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Privacy Policy
PlanetHS, LLC operates in some markets as PlanetHS; also, its products are sometimes marketed under the brand "ArbiterAthlete" PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete ("we," "our") has created this privacy policy (this "Privacy Policy") in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. This document describes the practices of PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete with respect to the collection of user information and the use, storage, protection, and disclosure of such information. This document only applies to user information collected from the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites, located at www.planeths.com (the "PlanetHS Website") and www.arbiterathlete.com (the "ArbiterAthlete Website") and does not address the privacy of information we obtain from places other than our Websites. Additionally, this Privacy Policy does not apply to the Websites of third parties, including any third-party Websites to which we may provide links on the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites. Such third-party Websites are governed by their own privacy policies and practices. In all cases, we encourage you to ask questions and to provide data only to sites whose practices and personnel you trust.
Consent, Scope, and Amendments
You accept this Privacy Policy when you sign up for, access, or use the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites or any products, services, content, features, technologies, or functions offered through or in connection with the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time to address new issues, to reflect changes to the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites. We will post any such changes to the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites, and such changes will become effective upon posting. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy regularly. Your continued use of the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Policy will mean that you accept such changes. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy or any changes to this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites.
Information Collected and How It Is Used
We do not collect any personally identifying information about you unless you or the organization to which you belong voluntarily submits such information to us. Personally identifying information is any data that can be used to identify or contact a single person. We do not consider personally identifying information to include information that has been made anonymous so that it does not identify a specific individual.
In order to process payments, we may collect sensitive financial information such as credit card and bank account numbers. We will not provide such financial information to third parties without your permission or for promotional purposes. If you do not provide required financial information, you will not be able to send or receive payments using the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites.
We may also use and distribute your personal information to enable our contracted service providers and strategic partners to support our business operations, including, without limitation, bill collection, marketing, fraud detection, product and service development, and technology services. With respect to any such third-party service provider acting as an agent on our behalf, we will ensure such party is subject to laws providing the same level of privacy protection and agrees in writing to provide an adequate level of privacy protection.
From time to time, either by telephone or through mailings, we may also notify you about new products and services we are offering. Further, we may use your personal information to contact you through an PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete sales representative to determine whether you are interested in other products or services related to PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete. If you do not want to be contacted regarding our products and services, simply tell us when you provide us with your personal information or advise the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete sales representative accordingly, and you will not be contacted again for such purposes.
As necessary, we may use your personal information to contact you about your account or the terms of any agreements we may have with you, including this Privacy Policy. Because such information is important to your ongoing business relationship with PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete, you may not opt out of receiving such communications.
When requesting technical support, you may be asked to provide certain additional personal information that we deem necessary to identify you and to associate you with one of our user groups. Note that for quality and training purposes, we may monitor or record our telephone conversations with you or anyone acting on your behalf and, by contacting us, you acknowledge that your communication may be overheard, monitored, or recorded without further notice or warning. In all situations, you are not required to provide any personal information that we may request, but, if you choose not to do so, in many cases we will not be able to provide you with our products or services or respond to any queries that you may have.
We may also provide your personally identifying information to a third party in connection with any reorganization, merger, sale, assignment, joint venture, or other transfer or disposition of some or all of the assets of PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete or its affiliated entities, and you acknowledge and agree that we can accordingly assign, sell, license, or transfer to such third party any information, including personally identifying information, that you or the organization to which you belong has provided to us. In such event, we will require such third party to agree to treat such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
As is true of most internet services, PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete also automatically collects and stores certain non-personally identifying information sent to us by your computer, mobile phone, or other device whenever you access the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites. Non-personally identifying information includes data that does not, on its own, permit direct association with any specific individual. Non-personally identifying information may include, without limitation, your IP address, operating system, Internet service provider, mobile network information, the type of browser, computer, or mobile device that you use, how you use the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites, and other similar information, as well as data we have obtained from you and aggregated with other user information. PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete collects this information to make it easier and more efficient for you to use the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites and to allow us to understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on the Websites. Such non-personally identifying information is collected in a number of ways, including tracking your activities through "cookies," your IP address or most recently visited URL, or your mobile device. (For more information on cookies, IP addresses, or mobile devices, please see the appropriate sections below.) We may eventually use such information to tailor the content, services, and advertisements by sponsors selected by the relevant association, district or school on our Websites to your current and future needs. We may also use such information to determine which areas of our Websites are the most commonly used, which areas need improvement, and what technologies are being used so that we may continually improve our Websites.
When you access the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites, we may place small data files on your computer or other device. These data files may be cookies, pixel tags, "flash cookies," or other similar technologies (collectively, "Cookies"). Cookies make the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites easier for you to use because they save your preferences while you are at our site (although we do not save your passwords in Cookies). They also help us better understand user behavior and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of advertisements by sponsors selected by the relevant association, district or school. Cookies contain information that the server computer "knew" in the first place and are designed to only be read by the serving domain that placed them. Cookies are a standard part of Internet use and allow server computers to recognize your computer's browser when you return to our site. The non-personally identifying information that we track with Cookies is anonymous and is not used to identify, or lead us back to, any particular visitor.
Most browsers are set to accept Cookies. However, you can set your browser to refuse Cookies, or to alert you when Cookies are being sent. If you elect not to accept Cookies, please note that some parts of the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete may not function properly, or at all, or may be considerably slower.
