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Bristol Airport Parking
The Airport has re-branded it's self several times since it first opened in 1929 with the most recent being Bristol Lulsgate to Bristol Airport in March 2010. The new slogan that came with it were "Amazing Journeys Start Here". In 2010 alone, 309,896 passengers passed through the Airport with a 4.2% growth in the Charter sector. The Airport is quickly becoming one of the biggest in the United Kingdom.
January this year Bristol Airport retained it's Park Mark Safer Parking award following a review by the Association of Chief Police Officers. All 7 car parks ranging from Short stay to Long Stay met the high standards for security. It's safe to say car parking at Bristol Airport is going to be a safe option, you know that your car is going to be kept safe and secure whilst you are on holiday.
Parking at Bristol Airport doesn't have to be complicated
Parking your vehicle at Bristol Airport cant be any easier, with Official On-Airport car parking not far from the terminal. The On-Airport parking is great for long stay requirements for more than 7 to 14 days, the car park is not too far from the terminal entrance so walking will not be an issue but if your stowing lots of luggage a free shuttle bus will transfer you to the terminal, this takes around 3 minutes and runs every 20 minutes.
Short stay car parking at Bristol Airport
We all have to do a favour some times, this might include the dreaded Airport drop off which can be mayhem if you don't know where your going and you have no idea where to park. Well don?t worry short stay parking is only £3 for 1 hour or £6 for 2 hours which is enough time to drop off your family or friends and wave good bye.
Meet & Greet Chauffeur parking at Bristol Airport
Everybody loves a luxury once in a while, so if you can stretch that budget a little bit further meet and greet parking might be your perfect car parking option when you arrive at Bristol. So how does it work? A fully insured driver also known as a chauffeur will meet you at the Airport whether its in-front of the Airport terminal or pre-planned location, the chauffeur will collect your keys and car then secure your vehicle at a car park site close to Bristol Airport, once you have passed through Airport security and collected your luggage on return the driver will meet you with your vehicle, it cant get any easier!
Bristol airport is relatively small and the majority of the boarding gates are within a few hundred meters from the main terminal, which is ideal for disabled passengers with luggage and mobility problems.
If you're being dropped off by car, the main Drop Off Zone is located adjacent to the terminal building and within walking distance.
Disabled passengers should always notify the airline and the airport before flying to make sure the proper assistance and care is available. Equipment such as wheelchair lifts may need to be pre-booked so please mark sure you notify the special assistance teams before arriving.
If you require a disabled parking bay, please notify the car parking company that you booked with to arrange assistance from the car park and any extra help. Disabled parking bays are marked and help points are within close proximity.
Help points are located throughout the airport.
The Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
in an Edwardian baroque building the Bristol Museum and Art gallery
provide great collections of archaeology, geology and natural
With over 600 ancient Egyptian artifacts on show the
museum is known as one of the best in the south west. Split up into
distinct sections each part of the museum tells a detailed and exciting
story, be that about the life of the ancient Egyptians, their identities
or the afterlife.
On the first floor you will also find the art
gallery masterpieces including old masters, French school, British and
modern art collections.
To finish on the lower floors of the
museum you will find a great collection of fossils and dinosaur
collections .
With such a wide variety on show Bristol Museum
and Art Gallery is a great day out
Queens Road
West End
Opening Times:
Open all year
Blue Reef Aquarium & IMAX 3D Cinema
The Blue
reef Aquarium takes you on an undersea safari. The collection includes
native and tropical marine freshwater creatures both local and
worldwide. All the creatures on display are housed in naturally themed
habitats to help increase the realism and appreciation of the creatures.
A great day for the whole family.
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The Bristol Tour – Open top bus
Why not see what Bristol
City has to offer by travelling on the bright and fun open top Bristol
tour Bus. On your journey you visit Brunel's ss Great Britain, the first
transathlantic liner and ride under the amazing Clifton Suspension
bridge. You can also be dropped off at the Bristol Zoo gardens and then
be collected later on or maybe you want to see the historic city centre.
Whatever your decision this bus journey will be one to remember.
Departs from City Centre
Central Bristol
Tel: 0333 3210101
If you wish to to hire/ book this service for a private occasion
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Rated the fourth top visitor destination in England, Bristol has a huge variety of original attractions and festivals. The city surrounds the River Avon in the south west of the country and has a short coastline and a long tradition of ship building and trading. Bristol has a lot to offer and attracts over nine million tourists each year.
What do to in Bristol
Bristol is a beautiful city to walk around, but there?s also plenty to see by boat, so visit the harbour and docks to get a ferry tour or cruise of the sights. Free maps are available from the Tourist Information Centre and Bristol Temple Meads railway station.
Bristol is famous for its festivals, including the Bristol Balloon Fiesta, the Festival of Ideas and the Slapstick Silent Film Festival. Details are available online, or you can buy Bristol?s weekly Venue Magazine locally to find out what?s going on during your visit.
The nineteenth century Clifton suspension bridge is one of Bristol?s infamous landmarks, with excellent views from the nearby Observatory. You can get a taste of Bristol?s history by visiting the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery on Queens Road, which showcases everything from sea dinosaurs to modern art. Head over to the old part of the city for cobbled streets, the famous Corn Exchange clock and St. Nicholas Market, which has local delicacies as well as books and CDs. High street shops can be found at Broadmead and Cabot Circus, which form part of Bristol?s central shopping district. For independent shops, head to North Street and East Street in the south.
Families will enjoy At-Bristol (Anchor Road), a great way to understand the world through special exhibitions, and the extensive Blue Reef Aquarium is also on this street. The world?s fifth oldest zoo, Bristol Zoo Gardens, is another popular choice and is easily accessible in Clifton.
Where to eat in Bristol
Bristol has plenty of fine eateries. The One Stop Thali Café offers huge portions of vegetarian Indian food with a different menu every day, and Severnshed on the waterfront is famous for its moving bar and contemporary food. Try Zero Degrees on Colston Street for lovely pizza, sausages and mussels served with beer from the onsite micro-brewery. For fresh seafood, visit the carbon neutral River Station restaurant at Harbourside. Bordeaux Quay (an organic restaurant, deli, bakery, bar and cookery school) is also nearby.
Where to drink in Bristol
No trip to Bristol is complete without a visit to The Apple ? a floating cider bar located in the Harbourside area ? and the Thekla, a boat bar which is close by. Another worthy mention is The Llandoger Trow pub (King Street), a 17thcentury listed building rumored to be popular with pirates and the inspiration behind the pub in Treasure Island. Chain restaurants and bars are catered for on St Nicholas? Market, Millennium Square and Park Street/Whiteladies Road. Clubbers should head to Club Motion (behind Temple Meads station), a large internationally-recognized venue that doubles as a skate park in the daytime.
The official Bristol airport website can be found here https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/


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Learn about Galapagos Islands with its amazing volcanic geology, rich an unique flora and fauna, and you will HAVE to visit!
Scientists are still faced with a mystery how such a large diversity of species could develop in a remote location like the Galapagos Islands.
On the Islands, a multitude of endemic animals and amazing landscapes are romping about: this is some of the reasons for tourists and nature lovers to visit and explore the Galapagos Islands.
Among the most rare species of the Galapagos Islands are the famous Giant Tortoises for which they are named.
Charles Darwin visited Galapagos in 1835. He collected a wealth of scientific data that contributed to his theory of natural selection.
Located over 1000 km west of Ecuador in South America, the Galapagos Islands (officially named the Archipelago of Colon) are a dynamic region constantly changing. Volcanic eruptions create new lava fields, and Islands erode and expand.
The Galapagos Islands have lived in virtual isolation for millions of years. In total, they consist of 61 Islands and islets, with 13 main Islands.
The 13 main Islands are Baltra, Espanola, Fernandina, Floreana, Genovesa, Isabela, Marchena, Pinta, Pinzon, San Cristobal, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe and Santiago.
The total land area of Galapagos is of 4,897 sq. miles (7,880 sq. km) and the total geographical area from Darwin Island to San Cristobal and Espanola Islands is of 28,000 sq. miles (45,000 sq. km)
The largest Island is Isabela, at 1,771 sq. miles (4,855 sq. km), while it makes up close to half the land area of the Galapagos Islands, is still less than half the size of the Island of Hawaii.
The largest elevation is Wolf volcano with a maximum altitude of 5,600 ft. (1,707 m) making it the highest point in the Galapagos Archipelago.
The climate at the Galapagos Islands is subtropical and it is regulated by the warm El Nino Current and the cold Humboldt Current.
June to December: The southern trade winds bring the colder Humboldt current north to the Galapagos Islands.
The water is cooler, and a layer of high atmosphere mist pervades the skies of the Galapagos Islands.
The highlands of the larger Islands are kept green and lush, while the sea level Islands and shorelines have little precipitation.
The season from June to December is generally called the "dry season" known for its blue skies and mid-day showers.
December to May: This is considered the "warm season." During this warmer season, the Galapagos Islands climate is more tropical with daily rain and cloudier skies.
Also, the ocean temperature is warmer for swimming and snorkeling.
During this season, you will observe a big amount of rare species around the Galapagos Islands or the sea such as:
This season is great if you like snorkeling and scuba diving.
There are about 560 native species of plants in the Galapagos Islands, in other words, plants which arrived in the Islands by natural means.
Of these, almost one third are endemic to Galapagos, meaning they are found nowhere else on Earth.
The Galapagos Islands have their very own, endemic species of cotton, pepper, guava, passion flower and tomato. Not only that but many species are so different from others elsewhere that they are grouped in their own endemic genera.
These include Scalesia, the endemic 'daisy tree', which has evolved into a whole host of different species in a direct botanical parallel of the Darwin's finches. More About Galapagos Plants
Other endemic genera in the daisy family are Darwin's aster Darwiniothamnus, the cut-leaf daisy Lecocarpus and needle-leaf daisy Macraea. There are also some endemic genera of cacti, Brachycereus, the lava cactus and Jasminocereus, the candelabra cactus.
