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This time of year is especially exciting to everyone - gardeners and non-gardeners alike. That's because we've more or less been cooped up inside all winter, and are as ready as ever to bust out of the back door and do something, anything outside.
It is nice days like today: sunny, warm late winter days that I get the most calls from folks asking me to come out and help them dust off their own backyard gardens, in preparation for what is sure to be a wonderful gardening season. Columbians are brimming over with excitement at the thought of seeding carrots, getting dirty, and I know that there are hundreds, or even thousands of folks who eagerly await the opening day of the Columbia Farmer's Market outdoor season (which, by the way is right around the corner of March 19). Spring is almost here. And we are ready!
Something that is fun to do right now, when it is still just a bit too cool to be planting outside (assuming that this is a normal warm spell after which we will experience another, ugly cold snap) is get some plants started inside your house. That way, when the mid march planting craze is here some of your plants will already be a few weeks old, and you will get to eat that homegrown salad that much earlier. Also, it's just fun. I might be a vegetable gardener by trade, but I am a houseplant enthusiast at heart. To me, this blending of my two usually separate horticultural endeavors is an exciting time. My terrarium of exotic mosses and ferns just has to be scooted over to make way for little cups of soil that will soon sprout Swiss chard, kale, and sweet alyssum.
Many people buy their vegetable starts from gardening centers, but if you want to watch the slow but steady transformation from a green onion seed to tiny green onion plant, to some green onions that you sprinkle over your omelet, then you should just start your own. At least do it once, just so you can watch the tiny spectacle. It's pretty cool, and if you have kids, it is a great way to make science real for them. Also, if I can stay on my soapbox for a second, it teaches patience. Yeah, that concept of delayed satisfaction, as opposed to our ever increasing need for the instant variety. Patience was an unintended trait I gained when I started gardening.
You want teach your child patience in a fun and fascinating way? Well, start some lettuce seeds in your house with your kids. Once the plants are big enough to eat, you can make a meal together with the food that you grew, and will find that the kids will love that salad in a way you never knew was possible. It is so true. I could talk your ear off about how growing vegetables makes you want to eat them. But that is for a different day.
To get back onto a more practical tract: let's discuss how to get vegetable plants growing inside your house. I have tinkered with this for years, and while everyone's situation will be different because every house is different, I can give you some things to think about.
First: think ahead. For the purposes of getting a small head start on the spring season, you want to start the plants inside your house a few week to a month before you plant them outside. So plan a little bit. You can start some things inside this week, and intend to plant them outside around mid march.
Second: find the right environmental conditions inside your house for seed starting. Seeds need warmth (but not too much), moisture (again, not too much), and as much sunlight as you can give them. In my experience, the sunlight is the limiting factoring in my living room greenhouse operation. In any case, setting the seeds on the sunniest windowsill of your house should do the trick. In a nutshell, the sunnier, the better.
Third: find the right vessel to hold your seed starting activities. Even a small terra cotta pot will not work for this activity for a few reasons, mostly that they are too big, and they make it hard to pull the plants out of for transplanting. The best containers arer small plastic ones. Ideally, they size of individual yogurt cups or something like that. All you need to do with the yogurt cups is to poke a couple of holes in the bottom for drainage. As far as what to fill your container with, I would recommend getting potting mix from a gardening store, soil from the ground won't work well for this activity.
Fourth: moisture control. You don't want to keep the soil mix that holds your seeds and seedling too wet, just slightly damp to the touch. If you check them every day, you will quickly figure out how much watering is too much or too little.
Fifth: Read your seed packets! Really: most seed companies put good information on each packet that tells you how deep to plant the seed, how warm to keep the soil, and how long to expect the germinating to take. Just follow the planting directions on the seed packet and you should be good.
And finally: Be patient! It is rare when seeds sprout in just a few days, it is normally closer to a week, and often it takes longer than that. When you see the baby plant peeping out of the soil for the first time, you will be so excited that all the waiting pays off.
Now, go home a find somewhere to get started! Or, if you have any gardening questions, visit CCUA's website at columbiaurbanag.org, where you can contact us with any and all vegetable gardening questions. Or follow us on Facebook, where we are always posting new and interesting gardening content.
On behalf of CCUA, I am Carrie Hargrove, and as always, thanks for listening. Happy gardening!
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Next Thursday night sees the opening of the Huddersfield Oktoberfest at the regular venue of the Sikh Leisure Centre in Springwood, just on the far side of the car park behind the fire station.
Information received by ' A Swift One' leads us to believe that there will be the usual interesting selection of beers from our local breweries, with beers from all of them being available, with a mixture of their old favourites and some new beers to tempt the punters.
The major point of interest for me, at least, is the amount of beers sourced from Scotland and the South East. Many are new to the area and should give us chance to sample some of the newer breweries from Kent that are rarely seen north of the M25, along with some beers from the more unusual London brewers.
The Scottish representatives are also from some of the harder to find breweries and should make a good contrast with the Southern beers. There are even a few Welsh beers to tempt us.
Lovers of all styles,and strengths of beer are catered for, with plenty of milds and dark beers available, along with some weird and wonderful speciality beers, and lots of bitters to tempt the 'hop monsters' amongst us. There will also be a cider/perry bar with rare and unusual offerings there too.
The festival starts at 6pm on Thursday, (£3 entry,£1 with camra card) and runs from 1200 noon Friday and 11 00 am Saturday.

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Meet the buyer : NHS Plymouth 25th May 2012
A MEET the Buyer event is being held by NHS Plymouth.
The event will give local companies, who feel they have a product or service to sell to the NHS, the opportunity to meet procurement specialists.
