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Intel Corp. early on Friday announced that third-quarter revenue will be below the company's previous outlook. The company now expects third-quarter revenue to be $11.0 billion, plus or minus $200 million, compared to the previous expectation of between $11.2 and $12.0 billion. Revenue is being affected by weaker than expected demand for consumer PCs in mature markets.
"It's very unusual to release that negative press release at 10 a.m. Just the fact that it was done during market hours is bizarre," said Andrew Hooker, an equity trader at Wells Fargo Securities LLC, reports Bloomberg news-agency.
The company's expectation for third-quarter gross margin is now 66%, plus or minus a point, lower than the previous expectation of 67%, plus or minus a couple of points. The impact of lower volume is being partially offset by slightly higher average selling prices stemming from solid enterprise demand. Inventories across the supply chain appear to be in-line with the company's revised expectations.
Investors of Intel were furious about the company's inability to report about lower sales last week during the announcement of plans to buy McAfee. However, Intel said that last week it did not have all data in.
The warning by Intel is likely to trigger a serious of warnings by smaller technology companies, including direct rival Advanced Micro Devices, software giant Microsoft Corp., multimedia chip company Nvidia Corp. and many more.
All other expectations for the third quarter remain unchanged. The outlook for the third quarter does not include the effect of any acquisitions, divestitures or similar transactions that may be completed after August, 26.


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No Cutler for the Jets, he's a Bear.
This is better for the Jets than Jet fans will feel like it is.
Many rumors out there. I think Jets have to work some magic to pull it off. We're talking about a franchise QB here. Broncos need to replace him somehow. I think it takes a proven QB and draft picks to get it done. Jets don't have that QB. They need to get another team involved if they wanna land Cutler. At least that's what I think.
No Cutler for the Jets, he's a Bear.
This is better for the Jets than Jet fans will feel like it is.
I'm sure people are happy in Bears Nation, Cutler is definitely an upgrade
I heard that Mr. Sanchez is getting a 5 year 50 million dollar deal. that ***** is getting paid...
Thanks to Calvin Pace's 4 game suspension, Vernon Gholston will be starting at outside LB for the JETS.
I'm eager to see what Vernon can do out on the field. I have heard he doesn't show enough effort, which is a reason why he didn't play much last season. Still, he does have all-world talent. I hope coach Ryan is able to make him play at his full potential.
On a side note, I read yesterday that the Madden 2010 ratings have come out. The Jets got ****ted on stat-wise. Most players went down in overall, even though a lot of our players had career years.
Jets are rated #1 on defense. Was there any doubt?
Revis is unbelievable. He's a shutdown corner, no question. I need to get a #24 jersey quick.
Great to have football back. Missed it so much.
One last thing, WTF happened to the cowboys?!?!?! Giants losing would have made sunday a perfect day
and Revis is quickly becoming the best CB in the L dude made A.Johnson look like trash, week 1 Johnson sucked week 2 johnson beasted.....week 1 Moss was a monster, week 2 he was trash and that pick Revis had was sweet.
best corner in the league in my opinion
**** the giants loll they got lucky( manningham td....)
DaTPRiNCE...That EGYPTiAN Fella, #MeloMafia
-wassup ya'll i just joined this forum from knickscity.com was getting a little wack over there so i hope this one is better
We got Titans then the Saints.
If we go 4-0, we're the real deal.
Sanchez is no rookie...
Damn...when you a defense with a straight line of Jenkins on the line, Harris/Scott behind the line and Revis and Rhodes shutting all receivers down...this is unstoppable defense. We just need Pace, Gholston, Sheppard to play to their potential.
MOTHER****ING ****!!!!!! That MOFO had to play like a rookie when we needed him the most! We would of won if sanchez didn't commit does dumb mistakes, mothafuka...

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DECORAH, Iowa (AP) -- Another egg's in the nest of a famous northeast Iowa eagle family.
VIDEO: Decorah Eagle lays 2nd egg
The egg was laid Monday night. The first egg was seen Friday night.
The nest sits in a tree at the Decorah Fish Hatchery.
The eagles have gained international attention because of an Internet cam set up by the Raptor Resource Project. The website that allows people to watch has been viewed millions of times.
Raptor Resource project researcher Bob Anderson says new equipment installed in October will give viewers an even better look at the eagle family this year.
Three Decorah eagle eggs hatched last spring, and the eaglets left the nest in the summer months that followed.


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10. Flint, Mich. (1953) -- An EF5 tornado killed 116 people -- including multiple family members of at least 20 families -- and injured 844.
9. New Richmond, Wis. (1899) -- This EF5 tornado generated a massive amount of flying debris, resulting in 117 deaths and 200 injuries.
8. Purvis, Miss. (1908) -- This EF4 tornado was reported to be two miles wide and hit parts of Louisiana and Mississippi. More than 700 were injured and 143 killed.
7. Joplin, Mo. (2011) -- The twister leveled homes and businesses and killed 161* people. *CNN and other news outlets have listed the death toll at 161; NOAA lists the toll at 158.
6. Woodward, Okla. (1947) -- More than 900 people in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas were injured by this EF5 twister, which left 181 dead.
5. Gainesville, Ga. (1936) -- This EF4 tornado -- actually a pair of twisters -- hit at the start of the work day, killing 203 people and injuring an estimated 1,600.
4. Tupelo, Miss. (1936) -- This twister leveled hundreds of homes and killed entire families. An estimated 700 were injured and 216 killed.
3. St. Louis (1896) -- Buildings and homes along the Mississippi River were swept away or damaged by this twister, which killed 255 and injured an estimated 1,000 people.
2. Natchez, Miss. (1840) -- An estimated 317 people died and 109 people were injured by this tornado, although the death toll was probably larger because slave deaths were likely not included.
