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A propeller is a type of fan that transmits power by converting rotational motion into thrust. A pressure difference is produced between the forward and rear surfaces of the airfoil-shaped blade, and a fluid (such as air or water) is accelerated behind the blade. Propeller dynamics can be modelled by both Bernoulli's principle and Newton's third law. A propeller is often colloquially known as a screw.
The principle employed in using a screw propeller is used in sculling. It is part of the skill of propelling a Venetian gondola but was used in a less refined way in other parts of Europe and probably elsewhere. For example, propelling a canoe with a single paddle using a "j-stroke" involves a related but not identical technique. In China, sculling, called "lu", was also used by the 3rd century AD.
In sculling, a single blade is moved through an arc, from side to side taking care to keep presenting the blade to the water at the effective angle. The innovation introduced with the screw propeller was the extension of that arc through more than 360° by attaching the blade to a rotating shaft. Propellers can have a single blade, but in practice there are nearly always more than one so as to balance the forces involved.
The origin of the screw propeller starts with Archimedes, who used a screw to lift water for irrigation and bailing boats, so famously that it became known as Archimedes' screw. It was probably an application of spiral movement in space (spirals were a special study of Archimedes) to a hollow segmented water-wheel used for irrigation by Egyptians for centuries. Leonardo da Vinci adopted the principle to drive his theoretical helicopter, sketches of which involved a large canvas screw overhead.
In 1784, J. P. Paucton proposed a gyrocopter-like aircraft using similar screws for both lift and propulsion. At about the same time, James Watt proposed using screws to propel boats, although he did not use them for his steam engines. This was not his own invention, though; Toogood and Hays had patented it a century earlier, and it had become a common use as a means of propelling boats since that time.
By 1827, Czech-Austrian inventor Josef Ressel had invented a screw propeller which had multiple blades fastened around a conical base. He had tested his propeller in February 1826 on a small ship that was manually driven. He was successful in using his bronze screw propeller on an adapted steamboat (1829). His ship "Civetta" (48 BRT) reached a speed of about six knots (11 km/h). This was the first ship successfully driven by a propeller. After a new steam engine had an accident (cracked pipe weld) his experiments were banned by the Austro-Hungarian police as dangerous. Josef Ressel was at the time an officer of Austro-Hungarian Navy. But before this he received a Austro-Hungarian patent (license) for his propeller (1827). He died in 1857 and in 1866 the US academy confirmed his license for a ship propeller. This new method of propulsion allowed steam ships to travel at a much greater speed without using sails thereby making ocean travel faster.[citation needed]
John Patch, a mariner in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia developed a two-bladed, fan-shaped propeller in 1832 and publicly demonstrated it in 1833, propelling a row boat across Yarmouth Harbour and a small coastal schooner at Saint John, New Brunswick, but his patent application in the United States was rejected until 1849 because he was not an American citizen.[1] His efficient design drew praise in American scientific circles[2] but by this time there were multiple competing versions of the marine propeller.
In 1835 Francis Pettit Smith discovered a new way of building propellers. Up to that time, propellers were literally screws, of considerable length. But during the testing of a boat propelled by one, the screw snapped off, leaving a fragment shaped much like a modern boat propeller. The boat moved faster with the broken propeller.[3] At about the same time, Frédéric Sauvage and John Ericsson applied for patents on vaguely similar, although less efficient shortened-screw propellers, leading to an apparently permanent controversy as to who the official inventor is among those three men. Ericsson became widely famous when he built the Monitor, an armoured battleship that in 1862 fought the Confederate States' Virginia in an American Civil War sea battle.
The superiority of screw against paddles was taken up by navies. Trials with Smith's SS Archimedes, the first steam driven screw, led to the famous tug-of-war competition in 1845 between the screw-driven HMS Rattler and the paddle steamer HMS Alecto; the former pulling the latter backward at 2.5 knots (4.6 km/h).
In the second half of the nineteenth century, several theories were developed. The momentum theory or disk actuator theory—a theory describing a mathematical model of an ideal propeller—was developed by W.J.M. Rankine (1865), Alfred George Greenhill (1888) and R.E. Froude (1889). The propeller is modelled as an infinitely thin disc, inducing a constant velocity along the axis of rotation. This disc creates a flow around the propeller. Under certain mathematical premises of the fluid, there can be extracted a mathematical connection between power, radius of the propeller, torque and induced velocity. Friction is not included.
The blade element theory (BET) is a mathematical process originally designed by William Froude (1878), David W. Taylor (1893) and Stefan Drzewiecki to determine the behaviour of propellers. It involves breaking an airfoil down into several small parts then determining the forces on them. These forces are then converted into accelerations, which can be integrated into velocities and positions.
In 2009, Mike Richard John Smith filed a Canadian Patent application (Canadian Patent number: 2675044) indicating the screw type propeller is inefficient due to the screw type blade orientation of the propeller which when in operation for forward movement substantially moves the fluid (for a boat the fluid is water)sidewardly, rotationally, and rearwardly wherein moving the fluid sidewardly does not move the boat forward, thus contibuting to the inefficiency of the screw type propeller.
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A propeller is the most common propulsor on ships, imparting momentum to a fluid which causes a force to act on the ship.
