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A private stretch of coastline fronts the Grande Shores Ocean condo-style hotel, which is near major golf courses, shops and attractions. Guests unwind in the myriad of water features available, including three pools, two lazy rivers and five Jacuzzis -- most within view of the Atlantic. Tropical-flavored rooms open to private balconies, while indoor amenities include kitchens and layouts for groups of any size. An on-site restaurant serves local catches and straightforward American grill fare.
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Customers who viewed Grande Shores Ocean Resort also booked these hotels.
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The amenities and/or facilities may not be located at the hotel, but within a reasonable distance, and additional charges may apply for use.
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Family trip
Very nice area. Hotels on the beach. Friendly at the desk. Nice clean rooms. The pools where great. Nice yard to relax .
Great Location and Family Resort
The rooms were clean and the staff was very accommodating. The best view was from the hot tub on the 7th Floor overlooking the ocean.
couples trip
I loved the stay the only bad thing was we were to be checked in at 4 but they didn't have our room ready till 5:30 that day that was awful. but it has the best views i loved my room it was a great stay they gave us a 20.00 Breakfast for free at
the resort for having to wait so long for our room over all it was a great time just wish we would have been closer to the boardwalk but we found it and had a great time :)
Nice Time at Grand Shores
Went to the beach for a few days over spring break and stayed at the Grand Shores. The room was comfortable and clean. The free movies and the restaurant and lounge were nice perks. Nice area of the beach also, not right in the heart of everything.
Would not recommend
Bad Experience
When we arrived after traveling 4 hours with 3 boys all with Autism ( which makes a long confined ride difficult) we were told they did not have our reservation. I had a printed con formation with me but that didn't matter. After about an hour of
searching were told they only had a room big enough for all of us for the first night and second night ( which ended up being in the middle of our beach time) we had to pack everything up and move to a one bedroom with small pullout loveseat.
Were told to be at new room at approx. 11:30 , we were and waited on someone to come let us in for 45minutes. I was LIVID !!!!
It is hard enough to stand in the heat with 3 children and almost unbearable with 3 special needs children who really don't understand what is going on.
First timer
It was a little out there away form all the action , but walking to all stores close to the groceries store and restaurants . Bone fish grill just up the street. Best bang-bang shrimp you'll ever eat. Hotel was very clean. The pepole there are
kind and helpfull the lazy rivers were awesome both of them the pools were close upper level and lower one and the beach rite out the back door. It was awesome too. The sand was white and clean I am glad that our choice was the grand shores hotel. I'll be back again and again !!!!!
Parking not cheap. Take the bus. To town
Family Friendly
Grande Shores Ocean Hotel was beautiful. The rooms were clean and spacious. The close access to the beach was awesome. The hotel staff was friendly and always smiling. We had a great time!
Average Getaway
The room was small for the rate and also old furniture, bad bathroom (small) equipment and carpets.
Vacation/Golf Getaway
Room was clean and location of hotel is right on Myrtle Beach at the North end of the strip. The hotel is an older building with some signs of wear and tear. Food at hotel restaurant was average at best. Pool on main floor was good with easy
access to the beach. Small hot tubs and small pool on 7th floor was good to get away from children.
Plenty of good restaurants within a short drive of the hotel.
Nice, Clean, Friendly
Well, I've had bad experiences in the past with hotels and so I asked to see the room first and they were happy to let me. The room was nice and clean. It may not be a brand new hotel, but it was well taken care of. I will defiantly stay here
again and hopefully soon. Had a great time.
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Leslie Dale Smith 55, a resident of Glenveiw Healthcare died Saturday,September 29, 2012 at T.J. Samson Community Hospital. He was born in Glasgow, the fourth son of Martin Hill and Gladys Smith who preceded him in death. He was a member of the Hiseville Christian Church.
He is survived by eight sisters and four brothers, Elizabeth Peden, Violet Davis(Roy), Carolyn Harper, Numia Hill Smith (Diane), Sarah Shaw (Joe), Janie Shaw (Franklin), Tommy Smith (Jane), Judy Young (Charlie), Polly Spillman (Richard), Larry Smith (Cathy) and Terry Smith(Melissa) all of Glasgow, Sue Chapman of Gibsonton FL; 17 nieces and nephews and all his family at Glenveiw Healthcare.
Funeral services will be at 10 AM, Wednesday October 3, 2012 at the A.F. Crow & Son Funneral Home with burial in the Hiseville Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 2PM Tuesday.
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The paper finds that modeling and simulations were used during planning to study the following factors: aircraft survivability; civilian casualties; and the effects of possible Iraq use of chemical and biological weapons against Coalition forces.
Investigators also found that planners evaluating the possible release of chemical or biological agents as a consequence of Coalition air attacks of Iraq sites did not have the benefit of computer modeling and simulation. Results from ongoing studies were not available until after the conclusion of the air war. This contradicts 1997 press reports.
Press accounts in 1997 mistakenly cited a report produced by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as evidence that air campaign planners had prior knowledge of chemical and biological warfare risks to Coalition forces. However, investigators found this report was the result of a modeling capability demonstration prepared by the laboratory and not a simulation of actual or anticipated Gulf War air missions. The laboratory did not use any actual location, weather or chemical and biological agent data to develop the simple, generic demonstration.
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The end of the Mayan calendar seems to have had little effect on planetary systems. Here in the Northern Hemisphere we passed our darkest day on December 21 and thankfully the earth continues to make its yearly voyage encircling the sun.