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The Rev. Richard Mohr performed the ceremony at Saint James Episcopal Church.
The bride is the daughter of Bruce and Kathryn Mays of Coppell, Texas, and Sen. Stuart Ingle of Portales.
She is the granddaughter of the late Cress and Betty Ingle of Portales; and the late Dr. Tom and Rhette Miller of Shattuck, Okla.
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The matron of honor was Dr. Jennifer Pettigrew.
Bridesmaids were Rachel Mohr Fruge and Stephanie Best David.
Flower girls were Carissa and Audrey Blunt.
Bestman was Denver Collins.
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The 1985 Chicago Bears went 15-1 in the regular season, outscored their three playoff opponents 91-10, and were so confident they recorded a song for charity called "Super Bowl Shuffle" before the playoffs began.
They gave opponents nightmares, but they gave then-12-year-old Darren Keith some of the greatest moments of his youth in Schaumburg, Ill.
"Our whole neighborhood used to get together and watch the games," Keith said. "That's when Chicago football was introduced to me big time. Just growing up at that time was a great experience."
The culmination of that experience was a 45-10 win over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX. Sunday's game against the Indianapolis Colts will be the Bears' first Super Bowl appearance since then. Keith, now 33 and a firefighter for Cannon Air Force Base, has been building up toward this game for most of his life.
"It will be a great day Sunday," he said.
Though he's hundreds of miles away, he keeps his home full of Bears merchandise, including a Walter Payton bobblehead doll, a Super Bowl champions pennant and a video of "Super Bowl Shuffle."
He sees Indianapolis as a worthy opponent, but thinks they've been inconsistent throughout the regular season and playoffs, and the game should go to the Bears if they can establish their run game.
He won't be watching from home, though. His job has a shift of 24 hours on followed by 24 hours off, and Sunday is his day to work.
Instead, he's bringing the party to work. Keith said three others on shift that day are Illinois natives, and they'll hope for plenty of Bears touchdowns and no fires at the base.
"Hopefully," he said, "it will be a quiet day for us."
Kim Chisum keeps a list of coworker birthdays on her bulletin board at work, and the rest of her office is loaded with pictures and newspaper clippings of her two daughters and family friends.
It's evident Chisum likes to keep family and friends involved, but she was on her own Thursday in her Peyton Manning jersey and office door decorated with Colts items among a sea of coworkers going for the Bears.
"I don't care if I'm the only one rooting for Peyton," said Chisum, who works as a state employee.
A lifelong Clovis resident, Chisum has followed Manning since he arrived in Indianapolis, and she's used to situations where she's the only Colts fan because most of her family lives in Dallas.
"It was a lot of fun," Chisum said of going to Dallas for the Nov. 19 Cowboys/Colts game. "My sister and I and our husbands went. They all had Cowboys jerseys on, and I had my Peyton Manning jersey on. It would have been better if we'd have won that game (the Colts lost 21-14), but it was fun."
That was the first Colts' loss of the season, and it started a 2-4 slide that knocked them out of consideration for a first-round bye. The Colts instead beat Kansas City 23-8, Baltimore 15-6 and New England 38-34 in a game in which the Patriots took an early 21-3 lead.
"I changed seats, I took my jersey off, and I sat on the floor," Chisum said of her cheering routine. "If we get behind (Sunday), I might have to take the jersey off."
She'll be watching the game in Albuquerque when she visits daughters Whitney and Megan, and she hopes Manning and the Colts have one more win after dispatching the Patriots. But New Mexico roots means she can't complain either way.
"It's really hard because Brian Urlacher is from New Mexico. If Peyton can't win it, I'd just as soon see Brian win it. I won't be devastated. I'd just rather see Peyton win because he's got that monkey on his back."
If there's a fan with torn loyalty, it would have to be Carolyn Langan of Clovis.
A retired Bovina school teacher, Langan has lived in the area for 25 years. She comes from Peru, Ind., about 75 miles north of Indianapolis. By location, she's a Colts fan. By history, it's a tossup because she left Peru before the Colts left Baltimore in 1984 to call Indianapolis home.
"Everybody liked the Bears," Langan said, "because that was the closest team."
Langan admits she's not a big football fan, but she's definitely watching Sunday and rooting for the Colts.
Carolyn and her husband, George, are hosting a party with other family members and "whoever wants to come."
But they can't come if they're rooting for the Bears, family or not.
"No, not in my house," she said with a laugh. "I just talked to my sister the other day. Her husband said he was going for the Bears and I said, 'Tell him I'm going to slap his face.'"
Armed with a love for football, and a greater love for being a contrarian, Kevin Jackson naturally picked the Chicago Bears.
"Everybody in my family is a Packers fan. The first game I saw live was a Packers-Bears game. To go against my family, I went with the Bears."
In between the 1985 Bears squad and Sunday's Super Bowl XLI, there have been some rough seasons for Jackson, who is a manager at a Clovis department store.
"Just watching them go 3-11, 3-12 all those years was frustrating," Jackson said.
He figured something was going to be different this year, "about … the sixth week, after the game in Arizona when the defense came back and won that one."
The Chicago Bears moved to 6-0 on that Monday Night Football game, despite six turnovers, three points on offense and a 20-0 halftime deficit.
He figures neither team will waste a 20-0 lead Sunday.
"I think it's going to be a very good game. It's going to come down to special teams. I think the offense for the Colts lines up well for the Bears, and the Bears' offense lines up well against the Colts."
If he had to guess, Jackson would predict a 21-14 Bears win.
David Richmond volunteered for the Navy and ended up on the U.S.S. Tennessee. Peyton Manning was a Volunteer, and ended up the starting quarterback for the University of Tennessee.
Richmond, an instructor at Wayland Baptist University in Clovis, has changed team loyalties but has remained steadfast with two Indianapolis Colts in particular.