The ideal efficiency of any size propeller (free-tip) is that of an actuator disc in an ideal fluid. An actual marine propeller is made up of sections of helicoidal surfaces which act together 'screwing' through the water (hence the common reference to marine propellers as "screws"). Three, four, or five blades are most common in marine propellers, although designs which are intended to operate at reduced noise will have more blades. The blades are attached to a boss (hub), which should be as small as the needs of strength allow - with fixed pitch propellers the blades and boss are usually a single casting.
An alternative design is the controllable pitch propeller (CPP, or CRP for controllable-reversible pitch), where the blades are rotated normally to the drive shaft by additional machinery - usually hydraulics - at the hub and control linkages running down the shaft. This allows the drive machinery to operate at a constant speed while the propeller loading is changed to match operating conditions. It also eliminates the need for a reversing gear and allows for more rapid change to thrust, as the revolutions are constant. This type of propeller is most common on ships such as tugs where there can be enormous differences in propeller loading when towing compared to running free, a change which could cause conventional propellers to lock up as insufficient torque is generated. The downsides of a CPP/CRP include: the large hub which decreases the torque required to cause cavitation, the mechanical complexity which limits transmission power and the extra blade shaping requirements forced upon the propeller designer.
For smaller motors there are self-pitching propellers. The blades freely move through an entire circle on an axis at right angles to the shaft. This allows hydrodynamic and centrifugal forces to 'set' the angle the blades reach and so the pitch of the propeller.
A propeller that turns clockwise to produce forward thrust, when viewed from aft, is called right-handed. One that turns anticlockwise is said to be left-handed. Larger vessels often have twin screws to reduce heeling torque, counter-rotating propellers, the starboard screw is usually right-handed and the port left-handed, this is called outward turning. The opposite case is called inward turning. Another possibility is contra-rotating propellers, where two propellers rotate in opposing directions on a single shaft, or on separate shafts on nearly the same axis. One example of the latter is the CRP Azipod by the ABB Group. Contra-rotating propellers offer increased efficiency by capturing the energy lost in the tangential velocities imparted to the fluid by the forward propeller (known as "propeller swirl"). The flow field behind the aft propeller of a contra-rotating set has very little "swirl", and this reduction in energy loss is seen as an increased efficiency of the aft propeller.
An azimuthing propeller is a vertical axis propeller.
The blade outline is defined either by a projection on a plane normal to the propeller shaft (projected outline) or by setting the circumferential chord across the blade at a given radius against radius (developed outline). The outline is usually symmetrical about a given radial line termed the median. If the median is curved back relative to the direction of rotation the propeller is said to have skew back. The skew is expressed in terms of circumferential displacement at the blade tips. If the blade face in profile is not normal to the axis it is termed raked, expressed as a percentage of total diameter.
Each blade's pitch and thickness varies with radius, early blades had a flat face and an arced back (sometimes called a circular back as the arc was part of a circle), modern propeller blades have aerofoil sections. The camber line is the line through the mid-thickness of a single blade. The camber is the maximum difference between the camber line and the chord joining the trailing and leading edges. The camber is expressed as a percentage of the chord.
The radius of maximum thickness is usually forward of the mid-chord point with the blades thinning to a minimum at the tips. The thickness is set by the demands of strength and the ratio of thickness to total diameter is called blade thickness fraction.
The ratio of pitch to diameter is called pitch ratio. Due to the complexities of modern propellers a nominal pitch is given, usually a radius of 70% of the total is used.
Blade area is given as a ratio of the total area of the propeller disc, either as developed blade area ratio or projected blade area ratio.
Most propellers have their axis of rotation parallel to the fluid flow. There have however been some attempts to power vehicles with the same principles behind vertical axis wind turbines, where the rotation is perpendicular to fluid flow. Most attempts have been unsuccessful. Blades that can vary their angle of attack during rotation have aerodynamics similar to flapping flight. Flapping flight is still poorly understood and almost never seriously used in engineering because of the strong coupling of lift, thrust and control forces.
The fanwing is one of the few types that has actually flown. It takes advantage of the trailing edge of an airfoil to help encourage the circulation necessary for lift.
The Voith-Schneider propeller pictured below is another successful example, operating in water.
James Watt of Scotland is generally credited with applying the first screw propeller to an engine at his Birmingham works, an early steam engine, beginning the use of an hydrodynamic screw for propulsion.
Mechanical ship propulsion began with the steam ship. The first successful ship of this type is a matter of debate; candidate inventors of the 18th century include William Symington, the Marquis de Jouffroy, John Fitch and Robert Fulton, however William Symington's ship the Charlotte Dundas is regarded as the world's "first practical steamboat". Paddlewheels as the main motive source became standard on these early vessels (see Paddle steamer). Robert Fulton had tested, and rejected, the screw propeller.
The screw (as opposed to paddlewheels) was introduced in the latter half of the 18th century. David Bushnell's invention of the submarine (Turtle) in 1775 used hand-powered screws for vertical and horizontal propulsion. The Bohemian engineer Josef Ressel designed and patented the first practicable screw propeller in 1827. Francis Pettit Smith tested a similar one in 1836. In 1839, John Ericsson introduced practical screw propulsion into the United States. Mixed paddle and propeller designs were still being used at this time (vide the 1858 Great Eastern).
