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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
If you have a not so powerful mining rig or and ASIC and you want to be able to effectively mine on multiple pools that use variable difficulty instead of a fixed one it might be a bit of an issue. Usually on vardiff pools you start with a lower difficulty that might be right for the hashrate of your mining hardware, but the pool starts to increase the difficulty over time making it hard for your miner to keep up to its maximum performance, especially if using multipool that switches coins or solves blocks quickly. CGminer and the other alternative mining software products do come with strategies for effectively utilizing multipool scenarios, you just make sure you use the right one depending on your situation. By default the multipool strategy used by the mining software is set to failover, meaning that if the first pool stops responding the miner will move on the next one in the list until the higher priority pool is back online.
Obviously the above default scenario does not work for vardiff pools to keep your miner at the recommended lower difficulty level, so you need to use one of the different strategies in order to be able to do that. The right strategy for using multiple vardiff pools is the rotate strategy where the miner will automatically switch between the list of pools based on a user set time interval. So checking what time it requires for the pool to switch from the initial difficulty of lets say 128 to 256 and then to move to 512 will give you an idea on how many minutes you need to set for the rotate rounds. 128 and 256 difficulty is OK for Bitcoin ASIC miners that are in the range of 150-200 GHS for example, so setting lets say 5 minutes for the rotation interval should prevent the pool to go higher than 256 difficulty. What the miner will do is move to the next vardiff pool in the list for 5 minutes and then get back to the first pool for 5 more minutes and so on, keeping a difficulty of 128-256 on both pools. This is a great strategy for using with NieHash and WestHash for selling your SHA256 hashrate for example if you have a not so powerful ASIC miner.
Changing the multipool strategies is possible from within the already running cgminer or another miner forked from it or with support for the same options, but this will not be permanent – it will function until the restart of the miner. You can also set the rotate mode to be activated with a startup parameter of the miner by adding this to the command line
--rotate 5, the example is for 5 minute rotation between the list of pools.

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DDT Debugging Guide
Last update: June 28, 2018
DDT is a symbolic, parallel debugger providing graphical debugging of MPI, OpenMP, and Pthreads applications.
Setting up code and environment for debugging
Before running any debugger, the application code must be compiled with the "
-g" and "
-O0" options as shown below:
login1$ mpif90 -g -O0 mycode.f90
login1$ mpiCC -g -O0 mycode.c
Follow these steps to set up your debugging environment on Stampede, Lonestar and other compute resoures.
Enable X11 forwarding: To use the DDT GUI, ensure that X11 forwarding is enabled when you
sshto the TACC system. Use the "
-X" option on the
sshcommand line if X11 forwarding is not enabled in your
sshclient by default.
localhost$ ssh -X firstname.lastname@example.com
Then load the DDT module on the remote system along with any other modules needed to run the application:
$ module load ddt mymodule1 mymodule2
Start the debugger
$ ddt myprogram
If this error message appears:
ddt: cannot connect to X server
then X11 forwarding was not enabled or the system may not have local X11 support. If logging in with the "
-X" flag doesn't fix the problem, please contact the help desk for assistance.
Click the "Run and Debug a Program" button in the "DDT - Welcome" window.
This displays the "DDT-Run" window, where you specify the executable path, command-line arguments, and processor count. Once set, they remain from one session to the next.
Select each of the "Change" buttons in this window, and adjust the job parameters, as follows:
For the "Options" change button, set the MPI Implementation to either "mvapich 1", "mvapich 2", or "openmpi", depending on which MPI software stack you used to compile your program. Click OK.
For the "Queue Submission Parameters" window, fill in the following fields:
Queue default queue is "
development" queue
Time (hh:mm:ss) Project Allocation to charge the batch job to Cores per node Actually, this is MPI tasks/node
You must set the Project field to a valid project id. When you login, a list of the projects associated with your account and the corresponding balance should appear. The "Cores per node" setting controls how many MPI tasks will run on each node. For example, if you wanted to run with 4 MPI tasks per node and 4 OpenMP threads per task, this would be set to "4way". Click OK, and you will return to the "DDT-Run" window.
Back in the "DDT-Run" window, set the number of tasks you will need in the "Number of processes" box. If you are debugging an OpenMP program, set the number of OpenMP threads also.
Finally, click "Submit". A "DDT-Job Submitted" status box will appear.
Running DDT
When your job is launched by the SLURM scheduler, the DDT GUI will fill up with a code listing, stack trace, local variables and a project file list. Double click on line numbers to set break points, and then click on the play symbol (>) in the upper left corner to start the run.
DDT with Reverse Connect
By starting DDT from a login node you let it use X11 graphics, which can be slow. Using a VNC connection or the visualization portal is faster, but has its own annoyances. Another way to use DDT is through a "remote client" using "reverse connect". The remote client is a program running entirely on your private machine, and the reverse connection means that the client is contacted by the DDT program on the cluster, rather than the other way around.
Download and install a remote client: https://www.allinea.com/developer-tools/debug-allinea-ddt/download. The client version and the DDT version on the TACC cluster have to correspond. Since the latest client is 18.1.x whereas TACC has DDT 18.0.x installed, you need to follow the link for older versions.
Under "Remote Launch" make a new configuration:
Fill in your login name and the cluster to connect to, for instance
stampede2.tacc.utexas.edu. The remote installation directory is stored in the "
TACC_DDT_DIR" environment variable.
Make the connection; you will be asked for your password and two-factor code:
From any login node, submit a batch job where the mpirun line is replaced by:
$ ddt --connect -n 123 ./yourprogram
When your batch job (and therefore your ddt execution) starts, the remote client will ask you to accept the connection:
Your DDT session will now use the remote client.
The DDT user guide is available under the "Help" menu item.


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Rock Band Country Track Pack is a standalone software product that allows owners of Rock Band andRock Band 2 to keep the party going with 21 songs from an outstanding mix of country artists, including Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Shania Twain, Rascal Flatts and the legendary Kenny Rogers. Many of the tracks will be exclusive to the Rock Band Country Track Pack disc for a limited time before joining the Rock Band Music Store as downloadable content.
Because you're a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll.
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Release Date: July 21, 2009
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In her wildly popular online column, Ask Coach Jenny, Jenny Hadfield dishes advice, sympathy and information on everything running.
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Feeling pangs of blog neglect these days but I'm spending every evening reading up on a range of new subjects that I'm currently interested in. I'll explain when possible, but in the mean time it simply means that life is twice as full as ever before and that blogging rears its head only when something time-dependent is closing in, or when the guilt gets too much.
