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Americans are converting more used school buses into tiny homes during the pandemic
Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY
July 29, 2020, 6:03 AM ·6 min read
The coronavirus pandemic pushed Sparrow Kettner and her husband, Keith Smith, to rethink their careers and their home.
The couple are musicians who rent a midsize house in Asheville, North Carolina. But with concert venues closed and large gatherings limited for now, they had time to plot their next move.
"Before all this, we stayed in Airbnbs and hotels when we were on the road," Kettner says. "We needed a way to still travel and play at outdoor, socially distanced concerts. But we also needed to be more self-contained."
So in April, they traded in their band's tour van for an old, gutted school bus and spent the next several weeks converting it into a move-in-ready home on wheels with a kitchen, modular seating, chevron wood paneling and a bathroom.
Bored under lockdown: This couple built a 'hot tub trailer' on wheels during COVID-19
Sparrow Kettner, 36, and her husband Keith Smith, 29, converted an old, yellow school bus into their future home. They are traveling musicians in a band called The Resonant Rogues.
The couple aren't the only ones jumping on the bus. Sales of the used, bright yellow vehicles, called "skoolies" by their owners, have risen in some markets during the recession as more Americans shift toward a nontraditional, more affordable and socially distanced way to live. People such as Kettner and her husband transform them into one-of-a-kind homes.
A pandemic drives sales
"Bus and RV conversions have been around for decades, but it has increased due to the quarantine and social distancing," says Mike Curtis, general manager at National Bus Sales Inc., an Oklahoma-based, coast-to-coast dealer of shuttles, vans and school buses.
Americans love big trucks: The coronavirus can't keep people away from pickups
The married couple behind @Going_Boundless on Instagram spent over a year decking out the interior of their Craigslist-found school bus.
The trend is offering relief for bus sellers, who are struggling with lower sales overall as COVID-19 shuts schools and limits tourism.
New York-based Used Bus World saw bus sales to individuals climb sixfold since March. Northwest Bus Sales Inc. in Washington state said growing purchases of used school buses are keeping the lights on during the coronavirus crisis. Tesco Bus, a shuttle van service based in Ohio, has also seen a sharp rise in interest.
"People are looking for cheap shuttles that then they can put a little bit of time, effort and sweat equity into," says Noel Graham, vice president at Tesco Bus. "They're turning them into campers."
Joseph and April Teceno spent $3,750 on a 22-foot school bus in September. They spent under $12,000 converting it into a home on wheels.
RVs on a budget
People fix up buses partially because trailers are more expensive to buy and have to be hauled by another vehicle. The buses are also cheaper than recreational vehicles.
Prices for used school buses usually start around $3,500, Curtis says, and costs vary depending on size, model year and mileage. The conversion process can be done for under $10,000, enthusiasts say.
The average cost of a pre-owned recreational vehicle on RVTrader is $47,500. Used travel trailers without major damage start around $3,500, plus the cost of a tow vehicle.
Joseph Teceno has spent most of the pandemic renovating a 22-foot, 20-year-old skoolie for himself and his wife.
The Teceno family renovated the entire school bus themselves. They bought the bus in Georgia to avoid the hidden metal corrosion that's associated with colder weather "rust states."
The Michigan-based pastor found the $3,750 school bus on Facebook Marketplace, drove to Georgia to pick it up and spent $11,000 converting it. He finished the project in July and wants to live in Florida.
"We were kind of going through a hard time and took a leap of faith," Teceno says. "We saved some money, started looking into it and now we're ready to hit the road."
Buyers often find retired school buses at auctions soon after the vehicles are taken out of commission by school districts, experts say. Schools usually let go of them after about 20 years of service, depending on state guidelines.
Before retirement, school buses are the most regulated vehicles on the road, built sturdily and designed to roll over on impact rather than to cave in, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Association.
In their afterlife, the buses can be reclassified and registered as a motor home. Usually, a regular driver's license is enough to operate them, but that can vary depending on state guidelines, according to Josh Davey who runs Davey Coach Sales, a specialty bus business.
