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A New Dawn for Vesta
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of the giant asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on July 9, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 26,000 miles (41,000 kilometers) away from Vesta, which is also considered a protoplanet because it is a large body that almost became a planet. Each pixel in the image corresponds to roughly 2.4 miles (3.8 kilometers). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
On July 15, NASA's Dawn spacecraft began a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid.
The main asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will study Vesta for one year, and observations will help scientists understand the earliest chapter of our solar system's history.
As the spacecraft approached Vesta, surface details came into focus, as seen in a recent image taken from a distance of about 26,000 miles (41,000 kilometers). The image is available at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/multimedia/dawn-image-070911.html.
Engineers expect that the spacecraft was captured into orbit at approximately 10 p.m. PDT Friday, July 15 (1 a.m. EDT Saturday, July 16). They will hear from the spacecraft and confirm that it performed as planned during a scheduled communications pass that starts at approximately 11:30 p.m. PDT on Saturday, July 16 (2:30 a.m. EDT Sunday, July 17). When Vesta captures Dawn into its orbit, engineers estimate there will be approximately 9,900 miles (16,000 kilometers) between them. At that point, the spacecraft and asteroid will be approximately 117 million miles (188 million kilometers) from Earth.
"It has taken nearly four years to get to this point," said Robert Mase, Dawn project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Our latest tests and check-outs show that Dawn is right on target and performing normally."
Engineers have been subtly shaping Dawn's trajectory for years to match Vesta's orbit around the Sun. Unlike other missions, where dramatic propulsive burns put spacecraft into orbit around a planet, Dawn will ease up next to Vesta. Then the asteroid's gravity will capture the spacecraft into orbit. However, until Dawn nears Vesta and makes accurate measurements, the asteroid's mass and gravity will only be estimates. So the Dawn team will need a few days to refine the exact moment of orbit capture.
NASA's Dawn mission will visit two of the first bodies formed in our solar system: the "dwarf planet" Ceres and the massive asteroid Vesta. Credit: NASA
Launched in September 2007, Dawn will depart for its second destination, the dwarf planet Ceres, in July 2012. The spacecraft will be the first to orbit two solar system destinations beyond Earth. Studying both Vesta and Ceres will help astrobiologists understand how small bodies formed and evolved in our solar system. Determining the physical properties of Ceres and Vesta can also help us determine if objects from the astroid belt could have played a role in delivering materials to the early Earth that played a role in the origins of life.
Dawn's mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, which is managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Astrophysical Institute are part of the mission team.
For a current image of Vesta and more information about the Dawn mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/dawn and http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov. You also can follow the mission on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/nasa_dawn.


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Socket 754 Roundup: Comparing Generation 2by Wesley Fink on May 28, 2004 5:57 PM EST
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IndexThe second generation chipsets for Athlon 64 represent a genuine improvement in features, flexibility, and performance for AMD's flagship processors. As you saw in our chipset review, the nForce3-250 nVidia has added the features to bring their nF3 to the competitive edge of Athlon 64 chipsets. The HyperTransport speed, which was widely criticized on the 150 chipset, is now 800 or 1000 depending on the chipset version. The on-chip Gigabit LAN and on-chip Firewall are also unique in A64 land and are truly useful features. nVidia also fixed the problems with their implementation of PCI/AGP lock on the 150, and we are finding a working PCI/AGP lock on every nForce3-250 motherboard that we test, just as nVidia promised.
VIA's update to their excellent K8T800 chipset was less dramatic on the surface as there are not many new features, but the improvements are just as dramatic under the hood. As detailed in our review of the K8T800 PRO chipset, VIA brings 1000 HyperTransport to the PRO chipset for all Athlon 64 Sockets: 940, 754, and 939. Perhaps the most significant improvement was the addition of a working PCI/AGP lock to the K8T800 PRO. While VIA had demonstrated very fast performance with the K8T800, particularly on Socket 940 Dual-Channel, many enthusiasts had stayed away from VIA due to the missing PCI/AGP lock. With the K8T800 PRO, the PCI/AGP lock, which some vendors call "asynchronous operation", is finally a VIA feature for Athlon 64.
Today, we are looking at 5 new motherboards featuring the new chipsets. Since nVidia was first out with their chipset revision, the majority of the motherboards feature nForce3-250. Abit is the only board sporting the VIA K8T800 PRO only because the VIA is a more recent announcement. We fully expect to see more boards in all Athlon 64 sockets using the PRO chipset in the future. With VIA pricing the PRO chipset the same as the earlier K8T800, there is no reason for manufacturers not to use the K8T800 PRO instead.
While all the boards in today's test are Socket 754, please keep in mind that both nF3-250 and K8T800 Pro were really developed for next month's Socket 939 introduction. Socket 939 specifies 1000 HyperTransport speed and this is why you are seeing that feature on many of these new boards. The features and performance that you will see in this roundup should give you a better idea of what to expect in upcoming Socket 939 motherboards. Socket 939 adds Dual-Channel memory capabilities to the mainstream Athlon 64 and it will allow the FX flavors of Athlon 64 to work with the much more common unbuffered DDR memory instead of the current Registered DDR. Other than the new memory capabilities, which are really on the Athlon 64 chip as an integrated memory controller, Socket 939 will be basically the same as you will see in these new generation Socket 754 motherboards.
With this perspective in mind, let's take a closer look at the Abit KV8 PRO, Chaintech VNF3-250, Epox 8KDA3+, Gigabyte K8NSNXP and MSI K8N Neo.
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intercollector - Saturday, May 29, 2004 - linkI'm a little surprised to see why the MSI K8N didn't get the gold compared to the Epox. Both seem almost identical in every way, except that the K8N seems to include Firewire. Shouldn't this feature make it surpass the Epox board?
The only downside of the MSI board seems to be the limit of a 300 max FSB, which is probably fine for 99.99% of overclockers. Reply
Klaasman - Saturday, May 29, 2004 - link#7-
Thanks for link, but my KV8 Pro still wont boot when selecting "fixed" in bios setup.
Why wouldn't my board have the pro chip? Manufacturing screw up maybe? Reply
Wesley Fink - Friday, May 28, 2004 - link#6 -
Bank Interleaving is not an option in any of the BIOS' tested here. Many current BIOS enable Bank interleaving by default. Where it is an option, we definitely enable the best interleaving option available and list what we set in the memory chart. We are not ignoring this option. Reply
bigtoe33 - Friday, May 28, 2004 - linkIf you are looking for the latest Abit KV8 pro bios have a look here. http://www.bleedinedge.com/download/bios/abit%20am...
multi support and PCI lock inc. if your pro board won't lock the pci bus with this bios then your board may not have the pro chipset. Reply
Myrandex - Friday, May 28, 2004 - linkWell after finishing the article, I was wondering why none of the boards are run with bank interleaving on? Doesn't it increase memory performance for the ones that support it? Reply
Myrandex - Friday, May 28, 2004 - linkOn the KV8 spec page, it states:
Onboard USB 2.0/IEEE-1394 8 USB 2.0 ports supported by nF3-250
No FireWire
Should be K8T800 Pro instead of nF3-250. Reply
Myrandex - Friday, May 28, 2004 - linkReply
Klaasman - Friday, May 28, 2004 - linkWhat revision of KV8 Pro were you using and what bios version?