I'm off to Dublin via London tomorrow where I'll be giving a talk and spending plenty of time talking with my friend and collaborator at the IAS. Flight prices mean that it's actually cheaper to spend a couple of days back in the UK on the way back so I'll be popping home briefly before coming back for the final week of the year in Spain where I have another talk lined up which I'll explain nearer the time - a slightly unusual one.
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Shepherd Hill Regional senior captain Dan Stomski has been dominant all season, but the first-year varsity runner recently has been dealing with a nagging leg injury that has coach Aidan Kearney concerned.
On the flip side, the return of junior Elijah Fossas from a bad back injury has been a blessing.
Last week, Fossas surprised the field by capturing first place at the SWCL Championships in his first race this season. His blazing time of 15:30 at Memorial Park's 2.91-mile course in Webster was, incredibly, 21 seconds faster than last year.
Stomski was unable to compete, but the sixth-ranked Rams — who went undefeated (9-0) for the second consecutive season — successfully defended their title anyway.
Last year, Shepherd Hill was a disappointing ninth at the Central Mass. Division 1 Championships at Gardner Municipal Golf Course, but its chances of finishing higher could improve dramatically this year if Kearney has both Stomski and Fossas in the lineup.
"Dan is one of the top runners in the state," Kearney said. "It (the injury) was kind of bad timing. I haven't had the two of them run together in a race all season. Ideally, in a perfect world, I'd have them both at the district meet. You want to keep your eye on the prize. This year, it depends on health."
Stomski, who played soccer for three years, participated in some quality meets this fall, including a 12th-place finish — and personal-best 16:17 — at the Amherst Invitational, which Kearney called the most prestigious meet in New England.
Stomski came in fifth at the Martha's Vineyard Invitational (16:55.42) and sixth at the Wachusett Invitational Class A race in 16:49.7 He also set course records at Northbridge High and Tantasqua Regional.
"I knew he'd be good," Kearney said. "I knew he was a hard worker in general. I have him in (U.S. History) class so I knew him pretty well as a student. He's a natural distance runner. He has good form, good speed, and natural endurance. That's what makes him a natural runner."
Fossas, who owns the school record in the mile (4:37.0) and 2 mile (9:59.0) in outdoor track, injured his back last spring and wasn't able to start running again until late August.
Kearney had high praise for junior Hunter Schultz, who has been Shepherd Hill's No. 2 runner all season. Schultz finished fourth at the SWCL Championships.
Other contributors are senior captain Scott Beaudry, juniors Jason Bangs, Brendan Pratt, Alberto Salcedo and Congke Li, and freshman Isaac Fossas.
While other Central Mass. schools will gather in Gardner on Nov. 10, the Worcester Academy boys will travel to Hebron Academy in Maine for the Division 2 NEPSTA Championships that day.
Last year, the Hilltoppers took fifth. According to eighth-year coach Vin Ricciardi, WA's best finish at the New Englands was third four years ago.
"We're looking forward to it," said Ricciardi, whose squad went 9-3 in dual meets this fall and did very well at several big invitationals. "It's a great challenge. You bring the best competition in Division 2. It's a great meet."
Senior captain Chandler Mendenhall of Shrewsbury was fourth last year. Mendenhall, the Hilltoppers' team MVP the last two seasons, expects to end his high school career on a high.
Others who have shined are junior Peter Dykeman-Birmingham, sophomore Keelan Calderwood, junior John Bowers and senior Matt Lavelle.
Last week, the Doherty High girls made it 28 for 28 for 28th-year coach James Murphy as the Highlanders collected another Inter-High League championship.
Murphy believes the Highlanders also have won additional titles under previous coaches.
This season, Doherty went 6-2 overall, its only losses coming to No. 3 Wachusett Regional and sixth-ranked Notre Dame Academy.
"It's a young team," said Murphy, noting all of his runners set personal bests on Doherty's 3-mile course. "We've had a few injuries and some health problems, but these kids have stuck in there and worked hard. The captains have been great. We're looking forward to the future. We're in the process of a rebuilding year."
Doherty's senior captains include Rachael Flynn, Julie Arakelian, Alexa Gjanca and Ally Dalve.
Hopedale High junior captain Paul Maurais admits there's some pressure for the Blue Raiders to repeat as Central Mass. Division 2 champions.
"I feel like there's a standard here," said Maurais, a 2011 T&G Super Team All-Star. "Team-wise, there is a lot more competition this year. The bar is set higher. It's always a goal to win (individually), but it doesn't matter what I do. It's the team that wins it."
Last year, Maurais and his older brother, Aaron Maurais, who now runs cross-country at Merrimack College, helped lead Hopedale to team victories at the Wachusett Invitational Class C race and the DVC Championships.
"I'm very excited," said sixth-year harrier Anthony Tandy, a senior captain who hopes to run cross-country at Salve Regina next year. "We've had a great year. As a senior, I'm sad to see it come to an end.
"We're a strong team this year. Hopefully, everyone's heart is in it. All of us have to work really hard if we want to get (the CMass championship)."
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Thomas Hampson as Simon Boccanegra and Hibla Gerzmava as Amelia Grimaldi in Simon Boccanegra © ROH / Clive Barda 2013
The Act I scene 1 duet for Simon Boccanegra, the Doge of Genoa, and Amelia Grimaldi is one of the most beautiful pieces of music that Verdi composed.
In the opening section, the orphaned Amelia describes her childhood to Boccanegra and the melancholy minor key melody gives an impression of her early loneliness. The music grows more agitated as she recalls more details about her past. Then, as she remembers her nurse blessing and praying with her, the music shifts into a more optimistic major key. Boccanegra meditates on Amelia's words and wonders if his cherished dream may become reality.
Family relationships of all kinds fascinated Verdi in his operas and wrote wonderful duets for father and daughter, soprano and baritone pairings. What sets the Boccanegra/Amelia duet apart from others in Aida, La traviata and Rigoletto is the joyous emotions that the music celebrates – a rare example for Verdi of a father and daughter at peace with each other.
