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American Acoustics Labs. I'm about to refoam a pair and was just wondering if anyone had personal experience with this company. I'm not experienced enough to tell if they are middle of the road quality or complete trash just by looking at them. Doubt if they are high quality though since the cabs seem to be particle board and veneer and there is no googling them.
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I don't think I'd bother with refoaming the woofers. The AAL speakers, from my experience, aren't worth the effort.
I have a pair of AAL-10 3-way, 75 watt RMS, 150 Watt max. power. 10" woofer, 5" mid-range, 2.5" tweeter. The speakers are in great condition physically, but overall they give an under-whelming performance. The woofers fail to command attention. They lack the sharpness and detail I expect from a woofer. To give you an example... they make Led Zepplin's drummer (John Bonham), arguably the best drummer in rock history, sound like an average ho-hum. Van Halen's hard driving music is limping along. There's just no soul, no back-bone to these woofers.
The mid-range is even more disappointing. It is completely lost. Rather than displaying the heart of the music, the mid-range is muted and dull. My old 1970's vintage Realistic (tandy Radio Shack) minimus 5's blow these away for mid-range.
The tweeter is just annoying. It shrieks the music. The sound is anything but pleasing as the tweeters are really harsh and shrill.
If you find a pair of AAL speakers on the side of the road... then great, it's a good find. They are worth more than nothing. If you have to spend $10.00 to repair them... I'd save my money. You could buy a better pair of speakers at a garage sale for that $10.00. I don't care what brand they are, they will probably produce a better quality sound than AAL's. For your time, cost and effort of re-foaming these speakers, you could check E-Pay and buy a much better vintage set.
Too bad I ordered some surrounds already. More experience refoaming will be a good thing at any rate.
AAl are cheap, back in the day our local big box stores would inc them with other purchases then they switched to giving away a bike.They still kept AAL as a line think MTX bought them out for awhile MTX and AAL made very simlar speakers.If you went to these big box shops looking for a speaker the sales guys would almost ram AAL down your throat so many folks arround S WI got stuck with pairs.Dont think they would be worth a refoam to me some of the worst speakers made but YMMV
They're indicating that manuals and schematics are available through them for a $7.50 a pop.
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West Village Shaken by Weekend Murder
"A Gay Man Was Brutally Murdered Here…" reads a red sign propped up against the door of an out-of-business Barnes and Noble on Eighth Street and Sixth Avenue. It's surrounded by candles and flowers and two photos of 32-year-old Mark Carson who was shot in the face early Saturday morning in what police are calling a suspected hate crime.
On a cold, rainy Sunday afternoon a steady stream of passersby stopped to take in the makeshift memorial. Seathrun O'Coilleian came from Queens to see if he possibly knew the man killed. O'Coilleian said normally he felt safe being a gay man in New York City. "But it's funny when the shadow of darkness falls you're always looking over your shoulder a tiny little bit," Ocoilleian said. "And we're very aware as gay people this could happen at any time."
Alina Ramirez said she stopped at the memorial after hearing about the shooting on Instagram. The college student who goes to the nearby New School said she was shocked by the murder. "It just goes to show that as liberal as a city that we are, these things do happen," Ramirez said.
Police arrested 33-year-old Elliott Morales, who's accused of hurling gay slurs at Carson and another man before fatally shooting Carson.
A march to denounce the crime is being planned for Monday at 5:30 p.m.

