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The nice thing about threads in Java is that they are always there. This has hindered the porting of Java to some platforms not offering native threads (like Windows 3.1) because the person doing the port has to both port Java and create a threads package for it to use. Once you start to use threads effectively, you will not want to go back to more pedestrian single-threaded programming.
A Java programmer's first exposure to threads is usually an applet that uses them to provide animation. In these applets, the thread simply sleeps for a period of time before updating the next frame or moving text in an animated ticker. Threads, however, are much more useful than this. Another way to use threads is with the
wait() and
notify() functions that are part of the
Object class.
Every Java object instance and class potentially has a monitor associated with it. I say potentially because if you don't use any of the synchronization functions, the monitor is never actually allocated, but it's waiting there just in case.
A monitor is simply a lock that serializes access to an object or a class. To gain access, a thread first acquires the necessary monitor, then proceeds. This happens automatically every time you enter a synchronized method. You create a synchronized method by specifying the keyword
synchronized in the method's declaration.
During the execution of a synchronized method, the thread holds the monitor for that method's object, or if the method is static, it holds the monitor for that method's class. If another thread is executing the synchronized method, your thread is blocked until that thread releases the monitor (by either exiting the method or by calling
To explicitly gain access to an object's monitor, a thread calls a synchronized method within that object. To temporarily release the monitor, the thread calls the
wait() function. Because the thread needs to have acquired the object's monitor, calling
wait() is supported only inside a synchronized method. Using
wait() in this way allows the thread to rendezvous with another thread at a particular synchronization point.
A very simple example of
wait() and
notify() is described in the following three classes.
The first class is named
PingPong and consists of a single synchronized method and a state variable. The method is
hit() and the only parameter it takes is the name of the player who will go next.
The algorithm is essentially this:
If it is my turn, note whose turn it is next, then PING, and then notify anyone waiting. otherwise, wait to be notified.
To implement this, however, we add a few more lines:
1 public class PingPong { 2 // state variable identifying whose turn it is. 3 private String whoseTurn = null; 4 5 public synchronized boolean hit(String opponent) { 6 7 String x = Thread.currentThread().getName(); 8 9 if (whoseTurn == null) { 10 whoseTurn = x; 11 return true; 12 } 13 14 if (x.compareTo(whoseTurn) == 0) { 15 System.out.println("PING! ("+x+")"); 16 whoseTurn = opponent; 17 notifyAll(); 18 } else { 19 try { 20 long t1 = System.currentTimeMillis(); 21 wait(2500); 22 if ((System.currentTimeMillis() - t1) > 2500) { 23 System.out.println("****** TIMEOUT! "+x+ 24 " is waiting for "+whoseTurn+" to play."); 25 } 26 } catch (InterruptedException e) { } 27 } 28 return true; // keep playing. 29 } 30 }
In line 3 we declare our state variable,
whoseTurn. This is declared private since the users of the class don't need to know it. Line 5 declares our method and it must have the synchronized keyword or the call to
wait() will fail.
In line 7 we get our own name from the thread object. As you will see later, we set this after the thread is created. This helps in debugging since our thread is named something useful and is a convenient way to identify the players.
Lines 9 through 12 solve the problem of whose turn it is before anyone has gone. The policy implemented is that the first thread to invoke this method will get the honor of going first.
Lines 14 through 17 execute when it is the current thread's turn to go. When executed, the thread updates the state variable with the next thread's turn. This is done before the notify, as the notify may cause another thread to start running immediately before it knows it is its turn to run. Then
notifyAll() is called to notify all threads that are waiting on this object that they can run. If you are using only two threads, simply call
notify() since that call will wake up exactly one thread from the set waiting to run. With two threads, only one thread can be waiting, so the correct thread will wake up. If you extend this to three or more threads, however, the notify call may not wake up the correct thread and the system will stop until that thread's wait times out.
Lines 19 through 26 execute when it isn't the current thread's turn to go. Line 21 simply calls
wait() and goes to sleep. However, you will notice that in line 20 the code notes the current time. It does this because when execution continues after the wait call returns, the reason for continuing could be either the wait timed out or our thread was awakened with a call to
notify(). The only way to tell the difference is to measure how long the thread was asleep.
This timeout test is performed in line 22. If a timeout occurs, an informative message is printed to the console. In practice this will happen only when the time spent in lines 14 through 17 is greater than 2.5 seconds.
Line 26 is where we catch
InterruptedException, which would be thrown if the thread in the
wait() call stops prematurely.
Really, that is all there is to this part of the code. I did, however, add some additional code (shown below) between lines 8 and 9 to allow a third thread to cause the threads using this class to exit.
8.01 if (whoseTurn.compareTo("DONE") == 0) 8.02 return false; 8.03 8.04 if (opponent.compareTo("DONE") == 0) { 8.05 whoseTurn = opponent; 8.06 notifyAll(); 8.07 return false; 8.08 }
As you can see, this is done by setting the special opponent DONE in the call to
hit(). When the opponent is done, line 8.02 makes sure the code returns the boolean false.
Once we have the class of type
PingPong, any thread with a reference to an instance of class
PingPong can synchronize itself with other threads holding that same reference. To illustrate this, consider the following
Player class designed for use in the instantiation of a couple of threads:
1 public class Player implements Runnable { 2 PingPong myTable; // Table where they play 3 String myOpponent; 4 5 public Player(String opponent, PingPong table) { 6 myTable = table; 7 myOpponent = opponent; 8 } 9 10 public void run() { 11 while (myTable.hit(myOpponent)) 12 ; 13 } 14 }
As you can see, this code is even simpler. All we really need is a class that implements the
Runnable interface. The
Thread class provides a constructor that takes a reference to an object implementing
The two instance variables in this class are the reference holding the
PingPong object and the name of this player's opponent. This latter field is used in the
hit() method to tell the object which player should go next.
There is a single constructor taking a
PingPong object and the name of an opponent. To satisfy the
Runnable interface, there is the method
run in lines 10 through 13.
The run method runs an infinite loop, calling
hit() until it returns false. This method returns true until some thread calls it with the opponent name DONE.
To complete our example, we have an application class that will create a couple of threads using the
Player class and pit them against each other. This is shown below in the
Game class.