The screw propeller replaced the paddles owing to its greater efficiency, compactness, less complex power transmission system, and reduced susceptibility to damage (especially in battle)
Initial designs owed much to the ordinary screw from which their name derived - early propellers consisted of only two blades and matched in profile the length of a single screw rotation. This design was common, but inventors endlessly experimented with different profiles and greater numbers of blades. The propeller screw design stabilized by the 1880s.
In the early days of steam power for ships, when both paddle wheels and screws were in use, ships were often characterized by their type of propellers, leading to terms like screw steamer or screw sloop.
Propellers are referred to as "lift" devices, while paddles are "drag" devices.
Cavitation can occur if an attempt is made to transmit too much power through the screw, or if the propeller is operating at a very high speed. Cavitation can occur in many ways on a propeller. The two most common types of propeller cavitation are suction side surface cavitation and tip vortex cavitation.
Suction side surface cavitation forms when the propeller is operating at high rotational speeds or under heavy load (high blade lift coefficient). The pressure on the upstream surface of the blade (the "suction side") can drop below the vapor pressure of the water, resulting in the formation of a pocket of vapor. Under such conditions, the change in pressure between the downstream surface of the blade (the "pressure side") and the suction side is limited, and eventually reduced as the extent of cavitation is increased. When most of the blade surface is covered by cavitation, the pressure difference between the pressure side and suction side of the blade drops considerably, as does the thrust produced by the propeller. This condition is called "thrust breakdown". Operating the propeller under these conditions wastes energy, generates considerable noise, and as the vapor bubbles collapse it rapidly erodes the screw's surface due to localized shock waves against the blade surface.
Tip vortex cavitation is caused by the extremely low pressures formed at the core of the tip vortex. The tip vortex is caused by fluid wrapping around the tip of the propeller; from the pressure side to the suction side. This video demonstrates tip vortex cavitation well. Tip vortex cavitation typically occurs before suction side surface cavitation and is less damaging to the blade, since this type of cavitation doesn't collapse on the blade, but some distance downstream.
Cavitation can be used as an advantage in design of very high performance propellers, in form of the supercavitating propeller. In this case, the blade section is designed such that the pressure side stays wetted while the suction side is completely covered by cavitation vapor. Because the suction side is covered with vapor instead of water it encounters very low viscous friction, making the supercavitating (SC) propeller comparably efficient at high speed. The shaping of SC blade sections however, make it inefficient at low speeds, when the suction side of the blade is wetted. (See also fluid dynamics).
A similar, but quite separate issue, is ventilation, which occurs when a propeller operating near the surface draws air into the blades, causing a similar loss of power and shaft vibration, but without the related potential blade surface damage caused by cavitation. Both effects can be mitigated by increasing the submerged depth of the propeller: cavitation is reduced because the hydrostatic pressure increases the margin to the vapor pressure, and ventilation because it is further from surface waves and other air pockets that might be drawn into the slipstream.
The force (F) experienced by a foil is determined by its area (A), fluid density (ρ), velocity (V) and the angle of the foil to the fluid flow, called angle of attack (), where:
The force has two parts - that normal to the direction of flow is lift (L) and that in the direction of flow is drag (D). Both can be expressed mathematically:
where CL and CD are lift coefficient and drag coefficient respectively.
Each coefficient is a function of the angle of attack and Reynolds number. As the angle of attack increases lift rises rapidly from the no lift angle before slowing its increase and then decreasing, with a sharp drop as the stall angle is reached and flow is disrupted. Drag rises slowly at first and as the rate of increase in lift falls and the angle of attack increases drag increases more sharply.
For a given strength of circulation (), . The effect of the flow over and the circulation around the aerofoil is to reduce the velocity over the face and increase it over the back of the blade. If the reduction in pressure is too much in relation to the ambient pressure of the fluid, cavitation occurs, bubbles form in the low pressure area and are moved towards the blade's trailing edge where they collapse as the pressure increases, this reduces propeller efficiency and increases noise. The forces generated by the bubble collapse can cause permanent damage to the surfaces of the blade.
Taking an arbitrary radial section of a blade at r, if revolutions are N then the rotational velocity is . If the blade was a complete screw it would advance through a solid at the rate of NP, where P is the pitch of the blade. In water the advance speed is rather lower, , the difference, or slip ratio, is:
where is the advance coefficient, and is the pitch ratio.
The forces of lift and drag on the blade, dA, where force normal to the surface is dL:
These forces contribute to thrust, T, on the blade:
As ,
From this total thrust can be obtained by integrating this expression along the blade. The transverse force is found in a similar manner:
Substituting for and multiplying by r, gives torque as:
which can be integrated as before.
The total thrust power of the propeller is proportional to and the shaft power to . So efficiency is . The blade efficiency is in the ratio between thrust and torque:
showing that the blade efficiency is determined by its momentum and its qualities in the form of angles and , where is the ratio of the drag and lift coefficients.
This analysis is simplified and ignores a number of significant factors including interference between the blades and the influence of tip vortices.