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It wasnât very long ago that Congresswoman Barbara Lee, of my district here in Berkeley, California, stood up and cast a single dissenting vote against authorizing the use of military force in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. She was praised by antiwar voices nationwideâmostly leftistsâwho commended her vote against the Afghanistan invasion, and she was criticized heavily by mainstream groups including conservatives, moderate Democrats, and the NAACP. Ever since then, Iâve seen cars and store windows in Berkeley donning signs that read, "Barbara Lee Speaks for Me."
Her leftist politics never excited me, but neither do those of Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress. Rankin, who among only several dozen others voted against a Declaration of War in World War I, and who cast the only vote against going to war in World War II. I disagree with many of the positions of Lee and Rankin, but I came to consider them both heroic women for their willingness to vote their conscience on the most crucial and difficult issue that ever faces Americaâs lawmakersâwhether to go to war.
In the last few weeks, however, Barbara Lee has been far from a principled voice against U.S. foreign intervention. She has repeatedly urged that Bush intervene in Haiti, to protect the "democratic" presidency of Aristide against rebel forces.
The hypocrisy just leaps off her press releases. "If the U.S. doesnât want a violent overthrow and a coup dâetat," she said on February 25, "the Administration must forge a ceasefire, insist that both sides lay down their arms, and ensure that any political decisions made are in accordance with the rule of law and the Haitian constitution." In solidarity with other lawmakers who insisted on February 26 that President Bush "must act now," she trumpeted that "Haitians are dying every day, and in response to the bloodshed, the United States must do its part to promote stability in a sovereign nation in our own hemisphere."
If the United States has a positive obligation to "promote stability" in Haiti, what was wrong in principle with our government "liberating" the Iraqi people? Perhaps she would say that the death and destruction in Iraq, waged by the U.S. military, is not what she has in mind. She simply wants the U.S. government to act as peacemaker in our hemisphere, not go on imperial and bloody nation building expeditions across the globe. But how can she trust the Bush Administration to restore order peacefully in Haiti when she should be well aware of the Orwellian way in which it has "restored order" and "brought peace" to Iraq? If she could not trust George Bush to use force in response to an actual terrorist attack against America, why on earth would she call upon him to "act now" with Haiti?
The reason Iâm picking so much on Barbara Lee is that she represents a strain of imperialism, or "soft Wilsonianism," that many of todayâs critics of Bushâs war policies embraceâfoolish interventionism masked under humanitarian rhetoric. Even Lee, who is much less a hawk than many in todayâs liberal "anyone-but-Bush" movement, supports foreign intervention if it has the ostensible goal of advancing democracy or restoring peace, and so long as it is done diplomatically.
In fact, advancing democracy is the project she has in mind as far as Haiti is concerned. Lee is "outraged that the democratically-elected President of Haiti, a country where a true democracy has recently emerged after decades of autocratic rule, has been pushed out by an Administration anxious to get rid of him." She accuses Bush of "a campaign of misinformation in order to carry out what is essentially a coup dâetat." She wanted Bush to actively protect Aristide from rebel opposition, but instead he intervened in the wrong way, so now she wants answers. Thatâs the precise reason not to "call upon" the government to act in matters like this: thereâs no pleasing everyone.
Of course, Lee forgets to mention that the "democratic" regime of Aristide was maintained by Bill Clintonâs deployment of 20,000 troops in 1994 in what was then called an intervention to stop "a threat to international peace."
If Aristide is such a great leader, he would not have needed the worldâs biggest superpower to back him up then, and he would not need such assistance now.
The fact is, Haiti is like dozens of other countries in the world that have endured American intervention in recent decades for the purpose of "restoring order," "protecting democracy," or ensuring "international peace." It would be very hard to cite many successes among them. Some humanitarian interventionists would argue that the United States has an obligation to protect Haiti, because of the errors of its past interventions. But a similar argument could be made for ousting Saddam: the United States helped put him in power, and it is now fulfilling its obligation in cleaning up the mess.
Barbara Lee, like all the do-gooder soft-Wilsonian interventionists, does not speak for me. The U.S. government has no business going around attempting to make the world safe for democracy, any more than it should pursue a policy of regime change against nations that have not threatened us. In both such interventions, Americaâs freedom, wealth, and honor decline in pursuit of failed, deadly adventures abroad.
It is a depressing fact that if Bush loses the election in November, we have no guarantee that the Democrats will in any way temper the excesses, arrogance, bloodshed, and corruption of the War on Terrorism, but that we can expect to see more Somalias, Kosovos, and Haitis, in the style of Bill Clinton and "peace advocates" such as Barbara Lee.
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Genomatica lands Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award
In California, Genomatica was named winner today of the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award in the Materials category. The company was honored with first place for its new manufacturing processes for high-volume intermediate and basic chemicals from renewable feedstocks rather than oil and natural gas. Chosen among 536 applications, Genomatica's processes are among the Wall Street Journal's top innovations this year.
Genomatica's process technologies produce the exact same chemicals to 'green' the manufacturing value chains for thousands of everyday products (e.g. sports apparel, tires, and running shoes) 'at source,' with better economics and a smaller environmental footprint. Its business model of licensing these technologies facilitates more rapid deployment of the technology and is helping the industry transition to renewable feedstocks and more sustainable products.
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We aimed to provide a summary of the existing published knowledge on the association between adverse birth outcomes and the development of wheezing during the first two years of life. We carried out a systematic review of epidemiological studies within the MEDLINE database. Epidemiological studies on human subjects, published in English, were included in the review. A comprehensive literature search yielded 72 studies for further consideration. Following the application of the eligibility criteria we identified nine studies. A positive association and an excess risk of wheezing during the first two years of life were revealed for adverse birth outcomes.
A number of maternal and lifestyle factors have been shown to be associated with the occurrence of wheezing or diagnosed asthma in childhood and adolescence, such as maternal age [
Furthermore, low birth weight or very low birth weight infants are known to develop decreased respiratory function and have been found to be at an increased risk for the development of chronic respiratory symptoms during childhood [
A systematic review of the existing literature on adverse birth outcomes related and wheezing was carried out. We posed the following review question: "Given the existing epidemiological evidence, is there a link between adverse birth outcomes and the occurrence of wheezing during the first two years of life?". We drew up a review protocol in advance following standards outlined in the MOOSE Guidelines for Meta-Analyses and Systematic Reviews of Observational Studies [
Search terms used were chosen from the USNLM Institutes of Health list of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) for 2007. These were: "Infant, Low Birth Weight" OR "Infant, Very Low Birth Weight" OR "Premature Birth" OR "Fetal Growth Retardation" OR "Infant, Extremely Low Birth Weight" AND "Respiratory Sounds", OR "Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory" OR "Wheezing". Although not officially MeSH terms, "Wheezing" and "Small for gestational age" was also added as key terms so as to broaden the scope of the search. Retrieved studies were checked against a list of eligibility criteria, while the references of each retrieved study were also checked by hand for additional studies that met the eligibility criteria.
We defined
The main characteristics of the studies included in the analysis are given in
All studies examined wheezing as an outcome although the time period of wheezing presence was different. Four studies examined wheezing at first year of life [
Four studies measured the outcome as an odds ratio [
The prevalence of wheezing was also estimated by five studies [
As indicated through this systematic review, we have gathered the existing epidemiological evidence in order to examine the possible association between adverse birth outcomes and the development of wheezing during early childhood. Furthermore we identified a positive association between adverse birth outcomes such as LBW, VLBW, PD, VPD and the development of wheezing during early childhood. No studies examining the association of term low birth weight and small for gestational age infants with wheezing were revealed and thus these outcomes were not further investigated into.
Considerable variation in the prevalence of wheezing has been observed in previous studies. A prevalence increase has been noticed between countries and over time specifically from the 1970s up to the early 1990s [
There are many potential causes of wheezing including genetic/familial or environmental factors, and viral respiratory infections [
The majority of children who develop wheeze in early childhood are free of symptoms by adolescence or early adulthood [
Early life events are important since the origin of airway abnormalities occurs early in infancy. Prospective birth cohort studies clarify the incidence of an illness by evaluating the risk factors and the possible confounders and/or modifiers related to the disease. This kind of studies may allow us to shed light on the primary factors that initiate wheezing and its correlation to long term implications such as chronic obstructive lung disease.
Conclusively, this study area is of high importance due to the fact that long term implications are unknown. It is therefore desirable to determine the correlation between adverse birth outcomes and wheezing during early childhood and identify whether there are preventable or treatable risk factors. For the purpose of this study, review was restricted to wheezing as a health outcome while other important causes of wheezing during early childhood other than adverse birth outcomes (e.g., genetic/familial or environmental factors) were not examined. As mentioned above, well designed epidemiological studies which will evaluate the relevant confounders and possible exposures and risk factors during pregnancy are needed. This estimation of summary should be considered by epidemiologists, health care specialists and research community as the most interesting areas for further research work.
Literature search and strategy outcomes.
Summary of characteristics of studies included in the systematic review.
|468 infants
|Assess possible association of early persistent wheezing with the length of the baby at birth.
|New York, USA
|Identify the environmental exposures and respiratory morbidity among VLBW infants and determine the association between them.
|Identify environmental and medical factors related to the development of wheezing in prematurely born children over the first 27 months after term.
|Boston, USA
|1,096 infants
|Evaluate the association between prematurity and wheezing accounting for the presence of perinatal chorioamnionitis.
|Boston, USA
|1,372 infants
|Examine the associations of fetal growth and length of gestation with asthma-related outcomes by age 2 years.
|London, UK
|Identify the occurrence of respiratory morbidity during infancy after preterm birth and identify the risk factors.
|Florence, Italy
|1,780 infants
|Wheezing illness in HIV-1 infected infants.
|Nottingham, UK
|15,712 Infants
|Study of risk factors for early and persistent wheezing until age of five years old.
|London, UK
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|Identify the respiratory symptoms in the first year of life following preterm delivery.
|London, UK
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|Identify the respiratory symptoms in the first year of life following preterm delivery.
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Main findings of studies included in the systematic review.
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|Infant length as a continuous variable (cm)
|Relative risk ratio
|Transient early wheezing
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|Wheezing prevalence:
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|LBW ≤ 2,500g
|Odds ratio
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|LBW ≤ 2,500g
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|PD and VLBW
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|Wheeze or wheeze & cough
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B2 [ C ] a long, usually hard seat for two or more people, often found in public places:
› a long table for working on, for example when you are making something:
Most of the work constructing these objects is done at a bench.
See also
the bench
serve/sit/be on the bench
› to work as a judge or magistrate
take the bench US
the benches
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- A couple of old codgers were sitting on the park bench, grumbling about the children.
- A decrepit old man sat on a park bench.
- Holding her painful back, she sat down gingerly on the bench.
- Chairs, stools, sofas and benches are different types of seat.
- He was sitting alone by a window with a weird contraption on the bench in front of him.
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|YDS: 5.11c French: 6c+ Ewbanks: 24 UIAA: VIII- ZA: 24 British: E4 6a [details]
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By tscupp
From: Englewood, CO
Aug 15, 2010
|In the Boston Rocks 2nd ed., they list this as just 5.10. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thought this was WAY harder than that.
By john strand
From: southern colo
Oct 20, 2010
|I guess it's 5.10, except for the start and the finish. It's about 11c in my book, and I have done it maybe 200 times.
By Steve Moulding
From: New York
Jun 12, 2012
rating: 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
|Yep...seemed like a Boston Rocks sandbag at 5.10. Found it very hard for the grade.
By Ken Cangi
From: Eldorado Springs, CO
Mar 17, 2013
rating: 5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b
This pitch was rated hard 5.10 when I lead it in the mid '80s. It has been ages, although 11c seems way off compared to 5.11 trad routes that I did back then on Cathedral and Whitehorse. Camber is rated 11b, and it's much harder, IMO.
Haven't been to the quarry since the mid '80s. I heard a rumor that a lot of the quarry has been filled in with dirt. Seems like that would change a lot of the place's character. Anyone have recent photos that they can post?
By john strand
From: southern colo
Mar 17, 2013
|Has something changed at the start? I always thought 5.11 for sure.
By Jay Morse
From: Hooksett, New Hampshire
Apr 6, 2014
|Don't let the 11c grade scare you off. If you can climb in the 5.10s, get on this route! I think it is only 11c if you start directly below the route, which is COVERED in paint and seemed nearly impossible. You can quite easily start from the left or right sides to get established on the route, and the rest goes at 10b/10c IMO. Great route!


