take into account. From this perspective, inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in the world are dependent upon spiritual re-orientation.
Stephen Batchelor
Source: The Practice of Generosity
The Buhha was a monastic, but the practice of mindfulness in the context of any lifestyle is one of renunciation. Every moment of mindfulness renounces the reflexive, self-protecting response of the mind in favor of clear and balanced understanding. In the light of the wisdom that comes from balanced undertanding, attachment to having things be other than what they ar falls away.
Sylvia Boorstein
Source: That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist: On Being a Faithful Jew and a Passionate Buddhist, Pages: 23
Contributed by: jess
Do you have patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?
Lao Tzu (c.604 - 531 B.C.)
Source: m. t. g. Quotation Collatio Vol.II
Contributed by: Your Fantasy
Life is short so we must move very slowly.
Thai Proverb
Source: m.t.g. Quotation Collatio Vol. I
Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.
Sandor McNab
Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.
Contributed by: Lala
Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.
Buddha (563 - 483 BC)
Source: Death Dreams By Kenneth Kramer, John S. Larkin [Mahaparinirvana Sutra]
Contributed by: Zaady
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S band
Frequency range
|2 – 4 GHz
Wavelength range
|15 – 7.5 cm
Related bands
|ITU radio bands
|EU / NATO / US ECM radio bands
|IEEE radio bands
|Other TV and radio bands
The S band is part of the microwave band of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is defined by an IEEE standard for radio waves with frequencies that range from 2 to 4 GHz, crossing the conventional boundary between UHF and SHF at 3.0 GHz. The S band is used by weather radar, surface ship radar, and some communications satellites, especially those used by NASA to communicate with the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station. The 10-cm radar short-band ranges roughly from 1.55 to 5.2 GHz.
Satellite communications[edit]
In the U.S., the FCC approved satellite-based Digital Audio Radio Service (DARS) broadcasting in the S band from 2.31 to 2.36 GHz, currently used by Sirius XM Radio. More recently, it has approved for portions of the S band between 2.0 and 2.2 GHz the creation of Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) networks in connection with Ancillary Terrestrial Components (ATC). There are presently a number of companies attempting to deploy such networks, including ICO Satellite Management and TerreStar.
The 2.6 GHz range is used for China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting, a satellite radio and mobile TV standard which, as with proprietary systems in the U.S., is incompatible with the open standards used in the rest of the world.
In May 2009, Inmarsat and Solaris Mobile (a joint venture between Eutelsat and SES, now EchoStar Mobile) were awarded each a 2×15 MHz portion of the S band by the European Commission.[1] The two companies are allowed two years to start providing pan-European MSS services for 18 years. Allocated frequencies are 1.98 to 2.01 GHz for Earth to space communications, and from 2.17 to 2.2 GHz for space to Earth communications.[2] Eutelsat W2A satellite launched in April, 2009 and located at 10° East is currently the unique satellite in Europe operating on S band frequencies.
In some countries, S band is used for Direct-to-Home satellite television (unlike similar services in most countries, which use Ku band). The frequency typically allocated for this service is 2.5 to 2.7 GHz (LOF 1.570 GHz).
IndoStar-1 was the world's first commercial communications satellite to use S-band frequencies for broadcast (pioneered by van der Heyden), which efficiently penetrate the atmosphere and provide high-quality transmissions to small-diameter 80 cm antennas in regions that experience heavy rainfall such as Indonesia. Similar performance is not economically feasible with comparable Ku- or C-band DTH satellite systems since more power is required in these bands to penetrate the moist atmosphere.
Other uses[edit]
Wireless network equipment compatible with IEEE 802.11b and 802.11g standards use the 2.4 GHz section of the S band. Some digital cordless telephones operate in this band too. Microwave ovens operate at 2495 or 2450 MHz. IEEE 802.16a and 802.16e standards utilize a part of the frequency range of S band; under WiMAX standards most vendors are now manufacturing equipment in the range of 3.5 GHz. The exact frequency range allocated for this type of use varies between countries.
In North America, 2.4–2.483 GHz is an ISM band used for unlicensed spectrum devices such as cordless phones, wireless headphones, and video senders, among other consumer electronics uses, including Bluetooth which operates between 2.402 GHz and 2.480 GHz.