See Beautiful Galapagos Islands Pictures
The Islands have a wide array of endemic fauna, invertebrates, birds, reptiles and mammals, which are native to the Galapagos Islands.
The Giant Galapagos Tortoise is the most well known of all the endemic creatures.
With the lack of predatory mammals, life on the Galapagos Islands is dominated by reptiles like the Galapagos Tortoises, land and marine iguanas, snakes, lava lizards and sea turtles.
There are 27 species of reptiles in the Galapagos Islands, of which 17 are endemic (species found only in the Galapagos).
The colorful and plentiful Galapagos Iguanas are endemic. The Galapagos is home to Land Iguanas, as well as Marine Iguanas.
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How to Have Attractive Breasts After Breastfeeding
Are Saggy Breasts Inevitable?
Every woman who is breastfeeding or recently weened their baby is interested in whether her breasts will ever look the same as they used to. Your breasts used to be toned and firm and now, especially if you used to breastfeed and have stopped, the skin is stretched and the breasts hang lower.
Breasts are very special part of woman's body. We all like to take good care of them want them to be healthy and look beautiful.
The bad news is that for many of us, our breasts will never really be the same after breastfeeding. It's important to keep in mind that all women's breasts change and become less toned with age whether they breastfeed or not. The good news is that there are several things we can do to minimize sagginess, and those things are:
- exercise
- creams
- avoid certain positions while breastfeeding
- support the breasts with a bra
Why Do Breasts Sag After Breastfeeding?
During pregnancy, due to specific hormones, breasts go through a process which prepares them for breastfeeding. The number of milk ducts grows and they become bigger. This is why women's breasts get bigger during pregnancy.
During breastfeeding, the breasts become even more dense. They get bigger and bigger because of milk production and the skin is stretched over time. Engorgement and inflammation can even leave breasts misshapen. It's not unusual for a woman's breasts to become asymmetrical: One may shrink over time, while the other stays the same.
What to do if You Are Still Breastfeeding
- Avoid Leaning Over When you are nursing your baby, especially when the baby is very tiny, use a pillow to raise your baby up high enough to meet your breast. Avoid leaning over and angling your breast down into your baby's mouth. This will help prevent your skin from stretching even more.
- Wear a Good Bra The skin in your breasts needs support. Get a good nursing or sports bra to hold your breasts up. This will prevent further sagging.
- Eat Less Animal Fat What you eat is for breasts skin tone. Reduce your animal fat intake and eat more wholegrain cereals, legumes, and green vegetables. Use this time while you are nursing to eat more salads, olive oil, and fresh fruits. Eat foods rich in vitamin B (eggs, fish, and poultry) and E (nuts, seeds, and leafy greens). These vitamins help maintain skin's elasticity and tone.
- Hot and Cold Showers While you are in the shower, switch between hot and cold water. This will improve your circulation and skin tone. Finish your shower with cold water. That way your breast skin will stay firm.
- Wean Gradually When you are ready to plan weaning, leave time to do it gradually. The more gradually you wean, the more you will help the fat tissue to redeposit inside breasts. That will help them regain their pre-pregnancy appearance more quickly.
- Avoid Rapid Weight Loss Breastfeeding can help women lose their pregnancy weight. But be careful. If you find that the pounds are just falling off, your skin won't be able to keep up. Try to lose that weight gradually so that your skin has time to change too.
What to do When You Have Stopped Breastfeeding
You cannot build up your breasts like some other part of your body. Breasts are not composed of muscles and ligaments. Instead, they only have fatty tissue and that's why they are prone to sagging.
You can, however, strengthen the muscles that hold the breasts up and work on your posture. Have you noticed that while you are breastfeeding you tend to slouch over? When we hold ourselves up with good back posture, our breasts follow along and don't sag as much. By exercising your pectoral and back muscles, you will build the strength required to hold your breasts up, making them appear more toned.
1. Dumbbell Pull-Over
This exercise strengthens your arms, chest, and back. This will be great for your posture and supporting your breasts.
- Lie back on a bench with both feet on the floor.
- Hold a dumbbell in each hand over head.
- Raise your arms up so they are pointing at the ceiling
- Repeat.
Push Up
Push ups are great for arm, back, and core muscle strengthening, which helps with posture.
- Facing the floor, place hands in front of your parallel. You can either keep your legs straight or bend at the knees.
- Lower yourself down as far as you can and then push back up.
- Repeat.
Chest Press
The chest press is another exercise that tones the arm, chest, and back muscles.
- While seated at an angle with both feet on the floor, hold a weight in each hand.
- Extend your arms out.
- Slowly pull your arms in towards your chest.
- Repeat.
Creams After Breastfeeding
While you were breastfeeding, you probably didn't use any cream on your breast skin. If you have stopped breastfeeding, this is the right time for beauty treatments. Invest in a quality skin cream. Your skin will be soft, healthy, and your breast skin may tone up a bit.
After breast feeding my son, I was pretty much left with what felt like less breast than what I started with in the first place, how does that even happen? Anyway, It is awful! I have been using boobpop to help get them nice again and cant wait to see how it works out.
I have stop breastfeeding my child over 2years and half +now and my breast look old and falling down what should i do to it to come up and strong pls .
Please I Need Your Help I Breastfeed For Over Six Years Ago And My Breast Not Stand Anymore I Tried But Nothing Pls What Should I Do To Push It Up Again ?
Can olive oil be helpful when massaged on sagged breasts after the breastfeeding process
I am 32years and I have one kid.. My breast looks very week and old.. What can I use to get them back to normal.
I'm 33yrs with two kids but my breast looks too old and weak .how can i get a little bit stronger and big
Get naturaful it's on amazon. it is a little pricier but you will only need to use for a few months INSTEAD of surgery to naturally grow your breasts, firm them and lift them. :) Another less effective and more affordable option is Sheamoisture's Mommy Firming lotion
My breast are uneven and i want them to get back normal,however I have small breast and I'd like them to get a little bigger because the shrunk during breastfeeding.. What do I do?? Please I need your help
What if your breast is uneven.. the one is enorged the other looks like its back to normal size.. what should i do?.. please help me :(
I am 27 yrs I have 3 children and I am feeding my 2 yrs boy and my breast size is 31 and how can I make my breast size large give me a tip
What Should I Aply On My Breast To Make It To Be Strong An Fresh.
Does this help the "tube sock" look?
Thank you for sharing such a great information. I really appreciate for these right concept which your try to deliver through this amazing article. I am also going from the same situation but almost after several months and i try lot of things to control my sagging breast i go for the breast augmentation surgery as i look unattractive having sagging breasts but having a surgery from (http://www.beautifulbreastsoc.com/) now my breast has a perfect shape but still i do massage to maintain my shape.
My breast r saggy after 1yr7mnths of brestfeeding.i cant even undress infront of ma man ive tried some creams n nothing helped me.Plz help im desperate
nice article,but if u could tell about any food supplements or any home remedy,that will be great.i hate to exercise,though i don't mind doing my housework.
my baby is 10th months old ...n my breast are too saggy .. please tell me how can i let it up and beautiful ...
I am 22 years old and i got a miscarriage a year ago. I use to wear a 36A bra before i got pregnant, i waz pregnant for five months and my breast became very huge. After i got the miscarriage i expected my breast to go back to their normal size. It's been a year and i gained weight a little bit, and i'm wearing a size 38D. I don't know what to do, i need help so dat i my breast could go to their normal size before i got pregnant. WHAT CAN I DO?
oh gosh, I couldn't have read this at a better time! I stopped feeding 5 months ago and I HATE my boobs. and now summers creeping up and I was devastated when I put my bikini on and my boobs sit horribly :( I'm only 20 so I'm hoping its not forever! I do have some firming cream the hospital gave me when I had my daughter so will give it ago along with your other tips! thank you!
i haven't breastfed since the middle of july..i only gained 23 lbs (start-123,end-146) so i lost my weight very quick and then went to 110lbs now..my breast use to be at least a D and now maybe a B or C i'm not even sure honestly but I don't think they're saggy i think it just may be the stretchmarks making them appear that way will cocoa butter help at all, i use to exercise quiet a bit & nothings really has helped tone them from what i see
Thanks for this hub. I found it really informative!
Thanx for the tips, quite helpful!
This Hub does make some since but however its highly incorrect. I am 23 years old, was 21 when i got pregnant with my son. I was 123 lbs when i got pregnant and while in labor i was only 146. my bra size was 28DD before. I gained hardly anyweight. Now that i have had my son,and 10 months to get off the weight. I only weigh 103 now, and my bra size stayed at 28G! massive. they are no longer firm. they hang way to low and im very unhappy - i have tried everything and talked to doctors. The only way of fixing the sagging is a reduction/lift -
Great hub.
Great tips! Who knew there were so many things we could do to firm our breats!?
very useful information. thank u all. but i have another problem. i was expressing (manually,with my hands) for atleast 9 months, now i hav these marks(blemishes) n wrinkled skin where my fingers used to sit...can anybodt please suggest something coz i tried moisturiser even the breatmilk itself.... :'(
After reading this article I've found hope that my breast would be firm again... It has been 2 years since I stopped breastfeeding my child, believe me I've tried many products but still the same saggy breast.. I'll change the strategy now.. do u think breast enhancing pills work?
Thanx for helping us out:)
A fantastic hub. There's nothing better than natural breasts that do not sag. Another option if all else fails is to have breast reduction surgery. It is not actually that extreme and is becoming more and more common with women suffering from saggy breasts after pregnancy.
breastfeeding is such a wonderful bonding experience with your child it is worth the side effects, but if i can reverse theem with these tips that would be great too!
well i hope it works cause im friking out about how im gonna look after the baby comes i almost don't want the baby anymore because of it it sucks i have nightmares
Its really an informative hub,I m still breastfeeding my toddler and trying to wean,I was looking for such informations!...I relly had a very attractive pair of tight breasts before pregnancy. I know it will work for me as I m already in shape after two yr breastfeeding....