On the Winter Solstice, Earth's tilted spinning-axis points towards darkness and distant stellar bodies, as far away from its own light-giving fireball as it can muster. So the northern half of the globe faces the sun for only a short period in its 24-hour rotation. But now, finally, we are past the days of impinging night and by the end of January we are well into the next stage of the cycle, the North Pole is exposing more and more of its icy face to the rays of light and each day is slightly longer than the last.
"By the end of January we are well into the next stage of the cycle, the North Pole is exposing more and more of its icy face to the rays of light and each day is slightly longer than the last"
The number of daylight hours regulates the cycles and rhythms of many living things. Plants decide when to flower based on when the nights get shorter. Animals change the colour of their fur and feathers, and alter their sexual behaviour based on day length. We humans are also affected by the amount of light in our life and scientists have a few different reasons why. One explanation is that our body's circadian rhythm – the way our body times important biological functions and processes – can be disrupted if we don't see the light of day. To only see darkness is not that unusual during late December in London when the sun doesn't even peep over the horizon until after eight in the morning and descends before four each afternoon. If we don't experience these few hours of light then our body's cycles are not effectively regulated.
Added to this, scientists think that when daylight streams into our eyes, it passes a signal to the brain to release more serotonin – the chemical that makes you feel really good – and stop making so much melatonin – a sleep-inducing chemical. So it's all good news for the months ahead, as the days get ever longer, expect heightened moods, deeper sleep and more energy.
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lol the sound seem to dissapear from his toms at the end of the song . great fun they must have .. fun to watch . great band
does anyone have anything live we can see, using his big kit? 77-78
The sound isn't synched up with the video that's why! I have that video and that clip is one of my most wathced. Along with A Quick One and Shout and Shimmy from TKAA. And of course the Live at the Isle of Wight DVD. If you want to see amazing drumming, watch that short clip of Shout and Shimmy. NOBODY was doing that back then. And I think he was all of 17. Anyone who can say that Moon is not one of the best or the best must not know much about him or his playing or his influence on other drummers. It's sad to me that his manic behavior overshadows his playing. Too bad that's the first thing most people think of.
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Janet Jackson Stops By Jay Leno: Talks Weight Gain, New Book & Infamous Rolling Stone Cover
She dropped by "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" last night looking better than ever as she promoted her new book, True You. While there, she discussed her new deal with Nutrisystem and her battle with weight gain as she shared a photo from the book that shows her looking twice her normal size while running on the beach. She said she gained all that weight for a role she was preparing for on a movie that ended up being postponed.
Janet also dished on her original "Good Times" audition and shares secrets about her infamous Rolling Stone cover shot–The topless one, remember? She said she came up with the concept herself while getting out of the shower around the time she was shooting Poetic Justice. Word?
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What made you want to write the book?
A lot of people asked me about weight loss, weight gain, how did I do it, what brought it on, what took it off and instead of just telling them the nutritional side I wanted to start from the very, very beginning, which was my childhood. I wrote the book also wanting to help children so that's why I go to the very beginning.
On hitting 180 lbs
Well, I put on the weight for a film that I was to [suppose] to do and at the very last minute they had to change the schedule of the film, which didn't work with my schedule so I had to pull out. I had all of this weight that I had to get off of me.
Whose idea was it to shoot that famous topless Rolling Stone cover?
Patrick Demarchelier, shot that cover; I was like 25 or something like that. Actually when I was shooting 'Poetic Justice,' we were staying San Francisco and I came out of the tub and I got this idea. I was wrapped in my towel and I thought "Oh, this might make kind of a cool cover." That's really how it all happened and that was kind of the last shoot of the day and the only shot we did indoors.
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The Mizpah Shrine Charity Horse Show was held in Columbia City today. More photos can be seen on The Post and Mail's facebook page. Coverage and photos will be in Tuesday's edition of The Post and Mail
The Whitley County Humane Society held its Canine Carnival at Morsches Park today. More photos and coverage will be in Monday's edition of The Post and Mail. More photos can be viewed on The Post and Mail's facebook page.
COLUMBIA CITY — As the leaves change color and begin to fall around the city, local citizens will have rakes and leaf blowers in hand getting ready to dispose of them through the street department's leaf pickup program.
"I've had several questions on when the date is for that," said Street Superintendent Kelly Cearbaugh. "It will begin Oct. 22, and that's when we'll probably make our first pass. "
Cearbaugh said the leaf pickup is about a six-week program.
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is advising motorists that there will be temporary lane restrictions on Ind. 14 and Ind. 37 in Whitley and Allen counties next week.
Beginning Monday, INDOT maintenance crews will begin a pavement preservation process by fog sealing along Ind. 14, from Ind. 9 to West Hamilton Road in Whitley and Allen counties.
The eastbound lane of Ind. 14 will undergo work on Monday.
The westbound lane will undergo work on Tuesday.
When this stretch is complete, crews will move on to Allen County on Wednesday.
CLAYTON, Mo. — A former Columbia City resident will be sentenced Monday in a Missouri court for stealing at least $25,000 from a trust designed to protect the assets of his parents.
Larry G. Mueller, 62, is scheduled to be in St. Louis County Circuit Court in Clayton, Mo. at 8:45 a.m. Monday on a charge of theft, a Class B felony.
The charge is for the theft of more than $25,000, but those close to the case estimate the alleged crime involved more money.
COLUMBIA CITY — According to the Election Supervisor Jessica Hockemeyer, absentee voting hours will soon be available to registered voters at the courthouse.
"There is in office voting, voting by mail and a traveling board," said Hockemeyer.