1 public class Game { 2 3 public static void main(String args[]) { 4 PingPong table = new PingPong(); 5 Thread alice = new Thread(new Player("bob", table)); 6 Thread bob = new Thread(new Player("alice", table)); 7 8 alice.setName("alice"); 9 bob.setName("bob"); 10 alice.start(); // alice starts playing 11 bob.start(); // bob starts playing 12 try { 13 // Wait 5 seconds 14 Thread.currentThread().sleep(5000); 15 } catch (InterruptedException e) { } 16 17 table.hit("DONE"); // cause the players to quit their threads. 18 try { 19 Thread.currentThread().sleep(100); 20 } catch (InterruptedException e) { } 21 } 22 }
Because we want to execute this class from the command line, it must include a public static method named
main that takes a single argument that is an array of strings. This is the method signature the
java command keys off of when instantiating a class from the command line.
Line 4 is where the code instantiates a copy of our
PingPong class and stores the reference in the local variable
table. Line 5 and line 6 are compound object creations, first creating new
Player objects and then using those objects in the creation of new
Thread objects. At create time, the name of the opponent is specified so Alice's opponent is Bob and Bob's opponent is Alice. These new threads are named using the
setName method in lines 8 and 9, and then they are started in lines 10 and 11.
After line 11 is executed, there are three user threads running, one named alice, one named bob, and the main thread. On the system console you will start seeing messages of the form:
PING! (alice) PING! (bob) PING! (alice) ...
and so on. The threads alternate which one runs by the state in the
PingPong object. This object forces them to run one after another, however it also ensures that they run as rapidly after one another as possible since as soon as one is finished, it calls
notifyAll() and the other thread begins to run.
Finally, in lines 12 through 15 you will see that the main thread goes to sleep for five seconds or so, and when it wakes up, it calls
hit() with the magic bullet name DONE. This will cause the alice and bob threads to exit. Due to a bug in the Windows version of the Java runtime, the main thread has to wait a bit to let alice and bob exit first, before it can exit. Otherwise it will never exit (Sun knows about this bug). The short sleep in lines 18 through 20 cover this case and allow our program to exit normally on all systems.
So we have managed to get two threads to share the processor equally by synchronizing use of a common object instance. If you have followed the discussion and believe you understand the code, test your understanding by adding another thread to the mix and call it Chuck. After you've done that, answer these questions for yourself:
- Who is Chuck's opponent?
- What happens if two threads have the same opponent?
- What happens if a thread is nobody's opponent?


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Talk about vivid imagery. In announcing an Internet partnership between Stardust Technologies of Campbell, Calif., and the International Webcasting Association, Stardust announced that "250 million eyeballs will be tuned to the Internet by year 2000.''
Such a prediction begs a question: Does that mean 250 million people will be Web surfing by the millennium, or 125 million?
Kim Polese, founder and chief executive of Marimba Inc., is one of the most influential people in the country, according to Time magazine's 1997 list of the 25 most influential Americans.
As one of the developers of the Java programming language and one of the few women CEOs in information technology, she is the only high-tech entrepreneur on the list. Polese shares the honor with golf star Tiger Woods, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Scott Adams' cartoon character Dilbert.
Polese's company, based in Palo Alto, Calif., pioneered the delivery of computer applications over the Internet or intranets known as push technology or multicasting.
It has helped guide tanks in the desert and find sailors lost at sea. And now a global positioning system has aided in tracking runners in the Boston Marathon.
Worldwide Notification Systems, Atlanta, installed tracking technology in chase vehicles that followed the lead male and female runners in the 101st Boston Marathon on April 21. Coaches, runners and spectators, plus viewers of cable sports channel ESPN, could watch real-time speeds and locations of front-runners during the race.
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The way that Darwinists have become obsessed by this laughing sounds, despite all these other similarities, is a clear sign of the depressed state they are in. What they should do is to take the points we have listed above according to Darwinists' distorted logic as their starting point and refer to these as supposed evidence for so-called evolution. But they are currently trying to depict the way a baby orang utan laughs when tickled as evidence for this nonsense by stirring all Darwinist publications into action. This is a sign of the seriously depressed state in which Darwinists find themselves.
But what Darwinists are unable to grasp is this; the more a living thing resembles human beings, the more human beings like it. Because, as it says in the Qur'an, human beings are created in the best of forms. These features in humans also being manifested in other living things is a great blessing for us. People will still enjoy these similarities if they exist in an insect, a butterfly. That is the secret behind Allah creating some life forms to resemble human beings. One of the wise aspects in Allah's Creation of similarities is His showing beauty and blessings in living things to human beings, who possess the awareness and consciousness with which to appreciate them. It is a miracle how Allah causes an animal to laugh. Because animals are devoid of consciousness and are unaware of their own existence. It is a great blessing, a sublime beauty created by Allah, the way that a living thing with no consciousness can enjoy itself, laugh, know love and compassion, protect its young, groom itself and defend itself and its offspring, and take precautionary measures. But Darwinists cannot account for any of these attributes. The way that Darwinists are trying to depict this similarity specially created by Allah as proof of so-called evolution, on the basis of no scientific evidence whatsoever, shows the despair in which they find themselves.
Darwinists are truly wretched to persistently make such ludicrous claims to prop up their false theories. If Darwinists are to produce any evidence for the fraud they call evolution, then they must back up their claims regarding fictitious ape-like ancestors with scientific evidence. They must prove them with genuine, concrete and scholarly evidence. For example, THEY MUST PRODUCE A TRANSITIONAL FORM FOSSIL. That would be scientific evidence. BUT DARWINISTS ARE OF COURSE UNABLE TO PRODUCE A SINGLE PIECE OF EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF EVOLUTION, AND CANNOT POINT TO A SINGLE TRANSITIONAL FOSSIL. Because this theory IS A HUGE FRAUD. That is why the only thing that Darwinists keep using as so-called evidence is living things' similarity to human beings, itself Allah's glorious artistry. This fact is manifest evidence of the wretched state that Darwinist demagoguery has left Darwinists in.


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Television Broadcast Archives: Oct. 2009 - Sep. 2013
From 1990 to September 2013, This Week in Northern California was KQED's weekly current affairs program offering insightful, thought-provoking roundtable discussions and news analysis of the latest political topics. A searchable video archive of the program from Oct. 2009 - Sep. 2013 is available here including episode descriptions and program guests. Visit our new program, KQED NEWSROOM, our weekly news program on television, radio and online, featuring Thuy Vu and Scott Shafer.