Amateur radio and amateur satellite operators have two S-band allocations, 13 cm (2.4 GHz) and 9 cm (3.4 GHz). Amateur television repeaters also operate in these bands.
Airport surveillance radars typically operate in the 2700–2900 MHz range.
Optical communications S band[edit]
S band is also used in optical communications to refer to the wavelength range 1460 nm to 1530 nm.
See also[edit]
- Electromagnetic interference at 2.4 GHz
- ISM band
- Unified S-band, an S-band communication system used in the Apollo program of manned spaceflight.


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- How can I measure the RF radiation of my "smart" meter myself?
- Can I shield my living space from the RF radiation from my "smart" meter?
- Are there any downsides to shielding the RF from the "smart" meter?
- Can I shield the RF from my gas meter?
Q: Can I measure the RF radiation of my "smart" meter myself?
Yes, you can purchase a meter for relatively low cost and learn how to read it yourself. There are several consumer devices on the market that measure the radiation that "smart" meters emit. We recommend the Cornet ED88T as an entry-level, complete, and portable meter, and we sell it in our store. We also sell higher end meters like the HF35C.
One of the issues with 'smart' meters is that they have extremely short spikes of RF—usually just 2-3 milliseconds (2/1000th of a second). While your utility would have this sound harmless, it seems clear from the number of health complaints that the human nervous system has no trouble registering a signal that is that brief. In fact the electrical signals throughout our body go off in similarly brief periods of time. Some measuring devices built to measure conventional fields of RF may not have a "sampling rate" sufficient to pick up the extremely brief individual pulses. The Cornet ED88T has a high sampling rate and is able to accurately measure smart meter radiation.
Most electric "smart" meters are in the 800-1000 MHz (megahertz) range of the radio-frequency microwave band. Gas meters can be in the 400-500 MHz range, and in-home appliance networks (HAN) (including the 2nd radio in the 'smart' meter) are in the 2.4-2.5 GHz (gigahertz) range. The Cornet ED88T measures 100 MHz – 8 GHz.
One citizen-scientist posts videos online showing how various meters work: http://www.youtube.com/user/NoRadBlog
Q: Can I shield my living space from the RF radiation from my "smart" meter?
It might be possible, but we don't guarantee your results.
The idea of shielding is to place a RF barrier between you and the source of the RF. Several materials block RF radiation. Here is a basic explanation of how shielding can be set up: http://www.lessemf.com/faq-shie.html#smart. (Stop Smart Meters does not necessarily endorse the products on this website, but this is useful information.)
Aluminum foil, especially the heavy-duty type, in two layers, overlapping, can block a good deal of RF (shiny side toward the source of the RF). Aluminum mesh screening from a hardware store can effectively shield RF as well. Here is a video demonstrating this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJzBeUeXb0Q
However, we would like to make clear that shielding can produce unwanted or unexpected problems. Shielding without being able to measure the resulting effectiveness is not recommended. Shielding in the presence of multiple sources of RF is not recommended—a shield against one RF source can act to reflect and intensify the RF from another source. Some people harmed by "smart" meter installations have not found relief with shielding. So we recommend trying it with important several caveats:
–If your "smart" meter has made you sick, first disconnect all other wireless devices, wifi, cordless phones, microwaves, fluorescent light bulbs, etc. then shield with care, and pay close attention to how the change makes you feel.
–Get help doing it, because if you are sensitive, you do not want to be standing directly in front of the meter for any period of time.
–Consider hiring an EMF consultant to aid you in your plans.
–Buy an RF meter to measure the radiation in your environment, so you can shield in the right places and measure the results.
–Try several things before you give up.
–Document what you do—we are interested, and any successes can be shared here. Write firstname.lastname@example.com .
–Make sure other sources of RF in your environment are removed or relocated, such as cordless phones or WiFi.
–Always ground your shielding. Ask an electrician for help.
We don't recommend wrapping the meter in foil, as this may cause the meter to increase power to the transmitter, as it attempts to connect repeatedly. We say this after receiving several anecdotal reports to this effect, and so although we can't explain how or why this happens, we can say that some people have felt worse around a wrapped meter.
Our disclaimer applies to the use of this info, which is provided for informational purposes only.
Q: Are there any downsides to shielding the RF from the "smart" meter?