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     For the Hardware Hacking Area we'll have lots of people soldering, and making lots of cool things. It is way fun to help out! (And, of course, you get into the Faire for free.) There's lots of things to help with: teaching people to solder, answering peoples' questions about how to make their projects (all of which have well-documented assembly instructions), greeting people at the entrance to the Area, explaining to interested people passing by what's going on, and explaining the myriad of projects on display that they can make, showing people how to use the Brain Machine -- as usual, there will be a row of people using the Brain Machine, which is a great photo-op!, and also attracts LOTS of attention to draw people to the Hardware Hacking Area. So, any and/or all of these are things you can do to help out in your 3-hour (or more!, if you like) shift at the Hardware Hacking Area at the SF Maker Faire.

 Mitch.

 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:58:54 -0800
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ooh ooh i'll help! i already got a ticket for one of the days. maybe i can give it to a friend. what do you need help with?

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Mitch Altman <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:

On the subject of the upcoming Maker Faire (22 & 23-May http://www.makerfaire.com ), I'll again be setting up a Huge Hardware Hacking Area, with 54 soldering stations, where people can come and make cool things during the Faire. I'll again need about 25 volunteers (or more!) to help with 3-hour shifts. This gets you into the Faire for both days for free! Wanna help? Please email me off-list.

The Huge Hardware Hacking Area is part of Noisebridges contribution to the Faire.

Mitch.

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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:31:13 -0800
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Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Maker Faire Planning

Hello folks;

If you want to help with Noisebridge prepare for Maker Faire, have a project you would like to show off at the event, or are willing to contribute your time to work at the booth/logistics/etc for the event, it's time we met.

We should set a time to talk about who what where when, and I'd expect after or before a Tuesday meetings would be the right time. Msg me off list to coordinate. No need to start another thread here.

