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Travis John Severtson, 24, Bovey, was convicted July 26, in Morrison County District Court with one felony count each of fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle and the theft of a motor vehicle.
On Jan. 21, the Morrison County Sheriff's Office was informed of a vehicle pursuit from Aitkin County that was entering Morrison County.
Officers attempted to intercept the stolen vehicle, but learned the suspect had stolen another.
Stop sticks were set up on Nature Road to stop the vehicle. The suspect managed to drive around them and enter the city of Royalton.
From there, the vehicle and police entered Highway 10 and the pursuit continued eastward at speeds exceeding 90 miles per hour.
At one point, the suspect smashed into the deputy's vehicle, attempting to force him off the road. He later stopped in Benton County when he ran out of gas.
For the first count of fleeing a peace officer, Severtson was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison and was fined $1,964.61 which included restitution.
For the second count of theft, Severtson was sentenced to 13 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution which is to be determined.
The two prison sentences will be served concurrently.
Dismissed against Severtson was one count each of second degree assault with a dangerous weapon and first degree damage to property.
Assistant County Attorney Todd Kosovich said the charges were dismissed when Severtson pleaded guilty to the two other felonies.


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Five Golden Things – Paul Graham Raven
posted by Karen Burnham at Wednesday 6 February 2013 @ 5:01 pm BST
Contact Highs: Five Fine Writers of Altered States
Here we go, then: five writers who, I think, write drugs right. I could have added a few more, and I'm sure there must be more that I've not yet encountered — I'm disappointed to see I've produced a list of white male writers, for a start, and have only my ignorance for an excuse — and so I'd be very grateful for suggestions so I can broaden my reading.
Rudy Rucker
It wasn't the best-kept of secrets, but Rucker's recent autobiography, Nested Scrolls, revealed him as not just a sometime dabbler in psychedelics, but a now-reformed weedhead of considerable tenure. Rucker's work has always been replete with drugs as metaphors and novums alike, but his portrayals of them — like his portrayals of pretty much everything — are generally playful, exaggerated for effect.
But I'd argue that the effect which Rucker chases with those exaggerations is, intentionally or otherwise, the affect of the habitual stoner: the endless chain of "Dude, whoa" moments; the plots that turn weird on a whimsical and easily-distracted dime; the curious and questioning odd-ball outlooks from which his characters view his worlds, each other and themselves. Add to that the sunny So-Cal simplicity of his style — like R. Crumb got set loose on a Disney-budget project, all bright colours with gnarly fractal detail — and reading Rucker feels like being spun a tall and day-glo yarn by some tousled beach-bum genius who's few big bongs past the boundaries of consensus reality, y'know?
Be sure to have ice cream in the fridge, is all I'm saying.
Philip K Dick
Dick is a literally tragic example of authentic drug fiction, as his unparalleled ability to convey the paranoiac solipsism of the amphetamine addict stemmed from living it, a lifestyle that contributed to his eventual (self)destruction. Correlation and causation are muddled here, however; it's clear from early accounts of Dick's life, and even from his earliest fictions, that those mindstates were innate in him — a schizoid consciousness, for whom amphetamines perhaps felt like a spiritual vindication, or even a returning home.
What is less conjectural are the number of paranoia-driven plots and hyperintrospective identity crises at the heart of Dick's fictional (and exegetic) output where appearances only ever exist to deceive, where one is always both watching and being watched (and watching oneself from within), and where no one can be trusted — least of all oneself. This paranoia chimes with the reds-under-the-bed McCarthyism of Cold War America; as such, much criticism of Dick's early work frames the tone of his work in those terms.
But it is worth considering that this was the same period as the golden age of "Mother's little helpers" — the casual and profligate dispensation of amphetamines and similar stimulants to the American populace. Like most drugs now on the controlled lists, amphetamines had a lengthy reign as cure-all wonder-chemicals from the bounteous labs of Big Pharma — and while I'm not sufficiently paranoiac myself as to suggest conspiracy, it surely merits considering that, as a result, McCarthy and his followers — and, as a side-effect, Dick's fiction — may well have had a fertile cultural furrow in which to sow suspicion and fear, hmm?
Well, you can't prove they didn't plan it, can you? 23 skidoo, man. Keep watching the skies.
Dick's body of work stands as a caution, not just at the level of the individual narratives — which, whether directly involving a fnord drug as a symbol or prop or not, are deeply rooted in altered states of mind, however caused — but also as a grand narrative, as the abstracted fnord fictionalisation of Dick's intellectual parabola. Like Icarus, he placed too much faith in false wings.
William Gibson
Cyberpunk always had an astringent phenylalanine whiff about it, but Gibson's addict characters — of which there are more than you may remember or realise — are never stereotypes. Another way to put it might be to say that Gibson understands the difference between the rare but highly visible amok addict — the addict whose impulse control and circumstances are both so blighted that zi descends rapidly into crime, severe illness or both — and the vastly more commonplace functional addict. The functional addict has an otherwise normal life, of which a reliable supply of their drug of choice is a vital but elided part; their addictions are often invisible to those around them.
Note how often in Gibson's work a character's addiction is used as a primary vector of control or manipulation by those to whom they are useful. In cyborg theory we can describe a drug as a tool, an extension of our baseline human abilities, but Gibson shows the double-edgedness of such tools. Drugs are a metatool, a tool that can shape its user whilst it shapes the user's world, making a tool of the user.
The true power of drugs lies not in taking them, then — though there may well be gains to be had from that, illusory or otherwise — but in controlling access to them. Dependency on drugs leads to a dependency upon the hierarchy down which the product flows. Even in the rhizomatic global cultures of Gibson's novels, the functional addict is always already enslaved, always at the bottom of somebody else's private pyramid of clout, an asset to be passed or traded between clients and associates as required, a human resource with a built-in and fully transferable loyalty program.
