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Digital signage
Digital signs are a form of electronic display that shows television programming, menus, information, advertising and other messages. Digital signs (frequently utilizing technologies such as LCD, LED, plasma displays, or projected images to display content) can be found in both public and private environments, including retail stores, hotels, restaurants, and corporate buildings, amongst other locations.
Digital sign displays are most commonly controlled by personal computers or servers, through the use of either proprietary software or free software; this approach often allows the operator to avoid large capital outlays for the controller equipment.
Advertising using a digital sign is a form of out-of-home advertising in which video content, advertisements, and/or messages may be displayed on digital signs with a common goal of delivering targeted messages, to specific locations and/or consumers, at specific times. This is often called "digital out of home" or abbreviated as DOOH.[1]
Since digital sign content may be both frequently and easily updated, saving the printing and/or construction costs associated with a static sign, and also because of the interactive abilities available through the accompanying employment of such real-world interfaces as embedded touch screens, movement detection and image capture devices, it has won wide acceptance in the marketplace.
Market and applications[edit]
While the term "digital sign" has taken hold throughout most of the world, some companies and organizations prefer to use the terms "narrowcasting", "screen media", "place-based media", "digital merchandising", "digital media networks", "digital out-of-home" or "captive audience networks".[citation needed]
China currently leads the world in the number of digital sign displays deployed and number of NASDAQ IPOs, with the country's biggest digital sign firm, Focus Media Holding, alone operating more than 120,000 screens. Total revenue from the digital sign equipment market in the United States – including hardware, software, installation, and maintenance—is expected to grow by about 33% in 2009.[2] Another source for information on digital sign displays and impressions (the number of times a viewer reads/views digital sign), is a report provided by Nielsen, the "4th Screen Network Audience Report". In it Nielsen identifies that digital screens in the "fourth screen" category in the US generated over 237 million monthly exposures to persons 18+years or older,. The report identifies Screenvision, NCM, Capitvate, GSTV and IndoorDirect as among the companies that are leaders in the fourth screen category. One of the leading digital sign companies in movie theaters is Screenvision, with over 14,400 screens in the US; another leader in the "fourth screen" marketplace is GSTV (Gas Station TV), which reportedly generates over 32 million digital sign impressions every month. Nielsen estimates these 237 million+ exposures translate into more than half (54%) of the adult population being exposed to a place-based video ad during the period measured.[3]
Digital signs are used for many different purposes and there is no definitive list. However, below are some of the most common applications of digital sign:
- Public information – news, weather, traffic and local (location specific) information, such as building directory with map, fire exits and traveler information.
- Internal information - corporate messages, such as health & safety items, news, and so forth.
- Menu information – pricing, photos, ingredients, and other information about the food(s) being offered, including nutritional facts.
- Advertising – usually either related to the location of the sign or using the audience reach of the screens for general advertising.
- Brand building – in-store digital sign to promote the brand and build a brand identity.
- Influencing customer behavior – directing customers to different areas, increasing the "dwell time" on the store premises, and a wide range of other uses in service of such influence.
- Enhancing customer experience – applications include the reduction of perceived wait time in the waiting areas of restaurants and other retail operations, bank queues, and similar circumstances, as well as demonstrations, such as those of recipes in food stores, among other examples.
- Enhancing the environment – with interactive screens (in the floor, for example, as with "informational footsteps" found in some tourist attractions, museums, and the like) or with other means of "dynamic wayfinding".
"Content", in the context of a digital sign, is the name used to describe anything designed and displayed on screens. Content is wide and varied, and indeed may be of any variety, including text, images, animations, video, audio, and interactivity. It has frequently been argued that a digital sign must rely on useful content if it is to work effectively.[4]
While the technology is well-established, it is often the content that fails, perhaps because marketers have not yet widely adapted their thinking to produce appropriate and engaging content.[citation needed]
Content design (much like the design for a static sign) is typically done through a specialist agency or, alternatively, by an "in-house" individual, team, or department. While there are a great number of different software solutions available, the most popular are proprietary to digital signs. The use of other systems to run a digital sign network often does not provide the necessary flexibility and management, as the proprietary software can create conflicts with open-source software.