The hours for absentee voting at the clerk's office, located in the courthouse at Room 18 on the second floor, are Oct. 9-12 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Oct. 15 to Nov. 2 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Oct. 13 and 20 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.; Oct. 27 and Nov. 2 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Nov. 5 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
COLUMBIA CITY — Whitley County Dazzlers is a special needs cheerleading team in its second season.
Coach Vanessa Bills decided to offer cheerleading to special needs students so they can "experience the uniform."
The cheerleaders have various disabilities and varying degrees of speech and movement capabilities. Bills said that there are some challenges when working a cheer routine around those handicaps, but the participants grow in confidence and become more vocal and more mobile.
COLUMBIA CITY — With the Columbia City/South Whitley utility agreement close to finalization, Columbia City officials said they are looking forward to providing contracted electrical support to the town.
"Everything is worked out and everybody seems happy," said Columbia City Electric Department Superintendent Larry Whetstone at Tuesday's Columbia City Common Council meeting.
"So we are responsible for South Whitley's maintenance assuming they agree. All indications are they want to get this completed."
COLUMBIA CITY — The Whitley County Autumn Art Festival was held earlier in September around the courthouse square with vendors and patrons commenting on the success of the event.
Trudy Miller-Longhenry has been the event's coordinator for seven years. After this year's festival, Miller-Longhenry "passed the paintbrush" to the Whitley County Humane Society.
"I will still be involved next year. I'll be behind the scenes," said Miller-Longhenry. "I want to see the festival succeed, so I am willing to help them out."
GROVERTOWN — A former Whitko High School athlete and Pierceton resident was killed Wednesday on his way to see a PGA golf event.
Steve Mort, 50, died at 9:59 a.m. at South Bend Memorial Hospital following a collision with a semi hauling a wind turbine propeller. Mort's brother, Tim, was also involved in the crash.
The vehicle Mort was in failed to stop and lodged underneath the trailer of the semi and both brothers were trapped inside their vehicle and had to be extricated by emergency crews.


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A use billing system with an arrangement for identifying distances traveled by a moving object within a system of traveled distances or for identifying fixed geographical zones entered by the object. In order to provide a billing arrangement which is universally applicable as far as possible and which requires little expenditure on infrastructure, a system is provided which is installed independently for wireless transmission of information to detect the current geographical position of the object. The moving object carries a reception system to receive the information transmitted over the air and a storage device for temporary storage of data. A second storage device for permanent storage of predetermined data is also carried. The object further carries a comparison device for comparing these data. An identification device is carried by the object for identifying the respective traveled distance. A mobile storage module which can be connected with the identification device by computer techniques is also provided.
1. A use billing system including an arrangement for identifying distances traveled by a moving object within a system of traveled distances and for identifying fixed geographical zones entered by the object, the system comprising:
a transmission system arranged external to the moving object independent of the distances and fixed geographical zones for a wireless transmission of information for determining a current geographical position of the object;
a reception system carried by the moving object and operative to receive the information from the transmission system for determining the position;
first storage means carried by the object for temporarily storing data concerning the current geographical position of the object;
second storage means carried by the object for permanently storing predetermined geographical positions called identification points for unequivocal identification of individual traveled distances of the system of traveled distances and the fixed geographical zones;
comparison means carried by the object for comparing respective geographical positions of the object determined at regular intervals with position data of the identification points;
identification means carried by the object for identifying the distance traveled by the object and the fixed geographical zone entered or exited by the object based upon the geographical positions passed by the object and determined by the comparison means and agreeing with the identification points; and
a mobile storage module connectable with the identification means for receiving and storing respective identified distances currently being traveled and presence in a fixed geographical zone.
2. A system as defined in claim 1, and further comprising computing means carried by the object for calculating the geographical position of the object from the information transmitted by the transmission system when the information does not represent position data.
3. A system as defined in claim 1, wherein the transmission system is a satellite navigation system.
4. A system as defined in claim 3, wherein the reception system is adapted to receive correction signals which facilitate improvement of accuracy of the position detection.
5. A system as defined in claim 3, and further comprising a dead reckoning sensor operatively provided in the object to continue providing position data during a temporary malfunction of the navigation system.
6. A system as defined in claim 5, wherein the dead reckoning sensor is a flux gate.
7. A system as defined in claim 1, wherein the transmission system is configured as part of a cellular mobile communications network, the reception system being a mobile telephone and positions of the object being determined based upon different propagation lines of signals from the object to individual reception stations of the mobile communications network, the mobile telephone having means for regular transmission of identification data and for receiving positioning data when the telephone is not in use.
8. A system as defined in claim 1, wherein the transmission system is a direction finder system.
9. A system as defined in claim 1, wherein the mobile storage module is one of a magnetic tape card and a chip storage card.
10. A system as defined claim 1, wherein the second storage means is provided as a component part of the mobile storage module.
11. A system as defined in claim 1, wherein the moving object is a road vehicle and the system of traveled distances is a highway system, the second storage means being operative to permanently store identification points that relate to connection points of the highway and to at least one intermediate point located between two immediately successive connection points on a section of the highway extending between these two connection points.
12. A system as defined in claim 11, including means for recording at least one of an identified distance actually traveled within a system of toll distances and an entry into a fixed geographical zone as a debt of a credit stored in the mobile storage module, the debit being determined along the system of travel distances based on fee information which is stored in one of the second storage means and the mobile storage module.
13. A system as defined in claim 12; and further comprising stations arrangeable at rest stops and gas stations along the system of highways which are operative to provide additional stored credit.
14. A system as defined in claim 12, and further comprising first display means for emitting a signal in the object that warns of an imminent expiration of credit.