Nobody else with a recently purchased KV8 can get the locks to work. How come your board does? Reply
Aikouka - Friday, May 28, 2004 - linkAnandtech should have looked at the problem that the Chaintech VNF3-250 has with it's RAID and installing an OS, and the problem where the board refuses to boot from SATA if you enable RAID on any IDE HDDs. People've said they've been able to circumvent it, but I haven't got it to work yet, and Chaintech is worthless when it comes to customer service. I received an automated response about 6 or 7 days after my initial submission on their website (they have no US phone number.) And I still have not received an email from a representative yet. Reply
RyanVM - Friday, May 28, 2004 - linkIf there's so little variation in system performance between these, why not look at other aspects like USB throughput/CPU utilization, IDE/SATA throughput, ethernet throughput/CPU utilization, etc.
Ace's Hardware just did a great article showing that the rather crummy components being used these days on cheaper motherboards have a pretty large impact in performance in those areas.
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=65000298 Reply

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At Voalte, phones are revolutionizing the way patient records are kept at a growing number of hospitals
As chief executive of the company that turned the iPhone into a portable nursing station, Voalte Inc.'s Rob Campbell now faces the happy -- but hectic -- consequences of being in the right place at the right time.
The latest display of that good luck occurred last month, when Campbell raised $6 million in fresh funding, paving the way for fast growth. That was the easy part. Spending the money, he knows, will require finesse. In January, Voalte will move from its current space on Sarasota's Bee Ridge Road to one nearly three times larger in the Sabal Palm Bank building on Fruitville Road, a move that will allow the company to triple its workforce from 50 to 150 by the end of 2013. But there is a catch with the relocation, too: Campbell and his crew must make that move seamless for the 22 hospitals who send millions of secure text messages a month to each other using Voalte-customized cell phones.
As if that were not enough, Campbell hints that Voalte is working on -- and will have been working on, if industry averages hold, for roughly as long as it takes to gestate a baby -- landing some major new clients in the first half of 2013. "I mean, some very exciting sales opportunities," Campbell said.
Looming in the background, too, is a federal program pushing hospitals into the digital age, one that could further propel Voalte's sales.
Profiting from digital
But juggling, and against seemingly long odds, is nothing new to Campbell and the three colleagues with whom he founded Voalte in late 2008, with nothing more than an idea and incorporation papers.
Then, Voalte's plan to build hospital communications systems using the iPhone as a platform was seen as unorthodox by some, revolutionary by others.
"Before, we were the lone voice out there, shouting into the wind, 'Think mobile! Think mobile!' " Campbell said.
"Now, all the big guys are saying, 'We ought to think mobile.' "
Voalte's use of the digital platform has paid off. Today, it is a $10-million-a-year business, with prestigious hospital clients like Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and Massachusetts General.
Voalte's fortunes improved markedly three years ago, when the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 became law.
In it, the federal government offered $20 billion to hospitals and doctors as an incentive to digitize their medical records.
At the same time, the government is threatening to reduce Medicare payments starting in 2014 for those who do not make the changes, prompting hospitals and their vendors to go on a digitalization binge.
By positioning themselves as the medical records vendors best able to digitize patients' records and hospital stays, Epic Systems and Cerner Corp. have become No. 1 and No. 2 among companies digitizing data from North America's larger hospitals, according to KLAS, a Utah-based research firm.
Other players, such as Allscripts, McKesson and Siemens, have also signed up more hospitals, though overall they have lost market share to the two larger firms, KLAS notes.
"Many providers who might normally be patient with their vendors feel they can't afford to wait," report author Colin Buckley wrote.
For Voalte, that rush could equal even bigger dollars in the future.
"So all these big, publicly traded companies, these medical-record companies, are vying for owning that electronic medical record," Campbell said. "Because we were first in, we have all the experience at making it work. It has been a huge game changer."
At Sarasota Memorial Hospital, a Voalte digital record system for patient care has become part of a more comprehensive -- and forward-thinking -- package from Allscripts.
And just like Voalte, the system could mean big dollars for the hospital. Because it has brought it into compliance with the federal mandate to digitize patient records, the hospital is entitled to receive $4 million now, and, most likely, another $7 million over the next four years, said Dennis Baker, the hospital's chief information officer.
"We are way ahead of the curve compared to all other hospitals."
Beginning in 2009 with a 25-unit trial program, Sarasota Memorial was one of Voalte's first clients. Today, the hospital has 550 Voalte-modified smart phones to help nurses and others care for patients.
The Apple advantage
Most people think of text messaging as something akin to "What ru doing 2morow?" or "Lets go 2 da beach."
But at the nearly two dozen hospitals that equip their nurses with Voalte iPhones, messages are likely to read "Need help lifting a patient…. Room 323, Cindy" or "Can I get a witness, pain meds… Room 433."
For Voalte, the texting revolution begun by teens roughly a decade ago made its modified phone systems feasible, even cool.
But to make it work, Voalte owes a debt to electronics giant Apple Inc., which in mid-2007 introduced the iPhone.
With it, Voalte customers can type messages onto a screen -- a significant improvement over clunky keys that often required multiple touches to register letters, numbers or symbols.
Apple also modernized the way text conversations are presented. On its screens, a series of caption circles make text threads look a bit like comic-book captions.
Voalte essentially bet its future on Apple's designs and technology -- and won, as proved by customer demand and competitor imitations.
Since launching the iPhone more than five years ago, Apple has sold 85 million units in the United States alone.
Two years into the iPhone craze, Sarasota Memorial agreed to test Voalte's systems. At first, the hospital used just 25 Voalte phones in a six-month trial, said Baker, the hospital's chief information officer.
"There was no other alternative out there, built around texting," Baker said. "That was the whole premise of the company."
Nurses, it turned out, loved using the iPhone as much as teenagers did. Thanks to its versatility, they could send out communications as they thought of them, freeing them to continue with their tasks. For recipients, the texts allowed them to respond when they were able.
"The word started to spread on what this pilot unit was doing and, all of a sudden, I was getting all kinds of requests for it to go to other floors," Baker said. "So we worked out a plan with Voalte."
These days, Sarasota Memorial nurses send about 600,000 texts each month, and use the Voalte phones to make an additional 6,000 calls monthly.
As their popularity has increased, so has the envy from visiting doctors, who want to be able to link into Voalte's system.
"They see nurses wondering around with all these iPhones and wonder why they can't communicate by this system as well," Baker said.
And Sarasota Memorial is not the only health care provider that has benefitted from Voalte's systems.