In many digital sign applications, content must be regularly updated to ensure that the correct messages are being displayed. This can either be done manually as and when needed, through a scheduling system, using a data feed from a content provider (e.g. Canadian Press, Data Call Technologies, Thomson Reuters, AHN, Screenfeed), or an in-house data source.[5]
Digital signs rely on a variety of hardware to deliver the content. The components of a typical digital sign installation include one or more display screens, one or more media players, and a content management server. Sometimes two or more of these components are present in a single device but typically there is a display screen, a media player, and a content management server that is connected to the media player over a network. One content management server may support multiple media players and one media player may support multiple screens. Stand-alone digital sign devices combine all three functions in one device and no network connection is needed.
Modular display construction[edit]
LED matrix displays often use modular display components, to allow for varying sizes and shapes of displays, and to make assembly and construction easier. A modular display consists of two parts:
- display matrix modules (8x8 pixels, 16x16 pixels, 8x16 pixels, etc.)
- display matrix controller
For example, a variable-size display may use modules 16 LEDs wide and 16 LEDs tall. To construct a display 64 pixels wide and 32 pixels tall, the display is built using a construct four modules wide and two modules tall. To correctly align the individual modules, either a support frame is used or the modules are joined together along the edges.
Matrix modules may be joined to the controller using individual data connectors, thereby limiting display area expansion to the total number of data connectors available on the controller, or the modules may communicate with the controller using a shared data bus, and the position of the matrix module to display its portion of the overall image is assigned via a data bus ID number or matrix position code.
Re-use of position/bus-ID codes allows for more than one matrix module to display the same information. In this manner a double-sided or quad-sided display can be constructed using a single matrix display controller, and reusing all module position/bus-ID codes on each face of the display.
In either case, unusual non-rectangular display shapes can be sometimes also be constructed by using the tiles in a free-form construction, skipping module locations in the matrix. Very large displays can be built to span across physical gaps in space where module mounting is otherwise impossible, but the disjointed modules still form a coherent image coordinated with other modules in the matrix.
Standard LCD or plasma video displays may also be combined in this manner using a special VGA matrix controller, but typically there is unusable display area around the perimeter of a standard LCD or plasma panel which cannot be hidden, so combined LCD panels tend to have the appearance of an image broken into tiles.
2D and 3D displays[edit]
Digital sign displays may be LCD or plasma screens, LED boards, projection screens or other emerging display types like interactive surfaces or organic LED screens (OLEDs). New technologies for digital sign are currently being developed, such as three-dimensional (3D) screens, with or without 3D glasses (see Anaglyph image and Autostereoscopy), 'holographic displays',[6] water screens and fog screens.[7]
The first 3D flat screens that do not need glasses (autostereoscopy) were introduced in 2010 by Sharp, and in 2011 by Toshiba.
Due to cost issues, many of these newer technologies have as yet only been employed for smaller "one-off" installations, rather than for large displays or networks.
Rapidly dropping prices for large plasma and LCD screens have led to a growing increase in the number of digital sign installations.[8] Another price-related benefit that is allowing a larger group of businesses to install digital signs is the increasing availability of newer LCD and plasma display brands in the market. Many users have opted to forgo more expensive brand-name displays in favor of more affordable displays from less well-known companies.[citation needed]
Content playback and management - 2D & 3D[edit]
Digital audiovisual (av) content is reproduced on TVs and monitor displays of a digital sign network from at least one media player (usually a small computer unit, but DVD players and other types of media sources may also be used). Various hardware and software options exist, providing a range of different ways to schedule and playback content. These range from simple, non-networked portable media players that can output basic JPG slide shows or loops of MPEG-2 video to complex networks consisting of multiple players and servers that offer control over enterprise-wide or campus-wide displays at many venues from a single location. The former are ideal for small groups of displays that can be updated via USB flash drive, SD card or CD-ROM. Another option is the use of D.A.N. (Digital Advertising Network) players that connect directly to the monitor and to the internet, to a WAN (Wide Area Network), or to a LAN (Local Area Network). This allows the end user the ability to manage multiple D.A.N. players from any location. The end user can create new advertising or edit existing advertisements and then upload changes to the D.A.N. via the internet or other networking options.
Developments in web services have meant the APIs for some digital sign software now allow for customized content management interfaces through which end-users can manage their content from one location, in a way which suits their requirements.
