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FLORIDA’S VOICE IN ELECTRONICS "WATTS CURRENT" is the official newsletter of the Florida Electronics Sales & Service Association, Inc. and is published bi-monthly. EMAIL: fesa@fdn.com We Support NESDA Awarded Best State Publication 1993,1996 & 2000 |
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FESA or Watts Current neither endorses any company, product or service - nor guarantees the validity of statements made in any advertisement - appearing in any advertisement or article included in this publication. Watts Current is published bi- monthly. All articles to be published in "Watts Current" must be received by John Eubanks, Editor, 5323-3 Firestone Rd., Jacksonville, FL 32210 by the following dates: 2/15, 4/15, 6/15, 8/15, 10/15, and 12/15 in order to be printed in the next newsletter. Otherwise, they will be published in the following issue, as appropriate. Please send any inquires or comments to the Editor. Please excuse any grammar or punctuation errors you may find as this newsletter is entirely composed and published by association volunteers. |
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| Editorial Opinion The National Electronic Product Stewardship Initiative may be very optimistic over the possibilities of soon cutting some deal however there have always been deals available for tickets on trains that have already left the station. The wisdom of becoming a party to a deal like that is some what like buying retirement stocks in a bankrupt venture just before the papers are filed. Soon the cries will become ones we have all heard before...Not Me! Of course the reasoning behind this answer will be based upon the current use of the CRT. Logically those who aren’t producing or using CRT’s anymore no longer can be held responsible for CRT disposal. We see this every day when applicable attorneys fees are included in the sum for correction the outcome results in an overall loss. It has now become obvious that many programs embarked upon by some in the production segment of our industry are only tactics for delay. A simple trip to any major retailer will reveal the majority of new video products on these shelves do not use CRTs. Now upon enactment of these announced plans to shutdown CRT production plants, demand in the new product marketplace for CRT glass envelopes recycled or new will soon evaporate regardless of those pending deals. This could effectively render products containing CRTs a single option to return some value. The most logical remaining option to regain any value is repair. Watts Current Editor |
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| FESA-Jacksonville Annual Picnic Report After starting our scheduled week with many rain filled days, Saturday June 21st turned out to be spared from those heavy downpours and somewhat cooler allowing everyone to enjoy a day of fun. There was a very good turnout for this event that was so graciously hosted by Billy Williams and his family at their homes. Since they live in adjoining homes along the water, some of the youngsters were able to do a little fishing from their dock. When they tired of fishing then they went swimming in their pool and played on the swings. Viola and Ethan Allen coordinated this event and arranged for the catered meal that included Bar-B-Cue beans, ribs, chicken, sliced pork and beef with corn-on-the-cob, potato salad, cold slaw, and rolls. There was Ice-tea, soft drinks and beer for refreshments. Desert was abundant and difficult to choose with so many home made pies, cakes including a pineapple upside down cake and some home made fresh peach ice-cream. No one including the many youngsters in attendance went away hungry. It was an outstanding feast among friends to enjoy dining that also provided the opportunity for families to spend some time together while conducting association business. Others that drove up to attend this event were Marge and George Bluze from Largo, Florida although delayed slightly trying to locate Billy’s home. As usual they won a drawing and we all enjoyed their presence. Carolyn Hemmingway donated equipment from the service center her deceased husband and FESA-Jax Past President Herschel Hemmingway once operated to our FESA auction. This was truly appreciated and all funds generated will go directly into the FESA-Jax treasurer. The newly elected FESA-Jacksonville Officers were installed and sworn in and a prayer was made for our recently departed member Pete Estes and his family as together we mourn his absence. We truly appreciate Billy and his family hosting this wonderful gathering and all the hospitality they provided for all. With equal appreciation for all their work to arrange and conduct the meal and auction for Viola and Ethan. We are indebted to all of them. |