If your home contains other sources of RF radiation, such as cordless phones or WiFi, these will be bounced back into your living space. If you have multiple external sources outside your home, like cell antennas and other "smart" meters in the neighborhood, you must consider how shielding effects those radiation sources. Measurement is key for complex situations, but not hard for people to learn themselves. Basic RF meters are available from the Stop Smart Meters! store.
That said, shielding material between you and your "smart" meter can cut down the worst of it. However, we do not guarantee that this measure will help all persons made sick by their "smart" meters, because other electrical issues appear to factor into the illness these meters are causing, including dirty electricity. Grounding is always recommended for any shielding arrangement. At the end of the day, it is always preferable to remove the source of the radiation. (see section on changing a meter)
Q: Can I shield the RF from my gas meter?
Gas meters are often free-standing and thus it could be easier to cut the emissions from the "smart" module on your gas meter. We have information from a southern California utility customer who shielded her gas meter, so as to cut the RF going into her house, but not cut it off from communicating with the mesh network. She measured the RF before and after, and says the amount entering her home from the gas meter was greatly reduced. She used a flexible metal screening mesh from a big-box store and a stapler, wrapping the meter and stapling it in place, and then cutting an opening in the side furthest from her house, to let the signal out. This she says, appears to direct the RF away from her home. Stop Smart Meters! can't assure your results, nor the safety of this arrangement.


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When I learned I'd be leaving Los Angeles and moving to Dallas, my first worry was, "Oh, no. What about tacos?"
Of course I knew there are tacos aplenty in Texas. But I'm a taco addict, and LA has such great tacos - all over town. What if they turned out not to be so good in Big D? How would I live?
I needn't have worried. The week I arrived here, dining with a friend at Bolsa in Oak Cliff on a Monday night, I espied the most alluring taqueria out the window. Boxy and self-contained, it was closed, its windows covered with red shutters; an ethereal green light illuminated its sign: Taqueria El Si Hay. (The Yes There Are Taqueria.) How perfect. Had it been open, I would have stopped in for a post-dinner taco.
But I came back and tried it for lunch the next day. One bite, and I knew I'd be just fine here. I tasted the taco, and I was home.
That was in mid-February, and I've made it my business to seek out the best taquerias I could find ever since - not because I knew I'd be writing a story, but because I needed tacos. I've nearly caused car accidents, coming to a screeching halt because I saw a flashing taqueria sign. I've driven my family crazy, flying into a carnitas frenzy at 10 in the morning, or insisting on double-dining if the first round of tacos disappointed. (The al pastor's not great? Let's try another place!)
Usually tacos are the star of the show, with handmade tortillas enfolding the fillings at the best of the best spots. But taquerias are about more than just my favorite antojito, and often there is more: tangy, thirst-quenching aguas frescas, those wonderful, icy fresh-fruit drinks. Crisp tostadas with creamy frijoles refritos and pretty salad on top with roasted chicken or even ceviche. Earthy, toothsome sopes, meat and lettuce and cheese basking on thick, handmade masa bases, maybe with cool slices of avocado. Cocteles de mariscos (seafood cocktails), shrimp and fish and even octopus in cold, tangy tomato sauce that's always elevated by a big squeeze of lime.
And rice and beans: I'm amazed at how often they're great in Dallas taquerias, because neither Mexican rice nor refritos are that easy to make.
Then there are tacos, really the perfect food. They're small packages of deliciousness, with wonderful textural variation. They're inexpensive - sometimes costing as little as a dollar apiece for really good ones. The best manage to achieve a kind of synergy, a taco gestalt: flavorful, juicy meat; the right proportion of meat to cilantro and onion to soft corn tortilla; the right touch of salsa (in this town, that's a do-it-yourself touch). Now and then, a great flour tortilla taco comes along, but that's a rarer thing. Dallas' outstanding taquerias tend to be Mexican, rather than Tex-Mex, though I do love a good brisket taco.
No doubt there are great taquerias I'll have missed, though I put hundreds of miles on my car and several pounds on my belly.
In no particular order, here are the taquerias to which I'll be returning again and again.
