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Opened 8 years ago
Closed 3 years ago
#9806 closed Bug (fixed)
GeometryField crashes contrib.gis.admin
|Reported by:
|Owned by:
|admin, gis, GeometryField
|ingenieroariel@…, dane.springmeyer@…, slinkp@…
|Triage Stage:
|Has patch:
|Needs documentation:
|Needs tests:
|Patch needs improvement:
|Easy pickings:
I tried to load this basic model in django.contrib.gis admin and I ended up with a:
Exception Value: Invalid OGR String Type "GEOMETRY"
class SimpleGeo(models.Model): geom = models.GeometryField(null=True, blank=True) admin.site.register(SimpleGeo, admin.GeoModelAdmin)
I have inserted two objects, a Point and a Polygon and when using the shell,
I got the correct geom_type in both cases and dir listed the right attributes and methods for each field.
The line that triggers the error is:
'geom_type' : OGRGeomType(db_field._geom), in django/contrib/gis/admin/options.py#L84
I think one of two things should happen:
- 1. Either the admin defaults to showing a plain text field whenever that happens or
- 2. (pony alert) we find a way to look for the _geom of the instance and not the class.
Full traceback below:
Traceback: File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response 86. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/sites.py" in root 158. return self.model_page(request, *url.split('/', 2)) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/views/decorators/cache.py" in _wrapped_view_func 44. response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/sites.py" in model_page 177. return admin_obj(request, rest_of_url) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py" in __call__ 197. return self.change_view(request, unquote(url)) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/transaction.py" in _commit_on_success 238. res = func(*args, **kw) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py" in change_view 573. ModelForm = self.get_form(request, obj) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py" in get_form 277. return modelform_factory(self.model, **defaults) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/forms/models.py" in modelform_factory 318. 'formfield_callback': formfield_callback}) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/forms/models.py" in __new__ 180. opts.exclude, formfield_callback) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/forms/models.py" in fields_for_model 147. formfield = formfield_callback(f) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/admin/options.py" in formfield_for_dbfield 58. kwargs['widget'] = self.get_map_widget(db_field) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/admin/options.py" in get_map_widget 76. class OLMap(self.widget): File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/admin/options.py" in OLMap 84. 'geom_type' : OGRGeomType(db_field._geom), File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/gdal/geomtype.py" in __init__ 29. raise OGRException('Invalid OGR String Type "%s"' % type_input)
Attachments (6)
Change History (32)
comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by jbronn
- Needs documentation unset
- Needs tests unset
- Owner changed from nobody to jbronn
- Patch needs improvement unset
Yeah, I don't thing the geographic admin ever supported GeometryField -- we need this ticket. Patches welcome on whatever method you choose to implement, as I won't be able to get to this for a while (takes a lot less of my time to review a patch already written).
comment:2 Changed 8 years ago by ingenieroariel
Here is a workaround that makes the admin load up but does not render the feature.
In the following file
params = { ... 'geom_type' : OGRGeomType(db_field._geom), ... }
#OGRGeomType crashes for 'GEOMETRY' type. #It'd be better if we found a way to get the geom type of the instance, but there #does not seem to be an easy way to accomplish that. try: geom_type=OGRGeomType(db_field._geom) except: geom_type=OGRGeomType('Unknown') params = { ... 'geom_type' : geom_type, ... }
Changed 8 years ago by ingenieroariel
Dirty hack that avoids the crash.
comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by ingenieroariel
Attached is a less than ideal solution that avoids the crash.
OGR Already has a type for a generic GeometryField and it is called 'Unknown'.
I have the following questions:
- Why does geodjango call it 'GEOMETRY' is it because PostGIS calls it that way?
- Do we do a try catch or do we specify the 'GEOMETRY' to 'Unknown' equivalence?
- How do we handle collections on GeometryFields?
I am gonna start looking at how we can make rendering more intelligent for Unknown fields, right now it works for points but not for polygons or multipolygons.
comment:4 Changed 8 years ago by ingenieroariel
The error that appears in the admin that causes no geometry to be rendered after passing geom_type = 'Unknown' is the following:
controls[i] is undefined OpenLayers.js Line 374: this.controls=this.controls.concat(controls);for(var i=0;i<controls.length;i++){var element=document.createElement("div");var textNode=document.createTextNode(" ");controls[i].panel_div=element;if(controls[i].title!=""){controls[i].panel_div.title=controls[i].title;}
Changed 8 years ago by ingenieroariel
Patch, tested in Firefox 3 on MacOSX
comment:5 Changed 8 years ago by ingenieroariel
- Has patch set
- Owner changed from jbronn to anonymous
- Patch needs improvement set
- Status changed from new to assigned
- Triage Stage changed from Unreviewed to Accepted
That's the simplest fix I could come up with.
Status changed to accepted based on Justin's 'we need this ticket' statement
Any thoughts?
comment:6 Changed 8 years ago by ingenieroariel
- Owner changed from anonymous to jbronn
- Status changed from assigned to new
comment:7 Changed 8 years ago by jbronn
- Status changed from new to assigned
Patch is a very good start; the template JS re-working to render the right controls is what needs work to get this fixed.
Changed 8 years ago by ingenieroariel
Now allows edition of already populated geometries.
comment:8 Changed 8 years ago by springmeyer
- Cc dane.springmeyer@… added
comment:9 Changed 7 years ago by johanneswilm
latest patch doesn't appy cleanly to 1.0.2 and even doing it by hand, the line:
else: self.params['collection_type'] = OGRGeomType(db_field._geom.replace('MULTI', ''))
creates problems, because "db_field" is not defined (it is in options.py, but not in widgets.py).