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| NPSC 2003 is a Sound Business Investment The time has come to decide if you want to take advantage of our special room rates for attendees at our host sight for NPSC 2003. The NESDA room block will expire soon, so don’t overlook all the benefits provided by this opportunity. Sure you could probably find less expensive rates at other area lodging facilities. Then you will loose all time commuting that could have been spent receiving training along with any additional cost of transportation. When you have a problem remembering things, as I seem to, then being able to quickly recover from oversights by returning to your room to get eyeglasses saves the day. Of more importance the direct support for your association to meet our guaranteed room night numbers, which allows us to have all those training and banquet rooms. Ultimately this factor determines the room rates we all receive. You make it more rewarding for all by fully supporting your association. It would be impossible to attend NPSC 2003 without adding to the number of friends you presently have. Industry one-on-one opportunity abounds throughout, whether found at symposiums or many cordial gatherings. This represents an intangible benefit found in like numbers at no other event. Knowing those you must work with in your industry and association is an invaluable advantage you shouldn’t overlook. It may even be a last encounter with some long time friends. What other things might you find? If this is your first NPSC, special daily meetings to ensure that you meet industry leaders plus knowledge of the training opportunities that are available. In addition you may win a very nice prize provided by Toshiba just for attending these meeting. If you are a regular… what can I tell you? Who could have predicted we would witness the hot pursuit of a live rent-a-chicken across the hotel lobby by a manufacturers representative? That isn’t even likely to be found on the 900-telephone number for the Physic Hotline. You have to show up to find this out for yourself. No one can do it for you. In addition to enjoying all the fun with friends old and new, this tax-deductible investment will pay off through out the coming year. Want to bet on that? Then place that too at NPSC 2003 in Reno with NESDA. I will see you there, God willing….John Eubanks CET |
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| North American Electronics Recycling Conference To Hold E-Scrap 2003 In Orlando Additional speakers announced for E-Scrap 2003-06-27 The staff of E-Scrap News, the organizers of E-Scrap 2003, the North American Electronics Recycling Conference, has announced additional speakers for the event, to be held in Orlando on October 22nd and 23rd. As part of a panel of leading corporate decision makers, Walt Rosenberg, vice president of social responsibility at Hewlett-Packard (Palo Alto, California), will provide his assessment of current trends in electronics product stewardship. By October, much of the talk in the industry will focus on the latest developments in Canada and the U.S. to establish nationwide recovery systems for computers, monitors, televisions and other forms of scrap. E-Scrap 2003 will include detailed presentations by the managers of the product stewardship initiatives in those countries -- David Betts with Electronic Product Stewardship Canada and Cat Wilt, representing the National Electronics Product Stewardship Initiative in the U.S. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington) has a wide number of intriguing projects underway in end-of-life electronics management, design for the environment and public procurement. Detailed descriptions of EPA-funded efforts will offered to attendees. In a large-scale, multi-year Defense Department effort, Concurrent Technologies (Washington) has developed a sophisticated laboratory in Largo, Florida to assess the best methods to process scrap electronics. This project -- called DEER2 -- will end in December. At E-Scrap 2003, project personnel will provide new and extensive technical information on CRT processing, plastics recovery, shredder operations and other materials recovery methods. Details about the conference can be found at www.e-scrapnews.com or by sending a request to sarah@resource-recycling.com Article courtesy of Florida Department of Environment, Hazardous Waste Division taken from e-scrap news. |