The thrust, T, and torque, Q, depend on the propeller's diameter, D, revolutions, N, and rate of advance, , together with the character of the fluid in which the propeller is operating and gravity. These factors create the following non-dimensional relationship:
where is a function of the advance coefficient, is a function of the Reynolds' number, and is a function of the Froude number. Both and are likely to be small in comparison to under normal operating conditions, so the expression can be reduced to:
For two identical propellers the expression for both will be the same. So with the propellers , and using the same subscripts to indicate each propeller:
For both Froude number and advance coefficient:
where is the ratio of the linear dimensions.
Thrust and velocity, at the same Froude number, give thrust power:
For torque:
When a propeller is added to a ship its performance is altered; there is the mechanical losses in the transmission of power; a general increase in total resistance; and the hull also impedes and renders non-uniform the flow through the propeller. The ratio between a propeller's efficiency attached to a ship () and in open water () is termed relative rotative efficiency.
The overall propulsive efficiency (an extension of effective power ()) is developed from the propulsive coefficient (), which is derived from the installed shaft power () modified by the effective power for the hull with appendages (), the propeller's thrust power (), and the relative rotative efficiency.
Producing the following:
The terms contained within the brackets are commonly grouped as the quasi-propulsive coefficient (, ). The is produced from small-scale experiments and is modified with a load factor for full size ships.
Wake is the interaction between the ship and the water with its own velocity relative to the ship. The wake has three parts: the velocity of the water around the hull; the boundary layer between the water dragged by the hull and the surrounding flow; and the waves created by the movement of the ship. The first two parts will reduce the velocity of water into the propeller, the third will either increase or decrease the velocity depending on whether the waves create a crest or trough at the propeller.
One type of marine propeller is the controllable pitch propeller. This propeller has several advantages with ships. These advantages include: the least drag depending on the speed used, the ability to move the sea vessel backwards, and the ability to use the "vane"-stance, which gives the least water resistance when not using the propeller (e.g. when the sails are used instead).
An advanced type of propeller used on German Type 212 submarines is called a skewback propeller. As in the scimitar blades used on some aircraft, the blade tips of a skewback propeller are swept back against the direction of rotation. In addition, the blades are tilted rearward along the longitudinal axis, giving the propeller an overall cup-shaped appearance. This design preserves thrust efficiency while reducing cavitation, and thus makes for a quiet, stealthy design.[4]
A modular propeller provides more control over the boats performance. There is no need to change an entire prop, when there is an opportunity to only change the pitch or the damaged blades. Being able to adjust pitch will allow for boaters to have better performance while in different altitudes, water sports, and/or cruising.[5]
For smaller engines, such as outboards, where the propeller is exposed to the risk of collision with heavy objects, the propeller often includes a device which is designed to fail when over loaded; the device or the whole propeller is sacrificed so that the more expensive transmission and engine are not damaged.
Typically in smaller (less than 10 hp/7.5 kW) and older engines, a narrow shear pin through the drive shaft and propeller hub transmits the power of the engine at normal loads. The pin is designed to shear when the propeller is put under a load that could damage the engine. After the pin is sheared the engine is unable to provide propulsive power to the boat until an undamaged shear pin is fitted.[6] Note that some shear pins used to have shear grooves machined into them. Nowadays the grooves tend to be omitted. The result of this oversight is that the torque required to shear the pin rises as the cutting edges of the propeller bushing and shaft become blunted. Eventually the gears will strip instead.[citation needed]
In larger and more modern engines, a rubber bushing transmits the torque of the drive shaft to the propeller's hub. Under a damaging load the friction of the bushing in the hub is overcome and the rotating propeller slips on the shaft preventing overloading of the engine's components.[7] After such an event the rubber bushing itself may be damaged. If so, it may continue to transmit reduced power at low revolutions but may provide no power, due to reduced friction, at high revolutions. Also the rubber bushing may perish over time leading to its failure under loads below its designed failure load.
Whether a rubber bushing can be replaced or repaired depends upon the propeller; some cannot. Some can but need special equipment to insert the oversized bushing for an interference fit. Others can be replaced easily.
The "special equipment" usually consists of a tapered funnel, some kind of press and rubber lubricant (soap). Often the bushing can be drawn into place with nothing more complex than a couple of nuts, washers and "allscrew" (threaded bar). If one does not have access to a lathe an improvised funnel can be made from steel tube and car body filler (as the filler is only subject to compressive forces it is able to do a good job) A more serious problem with this type of propeller is a "frozen-on" spline bushing which makes propeller removal impossible. In such cases the propeller has to be heated in order to deliberately destroy the rubber insert. Once the propeller proper is removed, the splined tube can be cut away with a grinder. A new spline bushing is of course required. To prevent the problem recurring the splines can be coated with anti-seize anti-corrosion compound.
In some modern propellers, a hard polymer insert called a drive sleeve replaces the rubber bushing. The splined or other non-circular cross section of the sleeve inserted between the shaft and propeller hub transmits the engine torque to the propeller, rather than friction. The polymer is weaker than the components of the propeller and engine so it fails before they do when the propeller is overloaded.[8] This fails completely under excessive load but can easily be replaced.
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I think perhaps the distinction has fallen out of favour, but "due to" seems to apply to nouns and "owing to" applies to verbs. As in: "he was beaten owing to his lack of skill" vs. "his defeat was due to his lack of skill".