15. A system as defined in claim 14, and further comprising second display means arranged in the object and operatively connected to the identification means so as to be activateable thereby when entering a traveled section or geographical zone subject to use billing, said second display means emitting a corresponding signal in the object indicating entry in such a section or zone.
16. A system as defined in claim 12, and further comprising outwardly acting signal means mounted on the object for emitting a signal when at least one of use of a route subject to billing and presence in a corresponding fixed geographical zone extends beyond a depletion of credit.
17. A system as defined in claim 16, wherein the outwardly acting signal means is operative to emit a visual signal.
18. A system according to claim 17, wherein the outwardly acting signal means is operative to emit an infrared signal.
19. A system according to claim 16, wherein the outwardly acting signal means is operative to emit a radio signal.
20. A system as defined in claim 12, and further comprising outwardly acting signal means mounted on the object for sending an "OK" signal as long as proper credit is available.
21. A system as defined in claim 20, wherein the outwardly acting signal means is operative to emit a visual signal.
22. A system according to claim 21, wherein the outwardly acting signal means is operative to emit an infrared signal.
23. A system according to claim 20, wherein the outwardly acting signal means is operative to emit a radio signal.
24. A system as defined in claim 1, wherein the reception system, the first storage means, the comparison means and the identification means are configured as a single logging device.
25. A system as defined in claim 24, wherein the logging device is configured to be activateable by a connection with the mobile storage module.
26. A system as defined in claim 24, wherein the logging device is configured as a component part of a car radio.
27. A system as defined in claim 24, wherein the logging device is configured as a terminal of a traffic control system on board the vehicle.
28. A system as defined in claim 24, wherein the logging device is configured to be removably connected in the use billing system so that the logging device is portable.
29. A system as defined in claim 24, wherein the logging device is operative to determine parameters identifying duration and intensity of use of the system of distances by the object.
1. Field of the Invention
The invention is directed to a use billing system with an arrangement for identifying distances traveled by a moving object (e.g., a passenger automobile, motorcycle, truck, bus, ship, railroad train, aircraft, person, piece item) within a system of traveled distances (e.g., a highway system, waterway system, railroad system) or for identifying geographical zones (e.g., inner-city zones, air space zones, nature preserve zones) entered by the object.
2. Description of the Prior Art
A position detection system for a motor vehicle is known from EP-A-0 519 630. This system determines position data via the GPS system and shows the data on a display. This GPS system is also used for another position detection system described in EP-A-0 519 630. The data can be recorded on a memory card or a PC.
Finally, DE-A-35 37 730 discloses an arrangement for automatically homing on a target point. For this purpose, position finding is carried out via a transmitter in a known location and the actual course of the moving object is determined therefrom.
Charges for the use of bridges or tunnels are commonly collected at toll stations similar to border posts, where the fee is collected by personnel or automatic coin payment machines. In order to charge for the use of sections of highway in France and Italy, a system is used in which the driver takes a ticket on which the entry point is marked in a machine-readable manner when entering the highway and at the junction between a toll-free highway section and a toll highway section. At the exit or when passing from a toll highway section to a toll-free highway section, the total traveled distance can be determined by means of this ticket and the respective use charge can be calculated and collected. Although this system enables reliable billing, its use requires not only considerable investment to provide the necessary infrastructure, in particular for construction of toll stations with automatic ticket machines, barriers and lighting installations, etc., but also a considerable expense for personnel to man the toll stations during the day and night. An additional grave disadvantage consists in that the toll collecting activities severely impede the flow of traffic especially at peak traffic hours.
In order to avoid this expense, Switzerland has for a number of years employed a different system for collecting tolls for the use of highways which is based on a lump payment for a fixed time period. In exchange for a lump payment, the driver receives a sticker which is to be placed in a visible location in the vehicle and which shows an externally visible authorization to travel on the highway and accordingly presents a verifiable record. This system requires no substantial expenditure on infrastructure, since it can make use of existing installations for selling the stickers (e.g., post offices, border posts) and for monitoring (e.g., highway entries and exits). However, it is not possible to charge for the actual extent of use, so that the calculation of costs does not adequately take into account the principle that payment should be commensurate with use.
Systems which permit an individual charge based on the actual extent of use have also already been suggested. However, these systems require that a suitable local infrastructure be provided, since they are based, for instance, upon infrared systems or so-called h-f transponder systems or r-f transponder systems, that is, upon special mechanical devices for detecting and identifying individual vehicles on the toll routes in question or in corresponding fixed geographical zones such as inner-city zones in which automobile traffic is to be restricted. The transponder technique has been known for some years from its use in the field of military air traffic for distinguishing enemy flying objects from friendly flying objects. The applied principle consists in that an object to be identified is "beamed" (e.g., by radar) from a monitoring station (e.g., a ground station, a ship or an aircraft) and an appropriate identification signal is then sent automatically to the respective monitoring station. In order to transfer this principle to a highway toll charging system, for instance, suitable mechanical monitoring stations would have to be provided at determined points along the highway toll route system (particularly at entry and exit points) to enable a complete acquisition of the data required for use billing. Accordingly, a system of this kind requires a considerable expenditure for providing a special infrastructure covering a surface area.
The object of the present invention is to an arrangement of the type mentioned above which is suitable not only for charging fees for highway use, but also for detecting other instances of use of defined zones (distances, surface areas, spaces) by moving objects and which requires comparatively little expenditure on infrastructure.
