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Recent News and Events Around Niagara-on-the-Lake and Niagara Falls
Inventor’s Business Is ‘In The Toilet’
Author: Rich Whittle
WKYC.com:
Wally Berry is proud of the fact that his business is in the toilet. Literally. Berry is the inventor of a device he says will revolutionize the way we flush our toilets.
His company will soon manufacture a device called the Siphon Flush, an alternative to the “flapper” which has controlled water flow in toilets for more than 50 years.
“Twenty percent of all flappers in toilets leak at any one point in time,” Berry, a native of Fairview Park, points out. “Since there’s 250 million toilets in single family dwellings, that’s a lot of leakage.”
The amount of water that collective escapes from leaky flappers amounts to 11 million gallons a minute across the country, Berry says. That’s more than twice as much water as goes over Niagara Falls in the same period of time.
The principle of the Siphon Flush is that an air bubble is used to keep water in the toilet tank, and when its flushed, water replaces the bubble creating a suction, forcing the water into the bowl. The device then fills with air again and floats back up with the refilling water.
“We’ve been more than successful,” says Berry. “Not only will our product the Siphon Flush not leak. It is actually more efficient and uses less water in the toilet.
Photo by WKYC.com.
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Published: 2009-05-01 12:10:22
Error'd: No More Paper!
"I received these three letters all on the same day," wrote Martin P., "two were sent October 31st and the other November 1st, and they all said pretty much the exact same thing. At least it's comforting to know we're saving trees."
Colin came across this message in a piece of news-gathering/journalist software.
Yousuf H notes, "the taxes around here charge a bit of a premium during the holidays."
"A few weeks ago, our local Channel 9 (left) listed one town's temperature as 150," Ken Cooney wrote, "apparently, our local Fox affiliate's Weather had to top that. The battle for which channel can display the hottest temperature has begun!"
"This error was displayed for the three days I was in Niagara Falls," Dale King writes, "I can't really tell, but maybe it is prompting someone to hit F1, and they haven't been able to get the appropriate managers to sign off on the 'hit F1' process."
"And go figure," Dale King, "this was the message that popped up when I went to download pictures from the trip."
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Published: 2009-01-08 07:00:00
Conflict-Free Canadian Diamonds History
Along with Celine Dion, Niagara Falls, and the CN Tower, Canada is famous for its Canadian Diamonds.Canada is lush with beautiful lakes, rivers, mountains, and natural resources such as lumber, agriculture, mining, fishing and petroleum found in the Alberta Tar Sands. The Provinces of Ontario and Quebec are known as the Canadian Shield (although it covers half of Canada), which has vast deposits of iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, silver, and gold.
Published: 2008-12-11 11:17:33
Travel in the US
One of the best places to go for vacation with the whole family is New York's Niagara Falls area. Considered one of the most beautiful wonders of the world, Niagara Falls separates Ontario, Canada and New York.
Published: 2008-11-17 09:45:22
Wee-Fi: Enterprise 802.11n Rated; Au. U Illegal Use-Fi; Micro-Fi: Shorts on Cities
Author: Glennf
 Enterprise 802.11n gear has up to 10 times throughput of previous generation: Network World put four equipment makers' enterprise 802.11n gear through its paces, and found enormous improvements over 802.11g. However, as I've seen repeatedly with consumer-grade gear, maximum throughput is limited by internal system resources, like the system bus. 802.11n offers such a vastly higher rate of speed that firms and their engineers clearly need to move up yet another notch in designing equipment that can take full advantage. Network World examined Aerohive, Bluesocket, Motorola, and Siemens access points. Aruba, Cisco, and Trapeze declined in various ways to participate, which is a shame.
University of North South Wales shocked--shocked!--to find illegal downloads occurring: This Australian university may turn off its free Wi-Fi because students are acting like students, downloading what the IT director calls illegal content. The university fines students up to A$1000 for illegal downloads.
Micro-Fi round-up: Hillsboro, Ore., gains Wi-Fi through effort of local resident with Meraki boxes; Birmingham (UK) has extremely limited free-Fi, choosing to have residents, visitors pay for access via BT, criticized by Flickr's visiting community manager; Niagara Falls gets 12 square blocks of free wireless; Portsmouth, NH, accepts $350K in Cisco gear for downtown service with few strings attached.
Published: 2008-10-27 16:05:00
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