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August 23, 2013
Oakland Tries to Even the Odds for African American Boys
In a collaboration between KQED and the San Francisco Chronicle series Even Odds, we offer an in-depth look at the daunting challenges faced by African American males in Oakland, and the city's attempt to address them. Three years ago, the Oakland Unified School District faced an alarming statistic -- more than half of its African American boys would not graduate. The troubling dropout rate had many factors at play: poverty, crime, high suspension rates and rising absenteeism. The district responded by opening the Office of African American Male Achievement. Its mission is to improve academic outcomes for black boys by pairing them with black men. While race-based, community mentorship is not new, for a public school system it was controversial. The early results are encouraging, but it remains to be seen whether this novel approach will actually work.
SF Chronicle video profile of Tiago Robinson:
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): An official from the Population Registration Authority (PRA) said on Wednesday that the department is fully prepared for the distribution of the much awaited computarised identity cards. Although he did point out some... read more
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has closed its office in Mazar-I-Sharif, the capital of northern Baklh provincem following the murder of a staff member. A day earlier, a man with disability shot dead... read more
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Esteemed members of the automotive reviewing corps have chosen the "short list" of nominees for the 2011 North American Car and Truck of the Year awards — including the Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, which no one outside of reviewers has driven.
Chosen by a panel of no more than 50 of the best press automakers can buy from a group of only the finest press cars automakers can provide, the actual award will be announced to great fanfare in the basement of Detroit's Cobo Hall during the Detroit Auto Show. Likely during a blizzard.
2011 North American Car of the Year Nominees:
Audi A8
Buick Regal
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Hyundai Sonata Turbo/Hybrid
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Marine Fouling is threat for a multitude of technical devices in freshwater and a dominant problem in marine waters. Macrofouling can enhance the weight and the friction resistance to such a degree that a ship cannot speed ahead. Fouling at intakes of open cooling systems may reduce the amount of sucked to such a degree that the plant has to be shut down. Nets in mariculture can be fouled and clogged effectively thus leading to asphyxation of of fish oyster or abablones. Sludges may be fouled by sponges or oysters leading to malfunction or destruction of the anticorrosive coatings.
Since decades antifoulings systems are based on leaching biocides which shall kill the fouling organisms and impede the settlement of spores and larvae. But the use of biocidal products has been and is still associated with numerous problems:
not only target organisms are killed
biocidal products should achieve a surface free of fouling for 2 – 5 or even 12 years, but shall show easy degradation and no accumulation
in aquatic organisms, mariculture products or marine food no residues are wanted
These contradictions initiated 30 years ago the first development of biocide-free antifouling systems which are reflected in a variety of product types. Basically, the following are available on the market:
non-stick coatings based on silicone or polytetrafluoroethylene (TEFLON)
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The following systems are in the developmental stage or just entering the market:
electrochemical systems
nanotechnology (compounds and coatings)
non-stick coatings using innovative materials and designed surface structures
The EU Biocidal Products Directive and regulation for sea food production and import e. g. in Japan and Australia induced an increasing interest in the development of biocide-free antifouling systems. They are even attractive as the putting on the market does not deserve a long and expensive approval. In parallel, after the ban of selected biocides in the Netherlands, Sweden and UK biocide-free systems entered the market. As shown by several investigations biocide-free systems deserve a thorough examination of their efficacy and environmental compatibility.
For more than 25 years LimnoMar has been working on the development of effective antifouling systems causing no threat to humans and wildlife. Up to now, no general solution has been found. Some customer adapted solutions for concrete applications are at hand and have carefully selected. LimnoMar offers along with the investigation of innovative systems consultancy for customers focussing the most advanced systems with own experience.


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Friday, February 4, 2011
We're making Web Edition application deployment painless
Unfortunately, although we weren't wrong about FastCGI, we weren't right either - it isn't good enough. Once your server has been configured, deployment is quite simple, but that initial configuration is more difficult than we want to put our developers through. The number of hosts supporting FastCGI WE apps isn't bad, but isn't acceptable either.
Beginning with REAL Studio 2011 Release 1, we will be introducing a new deployment option with two important goals: easier to deploy, and acceptable on a broader range of servers. This option will be called "CGI" deployment.
This new option will use a standard CGI script - CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface, and has been available from nearly every hosting company for a very, very long time. This script will work as a sort of middle man or gateway between the web server, and your app. If your app is not running, the script will launch it. Deployment requires nothing more than an FTP client, and maintenance is handled entirely by the script. And because CGI scripting is nearly universally supported, nearly every web server will support this model.
We will be dropping the FastCGI deployment option. However, if you currently have FastCGI working on your server and you would like to continue using FastCGI, the new CGI script can be run as a FastCGI with no code changes. Using FastCGI will help improve performance, but will be completely optional.
For those of you that have been working through the issues with configuring FastCGI to deploy your app, we know it hasn't been easy and appreciate your efforts. This new CGI gateway will make deployment painless. Your patience while we have been developing this solution is appreciated.
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- Travis said...
What form will the script that is CGI/FastCGI compatible take? Executable, perl script, etc?
I just wanted to be clear that the standalone option is here for the long haul. I've got a deployment working quite well in standalone with an SSL proxy in front of it- and I'd hate to see that option go away.
- February 4, 2011 at 12:03 PM
- Thom McGrath said...
We have no intention of removing the stand alone option. It works quite well and is easy to maintain.
During the beta phase, the CGI will be a Perl script. Before release, however, it will be ported to a C executable to improve performance.
- February 4, 2011 at 12:08 PM
This is excellent news.
P.S. Can anyone see the verification word on an iPad?
- February 4, 2011 at 12:17 PM
This is excellent news.
P.S. Can anyone see the verification word on an iPad?
- February 4, 2011 at 12:18 PM
- madmonk said...
Thanks ! I was about to send an email to RS about this. I reread your post of 22nd Dec and it seemed non trivial to me. RB supposed to be easy this wasn't. Good choice.
- February 4, 2011 at 12:20 PM
- Unknown said...
This is great news... will this new setup also work with IIS?
- February 4, 2011 at 12:59 PM
- Geoff Perlman said...
@ Rich - In theory, it should work with any web server that supports CGI (and is running Mac, Windows or Linux on x86 of course). However, we have only tested so far with Apache.