Pursuant to this object, and others which will become apparent hereafter, one aspect of the present invention resides in a use billing system having an arrangement for identifying distances traveled by a moving object within a system of traveled distances or for identifying fixed geographical zones entered by the object. The use billing system includes a transmission system installed outside the moving object independently from the distances and fixed geographical zones to be traveled for wireless transmission of information to detect the current geographical position of the object. A reception system is carried by the moving object and is operative to receive the information from the transmission system for detecting the position which is transmitted over the air. A first storage device as carried by the object for a temporary storage of data concerning the current geographical position of the object. A second storage device is carried by the object for permanent storage of predetermined geographical positions for unequivocal identification of the individual travel distances of the system of traveled distances and/or the fixed geographical zones. A comparison device is carried by the object for preparing the respective geographical position of the object determined at regular intervals with the position data of the identification points. An identification device that is also carried by the object identifies the distance traveled by the object and/or the fixed geographical zone entered or exited by the object on the basis of the geographical positions which have just been passed by the object and which have been determined by the comparison device and agree with the identification points. Finally, the billing system has a mobile storage module which can be connected with the identification device by computer techniques and in which the respective identified distances currently being traveled and/or the presence in a fixed geographical zone is logged.
The invention will be described more fully in the following with reference to a system for charging fees for the use of highways by way of example. The drawing in FIG. 1 shows a section of a road system with a highway. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the system components.
The system according to the invention is formed of three main functional blocks, namely:
a position detection system on board the vehicle;
a billing system on board the vehicle; and
a portable or mobile storage medium for storing billing data.
The position detection system has a system 10 for receiving information for detecting the current geographical position of the vehicle and a first storage device 11 for temporary storage of the current position. The information for position detection is received over the air by a system 12 installed independently from of the highway system. This system is often already present or can be adjusted at relatively low cost for the purpose of transmitting appropriate information. Some examples are existing satellite navigation systems (e.g., GPS, GLONASS) or direction finder systems based on existing mobile telephone communications networks (e.g., the German C-, D-, and E-networks) by which a very accurate position detection can be effected on the basis of different signal propagation times to neighboring ground stations. In satellite navigation systems, it may be advantageous to provide the opportunity to receive correction signals (e.g., for the differential GPS system) in order to increase the accuracy of position detection. This compensates for influences due to errors such as satellite orbit errors, timing errors, and signal propagation errors and enables a location resolution of less than 10 m. A correction signal of this kind could be transmitted, for instance, by radio broadcasting (e.g., RDS) or by a GSM mobile communications network. Other systems which determine the vehicle position from radio contact and from sensor equipment installed in the vehicle are also possible. For example, a sensor for determining mileage (e.g., via the revolutions of the rear wheels) and a fluxgate can be provided which enable accurate position-finding with reference to a digitized system of roads when the position of the vehicle is obtained prior to the start of the trip by means of a communications device installed within the vehicle. A "dead reckoning sensor" 13 (e.g., in the form of a fluxgate) which is carded on board the vehicle can be provided to enable a continuous updating of position data in the event of a temporary malfunction of a position detection system (e.g., due to shielding effects or unfavorable satellite position).
The billing system carried on board the vehicle contains a second storage device 14 for permanent storage of predetermined geographical positions (identification points) allowing for an unambiguous identification of individual traveled distances on the system of routes and/or of fixed zones. Further, there is a computing unit which operates as a comparison device 15 and which constantly compares the current position of the vehicle with the stored position data (coordinates) of the identification points at frequent intervals (e.g., once or twice every second). If the agreement between the position data is sufficiently exact, the computing device identifies the section of highway which has just been traveled over and which can be associated with this identification point. This will be explained in more detail in the following.
The use of identified sections of highway is logged by the computing device on a mobile storage medium 16. By mobile storage medium 16 is meant a device which can be carried by the driver of the vehicle and which, if needed, can be connected with the computing device via a read-write device by computer technique. This mobile storage medium is preferably constructed as a magnetic-tape card or chip storage card. However, other media, e.g., programmable storage components such as PAL components, FPLA components or FPLS components, can also be used.
If the information received externally from the position detection system is not position data in a strict sense, the computing device additionally takes on the task of calculating the coordinates of the respective position of the vehicle from this information. The second storage device with the position data for the identification points can be physically integrated in the first storage device. However, it may also be advantageous to integrate the second storage device in the mobile storage module.
The principle of use billing can be illustrated with reference to the section of a system of distances shown in FIG. 1 which shows a toll highway 1 as well as toll-free roads 4, 5, 6 crossing the highway 1. The entry/exit points 2a and 2b of the highway 1 are identified by squares. The geographical positions of these locations are stored in the second storage device as identification points. When the computing device detects a current vehicle position which is in agreement with the position of square 2a or square 2b (with predetermined accuracy), this can mean that the vehicle is located on a toll section of highway. However, it might also mean that the highway 1 has only been crossed via the toll-free road 4 or 5. Even when a second square is passed, there is still no unequivocal determination in this respect. For example, it is also possible to travel from square 2a to square 2b via roads 4 and 5, that is, just as can be done via the highway 1. For this reason, at least one additional identification point 3a, 3b (marked by a circle) on the highway 1 is provided and stored between every two directly successive entry/exit points on the highway 1. This additional identification point, when passed subsequent to an identified entry point/exit point, enables a completely unequivocal determination to be made regarding the section of highway that has just been traveled over, so that a corresponding record can be made on the mobile storage medium for calculating charges. Highway crossings and highway triangles are also detected as identification points with their position coordinates in order to provide a complete identification of all portions of the network of highway sections.
