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Grade Review Bylaws
Article I: Name and Purpose
- The name of this committee shall be the University Grade Review Council.
- The Council's purpose is to determine whether a petitioning student's grade was awarded arbitrarily or capriciously by the instructor. If the Council determines that the grade was awarded arbitrarily or capriciously, then the Council will assign the petitioning student an appropriate grade for the course in question. The Council serves as a mediator and arbitrator between the faculty member and student. Pursuant to the Faculty Handbook, the decisions and outcomes of the Council are binding upon all parties.
- Grades should not be determined in an arbitrary or capricious manner. The only factor, which members of the University Grade Review Council may consider in determining the validity of a grade challenge, is the alleged arbitrary or capricious award of a final grade. The Council is not empowered to make judgments concerning teacher competence, course difficulty, or other matters of a purely academic nature.
- Arbitrary is defined as "an unreasonable, unpredictable use of one's authority in accordance with one's will or desire." Capricious is defined as "implying an instability or irregularity that seems to be the product of whim or erratic impulse."
- The Grade Review Council is charged with judging two classes of arbitrary or capricious assignment of grades: (a) the instructor deviates significantly from the syllabus (the fixed standards of grading criteria announced at the beginning of class) or (b) the instructor treats a student, with respect to grade assignment, significantly different from other students in the same class.
Article II: Membership
- The University Grade Review Council, which represents the Hattiesburg, Gulf Coast, and all other satellite campuses, shall consist of three elected faculty members and one alternate from each of the colleges of the Hattiesburg campus, one representative from the Honors College, and three regular members plus one alternate from the Gulf Coast campuses (i.e., Stennis Space Center, Jackson County, Keesler, Gulf Park). In order to be eligible for election to the Council, a faculty member must have served in a tenure-track position at The University of Southern Mississippi for a minimum of three academic years. In order to assure adequate minority representation on the Council, the Provost may appoint no more than four additional faculty members plus one alternate for each member. All special appointees by the Provost must satisfy the eligibility criteria of elected members and shall come from the various colleges of the University. No two of these appointed members may come from the same college.
- The election of members shall be coordinated by the Academic Council and shall take place during the month of April. All members shall serve four-year terms, with one-half of the membership being elected/appointed every two years. A member may not serve two consecutive terms. The term of each member will expire on August 31 of the fourth year.
- The Provost may appoint a faculty member to serve as adviser on procedural and legal matters to the grade Review Council. This individual shall attend all meetings and will have all rights and privileges of Council membership with the exception of voting.
- If both a member and the appropriate alternate are unable to serve, their replacements shall be elected/appointed in the same manner by which the positions were originally filled. In the event the Council must meet during a period when a quorum in not available, the Provost will appoint replacements for the absent members, up to the number required for a quorum. These replacements will serve for the duration of the situation which precipitated the special meeting, or until a quorum of members can be convened.
- It is the duty of all members to attend called meetings of the Council. It is the duty of the alternate to attend meetings that the regularly elected member cannot attend. It is the duty of both the regularly elected member and the alternate to attend the annual organizational meeting.
Article III: Officers
- The officers of the University Grade Review Council shall consist of a Chair, a Chair-elect, and a Hearing Officer appointed by the Chair.
- The Chair Elect, and when necessary, the Chair, shall be elected from among Council membership by Council members at the first meeting following the election/appointment of members. This meeting will be held no later than September 30 of each year and will be called by the Provost for the purposes of orientation of new members and alternates, election of officers, and appointment of the Hearing Officer.
- Terms of office.
a. The term of the Chair-elect shall be from the date of election until the following September 1, at which time the Chair-elect will assume the office of Chair.
b. The term of the Chair shall be from the date of assumption of that office until the following September 1.
- Duties of Council Officers.
a. An individual will be appointed by the Chair to serve as the Hearing Officer of the campus the Chair does not represent (i.e., Hattiesburg or Gulf Coast).
b. The Chair shall preside at each meeting of the Council. The Chair shall set the time and place of all meetings of the Council.
c. The Chair (or the Chair-elect, should the Chair be unavailable) or the Hearing Officer for cases at the campus the Chair does not represent will meet with the parties involved in each case to help ensure that:
(1) each grade challenge is reconciled at the lowest possible level,
(2) participants are aware of their rights and possible outcomes of deliberations,
(3) both parties understand the principles that guide all Council decisions, as well as the precise manner in which the hearing will be conducted.
Within one week after being directed by the Provost to convene the Grade Review Council, the Chair will notify in writing the concerned parties as to the opportunity for such a meeting. Other duties of the Chair include coordinating Council elections, providing standardized ballots for each Council vote, giving notification of all meetings of the Council, giving notification to parties involved in a grade challenge of the time and place of the proceedings, and giving notification to the Council members, parties involved, and the Registrar (if a grade is to be changed) of results of Council deliberations. The Office of the Provost may assist the Chair in carrying out any of these duties.
d. The Chair-elect shall be responsible for duties assigned by the Chair in the conduct of Council affairs and shall preside over the Council in the Chair's absence.
Article IV: Meetings
- Written notice of each meeting shall be sent out by the Chair at least 10 days prior to the meeting; the notice should contain time, date, location, and purpose of the meeting.
- A quorum shall consist of fifty percent (50) of two less than the number of elected and appointed members of the Council.
- In the event that a member or an alternate are both unable to attend a meeting of the Council, the member should find a colleague to serve as a proxy. This faculty member, who must be eligible for election to the Council, must be given a written statement of authority to serve as proxy for the absent member. This statement must be presented to the Chair at the beginning of the meeting.
Article V: Steps in Grade Appeal Process
- A student who is dissatisfied with a course final grade must first attempt to negotiate a change in the grade with the instructor teaching the course. If the instructor is not a member of the University faculty at the time the student receives notice of the final grade, the student should attempt to negotiate a grade change with the chair of the department in which the course was taught.
- Should the decision of the instructor in Step 1 be unacceptable to the student, the student should secure the University's grade appeal form from the Office of the Provost and provide the information required. The student will sign and date a log. The purpose of the log is to enable the Council to monitor the accessibility and effectiveness of the grade challenge process. At the same time, the student will be assisted in scheduling an appointment with the Chair (or, if unavailable, the Chair-elect) of the Council. The student must then return to the instructor who assigned the disputed grade. The student must provide the instructor with a copy of the written summary explaining the rationale for the grade challenge, as required in item 4 of the Procedure Checklist, and ask the instructor to sign the grade appeal form. The instructor has three working days to consider his or her response to the student's appeal, after which the student may proceed to the department chair regardless of whether the instructor has signed the grade appeal form. The department chair, in separate and/or joint conference with the instructor and student, shall attempt to reach an agreement for a final grade. If the instructor is the department chair, the student goes directly to the dean of the college.
- Should the department chair be unable to resolve the matter to the satisfaction of all parties, the appeal will then be referred to the director of the unit in which the instructor teaches.
- If the grade challenge is for a grade assigned in a graduate course, copies of the signed grade appeal form will be sent by the Dean of the Graduate School. If the grade challenge is for a grade assigned in a course taught as part of the international studies program, copies of the signed grade appeal form and the Council's letter to the participants will be sent by the department chair to International Education.
- The Council will hear a student's petition if at least forty percent (40) of the Council's members vote to hear the case under the criteria spelled out below. The Chair of the Council will distribute the student's appeal package to all Council members. Shortly thereafter, the Chair will call for a mail ballot by Council members to determine whether at least forty percent (40) of the members believe the case should be presented before the entire Council. All members must vote either in the affirmative or the negative to hear the case. Ballots must be signed. The criterion to which members must refer when voting whether or not to hear the case is whether the student's appeal represents an issue upon which a difference of opinion is reasonable, or whether it appears to be essentially frivolous.