But zoom out from the explicitly addict characters, and look beyond: everyone in a Gibson novel is caught up in some sort of hierarchy of control, somehow enslaved through their desires — sometimes willingly so, sometimes not so much — by someone else who's wired a little more tightly and thickly to the distant off-page deities of globalised capital, legally or otherwise.
Gibson's addicts are inevitable products of their culture, and we are all Gibson's addicts.
Irvine Welsh
In his earlier work, especially, Welsh scores double points for the peerless realism of both his portrayal of the Ecstasy culture of the UK in the 1990s, and that of the drug experiences which were at its heart.
The latter stems from Welsh's command of vernacular voice and subjective narrative, the way he lets his characters chatter their way through the peaks and troughs of the physiological and psychological rollercoaster, letting the reader eavesdrop on their stimulant-addled internal monologue. Of special note is the jolting and hard-to-parse account of Lloyd's LSD adventure in "The Undefeated" (the third story collected in Ecstasy), where the narrative's vortex of time-shattered intro(per)spective is further complicated by the narrator's Glaswegian slang and speech patterns; a masterclass in uncanny and disorienting technique. (See also, of course, the cut-up works of William Burroughs.)
But the former is important, too. Welsh's critics in the conservative press loved to hound him for his perceived "Glorification" of both rave-scene drug culture and the lifestyles of heroin addicts, but in doing so demonstrated their inability (or perhaps refusal) to understand either; Welsh's most positive depictions of drug culture were always knowing and ironised, for a start, and what chimed most with the rave culture audience that propelled Welsh to fame were not the occasional euphoric experiences of his characters, but their dread of the grey, grim grind of the work-a-day world to which their comedowns were always-already returning them.
Jeff Noon
The writers above have worked hard to portray drugs in their writing, but Noon is among the few I've read who have attempted to drug language and literature itself. (Again, see Burroughs.)
That needs unpacking, perhaps, so let's try this: rather than attempting to explain them, Noon's work consists of repeated attempts to make his imaginary drugs operate upon the text itself, as well as on the world within the text. In his debut novel Vurt, for instance, the titular feather-based drug-tech fragments and abstracts and alienates its users, the remixed Manchester in which they live, the narrative's reality and the narrative itself; vurt contains the possibility of itself, contains its own universe(s), its own self-referential logic; the feathers can operate upon one another, be used within one another. It's feathers all the way down.
All of which somewhat undermines his place on a list of realist writing about drugs, wouldn't you think? But no: there is a higher, deeper truth in Noon's work, which is that consensus reality, our supposed baseline of experience, is subjective and relative in exactly the same way as the altered state of the user; the realisation that, in an important but invisible way, there's no stable place, no "Normal" to come down to.
I took Vurt one night back in 1994, and I swear I'm still flying.
Paul Graham Raven is a freelance writer and researcher.
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Comment from Paul Weimer (@princejvstin)
Time February 6, 2013 at 5:22 pm
Its a poor world next door,where Dick did not go down the rabbit hole,. and produce his oeuvre, but he was probably a happier person in that world.
Comment from Ross
Time February 6, 2013 at 8:19 pm
Interesting that you mention William S. Burroughs and his "cut-up" technique, but don't include him among those who "write drugs right." Burroughs wrote drugs very right, indeed; he belongs at the top of the list in my view. I think his buddy Jack Kerouac also effectively conveyed a drug-altered sensibility in much of his work.
Comment from Ross
Time February 6, 2013 at 8:24 pm
My God, let us not forget Brian Aldiss's classic BAREFOOT IN THE HEAD, a novel that very powerfully captures the psychedelicized mind-state.
Comment from Fabio Fernandes
Time February 7, 2013 at 2:41 pm
Excellent Haraway-Jameson take on William Gibson's characters and their recurrent networks of addictions, Paul. Loved it.
Comment from Paul Graham Raven
Time February 7, 2013 at 6:09 pm
Ross: I didn't pick Burroughs because I thought him the most obvious of obvious choices, given the topic. Which is not to sell him short in any way; he's a big favourite and influence on my own writing, for a start, and I did make a point of raising his ghost twice, so as to acknowledge the way he looms over the drug fiction subgenre. :) Barefoot is an Aldiss I haven't read; I shall have to bump it up the queue. Thanks for the tip!
Fabio: thanks, man. I really need to make the time to read Jameson, because everyone keeps telling me how much of an obvious influence he is on my criticism! But then I suppose it's somehow authentically postmodern (if that's not a total oxymoron) to have absorbed his perspective second hand through the texts of others… ;)
Comment from Ross
Time February 8, 2013 at 2:00 am
I always thought an anthology of SF "drug" stories would be a great idea. (For me, the first story that always comes to mind in this connection is Norman Spinrad's "No Direction Home.") I'm not aware that any such anthology exists among the mountains of themed SF anthologies. Maybe there is one (or more), though.
Comment from manglar
Time February 10, 2013 at 12:30 am
Anna Kavan's surreal "Ice" is a novel clearly influenced by her drug experiences, if not ostensibly about drug use.
Comment from gottacook
Time February 11, 2013 at 11:08 pm
This analysis of Dick's writing, drug use, and paranoia misses the fact that at times he displayed a sense of humor about the whole thing. This is not only fairly well documented, but also appears in his writing about his own work, as for example in the afterword to Ballantine's Best of PKD anthology in 1977:
"The question I always found myself asking was, What is it *really*? It only looks like crab grass. That's what they want us to think it is. One day the crab grass suits will fall off and their true identity will be revealed. By then the Pentagon will be full of crab grass and it'll be too late. The crab grass, or what we took to be crab grass, will dictate terms. My earlier stories had such premises. Later, when my personal life became complicated and full of unfortunate convolutions, worries about crab grass got lost somewhere. I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but up from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you."
Comment from Gregory Benford
Time February 13, 2013 at 3:49 am
I notice that embedded in Dick and Gibson is a reflexive paranoia: somebody else is running my life.