In principle, it would also be possible to effectively bill for use by the month, for instance, by referring to the recorded instances of use at fee payment locations. However, it is considerably more advantageous to use the mobile storage medium like a telephone card; that is, the user purchases a "highway toll card" thus already acquiring beforehand the authorization to make use of the highway to a determined extent (use credit). When the highway is actually used, the charge for every traveled distance is deducted from the actual use credit by recording means 22.
A great advantage is obtained by storing use rates on the mobile storage medium in addition to the identification points of the highway system in that graduated authorizations for use can be realized in a simple manner. For example, it is possible to issue special highway toll cards for the use of determined regions or routes (e.g., transit highways). Different sets of charges to be applied for different vehicle types (passenger automobiles, motorcycles, busses, trucks) can also easily be taken into account by means of highway toll cards with a suitable different design and which are provided with different rates.
The components of the device according to the invention which are internal to the vehicle and which are preferably designed as compact mobile logging devices 21 can also be physically integrated, for instance, within a car radio, a terminal of a traffic control system 20 or in a mobile telephone set and can accordingly be permanently installed in the vehicle. Mobile devices are particularly handy for calculating charges for foreign vehicles which are not outfitted with corresponding arrangements. Thus, in addition to highway use cards, logging devices 21 could also be issued at border crossings for an appropriate fee. The logging device is preferably activated by inserting the highway use card into a corresponding read-write device. The device can be switched off automatically when the vehicle stops and automatically reactivated as the vehicle begins moving again. Display devices 17 are advantageously installed within the vehicle to alert the driver when driving into a toll zone and to provide a timely, clear indication (similar to a fuel gauge) of the impending depletion of use credit. A continuous display of current use credit is advantageous. Stations 19 at which additional use credit can be purchased for a suitable fee or where a new highway use card can be purchased are preferably provided along the highway routes (e.g., at rest stops, gas stations and parking lots).
If needed, the device according to the invention enables highly differentiated use billing which can also take into account the intensity of use (e.g., it can detect the duration of travel within a toll zone). For this purpose, special possibilities can be provided for input of corresponding parameters. For instance, a sensible variant would be to apply lower rates for individual sections of road or for the entire highway system during off-peak traffic times (e.g., based on season or evening hours) in order to reduce traffic at peak periods by a suitable shifting of traffic.
Unauthorized use of toll sections or zones can be prevented and such improper use can be monitored in an advantageous manner by an outwardly acting signal device 18 (e.g., an h-f transmitter, r-f transmitter, laser diode for infrared signals, etc.) which operates and transmits an "OK" signal when the billing procedure is properly followed and proper use is made of the roads. Externally arranged reception stations (e.g., installed in monitoring vehicles used on the highway exits) can accordingly detect vehicles in which there is no fee detection system or in which the installed system is not being operated properly, that is, when the required fee is not paid. As an alternative or in addition to this, an outwardly acting signal device (e.g., a colored warning light) can be automatically activated when travel within a toll region is extended after the use credit has been exhausted. In such cases, a radio signal which allows the vehicle to be identified can also be sent to a monitoring station. In these cases, the extent of unauthorized use of the highway can be recorded on the mobile storage module for purposes of local traffic patrols.
A substantial advantage of the solution according to the invention consists in that it requires new installation of infrastructure only to a negligible extent, if at all, and enables the use of existing arrangements, that is, arrangements which are installed independently from the respective zone which is subject to use billing. A further important advantage consists in that instances of use subject to charges are determined and calculated in the vehicle automatically so as to provide favorable conditions with respect to protection of data and to exclude unwanted monitoring of driving behavior. No information remains in storage which could enable identification of the total distance traveled by the respective vehicle within the toll region. The temporarily stored information about traveled distances is erased after the use charge has been deducted from the use credit. The coordinates of the last identification point passed by the vehicle which represents the beginning of the route currently being traveled over are filed in the storage each time. However, when necessary, special logging devices which carry out continuous documentation of all traveled distances can be provided, if expressly desired, in order to keep a travel log automatically, e.g., for transportation companies.
As was already mentioned above, use of the arrangement according to the invention is in no way restricted to road traffic, but rather is transferrable to many other applications.
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"Lipscomb is a very good offensive team," said ETSU coach Murry Bartow, "but I felt like if we could get stops, we'd win. We couldn't get stops. We threw everything we had at them and they shot 55 percent and scored 82."
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"We came out real lackadaisical," said Rembert. "It didn't seem like we wanted to play. It was tough to get stops, and that was key to the whole game. The last three minutes we got some stops, but the last shot was a dagger."
Rembert came into the contest second in the A-Sun in 3-pointers made, with 40, and the junior guard added five more to his total.
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Soil organic matter (SOM) represents a major pool of carbon within the biosphere. It is estimated at about 1400 Pg globally, which is roughly twice that in atmospheric CO2. The soil can act as both a source and a sink for carbon and nutrients. Changes in agricultural land use and climate can lead to changes in the amount of carbon held in soils, thus, affecting the fluxes of CO2 to and from the atmosphere. Some agricultural management practices will lead to a net sequestration of carbon in the soil. Regional estimates of the carbon sequestration potential of these practices are crucial if policy makers are to plan future land uses to reduce national CO2 emissions. In Europe, carbon sequestration potential has previously been estimated using data from the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Soil Organic Matter Network (GCTE SOMNET). Linear relationships between management practices and yearly changes in soil organic carbon were developed and used to estimate changes in the total carbon stock of European soils. To refine these semi-quantitative estimates, the local soil type, meteorological conditions and land use must also be taken into account. To this end, we have modified the Rothamsted Carbon Model, so that it can be used in a predictive manner, with SOMNET data. The data is then adjusted for local conditions using Geographical Information Systems databases. In this paper, we describe how these developments can be used to estimate carbon sequestration at the regional level using a dynamic simulation model linked to spatially explicit data. Some calculations of the potential effects of afforestation on soil carbon stocks in Central Hungary provide a simple example of the system in use.
