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I remember it like it was yesterday.
Sitting in my very last birth class, excited for the tour of the labor & delivery ward, when they passed out a handout that covered Post Partum Depression. It was a letter, written from a husband's perspective of Post Partum Depression, and I quickly dismissed it. I thought to myself, "I am a strong person, have never struggled with anything remotely close to depression, I'm not one of "those" women."
Good thing my husband read it.
I had a lovely pregnancy, easy delivery, and a beautiful girl to show for it.
As any mother can relate, the first few weeks were nothing short of completely overwhelming and exhausting. But we were blessed with help from both sides of the family and my husband and I were able to nap here and there as help arrived. Sure I was emotional – with crying spells, but I was able to snap out of those moments pretty easily.
Until that one memorable day when it was my turn to nap. I went upstairs around 6 pm and layed there, eyes wide open, until 9 pm. The room was dark, my husband had the baby, but I was incredibly anxious and couldn't fall asleep. Why couldn't I sleep? My mind was spinning. What was wrong with me? I went downstairs frustrated. Fast forward a few days – and things began to go downhill quickly. Not being able to nap turned into not being able to sleep.
I had horrible insomnia, refused to eat, and developed the worst case of anxiety I had ever experienced in my life. Days become longer and life became extremely overwhelming.
I remember one day when my husband had gone back to work. I had a screaming baby and no idea what to do. I was in my pajamas, my hair was matted, bags under my eyes, and I was slowly wasting away. I put Maggie in a carrier and headed outside in my slippers. I wandered aimlessly around the streets of my neighborhood in a daze, crying, frustrated, and staring at people in their cars – jealous at how rested they looked.
One night while family was cooking dinner I just sat in a ball by the fireplace and cried. The only way I can describe how I felt was that I was inside of a black hole getting sucked in deeper and deeper. No one could grab me. I couldn't get out. How was I going to get out?
One afternoon we sat at the kitchen counter and my husband said "I think you have Post Partum Depression." I snapped back "That's impossible." He got on his iPhone and googled it. As he read the symptoms I looked at him and said "Well. I think you're right".
I immediately called my OB/GYN and made an appointment to come in. She had me complete a survey (similar to this one) to assess my mental state. While I never had any thoughts of suicide or harming my child – the survey told a very clear story of where I was mentally. My score was extremely high and it was determined that yes, I had Post Partum Depression. She gave me a prescription for Zoloft and sent me on my way.
I had my own perceptions about antidepressants in general, but at that point of darkness I felt like I had no other choice but to take them. There are a lot of misconceptions out there about PPD, some might come from the Brooke Shields/Tom Cruise debate about whether antidepressants are necessary or the right fix. Others may come from sensationalized media stories of women drowning their children. Whatever the case may be, I can't be more adamant in my own belief that PPD is completely chemical. It is not a state of mind. It is not an inability to cope. It is a chemical imbalance of the brain. It was not my fault. The only way I could create that balance was through the help of an antidepressant.
I picked up my prescription & the pharmacist told me to take the Zoloft at night. That was a mistake. I should have been taking it in the morning because it can make you really wired. It made my insomnia increasingly worse. As soon as the sky started to darken my anxiety would pick up and I began to fear bedtime. Bedtime meant that while everyone else was asleep, I was all alone with my irrational thoughts and anxiety. At this point I was such a mess that my husband started doing all the night shifts. He slept in a separate room with our daughter so that I could close the bedroom doors and try to sleep.
I couldn't sleep.
I went back to my Dr. begging her for something to knock me out. She wrote me a prescription for Trazodone. I went home so excited. I was actually going to get to sleep a full night! It didn't work. I woke up my husband up in the morning sobbing.
I went back to my Dr. again in tears. She looked at me and said very directly, "Erin. You are going to come out of this. It is going to get better, and when it does – you are going to help someone else by telling your story." My sleep cycle (or lack thereof) was so messed up and I was begging her to give me something to sleep. She ended up giving me a prescription for Klonopin – a last resort, highly addictive drug. But it worked. Relief!
Over the next few weeks the Zoloft began to take effect. I got out of the house, I showered, I ate food, and even managed to find my smile again.
An acceptance or diagnosis of PPD doesn't mean you're instantly cured. With the help of Zoloft, I still had to claw my way out of the black hole by taking life one day, one hour, one minute at a time. I stayed on Zoloft for an entire year as any Dr. will advise that Post Partum Depression can creep up on you at anytime within the first year of having a baby. There were a few women in my little photographer community that knew I was suffering from PPD and reached out to me to let me know that they had also been there and that I was going to get better. I can't begin to express how important it was for me to know that I was not alone, I was not at fault, that other women I knew had been through it, and there was hope that I would return to my old self.
When my daughter celebrated her first birthday, I began the slow and monitored process of weaning off the drug. It's been 6 months since I've been off it and am happy to report I feel great, happy, and in control.
Although I feel completely back to normal and am having the time of my life now, I still harbor a strong resentment towards Post Partum Depression. I'm disappointed that I can't look back on those first few months of life with joy. It stole that joy from me. .
But now that I have been able to share my story, I think I'll close that messy chapter in my life, accept it, move on, and maybe help some new Moms along the way.
Thank you Erin Vey for sharing your story with us.
A dog lover first, photographer second. With a lot of hard work and a little luck thrown in, I was able to combine the two loves into the coolest job ever: A Dog Photographer.
Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Erin is a self-professed crazy dog lady. She has built her career around photographing dogs exclusively, preferring to crawl on the floor, run outside, and shower her four-legged clients with loves and kisses. She is not afraid of dog hair or slobber.
She lives in Seattle with her husband Jim, daughter Maggie, and their beautiful 8 year old Great Dane – Miss Gracie.


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I'll use for example the sales order management frame as it already implements several advanced concepts - it is easier for you to see the results and for me to copy-paste the code :)
Also, i assume the reader is already familiar with the basic building blocks of DNet Extjs based user-interface.
This frame is implemented in the net.nan21.dnet.module.sd.order.frame.SalesOrder_UI class. It has several data-controls but we are going to refer to only two of them, net.nan21.dnet.module.sd.order.dc.SalesOrder which implements the document header and net.nan21.dnet.module.sd.order.dc.SalesOrderItem which implements the document lines. They are referenced in the frame as order and item.
