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A Piece of Cake
514 South King Streethttp://www.apieceofcakeseattle.com(206) 623-8284Hong Kong style bakery and cafe located in the International District of Seattle. Our cakes are made with the freshest ingredients.
Bluebird Homemade Ice Cream & Tea Room
1205 East Pike Streethttp://bluebirdseattle.blogspot.com(206) 588-1079Homemade ice cream, tea, coffee, sandwiches, and other delicious treats. Local, organic ingredients.
Planet Java Diner
72 South Washington Streethttp://www.planetjavadiner.com/Site/Planet_Java_Diner.html(206) 340-8859An American-style restaurant in Pioneer Square.
Pike Pub & Brewery
1415 1st Avenuehttp://www.pikebrewing.com/index_html.shtml(206) 622-6044In 1989, the Finkels opened The Pike Place Brewery in the Pike Place Public Market. From the beginning, the Finkels wanted the beers of Pike to be the equal or better, and in better condition than any that they represented from Europe. Many believe they've succeeded!
Dome Burger
111 Occidental Avenue Southhttp://www.yelp.com/biz/dome-burger-seattle(206) 340-1457Burgers and fries in a convenient location.
King's Hardware
5225 Ballard Avenue Northwesthttp://www.kingsballard.com(206) 782-0027Burgers, beer & cocktails, fries, and more.
Mediterranean Mix
205 1st Avenue Southhttp://www.yelp.com/biz/mediterranean-mix-seattle(206) 341-9265Gyros, falafel, fries and beverages. Fast, simple, convenient.
Honey Court Seafood Restaurant
516 Maynard Avenue Southhttp://www.yelp.com/biz/honey-court-seafood-restaurant-seattle(206) 292-8828Chinese food and dim sum.
Zeitgeist Coffee
171 South Jackson Streethttp://zeitgeistcoffee.com(206) 583-0497A warm, pleasing place serving coffee, tea and snacks. Very community oriented and supportive of the arts.
Stumptown Coffee Roasters
1115 12th Avehttp://stumptowncoffee.com/location/12th(206) 329-0115Quality coffee, pastries and tea.
Cafe Presse
1117 12th Avenuehttp://cafepresseseattle.com/home(206) 709-7674Full coffee service and house-made pastries; affordable wines from the French countryside; a full bar open until 2am everyday; and a menu of casual Parisian café food. International Soccer. Foreign and domestic newspapers and magazines.
Maneki Japanese Restaurant
304 6th Avenue Southhttp://www.manekirestaurant.com(206) 622-2631Serving traditional, family-style, Japanese food served in a welcoming atmosphere for more than 100 years.
Fuji Bakery
526 South King Streethttp://www.fujibakeryinc.com(206) 623-4050A Japanese artisan bakery providing the highest quality in ingredients, taste and presentation. Delicious savory and sweet options -- made fresh daily. Also offering espresso.
Hot Mama's Pizza
700 East Pine Streethttp://hot-mamaspizza.com(206) 322-6444Authentic and mouth-watering New York style pizza in Seattle. By the slice or whole pizzas.
Odd Fellows Cafe
1525 10th Avenuewww.oddfellowscafe.com(206) 325-0807Baked goods, sandwiches, dinners and more. Tea, coffee, cocktails, beer, wine.
Piecora's Pizza
1401 East Madison Streethttp://www.piecoras.com(206) 322-9411Unique pizza combinations, salads, pasta dinners and calzones. Whole and half pizzas are made to order with your choice of toppings.
Milano Pizza & Pasta
405 Northeast 45th Streethttp://www.milano-pizza.com/zgrid/themes/844/intro(206) 545-0252Milano Pizza is a family run pizzeria that starts with freshly mixed dough allowed to rise to perfection in the pan. Then special pizza sauce, 100% real mozzarella cheese, your choice of the freshest vegetables and meats are added. Delicious!
Samurai Noodle
606 5th Ave. Shttp://www.samurainoodle.com/about.html(206) 624-9321The inspiration for Samurai Noodle comes from small Ramen shops throughout Japan. Places that focus all of their energy on rich broth, chewy noodles, and succulent pork that make up the essence of Ramen.
309 3rd Avenue Southhttp://www.salumicuredmeats.com(206) 621-8772Salami and cured meat products, sandwiches, and weekly specials (soups and pastas). Owned by the father of famous chef, Mario Vitali.
Ivar's Acres of Clams
1001 Alaskan Wayhttp://www.ivars.com/index.php?page=locations_acres-of-clams(206) 624-6852This attractive seafood restaurant showcases waterfront views of Washington State ferries and Puget Sound. Also, located at the front of the restaurant is the Fish Bar offering take-out service and casual outdoor dining until 11:00pm.
Thai Curry Simple
406 5th Avenue Southhttp://www.thaicurrysimple.com(206) 327-4838Good, authentic Thai food which concentrates on the traditional cooking styles of Thailand. We make our own curry pastes with over 10 years of cooking experience. We then add fresh local ingredients with spiced & herbs from Thailand to provide you with excellent Thai food daily.
Green Leaf
418 8th Avenue Southhttp://greenleaftaste.com(206) 340-1388Delicious, fresh Vietnamese food!
Owl N' Thistle
808 Post Avenuehttp://www.owlnthistle.com(206) 621-7777A funky, folksy Irish pub with acoustic songwriters, poets, and artists enjoying beer and pub food. Housed in a historic building in the Pioneer Square neighborhood.
Fado Irish Pub
801 1st Avenuehttp://www.fadoirishpub.com/seattle(206) 264-2700Fadó is an Irish term meaning 'long ago'. Hearty food and drink, good music, warm hospitality and friendly banter.
2222 2nd Avenuehttp://www.shortydog.com(206) 441-5449Cocktails, beer, hot dogs and pinball arcade. Ages 21+ only. Open noon-2am every day.
Linda's Tavern
707 East Pine Streethttp://www.lindastavern.com(206) 325-1220Beer, cocktails and casual food. Breakfast all day.
Bush Garden
614 Maynard Avenue Southhttp://www.bushgarden.net(206) 682-6830Drinks, food and karaoke. Bush Garden's lounge has always been a 'hub' of community activity.
Cha Cha Lounge
1013 East Pike Streethttp://www.chachalounge.com/seattle(206) 322-0703Beer, tequila, Mexican food, karaoke.
429 Eastlake Avenuehttp://thelofi.net(206) 254-2824Two bars and live music. What more can you ask for?
Trinity Nightclub
111 Yesler Wayhttp://www.trinitynightclub.com/trinity.html(206) 447-4140Full dance floor, lounge, cocktails, and a state of the art sound system. (No food.)
R Place
619 East Pine Streethttp://rplaceseattle.com(206) 322-8828Gay-friendly pub with karaoke and cabaret.
Century Ballroom
915 East Pine Streethttp://www.centuryballroom.com/home(206) 324-7263Enjoy a night of dining and dancing, either solo or with friends. Century Ballroom offers great food and drink in our restaurant, The Tin Table, across the hall.
Contour Club
807 1st Avenuehttp://www.clubcontour.com(206) 447-7704Cocktails, food, electronic music, and dancing.
Comedy Underground Club
109 S Washington St(206) 628-0303
Unexpected Productions
1428 Post Alley(206) 587-2414
Jet City Improv
5510 University Way NE(206) 781-3879
1511 7th Avenue(206) 521-0952
Seattle Pinball Museum
508 Maynard Avenue South(206) 623-0759
Conor Byrne
5140 Ballard Avenue NW(206) 784-3640
The Crocodile
2200 2nd Avenue(206) 441-4618
Little Red Hen
7115 Woodlawn Avenue Northeast(206) 522-1168
925 East Pike Street(206) 709-9442
1114 Howell Street(206) 233-9873
Showbox at the Market
1426 1st Avenue(206) 628-3151
Studio Seven
110 South Horton Street(206) 286-1312
Tractor Tavern
5213 Ballard Avenue Northwest(206) 789-3599
Things to do
2300 Arboretum Drive Ehttp://depts.washington.edu/uwbg/gardens/wpa.shtml(206) 543-8800The Arboretum is a hidden gem on the shores of Lake Washington. Its 230 acres are a dynamic assortment of plants and trees. The Graham Visitors Center contains an information desk and a gift shop. The Japanese Garden, located at the south end of the Arboretum has an entrance fee and is managed by the City of Seattle.