"That's what they want us to think it is."–a classic Dick line, inherited by Gibson. These are essentially conspiracy theories. So is most of Marxism–unconscious conspiracy, for Marxists, but still a dark plot.
Problem is, where's the evidence? Not much. We all pursue our interests, sure, and some are more powerful. Drugs are not a great basis for worldviews.
Comment from Paul Graham Raven
Time February 13, 2013 at 2:43 pm
Well, if we're recycling aphorisms: "just because you're paranoid / don't mean they're not after you". :)
More seriously, it may well be valid to claim that one's sense that "somebody else is running my life" is paranoiac, but when enough of the population of a place thinks that way, then the results will be indistinguishable from those you'd observe if there really *was* a conspiracy. (Which is kinda the lesson of RAW's Illuminatus!, distilled down from three books to three lines.)
And while capitalism as she is played may not actually *be* a conspiracy, it sure *feels* like one to an awful lot of people; that's what the Occupy/1% riff was tapping into, after all, and as we students of narrative know well, what a person believes to be true is at least as powerful an influence on their behaviour as what is actually true, if not more so. Or, to put it another way: people default to something that looks like paranoia, I suspect, because it's a slightly more comforting conclusion than "the world's a gyre of random selfishness that just happens to have screwed me harder than the guy next door". Given your comments on Marxism, there, I gather I'm unlikely to make a successful defence of the notion that the "conspiracy" is the thing we call privilege… but that is, nonetheless, where I stand.
"We all pursue our interests, sure, and some are more powerful."
Do you mean that some interests are more powerful, or some people? ;)
"Drugs are not a great basis for worldviews."
Nor are religions or economic texts, but they're still holding their own! (And at least with drugs you can wake up the next day and decide "nah, that's not a long-term solution"; religion and economics alike are demonstrably less forgiving in that respect… :) )
Comment from Ross
Time February 13, 2013 at 7:35 pm
"That's what they want us to think it is." A classic Dick line, indeed, and Gregory Benford attempts to dismiss it as paranoia. I guess he's never heard of LIES or thinks they never emanate from the powerful. So who's divorced from reality, Dick or Benford?
With regard to Dick's "paranoia," Norman Spinrad said the following: "Everything Phil thought about the government always turned out to be true. Anyone who really saw what was going on in the early Seventies would be regarded as paranoid and crazy until Watergate broke." Source: DIVINE INVASIONS: A LIFE OF PHILIP K. DICK by Lawarence Sutin (New York: Citadel Twiligt, 1991, p. 184).
By the way, conspiracies actually occur in the real world. People are frequently convicted for criminal conspiracies in courts of law. I suppose that might be news to some people.

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Table Of Contents
Cisco 12012 Gigabit Switch Router Blower Module Replacement Instructions
Preventing Electrostatic Discharge Damage
Removing and Replacing a Blower Module
Cisco 12012 Gigabit Switch Router Blower Module Replacement Instructions
Product Number: GSR12-BLOWER=
Document Order Number: DOC-784335=
This document contains instructions for installing or replacing a blower module in the Cisco 12012 Gigabit Switch Router (GSR).
The sections in this document include the following:
•Removing and Replacing a Blower Module
Product Overview
The Cisco 12012 has two card cages; the upper card cage and the lower card cage. (Refer to .) The upper card cage has 12 user-configurable slots available for line cards and a route processor (RP). One additional slot (rightmost slot) in the upper card cage is non-configurable; it is reserved for an alarm card. The line cards and the RP are not slot dependent; you can install the line cards and the RP in any of the first 12 available slots.
Figure 1 Cisco 12012—Front View
The lower card cage, located behind the air filter, has five horizontal slots for switch fabric cards.
Below the lower card cage is a power supply bay. Up to four AC-input power supplies or two DC-input power supplies can be installed in the bay.
The Cisco 12012 has two blower modules; one located above the upper card cage and one located below the power supply bay. (Refer to .) They draw cooling air in through both card cages and the power supply bay to maintain acceptable operating temperatures for the internal components.
The blower module is a sheet metal enclosure containing three fans, a controller card, and two faceplate LEDs. Each blower module slides into and out the front of the frame on two rails attached to the frame. The blower modules are secured to the frame with two captive screws. Electrical connections between the blower module and the system are made through a connector at the back of the blower module.
The top and bottom blower modules (refer to ) are identical and are interchangeable. A snap-on plastic front cover is mounted over the blower module faceplate. Two blower module LEDs are visible through the front cover.
Figure 2 Cisco 12012 Blower Module
The blower module is available as a spare part. If any of the internal parts fail (fans, controller card, or LEDs), you must remove and replace the blower module.
The blower modules draw room air in through an air filter on the front of the lower card cage (refer to .) The top blower module draws the air up through the upper card cage and out through exhaust vents on the back of the blower module; the bottom blower module draws the air down through the lower card cage and power supply bay, and out through exhaust vents on the back of the blower module.
Figure 3 Internal Air Flow—Side View
A controller card in the blower module monitors and controls the operation of the three variable-speed fans. The variable-speed feature enables quieter operation by running the fans at the speed required to maintain an acceptable operating temperature inside the card cage assembly.
Temperature sensors throughout the system monitor the internal air temperature. When the ambient air temperature is within normal operating range, the fans operate at their lowest speed, which is 55 percent of the maximum speed.
If the air temperature inside the card cage assembly exceeds the normal range, the blower module controller card increases the fan speed to provide additional cooling air to the internal components. If the temperature continues to rise, the blower module controller card linearly increases the fan speed until the fans reach 100 percent (full speed). If the internal air temperatures continue to rise beyond the specified threshold, the system environmental monitor shuts down all internal power to prevent equipment damage from excessive heat.
If the system detects that one of three fans within a blower module has failed, it displays a warning message on the console screen. In addition, the two remaining fans go to full speed to compensate for the loss of the one fan. If a second fan fails, an overtemperature condition in the card cage assembly is likely to occur.