Here are some screenshots to identify the elements :
|Order edit forms
|Order items list
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The order can be edited as long as its `Confirmed` flag is `No`. Once an order is confirmed cannot change its items nor its header data except the billing and shipping information. After invoiced, the billing information should be also disabled. If an order is confirmed but not invoiced it can be un-confirmed but after invoicing it not anymore.
The customer and supplier fields of the order cannot be updated, are enabled only when creating the record.
Let's see how to implement the above requirements:
Due to its highly modular and component oriented architecture the basic user-interface building blocks are also scoped. So we have two data-controls in this frame order and item, but they are not aware one of the other. It should be possible to reuse one of them in a frame without the other one. The higher scope ( the frame) is the context which is aware of both of them. Inter DC (data-control) communication must be managed at frame level.
This is the first important rule to consider when deciding what logic at what level/context (data-control or frame) is implemented.
The second important rule is at DC level. A DC may have many predefined views and not all of them used all the time. So the views are not aware of each other. But if a view may or may not be used in a certain frame the controller also is not aware of them. Although it could be made aware of the present views it is not desirable. There are many possible view types (regardless if they are already implemented or will be in future) we should not want to make our controller an encyclopedia to know everything.
So the controller implements the functional logic / flow and fires events for important tasks. The views subscribe to the events they are interested in and manage their elements accordingly. User interaction on views results in invoking controller actions based on each view's role.
This is the second important rule to consider what logic where should belong : view level or controller level inside of a DC.
To make a long story short let's see the code snippets.
1. The Customer and Supplier fields are not allowed to be changed once an order is created:
In SalesOrder$EditMain mark these fields with noUpdate:true Similar for noInsert
.addLov({ name:"customer", noUpdate:true, ...
2. If the order is confirmed disable the SalesOrder$EditMain DC form view fields :
Override the _beforeApplyStates_ as below:
,_beforeApplyStates_: function(record) {
if (record.get("confirmed") || record.get("invoiced") || record.get("delivered") ) {
return false;
When a new record is bound to a form it calls the _applyStates_ method decorated with _beforeApplyStates_ and _afterApplyStates_ . As we don't care about the standard rules implemented in the _onApplyStates_ we just apply our rules and ignore the rest.
Leaving the standard _onApplyStates_ to be executed in DC form view, the following happens:
- Check if the data-control is set as readOnly and execute the _doDisableWhenDcIsReadOnly_ function if it should be executed. This is controlled by the _shouldDisableWhenDcIsReadOnly_ flag and the execution mode by the _disableModeWhenDcIsReadOnly_ property. Several predefined functions are available which are invoked based on the configured mode. Of course they can be overriden or other modes configured according to specific needs (check the dnet.core.dc.AbstractDcvForm class).
- Check the noInsert/noUpdate flags for each field and enable /disable them based on the record state (insert/update)
- Check the result of the _canSetEnabled_ : function(fieldName, record) for the field and apply the result. By default this function just verifies if there is an _enableFn_ function defined by the field and if exists , invoke it in the form view scope. The boolean result is the state true-> enable, false -> disable
- Call _afterApplyStates_ where you can add additional logic
3. If the order is invoiced disable the billing related fields in the SalesOrder$EditDetails form view:
Override the _afterApplyStates_ as shown below
,_afterApplyStates_: function(record) {
if ( record.get("invoiced") ) {
this._disableFields_(["billTo","billToLocation" ]);
if ( record.get("delivered") ) {
this._disableFields_(["shipTo","shipToLocation" ]);
4. Setting an order as confirmed is done with a data-service, the same is true to mark it as invoiced. The `Generate Invoice` calls a server-side data-service which generates the invoice and updates the order as invoiced. While for invoicing the order this approach seems obvious right from the beginning, to set it as confirmed may not be so obvious - why to use a service and not a checkbox which can be checked/unchecked and result persisted by saving the record. The reason is that this way the two server-side service methods can be authorized and the rights to confirm/un-confirm an order as well as invoice it can be granted to certain users by privileges - roles ( see the post about acces-control )
After calling this server-side service method the form should re-evaluate its state :
So we have to register a listener for data-service calls and re-apply the form state. Override the _endDefine_ function in SalesOrder$EditDetails as shown below:
,_endDefine_: function() {
this._controller_.on("afterDoServiceSuccess", function(dc, response, name, options) {
} , this )
The _applyStates_ is automatically called in many situations like change current record, record becomes dirty or clean, successful save, etc but in case of service methods call is not called automatically. The reason is that it may be or may not be necessary to re-evaluate state. In this particular case would be necessary, but for example at sales order item level when selecting a product, a similar service method is called to get the product price based on document price list. In this case is not necessary to re-evaluate states.
5. The frame level buttons should be enabled / disabled also based on the confirmed invoiced state
In the SalesOrder_UI the button definition should be:
handler: this.onBtnConfirmOrder,scope:this,
dc:"order" ,
and: function(dc) {
return (dc.record && !dc.record.get("confirmed"));}
The button is enabled when there is only one order selected, there are no outstanding changes at document header level and the current order is not confirmed.
The `Generate Invoice` button is enabled when there is only one order selected, there are no outstanding changes at document header level, the current order is confirmed and not already invoiced.
name:"btnCreateInvoice",text:"Generate Invoice",
handler: this.onBtnCreateInvoice,scope:this,
dc:"order" ,
and: function(dc) {
return ( dc.record && dc.record.get("confirmed")
&& ! dc.record.get("invoiced"));}
6. The order items should be read-only if the document is confirmed; should not be possible to create new lines, modify or delete existing ones. In this case if the document is confirmed we mark the items data-control read-only and let the framework do the rest of the work:
Add the following function in SalesOrder_UI to manage the read-only state for the items data-control :
,_syncReadOnlyStates_: function() {
var orderRec = this._getDc_("order").getRecord();
var itemsDc = this._getDc_("item");
if (orderRec.get("confirmed")) {
if (!itemsDc.isReadOnly()) {
} else {
if (itemsDc.isReadOnly()) {
and tell the order DC to execute this function whenever the current record is changed or a server-side service is called ( resolving the transitions for the confirmed / un-confirmed states):
,onAfterDefineDcs: function() {
function() {
} , this );
this._getDc_("order").on("recordChange", this._syncReadOnlyStates_, this );


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Paul Thomas Anderson's long-gestating, untitled religious drama (at one time it was called 'The Master') is picking up speed now that there's some money and a distributor behind the project (Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures and the Weinstein Company, respectively, replacing Universal, who chickened out over the film's budget) and has added two new cast members: 'Friday Night Lights'' Jesse Plemons and veteran character actor David Warshofsky, according to Variety.
