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By admin, March 9, 2010 8:06 pm

There is a popular misconception that platinum and white gold are both lustrous cold white metals. If you have purchased a wedding band made from either platinum or white gold then you may think you have a white ring. Which do you prefer? Let’s look at the differences between them.

White gold – one of the most popular metals around these days when it comes to jewelry. However, white gold is not a natural substance. Pure gold is yellow and is far to soft to use as jewelry.

Pure gold is mixed with other metals to form a harder alloy that is then suitable for jewelry making. The quantity of pure gold in an alloy is measured in carats with 24 carat describing 100% pure gold. Once you create an alloy the purity drops so with gold, you end up with common alloys of 9 carat, 12 carat, 18 carat and 22 carat gold. Eighteen carat, for example, contains at least 75% pure gold.

Metals used to create jewelry white gold include copper, nickel, silver, zinc, and palladium. These metals also help to harden the white gold for jewelry use. The white gold effect is achieved through a bleaching process caused by silver or palladium. Some metals have a stronger bleaching effect than others, however they also have stronger hardening effects.

Wedding bands need to be hard so an 18 carat wedding band will have 75% pure gold, 10% palladium, 7.5% silver and 7.5% copper. A wedding band that is 18 carat white gold can be longer wearing than a yellow gold band of 18 carats. You can buy very cheap versions of white gold, however, they are generally made with inferior metals and don’t last as long as quality white gold.

Platinum – as precious metal, it is rarer and more expensive than pure gold. Platinum is much harder than pure gold and often needs to be alloyed to soften it a little for jewelry making purposes. Like white gold, platinum has various grades of purity and is actually a light grey in color – not white.

Since neither platinum or white gold are ‘white’, they need to be plated with a substance known as rhodium – this creates the brilliant white finish that both metals are famous for. Rhodium itself is rather soft and will wear away over a three to five year period. White gold wedding bands will eventually turn a dirty light grey in color as the rhodium wears off. Your platinum wedding ring will have a very light grey to off white look about it.

While platinum is far more expensive than white gold, they will both look like cheap metals once the rhodium plating wears off. Having your jewelry re-plated will bring back the brilliant white finish that white gold and platinum are famous for. Which is the better option for wedding bands, platinum or white gold? Because platinum was so expensive, metallurgists created white gold as an imitation. Today, white gold is popular for being white gold, not a platinum imitation. If you want the platinum look at half the price, you will only buy rubbish these days since gold has become so expensive. For anyone looking for the platinum finish, I suggest buying platinum.

If you like white gold as white gold, then make sure the alloys used are silver and palladium and not other cheaper metals. I like white gold wedding bands, not because it looks like platinum, but because it looks like white gold.

If you intend having a gemstone added to your wedding band, then the ideal diamond is one that is small and well cut. You can find both white gold and diamonds through many websites. Just be sure to check the quality of the products first.

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By admin, March 9, 2010 8:00 pm

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By Les Scammell, March 5, 2010 8:30 pm

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By admin, March 5, 2010 1:58 pm

We live in a strange world where sometimes ethics take over from common sense. I can fully understand the problems some people have with the concept of stem cells, particularly when they are collected from fetuses after pregnancy terminations.

Of course, if that pregnancy had been allowed to continue the resultant birth would have provided far more in the way of stems cells than that obtained through an unborn fetus. I am not advocating for or against terminations here, just stating an fact.

With every newborn baby comes an umbilical cord and placenta. These are full of blood that they baby no longer requires, blood that is full of stem cells. After delivery, the umbilical cord is cut close to the baby’s stomach. This is done once the baby has been successfully delivered and is no longer relying on the cord for food or oxygen. The opposite end of the umbilical cord is attached to the placenta and once that has exited the body, the whole lot is generally disposed of as hospital human waste.

The blood found in that umbilical cord is full of stem cells. Stem cells are actually the basic building blocks of human life. Once an egg has been fertilized, stem cells start the growth of every part of our body. In some strange way, each stem cell seems to have a particular role. It will become a heart, or a kidney, or anyone of the umpteen thousand other cells found in human body.

Scientists are now trying to find out exactly how stem cells work. Why does one stem cell develop into a kidney while another develops into a liver, or heart or another part of the body. More importantly, how can they encourage a stem cell to grow a new heart or kidney.

What is known is that children with some forms of leukemia have been treated with stem cells and had their disease reversed. There have been a few similar situations in adults. Scientist feel that with further research, they may be able to unlock the stem cell’s triggers, thereby regrowing nerves in para/quadriplegics, those with various diseases such as Alzheimer’s, motor neuron and perhaps even type one diabetes.

There is a lot of excitement over what stem cell therapy can do for those that are sick or impaired. Of course, like all treatments that involve the transfer of human tissue from human to an other, there are the problems associated with rejection and blood matching. Stem cells do at least have a lower rejection factor than more mature cells.

What has become a growing industry is that of cord blood banking for personal use. This is now big business with fees for this service running into thousands of dollars. The object of the exercise is to bank baby’s cord blood for future use. The theory is that if baby develops any serious problems in later life (like leukemia), they will have access to their own stem cells to help with the treatment. To date, hundreds of people have stored their baby’s blood, but few have found it necessary to make a withdrawal. For those who have, the results have been extremely good.

Should you bank your baby’s cord blood. It’s a personal decision and certainly for those that have a family history of medical problems, storing stem cells may offer some benefit into the future particularly as science finds new ways to use these cells. For the majority of people, it could be a waste of money. They may be better off donating their baby’s cord blood so that others can benefit from the research and the stockpiles available for treatments. The money saved could ensure your child received a decent preschool to college education.