- February 4, 2011 at 2:44 PM
I'd be a cool feature if we could optionally choose to forego porting the app to a C executable and just output a Perl script :D
- February 4, 2011 at 6:31 PM
- Thom McGrath said...
There's no real benefit in leaving the app as Perl over C.
- February 4, 2011 at 6:54 PM
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- February 5, 2011 at 12:56 AM
Thanks but no thanks, I'm perfectly happy with FastCGI and Tomcat.
- February 5, 2011 at 12:57 AM
- Unknown said...
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- February 5, 2011 at 8:33 AM
- Geoff Perlman said...
As Thom stated, the script generated with your app will also run as a FastCGI so you do get the best of both worlds. We have found the extra overhead of using the script as a gateway to be minimal. The script runs like any other CGI so I don't see hosting companies as having any problems with this.
- February 5, 2011 at 9:02 AM
- Unknown said...
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- February 5, 2011 at 9:23 AM
- Unknown said...
"There's no real benefit in leaving the app as Perl over C."
Some hosting providers only allow CGI as scripts, like Perl. They don't allow binary CGI. For example, here's the restriction from ReadyHosting, used by one of my customers (and I don't recommend ReadyHosting at all, BTW):
CGI Languages supported: Perl and Python
Required Server Side Includes filename extensions: .shtml
Required CGI extensions: .pl or .cgi for Perl scripts and .py for Python scripts. Your files must have these extensions or they will not work.
Now, I don't know if you put the binary in as .cgi if it will work or not, but it certainly isn't supported, and if there's a problem, you'd be out of luck. So having the option of still using Perl might not be a bad thing.
- February 5, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- Travis said...
Jack- your app itself will always be native code. Hosts that don't support native code won't ever work, but allowing for a dual CGI/FastCGI controller script/app will widen the support from where it is today.
- February 5, 2011 at 12:48 PM
- John said...
I'm not sure CGI is the way to go...
Looking into something like lighty may be a better option...
The following is off the site http://www.lighttpd.net/
Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility -- all of these describe lighttpd (pron. lighty) which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, SCGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) lighttpd is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. And best of all it's Open Source licensed under the revised BSD license.
CGI may still have security issues, it's been a long time since I looked into using CGI but Security and the process protection kept me from using it.
Just something to think about before you get too deep into it.
- February 6, 2011 at 11:07 PM
- Thom McGrath said...
LigHTTPD and CGI aren't competing technologies. The former is a server, the latter is a method of inter-process communication.
It's like saying "don't drive a Ford, use highways instead." LigHTTPD is a good option, but you would use it in conjunction with the CGI, not instead of.
- February 6, 2011 at 11:19 PM
- Unknown said...
I think you missed my point. If the script is in Perl, then I have at least a chance that the ISP will run it (and have it kick off my app). But if it's a binary, there's probably no chance.
- February 8, 2011 at 7:42 AM
- KF5QEO said...
Problem is, if you go with perl, you pretty much guarantee none of your console plugins will work. That also guarantees that plugin writers will now have a new version of the plugin sdk to switch to, and developers will need to now fork out more money for a whole new set of plugins for perl now.... Not to mention, last, but way far from least. In perl your code is not compiled and everyone can easily modify your code. O.k. for your own web server, but if you planned on selling your app.... I don't see how your going to do that in perl....
- February 9, 2011 at 12:11 PM
- Thom McGrath said...
No, your app is not Perl, only the gateway between the server and your app.
- February 9, 2011 at 12:23 PM
To clear the air, as said "Beginning with REAL Studio 2011 Release 1" this option will be present. Does this mean that users who just bought WE 2010 will not have this option, but have to buy the Studio 2011 release also? No update for WE 2010 v 5.1?
- April 21, 2011 at 3:10 AM
- Alyssa said...
@Fisheye All new WE licenses came with 6 months of updates. Check your expiration date, you have access to the new updates. Feel free to write Customer Service to clear up any details about your license key.
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TOC(GeoDjangoBackground, GeoDjango, GeoDjangoInstall, GeoDjangoModelAPI, GeoDjangoDatabaseAPI, GEOSGeometry, GeoDjangoExtras)? The GIS branch intends to be a world-class geographic web framework. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to build GIS web applications and harness the power of spatially enabled data.
News: The project was presented at FOSS4G 2007 on September 25, 2007. Thanks again for your support!
Note: The documentation has been re-factored into several pages. See the table of contents on the right for a complete listing of topics. Other GeoDjango pages include:
- Background Information
- Installation Instructions
- Model API
- Database API
- GEOS Geometries (in progress).
- Extra Features (in progress).
This documentation is behind the current feature-set -- when in doubt use
help on the feature in question, as most [browser:django/branches/gis/django/contrib/gis GeoDjango modules] and routines have docstrings.
Note: In order to minimize confusion, please don't modify the official roadmap below. If you have a suggestion, place it in the suggestion section or ask your question in the FAQ. If your request is urgent, submit a ticket requesting your feature or bugfix (make sure to specify the component as 'GIS'). Thanks for your cooperation!
Pending Features
The following is a discussion of features we hope to implement in GeoDjango. Unless stated otherwise, features in this list are not prioritized. If you have a pet feature you may accelerate its development by submitting code yourself.
- Distance queries, calculations, and related utilities. Status:
- Robert Coup has contributed the excellent measure module (in
django.contrib.gis.measure), allowing for easy comparison of distances in a variety of formats (currently supported: feet, meters, yards, kilometers, miles, and nautical miles)
- No support in the database API yet, but performing spatial queries using output from the GEOS
buffer()function may tide you over until we implement full support.
- Robert Coup has contributed the excellent measure module (in
- Support for a mapping framework (e.g., Google Maps/Earth, Yahoo Maps, MS Live, etc.)
- Admin fields and forms (WKT field currently as of r4884, but we want widgets to view and manipulate geographic objects).
- WMS views.
- Add as much from the PostGIS API as possible.
- Support additional spatial databases:
- When IBM DB2 Python DB-API adapter is available, work will commence on a spatial backend for DB2 Spatial Extender add-on. See Antonio Cagiano, Python, Django and DB2 Status Update blog posting.
- Geocoding framework.
Significant GeoDjango changesets are mentioned below:
- r6527: MySQL backend added.