Why is Amelia telling Boccanegra about her life, and what is the Doge hoping for? Boccanegra is powerful and successful man, but also deeply unhappy. In the Prologue, we saw the dashing corsair Simon lose both his lover Maria and their daughter, who mysteriously disappeared after her mother's death. Twenty-five years have passed and Simon has all but given up hope of finding his child. Unknown to him however, the baby girl was found and adopted by the Grimaldi family. Amelia and Boccanegra are finally brought face-to-face when he decides to pardon the exiled Grimaldi brothers. During their subsequent conversation Boccanegra becomes increasingly convinced that Amelia Grimaldi is his child.
The first section of the duet contrasts Amelia's lyrical, passionate music with a more meditative style for Boccanegra – he hardly dares to acknowledge his hopes. Soon, the Doge's mood becomes more urgent and the music shifts into accompanied recitative. A restless motif in the orchestra and a quicker tempo conveys Simon's growing excitement as he questions Amelia. The music reaches a climax as Amelia and Boccanegra realize that they each have a locket containing an identical picture of Boccanegra's lover Maria Fiesco.
To sumptuous orchestral textures, Amelia declares her love for her father while Boccanegra exclaims 'embrace me, my daughter!'. A series of rich harmonic modulations lead into the final section of the duet, the cabaletta. This is a celebration of the sheer beauty of the human voice and of singing.
The cabaletta is in a radiant and sunny major key. Boccanegra opens it, with a slightly martial melody which illustrates the Doge's status as a noble ruler, who promises to create 'a paradise on earth' for his daughter.
The delicate scoring, with pizzicato strings, conveys his tenderness. Amelia responds to fuller orchestral scoring and in a more impassioned style as she vows to bring joy to her father's house. The pair then sing together, he with his melody from the opening of the cabaletta, she soaring above in long lyrical phrases. As the duet enters its coda, the voices twine sensually around each other as father and daughter rejoice that 'we shall taste undiscovered joys known only to heaven'. The orchestra rings out with Boccanegra's cabaletta melody as father and daughter bid each other farewell, Amelia rising to a top B flat, her highest note in the duet.
Verdi produces one final masterstroke. As Boccanegra, 'in a state of ecstasy', watches his daughter leave, he sings one last, pianissimo 'Figlia', high in his vocal range, to rippling harp chords and shimmering string textures. As Verdi scholar Mary Jane Phillips wrote, 'with that half-whispered "Daughter" Verdi touches the sublime'. This is surely one of Verdi's most moving celebrations of the ties between father and daughter, and a rare and exquisite moment of tenderness in an opera full of political and personal turmoil.
Simon Boccanegra runs from 27 June – 16 July. Tickets are still available.
The production is staged with generous philanthropic support from Mrs Susan A Olde OBE, Afiya and Timur Kuanyshev and the Verdi Syndicate.


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Less progress than Grandma experienced.
MY grandmother, who was born in 1905, spoke often about the immense changes she had seen, including the widespread adoption of electricity, the automobile, flush toilets, antibiotics and convenient household appliances. Since my birth in 1962, it seems to me, there have not been comparable improvements.
Of course, the personal computer and its cousin, the smartphone, have brought about some big changes. And many goods and services are now more plentiful and of better quality. But compared with what my grandmother witnessed, the basic accouterments of life have remained broadly the same.
That's the opening of a recent Tyler Cowen column, and it surprised me. Read the rest here. Whether you agree with his points about economics, innovation and income, I think the underlying point about progress and the pace of change (and how it feels) is pretty provocative and very much worth pondering. Dedicated readers may remember this perhaps-related post on this site from 2007: "Totally Wildly Uprecedented Change, and Its Precedents."


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As a school administrator, one of the best parts of my job is seeing students mature into young adults. Keep in mind it's only one part. Getting a paycheck is also quite pleasant.
I see first graders grow up and become Prom King or Queen. I blink my eyes and the fourth graders who play soccer or basketball during recess are now playing on high school teams. Little kids who sing their hearts out in music class suddenly become the lead performers in the high school musical.
Time goes by so quickly (a sure sign of old age). The experiences we have with our kids when they are young are valuable. It is the basis of how successful they will become as adults.
This is why parents are always concerned about their child's education. They want everything to go just right (and in my case to make sure The Evil Spawn is self-efficient enough to live in her home after she graduates).
Parents want the best for their son or daughter and that's how it should be.
They worry about getting them in the right school. They worry about them having an advanced curriculum. They are concerned about getting them placed with the proper teacher.
I think all of these concerns are valid, but in my opinion they are not the biggest issue in regards to a student having a positive school experience.
The number one thing a student needs to be successful is placement in the right class with the right mix of students.
In the correct situation with the right peer group, a student can make wonderful progress.
Academics can improve. Behavior will be appropriate. Attitude won't be a problem (until they become teenagers… then it's every man, woman, and child for themselves).
Without the right peers, all of this can go the wrong direction.
A good class can bring everyone along for the ride. Every student will maximize their potential. A bad class can drag everyone down to the bottom.
This doesn't mean they all have to be "A" students. It's more about their personalities meshing.
Student placement in the right class far outweighs the right teacher or certain school building.
I don't discourage parents from worrying about their child's school, teacher, or curriculum.
They just shouldn't forget to worry about the peer group that will surround their son or daughter for the next 13 years (if all goes well, of course).


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Episode 84 :: Katherine MacLean :: Psilocybin and Openness
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Katherine MacLeanKatherine MacLean speaks with us about a new study on the effects of the psychoactive drug psilocybin on the personality trait of Openness.
Hi, everyone. This week as with last week, we're enjoying the benefits of the kindness of others in sharing their work in a very timely fashion. I was very happy to get an email a few days ago from our friend Katherine MacLean at Johns Hopkins with preview of a new study that was scheduled for release this week. We were able to get together and talk about the study, some of the correlaries with meditation practice, and get this episode complete and to you within a day or so of the press release.
The study itself brings up some interesting questions: do the causal conditions of our life-changing experiences matter, if it harms no one and is positively transformative? What are those changes in personality, do they last, and how do we know they're more than just self-reported impressions?
Katherine MacLean grew up in Connecticut and received her bachelor's degree at Dartmouth College in the woods of New Hampshire. After a two-year stint recording brain activity in rhesus monkeys, she transitioned to studying primates who could talk about their subjective experiences: humans.
During her graduate studies at the University of California, Davis, she worked with Ron Mangun on studies of visual attention and with Clifford Saron on the Shamatha Project - a longitudinal study of changes in behavior and brain function during intensive meditation training. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology in the fall of 2009 and subsequently joined the Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit within the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as a postdoctoral fellow.