There are downsides to purchasing any used vehicle, and those challenges are compounded when transforming a school bus into a steel-shelled cabin fit for a fullt-tme family. There's room for error when installing insulation, appliances and electrical work. Bathrooms are particularly cumbersome.
Starla Sullivan and her husband, Brian, had toilet issues for a year after buying a $1,000 composting toilet. The flusher attracted mites and occasionally leaked inside their home. The couple built their own toilet instead, Starla says.
People sometimes abandon the project midway through and try to sell partially converted school buses online to cut their losses. Facebook Marketplace is rife with semi-converted skoolies.
But with enough time, patience and basic building skills, old school buses are pretty simple to enhance with daily comforts, enthusiasts say.
Spas and swings
But some people prefer to leave most of the grunt work to experts.
Jeff Flake runs a bus and van converting business in Marshall, North Carolina. He's been flooded with calls to take on new projects during the pandemic and is currently booked through 2021.
Builder Jeff Flake installed a hot tub in this skoolie conversion.
"Everyone comes in with a different vision," Flake says, although clients must eventually align their dreams with their budgets.
"We've been asked about building a spa-themed bathroom with heated floors. Somebody wanted at swing built onto their bus for their son to swing on. It really varies."
The average conversion process takes up to four months of 8-hour workdays, Flake says.
Gabriel and Deborah Mayes, and their four kids, downsized from a 5,000 square foot house in the Chicago-area to a 250-square foot, Scandinavian style bus. The parents hired a team to do all the internal building work, while the couple did all the painting and decorating, Gabriel says. The entire project cost just over $30,000 to complete.
"At first, I didn't know if we could make it work," Gabriel says. "But we did."
Wandering, reconnecting and patching up a marriage
Upcycling old buses isn't just about saving money.
It's also a cultural movement that's loosely attached to the tiny home phenomenon. And it's partially driven by wanderlust and a desire to reconnect with nature and family members, enthusiasts say.
Gabriel and Deborah Mayes said the first bus they bought was riddled with rust. The bought a second one and paid a company to renovate it.
The Mayeses, who completed their bus conversion in 2017, wanted to downsize after they noticed the family was growing apart.
The Tecenos were going through a rough patch in their marriage when they decided to make the leap.
Curtis from National Bus Sales says clients are also converting buses to travel more.
"A lot of people initially bought into the dream of a large house, a big family and a green yard. Then, life happens," says Flake, who runs the converting business. "There's a lot of people looking for the slice of happiness that they gave up trying to follow the status quo."
Jeremy Von Thompson took an ordinary school bus and transformed it into a tiny home because he's "always loved to tinker."
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Used bus sales lift amid pandemic as Americans convert them into homes


Back in 1964 when the Beatles were filming "A Hard Day's Night" they chartered a train from Paddington for filming the first twenty minutes of the film which take place on board a train.
They also filmed a chase scene outside of Marylebone station.
But a lesser known station in Somerset also had a role to play in this film and it recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the film and their participation in its making.
The train from London stopped in Minehead and the locals went wild to find the Beatles in their midst. Read about this momentous moment in Minehead history (including some amazing photos that most of us have not seen before) written by Timothy King here.


Vinny interviews Tim Lynch-A kiwi who has his finger on the pulse of our country.
National corruption, value systems disorder, media programming, eco-cide, indigenous philosophies, empire and power systems and a large serving of pure honest truth.
The two hour debate is so full of insight and political relevance that it stands alone as a piece of brilliant social commentary and foresight.


Good morning! I'm glad to welcome you to worship today at Hillcrest Baptist Church.
As we come to the close of 2107 many of us will find ourselves taking an inventory of our lives over the past year, and begin to make decisions about resolutions or changes that we believe we need or want to make. One resolution of change that is common among the masses is that of losing weight or getting physically fit. Of course, this resolution, for many, has more to do with image than health, but becoming healthier is an awesome result of losing weight, when achieved with proper diet and exercise.
Today we are beginning a 9-week sermon series that we have titled GET FIT SPIRITUALLY. The goal of this series is to strengthen our growth and walk with Christ. There are many scriptures that challenge the believer to continually be growing in Christ. The Apostle Paul, in writing to the church at Ephesus stated, "but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love." (Ephesians 4:15-16).