I've checked the trunk-version, but couldn't find it there either.
comment:10 Changed 7 years ago by jbronn
(In [9985]) Maintenance refactor of the GDAL (OGR) ctypes interface. Changes include:
- All C API method explictly called from their prototype module, no longer imported via *.
- Applied DRY to C pointer management, classes that do so subclass from GDALBase.
- OGRGeometry: Added from_bbox class method (patch from Christopher Schmidt) and kml property.
- SpatialReference: Now initialize with SetFromUserInput (initialization is now more simple and flexible); removed duplicate methods.
- Envelope: Added expand_to_include method and now allow same coordinates for lower left and upper right points. Thanks to Paul Smith for tickets and patches.
- OGRGeomType: Now treat OGC 'Geometry' type as 'Unknown'.
comment:11 Changed 7 years ago by jbronn
- milestone set to 1.1
comment:12 Changed 7 years ago by jbronn
- milestone changed from 1.1 to 1.2
comment:13 Changed 6 years ago by jbronn
- milestone changed from 1.2 to 1.3
Changed 6 years ago by tbnorth
path updated for rev 13856
comment:14 Changed 6 years ago by tbnorth
I've attached a new version of the patch which works against rev 13856.
For some reason MULTI* geometries are not being edited, I suspect it's something trivial. They are viewed though, and non-MULTI are viewed and editable, so the GeometryField is much more usable.
comment:15 Changed 6 years ago by slinkp
Patch works for me against Django 1.2.3, at least against points. I haven't tried with any MULTI*, dont' have any of those handy.
Changed 6 years ago by slinkp
comment:16 Changed 6 years ago by slinkp
I've just attached 9806.4.diff which, at least here, allows me to edit existing multipolygons.
Applies cleanly against Django 1.2.3.
This is a big improvement for me, but it still doesn't allow setting the geometry on a new instance of a model with a GeometryField.
This is because I don't know how to sensibly initialize draw_ctl in that case - we need an appropriate OpenLayers.Handler subclass, and I don't know what that would be. Don't see anything promising in the OL docs.
Not sure what to do here. We could just assume that people want MultiPolygons, which would be the most flexible,
but also kind of stupid in a pretty common case where the field is a GeometryField but the user just wants to enter a point.
comment:17 Changed 6 years ago by slinkp
I wonder if it would be possible to add a separate dropdown widget which allows the user to specify what kind of geometry they want.
This could be done entirely in javascript, all it would need to do is update the draw_ctl (and presumably remove existing features).
Changed 6 years ago by slinkp
patch that allows adding as well as editing geometries in admin UI for GeometryField
comment:18 Changed 6 years ago by slinkp
- Needs tests set
Just added 9806.5.diff.
This allows adding geometries to GeometryFields. I punted on allowing arbitrary types, and assume that for new GeometryFields, the user wants to add polygons.
NOTE this requires OpenLayers trunk of at least revision r10972 ! This is because there was a relevant openlayers bug that just got fixed:
I presume this fix will be in OpenLayers 2.11, but that's not out - I have no idea of the timeline there.
This also includes my patch for #14886 which allows overriding the wms format type (default is image/jpg) as well as passing arbitrary other params for the wms URL.
I can remove that part of the patch if this patch seems worth pursuing.
comment:19 Changed 6 years ago by slinkp
- Cc slinkp@… added
comment:20 Changed 5 years ago by jbronn
- milestone changed from 1.3 to 1.4
comment:21 Changed 5 years ago by lukeplant
- Severity set to Normal
- Type set to Bug
comment:22 Changed 5 years ago by jacob
- milestone 1.4 deleted
Milestone 1.4 deleted
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by aaugustin
- UI/UX unset
Change UI/UX from NULL to False.
comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by aaugustin
- Easy pickings unset
Change Easy pickings from NULL to False.
comment:4 Changed 3 years ago by dyve
Any progress on this? It seems a solution was close, but didn't quite work. I keep bumping into this one with any GIS enabled app that allows GeometryField (quite common in my line of work).
comment:5 Changed 3 years ago by Claude Paroz <claude@…>
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from assigned to closed


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I'm always interested in the physical, digital, and in-between spaces audio recordings document and inhabit. This playlist samples some combinations of various recording environments, paying a bit of attention to often overlooked aspects such as tape hiss and telephone distortion, as well as considering sonic contexts like the classroom and direct-to-digital readings. When I listen to recordings, I'm always calculating my distance from them, from the physicality of the reader's voice, from the artifacts of recording technology, from the various, multiple sets of imagined audiences and first-run hearers of the poem. In this playlist I'm thinking about space and spatiality in terms of the materiality of the sound recording and as a thematic concern in several of the tracks. This list explores both how one moves through and articulates space and how spatiality is experienced as a listener. Although paying attention to micro-level details risks focusing on the potentially trivial, I think it is worthwhile to consider the sedimentary layers of audience and interference infused within the object of the audio file.