- Title
- Regional estimates of carbon sequestration potential: linking the Rothamsted Carbon Model to GIS databases
- Journal
Biology and Fertility of Soils
Volume 27, Issue 3 , pp 236-241
- Cover Date
- 1998-07
- 10.1007/s003740050426
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- 0178-2762
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- 1432-0789
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- Springer-Verlag
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- Key words Soil organic carbon
- Geographical Information Systems
- Modelling
- Carbon sequestration
- Hungarian soils
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- P. D. Falloon (A1)
- P. Smith (A1)
- J. U. Smith (A1)
- J. Szabó (A2)
- K. Coleman (A1)
- S. Marshall (A3)
- Author Affiliations
- A1. Soil Science Department, IACR-Rothamsted, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ, UK e-mail: email@example.com, Tel: +44-1582-763133 x2110, Fax: +44-1582-760981, GB
- A2. GIS Lab of RISSAC, RISSAC, Herman Otto Utca 15, H-1022 Budapest, Hungary, HU
- A3. School of Biology, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonnington Campus, Loughborough, LE12 5RD, UK, GB


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A three-year battle between Vance County and one of its employees came to an end last month.
The Vance County Board of Commissioners reached a compromise settlement June 27 with Cindy Lloyd, an assistant tax administrator.
Lloyd filed a federal complaint against Vance in 2010 claiming prejudice when Porcha Brooks was named tax administrator.
Lloyd was interim tax administrator after Sam Jones left the post in April 2009. She expected to move into the position permanently because of her years of experience working for the county, according to County Manager Jerry Ayscue.
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Calder: Csaba's best more than good enough in Fred W. Hooper
Csaba's form leaps off the page Saturday in the Grade 3, $100,000 Fred W. Hooper Handicap at Calder Race Course. He won the Tropical Park Derby by 14 lengths in his last start, and the Beyer Speed Figure of 106 that he earned is the best career number in the field.
The Hooper is a 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds and up, and it will share a card with the Grade 2, $150,000 W.L. McKnight Handicap at 1 1/2 miles on turf. The Hooper goes with a field of six, including Ducduc who is cross-entered in the McKnight.
Csaba has been a late-developing 3-year-old for the partnership of Bruce Hollander and Cary Shapoff and trainer Phil Gleaves. He won the first stakes race of his career in July, when he rolled home by eight lengths in the $55,000 El Kaiser at Calder and earned a Beyer of 99.
"He'd run a super race, so that propelled us to Saratoga," Gleaves said. "We ran him in the off-the-turf Hall of Fame, and he was beaten a nose. That was a very good race for him, a graded race at Saratoga. We thought then the next logical place to run was the Pennsylvania Derby, and things just didn't go right for us in the running of that. For whatever reason, he didn't run well. We brought him home, and he was jumping and kicking and saying, 'Let me run again.' "
Csaba turned up in the Tropical Park Derby, a 1 1/8-mile race at Calder on Oct. 13 that came off the turf. He stalked the pace and drew out, running to the potential he had hinted at over the summer at Saratoga.
"He just ran a breakout race," Gleaves said. "He looked like the real deal.
"He's always been a nice horse, but I did see a definite change in him up at Saratoga, and as we know, horses thrive up there. But I noticed physically he was getting stronger."
Csaba on Saturday will be taking on older horses for the first time since May, when he won an allowance over such rivals at Calder. The horse, who is named for a painter, will break from post 3, under jockey Luis Saez.
"He's best on the lead, or laying very close to it," Gleaves said of Csaba, who could track Two Is to Many.
Ducduc comes off a second-place finish in the Grade 3 Spend a Buck Handicap on the same card as the Tropical Park Derby. The winner of that race, Cash Rules, returned in his next start to capture the $150,000 Carl G. Rose Classic Handicap at Calder.


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Guest blog Howie's BQ
After I read my friend Howie's marathon story, I knew it would make a great blog. Howie is a long time friend of Jake and the three of us ran Wakely this year. Howie is one of the most determined runners that I have ever met. His first marathon was the ADK in 2010 where […] [Read More]
Funning – funny running stories
I am the first to admit that I can take running a bit too serious. I have been known to follow training schedules like a religious fanatic follows a holy text. I have tried to figure out the exact formula for eating and drinking during a marathon. However, after going to Barefoot Ken Bob's (BFKB) […] [Read More]
Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next 6 that count.
"Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next 6 that count." Barry Magee, New Zealander; marathon Olympic bronze medalist (Rome 1960) I read that quote in my Runner's World Training Journal about 2 months ago. Over the next two months I thought about that line often. It motivated me on my long run weekends to […] [Read More]
Marathon & Half Marathon Pictures
Hi all – I put a request out on The Runners Blog Facebook page for any pictures you want to share with the blog readers from yesterday's Half & Full Marathons. The pictures have already started coming in. Feel free to leave a comment with a link to an album you would like to share […] [Read More]
Marathon and Half Marathon viewing spots
Marathon and Half Marathon week is here! Congrats to all that have trained for this weekend! Whether you are running one of the two local races or Hartford…or somewhere else…good luck and more importantly have fun! In years past, I have taken many pictures of the runners along the Mohawk Hudson River Marathon course, while […] [Read More]
Barefoot running is fun- no really
A few weeks ago on 9/14/2013, my family and I went to Boston to attend the 2nd Annual Boston Barefoot Running Festival. There was a whole weekend of activities, but we just wanted to go to the barefoot running workshop and 5K. The father of the modern barefoot movement Barefoot Ken Saxton was going to […] [Read More]
Volunteers are still needed for the Mohawk Hudson River Marathon and Half Marathon
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Listening to my own advice
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Blacks Should Feel Insulted
June 25, 2003
John H. McWhorter
The Supreme Court's legitimization of pursuing "diversity" in composing a university class is the saddest development in civil rights since the Bakke decision of 1978.