"The real world is still always waiting for you. It would like you to show up." -- Katherine MacLean
Comments and Discussion
Web Links
- Journal of Psychopharmacology: Mystical Experiences Occasioned by the Hallucinogen Psilocybin Lead to Increases in the Personality Domain of Openness
- Johns Hopkins article about the study
- ABC News article about the study
- Johns Hopkins: The Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit
- Episode 23 :: Scientific Study :: Meditation Effects on Concentration
- Episode 69 :: Dr. Roland Griffiths :: Psilocybin and Meditation
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The Secular Buddhist - Episode 84: Katherine MacLean - Psilocybin and Openness
Very cool podcast from The Secular Buddhist. A recent study demonstrated that a single use of psilocybin mushrooms can produce lasting and positive personality changes. The full link for the research article is below, along with some other cool links.
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Scan your 110 format negatives in Orange County and preserve them for a lifetime! We'll scan your 110 negatives to crisp digital images using our premium negative scanning services. Our highly trained negative scanning technician will scan negatives up to 4000 DPI with Digital ICE4 filtering technology to enhance your images.
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Unmounted 110, 16mm Negatives and Disc Film
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NOTE: For quantities over 500 negatives, additional bulk discounts apply; please inquire at the time of your order.
- *Due to the small size of these negative types, for optimum quality we recommend 3000 DPI and 4000 DPI scans.
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- There is a $10 minimum for all orders. Also, if you are organizing your photos into groups of less than 20 photos, then there will be a $1 per custom folder/filename only for the groups that have less than 20 images.
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For customers who only need certain images scanned from a strip of negatives, please add $1 per negative strip which will not be scanned in its entirety.$1 per Negative Strip
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Sharing your memories with others? We provide extra copies packaged and ready for only $10 each.$10 per CD / DVD
Upgraded Resolution - 4000 DPI
Our professional-grade slide scanners can create JPEG or TIFF format images up to 4000 DPI. This is the highest resolution available and is recommended for the true archivist. Imagine being able to print out your images as large as 11"x17"!
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Files are in JPEG format. If you would like TIFF files please add 50¢ per image.
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Contact Proof Sheets
These are also known as proof sheets. Contact sheets allow you to view all your pictures in seconds on a few pieces of paper.$10 for every 100 negatives
Upgrade to Blu-ray
Upgrade your negative scanning order to our Blu-Ray discs for only $20! We'll place your negatives as digital images on a Blu-ray disc, which holds much more data than a CD or DVD. For more information about our Blu-ray services, please visit our Blu-ray transfer page.$20 per disc
Basic Restoration
For most manual color corrections (color balance, levels, brightness, contrasting, etc.) the cost is $1 per image. A technician will inspect and manually adjust each image; we don't rely on an automated computer program to judge what looks good to the human eye.$1.00 per image restored
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The 110 film format was introduced in 1972, and developed by Kodak. This format was primarily used in the popular Kodak Pocket Instamatic camera line. As a result of this, most of the cameras that use 110 format film are cheaply made, which often resulted in the image being blurry or grainy. A typical strip of 110 negatives would measure 111 x 16mm (4.4 x 0.63 in.)
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110 Negatives are first cleaned with compressed air. This removes any extra dust and other particles without damaging the film. For this we use a special air compressor to allow just the right amount of air pressure.
We use the professional grade Nikon SuperCoolSCAN 5000 ED and 9000 ED negative scanners to digitize your negatives. These are dedicated units that produce amazing results when used properly. There are companies out there that will scan 110 negatives using flat-bed scanners. Those companies will not be able to attain the depth of color or clarity of a more high-end dedicated 110 format negative scanner such as the Nikon Coolscan 5000/9000 ED.
All 110 Negatives are previewed in the scanning software program where the cropping and other adjustments are set. Also, all 110 negatives are labeled numerically by box marking (ie: FarmHouse_001.jpg). Folders are also named according to the original organizational structure of the negatives.
After all the 110 negative scanning is finished we go through each image one-by-one and make sure that it is oriented properly (people are standing upright) and not flipped (words appearing mirrored). Once the image scanning technician has looked over all the images, a second technician will look over each image again and sign off on the "customer notes sheet" showing that each image has truly been double-checked.
Once all the 110 format negatives have been scanned and inspected, they will be burned to our special 100 year archival DVDs (unless otherwise specified by the customer). These disks are regarded as the best medium for long-term storage.
Manual Color Correction Service vs. Image Restoration Service
Manual color correction is described in the Pricing and Basic Info section and mainly is used to fix problems with color. For example if the negative has a yellow cast to it, in many cases we can neutralize that color and bring back the original colors. We will check for the whitest pixel in the important viewable area of the image and reset that to the 100% white value, and do the same for black. No software program can do this because we are evaluating the image based on the important data and disregarding things like backlighting from windows and such. If your images has a color cast to them or are too dark, just ask our image scanning technician to employ the manual color correction service. We can even enhance one or two images so that you can see how beautiful your negatives can be.
The Image Restoration Service will digitally repair negatives. If your negatives have folds, scratches, color blots, fungus or any number of imperfections, ask our image scanning technician for a quote for your negative(s). Even if the image has a piece missing it may be possible to reproduce this missing section based on another negative or other data inside the same negative. It is amazing what can be done with Adobe Photoshop, some extra plug-ins, knowhow and experience. And don't worry; all of the original data will be saved.
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WASHINGTON — At the end of the day, fears of chaos and predictions of widespread voting delays were unfounded: America's overhauled voting system largely worked on Election Day.
There were the occasional hiccups of an all-too-human system — long lines in Denver caused by high voter turnout and a lengthy ballot, a Democratic lawsuit in Ohio over slow election machines and a long-shot Texas candidate who briefly, and incorrectly, enjoyed a big lead.
"There were some problems, in some states, but overall it looks like all the predictions of disaster turned out wrong," said Doug Lewis, executive director of Election Center, a nonpartisan organization of state election officials.
Michael Alvarez, a political science professor at the California Institute of Technology, warned against complacency. "I don't think we're in the clear," he said Wednesday. "Even 24 months from now, many of these states and counties will continue struggling with these issues."
Paul Gronke, chairman of political science at Reed College in Oregon, said additional problems may crop up as election officials undergo recounts, possibly in Virginia and elsewhere.
More than 80 percent of the nation's voters cast some type of electronic ballot Tuesday, the deadline for major reforms mandated by the federal Help America Vote Act. The measure was passed by Congress to prevent a rerun of the 2000 election debacle.