The film, which is sure to stir controversial waters in Hollywood, is a riff on a Scientology-like religion that springs up after World War II. Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as a charismatic intellectual, scarred by the horrors of the war, who develops a church that will appeal to the other lost souls in post-war America.
Joaquin Phoenix is also on board, starring as an alcoholic drifter who becomes the guru's right-hand man. Plemons will play Hoffman's son, while Warshofsky will play a detective. Laura Dern co-stars, but her role has not been specified.
Production on the film is scheduled to begin in mid-June in Sacramento. It will be interesting to see how closely Anderson makes his religion resemble Scientology, since that organization has a strong presence in Hollywood, both in terms of actor members and financial holdings. Scientology is one of the biggest landowners in Tinseltown, having recently bought the Hollywood-adjacent studios of TV station KCET), and they love to sue. He's a brave soul.
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The recent Hollywood film Promised Land depicts Matt Damon as a salesman who knocks on the doors of Pennsylvania residents and entreats them to lease their land for oil and gas drilling. Increasingly though, here in Ohio, people are negotiating lease terms through big landowner groups. Ideastream's Michelle Kanu introduces us to one businessman who helped amass the negotiating power of hundreds of landowners in Trumbull County.
At the R.D. Banks Chevrolet dealership in Champion Township, owner Russell Banks says business is booming.
In the last month alone he's sold several new pick-ups to area farmers who recently received checks from leasing their land for natural gas drilling.
Banks shies away from calling himself a leader, but he and a few friends organized hundreds of neighbors to negotiate one of the largest oil and gas leasing deals in Trumbull County.
Banks: "It's fun to help people. It's kind of like a fever. When you start to help people it's hard to stop."
It all started a few years ago when Banks heard that many of his neighbors were being approached by so-called landmen to lease for drilling. Banks was sure he and his 200 acre farm would be contacted next, so he decided to meet with a few business owners in the area to compare notes.
Banks: "The four of us started talking, saying let's find out what everybody's talking about. Let's make sure we're communicating with each other to make sure we're all getting a fair deal here because all of us were very naive on gas and oil."
They did some research and found the Associated Landowners of the Ohio Valley, or ALOV. Banks says they called ALOV, and the leader told them to gather up more neighbors.
Banks: "Well, it was just like lighting a fire. And between the four of us—I still have my list. I sat down and wrote page after page of people that I knew…And before we knew it we had thousands of acres put together."
In the end, some twenty-two hundred Trumbull County landowners entrusted 80,000 acres to the group. ALOV negotiated the final deal with BP that included a signing bonus of $3900 per acre.
Banks says the best part of the deal was that the lease terms protected the landowners' drinking water and property.
ALOV's attorney, Alan Wenger, says all of the negotiating efforts of landowner associations have helped change the terms of leasing in Ohio. Now, the leases are largely more favorable for the landowners.
Wenger: "The better negotiated language started filtering into more common usage and everyone's bar was raised for, I think, the benefit of the lessors."
The negotiating power of groups is spreading.
Dale Arnold is director of energy services with the Ohio Farm Bureau and regularly delivers seminars on drilling to farmers around the state. He says, in 2009 there were only a handful of landowner groups. Now he estimates there are over 40.
Arnold says there's little—if any—monitoring of these groups by the state.
Arnold: "I have not heard of any serious complaints from local people in the community, and until that happens, you probably won't see state government taking a look at the landowner association developments here in Ohio."
But, that doesn't sit well with some landowner advocates.
Michelle Decker heads up the environmental group Rural Action. She says oil and gas development is happening very quickly and she'd like the state to pay more attention to how the industry is impacting people.
Decker: "I don't think we have all the infrastructure in place and I think that's been one of the most difficult things about the emergence of this industry. We've been unprepared, and we've had not time to get prepared."
Decker says it would be helpful if the state kept track of landowner groups and was active in helping people learn about and connect with them.
For Now, much of the leasing frenzy in Northeast Ohio has slowed since companies like Chesapeake and BP have gotten a foothold in the region, and most of the ALOV landowners have now received their signing bonuses from BP.
Russ Banks – the Trumbull County car dealer—recently got his check. The money's nice, he says, but the experience of teaming up with his neighbors is even more satisfying.
Banks: "I would argue with anybody who said they could negotiate a better deal a more favorable deal for themselves, for the environment or for their community on their own than they could as a group like this."
Banks says ALOV is now tying up loose ends with the leases, and after that the group plans to disband.
But attorney Alan Wenger doesn't see landowner groups dying out anytime soon. Instead, he sees them taking on more of a lobbying role.
Wenger: "We need a voice for landowners and I believe these groups can provide that as we look at severance tax issues that are happening right now, tax policy, as well as development of better and up to date regulations."
Wenger says he's now working with landowner groups that have been approached about leasing their lands for pipelines to transport the gas.


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Head coach Jody Wynn led the 49ers to their first postseason appearance since 2000.
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LONG BEACH - The Long Beach State women's basketball team put together its best season in fourth-year head coach Jody Wynn's tenure as the 49ers finished with a 16-16 overall record and made their first postseason appearance in 13 years.
LBSU earned an at-large bid into the Women's National Invitation Tournament. It was the program's third WNIT appearance and first since 2000, when it advanced to the third round. The 49ers were also in the tournament back in 1978.
"It is an honor and absolute thrill to play in the postseason," head coach Jody Wynn said. "We are thankful for the opportunity to play in the WNIT and it will be a terrific experience for our young team."
Long Beach State was also awarded hosting duties, marking the first-ever postseason women's basketball game to be held in the Walter Pyramid.