That's no renegade assessment from a "black conservative." The decision ratifies a practice that black Americans themselves overwhelmingly deplore. Too often lost is that while racial preference advocates coo about the importance of "diverse" perspectives in classrooms, black students tend not to appreciate being singled out this way. In a recent issue of Philadelphia Friends Central School's newspaper devoted to diversity, a black teen treats this practice as an example of racism: "It makes you become representative of your race. Anything about black culture, they expect you to know." The undergraduate-written Black Guide to Life at Harvard insists: "We are not here to provide diversity training for Kate or Timmy before they go out to take over the world."
Meanwhile, in poll after poll, black Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of racial preferences. Typical was a poll by the Washington Post that showed 86 percent of blacks opposed. In Black Pride and Black Prejudice, Paul Sniderman and Thomas Piazza report that 90 percent of 756 blacks rejected admitting a black student over a white student when their difference in SAT scores is 25 points. In the Friends Central newspaper issue, a black teacher writes: "I would like to receive praise and awards and not have others consider them to be hand-outs." He sees this as an aspect of racism in his life.
Sure, Monday's decision outlaws quota and point systems, but this is window dressing. Permission to "take race into account" remains, and this phrase is a fig leaf for treating students' skin color as one reason for admitting them over someone else. But this is what most black people do not approve of.
And the decision gives a stamp of approval to a general-thought culture where whites are comfortable assessing black people as head-count fodder. This leads to episodes like former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair being promoted beyond his capabilities out of a tacit sense that "diversity" was more important than his abilities.
Of course, many insist that racial preferences are about opening doors for people coming up the hard way, as if all but a sliver of black people live hardscrabble existences in 2003. But middle-class students have always benefitted most from preference policies.
"It is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor writes, as if racism somehow blocks even middle-class black students from posting grades and test scores as high as other students.
But it's hard to see bigotry in the white administrators so elated this week that they will be able to continue jerryrigging classes into a suitable level of "diversity." O'Connor's statement tiptoes around the elephant sitting in the middle of the room: Why is it that even well-off black students so rarely hit the highest note in grades and scores?
The answer is a culture-internal tendency, largely tacit but powerful, to associate scholarly endeavor with being "white." This affects black students' performance regardless of class, as countless journalistic reports have demonstrated and UC-Berkeley professor of anthropology John Ogbu's book-length study of the problem now confirms. If we wish to undo that tendency, lowering standards for all black people regardless of life circumstances will only nurture it.
As so often, what passes for civil-rights advocacy today contrasts jarringly with what black thinkers in the past assumed.
Zora Neale Hurston never knew racial preference policies, but once wrote: "It seems to me that if I say a whole system must be upset for me to win, I am saying that I cannot sit in the game, and that safer rules must be made to give me a chance. I repudiate that. If others are in there, deal me a hand and let me see what I can make of it."
"Taking into account" socioeconomics is just in a society riddled with inequality. But Hurston would have deplored middle-class black students being submitted to lowered standards to assuage white guilt. She would be right, and Monday was a dark day for getting past race in this country.
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Jacqulyn Longacre was born in Robeline, Louisiana and grew up around Wewoka, Oklahoma. She earned a bachelor's degree from Oklahoma A&M College (now Oklahoma State University) in accounting and economics in 1954 and a master's in social work in 1959 from the University of Oklahoma.
She became a caseworker for the Seminole County Department of Welfare in 1955 after being turned down by an oil company for an accounting position in Venezuela because she was a single woman. She began work with the Department of Human Services in Tulsa County in 1957. While in graduate school and after she worked at Griffin Memorial Hospital in Norman in the Social Work Department. In 1961, she moved to Tulsa and began work in the Child Welfare Division of the Department of Human Services and soon took over the Child Protective Unit in Tulsa County. She then was Social Work Supervisor and in the Hospital Improvement Project at Eastern State Hospital in Vinita. In 1967 she moved back to Tulsa and was in charge of the after-care program of the Department of Mental Health in Tulsa County.
In 1969 she took the position of Director of Planned Parenthood in Tulsa where she served for eighteen years. While serving as director, Tulsa's Planned Parenthood grew from serving 1,600 patients to serving over 10,000 patients in a single year. Their organization covered all of Eastern Oklahoma and moved into western Arkansas. Tulsa's Planned Parenthood was awarded the Fairchild Award, the highest award available for being a quality service affiliate while she was there. They were involved in a Model Cities Grant, helped the Margaret Hudson Program become an independent organization, and raised one million dollars for a new building, which was paid off in one year.
After a brief stint at Planned Parenthood in Dallas, Texas, she returned to Oklahoma to direct the Area Health Education Center, now a non-profit called Rural Health Projects, in Enid which covers twenty-six counties in western Oklahoma. She then went to work for the State Health Department to help improve the WIC program, where she retired in 1996. She now spends her time with family and traveling the world.
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