There were complaints of dirty election tricks, with some voters reporting intimidating phone calls, misleading sample ballots and an armed man questioning Hispanic voters outside a precinct.
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Some of the longest delays were in Denver, where hundreds waited long past the 7 p.m. voting deadline at besieged polling centers. It was a miserable end to a day fraught with new voting machine problems and the longest statewide ballot in decades.
"This is positively ridiculous," said Jack McCroskey, who leaned on a cane while waiting to vote. "At 82, I don't deserve to have to stand out here."
Voter intimidation accusations prompted others to claim that some voters were bullied from getting a chance to vote.
In Virginia, where Republican George Allen battled Democrat Jim Webb in a race too close to call, the FBI was looking at intimidation complaints from voters who reported they received telephone calls telling them to stay home on Election Day, or face criminal charges.
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Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
In Arizona, three men, one of them armed, stopped and questioned Hispanic voters outside a Tucson precinct, according to voting monitors for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which photographed the incidents and reported them to the FBI.
In Maryland, sample ballots suggesting Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich and Senate candidate Michael Steele were Democrats were distributed by people bused in from out of state. Democrats outnumber Republicans in Maryland by nearly 2-to-1.
An Ehrlich spokeswoman said the fliers were meant to show the candidates had the support of some state Democrats. They were paid for by the campaigns of Ehrlich, Steele and the GOP. Some of the fliers include pictures of Ehrlich with Democrat Kweisi Mfume, a former NAACP president. Both Republican candidates lost.
In some states, the effort to improve the integrity of the election system got off to a shaky start thanks to balky electronic voting machines. Long lines formed in Ohio, Illinois and South Carolina and elsewhere, but voting apparently smoothed out.
U.S. District Court Judge Dan A. Polster in Ohio ordered polls stay open for an extra 90 minutes, after the Ohio Democratic Party sued Cuyahoga County because of crowded precincts.
The county, home to Cleveland, suffered 14-hour voting lines in 2004. On Tuesday, problems with ballot-reading machines caused delays of little more than an hour. It was the first time that all 88 Ohio counties used electronic voting — either touch-screens or paper ballots that were electronically scanned.
Chelsea Clinton turned away
In Texas, election officials recounted ballots after a computer glitch incorrectly showed long-shot Constitution party candidate Ron Avery ahead by a large margin in the race for a House of Representatives seat. The winner was really Democratic incumbent Henry Cuellar.
Some precincts in Illinois' Cook County had trouble electronically transmitting results, so cartridges containing tabulated vote totals were taken to the county clerk's office in downtown Chicago. The county board president's race remained undecided Wednesday morning.
The problems were democratic, though, affecting the powerful and famous as well.
Chelsea Clinton was turned away at a Manhattan polling site because her name did not appear in a book of registered voters, according to her mother, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Chelsea was offered an affidavit vote, similar to provisional ballots used in other states.
In South Carolina, Gov. Mark Sanford was rebuffed because he didn't have a voter registration card. He later returned with it.
According to an exit poll of 11,798 voters conducted for AP and television networks by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International, about 46 percent of voters said they felt "very confident" their votes will be counted accurately. In 2004, that figure was 50 percent.
But Florida showed a significant increase — 47 percent of voters were "very confident" in their states' ability to count votes, up from 38 percent in 2004. Though it was the site of the voting debacle of 2000, Florida has had relatively smooth elections since, including Tuesday's midterm election.
MSNBC.com's Bob Sullivan and Mike Stuckey and The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.


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Since 2014, all applications for working holiday schemes must be made online. It helps Immigration New Zealand in processing your application faster and makes the application process much easier for you. However, the application process is a stressful part of your working holiday experience so we have made a 3-part walkthrough to help you:
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JobClock Australia
JobClock Australia offers portable job clocks for Australian businesses that operate out in the field and need a way to monitor how long their employees are working. The portable job clock is attached to a table, pole, or other stable object at the jobsite so employees can punch in and out on it to record their hours worked. We need a simple, unique website to convey the portability and easy use of the system. A modern Australia feel to the site would be nice and we will provide lots of feedback to designers.
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I was pretty skeptical of Ramen Jinya when I strode up to this ramen spot that shares space with Marshall's in a Studio City strip mall. I'm used to the frenetic pace and jockeying that comes with ramen at Daikokuya or the Japanese food court aesthetic of Santouka. Instead, Jinya is a bright, modern space with menu items that include California rolls and something called a LaBrea roll.
As is tradition, we started with gyoza, which were nicely fried and flavorful, though not as good as the big, overstuffed dumplings from Daikokuya.
Then came the ramen, I tried for the super-porky hakata, but at 6:00 on a Saturday, they were already out, so I went for the basic tonkotsu ramen with "half cooked" egg.
With the first sip of porky goodness, all of my preconceptions melted away. The broth was truly a thing of beauty, more purely porky than any other ramen I've had in LA. It was bursting with flavor. The other elements: scallions, cha siu and noodles, were all good, but the broth was the star here. I couldn't get enough of it. The half cooked egg, a ramen favorite of mine, is an add-on, but one you should definitely get. The yolk is soft but not runny and the outer egg is pleasingly salty; it blends right in with the ramen.
I put my head down and spooned and slurped, not looking up until I was done. The only thing I was left wondering was if this is the regular broth, what is the hakata like?
I will be back.
Ramen Jinya
11239 Ventura Blvd
Studio City, CA 91604
(818) 980-3977
Sunday, February 6, 2011
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Am I the only one who hasn't visited? hmm... My understanding is this bowl rings true to the ramen also served at Robata Jinya? Which would mean no trek out to Studio City is necessary?
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Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) was born in Staffordshire, long a center of ceramic production in England. Ceramics in England up to the 18th century lacked the stylistic and technical sophistication of other European ceramics, such as in Spain, Italy, and France. Wedgwood was the son of a potter and was apprenticed to his potter brother at the age of fourteen. He became skilled in all aspects of the trade, recognizing the need for more sophisticated wares in England. His career coincided with the period during which numerous porcelain factories developed in reaction to imported wares from China and Japan. Up until this time, high society primarily used silver or pewter tableware.