Where are you in your spiritual growth with Christ? Are you even growing? Have you become stale or stagnant? Are you zealous and excited about your relationship with Christ?
Before anyone can set true goals of weight loss and/or physical health, they usually must do a thorough check-up, which includes a weigh-in, and sometimes a physical. Without a weigh-in or physical you have no idea of where you really are, where you need to go, and how to get there. This morning we are going to do a general "weigh-in" spiritually, so that we can all determine where we are, what goals we need to set, and how to grow towards those goals.
Today we will begin our GET FIT SPIRITUALLY series with MAKING OUR DAYS COUNT from James 4:13-17.


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PREVIEW: POP! AT THE FASHION AND TEXTILE MUSEUM
Wonderland takes an exclusive sneak peek behind the scenes of the Fashion and Textile Museum's upcoming Pop! exhibition. From 1950s rock-n-roll Americana to the kitsch glamour of the seventies, this thematic exhibition fuses fashion, art and culture for an insight into the development of the styles of the times. We talk Pop Art and counterculture with the museum's curator, Dennis Nothdruft.
What inspired you to put the exhibition together?
It was initially through work we'd done previously with Geoff Rayner and Richard Chamberlain, who own the Target Gallery. We've been involved with other projects with them, and after seeing their private collection, we began discussions almost two years ago. So that was the first genesis of the idea, and then it kind of just spilled from there.
Why did you decide to include a mixture of fashion and art?
I think Pop Art gets a lot of attention, but it's also about the peripheral things that it engendered and that it embraces. So the whole exhibition starts with teenage rock-n-roll in the fifties, and, kind of, throwaway culture. But then there is this interconnected movement of design, fashion and graphics around that.
So do you think the two are inextricably linked?
Yes. Pop Art's a consumer product – Andy Warhol said that he was creating for the consumer.
Is there any part of the exhibition that particularly strikes a chord with you?
I remember seeing an Andy Warhol exhibition in the 80s: there must have been about 18 rooms that I saw, all of Andy Warhol. It had a real impact, just on the way you think, and it was really influential, so that began my connection. And then there's the psychedelia. There's paper furniture and there's Mary Quant. A particular sector I'm also really interested in is the group around van der Rohe and Andrew Logan in the early seventies. It's almost a do-it-yourself, Baroque bad taste. It's a kind of narrative arc all the way through to punk.
So you'd say there's a definite journey through the exhibition?
Oh definitely. And I think the thing that's clever is its scope. So when you put it all together, you start with rock-n-roll and then you get onto people like Barbara Jones, the illustrator, who was hugely influential in the fifties, and then you have the Modernists. Then there's the swinging sixties; the bikers and mods. It just flows from one group to the next. But all [the decades] are in their own way quite subversive. Always undermining something.
And is there a stand out period or piece in particular that you're excited about?
There's so many – it's taking over every space in the museum! It's probably the most ambitious exhibition we've done. There are a couple of dresses from Mary Quant though: pre-1960s that nobody really sees because everybody focusses on the black and white, the daisies, the miniskirts. And then Mr. Freedom is also amazing for me: that kind of kitsch Americana, filtered through punk and counterculture. It's really interesting.
What do you want people to think when they come and see this?
I want to inspire a young designer to have a go. To do something. To create. I hope people get lost in it.
Pop! exhibition will run from 6 July – 27 October 2012 at the Fashion and Textile Museum.
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NTSE (National Talent Search Exam), formerly known as NSTSS (National Science Talent Search Scheme) is a national-level scholarship exam that identifies and proliferates the skill, mental-ability, and logical reasoning of the students.
The NTSE exam is held in two stages, where Stage-I is held at the state level while Stage-II is conducted at a national level. Stage-I is conducted by SCERT or other authorities of the same state, while Stage-II is conducted by NCERT at a national level.
The official notification for the NTSE 2022 is not yet released by NCERT. The notification for the application process along with the exam dates will be released on the official website of NCERT.