More advanced digital sign software allows content to be automatically created by the media players (computers) and servers on a minute-by-minute basis, combining real-time data, from news, to weather and prices, transport schedules, etc., with av content to produce the most up-to-date content.[9]
Network infrastructure[edit]
Whenever the display, media player and content server are located apart there is a need for audio-video wiring between the display and the media player and between the media player and the content server. The connection from media player to display is normally a VGA, DVI, HDMI or Component video connection. Sometimes this signal is distributed over Cat 5 cables using transmitter and receiver baluns allowing for greater distances between display and player and simplified wiring. The connection from media player to content server is usually a wired Ethernet connection although some installations use wireless Wifi networking.
To manage a network, a management server is usually required. This can be located anywhere, so long as it is connected to the digital sign network. New content will be managed and organized here, while the actual content itself is stored and played on the player servers. Digital sign networks can either be closed or open to the web, which will affect how the content on the screens is updated. For closed networks (without Internet access), updates need to be done locally through USB sticks, DVD drives or other 'onsite' updates. Open networks (with Internet access) can be updated remotely and stream data from other Internet sources (such as RSS feeds). The availability and type of Internet access (wireless, broadband, etc.) depends on the location and client.[10]
Technologies such as IPTV allow digital sign to be used as a method of broadcasting. Convergence (telecommunications) between digital sign and broadcasting allows for real-time distribution of broadcast sources (TV) on a narrowcast network (digital sign). An example of this is the TelVue Corporation, a digital media company that has deployed its WEBUS community bulletin board (CBB) digital sign systems to a network of municipally owned public, educational, and government access (PEG) channels on cable television. The content is played according to instructions provided by play lists created by a broadcast programming system and the playout of content is controlled by a broadcast automation system.
Small, localized, digital sign networks can be amalgamated to form larger networks that span wider geographic areas. Specific time slots on the displays can be sold off to advertisers, for example via auction. This concept is known as a digital sign exchange. [11][12]
Other technologies[edit]
Digital sign can interact with mobile phones. Using SMS messaging and Bluetooth, some networks are increasing the interactivity of the audience. SMS systems can be used to post messages on the displays, while Bluetooth allows users to interact directly with what they see on screen. In addition to mobile interactivity, networks are also using technology that integrates social and location-based media interactivity. This technology enables end users to send Twitter and Flickr messages as well as text messages to the displays. Some signs use 3D displays that operate using autostereoscopy, which allow the viewer to see a 3D image without using special glasses.
The ITU published a whitepaper [13] in which SMIL is cited as "a key standard for the digital sign industry," and that SMIL "is increasingly supported by leading digital sign solution providers." It is reported [14] that SMIL players are deployed for nearly 100,000 screens in year 2011, and a single software maker has won three major projects each deploying more than 1,000 SMIL players in the same period.
POPAI has released several digital sign standards [15] to promote "interoperability between different providers". The objective of these standards documents is to establish a foundation of performance and behavior that all digital sign systems can follow. The current set of standards published by POPAI are:
- "Screen-Media Formats" specifies the file formats that digital sign systems should support.
- "POPAI Digital Sign Device RS-232 Standards"
- "POPAI Digital Sign Playlog Standards V 1.1"
- "Digital Control Commands"
- "Industry Standards of Digital Sign Terms"
Industry education has been limited, but more options are becoming available. At least one firm, Platt Retail Institute, offers formal education programs; suppliers such as Black Box Network Solutions and Ingram Micro offer technology-focused training; and in 2009 Texas State Technical College created an associate's degree in Digital Signage Technology, using its Second Life delivery system.
Issues and progress[edit]
Digital sign in the broad sense has been in use for decades in the form of LED ticker signs and LED video walls. However, despite its recent growth it has yet to become a major public medium, due in part to the following negative factors:
- Uncertain ROI – the costs of deploying digital sign can be high. Large outdoor screens are expensive - but the much more common, and much cheaper, digital signs based on LCD screens can still represent a significant investment when a large network is planned: the cost of installing one screen in, say, each restaurant in a large fast-food chain could run to millions of dollars. An investment of this magnitude has to be justified by a clear ROI plan before receiving approval.