- If, after following the procedure outlined in Article V, Section 5, the membership of the Council elects not to hear a student's petition, the Chair shall so notify the complainant, the instructor, the Provost, and the members of the Council. This notification, which must be in writing, shall indicate only that the Council will not hear the challenge because it does not fall within the Council's purview.
- In those cases where less than forty percent (40) of the Council votes for a hearing, the student may appeal to the Provost, who may convene the Council if he or she believes the case to have merit. The Provost shall communicate with the Chair, in writing, the justification for convening a hearing.
Article VI: Procedures
- The student must present his or her own case before the Council by offering evidence and, if desired, by calling witnesses. Witnesses must be present in the hearing room (or must have submitted a written statement) and may remain only while making their statements before the Council. After the student's presentation, the faculty member may also present statements and witnesses. The Council does not have the authority to require attendance or statements. In the event that either the student or faculty member involved in a grade challenge is reasonably unavailable to participate in any phase of the process, the Provost may appoint a representative to consult with and represent the absent party. This representative may be appointed only upon the specific written request of the unavailable party.
- No plea is necessary, nor will guilt be implied. No ruling will be made concerning teacher competence, course difficulty, or other matters of a purely academic nature.
- Both parties have the right to seek advice from a full-time University of Southern Mississippi student, an uninvolved instructor, friend, or any person outside the University community. Although the advisor may be present during the hearing, the parties may consult the advisor only at the beginning of the hearing or during a recess granted by the Chair.
- During the hearing, all comments made by one participant to the other must be directed through the Chair. Any member of the Council may question either participant or any witness directly.
- Normally, both parties will be present when each person presents his or her case. The Council may choose, however, to allow either party to present his or her case without the other being present. When this situation occurs, the Council must allow the other person the option of a private hearing as well.
- After all the evidence has been heard and each party has had sufficient opportunity to present testimony, the participants will be excused. They will remain outside the hearing room until Council members have decided that no additional clarification of issues is necessary. At that time the parties involved will be dismissed by the Chair of the Council.
- The members of the Council will then discuss and vote on the matter. All voting will be by secret ballot. (Printed ballots will be provided by the Chair at each hearing).
- No member present may abstain from voting. The Chair will count the ballots aloud before the Council immediately following the balloting.
- The possible outcomes, as determined by the vote of a simple majority of the members present, of any Council deliberation will be:
a. rejection of the student's appeal for a change of grade,
b. acceptance of the student's appeal for a change to the grade requested, and
c. acceptance of the student's appeal for a change of grade.
In this case, a discussion of whether to assign the grade applied for in the student's grade appeal form or to modify the student's request will follow. A vote will then be called by the Chair, and the letter grade that receives a simple majority will be the new assigned grade. In the case of a tie vote, voting will continue until a letter grade attains such a majority.
- Within one week after the hearing, a letter in which the Council's decision is detailed will be sent by the Chair to each participant as well as the appropriate department chair and college dean. In the case of a grade change, a copy of the letter will be sent to the Registrar. This letter will constitute authorization to change the grade in question. It will be the responsibility of the Chair to follow this letter with a telephone call one month after the hearing, in order to ensure that the grade change has been made.
- The Council may instruct the Chair to meet with the participants to discuss the rationale for the Council's decision and to provide feedback on the instructor's grading practices.
- The decision of the Council in the hearing cannot be appealed.
- For any question of procedure, the Council will abide by the most recent edition of Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised.
- No portion of any Council meeting may be tape-recorded.
- All materials submitted by both parties to the Grade Review Council will be retained in the Office of the Provost.
Article VII: Guiding Principles
- The presumption is that the grade was awarded in a fair and equitable manner. The student has the burden of proof to demonstrate to the Council that the grade was awarded in an arbitrary or a capricious manner involving significant deviations from the course syllabus or treatment of the student significantly different from other members of the class.
- A student who is dissatisfied with a final grade must first attempt to negotiate a change with the instructor of record.
a. The student appealing a final grade must follow the steps prescribed in Article V in the order enumerated.
b. The information for the appeal must be written on or attached to the grade appeal form, which will serve as the basis for deliberation at each step. The student must initiate the appeal, and either the student or a representative approved by the Provost must be present at each stage of the appeal. (See exception. Article VI, Section 1.) It is the responsibility of each reviewing official (department chair, dean, and Provost) to provide each party with a copy of the grade appeal for showing the action taken.
- A student must initiate the appeal procedure within 30 school days (excluding Saturday, Sunday, and official student holidays) of the beginning of the semester subsequent to the one in which the grade was awarded, or 120 calendar days after the issuance of spring semester grades, should the student not be enrolled during the summer term. The following special cases should be noted:
a. The "120-day rule" shall also apply to the student who is not in residence during the semester following the awarding of the grade in question.
b. For the case of a challenge of a grade to which a grade of "I" was changed, the time limit shall be gauged from the submission of the removal of the incomplete grade-by using the change of grade form-to the Registrar by the dean of the college involved. It is the responsibility of the Registrar to notify those students whose grades have been changed. In the absence of such notification, the time limit shall be gauged from the date on which the student was first notified of the grade awarded. (This date must be documented by the student.)
c. In cases for which a grade of "I" was automatically changed by University regulations to a grade of "F," the grade is considered to have been awarded at the end of the semester following the one during which the "I" was received.
Except for items returned to the student, faculty members should preserve all materials used in determining the grade for at least the number of days indicated above.
- The grade challenge procedure will have been officially initiated when the student picks up the grade appeal form from the Office of the Provost and signs the log book. If the appeal is initiated during either the fall or spring semesters, the student has sixty (60) days in which to complete the grade appeal form and return it with accompanying documents to the Office of the Provost. If the appeal is initiated during the summer term, the student has to complete the process within forty (40) days of the beginning of the fall semester. If the student fails to complete the process in the allocated time, the student loses the right of appeal. The Provost, either independently or upon petition by the student, may determine that the 60-day requirement cannot be met due to inaction by the Administration or by the Council and may set a new deadline. Additionally, the student may petition in writing the Provost for an extension. This letter of petition must include the reasons for the request and the proposed ending date for the extension. Whether or not the extension is granted, the parties concerned and the members of the Grade Review Council must be advised of the decision.
- After the appeal process has been initiated, it is the responsibility of the student either to ensure that deadlines are met or to request an extension as provided for in Section 4. It is the responsibility of the department chair to request copies of all pertinent documents and data from the student and the faculty member for duplication. Copies of this material will be provided each person involved, including all members of the Grade Review Council should the case reach that level. It is recommended that the following items be submitted in support of every grade challenge:
a. a copy of page(s) from the course grade book, with names (but not the grades) of the other students in the class deleted;
b. all tests, quizzes, reports, exams, or other materials which were used in determining the grade (student should supply copies of those which were returned); and
c. a description of the procedure utilized to calculate the course grade, as well as the grading criteria actually given to the students (either orally or in writing) at the beginning of the course.
In addition, whatever else either party deems pertinent may be submitted as part of the appeal package (e.g., handouts, class notes, letters of support).
- A faculty member whose grade award has been challenged may elect not participate in the hearing or in any other phase of a grade challenge. However, this will not prevent the Council from hearing and, if the facts so warrant, deciding the case and changing a grade.
- All documents presented to the Council will become a part of the official record and will not be returned.
- Grade Review Council meetings are closed; thus witnesses may be present only while they are making their statements.
- The names of the members of the University Grade Review Council (with the exception of the Chair) shall not appear in any University publication nor be released by any University faculty member or administrator.
- A Council member may not attend Council deliberations for any case involving a challenge to a grade in his or her department. A Council member holding a joint appointment may not attend Council deliberations for any case involving a challenge to a grade in either department.
- A Council member should recuse him or herself from any case in which he or she has a personal relationship with either party.
Article VIII: Changes in Bylaws
- These bylaws may be amended at any regular or special meeting of the Council, upon 30 days written notification of the time, place, and purpose of the meeting. The full text of any proposed amendments must accompany said notification.