IP Address
An "Internet Protocol" or "IP" address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are using the World Wide Web. Web servers, the large computers that "serve up" web pages, automatically identify your computer by its IP address. We may use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer our site, track users' movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not normally linked to personally identifying information, which means that a user's session will be logged but the user remains anonymous to us. To the extent IP addresses or similar identifiers are considered personally identifying information by local law, however, we will treat such identifiers as personally identifying information.
Mobile Devices
We may offer you the ability to connect to the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites using a mobile device, either through a mobile application or via a mobile optimized Websites. The provisions of this Privacy Policy apply to all such mobile access and use of mobile devices.
When you download or use our mobile applications, or access one of our mobile optimized sites, we may receive information about your location and your mobile device, including a unique identifier for your device. Most mobile devices allow you to control or disable location services in the device's settings menu. If you have questions about how to disable your device's location services, we recommend you contact your mobile service carrier or the manufacturer of your particular device.
Disclosure of Information
As part of the registration process, PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete may provide you with the option of receiving information from third parties. If you select this option, PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete will transfer your contact information to third parties. If in the future you decide you no longer want us to transfer your contact information to third parties for such purposes, you may call the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Customer Support Department at 888-668-7452 to opt out. Please note that PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete is not responsible for removing your information from third party lists or entities with which you have previously authorized PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete to share your information. You will need to contact those third parties directly to request removal from their lists. We do not sell or rent your personally identifying information to any third parties. We will notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be shared with a third party, and you will have the option of not permitting the transfer. If you do not wish your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service or not to participate in certain promotions or contests.
We may sell and rent aggregated information about our users generally to our advertisers, business partners, sponsors selected by the relevant association, district or school, and other third parties. We also may produce aggregated reports for advertisers identifying, for example, the number of users that visit our site or different areas of our site, the number of users that clicked on an advertisement, or the number of users that read a particular article. Aggregated information refers to information that cannot be directly linked to a specific individual. For example, we may know that 25,000 people visited our site today, or that 75% of those visitors were women, but we do not know their names. We may use aggregate information to customize our content and advertising, or to deliver a better experience for our visitors.
Disclosure of Information in Special Circumstances
PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete reserves the right to disclose personal and other information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the terms of any of our agreements, including, without limitation, this Privacy Policy and PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete's Terms and Conditions, or who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete's rights or property, other PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Further, we may disclose information if we determine that, for purposes of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary or appropriate. PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete may also disclose or access account information for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services and the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites.
Data Integrity and Access to Personal Information
PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete shall only process personally identifying information in a way that is compatible with and relevant for the purpose for which it was collected or authorized. To the extent necessary for those purposes, PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete shall take reasonable steps to ensure that personally identifying information is accurate, complete, current, and reliable for its intended use. You can help PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete maintain the accuracy of your personal information by notifying us when you change your address, phone number, or email address. This may be done in the user profile section of any account and is available to the user to update at any time. For other personal information that we hold, we will provide you with access for any purpose, including to request that we correct the data if it is inaccurate or delete the data if PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete is not required to retain it by law or for legitimate business purposes. We may decline to process requests that are frivolous, vexatious, jeopardize the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required by local law.
Links to Other Sites
Users will find advertisements by sponsors selected by the relevant association, district or school or other content on the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites that may link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors, and other third parties. In many cases, the links represent cooperative projects or are mutual links established with persons or entities connected with our site. We do not control the content or links that appear on these third-party sites. In addition, these third-party sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These third-party sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies, or no policy at all. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third party site or service before providing any of them with your personal information.
Protecting your privacy and your information is a priority at PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete. We do not rent or sell the personal financial information you provide to us. All connections to the website, occur over industry-standard secure TLS connections using a strong cipher and minimum 2048-bit key size certificate. A firewall is used to limit connections to the servers to the relevant ports needed for the website to function. Other connections are blocked completely, or limited to authenticated users and IPs. All external access occurs over secured VPN & SSH connections to prevent any interception of traffic. Physical access to the servers is secured by Microsoft. Access to any PII data requires a user to be authenticated, and have their permissions verified prior to being able to see any data. In addition, as an added security measure, if you use a credit card to make a purchase on our site, an PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete representative may call you to verify the transaction.
The data received from Pre-participation forms are only used to complete the information needed to submit eligibility for student athletes and to provide information to the school and district. PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete complies with relevant FERPA and HIPAA requirements regarding security and privacy. Only school administrators and staff that have been designated by the school have access to view the information – principal, athletic director and assistants, coach of relevant teams and athletic trainers. PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete takes the following security measures: all access to the site is over HTTPS access to the physical servers is restricted to senior IT staff, and remote access is only over secure channels. All unnecessary services are disabled; firewalls are configured for each service to allow only approved traffic through. HIPAA and FERPA compliance is maintained through our use of Microsoft's Azure platform as more fully described in the document Microsoft Azure Compliance Offerings and Microsoft's HIPAA BAA and its Online Services Terms.
While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also take steps to protect user information off-line. Access to all of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifying information. Furthermore, employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy policies and practices, and such policies and practices are strictly enforced. Finally, the servers on which we store personally identifying information are kept in a secure environment.
Of course, there is no such thing as "perfect security" on the Internet, and no data transmission can be guaranteed to be secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete cannot and does not ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or put on our Websites, and you do so at your own risk.