- Lack of interoperability – digital sign products today are mostly closed, proprietary systems. It is difficult to advertise across digital sign networks running different solutions, making the emerging media inferior to nationwide advertising media such as television and the Internet. Due to the lack of a common communication protocol, products from different vendors do not mix, making digital sign systems expensive to build and hard to expand.
- Complex value chain - a digital sign network can involve at least the following vendors: displays, media player, management software, project planning, installation, field service, network connectivity, bandwidth, content creation, and advertising sales. Managing such a complex value chain is a daunting task and all parties involved may introduce risk factors to fail a project.
- Lack of understanding - despite considerable media coverage there remains a general lack of understanding about the requirements for the successful use of digital sign. Problems arising from this include poor content and improper type or location of screens.
These issues are being addressed today in the following ways:
- Understanding the ROI – studies have shown digital sign to be effective in aiding customer recall and retention of displayed information[16] in large-scale merchandising applications, especially taking into account the downward trend in LCD panel and playback device prices. Today a small-scale retail or restaurant digital sign installation can be implemented for just $1,500-2,000 using inexpensive SaaS tools, and ROI may be realized quickly. One of the best ways to make the case for implementing a digital strategy is to calculate the ROI or ROO upfront. Determine what the goals and objectives are for the digital sign – is it to increase sales at point of purchase? Can it be used to improve lead generation or build brand awareness? Thus, knowing how to calculate the ROI of digital sign [17] is very important.
- Open standards for digital sign – industry organizations including POPAI (Point-of-Purchase Advertising International) and OAAA (Outdoor Advertising Association of America) are actively developing and promoting technical standards that will make it possible to communicate across digital sign networks made by different vendors. Interoperability across systems and media players is increasing competition in the supply chain, significantly lowering costs and making the ROI on building networks vastly more attractive.
- Value chain consolidation - business entities have been formed to consolidate segments of the long value chain. Display units with built-in media players, content design agencies which also provide hardware and support, as well as management software which allows advertisers to manage a whole sign network are examples of how the industry is coming to work together and consolidate.
- Understanding the industry - there are a significant number of trade shows with conferences as well as specialized conferences and also more informal training and briefing sessions all focused on aspects of digital sign. There are also more user friendly products available which are plug and play and don't even require scheduling software.
See also[edit]
- ^ "DOOH - Digital Out of Home". ISE Europe. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
- ^ "US Digital Signage Market to Grow by One Third in 2009". ABI Research. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
- ^ Joe Mandese, MediaPost News,April 13, http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/125922/
- ^ "ISE DOOH Business Conference Presentation". DailyDOOH. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
- ^ "Global Media Manager". Beaver Group. Retrieved 2009-03-02.[dead link]
- ^ "Researchers develop a 360-degree holographic display". engadget. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
- ^ "Fogscreen: projecting images in the air". Gizmag. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
- ^ Nystedt, Dan (2008-08-08). "Time to Put Off Buying LCD TVs and Displays". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
- ^ John V. Harrison, Anna Andrusiewicz; Enhancing digital advertising using dynamically configurable multimedia, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2003, 6-9 July 2003, Baltimore, MD, USA. IEEE 2003/2004, ISBN 0-7803-7965-9.
- ^ John V. Harrison, Anna Andrusiewicz; Using wireless networks to enhance narrowcasting in public spaces, Proceedings of the First IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2004), pp. 600-604, 2004.
- ^ John V. Harrison, Anna Andrusiewicz; The digital signage exchange: a virtual marketplace for out-of-home digital advertising, Proceedings 4th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-2003), San Diego, California, USA, June 9-12, 2003. ACM 2003, ISBN 1-58113-679-X., p. 274
- ^ John V. Harrison, Anna Andrusiewicz; An Emerging Marketplace for Digital Advertising Based on Amalgamated Digital Signage Networks, IEEE International Conference on Electronic Commerce (CEC 2003), 24-27 June 2003, Newport Beach, CA, USA. IEEE Computer Society 2003, ISBN 0-7695-1969-5..
- ^ "Digital signage: the right information in all the right places". ITU. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
- ^ "The Popularity of SMIL in Digital Signage". IAdea. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
- ^ "POPAI Digital Signage Content Standards". POPAI. Retrieved 2011-06-128.
- ^ "The OnSpot Digital Advertising Concept". Arbitron. Retrieved 2006.