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| Servicing A Magnavox PTV 615 for Resale We received a Magnavox model FP4610W103 for service that had the complaint of dead set. This unit would not turn on nor would the power led illuminate when depressing the power button from either the set or remote transmitter. This projection unit featuring the PTV615 chassis with the power supply PWB (P/N 4835 21977571) was obviously defective but the replacement cost is somewhat steep so we set out to repair the one in this unit. Our most often found failure on this PWB finds the horizontal output transistor Q906 (2SD1556) shorted with R924 (.33 ohm 1/2W) its emitter resistor (burnt) open resulting from a defective IFT T900 (483521977571). This was not the case on this unit because Q906 was not shorted nor was R924 open. Further troubleshooting lead us to a failed C811 (483512257007/561PF @ 2KV). A much less expensive component to replace. Replacing this defective cap returned our raster with video and sound after the correct source was eventually selected. Since this unit was rescued from a "bone yard" and repair was attempted in order to sell the unit as "used" cost becomes the critical component to succeed in this project. Whenever used goods are sold at flea-markets, there is normally an implied, standard "flea-market warranty" accompanying the unit. Of course as I understand this, all implied or applicable limits on these warranties consist of 55 feet or 55 seconds, whichever may occur first. Obviously this can only be effective if and when the vender returns to the flea-market of origin. Selling used equipment from your service center becomes quite a different situation. These sales carry an implied warranty equivalent to standards expected by your customers from your service center. It has always been difficult to my reasoning, how customer expectations routinely seem to exceed all time limits placed upon new units. What am I missing? Units for resale to your customer base must be repaired and groomed thoroughly with the warranty you place upon these items fully explained in writing. Failure to complete these important tasks will not only effect used set sales, it will effect your service requests also. |
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| Sony KP-46S25 with Some Strange Symptoms This service request came in with a very poor description of an existing problem albeit understandable once that was observed. The problem was described as lines at the top when the picture existed but always having three curved colored lines that jumped around somewhere around middle way down the picture. The technician was unsure as to the problem coming from a convergence or vertical origin as he departed on the call. When he arrived the problem seemed to be more clearly of vertical origin although constantly changing lending understanding to a difficult task of description. There were three colored bowed horizontal lines across the center but the crazy thing is this bow would constantly flip flop between a smiley face bow and a frowning bow. Then the picture would randomly pop in with severely stretched scan lines in the top portion and insufficient height for the lower portion. Just as randomly it would return to a blanked screen with the alternating bow where the center section was white while the outer bowed portion displayed each color of red, green, and blue. Watching it became hypnotic as these random changes occurred. It reminded you of some foreign cartoon presentations for a bird flying directly away or toward you. Given it must have been a rendition of some exotic bird with all that color on the wing tips. Strangely enough there was a very large green and red parrot (Macaw) in the same room continually making extremely loud screeching noises during our observations that could have subtly influenced my description of this problem. A check of our DC voltages around the Vertical out put stage didn’t give us any clues as all checked were in the correct range for a normal reading. Replacing the Vertical output IC (STV-9379) produced no difference in these symptoms nor did it effect the volume level of that screeching parrot. Finally after replacing IC 301 (CXA1477AS/8-752-063-50) on the "M" board of this unit then everything returned to normal except that screeching bird. Now that the necessary work to correct this service request had been determined it became time to add up the bill. When I informed this customer of the costs he immediately drowned out his screeching parrot in disbelief over the cost of this defective IC. I tried to console him by agreeing that even though the cost was high it was less than it could be if we kept installing the lower priced generic ones until we found one that worked. He paid us and as we departed we could still hear him and his parrot screeching back and forth. I sure hope we didn’t make them angry at one another…..Article by Watts Current Editor. |