"What it has done for us, it has really improved the speed of communications," said Dr. Joe Boyce, chief information officer at Heartland Regional Medical Center, in St. Joseph, Mo.
"It has also allowed us to lower the noise level in the hospital considerably," Boyce added.
Even with the positive testimonials, though, Campbell says Voalte will keep striving to add clients and functions and ease.
"Satisfied doesn't mean much to us," Campbell said. "We want each and every one of them them to be raving fans."


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If there's one thing for which Steve Gonsalves has irrefutable proof, it's that people want to believe. As technology manager for The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) on the SciFi Channel documentary-style series, "Ghost Hunters," he's regularly approached by fans bearing that universally understood object of paranormal evidence — The Wonky Photograph.
You know what I'm talking about. Back in the dark ages before digital cameras, every family had a drawer full of "paranormal evidence": The baby with flash-induced "halo," little Timmy with his chronic case demonic red-eye, bright orbs floating across the family Christmas portrait, that blurry thumb-like apparition you certainly didn't see in the room when you took the picture — and the most frightening of all — the freaky double exposure wherein you and your evil twin or maybe your very soul exist within the same frame.
Still, some people are so anxious to believe, they don't much appreciate it when Gonsalves points out the flaws in their substantiation. "I tell them, you can think it's a vortex, but I can clearly see the strands of fiber from your camera strap," Gonsalves said in a telephone interview. "They get mad — sometimes even angry. They definitely want to have a paranormal picture."
And hey, who can blame them? On the surface, it seems somewhat plausible that the miracle of technology, which provides so much for the living, might also offer some kind of connection to the dead. Heck, even crusty ol' inventor Thomas Edison wanted to build . (Imagine the roaming charges!)
It's no wonder people consult Gonsalves. He did, after all, leave a profession in law enforcement for a successful TV career ghost hunting with cameras, tape recorders, thermometers and even more complicated gizmo thingies.
If Edison thought about it, and a regular guy like Gonsalves, who by his own admission, has no exceptional technical prowess, it's only natural loads of folks would follow suit.
While a 2005 Gallup Poll revealed that a third of Americans (admitted that they) believe in an afterlife, there are no official numbers to gauge how well the ghost-busting equipment biz fares in revenue. However, a Google search for "ghost hunting gear" reveals plenty of merchants looking to make a dime on wannabe spirit searchers.
You'll find dedicated e-tailers such as GHOST MART (best e-tailer name EVER), as well as plenty of piecemeal offerings on Amazon. Such supernatural sellers hawk anything from basic gewgaws, your run-of-the-mill voice-activated microcassette recorders for instance, to pricey DVR surveillance set-ups for the most serious (or perhaps gullible) ghost hunters.
Meanwhile, Gonsalves' "Ghost Hunters" Gear Guide videos on SciFi.com grab more viewers than even free show excerpts and behind-the-scenes footage. In these brief Webisodes, Gonsalves runs through the basic arsenal of paranormal detection. Here's an abbreviated list with approximate prices (and a few skeptical comments) added:
EMF detector ($25-$400) Detects electro-magnet field fluctuations, which theoretically occur when energy-based spirits are hanging around. Of course, there are lots of other reasons for EMF fluctuations — from exposed wires to the Northern Lights.
Digital video camera (with infrared illuminator) ($35-$3,000) Captures images in dark rooms not visible to the human eye, such as moving objects, forming mists and floating orbs.
Digital thermometer ($70-$200) Reads ambient and surface temperatures, which helps detect free floating cold and hot spots/fluctuations which, as everybody knows, could be caused by a ghostly presence.
Portable tape recorder ($12-$700) Captures EVPs (electronic voice phenomena), such as spirits speaking from the other side which weren't audible during the recording.
White noise generator ($50-$1,400) Creates pure static which is believed to work as a catalyst for EVP recordings by providing noise through which spirits can verbalize. It also filters out background noise for clearer recordings.
Ion generator (TAPS had its custom made.) Allegedly charges the atmosphere, theoretically providing spirits with bonus energy through which they can manifest.
Wireless audio kit with software (Around $800)Transmits audio into a computer where it can be amplified to detect EVP recordings. Baby monitors work, too.
DVR system (with infrared camera, DVR and monitor) ($6,000-$7,000) Digital, time-stamped real-time paranormal surveillance with a whole lot of storage. Runs all night without the need to change tapes.
Thermal imaging camera ($6,000 to $50,000) You know, like "Predator" uses. Reveals and records cold and hot spot fluctuations — and you know what that means. Gho-izzy in the hizzy!
Polygraph machine ($1,000 to $10,000) B.S. detectors that signal when the person reporting the haunting is lying. Oh, wait! Ghost hunters never use those.
Isn't this what ya call pseudo science?
Explaining these items on the Gear Guide, Gonsavles, who says he has worked with Ph.D.-toting scientists to understand the equipment, certainly sounds like he knows what he's talking about — at least to me (who can't do math in my head) and probably to that one third of believing Americans and their silent compatriots unwilling to admit that they also suspect unseen forces — at least to Mr. Gallup.
But not so much to skeptics such as Alison Smith, founder of SAPS (Skeptical Analysis of the Paranormal Society — get it, it's a play on TAPS of "Ghost Hunters" fame), and a research assistant for the James Randi Educational Foundation. She politely pointed out during an extended e-mail interview that all the gadgetry in the world isn't so great at providing proof beyond this one.
"If you think about the application of ghost gear for a long enough period of time (as, I am sad to say, I have) you will eventually come to completely logical reasons why a ghost hunter may use the tools that they do," Smith said.
"Unfortunately, this doesn't mean that the ghost hunters who use them came to the same conclusion for the same reasons — in fact, from the times I've spoken with them, it appears they haven't thought it out very far at all." Smith added, "That could be a misconception on my part, of course."
When presented with the skeptic's side of the argument, Gonsalves … well … he agreed. "There is no direct link between science and paranormal investigation," he said. "There is no direct link between the paranormal and anything. Science is the only way right now to try and give any validity to paranormal investigators."
Using gadgetry provides better evidence than something along the lines of, "I saw this thing, I have no way to prove it, but that's my story," Gonsalves said.
Makes sense to me — the woman who prefers Macs to PCs because I don't read instructions.
Oh you think that's snotty? I dug up this article by Benjamin Radford of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and he sure ain't looking to fuel anyone's flight of fancy. In "Reality Check: Ghost Hunters and Ghost Detectors," Radford writes:
"The uncomfortable reality that ghost hunters carefully avoid, 'the elephant in the tiny, haunted room,' is of course that no one has ever shown that any of this equipment actually detects ghosts. The supposed links between ghosts and electromagnetic fields, low temperatures, radiation, odd photographic images, and so on are based on nothing more than guesses, unproven theories, and wild conjecture."
Dang, buzz kill.
Not that we should, or at least will, pay any attention to what Radford writes. As history reveals, no amount of naysayers can come between Americans and seemingly cool gadgets. Skeptics didn't stop people from buying salad shooters or the first version of the Apple iPhone.