Ballard Locks (Chittenden Locks)
3015 NW 54th St, Seattle, WA 98107http://www.nws.usace.army.mil/Missions/CivilWorks/LocksandDams/ChittendenLocks.aspx(206) 783-7059The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, built in 1911 and often nicknamed the Ballard Locks, provides a link for boats between the salt water of Puget Sound and the fresh water of the Ship Canal, which connects eastward to Lake Union and Lake Washington. Tourists and locals enjoy watching the parade of sailboats, motorboats, tugs, barges and yachts passing through, as the locks' water levels are adjusted to allow their safe passage. Another popular spot is the fish ladder, built to allow salmon to pass between fresh and salt water, and to navigate the locks. Just north of the locks are the Carl S. English, Jr. Botanical Garden, perfect for a relaxing stroll all year round, and the Visitor Center, which features displays on the history and operations of the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
Boeing Aviation Center
8415 Paine Field Blvd, Mukilteo, WA 98275http://www.futureofflight.org/fof_Visit.html1-800-464-1476Located approximately 25 miles north of Seattle, The Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour is the only public tour of a commercial jet assembly plant in North America. Explore the interactive exhibits and displays in our 28,000-square-foot Aviation Center Gallery; then go behind the scenes for a 90-minute tour of the Boeing plant where you can watch 747s, 777s, or 787s being assembled.
Center For Wooden Boats
1010 Valley Streethttp://www.cwb.org(206) 382-2628Come to CWB for hands-on maritime experiences using our fleet of historic wooden boats. Our sailboats and row boats are for rent year-round to the public. We also offer many classes in sailing and other skills for adults and youth.
Jimi Hendrix statue
1798 Broadwayhttp://www.jimihendrix.com/us/homeThis bronze statue of Jimi Hendrix (a Seattle native), considered one of the greatest and most influential guitarists in rock music history, is just north of Pine street in the Capital Hill area of Seattle.
Kerry Park
211 W Highland Dr, Seattle, WA, 98119http://www.seattle.gov/parks/park_detail.asp?id=342(206) 684-4075An incredible view of Elliott Bay and the city, with Mount Rainier sometimes in view too. At sunset, the city and the water glow with lights. At night, brightly lit ferries glide across the water and the Space Needle shines from its 500-foot pedestal.
Kubota Gardens
9817 55th Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98118http://www.seattle.gov/parks/park_detail.asp?ID=415(206) 684-4584Hidden in South Seattle, Kubota Garden is a stunning 20 acre landscape that blends Japanese garden concepts with native Northwest plants. The city acquired the property, a historic landmark, from the estate of master landscaper Fujitaro Kubota. Kubota was a horticultural pioneer who began merging Japanese design techniques with North American materials in his display garden in 1927. The Gardens are a spectacular setting of hills and valleys, interlaced with streams, waterfalls, ponds, bridges, and rock out-croppings with a rich array of plant material.
Museum of Flight
9404 East Marginal Way S, Seattle, WA 98108-4097http://www.museumofflight.org206.764.5720The Museum of Flight is one of the largest air and space museums in the world, attracting more than 400,000 visitors annually. The Museum's collection includes more than 150 historically significant air- and spacecraft. The Museum's aviation and space library and archives are the largest on the West Coast.
Pacific Science Center
200 2nd Avenue Northhttp://www.pacificsciencecenter.org(206) 443-2001Pacific Science Center includes six acres of hands-on science fun, two IMAX theaters, our Tropical Butterfly House, Live Science Stage shows, Discovery Carts, Laser Dome and much more!
Safeco Field
1250 1st Avenue Southhttp://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/sea/ballpark/index.jsp(206) 346-4228Since the Inaugural Game on July 15, 1999, Safeco Field has gained a reputation locally, regionally and nationally as a terrific setting for baseball and a great place for baseball fans. Sweeping views of Seattle's downtown skyline, breathtaking sunsets over Puget Sound, combined with excellent views of game action from all angles give fans at Safeco Field an experience unequalled in Major League Baseball.
Seattle Art Museum
1300 1st Avenuehttp://www.seattleartmuseum.org206.654.3100The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as "SAM") is located in downtown Seattle. It also oversees the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill, and the Olympic Sculpture Park on the Seattle waterfront. The downtown branch has a large resident collection and, usually, a visiting exhibition too.
Experience Music Project
325 5th Avenue North(206) 770-2700
Seattle Public Library-International District Branch
713 8th Avenue South(206) 386-1300
Smith Tower
506 2nd Ave # 1021(206) 622-4004
Underground Tour
608 1st Ave(206) 682-4646
University of Washington
908 Jefferson Street(206) 520-4340
Volunteer Park
(206) 684-4555
Wing Luke Museum
719 South King Street(206) 623-5124
Woodland Park Zoo
601 N. 59th Street(206) 548-2500
303 South Jackson Street(800) 872-7245
Budget Rent-A-Car - Everett
12415 Washington 99(425) 355-8349
Dollar Rent a Car
1900 Boren Avenue(206) 381-1323
Greyhound Lines
503 S Royal Brougham Wayhttps://www.greyhound.com(206) 624-0618
National Car Rental
1301 6th Avenue(206) 448-7368
Seattle Center Monorail
370 Thomas Street(206) 905-2600
380 Union St(206) 682-0107
Neighbors and Friends
409 Maynard Ave. S, Suite P3 Seattle, WA 98104www.cidbia.org206.382.1197Established in 1994, the Chinatown-International District Business Improvement Area (CIDBIA) promotes economic vitality of the district, encourage responsible business development and support continuous improvement of the quality of life in the district for its business owners, residents, and visitors.


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|April 25, 2006, 02:00 AM
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Flashlights and batteries
I own 2 Dorcy Spyder flashlights. Very bright and small, similar but significantly less expensive than Surefire (which are themselves great lights).
Here's my question or complaint. The Dorcy takes the 123 3V lithium batteries which are around $1-2 each (depending on volumn purchased). My Dorcy lights get almost NO battery life with these. Even when they're not turned on much and sit idly in the drawer, the batteries seem to die unusually fast. I literally never use these lights except for emergencies (which are rare) and the batteries are always dead.
1. Is this usual?
2. Do the Surefires and others that use these or similar batteries experience the same rapid use of batteries, or is this unique?
3. Anyone know of someplace that sells these batteries cheaply and in small quantities (I don't want to spend a ton of $ on batteries)?
|April 25, 2006, 08:40 AM
Join Date: April 3, 2006
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I sell batteries for a living. Lithium 123 are the only batteries powerful enough to operate those types of flash lights. I believe your problem is that you are buying bulk. Are you given a discount because you are buying bulk or are the batteries already sold as such? If they are already sold as such then you are buying OLD batteries.
123s are notoriously expensive and the only way for them to be sold cheaply is to sell old stock. In addition, you mentioned that you rarely use the lights. 123s have a long shelf life and if you go to use them only in emergencies and they fail this is another sign you have bought OLD batteries. I would recommend that you buy the exact amount of batteries that you need in individual or two packs. Go buy one set off the shelf and I can assure you you will get much longer operational time.
|April 25, 2006, 01:14 PM
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Actually, I experienced the problem with the 4 batteries that came with the flashlights. Then I purchased a 4 pack of Duracell batteries from Lowes and experienced the same problem. I think the 4 pack was around $8-10. I've seen the batteries in bulk on various websites for $1-2 each, but never purchased in bulk. I'd like to keep these lights handy as a compliment to a handgun or even attach them to my AR15 or shotgun because they are small and powerfully bright.