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by AJ cross posted from her blog I Am PhoenixI am at the point in my life now where for the last several months, I have felt safe enough to process the past. Although I was sexually abused when I was a child, I didn't tell my family then or as an adult. I kept quiet because I was threatened with hell and the devil when I was a kid. I was so traumatized, I pushed most of the memories away and didn't think about them for over 30 years. Now that I haven't been a Christian for over a year, I've lost my fear of hell and devil, and I finally feel unthreatened and able to process the abuse. … [Read more...]
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Vintage Steel Guitars
Strictly speaking, a steel guitar is any guitar made out of metal, which means it can be a resonator guitar used for the blues and Americana music, a lap steel guitar popular with those who play Hawaiian music, or a venerable pedal steel, which is what gives country-western music and Texas swing their distinctive sounds.
While the first resonator guitars made in the 1920s only featured an aluminum amplifying cone where the guitar's sound hole would be, subsequent resonators had all-aluminum bodies. Resonators grew out of the popularity of the acoustic guitar in the 1920s—the amplification helped them be heard over louder instruments such as banjos.
The invention of the resonator is widely credited to John Dopyera who, in the mid-1920s, developed an amplifying system for ukuleles. He founded the National String Instrument Corporation in August 1926 with his brothers Rudy, Robert, Louis, and Emil, and their company would use John's system to produce "ampliphonic" or "self-amplifying" guitars, known today as resonators. But Dopyera was frustrated with the sound his uke-sized resonator produced when fitted on guitars so, in 1929, he left National and founded Dobro Manufacturing.
Lap-played steel guitars produced by Gibson, Epiphone, and National were produced in the 1930s to cash in on the craze at the time for Hawaiian music. Fender and Gretsch also produced lap-steel guitars (some of which were misnomers since they had stands), but not until the 1940s. Because these guitars lacked sound holes for natural amplification, even the earliest models were electric—Gibsons like the E-150 and Roy Smeck Special, both of which had Charlie Christian pickups, are especially prized by collectors today.
Finally there are pedal steel guitars, single neck or double, which are mounted on stands and fitted with anywhere from four to 10 pedals, each of which can change the pitch of selected strings. Vintage Fender steel guitars, with or without pedals, are favorites of players and collectors alike, as are Sho-Bud instruments—the fingerboards of Sho-Buds are known for their inlay of diamonds, spades, hearts and clubs.
Regardless of the type of steel guitar played, one thing they all have in common is that the player needs to be adept at finger picking—these instruments are not meant to be strumed. In addition, instead of using the non-picking hand to push down the strings to produce chords, the player holds a tube—sometimes made of steel, sometimes glass—lightly against the strings. The tube is slid up and down the fingerboard, which is why the technique is also known as slide guitar.
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Vodafone announces 18 new stores
Vodafone has announced 18 new stores in a first wave of a 50 store roll-out to be completed by March 2009.
The sites will measure in at over 1000 square metres of extra retail space, create 90 jobs and will bring the total number of Vodafone stores in the UK to 365.
Newcastle will get a store at Grainger Street, Plymouth will get a second store at New George Street and London's Westfield centre in White City sees a new store opening.
There will be five new stores in the South East and M25 region; Eltham, Walton-on-Thames and Wimbledon Village will have their first Vodafone stores while Bromley and Croydon will get a second store.
Other areas to get a store include Yate, Wells, Skegness, Chorley, Trowbridge, Northallerton, and Hove with premises at Newmarket, Cirencester and Boston recently opened.
Every store will offer the full range of Vodafone's mobile products and services including contract and pay as you talk mobiles, mobile broadband, top up and accessories through to help and advice.
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Atheists to cheer for godless USA at 'Reason Rally'
Atheists, humanists, skeptics and free thinkers are descending on the hallowed civic ground of the National Mall this Saturday for a Reason Rally.
Called together by word-of-Web and social media, they plan to head for Washington just like religious groups do — to strut their strength as a voting block, lobby for public policy and raise their social profile.
Organizers expect more than 10,000 people to celebrate unbelief, dance to punk band Bad Religion, hear a score of speakers led by celebrity British atheist Richard Dawkins, and shout out for separation of church and state.
Shouting out (quietly) for God will be a small band of Christians from TrueReason.org, says Tom Gilson of Yorktown, Va., who does strategy work for Christian missions. They plan to venture "into the lion's den" to pass out booklets refuting atheism and water bottles and to "offer a better message … that reason, properly applied, comes from God and leads back to God."
The Reason Rally has a harder edge than the image of a godless Woodstock conjures. It follows in the wake of last year's D.C. rallies by conservative talker Glenn Beck and liberal newsmen/comics Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. And it comes when the culture wars are raging and religion is a contentious point in the 2012 presidential election campaign.
Related videos
- Evolution: Stephen Colbert, devoted Catholic, argues about evolution with atheist Richard Dawkins.
- God: Neuroscientist Sam Harris debates Rabbi David Wolpe on the existance of God.
- Morality: Rev. Al Sharpton argues with Christopher Hitchens on whether morality exists without God.
- Crisis: David Silverman, president of American Atheist, argues with A Fox host on how unbelievers face a crisis.
Dwayne Windham, 34, says he booked a $160 round-trip bus ticket from Austin, not to wage war on religion but to show force for thoughtful atheism. "The majority of us just want rational public policies based on facts, not someone's book of cobbled together fantasies. Atheists have to carry our weight on an intellectual and a moral basis. The worst thing you could do is be immoral and stupid," says Windham.
The second worst thing is to go unnoticed and afraid, says American Atheists president and rally organizer David Silverman. He estimates that "99% of all atheists are closeted. We have to take back the word 'atheist,' because it has been demonized by critics."
The Reason Rally is the day before the atheists' annual conference in nearby Bethesda, Md. The conference theme is "Come out, come out, wherever you are." Speakers will include atheists of every race and ethnicity, including "Pastor M," a clergyman who will speak in disguise so he can keep his pulpit even though he's lost his faith.
The rally, Silverman says, is meant to be "a unification event, a fun time." Still, he adds, "We are proud to be the Marines of free thought, proud to be the edge of the sword."
They are, after all, the group founded by Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the prime mover in the Supreme Court case that drove adult-led prayer and Bible recitation out of the public schools, leaving religious expression to students' choices.
The Public Religion Research Institute's 2011 American Values Survey, released in November, found that 67% of Americans would be very or somewhat uncomfortable with an atheist president. That's more than say they'd object to a Muslim (64%), Mormon (42%) or evangelical (28%) as head of state. Currently, there's only one "out" atheist in Congress, U.S. Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif.
Ten years before the Reason Rally, planned for March 24th, the American Atheists sponsored the Godless Americans March on Washington.
The American Religious Identification Survey finds no-God atheists and maybe-God agnostics added together have more than doubled their market share of U.S. adherents between 1990 and 2008 — up from 0.7% in 1990 to 1.6% in 2008. Meanwhile, Catholic, Baptist and mainline Protestant denominations all saw declines. There were more unbelievers in 2008 than Mormons (1.4%), Jews (1.2%) or Episcopalians (1.1%).