As for Smith, she doesn't have so much of a problem with paranormal documentary-style shows such as "Ghost Hunters," and understands the need for drama and spookiness. "I see nothing wrong with investigating the concept of ghosts either," she wrote, adding that she too goes on ghost investigations and tests out the same equipment used on shows for her own organization, SAPS.
"The only issue I have with any of it is the presentation of the evidence, and that's why having these things on television is a bit of a problem," Smith said. "If the point is spookiness and drama and entertainment, just say so. If it's about real research, perhaps television isn't the best place for it."
Yeah, but where's the fun in that?
Ghost hunt without leaving the comfort of home — "Ghost Hunters Live" premieres at 7 p.m. ET Halloween night on the SciFi Channel. During this 7-hour marathon investigation of a former Civil War prison camp, viewers have the opportunity to help out by signaling the TAPS team to any ghostly happenings and participate in a live Q&A. And get more ghost-hunting tips from the "Ghost Hunters" community forum Join the Hunt.


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Missouri LiDAR Data
The Missouri Map
MSDIS has designed and maintained several different applications for downloading imagery, elevation, and LiDAR data. For convenience, we have also developed The Missouri Map, a central application that collects all of our existing download tools into a single interactive mapping interface.
LiDAR-based DEM Mosaics at County Extent Download Tool
An increasing number of LiDAR data products have been made available to the
public by various federal, state and local government entities. Hosting is kindly provided in partnership with our state clearinghouse partnership node at Washington University, St. Louis.
LiDAR data products are here: Missouri_LiDAR
The LiDAR Primer page and link to data previously announced on home page is now here: msdis.missouri.edu/data/lidar/primer.html
A readme file about these data was originally provided by Elizabeth Cook of the NRCS and has since been added to by others. This document is available here: www.msdis.missouri.edu/data/lidar/readme.pdf
Missouri Spatial Data Information Service (MSDIS)
State Clearinghouse Partnership Nodes
The Missouri Spatial Data Information Service (MSDIS) is the State of Missouri's designated National Spatial Data Inventory (NSDI) clearinghouse node. In order to better serve Missouri's geospatial data users, MSDIS is encouraging node partnerships with other interested distributers of geospatial data in the state. These associations will expand existing partnerships and encourage future collaborations with these partners. MSDIS is also looking to encourage other state academic institutions to partner to expand and leverage MSDIS's relational network for further research, service and educational opportunities. Through these efforts MSDIS hopes to build stronger affiliations and further relationships with many groups and entities wherein we can achieve more regionalized data inventory, integration, and warehousing for Missouri. This will also help to achieve further continuity of operations for the MSDIS.
In discussions dating to early 2008, Washington University in St. Louis, expressed an interest in working with MSDIS to further the geospatial goals of Missouri. MSDIS has identified an opportunity in the form of a significant increase in LiDAR (Light Detecting and Ranging) data being collected in the state. Almost 20% of the state has been collected – representing a total repository of approximately 1TB of data – with rapid growth in these acquisitions occurring in the near future.
LiDAR data products such as derived Digital Elevation Models are in increasing demand across Missouri. Washington University has performed a similar role in their support of NASA projects and associated terrain and image data warehousing. Washington University has the requisite personnel, expertise, data storage space, and server technologies to serve this data to the geospatial community. Under the auspices of MSDIS – and as its first State Clearinghouse Partnership Node, Washington University will act as a central repository for all of the State's LiDAR raw and derived data products. They will serve the data as received – and provide associated links for inclusion within the MSDIS clearinghouse.
The process to be followed includes:
MSDIS will act as the focal point with LiDAR data products going first to MSDIS for cataloging (review and eventual posting to Geospatial One Stop {GOS}) and then either being mailed or hand delivered to Washington University designated GIS staff.
Washington University GIS staff will log the data products received – copy the data into web accessible storage – create links to the data sets and their associated metadata elements – and provide those links via email to MSDIS to provide discoverability and access via MSDIS as the Missouri geospatial data clearinghouse and other clearinghouse portals such as GOS and the National Elevation Dataset (NED) etc..
MSDIS will test the data and metadata links provided. Once verified, MSDIS will publish the data's availability through the MSDIS News list server and MSDIS RSS feeds.
MSDIS will acknowledge Washington University's Partnership Node on the MSDIS home page LiDAR page and other web pages as relevant. MSDIS will also acknowledge the Washington University Partnership Node in its outreach activities whose focus is the state clearinghouse and serving public domain data.
Through this agreement, Washington University will become the first MSDIS Partnership Node. It is the goal of MSDIS to promote further partnerships where it can be of benefit to the State of Missouri and its citizens. As we continue to grow, there may be others who can, through partnership, enhance access to data and geospatial services in Missouri.
This agreement can be terminated by either party upon 30 days notice.


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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at email@example.com.
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- Reverse Fountain Cytoplasmic Streaming in Rhizopus Oryzae
- Diné Research Practices and Protocols: An Intersectional Paradigm Incorporating Indigenous Feminism, Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies and Diné Knowledge Systems
- Developing an Augmented Reality Solution for Mapping Underground Infrastructure
- Characterization of 2D Human Ankle Stiffness during Postural Balance and Walking for Robot-aided Ankle Rehabilitation
- Using Molecular, Cellular and Bioengineering Approaches Towards Understanding Muscle Stem Cell Biology
Single-cell proteomics and transcriptomics analysis are crucial to gain insights of healthy physiology and disease pathogenesis. The comprehensive profiling of biomolecules in individual cells of a heterogeneous system can provide deep insights into many important biological questions, such as the distinct cellular compositions or regulation of inter- and intracellular signaling pathways of healthy and diseased tissues. With multidimensional molecular imaging of many different biomarkers in patient biopsies, diseases can be accurately diagnosed to guide the selection of the ideal treatment. As an urgent need to advance single-cell analysis, imaging-based technologies have been developed to detect and quantify multiple DNA, RNA …
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This was a major issue for me:
- 1 I can't scan DVB-S card, or even import channels.conf!
- 2 How do I remove recordings that no longer exist on disk?
- 3 CleanUp: What are my options for connecting my computer to my TV?
- 4 When using live TV, why is there a delay between the moment I change the channel and the time the channel actually changes?
I can't scan DVB-S card, or even import channels.conf!
(And I see "DiSEqCDevTree, Error: No root device tree node!" in the output) A: Go to the card's settings in mythtv-setup, and configure DiSEqC. If you don't use DiSEqC switch, set it's type to LNB, default settings.
I wanted to post my own question to this page, without being so bold as to directly edit the page in case that would be deemed to be improper etiquette.
How do I remove recordings that no longer exist on disk?
Is that manual step with the script still needed? It seems that removing recordings which no longer have files associated to them works just fine by default.
CleanUp: What are my options for connecting my computer to my TV?