- r6524: Oracle Spatial backend added.
- r6497: The
GeoMixinwas completely deprecated.
- r6108: Created the
mapsmodule, which includes rudimentary support for generating Google Maps.
- r5657: "Lazy-Geometry" support was added (courtesy of Robert Coup's excellent patch in #4322) -- deprecating most of the extra instance methods.
- r5529: Added utilities for importing vector data (e.g., SHP files) directly into GeoDjango models.
- The [source:django/branches/gis/django/contrib/gis/utils/LayerMapping.py LayerMapping] class will import vector data from GDAL-supported data sources. This is still 'beta', and requires installation of the GDAL library.
- r5397: Added a
ctypesinterface for GDAL/OGR in [source:django/branches/gis/django/contrib/gis/gdal django.contrib.gis.gdal].
OGRGeometry: Wraps OGR geometries, may be accessed with an extra instance method (e.g.,
SpatialReference: Wraps OGR Spatial Reference objects, may be used to transform OGR geometries.
DataSource: Wraps OGR Data Source objects, may be used to explore GDAL-supported data sources
- r5008: Added a
ctypesinterface for GEOS in [source:django/branches/gis/django/contrib/gis/gdal django.contrib.gis.geos].
GEOSGeometry: Wraps GEOS geometries; all accessed geometry fields are returned as
- r4851: Added PostGIS indexing capability.
Design Issues
- Client JS/Flash framework. The
mapsmodule will be added soon, support for the following APIs will be implemented, or is being considered
- [browser:django/branches/gis/django/contrib/gis/maps/google django.contrib.gis.maps.google]: Contains the
GoogleMapobject, which generates basic Google Maps API JavaScript from customizable templates. Automatic zoom-level determination of geometries is accomplished via the
django.contrib.gis.maps.openlayers: Similar plans are in place for a OpenLayers module, which is the open source web mapping framework. Well-tested, BSD-licensed, and includes multitudes of features; for example, OpenLayers supports WMS/WFS/tiles as well as Google, MS Virtual Earth, and Yahoo layers. See also ticket #5472.
- Yahoo! has a really slick flash interface, I'd like to support this eventually, though not planned at this time.
- [browser:django/branches/gis/django/contrib/gis/maps/google django.contrib.gis.maps.google]: Contains the
- Mapping Framework (generating custom tiles, layers, labels, etc.)
- Mapnik is modern, but very early on in development and completely lacks documentation. However, the code is elegant and clean, and it was designed for integration with Python. First to use AGG rendering.
- Mapserver is the leading open source map renderer. MapServer is documented and has a strong and has strong community support. Uses text-based configuration files, which may be difficult to set up. AGG rendering and dynamic loading of configuration files (e.g., from a string) has been added to version 5.0.
- WMS Server
- I'm not satisfied with any of the current WMS/WFS implementations. One implemented in Django would be desirable, e.g.,
django.contrib.gis.wms. Thoughts anyone? (OWSLib looks good, see below)
- I'm not satisfied with any of the current WMS/WFS implementations. One implemented in Django would be desirable, e.g.,
- PCL (Python Cartographic Library), now part of GIS Python, has done a lot of good work already. Let's apply the DRY principle. Strong opportunities for collaboration with regards to:
- Mapping framework
- WMS/WMF Framework -- OWSLib looks excellent for this (BSD licensed and has unit tests!)
- Utilities
- Database representation ideas
- GEOS support, Sean Gillies (of PCL) was the maintainer of the old SWIG bindings, and is working on ShapeLy, a GeoDjango-inspired GEOS ctypes interface.
- CoordinatesField.
- Jannis Leidel has already come up with a way to manipulate points in the admin interface, BSD licensed.
- geopy
- Brian Beck has written a good foundation for geocoding and distance calculations, BSD licensed.
- Decide what to do about "invalid" shape files, for example, float SHP field with ' ' value.
- Geo field introspection.
- Place your questions here.
- Q: When dealing with points (say, degrees) from, do they need to be converted to be useful on the back-end data, assuming -that- data is in degrees? Is it enough to have the same datum and origin? (Reading the intro above is likely to answer the question.)
- My (JDunck) reading indicates yes. Given the same coordinate system (i.e. datum, origin, and axes), degrees are useful without conversion.
- Q: Can this implementation work with MySQL spatial-extensions. If not, it's planned?
No, unfortunately support is not planned.Support for MySQL was added as of r6527. The changes required for the Oracle backend made it relatively easy to implement one for MySQL. However, MySQL is limited to bounding-box queries only, and many advanced features (e.g., coordinate transformation,
spatial_ref_systables) are missing because of MySQL's implementation. Furthermore, MySQL's spatial indexes are limited to MyISAM tables, which are not transactional.
- Q: Is this going to be a WMS Server/WMS Client/Both? OWSLib is just a WMS Client from what I have seen (from ruckc)
- WMS Server first, client capability a possibility in certain situations (i.e. you want to cache data from another WMS server). Yes, OWSLib is a client, but it contains code for validating the correct parameters to send to a WMS server, thus it can be adapted into a Django view that validates whether the proper WMS parameters were given. Mapnik has an
ogcservermodule that can parse the correct parameters for WMS 1.1.1 and 1.3.0, however since it is licensed under the LGPL it cannot be easily incorporated into this branch (unlike OWSLib).
- WMS Server first, client capability a possibility in certain situations (i.e. you want to cache data from another WMS server). Yes, OWSLib is a client, but it contains code for validating the correct parameters to send to a WMS server, thus it can be adapted into a Django view that validates whether the proper WMS parameters were given. Mapnik has an
- Q: Per this discussion in
django-developers, "I can do spatial queries if they are directly between two models with polygon fields but I can't seem to get at the spatial queries through foreign keys."
- Geographic queries require
GeoManager, even if the model does not have a geographic field itself (in the case of a foreign key to a geo-field). The reply in the discussion gives detail into why.
- Geographic queries require
- Q: Why are the OGRGeometry methods
- Because these map to the separate OGR routines OGR_G_Transform and OGR_G_TransformTo. Specifically, the
transformroutine takes a CoordTransform object as a parameter, whereas the
transform_toroutine takes a SpatialReference object. The
transform_to"function requires internal creation and initialization of [a CoordTransform] object [and] it is significantly more expensive to use this function to transform many geometries than it is to create the [CoordTransform object] in advance, and call transform() with that transformation. This function exists primarily for convenience when only transforming a single geometry."