Sophomores Devin Hudson and Alex Sanchez were named to the All-Big West Team the conference office announced on March 11. The duo, which guided the 49ers to their best season since 2005-06, earned honorable mention recognition. Hudson became a force to be reckoned with in the Big West, where she averaged a team-best 11.6 points and 9.8 rebounds per game. Hudson totaled nine double-doubles, six of which came in conference play. She also had 16 double-figure scoring games and 12 double-figure rebounding games. In addition, Hudson was named to the All-Big West Tournament Team for the second year in a row.
Sanchez, meanwhile, was LBSU's floor leader, compiling a career-high 132 assists. She finished the regular season ranked second in the Big West with 4.1 helpers per outing. Sanchez also had 18 double-figure scoring games, including 10 in Big West action.
The 49ers played four Pac-12 schools on the year and fared well against those teams, going 2-2. They defeated both Washington and Arizona to finish with two wins vs. the Pac-12 (formerly Pac-10) for the first time in 13 years. Long Beach State's losses came to Utah and perennial national power, and then No.1-ranked Stanford.
Dating back to 2011-12, LBSU has won 22 of its last 31 games at the Walter Pyramid. The 49ers went 12-6 at home this season.
Devin Hudson was dominant in a 71-58 win in the regular-season finale at Cal Poly where she finished with career-highs in points (22) and rebounds (20). Hudson was the first 49er to have a 20-point and 20-rebound game since Melissa Gower posted 22 and 20 vs. Nevada on Jan. 13, 1995. She is also just the seventh player in program history to accomplish the 20-20 feat.
Three days later, Hudson was back at it again as she notched 17 points and established a new career high with 24 rebounds against Cal State Fullerton in the first round of the Big West Tournament. Her 24 boards were a tournament record and rank third in LBSU's single-game history.
The 49ers secured their third double-figure win campaign in the last four years with a 45-39 triumph against Cal State Fullerton on Jan. 19. LBSU had not reached the 10-win plateau in three-straight seasons before Coach Wynn's arrival in 2009-10. Long Beach State also posted the most victories (16) in a season during the Wynn era and the most since going 18-10 in 2005-06.
Long Beach State showed its depth with nine of its 10 players reaching double digits in the points column at least once this season. Eight 49ers also had multiple double-figure scoring games.
Senior Mary Ochiltree finished her two-year career at Long Beach State ranked seventh in program history in career 3-point field goal percentage (36.7). Ella Clark also wrapped up her sophomore campaign at No. 8 among the 49er all-time leaders with 118 career blocks, while classmate Lauren Spargo ranks ninth with 271 3-point field goals attempted.
Sophomore Alex Sanchez has proven to be the total package. She was tops on the team with 10.6 points and 4.1 assists game, while ranking second with 1.5 steals and 4.3 rebounds per outing. Sanchez, who notched a season-high 19 points at Utah Valley, reached double figures in scoring in 18 games. She led LBSU in the points column 12 times and finished tops on the squad in assists on 25 occasions. Sanchez garnered All-Big West honors for the second year in a row and was named the conference's player of the week on Jan. 7.
Sophomore Lauren Spargo led the 49ers with 40 3-pointers made. She had more than one trey in 12 games, including a career-high four against Washington (13 points) and Canisius (14 points). She also totaled a season-high 16 points vs. UC Irvine on Jan. 26, and had 15 points vs. UC Davis on March 2. The Santa Clarita, Calif., native has made 79 shots from long distance in her two years at LBSU, which puts her just four away from breaking into the 49er all-time records.
Ella Clark, who sat out last season with an injury, compiled 10 double-figure scoring games in 2012-13. She had a season-best 17 points vs. Hawai'i (Feb. 7) and pulled down a career-high 11 boards at Pacific (Feb. 2). Prior to Big West play, Clark was named the MVP of the Beach Classic after leading the 49ers to the tournament title with 16 points against Canisius, and 14 points and a career-best six assists vs. Sam Houston State. She matched that assist total at Cal Poly on March 9. Clark also made her presence felt on the defensive end with a team-high 45 blocks.
Sophomore Chantel Dooley is known as a lock-down defender, but she also displayed her scoring potential on several occasions. Against Sacramento State, Dooley was 7-of-13 from the floor for a career-high 19 points. In addition, she had 12 points at Utah Valley, 11 points against Iona and 10 points vs. Canisius. She registered her first double-double with 10 points and a career-best 11 rebounds vs. UC Davis (March 2). Dooley continued to be one of the 49ers' top defenders as she was first on the team with 51 steals (1.6/gm). She had a career-high seven steals in the season opener against Sac State.
Sophomore Bianka Balthazar reached double figures in scoring 12 times this season. She had a game-high 14 points at UC Santa Barbara on March 7. Earlier in the year, Balthazar poured in a career-high 17 points on a 6-for-9 shooting performance in a 79-50 win over Columbia, and later matched that point total at Hawai'i on Jan. 13. On the season, she ranked third on the team with 9.0 points per contest.
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Come out of the kitchen and into the fields…ICC's revolutionary Farm-to-Table curriculum extends our comprehensive 600-hour Professional Culinary Arts Immersion course by connecting your chef training to the beginning of the food chain. Hands-on experience will be emphasized through a series of field trips which provide broad, informed perspectives on farming and sustainable agriculture from some of the industry's brightest minds. You'll experience the best of California's bounty as you visit innovative producers: small- and large-scale farmers, dairies, ranches and markets. The knowledge you gain will allow you to make expert personal decisions about the use of products to heighten quality and flavor in your own professional kitchen—plus give you a competitive edge when you graduate.
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In a revolutionary curriculum designed by Karen Karp, a pioneer in food systems and sustainability and a leading ambassador in the "Good Food movement," you'll learn firsthand how food production, distribution, social and environmental sustainability, policy and delicious food go hand-in-hand through a week of experiential learning comprised of a series of field trips— including one overnight excursion. You'll visit both artisan farms and large commercial-scale operations, and pick the brains of farm workers, ranchers, market managers and policy makers about what organic and sustainable really means.
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- Students get on-the-job-training through a paid externship
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Rev Cam!
Posted 02 August 2010 - 05:58 AM
Yes, im useing a Transcent 4GB, class 6 card so that should be ok.