The candidates must check the official notification of NTSE for complete details about NTSE 2022. The NTSE official notification contains latest changes, exam dates, eligibility criteria, exam pattern, syllabus and scholarship details.
The candidates can fill the NTSE Application Form both online and offline. The students willing to take up the NTSE exam need to fill up the application forms for Stage-I by contacting their respective State/Union Territory Liaison Officer.
The last date of application submission also varies from state to state. For some states, the application forms are also released on the official SCERT website. It is a one-step application procedure and candidates need not apply for the Stage-II exam.
How to Fill the NTSE Application Form 2022?
The steps to fill the NTSE application form are as follows:
Get the application form from the respective State/UT Liaison officers or download them from the official SCERT website (if available).
Fill in the application form by providing basic details such as your name, date of birth, caste, gender, postal address, the financial income of your family, and academic details. It should be done in your handwriting if it is offline.
Affix a recent passport-size photograph along with your signature at the space provided. Upload a scanned copy of these documents if it is being done through online mode.
Pay the application fee as prescribed by the respective states (either online or offline). The fees may vary from state to state.
Get the application forms attested by your respective school Principal/Head.
Verify the details and submit the attested forms (either offline or online) to respective LO's.
The admit cards will either be available online or will be posted to your postal address as mentioned in the forms by concerned SCERT authorities.
The NTSE Exam Syllabus is divided into sections- MAT and SAT. The MAT paper aims to evaluate the candidate's knowledge and solving capabilities in areas such as logical reasoning, quantitative aptitude, critical thinking, etc.
It includes questions based on patterns, series, encoding-decoding, hidden figures, block assemblies, and soft skills. The SAT paper tests the student's knowledge in Science, Social Science, and Mathematics. The syllabus for SAT is the same as the syllabus prescribed for CBSE class 9th and 10th by NCERT.
NTSE Mental Ability Test (MAT) Syllabus
The syllabus for MAT is tabulated below:
Mental Ability Test Topics
Verbal and Non Verbal Analogy Verbal and Non-Verbal Series
Water and Mirror Images Classification
Coding-Decoding Cube and Dice
Alphabet and Number Test Blood Relations
Word Problems Distance and Direction
Paper Cutting and Folding Ranking and Arrangements
Venn Diagrams Mathematical Operations
Embedded Figures Calendar, Time, and Clock Missing Characters
NTSE Scholastic Ability Test (SAT) Syllabus: Science
The SAT part is divided into 3 sections- Science, Social Studies, and Mathematics. The syllabus for various subjects in SAT is as mentioned below:
Magnetism and Electricity
Motion and Force
Source of Energy
Acid, Bases, Salt
Physical and Chemical Changes
Fibres and Plastics
Air, Soil, and Water
Plant and Animal Nutrition
Reproduction, Heredity, and Evolution
Food Production and Management
Cellular Level of Organisation
Arithmetic Progressions
Square Roots and Cube Roots
Direct and Inverse Variation
Arithmetic problems
Quadrilateral
NTSE Scholastic Ability Test Syllabus: Social Science
Syllabus for NTSE SAT Social Science
Local and State Government
Diversity and Livelihood
Resources and Development
Internal Structure of the Earth and Rocks
Maps and Globe
Our Country – India
The motion of the Earth
Climate – India and World
Indian Physiographic Division
Drainage in India
Major Domains and landforms
British Raj
Maurya Empire
Medieval Architecture and Culture
Early Medieval Period
Early States
Conquerors from Distant Lands
Jainism and Buddhism
Popular Movements and Social Reforms
Nationalism in Various Countries
Introduction and Sources of Ancient Indian History
Vedic Period
New Empires and Kingdoms
United Nations and International Agencies
The candidates must check the NTSE Eligibility Criteria laid down by NCERT before applying for the exam. NTSE eligibility criteria differ for each stage. The detailed eligibility criteria for NTSE is provided below.
NTSE Eligibility Criteria: Regular Students
As prescribed by NCERT, the candidate must be below the age of 18 years as of July 1, 2022.