Are these lights doomed to devour expensive batteries and should I just retire the flashlights in favor of more economical (albeit less bright) AA or D battery powered lights? Does the battery life start to deplete if the batteries are inserted into the lights but the light not turned on?
Or, should I just keep the batteries seperate and use the lights as dire emergency, taking time to load the batteries when needed?
|April 25, 2006, 01:21 PM
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i buy the packages of 12 batteries, never have the problem of batteries going dead prematurely. in fact, when they get to the point of being slightly less bright, i change them and drain the batteries in the high-output light.
surefires are worth the money.
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|April 25, 2006, 01:34 PM
Join Date: April 3, 2006
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Unfortunately these flashlights are battery eaters. I would go into a specialty store similar to mine and purchase your 123s. The price will be higher. Buying at larger stores such as Sams and Walmart,etc. you still run a much higher risk of getting old batteries. You see, these stores buy in bulk, and there are not that many people out there buying 123s. I would try this one last effort. If you continue with the same results I believe the more economical choice would be to leave your lights behind.
Also, there is no evidence supporting that batteries will discharge quicker by being applied to an unused flashlight.
|January 7, 2007, 04:39 PM
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The batteries should not be draining by leaving them in the flashlight. Either the flashlight is accidently being turned on by rolling around in the drawer or there is something wrong in the light casing a continual draw. If you are sure it is not being turned on I would contact Darcy, the problem isn't with the batteries. Keep us posted as to what happens.
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|January 7, 2007, 09:16 PM
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Surefire flashlight
I had one, but junked it this year. CR123 batteries aren't cheap and only lasted for about an hour. A replacement bulb (good for 20 hours) will set you back twenty bucks. I went the LED route instead, and I'm much happier with them. The batteries last a lot longer (particularly using rechargable NiMH batteries), and the LED bulbs will likely outlive me.
Not a Surefire fan.
|January 8, 2007, 09:13 PM
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I was at gander mountain the other day buying some 7.62 ammo and I saw a flashlight (at least that's what it looked like) in a display case for $400. I was wondering why a flashlight would ever cost $400. It wasn't like an attachable tactical light or anything, it just looked like a flashlight. I don't get it. Can anyone fill me in on this?
|January 8, 2007, 11:49 PM
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I've got two Surefire flashlights and a Streamlight.
My first surefire is an L5 Lumimax with a 5watt LED. Takes 2x 123's. I paid close to $200 for it and quite frankly to me it was worth every penny. It's the QUALITY of the light produced. 100 Lumens of perfectly shaped, bright white light with fantastically consistent flow. Pick one up sometime and take note of how it feels in your hands. Ergonomically they just plain work. Look into the beam sometime and it will absolutely ruin any nightvision. This is my Neighborhood walk-about light.
My second surefire is an M4 Devastator - $330 retail. Takes 4x 123's and, using the 350 lumen lamp assembly, will suck those 123's dry in 20 minutes. 350 lumens. Heck, the lamp assembly alone is held on springs and is designed to absorb drop shock without busting the filament (which is very common with incandescant bulbs).
This thing will absolutely blind you. My brother was playing with it and stared into the light for just a quick flash: he was seeing spots for at least 15 minutes. I bought this light as a "weaponlight" - blind any intruders first and then hit them with the 9mm 10 times... This light is so stupidly bright it's unreal. My wife and I were fooling around in the dark one night and I decided to shine it at a wall - the whole room lit up like day. And I was darn near seeing spots just from the reflected light.
Are they worth it? Depends on your budget. I bought a Streamlight TL3 Incan - 3x 123s'. Cost me $50 and quite frankly I'm not impressed at all. Dingy yellow light that burned out fast. I'm sure there was a short in the wires somewhere as it drained the batteries while just sitting around in a drawer.
There are lots of good lights out there - it all depends on what you like. I rather enjoy flashlights and have always had a bit of a flashlight fetish. Rossi vs. Colt Python - depends on whether or not you need/want a Python.
Robert N.
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|January 8, 2007, 11:53 PM
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i got this Dorcy for Christmas. it is insanely bright. 3 AAA batteries load into a "cartridge" and it is water resistant. will definately blind someone and leave you seein a spot for a while. best light ive ever owned.
|January 9, 2007, 12:58 AM
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The typical commercial flashlight will eat batteries pretty fast to get brightness...
You can get brighter (MUCH brighter) lights that run for longer on a set of batteries and that use rechargeables if you know WHERE to look.
(Hint--check out my signature line.)
I have a Black Bear Search and Rescue that puts out 852 lumens--over 350 lumens MORE light than the Surefire M6. It runs for over an hour on a charge and the batteries are rechargeable. Externally, there's nothing that distinguishes it from a 4 D Cell Maglite.
Black Bear also sells a Borealis which puts out 1050 lumens. It runs for about 50 minutes on a charge and is externally identical to a 3 D cell maglite.
|January 9, 2007, 03:27 AM
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Rechargables, maybe?
I got tired of buying CR123s for my Surefire, so I junked it. If that's what you like, you might want to look here:
I got a Tenergy recharger and some NiMH AA batteries (the ones I go through the most), and in the long run it might save you a few bucks.
|January 9, 2007, 08:40 AM
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The Surefire G2 is reasonably priced and very bright as you can light up something at 100 yds ! but only 1 hour for the batteries. My new Pelican 3330 is similar in size ,same batteries but Luxeon LED .Half the brightness of the G2 but 4 hours full light then tapering off for many hours more .I'll use that more .
|January 9, 2007, 10:16 AM
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I've used the Streamlight Scorpion's since they came out. They are as bright or brighter than any of the other lights of similar size I've tried. I've tried a couple of the LED lights, but while they may last longer, they just dont give me the light I want when I need it.
I also buy my batteries in bulk. So far, I seem get about the "1 hour" burn time the Scorpion's advertise, regardless where I buy the batteries from. I think a lot of people who buy these types of lights dont do their homework before, or read the package when they buy them.
I agree, the light should not be draining the batteries while in a drawer or on a shelf. I keep other Scorpion's around the house and so far, have never had them low or dead when I went to use them, some with years in between use.
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|January 9, 2007, 10:28 PM
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The issue is not abnormal. First, you bought a cheap light. This is not meant asa lsight, as I own several cheap lights. However, the fact is that they are not as well built as a higher end light. they will leak energy, they are not as efficient, and they will burn batteries up faster than a higher end light. Nothing worng with that, if you accept it fir what it is.
Secondly, these lights are not meant for continuous use. If you want a longer lasting light, get a rechargeable, such as a Stinger. These lights are meant for intermittent bursts of extreme light. My Pentagon X2HA has a continuous run time of a bit less than an hour. I find that a set of batteries lasts me more than a month on my duty belt. I use the Stinger for continuos light, the X2 for times when I need light, lots of light, and I need it now.
As for batteries, I buy them a dozen at a time. Surefire use to bethe best, but I think the quality has gone down, while the price has gone up. I am now using Streamlight batteries, and they seem to produce more light, and last longer. I dont have an issue with batteries or lights sitting for months with no use, and be ready to go.
Fo rthe record, I currently own and use two Streamlight Scorpions, one Streamlight TL2, one Pentagon X2HA, and a Brinkmann Maxxfire. All of these lights use CR123As, so you can imagine how many I go through.
|January 10, 2007, 02:37 PM
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Early childhood dead syndrome is very notorious aaround 123's batteries, especially the Surefire and Duracell brands.
In my own case as a collector of flashlights (I have over a hundred of them) when I check my Surefires or others 123's lights that have been in my draws for a few months, I always find several dead or dying, (they usually have a little juice left).
I have a few 123's that have come with Streamlights TL-3, TL-2., Scorpions etc., and those Streamlight batteries are still good after 2 1/2 years.
Before the 123's became available over the net, I used to buy Duracell's for my weapon lights (TACM III) and they only lasted a month or so on storage.
I stopped using 123's and I have reverted to lights that use AA NIMHS rechargeables, my Nuwai Q-3 is the only one left of my active lights that have a 123 inside, but this one is an umprotected rechargeable, great light, as the Luxeon is overdrived at almost 4 volts, the light is very bright!