- The amendment(s) will become effective upon the affirmative approval of the Provost, and the President of the University.


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Keith's Marina Fireworks Extravaganza – Huge Fireworks Show – 85 Lap Super Late Model RaceWednesday, June 30th, 2010
(Slinger, WI) Sunday Night July 4th is the Keith's Marina Fireworks Extravaganza. See huge ground and aerial fireworks display along with an 85 lap Super Late Model Race. Super Late Models will be joined by: Late Models, Midwest Sportsman, Thunderstock, Slinger Bee's Figure 8's, one on one spectator races, and Westbury Bank Speedway Guest Cars. Qualifying starts at 4:45 with racing at 6:30 pm. Rain Date Monday July 5th.
Huge Ground and Aerial Fireworks Show: Thundercat Fireworks will be putting on one of the most spectacular fireworks shows you will see in Washington County!
Keith's Marina is located on Highway 33 West in West Bend. Stop in and check out their huge indoor new boat showrooms also featuring over 50 late model used boats. Keith's Marina sells Bayliner, Maxum, Monark, Smoker Craft, Sylvan, and Trophy Boats. Powering Keith's Marina Boats are Mercury engines, number one on the water. Along with selling quality boats, motors and equipment Keith's Marina has certified technicians ready to take care of your needs. Give Tim Keith a call at: 262-334-9389 or check out the Keith's Marina website at: www.keithsmarina.com
There are select advertising and sponsorship opportunities as well as company and group outings available for the 2010 season. For more information, contact the speedway's PR and Marketing at: 262-370-0440, email@example.com, or visit our web site at: www.slingersuperspeedway.com

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Englishman Thompson's Dream Attic in 2010 was a courageous leap of faith: a live album of all new and therefore unfamiliar songs recorded before American audiences. But this godfather of anglofolk - and superb electric guitarist - pulled it off with some dyspeptic and angry songs, and that energy spills over on to this album in the taut Stuck on a Treadmill (the indignity of factory life), the suspicions of infidelity on Good Things Happen to Bad People, and the early Costello-like pop-rock of Straight and Narrow. He also delivers working class anglofolk-rock (Stony Ground) and British blues (Sally B) but finds a place for reflection (the marriage splitting up on Another Small Thing).
Thompson's forte is the slightly spiteful song (they're here), so it's a relief the folksy closer Saving the Good Stuff For You is about a man who has finally found love to redeem his misspent life.
This album - produced by Buddy Miller, and Alison Krauss on The Snow Goose, early copies with an excellent bonus disc - is Thompson's 20-somethingth under his own name so you've either got him by now, or haven't.
Fans will like this although it breaks no new ground (unlike Dream Attic); others will doubtless shrug.
Stars: 3.5/5
Verdict: We will still need him, still feed him when he's 64, in April
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- Photography by Mr Blair Getz Mezibov
- Styling by Mr Dan May, Style Director, MR PORTER
- Words by Mr Peter Henderson, Senior Fashion Writer, MR PORTER
Since its launch, MR PORTER has been a proud sponsor of London Collections: Men, the British capital's first fashion week dedicated to menswear. To celebrate last season, we teamed up with four London designers (Katie Eary, Matthew Miller, Richard Nicoll and Sibling) to offer exclusive capsule collections. Following that project's success, we are delighted to announce that we're doing it again, this time with Agi & Sam, Christopher Ræburn and J.W.Anderson, all of which have designed three pieces especially for MR PORTER.
Messrs Agi Mdumulla (right) and Sam Cotton (left) met while working at Alexander McQueen, in the menswear and print departments respectively, and decided to launch their own brand, Agi & Sam, in 2010. With a strong foundation in tailoring and an emphasis on print, the designers aim to create clothes that push the boundaries of menswear without straying into unwearable territory. The two have just won NEWGEN MEN sponsorship for spring/summer 2014 and count Sir Paul Smith as a mentor.
Mr Christopher Ræburn studied at the Royal College of Art before launching his eponymous label in 2008. By re-appropriating military fabrics, Mr Ræburn creates garments that are as functional as they are stylish, and steeped in heritage and authenticity. Artisanal-quality, ethical production is a core value for the designer, who has also collaborated with brands including Moncler and Victorinox.
Mr Jonathan Anderson thought that he wanted to be an actor, but luckily for us he switched to menswear and studied at the London College of Fashion. J.W.Anderson launched in 2008; since then Mr Anderson has become one of London's hottest names thanks to his daring silhouettes, precise detailing and innovative textiles. Recently he was invited to collaborate on the Versus line by Ms Donatella Versace, who compared him to her late brother Gianni - a high accolade indeed.
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Chicago-Kent College of Law established the Center
for Access to Justice & Technology (CAJT) to make
justice more accessible to the public by promoting the use
of the Internet in the teaching, practice and public access
to the law.
The Center for Access to Justice & Technology will be hosting a course picking discussion on Tuesday, November 20th at 4 p.m. in Room 580. This session will be an interactive discussion between faculty, students and alumni about Public Interest course offerings for the upcoming Spring 2013 Schedule. Prof. Staudt and Prof. Shapiro will be available to answer questions and help students plan a law school curriculum to meet their career goals.
Pizza and soft drinks will be served. This session satisfies the Curriculum Planning Meeting requirement in the Public Interest Certificate program. If you have any questions about this event or the Public Interest Certificate, email email@example.com or stop by room 775.
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI®) and the Center for Access to Justice & Technology (CAJT) at IIT Chicago-Kent unveiled the Access to Justice Clinical Course (A2J Clinic) Project to clinical professors on October 16. This new initiative exports clinical courses modeled off Professor Ronald W. Staudt's innovative Justice & Technology Practicum course to other law schools. The Justice & Technology Practicum teaches Chicago-Kent students how to develop document assembly tools for self-represented litigants using A2J Author® and explores access-to-justice issues, including the use of technology in law practice and legal services, alternative legal services delivery models, e-lawyering, unbundling and pro se litigant assistance.
Faculty members participating in the A2J Clinic Project will modify the curriculum to suit their school's needs, creating new course kits that CALI will offer to its member schools as a way of establishing A2J Clinics as a permanent part of the national law school curriculum. To learn more about the project and to view a model of Professor Staudt's Practicum course, visit a2jclinic.classcaster.net.
Are you interested in directly interacting with people in need of legal assistance? The Self-Help Web Center (SHWC) is now recruiting student volunteers for this fall. Don't miss out on this valuable experience; sign up now! Even 1L students can gain real legal experience at the SHWC.
The Center for Access to Justice & Technology asks volunteers to donate a minimum of two hours of time per week at the Self-Help Web Center in the Cook County Clerk's Office for the Civil Division at the Daley Center. The SHWC is staffed by Chicago-Kent student volunteers who help pro se litigants complete online interviews resulting in completely assembled court documents. Volunteers also help litigants navigate the Daley Center and available public interest legal services around Chicago. Volunteering at the SHWC is a great way to learn about the Daley Center and the small claims legal process, and to get some experience interacting with people in need of legal help.
Please note: Students with federal work study awards may be compensated for this position if working a minimum of 4 hours per week.
For more information or to sign up for a shift, e-mail email@example.com or stop by room 775.
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Third PartyFebruary 26, 2008
Ahead of the possibly-delayed iPhone/iPod Touch Software Development Kit, and the plethora of applications that will undoubtedly ensue, I thought I'd do a quick run-down of some of the more interesting third-party applications that already exist, in an unofficial capacity.
Since I had to jailbreak my phone in order to get it working outside the four countries where it has been officially launched, it was hardly a stretch to start playing around with the software that's being developed anyway, SDK or no. This could very well end up being a preview of some of the first applications that will be officially available once the SDK is released.