The candidate must be pursuing their class 10th from any recognized government/ private school in India. Since there are no domicile restrictions imposed, the students from any State or Union Territory can apply.
NTSE Eligibility Criteria: Open and Distance Learning (ODL) Students
NTSE can be attempted by students who have opted for Open Distance Learning (ODL) as well under the following conditions:
The candidates must be below the age of 18 years as of July 1, 2022.
The candidates must not have any kind of employment.
The candidates must be undertaking their Class 10th exam for the first time.
NTSE Eligibility Criteria: Abroad Students
The students who are pursuing their education abroad can also attempt the NTSE exam under the following conditions:
The student studying abroad must be of Indian National.
The candidate pursuing their class 10th or equivalent class is exempted from Stage-I and can directly attempt Stage-II examinations.
The candidate must have obtained a minimum of 60% in class IX final examinations.
The candidate has to opt for an examination centre in India itself.
The candidate has to produce a request along with an attested class IX scorecard through the Head of the institution he/she is studying at the Department of Educational Survey Division, NCERT.
The candidate will be honoured with a scholarship after qualifying for the exam only if he/she decides to pursue further studies in India itself.
The aspirants will not be qualified for the second stage if they will not meet the sectional cutoff in Stage-I even if they meet the overall cutoff score.
The application fees vary from state to state and can be done either through online or offline mode. The NTSE application fee for various states are mentioned in the table below:
Andhra Pradesh INR 200
INR 250 for the General category
INR 200 for Reserved category
INR 150 for General/OBC/EWS category
INR 75 for SC/ST category
Chattisgarh No fees
Delhi No fees
Goa No fees
INR 70 for the General category
INR 50 for SC/ST/PwD
INR 100 for SC/ST/PwD
INR 40 for Reserved category
INR 75 for Government Aided Schools and INR 20 for SC/ST students from these schools
INR 200 for Unaided schools or Private schools and INR 75 for SC/ST students from these schools
INR 100 for SC/ST/BPL
Jammu and Kashmir INR 90
INR 125 for SC/ST
Madhya Pradesh No fee
Maharashtra INR 150
Meghalaya No fee
Odisha No fee
Punjab No fee
Sikkim No fee
Tamil Nadu INR 50
Telangana INR 100
INR 100 for SC/ST/PH
West Bengal No fee
NTSE Exam is conducted in two stages i.e. Stage-I and Stage-II. Stage-I is a state-level examination conducted by authorities of various states and union territories.
Stage-II is a national level examination conducted by NCERT for Stage-I qualifiers and Indian nationals studying abroad as they are exempted from the stage-I exam. The pattern for both the Stage-I and Stage-II exams is the same.
Here are some salient features of the NTSE Exam Pattern:
The exam mode for both stages will be offline i.e. pen and paper mode.
The exam consists of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and must be marked on OMR sheets provided at the exam hall.
The Stage-I exam will be in English or any regional language as opted by the student. The Stage-II exam will strictly be conducted in English or Hindi only.
Both stages of the NTSE exam will comprise of two parts- Mental Ability Test (MAT) and Scholastic Ability Test (SAT).
Both these tests will be held on the same day itself in two different slots.
The MAT is conducted in the morning shift from 9:30 am to 11:30 am while SAT will be conducted in the afternoon slot from 13:30 pm to 15:30 pm.
The difficulty level for NTSE exams is moderate. Each question carries 1 mark and there is no negative marking in NTSE exams.
NTSE exam pattern for Stage-I and Stage-II is tabulated below:
Exam Feature
Full form Mental Ability Test Scholastic Aptitude Test
Overview Tests the students on their ability to think, evaluate and solve logical reasoning questions. It includes problems based on analogy, pattern perception, series, encoding-decoding This section tests the knowledge of students in subjects such as Science, Mathematics and Social Science. The syllabus will be the same as class 9th and 10th syllabus
Timing Morning Slot: 9:30 am to 11:30 am Afternoon Slot: 13:30 pm to 15:30 pm
Number of questions 100 100
Total Marks 100 (1 mark for each question) 100 (1 mark for each question)
Exam Duration 120 minutes (30 minutes extra for visually challenged students) 120 minutes (30 minutes extra for visually challenged students)


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VX23450 SPRIGGS, WILLIAM. Submitted by Jenny Davidson (daughter of the late Ern Veal).