I'll begin with a recording of Joseph Ceravolo reading at his home in Bloomfield, NJ in Spring of 1968. In the first poem Rain there is a moment of near silence (with a little tape hiss) before the music arrives, then both hiss and music are superimposed with Ceravolo's voice. I almost hear the word "surrounded" echoed in the background singing voice when Ceravolo reads that word. The music alternates between interference and sympathetic emphasis throughout this entire session, with serendipitous moments constantly emerging and dissipating. The space I imagine when listening to these poems is very private. I don't picture anyone else in the room, although I could be mistaken. I don't have much bibliographic context for them, which makes me curious about how they were distributed, how much conscious control Ceravolo exerted over the overlaps between the music and his poems, and what kinds of listeners he imagined once the recording was created. Compare the atmosphere of this recording with a live reading ten years later at the Ear Inn. Ceravolo's introductory comments and his quick, energetic reading of poems such as Lightning stand in stark contrast to the earlier home recording in the way they emphasize his relationship to a particular New York poetry scene in the late 1970's.
Lisa Robertson reads and discusses several pieces from her book Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture on Episode #204 of Leonard Schwartz's radio show Cross-Cultural Poetics, which is archived on PennSound. Listen to Robertson read Spatial Synthetics: A Theory. In Robertson's conversation with Schwartz following the reading of that piece, she discusses some of her own theories of how ideas of space and the body function in this work: "I wanted to make sure that my theory of space was non-abstract and rooted in bodily pleasure." In addition to the engaging content of the piece itself, I was especially interested in the intricacies of the sonic environment in that it was broadcast on radio, with Robertson reading over the phone, and Schwartz responding from the studio space, then later distributed as a sound file on PennSound. Because of the dialogic nature of Schwartz's show and all the subtle layers of mediation, I found myself occasionally listening to Schwartz's listening to Robertson, hearing subtle responses in his breathing or an occasional, barely audible laugh in other parts of the broadcast. I found myself paying attention to the contrast in textures between Robertson's phone reading here and, say, this reading of her poem Lucite (from her book Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip) at the POG series in Tucson. By the way, there's an excellent review of the book, focusing on this particular poem, by Emily Critchley on How2.
Farid Matuk's poem An American in Dallas was recorded specifically for Jacket2, at his home in Texas. This type of recording (one that begins in a somewhat similar space to Ceravolo's but was consciously created for digital listening) is fairly rare in the PennSound Archive. I find that kind of space really charged with an exciting kind of intimacy, rather than feeling spatial neutrality, or non-located in space. I like knowing that this poem was recorded in proximity to some of the people and places mentioned by name. In this context, lines like: "Where should my perception sit/to be marked present?" take on new resonances. In many ways the poem is rooted in a particular landscape, but the consciousness of the speaker is always moving around, switching vantage points, moving through a series of minute sensory impressions and social spaces.
Bernadette Mayer's 1978 class discussing her book Memory , from the Naropa audio archives, is a fascinating listen for a number of reasons. It's an incredible document of Mayer talking about the processes and thinking behind some of her most ambitious projects. I've listened to it several times primarily paying attention to the ideas and lively exchanges, but in the background there's a barely audible soundscape of something that seems like singing or chanting. In the talk, Mayer says (about her piece Memory): "I was still trying to get myself away from the printed book. I was trying to figure out a way-- I mean where is that space? Where should the reader be?" There is an impulse in much of Mayer's work to try to let in as much sensory data as possible, to enlarge and amplify what registers as significant. I'd like to bring this kind of attention to the digital audio file, which I'll be picking up again periodically in later posts.
I hope for — everyone
beneath the Highway 24 overpass, on MacArthur Blvd. between Telegraph and MLK
I've been thinking about the recent and hopefully temporary closure of 21 Grand, an interdisciplinary arts spaced forced to vacate its most current location at 416 25th St. after a battle with the city of Oakland over a cabaret permit, a permit it operated without for 10 years. (Here is a decent re-cap of the whole nightmare.)
It's still feels weird that 21 Grand is gone for-the-time-being-fingers-crossed, given how important a space it's been for so many Bay Area arts communities. And I'm thinking of the hundreds? could it be hundreds? of poetry readings I've attended there, how poetry was part of its interdisciplinary focus from the beginning, in 2000, with David Horton's first series at the original location on 21 Grand Ave., followed by New Brutalism at the 449B 23rd St. spot, and finally New Yipes and the New Reading Series at the last address on 25th St. I'm thinking of the people who curated and ran these series with so much devotion: Michael Cross, Julian T. Brolaski, Cynthia Sailers, David Larsen, Brandon Brown, Alli Warren, Michael Nicoloff, and Erika Staiti. Am I missing anyone? If I am, or if you're a poet who has read at 21 Grand in the last ten years, you can probably find your name among the musicians and artists on the wall of names Sarah Lockhart transcribed, of all those who performed or presented at 21 Grand.
I was thinking I would talk about the flurry of energy and activity around other east bay reading series in the wake of 21 Grand's closure, and how many of those are happening in private homes. (The New Reading Series curators made a decision to stick with 21 Grand, meaning that series is also temporarily inoperative until 21 Grand finds a new home.) But also that many Small Press Traffic readings this year have been held at the Oakland CCA campus, and how different that space is from the San Francisco location. In the meantime, and again somewhat late to the game, I was given a copy of Novella Carpenter's 2009 bestseller about urban farming in Oakland, Farm City. I got a little obsessed with this book, and its depiction of Oakland, finding myself totally compelled at moments by the the story of growing food on an unused lot slated for condominium development, the utopia of neighbors and cooperation presented there, the introduction of "food security" into my daily vocabulary once and for all, the way the book focuses so much of its attention and space on City Slicker Farms and their work in West Oakland. How the book's "I" moves slowly into surprising relationships and knowledge, coming to know the place she didn't when she first moved there/here in 2003. At the same time I was sometimes a little weirded out, that feeling of reading about the place where one lives, experiencing it reflected back in representational terms that don't always feel accurate, or which feel, at moments, handled and processed by editors intent on selling the book, and the city, to a mass market. Then also the odd feeling of reading about the pigs and rabbits and chickens and ducks and turkeys only 10 blocks away from where I live, and having had no idea.