My list below isn't comprehensive by any means; these are just some of the apps I think deserve mention due to their utility or polish. There's a lot of crap to wade through already, so I think it's worth calling out some of the gems. All these are available directly from Installer.app, provided you have also installed Community Sources.
The images above link to larger screenshots. I just recently updated to firmware 1.1.3, and all of the existing iPhone Screenshot utilities don't seem to be working for me anymore. So pardon the grainy photos.
There are a few native IM clients out at the moment, and obviously Meebo works just fine too. But I'm finding none of the native clients thus far are any good, or even good enough. Apollo is the one I've been using occasionally when I need IM on my phone, but it still needs a lot of work. Active development stopped back in October, with the developers stating they're focusing on an official version once the SDK is released, so this may turn out to be one of the first official IM clients for the iPhone. Hopefully it will have seen some massive updates in the interim.
Killer feature: IM over EDGE. It's not great for long chat sessions, but damn if it isn't useful to have the ability to ask an IM contact a quick question when out and about. (Terrible video of Apollo in action)
Just your average Yahtzee clone, but polished to a shiny finish. FiveDice is one of the few games worth having thus far, in my opinion.
Almost more of a proof of concept than a useful app at this point, iAno is still fun. It's a piano simulator that crams a full octave on screen at once, and can play any note between C3 on the low end and C7 on the high end. What makes iAno stand out is its use of Multi-touch; chords are possible, you can play three notes at the same time. Here's a video of iAno in action, and you've probably already seen it on the top phone in the iBand video going around recently. If they end up adding a sequencer to the app, I'd expect to start seeing rather a lot of iPhone-generated music in the future.
My screenshot above is mostly useless, as the entire point of iMatrix is what the iPhone's camera sees and I wasn't able to demo that. What it does is two-fold.
First, if you happen to run across a QR Code or other 2D code, you take a quick snapshot of it with the phone. Then iMatrix will process the data contained within, and automatically (with your permission) use the data to open a URL in Safari, add a contact to your address book, dial a phone number, or a few other actions.
Second, it's able to generate 2D codes on the screen of the phone that can be read with scanners. Some of the applications this opens up: virtual ticketing, coupons, identifaction, and other purposes where simple authentication or data exchange is useful.
The idea of 2D codes isn't unique to this application by any means, they've been around for over a decade. They're not common in North America yet, but given time and more devices that are able to process them, it seems like momentum's building. They may be as common as URLs in a few years. Here's a poorly-narrated video of iMatrix contact exchange in action.
I don't really need to describe Solitaire, do I? This particular version just happens to look great, and makes fine use of the touch screen for dragging cards around. If it's not one of the first official solitaire apps, I'll be very surprised.
You know the classic wooden labyrinth puzzles? Yeah, it's just like those. Using the accelerometer, Labyrinth has you tilt the entire phone to guide the ball into the hole. It makes for a great demo of what having accelerometers in these devices can get you. Unlike most of the other apps in this list, Labyrinth is a demo; there's a full version available for purchase. The iPhone software market has already begun.
Remember that wow feeling after watching Jeff Han's TED demo of a multi touch interface a few years back? Photoboard brings a bit of that to the iPhone/iPod Touch with its rotation and zoom ability. It's a fairly simple toy at this point, akin to a basic lightboard for photos. You pull in photos from your device's library and then use two fingers to rotate them, pinch zoom in and out, and layer them on the screen. It's cramped on the small screen, doesn't save your setup when exiting, and isn't really altogether useful yet, but it's a great tech demo and shows promise for what might be possible in the future. Here's a video of Photoboard in use.
A basic note-taking and sketching app, Sketches has a few basic drawing tools that turn your finger into a pencil. You can import photos from your library or the iPhone's camera and use them as a canvas, save your creations, email them, etc. Given the limitations of using your finger as an imprecise stylus, this feels like the perfect mix of basic utility without going too far into more advanced and harder to use features. There may be apps in the future that allow more complex image editing on the iPhone, but right now this seems like the furthest you'd want to go.
Plus, to erase the image? You just shake the device. How cool is that? There's a reason the icon looks like an Etch-a-Sketch. Here's a video about using Sketches' tools.
This is just scratching the surface; it seems like every week there are a handful of new ones worth keeping. A few more notable applications:
- Categories
- This is a recent discovery; it allows for folder/group creation on the iPhone/iPod's home screen. You choose an icon for the folder, then drag a few apps into it. To get at them later from the home screen, you tap the group, then a new menu pops up with those icons. Pretty much as you'd expect.
- weDict
- A reusable dictionary/lookup app. If I get it, and I'm not 100% sure I do, you plug in various installable dictionaries, and then use the application to search them. Right now I have French > English and English > French dictionaries, and if I look up "neige" it tells me that the French > English dictionary thinks that word means "snow".
- Books
- A basic eBook reader. It's ugly, but it works. I've seen some public domain titles available for install, and a few newer CC-licensed works, like Cory Doctorow's books.
- Evolution RGB
- This is a little toy/game thing that doesn't make any sense at all when it first loads. In a nutshell, you have pre-defined elements like fire, water, plant, clay etc. You draw them onto the screen, then watch water interact with fire, fire interact with plant, etc. It's generative like the old-school evolution game from decades past, and setting up some opposing elements and watching them interact can be vaguely hypnotic. This is the best video I could find that demonstrates how it works. It won't win any beauty contests, but it's really worth taking a look.
- NES, gpSPhone, Frotz, ScummVM
- Various emulators for games past, of varying and questionable legitimacy. In order: Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy Advance, Infocom text adventure games like Zork, and the LucasArts Scumm system that powered classics like Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle. (I say "questionable legitimacy" because the practice of emulting ROMs is kind of a legal grey area.)
- VNotes
- A simple audio recorder that uses the iPhone's built-in mic. Something that ought to be officially available sooner or later, but isn't yet.
And it figures that as soon as I hit publish, I discovered that firmware 1.1.4 came out today. Not sure yet what it changes, if anything.
Dave, don't forget Twitterific.
Although it's not as good on iPhone/iPod Touch as on a Mac… still useful.
Excellent summary of Apps, Dave.
wow… over 3 months. nearly as bad as me :)
Thanks for the list Dave, considering that I am getting an iPhone at the end of the month!!
Nice writeup! Holy carp!
Not jailbroken, so I don't enjoy these apps/ features yet. But hopefully the SDK will change that for me. Would love to play labyrinth while waiting for my coffee!
iPhone Screenshots works fine on my iPhone 1.1.3
…and Books app deserving attention too ;)
"iPhone Screenshots works fine on my iPhone 1.1.3"
Yes, but not on mine, as I said. Same app. Doesn't work. Not sure why.
"and Books app deserving attention too ;)"
But I did. Really. Look up.
The most important thing I learned from installing iPhone apps over the last several months is how few of them I actually need. Zero at the least… three at the most. There just isn't a whole lot the iPhone doesn't already do that I'd want it to do. Exchange Mail and IM… those are about the only two holes for me.
> But I did. Really. Look up
Oops, i see. Sorry.
Maybe it would be intresting for you: app from russian developers — http://ripdev.com/caterpillar But it's not just app, it's rather usefull tweaks.
"…how few of them I actually need"
Oh yeah. It's hard to disagree with that. I've uninstalled plenty more than I've installed, and many of them sit there without being used.
I wouldn't even go so far as to say any of the above are "must-have", but iMatrix strikes me as one with legs, and I think Sketches is handy to have around.
It may be the biggest effect from the SDK will be a boost in overall quality; right now it has to be tough to justify building a tight, polished app for a strictly unofficial environment. Once Apple has given their blessing, I can see a lot more useful apps being developed.
Good points, Dave. I'd like to add similar (well written and polished up) apps to your list if I may.
* "MobileScrobbler" is damn helpful when you have an account on Last.fm. It allows your device to automatically scrobble listened tracks to database (via WiFi or EDGE, your choice). Moreover, it's a gateway for Last.fm's kick-ass radio. Design & UI is very good, resembling original applications almost in 100%. My favorite app out there.