Atheists, however, get disproportionate attention because "they are the ones who make the noise and the news. They are the radicals and provocateurs," says Barry Kosmin, co-author of the ARIS survey and director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.
Famous rip-religion advocates include lecture circuit stars and best-selling authors such as the late Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great; neuroscientist Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith and founder of "Project Reason"; and Dawkins, a retired Oxford evolutionary biologist and author of titles such as The God Delusion.
Dawkins recently told the Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, that the probability of a supernatural creator was "very, very low." The idea of life starting from nothing is, he said, "such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing. Why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a god?"
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The percentage of atheists and agnostics in the USA has more than doubled since 1990:
Source: American Religious Identification Survey
Still, not everyone is coming to gawk at Dawkins, says Rebecca Watson, 31, leader of the group blog Skepchick. She had a public confrontation with him last year over how women often are overlooked or demeaned in the non-religion movement.
"One of the beautiful things about being an atheist is there is no pope. I don't have to agree with Dawkins," says Watson, who is coming in from Buffalo for the event, eager to hear an array of female speakers who don't often get called to the podium.
The 20 sponsors underwriting the $300,000 price tag for the rally include the American Humanist Association, the Center for Inquiry, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and the Secular Coalition of America.
Sarah Hamilton, 23, of Indianapolis, also has a bus ticket to the rally. She calls herself "a skeptic who understands the scientific method and applies it universally to uncover the what is right and true. Skepticism is like the gateway drug to atheism."
Annie Johnson, with her husband and their 12-year-old daughter, is heading to the rally from Gainesville, Fla., where they recently joined a local humanist group that organizes volunteer and community service projects as "a way to help the world without joining a faith group," she says. "Humanism offers a way to define my way of living and navigating through the world."
Unbelief does not equal inactive, says Hemant Mehta, who blogs as the Friendly Atheist and runs the Reason Rally website. "The idea is not that we all just get together and not pray. We're going to talk about ways to surround yourself with community and for these communities to make positive contributions.
This is not the American Atheists' first march on the Mall. In 2002, nearly 3,000 attended the first Godless Americans March on Washington.
At that rally, Ellen Johnson, then president of the group, stood with the Capitol dome at her back and proclaimed that "all Americans are godless Americans because there is no God."
Johnson, however, will skip the Reason Rally because, she says, it's irrelevant if more people are publically atheist, "if you don't do anything with the numbers.
"Beating back public scorn is nice. And reason is great, but you can't reason for your rights. You have to play hardball. You have to change laws," says Johnson, who now heads a group called Enlighten the Vote.
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NEW YORK (Sep. 10)
Vigilante action against alleged Nazi war criminals in the United States was resoundingly condemned last night by three persons involved in bringing war criminals to justice, and by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.
Neal Sher, head of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, said two recent separate bomb attacks at the homes of alleged war criminals in New Jersey and on Long Island were detrimental to the continuing efforts of the OSI.
"These acts cannot be condoned," Sher said in response to questions at a forum on the continuing efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice, sponsored by the JCRC. "I don't think (these attacks) help the OSI in the least."
Last week a bomb exploded outside the Brent-wood, Long Island, home of 70-year-old Elmars Sprogis, a former Latvian policeman once accused by the government of war crimes. An innocent bystander, 23-year-old Robert Seifried, was seriously injured in the blast.
Last month, in a similar attack, a bomb exploded outside the Paterson, New Jersey, home of Tscherim Soobzokov, a 61-year-old former Nazi SS member. Soobzokov died last Friday from injuries suffered in the blast. No one has claimed responsibility for the Paterson attack.
An apparently taped phone message received by the Long Island daily Newsday, after the Brentwood bombing said, "Listen carefully. Jewish Defense League. Nazi war criminal. Bomb. Never again." The JDL has denied responsibility for the bomb attacks. The case against Sprogis was dismissed by a Federal District Court Judge in 1984.
On other matters, Sher told the JCRC forum that ongoing efforts in the U.S. to "resurrect" German-born rocket scientist Arthur Rudolph will not succeed. Rudolph was last year stripped of his U.S. citizenship and left the country following the disclosure of his past war-time activities as director of production at a V-2 rocket factory attached to the Dora Nordhausen concentration camp.
"Arthur Rudolph, I can assure you, will never set foot in this country again," Sher declared. Rudolph currently lives in West Germany. A group of former German colleagues living in Huntsville, Alabama, have formed the "Old Timers Defense Fund" to raise funds to lobby Congress and the White House to allow for Rudolph to return to the U.S.
"I can assure you that as far as the United States Justice Department is concerned, the Rudolph case is closed," Sher said. He said Rudolph reached a formal agreement with the U.S. government in which he admitted he could never return to the U.S.
While the OSI, formed in 1979, is "busier than ever filing cases, litigating cases, and investigating cases," Sher pointed out that the Justice Department unit has come under increased attacks by a group of East European emigre groups in the U.S. who have assailed the OSI, for among other things, using Soviet-supplied evidence in denaturalization and deportation proceedings.
He defended the use of Soviet-supplied documents, saying, "We go to great lengths to establish that the Soviet evidence is credible … There has never been any indication of fabrication or forgery."
JCRC president Peggy Tishman said in a statement issued today that "people cannot be allowed to take the law into their own hands. The net effect is counter-productive in gaining support for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in this country."
Elizabeth Holtzman, Brooklyn District Attorney and a former Congresswoman who was instrumental in the formation of the OSI, expressed similar sentiments. "I cannot condon this. I think it is not only a crime and it is not only wrong, but it could create tremendous setbacks to what" the OSI is doing, Holtzman declared at the JCRC forum.
"We're not talking about terrorism in the abstract," she continued. "We're talking about murder." She said "terrorist actions of this kind are horrendous …. Our mission here has to be not only to condemn (these attacks) but to make sure the government acts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice."
Along these lines, Holtzman urged for legislative action in Congress to aid in speeding the deportation and denaturalization process against alleged war criminals. She said that there currently exists two separate procedures needed for denaturalization and deportation.
"The process could be substantially shortcircuited and speeded up" by having deportation and denaturalization handled in the same court, with one appeal to the Supreme Court. "One thing Nazi war criminals in this country can look forward to is an indefinite delay in dragging this procedure out interminably," Holtzman declared.
Menachem Rosensaft, founding chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holo-caust Survivors, also condemned the bomb attacks. He told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency last night, "We unequivocally condemn any act of terrorism. The perpetrators of these bombings are in the same category as members of the Red Brigade and the Palestine Liberation Organization."