But its also true that it varies. Every woman has got their own structure, all don't have the same. When a woman gain some weight, some specific parts of her body shows the signs by adding fat their. When I gain weight my face and breast get fat first. that's why I hope after weaning my breast will get tight again. Loose skin is a common reason of saggy breasts. I know many virgin galz having saggy breasts only due to loose skin. So I want to say to the galz out their, having loose skin...u should work out on it. And don't try to loose weight rapidly and if u want to loose weight,should do it very planwise so that the loose skins of ur breasts can get enough time to be tone up.
All the women out their wish u all the best and thank you emma!!!
Yes I agree with you on building the muscle and wearing a really good bra...lol Not only for support, but the kind that has the extra padding ..lol
This breast thing is really an issue. thank God mine are back after 3kids. Very interesting article
Good information, I'll bookmark this hub and I'll show this to my future wife. Thank you very much.
I am using the B shape breast firmer, even while breast feeding because my breast are realy looking ugly and very saggy, i don't know if this is right but it has been helping me so far my breast are looking good and firmer
thanks, its such a big help=)
very informative hub
thanks his hub was helpful
I breastfed and these are all good advices and explanation, Thanks, I rated it up, Maita
I have seen exercise help. Lots of good tips here.
Nice Hub, I took an all natural supplement for larger breast.
It didn't make me larger but it bought my breast back where they used to be, which was fine for me.
I had 3 children. Saggy breast are no joke. Go to GNC or health food store.
Thanks for sharing useful hub!
Very interesting hub!


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Ever since YOGI TEA® was founded in the 1970s, it's been about more than creating Ayurvedic herbal and spiced teas. With every ingredient we source, and every cup of tea we make, we strive to support quality, sustainability and social responsibility on a local, national and global level.
YOGI TEA®s promote harmony between mind and soul, giving people a sense of well-being. This is made possible with the high-quality, verified organic ingredients produced by farmers around the world. For that reason we support various sustainable projects via our partners in the growing locations. We personally make sure this is the case by visiting the sometimes remote growing areas and by providing advice and support to the local people.
Another focus for YOGI TEA® is providing support and funding for people in need across the globe. YOGI TEA® supports several projects that support children in need, including the Kumari project in Nepal and the Nevandra project in India.
Through The Kumari Project, YOGI TEA® supports building safe and joyful childhoods for orphans in Nepal.
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Through the Nevandra Association, YOGI TEA® supports two projects to provide children in Hyderabad (India) with hope for the future by facilitating self-help initiatives focused on love, shelter, health and education.
YOGI TEA® also supports the non-profit conservation organisation Naturefund, that concentrates on buying forests and replanting them to protect habitat for the great variety of species, most notably in Madagascar.
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Clarkson Graduate Student Awarded Highly Competitive IBM Ph.D. Fellowship
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Patricia Jablonski, a native of Amsterdam, N.Y., and a doctoral candidate in the interdisciplinary Engineering Science program at Clarkson University, has been chosen to receive an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship for the 2006-07 academic year.
Jablonski's research interests are in information management and information transfer, including communications and networks. Her doctoral dissertation investigates ways to use virtual machine technology to increase the level of data protection and security on a personal computer and to facilitate the data recovery process for the average computer user. She has also co-authored several papers.
Jablonski also holds a master's degree in Information technology, a master in business administration, and an undergraduate degree in mathematics, all from Clarkson.
"Patty is a wonderful student, top-notch researcher and dedicated member of the Clarkson community," said Jeanna Matthews, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science and Jablonski's Ph.D. advisor. "She possesses the kinds of qualities - intelligence, resourcefulness, energy and insight - that make for success. In the time I have known her we have worked together on a large number of exciting projects and she always makes substantial and important contributions."
Last year under the leadership of Jablonski and fellow graduate student Todd DeShane, a Clarkson team won first place in the 2005 UNISYS TuxMasters Invitational, an intercollegiate competition designed to encourage learning while contributing to the advancement of Linux and the open source computing community. As the winning entry, the University received a Unisys-built 8x Itanium 2 ES7000 series server valued at approximately $70,000 for use in future Linux development. Jablonski and DeShane each received a number of prizes valued at over $2,000.
Jablonski has participated in a long-term collaboration with local public radio to develop, deploy and improve a content management system that allows public radio stations to make their content available to listeners online. She has helped organize and run a number of community workshops including a five-week course for high school students on computing and a workshop for the network administrators from the local school district and BOCES.
In recognition of these projects and others, Jablonski was awarded the Phalanx Commendable Service Award at Clarkson's University Recognition Day in April 2005.


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This week's "You Tell Me" is about Miami Dolphins LB Channing Crowder.
Crowder has always been a very talkative player, and that can be a good or bad thing depending on the situation. His vocal abilities have never come into question. What has come into question before is his playing ability, and I want to know what you guys think about him.
So, my question is do you guys think Crowder is good enough to be starting for the Miami Dolphins?
If you don't think he is good enough, then who do you want Miami to go after to replace him and why isn't he good enough? If you do think he is good enough, then what do you like about him?
I hope you guys enjoy the discussion, and I will be adding my two cents whenever I feel like I should.
Thanks for reading. Let me hear what you have to say with a comment, and thank you Gary for the idea of this "You Tell Me."


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The VCF format allows for multiple alternative alleles in a single variant record. The alternative alleles are specified as a comma-separated list of their bases, so one may easily estimate the distribution of the alternative allele numbers in a command line using the following one-line script:
bcftools query -f '%ALT\n' input.vcf.gz | \ tr -d 'A-Za-z0-9<>:' | sort | uniq -c
Here we use bcftools query from the bcftools package for rapid extraction of alternative alleles from a VCF file. We need to know only the number of commas in each line, so we remove all other symbols using tr. Finally, we count lines containing the particular numbers of commas.
Example: 1000 Genomes variants on chromosome 22
Let us demonstrate the script using the VCF file of 1000 Genomes variants on chromosome 22. The file contains 1,103,547 variants, including 1,060,388 SNPs and 43,230 indels.
bcftools query -f '%ALT\n' \ ALL.chr22.phase3_shapeit2_mvncall_integrated_v5.20130502.genotypes.vcf.gz | \ tr -d 'A-Za-z0-9<>:' | sort | uniq -c
The script produced the following output.
1097199 6073 , 224 ,, 38 ,,, 9 ,,,, 3 ,,,,, 1 ,,,,,,,
According to the output, most of the variants in the file are biallelic (i.e., having a reference allele and a single alternative allele) and less than 1% of them are multiallelic. Most of the multiallelic variants are triallelic (i.e., having a reference allele and two alternative alleles) and only 275 multiallelic variants have more than two alternative alleles.


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Broadribb Cycles are proud to announce that we have teamed up with Wilier Performance Progress Lab (Wilier PPL), experts in cycling fitness and performance to offer our customers exclusive access to this bespoke service in our Leamington Spa store.
We want to help our customers get the most out of cycling as well as maximise your performance.
Offering a fully bespoke service tailored to each individual, the Wilier PPL team will give you the tools, technique and support to help you understand how to reach your full potential and achieve your personal goals.
Offering a wide variety of performance analysis, ranging from baseline health tests to full cycling specific analysis, there is something for every biker.
Sessions can be booked and paid for in-store and can be scheduled in on agreed dates to suit you at any of our store locations. For further information, prices and special offers check out the Wilier PPL or ask in store for more details:
Five Good Reasons Why Customers Shop At Broadribb Cycles:
- Guaranteed Best Price... - If you buy a bike from us but find exactly the same bike, in the same condition cheaper elsewhere within 7 days we will refund the difference.
- Over 30 Top Bike Brands Available To Test Ride... - We stock all types of bikes from the best brands. Weather permitting, you can come instore and test ride our bikes before you buy to make sure it's the right bike for you.
Note: Photo ID (Passport or Driving Licence) required.
- 7 Day Upgrade or Exchange... - If you buy a bike from us but decide you would prefer a bike which is higher up in the range, simply bring it back within 7 days and we will let you upgrade and pay the difference.
- Free Check-Ups For 5 years... - All you need to do is bring your bike instore once a year and we will check it over for you. We will then provide you with our workshop report and advise you of any required work to keep your bike feeling and performing like brand new.
- Part Exchange Your Old Bike... - We can take your old bike in part exchange against a new one instore. We require supporting evidence of purchase or ownership and the bike must in full working order to qualify for part exchange. Each bike is assessed on a case-by-case basis and we are unable to do this over the phone.
What We Sell:
We have a huge range of bikes, cycling accessories and cycle clothing in our Leamington Spa store. We have recently changed the shop layout and our workshop is now at the front of the store as you walk in along with all of our parts, helmets and accessories.
We have computer screens at the front of our store on the left hand side which are linked exclusively to our online store where you can browse our online product range. As you move further into the shop and under the archway you will find our clothing, protection/padding, BMX & full face helmets, a large specialist BMX parts section and most importantly, over 80 bikes on display covering different styles and budgets.
We have dedicated sections to each bike styles, including Mountain Bike, Road/Race, Hybrid/Commuter, BMX, Ladies Mountain Bike, Ladies Classic, Ladies Hybrid/Commuter, Folding and Kids bikes.
Bike brands that we stock include Cannondale, Marin, Whyte, GT, Raleigh, Pashley, MODA, Wilier, Bronx, DMR, Halcyon, Dahon, WeThePeople, Fit Bike Co, Verde, United, and Charge.
Our specialist BMX section is one of the best stocked in the Midlands, with aftermarket parts available from brands such Odyssey, Fit, Profile, Fly, S&M, United, Federal, Cult, Proper, BSD, Demolition, Mutiny, A Bike Co, G-Sports and many more. We have staff that ride BMX who will be happy to advise you on which parts to choose and what might be best suited to your riding. We offer custom wheel building instore, if you buy the rim, hub and spokes from us we will build your wheel for free and also tension it for you 4 weeks later.
A catalogue of products available is shown on our online trading site, Discount Cycles Direct.co.uk. These products are also available in-store at web prices.