* "Touchpad" is an app I discovered recently. Quick configuration of my iMac's VNC and I'm able to use mouse & keyboard from my iPhone anywhere in the room. It's very convenient while watching a movie, fully recommended.
* There's plenty of good games out there but I must recommend "Tap Tap Revolution" as a perfect blend of music and agility. Something like Guitar Hero or DDR, but with a different input device. ;) Make sure to try it out on WiFi (iTunes Library), default tracks may be boring.
I also love these small tweaks which Apple forgot to put into iPhone – like sending full-sized pics via email ("SendPics"), deleting single SMS and/or call logs.
I hope SDK will open doors of quality for all those small helpful programs. :)
As someone who is very tactile about things, I find this to be incredibly exciting. This really is how we should interact with computers. It looks so natural, movements you might do with a physical object translating to the screen
I won't jailbreak my phone either, so I'm limited 'til the SDK release. I did find flytunes, which lets you listen to & cache internet radio on my iphone. Their site is www.flytunes.fm.
I know I'm a little late here, but I thought it would be worth mentioning that you can take screenshots from the command line with Erica's Tools.
Install from Installer.app, then ssh to your iPhone and run `snap screenshot.png' to capture whatever is currently on the screen. (Or if you're on the go, use MobileTerminal and run `sleep 5; snap screenshot.png' and hurry back to your desired screen setup.)
Another cool iPhone application is the wPhone which is what I use to mobile blog with
> Screenshots … Doesn't work. Not sure why.
BTW: iPhone (springboard.app, actually) can take screenshots without additional apps.
You just need install little tweak: russianiphone.ru/blog/2008/03/18/screenshots-made-easy/
OK, that NES iPhone emulator above has to be just about the coolest thing I have seen in the past couple of years.
If it's Nintendo related, I definitely want to see what it's about. I'm an old-school NES junkie; what can I say.
I never gave a second thought as to how the controls would be implemented, but when I saw it was simulated on the screen, I just about fell out of my chair.
That is some wicked cool stuff!
Great games, exquisite graphics. However, at least on my iPod Touch, not only is there no recognition that there are no more possible plays, it appears to deal the same sequence of cards after one or two games (I wasn't paying that close attention, but possibly since the first game) I'd donate in a heart-beat if I knew that problem was going to be addressed.


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1. Re: DX58SO - Going crazy with boots, reboots and bios crashesDomain Mar 14, 2010 11:13 PM (in response to fly)
BIOS 4598 and 5020 have known issues (broken BCLK, multipliers, etc.) ... the last stable release appears to be 4405, which has been running on my system without issue.
I am curious though... when you say that you shut the machine off for 30 minutes, and then it reboots... are you putting it into suspend, or completely turning it off? When I first purchased this board, I started having all types of strange issues... system would not flash BIOS outside of recovery mode, system would not recover from sleep, and occasionally it would boot with the message as you describe. The unlikely culprit was one of my memory modules (even though no errors could be detected if memtest86 etc.)
Based on the excessive troubleshooting i've had to do on this board, I would suggest remove everything that is non-essential to system boot (run single memory module, disconnect extra SATA devices etc.) to see if it will be stable.
2. Re: DX58SO - Going crazy with boots, reboots and bios crashestex2xx Mar 15, 2010 7:06 AM (in response to fly)
Go into the bios / performance / memory overrides/ and turn off the failsafe for a couple of troubleshooting restarts. While there in the bios, set the memory profile to the slowest XMP profile. Make sure that the voltage setting at the bottom of the timings list is set to 1.66v and cmd is set to 2. The Corsair memory really needs 1.66v.
Turn the power off let the box stand 5-10 minutes, try the power up.
That power up, auto down, auto up again, is the failsafe resetting the memory timings to some default pulled out of the Corsair memory.
And it gives you a heads up via that error message that it thinks the first memory timings won't work. ( even tho it's not very clear - Intel? )
PS The Corsair memory really needs 1.66v and it's not too much for the cpu.
3. Re: DX58SO - Going crazy with boots, reboots and bios crashesfly Mar 15, 2010 8:15 AM (in response to tex2xx)
I turned off. If I turn off the system for 5 or 10 minutes than it starts normaly. The issue occours when the system stays off for a longer time, eg. 30-40min, ok?
I´ll try what you said. In this moment i´m trying to change de Sata slots. I was thinking about the Watchdog failsafe (I don´t know what is the Watchdog) but think that it´s what´s causing the auto down (10 seconds) when I start the system. Will try and post the results here later. Thanks to both of you guys!
tex2xx, I found the failsafe but couldn´t find the XMP profile and the CMD set to 2 there. Could you help me and say where exactly it´s located there inside the BIOS? Now I´m running the 4405 BIOS Version as Domain said. Tks!
4. Re: DX58SO - Going crazy with boots, reboots and bios crashestex2xx Mar 15, 2010 8:18 AM (in response to fly)
According to the Intel processor compatibility chart the SLBEJ i7 920 needs bios version 4021 or later to run. You need to check your bios rev.
This is due to the D0 stepping cpu, it's a later rev chip build.
Check the your Corsair memory for Core i7 compatibility on the Corsair website.
PS I'm running the Corsair TR3X6G1600C8D on three DX58SO systems with no problems. Win 7 x64.
5. Re: DX58SO - Going crazy with boots, reboots and bios crashesfly Mar 15, 2010 9:00 AM (in response to tex2xx)
I´m running Corsair XMS3 TR3X6G1333C9 G 6GB Pack (3x2GB) so I think it realy needs 1,5v instead of the 1,66v that you said before. Your model runs on 1,65v cause it´s a 1600mhz. I´ll disconsider your previous topic. I´ll try only to disable the failsafe Watchdog and post the results here later. Tks!
6. Re: DX58SO - Going crazy with boots, reboots and bios crashesDomain Mar 15, 2010 10:20 AM (in response to fly)
XMP profile settings are under Performance (Select Yes to allow modification), then Memory Overrides. Select "Performance Memory Profiles" and change from Automatic to XMP (will vary depending on supported modes of these chips).
Watchdog is there to detect if BIOS modifications result in an unsuccessful boot, allowing you to go back into the BIOS and change settings without having to pull the configuration jumper.
7. Re: DX58SO - Going crazy with boots, reboots and bios crashesKakusso Mar 25, 2010 12:31 AM (in response to fly)
I have the same problem.
Just bought the DX58SO, I7 920, Kingston 1333.
It was running fine until I updated the bios to the 5020 version. Looks like it was not tested correctly.
The problems are as follow:
-Core speed was set at 135 instead of 133
-The multiplier shows values that go from 22 (default) to 24 (proposed and active) when the maximum value that can be set in it is 20
As a result the processor speeds go from 2.9 to 3.33 when the processor is originally set to 2.66.
As a result the system is only starting in bios configuration mode.
Loading default setting will not solve the problem. I also removed the battery for 15 minuets.
Please help me fixing this problem.
Intel Please remove the 5020 Bios from you download section, Since it will affect your image.
8. Re: DX58SO - Going crazy with boots, reboots and bios crashesNico Mar 25, 2010 1:37 AM (in response to Kakusso)
load the default settings, then go to the performance page and change the bclk to 133. thats all you need to do. there are no other faulty settings afaik.
everything else you list is just a wrong readout from the bios. doesn't hurt your components. the effective settings (that you dont see) are correct.
9. Re: DX58SO - Going crazy with boots, reboots and bios crashesKakusso Mar 25, 2010 2:17 AM (in response to Nico)
I did that but the problem persisted, the system would not boot.
Removed battery for 15 minutes.
Boot to windows and installed bios version 4405.
It seems fine now even though multiplier is 22 in bios (21 in windows CPUz).