Data Deletion
In the event that services provided are terminated with PlanetHS, LLC, our data deletion process will be initiated. After 30 days from services ending, all student, parent, and faculty data within system will be removed. Removal of the data consists of deleting data within the database, as well as removal of uploaded forms and documents which are associated with student, parent or faculty account. After all data is removed, within 30 days, there will be no way to recover data as all traces of data will be permanently removed from the system.
Your PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete account information is password protected so that only you are authorized to access this personal information. We strongly recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete will not ask for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email.
Retention of User Information
We may retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete
Customer Support Department
1719 Penman Rd.
Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
Attn: Chief Privacy Officer
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Telephone: 888-668-7452
Enforcement and Additional Information
PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete uses a self-assessment approach to ensure compliance with this Privacy Policy and periodically verifies that this Privacy Policy is accurate, comprehensive for the information intended to be covered, prominently displayed, completely implemented and accessible, and in conformity with local law. We encourage interested persons to raise any concerns using the contact information provided below, and we will investigate and attempt to resolve any complaints and disputes regarding the use and disclosure of personally identifying information in accordance with local law.
To access your information, ask questions about our privacy practices, or issue a complaint, please contact us at:PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete
Customer Support Department
1719 Penman Rd.
Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
Attn: Chief Privacy Officer
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Telephone: 888-668-7452
If a complaint or dispute cannot be resolved through our internal process, we agree to dispute resolution using the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc. ("CBBB") as a third-party resolution provider.
Children's Privacy PolicyCollection of Information from Children under the Age of 13
In accordance with the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete is exempt from regulation. Nonetheless, PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete requires all children under the age of 13 provide their parents email address before their account is activated. The parents are immediately notified that their child has created an account on PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete and the parents are provided with links in that email notification to this policy and to the area of the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete website where they may follow the activities of their child on PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete. They are also provided the email address and telephone number to use if they want their child's account on PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete disabled.
Information Collected
PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete directly collects the following information from children under the age of 13: first and last name; email address; name of the child's school; the child's graduation year; the child's student ID number; birthday; gender; zip code. This is the minimum amount of data needed to allow the child to use the features of PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete. Although PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete does collect other data using passive methods (such as through the use of cookies, etc.), all information that PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete collects passively is anonymous user data that cannot be tied to individually identifiable information.
Use of Information
PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete uses information collected from children under the age of 13 for internal purposes only, namely recordkeeping and directing the content that PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete provides to the appropriate users.
No Third-Party Disclosure
PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete does not share information collected from children under the age of 13 with third-parties.
Parental Rights
By contacting PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete (either by telephone or email, as provided below), parents may direct PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete to provide all of the information that PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete has collected from their child for review by the parents. Parents may also direct PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete to deactivate their child's account, and refuse to permit PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete to continue to collect or use their child's information.
Child's Use of the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Website
PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete may not and will not condition a child's use of the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites or participation in an activity through the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites on the disclosure of more information than is reasonably necessary to participate.
PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Contact Information
The name and contact information of the operator of the PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete Websites is:PlanetHS/ArbiterAthlete
Customer Support Department
1719 Penman Rd.
Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
Attn: Chief Privacy Officer
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Telephone: 888-668-7452
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BALDWIN CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - Young people have been leaving rural America for decades, but Mike Bosch, 34, is happy to swim against the tide.
Instead of moving his fast-growing information technology services company to his hometown of Dallas last year, Bosch chose to stay in Baldwin City, Kansas, population 4,515. The business, Reflective Group, sits between a car repair shop and post office on a quiet cobblestone street.
All but two of the company's 17 employees are under 40, and half of them live in Baldwin City, about 45 miles southwest of Kansas City.
Bosch is part of a Kansas group called PowerUp, a social and business network that touts rural life for the under-40 crowd and lets them know they are not alone.
"There isn't a 20 to 30 year old out there who isn't going through some struggles in these towns," Bosch said. "We started educating people on why small towns can be better than big towns, and what resources exist out there."
Bosch is revamping the group's website, ruralbychoice.com, to share the success stories of young people in small towns. "We really want to target and champion our age group," Bosch said.
Some 1,200 people across Kansas are in the PowerUp movement, including those who stayed in rural areas or moved away and came back.
Most young people choose to live in urban areas because there are far more jobs and cultural amenities, said Laszlo Kulcsar, a Kansas State University associate professor who studies population trends.
Those factors, coupled with the steady decrease in the number of family farms, have sapped populations of the young in rural regions, he said.
In 1970, 23 percent of the 18-to-29 age group lived in rural areas, according to the U.S. Census. By 2010, only 14 percent of people in that demographic lived in rural areas, defined as communities of 2,500 or fewer people.
PowerUp member Julie Roller said only about 30 of the 88 graduates of her 2002 high school class in Chapman, Kansas, still live in that area. The population of Chapman is 1,343.
"A lot of it is the message they received in high school - that you have to go away to make something of yourself," Roller said. "I think we are starting to shift away from that. We have a good number of people who are coming back."
One example is Travis Peter, who moved back to Tribune, Kansas, population 741, from Utica, New York, last summer after his wife, Zoe Clark-Peter, got a teaching job. Peter grew up in Tribune in far western Kansas and runs a financial planning service there. He said he likes knowing most of the folks in town, and that Tribune is safe and has a good local school.
"You have things to do here ... or, you don't have to do anything," Peter, 31, said. "We have a 3-year-old daughter and she can play in the backyard, outside or inside the fence, and we don't have to worry about it."
The wide open spaces were an eye-opener for his wife, a New Jersey native, Peter said.
"I think her first comment was 'I can't believe how big the sky is,'" he said.
