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Rumors of Google breaking into the wireless carrier game have been fodder for scoops, breathless reports and thinkpieces for years now, and for the longest time it looked like the search giant just couldn’t make it happen. Yesterday Google put all that to rest. Project Fi is finally here (if invite-only and fully compatible with one phone) — here’s what you absolutely need to know about it.

What is Project Fi?

At its most basic, Project Fi is a mobile phone service that promises unlimited domestic talk and text, unlimited international messaging, tethering and 2G-only international service in over 120 countries (thanks to T-Mobile’s rather dope roaming agreements) for as low as $30 a month. You get to decide how much data you want to pay for — more on that later — and you’ll get a tidy refund for whatever data you don’t use when the month is over.

Really though, the best way to look at Fi is as an ambitious experiment in mashing up existing networks. The heart of the service is a mobile mesh that combines Sprint’s and T-Mobile’s coverage areas with over a million of WiFi hotspots meant to give you the most reliable service wherever you are. Some of those hotspots will pop up exactly where you expect them — like 7,000 US Starbucks stores, for instance — while plans to bolster free public WiFi networks in cities with Google Fiber are

Article source: http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/23/googles-project-fi-cheat-sheet/

Being a vet doesn’t always seem like an exciting job. Sure, meeting and saving furry friends has its own brand of gratification, but it’s not the kind of work that will get your blood pumping. That’s not so for Dr Scott Sims, a veterinarian who moved to Hawaii in 2001 to take on a whole new kind of work day. He recently spoke with Nature World News (NWN) about his practice, his passions, and the reality TV show that has been part of his life for the greater part of the last year.

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Through his clinic, the Pegasus Veterinary Clinic, the Kauai resident flits from island to island , making house calls, performing surgeries, and tending to livestock in trouble, but it wasn’t always the island life for Sims.

“I worked in the northern Bay Area in a little town called Novato for 13 or so years,” he told NWN in an exclusive interview.

“I had a very successful practice there and I liked it a lot,” he added. ” And then I made the mistake of coming to Hawaii on a vacation with a friend. It wasn’t like anything I thought it was going to be!” (Scroll to read on…)

Sims had expected crowded beaches, tourist traps, and souvenir stands as far as the eye can see. Instead, Kauai – the fourth largest

Article source: http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/14327/20150425/meet-hawaiis-tireless-veterinarian-aloha-vet.htm

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What’s speed wobble? Fifteen percent of you in the survey aren’t familiar with this term. Good. If you’re not sure whether you’ve experienced it, you haven’t. Let’s hope it stays that way.

Imagine a shimmy in your car when you hit a particular speed. In this case it’s usually a rotational element – maybe a front wheel rim – that’s out of true or balance or round. I had a van that shimmied because a U-joint was out-of-balance. It was just a rotational element in a system.

But it’s not enough to have an element in a system out-of-balance. You need the system to be flexible, that is, you need a lack of stiffness, or a lack of damping, or both. (It’s not your shock absorbers that suck up the imperfections in the road; it’s your car’s springs. Your shock absorbers “damp” the system,

Article source: http://www.slowtwitch.com/Tech/Speed_Wobble_5033.html

Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft plant, is making an emplanage section on a new Consolidated transport, Fort Worth, Texas, 1942.(Library of Congress)

Article source: http://www.nationaljournal.com/pictures-video/photos-the-real-rosie-the-riveter-women-20150424

Tecnam is known for building quality airplanes for the LSA market, and it shows in the P2010. The fuselage is carbon fiber, the cabin is comfortable, and the airplane has a modern look.

Orders are being accepted now, and the company is offering the first 10 for an introductory price of $345,000. Regular prices are closer to $369,000.

American presence

Yeager said this also marks the one-year anniversary of the company’s U.S. sales presence. Its Sebring, Florida, facility is owned by the Italian-based manufacturer, meaning that parts availability has gotten significantly better, he said. They’ve also taken a cue from automakers and display one of each type of aircraft in Sebring so potential customers have a chance to compare and contrast in person before deciding on which model to purchase. Once the P2010 hits the showroom, no doubt many more pilots will be coming to do just that.

Article source: http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2015/April/23/tecnam-p2010-debut

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