It has been organised by the Plymouth Medical and Health Sector Network and will take place on Friday May 25 at The Herald offices.
Those attending will have the opportunity to listen to procurement and commissioning specialists from NHS Plymouth and the wider peninsula.
They will be discussing the kinds of goods and services that NHS Plymouth and the wider peninsula will be seeking to procure over the next few years.
There will also be the opportunity for those attending to book 15-minute appointments with members of the procurement team to discuss their requirements on a one-to-one basis.
Carly Bryant, Plymouth Medical and Health Sector Contact, said: "This event is great news for the medical and health sector in Plymouth and will hopefully give those that come along the chance to speak with key decision makers from the NHS.
"It will also be a good opportunity for local suppliers to meet each other and perhaps even forge some collaborations."
The Meet the Buyer event is running from 9am to 1pm and any company that feels that it has a product or service to sell to the NHS is welcome to attend. To book a free place, visit www.plymouth-chamber.co.uk. Places are limited, especially for the one-to-one procurement appointments. Email here to book a one-to-one 15-minute slot.
Please note this event is not being run by Ocurem, and Ocurem are not responsible for this event.
Health Care Meet the Buyer – 2nd-3rd Nov – Manchester
If you are looking to supply to the NHS then don't miss the chance to visit the Health Care Supply Association Annual Conference & Exhibition 2011.
Held at the Hilton Manchester, Deansgate, the event boasts attendance from over 100 key procurement personnel and Chief Executives within the NHS.
As well as providing a forum to discuss the impact of reforms and plans for the future, the event will provide an excellent opportunity to network and make contacts in the NHS.
Delegates already booked to attend include Head of Procurement and Commercial Services at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and the Procurement Director from Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust.
Rates to attend start from £190 + VAT. To book a place or for further information contact 0845 270 7095.
The event is not being organised by Ocurem and therefore Ocurem is not responsible for the event.
Unusual tender – It warms the blood!
Not for the fainthearted, this tender for products designed to keep patients, blood and fluid warm is ideal for specialists who know how to manage 'the red stuff'.
NHS Supply Chain are inviting tenders as part of a framework agreement expected to last two years and to be worth £55,000,000 and £65,000,000.
If you are interested in this cosy care tender make sure you don't miss the deadline of 15:00 on 20th May 2011.
NHS Could save £1billion…. according to NHS head of Shared Services
The problems varied and ranged from overpayment to suppliers to paying different amounts for the exact same products are some of the examples where costs can be curtailed, according to John Neilson managing director of NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), He is quoted as saying that managers sitting just a few feet away from each other in the same trust could be paying different prices for supplies such as stationery and surgical instruments
A particular pacemaker was bought at 19 different prices while a surgical tool was bought paying 22 different prices. These costs along with high costs of ICT equipment means that the NHS wastes about 12 per cent of its procurement budget each year.
Neilson also pointed out that administrative costs could be brought down significantly if call centers and other administrative activities were outsourced to India. However, he admitted that there are "local sensitivity" issues regarding outsourcing to India however he highlighted that there was no capability issue.
The Patients' Association is not too enamored about the idea of outsourcing and is worried about the quality of services to patients. "Efficiencies have to be made, but not if the result is that patients are often getting a worse service," Katherine Murphy, the PA Chief Executive said.
Meet the Buyer Event – Rotherham – 10th March 2011
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council's 2011 Meet the Buyer Event will be delivered in partnership with Rotherham Means Business 2011, the borough's first business and enterprise show.
A dedicated Meet the Buyer zone, which is exclusively supported by Business Link, will offer businesses the opportunity to meet with and discuss opportunities with public sector buyers.
Buyers in attendance will include:
- Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
- South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue
- Police
These buyers represent more than £250million procurement spend in the region.
The Meet the Buyer seminar programme will offer delegates the chance to find out how to do business with the public sector, what future opportunities are coming up and a whole lot more.
For more information call 01709 823816.
Date: 10th March 2011
Start/end time: 8.30am – 4pm
Location: Magna, Rotherham
The event is not being run by Ocurem and therefore Ocurem is not responsible for the event.
Unusual tender….Mattresses
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University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust has a requirement for static and dynamic mattress service. This is a 3 year deal, full details can be found at https://nwcca.eu-supply.com. or you can contact us quoting reference 2010/S 230-352036
Closing date for tenders is 4.1.2011 – 13:30
Unusual tender…Chilled food for all of the NHS trusts in Lincolnshire
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Initially this will be to Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Units but other NHS Trust will have access to the Contract. The four lots are:
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I hope everyone had a great Christmas last week, doesn't it feel like Christmas was for ever ago? Anyways, we had a great Chrismtas and my little boy was so much this year. It was fun to actually watch him open a present where as last year he just laid there. We did end up catching our first minor cold so he has been down for a few days but I think he is starting to feel a little bit better finally.
I still can't believe that it is already New Years Eve! Do you all have any fun plans? As you are all reading this post we will be up in the mountains at my parents cabin to bring in the New Year. It's the first time in a long time that I actually didn't have to work the holiday. Im excited because they always have a massive bonfire and everyone in their cabin association comes down for it. It will be freezing cold but I think it will be fun. Then after we are having a get together at their cabin and we all will stay up very late playing game and eating junk food.
Make sure you all come back next week!!! I have some very exciting news to share with all of you!! You definitely don't want to miss it!!
First year blogging stats and income from One little Project. I look forward to coming back and reading some of the articles she linked.
Lucky Kathy at Melding Magic has been featured twice these past 2 weeks. This week it was for her 2 in 1 cheese dip, which I think sounds perfect for my New Years Eve Party.