Cycle To Work Scheme:
We are signed up to various Cycle To Work Schemes, including Cyclescheme and Bikes For The NHS and Bike2workscheme. If your company is part of a Cycle To Work Scheme you could be eligible to save over 40% on bikes, parts and accessories.
All of our staff are trained in how the system works and will be more than happy to help you with any queries you may have.
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Cycle Repairs:
We have a fully equipped workshop and qualified mechanics instore ready to repair you bike. Our mechanics have been trained to the highest standards by Cytech, ATG or Weldtite. We have over 50 years of cycle repair experience between us and we pride ourselves on the quality of our repairs.
Most repairs that we do are carried out on a same day basis dependent on how busy the workshop is. If we can't repair your bike on the same day, you can leave it with us and we will advise you of a collection day/time and also provide you with an estimated cost.
Recycling - WEEE
If you're buying a new electrical item, we will recycle your old one for free on a like for like basis. Download details
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Opening Hours:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday: CLOSED.
Friday (24 August 2018): OPEN 9am-4pm.
Saturday (25 August 2018): OPEN 10am-2pm..
Sunday (26 August 2018): CLOSED.
Monday (27 August 2018): CLOSED.
Bank Holidays: Please phone to check opening hours on Bank Holidays, Christmas and New Year
Our store is situated in the heart of Leamington Spa town centre on the road running parallel to The Parade behind HSBC, Wetherspoons & River Island. We are just 60 second walk from The Royal Priors Shopping Centre, 5 minutes to Leamington Spa Train Station (London to Birmingham Mainline), and just 4 miles from Junction 13 of the M40.
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There is a 49 space council operated Pay and Display car park running alongside the shop (15 minute ticket available at the machine) and St Peters multi-storey car park is less than 100 metres away (Accessed via Augusta Place).
- Luke, Ovi, Brian, Jamie and Jethro
Our customers say...
- "Received my order this morning and very pleased with it. Thanks for supplying an outstanding product and great service."
Regards, Richard.
- "The bike arrived today, as promised. Many thanks for the quick turn around, its been a pleasure dealing with DCD and I will certainly be shopping with you guys again!"
Keep up the good work.
- "After contacting 3 companies trying to source spare parts, I am thankful to have found DCD. Your communication has been fantastic. Plus, using the personalised links in your email, I was able to order with ease. You have restored my faith in customer services!"
Thank you.
- "I recently bought a Halcyon Monterey from your store, the bike is fantastic absolutely awesome I'm really pleased with it, it's solid comfortable really great. I've been in contact with Dan at your store who has been very helpful and totally professional. I would recommend your store to anyone it's excellent."
Thankyou very much, Chris
- "I bought a Dawes Duchess bike today together with helmet and bike lock and just wanted to say how impressed I was with the service I received. I will definitely recommend your shop and staff. I was dealt with in the shop by Sam who gave me excellent customer service. He was very knowledgeable, gave me excellent advice and made my purchase an extremely positive experience.
I feel it is important to give positive feedback and Sam is a credit to your shop."
Many thanks, Heather Richardson
- "FAO Dan and Luke, Leamington Branch,
Just a brief note to say thank you for your valued advice and timely service in helping me to chose the right bike for my needs (and hopes to do much longer rides!).
Naturally I feel like a kid with a new toy - and there's not much wrong with that!
As I said to Luke, it is so important to have relevant advice on the spot from people who know what they are talking about, and you certainly do.
Just a suggestion too. You could make more on your website both of your know-how and the fact that there is parking right by your premises enabling customers to 'test ride' a new bike before buying it. These are big plus points in your 'battle' with 'on the net only' bike sellers.
Doubtless I shall be calling again to get a pannier rack and have a look at the Halcyon folding bike."
Sincerely, Malcolm
- "I would just like to say how happy I am with the new 2014 model Zero7 that I have just collected from BroadRibb Cycles in Banbury. Having taken the bike for its' first spin, I am overwhelmed by how brilliant the bike is and is a complete tribute to your design and manufacturing quality. In terms of the sales and delivery process, I would like to bring to your attention the excellent quality of service that BroadRibb have delivered from start to finish, in both Sales and Technical terms. I agreed with them to take a stock Zero7 that they had in stock and remove the Chorus gearset/chainset and replace with a full Ultegra D12 Chainset and Mavic KSyrium SLS wheels. Everything that they did was absolutely perfect down to getting the exact dimensions I provided them with for all aspects of the bike and my personal measurements. I am looking forward to getting out on the Z7 very regularly and to exceeding all the challenges I set myself as an overweight 50 year old!! Oh, and on top of the technical attributes of the bike, it truly is a thing of beauty and has already received many envious looks from other riders!! Thanks to you all!!"
Thanks to you all!!Best wishes, Ivan
- "I'm just dropping you a quick e-mail to thank you for the efficiency in which yourself and Broadribbs dealt with my problem with my bike.
As I mentioned before Broadribbs wasn't my local bike shop> I am also I'm heading towards the business end of my training to do the Lands End to John O'groats ride in a couple of weeks and I was really concerned about the time I'd be left without a bike.
Thanks to yourself and all the team at Broadribbs (including Jack that rebuilt my bike with the updated frame!!!) I was only with out the bike for a couple of days. There is a big group of us doing this ride and I've also mentioned to my local bike shop how quick you dealt with my issue, all have agreed how good this service was."
Once again thank you very much. DC
- "Just wanted to say a massive thanks for sorting out my Scott last week. I've been out on it a few times and it's working like clockwork.
Thanks for a quick turnaround and a quality job."
- "Really pleased I opted for the Cannondale CAAD8. Knocked 4 minutes off my 15K time and 3 minutes off my 10K time - feels absolutely great to ride and is actually more comfortable when ridden hard than to cruise - perfect!
Perfectly set up - thank you Luke, haven't had to adjust anything."
- "Superb bike, took it out last night, no regrets whatsoever paying the extra money on it! We had a couple of hick-ups with my old cranks. But nothing of your guys doing. Only FSA not knowing about the bike and their product! Martin helped a lot in sorting that.
Thank you for the advice! I'm more than happy to recommend you guys to anyone. You and Martin have been a great help.
Thank you. Please pass in this email to Martin if you can, and my thanks."
- "To all of you in the store on Tuesday,
I just thought I'd like to thank you for the good service you gave me the other day when I was looking for replacement spokes with vague measurements, some advice on a wobbly bottom bracket and some tools.
All of you were very helpful, the advice was spot on and the price on the tools I bought was competitive.
I now have a straight wheel, a rigid BB and restored faith in good old across the counter service."
Many thanks, Mark
- "Just a few words to say thanks for the great service. My Halcyon Arcadia folder arrived in a solid makers box. It was well protected inside and arrived in pristine condition. The quality of bike for the money you are selling it at makes it a bargain. Anyway with the fast dispatch, good communications and a value for money bike, I just wanted to say how pleased I am."
- "My wife and I would highly recommend Broadribb cycles. Their pricing is competitive and Ovi and his team at the Leamington store gave us very friendly advice and expertise. Nothing was too much trouble, they took time and care to customise our new bikes to our very exacting specifications. We did our first ride of 30 miles today and are delighted with our bikes. "
Many thanks to all of the team, Carl Taylor.
- "Having recently had my Focus Ultegra chain replaced and the front derailleur adjusted, I have to say that the work was first class and the gear change is better than when the bike was new.
I will recommend Broadribbs Banbury. "
Many thanks, Malc
- "Just wanted to say thank you for the top class service I received this week from your staff! Even though they did not have the tool in the shop to do my bike they went out of there way to pick it up from another shop and still got my bike back to me on time and for a price that was very responsible, I hope your new shop in Banbury is a roaring success! If you treat all your customers like I got treated I'm sure you will be in Banbury for a very long time! Fancy opening a shop in Brackley ;-). "
Once again thank you. Ian Evans with the Bianchi
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By Jon Mariani
Ever since he made his Octagon debut as a thick-necked teenager in 1997, Vitor Belfort has tried out more hairstyles than any other fighter in the UFC besides Chris Leben. After seeing Belfort's brand-new look last night — featuring a cross shaved into the back of his scalp and a braided rat-tail — we figured it was a good time to put together a chronological(-ish) history of the Phenom's hair. Let's begin…
(Young, buzzed-down UFC champion Vitor.)
("It's a work in progress, bro.")
(Trying out the "surfer dad" look while his wife breast-feeds.)
(The Phenom during his brief and terrifying "gangster cornrows" phase.)
(Vitor returns to the "high and tight" look before nearly murdering Matt Lindland. / Photo via MMAWeekly)
("Bro, do you even notice my luxurious locks, bro?")
(Some people call him the rooster of love…)
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(Vitor's version of the Chocolate Al 'Chuck Hawk'.)
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There is a backlight connector on the Rex J19. I believe, the BKL_ADJ could be what you are looking for. It is connected to PWM1_OUT. At the current schematic, it will generate voltage level based on the PWM, but I believe, if you need PWM, you can setup the LM358 just to work the way to transfer LVDS0_PWM to BKLT_ADJ (you would have to test it).
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Did you really think I would let the first day of the New Year pass without a post? Well, I have in the past but not this year. This is my year to write, to work.
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Find a way. When Jessica was hired to establish a biotechnology program, she walked into a classroom with few resources: no textbooks, no desks and a few boxes of lab equipment. Determined to create a top-notch program, Jessica connected with experts at Epcot and flew to California for a visit with a biotechnology curriculum author. Within two years, she had established a relevant and successful biotech program, had a functioning lab, greenhouse and advisory board full of expertise.
Jess brings the same mentality to client projects. She aims for perfection and does what it takes to get it. Her science background has not gone to waste as she works with some of our largest agriculture clients designing training materials for employees and customers.
A native of Miami, Jess has traded the big city for the smaller community of Edgewater, Florida, but kept the beach. Whenever possible, she and her husband take advantage of the beach and nice weather by foot or bike. A people-pleaser to the core, you'll often find her baking or making jewelry for friends and family in her spare time. During her teaching days, she was an FFA chapter advisor. This experience gave Jess a chance to help students discover their passions, show off their hard work and grow into competent young leaders. Jess has given back to the organization by working to establish scholarships and hopes to serve as a mentor for students in the future.