Its hard to explain but.
If you can imagine panning around a room, the vid should be nice and smooth.
Well, on mine, it jumps, just as if you had flicked the camera, instead of moveing it smoothly.
The sound jumps too. Remember years ago there used to be a comic on telly, and he would talk into a mike, and he made it sound as if the mike was faulty, and he used to miss words out, well my sound is like that.
Anyway ill let you know how my other cameras get on when thy come.
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Posted 03 August 2010 - 05:41 AM
My second camera came today, and it was just like the first
Off hand i tryed my cable from my Canon PowerShot, which by chance fits the rev cams.
And now both rev cams work ok .
So its nothing to do with the cameras; its the cables to connect to the computer thats faulty
Wufer happy now .
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Look right at the bottom of this page (in red)
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Posted 18 August 2010 - 10:17 AM
The only disadvantage with these devices is no playback in the field. I'm going to have to start taking the netbook out with me....
Trying to compress all this fast moving grass into a reasonable up/download is tough - the quality of this video is far below what the camera produces.
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PS: I still haven't figured out how to remove the (incorrect) date stamps on the mini-cam (My son will hep me out there). In order to give the photos a better perspective, I inverted the entire strip.
I made a rig today which slides into the sleeving of the leading edge... as soon as we get some clear skies and wind... I'll give it a try. If it works I'll post photos of the rig.
Great fun for such a small price. I paid under $16 for the complete unit (mini-cam, USB cord, TF card and card adaptor) on eBay.
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I posted all the best stills from the videos shot by Laura and myself using my Rev KAP setup. They are in my members album at the following direct link:
2 images show the mounting I used for the earlier series taken 1-2 PM from the center of my non-vented Rev. For the later series taken 3-4 PM, I removed the aluminum brachet and rubber banded the camera on the clothespin, thus turning the camera base parallel to the plane of the kite. This is a direct application of the thread http://www.revkites....c/4234-rev-cam/ showing these tiny cameras and providing the inspiration for a way to accomplish one of my photographic hopes.
I don't plan on posting the videos because they are around 30 minutes of mostly spinning sky and ground, sure to give viewers motion sickness and I don't have the time to edit the good parts together. In the meantime, the stills provide a unique perspective on a great day of flying. Thanks to Rev Riders Laura and Rich for teaching me some of their moves. It was a blast trying my hands at the cool manuvers that the team flies so smoothly in performances. It was also good to meet Jose, an up and coming flyer who I am sure will soon be taking his place in team flying.
I love your view from 250'. Since I rarely have wind or space to justify it, I will stick with my 120' sets. The (imperfect) solution to removing the date stamp is listed on the http://www.chucklohr.com/808/ website. I have tried the "Timestamp" filter with Virtualdub and it works reasonably well.
Wayne Reed
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My Rev Gallery
Posted 13 December 2010 - 05:21 AM
you tube video here
(watch in 720p if possible)
Seems to have potential just need to sort a decent mount system thats not too heavy (used a standard camera mount/clamp/case this time) ..
Posted 13 December 2010 - 06:14 AM
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Posted 13 December 2010 - 08:27 AM
It's Good to Share the Joy.
Posted 13 December 2010 - 08:55 AM
what happens when I get in to things, hmmmmmmm cameras and kites hmmmmmm..... Ben
Posted 13 December 2010 - 09:25 AM
good quality video
Maker of the ULTRA NO SNAG HANDLES
Posted 13 December 2010 - 10:41 AM
What line lengths were you flying on?
"When the power of love becomes more important than the love of power,
then there will be peace"
Posted 13 December 2010 - 11:17 AM
Posted 14 December 2010 - 02:16 AM
So now just need to get some other kites in the air ...
Posted 11 February 2011 - 07:50 PM
2 of the shots were taken at Antman's inland site with the 2 of us in the icy breeze. The next day, Barb & I were at the beach and I got some views of the Wildwood sign and empty boardwalk. Very different than Memorial Day at the kite festival!
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Posted 12 February 2011 - 05:03 AM
That beach has such a different vibe off season. Such a great place to fly. I wish I could get down there more often.
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Court Notes 9/21/12
Donald Heness and Ann Heness to James E. Greiner for $70,000; Harveys Lake.
Diane Mclvaine to Laura A. Drasher and Jayson Cowin for $159,000; Foster Township.
John S. Jurosky and Mary Rose Lukesh to Jeffrey Smith and Brenda Novackowski for $108,000; Exeter.
George E. Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Thomas to John E. Rupert and Melanie L. Rupert for $215,100; Dallas Township.
Lois M. Gilbert to Gaydon C. Hoyt and Margaret E. Hoyt for $100,000; Hollenback Township.
Kevin Comine to Robert Callahan for $81,000; Exeter Township.
Joseph C. Limongelli and Meghan Limongelli to Jason J. Mattioli and Rebecca Morrison Mattioli for $495,000; Pittston Township.
Brian Balara and Margaret M. Balara to David E. Young Jr. for $288,500; Hunlock Township.
Leo Wallace, Leo Wallace (executor), Doloes D. Dorak (estate), Judith Malacarane, Michele Zimmerman and Nicole Zimmerman to Kyle Wickenheiser for $160,000; Dallas Township.
Pauline Hudack to Gladys Reinhart Trust and Gladys E. Trust Reinhart for $170,000; Nuangola.
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|Pesticide training set in February in Perkins County
The following is a list of dates, times and locations in the Keith-Arthur and Perkins county area where one may attend private pesticide applicator training for initial certification or re-certification.
• Feb. 2, 10 a.m., Perkins County Fairgrounds, Grant
• Feb. 4, 10 a.m., Elsie Legion Hall, Elsie
• Feb. 9, 10 a.m., Valentino's, Ogallala
• Feb. 11, 10 a.m., Paxton Community Center, Paxton
• Feb. 16, 1 p.m., Arthur County Courthouse, Arthur
The Extension program fee is $30 for these sessions. If a person cannot attend any of the above listed sessions, a self-study course may be completed at a cost of $60 in addition to the state license fee.
Anyone having received a "bar-coded" letter from the Nebraska Department of Agriculture about the need to re-certify may bring this letter to the private applicator training session.