Immediately after reading the last few pages of Farm City, I went on the internet to see what Carpenter's been up to. It was like watching two sequels in rapid succession. She purchased the unused lot, previously a squat garden, for $30,000! I could go learn about raising goats! I could tour the farm, and even, for an 8$ donation, have obtained a rabbit pot pie if I'd gotten there a little earlier, before the city of Oakland came after Carpenter. Because here comes the part where your heart is sinking a little, the part where someone from the city comes out and starts taking pictures, and then come the permit violations and requirements, then the paypal donation campaign, and then, despite raising money for the permit, your heart is really sinking here, comes the cease and desist letter, although it doesn't seem clear what she is supposed to cease and desist from. Perhaps living there, here, at all. (There is so much about this story I am trying to process, or just don't get, like the moment where Carpenter apologizes for erroneously blaming her plight on anonymous complaints by animal rights activists—there is a lot of raising and killing animals for food in the book—but simultaneously lashes out at the House Rabbit Society. So much to learn about the terms and arguments of this community.)
I've been talking about this book with anyone who will listen, and connecting it to pretty much everything, like after Ted Rees read at Small Press Traffic a few weeks ago, I asked at the break if he'd read it. I was thinking about Farm City in relation to the piece Ted performed, which begins with a scene in New York where he's visiting friends and someone shows him a glossy coffee table book on punk houses, with big glossy photographs, and Ted's piece talks for a minute about how gross it feels to have the alternative social forms and relations one is committed to reflected back as a series of images about architecture or fashion. And while this is not a new story, the glup glup of money slurping up and regurgitating the radical as a set of images, it's still a viscerally awful feeling as it glurps up one's bedroom, one's arm, one's fellows. Ted's piece starts there and then goes on to represent those alternative social forms in less glossy, more complicated ways, queasy and complicit, like the moment when somebody at the punk house has to make some money to pay some rent, and while having sex for money, one's head banging against the wall of a poorly built hotel, one's head reverberates, basically, against the development, with it, the dry wall, thrown together. Ted and I talked for a second about what it means when something radical and autonomous becomes visible, what happens when oppositional work, the squat garden or punk house flying under the radar, uncloaks. I'm thinking about the reasons one might want to uncloak (perhaps to make the idea that people can grow their own food more widely visible, more possible) but also the perils of doing so. Uncloaking. Often the uncloaking is outside of one's control. Or money comes in like a black light, highlighting the abstract splotches of small un-glurped areas adjacent to the glurped parts. You're adjacent, it can glurp you too.
I think I was trying to talk about what happens when the secret local, the self-governing, becomes visible to the law. I'm thinking this in relation to a quote Anne Boyer sent along a few days ago, she was preparing to teach Rousseau's Emile, and was thinking about that tension between institutions and communities which I talked about in a recent post. The quote she sent is from a lecture by Ian Johnston, a section discussing ceremony, memory, memorials, how "Rituals of this sort serve to hold the community together, to reinforce everyone's sense of belonging together, to remind everyone of their mutual interdependency and the uniqueness of their shared community. A small group of people held together in such a way will all know each other, will share a common sense of belonging and understanding, and will thus have ways to deal with inherent tensions which arise, without recourse always to courts and police and impartial judges. For instance, communities held together in this way often require few codified laws, little formal education about what the world means, and no arguments about rights, since the basic rule, as old as Roman Law, is simply if it's not the custom it's not the law (non mos, non ius). The traditional ways preserved in rituals contain the means to resolve such difficulties as may arise."
In her email, Anne said, "I was thinking maybe that maybe the fundamental conflict between poetry communities & institutions is the feeling that the one brings with it the codified laws and an emphasis on individual freedom/achievement, the other the somewhat mysterious and arbitrary, sometimes frighteningly anti-rational habits of human communities (with all that life, death, sex, babies, memory). It seems also like there is in poetry that forever repeated scene of the "law-bringer" coming to end that mystery, once and for all, and also a "community" ritualizing against this!"
Anne and I talked about the ways that impulse towards law-bringing gets internalized. The internal conflict between anarchist notions and the law. I talked about the latter impulse arising in myself precisely when I fear the group or community might in fact be lacking in "ways to deal with inherent tensions which arise." Thinking too about how poetry communities do and don't carry on a tradition. Which tradition? Whose? Rituals and memory, but also ruptures, losses, gaps.
I feel confused trying to think simultaneously about what I'll keep calling this law-bringing impulse as it gets internalized inside individuals and groups, alongside the law in the case of 21 Grand and Novella Carpenter, the law that comes, always, to defend the interests of commercial development. The demise of 21 Grand is a familiar story, of artists moving into inexpensive, sometimes neglected urban spaces, and then comes the restaurants and bars and boutiques. For a lot of years the money didn't seem to stick in Oakland, or rather, it stayed put in a few places, in the big houses in the hills, in retail districts near the Berkeley border. It's sticking now in some places it didn't before, notably downtown. All around 416 25th St.: Temescal to the left, Uptown to the right.