Taquerias El Fuego
The Manrique family's 5-year-old Richardson spot has just about everything you'd want in a great taqueria: handmade corn tortillas, pressed and griddled before your eyes; snappy decor (it's done up in bright, tropical colors, with comfortable seating); superb rice and beans; and bright, fresh salsas. There's a long list of taco fillings on the menu on the wall, but not all of them are always available; selections change daily. Cross your fingers and hope there's cochinita pibíl; the juicy, achiote-rubbed, long-roasted Yucatán- style pork is meltingly tender and delicious, fabulous folded into a corn tortilla. Chorizo's wonderful, too, and so is beef in a lightly spicy salsa verde with potatoes. A lot of juicy meat goes into each of those terrific tortillas, though, so it's worth ordering an extra one for each taco.
But wait: There's more. El Fuego's cheese enchiladas, a real celebration of those corn tortillas, may be the best I've ever had, and the boozy, house-made Kahlua cake makes a lovely ending.
1891 N. Plano Road, Richardson. 972-231-3456.
La Paisanita Taqueria
There's something so cheerful about La Paisanita, which occupies its own little white building on Maple Avenue. Blue- and-white checked oilcloths on the table, squirt bottles of tangy salsa verde and excellent tacos. I loved the barbacoa – tender, slow-cooked beef with deep, soulful flavor – and the tangy, melty al pastor. The meat comes in double midsize corn tortillas, with grilled onions, cilantro and lime on the side. They're a bargain, to boot, at just $1.17 apiece.
4447 Maple Ave. 214-521-0200.
Tucked behind a Chevron station on Legacy Drive in Plano, Chitos is the kind of place you want in your neighborhood. It's comfortable, it's friendly and it has some of the best tostadas and sopes I've tasted anywhere. The sope bases are not too thick, not too thin; supple and nicely chewy, with good corn flavor, they're just right to support layers of frijoles, shredded lettuce, queso blanco, meat (al pastor was excellent), salsa cruda and queso fresco, in perfect proportions. The chicken tostada, a real bargain at $2.50, makes a terrific light lunch: lettuce, tomatoes, good chicken, crumbly queso fresco and crema atop a crisp fried tortilla spread with frijoles and served with salsa verde. Or go for a super-fresh, tangy ceviche tostada. It's outstanding. Oh, and yes – the tacos are good, too.
Sandra Correa, who previously had run the front of the house at Chitos, recently bought the business with her husband, Gabriel, and she knows how to set the right tone: The table service is cheerful, warm and efficient. It's way above and beyond what you'd expect from a taqueria, even a great one.
The milky, sweet cantaloupe agua fresca, served on ice with diced cantaloupe on top, makes a splendid dessert drink. And the Correas, who are working on getting a liquor license, don't mind if you bring your own beer in the meantime.
301 Legacy Drive, Plano. 972-527-2704.
Good 2 Go Taco
Chitos and Fuel City aren't the only gas-station taquerias: Last month Jeana Johnson and Colleen O'Hare opened their unusual Good 2 Go Taco at Green Spot Market and Fuels, Bruce Bagelman's eco-chic biofuel station in Lake Highlands. Already it's a huge hit. The two seriously pedigreed chefs (Johnson last worked the tapas bar at Stephan Pyles; O'Hare was sous-chef at York Street and Hibiscus) source outstanding ingredients, including heritage meats (Red Wattle pork from Sloans Creek Farm) and chicken from Windy Meadows, in cuts that other chefs don't want. But these two certainly know how to coax out extraordinary flavor, braising pork shoulder, for instance, in tomato, achiote, onion and jalapeño.
The taco selection changes daily, depending on the ingredients Johnson and O'Hare can get; typically they offer four selections at a time.
These are nothing like the tacos in a down-home Mexican taqueria, but they're wonderful all the same, in combos like pulled pork with blue cheese coleslaw; jerk chicken with mango, cilantro and crème fraîche; or the "Hangover Helper," with house-made chorizo, mashed potatoes and cheddar cheese. Tortillas, which are not house-made, come in white (flour), whole wheat, corn, sprouted wheat and hemp. Order from the chefs at the window, grab a Meyer a place at one of the few tables, if you can. Then pay at the cashier – the same one you pay for your 10 gallons of biofuel.
In Green Spot Market & Fuels, 702 N. Buckner Blvd. 214-668-0831. www.greenspotmarket.com.