Drawing young people like Peter has helped keep Tribune vibrant, said Christy Hopkins, community development director in Greeley County, where Tribune is located. Unlike many other small towns, Tribune has no empty storefronts, said Hopkins, a PowerUp member.
"We got the last one," Peter said.
PowerUp is the creation of Marci Penner, a central Kansas resident who heads the Kansas Sampler Foundation, which exists to preserve and sustain rural culture. Penner said that, in her travels around Kansas, she saw how young people mattered in a small town's survival.
"I thought that if we could connect these people they'd be happier and more likely to stay," Penner said. "A lot of people living in these rural areas feel isolated."
PowerUp was formed about 2-1/2 years ago and Penner said she knows of no such group in any other state.
PowerUp plays to the comfort zone of its 21-to-39 age group because it relies on technology to keep them connected through a Facebook page, Twitter and other social media, Penner said. The group also has meetings occasionally and recently held a Legislative Day at the state capitol.
Roller said housing as well as jobs can be a hurdle for young people in small towns. Housing stock is often old, there are few rental properties, and building a new house is difficult because contractors might be far away. Gas prices can also be an issue if people in small towns have to drive a long way to jobs in other communities, she said.
Towns such as Baldwin City, which are relatively close to larger cities, are in the best position to draw and keep young people, Bosch said. But even the draw of downtown Kansas City, 45 minutes away, does not take Bosch out of town that often, he said.
"Yes they have a lot of great venues and great restaurants -and $6 beers - but I'd have to drag my friends out there," Bosch said. Baldwin City has dining and culture of its own, he said.
Bosch and several Reflective Group employees said they like Baldwin City for the short commutes, friendly people and surrounding countryside. Bosch earned a master's degree from Baker University in Baldwin City before starting his business.
Technology allows companies such as Reflective Group to operate virtually anywhere. This works in favor of small towns, which also have the advantage of lower costs and dedicated employees. Bosch said. Bosch said there is a "moral competitive advantage" for companies in small towns that employ young people with rural backgrounds.
"They have an amazing work ethic and strong values," he said.
Roller, an associate at the Pottawatomie County Economic Development Corporation in Wamego, Kansas, said a lot of young people are looking for jobs that will bring them closer to their rural roots. That was the case with her in moving to Wamego, a town of 4,372 in northeast Kansas.
"I like the area, my family is an hour's drive away, I feel very fortunate," Roller said. "I don't plan to go anywhere else."
Reporting By Kevin Murphy; Editing by Greg McCune and Gunna Dickson

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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 158 diseños de 35 diseñadores freelance.
Teaquation.com seeks to provide a home for all tea brands on the web. Like many individual brands, we believe that adding tea to the equation of life leads to healthier and more balanced living. Teaquation.com is dedicated to encouraging the creativity of the world's tea blenders and their brands by exposing people to the fine distinctions in blends and fighting for a greater market share for the tea industry as a whole. To that end, we strive to not only stock a full spectrum of blends but also educate our community of all things tea.
Online consumers and office-based businesses
Split demographic: 20s/30s and retiring boomer generation
"Whole Foods" and "Honest Tea" customers
As a brand, we want to avoid anything too feminine or "elegant" and "curvy." The market studies still show that, at least from a branding perspective, tea is seen as a feminine counterpart to coffee and culturally eastern, so targeting that demographic is already done for us. We really don't want the logo to hit you over the head with Asian design elements nor do we want to want to evoke a "tea party." Our brand is about the idea that tea is an easy way to be healthier throughout the day.
The equation angle is deliberate. Our site will provide customers with the tools to filter and learn about a variety of tea facets and qualities (caffeine levels, type, fair trade/organic, aroma, etc.) allowing them construct an "equation" that represents what they are looking for.
Finally, part of our objective is to sell a more balanced lifestyle. Coffee and high-sugar drinks can represent a high-speed, big-burnout way of life. Tea brings a lower dosage level of caffeine, huge doses of healthy antioxidants, and cultural idioms like "tea time" and "reading with a cup of tea" that suggest a healthy and multi-dimensional life.
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No rights managed stock images
White background
Modern but not "corporate"
Evoke "calm but alert"
Typeface is key
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Since 2003 a team of dedicated experts at the Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS) has expanded access for the scientific community to real-time, high-resolution satellite imagery. CSTARS has provided scientists at the University of Miami and other global research institutions with satellite images that allow them to apply previously inaccessible domains of data in the development of new and exciting approaches to scientific problems – quickly and effectively.
Mapping offered by CSTARS' state-of-the-art technology covers all of Florida and the eastern U.S., all of the Caribbean Basin including the Lesser Antilles, Central America, Mexico, and a significant portion of northern South America and the eastern Pacific. Imagery from other parts of the world can be acquired as well.
CSTARS presents scientific institutions, government entities and community organizations with a broad outlook on dangerous environmental phenomena, climate change, and coastal safety issues that can assist in more timely and efficient disaster planning. CSTARS was involved in the accessment of Hurricane Katrina damage, earthquake response efforts in Haiti, as well as in the monitoring of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
CSTARS has also contributed to a number of scientific projects ranging from typhoon research in the West Pacific to the Marginal Ice Zone of the Arctic Ocean using both optical and synthetic aperature radar (SAR) imagery. Our scientists are working at the forefront of satellite remote sensing with applications to wind, wave, and current observation in all the worlds bodies of water.