It's Sunday now, I can't figure out how to end this post, it's been over a week since I started trying to think it, a week during which my job ate up all the time, I had a difficult interaction with my neighbor, and overnight an animal dug up the thyme my friend just planted in what used to be the dirt and trash patch behind the house where I live, where the theater collective used to build their sets, a space slowly being transformed into something else. In between, all these other things happened. In my mind they're touching, pushing up against each other in ways I can't figure out. I'm thinking of the benefit I attended for MISSSEY, an organization that poet Lara Durback volunteers with. The law again. Which so often victimizes sexually exploited youth, especially the poor, especially poor youth of color. Thinking how the law that comes in and says you need a permit to grow your own food is the same law that charges 11, 12, 13 and 14 year olds, bought and sold in the commercial sex trade, with prostitution. Thinking of the precarious and vital advocacy work MISSSEY does in the gaps between service agencies and the law. Thinking of the conversation I had with a friend who wants to open a children's theater/educational program in Oakland, and about TheatreFIRST, how Oakland's one professional theater company has been, like 21 Grand, forced to move spaces umpteen times since it began in 1993 with a goal of presenting international works. Which means, I guess, that without realizing it I have been thinking about the East Bay Community Foundation, an organization that supports both MISSSEY and TheatreFIRST. So now I'm thinking too about The Revolution will Not be Funded.
Flashing on and off again, between things, the orange, yellow and green stripes of a piece of art that Lauren Levin and I almost started a bidding war over at the MISSSEY benefit, at the top it said, "I HOPE FOR," the middle a wash of illegible text in watercolor, and at the bottom "EVERYONE."
Motherwell: Which side are you on?
Readers here will know by now that one of my obsessions is the representation of the 1930s in the 1950s. I suppose you could say I collect these bits of (usually politicized) retrospectives. At right is an oil-and-charcoal painting by Robert Motherwell about the Spanish Civil War - done in 1958-60. Look over at my 1960 blog for more.
Wormwood Review
Marvin Malone's magazine is back
Christa Malone, Marvin Malone's daughter, has taken up the cause of the Wormwood Review. She's created a new web site which features, among many other things, tributes to Marvin's editorship. My 1960 blog, a while back, took a look at Wormwood's founding in 1960.
Teaching with sound
The very fact that audio recordings of poetry are now readily available to the classroom can be turned to a great advantage and can at least temporarily change the relationship between teacher and student. It is surely the case that when my students and I in class together listen to sound files instead of reading poem-texts, our vocabularies tend to be on the same plane. I might have a subtler response to what we're hearing, and certainly I know far more than they about the sound in literary-historical context, but they are never struck dumb by the terminology I bring to bear on the point I seek to make about the specific sound of the words, the poetics of it. The students notice this difference – between their talk about the poem on the page and their talk about the sounded or recorded poems – and their discussion of poetics generally becomes charged with it. If it is true of those who perform spoken poetry that (as David Antin has put it) 'it was my habit to record my talks / to find out what i[']d said' then similarly, the disorienting and terminologically disruptive mode I am describing is the means by which we might find out what we are teaching.


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Honesty pays
On April 14, I unknowingly dropped my purse in the parking lot at the Albertson's on Washington Street and Interstate 40.
When I arrived home, I called the office and was told the good news that Albertson's personnel had my purse.
Some thoughtful, honest person had brought it to the office.
I wish to thank the office staff and the finder many times!
Vote for safety
On May 6, the citizens of Amarillo have the opportunity to vote for or against Proposition 1.
Some want the public to think the request for an increase in police and firefighter salaries is about a pay raise.
A pay raise would be appreciated by anyone, but money is not the issue!
The issue is being able to keep the trained, qualified and experienced people of these departments here in Amarillo to provide safety to its citizens.
If the citizens of Amarillo are not aware of the acute shortage of police officers at this point, perhaps another important issue - the emergency response - should be addressed.
Calls for service have increased due to the 911 system, and some calls have had to wait up to two hours due to the shortage of officers. Last year, the average response time to a 911 call and for an officer to get a backup unit in an emergency was approximately 17 minutes.
Amarillo is well-known for its police academy selection and training because many cities recruit here for their departments, offering higher salaries and better benefits.
Many of our experienced officers will retire during the next several years.
Some believe the police department needs to hire more people to solve the manpower problem.
But all the information reveals that both the Amarillo Police Department and Amarillo Fire Department are not competitive in the job market due to being at the bottom of the scale.
As in any occupation, competitors are robbing us of our most qualified personnel.
We urge everyone to vote for Proposition 1.
This proposition will bring the salaries of our police officers and firefighters up to a competitive level with similar-sized Texas cities.
If this problem is not corrected, the shortage and delay of service will increase.
Elian back where he belongs
Thank God Elian Gonzalez is back with his father!
That is where he should have been shortly after his rescue from the sea. Bothered by the photographs of Elian being removed from the home?
Don't blame Janet Reno! She tried everything humanly possible to reunite the boy with his parent in a peaceful way.
Blame first belongs to the U.S. government's irrational policy of punishing a country because it refuses to bow down to our demands. We starve the Cuban people, which encourages them to attempt reckless voyages in leaky boats.
Our Cuban policy makes us look to the world like the worst kind of bully.
Then blame the agitators, including Rush Limbaugh, for encouraging the Miami rabble to snub its nose at court decisions.