Blower Module LEDs
The blower module has two LEDs (red and green) on the faceplate. (Refer to .) The green LED, when on, indicates that the blower module's three fans are operating normally. The red LED indicates that a fault has been detected in the blower module. This fault can be one or more stopped fans, one or more fans running below speed, or the controller card has a fault.
Safety Guidelines
Before you begin this installation, review the safety guidelines in this section to avoid injuring yourself or damaging the equipment.
In addition, review the safety warnings listed in the document Regulatory Compliance and Safety Information for the Cisco 12012 Gigabit Switch Router (Document Number 78-4347-xx) that supports your Cisco 12012 before installing, configuring, or maintaining the router.
Safety with Equipment
The following guidelines will help ensure your safety and protect the equipment. This list is not inclusive of all potentially hazardous situations, so be alert.
•Always disconnect all power cords and interface cables before moving the system.
•Keep tools and components away from walk areas.
•Do not work alone if potentially hazardous conditions exist.
•Do not perform any action that creates a potential hazard to people or makes the equipment unsafe.
•Carefully examine your work area for possible hazards such as moist floors, ungrounded power extension cables, and missing safety grounds.
Safety with Electricity
The line cards, RP, switch fabric cards, alarm card, blower modules, and redundant power supplies are designed to be removed and replaced while the system is operating without presenting an electrical hazard or damage to the system.
Follow these basic guidelines when working with any electrical equipment:
•Before beginning any procedures requiring access to the interior of the Cisco 12012, locate the emergency power-off switch for the room in which you are working.
•Look carefully for possible hazards in your work area, such as moist floors, ungrounded power extension cables, and missing safety grounds.
•If an electrical accident occurs, proceed as follows:
•Use caution; do not become a victim yourself. Disconnect power to the system.
•If possible, send another person to get medical aid. Otherwise, assess the condition of the victim and then call for help.
•Determine if the person needs rescue breathing or external cardiac compressions; then take appropriate action.
•Disconnect all power and external cables before installing or removing a router.
•Never assume that power has been disconnected from a circuit; always check.
•Do not perform any action that creates a potential hazard to people or makes the equipment unsafe.
•Never install equipment that appears damaged.
In addition, use the guidelines that follow when working with any equipment that is disconnected from a power source, but still connected to telephone or network wiring:
•Never install telephone wiring during a lightning storm.
•Never install telephone jacks in wet locations unless the jack is specifically designed for wet locations.
•Never touch uninsulated telephone wires or terminals unless the telephone line has been disconnected at the network interface.
•Use caution when installing or modifying telephone lines.
Preventing Electrostatic Discharge Damage
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) damage, which can occur when electronic boards or components are handled improperly, can result in intermittent or complete failures.
Following are guidelines for preventing ESD damage:
•Always use an ESD-preventive wrist strap or ankle strap and ensure that it makes good skin contact.
•When removing or installing a blower module, connect the equipment end of a ground strap to one of the two ESD connection sockets on the front edge of the upper card cage, or to bare metal on the frame.
•If you are returning a replaced component to the factory, immediately place it in a static shielding bag to avoid ESD damage.
•The wrist strap only protects the component from ESD voltages on the body; ESD voltages on clothing can still cause damage.
CautionFor safety, periodically check the resistance value of the antistatic strap. The measurement should be between 1 and 10 megohms.
Tools and Parts Required
You need the following tools and parts to remove and replace a blower module:
•1/4-inch flat-blade screwdriver
•ESD-preventive wrist strap
•The replacement blower module (Product Number GSR12-BLOWER=) and the old blower module front cover.
Removing and Replacing a Blower Module
This section provides the procedures you need to remove and replace a blower module.
The Cisco 12012 supports online insertion and removal of field replaceable units (FRUs), which means you can remove and replace a blower module while the Cisco 12012 remains powered up.
CautionWith the Cisco 12012 powered on and one of the blower modules removed, all of the cooling for that half of the system is lost. Remove and replace the defective blower module before the system overheats.
CautionAlways wear an antistatic wrist strap to prevent ESD when removing and replacing a blower module.
Removing a Blower Module
Perform the following steps to remove a blower module:
Step 1 Attach an ESD wrist strap to your wrist and to one of the two ESD connection sockets located on the front edges of the upper card cage or to bare metal on the frame.
Step 2 Grasp both edges of the blower module front cover and pull straight out to detach the cover from the blower module. (Refer to .) Set the front cover aside.
Figure 4 Removing the Blower Module Front Cover—Top Blower Module
Step 3 Loosen the two captive screws on the blower module faceplate. (Refer to .)
Figure 5 Removing the Blower Module—Top Blower Module
CautionThe blower module weighs 22 lb (10 kg). Use two hands when handling a blower module.
Step 4 Grasp the blower module handle and pull it straight out to disconnect the blower module from the frame connector. Slide the blower module halfway out of the frame.
Step 5 Place your free hand underneath the blower module for support and slide the blower module completely out of the frame.
If you plan to return the old blower module to the factory, repackage it in the shipping container you received with the replacement blower module.
Replacing a Blower Module
Perform the following steps to replace a blower module:
CautionThe blower module weighs 22 lb (10 kg). Use two hands when handling a blower module.
Step 1 Attach an ESD wrist strap to your wrist and to one of the two ESD connection sockets located on the front edges of the upper card cage or to bare metal on the frame.
Step 2 Using two hands to support the blower module, orient the replacement blower module in front of the frame so that the blower module connector (recessed in the back corner of the blower module) is aligned with the connector mounted on the back corner of the frame.
Note When you install the top blower module, the blower module connector should be on the right side (facing the frame). When you install the bottom blower module, the blower module connector should be on the left side (facing the frame).
Step 3 Slide the blower module on the frame rails into the frame. Stop when the blower module connector makes contact with the frame connector.
Step 4 Firmly push on the blower module handle to seat the blower module connector in the frame connector. (When completely seated, the blower module faceplate flanges should be in contact with the frame.)