- ^ How to Calculate the ROI of Digital Signage[1]
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Digital signage. |
- Digital signage on the Open Directory Project
- 6 Benefits of Digital Signage at Telepresence24.com (Industry Blog)
- Anatomy of a Good Digital Signage at Telepresence24.com (Industry Blog)
- Signera Digital Signage (Digital Signage Provider)


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HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) -- Republicans in Congress have been joining with Democrats in supporting a bill that would give the states authority to force Amazon, eBay and other companies to collect sales taxes.
The parking lot at Westfarms is packed even though Thanksgiving isn't until next week. The holiday shopping season has already begun.
As it has for the past several years, online shopping is expected to be a bigger chunk of the holiday shopping pie than last year and unfortunately for Connecticut and other states, a lot of those purchases go un-taxed.
Connecticut's so-called 'Amazon Tax' has been on the books for over a year but Amazon and other online retailers effectively thumbed their nose at it by pulling out from any affiliations within the state and said they favored a national solution because collecting different sales tax rates from different states would be too difficult to administer.
"When we have a global answer to this, and I believe we will have one. In this next Congress, as a result of what we and other states have done, I think it'll be very good for 'brick and motar' retailers," Malloy said.
The 'brick and motar' retailers like the shopping malls have to charge the sales tax and want online retailers to do the same, so there is a more level playing field.
"The local, mom and pop retailer, main street merchant, has to charge the sales tax. The online merchant does not charge sales tax, so they have an inherent advantage. We just think that that's just unfair," Tim Phelan, the President of CT Retail Merchants Association, said.
For Governor Malloy and other Governors with budget deficit problems, the sooner the new Congress passes a uniform national plan for online retailers to charge the sales tax, the better.
"If we can predict that it would happen in the first few months and we can build it into our July 1 assumptions, there is a plus side for us," Malloy said.
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Molecules 2009, 14(2), 884-892; doi:10.3390/molecules14020884
The X-Ray Crystal Structures of Primary Aryl Substituted Selenoamides
School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, KY16 9ST, UK
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Received: 18 December 2008; in revised form: 13 February 2009 / Accepted: 19 February 2009 / Published: 23 February 2009
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Abstract: The X-ray structures of 12 primary selenoamides are reported. Metric parameters are provided, together with an illustration of the range of hydrogen bonding motifs.
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Title | Millennials come to school |
Author | Zevenbergen, Robyn Levenia; Zevenbergen, Kelly |
Book Title | Middle Years Schooling: Reframing adolescence |
Editor | Sally Knipe |
Year Published | 2007 |
Citation | Sydney: Pearson pp. 23-38 |
Peer Reviewed | Yes |
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Research Centre | Griffith Institute for Educational Research |
Faculty | Faculty of Education |
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Located in the heart of Haymarket, this family-friendly aparthotel is steps from Capitol Theatre, World Square Shopping Centre, and Paddy's Market. Also nearby are Chinatown Night Market and Market City.
Property Features
In addition to a restaurant, BreakFree on George features limo/town car service. Other amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services and laundry facilities.
Room Amenities
In addition to kitchenettes, guestrooms include refrigerators and microwaves. Bathrooms feature shower/tub combinations and makeup/shaving mirrors.
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The aparthotel offers a restaurant. For a surcharge, a shuttle from the hotel to the airport (available on request) is offered to guests. This family-friendly aparthotel also offers multilingual staff, concierge services, and laundry facilities. Limo/town car service, currency exchange, and tour assistance can be provided.
BreakFree on George is a smoke-free property.
- Concierge services
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Airport transportation - drop-off (surcharge)
- Business services
- Total number of rooms - 160
- 24-hour front desk
- Express check-out
- Security guard
- Multilingual staff
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Number of floors - 60
- Currency exchange
- Beauty services
- Tour assistance
- Medical assistance available
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Elevator/lift
- Restaurant
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Parking nearby
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- Year Built 1999
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- Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Air conditioning
- Climate control
- Voice mail
- Kitchenette
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave
- Wake-up calls
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service (on request)
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Extra towels/bedding in room
- Makeup/shaving mirror
- Sewing kit
- Shower/tub combination
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Electronic/magnetic keys
- Window opens
- Trouser press
- Iron/ironing board
- Clock radio
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
- Dial-up Internet access (surcharge)
- Dining
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning.