Don't kid yourself - the great uncle and his pals would not have voluntarily given Elian up even to Jesus Christ.
And blame the media for using a family and political dispute to boost their ratings.
How anyone can think a little boy should be with distant relatives instead of his natural father is beyond belief.
If we believe in freedom so much, why do we not allow all people to live where they want, regardless of politics?
I would feel much safer in Havana than in the midst of the Miami Cubans!
Current statistics also lead me to believe that Elian will now be less likely to be shot at school or in the streets.
But don't tell me to move to Cuba.
Today, I am very proud to be an American because, for once, our government was on the right side!
Article a journalistic air ball
I am totally appalled by the April 16 article in the Sports section about the possible move of Aricka Thiel and her daughters.
To say the least, this is a pathetic attempt at journalism.
The whole issue is absolutely the business of no one but Mrs. Thiel and her family.
Contrary to popular belief, the lives of young people should not revolve around playing high school games.
This family has every right to make its personal decisions without the input or criticism of coaches, reporters, unidentified sources, and the uninformed and misinformed readers.
Another real issue is the fact that your "news/sports story" managed to hurt this family with three wonderful teen-agers.
Was that your purpose? In light of their recent treatment by this community, why would they not move?
I also challenge you, your reporter, his knowledgeable "sources" and the readers to consider how they would feel if they were told by a coach, a reporter or a stranger on the street that they did not have the freedom or the right to move to another town.
There are issues in life that are personal.
The Globe-News and sports writer Steve Brannan have overstepped the bounds of common decency.
I do not desire to read trash journalism, and your paper, in an effort to stir up controversy, has entered that category.
The home of the free for Elian
I believe sending Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba would be a mistake.
It would defeat the reason why his mother left Cuba.
Everyone knows that life in Cuba has no meaning or future, under dictator Fidel Castro and his regime. Elian should have a chance to be someone.
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If you think pups are a kid's best friend, then you'll really wag your tail over our new booklist, Passionate About Pups. These books highlight all kinds of dogs, from the ginormous Clifford to the petite McDuff. You'll find dogs searching for a loving home, and dogs searching for adventure on the high seas. So flop down on your favorite pillow, grab a bone to gnaw on, and start reading!
You know how, once in a great while, you finish a book and it was so good that you want to start reading it all over again? That's what happened to me with Frank Cottrell Boyce's "Cosmic."
Have Captain Underpants fans in your family? Then you'll definitely want to place a hold on Dav Pilkey's new graphic novel The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Fung-Fu Caveman from the Future.
For more about Ook and Gluk, visit the Scholastic blog and Dav Pilkey's web site where you'll find sketches of the book, behind the scenes movies and more!
Arthur Penhaligon, star of Garth Nix's Mister Monday, thinks he's a normal 7th grader who has enough problems to deal with, like starting a brand new school and controlling his asthma. After the first day of school, though, his life gets a lot weirder. During a serious asthma attack, while he's gasping for breath on the ground, he sees a strange man in a wheelchair appear in blinding light with an attendant. He thrusts a "blade" into Arthur's hands and mutters some strange things about a Will, the Key, and suitable Heir. Although it makes no sense to him at the time, Arthur has just been given an instrument of power called the Key and named the Heir to the Will by Mister Monday. Arthur's life will never be the same.
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Shanghai Expo Director Calls on Creativity
The Shanghai World Expo is China's follow-on spectacular from the 2008 Olympic Games, but with less of the international scrutiny.
Even though visitor numbers so far are falling below predictions, crowds are still China-sized. That often makes an event billed as a $23 ticket around the world feel like too many immigration lines, as it can take hours to get into national pavilions, which often look more stunning from outside.
Tight security is prompting complaints from foreign governments who pumped tens of millions of dollars into their exhibits that they are facing ham-fisted rules, including blockades of clean laundry for pavilion workers getting into the site.
In the hot seat is Hong Hao, the 55-year-old director general of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, who says a key role is managing expectations. "We need to be creative in solving the problems and this is also part of the Expo that excites us most," Mr. Hong said.
Mr. Hong spoke with Shanghai correspondent James T. Areddy on May 25. The following interview has been edited and translated.
Career: Currently director-general of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination and deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai municipal government. Previously head of Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau, and soldier in the People's Liberation Army.
Education: Graduated from Shanghai Fudan University with an economics degree
Extracurricular: Tries to jog each morning and swim during the week. Also likes to mix up his schedule: "For example, now I'm meeting the media, next I will meet the construction people and next I will meet the participants. So that makes it more mixed and interesting."
On security: "Security is the key to the success of this event."
WSJ: You have an interesting mix of employees, including around 6,000 volunteers on site at any one time. Can you talk about what it is like managing so many volunteers?
Mr. Hong: It's a very big and systematic job managing so many employees. At each point we have an average 30,000 to 40,000 working staff here on the site for each shift, generally three types. One type is the management people who belong to the Expo bureau. The other is service people, caterers providing food and restaurant services. The third type is volunteers.
For the first type it is core management people who belong to the Expo bureau. We apply very strict standards in the recruiting and managing and assessment of this type of staff. For these management people they get salary from us. We directly manage them. And the total number is around 8,000 to 9,000.
The second type is services people. They provide services on site and we mainly manage them through our contracts that we have signed with them. Before the Expo began operations we had several rounds of bidding and invited bids so these people are managed on a contract basis. This group of people is very liquid, meaning that some of them work on a very short term basis for one week or two weeks. And others work much longer. The total number of these services people is more than 100,000. But at each shift, at each point there are about 30,000.
