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FCC’s Broadband Plan Turns Five

BY MIKE VIOLETTE Reproduced with permission of IN Compliance Magazine Original publication June 2015 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN! Blow out the candles, already! The recent auction of Advanced Wireless Spectrum raised $41 Big Ones (that’s $41E9) for the US...

Follow Your Nose

BY MIKE VIOLETTE Olfactory nerves lie at the top of your nasal passages and their associated axons wind their way through holes in your skull to a spot just below the cerebellum. The business-end of these cells are covered with a thin layer of mucus and are exposed to...

Al’s Notebook

BY MIKE VIOLETTE “I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.”¹ – Charles Darwin To discover anything new, one has to be ready to be fooled as sometimes the experiment fools the experimenter. One, too, must be ready to be surprised and draw...

Millibels in the Wind

BY MIKE VIOLETTE “Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit Radiometers are cool. Some are so cool they are cryogenically cool. They have to be really cool to do what they do. This is especially true for a...

A Wreck of a Story

BY MIKE VIOLETTE Reproduced with permission of IN Compliance Magazine Original publication April 2014   When I was a kid and found out that my dad was an ‘engineer,’ the vision of him driving a train popped into my head for the word engineer was firmly associated...