This letter will save time and may be substituted for the NDA "bubble" application form. The bar-coded letter is not valid after April 15 of the current year.
Contact the Perkins County Extension Office, 352-4340, with any questions about pesticide training.


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March 29, 2009
NEW ORLEANS- Houston (9-17, 4-2 C-USA) came out with back-to-back wins to take the Conference USA series from Tulane (16-11, 1-2 C-USA) with a 4-3 come-from-behind victory Sunday.
"It was a disappointing day," head coach Rick Jones said. "We hit three balls that on normal days go out of the ball park but with nothing to show for it. I was disappointing in the last four innings because we were noncompetitive at the plate and you can't be that way. We just didn't have enough competitive at bats late."
The Cougars put up a single run to open the contest after Blake Kelso reached on a base on balls. Zak Presley moved him over on a sacrifice bunt and Kelso was plated by the RBI single off the bat of Caleb Ramsey. But Tulane evened the score in their half of the frame after Seth Henry got the base hit to right field. Sam Honeck followed with a walk and Jeremy Schaffer (2-3, RBI) reached after taking a pitch off the helmet to load the bases for Karl Mundt. Mundt saw four straight balls and Cougars' starter Chase Dempsay walked in the tying run headed into the second.
The Green Wave picked up two more in the bottom of the third when Henry led off with a base on balls. With Henry on the move, Honeck took the Dempsay offering back up the middle, moving Henry to third on the play. Jeremy Schaffer plated Henry easily with an RBI single to left. Mundt followed with a single up the middle to score Honeck, a hit that would mark the end of Dempsay's outing on the mound. Jared Ray came entered the game in relief of Dempsay, who remained in the contest as the designated hitter but Tulane enjoyed a 3-1 lead headed into the fourth.
Houston added to their run column in the top of the sixth when Dempsay poked a ball into shallow right field for a hit. William Kankel sacrificed him over to second and David Murphy worked his way on via a base on balls. Dempsay scored when Ty Stuckey hit a bullet to center field for a double, bringing Houston within one, 3-2. With runners at second and third and two outs, Josh Zeid worked his way out of the jam, inducing the groundball to Honeck out of John Cannon to end the top of the sixth.
The Cougars strung together a couple hits and took advantage of a leadoff walk in the top of the seventh to take the lead. The Wave went to the bullpen in the seventh, after leadoff hitter Kelso reached on the walk. Ryan Doiron came in to face Presley, who sacrificed Kelso over to second, where he was subsequently knocked in on a Ramsey double down the third base line, tying the game again, 3-3. Ramsey, who had moved up to third on the strikeout of Dempsay, came into score on a single off the bat of Kankel and headed into the bottom of the seventh, the Cougars led 4-3.
Houston received stellar support from their staff all weekend, with Ray throwing 5.2 innings Sunday, only yielding one hit and two walks while striking out seven. Donnie Joseph came in to secure the win for the Cougars after shutting down the Wave in Saturday's contest. Joseph threw the bottom of the ninth, fanning the Tulane batsmen in order to pick up his third save.
Tulane will look to get back on track as they take on in-state rival Louisiana State University on Tuesday at Greer Field at Turchin Stadium. First pitch is slated for 6PM.


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Camden's Spencer Connor goes low to return a shot late in his match with Oneida's Sean Spooner.
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The Oneida boy's tennis squad continued its outstanding season today, as the Indians traveled to Camden and defeated the Blue Devils by a score of 6-1. The win gave Oneida a season sweep over Camden.
Oneida swept all four singles matches and two of three doubles matches, to earn the team's 12th victory of the season.
Warm, humid conditions, with temperatures in the 80's prevailed on the hard courts at Camden High School this afternoon.
The warm temperatures and brilliant sunshine caused fatigue to players from both teams, as we seemed to go from early spring to late summer in just a day!
Oneida's Jeffrey Coulter stepped up to #1 singles today, in the absence of David Kahn and Coulter took out Camden #1 Jesse Muller (6-3, 6-2) in the most hotly contested match of the afternoon.
Indians #2 this afternoon was Andrew Palmer, who defeated Camden's Tanner Waterman, also by scores of (6-2, 6-3).
In the third singles match, Oneida's Sean Spooner defeated Camden's Spencer Connor, (6-0, 6-0).
Oneida achieved the sweep of the singles matches when #4 Mike McCormick knocked out Camden's Andrew DePasquale, (6-0, 6-0).
Camden's #1 doubles team of Charlie Price and Sam Wright defeated Oneida's David Mondrick and Zachary Wartella, by scores of (6-3, 6-4), in a marathon match that gave Camden its only point of the afternoon.
Oneida's Brandon Dibble and Jordan O'Connell teamed up to defeat Camden's Ryan Lisenko and Zach Wartella (6-2, 7-5), to even up the doubles points at 1-1.
In 3rd doubles, Nate Moyer and Brad Vrooman defeated Emerson Carpenter and Mitchell Tompkins (6-1, 6-0), to give the Indians the 6-1 victory.
The win improves Oneida to (12-1) on the season, (8-1) in the TVL, tied for first place with New Hartford.
Camden drops to (2-9, 1-8) and will conclude the regular season tomorrow at Whitesboro.
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For years, Beau Phillips regaled friends and colleagues with crazy stories about rock radio's heyday.
As program director and later general manager of beloved Seattle hard-rock station KISW-FM from 1978 to 1992, Phillips had plenty of tales to tell, most of them funny, some poignant.
Phillips' self-released "I Killed Pink Floyd's Pig," subtitled "Inside Stories of Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll," is a tell-all collection of more than 30 tales about an era when rock radio thrived on outrageous stunts, backstage shenanigans, clever promotions and outsized personalities. The book is available from Amazon.com.
It's a fun, fast read that covers Phillips' days at KISW as well as his subsequent career with MTV Networks and other companies. It also touches on his acquaintances with rock celebrities such as Sammy Hagar (who wrote the book's forward), Joe Walsh, Robert Plant and Paul McCartney, as well as other Seattle radio personalities.
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The book takes its title from an infamous promotion that could have cost Phillips his job at KISW.