"My family comes from the New England area and I was a Patriots fan for a long time," Richmond said. "I became a Tampa Bay fan, and I'm still a Tampa Bay fan, when I went into the Navy in 1995. I went to a Tampa Bay game, it's the only pro game I've been to.
"That's why I'm pulling for the Colts because of (former Tampa Bay coach Tony) Dungy. I'd really like to see him do well, he's a really good man."
He feels the same way about Manning, and he's had plenty of time to get to know the Colts quarterback.
"I was deployed on the U.S.S. Tennessee a couple of times. Most naval vessels, when they're named after a location … they're normally sponsored (by that location). So we were sponsored by the state of Tennessee and the University of Tennessee, specifically. We had some game gear from the university, and state flags, stuff like that. We used to watch a lot of game film on down time. Football's really big in the United States and especially in the military."
Richmond admits that he follows individual players in the professional ranks, and it's been frustrating sometimes rooting for Manning because the Colts have historically fallen short in the playoffs.
"When they beat the Patriots a couple of weeks ago, it was a big sigh," Richmond said. "It's a tough thing being a Manning fan because that's the big knock on him, that he can't win the big game. It's one of those (situations where) he's too good to root for. He's too nice of a guy. He's the ultimate (example of) white knight mentality."
Richmond is planning a party at his house, and he'll have to lean on his military background to deal with enemy territory — most of the invited guests are Bears fans.
Super Bowl by the numbers
1: The over-under on rushing yards for Bears quarterback Rex Grossman, according to covers.com. Grossman had rushed three times for 2 yards in three career playoff games.
7: The point spread for the game, in favor of the Colts.
8.5: Over-under for points to be scored by Indianapolis kicker Adam Vinatieri. Before signing with the Colts, Vinatieri hit the game-winning field goal in all three New England Super Bowl victories.
9: Times, counting Sunday, Miami has hosted the game. New Orleans is the only other city to host the game as many times.
10: Largest deficit ever overcome in a Super Bowl win, when the Washington Redskins defeated the Denver Broncos 45-10 in Super Bowl XXII.
55: The maximum width, in inches, a television screen can be for large-group events showing the Super Bowl, according to the NFL's copyright policy. Under pressure from the NFL, an Indianapolis church canceled a Super Bowl party that would have featured a 12-foot screen via projector, according to an article in Thursday's Indianapolis Star.
300: Rings the NFL will purchase for the Bears and the Colts — 150 for the winner, 150 for the loser. The league pays approximately $5,000 per ring for the winners, with the value fluctuating because of gold and diamond prices. The rings for the losing team cannot cost more than 50 percent of the price for the champion rings.
2.6 million: Average price, in dollars, for a 30-second ad slot in this year's game.
Sources: National Football League, Bodog.com for over-under bets unless otherwise noted.
Unusual bets
• Who will score more points: Indianapolis Colts, or Cleveland Cavalier LeBron James in Sunday afternoon's NBA game against the Detroit Pistons? James is favored by half a point.
• Higher number: Grammy Awards won by James Blunt, or touchdown passes by Colts quarterback Peyton Manning. Blunt is nominated for five awards. The line is even.
• Higher number: Tiger Woods' fourth-round score in the Dubai Desert Classic, or receiving yards for Chicago's Bernard Berrian. A $100 bet for Berrian pays $115.
• Team with longest kickoff return: Thanks to Bears return man Devin Hester, who set an NFL record with six return touchdowns this season, the Bears are the favorite. A $200 bet pays $100 for Chicago.
• Shortest field goal: The line is at 24 1/2 yards, so if you take the over, hope teams go for it on fourth down inside the 7.
• Most unlikely final score: Four points, which can only be scored by two safeties. The odds are 1,200:1 for either team to finish with four points.
• Even lines: Some of these are obvious (who will receive the opening kickoff), some are really obvious (whether the coin flip will be heads or tails) and some are tossups (first team to use a timeout, first coach to use instant replay challenge, which team will commit the final penalty)


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We all know that I could use this space every week to rail against our state and federal government.
After I wrote about the erosion of freedoms in the wake of the Department of Justice secretly obtaining phone records of Associated Press reporters three weeks ago, I thought I had rid myself of enough venom to last for at least a couple of months.
I was wrong.
Our state government's ineptitude combined with the inability of Illinois voters to demand change has me angered ... again.
So, I feel I must use this space to vent. I hope you'll be a captive Saturday morning audience.
A little more than a week ago now, state lawmakers bolted Springfield without doing anything to solve our public-pension crisis. Skipped town. Headed home. That $100 billion unfunded liability and an unsustainable pension system? It can wait ... again.
More failed leadership in Springfield. That's what I tweeted last Friday night. How much longer will Illinois voters keep electing incompetent leaders? Also a question I posed on Twitter that night.
A week later, the situation is still infuriating. There's so much blame to go around, it's hard to focus anger on any particular aspect of it.
You'd like to think that a political party that controls the governor's mansion, the Senate and the House could craft meaningful reform and get it passed.
Instead, we have weak leadership in the governor's mansion. He goes by the name Pat Quinn. He's a Democrat from Chicago. A stronger leader would have taken control of the situation and, perhaps, crafted his own pension reform legislation and worked to get it passed.
Granted, that's made more difficult when the governor isn't the most powerful man in that state. That distinction falls to the House speaker. His name is Michael Madigan, and he, too, is a Democrat from Chicago. Madigan at least developed the best pension-reform legislation we've seen to date, and he got it passed in his chamber of the General Assembly.
John Cullerton is the Senate president. He is – you guessed it – a Democrat from Chicago. See a trend?
Because of a battle of egos between Madigan and Cullerton, nothing got done. Each chamber passed its own version of reform. The Senate then rejected the House reform. The House never took up the Senate reform.