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| NPSC 2003 Annual Convention July 16-19 Reno, NV NPSC 2003 SCHEDULE As of 07/08/03 This schedule is subject to revisions, as necessary. TUESDAY, JULY 15 -- Registration Desk Open 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. 11 a.m. Golf Outing -- Wolf Run Golf Club (lunch included) limited to 33 players, must sign up to play 12:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. NESDA Board Meeting 2 - 6 p.m. NESDA State/Local Reps. Meeting 6 - 7 p.m. Welcome Reception (Cash Bar and Snacks) WEDNESDAY, JULY 16 -- Registration Desk Open 7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. 7:30 - 8 a.m. First Timer Orientation 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. Breakfast – Sponsored by Pioneer 9 a.m. - 12: Noon Consumer Product Servicing: Liquid Crystal Television Servicing, Ted Peck Sharp, limited to 15. ( Pre-registration required ) 9:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. CET Prep Course (Jim Fellows CET/CSM and Dan Mundy CET/CSM) 9:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. NESDA Past Presidents Meeting 9:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Service Tools and Technology -- Thomson 9:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Consumer Product Servicing -- LG/Zenith Plasma TV 9:30 a.m. - 12 Noon CEA TES Executive Committee Meeting 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Computer/Networking -- "What is the ANY key, anyway?" [Computer Basics] (Del Whiteman CET/CSM) Noon - 1:30 p.m. Lunch – Sponsored by Thomson Noon - 3 p.m. CEA Customer Care Council 1:30 p.m. Hall of Fame Meeting 1:45 - 4:45 p.m. CSM Prep Course Randy Whitehead CSM 1:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Consumer Product Servicing – Thomson DLP 1:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Consumer Product Servicing -- LG/Zenith Appliance 1:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Consumer Product Servicing -- Liquid Crystal Television Servicing (Sharp) Signup required; session limited to 15; additional sessions added if needed 2 – 3:30 p.m. Computer/Networking -- "Who's on First, What's on Second, and I Don't Know is on the network!" [Computer Networking Tips] (Del Whiteman CET/CSM) 5 - 6 p.m. NESDA/FieldPower System Demonstration – Neil Murphy, FieldPower 6 - 7 p.m. Cocktails/Dinner – Sponsored by Sharp 9 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Best Ideas Contest -- Gerry McCann THURSDAY, JULY 17 -- Registration Desk Open 7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. 7:30 - 8 a.m. First Timer Orientation 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. Breakfast – Sponsored by Panasonic 9 a.m. - Noon Certification Administrator Conference -- Joseph Villademoros, CET/PhD 9 a.m. - Noon Learn The Secrets: Preparing Your Business to be a CSC. Randy Whitehead CSM 9 a.m. - Noon Consumer Product Servicing -- Toshiba HDTV 9 a.m. - Noon Consumer Product Servicing -- Rear Projection Servicing with DLP (Jean Magloire -- Panasonic) 9 a.m. - Noon Consumer Product Servicing -- Hitachi Digital Convergence, Principles and Techniques – Alvie Rodgers CET 9 a.m. - Noon Consumer Product Servicing -- Projection Television Troubleshooting —Steve Ulrich Sony limited to 15 ( Pre-registration required ) 9: a.m. - Noon Consumer Product Servicing: Liquid Crystal Television Servicing, Ted Peck Sharp, limited to 15. ( Pre-registration required ) FRIDAY, JULY 18 -- Registration Desk Open 7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. 7:30 - 8 a.m. First Timer Orientation 8 a.m.- 9 a.m. Breakfast—Sponsored by Toshiba 9 a.m.- Noon ISCET Board of Directors Meeting 9:10 a.m.- 10:15 a.m. Manufacturer Symposiums (1st Half of Companies) 10:30 a.m.- 11:35 a.m. Manufacturers Symposiums ( 2nd Half of Companies) 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. Lunch- - Sponsored by Sony 1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. TRADE SHOW 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Consumer Product Servicing: Rear Projection Service with DLP Jean Magloire Panasonic 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Consumer Product Servicing: Sony Projection (last 4 chassis) Troubleshooting. Steve Ulrich Sony ( Pre-registration required ) 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. ServiceBench Breakout Session: Product offerings 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. TriTronics Breakout Session: Using the TriTronics Website 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. Diversification: Installing Smart Home Network Panels Brian Gibson CET/ Fred Paradis CSM Elite Media Solutions 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security: Breakout Session Information on U.S. Government Technical Positions 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. NESDA Elections 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. Dinner Western Night Sponsored by NESDA/ISCET/FieldPower: Entertainment Sponsored by TriTronics, Laughter is Lawful, Sheriff J.B. Smith. 7:30 p.m - 9 p.m. CDA Software Users Group Meeting SATURDAY, JULY 19 -- Registration Desk open 7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. ISCET Awards Breakfast Sponsored by Hitachi Hawaiian Shirt Day - A Tribute to Rich Mildenberger CET 9:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. ISCET Annual Membership Meeting 9:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Diversification: Home Theater Basics and More Brian Gibson CET and Fred Paradis CSM Elite Media Solutions 12:00 - 1:30 p.m Lunch On Your Own 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. NESDA Annual Membership Meeting 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Certification Testing for ISCET CET and CSM 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. NESDA New Board Meeting 6:00 p.m. Cash Bar 7:00 p.m. NESDA/ ISCET Awards and Officer Installation Banquet NPSC 2004 Scheduled to be held in Nashville, Tennessee Get ready for NPSC 2004….by Registering early to save on the registration costs. |