When Pink Floyd's final tour came to Seattle in 1987, Phillips (with the help of concert promoter John Bauer) persuaded the band to let KISW tether its giant inflatable pig — a 40-foot-long prop dubbed Algie — to the roof of the station's Seattle headquarters.
The promotion was a huge success and was visible for miles.
But on the morning of Pink Floyd's concert at the (now-demolished) Kingdome, a KISW DJ phoned Phillips at 6 a.m. to report the pig was gone.
"I snapped awake. 'What? How can the pig be gone?' " recalled Phillips, 61, who now lives in Maryland. "My mind raced as I sped toward the station. How could I explain to Pink Floyd that I lost their pig?"
When he got to the roof, Phillips discovered a mound of pink fabric. Someone had shot an arrow through the mascot.
"I suspected that the shooter must have come from KZOK-FM, our archrival rock station," Phillips said with a laugh.
"Just months before, we had defaced their 'Not Too Hard — Not Too Soft' billboard. When I say 'we,' it was me who added the words 'Not Too Good' in spray paint."
Phillips and his staff managed to find a parachute maker willing to repair the 300-pound inflatable on short notice.
With moments to spare, the stitched-up mascot was delivered to the Kingdome. Surprisingly, no one seemed to notice the patch as the pig floated in the semidarkness during the song "Pigs."
Phillips, who is now president of the marketing and promotion company Rainmaker Media, laughed as he recounted another story from the book — the time Van Halen and entourage dropped by the station with strippers and a case of Champagne.
"The strippers jumped up on the console, tore off their bikini tops and started grinding to the beat. … Our phone lines bulged with callers wanting to shoot the breeze with Diamond Dave ([David Lee Roth)."
Then there was the time in 1993 when Phillips discovered Keith Richards sitting next to him in first class on a red-eye flight to New York. The two wound up chatting for much of the flight and when the plane landed, anticipating a mob of fans with guitars to be signed, Richards asked Phillips to pull him away quickly after signing the last autograph.
But Phillips noticed that Richards had actually signed Phillips' name on the guitars instead of his own.
"What was that about?" Phillips asked.
Richards laughed.
"Look, I will do anything for my fans," he said. "But those people just want my autograph so they can sell it. They're not real fans."
During Phillips' final days at KISW, Seattle's grunge explosion turned everything upside down, which helped usher in local alternative-rock station KNDD-FM.
"All of a sudden, hair bands looked ridiculous," said Phillips, who nevertheless looks back affectionately on rock radio of the '70s and '80s.
"There was a perfect storm of exciting bands, prolific record labels, savvy concert promoters and destination record stores," he said. "Radio was the megaphone that evangelized to the masses and helped break artists on a national scale."
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Several local high school basketball teams will scrimmage in Jamborees tonight and tomorrow. Here's the schedule....
Union will host a boys and girls event. The Lady Wildcats will host Bishop DuBourg and Windsor at 4:30. The Boys will host DuBourg, Lindbergh and Northwest at 6:45.
The Pacific Boys will host Washington and Kirkwood at 5:00 this evening.
St. Clair Girls will host Hermann, Owensville and Northwest at 5:30 this evening.
The Pacific Girls will host Lutheran South, Ursuline and Laquey Saturday at noon.
The Borgia Girls will host a three team jamboree with Webster Groves and Troy coming in. The action will start at 2:00 Saturday afternoon.


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NORTHERN ILLINOIS (WIFR) -- The Community Foundation of Northern Illinois encourages the regional community to support the Foundation's Carroll H. Starr Endowment Challenge Organizations with end-of-the-year contributions.
Burpee Museum, the Cosmopolitan Club of Rockford, Discovery Center Museum, Freeport Art Museum, Illinois Growth Enterprises, Klehm Arboretum & Botanic Garden, The Mill, Natural Land Institute, RAMP, Rockford Christian Schools, and Swedish Historical Society have all participated in the Community Foundation's Carroll Starr Endowment Challenge Program. The Cosmopolitan Club of Rockford, RAMP, Rockford Christian Schools, and Swedish Historical Society are in the middle of their endowment challenges and are working to meet their endowment goals.
People can donate to any of the Carroll Starr Endowment Challenge Organizations by making checks payable to CFNIL and writing the name of their organization of choice on the memo line. Be sure to indicate Starr Endowment. Send checks to the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois at 946 N. Second Street, Rockford, IL 61107. Call 815-962-2110 ext. 12 for details.
The Carroll H. Starr Endowment Challenge helps build the capacity and self-sufficiency of the nonprofit sector by creating permanent endowments. The endowments help nonprofits avoid crises stemming from annual appeal shortages and unexpected financial situations.
The Challenge is periodically open to all non-profit agencies in Boone, Ogle, Stephenson, and Winnebago counties that are interested in building a permanent endowment. The Community Foundation matches $1 (up to $50,000) for every $3 raised by selected non-profits during the Challenge time period. A special Carroll Starr Endowment Incentive Program will be announced on December 4, 2012.
The program is named after Carroll H. Starr, a prominent businessman – part owner of the first Ford Motor Car dealership in Rockford, banker, and manager of a local investment firm. Starr guided the Community Foundation (then known as the Rockford Community Trust) during its formative years with an abiding conviction in its future growth and benefit to Rockford. He served the Trust faithfully until his death in 1963.
"Charitable dollars are scarce and non-profits can benefit greatly by concentrating on a future and permanent source of income," said Gloria Lundin, the Foundation's President. "It is our mission to attract permanent resources for this community. We know the Carroll Starr Endowment Program encourages self-sustainability in the non-profits, and alleviates some of the reliance on annual fundraising campaigns."
The Community Foundation of Northern Illinois serves as the area's leading non-profit provider of grants and scholarships. Its mission is to build permanent resources for the immediate and future needs of the people of Northern Illinois.


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Small and mid-sized shippers express optimism
March 05, 2013
Majority of manufacturers plan to beat 2012 revenue records, keep capital investments strong, and bring international sourcing closer to the U.S.
Prime Advantage, a buying consortium for midsized manufacturers, announced the findings of its eleventh semi-annual Group Outlook Survey, revealing financial projections and top concerns of its member companies for 2013. The Group Outlook (GO Survey) results find manufacturers optimistic about revenues, and planning to retain or grow their workforce.