Note All electrical and control line connections are made automatically when the two connectors mate. The blower module will immediately power up.
Step 5 Tighten the two captive screws on the blower module faceplate.
Step 6 Position the blower module front cover over the blower module faceplate. Snap the front cover onto the blower module faceplate.
This completes the blower module replacement procedure.
Proceed to the following section, "Checking the Installation," to verify that the removal and replacement procedure was performed correctly.
Checking the Installation
Complete the following steps to verify that the replacement blower module is operating properly:
Step 1 Check the following components to make sure that they are secure:
•The blower module is inserted all the way into the frame and the two captive screws are tightened.
•The blower module front cover is securely installed on the front of the blower module.
Step 2 Observe the green OK LED visible through the blower module front cover. The LED should come on as soon as the blower module is installed and power is applied to the system.
Step 3 Observe the red fail LED visible through the blower module front cover:
•The LED should remain off, indicating the three fans are operating normally.
•If the red LED comes on, check that the blower module is completely installed in the frame. Try reseating the blower module.
•If the red LED does come on, and the blower module is completely installed in the frame, the replacement blower module might be faulty or the frame connector might be damaged. Swap the top and bottom blower modules and see if the problem is with the blower module or with the frame connector.
Step 4 Listen for the sound of the fans in the blower module. In noisy environments, it might be difficult to hear the fans operating. Place your hand at the back of the frame behind the blower module and feel for the airflow generated by the fans in the module.
If the blower module fails to operate properly, contact a service representative for assistance.
FCC Class A Compliance
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio-frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference, in which case users will be required to correct the interference at their own expense.
You can determine whether your equipment is causing interference by turning it off. If the interference stops, it was probably caused by the Cisco equipment or one of its peripheral devices. If the equipment causes interference to radio or television reception, try to correct the interference by using one or more of the following measures:
•Turn the television or radio antenna until the interference stops.
•Move the equipment to one side or the other of the television or radio.
•Move the equipment farther away from the television or radio.
•Plug the equipment into an outlet that is on a different circuit from the television or radio. (That is, make certain the equipment and the television or radio are on circuits controlled by different circuit breakers or fuses.)
Modifications to this product not authorized by Cisco Systems, Inc. could void the FCC approval and negate your authority to operate the product.
Cisco Connection Online
Cisco Connection Online (CCO) is Cisco Systems' primary, real-time support channel. Maintenance customers and partners can self-register on CCO to obtain additional information and services.
Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, CCO provides a wealth of standard and value-added services to Cisco's customers and business partners. CCO services include product information, product documentation, software updates, release notes, technical tips, the Bug Navigator, configuration notes, brochures, descriptions of service offerings, and download access to public and authorized files.
CCO serves a wide variety of users through two interfaces that are updated and enhanced simultaneously: a character-based version and a multimedia version that resides on the World Wide Web (WWW). The character-based CCO supports Zmodem, Kermit, Xmodem, FTP, and Internet e-mail, and it is excellent for quick access to information over lower bandwidths. The WWW version of CCO provides richly formatted documents with photographs, figures, graphics, and video, as well as hyperlinks to related information.
You can access CCO in the following ways:
•WWW: http://www.cisco.com
•WWW: http://www-europe.cisco.com
•WWW: http://www-china.cisco.com
•Telnet: cco.cisco.com
•Modem: From North America, 408 526-8070; from Europe, 33 1 64 46 40 82. Use the following terminal settings: VT100 emulation; databits: 8; parity: none; stop bits: 1; and connection rates up to 28.8 kbps.
For a copy of CCO's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), contact firstname.lastname@example.com. For additional information, contact email@example.com.
Note If you are a network administrator and need personal technical assistance with a Cisco product that is under warranty or covered by a maintenance contract, contact Cisco's Technical Assistance Center (TAC) at 800 553-2447, 408 526-7209, or firstname.lastname@example.com. To obtain general information about Cisco Systems, Cisco products, or upgrades, contact 800 553-6387, 408 526-7208, or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Receiving feedback
Published: Sep 06, 2013
Feedback, critique, criticism, call it what you may. If you want to grow, learn or get a better understanding of how you are perceived by others, you have to place value on feedback.
Without feedback we would live in a vacuum. This stunts growth, improvement and innovation. In the same way that feedback is what causes organizations to improve their processes, products and services, it can help us as individuals to improve our professional presentation.
However, sometimes it is difficult to accept a critique. Studies have shown that negative commentary is significantly more impactful than praise. We can receive 20 compliments in one day, but the one negative is what we will remember. Unfortunately, that's human nature.
Here are three tips to help you make the most of feedback:
1. Relax and keep an open mind, listen and don't judge the content. Consider the source, everyone does not come from a place of support, some people have ulterior motives. However, sometimes even if the messenger is not altruistic, you may find truth in their feedback. So make sure your body language suggests that you are willing to give this information fair consideration. Unfold your arms, maintain eye contact, but don't glare. Use gestures to show you are listening.
2. Don't get caught up in the delivery. Yes, there is a way to give feedback so that the receiver is more receptive. However, if the critic has not mastered how to tell you something they feel you need to correct, filter the message. Even if the message is crass, rude or insensitive it just may contain value.
3. Think of the feedback as data or information that needs to be considered. After introspection, if there is an element of truth that will help you to improve in anyway, implement it. At the end of the day, you are better for it.
4. In professional situations, feedback is vital in order for you to sharpen your game, so see it as an opportunity. If you are able to take feedback and implement noticeable change, you will be known as a high performing professional.
5. Inviting feedback is a great way to differentiate yourself and will benefit you in two ways. It conveys you strive for excellence. Plus, it puts you in a mindset that is more receptive to correction.
6. Thank the person who takes the time to give you constructive criticism. Many people would rather not address anything that is uncomfortable. For some people, to give feedback that isn't positive is a daunting task. The fact that someone chooses to share with you may actually mean that they care.