Cullerton can't be perceived as being inferior to Madigan, and vice versa. The egos of these two have gotten in the way of doing what's best for Illinois taxpayers.
Instead of working together to find a solution, Madigan and Cullerton battle each other for supremacy. It's a fight that costs us $17 million per day.
And when the governor wanted to meet this week with the House speaker and Senate president to discuss pension reform, the speaker couldn't be bothered with even phoning into the meeting.
This is the triumvirate that runs this state. What a sad state of affairs.
Voters keep electing the same lawmakers, and the same lawmakers keep electing the same chamber leadership. And nothing gets done, well, except for pet-lemon laws.
Maybe Illinois needs to fall off the map for constituents to take notice. Perhaps Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky and Indiana can split Illinois into five sections and annex them.
It sounds better than living in a bankrupt state with no future, which is where we are headed because of failed leadership in Springfield.
• Jason Schaumburg is editor of the Northwest Herald. He is a Verizon Wireless customer, which means the federal government has been secretly looking at his phone records. Reach him at 815-459-4122 or via email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @Schaumy.


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Traditional Smoky Mtn patterns
Anybody use Mr. Lowe's traditional patterns or other native Smoky Mtn flies while fishing around the Smokies? Seems kinda cool to catch wild fish, esp. brookies, on locally derived flies. Ordered Lowe's book and eager to try some. Any experiences welcomed.
Bamboo flyrods, old four wheel drives, small streams
"I will make you fishers of men"- Christ
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It took a couple of casts to get the proper depth, but when I did, he took it right away.
Here's a pic of what the fly looks like. (Hope I did this right.)
I guess I should introduce myself. I've been lurking for a while on the board. I live in Wimberley, Texas, but love to travel to various fly-fishing waters when I get a chance. My wife's hobby is photography, so we work well together. Trout live in beautiful places, and she likes taking pictures of beautiful places.
She's originally from Canada, so we have made a few trips there, plus we made it out to Yellowstone a few years back, and we spent a few days in Townsend earlier this year. But the best trip of all was last year when I went to North Carolina. I rented a cabin for a week on Big Snowbird and spent a couple of days hiking above Junction, and the rest of the time in the Smokies.
I'm planning to get back there next year.
So, that's how I came to lurk on this fine board. I doubt I'll have much to offer, but I love soaking up all the info y'all provide.
Chuck Vance
Re: Traditional Smoky Mtn patterns
Dawgvet, I know Roger Lowe and he is one of the best fly tiers around. I also have his book. You cant go wrong with an Adams and Thunderheads. I also carry Tellicos and George nymphs. They are probably the most effective local nymph patterns used. The Yallerhammer and Smoky Mtn. crow fly work well at times also. Roger probably knows the NC side of the Smokies better than anyone. If you ever visit Waynesville, NC, He is a good source for info and he ties most of the flies he sales.
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The U.S. Navy's newest warship will pay homage to a New York native and Navy lieutenant who became the first American awarded the Medal of Honor during the Afghanistan War.
The USS Michael Murphy, a 510-foot destroyer, is being commissioned this weekend in New York City and its home port will be in Hawaii.
Murphy was killed along with two fellow SEALs during an ambush in 2005. He was 29.
Already wounded, Murphy left a protected position and went to a clearing where he was exposed to gunfire to get a clear signal to contact Bagram Airfield for backup. He was killed along with 16 of his rescuers whose helicopter was shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade on June 28, 2005.
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The cold snap has taken its toll on the boiler at the venerable 86-year-old Oriental Theater at 2230 N. Farwell Ave.
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I am a technical evangelsit at Microsoft specialising in business intelligecne and data management. I got interested in large databases while at HM Customs in the nineties as part of the move to intelligence led resourcing, but another inititive namely outsourcing meant that my last ten years have been in the private sector working for a number of gold partners, before joining Microsoft last July. I got into SQL Server in v6 and have used this platform almost exclusively since then for a wide variety of clients from tiny breweries to global banks.
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Andrew Liu
Andrew Liu is a program manager working on the Azure DocumentDB team. He helps shape and define the vision that is Microsoft's NoSQL document database service.
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Andy Cross
Elastacloud Ltd
Azure MVP and Microsoft Regional Director. Big compute, Big data and small electronics.
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Annette Allen
University of Exeter
I am a SQL DBA having started using SQL Server 15 years ago on SQL 7, and all versions up to 2014.
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Bianca Furtuna
Bianca Furtuna is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft UK Ltd, currently focusing on data science and the Azure Data Platform.
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Buck Woody
Buck Woody has been working with Information Technology since 1981. He has worked for the U.S. Air Force, at an IBM reseller as technical support, and for NASA as well as U.S. Space Command as an IT contractor. He has worked in most all IT positions from computer repair technician to system and database administrator, and from network technician to IT Manager and with multiple platforms as a Data Professional. He has been a DBA and Database Developer on Oracle systems running on a VAX to SQL Server and DB2 installations
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Cathrine Wilhelmsen
Cathrine is data warehouse architect and business intelligence developer specializing in ETL, SSIS, Biml and T-SQL development. Outside of work she's active in the community as a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, blogger, volunteer, speaker and organizer.
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Chris Adkin
Exadat Ltd
Chris is a developer / DBA fifteen years experience of working with high volume OLTP applications from SQL Server 2000 onwards.