Summary of Findings
Sixty-eight percent of respondents expect revenues to increase in 2013
Eighty-seven percent of companies expect capital expenditures to grow or remain constant in 2013, with 39 percent planning to spend more than 2012 levels
Forty-three percent of companies plan to hire more employees in 2013 and 52 percent plan to maintain current employment levels
This is higher than the 39 percent that indicated they would be hiring in 2H2012
The cost of raw materials is a concern and is among top cost pressures for 90 percent of manufacturers
Anticipating strong revenue and capital spending
Most small and midsized manufacturers expect to beat strong revenues of 2012, with 68 percent of respondents anticipating an increase in sales in 2013. New product launches are the main reason for expected revenue increases, cited by 61 percent, followed by an expected increase in overall customer demand, cited by 57 percent.
The 1H2012 GO Survey saw a similar strong revenue projection of 72 percent, while the 2H2012 GO Survey, conducted last August, was less optimistic at 48 percent of respondents predicting revenue growth over the last half of 2012.
Capital expenditure planning remains healthy, as in the previous two years, with 39 percent of respondents planning an increase from 2012 levels. The 1H2012 GO Survey saw 88 percent projecting spending increases over the previous year, and the 2H2012 GO Survey saw 48 percent projecting spending increases over the previous 12-month period.
Employment continues to grow
Manufacturers' hiring plans remain in expansion mode, with 43 percent planning to hire more workers this year. Although this number is slightly down compared with 2012, when 56 percent of respondents planned hiring, it remains significantly above expectations in 2010, when only 24 percent of companies were hiring.
Top Concerns: raw materials, purchasing processes and forecast accuracy
The top concern of 2013, the cost of raw materials, is also a leading cost pressure concern. More than 90 percent of respondents included raw materials in their top three cost pressure concerns and 42 percent cited this concern in the leading position. However, it is encouraging that this seems to be declining, relative to recent surveys. The 1H2012 GO Survey saw 55 percent indicate that raw materials was the top cost pressure concern, and it was cited as the top cost pressure concern by 76 percent in the 1H2012 GO Survey.
Healthcare costs moved back into second place among top cost pressure concerns, with 57 percent of respondents including it in the top three. The 1H2012 GO Survey had healthcare costs as the third-greatest cost concern (49 percent). And in 2011, healthcare costs were cited as the fourth-greatest concern among small and midsized manufacturers.
The cost of base materials for components, although still in third place, was cited by fewer respondents as a concern than in prior years.
Nearshoring is here
Companies are seeking the benefits of near-shoring. In the past twelve months, more than one-in-five respondents have brought international sourcing closer to United States. These results are similar to the Grant Thornton Study on Nearshoring, where 25 percent of respondents indicated they brought sourcing closer to the U.S.
More than 70 percent of respondents have increased material and service purchases from American suppliers and service providers. Mexico is the second choice for sourcing, with nearly 28 percent of respondents moving sourcing to that region. The most frequently cited benefits that manufacturers hope to see in nearshoring are shorter lead times, as indicated by 67 percent of respondents, and lower inventories (49 percent). Among other benefits, companies cited better supply chain control (40 percent) and better overall communication (39 percent).
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I Would like to confess that i forget my dearest wife's birthday on 22nd feb,
and i realised when some of my friends were wishing birthdays to their friends,
that i am forgetting something, i tried for 2 days to manau my wife, successfully done on 25th feb, with a promise of taking her out for a lunch on 26th feb.
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Deeksha : M glad you made up for that...:)
minmin : Remembers birthdays or important family dates doesnt come naturally to most of the men. At the same time it is abolutely natural for women to expect their partners to remember and get extremely upset if they fail to do so. My only advise to you is if you really love and care for your partners feeling then ensure you take all possible steps to temember this from next year onwards. Set reminder on emails. mobiles, calenders etc. At leats this way you will keep her happy. The damage done is done...it is no crime...and great to see you are making all possible efforts to pacify her. But next time...be prepared...handling women is no less than playing with fire. Good luck.
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Invention of Computers has revolutionized each and every sphere of the industry by making the work easy and fast. Along with this, advent of internet has remarkably connected people all over the world. There are certain mechanisms through which several computers can be connected with each other. Installing a server that is a hub through all the computers presence in the same premise can be well-connected with each other. What does this connection mean? It means that different drives of the computer such as C drive, D drive can be shared and also the information on drive of one computer can be accessed through another computer. This is the way how work is done in offices. But the question arises! How to set up network connection between several computers at home? Setting up home network is a matter of technical expertise. Let us discuss the ways to set up network between computers at home.
Two Ways Through Which A Home Network Connection Can Be Set Up:
Wi-fi: This is the latest technology in which connection between the computers and the internet can be made without usage of cables. Wifi, basically, means a wireless connection. This prevents the space occupied by the cable that makes the setup chaotic and congested. Thus, for setting the Wifi connection one needs to purchase a wireless router and an adapter. Network between the computers can be established by connecting the router, adapter and the computer with each other and then other several systems nearby area can also get connected through this Wifi network. This needs a high technical knowledge and also one can contact computer professionals who can easily install the whole set up within a matter of few minutes.
LAN: LAN stands for local area network. As the name suggests, LAN is the connection between computers within a reach of 1-2 kms from each other. The connection can be made using a LAN wire that connects two or more than two computers. The first step is to connect the wire with each other. In order to share the internet connection also, one side of the wire must be fixed into the internet modem and another with computer. In this case, a separate wire is needed for another computer. After that, few settings have to be done on the computer. Open 'My Computer' and go the network settings and activate LAN connection. This will take few minutes and the process of getting connected is visible on the screen. Now, the next step is to decide which drives are needed to be shared. One can easily decide this by exploring options in the network setting dialog box. Now, after the connection is established, both the computers are ready to share information with each other. This is the time when one can access the information on C or D Drive of one computer with another. This kind of technique prevents over expenditure on internet or the printer that can also be connected through LAN.
Though all this might sound very difficult to do but it is easy and simple once the whole process is understood in details. There is yet another solution to get Wireless network setup. One can call computer professionals who offer Home Networking Solutions. One can contact them over the internet by browsing B2B portals and directories.
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