My EDC's and my family EDC's are Fenix L1P's using AA batteries rechargeables.
If I want more light than the 40's lumens Fenix, I take the Nuwaii Q III at about 65 lumens with the overdrive.
If I want more light, I have an extended Surefire 9 P, with two 17670 Lithium Ions batteries for 200 lumens (with the P-91 lamp) if by chance I need more light than 200 lumens, I have a Black Bear 720 running on 6 rechargeable batteries for 720 lumens (40 minutes run time).
And if I want even more lumens I have a BOREALIS 1050 lumens, running on 9 AA Nimhs rechargeables for 50 minutes.
These rechargeable batteries in the BOREALIS can be recharged for 1,000 times, giving 833 hours of run time, before another pack of $30.00 is needed.
The Surefire M-6 (500 lumens, 20 minutes run on six 123's) will spend $29,988 in batteries before it can run for 833 hours.
123's ? NOT FOR ME, not any more as we have now good Nimhs rechargeables that cost about $3.00 each and give 1,000 recharges.
black bear
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and www.BlackBearFlashlights.com
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|January 13, 2007, 05:10 AM
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Naturally, the devil is in the details...and application. I could never rely on
any light using secondary/rechargable batteries in the backcountry, or in
a survival/storage flashlight. the self discharge characteristics discount
the NiCads and NiMH...and which one needs to consider Lithiums or alkalines.
As with any product, it comes down to selecting the proper tool for the task.
In an urban setting, where power/recharging facilities are available, the second-
ary batteries merit consideration
|January 13, 2007, 12:03 PM
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I've found that rechargeables self-discharge at a much slower rate (about 4 times slower) when stored in the refrigerator (not the freezer). I keep a charged set in my flashlight and a spare set in the refrigerator. If I forget to charge the set in the flashlight and it runs down, I can always pull the set out of the fridge and be good to go.
Also, there are now rechargeable lithium batteries which have a much slower discharge rate than typical rechargeables. I have a Black Bear BearCub that runs on two 3.6v rechargeable lithium batteries.
However, in general, I agree that the long term storage characteristics of primary batteries are ideal for that flashlight that you want to buy and forget until the lights go out. The rechargeables do require some level of commitment to ensure that they'll be ready to go when needed. Still, it's not much of a hassle--I probably spend around 15 minutes every month or month and a half messing around with recharging tasks.
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tnx for the tip, J. you're saying in the milk section and not in the ice cream section, right? i'm not sure what a fridge is vs refrig.
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This is a great site check it out!!
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They go in the refrigerator, not the FREEZER. I'll go back and fix my earlier post.
When you take them out of the fridge, you should, ideally, let them warm up to room temperature for best performance. In a pinch, they'll work ok cold. You'll just get reduced runtime. Standard stuff for batteries.
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tnx...i dont get out much. thought maybe there was a diff and I led a sheltered life.
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SEC's Mary Schapiro to Step Down
Mary Schapiro, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, announced Monday she would be stepping down.
Her decision will mark the end of a turbulent and trying period for the agency, which was reeling after the emergence of the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme.
Schapiro will officially step down Dec. 14.
A career regulator, she is credited by current and former SEC officials with steadying the agency after its failure to spot the Madoff fraud.
Her likeable personality and experience in top regulatory roles helped to repair the SEC's battered image, protect its powers during a big rewrite of financial regulation rules and boost employee morale.
President Barack Obama thanked her for her service in a statement.
"When Mary agreed to serve nearly four years ago, she was fully aware of the difficulties facing the SEC and our economy as a whole," he said. "But she accepted the challenge, and today, the SEC is stronger and our financial system is safer and better able to serve the American people – thanks in large part to Mary's hard work."
In the statement, Obama said he intends to designate Elisse Walter, a current commissioner at the SEC, as its chairman when Schapiro leaves next month.
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Marley Hodgson, co-founder of Denver's Mad Greens restaurants, was seeking a vice-president of finance when John Montgomery's résumé crossed his desk. Montgomery had been the controller for another restaurant chain before enrolling in the University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business. "I really liked him, so the question was: How do I make sure he jumps on board with us?" says Hodgson. Mad Greens has eight locations, about 100 employees, and $6 million in sales, and Hodgson couldn't offer the $130,000 to $150,000 he thought Montgomery might expect. So he threw in extra vacation, a bonus, and an equity stake. Montgomery came on board full-time in May 2008.
With job postings at many B-schools down, schools are advising students to broaden their job searches and seek out small businesses. Here's how to grab students' attention this spring.
Start with the career services office. Staff there will connect you with job-hunting students and get you access to job boards. You can also visit campuses, post jobs, and ask for referrals or recommendations. You might even ask the school to host a small business career fair, says Daniel Marques, Babson College's manager of entrepreneurial development, who's organizing one at his school this spring.
Don't wait for students to follow up after events. Seek them out through the schools' résumé books and databases (often free), then e-mail or call. "The personal touch works, especially if it comes from the CEO of the company," says Andy Chan, career services director at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Hodgson invites promising students to lunch at one of his restaurants.
Yes, MBAs are expensive. But salaries are down anywhere from 10% to 20% this year, giving employers some wiggle room. Try offering tempting perks—MBA hires could get to sit in on board meetings or be mentored by a top executive. Montgomery has already worked in almost every department at Mad Greens, from marketing to operations. Says Montgomery: "It was worth the pay cut."


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Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, there's been a lot of talk of delay, defund, repeal, and replace. That's what we're doing when it comes to ObamaCare. Indeed, that's what the American people want. They continue to tell us that they want protections from the harmful impact of ObamaCare and they want to make certain that we keep the Federal Government open.
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In Nashville, Tennessee, a 27-year-old young man who's a nonsmoker currently pays $41 a month for health insurance. Under ObamaCare, guess what? That premium goes to $114 per month. Forty-one dollars versus $114 per month? That's the impact and the effect of ObamaCare.
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By Richard von Busack
There comes a point in watching a modern-made, post Private Ryan war movie where you wonder what you're supposed to be feeling. The explosions and bullet-ballets shake you into an ADD state. The carnage has been amped up to the umpteenth degree, in hopes that the supposed realism of digitized blood geysers and exploding chests will make us forget how insanely simple-minded the plot is.
One wonders: would it be less moral to just sit around watching hard-core pornography? At least with porn, you'd know what you were supposed to feel. What kind of mood is meant to be stirred up when bodies are blown up in the most clinical way possible? Is it supposed to be exhilarating? Is it meant as an escape from the cares of the day? Or is this kind of intricately detailed war movie hiding under the same "for educational purposes only" mantle that porn used to use?
My Way (try the highway instead) is supposedly based on the true story of some Korean POWs in WWII who ended up in Axis uniform in Normandy, just in time for the Allied invasion. First captured by the Japanese, and then by the Russians, they ended the war fighting for the Germans.
It's not an implausible story. Kang Jae-Ku previously directed the relentlessly gory but more watchable flag-waver Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War, and he's trying to top that with relentless mayhem. Kang even ropes in Chariots of Fire to this story of a feuding pair's trip across Eurasia the hard way.
My Way begins at the London Olympics in 1948, where a Korean runner is surprising the crowds with his speed.
Flashback time. Korean mega-star Jang Dong-gun plays Kim Joon-sik. In youth, this Korean of humble birth had befriended and competed in races with the scion of a highly placed Japanese family. Tatsuo (Joe Odagiri) grows up to become a bloodthirsty, prejudiced colonel in the Imperial Japanese army, embittered because of his father's death by Korean partisan booby trap.
Tatsuo conscripts a group of Koreans. They fight in one of the undeclared border battles between the USSR and Japan in the late 1930s. Kim refuses orders that would make him and his Koreans serve as suicide battalions. He's beaten and sentenced to execution. Then Kim escapes, along with the movie's only woman, a captured Chinese sniper (Bingbing Fan). Having an open road in front of him, Kim insensibly turns around and returns to participate in a Japanese/Russian tank battle. (Part of the reason for this doubling-back is so we can watch Kim outracing a strafing airplane on foot.)