The third group are the volunteers. The total number of volunteers is 80,000. At each point there are about 6,000 or so here on site. The volunteers work with spirit and dedication so we also manage them on that basis. We provide help and support for them to give services to visitors. We facilitated their work by providing transportation, food, working and resting areas for them. They mainly provide supplementary services and help and also some of them can provide professional services as well.
And so when you talk about the human resources on this Expo site these three groups: the people who belong to the Expo bureau and two is the services providers on a contract basis and number three is the volunteers.
We also apply different human resources management models to these three groups of people.
For these volunteers, they come from different backgrounds. We have for each shift more than 6,000 volunteers who come from different walks of life. Some of them are university students. Some of them are working in their companies. Some of them are from here in China and others are from foreign countries. The majority of them are from the city of Shanghai but we also have volunteers from other parts of the country and other parts of the world.
So we assign different positions and jobs to them based on their different fields and backgrounds.
For the volunteers who can provide professional services, we mainly assign jobs based on their own strengths. For example some of them speak not commonly used languages, so they volunteer to be translators and interpreters. Others are able to use sign language so they are able to help the handicapped people. Others are just very happy and willing to help us with the running and operation of the Expo so they can help with the maintenance of the traffic or the advocation promotion of events. Some of them are helping (including) with the cleaning of the Expo site.
The principle about managing the volunteers is on a volunteer basis. And they can provide some supplementary or professional services and support.
WSJ: When you discovered that despite numbers falling short of predictions in the opening days of the expo but lines remained long, what strategies did you undertake?
Mr. Hong: I think the key is effective management of people at the entrance, when they get into the pavilion and also the efficient flow of people traffic on the site.
You probably remember from the 20th of April when we had a trial run and there was a long line for some of the pavilions. And in some cases the order was not that good.
And we also adopted several measures. For example at the security checks we speeded up the security check by providing more people and providing more equipment and also by providing professional training for the officers so that the average checking time for each person was reduced from about 45 seconds to around 20 seconds.
After the official operation of the Expo began, we saw shorter lines at the Expo gate.
We also can talk about the queue lines before each pavilion.
It happens that during each Expo we see long lines before the popular pavilions, for example at the Aichi Expo people had to wait for five or six hours before the Toyota Pavilion. How to manage this and how to address this we mainly address it from two aspects. One of them is infrastructure facilities and the other is people's skills.
In order to bring better order to the lines we have designed an 'S' shape formation for the lines before each (popular) pavilion, before the U.S. pavilion, the Germany pavilion and France pavilion.
And on the skill side, we provide for example the sunshades, the umbrellas so that people do not feel that hot. We also gently remind them how much time is remaining before they can get into the pavilion so that people do not get too anxious.
We can say that the order of visitors on the site is getting better and better.
And I think the key is to give full play to our various resources and leverage these resources. For example we need to balance the flow of traffic on the Puxi side of the Expo and on the Pudong section of the Expo. We are doing a lot of events and promotions for the events and pavilions on the Puxi side. And we also direct some group visitors first to the Puxi section and then they can travel to Pudong.
We also solicited opinions from the foreign participants as well. And we have designed an interactive scheme between Pudong section and the Puxi section (EDS: two sides of the river). We also direct some special events and cultural programs to the (less crowded) Puxi side. For example when Jackie Chan visited Shanghai he had a show on the Puxi side.
And we also use a lot of channels to get the message across. For example we use the TV stations and radio and (screens) to tell people which pavilions are too crowded and which are not that crowded to guide people to those less crowded pavilions.
We are seeing more and more people visiting our Expo site. For the first week the number of visitors per day was less than 150,000. In the second week we saw around 200,000. and now we have seen the fifth consecutive day which saw more than 300,000 visitors. And we see summer vacation coming and we are expecting more people to come and visit the Expo site.
Although we have seen more and more people we do not see that order on the Expo site is moving to the negative side. On the other hand we are seeing that we are maintaining good order and I believe that with more and more people coming to visit the Expo we still have more room and resources to serve the people.
WSJ: During this Expo you have worked alongside managers from many foreign countries (such as commissioners general and pavilion managers). What tips have you picked up about "foreign management styles" that might be applied by Chinese managers?
Mr. Hong: We are learning the experience everyday.
For example I think that the operation of the Japan pavilion is very orderly, both in terms of the management of visitors outside waiting to get in and those for people inside the pavilion. Also the design of the VIP passes is also very smart.
I think there are many different management skills and styles we can learn. The management of an Expo is like the management of a mega-event. It's very big, like a very big park.
I would also like to use the Japanese pavilion as an example. The Japanese were the first to put up a sign saying '1 Hour' or '3 Hours' to wait. I think this is a very considerate method for the visitors.
For the European pavilions, what they have done is to render (held) onsite cultural performance shows so as to interact with the visitors before they get into the pavilion and also to reduce the anxiety of the visitors.
Saudi Arabia is also a very good example. It is a very big pavilion with 6,000 square meters and the number of visitors each day surpassed 40,000 so that's a very huge number. Sometimes visitors at peak hours have to wait more than six hours. But they have designed a very smart flow direction for the visitors so the people who are waiting in line feel that they are constantly moving, they are always moving so you don't feel desperate.
And we have in total 246 pavilions out of which 46 are self built pavilions, 42 are rented pavilions and 11 are joint pavilions. And I think all the participants have brought here their best products, their best skills and management styles.
