Adriano, I just went through a similar situation with not so high-speed. It turns out that the signal was too strong. The cable man reduced the signal strength and I now access the internet at least 10x faster than before. mrhappy

Hi Gibby: I am not a professional photographer but some of my eqipment is professional grade. I have several Canon digital SLR cameras and several telephoto lenses and I switch around depending on the weather and how close I get to the birds. Most of the pictures you see here were taken with a Canon 40D camera and a 200mm lens. Some were taken with a Canon 1D Mark III with a 400mm lens. To me the secret is luring the birds up close. I feed them meal worms and they come up to within 10 feet of me. As long as I don't make any sudden movements they pose for me. Sorry if you asked and I failed to respond before. Dave

Ruthanna and others, thank you for the welcome... Let me just add... regarding my doctrine and belief, I have never tried to convert anyone away from their own brand of doctrine... I will however try to answer those that email or pm me with questions regarding my beliefs.. and have done so many many many times.... I will always follow up and pray for those that ask.. openly and boldly.. but to try to ask a wiccan to become baptist.. nope.. not who I am or what I am about.. I may not be the brightest crayon in the box, but I do have respect for folks.... Now that we have said about all that there is to say on that subject... I am off to ask some questions about... tada.. what else but cooking.. =0) Hugs, Carolyn

The photo of the bridge is interesting. There are not many of this style remaining. Some of these were built before 1900. There are no "I" or "H" beams in the bridge. All the main box section main beams are made of channel iron and plates hot riveted together. Notice on the right that one of the tension rods has a turn-buckle. This is an adjustment used to account for slight misfits. The man who adjusted these turn-buckles was known as a "bridge tuner". An experienced tuner could tell by the frequency of the rod when it had the correct tension. All the rods of same length would all "ring" to the same frequency when each were adjusted to the same tension. Likely, underneath the bridge truss is held together with tension members called I-bars. About 20 years ago, the state of Ohio began a program to take all I-bar bridges out of service because the design was prone to catastrophic failure. When one I-bar failed, the remsinder of the trusses would also fail and drop the span. It is the goal of bridge designers for a bridge to give warning before ultimate failure, for example, a span should get bent before ultimately breaking.