City prepares for citywide garage sale and clean-up day
18.05.12
The annual Sturgis Citywide Garage Sale has nearly doubled compared to last year’s participation, with nearly 50 residents participating in the sale. Last year, the Sturgis Area Chamber of Commerce had 26 participants.
“The numbers have definitely increased,” Chamber Director Lisa Weyer said. “The overall goal is to have a community wide event that helps people as far as their spring cleaning goes and being able to assist the city in their city wide cleaning efforts. It’s a great community event and we want to be a part of that and help out in any way we can.”
The citywide garage sale takes place on Saturday, May 5 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. throughout the city of Sturgis. Residents that are participating will place a yellow yard sign in their yard so those looking for garage sales will be able to spot them easier. In addition, flyers will adorn poles throughout town directing people, Weyer said.
The week following the citywide garage sale, the city of Sturgis is hosting their citywide clean-up day. Residents may place their heavy items that trash collections do not normally pick up at the curb. Residents must separate items according to the type of material. Categories include white goods, which are metal, appliances and bicycles, yard waste, including grass and leaves, wood, including branches and lumber, and rubble, including furniture and building materials.
Source: Rapid City Journal
World's First City-Wide White Space Network Launched
18.05.12
By Ben Rooney
The world’s first city-wide white-space network has been unveiled today in Cambridge, England.
Neul, which has been part of a trial of the technology in Cambridge, said the trial had been a success. According to Glenn Collinson, Neul’s co-founder, the company was moving to a pre-commercial phase this year with a view to a full commercial roll out in 2013. “The network is aimed squarely at ‘the Internet of things’ applications, machine to machine communication,” he said. “We see a whole host of things being enabled by this in smart cities.”
White space is the unused and underused parts of the wireless spectrum. For example, around the world many TV channels are left vacant in most locations. One of the issues had been whether there would be interference in the remaining TV frequencies. The trial established it was possible to keep them apart.
Other potential uses of the freed-up spectrum was as an alternative way of providing mobile broadband connectivity. Mr. Collinson said this was not on offer.
Source: Wall Street Journal (blog)