Taqueria El Si Hay
Just a stone's throw from the Bishop Arts District, Taqueria El Si Hay turns out tacos that are the best I've sampled in Oak Cliff. It's a bare-bones taco experience, cute as the stand is; there are no tables, which means eating from a Styrofoam box in the car or on one of the benches at the side of the stand. No matter: The barbacoa is meltingly tender, well-seasoned and juicy, with the right dose of onions and cilantro. Normally I prefer corn tortillas for tacos (call me a traditionalist), but I loved El Si Hay's flour tortilla wrapped around beef fajita.
601 W. Davis St. 214-941-4042.
Tortilleria la Sabrocita
If you're the kind of taco lover who believes it's all about the tortilla, you'll love La Sabrocita, a tortilleria-taqueria in Farmers Branch. Walk past the huge sacks of masa and tortilla-making equipment in front, and step up to the window. Order tacos to go (there's no seating), and you'll get juicy morsels of carne de res deshebrada (shredded beef), carnitas and more on fabulous, just-made corn (or flour) tortillas. They're elemental tacos: just the meat, ma'am, with lime, onions, cilantro and fiery red salsa on the side. But here's an even better idea: Buy a bag of hot tortillas, carnitas by the pound (that's the best meat here) and guacamole and salsa from the refrigerated case and throw a big taco party at home. The carnitas may be a little undersalted, but that's an easy fix, and they're irresistible: more to the super-tender and juicy than the crusty-crisp end of the spectrum.
14520 Josey Lane, Farmers Branch. 972-247-5833.
Taqueria Pedritos
Pedro Montoya's 31-year-old Mexico City-style taqueria (Dallas' first, according to Montoya), in a little pale blue house on the corner of Capitol and Fitzhugh, is more about the meat than the tortillas. (They're pretty good, but not house-made. Deep yellow and very corny tasting, they come from Araiza Tortilla Factory.) I'm not usually a fan of chicken tacos, but the pollo en salsa de tomate won me over, and the well-caramelized, wonderfully seasoned carnitas were worth the price of admission. Go through the line, give your order and a friendly server delivers it to the table, along with limes and squeeze bottles of red and green salsa. Creamy, smooth guacamole is a tempting add-on at the end of the line; it comes to the table in a small molcajete, and you can ask for some of the dusky martajada (red grilled-chile) salsa displayed next to it. The small tacos come dressed up with cilantro and onion, but add a dollop of guac, a squirt of salsa verde and a squeeze of lime to the carnitas taco, and it's pretty heavenly. The rice and beans are some of the best around.
Taquerias Pedrito's No. 1, 4910 Capitol. 214-826-2940. Taquerias Pedrito's No.2, 321 E. Jefferson. 214-941-1864.
Birrieria Aguinaga
I didn't love everything at this little birrieria-taqueria (a taco stand that specializes in goat) on Northwest Highway, but the birria (goat) tacos were absolutely spectacular – incredibly deep-flavored but not too gamy, lean but wonderfully moist, perfectly seasoned. There's also very good tripas (tripe), and for the very adventurous, machito, also known as Texas haggis: goat offal tied up in pieces of tripe. Perfect for Anthony Bourdain's next visit to Dallas. "La original birria, estilo Jalisco!" says the menu, and that wonderful Jalisco-style goat is also available by the pound, either for eating in ($15 per pound) or for takeout ($11 per pound), or by the plate (in salsa or roasted) or in consommé. Tinga (marinated chicken) is pretty good too, in tacos or on tostados or sopes.
2829 W. Northwest Highway. 214-353-2772.
Taqueria El Atoron
This Mexico City-style taqueria and torteria may not be much to look at. Nor is the tiny dining room particularly inviting. Nor is the service even reasonably good. But the tacos are hard to argue with, especially at a dollar a pop: tender, nicely spiced al pastor; well-seasoned bistec; excellent lengua (tongue), which isn't too fatty. "Tortas gigantes" (giant sandwiches), promises the sign outside, and indeed they're mammoth: a full 8 ½ inches long and 5 ½ inches wide. The Texana is filled with beef fajita, chorizo, quesillo (Oaxacan-style string cheese), ripe sliced tomatoes, onions, avocado, frijoles and pickled jalapeño that packs quite a punch. At $5.50, it's enough sandwich for two hungry people, messy and satisfying. El Atoron has one of the best aguas frescas around: pure, bright, not-too-sweet pineapple.
2023 N. Henderson. 214-887-8846.