- Because these map to the separate OGR routines OGR_G_Transform and OGR_G_TransformTo. Specifically, the
Geographic Models
Here is an example of how the model API currently works (assume this example is in geoapp/models.py):
from django.contrib.gis.db import models class District(models.Model): name = models.CharField(maxlength=35) num = models.IntegerField() poly = models.PolygonField() objects = models.GeoManager() class School(models.Model): name = models.CharField(maxlength=35) point = models.PointField() objects = models.GeoManager()
Notes: The
GeoMixin syntax is no longer needed as of r6467. By default, a GiST index will be created for the School
PointFields fields. This behavior can be turned off by using
Using syncdb
manage.py commands
sqlall and
syncdb work on geographic models:
$ python manage.py sqlall geoapp
BEGIN; CREATE TABLE "geoapp_school" ( "id" serial NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, "name" varchar(35) NOT NULL ) ; CREATE TABLE "geoapp_district" ( "id" serial NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, "name" varchar(35) NOT NULL, "num" integer NOT NULL ) ; SELECT AddGeometryColumn('geoapp_school', 'point', 4326, 'POINT', 2); ALTER TABLE "geoapp_school" ALTER "point" SET NOT NULL; CREATE INDEX "geoapp_school_point_id" ON "geoapp_school" USING GIST ( "point" GIST_GEOMETRY_OPS ); SELECT AddGeometryColumn('geoapp_district', 'poly', 4326, 'POLYGON', 2); ALTER TABLE "geoapp_district" ALTER "poly" SET NOT NULL; CREATE INDEX "geoapp_district_poly_id" ON "geoapp_district" USING GIST ( "poly" GIST_GEOMETRY_OPS ); COMMIT;
$ python manage.py syncdb geoapp
Note: The geometry columns are created outside of the
CREATE TABLE statements by the
AddGeometryColumn. This is done according to the OpenGIS specfication.
- See Open GIS Consortium, Inc., OpenGIS Simple Feature Specification For SQL, Document 99-049 (May 5, 1999), at Ch. 2.3.8 (Geometry Values and Spatial Reference Systems, pg. 39).
Spatial Queries
After a geographic model has been created, the PostGIS additions to the API may be used. Geographic queries are done normally by using
filter() and
exclude() on geometry-enabled models using geographic lookup types (see the Database API for lookup types). In the following example, the
bbcontains lookup type is used which is the same as the PostGIS
&& operator. It looks to see if the bounding box of the polygon contains the specific point. The next example uses the PostGIS
Contains() function, which calls GEOS library to test if the polygon actually contains the specific point, not just the bounding box.
>>> from geoapp.models import District, School >>> qs1 = District.objects.filter(poly__bbcontains='POINT(-95.362293 29.756539)') >>> qs2 = District.objects.filter(poly__contains='POINT(-95.362293 29.756539)')
Both spatial queries and normal queries using
filter() may be used in the same query. For example, the following query set will only show school districts that have 'Houston' in their name and contain the given point within their polygon boundary:
>>> qs = District.objects.filter(name__contains='Houston').filter(poly__contains='POINT(-95.362293 29.756539)')
Or combine both the bounding box routines (less accurate, fast) with the GEOS routines (most accurate, slower) to get a query that is both fast and accurate:
>>> qs = District.objects.filter(poly__bbcontains='POINT(-95.362293 29.756539)').filter(poly__contains='POINT(-95.362293 29.756539)')
Geographic fields on models are proxies to GEOS Geometry objects, allowing for many interesting possibilities:
>>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import fromstr >>> pnt = fromstr('POINT(-95.362293 29.756539)', srid=4326) >>> hisd = District.objects.get(name='Houston ISD') >>> hisd.poly.contains(pnt) True >>> hisd.poly.within(pnt) False


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Harvard faces two ranked opponents in No. 13 Pepperdine and No. 1 Southern California this week (Gil Talbot).
The Particulars
The Harvard men's volleyball team will complete its California road trip with matches at No. 13 Pepperdine and No. 1 Southern California, Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.
About Harvard
The Crimson lost its first match of its west coast trip as Cal St. Northridge dropped Harvard to 7-6 overall with a 3-0 victory March 12.
Harvard is averaging 11.94 kills per set this season with a 24.1
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The Trojans have recorded 13.8 kills per set through the first
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Looking Ahead
The Crimson returns home and will take on Springfield March 23. Harvard won the first meeting between the schools, 3-1, at the Malkin Athletic Center, Feb. 14.


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If you read my previous post about our New Year's traditions, you know about the importance that Italians place upon some food symbols of plenty. This occasionally verges on the superstitious, and on New Year's Eve you will see some people stuffing themselves with lentils and grapes as if there's no tomorrow. The Spanish also follow this custom of eating grapes at midnight, but they stop at 12, one for each month of the new year.
Both in the Judeo-Christian and in the pagan/Greek-Roman traditions, grape clusters deliver such a symbolic punch that it's quite clear why they have become the center of our celebrations for Capodanno (New Year's Eve); either in their natural form, which can be appreciated by everybody beyond age, cultural and religious barriers, or in the form of wine – the bubbly, sparkly spumante for the midnight toast! As proven by countless sculptures, frescos and paintings, grapes in Italy have been for hundreds of years the allegory of wealth and well-being.
In Venice and the Veneto, another food associated with images of fertility and of prosperity is rice. Rice is thrown at the bride and groom at a wedding to wish them a lifetime full of blessings (in Roman times, wheat was used for this purpose – but given the role that rice has played in Northern Italian economy and gastronomy for the past 500 years, it has long earned pride of place!)
Finally, all of these ingredients together – grapes, spumante and rice – find their place from time immemorial on my family's New Year's table. About half an hour before midnight, I start cooking my signature risotto, which I keep "all'onda" (like the waves, creamy and liquidy – that's how we like it in Venice) and toss with really good butter and parmigiano. With a pomegranate salad and sides of lentils and salmon, followed by a slice of panettone and a fragrant flute of spumante or prosecco, it's the perfect start to a delicious new year!