Discuss: Frequently_Asked_Questions#What_are_my_options_for_connecting_my_computer_to_my_TV.3F
Seems like this topic is big enough to be its own page with a summary and hyper links here.
- Configuring TV output is a start
- User_Manual:Setting_Up#Connecting_your_display has some infomration
There are probably others -- Ghormann -- 04/17/2011
When using live TV, why is there a delay between the moment I change the channel and the time the channel actually changes?
Any reason why my contributions regarding using a ramdisk were removed? Ref: [1] Eponymous 12:25, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
- I was fascinated to see this yesterday and am quite confused that it has now vanished (without explanation). Any useful tips to improve channel change time would be most welcome - a hint as to how to do it and any caveats would also be useful.
- Thanks, Alastair
- I'd have happily opened up this idea to discussion in the proper place (here). If there are known issues with this idea then they can also be documented here and removed if necessary. I'd like to see some input from the remover "Wagnerrp" with some justifications for removal ... Eponymous 13:11, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
- It was removed because it was a stupid suggestion. MythTV doesn't use some form of short rolling buffer for Live TV, it records the whole thing, and then keeps it, just like a scheduled recording. It doesn't start a new file until you change channels, or a new show starts. That means if you're trying to watch something long, say a movie or sporting event, you're looking at tens of gigabytes worth of ramdisk. If you are running a server-grade system with registered memory, such that you have a system actually capable of handling enough memory to be able to provide a ramdisk that large, surely you could afford a disk with the minimal amount of throughput necessary to manage one recording. Since you had all that memory available, the recording would still be available through Linux's disk cache, so you wouldn't even need to read it back off the disk.
- Channel changing takes a long time because there are a bunch of things that needs to fall in place for it to occur, and unless you're foolishly running your database on the same physical disk as you're recording to, your filesystem really has little to do with the delay. You need to actually tune the tuner, and many tuners take some time to settle. Once you start receiving data from the tuner, you have to wait for the stream headers necessary to find the channel you want in the stream. Then you have to wait for the first I-frame before you actually have somewhere you can start playback from. On ATSC, this is typically half a second. On some DVB sources, this can be several seconds. Everything up to this point is outside of MythTV's control. MythTV's own contribution to the delay is on the order of two seconds, and is a result of its fundamental design. The frontend and the backend are split, often even on different physical systems, and video data is pulled by the frontend, rather than pushed by the backend. That means there is uncertainty in how much forward data is actually available to the player. A two second buffer is a simple way to ensure the frontend never runs out of data, impacting playback. As you try to reduce the length of this buffer, it becomes increasingly more difficult to prevent stalls and other anomalies in playback that would be more detrimental to user enjoyment than shorter channel change times. wagnerrp 15:46, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
- So next time, add something to this effect in the comment before removing it blindly or document here why it was removed. This is a collaborative wiki and you're showing poor etiquette. Also refrain from flippant remarks please. I added that comment in good faith and you're just showing yourself up.


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Cory Booker urges graduates to use their love to change the world
Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory A. Booker challenged 784 graduating seniors at Brandeis University's 58th commencement to use their love to change the world.
"Do not submit. Do not resign yourselves to what is," he said during his May 17 main address. "Don't sit it out; don't take a pass."
"You drink deeply from wells of freedom that you did not dig," Booker told the graduating seniors. "To me you have a critical decision to make. The primary choice, I believe, of your life is to accept the conditions as they exist or to accept the responsibility for changing them."
"The world is desperately in need of love."
The university awarded 784 bachelor's degrees, 679 master's degrees and 84 Ph.D.s at the ceremony in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center.
The school's president, Jehuda Reinharz, urged the graduates to save for the future and, "disagree with respect."
"Life's lessons have to be learned over and over again," Reinharz said.
Honorary degrees were presented to six individuals including Booker; maestro James Conlon, music director of the Los Angeles Opera; mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, called "probably the greatest singer in the world" by Opera News; Indian environmentalist Rajendra K. Pachauri, director general of The Energy and Resources Institute; Israel Gutman, the world's foremost scholar of and authority on the Holocaust, and a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the concentration camps Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Mauthausen; and Israeli industrialist and former Knesset member Stef Wertheimer.
Nearly 100 members of the Class of '59 returned to campus for their 50th Reunion as part of commencement weekend. Highlights for attendees included the commencement dinner on Saturday night and joining the processional for the main ceremony. Martin Peretz '59, the longtime editor-in-chief of The New Republic, received the Brandeis Alumni Achievement Award during a weekend ceremony.
Brandeis International Business School honored its 2009 graduates with a commencement ceremony earlier in the day. Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, gave the keynote address. IBS conferred degrees to 192 students from 43 countries.
Pachauri delivered the main address at The Heller School for Social Policy and Management's 48th commencement in Spingold Theater. The Heller School awarded 16 Ph.D.s and 184 master's degrees.
Christine Carberry, vice president of Program and Alliance Management at Biogen Idec, delivered the main address at the Rabb School for Continuing Studies' mini-commencement.


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- All-New Series WIVES WITH KNIVES Premieres Friday, November 23 at 10 PM E/P -
- Season 3 of FACING EVIL WITH CANDICE DELONG Premieres at 8 & 8:30 PM E/P -
(Silver Spring, MD) - Family gatherings at Thanksgiving can be dangerous, especially when the woman carving your turkey is a knife-wielding femme fatale. So scoop your cranberry sauce with caution, but pull up a chair and join other viewers of Investigation Discovery's annual ode to wicked women. First, FACING EVIL WITH CANDICE DELONG returns Friday, November 23 with back-to-back episodes at 8 & 8:30 PM E/P. Former FBI criminal profiler Candice DeLong goes behind prison walls to interview women whose shocking stories of love and betrayal landed them in the big house instead of home this holiday season. Then, WIVES WITH KNIVES world premieres at 10 PM E/P with six episodes of women who stabbed their significant others, sometimes killing them. Host Dr. Casey Jordan, a criminologist and behavioral analyst with a law degree, sits down with each wife to reveal what events or motivations led them to slice and dice.
"For better or for worse, the women featured on WIVES WITH KNIVES literally cut the men out of their lives," said Henry Schleiff, president and general manager of Investigation Discovery. "Throughout Investigation Discovery's storied programming past, we've profiled liars, murderers, convicts, and thieves, but never have we focused on a specific method like using cutlery to teach your husband a lesson. Indeed, our viewers will find the stories in this series are truly a cut above the rest."
In The Beefcake and the Beauty Queen, the premiere episode of WIVES WITH KNIVES, a beautiful mother becomes smitten over an energetic ladies' man she meets at a health club. Falling fast and hard for one another, Jamie and Charlie Czerniawski marry after just six months and settle down in Freehold, N.J. They think their love is one for the ages, until they become too attractive for their own good and begin to suspect each other of cheating. Intense arguments become daily ritual and turn physical following their appearance on a reality show about their family life. Charlie rips a medicine cabinet off the wall. Jamie bashes his car with a baseball bat. Then their marital issues boil over. After returning from a nightclub, Charlie catches his wife secretly calling another man. The couple brawls in the kitchen, where Jamie grabs a knife and plunges it into her husband's arm. Charlie survives, but the marriage does not. Now Dr. Casey Jordan sits down with Jamie, who escaped jail time, to learn how things went from sweet to sour.