There is a difference between "Due to" and "Owing to" in meaning. "Due to" means "caused by", however, "Owing to" means "because of" and it comes always at the beginning of the sentence. Besides "owing to" as a result or consequence of something.
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year anniversary of State Based Systems (SBS).
Initiated in 2002 as a back-office software system for NAIC members, SBS
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Caputo v. Imperial Tobacco Ltd.(Class Action Ontario Superior Ct. 1995 Decertified)
This class action suit was brought by representative plaintiffs David Caputo, Luna Roth, Lori Carwardine, and Russell Hyduk against Imperial Tobacco, Rothmans, Benson & Hedges and JTI-MacDonald on January 13, 1995.
The plaintiffs claimed negligence, misrepresentation, conspiracy, deception, suppression of research, and products liability.
The case was heard in the Superior Court of Justice, Ontario, Canada (Court File No. 95-CU-82186), before the Honorable Justice Warren Winkler. The judge denied the plaintiffs' motion for certification in Febraury, 2004. He ruled that the suit was too broad and did not meet the requirements for certification.


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Con-men Or Cry Babies?
So here we are in 2011. The Internet makes folly of every error a person can make. We get film of people slipping and falling, mis-speaking, being embarrassed, singing poorly on "Idol," dancing poorly on "Dance with the Stars," and now we see our "leaders" as they really are and the outcome is that maybe we were a little too easily impressed before. Maybe politicians should have never been vaulted to the flawless icon standards we always talked ourselves into believing. Maybe the new standard of leader will have to be openly flawed and humbled instead of assumed to be born and raised perfect while hiding their very real personality.
What do you think? Should we continue to watch the Emporer without his clothes and tell him how lovely the cloth or should we start to get real and not only tell it like it is, but allow the world to tell us how it really is? Do you think we're ready for that? Do you think we'll know the difference?
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DescriptionThe Smithsonian Institution's Office of Advancement has available an unpaid internship for students with an interest in Communications and Fundraising.
The Campaign Communications intern will gain practical, hands-on experience in a busy agency-like environment, coordinating and producing a wide range of projects in support of the Smithsonian's Advancement efforts, including:
• Correspondence, including gift acknowledgements, membership and fundraising letters;
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Yes, you read that post title correctly. For the past two weeks my primary phone has been a Samsung Focus running Windows Phone 7. So how did a four year iPhone user end up in such a predicament? The long and the short of it; I sold my iPhone 4 via eBay's Instant Sale reseller buy back program. To capitalize on the highest cash offer I had to commit to the sale and ship the iPhone 4 before the release of the 4S. I tried to reactivate an original iPhone with little success*. See my plan was to upgrade to the 4S without putting a $200 hold on my account. Apparently my backup gadgets have reached the end of their lives (damn that was fast). During my second trip to the local AT&T store, the customer service member suggested I could take advantage of another phone line's upgrade. My father-in-law was more than happy with his simple flip phone and would never use the upgrade. Lucky me!
Obviously this post does not qualify as a product review like the big tech sites but, I thought it would not hurt to share my impressions of another mobile platform. Possibly offer more of a real world take on switching mobile platforms.
The Samsung Focus [SGH-i917 v1.3] is a nicely designed device. Large sharp screen. The body is thin and lightweight while still feeling solid. However, if I was going to use it long-term I would definitely need to get a case. Now the first part of my WinPhone learning curve was powering on the device. And I was not the only one. While showing it to my geek friends (owners of iPhones and Android devices) we laughed as each of us tried to turn on the phone. Hint – the power button is on the right side. I guess the muscle memory of pressing a button at the top was kicking in.
A dedicated photo button is also on the right side. While the left side only has volume controls. One single rear camera with flash for this device. Photo quality is pretty good, but would not replace a point and shoot. There are three dedicated touch buttons on the face of the phone – back, home and search. Odd thing about these touch areas, they are prone to accidental touches since they can be activated through clothing. Unlike Android and iOS touch screens which need direct contact between screen and finger tips.
Reception is good. On par with other devices running on the AT&T network. Call audio is solid, sometimes louder than an iPhone when both callers have strong reception. Battery life was really lacking during my use. Under normal use of email, text, twitter – most on wifi – it would only make it until the late afternoon. I felt the time needed to recharge the battery took too long. Between two and three hours to recharge from dead to full. As I remember, the iPhone 4 would fully recharge in under an hour. This difference kept me close to power sources.
The Samsung Focus came out of the box running Windows Phone (V 7.0). This was my first hands on with a WinPhone device. It took me a few moments to figure out how to navigate the new OS. During my use I found the dedicated 'back' touch button on the phone's face to be cumbersome. Blame it on years of iOS use, but having to leave an app's display to navigate said app was clunky. Oh, and the 'search' button was an annoying miss-touch I wish I could deactivate all together.
While core navigation was frustrating, there are a lot of things I liked about Windows Phone 7. The tiled home screen with active app faces made the home screen very useful for quick glances. I really liked the fact that I could delete the carrier installed apps like AT&T Uverse and Navigator. You can tell Microsoft understood the importance of OS design. The dark and light themes were both fun to use and a refreshing break from iOS. After a few days of downloading all the free apps I could find in the Marketplace, I learned that Win7 would not have managed the 200+ apps I kept on my iPhone. With 20 apps 'pinned' to the home screen and dozens more listed in the app tree, I found myself scrolling forever. Where was a folder feature when you needed it?