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© Rachel Papo / Courtesy of ClampArt. Roan With Kilda and April, 2011
Rachel Papo's project about a group of families in the Catskills who are homeschooling their children was recently selected as one of Photolucida's 2012 Critical Mass Top 50. Papo writes about the work: "As the criticism of the U.S. education system grows among parents, so does the appeal of homeschooling. Together with today's increasingly fast-paced, connected culture, this choice seems an almost natural one for many families. Though still a controversial and heated topic, the number of homeschooled children in America is growing rapidly. For the past year and a half I have been photographing a small number of families living in the Catskills who practice homeschooling. Having recently moved to the area with my husband and baby daughter, I decided to explore this topic in depth and challenge my own pre-judgements on the issue. Rather than documenting the parents and their unique methods, I choose to focus on the children, their objects and environment, in an attempt to capture their spirit and the meaning of growing up outside the conventional four classroom walls."
Iris, 2011
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I'd be interested to see how the homeschooling culture varies regionally. I live in Texas and my assumption is that most homeschooling is very rooted in religion and a general dislike of government in one's personal life. Is that the case in the Catskills? Montana? LA? What are homeschoolers in NYC like? It's such a fascinating topic. Great job Rachel!
I am currently living in England and my impression here is that homeschooling is a bit more mainstream than in the States. In fact, there are some schools in our area (Oxford) that work closely with home-schoolers, providing support and group activities for children. My son is supposed to begin school in September and it's an option we are considering.
But does home schooling in remote regions teach kids adequate skills in Math and Science, things that can open up their doors for the future?
I am in England and my two children are both homeschooled due to the poor education system. A lot of parents who homeschool are ex teachers who don't want to put their children through such a limited curriculum.
I know that in the States homeschooling was rooted in religion but many of us here oppsose religion being taught in school and don't want our kids brainwashed and deluded.
I think the main benefit is the social aspect of homeschooling as the children mix with all ages and ethnicities and have the freedom to enjoy education. It is very popular now with groups in all ares of the country.
I just wish I could have had such an interesting childhood rather than being stuck in a classroom bored out of my mind.
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Bob – there's no reason homeschooling can't teach math and science as well as the school system. I was homeschooled from 3rd to 7th grade, and my experiences were mostly positive. While most other kids were stuck inside staring at textbooks, I had crossed the country from east to west and from south to north, visiting every museum, national park, and historical site along the way. I had textbooks too – the exact same textbooks used in the public school system, but I also spent my afternoons volunteering in a natural history museum & out in the field on archaeological digs.
There was a support system of large groups of homeschooling families that met all the time, going on field trips and ensuring that everyone had as many friends as they would were they in school.
Jasmine – you're right, many parents who choose to homeschool do so for religious reasons. I knew many such kids and unfortunately the curriculums many of them used were not very factual when it came to science, but when it came to all the other subjects, almost all of them excelled far beyond the levels that school-kids their own age were at. I ended up spending high school in a public school and that was an important experience. Homeschooling is ultimately whatever the parents make it, but it has the potential to be very enriching.
I've homeschooled my children since 1989. My youngest graduated a little over a year ago and is now attending University and is an honor student.
Over the years, homeschooling has changed enormously; reasons vary widely as do the experience. My older children, although they enjoyed homeschooling, felt isolated as homeschooling in Michigan at the time was a bit scary – they were putting mothers in jail. My youngest daughter had a very different experience and was involved in musical theater, equestrian drill teams, and was taking college classes at the local junior college by the time she was 14 and after graduating high school, started a four year university as a second semester sophomore.
We are Christians, although not religious, and Bible study was included in our curriculum along with church history, comparative religion and philosophy. Like every other "culture" group of humanity, homeschoolers come in all shapes and sizes. You can no more put them in a box than you can African Americans, American Indians, Jew, Muslims, etc. They are people who work very hard to educate and make sure that their children have an incredibly broad social experience – that is really impossible inside the same building, the same classrooms with the same students, teachers and administrators year after year.
Everything depends upon everything, as they say. There are good and bad schools, good and bad teachers, good and bad parents and children that should and shouldn't be homeschooled. But one thing is certain, in 99% of all cases, it should definitely be the parents' decisions.


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by Piyush Sinha
(Silchar, Assam, India)
This is a game played by you greedy shits
Give death to a being,for some little things
Arouse greed among the rest
To bring a fucking unrest
You all are going astray
You aspire to become richer
You want to stay above from all
You want to be a millionaire
This is an apocalyptic case
You will not find any trace
But you will find yourself lost
When one day it will create downfall
These are all good until
You commercialize yourself
This is a dead end
You are dazed by the number of them
You will be demolished
You have crossed all the limits
Now it's time to get
Back all the harms you caused
Because of your greediness
Get ready
You are living an archetypal greedy life
Abort this fucking mission soon
This is an arduous path
You won't succeed,you won't last
You will suffer at last
The denouement of this will be the end of you
It will be the end of you
You want to be a millionaire
You all are going astray
You aspire to become richer
You want to stay above from all
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Welcome to the Switzer Fellowship application process. The application period for 2018 Fellowships is now closed. Guidelines for the 2019 Switzer Fellowships will be posted by October 1, 2018, with applications due January 7, 2019. We encourage applicants for 2019 to read the Become a Fellow page in detail before proceeding to the application. We are especially interested in receiving more applications from qualified Master's degree students. First generation graduate students, students of color, and individuals from underrepresented communities are encouraged to apply. We welcome your inquiries about these guidelines.
