Insert Coin: Tabber lights up your fretboard, shows you the way to rock

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The idea of a lighted fretboard isn't a new one by any stretch (how do you think the Fretlight got its compound name?), but there's something to be said for not having to buy a brand new guitar for that functionality. The folks behind Tabber are working to make that a reality, having tested a number of prototypes for a product that you can simply slip over the neck of your axe for a quick tutorial. The company is looking to create a slicker version of the concept that it can bring to the market. Tabber's creators need your help to "transform the guitar industry," so naturally they've taken to Kickstarter, with a little under a month to hit their $45,000 goal. The Arduino-powered LED guitar instructor will connect to a mobile device via Bluetooth, accessing information to let you play along with songs, figure out chords and bend your fingers around some scales. Click the source link to send some cash Tabber's way, or to find out a bit more about the project.

Update: As a number of commenters have pointed out, there's a similar project currently awaiting your donations on Kickstarter. Great minds, huh?

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NVIDIA's GTX 680 tested in SLI and multi-display modes, loses some of its lead

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Just hours after our review round-up of the new GeForce GTX 680 graphics card yesterday, a Dutch site has managed to test multiple cards in different (but invariably exorbitant) SLI modes. One of the strange things we learned during our hands-on was that SLI is complicated by NVIDIA's GPU Boost technology, which causes individual cards in the same chassis to run at different clock speeds depending on their load and temperature. Fortunately, Hardware.info reports no problems with SLI whatsoever, but it also concludes that the GTX 680 doesn't scale quite as well as AMD's Radeon HD 7970 in this type of niche setup. That changes if you throw down even more money on a 5760 x 1080 triple-display rig, in which case NVIDIA takes the lead in some games, but loses in others -- leaving the two rivals closer than the single-card reviews we looked at yesterday. If horizon-filling gameplay is your thing, don't give anyone thousands of dollars until you've checked out the source link.

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Cover Letters?Not Your Life Story ? asuccessfulcareer

Some job seekers start to write a cover letter and don?t seem to know when to stop?or how to focus, for that matter. If that description fits you, I suggest you think seriously about what it is that you want and need your cover letter to accomplish. If it?s to bore the reader (employer) to tears or motivate him/her to turn the letter into a paper airplane, no problem. Your over-long, poorly focused cover letter will do the trick nicely. On the other hand, if the letter needs to reinforce the strong value message hopefully communicated in your resume, you?ll have to do a lot better than that.

Your Core Cover Letter Message

This is no secret. I?ve written about it before. But you might be surprised at how many people don?t ?get? it. You cannot count on the employer reading every wonderful word you?ve crammed into your cover letter, no matter how interesting or important you think all the information is. You will have to decide?sooner rather than later?what the letter needs to achieve and make sure it aims for that. Even your aunt Edna (or whatever your family equivalent is) probably wouldn?t read eight 6-line paragraphs on a page that has half-inch margins all around, even if you?re her favorite relative. It?s a certainty that no employer is going to.

When a banquet speaker starts out by saying something like, ?My career began with a discovery in kindergarten that?,? attendees know they?re in for a sleep-inducing evening. However, short of being really rude and walking out in the middle, they?re stuck?they?re a captive audience. The employers you will be targeting in your job search don?t have the same restriction. They can essentially leave whenever they want, by putting your letter and resume in the stack that winds up in or near the wastebasket. Your cover letter needs to do the business-like equivalent of shouting, ?I have something to say that will make you successful (competitive, market-leading, and so on)? and then prove it.

Cover Letter Temptations to Resist

For the most part, basic details that are already appropriately presented in the resume don?t need to be restated in the cover letter. As an example, say you?ve noted in your resume that you obtained a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Stanford University in 2009. You don?t need a line or two in the cover letter that tells the reader essentially the same thing. He or she also doesn?t want to read a list (even limited) of what your current and most recent jobs were and at what company. Again, the resume should already contain that information and more.