Relying on the traditional Staffordshire stoneware as a base, Wedgwood's first success was his "Queen's Ware," a cream-colored stoneware fired to the temperature for earthenware. The lead-glazed creamware was so popular that Queen Charlotte of England and Empress Elizabeth of Russia commissioned huge amounts of dinner service. Having royal patronage helped his business, and Wedgwood was the first ceramic artist to produce a catalog illustrating his wares. Between 1773 and 1775 Wedgwood perfected a combination of ingredients to produce his most famous ware: Jasperware. Jasperware was so named because it resembled the semi-precious stone jasper in texture and color. It was hard, unglazed stoneware achieved by adding carbonate and sulfate of barium to a semi-porcelain clay and then using a metal oxide for the desired color. Blue, like that of this paint box, is by far the most famous color.
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Professor wins title of Michigan Professor of the Year
A regional university is home to the Michigan Professor of the Year.
The annual U.S. Professor of the Year Program has named Western Michigan University's Stephen Wolfinbarger, a professor of music who teaches trombone, the 2013 Michigan Professor of the Year.
The award program, created in 1981 as a national incentive for people in higher education, partners with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
Michigan is one of 36 states recognized by the award this year.
Wolfinbarger, who previously won a WMU Distinguished Teaching Award in 2010, was selected out of a national pool of about 350 faculty members nominated by their institutions.
"This is a well-deserved award for Dr. Wolfinbarger," said WMU President John Dunn. "He is an incredibly inspirational teacher in our College of Fine Arts and School of Music, which in turn are among the jewels of our academic offerings. His students find success in the most competitive environments."
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A driving experience is the perfect present for the motor mad amongst you. Do you know someone who perks up like a meerkat as soon as they hear the rumble of a powerful engine, who can tell their horsepower from their torque, who salivates at the sight of a sleek Supercar? Well, our driving category has a selection of driving experiences to make even the most particular of petrol heads get revved up and ready to put pedal to metal.
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Robert Scoble: Life After Microsoft
Robert Scoble has earned a place in the history of corporate communications. Starting at Microsoft Corp. in 2003, he became the first high-profile blogger within a large business, ushering in a new era of interaction among companies, customers, critics and the general public. Using his blog, called Scobleizer, and now-familiar tools such as podcasts, RSS and Web video, he helped give Microsoft a human face.
Though knocked by critics as just another tool of the marketing department, Scoble's blog showed some genuine independence. He touted cool products from Apple and criticized Microsoft's censorship of a Chinese blogger. People paid attention. By the time he resigned this spring, Microsoft had more than 3,000 blogs (both internal and accessible to the public), and the phrase "enterprise 2.0" was well on its way to becoming a cliché. Scoble had become a brand unto himself, with more than 20,000 subscribers to his Scobleizer blog and a much-hyped book, Naked Conversations: How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, co-authored with Shel Israel (John Wiley & Sons, 2006).
Quite a heady experience for a guy with a low-glamour background in trade publishing and conference organizing. Scoble got turned onto blogging while organizing a tech conference for publisher Fawcette in 2000. "I was looking for the new trends, and Dave Winer and Dori Smith [both programmers, writers and seminal bloggers] pointed me to blogs," he says. "I didn't think it was interesting enough to do a conference session on, but they did talk me into starting one myself." His big break came when a Microsoft executive who read Scobleizer suggested that he work for the company.
Through it all, Scoble has maintained the same regular-guy persona that made himand business bloggingsuch a hit in the first place. Yet his latest career move (he is now a vice president at PodTech, a Silicon Valley startup that produces Web video and audio programming) raises some questions about the personality-driven model of corporate relations that he pioneered: What happens when the enterprise blogger turns into a star and then leaves? Scoble spoke with Senior Writer Edward Cone about the tools that are changing communications inside and outside the enterprise. An edited version of their conversation follows.
CIO Insight: What was the value of your blog at Microsoft? Obviously the public relations benefit was there, but did it make any real impact on the products and culture of the company?
Scoble: It allowed Microsoft to demonstrate that it was listening. Listening is more than PR. You get some PR value, but if you don't improve the product at the end of the day, people figure out you are not really listening. It will take a couple of years to see the benefits, but we got it started.
We used blog-search engines to find anyone who wrote the word "Microsoft" on their blog. Even if they had no readers and were just ranting, "I hate Microsoft," I could see that and link to it, or I could participate in their comments, or send them an e-mail saying, "What's going on?" And that told those people that someone was listening to their rants, that this is a different world than the one in which no one listens. It was an invaluable focus group that Microsoft didn't have to pay for.
So I would often e-mail a Microsoft product team leader, like Dean Hachamovitch over at the Internet Explorer team, and say, "Hey, man, here's someone out here complaining about your product, what are you going to do about it?" That would prompt him to blog about a lot of things, to tell people what they were going to do about CSS [Cascading Style Sheets, a design tool for HTML and XML pages] support and security, or crashing, or whatever. I think that helped improve the products. The One Note team [One Note is an application in the Microsoft Office suite that syncs text and audio] told me they got a lot of feature requests through their blog, features that they actually implemented in the next version of the product. They thought it was an important way to listen to customers and give them what they wanted.
What about the internal culture of the company? Is there a benefit to blogs behind the firewall as well?
There is a great benefit inside the firewall, and that has started to become clear at Microsoft and other companies. Especially towards the end, I saw a lot of executives using blogs for internal communications, almost as a replacement for all the e-mail that nobody reads. But there's always resistance to change. People don't see the benefits, and unless a manager starts getting into blogging in the outside world, he might not see the power of it.
What are some of those internal benefits?
One of the problems at a big company is the e-mail flow. Let's say I was the manager of a sales team, 60 or 100 salespeople, and every day I wanted a report from them on what they were doing, their experiences, did they close sales. The old way was, everyone would e-mail it to me. Now it's cluttering up my inbox, maybe keeping me from seeing an important e-mail exchange I should have with a customer. And it doesn't let the employees help each other. It locks the knowledge into these silos.
Let's say I left the companymy replacement wouldn't have access to that information. When I left Microsoft, I left a gig and a half of e-mail that neither I nor my replacement has access to. I'm not allowed to look at it, and Microsoft has it stored on a server somewhere, but they don't share it with employees, because it's private. So my replacement can't look into it, and my coworkers can't see any of the knowledge I was storing there. And I was storing quite a bit, actually. But if I could get that knowledge out and put it on a blog, then that stuff stays around, because the blog doesn't get closed down. It's also searchable, so a manager or employee can look for keywords.
You become a far better organization when you share that kind of reporting information with each other, behind the firewall. Blogging is easy, whereas a lot of knowledge management systems are hard to use, and you hate using them, you have to get trained to use them. With a blog you go to a URL and type in a box.