All students applying for a Switzer Environmental Fellowship must submit an online application form. Each applicant will be prompted to create an account before gaining access to the application form. This will enable applicants to save their work, make edits and track progress during the application review process. Specific application instructions are available on the application form. General guidance is provided here to help you prepare the necessary documentation.
It is imperative that applicants review the eligibility requirements and guidelines prior to applying. Applications take a lot of time and work to complete, and ineligible applications will not be reviewed.
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- A 2-3 page original essay. The essay is a critical component of the application screening process. It is an opportunity for you to reflect on your accomplishments, how you contextualize your research and course work in society, and ultimately, your vision for your future leadership role in the environmental field, including the type of professional position you hope to pursue and the impact you hope to have. You may describe your academic work and how it furthers your goals, but it should not be the sole focus of the essay. Use the essay to talk about why your chosen field matters to you, to whom it is important, and how your background and personal experiences, combined with your academic course of study, will position you to be an effective leader for positive change. In other words, how do you plan to use your academic experience for environmental impact? Applicants should include examples of how you have been a leader or specifically contributed to solving an environmental issue or problem. If you have limited leadership experience, you may describe the impact you hope to have. You may also describe any personal and professional challenges you have overcome to achieve your goals. The essay field is limited to 10,000 characters in the online application. (This equates to approximately three pages, single spaced, at 12 point font.)
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Java Joe's Gourmet Corner is one of a new breed of sandwich shops opening around the city. Once Baltimoreans were content with corned beef on rye and a Coke for lunch; then they discovered cappuccino. But just because they've become addicted to a fancy Italian coffee drink doesn't necessarily mean they want to spend big bicks on an elaborate pasta dish for lunch.
What Baltimore needs are more places that are as at home serving chicken salad sandwiches as cafe latte and biscotti. That's where Java Joe's fits in.
How trendy is it? Well, its gum machine contains chocolate espresso beans. And most sandwich shops don't have explosive original paintings on the walls, or an inflatable sculpture of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" in the corner.


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This World And Nearer Ones
A collections of Brian Aldiss' essays, reviews and anecdotes. Aldiss is Britain's best-loved sci-fi author.
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A collections of Brian Aldiss' essays, reviews and anecdotes. Aldiss is Britain's best-loved sci-fi author.
These articles and reviews come from a versatile writer, well-known as a novelist and, of course, as a distinguished author of science fiction. He writes here with characteristic humour on many subjects, linked by the theme of a complex unity of art and science which forms the inner mystery of science fiction, and reveals new aspects whilst 'exploring the familiar'. This is particularly marked in the first essay, 'Since the Enlightenment', written especially for this book, which traces strands of thought leading backwards and forwards in time. Most of the arts come under review: architecture, music, painting, the cinema.
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A city-wide garage sale and Kosse First United Methodist Church's 37th annual Bazaar, Raffle and Auctions will be held on Saturday, October 7. This combination of events is a shopper's dream come true!
The Bazaar will be at the Kosse Methodist Pavilion on Hwy 14 South. Admission is free and door prizes will be given throughout the day. Members will be there early in the morning to serve coffee, snacks and smiles to early bird shoppers. You'll get first choice from the White Elephant Bargain Treasures, Arts and Crafts, Country Kitchen Home-Canned Goods, Bake Sale, Plant Garden and other creative gifts for yourself and others.
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When Abosch tells the story of how he sold his most expensive piece of art he said, "We had two glasses of wine and he said, 'I really like that.' Two more glasses of wine and he said, 'I really want that.'" After that, he agreed on a price for the photo a few weeks later with the unidentified businessman.
"Potato #345" became Abosch's most expensive piece of non-commissioned work.
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The results showed that high level of Mfn1 expression significantly improved the embryo development rates by increasing ATP level and Deltapsim, while reducing H(2)O(2) generation.
The results show that a metabolic shift from glycolysis in young to mitochondrial respiration in old normal human fibroblasts occurs during chronological lifespan, and MFN1 and OPA1 regulate this process.
mitochondria elongation under hypoxic condition is regulated through SIRT1 (show SIRT1 ELISA Kits)-mediated MFN1 deacetylation and accumulation.
Regulation of Mfn1 by MGRN1 and the proteasome modulates mitochondrial fusion.
SLC25A46 is a new component in mitochondrial dynamics that serves as a regulator for MFN1/2 oligomerization.
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crystal structures of engineered human MFN1 containing the GTPase (show RACGAP1 ELISA Kits) domain and a helical domain during different stages of GTP (show AK3 ELISA Kits) hydrolysis; mechanistic model for MFN1-mediated mitochondrial tethering is proposed; results shed light on the molecular basis of mitochondrial fusion and mitofusin (show MFN2 ELISA Kits)-related human neuromuscular disorders
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miR (show MLXIP ELISA Kits)-19b targets 3'UTR (show UTS2R ELISA Kits) sequences of Mfn1 genes inhibit the expression of Mfn1
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Publishing an OpenStreetMap
Check out the demonstration map to see the final product!
OpenStreetMap (OSM) contains a wealth of data, kept up to date by a world-wide community of mappers. It is to map data what open source is to software: a unique and collaborative way to build shared knowledge.
Building a map using OSM data can be daunting: you have to extract data from the central server, or find a download package; choose and use tools convert it into the working database; choose and use a rendering chain to produce a cartographic product; and, choose and use a tool to publish that product.
This tutorial will explore deploying a cartographic product using a small set of easy-to-install tools:
- OpenGeo Suite, for rendering the data and publishing it to the world.
- bash scripts and curl to automate map configuration.
- Follow the Suite installation instructions to install OpenGeo Suite.