For many people, it may be easier to say nothing. Have you ever had a performance appraisal that was much lower than your expectations and when you inquired why, you finally got the feedback you needed to excel?
We all need feedback to flourish; put it in its proper perspective.
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Luke Perry and Jason Priestley are teaming up on the small screen again!
The two -- who haven't worked together since 90210 went off the air about 10 years ago — are involved in a Hallmark Movie Channel Western flick called Goodnight for Justice. It airs in 2011.
Perry, 45, will serve as executive producer of the film, which is about a small boy in the American Old West who witnesses the violent murder of his parents. He grows up to become a circuit judge who is "hell-bent on justice," according to the network.
Priestly, 40, directs the movie, based on material developed by Perry, which goes into production Aug. 4 in Vancouver.
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Feds expand polygraph screening, often seeking intimate facts
Source: McClatchy Newspapers
She was one of the brightest students at a leading university when the Central Intelligence Agency offered her a job as a counter-terrorism analyst. But first, the 19-year-old was warned, she had to undergo a polygraph test to determine whether she could be trusted.
Instead of scrutinizing her ability to guard government secrets, polygraphers asked about her reported rape and miscarriage, the woman recalled. Over at least eight hours in three separate sessions, polygraphers repeatedy demanded to know her innermost thoughts, even after she started sobbing in shame.
... Last year, more than 73,000 Americans across the country submitted to polygraph tests to get or keep jobs with the federal government, although such screening is mostly banned in the private sector and widely denounced by scientists. Many of the screenings probably arent as harsh as the CIA applicant described, but polygraphers at a growing number of U.S. agencies are asking employees and applicants questions about their personal lives and private thoughts in the name of protecting the country from spies, terrorists or corrupt law enforcement officers.
... A McClatchy reporter, however, spoke to veteran polygraphers from a wide array of agencies who described how they often rely on their own instincts and experiences to determine the relevance of a topic, comparable to a skillful police interrogation of a criminal suspect. Some polygraphers, for instance, think that asking someone about being raped could be legitimate in certain circumstances. Others disagreed.
Where is the line? That depends on the polygrapher and the agency, said John Sullivan, a retired CIA polygrapher of more than three decades. It can be a slippery slope. At a certain point, the government can justify almost anything.
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1. Polygraphs should go the way of "reading" bumps on the head.
Experienced liars can fool the machines and questioners, innocents can be fingered as liars.
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Michelle Rodriguez
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Gina Carano
She went from someone I had no real clue of only a few years back to being right front and center after Soderbergh made her an insta-star by casting her in HAYWIRE. She has sexy-tough-chick vibes but the fact that when she fights it's REALLY her fighting is what pushes the appeal on this Texas flower.
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As people started reminding me from the first installment of the Texan ladies Battle, Summer Glau was going to have to turn up at some point. In the most recent media news, it seems as if Summer might be losing her "the internet won't let her lose" appeal to Alison Brie, but we already know Alison won the Queen of California battle. Will Summer move on and ultimately trump the rest of the Texas babes?
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Johannesburg – Kaizer Chiefs coach Stuart Baxter failed to dismiss the media speculation linking him with the vacant job of Safa (South African Football Association) technical director of football on Wednesday.
"I think the job is interesting of course," Baxter said, speaking at the club's headquarters at Naturena, Johannesburg.
"At this moment in time I am the Chiefs coach and I will respect the club."
Safa are set to make their announcement of a new coach on Saturday at Safa House in Nasrec.
However, the employment of a new technical director would be made at a later stage.
Baxter, who coached Bafana between 2004 and 2005, said he would engage with his employers, Amakhosi, in the coming days about his future.
"We are in a situation where speculation picks up speed and gets ahead of us. What we have tried to do is to get a clear assessment of what the situation is.
"You will understand that those discussions are between me and my employer. I am the Kaizer Chiefs coach therefore I respect my employers and I want to give them what I consider an accurate assessment of the situation."
The 60 year-old Briton, described any association's technical director's position as an integral job, which he was honoured to be associated with.
"The technical director of any country is a very important job and it's an honour to be mentioned especially in the country where I am working."
Baxter said there are a number of factors that need to be taken into consideration before making a decision.
"There are some few thoughts I've got that I will in the few days bounce back and forth. But those conversations will be held within the club.
"I've worked at Safa and when I worked there the first time I found it very difficult to drive through policies. I don't know if things have changed, maybe if they have the person who will go in will be able to drive in those policies."
In the midst of the speculation surrounding his future, Baxter has been preparing his side for the Carling Black Label Cup, where they clash with arch rivals Orlando Pirates at the FNB Stadium on Saturday.
For the upcoming season, the Phefeni club have signed Siphelele Mthembu and Levy Mokgothu.
Chiefs made three further signings – having promoted Chris Matombo, Hendrick Ekstein and Zitha Macheke from club's youth ranks.
On the continental front, Chiefs football manager Bobby Motaung, said the club was yet to make a final decision on whether or not they would take part in the Caf Champions League.
"Chiefs has policies and ways of doing things. There are procedures in place that we have to follow. It's only in September that we must have a final decision," Motaung said.
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Junior outside hitter Kailana Ritte-Camara has received recognition on the all-Northwest Conference for a third straight season. The conference's nine coaches recognized her performance with a position on the all-NWC second team.
A second team all-NWC selection in 2012, Ritte-Camara was also an honorable mention pick following her freshman campaign of 2011.
The outside hitter leads her team with 245 kills, an average of 3.22 per set, for the 2013 season, a steady improvement from her 2.73 kills per set she recorded last year and the 2.82 average she posted during her freshman campaign. Starting all 23 matches, she ranked seventh in the NWC this season in kills per set and sixth in points per set.
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Deepika Padukone has reached new heights after two successive humongous blockbuster hits in Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani and Chennai Express but someone tells us that we are yet to see her at her best. Those who were lucky enough to have a glimpse of Ram Leela predict that the actress has upped her level in the film. Not just in looks but also her acting skills.