I think it is a very good opportunity for us to learn from others in terms of management. For example sometimes when we observe the management we saw the Disneyland style but sometimes we can observe the Universal Studios style and sometimes they resemble the management style in Paris. I think this is a good opportunity in which we bring together management styles and skills from around the world and we can learn a lot from them.
I think this will be a very good factor boosting the development of the exhibition and conference trade industry in Shanghai.
WSJ: In addition to complaints about lines, we have heard grumbling about security. Some pavilion managers have said they were unable to bring in clean uniforms. How are you telling your staff to balance legitimate security needs with reasonable requests?
Mr. Hong: Security is always one of the things on the top of our priority list. We can also say security is the key to the success of this event.
The majority of participants are very considerate and understand why we apply such strict security measures. But sure enough there are some situations and occasions where people don't understand why we have such strict measures.
I think what we can do is number one have more advocacy and education and tell people why we have such good security measures. For example we need to tell the visitors, the participants and also the construction workers what's the purpose of the security check.
For example we do not allow people to take bottled water into the Expo site so we need to advocate and tell the general public this is one of the security measures we have to adopt. On the other hand we also have to provide sufficient drinking water of course on site of the Expo site.
And the other thing we need is to constantly improve our management and services.
For the laundry you just mentioned, previously we didn't allow people to bring in wet clothes or laundry onto the site. We also made some improvements. For example, now if you apply to send your laundry into the site you can go through a special channel and after some security checks you can get your things inside.
And for some key management people, for example the commissioners general, we've designed some special channels for them so that they do not have to go through the check.
We also facilitate their moving around on the site, providing some transportation means for example electrical battery vehicles. We provide all kinds of facilities and conveniences so that they can have an easy job and easy time getting into the pavilions.
This morning we began a new arrangement. That is we provide a shuttle bus from the Expo village to the Expo site.
We've also established a close working cooperation relationship between our security people and the security people working in the pavilions. Through this communication we constantly ask what they demand, what they request from us so we can offer our help. They really offer us some requests so we can give some help.
Once there were some complaints about too slow processing for the ID badges of the participants. We have communicated with them and made improvements in this process. We will continue to make improvements and optimization and cooperation and I believe communication between us and the participants will become smoother and smoother.
WSJ: Yours is a public position that in the U.S. might also leave a role for a spouse. What role does your wife have in helping you do your job and what does she like about the Expo?
Mr. Hong: My wife doesn't work here. She works in the Metro operator. Although she doesn't work her she is very keen about what is happening here. [She likes the] China pavilion. She also loves several other pavilions, including Spain, Germany, France, the USA, Japan, Saudi Arabia.
WSJ: You certainly know this huge plot of land as well as anyone. So what is your recommendation for the land use post-Expo?
Mr. Hong: This piece of Expo site is very mature land.
We will keep one exit and four major pavilions, including China Pavilion, performance center, theme center.
These will become very important public service and cultural venues for Shanghai in the future. In these pavilions in the center there will be large exhibitions, conferences, meetings, cultural performances and high end business activities.
This Expo site when the Expo is finished will become one of the key areas for cultural business and exhibition activities. For the temporary pavilions were are going to dismantle or convert them but exactly how to do the dismantling or conversion is still under study.
Anyway this piece of land will remain alive in the mind of each Shanghai citizen. I think this Expo site will play an important role in Shanghai's economic and cultural development as well as the cultivation of people's behavior and sophisticated tastes.
WSJ: As a former environmental protection officer, you are well-aware not every "green" goal can be realized during development. What environmental compromises have been made at the Expo?
Mr. Hong: Construction and operation of the Expo site we bear in mind the green concept and the concept I was head of the environmental bureau of Shanghai municipality and for Shanghai and China as a nation we take environmental protection very seriously. And I'm also a person who is very keen about environmental protection.
I think the key is now to solve the problems that have been brought about by development through development. The priority is development.
But while pursuing development we need to be responsible for future generations so the construction of the Expo site is subject to very strict environmental protection assessment and evaluation.
During the whole process of the planning, designing and of environmental protection.
You probably know that for the construction of this pavilion we have addressed the environmental issues by moving some old heavy industries outside the center region of Shanghai to Loujing steelmaking area. In that area the utilization of energy efficiency has been enhanced by 200% while the consumption of energy has been reduced by 60%. And for 1/3 of the Expo area they are is dedicated to parks and this has become what we call the biggest green-land of Shanghai.
All the public transportation facilities are carbon zero.
The capacity of the solar panels on the China pavilion and the theme pavilion is the biggest in China. It's 4.5 gigawatts.
I think number one we need construction, we need development. Number two while pursuing development we should not make it a source of regret for future generations. And we need to apply strict environmental standards.
How to do it we need to solicit and listen to opinions from experts around the world. And also have very careful study and design before construction.
WSJ: Have you been surprised in this position?
Mr. Hong: Everyday. Why? We encounter new problems, new issues everyday because the Expo is new to China and also new to our generation of people so we need to be creative in solving the problems and this is also part of the Expo that excites us most
WSJ: Are you on-site every day and do you have an opportunity to relieve the stress of this job?
Mr. Hong: [I try to go] jogging an hour each morning, go to the swimming pool one to two times per week. To make my work more interesting I like to take new shifts. For example now I'm meeting the media, next I will meet the construction people and next I will meet the participants. So to make it more mixed and interesting.
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