Alliance for Earth Observations
2011 Innovation Award
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Information from the CSTARS FACILITY can be used for:
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Emily Badger
Emily Badger is a former staff writer at CityLab. Her work has previously appeared in Pacific Standard, GOOD, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
Fish stink. Or, at least, many of us feel this way. Urban harbors and open-air fish markets have this particularly pungent, musty odor that curls nose hairs and seeps into our pores, traveling home with us long after we've left. Most of us, however, would be sorely disappointed if we turned up at a fish market in Baltimore, or Seattle, or San Francisco, only to discover that it smelled like nothing at all.
This is the wonderful quality of urban odors: even what we commonly think of as the stinky smells are crucial to our experience of a place. Just as a street with no pedestrians, or a park with no birdsong or a lakefront without breeze might offend our senses of sight, sound and touch, places that just don't smell like much seem somehow incomplete – even inauthentic – too.
Smell is our largely ignored sense in the city. Architects, designers and urban planners have long been preoccupied by the visual. And they've only lately begun thinking more about sound. But we seldom ponder and plan for smells in part because we barely have the vocabulary to do so.
"If you say something 'smells,' just the way we use language, it implies that it smells badly," says Victoria Henshaw, a researcher at the Manchester Architecture Research Centre in England. And this isn't just English. Most western languages have this problem: an insufficient language to describe scent. So when Henshaw talks about how cities smell, she isn't knocking them. She believes that the whiff of fish markets, bakeries, cigarette butts and auto exhaust can help us think about cities differently.
As humans, we're actually not pre-programmed to be repulsed by certain smells and attracted by others. All of our preferences are learned, and they're learned differently in different places. (Don't believe this? Excrement is probably the most universally reviled stench. But babies in fact gravitate toward it because it's familiar to them. "It's only once they start to be socialized," Henshaw says, "do they realize, 'oh dear, I'm not supposed to like that smell.'")
The American military, she adds, has never been able to develop an effective stink bomb to disperse crowds because no one stink bomb smells stinky to crowds all over the world. In the context of cities, this means that one man's smelly Polish market is another man's fragrant reminder of home. And so the task of thinking about cities through our noses requires we acknowledge that odors of all kinds are essential to the ways in which we each individually perceive the sense of a place.
"Once I got into this subject, I started to think about smell in a new way," Henshaw says. As part of her research into smells and the city, she regularly leads people on "smell walks" around various towns, encouraging people to tune into a sense that we commonly take for granted. Her smell walks often involve fish markets. And invariably, even the people who say they hate the smell of fish are dismayed when they don't encounter it. "Even if it was a generally disliked smell," Henshaw says, "it generally enhanced their experience of that place. It's interesting to think about that in terms of designing areas. It's not as simple as thinking about good or bad smells."
Smell, of all of our senses, has a special link to memory (this is evolutionary: if chili once made you violently ill, your nose will remember that next time you encounter a bowlful so that you don't have to make the mistake of testing it by mouth again). And so smell also has the ability to transport us to past places we've been or to remind us of the people we were with at the time. Henshaw loves to walk through the gardens of the famous Chatsworth house outside Manchester. A few years ago, she visited, of all places, an urban REI in Seattle that's practically landscaped in forestry.
"I sat in this area and thought wow, this place is so amazing, it's so relaxing. I thought, why do I feel so at home here?" she says. "Actually, it had exactly the same smell as Chatsworth. And I started to realize, that was why I felt at home."
Henshaw defers to Marta Tafalla, a philosopher in Barcelona who was born without a sense of smell, who puts it this way: the world "is both a less beautiful and a less ugly place without a sense of smell."
Urban planners and architects are hardly to blame for failing to exploit this potential of smells to create more vibrant places. Scientists only began to understand what was long considered our most mysterious sense in the early 1990s (the Nobel Prize for discovering how our noses work wasn't awarded until 2004). Now we know that humans can detect 10,000 different sources of smells. And men and women do this about equally well, despite how most of us rate our own honkers.
Women tend to self-report they have great senses of smell, and men often say that they don't. This has certainly been the case on Henshaw's smell walks.
"But when we actually got out there, they tended to detect the exact same things," she says. "What was different was the women were more disgusted in what they smelled. Vomit, body odor, those kind of traditionally disgusting smells, women are more likely to go 'oh, disgusting, I feel sick.' Men are less likely to do that."
All of these lessons could inform cities in following in the footsteps of commercial brands. Coffee shops in particular have for years been taking advantage of the weird science of 'scent branding.' So why can't urban designers think this way, too? The smell of fresh produce from a farmer's market might attract first-time visitors, creating a sentimental attachment to a neighborhood more powerful than the taste of ripe fruit (as a next step, what if that farmer's market was actually situated to take advantage of natural air flow through an area?). Other smells function like wayfinders, announcing our arrival in Chinatown, or on a bar strip, or approaching the beach. This same concept applies at both the block and city level. What about a whole city that smells like Cheerios?
Even cities that smell like fish might want to embrace the distinction.
"I wouldn't say that we have to as designers try and achieve an environment that looks great, that smells great, that sounds great," Henshaw says. "I think what we actually need is diversity."
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- 2 tablespoons salt
- 2 teaspoons pepper
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- 1 medium sweet onion, such as Vidalia, cut in half
- 1 large carrot, cut in lengths to fit the turkey cavity
- 2 cups boiling water
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Oneonta State - 1, Farmingdale State - 0
Geneva, N.Y. - Sophomore Jessica Lyden scored in the 62nd minute lifting SUNY Oneonta to a 1-0 victory over Farmingdale State in today's NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Championship first round match played at William Smith Colleges' Cozzens Field. The Red Dragons advance to the second round where they will meet third-ranked William Smith, a 5-0 winner over Cabrini this morning, at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 17th.