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Why did Scoble leave
You seemed to have freedom to speak your mind at Microsoft. Did you feel supported by senior management?
Absolutely. They understood the importance of having a guy seven levels down talking to customers. I never had anything that I posted killed at Microsoft, but I got yelled at for a few things. When I first wrote about legal issues I was told that it's really dangerous to get close to. They said, if you get close, you'll get subpoenaed and spend six months in a courtroom. They knew from experience on that one. I touched it a few times, but I knew that risk. That kind of stuff is like being a gold miner, and using dynamite on the job. Dynamite is dangerous, but you need it to get the gold.
What companies are leaders in using blogs and similar new technologies?
In terms of the quantity of bloggers, I think it's between Sun, Adobe and Microsoft, with Microsoft in the lead. I like the executive blog that Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has. General Motors has a public relations feel to their blogs, but they are using them as well.
What does it mean for a company when a blogger who has been its public face leaves? And why did you leave Microsoft, anyway?
Take care of your employees so they don't leave [laughs]. My son is down here in Petaluma [Calif.] and my wife and I were flying from Seattle every other weekend to see him. That took a toll on us. We were looking for opportunities to be closer to him. Even if I had moved to Silicon Valley with Microsoft, I would have been making so many trips back to Redmond that the problem would have still been there.
You'll always have employees leave, even if you are the best of companies. It's the same as when an executive leaves, or a head engineer, or a secretary who leaves with a bunch of knowledge about a company that is hard to replace. Turnover is something every company should worry about. I don't think it means you stop using bloggers. You would miss all the goodness that happen with blogss if you did. And a lot of that goodness stuck around at Microsoft. I mean, Channel 9 [Microsoft's multimedia site, where Scoble blogged] didn't lose all of its readers because I left. They have more than four million unique visitors a month now.
There's an impact on the blogger's own brand, too. What does leaving Microsoft mean for you, and for your successor there?
When you have access to something other journalists don't have access to, you can get attention. I have some access at PodTech, and I'm sure my blog will get interesting again.
I don't have one successor at Microsoft. I don't think I'd wish that on anyone. You have to have so many connections inside the company to funnel things through, it's hard to build that kind of relationship network, and it's just hard to be the public face of a company like that on an ongoing basis, without being tied into the inner core structure. Maybe an executive could do it, but it would be hard. The magic of search engines allows the blogging job to be distributed. The first hit on Google for "One Note blog" is for Chris Pratley, who runs the One Note team, and he is the person who should speak about it. I'm really happy that's what happened at Microsoft, that what I was doing grew across the company.
What's your new gig all about?
My formal title is vice president of media development at PodTech. I have two jobs. One is to do my own tech video showthis morning I interviewed the CEO of Wikia. [a wiki-community company co-founded by Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales]. So 20 percent of my job is interviewing cool people about what they're doing, about their services, products and trends. But most of my time is going to be spent building a network of interesting video and audio bloggers, or content people, to create content for computers and iPods.
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What's the value to the enterprise, beyond marketing and PR, of technologies like Web video and audio?
One easy answer is that there's a lot of training to be done out there. A lot of it is already available. Search online for "Ruby on Rails" [an open-source application framework] and you can find conference video and training video, and developers who just turn the camera on and say, "Hey, I'm going to teach you something about Ruby on Rails." So the corporate training side is going to be interesting.
This is also important for CEOs and executives. A CEO is paid to communicate. If I'm a CEO who can't communicate with the written word, I'd be worrying about my future. How else do you convince people to buy your product, that your new products are good? But let's say you have a CEO who can't write very well, so you put him on video every week. Let him podcast. There are ways to get an executive out there. Executives should be looking at these things not in terms of TV-sized audiences, but smaller audiences. These are great ways to communicate with investors, or the press. I interviewed Bill Gates for 17 minutes, and that meant he didn't have to gas up the jet and go talk to a small crowd at a conference to get his point across. You can get geekier, go more in depth. [Dallas Mavericks owner] Mark Cuban gets really geeky on his blog about referees and what happened in a game, much more than Sports Illustrated would in an article.
Also, IT departments need to know that this stuff is going to hit their networks. If you're building a company based on video, or using a lot of video, you need to understand it. These aren't little text files, they're 200- to 800-megabyte files. You have to be prepared for bandwidth costs and scalability issues that come with serving video out to a lot of people.
As part of your new job you've spent some time inside Google. That must make for some interesting comparisons to your former employer, Microsoft. What's your take on Google as a player in the enterprise?
Google hasn't made an impact on the enterprise yet. And I don't see them challenging Microsoft or taking money off the Office team's plate in the enterprise for the next two years. Further out, however, they are positioned to come in and take some business from Microsoft. If I were still at Microsoft, I would be freaking out. The first thing Google will do is stop the growth of Microsoft Office. Small startups aren't going to buy Office anymore, they're going to use the free apps on the Internet. Is Google going to get Chevron to switch from Exchange? No. Not soon. What they are going to do is add new value that Microsoft can't, like the Google calendar team showing me how to put my calendar on my blog. It's really nice. Those kinds of things are what you'll see enterprise companies start to use in little projects here and there. Google will sneak in the back door, just as Microsoft did 25 years ago with DOS and PCs.
Everyone uses Google to search, but I don't see things like GoogleTalk being used a lot in big companies. Even Google Maps has just around 18 percent market share, and certainly big companies aren't ready to use Google's Apps for Your Domain office suite. But at small companies like ours, it's different. We're using it everywhere, because you don't have to pay for it, and it requires no IT manager. Our PodTech e-mail goes through Google.
There's a lot of buzz on blogs that so-called Web 2.0 companies are in something of a bubble mindset. Obviously it's not a big financial bubble involving retail investors, but do you see this market overheating?
Absolutely. It's all froth, all the time. That doesn't mean there aren't a lot of companies building interesting businesses around community involvement. Companies like Wikia are seeing their traffic going up and up. But their business model is selling ads, and there's no telling if that is going to work over time.


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Evaluate guidance systems to select the one that best fits your farm
Setting goals and taking small steps are almost always good strategies when considering new technology for your farm. For instance, a precision guidance system with centimeter-level accuracy will likely be the standard in the future, yet few applications today require it. In most cases, you can get the results you need from a lower-accuracy GPS guidance system.
Randy Price, Kansas State University Extension ag engineer, advises farmers to evaluate how they plan to use a precision guidance system instead of getting hung up on accuracy levels.