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| Member Updates Our community as well as this association has lost a friend and supporter unlikely to ever be replaced. Pete Estes was the heart and soul of vocational electronic training in our county throughout his career and remained its most ardent spokesman ever afterwards. It was always pleasant to spend time with Pete because he was always positive thinking in search of improvements for his beloved vocational education. Those of us who have known the responsibility of becoming a Chief in the U.S. Navy also know this is something you never forget or outlive. Pete simply transferred all of this knowledge and energy he gained becoming a Master Chief into the vocational education community where he served them in a similar way. After he retired from that career he then became the voice of encouragement for all those who remained. Pete attended the FESA-Jacksonville May meeting at The Piccadilly restaurant when we elected our current affiliate officers. He had been a member of the nominating committee that nominated this slate of officers that we now have installed. It is very hard to believe having seen him there enjoying himself with his many friends on May 8th that he would be taken from us so shortly by an unsuspected massive heart attack. In the spirit Pete would desire we must now look upon our good fortune to have known and worked with him and absorb his optimistic outlook as we try to improve our community lead by this example. He will be missed but never forgotten. ESTES James H. " Pete" passed away Saturday, May 17, 2003. Born April 5, 1929 in Nettleton, MS, he retired from the U.S. Navy as a Master Chief Aviation Electrician after 22 years of service and the Duval County School Board after 25+ years. He was a member of the Wesconnett Lodge #297 and the Lake Shore United Methodist Church. He is survived by his loving wife of 54 years, Mary Estes; daughters, Linda Williams (James); and Debbie Wiggins (Edward); four grandsons, Justin Williams, Joshua Wiggins, Jordan Williams, and John Wiggins; sister, Helen Ramage (Buddy) of Verona, MS; brother, Bobby Estes (Janie) of Tupelo, MS; nephew, Marty Ramage of Tupelo, MS; niece, Gyl Estes of Tupelo, MS; and many loving friends. A memorial service, in celebration of his Christian life, will be held 11:00 AM Tuesday, May 20th at Lake Shore United Methodist Church with the Reverend Tom Fuller officiating. Interment will follow in Jacksonville Memory Gardens. Pallbearers will be Justin Williams, Joshua Wiggins, Jordan Williams, John Wiggins, Barry Wright, Steve Wright, Vernon Barefield, and Travis Walker. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the LSUMC Joy Class. The family invited friends to visit the HARDAGE-GIDDENS FUNERAL HOME, 5753 Blanding Blvd., from 6 until 8 PM Monday, May 19th. |
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| CRT Industry Updates Thomson (Paris), the world's fourth largest consumer electronics producer, has decided to slash its U.S. lead glass and television picture-tube operations because of heavy losses. The firm will not go through with a $30 million plan to upgrade its Circleville, Ohio tube-glass plant, where some 400 workers will be laid off by late summer. In addition, 800 workers at its large-screen-television tube plant in Marion, Indiana will lose their jobs as a result of Thomson closing two of the plant's four production lines. The products from the plant are sold under the RCA and General Electric brand names. The company says, however, that it is expanding TV manufacture in China. For instance, the company is opening a second tube line at its Foshan plant in southeast China in the third quarter. As a second indicator of the declining domestic CRT glass industry being a result of heavy offshore competition, equipment from a plant being closed in Pennsylvania is being sold to the largest Chinese producer of conventional television glass. Corning Asahi Vide Products has reached an agreement to sell certain manufacturing assets at its State College facility to the Henan Anyang CPT Glass Bulb Group of Xinyi Electronic Glass (Henan Province, China). The asset sale will require Chinese governmental approval. CAVP expects the transfer of assets to be completed by year's end. CAVP is a joint venture of Corning (Corning, New York) and Asahi Glass (Tokyo). Mitsubishi Corp. (Tokyo). Another CRT monitor plant bites the dust. A third North American producer of CRT products has