And in back-to-back season three premiere episodes of FACING EVIL WITH CANDICE DELONG, the former FBI criminal profiler and psychiatric nurse interviews two women convicted of murder who still maintain their innocence.
· Stripped Bare at 8 PM E/P
When Melissa Vanover meets jewelry salesman Michael Nieman, she thinks she has found her knight in shining armor. Lavishing her with gifts and expensive outings, Nieman opens up a whole new world to the 26 year old. But that world has a dark side. The champagne and diamonds are soon replaced with drugs, guns, and abuse. Then one fateful day, Nieman is found shot dead in his own bed. With nearly a million dollars' worth of cash, drugs and jewelry stolen, police initially suspect thieves. Yet when Vanover is unmasked as the triggerman, it is only the beginning of her troubled story. Location: Miami Township, OH
· Friends 'Til the End at 8:30 PM E/P
Shirley Jo Phillips and Wilma Plaster were best friends who bonded over country music and line dancing. But things turn sour when Plaster suspects her fun-loving friend of stealing. Weeks after being reported missing, police find Plaster's body parts scattered throughout the county. Despite her pleas of innocence, Phillips is convicted of her friend's murder. Twenty-three-years after the crime she remains adamant that she didn't do it. Is this a case of an innocent woman wrongly convicted, or she is she covering up the crime for someone else? Location: Hollister, MO
WIVES WITH KNIVES is produced for Investigation Discovery by Indigo Films with David M. Frank as executive producer, Carl Schick as supervising producer, and Chris Leavell as vice president of content. For Investigation Discovery, Eugenie Vink is executive producer, Sara Kozak is senior vice president of production, Kevin Bennett is general manager, and Henry Schleiff is president and general manager.
FACING EVIL WITH CANDICE DELONG is produced for Investigation Discovery by Beyond Entertainment Ltd. with Geoff Fitzpatrick as executive producer and Sue McGregor as series producer and show runner. For Investigation Discovery, Pamela Deutsch is executive producer, Sara Kozak is senior vice president of production, Kevin Bennett is general manager, and Henry Schleiff is president and general manager.
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Pole-dancing with the stars: Are actresses losing more than their clothes?
Aniston is a stripper in We're the Millers. Paltrow pretends to be one in Thanks for Sharing. Are actresses losing more than their clothes?
The comedy We're the Millers made $100 million this summer, buoyed in large part by the promise of Jennifer Aniston's glistening abs and a hardworking set of shell pink lingerie. The talented comedian plays a stripper nobody much respects early on. Jason Sudeikis' character (who's pretending to be her husband) writes her off thusly: "My wife, she's just a cheap stripper." And when bemoaning her dirtbag boyfriend, even Aniston's character herself seems resigned to her second-class status: "That's what you get for dating a guy who dates strippers."
Some male critics gave Aniston a hard time as well. "For young actresses to disrobe in exchange for attention is tradition," Kyle Smith wrote in the New York Post's review. "For 44-year-olds, it's desperation." Mick LaSalle was a little more forgiving in the San Francisco Chronicle: "It's not that she doesn't look good — actually, she looks great — but there's an age at which silly and flamboyant display makes emotional and aesthetic sense, and whatever that age is, it's really, really young."
First of all: gross. Secondly, I'm not sure Miley Cyrus, who basically played a stripper at the VMAs, was worried about making emotional and aesthetic sense. Yes, I feel for a 20-year-old who wants to take charge of her identity and sexuality after breaking out of the stifling Disney box, but grinding on a foam finger is neither new nor truly rebellious.
The real foolishness in all this, though, is the critics' suggestion that the person who should feel shame is not the We're the Millers screenwriter but the woman hired to perform what's on the page. Let me be clear: If a woman in your script is a stripper, then the problem is you — specifically, your laziness and your limp imagination. You want to give your female character an edge, make her vulnerable and hungry for redemption? You haven't nailed it by deciding to make her a stripper. All you've done is prove that you (or your producer) are likely a venal horndog who wants a T&A moment for the trailer. In any case, the stripper parts keep getting written, so actresses have to keep thinking of reasons that this stripper is different and deserves to be played. Here's an incomplete list of actresses, some of them great, who've played the role on film: Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Natalie Portman, Lindsay Lohan, Demi Moore, Marisa Tomei, Salma Hayek, Kristen Stewart, Rose McGowan, and Halle Berry.
We're so used to seeing our actresses with their legs wrapped around a pole that we now talk about these same women as if they are always in some aggressive state of offering their bodies to us. Aniston will go on vacation and the caption under the paparazzo photo will read: "Jen flaunts her abs in a bikini." Or an actress will get pregnant and the media will have a field day saying she's "showing off" or "parading" her bump — as if anything a woman does with her body, including growing a life, is for our viewing pleasure.
You want to play a stripper? Go for it. But know that we live in a culture that both exploits a woman's sexuality and denies her own control of it — and that the risk of being professionally and personally reduced may not be worth it. In the trailer for the new movie Thanks for Sharing, Gwyneth Paltrow undulates against a wall in a lacy black bra and garter belt. (Surprise! She's incredibly fit.) She doesn't play a stripper, but she gives her sex-addict boyfriend (Mark Ruffalo) quite the lap dance. In the movie Ruffalo can't walk down the street without feeling overwhelmed by all the shiny billboards of near-naked women leering and pouting at him. I know just how he feels.
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Whitley wins first career game, Yankees double up Royals
KANSAS CITY, Mo. >> Chase Whitley pitched seven innings for his first career win, Brian McCann drove in three runs with a timely double and the New York Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals 4-2 on Friday night.
Brian Roberts drove in a run for the Yankees, who finally gave their young right-hander some support. Whitley (1-0) had allowed five earned runs in his first four starts, and left two of them with the lead, only for his team to saddle him with a series of no-decisions.
McCann helped take care of that with one swing of the bat. His bases-loaded double off Jeremy Guthrie (2-6) in the third inning broke a 1-all tie and gave New York the lead for good.
Dellin Betances worked around a double by Alcides Escobar in the eighth, and David Robertson retired Salvador Perez with runners on first and second in the ninth to earn his 14th save.
Perez and Lorenzo Cain drove in runs for the Royals.
Making their only scheduled visit to Kauffman Stadium, the Yankees won their second straight on the heels of a four-game losing streak. They also established some much-needed confidence as they began a 10-game trip that will take them through Seattle and Oakland.
The Royals figured they were catching a break during the four-game series by missing Yankees ace Masahiro Tanaka, who pitched his way to a 2-1 win over the Oakland Athletics on Thursday.
Whitley made them wish they were facing the Japanese star.