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This post is part 13 of a 30-part series about the Who is Active stored procedure. A new post will run each day during the month of April, 2011. After April all of these posts will be edited and combined into a single document to become the basis of the Who is Active documentation.
Today and tomorrow we'll take a break from Who is Active to get into some important background information on how things work internally in the query processor. The DMVs—and, therefore, Who is Active—reveal fairly deep information about what's going on with your query, but unless you understand the basics it's going to be difficult to properly interpret that data.
Most of the time when people teach this subject, they start off with an image like the following:
That's all well and good, except that it's a bit on the dull side.
A nicer approach, in my opinion, is to teach this topic using a metaphor. And others seem to agree: Joe Sack uses a grocery store checkout line, Rob Farley created a metaphor involving airport check-in lines, and Robert Davis has recommended something to do with running out of toilet paper while using a public bathroom stall. (I didn't ask.)
My metaphor is a diner. The Resource Diner. It's open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (99.999% of the time, when the staff is doing its job properly), and it's where workers go when they're hungry. And workers are always hungry. But I'm getting ahead of myself a bit.
It all begins with a query. You send it to SQL Server, and it gets parsed, and bound, and optimized, and the output is a plan. A plan is a program for the query processor to run. The query processor needs to run this program on physical CPUs, using physical memory, and perhaps physical disk drives. But it doesn't talk to these various physical components directly; rather, it uses abstractions. Most of these abstractions are provided by SQLOS, some by the storage engine, and still others by the Windows kernel itself. One of the main abstractions is that over operating system threads. The abstracted version is called a worker, and the worker executes tasks, which are essentially segments of the plan. A serial plan will have one task, and a parallel plan may have many. (See my SQL University series for more information.)
While executing a task, the worker can really do only two things: consume CPU time, and wait for some resource that it needs to use in order to consume CPU time.
And that is why workers are always hungry.
When a worker gets hungry, it visits the restaurant. It already knows what it wants to eat, so it doesn't bother with the menu. It goes straight to the cashier and makes its request.
"I'll have a page lock with extra schema stability on the side."
Sometimes the resource is already available, sitting there warming under the heat lamps. The worker can take it and get right back to consuming CPU time.
But sometimes the resource isn't ready yet. Perhaps an exclusive lock on the resource is being held by someone else, or perhaps the page needs to be read off the disk, or perhaps some memory needs to be granted.
When a worker needs a resource, it can't go off and do something else in the meantime. It wants to consume the resource it needs. So the "order" is sent off to be prepared, and meanwhile the worker has to wait.
Eventually, the worker is called over the loudspeaker. "Order up! One page lock, extra schema stability on the side!" (This is called being signaled.) The worker can now get its resource from the cashier! But lo and behold, other workers have come into the restaurant while our worker was waiting. They're getting orders from the cashier. So our worker will have to wait some more. This is known as being in the runnable queue.
After a long and arduous wait, our heroic worker finally gets its resource and can chow down. Ahh, life is good.
Now that the metaphor has been laid out, let's take another look at the oh-so-dull technical image from above:
Here's what's going on:
The important intervals here are between Time 0 and Time 1 (resource wait time) and between Time 1 and Time 2 (signal wait time). The resource wait time is impacted by however long it takes to read the page off of the disk, grant the memory, fulfill the lock request, or whatever. The signal wait time is almost entirely impacted by how busy the scheduler happens to be.
Yesterday I asked you to generate a lot of tempdb allocations using a read-only query. This is a fairly simple thing to do: simply create a query that needs to do a sort or hash, and make sure it has a bad estimate. This will force it to spill. Here's one example, that uses hints to force bad index selection and an extremely suboptimal memory grant:
DECLARE @i INT = 1, @j INT = 2000000000 SELECT * FROM Production.Product CROSS JOIN Production.TransactionHistory WITH (INDEX (2)) WHERE TransactionId BETWEEN @i AND @j ORDER BY TransactionId OPTION (FORCE ORDER, OPTIMIZE FOR (@j = 1))
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I plan to get a bit deeper into memory grants later this month. Stay tuned for more on that topic.
Today we'll celebrate the middle of the work week by taking a break from the homework.
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Adam, I really appreciate both the sp_whoisactive tool, and these terrificly creative and informative posts about it and related background.
I'm sure there are many people who are getting a lot out of them, but haven't bothered to mention it to you.
Keep up the great work!
I'd second that! Great work Adam, keep it up :)
This post is part 14 of a 30-part series about the Who is Active stored procedure. A new post will run
Thank you both for the kind words!
This post is part 15 of a 30-part series about the Who is Active stored procedure. A new post will run
I love this analogy. Loving the series (a little behind, catching up :)
As usual, great stuff Adam.
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I love these posts!!!, de lo mejor que he visto sobre SQL Server.
Gracias Adam!, god bless you!