With five kids we have learned a lot so when it comes to dealing with childhood problems we’ve seen it all. Visit our site if you would like more information on umbilical cord blood banking or childhood problems.

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By admin, March 5, 2010 1:57 pm

If you are in the mindset to getting a nice house for a really good price, then NOW is the time to buy that property. Whether you are in California home market, Arizona real estate, or any state in the USA; you would be best served if you purchased your next real estate product in 2010. We are never going to see lower prices than what we are experiencing now.

If you are upside down on your mortgage and the home’s value, its a good time to ask your accountant about the benefits of getting out from under now instead of struggling month after month because you believe the value will meet the mortgage amount. If you are paying higher than market value for your house in hopes of prices going back up to the original amount, ask your CPA if it makes sense to struggle with that payment. Housing prices will increase at the steady rate of 3 to 6% each year, so how far do you have to wait for the values to go past your mortgage amount? Think about it. Some family on the same street is paying 30 to 40% less than you are for the same house. Your dollar today is worth alot more than it will be 2 years from now. Talk to your accountant or financial advisor.

We have homes at below market prices for our preferred investors, so be sure to get on our list today so you can be one of the first to know when we have good deals available for sale. We help people get out of overleaveraged houses so they can make their dollars work better for them. Get on our mailing list or contact us if you have questions about stopping foreclosure and damaging your credit.

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By admin, March 5, 2010 1:57 pm

By Michael Griffin

If you do broadcast engineering then you know how difficult it can be to keep tabs on racks and racks of television broadcast equipment. How do you keep track of hundreds of devices, many of them critical to revenue generation? Enter a network monitoring system…

Network Monitoring Systems Limitations

If you have tried to implement network monitor software for this equipment then you have faced many challenges. A network monitoring system for television broadcast equipment faces many hurdles. Most television broadcast equipment was not designed for easy monitoring. SNMP has been the battle cry in trade magazines but most broadcast equipment either doesn’t have SNMP capability or it is limited: all of the information you need to determine equipment health and for troubleshooting is not included.

We have not yet talked about media – the content that goes on the air. The flow of media from creation to air is the key metric in broadcast. It is important to track media if you really want to ensure the health of your broadcast system. Has the media arrived from the supplier and is it on the right server to play out?

Many IT people thrust into supporting broadcast operations have failed to realize the specialized nature of this equipment and the systems and assume that the same kind of monitoring system that keep tabs on office computer networks will do a good job here as well. There often gets to be a tension between broadcast engineers and IT personnel as limitations are seen when monitoring is added.

Diverse Equipment Makes Up Key Broadcast Systems

Consider a large video editing or newsroom system: there are lots of PCs and controllers gathered around central storage. Less than 20% of the equipment in these systems has any effective SNMP capability. To make matters worse the best troubleshooting information is usually held in equipment logs. These logs are often cryptic and manufactures have provided only a limited life for them. The logs can overwrite themselves, when there is trouble, in a matter of hours and sometimes even minutes. The data you need to provide the manufacturer to resolve the problem can be lost before you have an opportunity to collect it. These systems also incorporate many different operating systems sometimes with only terminal access making it more of a challenge to get data using a monitoring system.

Limitations Of Traditional Network Monitoring

The bottom line is SNMP will not do much for you in today’s television systems. Likewise with WMI, WMI can get you a lot of data about Windows systems but it is again only a piece of what you need. The fact is you must use all of it: SNMP, WMI, equipment logs, sometimes contact closures, temperature probes, voltage samples, and on and on. It gets to be kludge upon kludge to try to fit this into most monitoring systems and this doesn’t even get you to the point of considering the media.

After this data is collected something must be done with it. Traditional SNMP monitoring with WMI and some other extras added can send a variety of alerts and sometimes build maps but generally, because of the limited view given to the equipment, these network monitoring systems fail to give you a comprehensive picture of what is going on. What trouble is really lurking under the hood. You just can’t tell because of missing data and poor collation of the data that is collected.

These are some of the problems in broadcast engineering with network monitor software, some of the challenges that a network monitoring system should handle for you. Broadcast equipment is specialized and traditional monitoring systems just do not cut it. So much data is simply not collected and is ignored.

So how do you understand what your broadcast systems are doing? I invite you to learn more about network monitoring for television broadcast systems by visiting http://www.MTDSystems.com.

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By Les Scammell, March 4, 2010 9:16 pm

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By Les Scammell, March 3, 2010 11:07 pm

One of things I would like to do this year is write an ebook or two. I have a couple of topics in mind, however, making the ebook as professional as possible is my aim – not just something thrown together. I have been reading a few good articles on how to create ebooks and while searching, I came across this post – Discover The Secrets Of eBook Creation.

What is amusing really is that while searching for ebook information, I have found plenty of Great Ideas For Creating Exciting Newsletter Content. The plan now I think is to write a couple of very good ebooks, set up a subscription service whereby the ebooks are only available if you sign up for a weekly newsletter, and then to use that mailing list to send out newsletters that also promote affiliate products. Hopefully, a money winner for me.

Once created, I have to promote it and places like Twitter and Facebook are probably ideal. The problem is, I am not much of a socializer. I am really an introvert most of the time. So that raises the question, Can Introverts Interact On Social Networks? I am led to believe we can – we shall see.

In the mean time, I have to actually write this ebook. Some people can be real knockers at times espousing negative comments about how an ebook is a waste of time. I don’t know if it is just jealousy because I am attempting it or just head games. Either way, it sure does increase the stress levels. I know, it’s Mind Games, Not Head Games, Create Stress Relief. So I guess I will be hitting the mind games for awhile. I will let you know when the ebooks are completed – then you can tear me down.

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