Historians with time on their hands can ask whether the Japanese suicide attacks we see here occurred this early in the war: with trucks full of gasoline ramming head-on into the Soviet tanks.
Not killed somehow, but only scratched, the Japanese officer and the Korean private end up in a Soviet gulag, chopping wood in below-zero conditions. Then another hairsbreadth rescue, and then another change of uniform. They then suit up in German Army regalia to prepare the defenses for D-Day.
Director Kang kills 'em by the thousand—the body count has to be at an all time ultimate. His crazed two or three second edits make sure we get extra portions of mayhem. This hetting-up of World War II goes so far that Kang slices up a press conference for Olympic qualification rules, as if it were a five-way gunfight from a John Woo film.
The cinderblock-colored skies and landcapes are leached of color to make the Soviet flag and the Nazi red banner pop out of the screen, along with the blood splattering in all directions. It's the most expensive Korean film presentation to date, and the money was used to synthetically kill on a mass scale. The moaning celestial choruses on the soundtrack fail to drown out the inept dialogue ("You think a ne'er do well rickshaw driver can be better than a well-trained marathoner?")
My Way has a point—obviously, anything that costs this much must have a point. It urges Japan and Korea to set aside their painful history and their business rivalries, and learn to compete like sportsmen. Strangely, it outlines this urgency in a film in which each side can watch the other one be blown to bits.


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The Clansman had been published in 1905, to success and notoriety. Dixon believed in segregation and the inferiority of blacks, and he dramatized this without mercy, often in situations where white women were sexually threatened. There had been an adaptation for the stage, as successful as the novel. Griffith and his partner Harry Aitken sought the film rights. Dixon asked for $25,000, which was far beyond the filmmakers' means. Then he dropped his price to $2,000—but against 25 percent of the producers' gross income (trust the future, or gamble on it). Aitken was so pressed for funds that the $2,000 check was delivered to Dixon on Friday after the banks had closed, allowing the producer two more days to secure the money.
The film was shot in California from July through November, and it required horses, uniforms, guns, and several hundred extras—all of whose numbers were exaggerated by the time the film opened amid that other innovation, "hype." (Eighteen thousand extras were claimed.) California was winning the battle to be the center of the film business, after everything had been New York, New Jersey, or New England at first. Going west brought better light and more of it; it distanced operations from the Motion Picture Patents Company that sought to license all equipment and film stock; and it meant a new world, days away from crowding and controls. The picture business helped establish California in America, which is one reason why the giant label HOLLYWOOD still looms over Los Angeles, even if local children hardly know what it means.
So the light in The Birth of a Nation and the terrain are not southern; they are Californian. The film cost $100,000, and it worked out to be a picture of over three hours. That entails a thing called production management—deciding what to shoot when and where as economically as possible (and Aitken was desperate about the funds all the time; Griffith and his cameraman, Billy Bitzer, put some of their own money into it). Yet Griffith was honest in the claim that he never had a script. He made the film up as he went along, which was the general method in the mass of short subjects that had prevailed. Many modern screenwriters lament that this habit or confidence has never been broken.
Still called The Clansman, the film opened on January 8, 1915, at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles, under heavy criticism from the NAACP, which feared for its consequences. Without question or protest, the audience sat still for twelve reels. It is said there was a stunned silence at the film's conclusion. (Was it over? would it go on forever?) (In December 1939, in Atlanta, there was a similar reaction to the premiere of Gone With the Wind. In both cases, some audiences felt the recent past and its tragedy had somehow been "explained.") Then there was pandemonium, not just cheering, but that roar of elation and surprise that greets an altering event. The noise went on until Griffith appeared—it was a stage actor taking a bow at last, acclaimed by the masses as a "hero." "He stepped out a few feet from the left, a small, almost frail figure lost in the enormousness of this great proscenium arch. He did not bow or raise his hands or do anything but just stood there and let wave after wave of cheers and applause wash over him like a great wave breaking over a rock."
In New England, as everywhere, the picture played to unprecedented crowds, and the event attracted people who had previously regarded moving pictures as too minor or soiled. But because the business was so large and novel, no one knew how to measure it—or keep track of the measurers. Louis B. Mayer is said to have made $500,000 from his deal, though it is believed he failed to report as much as $300,000 of his box office. By 1917, Epoch, the company behind Birth of a Nation, reported authenticated receipts of $4.8 million, which meant a clear profit of $1.8 million. It is reckoned that Thomas Dixon pocketed $1 million and Griffith himself at least half that amount. Richard Schickel believes that, worldwide, the film may have taken in as much as $50 million. Fortunes were built on it that allowed others to move ahead. Louis B. Mayer would form his own production company. A few years later he was in California, too. Irene Mayer reported, "My father said people lost their heads in Hollywood, whether because of the movies or all the sunshine or all the freedom…"
Try all three! And remember the light of Los Angeles. Yes, it is reliable for about three hundred days a year, and it shines on an astonishing variety of terrains—the sea, the shore, a city, suburbia, high desert and low, mountains with snow on them, sand dunes, and forest. There are a few shots of hillsides in Wuthering Heights (in California, not Yorkshire) where cameraman Gregg Toland has gorgeous triangles of light and shadow patterning the ground that are as moving as Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. Robert Towne, who wrote the L.A. classics Chinatown and Shampoo, once said the city's winter light was as if "someone put the sun in the freezer overnight."
There is an essay on L.A. light by Lawrence Weschler that begins with him and his daughter watching the O. J. Simpson Bronco chase of 1994. The kid sees that Dad is moved. "Did you know that guy?" she asks, and Dad says, no, it's the light that's getting to him: "the late-afternoon light of Los Angeles—golden pink off the bay through the smog and onto the palm fronds." Weschler goes on to collect all kinds of light from different witnesses. David Hockney recalls the crisp shadows in Laurel and Hardy films that his dad took him to see in overcast Yorkshire. Others say it's the weather effect of the desert abutting the ocean. Astronomers find it's perfect for their work. And the cinematographer John Bailey (he shot American Gigolo, a fine slice of L.A. light) testifies that a sophisticated light meter gives you readings you wouldn't expect. Strangers to the city sometimes feel that everyone there looks beautiful.
Is the light in Los Angeles really unique and lovely, or uniquely lovely? I'm not sure it isn't just that the culture and identity of L.A. was movie light for long enough so that people took emotional possession of it. Of course, that was in the days when films were made from photographs and light burned into the silver.
Robert Irwin tells Weschler, the light in L.A. is "so radically different from day to day and then so incredibly specific on any given day." That's not crystal clear to me, but it sounds enough like life to give us the best explanation: in L.A. for several decades, alert people lived on light—and surely that's a habit acquired from the screen. The movies were always about a shift in cognition, whereby looking became more important or more valid than knowing or understanding. There's a great deal of optimism in that shift—and a terrible price to pay when Americans tired of looking and realized the other hard work that needed to be done.
Louis B. Mayer and D.W. Griffith were alike in hoping that Birth of a Nation and its money had secured respectability. For the first time, a movie was shown in the White House, and Woodrow Wilson saw it. Thomas Dixon had wangled that break because he told the president, "A new universal language had been invented." Wilson was a Virginian and not a moviegoer, but he was so emotional after seeing it that he supposedly said, "It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true."
No one knows quite what he meant by that last sentence, while the first showed an unexpected potential for the president as a booster. And what's lightning but light with a kick? One result was that the Ku Klux Klan rallied from a dormant stage. Membership increased, and there were more than seven hundred lynchings a year in the period after the release of the film. Lightning can do damage. The NAACP led the way in protests over the film, but some of its own members admitted to being swept away by its narrative and the sight of blackface actors threatening the virtue of sweet white women, even to the point of the latter's suicide.