announced plans to close shop, thus showing how quickly lead glass production and use is declining on this continent. All told, by the end of the summer, about 3,500 workers in the U.S. and Mexico will be on the streets. Mitsubishi Corp. (Tokyo) says it will close its Melco Display Devices Mexico SA computer monitor plant in Mexicali, Mexico in July, dismissing 1,250 employees. Declining sales are the reason for the action, say company officials. More troubles in the CRT industry. The domestic cathode ray tube industry continues to confront problems. In the latest bad news, Techneglas (Columbus, Ohio) dismissed 95 employees last week from its plants in Columbus and Perrysburg, Ohio and Pittston, Pennsylvania. This is the third year in a row that workers have been let go and published reports indicate that more layoffs will occur this summer. In addition, a recent corporate shakeup led to the company's longtime president and three other high-level executives being released; only the president is being replaced. Techneglas is a subsidiary of Nippon Electric Glass (Tokyo). These articles reprinted from content found in e-scrap news and sent courtesy of FL EPA Hazardous Waste Division. |
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| More Industry Updates Minnesota Gov. Pawlenty signed the Omnibus Agriculture and Environmental Funding package in June that contains the disposal ban on CRTs. It is found in Sec. 129. [115A.9565] [CATHODE-RAY TUBE PROHIBITION.] Effective July 1, 2005, a person may not place in mixed municipal solid waste an electronic product containing a cathode-ray tube. By an 8-5 vote, a California Senate committee has sent a comprehensive electronics take-back measure to the full CA. Senate. Senate Bill 20 requires manufacturers of specific electronics sold in the state to develop and finance a free and convenient recycling system for these devices. The measure also bars the exporting of e-scrap to countries where environmental regulations are not up to the standards in the U.S. and California. OEM-processor alliance reports results of an innovative e-scrap recovery program in which three original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) pay an electronics reclaimer to handle their branded products returned by consumers has shown impressive results. The program involves Panasonic (Secaucus, New Jersey), Sharp (Mahwah, New Jersey) and Sony New York), world leaders in consumer electronics, and Envirocycle (Hallstead, Pennsylvania), the e-scrap processor and leaded glass-to-glass reclaimer. The three OEMs helped underwrite the cost of handling branded materials collected at 67 one-day collection events and during ongoing collection programs in 11 states in 2002. All told, the alliance resulted in the recycling of 1.5 million pounds of material. This included 468,750 pounds of glass and more than 40,000 pounds of lead. The alliance has since added a fourth OEM -- JVC Americas (Wayne, New Jersey) -- to the program. Is the need for federal legislation NEPSI's poison pill? Numerous participants in a national electronics recycling negotiation express optimism regarding the current debate, but point to a major barrier ahead. In interviews with participants in the National Electronics Product Stewardship Initiative in the past week, nearly all respondents said they were encouraged by the results of the last NEPSI confab in Seattle in mid-June. While two major players -- Dell (Round Rock, Texas) and Hewlett-Packard (Palo Alto, California) -- are not fully on board with the draft recommendations, many panelists feel that an acceptable deal can eventually be cut. However, a number of players now recognize that the need for federal implementing legislation may be a major hurdle ahead. To get such a measure adopted would require a coordinated and sincere effort by all parties…... Article courtesy of Florida Department of Environment, Hazardous Waste Division taken from e-scrap news. |
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| Fun in the Pun 1. His new job replacing windshields wasn't all it was cracked up to be. 2. He got a chemistry set with a promise not to hurt himself. That was the acid test. 3. He quit his job designing clothes to become a man of the cloth. 4. When he found out that he would visit a real blacksmith he got all fired up. 5. We went to the owls convention and it was a real hoot. 6. She had two different jobs as a chef which gave her a full plate. 7. He became a boxer because he thought he had a fighting chance. 8. Some gardener's work becomes a bed of roses. 9. They built a tree house together but soon had a falling out. 10. She was a baseball player's wife with a ball park figure. 11. He wanted to become a pilot but decided that went over his head. 12. To work at Coca Cola one must pass a pop quiz. 13. Chinese sailors eat junk food. Jokes selected from those @ www.punoftheday.com |
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