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Price: - Item location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Condition: Used
- Make: DeSoto
- Model: Delux Coupe
- SubModel: Deluxe Coupe
- Type: Coupe
- Trim: Chrome
- Year: 1950
- Mileage: 0
- Color: Grey
- Engine size: Straight 6 Flat Head
- Number of cylinders: 6
- Fuel: Gasoline
- Transmission: Manual
- Drive type: Standard
- Interior color: Moss green
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1950 DeSoto Delux Coupe Deluxe CoupeBeautiful garage kept 1950 Desoto. Light grey factory color. It has been driven less than 100 miles since 2008. Yes, the motor was rebuilt and detailed in 2013. When you open the hood you will see an immaculately clean engine.
The 1950 Desoto coupe is a stylish 2-door 5 passenger vehicle. It has a catching body style, with a lot of chrome. It has solid metal and the seam on the hood and trunk are perfect. It is no hot rod, But would convert to an excellent rat-rod (if the in line six cylinder 110 HP flat head was replaced by a hemi and the body was lowered).
This Desoto is bone stock with a fluid drive transmission that requires a clutch to get in gear, but drives like an automatic once in gear.
Now for the information you crave:
1. The car has an excellent interior that closely matches the original including headliner, visor, doors and back seat replaced in 1999. There are no water stains or wear - looks brand new.
2. The car has a nice set of Desoto hubcaps with the Desoto carefully painted in red- no dents or rubs.
3. The tires are brand new Coker 3 and A 1/4 inch whitewalls - not radials
4. The engine was recently rebuilt with under 100 miles on rebuild- the engine runs quiet with no noise.
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TMB Substrate (3D-IF) (85R-121)
High sensitivity TMB Substrate for use in high sensitivityimmunoassays designed in 3D-IF format
|3',3',5,5'-tetramethylbenzidine substrate, TMB
|Assay Information
|Compared to 85R-120, and other similar high quality competitor?s products it will yield 30% to 50% higher signal/background ratio.
|Form & Buffer
|Precipitating peroxidase substrate containing 3,3',5,5'tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) and hydrogen peroxide in an aqueous buffer formulation. This product is supplied as a one component ready to use solution.
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|ep(HS)TMB is a precipitating peroxidase substrate containing 3,3',5,5'-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) and hydrogen peroxide in an aqueous buffer formulation. This product is supplied as a one component ready to use solution. Intact substrate is clear colorless to slightly yellowish in appearance. Positive reaction results in precipitating of insoluble permanent dark blue product at the sites of enzymatic HRP activity (where detecting HRP-labeled anti-analyte is bound). This product is in particular developed for using in high sensitivity Immunoassays designed in 3D-IF format.
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This post originally appeared in Screen Magazine.
Today we profile the eighth person in our series of Up & Coming Editors, Hootenanny's Christina Bolanos.
Originally from Palm Springs, California, Bolanos attended the University of California – Santa Barbara, where she graduated with a B.A. in Film and Media Studies. While earning her degree, she also began working as a Production Assistant on the set of "Rites of Passage," an indie thriller directed by Peter Iliff starring Wes Bentley and Christian Slater. Shortly after graduating, she landed her first gig as Assistant Editor at Beachbody in Santa Monica. The 2012 presidential election brought her to Chicago, where she worked as a Finishing Editor at Adelstein Liston. Several freelancing jobs followed before she began working full-time as an Assistant Editor at Chicago post house Hootenanny in October 2014.
Bolanos has since collaborated with many Chicago agencies, working on projects for major brands like Can-Am Spyder, McDonalds, BI-LO Grocery Stores, Firehouse Subs, Midori, and First Tennessee Bank, to name a few. And just last year, she received an Honorable Mention at Chicago's annual Camp Kuleshov editorial contest for her submission, "Peter."
Eliciting human emotion is her main goal as an Editor.
"Visual storytelling is all about feeling," she says. "As an Editor, I strive to bring creative ideas to life and engage viewers emotionally. When you've done that, it's a major payoff for viewers and clients alike."
Outside of the office, Christina enjoys traveling and hiking (as much as she can around these parts).


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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Roman Catholic Church in Mexico has suspended a priest from the ministry after sexual abuse allegations against him were made public on a billboard.
The president of the Catholic Lawyers College of Mexico says Eduardo Cordova was stripped of his priesthood by the Vatican following an investigation of the allegations.
Armando Martinez Gomez said Tuesday that all the evidence has been forwarded to Mexican prosecutors.
Parents in the central state of San Luis Potosi complained in 2012 that their 16-year-old son had been sexually abused by Cordova. Activists posted a photo of Cordova on a billboard in San Luis Potosi with the slogan "Were you a victim? Report him."
Martinez Gomez said an apparently similar complaint against Cordova had been received in 1998 but had not been proved.


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Opener Brendon McCullum smashed a career-best 225 as the second Test between India and New Zealand headed towards a draw on Tuesday.
McCullum, playing his 54th Test, unleashed 22 fours and four sixes during his marathon nine-hour innings as the tourists reached 448-8 at tea on the fifth and final day of the match at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium.
New Zealand, who made 350 in their first innings before bowling out India for 472, established a lead of 326 runs to snuff out any chance of a result in the match.
McCullum reached the 200-run mark in style, scooping part-timer Suresh Raina for a four and celebrating by raising his bat towards the Kiwi dressing room.
His knock was the second-highest by a New Zealander in India, surpassing Bert Sutcliffe's 230 scored way back in 1955 in Delhi.
McCullum, opening in Tests for only the second time, added 124 runs with rookie Kane Williamson for the fifth wicket and another 51 with captain Daniel Vettori (23) to frustrate top-ranked India.
Williamson made 69 with nine fours, three of which he struck in one over by paceman Shanthakumaran Sreesanth (3-121) before being trapped leg before wicket by off-spinner Harbhajan Singh.
The 20-year-old middle-order batsman had scored a century on his debut in the drawn first Test in Ahmedabad last week.
Rahul Dravid bagged his 199th catch in Tests when Vettori drove Raina uppishly to short cover.
McCullum, 124 overnight, completely dominated India's bowling attack with his attacking strokeplay before being caught at mid-on as he tried to play a lofted shot off Sreesanth.
India's spinners struggled on a wicket that showed no signs of deteriorating with Pragyan Ojha (2-137) and Harbhajan (1-117) picking up just three wickets between them.
The hosts also missed pace spearhead Zaheer Khan who could send down only three overs due to an abdominal strain.
The third and final Test will be played in Nagpur from November 20-24 followed by five one-day internationals from November 28.
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Opener Brendon McCullum smashed a career-best 225 as the second Test between India and New Zealand headed towards a draw on Tuesday.


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The Foxhole: Carl Hoffman on a Rockefeller mystery
For more than fifty years, a mystery has gripped the elite worlds of high art and New York society: What really happened to Michael Rockefeller?
In November 1961, the twenty-three-year-old son of then-New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, one of the country's most powerful politicians, travelled to New Guinea to obtain primitive art for a museum that his father had established four years earlier. Skinny, bearded and bespectacled, Michael had traveled widely and had made a previous trip to New Guinea for art collection; but this time, his luck ran out.
Crossing a river near the southwest coast with an expedition partner, Michael was plunged into the water when their catamaran capsized. The partner wisely stayed with the vessel, and was rescued – and provided the last sighting of Michael, who swam with two gasoline cans around his shoulders towards the coast, declaring "I think I can make it" as he vanished forever.
Despite a massive manhunt conducted via air, land, and sea, Michael's body was never found, and the Dutch government, which then controlled New Guinea, ruled his death a drowning. But as veteran travel writer Carl Hoffman relates in Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art (William Morrow), the tale began circulating almost immediately that Michael had indeed made it to shore, only to be consumed by the primitive Asmat tribesmen inhabiting the region.
An award-winning contributor to National Geographic Traveler who has visited seventy countries on six continents, Hoffman spent three years researching the Rockefeller mystery, working with survivors from the era and unseen documents from the Dutch archives, poring over Michael's old journals, and immersing himself in the still remote villages of New Guinea.
Hoffman claims he has solved the mystery once and for all, and that while Michael fell prey to unrelated tensions roiling the region – several of the village's top elders had been shot to death by members of a Dutch patrol in 1958; "The whole place," Hoffman says, "was on fire" – the young Rockefeller, with his intense wanderlust and unlimited funding, may also have contributed to his own demise.
"He was very naïve in a lot of ways," Hoffman said during a recent visit to "The Foxhole." "If you read his journals and if you talk to people and you go there yourself, a picture emerges. And that is of somebody who was a little bit naïve and moving a little bit too fast. He was capable of moving so fast and buying so much stuff because he was really unfettered and he had money. You know, had he had more limitations and had to move more slowly he might have been alive today."


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the query object can not be instantiated since it will not know the
location of any servers.
The catalog field must be present, otherwise the new object will not know which remote server to use and which options are mandatory in the query. Note that the remote catalog can not be changed after the object is instantiated. In general it is probably not wise to try to change the remote host via either the query_url or url methods unless you know what you are doing. Modifying your skycat.cfg file is safer.
Currently only one config file is supported at any given time. If a config file is changed (see the cfg_file class method) the current config is overwritten automatically.
It is not possible to override the catalog file in the constructor. Use the cfg_file class method instead.
Obviously a config per object can be supported but this is probably not that helpful. This will be reconsidered if demand is high.
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configure Configure the object. This calls the base class configure , after it has made sure that a sky cat config file has been read (otherwise we will not be able to vet the incoming arguments. <B>_build_queryB> Construct a query URL based on the options.
$url = $q->_build_query();
<B>_parse_queryB> All the SkyCat servers return data in TST format. Need to make sure that column information is passed into the TST parser. <B>_get_allowed_optionsB> This method declares which options can be configured by the user of this service. Generated automatically by the skycat config file and keyed to the requested catalog. <B>_get_default_optionsB> Get the default options that are relevant for the selected catalog.