Oneonta (13-4-3) enjoyed a distinct advantage on corner kicks, 11-3, and notched the only goal on one of those plays. Senior Amanda Regensburger served the ball from the corner and Rams sophomore goalie Breanna Blair (Littleton, Colo.) punched the ball out of traffic, but the rebound landed right at the feet of Lyden, who blasted it home for her sixth goal of the season.
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- Wisconsin Administrative Code
- Chapter UWS 20–Nonresident Tuition Determination Procedures and Appeals
- Federal Statutes
- 20 U.S.C. 1015d—In-State Tuition Rates for Members of the Armed Forces on Active Duty, Spouses, and Dependent Children
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Case Study: Port of Milwaukee Wind Turbine, Wisconsin
May 6, 2013
The City of Milwaukee's Office of Environmental Sustainability and the Port of Milwaukee partnered to install a Northern Power 100-kilowatt (kW) wind turbine at the port administration building near the shore of Lake Michigan. Commissioned in February 2012, the wind turbine provides more than 100% of the electricity needs of the administration building with its excess energy sold to We Energies.
In its first 9 months of operation, the project resulted in more than $5,000 in net revenue for the port. The estimated annual savings to the city are $14,000 to $20,000 (at 2011 rates, revenue included). Estimated annual production is 109,000 to 152,000 kilowatt-hours.
The turbine was manufactured in the United States, and many parts, including the tower, were made in Wisconsin. The $587,000 project received the bulk of its funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ($400,000) and $100,000 each from We Energies and the statewide Focus on Energy program.
Turbine Timeline
November 3, 2011: Groundbreaking
November 18, 2011: Foundation completed
December 16, 2011: Trenching and electrical run complete
February 17, 2012: Tower base section delivery; installation of base tower section and grouting
February 20, 2012: Delivery of remaining tower sections and blades. Installation of second and third tower sections and nacelle
February 21, 2012: Installation of rotor and blades
February 27, 2012: Interconnection with We Energies; online data monitoring


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TerranMarketing brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 71 Designs von 25 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
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Terran Marketing, the company running this design is a leading online affiliate marketing company. This design is for a new website we are starting.
People looking to sign up for an RV Club.
We will be reviewing 5-10 RV Clubs on this site. We only get paid when someone signs up for one of these clubs though our links.
The site should rank the clubs on the home page and have the top club highlighted as the #1 club and drive people there. Then, the #2 and #3 club should have less focus. Finally, the #4-10 clubs should be on the homepage, but below these three. Each club should have a spot to talk about the highlights of that club, show the price, and the ranking of the club (as voted on by the users).
The review page should have a big top area where we can highlight the best features of the club. Then, there should be BIG buttons to click on to signup with these clubs. At the bottom should be area for lots of content so we can write a good review of the club.
Please look at the other sites out there to get an idea of what they do, but we want a clean, web 2.0 looking site that FOCUSES ON CONVERSIONS.
We've had great luck putting projects on 99Designs before and want the designers to come up with good ideas too. For that reason we aren't going to provide anymore detail at this stage. However, we will provide ample feedback to each design.
To get everyone on the right track I'm providing an example of kind of what we are looking for:
Please take a look at this site: http://www.bighosts.com/index.php
I like how they have the top 3 hosting companies at the top.
Then look at this site: http://www.top10bestwebsitehosting.com
Below the top 3 sites, numbers 4-10 can look something like this.
The first page is for the homepage.
The second page is for internal review pages. Each club will have their own review.
This is for a new website.
The new website's address is http://www.rvclubs.org
There are only three competitors in this space. However, we don't like either of their designs, so please don't use them as examples.


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Eclipse Windows Toolchain Setup
Before Eclipse can use the Visual Studio compiler and take advantage of code completion, a little setup is required. Indigo comes with a toolchain pointed at the Visual Studio tools, but it doesn't have the
include directory configured in the IDE, and the Visual Studio tools aren't in the path variable by default.
Fixing the last problem is easy: Visual Studio comes with a batch file (
Visual Studio Command Prompt (2010)) that sets the appropriate environment variables for running Visual Studio. Running the batch file updates the path variable and adds few other variables that we'll be using to configure Eclipse. For my testing, I first ran the batch file (Start→Microsoft Visual Studio Expresss 2010→Visual Studio Command Prompt (2010)), and then changed to the Eclipse directory and launched Eclipse from the command line.
Next, it's time to create a project and deal with the missing
include directory problem.
Start Eclipse from the VS command prompt and select File→New→C++ Project. Name the project
sort_win. Select "Empty Project" and, under toolchains, select Microsoft Visual C++. Click finish.
Next, add a source file called main.cpp and paste in the code mentioned above. At this point, the program should compile and link without error. But the IDE does not have the path to the
include files, causing it to complain and mark every line as an error. Let me stress that the program still compiles.
In addition to claiming numerous errors and complaining about missing
include files, code completion does not work. To fix this issue (and get rid of the errors), we need to point the IDE to the
include directory. This is where a Visual Studio project comes in handy.
To figure out what paths Visual Studio uses, I created a C++ project. After a little browsing, I found the default
include directories: right-click on the project, select Properties, then expand Configuration Properties and select VC++ Directories (Figure 4).