10. Re: DX58SO - Going crazy with boots, reboots and bios crashesfly Mar 25, 2010 3:53 PM (in response to Kakusso)
I´ve called Intel support and the attendant told me to update to BIOS 5020. I did the process but when rebooted the system it wont boot anymore. Tried removing the battery, removing the jumper, setting jumper to configuration mode and nothing.
My mobo is dead. When I remove the memories modules the system give me a 3 beeps, so Intel´s support says that my mobo is not dead, but when trying to make the recovery process it didn´t work. The system wont read the CD/DVD with the .BIO file and wont read the USB too. All i´ve got is a black screen!
Don´t know what to do. Very frustrating!!!
11. Re: DX58SO - Going crazy with boots, reboots and bios crashestibin Sep 22, 2011 11:06 PM (in response to fly)
I have the exactly same issue, is there any solve to this?


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Wayne State University researcher seeks to understand effect of dog-human interaction on social skills
DETROIT — It may seem intuitive to believe that working with animals has a positive effect on people, but a Wayne State University researcher is trying to determine the nature of that effect, and whether it holds true for various groups.
"Because it's so face valid, a lot of people believe it's common sense that these things work," said Annmarie Cano, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. "But there are a lot of things common sense tells you that don't pan out when tested scientifically."
She recently received a $152,000 grant from two sources to study if instructing incarcerated teens to train animal shelter dogs in basic obedience skills will improve the teens' social skills and quality of life. The funding comes from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health and Mars Inc.'s Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition.
"Randomized Controlled Trials of an Animal-Assisted Intervention for Adjudicated Youth" will involve 128 subjects from the Macomb County Juvenile Justice Center. Facilitators from Teacher's Pet: Dogs and Kids Learning Together, a nonprofit organization, will meet twice a week for 10 weeks with youths ages 14 to 17. Using dogs with minor behavioral issues from local animal shelters, participants will be taught in one-hour sessions how to approach a dog, how to tell if the animal is afraid, why animal cruelty is wrong and the benefits of treating animals well.
A control group will receive the classroom training and will walk the dogs two hours per week; the rest also will attend the classes and will be assigned to train a dog two hours per week to get them ready for adoption. All participants will talk about their own experiences with dogs in a nonjudgmental fashion.
In the training group, person-dog pairings will be the same for each session. Training will begin with basic commands and progress to higher-level tasks.
Teacher's Pet founder and study co-investigator Amy Johnson said 98 percent of animals the group has trained have been adopted in the past two years.
Cano said Johnson was anxious to see if the program worked for incarcerated youths.
"As an animal lover, that intrigued me too," Cano said. Her team, which also includes Rita Casey, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, searched the literature and realized that although small case studies exist, no tests had been done to determine whether these kinds of programs work with such a population.
"There are a lot of TV shows where they show prisoners — adults and teens — working with dogs," Cano said. "It's very heartwarming and exciting, but no controlled studies have been run to see if this works for everyone involved or only for certain people."
Despite the relatively small age range, she believes her group includes a wide variety of developmental factors, including home background and type of offense.
To measure the effects of interaction with the dogs, Cano's study will use standard measures for depression, sadness, anxiety and anger, as well as how participants' empathy skills for dogs and people change over time. Her team also will measure individual attachments to the dogs.
Because many at-risk youths come from homes where attachments to others are problematic, Cano hypothesizes that developing attachments to dogs will help participants feel better about their own skills and about themselves as human beings, while giving them a different perspective and perhaps making them more likely to consider someone else's perspective before acting out again.
"Many of the crimes that got them there in the first place involved not taking someone else's perspective, either from not knowing how, not wanting to or some other reason," Cano said. "We're hoping that attachment to and constant work with the dogs will drive improvements in social skills and quality of life."
The study also seeks to uncover why such interactions work.
"We want to know if it's just because people feel good, or if perhaps something important is being changed in the relationship or social skills of those inmates or incarcerated youths," Cano said. "We'd like to add some legitimacy to this kind of intervention, so that more agencies that work with at-risk youths can use this type of program to help them."
Cano said, however, that her study is merely a first step in that process, as it involves just one site and one group of teens, and may not be generalizable elsewhere. Future studies, she said, could test other groups and individuals, including adults with attachment problems, such as veterans who have suffered combat trauma, or drug addicts.
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I thought that unrealistic times for records weren't going to be posted. This has been addressed in at least 1 thread, probably more. I seem to recall a general consensus that times for 5X5 puzzles couldn't be achieved under 100 seconds without aids or memorization. I have seen a puzzle by zenobia43 with a record in the low 60 seconds and one by tulga.more of 65 seconds. Why do we have to compete with puzzle scores that at best were achieved by memorization and at worst by use of aids.
I'm surprised there is no comment about this issue. It's usually been a popular a larger concern among the solvers...
Until now I was just playing and I first hear about consensus like this... Really there was something like this? I mean, ok, in some older types of games I kind of remembered some patterns (never wrote it down, etc., but recognizing it in the middle of game helps a little in faster ending, in minimal it helps to look at clues person needs at that moment), but I can manage without any help or any memorizing do 5x5 under 100, or even under 80 without bigger problems - even when I play them first time (or after long time, which is the same for me), when they are easy enough (and then there are some, that I do over 200 or even over 300 seconds, of course, even more, when they are evil enough or if I'm just dumb at that time, which occurs sometimes ), I'm not sure about under 70, but maybe I did 1 or 2 or something like this that fast (not counting these same-pattern-ones)...
I'm just writing it 'cause it just surprised me, that someone said, that it can't be done, etc. And nope, I'm not cheating, I like this game and it would steal fun from it...
Here's one of the threads I was referring to: http://www.logic-puzzles.org/forum/s...ighlight=times. I'm not saying you are cheating. You certainly sound credible. So you might well be achieving very fast speeds. I was referring to comments in this and other threads where the administration weighed in on the subject.
As to doing puzzles quickly, there is new research pouring out about how people think. I know personally how an Asperger's brain can see things very differently. I have found ways to rule out squares merely from the patterns in the grid as I'm solving puzzles. So called savants experience the world very differently than most. Scientists are creating ways for non-autistic people to tap into that kind of thinking. I would love to be able to see things from multiple points of views as I believe it is a way of opening ones mind to new ideas and leads to more valid conclusions. I'm also not saying that being a savant is somehow a bad thing. It is merely a different way of seeing the world. I would also bet a lot of money that there are autistic players on this site. It's a pity that autism has a negative connotation to some people, thus causing it to remain in hiding.
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Talking about record times!! I just looked at my PC and saw that somehow I had neglected to click the Submit button on a puzzle last night.
My solve time was 40522 seconds. Now that must be a record!!
Last edited by Laura; 03-04-2013 at 03:30 PM.
Laura, I saw that and wondered if your awesome 100% record had been spoiled by a server glitch. I'm glad it wasn't. Almost 30,000 games now without a single miss.
The server started two extra games for me this morning, and so far, it hasn't let me see the games or list those games in the recent games list.
If you see my games, send me a screen shot so I can see what I missed.
Thank you, Zenobia! I'd rather spend hours (and have done so) to maintain a 100% solve rate.
The last time I looked you were at 100%. Your losing 2 games definitely sounds like a glitch. Perhaps you could contact Admin and see if your Recent Games list can be corrected so that the missing puzzles appear.
You have an awesome solve-time and solve-rate record!
It is possible.
I can regularly solve these puzzles pretty quickly. While my average time is something like 170 seconds, I have solved 4x4 puzzles on this site in as few as 65 seconds. No cheating, no pattern-memorization; I just solve them using logic, and using the geometry of the grid, which is, after all, why it's there. Here's how I do it:
Reading the clues is the slowest part of the process. First I fill in the grid with the *solid* facts as quickly as I can. X's and dots. Then there are usually 3 sometimes 4 clues which are not direct dots or exes, but rather relational information between categories. These three I memorize as I skip past them and then fill them in last. From there (and with those 3 sometimes 4 clues in my head) I focus on the grid. All the information is there. No more reading: rereading clues is what slows you down, and once the info is on the grid you don't need to revisit the clues. I do use geometry: if there are 3 dots on the grid forming a partial rectangle, I know to fill in the last dot.