Chilli and Spicy - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Volleyball nearby
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- Tennis nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
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To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
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Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
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- Self parking fee: AUD 30 per night
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Nutrition Report Card Awards High Grades to Schools in Pinellas County, Fla., Howard County, Md., and Knox County, Tenn.; Schools in Houston and Milwaukee get Ds
WASHINGTON—As childhood obesity rates continue to soar, a new report issued by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) finds public school districts in Florida, Maryland, Tennessee, and Nebraska rise above federal guidelines to serve healthy school lunches.
"The days of foot-long hot dogs and greasy tater tots and are coming to an end," says Susan Levin, M.S., R.D., director of nutrition education at PCRM. "By offering vegetarian chili with cornbread, black bean burgers, baked sweet potatoes, and cinnamon apple slices, schools are showing students how to tackle obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease."
PCRM's 2012 School Lunch Report Card finds schools still earning poor grades, including districts in Houston, Milwaukee, and Davis County, Utah, offering students chicken-fried steak fingers, breaded catfish, pork nuggets, and other high-cholesterol menu items.
For the 2012 School Lunch Report Card, PCRM dietitians analyzed elementary school meals available at more than 20 districts participating in the National School Lunch Program. The average grade is a B (84), up five percentage points from the national average (78.7) in 2008.
This year's Most Improved Award goes to Washoe County, which improved its school lunch score by 22 points from 2008—rising from a D (66) to a B+ (88). St. Louis Public Schools receives an honorable mention for improving its score by 42 points from 2007, when the district received an F (53). This year St. Louis passes with flying colors, earning an A (95) for plant-based menu items and 22 school gardens.
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I've seen figures in various places online saying that in medieval cities, population densities were as high as 30,000/sq mile. A couple things to keep in mind if that seems impossible. First, when people ran out of room, they built up, often adding floors above the ground that were bigger, hanging out over the street. Second, families were larger back then to keep up with infant mortality you might have six or seven people living in one or two rooms. Here is a useful site that I stumbled across just today: http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/blueroom/demog.htm It's an article that explains a lot of the math behind those calculators people are linking. (I know that it is the source of the the math for the defunct calculator terminal linked in his .pdf)
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[JURIST] A slew of new US state laws will greet the New Year when they take effect on January 1. The state minimum wage will increase in Arizona [state Department of Labor (DOL) fact sheet], California [state DOL fact sheet], Delaware [state DOL fact sheet], Massachusetts [state Division of Occupational Safety fact sheet], New York [state DOL fact sheet], North Carolina [state DOL fact sheet], and Pennsylvania [state DOL fact sheet]. Currently, the federal rate is set at $5.15 [US Department of Labor fact sheet]. Some states' minimum-wage workers will see it go as high as $7.50 [see California and Massachusetts fact sheets].In addition, California will force coal-burning plants interested in selling their products to the Golden State to install "greener" technology starting the first of the year. A number of states will be increasing regulation of immigration (Colorado, HB 06S-1017 text, PDF), eminent domain (Illinois SB 3086 text), sex offenders (Illinois, SB 2962 text), elections [North Carolina, HB 88 text], campaign finance (North Carolina and Pennsylvania), privacy, [SB 335 text. PDF] and school harassment (Alaska and South Carolina). Other states will implement legislation to prevent wrongful convictions (Wisconsin), decrease taxation of its poorest citizens (Alabama and West Virginia), lower taxes for its highest earners (North Carolina), increase taxes on cigarettes (South Dakota and Texas), eliminate the marriage penalty (New York and Oklahoma), raise the number of tests performed on newborns to detect life-threatening disorders (Georgia), increase the availability of healthcare to the working poor (Massachusetts), and scrap the extra fee associated with license plates that feature the American flag and words "In God We Trust" (Indiana). The National Conference of State Legislatures provides a partial breakdown. AP has additional coverage.