%defaults = $q->_get_default_options();
These methods are not associated with any particular object.
<B>cfg_fileB> Location of the skycat config file. Default location is $SKYCAT_CFG, if defined, else $HOME/.skycat/skycat.cfg, or $PERLPREFIX/etc/skycat.cfg if there isnt a version in the users home directory
This could be made per-class if there is a demand for running queries with different catalogs. This would also move the config contents into the query object itself.
directory entries are not followed by default although the class can be configured to do so by setting
$Astro::Catalog::Query::SkyCat::FOLLOW_DIRS = 1;
to true.
This class could simply read the catalog config file and allow queries on explicit servers directly rather than going to the trouble of auto-generating a class per server. This has the advantage of allowing a user to request USNO data from different servers rather than generating a single USNO class. ie
my $q = new Astro::Catalog::Query::SkyCat( catalog => usnoa@eso, target => HL Tau, radius => 5 );
as opposed to
my $q = new Astro::Catalog::Query::USNOA( target => HL Tau, radius => 5 );
What to do with catalogue mirrors is an open question. Of course, convenience wrapper classes could be made available that simply delegate the calls to the SkyCat class.
SkyCat FTP server. [URL goes here]
SSN75 [http://www.starlink.rl.ac.uk/star/docs/ssn75.htx//ssn75.html] by Clive Davenhall.
At the very least for testing, an up-to-date skycat.cfg file should be distributed with this module. Whether it should be used by this module once installed is an open question (since many people will not have a version in the standard location).
Copyright (C) 2001-2003 University of Exeter and Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. All Rights Reserved.
This program was written as part of the eSTAR project and is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Public License.
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In 1993, a poetry anthology appeared that seemed to speak directly to the spirit of the times and, in so doing, appeal to an audience far larger than what poetry in English could generally boast. More than 800 pages long and featuring the work of 145 poets, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness was a heady book for a turbulent era, when several ideologies against which Americans had tended to define their own politics for generations, among them Soviet communism and South African apartheid, were unraveling or had collapsed. As Carolyn Forché, the anthology's editor, explained in its introduction, the express purpose of the project was to monumentalize poems about the major atrocities and injustices of the recent past: "Many poets did not survive, but their works remain with us as poetic witness to the dark times in which they lived." The anthology was greeted with enthusiasm, some of it fueled by an inchoate fear that history was accelerating, or may even have ended, and was indifferent to what we deem worthy of remembrance. After all, what is all the hand-wringing about Americans' lack of historical memory, or the mantra "Never forget" applied to everything from nightclub fires to genocides, but a tacit acknowledgment of our own oblivion, and also of how, despite tragedies personal and collective, most of us somehow manage to go on with our lives?
In some respects, Forché wasn't breaking new ground. Poetry has long been enlisted as a tonic to forgetfulness, with poets and critics reminding readers, with more pedantry than irony, that the muse of lyric poetry is the daughter of Mnemosyne, or Memory. What made the project daring was Forché's suggestion that beyond being a medium for reflecting on historical realities, poetry could also serve a testimonial or evidentiary purpose. Because poems written from "conditions of historical and social extremity" bear the "impress of extremity," we can regard them as "evidence of what occurred." Instead of meditating on the record, poetry could be the record.
Against Forgetting was a powerful inspiration for its early readers, myself among them. It expanded horizons, giving many of us our first glimpse of major poets from Eastern Europe and Latin America, even if the book's capaciousness meant that a glimpse of their faces in the crowd is all we got. Yet as both a collection of texts and a framework for their interpretation, the anthology has not aged well. Although Forché promised "a resistance to false attempts at unification," it is precisely a false unification that her anthology proffered. Poems with no discernible bearing on a historical circumstance were thrust under such weighty rubrics as "Revolution and Repression in the Soviet Union" and "Repression and Revolution in Latin America," with even the headings eliding the particularity of places and events. It was an act of martyrology. No less problematic was the book's unquestioning sense of being on the right side of history, an attitude that in our globalized society has been the source of no end of heartache. Which is why Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500–2001, a new anthology edited by Forché and Duncan Wu, is so baffling. Not only does it suffer from the conceptual flaws of its antecedent; it compounds nearly all of them.
Despite its breadth, the earlier anthology was insistently Eurocentric; barely more than a half-dozen of its poets wrote in a non-European language. For its part, Poetry of Witness dispenses with linguistic diversity altogether, focusing on English-language poetry written in North America and the British Isles. (The recently published anthology Another English, edited by Catherine Barnett and Tiphanie Yanique, offers a sense of the excellent poetry being written in English elsewhere.) At the same time, the editorial notes focus, almost exclusively, on war and political turmoil, seeming to suggest that these are the only forms of communal experience worth witnessing.


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OpenAerialMap/Meeting Jan 29, 2015
#hot: OpenAerialMap Meeting Jan 29 2015
Meeting started at 18:01:10 UTC. Meeting ended at 19:46:37 UTC.
Meeting Links
- LINK: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WNnh7P_AJotQoP1Z7gWLg8te0xn6JsZjtGv16zM9jnk/edit?usp=sharing
- LINK: https://github.com/hotosm/OpenAerialMap
- LINK: http://libra.developmentseed.org/
- LINK: http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2015/01/22/announcing-libra/
- LINK: https://earthdata.nasa.gov/labs/worldview/
People present (lines said)
- Cristiano (103)
- wildintellect (95)
- BlakeGirardot (30)
- Fraank (4)
IRC Log
Jan 29 19:01:10 Cristiano: Good morning/evening everyone!
Jan 29 19:01:18 Fraank: Morning
Jan 29 19:01:26 wildintellect: hello
Jan 29 19:01:28 BlakeGirardot: Hi
Jan 29 19:01:58 Cristiano: Thank you for coming today. Blake offered to do the log work
Jan 29 19:02:37 Cristiano: We also have a draft agenda as a Google Doc
Jan 29 19:02:59 Cristiano: feel free to add anything you would like to discuss today
Jan 29 19:03:09 Cristiano: and add any comment
Jan 29 19:03:11 BlakeGirardot: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WNnh7P_AJotQoP1Z7gWLg8te0xn6JsZjtGv16zM9jnk/edit?usp=sharing
Jan 29 19:03:41 Cristiano: (thanks Blake!)
Jan 29 19:04:14 Cristiano: first I would like to quickly touch on the survey and see if there are any comments
Jan 29 19:05:08 Cristiano: The link is in the agenda. I added a couple of questions after Chris Holmes comments
Jan 29 19:07:04 wildintellect: the license question isn't really clear about open use vs restricted use licenses
Jan 29 19:07:27 Cristiano: Do you see anything that we may want to add or remove? Should we include more open questions?
Jan 29 19:08:07 wildintellect: I think you just need to clarify the options or the question
Jan 29 19:08:14 Cristiano: OK, how should we reframe it?
Jan 29 19:08:41 wildintellect: well really what we want to know is what restrictions are on the data
Jan 29 19:09:59 wildintellect: on the accuracy question does anyone really talk about it in pixels, or is meters the more common way to discuss
Jan 29 19:10:58 wildintellect: Are you familiar with the local laws, should be a yes/no radio button not free form fill in
Jan 29 19:11:07 Cristiano: OK. Something like "Are there any restrictions on the imagery you use"?
Jan 29 19:11:52 wildintellect: ya that might get better answers
Jan 29 19:11:53 Cristiano: Pixel is more relative to any scale/resolution, but I understand it could be too technical
Jan 29 19:12:06 wildintellect: so is this really "User" survey
Jan 29 19:12:19 wildintellect: seems more like a "Provider" survery
Jan 29 19:12:24 Cristiano: User/providers?
Jan 29 19:12:25 wildintellect: with some user questions
Jan 29 19:12:36 wildintellect: User = a person who comes to OAM looking for images
Jan 29 19:12:44 Cristiano: OAM users may be providers at the same time
Jan 29 19:12:45 wildintellect: Provider = and org that supplies images
Jan 29 19:13:04 wildintellect: sure but those are 2 different surveys
Jan 29 19:13:18 wildintellect: and a User survey should be much more about consuming data, and less technical
Jan 29 19:13:30 BlakeGirardot: re: license I think the confusing one to me is "ad hoc" does that mean "proprietary" or something similar, restricted, limited license, paid use only, something like that? Basically CC, public domain or other?
Jan 29 19:13:53 wildintellect: BlakeGirardot, yes thats the same concern I had with that question
Jan 29 19:14:32 Cristiano: Ad-hoc is when e.g. Digital Globe grants a specific license for a single disaster event
Jan 29 19:14:45 BlakeGirardot: I see.
Jan 29 19:14:56 Cristiano: " it can only be use by OSM to trace for this purpose etc..."
Jan 29 19:16:02 Cristiano: But if we ask what restrictions there are on imagery, then we should be able to capture those situations
Jan 29 19:16:12 wildintellect: Do you use a permissive license: yes/no if so which one fill in. If not: what restrictions : event limited, workflow limited, group limited
Jan 29 19:16:35 wildintellect: DG for OSM trace would be event and workflow limited
Jan 29 19:16:38 BlakeGirardot: And there is an accuracy and a resolution question, one in meters one in pixels
Jan 29 19:16:51 wildintellect: BlakeGirardot, I think Cristiano is editing as we talk
Jan 29 19:17:01 BlakeGirardot: Oh :)
Jan 29 19:17:09 Cristiano: not yet :)
Jan 29 19:17:09 wildintellect: I suggested meters instead of pixels
Jan 29 19:17:15 Fraank: agreed
Jan 29 19:17:40 BlakeGirardot: Oh yes, I was just getting to that one wildintellect, I saw your comment :)
Jan 29 19:18:01 Cristiano: meters for resolution and accuracy as well?
Jan 29 19:18:24 wildintellect: either that or explain what you mean by pixel accuracy
Jan 29 19:18:30 BlakeGirardot: The meters one I understand, the pixels one I don't, but I am not as experienced as everyone else
Jan 29 19:18:35 BlakeGirardot: here.
