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I know a guy who has such low self-esteem that he keeps his keys on him when he walks through the airport metal detector, just to get some acknowledgement. -Daniel Lybra
I love to sleep. It's the best of both worlds. You get to be alive, and unconscious. -Rita Rudner
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Making
Your Own Luck (and Success)
By Bill Floyd
*A woman's husband had been slipping in and out of a coma for several months, yet she stayed by his bedside every single day. When he came to, he motioned for her to come nearer.
As she sat by him, he said, "You know what? You have been with me all through the bad times. When I got fired, you were there to support me. When my business failed, you were there. When I got shot, you were by my side. When we lost the house, you gave me support. When my health started failing, you were still by my side... You know what?"
"What dear?" She asked gently.
"I think you bring me bad luck." ...more
*From the Joke Yard
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Where
are Contractors Applying the UPS Equipment?
By Peter Walsh, PE
Large and  medium Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) equipment is increasingly selected and installed by electrical contractors, although the very small UPSs are still selected and installed by the equipment users. Specifying engineers used to make most the selections and UPS vendor representatives used to install them. Now electrical contractors are taking more responsibility.
UPS systems are needed where it's important to sustain power when the normal power has a problem. The most common application is to protect critical computers from power problems. ...more
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By Doug Walo
A contractor has a bill of materials for a large job. The gear and lighting packages are customized and fortunately, you have a couple of good distributors to work with. But the commodities list is a couple of pages long. Getting pricing from distributors and analyzing the results is going to take forever. What can a contractor do to create the most accurate bid?
NetPricer Service made available by ElectricSmarts.com can be a helpful solution.
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Yes,
You Can Justify UPS Installations
By Peter Walsh, PE
The annual cost of power outages is $80 billion. A  single computer server used in credit operations results in $43,000 per minute in lost revenue when it is affected by power quality. A manufacturing process computer for semiconductors or biotech can spoil months of work as a result of a momentary power quality problem.
While it is true that some PCs will only require simple rebooting and only result in loss of unsaved files, other computers can loose much more.
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