One big feature of Windows Phone is the integration with Xbox Live. Now I like to think that I am a gamer, but for me the XBL integration was just… meh. Sure I can see which friends are online, send text messages and accept game invites, but the headlining feature of playing XBL Arcade games on the go was lost on me. Take Fruit Ninja for example. After paying $10 for the XBLA console version (which is a steal for one of my favorite Kinect games) they want $3 more for the mobile version. Does it hurt that I have already invested in this game with iPhone and iPad versions? Sure. Maybe I was naïvely under the impressions that XBLA games would be playable for free if you purchased the console version. Maybe I am just not in a hurry to repurchase all the games and apps that I have spent hundreds on under iOS. Whatever the reason, I never launched the Xbox Live app again.
Most third-party apps like Twitter and Facebook felt less like native apps and more like web apps ported through phone gap or something. Every time you launch then you are welcomed with a blank load screen. Even the Twitter timeline that I viewed ten minutes earlier was starting fresh. Unlike iOS twitter apps that save a local cache of the timeline that could viewed offline between syncs.
After a day of use I received a notification on the device that a software update was available. I was a little surprised that I could not update over the air, even on wifi. So why is Apple getting all this shit about iOS 5 finally getting over the air updates? They are not the only ones requiring a computer. Anyways… I installed the Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac to start updating the device. After a few incremental updates I was greeted by a prompt to install Win Phone 7.5 Mango. The few articles I read about this OS update actually had me a little excited.
Wow. Mango was a big improvement in usability and speed. The phone and the desktop device manager client were much smoother, even thought the Mac client did not receive an update itself. Along with overall system speed jump, Mango brought two minor features I really liked – unified inbox and ability to join non broadcasted wifi networks. 7.5 also added the ability to 'freeze state' multitasking similar to iOS. Even before the Mango update the OS was very stable. I only remember the device freezing up once or twice. Mango alone improved my review rating of this device by a few points. Glad to see Microsoft is committed – for now – to making Win Mobile a viable contender. I actually hope they do not pull a HP/WebOS dump any time soon.
The Marketplace as a fair number of apps including iOS and Android favorites like Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Gowalla, Pulse, Amazon Kindle and others. Of course this includes more games than you could play. Yet, like I mentioned before, switching mobile platforms gets even more expensive when you tack on the cost of getting multiple copies of the same apps. Now that I am aware of the cost, I might be too entrenched in the iOS platform to ever leave.
Wrap up:
So the million dollar question – has Windows converted an iPhone user? Honestly, no. But I will give them kudos for making a very nice platform. The time away from iOS made me realize that at the core iOS design needs a refresh. Sure iOS 5 features like an improved notification center and Siri are great additions. But I now have experienced the competitions offering and am now looking to Apple to innovate again. My buddy Carl summed up my feelings towards Windows Phone pretty well, "they are making pretty awesome products, but they are too late to the party. Apple and Android dominate the mobile scene. So no one is even thinking about giving Windows mobile a chance". To his point, when offered the chance to get a free 'hold me over' phone I asked for a iPhone 3GS (sold-out and second guessing old tech after 1st gen mess) or an Android device (no models available for free). Other small things like the quick selection of emails for deletion or filing and the reliance on horizontal swipes to navigate within apps are things I wish would come to iOS.
So unless a Windows fanboy offers me some cash for the device, I will be keeping it has a wifi only mobile browser testing device. Maybe in time I will find more uses for it. And with it being a fairly recent release it should get software updates for some time. If you are curious about other aspects that I did not cover in this entirely too long post feel free to ask in the comments.
*While iTunes will let you go through the process, AT&T requires some special approval to reinstate the unlimited data plans for the silver iPhone. If someone else knows otherwise please let me know.


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Dear Ferris State University Students:
On behalf of the Office of the Dean of Student Life, I welcome new and returning students to an exciting Spring 2009 semester. The theme of this semester's letter is "Challenge and Support." Over the course of Fall 2008, we've watched history in the making as the first African American was elected President of the United States of America. Unfortunately, several of our community members displayed behaviors that lead me to feel that we are at a crossroads in developing a stronger campus community at Ferris. Ernest Boyer, a well known educator, suggests that campus communities should strive to be celebratory, open, disciplined, caring, and purposeful. In every fiber of my being, I know that as community members we can overcome any social injustices that may drive wedges in our relationships or limit our ability to communicate effectively with others.
We are Ferris State University, we will be a community that respects others, and we will be a community that lives our University's Core Values. This semester, take responsibility for your actions and strive to be a good citizen. A celebration of our accomplishments should be our way of sharing the "Ferris Story", what it means to live and learn at one of the best institutions of higher education.
We have students who are doing some amazing things in our community and we have students who are struggling with a variety of life challenges and sometimes those challenges become our concerns as community members. It is during these times of challenge or crisis that we see the best in our faculty, staff, and students. Let our best be our natural response in all that we do and not wait until controversy or concerns emerge. Take notice of your environment and be alert to those things that prevent us from being a welcoming community.