People were swayed. In England, aged ten, Michael Powell was so stirred that he would say later, "It was David Wark Griffith who made up my mind for me that I was going to be a movie director and would settle for nothing less." But at the age of eight, say, it's unlikely he would have known what a movie director was.
To take just one instance of the movie business exploded by Birth of a Nation: in 1914 Cecil B. DeMille had "picturized" The Virginian, from the Owen Wister novel, with Dustin Farnum as the hero. It was a 55-minute movie and it did nicely by existing standards. It cost $17,000 and brought in $110,000. But now, the existing standards of business were in question. The lure of the blockbuster, of striking it rich or breaking the bank, set in very early.
Today we may be less certain that three hours is a guarantee of art or business. We are accustomed to shorter entertainments: a television commercial is seldom longer than thirty seconds; the average television episode in a series is twenty-five or fifty minutes. We are used to bites and to being bitten. Moreover, we are in the habit of interrupting what we are seeing—by putting it on Pause, taking a phone call, or leaving the room. Sometimes the one-reel comedies that dominated in 1915—a very cheap form of amusement—can look very modern. Samuel Beckett was an avid filmgoer as a boy. But he mistrusted the medium whenever it turned portentous. True depth of feeling, even tragedy, he felt, could be best found in brief comedies, so he loved Chaplin, Keaton, and later Laurel and Hardy. To this day, the short films of Chaplin seem so much more agile and ambivalent than his increasingly solemn feature films.
One day, as a child in London, Chaplin was watching his mother perform on a music hall stage. She was not well (she was drinking) and her voice was failing. When some soldiers started to boo her, she fled. Whereupon a stage manager took the little boy onstage so that he could perform some song-and-dance routines he had learned. It did the trick: in a moment the delighted audience was tossing coins onto the stage. Then the kid showed his genius and authority. He said he hoped the public wouldn't mind if he interrupted his act to collect the money: "The stage manager came on with a handkerchief and helped me to gather it up. I thought he was going to keep it. This thought was conveyed to the audience and increased their laughter, especially when he walked off with me anxiously following him. Not until he handed it to Mother did I return to continue to sing. I was quite at home."
That pattern never altered. The more assiduously he exploited the theme of the waif, the richer Charlie became. But there's another pattern in that passage from My Autobiography (published in 1964): it's the flex of action and reaction—the stage manager does his business, and the kid's look signals alarm to the audience. A laugh begins. The anecdote is made into shots—and we are still following along in that line of sense.
The incident could suggest Chaplin was money-grubbing, but he was simply very poor, and as fierce at business as with film. If he had a passion close to a failing it was his dedication to sex, especially with underage girls. Of course, in his movies Charlie was gallant (until Monsieur Verdoux, in 1947, by which time he had been in court on unfounded paternity charges). If that Charlie had been exposed earlier he could have been drummed out of the business, the way Fatty Arbuckle was ruined. Los Angeles was a company town, and just because of its impact on young people, it tried to be conservative, yet there was also an undertone of abandon in the city that relied on cover-up. The split between desire and restraint replicates the lure of fantasy that tests the crowd at the movies.
Chaplin said he was born in Walworth, in South London, in 1889. (The records don't survive for lives so humble.) He was never quite sure who his father was. (He played with the idea that he might be Jewish.) His mother's illness meant the child had to spend time in an orphanage and the workhouse. This was a Dickensian upbringing, with fulfilled expectations beyond a novelist's invention.
He was a child performer with minimal education who joined the Fred Karno Company (an English vaudeville group) and traveled with Karno to America in 1910 and 1912 to work onstage. He was spotted by Mack Sennett, an impresario of short comic films at Keystone, who liked Charlie's act as a drunken toff in A Night in an English Music Hall. In Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914), which is actually a Marie Dressler vehicle, Charlie is the cad and exploiter. But quite quickly Chaplin worked out a fresh image for himself in the movies: it took baggy pants, a battered bowler, a cane, a daub of mustache, and those accented sad-dog eyes. The Tramp was the eternal hard-up case, every bit as impoverished as the movie audience, but flattering them with his daintiness, his fine feelings, and the sturdy pluck that trusted good fortune.
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Twitter said Thursday it had submitted documents to the US Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering.
The social media giant made the hotly anticipated announcement via a tweet.
SEC rules allow Twitter to keep its S-1 filing secret from the public, for now. Information in the documents includes basic company information, its financial performance and potential market risks.
In accordance with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups, or JOBS Act, passed last year, firms defined as "emerging growth companies" with annual revenue of less than $1 billion do not have to make the documents publicly available until three weeks before they approach potential investors on Wall Street.
We've confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.
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Wi-Fi usage around the world is literally exploding, as can be evidenced in recent reports of how smartphones and tablets are driving global increase in Wi-Fi hotspots. As these very devices head into corporate networks to jostle with laptops and wireless-enabled desktops, businesses are finding themselves having to support the heavier network load.
To understand more about Wi-Fi use in business, I arranged a meeting with executives from the Ruckus Wireless, a vendor that specializes in Wi-Fi access points and wireless LAN (WLAN) management systems.
I first came across Ruckus Wireless in a review published on Tom's Hardware that benchmarked an Access Point (AP) from Ruckus with those from Cisco and Aruba. At that time, the Ruckus AP was the only device capable of exceeding 100Mbps actual throughput, and was heads and shoulders faster in the tests that were conducted.
It was no surprise hence that the Sunnyvale, California-based company was tagged by Gartner in the "Visionaries" quadrant of the 2011 Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN infrastructure. Another interesting fact is how the company provides the devices to hook up the IPTV residential gateways for SingTel's mio TV service.
I spoke with Asia Pacific (APAC) vice president Louis Au, director of APAC marketing Christ Yip and Vasudevan Venkatakrishnan, who is the head of pre-sales in APAC.
Deploying Wi-Fi in business
To start off our conversation, Au offered a couple of pointers to help businesses roll out a successful wireless deployment. According to him, the two most important factors would be to first define the intended usage of a Wi-Fi network, followed by the implementation of a planning phase.
The former entails working out the number of users and determining whether users will be light or heavy users. This can sometimes be derived from the physical location for wireless access; a school auditorium and a public location for example, can expect to see far heavier usage than that of a small meeting room. The planning phase should also include the removal of old Wi-Fi points. Clearly, it is not the case of "the more the better" here, given how too many overlapping APs can cause interference issues to arise.
Not all APs are created equal
Given the sheer number of wireless vendors out there, I was naturally curious about what differentiates one AP from another. Venkatakrishnan replied that the company's products can deliver more consistent and reliable throughput than specified by the standards. He told me, "We implement technology on top of the standard to deliver the speeds. We are able to excel compared to the consumer products, and compared to other vendors even in the enterprise and business space."
Yip added that the company had "a lot of feedback" from businesses that start off with "SOHO grade" hardware, implying that businesses may find themselves stuck with wireless equipment that lack the features and capacity that they require.
Au pointed out that the cost of buying the wrong AP is very high, in certain organizations such as a school, for example. Without specifying brands, Au also added that there are APs "out there" which will lower the speed once they hit a certain number of users. According to Au, other important considerations when choosing a wireless AP would be its reliability, ability to deal with interference and maintain a good throughput.
And unlike many other enterprise vendors, Ruckus maintains a shared feature set across its range of products. This means that new capabilities found in firmware upgrades are bestowed across all Ruckus-branded APs. The only difference resides in the onboard hardware capabilities of an AP – such as whether it is an indoor or outdoor unit, RF performance, and whether it has single-band or dual-band support.
The misconception about interference
Interference is a topic one can expect to have to deal with when it comes to wireless technologies. Unfortunately, misconceptions on this front are common. Au asserted to me that: "In a room that is devoid of interference, every vendor will do a good job." The most common misconception about interference, elaborated Yip, is that a strong signal yields strong throughput. This line of thought completely ignores interference from neighboring networks however, which could decrease performance substantially.