[JURIST] The California state correctional facility in Chino [official website] was under lockdown Sunday after prison authorities put down a major race riot that broke out Saturday morning reportedly setting blacks and Hispanic inmates against each other in one of the worst instances of prison rioting in the state in years. A California Corrections Department [official website] spokesperson said that guards had to use everything from tear gas to foam projectiles to quell the disturbance, a process which took hours. Over 50 people were treated for injuries. The spokesman said some 36 inmates with what he described as "unacceptable housing situations" were being considered for transfer. AP has more.Racial tensions have run high in California state prisons for years. The California prisons have also become overcrowded [JURIST news archive], being at 70 percent overcapacity with 173,000 total inmates. Earlier this year Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger sought to temporarily relieve the problem by authorizing the transfer of some inmates to private-run facilities in other states. Three weeks ago a US federal judge ruled that the state has six months to remedy the overcrowding problem [JURIST report] itself or face the naming of a three-member federal judicial panel to make recommendations itself. On December 21, Schwarzenegger put forward what he called a comprehensive prison reform proposal [press release] that would add 16,238 beds in state correctional facilities, build 45,000 local jail beds, and set aside $1 billion for 10,000 medical and mental health beds.
[JURIST] Apple Computer, Inc. [corporate website] Friday disclosed the findings of an internal report into alleged stock option manipulation by senior managers, including CEO Steve Jobs, purporting to clear its executives of any wrong-doing and concluding that Jobs did not "financially benefit" [Miami Herald report] from stock options, despite knowledge of favorable grant dates. Apple was facing a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) [official website] probe in connection with various alleged securities violations [CNN report], including a failure to properly disclose option backdating. After concluding the internal investigation, Apple restated its yearly financial statements with the SEC, completing a three-month probe [AP report]. Reuters has more.Apple is meanwhile addressing other legal problems. One lawsuit against it, filed November 20, contends that the Apple iBook G4's logic board fails at an abnormal rate. Another filed October 24, claims patent infringement from the company's Nike+iPod Sport Kit. On December 20 a federal court refused to dismiss a third complaint alleging that it engaged in monopolistic selling practices [AP report] by using its proprietary copy-protection system to only allow iTunes [store website] music and movies to be played on its iPod [product website] MP3 players.
[JURIST] Less than 24 hours after his execution [JURIST report], the body of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive; BBC obituary] was buried in his home village of Ouja [Newsweek backgrounder] near Tikrit just before dawn local time on Sunday. Among the dozens of relatives and other mourners present at the 25 minute interment ceremony were Mohammed al-Qaisi, governor of the Salahaddin region, and Ali al-Nida, head of Saddam's Albu Nasir tribe. Al-Qaisi along with leaders of Saddam's Albu-Nassir clan are said to have negotiated the burial location [AP report] with US and Iraqi officials. After the burial, thousands of mourners are reported to have converged on Ouja to pay their respects in front of the flag-draped grave while a large photograph of Saddam was propped nearby. Saddam was buried in a family plot in the local cemetery, alongside his sons Uday and Qusay, who were killed by US troops [BBC News report] in 2003. Saddam's daughters had requested that he be temporarily buried in Yemen. Hussein was convicted and sentenced to death [JURIST report; verdict recorded video] last month for crimes against humanity committed in the town of Dujail in 1982. AP has more. The International Herald Tribune has additional coverage.
[JURIST] An unofficial and grainy video [WARNING: graphic images] of the entire execution [JURIST report] of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive; BBC obituary], including his actual hanging, was posted on the Web late Saturday. The official video, broadcast [JURIST report] on Iraqi TV earlier in the day, had shown the moments leading up to the ousted Iraqi dictator's execution, but footage of moment of execution had not been released. The new video appeared to have been shot with a cell phone camera by a witness to the hanging and shows Hussein's body dropping through the trap door of the gallows. It also shows the body after death.While the original Iraqi TV footage was silent, Saddam can be heard on the new video soundtrack repeating the traditional Muslim Shahada prayer ("There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger") after a cleric, but he was abruptly cut off in the second verse, when the trap door was opened. The new video also shows Saddam shouting angry political remarks while his Iraqi guards led him into the execution chamber, and later exchanging sardonic barbs with his executioners. According to a Reuters translation, Saddam's Shiite guards and executioners mockingly shouted "Moqtada, Moqtada, Moqtada" in reference to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr [BBC News profile]. Saddam also taunted his executioners, saying with an apparent smile as they readied the noose, "Is that what you call manhood?" After the hanging, a voice can be heard shouting "The tyrant has fallen!" and flashes are seen as people photograph the body. The International Herald Tribune has more.
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