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Elation cables
as reviewed by Robert H. Levi
The Elation series of interconnects, speaker cables, and power cords are the newest entry from Kubala-Sosna Cables. They are very expensive by any standard, but certainly do look and feel expensive. They have top-notch fit and finish with superb connectors. They are large, but flexible. They are 100% copper and well shielded. The Elations are Kubala-Sosna's mighty attempt to grab the brass ring and out perform all cable competition. Their older Emotion cable series very nearly did this and is still my top choice for best metal cable under $4000 per meter. As you shall see, the Elation surpasses its older brother and propels audiophiles into a new sonic paradigm of musical perfection and realism. The Elations are a true triumph in high-end connectivity!
The Reference System
2009 has been phenomenal audiophile-wise at the Levi home. My recent review of the Paravicini Disc Master Magnetic Drive Turntable, now complete with two Helius Omega Tonearms and a Koetsu Rosewood Signature and ZYX Airy 3 carts, has lifted my analogue sources to new heights and is now a permanent reference. The review of the ground breaking Marten Bird Loudspeakers forever opened a window to the musical performance that was previously unknown to me. I bought the review pair and finally replaced my trusty Avalon Eidolons. The cabling has remained the Kubala-Sosna Emotion throughout reference system number one. The digital source is the Paravicini E.A.R. Acute Tube CD Player. The preamp is the E.A.R. 912 Professional Control Centre and the phono stage is the E.A.R. 324. Both the phono and CD are balanced sources. Also used was the ModWright Sony 9100 CD/SACD/DVD with newly improved tube power supply modified by the brilliant Dan Wright. Amplifiers are two stereo E.A.R. 890 Tube Amps switched to mono operation producing 150 watts each in pure class A power. The speakers are bi-wired in this configuration. Complimenting the system is a Rel Studio III sub-woofer with crossover set to 22Hz, 180-degree phase, and with Rel signal sensing hookup from the amplifiers.
The Elation wires arrived and were quickly installed. Balanced interconnects were placed in all positions except from tonearms where RCA connectors were used. Six Elation AC cables replaced the six Emotion AC cables. Two Elation speaker cables were utilized per side to connect the Birds. I retained all current tube compliments and types within each component.
Elation, like all its siblings, comes from the factory 90% run-in. 48 hours of use finishes the job. No cooking or other heroic break-in activities are necessary. To quote Joe Kubala, CEO of Kubala-Sosna, "Just hook them up right out of the box and listen for 15 minutes. If you don't like what you hear, just send them back!"
Though not the whole story by any means, the overall definition achieved by the Elation matches that of either the Nordost Odin, Tara Zero, or Jorma Prime which all cost significantly more per meter. The Elation has substantially more definition than offered by the Emotion and I placed the Emotion as still superior overall to the Nordost Vahalla. I have been travelling around Los Angeles dropping a meter or two of Elation into Odin, Zero, and [partially] Prime wired systems. The character of the sound changes [and mostly improves], but there is NO loss in detail. In my system fully wired in Elation, I have never before heard such definition. Plus, I believe, as do my audiophile friends in unanimity, that not one of us has heard a system more defined anywhere even at stratospheric prices than my system wired in Elation. At $6000 per meter for the Elation, its price is less than half Odin or Zero. Not a reason to rejoice, but interesting for those who want the very best and will pay the cost.
Compared to the Emotion, I'd place the improved Elation at 30-35% more overall definition assuming you have components and speakers revealing enough to allow for this phenomenal level of reproduction. Same jump in performance with the almost identical sounding speaker cables. [I'll say more about the speaker cables in a follow-up.] Ah, but there's more to the story than just definition!
Timbre and More
I can speak with 45 years of audiophile cable auditioning experience, that to my ears, the Elation is the King of Timbre. Compared to systems wired in 100% flagship cable brands that I have personally spent time with, the Elation bests them all for reproducing harmonious organic musicality with top sources while remaining utterly neutral overall. Most other high-end cables that preach neutrality do it with a subtle reduction of musical colors… like turning down the contrast and color saturation in video to get less noise. But less is not always more in audio reproduction!
Note: Though I have heard individual links of Jorma Prime, I have never heard a system fully wired in Prime as I have the other top brands. [The Birds are wired with Jorma cable which may give some advantage to the Jormas.] I hope to hear a system 100% wired in Prime at some point and will revisit this at that time. For now, ranking of Jorma Prime is conditional.
The Elation uniquely retains the full-bodied, full color beauty of analogue richness and provides ultimate definition. As much as I like Odin and Zero, neither matches this feat in any top system I've heard to date. Yes, it could be the gear and not the wire… but, unless ARC, VTL, Meridian, Boulder, Magico, Wilson and the like are less detailed and realistic, it's probably not the equipment at fault.
I listen to vocal and acoustic instrumental music for most of my evaluations and the realism of reproduction with the Elations is simply more palpable. The "alive-ness" in the room is astounding. Textural nuance is unsurpassed. Reproduction through the one inch diamond tweeters of my Marten Birds is majestic and supremely smooth and delicate. The mids are sophisticated and imaging spot on perfect. The bass is tight and deep and oh so detailed. This is the best bass qualitatively and quantitatively I've previously achieved in my listening room. Micro dynamics were very nearly as thrilling as macro dynamics!
The Elations offer linearity from top to bottom unmatched in my experience. No bumps or lumps… more evenness overall than even previous efforts by Kubala-Sosna. Plus, I detect no subtle reduction of dynamics as heard with the Odin in the lower mids and upper bass where they also imparted a bit of added dryness. I did not hear the subtle upper mid bump of the Zero along with its slight glare. The Elations showed me near flawless smoothness and sophistication without sonic signature. What an achievement!
My investigation into today's very top cables reveals to me that electrically most are functionally perfect and current lab measurements fail to predict their musical qualities. Their sonic character is due more and more to the musical tastes of their designers. I am not surprised that much of the equipment we so respect for their musical faithfulness comes from Europe where unamplified acoustic instrumental performances are so readily available. In this case, Kubala-Sosna designers live in New Jersey and build the cables in the USA, but love to record live, unamplified jazz performers. This gestalt of live music is most apparent with the Elation cables.
Ambience and Imaging
By removing another layer of subtle sonic grain, the Elation enhances imaging and ambience retrieval. I noticed a longer decay time of drums, trumpets, and voices in most top recordings. I did not notice any coloration that should not have been there. Image specificity and size were just right. The speakers disappear and the performances come to life. As much as I admire the Emotions, the Elations were even better. Airiness, which gives you clues as to recording space and hall character, was more easily heard. The drama of the musical event was bigger and bolder and more in the room than with any other cable I've tried.
CD vs. Phono
With Elation on board, I heard the amazing clarity of the E.A.R. Acute CD player with almost analogue-like sound from its superior upsampling DACS and its Paravicini transformer/tube amplification. With Reference Recordings, Yarlung, Telarc, and others, the performances were more stunning than digital should be and is most of the time. The Acute appears more even natured and sophisticated with the Elation… and it could have gone either way. I clearly heard the affect of the Bedini Clarifier and the L'Art du Son CD Enhancer. With the Elation, everything matters!
The ModWright Sony 9100 again proved its mettle by sounding glorious. Maybe a bit behind the much more expensive Acute for CD playback, the ModWright has never performed better with SACDs. There's something sinful about using a $6000 cable with a $4300 player. In SACD mode, the ModWright continues to astound all listeners. In its latest version, the unit is strikingly alive sounding and is a marriage made in heaven with the Kubala-Sosna. The Elation helps prove to me that spending more on SACD playback than that of the ModWright may just not be necessary.
The Koetsu Rosewood Signature sounded more majestic and alive. The ZYX Airy III was even LESS likable and colder. There was plenty of definition for sure, but no heart and soul before, and less now. The Koetsu was phenomenal sounding and more detailed than ever before. What delicious realistic musical sound! The Elation is the best tonearm cable [assuming you have RCA connectors] I've ever heard. It won't fix a rowdy sounding moving coil cart, but it will allow it to yield up its magic if it exists! The Elation truly proved its neutrality without subtraction or coloration within the phono circuit.
AC Cords