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Chris Testa-O'Neill
Chris Testa-O'Neill is Principal Consultant at Claribi. An experienced professional with over 15 years' experience of architecting, designing & implementing Microsoft SQL Server and Azure data and business intelligence projects at an enterprise scale
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Chris Webb
Crossjoin Consulting
Chris Webb is an independent consultant specialising in Analysis Services, MDX, Power BI, Power Pivot and Power Query. He has written several books and blogs at http://blog.crossjoin.co.uk
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Dany Hoter
Dany Hoter is a senior Program Manager in the Excel team. Dany has been involved with Excel and Microsoft BI since 1998. Dany has published a MOOC (Massive open online course) on analyzing and visualizing data in Excel
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Dave Kay
Zurich General Insurance
Dave is a self-confessed SQL geek with almost a decade of experience in ETL, data and analytics. Today he's a Data Consultant at the Zurich Insurance group, developing and maintaining a number BI/analytical data solutions for a diverse audience.
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Dave Lawrence
Profisee Software (UK) Ltd
Dave has over 30 years' experience in providing sales support for data management software vendors, at Profisee he works with customers to build help them unleash the power of Microsoft SQL Master Data Services using Profisee's Maestro Software.
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David Peter Hansen
David Peter Hansen is a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and works as Senior Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft. He specializes in delivering training as well as scalable architecture and performance tuning large-scale data platform solutions.
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David Postlethwaite
Liverpool Victoria
David Postlethwaite has been a SQL Server and Oracle DBA for Liverpool Victoria in Bournemouth, England for the last 7 years. He supports both SQL Server and Oracle DBMS, SSIS, SSAS and Reporting Services.
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Dejan Sarka
Dejan Sarka s.p.
Dejan Sarka, MCT and SQL Server MVP, is an independent trainer and consultant that focuses on development of database & business intelligence applications, writing books and courses, and speaking at conferences.
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Denny Cherry
Denny Cherry is an owner and principal consultant for Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting with over a decade of experience working with platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server, Hyper-V, vSphere and Enterprise Storage solutions.
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Dr John Tunnicliffe
Decision Analytics
John is an independent consultant with extensive experience of implementing Business Intelligence solutions on the Microsoft platform across a range of industries including healthcare, financial and professional services organisations.
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Emma Zambonini
Emma Zambonini is an MCM and Senior Database Administrator at Coeo who also persues an interest in Data Science.
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Enrico van de Laar
DotNine SQL Server Training
Enrico van de Laar is a Database Specialist with over a decade experience working with SQL Server. He is an active blogger about everything SQL Server related and a MVP for SQL Server.
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Eric Kang
Eric Kang (@sqldatatools) is a Senior Program Manager of SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) team at Microsoft with industry experience of relational database and ERP solutions development.
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Erland Sommarskog
Erland Sommarskog SQL-Konsult AB
Erland Sommarskog is an independent consultant from Stockholm. He has been working with SQL Server since 1991. He was first awarded SQL Server MVP in 2001, and has held the award since.
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Gary Short
Gary Short works for Developer Express as the Technical Evangelist on the frameworks team. He has a deep interest in technical architecture, especially in the areas of technical debt and refactoring. Gary is a C# MVP and gives presentations at events throughout the UK.
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Gavin Payne
Gavin Payne is the principal architect for Coeo and a Microsoft Certified Architect and Microsoft Certified Master for SQL Server. He leads organisations through their data platform transformation and modernisation programmes.
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Gianluca Sartori
Gianluca Sartori is a SQL Server MVP, independent consultant and performance tuning specialist. He has been working with SQL Server since 1999. He is currently working as lead DBA at a famous Formula 1 team.
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Grant Fritchey
Red Gate Software
Grant Fritchey, SQL Server MVP, works for Red Gate Software as Product Evangelist. He is the author of the books SQL Server Execution Plans (Simple-Talk) and SQL Server Query Performance Tuning (Apress).
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Hugo Kornelis
perFact B.V.
Hugo Kornelis is a SQL Server MVP, and a freelance database consultant and trainer. In his spare time he writies, tech edits, records courses, and visits conferences - as long as SQL Server is involved, he is interested!
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Ian Macdonald
Pyramid Analytics
Pyramid Analytics' BI Office delivers a powerful scalable, user-friendly and smart enterprise ready platform that empowers organisations to make better and smarter data-driven decisions.
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Itzik Ben-Gan
Itzik Ben-Gan is a T-SQL trainer at SolidQ. He is a SQL Server MVP, author of many T-SQL books, and a regular speaker at SQL Server related conferences.
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James Rowland-Jones
James is a Principal Program Manager for Microsoft's Data Platform team. He is passionate about delivering highly scalable solutions that are creative, simple and elegant. You can find him on twitter @jrowlandjones.
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Jennifer Stirrup
Jen Stirrup, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, and PASS Director-At-Large, is a well-known Business Intelligence and Data Visualization expert, author, data strategist, and worldwide technical community leader.
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Joey D'Antoni
Denny Cherry and Associates Consulting
Joey D'Antoni is a principal consultant for Denny Cherry and Associates Consulting. I have over 15 years of experience working with data platforms, and have spoken at such events as Tech Ed, IOUG and the PASS Summit.
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John Q Martin
SQL Sentry LLC
John currently works as a Sales Engineer for SQL Sentry, working with customers to get the most out of their servers. Prior to that John worked as a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft.
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Joseph Sack
Principal Software Architect for Azure CAT
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Joseph Sirosh
Joseph Sirosh is the Corporate Vice President of the Data Group, leading Microsoft's Database, Big Data and Machine Learning products.
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Justin Langford
Coeo Ltd
Justin is a Principal Consultant for Coeo, a Microsoft Gold Partner providing SQL Server consulting services and managed support for SQL Server. Justin is an MVP and co-authored Wrox IT Pro SQL Server 2012 Internals and Troubleshooting.
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Kalen Delaney
Kalen Delaney has been working with SQL Server for over 28 years, providing advanced SQL Server training to clients around the world. She has been a SQL Server MVP since 1993. Find out more about her training and writing at www.SQLServerInternals.com
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Karen Lopez
Karen Lopez is a Sr. Project Manager and Architect at InfoAdvisors. Microsoft MVP, specializing in the practical application of data management principles.