Jan 29 19:18:43 Cristiano: I guess if we take the combine answer is fine, but otherwise 1 meter accuracy could mean very different things depending on the resolution
Jan 29 19:18:57 Cristiano: *combined
Jan 29 19:19:11 wildintellect: sure, but most people will know resolution off-hand
Jan 29 19:19:43 wildintellect: accuracy, depends on the source - KAP/HobbyDrones won't know accuracy
Jan 29 19:19:53 Cristiano: OK, I'll reword those two questions
Jan 29 19:19:55 wildintellect: at least not without a lot of effort
Jan 29 19:20:10 wildintellect: but resolution you can figure by measuring in GIS
Jan 29 19:20:20 wildintellect: once referenced
Jan 29 19:20:27 wildintellect: or based on a known object size
Jan 29 19:22:25 Fraank: Assuming uploaders will be georeferencing any imagery they upload to OAM, wont most software be able to provide a resolution?
Jan 29 19:22:38 Cristiano: wildintellect: going back to user vs provider, at this point I was thinking to just focus on users, but try to include situations for when the user (e.g. Red Cross) is also a provider of imagery
Jan 29 19:23:25 wildintellect: Fraank, yes but we want an idea of what resolution people are looking to share
Jan 29 19:23:34 Fraank: gotcha
Jan 29 19:23:34 Cristiano: yes, they should. And if we require GeoTIFF or other already-GIS format it's embedded, right?
Jan 29 19:23:56 wildintellect: Cristiano, having some experience with surveys - you should split them
Jan 29 19:24:19 wildintellect: and for people who are also providers just put a link at the bottom, also a provider take the provider survey
Jan 29 19:24:44 Cristiano: OK. I feel I would have many more questions for the providers :)
Jan 29 19:24:49 Cristiano: but I like the link idea
Jan 29 19:25:26 BlakeGirardot: Oh, this read to me like it was aimed at providers
Jan 29 19:25:44 Cristiano: OK, I'll remove the provider-ish questions and put them in a second survey
Jan 29 19:25:53 wildintellect: thats most of the current survey
Jan 29 19:26:03 wildintellect: unless you reword to focus on end usage
Jan 29 19:26:26 BlakeGirardot: Re reading it knowing it is for users, I understand it a bit better
Jan 29 19:26:34 wildintellect: I would just rename this one to Providers
Jan 29 19:26:43 wildintellect: and make a fresh shorter/simpler User survey
Jan 29 19:27:00 wildintellect: some question would be similar but worded from a different perspective
Jan 29 19:27:44 Cristiano: OK, maybe I am thinking more of power-users rather than generic users
Jan 29 19:27:58 Cristiano: and from the perspective of a user=organization
Jan 29 19:28:56 Cristiano: let's see someone from the Red Cross office answers this survey, telling us how they currently do it, both sharing imagery and mapping
Jan 29 19:30:49 Cristiano: I'm thinking of OAM not just as a search and get-layer endpoint, more like a complete system to use for uploading, searching, offline sharing
Jan 29 19:31:05 BlakeGirardot: So when you say sharing their imagery, that means making it available to their end users
Jan 29 19:31:24 Cristiano: Yes
Jan 29 19:32:10 BlakeGirardot: Seems like we might need to refine that language a bit, sharing imagery = making available to OAM v. providing imagery to their end users for their own uses.
Jan 29 19:32:51 Cristiano: so, I guess there are power users (uploaders, installers of OAM) and end-users who are just accessing the imagery
Jan 29 19:33:23 BlakeGirardot: But I understand your "stand alone system" as well, red cross might download and locally install a OAM-S/M node to only be used in house.
Jan 29 19:34:55 Cristiano: right. OAM will be both an online service as well a portable standalone tile/catalog server
Jan 29 19:36:14 Cristiano: OK, then if you all agree we'll try to split this in two: power users / providers survey and end-user survey
Jan 29 19:36:15 wildintellect: so to me uploading implies, available for all users
Jan 29 19:36:42 wildintellect: obviously in an offline setup, it's just for local users
Jan 29 19:36:54 Cristiano: yes, if you upload to the main public OAM server
Jan 29 19:37:11 Cristiano: or if you upload to your local OAM for your local users
Jan 29 19:38:02 Cristiano: end user only deal with searching and accessing imagery in their Web/GIS/mobile clients
Jan 29 19:38:24 BlakeGirardot: Does this make any sense: https://hackpad.com/OAM-Meeting-2-Collaboration-7QCDw6e5Kbe
Jan 29 19:38:46 BlakeGirardot: The list of user types I made, feel free to add/change
Jan 29 19:39:47 BlakeGirardot: Because I see there is also a distinction of people/orgs that use our software v. people that provide or consume the imagery only and mixes of the two
Jan 29 19:41:03 BlakeGirardot: Or am I misunderstanding the different ways people could "use" OAM
Jan 29 19:41:18 wildintellect: really there are 2 uses
Jan 29 19:41:31 wildintellect: you can distribute data via OAM, and you can use data from OAM
Jan 29 19:41:44 wildintellect: so yes someone can be both
Jan 29 19:42:02 wildintellect: the fact that you could do it offline isn't really a new usage
Jan 29 19:42:04 Cristiano: Yes, and you can do both with an online OAM or with your local OAM
Jan 29 19:42:09 Cristiano: right
Jan 29 19:42:12 wildintellect: just has slightly different working parameters
Jan 29 19:42:47 BlakeGirardot: Ok. I understand what you both are saying.
Jan 29 19:42:57 Cristiano: OK. I'll come back with a revised version of the survey, or actually 2 surveys
Jan 29 19:43:10 Cristiano: let's move on unless there are other comments
Jan 29 19:44:19 wildintellect: sounds good
Jan 29 19:44:20 Cristiano: Or actually, still relevant to the survey, how do you think we should coordinate for dissemination?
Jan 29 19:44:33 wildintellect: snowball method
Jan 29 19:44:48 wildintellect: you send it to target orgs, and ask them to spread it
Jan 29 19:45:33 wildintellect: there are 2 types of orgs - Institutional and Community
Jan 29 19:45:35 Cristiano: sounds good, so we don't have to compile our distro list
Jan 29 19:45:54 wildintellect: it can be small, the NGOs you know, a few key agencies, and then OSM, OAM, OSGeo
Jan 29 19:45:55 Cristiano: I guess everyone can just spread the word
Jan 29 19:46:07 Cristiano: OK
Jan 29 19:46:14 wildintellect: those last 3 will spread it pretty wide
Jan 29 19:46:47 wildintellect: fyi, you need more than a free account to collect more than 100 reponses on a google survey - last time I checked (should recheck)
Jan 29 19:47:31 Cristiano: OK, I think Hotosm pays for it, but I will double check
Jan 29 19:48:31 Cristiano: Onto the metadata schema
Jan 29 19:49:23 Cristiano: just wanted to check quickly if you have any comments there. The idea is to keep it simple to start, but make it extensible to it would include options for describing raw (!) data in the future
Jan 29 19:50:53 Cristiano: this schema will be the basic set used for building the catalog and it's meant for georeferenced data only
Jan 29 19:52:19 Cristiano: it's a pretty standard and simple set and it came mostly from previous discussion, so unless there are any comment or additions we'll use it for reference when we issue the catalog tech challenge
Jan 29 19:52:24 wildintellect: BBOX and Coverage should be calculated
Jan 29 19:52:50 wildintellect: is this metadata per collection?
Jan 29 19:52:54 Cristiano: Yes, as well as projection and GSD
Jan 29 19:53:24 wildintellect: sure and you prompt user when it can't be detected
Jan 29 19:53:34 Cristiano: it will be handled directly by the uploading client or come together with the GeoTiff metdata for example
Jan 29 19:53:52 Cristiano: this metadata is per dataset
Jan 29 19:54:06 Cristiano: a collection could have multiple datasets
Jan 29 19:54:28 wildintellect: ok getting these terms defined would be good
Jan 29 19:54:45 wildintellect: I was thinking collection was a batch of images that belong together
Jan 29 19:54:54 wildintellect: same sensor, date, etc
Jan 29 19:54:57 Cristiano: let's say you either have a single GeoTIFF or multiple GeoTIFF tiles
Jan 29 19:55:10 wildintellect: yes one record for either
Jan 29 19:56:01 wildintellect: type and source should include WCS and ftp(well dir of files on a web server)
Jan 29 19:56:12 Cristiano: in case of multiple tile, it would be enough to provide the VRT together with the metadata file
Jan 29 19:57:13 wildintellect: overall the metadata list seems fine
Jan 29 19:57:29 wildintellect: I assume we are talking RGB images only?
Jan 29 19:57:47 wildintellect: ah I see it at the top
Jan 29 19:57:59 Cristiano: Yes, RGB only. Source is actually not well defined
Jan 29 19:58:19 Cristiano: I'm not sure if the initial OAM should rely/point to other services
Jan 29 19:59:55 Cristiano: So, I'd rather include sources more like FTP, direct upload
Jan 29 20:01:05 Cristiano: Unless OAM is able to fetch those TMS/WMS/WCS and cache them locally for fast serving
Jan 29 20:01:38 Cristiano: Or it would make more sense once we have a federation of reliable OAM servers
Jan 29 20:01:55 wildintellect: thats an important decision to make in the model
Jan 29 20:02:10 wildintellect: the original idea was distrubted data, central catalog
Jan 29 20:02:29 wildintellect: because bandwidth and disks would be prohibitive
Jan 29 20:03:01 wildintellect: same data could exist on multiple nodes
Jan 29 20:04:09 Cristiano: yes, a CDN with multiple nodes, but to start we need to build the first node
Jan 29 20:05:52 Cristiano: so, I guess it makes sense to keep it, but maybe change it to something like OAM:NODE:URI
Jan 29 20:06:55 wildintellect: well that source list should be a relate to a list of URIs
Jan 29 20:07:05 wildintellect: kinda like OSM tagging
Jan 29 20:07:15 wildintellect: you can pick a type, and give the uri
Jan 29 20:07:22 wildintellect: and do it as many times as you want
Jan 29 20:07:41 wildintellect: and if someone copies the data to another node, just add another entry
Jan 29 20:08:27 Cristiano: OK, that should work. I'm just not sure WCS or FTP would work in this case
Jan 29 20:08:55 Cristiano: Source would probably be just a list of TMS endpoints
Jan 29 20:10:52 Cristiano: OK, we'll work on that. Let's jump to the catalog design.