Not cheap for sure, but these Elations work and sound pretty much like their sibling interconnects. I don't know why, but everywhere they were used, the sonics became cleaner, clearer, and more right sounding. These are powerful AC cables and are suitable for power hungry amps and low power phono stages as well. They purify definition, enhance ambience, and provide oomph to the musical drive of the performance. I could not find an application where they did not excel. They had comparable dynamics to the Kimber Palladium and Shunyata Python, but with smoother and more elegant highs/upper mids. They are more even natured top to bottom than the Emotion AC, which sound somewhat warmer and richer. The Elations sounded more dynamic and somewhat lusher than the Odin Power cord. I prefer the Elation power cord overall to anything right now even in systems where Kubala-Sosna interconnects are not used.
In Conclusion
There is much more to say and do with the Elations so you may expect a major follow-up. Meanwhile, the Elations will become my new high-end interconnect, loudspeaker, and AC cable reference. Based on comparisons in my number one reference system and drop-in comparisons in many other reference systems with Odin, Zero, Prime, Select, and more as references, I am now prepared to elevate the new and quite phenomenal Kubala-Sosna Elation Interconnects, Speaker Cables, and AC Cords to State of the Art. When used throughout an entire system, they are unsurpassed in my experience. When used in conjunction with other top cables, they most often improve the performance of that system in significant ways. We can be happy that they are not only one of the best, but also the least expensive in their supreme category. That's some kind of progress. My congratulations to Kubala-Sosna and their design team for elevating my listening experience to new celestial heights of realism with the Elation. Recommended for those that seek the ultimate reproduction of their music where cost is no object. Robert H. Levi
Revised interconnect rankings to include the latest listening sessions with cables ranked by reviewer preference within price categories as follows:
Over $4000 per meter
$2000 - 4000 per meter
$1000 - 2000 per meter
$450 - 1000 per meter
$250 - 450 per meter
Under $250
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The good news is that most home office equipment can be offset against tax if you use it to earn income. It's worth checking the details with an accountant before you start spending. Some experts recommend you lease computer hardware instead of purchasing because of the tax advantages.
Unless you plan to do specialist work - for example designing Web sites - you could probably initially buy no more than a very modest desktop computer, a printer, a modem and some straightforward software applications.
You may also need software specific to your business. For example, if you're a musician you might need a music authoring program such as Cubase, if you design Web sites you'll need something like Dreamweaver or if you're an architect you'll need a CAD (computer-aided design) package.
It's a good idea to start by looking at the applications and work backwards to determine the best hardware for the job. Typically, you might expect to write documents, crunch a few numbers, create simple Web pages, surf the Internet and perhaps run a small-business accounting package.
You'll be able to perform most of these tasks with a single application package such as Microsoft Office XP. Office is pretty much the standard in the corporate world and because most workers are either employed directly or indirectly by larger firms, it often makes sense to build a home office around the same software as the big guys. This makes it easier to work with people in other offices.
However, there are alternatives.
If you run a business you'll probably need to track bank accounts, create invoices and worry about GST. This means you need some accounting software such as MYOB or Quicken. Ask your accountant about specifics, but for many small businesses, the simpler accounting programs will handle most of your needs.
According to Microsoft, the minimum hardware requirement for Office XP is a computer with a Pentium 133MHz processor and at least 64MB of memory. This kind of system should also run a small accounts program without any trouble.
This requirement is so modest; it is considerably less than the cheapest new systems. Today's new PC prices start at about $1200 for a 1.3GHz processor and 256MB of memory. That price will also buy a CD-ROM drive, a 20GB hard disk and a modem. It's worth upgrading the CD-ROM to a CD-RW, that way you can make backup discs of your important files in case disaster strikes and you lose data off your hard disk. Alternatively, consider buying a Zip drive or another backup technology such as removable hard drives.
As with everything else, your choice of printer depends on the applications you expect to run. Inkjets are cheap to buy, but are relatively expensive to operate. On the other hand, many inkjets can do wonders with photographs and colour graphic printing. If you expect to print a lot of text documents, then choose a laser printer - it's more expensive to buy but cheaper to run and it will print faster. If you expect to do a lot of colour printing, then choose a colour laser.
A lot of people swear by the all-in-one printers that also act as fax machines and scanners, which can save room in the office.
A fax machine used to be considered an important part of a home office. They can still be useful, but fax traffic peaked in 2000 and is now in rapid decline as people switch to email. You may find a separate fax machine is unnecessary because if you send or receive only the occasional fax, you can use your PC, a modem and some suitable fax software. At about $120, Symantec's Winfax Pro software costs a lot less than a dedicated fax machine.
But if you need to send hard copy or receive many faxes, you probably will need to spend a few hundred dollars on a separate fax machine. Plain-paper fax machines cost a little more to run, but are a much better option than those using rolls of thermal paper.
If you buy a bare-bones computer to run Microsoft Office XP, your hardware may cost less than your software. But there are ways to reduce the initial outlay on software. According to Microsoft, the list price for a complete version of Office XP Professional Edition is $1288. However, you can reduce your upfront expenditure considerably by opting for a one-year subscription to the software at $285 for the Small Business Edition.
In fact, Microsoft Office is probably overkill for most users and there are alternatives. You'll get most of Office's functionality and 100 per cent compatibility by opting for the cheaper Microsoft Works Suite - list price $229 but often on sale at about $180. Another option is Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition, which sells for about $500. In fact, these days computer companies often bundle one of these programs with their hardware; it's not exactly free, but the cost is minimal.
If you have a computer and you are financially stretched, you could try free software. For example, Sun Microsystem's StarOffice is a surprisingly good suite delivering most of the functionality found in Office. It is possible to download a free office suite like StarOffice from the Internet, but the files tend to be large so the process is slow and painful. On the other hand, you can often pick up copies of these programs on magazine cover discs for a few dollars.
In today's business world, not having email is often like not having a phone. Dial-up Internet access using the phone network looks cheap, but if you spend a lot of time online or need to move big files around, a broadband ADSL or cable account makes more sense. One advantage of broadband is that it doesn't tie up your phone - so you can stay connected and talk to people at the same time. If you choose dial-up access, consider installing a second phone line to connect with it.
You'll need to think about your system's security. Anti-virus software is one of the best investments you'll make. If you have a broadband connection then you'll also need a firewall to protect against hackers.
Finally, if you run more than one computer, it's a good idea to run a small network. Cheap home network kits take the pain out of connecting computers so they can swap files and share printers, broadband connections and other equipment. Expect to pay about $100 for each machine for wire-based networking. Better still, choose a wireless network; this will cost a little more, but can make life a lot easier.
Home offices on a budget
The basic set-up: up to $3000
The essential ingredients for those on a tight budget. If you shop around you can save money by buying a similar set-up as a bundled package.
Clever and comfortable: up to $10,000
Here we've chosen a more powerful PC with a flat-screen monitor. There's an all-in-one printer, broadband modem, the full version of Microsoft Office XP, a database, basic accounting software and Internet security. A back-up drive is essential for serious home office users.
The super hub: up to $20,000
Our money-no-object set-up has a faster PC with a bigger flat screen and connects a second computer via a wireless network. There's a colour laser printer and a hardware firewall to protect against hackers. We've kept the anti-virus software and the backup drive, and we've added some Web design software to build the company's Web site.
According to a 2000 survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 21 per cent of all employed people perform some or all of their work from home. People working at home tend either to be older or they have children under 15. Most people working from home are managers, professionals and associate professionals.
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I am considering purchasing the sigma 17-70 2.8-4 and was wondering how the dof compares to something like the 24-105 L lens. They both have almost the same fl and aperture as the 17-70 on apsc is aprox. 25.5-105mm.
can anybody tell me how they would compare dof wise. I think they should be similar, please tell me if I am wrong.
Are we talking about the Canon 24-105 f4L IS here? Only I notice that almost all of your posts have been on the Pentax SLR forum and I don't know whether Pentax also has a 24-105mm lens.
You can check the DoF of the two lenses here: depth of field calculator
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