The directory we're interested in is Include Directories. Editing this value brings up a list of four configured directories: two of them are for Windows SDKs that we don't need, and another is for
atlmfc stuff, which is also not needed. The only useful directory to us is
Earlier, I mentioned that running the VS batch file would setup variables that will be useful.
VCInstallDir is one of those variables. Now, we just need to add this
include path to the Eclipse project.
In Visual Studio, using an environment variable is done by surrounding the variable with parentheses. In Eclipse, you must use curly brackets. The path to add to Eclipse is
There are two locations where the path can be added. In Eclipse, right-click on the project and select Properties. Expand C/C++ General and select Paths and Symbols. Select either C source file or C++ source file on the Include tab. Click the Add button and place the
include path in the directory textbox.
After adding the directory, you might still have a bunch of the code completion that the database didn't rebuild. To rebuild the database, right-click on the project, select Index→Rebuild, and the errors will disappear.


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Just wondering which method books you use and - more importantly - which level your students reach before you enrol them for Prep Test or Grade One? Why do you consider that series and level a good preparation?
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ASP.NET 2.0 Programming: Problem Design Solution is aimed at describing, designing, and implementing a site much like the ones you're probably working on or will be soon, while taking the opportunity to introduce and explain many of the new features that the new great ASP.NET 2.0 framework offers. Difficult problems are addressed head-on so you'll be ready for most of the problems you'll typically face when writing a modern website, and have one or more solutions ready for them.
Unlike many other ASP.NET books that show examples for individual pages or features, the example in this book is an integrated end-to-end site (written in C#). The entire book and site has been written specifically for ASP.NET 2.0, to use the ASP.NET 2.0 features wherever they make sense.
The end-result is a website which features a layout with user-selectable themes, a membership system, a content management system for publishing and syndicating articles and photos, polls, mailing lists, forums, an e-commerce store with support for real-time credit card processing, homepage personalization, and localization. The book leads the reader through development of a site with:
This book is also available as part of the 5-book ASP.NET 2.0 Wrox Box (ISBN: 0-470-11757-5). This 5-book set includes:


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I'm beyond excited for Quilt Market this weekend. Literally bouncing from foot to foot! Modern Whimsy is going to be officially launching and I am ridiculously spazzy. And the fabulous team at Robert Kaufman has so kindly asked me to visit their booth for a meet and greet. (bounce, bounce, blush, blush...)
So if you're in Houston this weekend, please swing by and say hellooooo!!! :) Would love to get to meet you!
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Come see me at Quilt Market this weekend!
Posted by Laurie Wisbrun | Scarlet Fig at 1:22 PM
8 comments:
- Mrs Flying Blind... said...
Oh have a fantastic time!!
- October 25, 2011 at 1:39 PM
- Reene@Nellie's Niceties said...
Have a great time! Wish I could pop in to say hello. Maybe next year :)
- October 25, 2011 at 2:09 PM
- WandaFish said...
Yay! Good luck and have a fabulous time :)
- October 25, 2011 at 3:14 PM
- Karamat said...
Hope I run into you this weekend! And can't wait to see Modern Whimsy :)
- October 25, 2011 at 7:57 PM
- Ashley said...
yay! so fun! as always, I wish I could be there to meet you in person (someday!). Hope you have a great time!!
- October 26, 2011 at 10:01 AM
Hi Laurie, I will be there also--look forward to seeing you!
- October 26, 2011 at 3:14 PM
- Nova said...
soooo exciting! wish I was dropping by to say g'day ;) Have fun! x
- October 26, 2011 at 3:22 PM
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YEAH!!! how exciting! cant wait to hear more4 about your weekend! Hugs...DEIDRE
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A Virtual Battle for Value
Aside from missing some favorite shows, why should CIOs care about the recently settled strike by the Writers Guild of America?
Remarkably, the three-month-long work stoppage came down to a single issue: how to value and allocate intellectual property rights for emerging and new media. The writers demanded a fixed percentage of any revenue generated in the future from Internet-based content distribution.
CIOs have a similar problem. How much is software worth? Is it better to pay for a lifetime license or simply pay as you go? How do we value data we buy, sell or consolidate with that of our business partners? Should our compensation be based at all on the usefulness of the applications we develop and, if so, how do we calculate that worth?
It's hard to say whether the parties in the writers' strike got the answers right, or even if they should have spent as much capital--financial and otherwise--duking it out. The tools for valuing intellectual property are lousy to begin with, and when you factor in the uncertainty of emerging new media (iPod, iPhone) or how users will use and misuse them even in the short term (YouTube, Tivo), chaos theory quickly takes over.
It's like predicting the weather ... for next year. Though the industry is in the very early stages of figuring out the right models, the writers risked everything on an unknown future value.
In some sense, our valuation problem is even tougher than the entertainment industry's. For IT products and services, the background rules themselves are changing, and their direction is unclear. Before 1976, there was no copyright protection for source code. Before 1981, there was no patent protection for applications. In both cases, the current level of protection is being challenged as both too generous and too stingy.
No doubt you've faced problems of valuation like these before, when negotiating with a software supplier, deciding the terms of your own or an employee's compensation or developing a joint application with a business partner. If you haven't, maybe you should start paying closer attention. Here are some intellectual-property "gotchas" I've noted in recent client work:
In a complicated licensing agreement with a major software vendor, the client failed to notice that the vendor retained the right to charge more if the client's profitability improved from use of the software--without any indication of how the improvement was to be measured.
The default rule under patent law is that employees retain rights to inventions made even during work hours; the opposite rule applies in copyright. Without proper assignments, your company could lose out on inventions it paid employees to develop.