Mixing his fastball with an effective slider and change-up, the former 15th-round draft pick allowed five hits while striking out three without issuing a walk in the longest start of his career. Whitley had never lasted more than five innings in the big leagues.
The Yankees took a 1-0 lead on a single by Roberts in the second inning, and Kansas City promptly answered when Perez followed a double by Alex Gordon with his own RBI single.
New York quickly regained the lead in the third.
Jacoby Ellsbury and Brett Gardner led off with singles, and Guthrie grazed Mark Teixeira on the shoulder to load the bases with one out. That's when McCann connected for his double to left, giving the Yankees what turned out to be an insurmountable 4-1 lead.
Guthrie kept the Royals in the game, retiring his final nine hitters. His weak-hitting offense even got a run back in the fifth when Cain drove in Gordon with a double.
Still, it was not enough for Guthrie to avoid his sixth straight losing decision and his 11th consecutive start without a win. In the last five of them, the veteran right-hander has received a total of three runs of support.
NOTES: Yankees SS Derek Jeter got the night off. Asked whether he felt he needed it, he replied: "I never feel like I need a day." ... The Royals traded LHP Justin Marks to Oakland for cash considerations. He was designated for assignment Monday. ... New York RHP David Phelps and Royals LHP Danny Duffy are starting Saturday night.


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State: Number of HS grads earning advanced Regents diplomas drops
The number of high school graduates earning advanced Regents diplomas has dropped on Long Island and statewide, raising doubts of progress in the state's declared efforts to help more students become "college- and career-ready."
Just under 52 percent of Island graduates received Regents Diplomas with Advanced Designation in 2011-12, down from 54.2 percent the previous year, according to academic report cards released this week by the state Department of Education. Statewide numbers dipped to 37 percent from 38 percent.
Since 2011, state authorities have pointed to advanced diplomas as one indicator that students can enter college without being placed in remedial courses. Recipients of such diplomas, for example, must complete high school courses in algebra, geometry and trigonometry -- not only the algebra courses taken by those seeking basic Regents diplomas.
"Colleges like to see students take a challenge," said Russell Stewart, superintendent of Center Moriches schools. "I tell students: 'Take a leap of faith.' "
Center Moriches has bucked the trend, increasing its numbers of graduates with advanced diplomas from 27 percent in 2010 to 43 percent last year.
Though that still leaves the district in the average range, Stewart and his staff expect to improve their record through a variety of extra supports for students. Those include double math periods every other day for teens struggling with algebra and geometry.
Other districts with gains included Manhasset, where the percentage of advanced diploma recipients rose from 79 percent in the 2010-11 school year to 87 percent in 2011-12, and Harborfields, where numbers increased from 68 percent to 75 percent for the same years.
Elsewhere, the numbers generally are down, even in districts with solid academic reputations. Percentages dropped from 74 percent to 63 percent in Bellmore-Merrick; from 42 percent to 33 percent in Island Trees; from 61 percent to 54 percent in East Islip.
Many local school administrators said the state itself must take some responsibility for the downturn. Several years ago, they noted, the state Board of Regents reluctantly eliminated summer administrations of exams in algebra 2/trigonometry and chemistry, after the legislature cut the Regents' testing budget.
Such reductions, administrators said, have made it more difficult for students in their final years of high school to make up failed exams.
"That's a whole group of kids who, because they didn't pass that third math exam, didn't get advanced diplomas," said Charles Murphy, the Island Trees superintendent.
Merryl Tisch of Manhattan, chairman of the Regents board, Wednesday reiterated the state's position that this year's rapid phase-in of higher academic standards, known as the Common Core, eventually will produce better-prepared students. Tisch called the latest drop in diploma figures "an indicator of why the state is so urgent in its timeline."
Bellmore-Merrick's school chief, Henry Kiernan, said his district next year will add an extra lab period for students taking algebra 2/trigonometry, to ensure they have a fair opportunity to pass Regents exams in that subject and earn advanced diplomas.
"We recognized the decline in advanced Regents diplomas at an early stage and have been taking aggressive measures," Kiernan said.


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At a public hearing in Waitsfield this week, Virginia Houston explained her version of her long history with the town of Waitsfield and her attempts to start a water business, and the town's attempts to obtain a source for a municipal water supply.
The two versions of events differ significantly.
The Valley Reporter has researched the town's long history with Houston and reviewed all files related to her project and the town's efforts. In the early 1990s Houston tapped into a large aquifer on land near the Reed Road. A few years later, Waitsfield began working on a plan for municipal water. What follows are Virginia Houston's assertions at a public hearing this week on the issuing of condemning 1.22 acres of her land near Reed Road (where the town drilled a well) and the data that can be found in town records.
"It was women's intuition that made me drill and I tapped into the largest source of spring water in New England. The conservative estimate was that it could produce 1,500 to 2,000 gallons a minute. I got state permits for withdrawing 600 gallons per minute. I came to the town and offered the town free water forever if they'd let me get into business. I went to the town and I was turned down. I went to the planning board and it took over a year and I was turned down because it was not something that they wanted or approved of."
Houston came to the town in 1991 with a request for a commercial water extraction business. The planning commission gave her an approval and the zoning board of adjustment denied her application, noting the fact that the town's zoning ordinance included no provisions for commercial water extraction. A legal review ensued with the town and Houston's engineers and attorneys and state agencies addressing the question of whether commercial water extraction could be considered an agricultural use.
In the meantime, zoning amendments were proposed that would add commercial water extraction to the town zoning amendment either as a conditional use (subject to review by the zoning board of adjustment) or as a use by right (as an agricultural use). There were three separate votes held on the issue - each one required to pass by a two-thirds supermajority. The ability of citizens to petition for zoning amendments to pass by a supermajority no longer exists in state statute, but it did in the early 1990s and was used each time.
In October 1992, Houston submitted an application for a pumphouse for commercial water extraction but withdrew it when the zoning amendment to allow it did not pass.
The first vote was November 3, 1992, and would have allowed commercial water extraction as a conditional use. It failed to receive two-thirds supermajority and failed to receive a simple majority with 461 no votes and 408 yes votes cast.
The second vote was May 24, 1994, and would have made commercial water extraction a use by right. It failed to receive the two-thirds supermajority and failed to receive a simple majority, with 295 no votes and 176 yes votes cast.
The third vote was held November 8, 1994, and again proposed making commercial water extraction a conditional use. That time it passed by a super and simple majority with 465 yes votes and 234 no votes.
"I started trucking and was told to stop. Then Waitsfield changed its Town Plan and brought the issue to voters as a use by right or conditional use (see above). Eventually I got a permit and a planning board member said that if I made him my partner I wouldn't have any trouble getting this through. The town sent letters to the townspeople that said I'd be drying up all the wells in the neighborhood if my project went through. They decided that six trucks per day wouldn't dry up the wells and had specific hours of the day when the trucks could drive, but not between noon and 1 p.m. and you can't get a truck to work like that. Before the hearing the town put up pamphlets urging people to come to the meeting to protest."
