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[Lisa Lorenzin <lorenzin AT 1000plus.com>]

Since our December meeting was cancelled due to inclement weather (and the
RTI closure), Curtis Leary has generously offered to give his talk on
power at our January meeting (this coming Monday).  We hope to see you  
there!

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The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators
organization (NC*SA) is upcoming.  Details about the meeting and
directions are provided in this note.  We hope to see you there!

                    NC*SA General Meeting
             6:00 pm, Monday, January 13th, 2003
                     Dreyfus Laboratory
                 Research Triangle Institute
                  Research Triangle Park, NC
                     (directions below)

        Speaker: Curtis Leary, GSSI
        Topic:  Electrical Grounding and Power 

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Abstract:  

How important is Electrical Grounding and Power in today's sensitive
electronic environment that we take for granted?  What you should know
about the National Electrical Code concerning your home and home office.  
What about your surge protection devices - are they really protecting your
equipment, or are they a hazard?  Is your UPS correct for your equipment?  
Items you should know about in the field of Grounding and Power.

Examples:
1. How to engineer a UPS for your needs
2. Surge Protection Devices & recalled items
3. Grounding & Bonding at the home (CATV, Telephone, AC Electrical Power)
4. AC Outlets, GFCI and AFCI
5. Single Phase AC Circuits, what does it mean: Phase, Neutral and Grounded 
circuit
6. Common violations found during an Audit process

Speaker Biography:

Curtis Leary is the owner of Grounding Solution Services Inc., GSSI for
short.  Curtis spent over 26 years serving his country in the US Coast
Guard specializing in Telecommunications.  Upon retiring from the USCG he
was hired by Nortel Networks where he was manager of the Technical Support
Group and later started a Grounding Department that solved numerous issues
with the Baby Bells and independent telephone companies concerning
lightning and power.  Upon retiring from Nortel, he started GSSI in 1993.  
Now he is solving issues for telephone companies throughout the US
(including Alaska), Canada, Central America plus other places.  In
addition to telephone companies, ILECS, CLEC customers, he helps law
enforcement agencies, medical facilities and businesses.  He also teaches
Grounding and Power courses for customers including Nortel Networks.

Curtis has a certificate in Electronics from William & Mary, a diploma
from the USCG in Telephony, continuing education certificates from the
University of Wisconsin (Madison), George Washington University (DC),
Washington State University (Spokane), and the School of Lightning
Technology, (Harvard).

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Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic
of the evening and/or system administration.  We will be providing
food and drink for the evening. If you have any questions please
contact the Steering Committee at:

  ncsa-steer AT ncsysadmin.org

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Directions to Research Triangle Institute:

Directions to Research Triangle Institute
See also a map to the meeting place.

>From I-40 west of RTP (e.g. Chapel Hill):

Get onto I-40 heading east. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway -
North (towards Durham). Stay in right lane. Shift right as soon as
possible after merging with traffic coming off I-40 westbound.

Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn
to the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going
the wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift
immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute
Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus
Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the parking lot
in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance.

>From I-40 east of RTP (e.g. Raleigh):

Get onto I-40 heading west. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway -
North (towards Durham). Shift to rightmost lane as soon as possible Exit
to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn to
the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going the
wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to
the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the
second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the
first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and
enter at the main entrance.

>From north of RTP (e.g. Durham):

Get onto NC-147 - Durham Freeway - south. Exit at the Cornwallis Road
exit. At the top of the exit, turn left to cross over the bridge. After
turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane. Take
the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second right off of
East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on
your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main
entrance.

A map of RTI is available at http://www.rti.org/images/campus.gif

Enter through the glass doors at the front; all of the doors except one
will be locked, but one will be open for our access.  Walk through the
lobby, go straight out the glass doors, across the patio, and straight
into Dreyfus Auditorium.

--
Lisa Lorenzin
lorenzin AT 1000plus.com