Jan 29 20:12:24 Cristiano: I kinda have an idea of the main features, but I was wondering what you guys think and how you envision it
Jan 29 20:12:57 Cristiano: Indexing, search, filtering and display?
Jan 29 20:14:12 wildintellect: that covers the basics
Jan 29 20:14:18 Cristiano: Trying to keep it lightweight to work both online, sourcing all OAM nodes and offline indexing local data only
Jan 29 20:14:47 wildintellect: though display is less critical, display of bounding boxes is useful
Jan 29 20:15:01 wildintellect: look at earthexplorer.usgs.gov
Jan 29 20:15:36 wildintellect: not the best example of what to do, but the ability to see the overview outlines of data is useful
Jan 29 20:16:01 Cristiano: anyone familiar with CKAN or elasticsearch?
Jan 29 20:16:17 Cristiano: yes, we should have footprints/bboxes displayed
Jan 29 20:16:50 Cristiano: so, there needs to be some vector rendering map engine as well
Jan 29 20:17:27 wildintellect: my coworkers installed CKAN
Jan 29 20:17:36 wildintellect: but I haven't directly used it myself
Jan 29 20:17:56 wildintellect: I think Angelos from OSGeolive might be familiar since data.gov is ckan
Jan 29 20:18:13 wildintellect: well vector rendering is just js in a browser
Jan 29 20:18:30 wildintellect: and the bboxes can actually be WMS
Jan 29 20:18:34 wildintellect: with transparency
Jan 29 20:19:18 Cristiano: oh, that's right, we could just do the vector rendering in the browser directly
Jan 29 20:19:58 Cristiano: how would the data be stored so that js can access it? especially with larger catalogs?
Jan 29 20:20:52 Cristiano: catalog engine passing geojson out of the local db for each request?
Jan 29 20:21:54 wildintellect: pycsw can output bbox I think
Jan 29 20:22:00 wildintellect: probably as geojson
Jan 29 20:22:10 Cristiano: (I will contact Angelos - did he work directly on data.gov?)
Jan 29 20:22:18 wildintellect: no he's contract
Jan 29 20:22:25 Cristiano: OK
Jan 29 20:22:36 wildintellect: he works for a univ in greece somewhere
Jan 29 20:23:13 wildintellect: I'll send you his email address
Jan 29 20:23:25 BlakeGirardot: Did you see the libra browser for LandSat seedbox released last week?
Jan 29 20:23:44 Cristiano: OK, great.
Jan 29 20:23:58 BlakeGirardot: I am not suggesting it, but it is a pretty nice catalog browser
Jan 29 20:23:59 BlakeGirardot: http://libra.developmentseed.org/
Jan 29 20:24:11 BlakeGirardot: not seedbox, developmentseed
Jan 29 20:25:48 Cristiano: very nice! Is it open source?
Jan 29 20:26:06 BlakeGirardot: I think it is, might be very landsat centric
Jan 29 20:26:27 BlakeGirardot: http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2015/01/22/announcing-libra/
Jan 29 20:27:31 wildintellect: its possible, talk to the mapbox people (mapbox came out of devseed)
Jan 29 20:28:25 Cristiano: Landsat is just any other imagery dataset, we should def look into it
Jan 29 20:29:48 wildintellect: sure you can make a general 30m resolution RGB of the world with it
Jan 29 20:30:19 wildintellect: though it's a little tricky for some uses in that regard
Jan 29 20:30:48 wildintellect: fyi we already have 1m airphoto coverage of the US available to use
Jan 29 20:30:54 wildintellect: from the previous OAM attempts
Jan 29 20:31:12 Cristiano: Yes, and newer NAIP as well
Jan 29 20:31:43 Cristiano: I was just saying to look into that libra browser code if it's availble
Jan 29 20:32:21 BlakeGirardot: I'll look into it. I think it is a nice lightweight and user friendly interface
Jan 29 20:32:25 Cristiano: we don't want to re-invest the wheel and optimize resources
Jan 29 20:34:57 Cristiano: With OAM though we would probably want to put those overviews on the map
Jan 29 20:35:17 Cristiano: no need for using part of the screen for it
Jan 29 20:35:58 Cristiano: and bounding boxes (or footprints) would probably be more complex polygons than Landsat scenes
Jan 29 20:36:13 wildintellect: ?
Jan 29 20:36:23 wildintellect: bbox is a rectangle with 4 points
Jan 29 20:36:51 Cristiano: Sorry, meant to say coverage
Jan 29 20:36:52 wildintellect: the downside of overlaying the data, is it becomes hard to read
Jan 29 20:37:32 Cristiano: what becomes hard to read?
Jan 29 20:37:47 wildintellect: the screen
Jan 29 20:38:08 wildintellect: well that and you'll need a WMS or tile server to provide the landsat or other image overlay
Jan 29 20:39:25 Cristiano: Well, we have the OAM TMS :-)
Jan 29 20:39:41 Cristiano: I'm thinking more like https://earthdata.nasa.gov/labs/worldview/
Jan 29 20:39:56 Cristiano: where you see the imagery on the map directly as you browse
Jan 29 20:40:14 Cristiano: then you can change search params and see the data change on the map directly
Jan 29 20:40:37 Cristiano: but there would always be some base layer for reference
Jan 29 20:40:50 Cristiano: (Landsat or NAIP, etc)
Jan 29 20:42:16 Cristiano: OK. Let's think about it and come back with specific examples/designs/mockups next week
Jan 29 20:42:45 Cristiano: we would like to publish the first OAM Tech Challenge soon, by mid February
Jan 29 20:43:24 BlakeGirardot: Ok.
Jan 29 20:43:27 Cristiano: so, we need a semi-defined list of features by then :)
Jan 29 20:44:09 Cristiano: Thank you guys for participating today, lots of good ideas
Jan 29 20:44:23 wildintellect: Cristiano, it's a nice idea but I would put live map viewing lower on the list of priorities
Jan 29 20:44:36 wildintellect: being able to find and get the data is higher
Jan 29 20:44:57 Cristiano: OK, makes sense
Jan 29 20:45:34 Cristiano: we'll start with BBOXes first, then coverages (polygon), then full imagery
Jan 29 20:46:09 Cristiano: Blake: you captured the meeting log? Let us know when it's posted
Jan 29 20:46:18 BlakeGirardot: Ok, will do
Jan 29 20:46:25 Cristiano: Thank you and have a good rest of the day!
Jan 29 20:46:32 BlakeGirardot: Thank you Cristiano and wildintellect
Jan 29 20:46:37 BlakeGirardot: and Fraank


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Don't forget to go read MundoFreaky.com. I improved it some more today, and added a few more posts.
So the damn truck drivers blocked up all the highways in and around Barcelona today, as well as the border crossing at La Jonquera, causing immense chaos. Gasoline hoarding has begun; 40% of the gas stations in Catalonia are sold out and there's no telling when more will get there. This is simply not tolerable. Groups of people cannot be allowed to infringe everyone else's rights. If they want to stay home and not work, fine, but that's not what they want to do. I say simply pull their licenses, tow away their trucks, and jail them. Naturally, nothing of the sort is going to happen. And, get this, the taxi drivers are going to shut down (it's not a "strike") on Friday, and probably go around acting like a bunch of dickheads too.
(By the way, a bunch of shithead parents brought out their kids, the height of irresponsibility, and blocked off the Diagonal to protest the latest education law. That's setting a good example of how your own selfish petty demands are more important than everyone else's civic rights. And, get this, this lot are the conservative Catholic parents, not a bunch of goddamn hippies or something.)
You want more bad law enforcement? Here's some bad law enforcement. One Alejandro Martínez Singul, a serial rape-o, raped twelve girls between the ages of 9 and 18 in Barcelona in the early '90s. They locked him up in 1992. AND THEY LET HIM OUT IN 2007. Look, people, the reason we have jails is to protect the citizens from people who want to hurt or rape or kill us, and who we're too soft-headed to hang as they deserve.
So Alejandro the rape-o raped a girl in Perpignan, France, and the cops arrested him today in Cardedeu. I hope he falls out the back of the police van going 120 kph while trying to escape. I bet that can be arranged.
There's a big stink going on in the Spanish Constitutional Court. María Emilia Casas, the chief justice, committed the indiscretion of giving informal legal advice to a woman she knew whose husband had been murdered; that woman has now been indicted for said murder. Oops.
Finally, the board of the Autonomous University tried to hold a meeting today. They called out the cops to protect the board members. About fifty middle-class student punk squatter wannabe poseurs, protesting the so-called Bologna process, decided they'd charge the cops, and the cops beat the crap out of them. Good job, Cops!
Monday, June 09, 2008
Labels: goddamn pervos, goddamn rich little shits, goddamn squatters, goddamn taxi drivers, goddamn truck drivers
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Star Ocean 2 PSP Remake Coming to Vita, PS4 With Hot Pay-2-Win Action
Square Enix will re-releasing the PSP's Star Ocean 2 remake for Vita and PS4 later this month in Japan. While so doing, the company will improve the graphics somewhat and add two key things every gamer loves: trophies and pay-to-win support. It doesn't specify, but gameplay support will become paid DLC, the new trailer confirms. Safe assumptions mean things like paying to level up or pay real money for healing items or weapons and stuff. Details presumably forthcoming.
Oh and there's a new theme song or something.
Here's the trailer:
Star Ocean: The Second Story was originally released for the PlayStation. It was then remade as Star Ocean 2: Second Evolution for the PSP.