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- 3/4 cup Brut Spumante, Prosecco or Champagne
- 1 cup white or rose' grapes (seedless or seeded), halved
- 1/4 cup or to taste freshly grated Parmigiano cheese
- salt and pepper to taste
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In a saucepan, bring the stock to a boil, reduce the heat and keep at a low simmer.
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Panel 1: The Creative Genius of the South Growing from Religious Fervor and a Native Talent for Plastic Expression
Panel 1 is a celebration of Mexico's indigenous past, artistic genius combined with religious fervor set in a dramatic natural background.
Rivera wrote, "I depicted the South in the period before Cortes. The outstanding physical landmarks were the massive and beautiful snow-crowned Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl. Nearby were the temples of Nahuatl and Quetzalcóatl and the temple of the plumed serpent. Also portrayed were the Yaqui Deer Dancers, pottery makers, and Netzahualcoyotl, the Aztec poet-king of Texcoco who designed a flying machine."
Panel 1 forms the left side of a visual parenthesis that balances North and South. The right side of the mural completes the parenthesis with a celebration of Northern California's technological boom of the nineteenth century. See Panel 5.
With a graceful swan dive, the City College diver Helen Crlenkovich blends ancient Mexico into the Bay Area. Rivera wrote, "The conquest of time and space was symbolized by a woman diving and the Golden Gate Bridge spanning San Francisco Bay."
In the upper section, the contemporary Mexican artisan carving the sculpture of Quetzacoatl, the plumed serpent god, represents the continuity of Mexican ancient culture.
In the lower section, Rivera depicted himself painting the "portraits of the great liberators--Washington, Jefferson, Hidalgo, Morelos, Bolivar, Lincoln, and John Brown."
Panel 3: The Plastification of Creative Power of the Northern Mechanism by Union with the Plastic Tradition of the South
Rivera anchored the mural with the central figure, the Aztec goddess Coatlicue combined with a Detroit Motor Company stamping machine. Rivera wrote:
Symbolizing this union (between North and South) was a colossal Goddess of Life, half Indian, half machine. She would be to the American civilization of my vision of what Quetzacoatl, the great mother of Mexico, was to the Aztec People.
This idea was elsewhere expressed in a portrait of Dudley Carter an engineer who returned to a pure expression of plastics, using only primitive materials and implements, such as a hand axe. I also painted a portrait of my wife Frida, a Mexican artist of European extraction, looking to the native traditions for her inspiration. Frida represented the vitality of these traditions in the South as Carter represented their penetration into the North.
The kinship of the Mexican and American traditions was further represented by an old Mexican planting a tree in the presence of a Mexican girl, as an American boy looked on. Nearby I painted a portrait of Paulette Goddard, holding in her hands what she called in a press release, "the tree of life and love." Representing American girlhood, she was shown in friendly contact with a Mexican man.
Panel 4: Trends of Creative Effort in the United States and the Rise of Woman in Various Fields of Creative Endeavor through Her Use of the Power of Manmade Machinery
Helen Crlenklovich continues to balance the right side of the mural, as her dive flows above the Treasure Island, the setting of the Golden Gate Expo.
Rivera wrote, "The creative force of the United States and the emancipation of women were symbolized by a woman artist, a woman architect, and a sculptress.
In the lower part of this panel, I represented two scenes from that typical art form of the North, the movies. One was from Charlie Chaplin's film The Great Dictator, showing in a tragicomic grouping Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin; the other from the Edward G. Robinson film Confessions of a Nazi Spy. Both works dramatized the fight between the democracies and the totalitarian powers. A hand rose up out of a machine as if to ward off the forces of aggression, symbolizing the American conscience reacting to the threat against freedom, in the love of which the history of Mexico and the United States were united."
Rivera was an avid movie fan. He saw movies as a type of modern day fresco, an art form that could carry important political messages to the masses. To learn more about Treasure Island and the fair, click here.
Panel 5: The Creative Culture of North Developing from the Necessity of Making Life Possible in a New and Empty Land
As a parallel to Panel 1, Rivera celebrates the technological genius of the North here in Panel 5.
Rivera wrote, "Just as the plastic tradition of the South penetrated into the North, the creative mechanical power of the North enriched life in the South. I depicted the greatness of the North in such engineering achievements as Shasta Dam, oil derricks, bridges set near the American peaks of Mount Shasta and Mount Lassen, and in portraits of such geniuses as Ford, Morse, and Fulton, the last two of whom were artists as well as inventors."


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The xx have shared a photo of the band working on their next album in the studio.
The band are expected to release their long-awaited follow-up to second album 'Coexist' next year, with a photo recently uploaded to their official Facebook page.
The caption reads: "Winter studio hibernation. xx The xx". See the post beneath.
The xx have promised that new music would come in 2016. Jamie xx recently told Annie Mac: "We start again in the studio tomorrow up until Christmas. It's going well and we're just enjoying it. We've been doing it for so long now. I'm really looking forward to wrapping that up as well."
Mac also asked if new music could be expected during 2016, to which she reported guitarist and vocalist Romy Madley Croft nodding.
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Back in 2014, The xx revealed third album recording sessions were taking place in Texas.
Croft has said of the follow-up to 2012's 'Coexist': "We don't find it easy as a band to write on tour, so we haven't got much done yet with new songs because we've been touring 'Coexist' so much. We're looking forward to having time off to be creative again. But we're definitely feeling inspired and ready to go. We played a lot of big stages on tour in the past year, and that's something I'm sure will come through in the next album."
"We've all lived a lot of life recently, which the new songs will reflect." Jamie xx added in the earlier interview. "'Coexist' was difficult to make at times, but our first album was just as difficult too. All albums are difficult to make, and I'm sure the next one will be as well."
He also said of the band's creative process: "We learned so much from making 'Coexist'. The first album was basically just us putting together everything we'd released at that point, and we had more control in how we wanted an album to sound overall on 'Coexist'. That's something we'll try again, however the new one ends up sounding."
The band later talked of a "completely different" third album.
The album remains untitled, with a release date for new music also yet to be confirmed.


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Community-based extension
Providing knowledge and support to the people who need it
Access to information and new ideas to improve agriculture practice is important for small scale farmers. Practical Action not only trains farmer groups directly in a range of technologies, but community extensionists are also trained to provide advice and support services on an ongoing basis beyond the life of any project. Many hundreds of extensionists have been trained across Kenya, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Nepal and Peru.