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Ken Van Hyning
Principal Engineering Manager for the SQL Client Tools (SSMS, SQL Agent, Profiler, SQLPS). 16+ years at Microsoft and joined SQL Server in 2007.
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Kendra Little
Kendra Little teaches people to performance tune their SQL Servers and make them highly available. She is a Microsoft Certified Master in SQL Server, a Microsoft MVP, and one of the few artists in the world to draw both dinosaurs and databases.
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Kevin Cunnane
I'm an engineering manager for the Microsoft SQL Server tools team, focusing on SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) which ships in Visual Studio.
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Kevin Kline
SQL Sentry
Kevin Kline, a longtime Microsoft SQL Server MVP, is a founder and former president of PASS and the author of SQL in a Nutshell. He tweets at @kekline and blogs at http://KevinEKline.com.
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Klaus Aschenbrenner
Klaus Aschenbrenner provides SQL Server Consulting services across Europe and the US. He helps people around the world to understand, use, and run SQL Server installations in their environments. In the years 2004 - 2005 Klaus was honored with MVP awards from Microsoft for his tremendous support of the .NET Community. Klaus is also the author of the book Pro SQL Server 2008 Service Broker (ISBN 1590599993) published by Apress in August 2008.
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Kun Cheng
Kun is currently a Program Manager of Microsoft based in Redmond, WA working in SQLCAT (Customer Advisory Team). He has more than 15 years of experience as a developer and architect helping large SQL Server and Azure SQL DB design and implementations
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Lara Rubbelke
Lara Rubbelke brings her passion for architecting, implementing, and improving data solutions to the community as a development engineer for Microsoft.
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Lindsey Allen
Lindsey is Partner Group Program Manager for SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server core engine (SE, RE, EE, In-Memory OLTP and Columnstore)
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Lori Edwards
SQL Sentry
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Mark Broadbent
Mark Broadbent is a SQL Server MCM and speaker with extensive experience working with numerous HADR & upgrade solutions. In 2011 was awarded Microsoft's Community Contributor award and in 2012 also received the PASS Outstanding Volunteer award.
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Mark Whitehorn
University of Dundee
Mark Whitehorn specialises in Data Science. On the commercial side he works as a consultant, on the academic side he is the professor of analytics at the University of Dundee where he teaches a Masters course in Data Science.
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Marko Hotti
Microsoft Corporation
Marko Hotti is Sr. Technical Product Manager for SQL Server.
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Martin Wild
Dell Software
Martin Wild is a principal systems consultant at Dell Software. He specialises in helping clients with application performance monitoring solutions focusing on SQL Server, Oracle, VMware and HyperV.
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Matt Masson
Matt Masson is a Senior Program Manager on the Power Query team. Matt has worked with multiple products across SQL Server, including SSIS, DQS, MDS, and Power BI. You can find his blog at http://www.mattmasson.com/.
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Michael Rys
Program Manager in the SQL Server Engine Team
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Milos Radivojevic
Milos Radivojevic is a database developer and consultant, speaker, and trainer located in Vienna, Austria. He is Microsoft SQL Server MVP and MCT and specializes in SQL Server for application developers. He is co-leader of the SQL Server PASS Austria
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Murilo Miranda
Murilo Miranda is a blogger, speaker and SQL Server MVP from Portugal. Nowadays he's Database Consultant at Pythian, based in Ottawa - Canada.
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Neil Hambly
Northdoor PLC
Neil Hambly is the SQL Server Evangelist & lead consultant @ Northdoor PLC (MSFT Data Platform Gold partner), previous roles @ ABN AMRO, Accenture, ASOS, BBC, Confio Software with 15+ years in SQL Server roles Presented 120+ events
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Niall MacLeod
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Niko Neugebauer
Niko Neugebauer is a Consultant for OH22. A SQL Server MVP with over 15 years experience in IT field, he is very passionate about SQL Server and Community. Niko enjoys writing and speaking about Columnstore and already did over 80 blogposts.
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Pedro Lopes
Pedro Lopes is a Senior Program Manager in the Data Platform group, focusing on the Relational Engine for all in-market versions of SQL Server.
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Peter O'Connell
Dell Software
Peter O'Connell is a senior product manager responsible for the DELL software database performance management portfolio. His mission is to create tools that liberate users from the daily grind and help them explore emerging platforms and technologies
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Raoul Illyés
Raoul Illyés is an internationally acclaimed SQL Server expert and has 16 years' experience in the IT industry. Raoul is an internationally recognized lecturer and teacher, known for his passion and dedication to detail. Many customers have had good reason to value his high energy level and enthusiasm over the years, including Microsoft both locally and abroad.
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Reza Rad
Reza Rad is an author of SQL Server BI/DW books, Speaker, Mentor and Trainer. He is BI/DW Architect and Consultant with more than 15 years experience, SQL Server MVP, MCT and MCP. He write technical articles on; http://www.radacad.com.
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Richard Conway
Joint Owner Elastacloud
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Richard Douglas
SQL Sentry
Richard Douglas is a Sales Engineer for SQL Sentry where he specialises in providing SQL Server solutions and system health checks to organisations across the EMEA region
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Sanjay Mishra
Sanjay Mishra leads the SQLCAT team (part of broader AzureCAT team in the Cloud and Enterprise organization) - an elite group of architects who work with customers to help build the most complex, large-scale, mission-critical projects.
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Sanjay Nagamangalam
Microsoft Corporation
Sanjay is the Principal Group Program Manager of the SQL tools team in the Data Platform Group at Microsoft. Sanjay leads the team that creates market leading SQL developer & manageability tools (SSDT and SSMS) and Azure portal experiences for SQL.