Service agreements with client-based software vendors often permit the vendor to consolidate data of different--often competing--companies passing through its systems and sell the results back as marketing data, with no compensation to the originators.
Don't think that just because valuating intellectual property is difficult, or even indeterminate, that it's worthless. As the writers' strike suggests, these intangibles could have significant value--if not today, than perhaps in the near future.
They may even be worth fighting for.
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Life as a Permanent State of Emergency
The lawyer Haitham Maleh, president of the Human Rights Association in Syria (HRAS), has been visiting Germany to take part in a hearing organised by the Bundestag's Human Rights Committee. He was interviewed by Dorothee Winden.
From 1980 till 1987, Haitham Maleh, who is now 72, was imprisoned without trial and indeed without having been charged with any crime. A member of the Lawyers' Association, he had offended the country's rulers by pleading for an end to the State of Emergency that has existed in Syria since 1963. In 2001, he was one of the founders of the Human Rights Association in Syria (HRAS), which now has 70 members throughout the country. He was also part of the defence team for the ten political prisoners of the "Damascus Spring", the Syrian pro-democracy movement that was harshly suppressed in 2001.
Mr. Maleh, under what conditions does the HRAS have to work?
Haitham Maleh: Our organisation's website is banned in Syria, and we are not allowed publish either journals or brochures. We distribute our reports via the Internet or by hand. In 2002, we had a magazine printed in Lebanon called Tayyarat (which means "Currents" in Arabic), and as a consequence, we were subjected to enormous pressure. I was brought before a military tribunal because of this.
You were charged with "distributing an illegal publication" because you had imported the magazine to Syria.
Maleh: They intended to arrest me, but I managed to leave the country in time. After fleeing Syria on August 3rd, I spent 80 days travelling through 11 different countries, including Syria, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and several European countries. And then I moved back into Syria from Amman. The only luggage I had with me was a small bag containing underwear and a razor. I said to myself, "If they arrest me now, I'm ready for it." But they didn't catch me at the border.
Later, someone brought me my suitcase from Amman. Then my case came up before the military court. The proceedings dragged on from January till July 2003; then the case was dropped: President Bashar al-Assad had issued an amnesty. Mine was the only political case that had been heard.
What have been the personal consequences of your activities as a human-rights lawyer?
Maleh: The regime controls everything. Three officers of the Secret Service are posted in front of my office. When I leave my office, they follow me wherever I go. My telephone is bugged. They try to frighten me. In March of this year, I gave a lecture in Paris on 40 years of the State of Emergency in Syria.
As a result, I was forbidden to leave the country again, but I fought this successfully in court. I've also been banned from giving any more lectures. In June 2002, they pressurised the Lawyers' Association to withdraw my licence for three years. This would make it impossible for me to practise as a lawyer. They might as well hang me, for how can I make a living if I'm not allowed to work?
How did the Lawyers' Association react?
Maleh:They rescinded my licence; but I've lodged an appeal, so it's not yet certain how this will end.
What problems do you face in your work as a lawyer?
Maleh:There is no independent judiciary in Syria. The judges are practically powerless, for example when it comes to passing sentences. The real power is in the hands of the Secret Services; it's them that the judges listen to. There is no justice in Syria. I have lost several cases because there were members of the Secret Services on the other side. In another case, concerning the closure of a criminological laboratory, I actually won – but in four years, we still haven't been able to enforce the decision of the court.
What are the reasons for this?
Maleh:It's impossible! When I work in Syria, I feel as if I'm swimming in a dark room and can't see a light anywhere.
But in some cases your efforts have been rewarded with success.
Maleh:That's true. Some people have been released as a result of the pressure we brought to bear. In one case, for example, I sent a telegram to the Ministry of the Interior, and the prisoner was released a week later. Last month, I had a case in which a Kurd had been arrested by the political intelligence services.
After a few days, he was released; but he had to sign some papers without even knowing what he was putting his name to. They told him, "Forget your house in Mezzeh!" (A district in Damascus). And it turned out that they had removed the furniture from his home and confiscated the house. After I protested, he got his house back.
How is the work of the HRAS financed?
Maleh:I don't take any money for my human-rights work. In other words, half of the work I do as a lawyer is free of charge, because the people need my help. So, as you can imagine, I'm not exactly rich. The HRAS doesn't have an office of its own, as this would simply incur too many costs. We use my lawyer's office as the office of the Human Rights Association.
What can Germany or the European Union do to support people who are working for human rights in Syria?
Maleh:It would help greatly if European countries would invite human rights activists to conferences, or give them grants or bursaries so that they could acquire further training in matters concerning human rights. We cannot accept direct financial support from abroad, because the regime would accuse us of maintaining relations with other states.
The European governments should make it clear to the Syrian government that it's normal for human rights organisations to receive money from European NGOs. In addition, I hope that the EU will not sign the Association Agreement with Syria until the government respects human rights.
Mr Maleh, thank you very much for the interview.
Dorothee Winden © Qantara.de 2003
Translation from German: Patrick Lanagan


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If I run the same SD video through PS3 media server on my Xbox 360 or my mates WD Live TV picture looks much better and crisper.
Is this just due to Samsung TV build in media player being poor or lower resolution, and is there a way to change resolution. I wounder if image difference is becaue Xbox etc are upscaling it to 1080p as thats what I have them set on.
But would be much better if I did not have to run all media through Xbox as does not have same codex support.
Any advise would be great thanks.