Community based extension works by training community representatives to support farmers with advice, services and inputs on an ongoing basis. Extensionists are trained on animal health, agriculture, fisheries or horticulture. They can then provide advice on animal, crop or fisheries management, give services such as vaccinations or training, and sell inputs such as medicines, seeds, fish fry, etc. They can also help to scale up skills and technologies where projects can only reach a limited number of people directly.
Building links between these extensionists and government extension departments and private input suppliers is important so that they can update their skills and buy inputs. Community extensionists earn an income from charging for their services or making some profit on the inputs they sell.
In some places Government services rarely reach the community level as they are too short staffed and lacking in resources. Therefore, community extension is a cost effective and successful approach which government and other NGOs could replicate.
Fozlur Rahman was trained by Practical Action in vegetable seed and seedling production. Before the project, few people in the project communities were growing vegetables, and therefore they either had to spend scarce cash on buying them or do without. Practical Action promoted vegetable production in order to directly improve people's diet as well as giving them an additional source of income through sale of any excess. To ensure that good quality seed was available in communities, the project also trained families to produce and supply this seed, as well as to provide advice on vegetable growing.
"In one month at least 20 people might come to me for advice, for seeds or for seedlings. This number can be more in peak season. I give advice on transplanting seedlings, appropriate spacing, how to prevent pest infestations and how to apply fertilizer correctly," says Fozlur.
The impact of his new skills on his livelihood has been significant. In 1998 his house was just one simple mud and thatch building but now it is two tin buildings. Local Practical Action staff noted that he is much less thin now and has grown a beard which is a sign of doing well. His daughter is also studying in higher education.
Halima Begum was trained as a poultry vaccinator in 2000. She received 5 days training and contributed 50% of the costs to receive a vaccinators kit. Initially Halima was afraid to do the injections – she thought the hens might die! But fortunately none did so her confidence grew.
For vaccination she used to charge one taka per hen on top of the cost of the vaccine itself but now she charges 2 taka. So her monthly income has doubled from 500 to 1000 taka per month on average.
Halima has reinvested her earnings into her own poultry production, in a small shop where she sells chickens and groceries, and in having a better track constructed from the main road to her home. She also eats more fish and vegetables now than she did before, but does not like to eat chicken!
Akas Ali was just 20 years old when he trained as a fisheries extensionist. Now he is 28 and he has a thriving business. Alongside providing technical advice, he produces fish for consumption and sale, has a fish nursery and sells fish seed. He has around 50 customers: 30 local farmers and 20 mobile fish seed traders. He only charges his customers for inputs and services – all advice is given for free.
"I think I was selected for training because me and another friend were a bit more influential among the youth and had already taken the initiative to rent a pond. I was interested because I heard that fisheries had more potential for money making," Akas told us.
Akas is certainly entrepreneurial. He is providing services to three other villages beyond his own. From sales and advice he has expanded into arranging catch and marketing for other fish farmers and employs around 4 or 5 people to do the catch for him. He also works 10 ponds: 6 of his own and 4 shared. "I work hard but I like earning money!"
Gita Das has been providing a breeding buck service for 22 years. It was a family tradition, but the quality of her animals had declined over time. Practical Action aimed to enhance the quality and productivity of goats in the area through training people in improved breeding buck rearing.
Gita received 5 days of formal training, then informal support from Practical Action and through links she developed with the government livestock officer. On completion of the training she was given 2 small pure breed bucks (Black Bengal) with a value of 5,000 taka of which she paid back 3,000 taka in 2 instalments.
Now she has a third buck (pictured) which she bought herself from a private supplier and is worth 12,000 taka. "I bought this new animal because it is more popular with some rich farmer clients due to the fact that it gives larger offspring. I am able to charge a higher rate for its service. However, I generally prefer the Black Bengal goat as it is a local breed, better suited to the local environment."
As well as rearing breeding bucks and providing a breeding service Gita has also been rearing goats for milk and meat for around five 5 years. Her average monthly earning from these three sources is around 300 taka of which she spends 100 taka on feed. Her husband is mentally ill so she is the sole provider in her household. However, now she feels confident she can provide for her family of seven.
Community-based animal health workers (para-vets)
Para-vets are community based animal health workers. In Kenya, they have served to fill a large gap in extension services and have enabled more people to access vital information and services to protect their livestock.Read more
The new Kamayoq
Since 1997 Practical Action has been working with resource-poor farming communities in the Peruvian Andes, exploring alternative approaches to extension service provision.Read more
An overview of our community-based extension work
Community based extension involves training community representatives to support farmers with advice, services and inputs on an on-going basis.Read more
Building Technical Capacities
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The Highwomen—Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby—reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart with the release of their self-titled debut album. The new album, which also reached No. 10 on the Billboard all-genre Top 200 chart, moved 34,000 equivalent units, according to Nielsen Music. The Highwomen were joined by…… More
Craig Morgan shared his first new music in more than three years with the release of "The Father, My Son and the Holy Ghost" in August. The new tune, which Craig penned and produced, honors his late son, Jerry Greer, who passed away after a boating accident in July 2016 at the age of 19.…… (10)REPLACEMENT BULBS FOR HONDA CN250 HELIX 600 CC YEAR 1992 LICENSE PLATE LIGHT
George Strait will ship a new single, "The Weight of the Badge," to country radio on Sept. 30. Penned by George, Bubba Strait and Dean Dillon, "The Weight of the Badge" is featured on George's 2019 album, Honky Tonk Time Machine. The new tune finds George paying homage to law officers as he croons, "He…… More
Taylor Swift will serve as a mentor during Season 17 of The Voice, which debuts on Sept. 23 on NBC with coaches Blake Shelton, John Legend, Kelly Clarkson and Gwen Stefani. As a mentor, Taylor will help the contestants on each team prepare for the Knockout Rounds, which pit teammates against each other in a…… (10)REPLACEMENT BULBS FOR HONDA CN250 HELIX 600 CC YEAR 2002 TAIL LIGHT
Justin Moore will try to score the 9th No. 1 hit of his career with the release of the spirited new single, "Why We Drink." Penned by Justin, Casey Beathard, David Lee Murphy and Jeremy Stover, "Why We Drink" is featured on Justin's 2019 album, Late Nights and Longnecks, which recently spawned No. 1 hit,…… More