Providing a list of why you left your last four jobs also doesn?t enhance your cover letter. At least, not unless you can turn it to good account on your behalf. If, for instance, those employers were each acquired by another company, you might lightly note that you had accepted positions at companies that you felt showed a lot of promise?so much so that they were bought by other companies interested in growing?and, unfortunately, the typical process of trimming duplicate staff then came into play.

The point? As always, speak to the prospective employer?s enlightened self-interest, but keep it succinct, focused and as loaded with your unique value message as you can reasonably manage.

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Far higher potential for wind energy in India than previously estimated

ScienceDaily (Mar. 21, 2012) ? A new assessment of wind energy in India by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found that the potential for on-shore wind energy deployment is far higher than the official estimates -- about 20 times and up to 30 times greater than the current government estimate of 102 gigawatts. This landmark finding may have significant impact on India's renewable energy strategy as it attempts to cope with a massive and chronic shortage of electricity.

"The main importance of this study, why it's groundbreaking, is that wind is one of the most cost-effective and mature renewable energy sources commercially available in India, with an installed capacity of 15 GW and rising rapidly," says Berkeley Lab scientist Amol Phadke, the lead author of the report. "The cost of wind power is now comparable to that from imported coal and natural gas-based plants, and wind can play a significant role in cost effectively addressing energy security and environmental concerns."

Even if the previously estimated potential of 102 GW is fully developed, wind would provide only about 8 percent of the projected electricity demand in 2022 and 5 percent in 2032. The new Berkeley Lab study has found the total techno-economic wind potential to range from 2,006 GW for 80-meter hub heights (an indication of how high the wind turbine stands above the ground) to 3,121 GW for 120-meter hub heights. Given these new estimates, the availability of wind energy can no longer be considered a constraint for wind to play a major role in India's electricity future.

Phadke and his team have been discussing their findings informally and formally with several key government agencies in India and have gotten positive responses. "The key agency in charge, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), has now signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Berkeley Lab to collaborate on several issues related to potential estimates and wind energy integration," said Jayant Sathaye, who leads the International Energy Studies Group at Berkeley Lab.

Ranjit Bharvirkar, a senior consultant at Itron Inc. and one of the other authors of the study, said part of the motivation for reassessing India's wind potential came from recent reassessments of wind potential in the United States and China. Both found substantial increases over the previous assessments -- a ten-fold jump in China and a 50 percent increase in capacity in the United States and 400 percent by energy. Improved wind technology, including higher efficiency and hub heights, accounted for much of the increase along with more advanced mapping techniques.

The previous wind potential estimate in India of 102 GW is based on the assumption that only two percent of the windy land is available for wind power development. However, this assumption is not based on any assessment of land availability. The Berkeley Lab study undertook a systematic assessment of the availability of land using publicly available GIS (geographic information system) data on topography and land use and found a significantly higher availability of land that can potentially be used for wind power development, which is the primary reason for the higher potential estimates.

The study excluded land with low-quality wind, slopes greater than 20 degrees, elevation greater than 1,500 meters and certain other unsuitable areas such as forests, bodies of water and cities. The researchers obtained off-the-shelf wind speed data for heights of 80 meters, 100 meters and 120 meters from 3TIER.

The study also finds that the total footprint required to develop high-quality wind energy (that is, wind turbines at 80 meters with a capacity factor greater than 25 percent, which would yield a potential of about 543 GW in India) is approximately 1,629 square kilometers, or 0.05 percent of the total land area in India. The footprint is not large because, typically, only about 3 percent of a wind farm is occupied by the wind turbines and related infrastructure; the rest of the land can be used for other purposes.

The study was funded by the ClimateWorks Foundation through a contract with the Regulatory Assistance Project. Engineers from Itron Inc. and Black and Veatch contributed to the report. "Reassessing Wind Potential Estimates for India: Economic and Policy Implications" can be downloaded at: http://ies.lbl.gov/node/473.

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Staying Connected: UPnP Forum Health and Fitness Goals ...