- Start up the Suite and
- Connect to the database server.
- Create a spatial database named osm to hold the data.
Download the Data¶
OSM City Data¶
We will be building a street map of a single city. To keep data volumes small, we will be working with Victoria, British Columbia for this example.
Extracts of OpenStreetMap data for individiual cities are available from Mapzen metro extracts. We will be using the extract for Victoria, BC, download it and unzip.
Inside the zip archive are a point file, line file and polygon file. In order to line the table names up with our processing later in this tutorial, we will name them planet_osm_point, planet_osm_line and planet_osm_polygon during import. If you import with the pgShapeLoader GUI, remember to
- set the SRID of the data to 4326 (longitude/latitude)
- set the table names appropriately as above
- set the geometry column name to way
Or, you can use the commandline shp2pgsql utility and do the uploads this way:
shp2pgsql -g way -s 4326 -I -D -i -S victoria.osm-point.shp planet_osm_point | psql osm
shp2pgsql -g way -s 4326 -I -D -i -S victoria.osm-line.shp planet_osm_line | psql osm
shp2pgsql -g way -s 4326 -I -D -i victoria.osm-polygon.shp planet_osm_polygon | psql osm
Note that we're "piping" (using the "|" character) the output of the conversion directly to the psql utility. You might need to add some connection flags there to connect to your local database. There are a lot of shp2pgsql loader flags in play here, so it's worth listing what they all do:
- -g controls the column name to use for geometries, we use "way"
- -s controls the SRID to apply to the data, we use "4326" for "WGS84 lon/lat"
- -I adds a spatial index to the table after loading
- -D uses "dump" mode for a faster loading process
- -i ensures that all integer types use 32-bit integers
- -S ensures that geometry column types are "simple" not "aggregate" (eg, "linestring", not "multilinestring")
OSM Ocean Data¶
The OSM city files include roads and land features, but not coastlines or ocean features. In order to get mapping-ready ocean, we need to download a different file.
You can download the whole ocean file from http://openstreetmapdata.com. However, it's really large, and takes some processing to use in a small project. You can download a clipped set of oceans for our test area from here:
Once you have downloaded the ocean file, unzip it, then load it into the database:
shp2pgsql -g geom -s 4326 -I -D ocean.shp ocean | psql osm
Clipping Your Own Ocean¶
If you want to download the big file and clip it yourself, here are the steps.
Download the full ocean polygon file, from http://openstreetmapdata.com/data/water-polygons
Load the file into an ocean_all table, so it can be clipped down to size in the database:
shp2pgsql -s 4326 -I -D water_polygons.shp ocean_all | psql osm
Clip the ocean_all table to the working area ocean table using this SQL. It first calculates the extent of the working area, then uses that extent to clip the world table down to just the local extent.
CREATE TABLE ocean AS WITH bounds AS ( SELECT ST_SetSRID(ST_Extent(way)::geometry,4326) AS geom FROM planet_osm_line ) SELECT 1 AS id, ST_Intersection(b.geom, o.geom) AS geom FROM bounds b, ocean_all o WHERE ST_Intersects(b.geom, o.geom);
Create Layer Tables¶
Right now we have just four OSM tables: points, lines, polygons and (oddball) ocean. To build a map, we are going to subset the generic tables into more "layer-like" tables, using queries against the OSM tags.
Run the SQL commands in create_tables.sql. They will create the following tables, and associated spatial indexes:
- aero-poly
- agriculture
- amenity-areas
- beach
- building
- forest
- grass
- highway-label
- park
- parking-area
- placenames-medium
- route-bridge-0
- route-bridge-1
- route-bridge-2
- route-bridge-3
- route-bridge-4
- route-bridge-5
- route-fill
- route-line
- route-tunnels
- route-turning-circles
- water-outline
- water
- wetland
If you want to get rid of the tables, here's a drop_tables.sql file to use. And of course, we have already loaded an ocean table, so that is in the database too!
- ocean
There is also a create_views.sql file (and drop_views.sql too), which does the same transformation, only without copying data. Using views instead of tables will cause your map rendering to run slower, however.
Configure GeoServer¶
Create Workspace¶
We will store our database and view and style definitions in a single "workspace" for easier management. Login to GeoServer, and create a new workspace.
Use osm as the workspace name, to match up to the rest of the tutorial.
Create Data Store¶
We need to connect to our PostGIS database that holds all our tables, so define a new PostGIS data store.
- Choose osm as the workspace
- Use openstreetmap as the store name
- Add the other connection parameters to your database below
Add Layers and Styles¶
Because building a cartographic product from 25 input layers is a complex undertaking, we aren't going to go layer by layer, but rather upload an existing configuration into GeoServer to product the output.
- All the styles for this exercise are in sld.zip. Download and unzip it.
These styles were automatically derived from the "OSM streets" stylesheet.
Now, there are two approaches to applying the styles, a manual approach and an automatic approach.
Manual Style Loading¶
For each SLD file in the directory, carry out the following steps:
- Go to the Styles configuration panel.
- Add a new style, using the name of your SLD file (without the .sld extension)
- Select the osm workspace.
- Upload or copy the content from the SLD file into the editor.
- Save.
- Go to the Layers configuration panel.
- Add a new resource from the PostGIS openstreetmap store.
- Select the table that matches your SLD file name.
- Calculate the native and geographic bounds by clicking the right links.
- Go to the "Publishing" tab.
- Select as the default style, the new style you just created that shares a name with this layer.
- Save.
Repeat until every SLD file has been used to create a style, and associated with an appropriate layer/table in the database.