"You increase the power, you increase noise; the objective is to reduce noise," quipped Venkatakrishnan. Given that neighboring APs are not manageable by you, a better-placed question that IT managers should ask themselves is: "How do I deliver a quality signal with minimum power required, without creating interference and managing interference."
Putting paid to the concept of that AP range is all-important; Au says that an AP with an extended range is not always useful, especially when paired with low-power client devices such as a Wi-Fi enabled smartphone. With this in mind, Au concluded that measuring the actual wireless throughput is "more important."
Gigabit Wireless
With faster wireless technology just round the corner, a number of CIOs and business owners are probably debating on the merits of investing in current-gen 802.11n wireless today. For those who are not aware, the Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig) has already published the initial specifications for gigabit wireless in the unlicensed 60GHz spectrum in May this year. On this front, all three were unanimous that gigabit wireless should not be any deterrence towards companies rolling out their Wi-Fi infrastructures.
The overall consensus is that 802.11n, "will stay for another four to five years," and will probably also coexist for a little while with gigabit wireless networks. Au illustrated his point by pointing out that mobile operators will hardly give up on 3G networks immediately even with the introduction of 4G. He did admit however, that it is still too early to talk about a migration path. As a final reason why businesses should not hold back from Wi-Fi deployments today, Venkatakrishnan says there is a possibility that gigabit wireless could be used as a complementary technology that is used in tandem with 2.5 GHz and 5.0 GHz Wi-Fi.
Businesses interested in products from Ruckus Wireless can contact Ruckus Singapore via email [email protected] or phone at +65 68292319.


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By Matthew Fienup
From: Ventura, CA
Mar 2, 2006
rating: 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
This is one of my very favorite routes in all of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties (up there with "Goulara" at Wheeler Gorge). The position and exposure are nearly unmatched. The moves up the arete are sustained and interesting.
The climbing is, as the Edwards guide says, "unbelievably" well protected. A great first lead.
The top of the route sports two 12mm Fixe glue-ins which were placed in 2003. Back these up with a 1/2" Rawl-style expansion bolt placed 5-feet back from the edge. In order to top-rope the Rapture, you'll need to clip the top 3 bolts on the route (or risk a dangerous swing into the dihedral of Lieback Annie).
By Matthew Fienup
From: Ventura, CA
Oct 9, 2007
rating: 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
All of the lead bolts on this route are the original hardware, 3/8" externally-threaded sleeve bolts like this
All of the lead bolts have been replaced with stout 1/2" Rawls.
By Joe Stern
From: Moab, Utah
Aug 23, 2009
rating: 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
|Awesome little climb. Wonderful features, well protected, and fun movement. 8 protection bolts. Convenient to rap in off Lieback Annie anchors, lead The Rapture (8 bolts, could also clip one of the anchor bolts as a 9th protection bolt), then clip your anchor at Lieback Annie. 5.8 is fun!!!
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From: Fullerton, CA
Aug 23, 2009
|i would highly recommend rapping down from the anchors to the belay base. the ash from the fires has made the walk around really loose and precarious- and with the chaparral all but gone, the drop from the belay ledge looks pretty serious. That being said, its a fun climb and challenging for the grade!
By Neil Roessler
May 24, 2011
One thing that helped my partner and I on this route was clipping the first bolt of the route with a long sling while on rappel and then clipping the rope into that sling from the belay ledge (we also used this sling as a secure point for the belayer to clip into as well.
The problem I wanted to avoid was that if you were to climb up to clip the first bolt, you will risk falling 20 feet down to the base of the crag below the ledge where the belayer is and the climb starts. After clipping the sling, climb up to the first bolt and add a quick-draw to the bolt and then proceed.
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From: Boulder, CO
Nov 23, 2015
|Great climb, well worth doing. two sewn runners can be used as an anchor on the belay ledge if needed, or if you want to protect the leader falling below the belay ledge 1-2" cams can build a belay point just left of the climb. Fun moves it felt like a gym climb.


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Brian Reilly sees lots of similarities between Milwaukee and Cleveland. But the city on Lake Michigan has a highly-developed lakefront with a bike trail and entertainment complex. So when you ask him about Cleveland assets he mentions Lake Erie. First thing to do, says Reilly, is to lay out a clear vision.
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Owen Wilson feels like a Hollywood "intern" despite his career success.
The comedian still gets star struck by the thought of making movies and appearing in front of the camera.
The 44-year-old Wedding Crashers star recently had his love for the industry confirmed when he approached a group of people with a camera.
"[I often feel like a Hollywood] intern," Owen told FOX411.
"Just today I was on the beach and they were filming a commercial and I was like, 'Hey what are you guys filming?' There is something kind of exciting about Hollywood. So it's a nice thing to be part of."
Owen's path into making blockbuster movies wasn't always easy. Despite being one of the highest paid actors in the business today, Owen confessed at one point in his life he was considering a career in the Armed Services.
"I did consider another career path," he explained. "One of the movies I first worked on tested so badly I was thinking, geez, I may have to think about going into something else, but then everything worked out."
Owen took part in a surprise American football game and party with members of the US military in Los Angeles last week. His role in upcoming movie The Internship allowed him to mix his loves of movies and the sport together when he reunited with fellow comic actor Vince Vaughn to "research" ahead of the shoot.
"One of the most fun things was when it was set up for us to go to a Notre Dame game where we got to be on the sidelines," he said. "Then we went to a 49ers game when we were filming... so we got to do a lot of football stuff."
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Two-thirds of San Diego's public school children qualify for the free and reduced lunch program, meaning they live in poverty, and 5,000 of the district's students are homeless.
Monday morning, members of the San Diego school board, several parents and an elected county education official endorsed Councilman David Alvarez for mayor, saying his pro-neighborhood focus will help improve opportunities and outcomes for San Diego's most vulnerable children.
"We have a lot of quality schools in San Diego Unified, but we don't have quality schools in every single neighborhood of San Diego, and that is our goal," said San Diego Unified School Board president John Evans. "To have a quality school in every neighborhood, we need to have strong neighborhoods."
Evans said Alvarez has the "integrity and leadership capabilities that we need in City Hall." Alvarez is looking out "for all of San Diego, to make sure that all of our neighborhoods are strong and that we are working together, and for that reason I am very happy to be here today to endorse David Alvarez for mayor," he said.
At a press conference on a field next to McKinley Elementary in North Park, officials from the district and the county, as well as several parents, took turns discussing how inequality between neighborhoods reverberates through San Diego's public school system. By focusing on neighborhoods where families with children face economic hardships, Alvarez is increasing the chances of success for these most vulnerable students, they said.
Richard Barrera, a school board trustee who also heads the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, also endorsed Alvarez, saying this is "in many ways, a make or break election." Barrera said Alvarez's journey -- born in Barrio Logan, educated at San Diego public schools, now running for mayor -- serves as a role model for children. It "creates inspiration, it creates motivation, for our kids to know that anybody in this city can succeed, and that's why I'm proud to endorse David Alvarez for mayor of San Diego"
Earlier, the Labor Council endorsed Alvarez.
Barrera also said that Alvarez, who has worked with children as a social worker and educator, and who grew up with two working parents and limited means, has a deep and personal understanding of how a student's context and support system is as important what goes on in a classroom. "We need to know that the person in the mayor's office understands that the day to day lives of our students make as much as of an impact on their ability to succeed in life as our work here in the schools," Barrera said. "David wakes up every day thinking about how to support the families of our kids."
Alvarez thanked his San Diego teachers. He also said has fought for funding for education, and he will focus on parks, neighborhoods and career readiness programs for local students. He will create 10,000 internships per year for San Diego students and create a citywide arts program for all school districts in the city, he said.
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Saatchi & Saatchi has created an animated, electrical world in its new campaign for Comet, part of a rebrand to create a warmer feel around the store. It features Scooter man, a Comet trainee. He drives through a city of TV, kettle and fridge-shaped buildings to learn about the different products as a voiceover by Radio One DJ Edith Bowman explains that the world of electricals can be confusing but that Comet trains its staff to help customers out.