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15 November 2011: Leading global home networking standards group, UPnP Forum has announced the formation of an E-Health! and sensors (ETS) Working Committee. The new site for the consumer electronics (CE) industry opportunities in the areas of personal home health and wellness, as well as the increasing availability of sensor applications to monitor and control devices within the home. To address

Networked appliances in the house have the potential to play a key role in the EC market, health, create convenient, easy and attractive play opportunities to improve and measure lifestyle and fitness activities. The convergence of technologies connected home network, commonly in HDTVs and smartphones (s) included with a new generation of Personal Health Devices (PhD) and Home Automation (HA) devices are expected to provide testimony compelling opportunities for CE manufacturers. Extending the traditional consumer electronics devices to personal health and / or home automation applications support is expected for the well-being of consumers and the possibility of consumer electronics OEMs, increase the value of their offer. ?Enhance Existing standards provide testimony UPnP control and low latency and high bandwidth data transfer between devices at home,? Russell said Berkoff, UPnP and e-health sensors Working Committee Chair. ?With the EHS Working Committee We boulot the strengths of UPnP home networking standards compliant with Continua Alliance promotions as well as compatibility with UPnP Enhance current low-power networking technologies combine. This is the development of devices, providing real-time and historical processing support for the energy to give your home and personal health data for display on existing home network AV devices. ?

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Another example is health data collected outside the home, such as the results from running a workout gym or outdoors. When the user returns home, the e-health data can be automatically e-health years are uploaded to UPnP-compatible device. The UPnP Device E-Health aussi can share this data with other e-health UPnP devices in the home. These devices offer statement then Cdn fitness data summaries in graphical formats such as a UPnP connected HDTVs and other mobile devices support UPnP network display. Canon sensor networks play a variety of potentially important roles in the house, including appliance management, home automation and security, and energy consumption and control. Various non-UPnP sensor-network-based solutions and standards were in time to meet the needs of home-automation appliance and ecosystems that have been used to address based on low-speed battery-powered sensors. EHS The working group intends to develop UPnP standards to control access to devices prone to simplify non-UPnP sensor networks. Will this work involve coordinated activities, working groups have other UPnP-added statement to complete end-to-end home automation and energy management solutions Russell Berkoff. ?The EHS Working Committee intends to pursue aussi the social and competitive aspects of fitness and well-being by UPnP devices e-health in separate home networks to share e-health data may be stored in a fully interactive in a. Would An example of the ability of E-Health UPnP devices in home networks separate to Be a coordinate system competition or training weight loss program between consumers?

work with other UPnP forum. various committees, the first UPnP Preliminary Working Committee EHS results could be published in the second half of 2012.

UPnP Forum, founded in 1999, is a global group of 950 leading companies in the industry and most organisms are working to enable device to device and Interoperability cutting permit easier and better home networking.

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Financial Stakes for Chicagoland: Basic Steps in Estate Planning

Estate planning isn't just for the wealthy. It is to make sure your family is taken care of if something happens to you. The basic pieces of estate planning are a Will, a Living Will or Durable Power of Attorney, a Revocable Trust, Life insurance, and Long Term Care.

The Will

The most important part of your estate plan is your Will. It names your heirs -- the people you want to receive your money and possessions after you die. If you have children or dependents, a Will also names the person you want to take care of them. In most states, you need a lawyer to create a will, but it needn't be very expensive. If you die without a Will, the state will decide who will get your money and who will take care of your children.

The Living Will or Durable Power of Attorney

A Living Will or Durable Power of Attorney (POA) says what types of medical treatment you want-or don't want if you get sick and cannot talk to the doctor. This document also states that you give someone permission to make decisions about your money and property if you are not able to make them yourself.

Health Care Directive

This document is also frequently referred to as a Living Will. With this document, you name a person who will make decisions about your health care if you are personally unable to make those decisions. Be sure your doctor has a copy of your health care directive. Although you may have both documents, keep in mind that they may conflict since the Health Care Directive allows another to make decisions while the Living Will already states what is to be done. Absent statutory or document direction, healthcare providers may experience a conflict as to what to do.