There are a lot of support systems on and off campus that can add to your success as a student -- please take full advantage. As the economy continues to become a high level of stress for many of us, let this be our time to come together to have open dialogue about issues that make us frustrated or upset. We are in hard times but we can still appreciate each other and reach out to those who need us. This is your season to give respect and to extend a helping hand.
Please remember that as young leaders the focus is on you and what you are doing to bring an articulate voice to the table. As in every family there may be differences but we still love each other!
Model Good Citizenship in 2009
- Get involved in Big Rapids and Mecosta County activities – This is your home.
- Gain a greater understanding of the University's Core Values – Live the Values.
- Be respectful in all your interactions with others.
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Be a community member who embraces Margaret Mead's idea of never doubting that a small group of thoughtful and committed citizens can change the world, indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. It starts with you and you bringing your fellow students together; to make dynamic and healthy progress in building a stronger Ferris community. Feel free to contact me at 231-591-2685 or send me an email at email@example.com if you have a question, concern, or a suggestion.
Go Bulldogs!
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Fang, Yen Yen and Ahmad, Noorani and Kassim, Suraiya (2011) A Multistate Approach to Estimating the Net Survival Function in the Presence of Competing Risks. Malaysian Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 5 (1). pp. 125-141. ISSN 1823-8343
In competing risks analysis, formulation and estimation of the net survival function is usually done by the traditional Latent Failure Time approach with Kaplan Meier Estimator. However, this approach involves identifiability problems and based on unverified assumptions of independent risks and equal hazard of the crude and the net. It has been argued that even under independent risks, the equal hazard assumption may not be true in many practical problems. An extended multistate approach by Islam (1994) is proposed in estimating the net survival function without the equal hazard assumption and allows for the presence of informative eliminated risks. A comparison of the results of the proposed procedure to that of the Kaplan Meier Estimator is illustrated on an adapted dataset. The proposed method shows that when noninformative eliminated risks are assumed, the net hazard and the crude hazard are equal, as in the Kaplan Meier Estimator. The proposed procedure is shown to be useful when informative eliminated risks are present and may result in unequal hazard even under independent risks.
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3-1/16" Solid Brass Pocket Door Jamb Bolt
This is an unfamiliar piece of hardware to many. It is mounted on the jamb side of a pocket door. It works like a rocker switch. When punched in, the other half pops out, physically preventing the door from returning into is pocket. A strike is provided to protect the jamb. Emergency release is accomplished by drilling a small hole in the door. Any thin object inserted into this hole will push the rocker back to the unlocked position.
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The classically designed Augusta children's jodhpur boot provides a traditional finish with the brogue style detailing on the toe cap. Featuring a full leather upper with a PU coated for style and breathability and a cemented resin neolite sole unit, the Augusta offers unbeatable performance. A secure front zip and Toggi signature tab for style and ease of wear.
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This is a VW bug converted to a dune buggy. Seats 4 with seat belts front seats are bucket seats with 5 point harness back seat has lap belt. It is street legal and has a clear title. Has Turn signals, headlight, taillights and all. It runs good and goes down the road good. It has a new battery. We are asking $2900.00 however are open to offers so come take a look. Makes a fun summer vehicle.
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As you all know, I am a totally trustworthy source of information and can categorically say that women cannot drive due to a variety of medical issues. As we all know women have descended from ribs and ribs have poor hand eye coordination. I mean if ribs were better coordinated they would not be so easily captured and converted into food!
And I have seen many movies where women upon being chased have proceeded to do nothing but scream irritatingly and be generally useless. They don't even know how to start a car in an emergency! I mean can someone tell me just what good are women for?
No! We should be like Saudi Arabia! They got it right! Women aren't allowed to drive. This means that there is more space and more cars for men who can drive! No more are cars removed from good honest men and given to women. No more do men have to walk to their important appointments while women use their cars to go do their hair.
In the words of Sheikh al-Luhaydan, driving could have a reverse physiological impact. Physiological science and functional medicine studied this side [and found] that it automatically affects ovaries and rolls up the pelvis. This is why we find for women who continuously drive cars their children are born with clinical disorders of varying degrees. They should consider the mind before the heart and emotion and look at this issue with a realistic eye.
So what is a Rolled Pelvis you ask? Doesn't it sound painful. The result of this is bad and they should wait and consider the negativities, It's bad because Luhaydan says so and if you can't trust a Sheikh then who can you trust?
I am going to assume that the only reason Miley Cyrus is out twerking is because she was allowed to drive. All that rolling of pelvises is clearly bad for you. Even for men! Why do you think men tend to dance without using our pelvises?
Let us take a famous case. Elvis Presley. A man infamous for his pelvis. And he pooped so hard he died.
Don't believe me? Another famous case. Michael Jackson. Turned White and lost all credibility.
Tupac Shakur? I have heard he was famous for associating with pelvis rolling and he is dead too.
So ladies, don't drive. And don't tell women in other countries to drive. It's for their own good.
And especially don't go and show your support for over 12,000 women who have signed on to the 26th of October act of Disobedience in Saudi Arabia where many of them will drive their cars. You shouldn't go onto their site and find out about the protest nor should you help.