I also save time by skipping extraneous X's. No need to fill them all in, if you can look at a grid of dots and learn to see where the X's should go without having to laboriously click click click them all in place. If I can see in my head that two lines of X's "added together" leave a single gap between them and I know they are equivalent, I know that gap has to have a dot without clicking in all the exes to prove it.
Also sometimes when I get the puzzle down to only 2 dots missing, I guess, and if it's wrong, I go back and switch them. While I could use the clues to solve it, guessing the last two dots -- even if I get them wrong the first time -- can be quicker than trying to find the relevant clue.
Maybe the problem is that all these puzzles are structurally so very similar. That doesn't mean it's cheating to learn how to do them quickly. Some greater variation in their construction might be a good idea.
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I have no memory of past puzzles. I think it's realistic for me (at least) to get to about 55 seconds for a 4x4 and 75 on a 5x5. I'll probably improve a little more, but not much.
i had several 5x5 puzzles that I had scored under 100s without aid or memorization, yet none of my scores are posted... 5x5 under 100s is very, very possible without cheating.
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Gratiot County Wind Project Case Study
October 8, 2012
The Gratiot County Wind Project, Michigan's newest wind energy facility, began construction in 2011 and was completed in June 2012. The 212.8-megawatt (MW) wind farm is Michigan's largest and increased the state's total wind energy capacity from 377 MW to nearly 600 MW.
Project Facts
- The project utilizes 133 GE 1.6-MW turbines.
- The wind farm is located on approximately 30,000 acres of private land near the town of Breckenridge in the townships of Wheeler, Bethany, Emerson, and Lafayette.
- Gratiot Wind LLC, an affiliate of Invenergy, owns 69 of the turbines. DTE Energy owns 64 turbines.
Jobs and Economic Development Impacts
- The $440 million project employed 260 skilled construction workers and now employs 14 full-time workers to operate and maintain the wind turbines.
- Tax payments will total approximately $35 million over 20 years.
- More than 260 landowners will receive almost $2 million annually from land-lease and other payments.
- Bethany Township will receive between $60,000 to $70,000 in taxes for the first year of the project's operation and will receive at least $55,000 a year in the future, which represents one-quarter of the rural township's budget.
More Information
This project represents a unique approach to engaging with all of the area stakeholders to develop a community-inclusive project in which everybody in the community shares in the results, not just the landowners with turbines on their property. This inclusive project development approach is discussed in the podcast interview Keys to Local Wind Energy Development Success with Rich VanderVeen, president of Mackinaw Power.
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Trinity Fellowship Expands Aspera Deployment to support new locations
Multi-campus Church Distributes Recorded Video Sermons at High Speed to Growing Audience
EMERYVILLE, Calif., February 12, 2013—Aspera, Inc., creators of next-generation software technologies that move the world's large data at maximum speed, today announced that Trinity Fellowship, a multi-campus church, has expanded their deployment of Aspera's patented fasp technology, upgrading to 100Mbps, to move recorded sermons from the church's main location to existing and new satellite locations.
With campuses dispersed throughout Texas and Oklahoma, Trinity Fellowship utilizes video to deliver succinct, timely and relevant messages to every member of its extensive and expanding community. With time-sensitive content, often tied to specific events or holidays, Trinity was relying on Aspera technology to quickly deliver sermons in video form to every campus to ensure relevance. As Trinity Fellowship grew and added more campuses, it needed to scale its transfer capacity to efficiently distribute large video files to new and existing locations at maximum speed.
Trinity selected and deployed Aspera's faspex™ server at the main site and Cargo Downloader clients at each satellite location, originally using a dedicated 45 Mbps network connection to transfer the recorded sermons – which are captured and edited at their central location – at maximum speed.
Using faspex's workgroup feature, Trinity sends content to all remote locations at the same time without having to create and track a separate delivery for each location. Aspera Cargo at the satellite locations automatically downloads new deliveries to users' desktops, and faspex's built-in email notifications inform users that content has arrived, eliminating the need to log in to any systems and repeatedly check for transfer completion.
With Aspera, Trinity can capture high-quality content, edit the video footage, and distribute the final package to satellite campuses spread across a broad geography within only a few hours after the Saturday evening sermon concludes at the main campus, making it available for Sunday morning services at the satellite locations.
To support new locations Trinity upgraded their Aspera software license to 100Mbps to make full use of their networking infrastructure, allowing video content to be transferred at full bandwidth capacity and further shortening delivery times.
"We're one body. We're one church. We have one message, and we want everyone to hear it at once," said Michael Wells, executive director of operations at Trinity Fellowship. "With Aspera, we can reach our audience without latency and know that our content is safe and won't be lost or tampered with in transit."
"Trinity Fellowship needed a transfer solution that could provide fast and reliable transfer of large video files; Aspera met their requirements," said Richard Heitmann, vice president of marketing at Aspera. "Using Aspera, Trinity Fellowship is now able to incorporate more high definition (HD) video into their multimedia programs, an advancement that was not possible in the past due to slow and unreliable transfer speeds. We look forward to working with Trinity as they continue to expand and develop their video-driven strategy."
About Aspera
Aspera is the creator of next-generation transport technologies that move the world's data at maximum speed regardless of file size, transfer distance and network conditions. Based on its patented fasp™ protocol, Aspera software fully utilizes existing infrastructures to deliver the fastest, most predictable file-transfer experience. Aspera's core technology delivers unprecedented control over bandwidth, complete security and uncompromising reliability. Approximately 2000 organizations across a variety of industries on six continents rely on Aspera software for the business-critical transport of their digital assets.
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British healthcare agency virtualizes 5,500 desktops, wakes up from the "nightmare" of up to 20-minute logins, and reduces data center footprint and power costs with Fusion ioMemory™ PCIe cards.
The Challenge
National Health Service (NHS) is the United Kingdom's publicly funded healthcare system that provides free medical services to residents of the UK. The NHS West and South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) serves the 500,000 residents of those two towns.
Doctors are trading prescription pads and charts for electronic devices that store data in the cloud, and NHS West and South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw CSU needed to empower doctors and staff to serve patients more efficiently. However, with 5,500 doctors and staff across 110 sites, the IT department needed to find technology that was simple to deploy and manage without sacrificing performance, availability, or security.
Martin Powis, Head of IT, had been interested in virtual desktop infrastructure for years. "We brought the business case forward for virtual desktops as an alternative to physical desktop replacement," Martin said. The NHS Trust directors liked the idea of replacing aging desktop PCs with terminals, and using virtual desktop infrastructure to centralize management and harness the processing power of the computers in its data center.
But the first proof of concept, using a traditional virtual desktop infrastructure architecture based on disk drives, did not deliver. Windows couldn't update itself as frequently as it needed, so user sessions would freeze. Doctors and staff experienced lag between typing and words appearing on screen, and signing in to the system could take up to 20 minutes. The trust needed to find a system that would:
"We were confident we could achieve our goals with virtual desktop infrastructure," Martin told us. "We just needed the right back-end architecture to support it."
The SanDisk® Solution
The Trust issued a tender and heard from a range of vendors. One solution the Trust considered was using blade servers with traditional disk storage. However, the Trust was concerned about the network connectivity and bandwidth required to support 5,500 users via hard disks. "The network capacity and latency would have been an issue," Martin said. To support 5,500 users, they would have needed a whole 42U rack of disks, which would have consumed too much power. On top of this, they would have to purchase all the network cables and controllers to support it.
One early trial using iSCSI storage with VMware Horizon View brought to light the "pinch points" where the system needed to improve. "One of the biggest things we found we needed was disk speed, IOPS, and low latency," Martin said.