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Sarina Stevens
PowerBI Engineering team
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Scott Klein
Microsoft Senior Technical Evangelist, author, speaker, and seeker of all things extraordinary. Loves the bleeding edge of technology up until the point he has to repave his laptop. Thinks the word phenomenal is super phenomenal.
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Shireesh Thota
Shireesh Thota works on the DocumentDB engineering team at Microsoft. Shireesh joined Microsoft in 2007 and has worked on SQL Server, SQL Azure and Document DB.
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Simon D'Morias
Simon is a database consultant who specialises in all areas of SQL Server and is a Microsoft Certified Master of SQL Server. With over 15 years of experience focusing development practices and continuous delivery of databases.
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Simon Whiteley
Adatis Consulting
Principal BI Consultant with Adatis. Simon has been working with the Microsoft BI Stack for a decade, building traditional warehouses but has now turned his head to the clouds, advocating new methods of getting insight to the right people.
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Stephanie Locke
Steph Locke is a Lead Data Scientist at CensorNet and does a lot of cool stuff, from building snazzy Azure 6NF data warehouses to developing R web services. On top of the cool day job, she organises user groups & SQL Relay, speaks at ev
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Steve Jones
Steve Jones is the editor of SQLServerCentral and has been working with SQL Server since 1991 in a variety of large and small companies.
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Thomas LaRock
Thomas LaRock is a Microsoft Certified Master, a SQL Server MVP, a VMWare vExpert, and a Microsoft Certified Trainer with over 15 years experience in the IT industry in various roles such as programmer, developer, analyst, and database administrator.
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Tobias Ternstrom
Works in the SQL Server Engine team as a Lead Program Manager
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Vladimir Ivanovic
Vladimir Ivanovic is a senior program manager in Microsoft's Azure SQL DB engineering team. His current focus is on database performance area and automated database tuning scenarios.
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William Durkin
William Durkin is a Data Platform Architect with CloudDBA, originally from Leeds but now in Germany. He has worked with SQL Server for over a decade as a DBA and Dev and now supports multinationals with their SQL Server installations.
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Hi Kit,
I think it is just normal to have those values of DO. We are getting the same values here in our lagoon ponds in the Philippines. Especially, during sunny days. You can refer to the Standard Methods for the Examination of Wastewater, p.5-5. It mentioned that supersaturation is normal for cold waters and photosynthetic waters.
I hope this would help
Typically when I have seen supersaturated DO readings in a facultative lagoon it has been during times of low rainfall and high temperatures. What you are probably seeing is lagoon turnover. I can't remember the exact process but it is due to the carbon dioxide being stripped off the upper layer of water. I would assume they took the DO reading sometime around midday. Another way to test this is to check the pH when you get a high DO reading. If the pH is also high this is a typical sign of turnover. Also this is a natural occurance. The only thing I know is to change the time of sample collection to early morning to late evening.


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WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced more than $141 million in Recovery Act funding to support energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in Hawaii, Maine, Nebraska, New Mexico, the Northern Mariana Islands and Texas. Under DOE's State Energy Program, states and territories have proposed statewide plans that prioritize energy savings, create or retain jobs, increase the use of renewable energy, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This program is part of the Obama Administration's national strategy to support job growth, while making a historic down payment on clean energy and conservation.
"This funding will provide an important boost for state economies, help to put Americans back to work, and move us toward energy independence," said Secretary Chu. "It reflects our commitment to support innovative state and local strategies to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy while insisting that taxpayer dollars be spent responsibly."
The following states and territories are receiving 40 percent of their total State Energy Program (SEP) funding authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act today: Hawaii, Maine, Nebraska, New Mexico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Texas.
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Activities eligible for State Energy Program funding include energy audits, building retrofits, education and training efforts, transportation programs to increase the use of alternative fuels and hybrid vehicles, and new financing mechanisms to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy investments.
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HAWAII - $10,372,000 awarded today
Hawaii will use its Recovery Act funding for the State Energy Program to improve energy efficiency and expand the deployment of renewable energy technologies, which will help advance mutual state and national goals for creating and maintaining jobs, reducing oil dependence, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Hawaii's energy efficiency strategy will directly fund high performance buildings, government and residential building retrofits, and energy efficiency measures in the state's hospitality industry. The program will also provide technical assistance and training to building owners, developers, design professionals, and county building code officials to ensure that new and renovated buildings are designed and built with high efficiency measures. Hawaii will target bringing buildings to ENERGY STAR and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards.
After demonstrating successful implementation of its plan, the state will receive almost $13 million in additional funding, for a total of nearly $26 million.
MAINE - $10,922,000 awarded today
Maine will use its Recovery Act funding to promote or expand energy efficiency in the commercial, industrial, and residential sectors throughout the state to save energy while creating and saving jobs. In order to reduce energy use at large industrial facilities in the state, Maine will offer financial assistance to support targeted technical and engineering studies at the facilities. Additionally, funding will go to expanding a state program to provide energy audits to businesses, allowing for additional businesses to identify opportunities for potential energy savings.
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After demonstrating successful implementation of its plan, the state will receive almost $16 million in additional funding, for a total of nearly $32 million.
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS - $7,460,400 awarded today
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TEXAS - $87,512,800 awarded today
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Recovery Act funding will also support a program focused on transportation improvements that will allow schools, hospitals, and other public entities to modernize traffic signaling equipment and facilitate the wider deployment of alternative fuels.
In addition, the state will undertake an outreach campaign that will provide a unified and credible source of energy information to a wide audience of Texans to help clearly lay out the connections between energy savings, emissions reductions and jobs creation. The state also aims to establish Energy Sector Training centers that will help equip Texans with the skills they need to gain employment in the growing green jobs sector.
After demonstrating successful implementation of its plan, the state will receive an additional $109 million, for a total of nearly $219 million.