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Sharp disapproval of anti-Semitism in Iraq, formerly a British mandated territory, was voiced today from the tribune of the House of Commons by Sir John Simon, British Foreign secretary, in answer to interpellations on the subject from members of the various parties.
Confirming recent reports of the extensive growth of anti-Semitism in Iraq "from my own sources," Sir John added significantly, "I believe my own feeling on the subject of anti-Semitism is well-known."
Anti-Jewish feeling in Iraq, now a member of the League of Nations and an independent country, does not touch on the question of British Palestine and therefore the matter of representations to the government of Iraq do not arise, the British Foreign Secretary said.
Jewish communities in Iraq, particularly in Baghdad and Basrah, have suffered in recent months from a virulent form of anti-Semitism openly encouraged by the government of King Ghazi. Jewish officials have been dismissed from civil service posts. Jewish children have been exposed to indignities in public schools, and all foreign Jewish newspapers and all foreign papers regarded as friendly to the Jews have been banned from the country.
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: : A friend of mine and I were just pondering the expression "For the love of Mike" that we hear often in old movies.
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: I assert - in the light of past experience - that someone will respond with the statement "this is a 'Minced oath' and refers to Saint Michael". Just wait.
For the love of Mike. This is a "minced oath" (a substitute for "for the love of God")that refers to "Mike," meaning an Irishman, aka Mick. Variations: "Holy Mike" and "mother of Mike." "Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, H-O" by J.E. Lighter, Random House, New York, 1994.


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IT WAS ALL there, right before his eyes, the quarterback mastering the total passing game, the power runner complementing the speed back, the coach who can spin this talent into touchdowns.
Seeing his Raiders, under their fourth coach in four years, being taken apart Sunday by a powerful New Orleans offense, led by the coach who slipped his grasp, how could Al Davis not feel a dull ache in his soul?
How could he not wonder what if?
What if he were able to make Sean Payton, then the quarterbacks coach in Dallas, an irresistible offer in 2004?
For if Davis had allowed himself to meet Payton's every reasonable demand, in writing, he likely would have persuaded Payton to become the next head coach of the Raiders, perhaps avoiding the decay currently rotting his franchise.
The Saints' 34-3 blistering of Oakland before 70,068 at the Superdome is about as pointed a message as Davis can get — assuming he's willing to acknowledge any message at all.
Tom Cable's debut as Raiders coach yielded precisely the same bottom-line result as the debuts of Lane Kiffin (2007), Art Shell (2006) and Norv Turner (2004) — a loss without redeeming qualities. Moreover, a loss that leaves all concerned wondering if this franchise can ever find its way to appreciable improvement.
Kiffin's finale Sept. 28 against San Diego was a game the Raiders led most of the way before collapsing late, same as they did a week earlier in defeat at Buffalo. There was belief among players that progress was being made, that the gap between Oakland and legitimate NFL contenders was closing.
"There was some of that," linebacker Thomas Howard acknowledged. "We felt like we were getting there."
Consider that buzz killed, if not by the ceremonious firing of Kiffin on Sept. 30, then certainly by a 31-point blowout in the first game under the visibly intense interim coach.
This was an old-fashioned Bayou beatdown, with Drew Brees chopping Oakland's defense into tiny pieces. He completed his first 16 passes and finished 26-for-30 for 320 yards and three touchdowns.
"He might not be the prototype 6-foot-5 guy," cornerback DeAngelo Hall said of the 6-foot quarterback. "But Drew knows how to win. He knows how to work a defense. If I was starting a team and had to pick a quarterback, I'd probably have him at the top of my list."
Brees found nine receivers, in most every way imaginable, from screen passes to seam routes to out patterns to turn-ins to the occasional deep ball. His execution was superb, making the most of the plays he was given.
Those plays were courtesy of Payton, as good an architect of the passing game as there is on a sideline. A known proponent of the vertical passing game, Payton devised a more patient plan Sunday, keeping most route within 15 yards. Not until late in the third quarter did Brees go deep, completing a 51-yard pass to wideout Devery Henderson, who beat safety Michael Huff.
"Sean Payton is an excellent play-caller, master of the art of play-calling," said Hall, who in Atlanta faced Payton's Saints four times before this year.
Payton came to New Orleans in 2006, two years after he was unable to finalize an agreement with the Raiders and decided to remain with the Cowboys. He was named NFL Coach of the Year in 2006, when the Saints led the league in offense and reached the NFC Championship game.
The Raiders have gone 7-30 since Payton joined the Saints, 16-53 since he came so close to following Bill Callahan as the head coach in Oakland. Payton walked away from an oral agreement — discussing the move with then-Dallas coach Bill Parcells and receiving a vastly improved financial package from Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.
New Orleans thrives, Oakland strives. What was a tale of two teams in need has become a tale of two teams with little in common.
"You have to use them as a model if you're the Oakland Raiders," Cable conceded.
Which means Davis' next task is to recruit for next season a coach who can do for his team what Payton did to his team. A coach with offensive creativity. A coach like the guy four years ago figured it was better he stay away from the Raiders.
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Aeryn Dougan's Urban Paranormal Fantasy Novel BENAJAH'S KEEPER Puts Twist on Vampire Mythos
Aeryn Dougan puts a unique twist on the popular paranormal genre with her vampire novel, "Benajah's Keeper" (ISBN 147756232X). Written for fans of science fiction and thrillers, as well as romance, this novel follows a duty-driven, 600-year-old vampire Evanna Amaranthine on what should be a routine mission until emotions interrupt.
When Evanna's latest mission sends her far away from the safe walls of her vampire society at Benajah, she feels more than ready to find and kill Rian Delmar, a vampire hunter with unnatural ability.
While away on her mission, Evanna lives with a vampire named Zak Tamsin. Unlike Evanna, Zak's day is full of human activities with brother-sister pair, Messiah and Noelle Scarborough. The duo bothers Evanna for some unknown reason, especially when Messiah sets off a series of unexplainable dreams. The more time she spends in the human world, the harder it is for Evanna to handle herself, her emotions, and her past.
"Many paranormal works focus entirely on love or on purely violence," Dougan says. "Benajah's Keeper, on the other hand, lets readers discover the web of relationships between characters. Readers might start off disliking Evanna, but the more aware she becomes, the more they'll want to grow with her and read along."
"Benajah's Keeper" is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.
About the Author: Aeryn Dougan earned her bachelor's with a concentration in expanded media from the New York School of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2010. She is the creative mind behind two artist books, "Inklings" and "That Game We Used to Play." She is a fan of paranormal, urban fantasies and vampire books, which can be seen in her first novel, "Benajah's Keeper." She lives in upstate New York with her two cats, Leto and Ghanima.
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Olly Murs set for chart double as new album set to join single in top spot
Olly Murs is on course to top the album charts on Sunday with Right Place, Right Time, while his single Troublemaker looks set to stay at number one.
The former X Factor finalist turned Xtra Factor presenter is currently outselling his nearest rival, One Direction's Take Me Home, by two to one in the album charts according to midweek figures.
And Troublemaker – which features rapper Flo Rida – is also set to see off the challenge from Bruno Mars' Locked Out Of Heaven to spend a second week in pole position.
Both Mars and Rihanna have been given a chart boost from appearing on The X Factor results show last Sunday – with the latter's recent number one Diamonds soaring back up the charts to number three.
Labrinth and Emeli Sande's Beneath Your Beautiful and Robbie Williams' Candy complete the top five.
The midweek album chart also sees a new entry at number four for the Girls Aloud compilation Ten, while Rihanna's chart-topper Unapologetic falls to three and Michael Buble's Christmas is holding steady at five.
Right Place, Right Time is Murs' third album following his self-titled debut in 2010, which reached number two, and In Case You Didn't Know, which topped the charts last November.
If he does the double he will be the fourth act to do so this year.
Gary Barlow and The Commonwealth Band topped both charts in June with Sing; Robbie Williams topped both earlier this month with Candy and Take The Crown; and One Direction also scored a double success in November with Little Things and Take Me Home.