Automatic Style Loading¶
If you have Linux or OSX, you can use the automatic approach (if you are good at Windows scripting, you can probably adapt this approach). This requires the curl utility, which is available by default on Linux and OSX.
This script assumes you are using a standard bash shell. It uses the GeoServer REST API to alter the configuration catalogue without requiring pointing and clicking.
- Enter the directory that contains the SLD files.
- Run the SLD_create.sh script below. (If you have changed your "admin" password, or used different names for the workspace or datastore, you may need to alter the script.)
# script to add layer/style information
# for every SLD file in our collection
for sldfile in *.sld; do
# strip the extension from the filename to use for layer/style names
layername=`basename $sldfile .sld`
# create a new featuretype in the store, assuming the table
# already exists in the database and is named $layername
# this step automatically creates a layer of the same name
# as a side effect
curl -v -u $login -XPOST -H "Content-type: text/xml" \
-d "<featureType><name>$layername</name></featureType>" \
# create an empty style object in the workspace, using the same name
curl -v -u $login -XPOST -H "Content-type: text/xml" \
-d "" \
# upload the SLD definition to the style
curl -v -u $login -XPUT -H "Content-type: application/vnd.ogc.sld+xml" \
-d @$sldfile \
# associate the style with the layer as the default style
curl -v -u $login -XPUT -H "Content-type: text/xml" \
-d "<layer><enabled>true</enabled><defaultStyle><name>$layername</name><workspace>$workspace</workspace></defaultStyle></layer>" \
The script runs one iteration for each SLD file, using the file name to create a layer/featuretype that matches the table in the database with that name, and populates an associated style with it. (If you want to reverse the process, there's an SLD_delete.sh script too.)
Once you're done, click on the Styles and Layers panes to see the results.
Create a Layer Group¶
Manual Layer Group¶
Now we have 25 layers, all nicely styled... but we don't want 25 layers, we want one map!
Again, you can hand-build a layer group, go to the Layer Groups pane, and create a new layer group named osm, then follow the screenshot below, adding and ordering layers.
Automatic Layer Group¶
We can use a single curl call to add a layer group definition.
Create a layergroup.xml file with the following content:
<title>OpenStreetMap Base</title>
Now, run the following command to upload it to the server (you may need to change the login credentials if you have altered them from the default):
curl -v -u admin:geoserver -XPOST -email@example.com -H "Content-type: text/xml" \
If you find you want to change the definition, you can delete it from the catalogue with the command below, and then run the upload again:
curl -v -u admin:geoserver -XDELETE \
View the Result¶
Now that all the layers and styles and layer groups are configured, you can see the result!
Go to the Layer Preview panel, and and find the entry for the osm layer group. It may be on the second page of results.
Open it up (Click "Go" after the OpenLayers dropdown), and you'll see the result of our styling.
Alter the SLDs¶
You can edit the SLDs directly from the Styles pane, one at a time. This has the advantage of providing access to the "Validate" function, which is important to ensure the changes you are making are valid SLD.
For batch changes (global changes to things like font names, for example) sometimes it's easier to update all the SLD files in your local directory, and then re-upload them. For the re-upload process, the following script provides a quick way to refresh all the SLD files on the server in one pass:
# Update SLDs
for sldfile in *.sld; do
layername=`basename $sldfile .sld`
# upload the SLD definition to the style
curl -v -u $login -XPUT -H "Content-type: application/vnd.ogc.sld+xml" \
-d @$sldfile $restapi/workspaces/osm/styles/$layername
Nicer Web Interface¶
The default OpenLayers viewer is convenient, but not very attractive. Here is some code for a simple OpenLayers3 viewer that uses the osm layer group as a base map element.
<!doctype html>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://openlayers.org/en/v3.0.0/css/ol.css" type="text/css">
.map {
height: 600px;
width: 100%;

<title>OpenStreetMap Base</title>


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Arab uprising has taken the entire international community by surprise. The people's power has once again come to the fore, giving autocratic regimes a real tough time. At a time when the revolt from Tunisia and Egypt threatens to swallow the whole of the Islamic world, Pakistan cannot be seen as an exception. After all, US Vice President Joe Biden has already hinted that "a lot (is) going on across that part of the continent, from Tunisia into -- all the way to Pakistan."
In a bid to calm the hue and cry, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has dismissed the possibility of protests similar to the ones taking place in other countries, saying Pakistan's "institutions are working and democracy is functional".
In an exclusive interview with Kamna Arora of Zeenews.com, Dr Gareth Price, an expert on Asian affairs, compares the situation in Tunisia and Egypt with that in Pakistan's.
Dr Gareth Price is head of the Asia Programme at London-based think tank Chatham House.
Kamna: Are there any similarities between the situations that led to revolt in Tunisia, Egypt, and that of Pakistan?
Dr Price: While it is on the edge of the Middle East, Pakistan faces similar problems of inflation, lack of employment opportunities and widespread corruption. Corruption has been cited as a major cause of protests in both Tunisia and Egypt.
According to Transparency International`s Corruption Perception Index, Tunisia ranks 59th, Egypt 98th, and Pakistan stands at 143rd out of 180 countries.
Corruption - The corrupt kleptocracy in Egypt is a major cause of discontent, particularly among those excluded from patronage networks. Poverty has endured during the past three decades of Mubarak`s rule, while the ruling elite have grown rich. 40% of Egyptians live on less than USD 2 a day while some estimates suggest that the President`s family may have amassed between USD 40 billion and USD 70 billion. In Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari spent eight years in prison charged on several counts including the embezzlement of USD 1.5 billion of government funds. Although he was never convicted in Pakistan, a Swiss court convicted him for money laundering in 2003. Zardari denied the charges.