Background : The following are a collection of poems compiled by Bill. Some are confirmed as written by 2/2 Pioneer Battalion soldiers. They were originally sent to Snowy Anderson by Mrs Barbara Girardi in 1994 along with a letter.
They done this job real well.
Well! It's just a blooming shame!
Dear Mum I'm safe and well.
When I come home to stay.
Is the guy that stayed at home.
To throw your bump away.
Where there wasn't any girls".
On Adolph Hitler's Isle of Doom.
For I owe two pound ten!
Waste tucker cans outside the cookhouse door.
The M.O. will cure you with No.9 pills.
And Garbo-like pine to be left all alone.
From daily rounds of stew & bully beef.
As a farewell from the boys.
Of making and keeping friends.
"I ain't had bloody mail for years and years".
Land of Bastards, Fare thee well.
Ma says "don't forget the beer".


Slane Castle in Ireland is located northwest of Dublin in County Meath. The castle overlooks the beautiful Boyne River from the 1500-acre estate.
Slane castle was reconstucted in 1785. It has been known for many years for the rock concerts held in the natural amphitheatre next to the castle which holds up to 100,000 people. Famous groups such as U2, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Queen, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, REM, and Madonna have performed at Slane Castle. Celtic Woman recorded their music dvd on location at the castle in 2006.
The concerts at Slane Castle have been arranged by the current resident of the property, Lord Henry Mount Charles, heir to the title Marquess Conyngham. In 1976 he returned to Ireland at the age of twenty-five to take over his family's castle. He had been educated at Harrow and Harvard Universities and was living in London.
He felt the draw of the family legacy as well as the beauty of the Valley and his country and decided to return to his childhood home.
Slane Castle has been in Henry Mount Charles' family since 1701. King George IV of England was romantically involved with Henry's great, great, great, great grandmother, Elizabeth. Since the King traveled the road from Dublin to Slane when he visited, it is considered no coincidence that it is one of the straightest roads in all of Ireland.
Prominent architects and landscape designers have been employed over the years to make the castle, including the Gothic Ballroom, the magnificent Main Hall, the Drawing Room, the famous King's Room, and the parklands, a beautiful property.
The concerts, music recording sessions, and movie filming at Slane Castle in Ireland started in 1981. Ten years later, a tragic fire took place in the castle. It took a decade to restore the property. It is now a popular setting for weddings, conferences, tours, as well as for the yearly concerts. Luxury accommodations in the castle are available on an exclusive basis by private arrangement.
If you would like to tour the castle, you should check the Slane Castle website and call ahead for the current schedule. Slane Castle in Ireland is 25 minutes from Dublin Airport.
There is plenty to see while you are visiting County Meath. Nearby sites include the amazing 5000-year-old passage graves of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth, and the Battle of the Boyne site. The Hill of Slane is not only a scenic overlook, but is also the site where St. Patrick lit a fire in 433 to signify the arrival of Christianity in Ireland.
To get from Dublin Airport to Slane Castle take the second exit (signposted Way Out) at the first roundabout. Turn right onto Swords Road - R132 (signposted Santry). Turn right again. Turn right onto the R108. Turn right onto the R122. At the roundabout, take the first exit onto Newtown (signposted Ashbourne (N2), Blanchardstown). Continue to Dunsoghly. Continue to Newtown. Bear left. At the traffic signals, turn right onto the N2 (signposted Derry, Ashbourne). Continue to the N2 to Slane exit. Follow the signs to Slane and Slane Castle.


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In step 1.15 you watched Dr Barry Norton describe some real world applications that have Linked Data as their underlying technology. In this step, we introduce you to some more examples.
The website data.gov.uk provides a data catalog of UK government information. Over 9000 datasets are available on the site covering themes such as transport, government spending, health, crime and the economy.