A source says, "The film will be a bigger hit than Bhansali's Devdas, and Deepika will effortlessly join the ranks of India's greatest acting talent."
Deepika already has three blockbuster hits this year with Race 2 being the first followed by YJHD and Chennai Express and we won't be surprised if her fourth is just around the corner. Deepika Padukone will be seen in a completely different avatar in this flick as she will be playing a free-spirited, fearless and sharp-toungued Gujju lady and Deepika has apparently performed the character with perfection.
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There's no need to wait for the criminal investigation to run its course to remove Olmert from his position. His unethical conduct, more of which has been revealed in recent months, should suffice.
President Bill Clinton looked into the camera lenses and declared firmly: "I did not have sex with that woman." When the nature of his contact with Monica Lewinsky was revealed, the president explained that it wasn't really sexual relations. That was how he interpreted oral sex. Ehud Olmert also looked the public straight in the eye and convincingly vowed: "I never took a penny for my own pocket." Now, after public revelations of the types of amenities Olmert treated himself and his family to during their trips abroad, the man claims: This wasn't cash, but frequent-flyer points.
According to Olmert's most convenient version of the story, which he has transmitted through his spokespeople, his conduct in connection with his trips abroad, as part of his ministerial duties, can be explained thus: Either he was invited to give lectures or he flew as a representative of the state - so it goes without saying that travel expenses would be covered not by him but by the state or the party that issued the invitation. When he returned to Israel, he would claim frequent-flyer credits, which would be noted in the special bank account he kept at the Rishon Tours travel agency, which has handled his travel arrangements for years. Since he traveled a lot by virtue of his official job titles, he accumulated many points, which he then shared with his family.
What's wrong with that, the prime minister wonders. He is playing dumb. Membership in the frequent-flyer club is based on business interests. An airline rewards the customer with free tickets after that customer chooses to purchase a plane ticket with the specific airline. At this point, it is still unclear whether Olmert pocketed even a penny of public funds for personal use. What is clear, however, is that he did not spend a penny of his own money to fund his official trips abroad. Why, then, does he take it for granted that frequent-flyer points are there for his and his family's personal use?
And we have not even touched on the method allegedly used by Olmert - information which investigators have recently come across and which, for the time being, remains in the realm of allegations. The premier is suspected of using the travel agency as his personal tour manager, to plan a series of appearances during his trips and solicit donations to cover flight and hotel expenses from each of the host organizers. Each group is unaware that others are funding the same trip.
This guy is talking to me in Chinese, Olmert will probably mutter to himself once he reads these lines. The prime minister does not grasp the impropriety of his actions. To him, the media's ambushing him is a show of righteous indignation, perhaps even a plot cooked up for the benefit of his political rivals. For 30 years now, he has been accustomed to viewing the public arena as a magic carpet whose sole purpose is to smoothly fly him to his life of luxury, his own personal hedonistic kingdom. Throughout the years, Olmert used his various public-service positions like a spade with which he would dig for a buried treasure, which in this case was embodied by the amenities of the good life: living in a nice-sized home, flying first class and staying overnight at luxurious hotels.
He took advantage of his position to bypass the minutiae ordinary people need to cope with every day: the bureaucracy, long lines, and at times, monetary expenses. If he was looking to buy a house, he found a way to buy one at a price that seemed below its market value. If he wanted to sell a home, he found a buyer who was ready to pay a price that aroused the interest of the police. If he is forbidden from overtly receiving a speaking fee for his trips abroad (as part of the requirements of his state job), then he secretly accepts envelopes full of cash from a guy named Morris Talansky, and a travel agency in Rishon Letzion handles a bank account for him in which $100,000 - or frequent-flyer points of the same value - are accrued.
There's no need to wait for the criminal investigation to run its course to remove Olmert from his position. His unethical conduct, more of which has been revealed in recent months, should suffice to spur a sane country into removing him from the helm. Just as there is no need to prove the allegations against former president Moshe Katsav to know that he used his position to force himself on young women under his charge, there is also no need to wait for the criminal justice system's formal confirmation to know that Olmert abused his position in unsavory ways to spoil himself financially. As we mark two years since the Second Lebanon War, the question begs to be asked: What has Olmert done for the state? We already know what the state has done for him.
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The design challenge continues! So far I've come up with 20 new wedding invitation designs. Some days it's quite hard, I have zero inspiration, and other days I know exactly what I want to do, it's just a matter of getting what's in my head onto the screen.
Some of the designs seem to be clear hits, others are misses, and some are just experiments. I'm not aiming for perfection with this challenge. In fact, it's often only after looking at the design over a month that I realize what needs to be changed.
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The new song is going to be followed by another fresh music called 'Sorry' from 'One Woman Army'.
A never-heard-before song called "Livin' It Up" by Ciara has made its round on the web. The track came out as she was preparing to release her official new single "Sorry" from her next studio installment "One Woman Army".
Expected to appear in Ciara's upcoming effort, "Livin' It Up" samples Kid N' Play's "Rollin' with Kid 'N Play". To tide fans over the release of "Sorry", it was released by Epic Records via a playlist of brand-new songs sent to Cosmopolitan magazine.
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This Fashionista pairs her jacket with an adorable ivory sweater, skinny jeans, gray leg warmers and brown boots. For a more edgy look, you could wear this jacket with a graphic T-shirt, skater skirt and tights. You could also throw it over a pretty summer dress and add some knit leggings underneath to stay warm.
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This article was published 7/9/2011 (2176 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
My inspiration for the title of this post? I was interviewed by none other than Terry David Mulligan this morning – yes, he of Good Rockin' Tonite and Much West in days gone past.
Mulligan is currently in the Okanagan Valley (although in the process of moving back to Vancouver), and hosts a weekly wine-related radio show called The Tasting Room (you can listen to archived episodes via TDM's website).
I'm not sure when my segment will air, but I'll be sure to keep readers posted as I learn more.