Price rise - Inflation, and in particular rising food prices, is another commonality. Pakistan faces particular problems because of crop losses due to last year`s floods. A 40% increase in the cost of maize, used for birdfeed, has resulted in a similar increase in the price of eggs. A longer-term failure to increase production in line with demand has led to significant rise in other food costs, such as edible oils. Egypt too has faced significant, and in some cases overnight, increases in the costs of some foodstuff.
Unemployment - Egypt and Pakistan face similar concerns about unemployment. In Egypt 700,000 graduates are chasing 200,000 positions. In the years following 9/11, when Pakistan`s economy boomed, its failure to increase employment was stark. In some ways, Pakistan is worse off than Egypt. Levels of infrastructure are worse and Pakistani businesses have been faced with frequent gas and electricity cuts. The textile industry has in particular suffered with hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs. Pakistan`s demography lags behind Egypt; 36% of Pakistanis are under 15, and in the coming decade millions will be seeking employment, a large percentage, on current trends, in vain.
But while there are real similarities between Pakistan and Egypt, there are major differences that mitigate a replication of events in Egypt and Tunisia. Demonstrations against the government are entirely plausible. But were they to occur, the dynamics would be different.
Kamna: Why is that so?
Dr Price: The protestors in Egypt are expressing revulsion with a de facto one-party state. Pakistan does have political parties and in 2008 held a free and fair election. Despite the controversy that already surrounded President Zardari, he received a comfortable majority of votes and left his two main competitors lagging behind.
Secondly, Pakistan is significantly poorer and less educated than Egypt. While many Egyptians are poor, Egypt`s GDP per capita is more than double than that of Pakistan. As many as 60% of Pakistanis live on less than USD 2 per day. While unemployed graduates may well be in the vanguard of events in Egypt, this group is a much smaller proportion of the Pakistani population. And it is hard to envisage that such events in Pakistan would be driven by social media, rather than by the mosque.
Third, and most importantly, it is difficult to envisage an alliance ranging from liberals to Islamists coming together in Pakistan. This was most vividly illustrated by the recent murder of the Governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer. He was killed by his bodyguard after speaking out against Pakistan`s blasphemy law, following the sentencing of a Christian woman to death. Under the law, members of minority groups are susceptible to blasphemy accusations when in dispute with members of the Muslim majority. The actions of Taseer`s killer were defended by politicians, religious figures and lawyers, who even honoured him with garlands during his first appearance in court.
Kamna: Is the West scared of the revolt spreading to Pakistan?
Dr Price: Pakistan is not immune from events elsewhere in the Islamic world. But were Pakistanis to take to the streets in protest against the government, opposition would undoubtedly be expressed through radical Islam. If the West has struggled to create a policy response to events in Egypt, decision makers must be crossing their fingers that "contagion" does not spread to Pakistan.


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I ask every executive hiring manager I work with, "What keeps you here?" or "Why haven't you answered the retained search professionals knocking on your door?" It helps both to paint a picture for the candidate profile we are seeking and for the benefit of the prospective talent. It's important for prospects to get a feel for the culture that has been built and understand what drives and motivates the executive ranks they are considering joining. Through the years spent collecting and analyzing these hiring manager responses, I have come to the conclusion that creating cultures to attract employees is one thing and creating cultures that keeps employees, another. But embedding a culture that creates staying power within the leadership ranks, is playing ball in another league.
Everyone has a boss. Even if you are the highest ranking individual in an organization, you answer to someone, somewhere. Whether it be another even higher ranking executive, a board, investors, or yourself and your own long-term goals in a start-up environment. Even those at the top are affected by the environment, whether created at their own hands, or a combination of others. Being entrenched as an executive in a work environment that results in turning down external offers, sets the highest example possible to all rankings of the organization. It sets a tone of what's within the company, because competitors and recruiters will always come knocking on the doors of top execs with higher salaries, more impressive titles, and bigger roles.
To determine why execs stay in some environments and not others, FIRST it is important to understand the difference between "culture" and "climate". As detailed here in ERE Medica, a workplace culture is a view of how things are done, the foundation for behavior and communication. While the climate encompasses what it feels like to actually work there every day, the tangibles, the perks and programs that ignite behavior but do not necessarily create long-term change. Leaders create, and are a part of the culture, but are entrenched day-to-day in the details of the climate.
SECOND step is to identify the type of culture you have, or want to build, and recruit accordingly. Just because someone is fully technically qualified to hold a seat at the head table and all those invested in the hiring process like their personality, does not always mean cultural values will align. If you can classify your company's cultural goals, you can identify executives whose inherent DNA already matches your organization vs. trying to fit a square peg in a round hole with a lot of growing pains and leadership turnover down the road. It may be a Directorial environment, more Shared-Learning focused, Customer-First or a true Open-Door culture... whatever your culture may be, have it clearly identified and supported. Studies show that 50% of employees have left a good job due to bad leadership, so an alignment of vision and cultural happiness must start at the top and whatever your culture is, make sure your executives bleed it from the top down.
Now cultivate the community. Ensure in the executive ranks, for both them and the company as a whole, that their genuine interactions seeps into every corner of the organization. A sense of comradery and community existing so that execs aren't segregated to just leading the packs, but are equal participants in the social aspect of office life. As shown in more detail here, friendships built in the office are critical and provide a sense of community, at all levels, and will build respect, trust and further deepen the cultural objectives.
Finally, continually enrich engagement with resiliency and purpose. The more the organization can resonate and grow alongside the executive, with the personal and professional purpose they aim to achieve, the higher the resilience and ability to bounce back easily when things veer off track momentarily.