All of the data is openly available but only a small proportion of it is available via Linked Data technologies. The majority of the datasets are published in tabular format such as CSV.
However, a number of Linked Data applications have been built on top the published datasets. The data.gov portal is the equivalent website in the US, and contains an even larger number of datasets.
The BBC Dynamic Semantic Publishing (DSP) 1 architecture aims at automating the aggregation or publishing of interrelated content within the BBC portal.
This initiative started with sports content before moving to other areas of the BBC. This functionality allows the user of BBC content to navigate from an article to semantically related content. For example, an article about a football match might mention the teams, key players, the managers and the ground at which the match was played.
From this article the reader could follow links to further articles related to any of those entities, and then navigate further from there. The reader could therefore initially find out about the game, move onto a biographical article about one the managers and then start reading about a previous football team that they managed.
The links between the articles, rather than being manually specified by a journalist are generated based on semantic annotations associated with each article. The Graffiti tool is used to add these semantic annotations, associating the articles with Linked Data concepts such as people and locations.
An OWLIM triplestore is used to store and reason over the RDF data representing the articles and associated data. As a triplestore is used to drive the data presented on the website, this application can be classified as intrinsic in terms of its use of Semantic Web technologies.
However, its use of Semantic Web technologies is not particularly visible to the user, who interacts with it as a conventional website. This can be contrasted with Linked Data browsers that directly expose the RDF data to the user.
ResearchSpace is an environment for conducting cultural historical research. It provides RDF datasets and tools for investigating cultural objects such as paintings. Associated concepts such as artists and locations are semantically represented.
A number of tools are provided allowing users both to access the data and also contribute new data in the form of RDF annotations.
Open Pharmacology Space is a Linked Data application that aims to provide a semantic research environment for pharmacology, comparable to the support offered by ResearchSpace for cultural research.
Open Pharmacology Space integrates different data sources and provides an API to access the aggregated data. Three tools that have been built on top of the Open Pharmacology Space are Open PHACTS Explorer, ChemBioNavigator and PharmaTrek.
Open PHACTS Explorer provides essentially a Linked Data browser of the RDF data. ChemBioNavigator is a tool for the visualisation of the chemical and biological space of a molecule group. PharmaTrek is a visualisation tool specifically designed for use with the ChEMBL biochemical database.
A number of data sources are consumed in a triplestore referred to as an RDF data cache. Some of these sources have to be harvested and transformed by the application.
The semantic data workflow engine drives the logic of the application. Data produced by Open Pharmacology Space can be accessed via an API or a SPARQL endpoint. This data is made available according to a unified Open Pharmacology Space data model.
The Open Pharmacology Space makes both intrinsic and extrinsic use of Semantic Web technologies. The storage of data in RDF format and the use of semantics to represent workflow are intrinsic aspects of the application.
Open Pharmacology Space is also both a consumer and producer of RDF data. It consumes vocabularies of varied richness and produces data according to its own unified data model.
eCloudManager is a data center management application. A data centre typically comprises a large number of hardware components from a number of manufacturers.
Each of these components will have a reporting system, custom-made by their manufacturer. Together these components provide metadata information on all of the hardware running in the data centre, its location and status.
The physical hardware itself will generally be used to run a number of virtual machines that may be migrated across different hardware platforms. The hardware and configuration of virtual machines will deliver a number of software applications each with their own licensing arrangements and separate data stores.
A data center therefore has a number of tools that can all provide partial information about the overall state of a data center.
The aim of eCloudManager is to integrate different hardware and software components into a single semantic view. This views brings together the hardware components of various manufacturers, the virtualisation layer delivered by the hardware and the supported range of software applications.
The eCloudManager also provides a business view indicating which departments are responsible for different services or hardware, and which customers may be affected by the failure of those components.
The overall integrated view provided by eCloudManager can be filtered depending on the user's interest. The user could create a view on the system dedicated to the storage infrastructure comprising hardware components from multiple manufacturers. Similar views can also be created on the virtualisation, application or project levels.


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Brandon O'Brien is a speculative fiction writer, performance poet, teaching artist, game designer, critic and essayist from Trinidad and Tobago.