Wednesday is the last chance for Winnipeg Free Press readers to enter the Taste of BC contest.
We'll have Dave Carson, senior winemaker from Jackson Triggs Okanagan, on-hand at the Winnipeg Free Press News Café next Thursday. Twenty-five lucky winners (and their guests) will enjoy Carson's wines paired with dishes created by Domenic Amatuzio and the Winnipeg Free Press News Café crew.
At the end of the night, one of the lucky attendees will win a trip to the Okanagan in late September/early October with a guest – and with me.
The itinerary is shaping up to be a great one – in addition to some great winery visits, the Okanagan Fall Wine Festival will be in full swing, so we'll be able to taste the best of what the Okanagan Valley has to offer.
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District's residential tax rate could be rolled up 13.5 cents
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Though next year's projections set the Mehlville School District with more than 20 percent in reserves, board members questioned how to tackle forthcoming years that, according to one five-year projection scenario, could see reserves dip below 10 percent.
Chief Financial Officer Noel Knobloch presented the Board of Education with five-year projections last week that account for the implementation of merit pay and possible variations in tax rates, which the board will not set until September. The budget, however, typically is approved in June.
One scenario includes a "complete roll up of the tax rate from what it was last year to what it could be done under the Hancock Amendment," according to Knobloch.
School districts are limited in their tax rates under the Missouri Constitution's Hancock Amendment. If assessed values increase, districts must roll back their tax rate to give relief to taxpayers. In the case of decreased assessments, the school board can "roll up" its tax rates, which would keep the dollar amount of what taxpayers send to the district the same through an increased rate on a lower-value property. Some taxpayers could pay more and some could pay less, depending on their home's new assessed value.
The assessed value of residential property in Mehlville dropped roughly 3.5 percent, according to Knobloch, and to "stay equal" the district would have to roll up last year's rate by 3.5 percent.
"(That) would get us just short of the maximum authorized amount," he told the board May 9. "The maximum authorized amount for this district is $3.75. Rolling it up under the provisions of the Hancock Amendment would allow us to go to $3.74, which is about a 13.5-cent increase over last year."
The commercial property rate, according to Knobloch, would be rolled back because of an increase in assessed valuation.
Board member Ron Fedorchak said he has never supported rolling back the tax rate.
"We want to do the right thing," he said. "We are in deficit spending, and we've all made that conscious decision to spend down those reserves, and the one thing I keep coming back to is those reserves ... Five years ago, we were critical."
Board member Larry Felton said when he was first elected to the board in 2007, district reserves were roughly 8 percent.
When a district's reserves are at that level, Fedorchak said it has "no flexibility."
"We don't have to borrow because we have money in reserve ...," he said. "We're losing that flexibility when we don't take care of the money that the taxpayers give us. If all we did was bury it in the dirt and then give it back, we're not doing our job."
The current reserves were not built, according to Fedorchak, because of growth in the community, but because Knost and his administration made cuts and restructured administration.
"And the message you're sending to Dr. Knost or any future administrator is ... if you cut it, we're going to give it back to the taxpayers so you'll never see it again," Fedorchak said. "So what would that tell a superintendent? Don't cut. Spend that money because if you don't, it's going to go back to the taxpayers."
Though Fedorchak said he likes the district's technology and merit-pay plans, he does not want "to see those things go away because we're not doing our job."
Regarding the reserves, Felton said Mehlville "had the luxury" of being able to afford placing additional police officers in elementary schools after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., in December.
"That was a privilege to be able to do that," Felton said.
Knobloch also looked at the district rolling up residential property rates one penny less, which would see reserves hit 10.46 percent by 2017. The district would lose roughly $100,000 each year in this scenario, according to Knobloch.
Knobloch said Mehlville is at the maximum on personal property taxes, but that it could roll up commercial rates.
"That's the only column we have any flexibility to get more revenue," he said.
Although, according to Knobloch, Mehlville could see additional revenue if the state gets closer to fully funding the foundation formula. He also provided projections with the impact of a merit-pay plan, which would take effect in 2015, and the 1-cent property-rate reduction. Reserves would dip to 7.73 percent in this case.
"Obviously, the further out you go, those things continue to compound so you would have a much bigger impact the further out you go," Knobloch said.
The CFO calculated projections on the basis of 710 teachers potentially earning $1,000 through merit pay, a step on the salary schedule and benefits, which equates to an additional $870,000 in expenditures.
This alternate budget assumes no additional revenue from local taxes and that the state would increase its funding of the foundation formula roughly 1 percent per year with the possibility of being fully funded by 2018, according to Knobloch.
Board member Elaine Powers said the challenge of looking at the budget is that next year is in "really strong shape." All scenarios show roughly 20 percent in reserves for the 2013-2014 school year.
"We've worked really hard over the last couple of years to put some framework in place. We've asked for five years of this and five years of that ...," she said, "And that's the direction that has come from this board. We have better framework in which to make our decisions, so I just think that we have to make sure we look at that whole framework. We have to look out and not only look at what does next year look like."
Board Vice President Lori Trakas questioned how the new Common Core State Standards — national education standards intended to prepare students for work and college — will impact the budget.
Knost said it will have "minimal" impact on the district's finances.
"We have been in the position where we have had no significant impact from Common Core, nor will we, unless we change our path," he said.
Regardless of the board's decision come June, Knost said he will "live with what the board decides."
"I will show up, do my job as a faithful superintendent to the district and I will always do that ...," he said.
But Knost said if the district continues to support its technology and facilities plans, along with "entertaining some version of the performance pay," the decision at the September tax-rate hearing is "going to be absolutely significant to the bottom line."
Knost said it would never be his recommendation to move away from the facilities or technology plans.
"It's part of the excellence in this district, but those are game-changers in how we operate," Knost said.
Board member Rich Franz said of the district's roughly $102 million budget, about $80 million is for salaries and benefits.
"So for those folks who think, 'Why can't they find some money to cut out of $102 million?' $80 million of that's already tied up," he said.
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