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Growing a vegetable garden in Denver can be frustrating. A short growing season, clay soils, erratic weather, birds, squirrels and insects discourage even the most dedicated gardener. We can use all the help we can get!
A recent product, the floating row cover, can solve some of these problems. Made of an extremely light-weight woven or sun-bonded synthetic material that allows light and water to penetrate, row covers are available in rolls five to six feet wide and in various lengths up to 375 feet. The material is reusable for several years if handled carefully to prevent tears.
Row covers can be used early in the growing season to get cool season crops off to an early start. They work by trapping the sun's heat and warming the soil an extra 1 to 3 degrees. Crops, such as radishes, lettuce, spinach, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, peas, Chinese cabbage, beets, carrots, turnips and parsnips, can be seeded directly into the garden and covered at planting time, leaving enough slack in the row cover to allow for growth.
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Why stop riding just because the sun is taking a break? With the Light and Motion Seca 1500 Light, you don't have to. In the full-strength setting, it puts out 1500 lumens of trail illuminating light for two hours of ride time. And if you turn down the setting, you won't have to sacrifice any battery life for power. Better yet, at around 343 grams, you'll enjoy all of that illumination without feeling like you're carrying a brick in the process. Just make sure to watch out for deer -- we all know how they like headlights.
Light and Motion employs six top quality LEDs in order to generate the Seca's 1500 lumens. Not only are the LEDs bright, but they're also highly efficient. In the 1500 lumen setting, the light provides two hours of run time off of a full charge. And if you're looking to boost the battery life, you're also able to turn the power down, while still providing plenty of illumination. For example, while full-power may be necessary for descents and high speed trails, climbs and slower sections allow you to get by with a more moderate output. Accordingly, you have the option to run the Seca 1500 at either a medium 800 lumen setting or a low 450 lumen setting. Additionally, you're able to turn the 450 lumen setting to pulse mode for times when your visibility to others is your primary concern. In terms of battery life, Light and Motion estimates that the Seca provides four hours of light in the medium setting, eight hours in the low setting, and 16 hours in pulse mode. Additionally, Light and Motion incorporated its 'Race' mode with the Seca. With just a two-second push, you're able to set the Seca to cycle between a two-hour high and four-hour low setting.
Powering the Seca is a three cell lithium-ion battery. The result is a light system that weighs in around a svelte 343 grams. This means that you won't have to pay a weight penalty to bathe your favorite trials in crisp, bright light. Hidden inside the body of the light is a pair of bi-conic reflectors. And in case you're wondering what that means, basically, the full output of each bulb is directed towards your field of vision by reflective elements inside of the light. The result is bright, even lighting that doesn't waste any power.
You might imagine that lighting this powerful puts off some serious heat, and you'd be right. That's why L&M engineered aluminum cooling fins, which control the heat and maximize the life of the bulbs. There's a tool-free mounting system that makes attaching and removing your light a breeze. Better yet, it's easily compatible with aftermarket mounts, including a head mount for precise beam placement.
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The Seca is an awesome light. I won't argue that at all. It is bright, durable, easy to use. I have one and the battery has recently stopped working on it. Unfortunately, Light and Motion only has a 1 year warranty on their lights, and a new battery costs $150. For a $400 initial investment, you would think that the company would give a lifelong warranty. I have worked in the outdoor industry for many years, and have never had a problem with a company not standing beside their product, whether it's a year after purchase or not. For $150, instead of buying a battery from a company that won't help you out when their product fails, you can instead buy a whole new light from a company that does. I cannot recommend anything from a company that doesn't stand behind their already premium priced equipment.
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The Seca lineup from Light & Motion offers the best beam pattern I have found. If peripheral vision is a priority, L&M is where you will want to look. The 1500 with 3 cell battery offers a plethora of light for your average night rides. My favorite feature is the Race Mode which toggles between High and Medium settings instead of High/Medium/Low/Flash. The feature makes transitioning from a low speed climb to high speed descent very smooth. The headlight is lightweight and has a really easy to use rubber strap to secure to your handlebar. On my 31.8mm handlebars I can only use the last or second to last hole on the strap so use on a larger diameter may be difficult such as 35mm mtb bars. The battery can strap easily onto a seatpost or frame tube by use of a large Velcro strap. I haven't given the battery a good run for its money, but L&M claim the 3 cell battery 2 hours on High beam (1500 lumens), 4 hours on Medium (800 lumens), and 8 hours on Low (450 lumens).
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As for an update, unfortunately I finished up the test period I had with the light and it went back to Light and Motion. Unfortunately I haven't had opportunity to test out the Taz to offer a comparison. I assume you were referring to the Taz 1200 as a comparison. Both products certainly have their advantages. In my opinion, the Seca is designed with off road in mind being that you can mount it on a handlebar or helmet, and has an external battery whereas the Taz is an all-in-one unit designed more from commuting only offered in a handlebar mount scenario. The Taz does offer side markers for better visibility in congested areas, which typically would not a concern off road. Since run time is a major concern, it would be helpful to know what you are planning on using the light for. For off road, I would pick the Seca for the amount of light/run time as well as being able to put the weight of the battery somewhere more centralized on the bike. That is not to say the Taz would not function well as an off road light. I just think it?s run time would be ideal for those going on shorter rides, such as 2 hours or less. Using Light and Motions Race Mode would be ideal to maximize run time on either light. It offers an alternative output high/low only setting to toggle between while riding to not only make it easy to switch modes, but save battery life as well.
Keep in mind that we do offer a 90 day return policy on used items meaning that you could purchase either of the lights, try them out and if it doesn?t work for your needs - return it back to us within 3 months for a store credit you can use on an alternative light. If you have any additional questions, feel free to write another comment or just look up my contact info in my profile.