Brandon's work has been shortlisted for the 2014 Alice Yard Prize for Art Writing and the 2014 and 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions, and is published in Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, Arsenika, sx salon, Anathema, Reckoning, and New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean, among others. He is also a teaching artist with The 2 Cents Movement, and the poetry editor of FIYAH Literary Magazine.


I need a new motherboard for a Macintosh SE with a 1.44 Megabyte floppy disk drive. Does anybody know how to tell which motherboards are compatible with this superdrive?
If I can get the right one, I intend to freecycle this Mac to somebody who wants an older Mac.
The only differences between an older SE and a SE FDHD are the ROM chips and the floppy controller chip. If you have a dead SE FDHD motherboard you can just swap out those chips with any SE to make a SE FDHD (superdrive).
Most motherboards die because of bad capacitors, so you can probably revive it but recapping what you have.
Actually, the problem I am having is even easier to solve. I would just need to resolder the connections for one of the ADB connectors. But I don't have an anti-static mat to do it on.
Anti-static mats are very useful.
They make a lot of money for people that sell anti-static mats.
At this time of the year, static isn't much of a problem unless you plan to attempt it while shuffling your feet across a wool rug while petting a long-haired cat.
I became aware of the problem while watching some of Apple's internal videos. Some guy on eBay was selling these on DVD. When I watched the one on anti-static measures it said that just the rubbing of your clothes on your skin during normal movement was enough to damage semi-conductors. The narrator took a simple semi-conductor (IIRC it was a zenier diode) and measured it's output on a big digital voltmeter. Then he handled it while moving and measured again. The voltage was less the second time because it had been damaged. They had a fictional scene where a woman who was staffing a computer store was asked to sell a card to a customer. They showed her unwrapping the card to check to see if it was the right one. They said that that was enough to fataly wound the electronics on the card, and that the damage often wouldn't show up for a few weeks after the precipitating event.
So now that I've seen that video I try to take measures to prevent ESD, because they just don't make vintage computers any more, and killing one of them when it could be put to use harms the environment. Apple made a believer out of me. I just wish less than ninety percent of eBayers would observe the same precautions. My EGA cards came in anti-static bags, but most hardware comes wrapped in bubble wrap. I just hope that I've got lucky with most of it.
You are going to replace a whole circuitboard because you don't have an ati-static mat available? Solder it on without the mat and if it doesn't work then get a new board, not like it will hurt anything.
I am getting to the point where I have almost all of the vintage computer stuff that I want^H^H^H^Hneed. So I anticipate that my cashflow situation is going to improve at some point in the future and I will be able to buy an anti-static mat. So I will hang on to the motherboard that needs resoldering (if that's what it needs) and perhaps in the future I will try my hand at fixing it. I have an ohm meter, too, so I might actually be able to tell if I did it wrong.
I was thinking that the iron might be able to transmit quite a spark to the circuit, depending on how good the insulation of the handle is.
I have a wrist strap grounding thing that came in one of the boxes I got yesterday. You want it?
In almost 40 years of fixing computers without mats or grounding straps or SFA, I have never lost a chip to ESD. That includes walking around with a whole hand full of CMOS chips.
In fact, I don't even KNOW anyone that's ever blew up a chip due to static (and can prove it).
Take the strap. If it will make you feel better to be grounded, then more power to you.
I completely built my (fully functional) gaming computer with out static mats, and only used the static wrist band a couple of times. It have 5 of those, 1 came with my brothers stuff he bought for his gaming computer, 1 came with my case, 1 with my heatsink, 1 with my power supply, 1 with my video card. I've carried most of the parts in my hand(s) without any sort of static protection, and im on the computer using those parts now!
I completely built my (fully functional) gaming computer with out static mats, and only used the static wrist band a couple of times.
I realize that it's possible to handle digital electronics without damaging them even though you aren't wearing a wrist strap. The Guides To Operation for the original IBM PCs just say to handle options (ISA cards) by their edges. My point is that they aren't making vintage computer equipment anymore and taking precautions is not that difficult, so why not do it to make sure that you don't get unlucky.