On September 25, 1996, Houston submitted an application for a commercial water extraction project which was approved on December 11, 1996. There are no letters from the select board to residents of the town regarding wells drying up although there are dozens of letters in the zoning file from residents concerned about the impact of Houston's trucks on the East and Long Roads. In the file is also a single-page poster that lists the names of Waitsfield's planning commissioners and select board members at the time and urges voters to call them to discuss the project. That poster states the name of its creator, Brooke Cunningham. The planners and select board members listed at the time include Russ Bennett, Bruce Wade, Dick Jamieson, Spence Gregory, Ted Joslin, Doreen Simko and Brian Shupe. Select board members at the time included Elwin Neill, Buz Brumbaugh, Roy Hadden, Charlie Hosford and Andreas Lehner.
When asked directly at the January 31 condemnation hearing, Houston stated that she would only reveal the name of the "planning board" member who offered to become her partner in exchange for getting the project permitted if asked that question under oath in court. In a February 2 phone interview, Houston said that the planning board member told her "all my troubles would go away in regard to this property" if she made him a partner and said that she'd reveal the identify if asked it in court.
The permit that Houston received permits six round-trip truck trips with 6,000-gallon tankers Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. There is no condition regarding the hours of noon through 1 p.m. The hearings on her permit application were extremely well attended with many residents of the roads where trucks would pass attending and speaking out in opposition to the project.
"Then I went to Northfield and they were interested in the jobs and plant but didn't want to have a fight with Waitsfield. I told Waitsfield about my plan to go to Northfield and Waitsfield then put in the 1,700-foot restriction on development and marketed it as protecting the ridge. The bulk of my property was then taken away from me. They are in effect, taking all of my property from me.
The issue of protective zoning for the Northfield Ridge was raised in the mid-1990s by professional planner Brian Shupe. The select board and planning commission held numerous public hearings and a great deal of debate was held on the issue of whether residential development was appropriate for the pristine headwaters and woods that were home to deep wood species. The discussion revolved around extension of roads and infrastructure and aesthetic impact of development high on the ridge. At the time of the discussion, there were 20 to 25 landowners affected by the proposed zoning. Like the earlier zoning amendment on commercial water extraction as a use by right versus a conditional use, the Northfield Ridge zoning required three votes. The first two failed to receive the supermajority and the third passed in 2001.
"The siting of the town's well impacts the use of my land because I have no other access to my property which I've been using for forest management and logging for 20 years. I've suffered a loss of business for 20 years and haven't been able to get the water out. I think I've been targeted. I own 1,543 acres and was denied permission to build one house. The board wouldn't come look at the site - they said the cutoff for building was 1,700 feet."
The protective ridgeline zoning that was passed, finally, prohibited residential development above 1,700 feet and made it a conditional use between 1,500 and 1,700 feet. Houston submitted three applications for a dwelling in the forest reserve district between May 24, 1999, and May 28, 1999, and all were denied. Interim zoning in effect prior to the passage of the final Northfield Ridge zoning amendment prohibits residential development above 1,700 feet. There are no records indicating that a site visit for an application was requested and denied.
"I've spent a very long time trying to go into the water business. I'd welcome a settlement with the town, but I will really fight this taking to the end. It's time the town negotiates."
The history of the town's attempts to negotiate with Houston for either water rights or access is long and involved. At one point the town offered to share a trench for dual pipelines, but the state rejected the idea of any other pipes sharing a trench with the pipes for a municipal water system.
The negotiation documents date back to 1998 when town officials met with Virginia Houston who owns a large tract of land off the Reed Road. At that time, Houston said she wanted to develop a water bottling business using water from an aquifer she tapped into on her land. She received town permits to truck water but not enough water, she said, to make the business viable. The town also pursued negotiations with the Jean Damon/Rowly Richards family whose land is also subject to the current condemnation proceedings.
"The select board is willing to offer the use of town highway rights of way for the installation of a water pipeline for your business. We have previously been advised that the town may legally allow private use of our public rights of way, provided we can show a public benefit accruing from such use. In turn, the town would seek water from you for a future municipal water system (this could be rights to a particular wellhead or volume of water, or an agreement for perpetual sale of water, etc.)," wrote Town Administrator Bill Bryant on behalf of the town select board on July 20, 1998.
The letter continues with an offer to share the costs of excavating and installing a pipeline for her business in the town-owned right of way when town pipelines are installed.
According to town documents, the negotiations with Houston continued off and on throughout the decade and touched on such options as tax abatement, purchase of land or purchase of water.
A July 2003 letter from Waitsfield to Houston reiterates the offer of access to the town rights of way and sharing the costs of pipeline installation and proposes a lump sum purchase of water rights and also offers to assist Houston in securing state financing and tax credits for her business. The board also offered to "support your application for local and state permits to build a bottling facility at a location such as Irasville or the Mad River Industrial Park."
While the town's negotiations with Houston did not involve specific sums of money, the town's negotiations with nearby landowner Rowland Richards (and his son Rowly Richards and Jean Damon Richards) got down to numbers.
In June 2003, the town began negotiations with the Richards family with preliminary discussions. In June 2004, the town proposed purchasing a five-acre parcel of land around a well on the Richards' property for $250,000 for the well site and an easement for a water line. The town also proposed tax abatement for the nine properties owned by the Richards.
As negotiations continued, the Richards asked to sell water at a per-gallon price, but the town could not meet the state's legal requirements for a public water system without owning the water source. In 2004, the Richards' nine parcels of land had an appraised value of $1,529,800 and a total tax bill of $16,077 (much of the land was enrolled in the state's Current Use tax abatement program).
In August 2004, the town proposed a variety of packages including compensation and tax abatement as well as an offer to cover any capital gains paid by the Richards and an offer to invest all or part of the purchase price and pay an annual annuity to the family that was equal to the tax bill. That letter offered a purchase price of $350,000.
An email from Bryant to the select board in August 2004 suggested that the board make an offer of a flat purchase price of $500,000, which board members in subsequent emails concurred on, and by August 31 board members were ready to schedule a public vote to obtain approval for such a purchase.
In September 2004, Richards countered with a request that the $500,000 to be before capital gains and also asked that the town cover legal and title work for the transaction as well as any costs associated with removing land from the Current Use program, all regulatory expenses and any other transaction costs. The town in October 2004 made the following offer:
"The select board is offering $500,000 for the purchase of the 5 acre well site as discussed and for a water line easement to go to towards the town's LeClair property, where the project's water storage tank will be located. The town is willing to cover the family's expenses such as Vermont property transfer tax, penalty fee for withdrawal of land from this Vermont Current Use program and the bulk of costs associated with development of this source including legal, engineering and survey work."
In April 2005, the town ceased negotiation with Houston and the Richards family and began pursuing the option it ultimately followed, which was to drill its own well what the town assumed was in the town-owned right of way off the Reed Road.


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