"The caliber of the system you need depends on the level of accuracy your specific applications require," he says.
Correction services are designed to help farmers monitor and minimize equipment drift that occurs during tillage, planting and harvesting.
"The biggest value is the increase in field efficiency, which results in the reduction of labor and other costs," Price says.
By reducing overlap and input usage, farmers save 10% to 12% on average each year on input costs, says Amy Winstead, precision ag manager for Alabama Farmers Cooperative Inc.
Farmers also benefit from many noneconomic factors that correction services provide, such as reduced operator strain and fatigue, Price adds.
The precision guidance systems on the market today fall into three accuracy categories: submeter, decimeter and centimeter. Submeter systems include WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) and John Deere's StarFire 1. StarFire 2 and Trimble's OmniSTAR provide decimeter accuracy, and RTK (real-time kinematic) provides centimeter accuracy.
Submeter accuracy. WAAS is a free, government-managed correction service, such as
StarFire 1, that provides farmers with 6" to 12" pass-to-pass accuracy. OmniSTAR requires an annual subscription fee and offers 6" to 8" accuracy. RTK systems are the most costly, but they provide up to 6" pass-to-pass accuracy.
Pass-to-pass accuracy, also known as relative accuracy, refers to how far off course you are from one pass to the next in the field. Accuracy is typically measured in 10- to 15-minute intervals, roughly the time it takes for a farmer to make a pass in a field.
Field operations performed at faster groundspeeds or shorter time between passes can use less efficient guidance systems, such as WAAS, without apparent errors, Winstead notes. "This result
occurs because drift accumulation over a short period is small," she says.
"This means the passes in the field next to each other will be fairly accurate, but the accuracy between multiple passes won't be as high because of how much time has lapsed," explains Brad Beutke, technical support specialist with Crop-Tech Consulting in Heyworth, Ill.
Pass-to-pass accuracy service fits broad-based applications such as tillage, spraying, spreading fertilizer and perhaps drilling wheat, Beutke says.
Not surprisingly, submeter accuracy systems are the most economical, ranging from $1,000 to $10,000.
Farmers who are willing to take a hands-on approach to WAAS can coax additional benefits from the system, Beutke says. For example, when planting, farmers can set an A-B line and markers in the field, giving them two reference points.
"If their auto-steer starts to drift, they can reset it based on the markers," he says. "Every time you turn on an end, if you don't line up with the mark, you can hit one button and reset it. The downside is you have to check it every time you turn."
Beutke adds that most farmers establish a "fudge factor" in their fields, such as setting a wider overlap.
"If you're running a 40' cultivator, set it up on the monitor as 37', and you'll have about a 1.5' leeway to handle drift," he explains. "That gives you about 9" on each side to work with, which is still more accurate than manual driving."
Decimeter accuracy. Farmers who want increased performance with less management can go with a decimeter-level accuracy service, which offers both pass-to-pass accuracy and some level of year-to-year accuracy.
Year-to-year accuracy, often referred to as repeatable accuracy, means the GPS receiver has the ability to return to the previous row or A-B line with a high level of precision.
"For 90% of farmers, if they're not strip-tilling, this is the maximum level of service they would have to have," Beutke says.
Decimeter accuracy is achieved with the use of a local base station or dual-frequency receivers with private satellite differential correction services, such as OmniSTAR High Performance and StarFire 2.
The price for equipment and setup for these services, both of which require a subscription and unlock fees, ranges from $5,000 to $25,000.
Beutke tells his farmer customers who opt to use submeter- or decimeter-based accuracy services to buy a unit that can be upgraded to centimeter accuracy, which is typically referred to as RTK service.
"At the moment," he says, "RTK isn't needed by most farmers, but it is the direction the industry is going in," since it provides the highest accuracy.
RTK accuracy. Year-to-year accuracy for RTK-based systems has been reported at approximately 1" (static antenna), but typical pass-to-pass accuracy is 3" to 4". RTK accuracy relies not only on GPS satellites, but also on a corrected signal sent from a nearby base station, which can be publicly or privately owned. Currently, correction data can be communicated by two-way radios, cell phones, and, in some areas, via the Internet.
The price tag for RTK ranges from $15,000 to $50,000; prices are decreasing, though.
"It's a lot different today than five years ago," says Andy Hill, general manager for MyWay RTK, based in Effingham, Ill. The company offers a precision guidance solution that allows farmers throughout much of the Midwest to receive RTK correction data via the Internet.
"With the costs coming down on this technology, more farmers are using it for strip tillage, tiling, and marking field boundaries or attributes in their fields, such as where they've applied a certain product or made changes to the seed population," Hill says.
The company recently launched MyWay Xchange, a service designed to help independent resellers better assist their farmer customers, Hill adds. The service connects resellers and farmers in real time, providing live information and dialogue to further improve efficiency.
Winstead of the Alabama Farmers Cooperative says that operations such as planting, which take place for longer periods of time or at slower speeds, potentially lead to unacceptable drift buildup or performance.
"RTK correction is recommended for many field operations to improve spatial accuracy over time, thereby minimizing drift," she says.
Another new offering in the RTK guidance category is the Trimble CenterPoint RTX correction service. The service provides repeatable 1.5" corrections via GPS or GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System, allowing more satellites for better accuracy) directly to a Trimble display, which can eliminate the need for additional hardware or data plans. The service is currently available throughout much of North America.


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I was reading a newspaper article this week and it referenced St Pancras Station in London. It made me think about the last time I was there in 2008. Here is an impromptu picture Amanda took on that occasion. Here you can see a shot of the famed Barlow trainshed.
I believe I had just enjoyed a steak and potato pasty and we were were on our way to find one of the draws of St Pancras besides just catching a train. Amanda just had to find this location before we boarded our next train.
This was just an extra. We were really there to hop on the Eurostar to go to the Continent. We caught the train and I slept all the way to Lille, France due to a little jet lag.
This picture we snapped on the walk between Gare de Lille-Europe to Gare de Lille-Flandres on Av. le Corbusier. I looked it up on Google Maps and boy, the route has changed since this photo was taken. As you can tell, it was a dismal day we were there with plenty of green. Not so much anymore, much more urban now!
We did not take any pictures in Gare de Lille-Flandres, I remember it being quite impressive. Look it up online. Or, I guess we will have to go back.
We did take one more picture at Gare de Lille-Flandres. You can see it here and our funny take of it at the time.