Employees stay with organizations until they find a reason to leave, even the CEO. But in an environment that is a natural cultural fit and challenges and nourishes their behavior and well-being, the reasons to leave will be few and far between and they will inspire both current employees and prospective alike.


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Delphi Study on Children's Participation in CPiE Assessments
The Assessment, Measurement and Evidence Working Group has supported a global study on children's participation in emergency-related data collection over the past year. The study, led by Dr. Lindsay Stark, Director of the CPC Learning Network, used a consensus approach called the Delphi technique to explore the opinions of 52 child protection in emergencies specialists on what factors should determine whether and how children participate in data collection in order to inform discussions around humanitarian response standards. Respondents strongly supported children's right to participate in data collection in humanitarian settings, while also recognizing that protecting children from harm may "over-ride" the participation principle in some contexts. Points of ongoing debate around how to factor different risks into child participation decisions may indicate discordant practice. Full results will be disseminated soon.
Transforming Households: Reducing Incidents of Violence in Emergencies (THRIVE)
Despite increased recognition of violence against women and violence against children as global public health priorities, the household remains a neglected locus of both forms of violence, especially within emergencies. The Transforming Households: Reducing Incidence of Violence in Emergencies (THRIVE) project aimed to synthesize information on household violence to lay the groundwork for future interventions in this area. Two documents have bee produced and will be disseminated soon:
· A systematic review on risk factors for household violence in emergencies, which highlighted a clear need for longitudinal research and more rigorous experimental designs.
· A landscaping review on prevention of household violence, which drew attention to the dearth of interventions and evaluations that focus on both women and children together.
Measuring Separation in Emergencies
The global humanitarian community lacks robust tools to measure the scale and nature of family separation in emergencies. The Measuring Separation in Emergencies project developed a suite of tools to address this gap in knowledge. As part of this project, a community-based monitoring approach was implemented in 10 villages in Ethiopia following the 2016 famine. Community members were trained to use mobile phones to send messages about unaccompanied and separated children to a central project coordinator. After six months of successfully monitoring movement in the area, the program is currently winding down. Results will be forthcoming.
Child Protection Initial Assessment in Southern Africa
Between February-April 2016 a Child Protection Initial Assessment was completed for Southern Africa, addressing the El Nino crisis in coordination with World Vision International, UNICEF and Plan International. This CPIA was initiated at the request of international humanitarian organisations working both in the Southern African region, and in the child protection sector. The objective of the assessment was to support the evidence based programming and advocacy for 9 countries affected by El Niño across Southern Africa. Specific objectives were to:
· Determine the scale and pattern of the needs and protection risks for children affected by El Niño; and;
· Help actors prioritise the pressing child protection issues triggered by or exacerbated by El Niño.
Due to the nature of the regional perspective the assessment comprised of a secondary data review for all 9 countries, an online Practitioner Interview (in English, Portuguese and French) and country validation workshops and a regional validation workshop. A full copy of the report is available here >


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RICKY Hatton's title fight goes ahead at the Manchester Evening News Arena tomorrow night but not without a scare.
Opponent Phillips arrived in the country just hours ahead of the British Boxing Board of Control's 48-hour deadline.
Any further delays and the show - with more than 15,000 fans expected - would have been in jeopardy.
Phillips was due to fly in from his Los Angeles training base earlier in the week but ran into problems when his passport was confiscated for matters relating to alimony payments.
He eventually arrived on Wednesday night, leaving question marks about his final preparations for the meeting with World Boxing Union light-welterweight champ Hatton.
But Phillips, whose promoter Sugar Ray Leonard has declined to travel with him, declared that he was feeling fit and ready to fight. "I would love to have been here at the proper time, because it was my first time in this country," he said.
"I travel a lot and understand about jet-lag, but this fight is something I wanted. So even if I had to come here on the day of the fight, or for the weigh-in the day before, I would."
Board of Control general secretary Simon Block said: "Phillips arrived overnight, and a boxer from outside Europe has to be here within 48 hours - so he has just made it."
"People don't normally weep for promoters, but in this case I feel sorry for Frank Warren because he is staging a very attractive contest, has done everything right, and has then been let down."
Phillips was unhappy that Leonard had also not made the trip, the talk being that he was unhappy about flying due to the current international situation.
Asked why Leonard is not here, Phillips said: "That's a good question, maybe you can ask him. For whatever reason he is not here - I don't understand it.
"But I am my own man, I am here to do a job."
Phillips has problems going into the fight, but they are nothing compared to those he will have when the first bell goes.
Hatton is motivated, fresh and desperate to prove to the American audience watching on the Showtime channel that he is the real deal.
Phillips is a highly-respected name in the States, even though he is 39 years old and lost his last fight on points to world-class Sharmba Mitchell.
He remains the only man to have beaten undisputed world champion Kostya Tszyu.
Hatton believes Phillips is underestimating him, that he has him marked down as just another brave, come-forward Limey who has built a record of 31 straight wins and 24 knockouts on bums.
It was a similar approach that cost another big-name American, Freddie Pendleton, when he came over 18 months ago.
Phillips likened Hatton to Rocky Marciano, and the Hyde hero took that as something of a slight: "He seems to think I am just another young, bullish fighter, but I have a lot more skill than that.
"Freddie Pendleton thought the same, and admitted afterwards that he was shocked at the amount of skill I had."
Pendleton is the only opponent the two men have in common - Hatton clinically took him apart inside two rounds in October, 2001, while Phillips stopped him inside 10 rounds over five years ago.