The winning bid consisted of Fusion ioMemoryTM ioDrive®2 products. "The SanDisk- based architecture is more distributed and has fewer points of failure," Martin told us. The Trust installed ioDrive2 1.2TB products into 22 servers, and easily brought 5,500 users into the virtual environment.
A Seamless User Experience
In many industries, virtual desktop infrastructure isn't viable because employees won't accept performance less than that of PCs. But employees in medical, educational, and financial industries are often required to suffer poorly-performing desktops for compliance regulations that essentially require centralization of data. The Fusion ioMemory products delivered performance that exceeded physical PCs.
Logins used to be "a complete nightmare," Martin said. It could take 20 minutes for a doctor or staff member to log in to a physical desktop over a wide area connection. After adding SanDisk products to the server, distributing the load, and virtualizing the desktops, it now takes less than a minute to log in. "We're now down to less than a minute for the majority of users," Martin said, "and the majority of that time is the boot up of their terminal."
Martin Powis,
Manager of IT, NHS
This had a side benefit—increased productivity. As users found they had more resources available to them, they in turn used more. Users are able to get more work done more efficiently. Martin found that the virtual desktops powered by Fusion ioMemory products were much faster than physical desktops. NHS uses large Java applications that used to max out the disk-based virtual desktop infrastructure system, but even though users are doing more now, the system doesn't lag the way it used to under the increased I/O load and the distributed architecture.
Another benefit: NHS West and South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw CSU's environment is easier to manage now, as Martin no longer has to visit the sites to support the desktop PCs.
Supports Hundreds of Desktops Per Server
The Trust's tender was for 220 users per server, but they were able to support more than 300 users per ioDrive product. At about 340 users, the server CPU finally maxed, Martin said. Using SanDisk products builds in high availability. If a server goes offline in the case of a failure or disaster, other servers have the resilience to support them. "We've got plenty of slack to accommodate any displaced users," he said.
Building Block Architecture Scales for Easy Growth
Another benefit of the SanDisk-based architecture is its scalability. "It's a very simple architecture that scales at low and predictable cost. We've been able to sit down and determine the exact cost to bring another 200 users online. When we need to do this, we can simply add another server with an ioDrive product and we've got another 200 users on our environment, literally in minutes."
Reduces Operating Costs
The SanDisk-based system reduces costs on several fronts:
System Overview
Using Fusion ioMemory products in their solution gave NHS the following benefits:
Martin has another goal: By gaining expertise in virtualization, West and South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw CSU can offer services to other NHS districts. "In the next 12 months we'll be delivering 10,000 desktops. Our role will change from looking after not only the town, but the county," Martin said. "We plan to scale to 10,000 desktops in the next year and 20,000 in the year following – selling these services to the rest of NHS."
About NHS West and South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw CSU
NHS West and South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw CSU is responsible for all health services delivered to the local community of about 500,000, and manages 5,500 client devices for more than 600 NHS service areas with 20 different organizations at over 130 sites across West Yorkshire, U.K.


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You Don't Own What You Thought You Bought: Verizon Breaks Phones; Turns Off Feature
from the how-nice-of-them dept
Verizon this week began pushing smartphone updates that cripple some devices' innate ability to be used as a mobile hotspot -- for free. Specifically, Verizon pushed an update to the HTC Thunderbolt that blocked the devices embedded hotspot functionality, making the device less valuable and less useful to consumers. Why? Verizon wants to ensure that users have to pay an additional $20 a month mobile hotspot fee.The company has also received some help from Google, getting the Android maker to remove any tethering apps from the Google marketplace, thereby making it (somewhat) more difficult to workaround this feature-kill. As Karl Bode notes in the post linked above, this seems the opposite of "open", which both Verizon and Google have been pushing when it comes to Android.


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Charles Shaws family bikes to ski, carrying their skis on racks, at Chapman Hill from their home in the Smiley Building downtown.
Their trips to the grocery store are by bicycle, too, packing a grocery-cartload of food into four panniers.
Charles and Lisa Shaws 3-year-old son, Raleigh, named for the bicycle brand, has been riding on two wheels since he was 2.
Its good for our son. When were going somewhere, he goes to get his bike. He doesnt think about it. Hes grown up that way, said Charles Shaw, developer and manager of the Smiley Building, an office and arts space converted from a former junior high school.
On Thursday, the city celebrated its third annual Winter Bike to Work Day to get more people into the habit of cycling every day, frigid temperatures or not.
People were hopping in place and gulping Italian roast outside Durango Coffee Co. to stay warm in temperatures that ranged from 14 to 20 degrees, but all agreed cycling to work is the way to go.
I cant see driving my car two miles (to go to work). It just drives me nuts, Alan Morris said. Once I started commuting (by bicycle), I cant stand getting in my car in the morning.
Morris teaches second grade at Needham Elementary School. His colleague and fellow bicycle commuter, Nora Stafford, a first-grade teacher, said she has not driven to work in six years.
The kids think were crazy, Stafford said. I started doing this as a challenge. I told the kids, Im going to see if I can do this. Its to save gas, for future generations. Then it became such an easy thing. We talk about the eagles we see in the morning, the muskrats.
Stafford, who takes the Animas River Trail from her home on Riverview Drive, said her commute is her moment of Zen.
The cold does not seem to bother them. When they start pedaling, their bodies warm up.
Im from South Dakota. Its not cold here. I just bundle up, Stafford said.
John Gadbois, an economics professor at Fort Lewis College, said, The coldest I have ever ridden is minus 22, and that was fun. You just plug along.
Gadbois bundles up in Gore-Tex and wears snow pants for his ride uphill to FLC. He thinks riding in the summer is more of a challenge because you get sweaty.
The economics of bicycling is far from a dismal science.
It cracks me up every time I see on the news, The average family spends $3,000 a year in gas. I spend $40, Gadbois said. So I can take that $3,000 and do some pretty cool stuff. Thats the way I look at it.
Anna Hendricks commutes four miles one way to her job at the Southwest Conservation Corps in the Commons near Albertsons.
I used to be an outdoor person, but now I sit at a desk, Hendricks said. So (commuting by bicycle is) a great opportunity to make sure I get up and move every single day.
Hendricks would encourage anyone to take the plunge.
Durango is really a bike-friendly town. So they should just get out and do it, she said. Its a little bit intimidating at first, but compared to big cities, its a great place to ride your bike. The drivers are really aware of the bikers.
Durango is a gold-rated bicycle city by the League of American Bicyclists.
According to the U.S. Census, 7 percent of all Durango workers commute by bicycle, which is 11 times more than the national average of 0.6 percent.
The third annual Winter Bike to Work Day attracted 103 area cyclists Thursday. Amber Blake, the citys multi-modal director, said she hopes more people think about commuting by bicycle year-round.
The longest commute reported was 26 miles from Ignacio. Altogether, the cyclists said they commuted a total of 347 miles.
If conditions are bad, cyclists said they put studs on their tires, take mountain bikes or walk to work.
They might take their cars if the roads are especially slick, but its a decision they often regret.
When its cold, you jump in your car, (then) you see somebody riding their bike. (You think) I knew it, I should have ridden my bike today. Now I feel lazy, Hendricks said. Once you get into the habit, it feels inadequate to travel any other way.


text: Legendary 90's (and naughties!) Hip Hop producer/artist who, as a member of NWA and co-founder of Death Row records was one of the main driving forces behind the phenomenon known as Gangsta Rap. Well known for his seminal work as a member/producer of NWA, then later producing and collaborating with Death Row artist Snoop Dogg and more recently with Eminem and D12.(Strangely enough there always seems to be a three to four year gap between his important new bodies of work) His own solo outings, 'The Chronic' and more recently '2001' are as equally highly regarded and rate as benchmarks in hip hop.


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