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1.1 American Mathematics Competition – Lexington – Register by February 12
1.2 Classical Conversations Meetings – Multiple locations – Multiple Dates
1.3 Common Soldier of the Civil War Homeschool Day – Richmond – Register by March 1
1.4 Irish Dance Lessons – Yorktown – Ongoing (Next Session Starts March 9)
1.1 American Mathematics Competition – Lexington – Register by February 12
Virginia Military Institute (VMI)
Center for Leadership and Ethics, Letcher Avenue
Lexington, VA
Wednesday, February 20, 2013, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Open to students ages 13 through 18. There is no cost; additionally, VMI pays for the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) 10B and 12B tests and for lunch. Challenge, stimulate, and reward your math students as you generate greater interest in mathematics. Students will also learn more about historic VMI through a campus tour. Register by 4 p.m. on Tuesday, February 12; space is limited, so respond as soon as possible.
Math students can participate in the AMC 10B and AMC 12B high school mathematics competitions designed to challenge tenth- and twelfth-grade students. The contest will start promptly at 10 a.m. in the Center for Leadership and Ethics and end at about noon, followed by lunch on campus and a tour of VMI. This is an outreach and recruitment activity of the Department of Mathematics and the Mathematics Education and Resource Center at VMI, along with the (AMC) program for the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
The mission of the MAA Competitions is to increase interest in mathematics and to develop problem solving through a fun competition. The emphasis is on problem solving, not just computation. The problems are for all students with a healthy mix of easy, challenging, and fun questions. Top scorers receive recognition through special honors and awards, including an honor roll and merit roll featuring high-scoring students. These contests are the first in the series that lead to the US team at the International Mathematical Olympiad.
See the website for information on the International Mathematical Olympiad. Contact Dr. Randall E. Cone at firstname.lastname@example.com or 540-464-7337 to register for the VMI event (include number of students testing and accompanying adults), or to ask questions.
1.2 Classical Conversations Meetings – Multiple locations – Multiple Dates
Information Meeting
Braithwaite Studios and Cafe
415 Mason Street
Dayton, VA
Tuesday, February 26, 2013, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Free and open to anyone who is interested in Classical Conversations (CC).
Come learn about the CC Community in the Harrisonburg, Virginia area.
See the website for more information about Classical Conversations; contact
Sherry Sweet at email@example.com or 540-280-5691 for more about this event.
Open House for Classical Conversations
Ironbridge Baptist Church
10900 Ironbridge Road
Chester, VA
Monday, March 11, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free and open to interested parents and their children in grades kindergarten through high school. An RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com would help them to know how many to expect.
If you are interested in a one-day-a-week program to help you on your homeschooling journey, then you are invited to attend the Classical Conversations Open House.
See the website for more information about Classical Conversations; contact Rhonda Kester at firstname.lastname@example.com or 804-640-8011 for information about this event.
1.3 Common Soldier of the Civil War Homeschool Day – Richmond – Register by March 1
Museum of the Confederacy
1201 E. Clay Street
Richmond, VA
Thursday, March 7, 2013, from 10 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. Specify the morning session (10 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.) or the afternoon session (1 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.) when you register. Cost: $5/adult or student (ages 6 through 12); free for children under age 6. The cost includes admission to the Museum and White House of the Confederacy, a craft and hands-on program, and lesson plans for parents. Register by 5 p.m. on Friday, March 1.
Learn about the common soldier of the Civil War! Learn drills, what they wore, what they ate, and what life was really like in camp. Explore the exhibits in the Museum about the battles of the Civil War and life between the battles. Tour the restored White House of the Confederacy. Make a craft! Join in the fun!
See the website for more information; alternately, contact Hilliary Turner at 804-649-1861 or firstname.lastname@example.com to register or ask questions
1.4 Irish Dance Lessons – Yorktown – Ongoing (Next Session Starts March 9)
The Dance Center
110 Dare Road
Yorktown, VA
Saturday, March 9, 2013, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. (Although St. Patrick's Day classes begin March 9, classes are offered year-round and they may be joined at any time.) Cost: $45/weekly Saturday class (ages four through adult); $25 annual registration fee. Dance shoes (ghillies and/or hard shoes) are not included. Please inquire about intermediate and advanced classes (also ongoing) if the student has experience with Irish Dance. Instructors will evaluate dancers and place them accordingly.
If you always wanted to know how to "Riverdance" now is your opportunity to learn in classes taught by a veteran homeschool mom. This class is designed as a new beginner homeschool Irish dance class for anyone who has never done Irish dance and would like to learn!
See the websites for more information, or contact Kathy Nelson at 757-253-2437 or firstname.lastname@example.com with questions or to sign up; alternately, register at the Nelson Academy website. Links are to the academy, their performing company, and Facebook pages, respectively.


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Anyone who has done a quick google search of "Calgary arts" knows what an exciting and vibrant arts community we have. The Calgary Public Library loves to be part of this exciting community, and we're offering our customers a chance to show off their talents in visual and written art!
Saddletowne library has a "Words on the Go" journal and an "Art on the Move" sketchbook that we encourage you to sign out, and fill with your own personal art or literature! Our journal and sketchbook are located above the reference collection, so if you are in the branch feel free to take a look at the art done by your fellow Calgary Public Library members!
The art created in the journal and sketchbook become part of our library collection, so visitors to the Saddletowne branch can see what other local artists in the area are creating.
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