The Revocable Trust

In incorporating a Revocable Trust into your estate plan, don't forget to update all the account titling into the name of the trust. Not changing titles creates problems.

Moreover, never name a financial institution as successor executive/trustee after surviving spouse or instead of a surviving spouse.? In some cases, this is to the detriment of the spouse and other beneficiaries because large institutions usually follow their fiduciary responsibilities with a less personable approach that another trustee could provide.

Finally, just having a Will just about guarantees probate which can cost approximately 3% of your estate. A properly drafted and funded trust-based plan can avoid probate and protect your beneficiaries from predators and creditors. It can also incorporate sophisticated tax planning so that you can avoid or reduce estate tax liability.

Life Insurance

Do not name minor children outright as primary or contingent beneficiaries of life insurance or retirement plans. When children are named as primary or contingent beneficiaries a court must appoint a guardian who then must be bonded and file a laborious annual accounting with the local court.

Also, with regards to beneficiaries, it is important to remember to change the beneficiary in the event of a divorce or death. And never name a special needs child or a grandchild directly as beneficiary. Instead, use a trust for the benefit of the child. If you list a child as a direct beneficiary, you affect the child's eligibility for Social Security disability benefits.

Long-term Care Insurance (LTCi)

Long-term care can be a wise investment. If you become unable to perform routine daily functions such as dressing yourself then long-term care will pay the expense for someone to help you whether in your home or elsewhere. LTCi will also protect your assets, so that you have something left in your Will to direct to your heirs.

Now its your turn. How much importance do you put on estate planning. Do you think that any one of these steps are more important than another?

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How To Survive an Affair: The Reasons You Need To Fix Trust First ...

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It?s correct that it could be challenging to survive an extramarital relationship. After you find out that your husband or wife has been unfaithful, you may think that it?s impossible to forgive. You will manage to move ahead with your life once you learn to forgive. Nevertheless the pain brought on by unfaithfulness is really too overwhelming. You could be surprised to find out that a lot of marriage consultants say that unfaithfulness can in fact strengthen marital relationships. But please don?t make the blunder of having an extramarital relationship with the hope of making your spousal relationship stronger.

In this document, we will talk about how to survive the affair. Understand that not all marital relationships suffering from unfaithfulness survive. Affairs tend to be very destructive to what an otherwise might be a happy spousal relationship. It?s still possible to reestablish the trust yet it takes a long period in a lot of the incidents. Unfaithfulness truly isn?t even near the top of the list of reasons behind divorce.

A lot of people are mixed up about why extramarital relationships happen. The fact is it is not often about sex. Extramarital liaisons transpire when the couples have ceased interacting meaningfully with each other. Your husband or wife is supposed to become your life mate. When meaningful communication is absent, companionship significantly suffers. You must accept and love each other. When these are not there, extramarital relationships occur.

Sometimes, an extramarital relationship could be a cry for help. Being appreciated is a natural human want. Obviously, a couple that regularly becomes intimate will most likely stay with each other. Understanding and acceptance, naturally, should always be there. You wouldn?t want sex to be the only foundation of your marital relationship.

Deciding to fix the marriage is very important and is the required first step. Also, you and your husband or wife should be in agreement that restoring the marital relationship is really important to you. You can?t save your valuable marital relationship on your own. It?s a team work for the married couple. When both partners are determined to conquer the extramarital relationship and resolve the main issues that triggered the extramarital relationship in the first place, the marriage will surely become stronger.

Living through an extramarital relationship isn?t likely to be simple. If you are a victim of an extramarital relationship, know that lots of people have survived. There is no reason why you won?t be able to doing it yourself. Family members and good friends can help. But sometimes, only a relationship psychologist can provide the help you require. Don?t hesitate to face your erring husband or wife after your emotions have settled down. Don?t attempt to talk to your husband or wife soon after learning about the unfaithfulness.

Reconciliation is in many cases hampered by emotions. You could be thinking that it?s not fair that you must suffer from the mistake of your husband or wife and you?re right. Some sacrifices will be important if you really want to make your spousal relationship work.

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