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At the highest metaphysical level, my teacher was right: It takes no effort to be free. But interestingly enough, this spiritual freedom is of little help to me now as I face one of the most challenging decisions of my life. As life is so full of paradox, so is enlightenment.
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There's a lot of violence in the world, but here's an area where all of us can make a positive difference, first in our own lives, and then in the lives of others. Together, we can spread compassion far and wide.
Here's a fact about running a humane society which you might not know: Some people hate us (and I do mean hate) because we adopt out pit bulls, and some people hate us because we don't adopt out every pit bull brought to us.
When we adopt an animal, people pat us on the back and congratulate us for saving a life. How noble! How selfless! How silly. Anyone who has adopted an animal knows that choosing the animal is seldom a part of the process.
I was able to speak to Wahl recently for a rare interview, to shed some light on a life with more twists and turns than any movie script, as well as the charitable causes that are spurring him back into the public eye.
The meat industry has achieved a level of crippling paranoia despite the reality that we are a meat loving population. But it would seem to be in the best interest of consumers and trade alike to spend some time listening to each other.
We tame our dogs and our cats by inviting them into our lives, by feeding them, by sheltering them and, yes, by loving them. By so doing we become responsible for them -- forever. Let's try not to forget that forever responsibility.
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I second Rocky's comments. Just my personal opinion. I would like to add that Kahrs make a great carry pistol but also have that "long DA" pull. You have to weigh out what is most important to you for carry. Take P95's advice and try, if you get the oportunity, to fire different platforms.
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So the polar vortex is back, threatening to sink us into more single-digit and subzero temperatures and drag out this long, cold winter even more as we head into March.
There are people who love winter, and there are people who do not but find ways to embrace it. I have trouble relating to the former folks, as I'm done with winter after Christmas, mere days after it officially starts. I admire those in the latter crowd, for they dislike winter but wisely and gamely say, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," and try cross-country skiing or snowshoeing. After hibernating through this winter, my like-minded family and I may try the "join 'em" approach next year.
Now that February is wrapping up, though, I concede my friend's on to something. I'm totally waiting for that moment when we can hail the arrival of springtime. Why wait for the equinox on March 21?
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For the second time in a year, a former state representative is headed to prison for ethics problems while he was in office. Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler reports.
Former state Rep. Clayton Luckie pleaded guilty to eight charges out of 50 and got a three year prison sentence for skimming as much as 150-thousand dollars out of his campaign fund over a six year period. Luckie told the court he wanted to apologize to his constituents, his family and his colleagues at the Statehouse for what he called his errors in judgment.
Luckie: "I'd tell them that I'm human, and I have fallen short in this instance."
This is the second time in a year that a state representative has gone from the Statehouse to prison. Former Columbus Rep. Carlton Weddington, also a Democrat, admitted accepting all-expense paid trips as bribes to introduce legislation. Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien says any other lawmakers who aren't following the rules should take notice.
O'Brien: "The message it sends is that eventually you'll be caught and there will be serious sanctions."
O'Brien said the plea deal included Luckie's cooperation with federal agents investigating payday lending legislation at the Statehouse. Weddington had also been interviewed by the FBI before he started his three year prison sentence.
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What caused the sudden massive ice melt in Greenland? (+video)
The rapid melting of 97 percent of the surface of Greenland's ice sheet in just four days has left scientists puzzled.
Nearly all of Greenland's massive ice sheet suddenly started melting a bit this month, a freak event that surprised scientists.
Even Greenland's coldest and highest place, Summit station, showed melting. Ice core records show that last happened in 1889 and occurs about once every 150 years.
Three satellites show what NASA calls unprecedented melting of the ice sheet that blankets the island, starting on July 8 and lasting four days. Most of the thick ice remains. While some ice usually melts during the summer, what was unusual was that the melting happened in a flash and over a widespread area.
"You literally had this wave of warm air wash over the Greenland ice sheet and melt it," NASA ice scientist Tom Wagner said Tuesday.
The ice melt area went from 40 percent of the ice sheet to 97 percent in four days, according to NASA. Until now, the most extensive melt seen by satellites in the past three decades was about 55 percent.
Wagner said researchers don't know how much of Greenland's ice melted, but it seems to be freezing again.
"When we see melt in places that we haven't seen before, at least in a long period of time, it makes you sit up and ask what's happening?" NASA chief scientist Waleed Abdalati said. It's a big signal, the meaning of which we're going to sort out for years to come."


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In recent weeks, a nearly daily occurrence near the disputed rocks are visits by Chinese ships. Carefully chosen maritime-surveillance or fisheries-agency (not military) ships have hovered on waters just outside the twelve-mile territorial limits (but inside the two-hundred-mile economic zone) of the Senkaku islands, which Japan controls and China calls the Diaoyu. These five lonely islets jutting out of the East China Sea are inhabited by a few dozen goats.
But the Sino-Japanese dispute has heated up in recent months. Nationalist sentiments are coming to a boil and crippling relations between two of the world's largest economies. These tensions are emblematic of larger trends in East Asia. South Korea and Japan are also in the midst of a similar dispute over even smaller and more inconsequential rocks, Dokdo, which are called Takeshima by Japan. So spun up are the Koreans (not coincidentally in an election year) that their President Lee Myung-bak became the first Korean leader to ever visit the rocks last August. The Korean government, at public expense, supports a single couple living there so they can say it is inhabited. Lee called the tiny specks of land "a place worth staking our lives to defend."
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Shell, RBA warn on productivity
PUBLISHED: 22 Jun 2012 00:04:00 | UPDATED: 22 Jun 2012 04:09:55PUBLISHED: 22 Jun 2012 PRINT EDITION: 22 Jun 2012Jacob Greber Economics Correspondent
The global head of Shell, Europe's biggest oil company, has called on the Gillard government to act on high wages and poor productivity, which he says is threatening the long-term viability of important projects.
Shell is spending more than $30 billion in Australia and wants to be allowed to use more foreign workers on some of its gas projects, which are already among the most costly in its global portfolio.
"You have the high Australian dollar, you have got the scarce workforce and therefore we are concerned about the overall rates which we're paying for Australian labour and that clearly needs some intervention," chief executive Peter Voser said.
Resistance by the union movement makes it difficult for the Labor government to relax foreign labour rules.
"I think in order to actually stay competitive and work for the revenue flow into the country, we need to make sure we can invest in a competitive way and for that we need to make the best out of it and bring some people in," he told the ABC's 7:30 program last night.
The remarks by one of the world's top energy executives came after Treasurer Wayne Swan claimed Mr Voser backed the carbon tax, which starts in nine days, and accused the opposition of talking down economic growth.
The Reserve Bank of Australia yesterday said the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s had waned, eroding productivity growth and could drive up inflation.
In a report, the central bank's most comprehensive study on productivity in at least half a decade, it suggests the pressures of the two-speed economy, including rises in the dollar, may help revive productivity growth by increasing the pressure on businesses and their employees to become more efficient.
"The experience of the past two decades suggests that the effect on productivity growth may have been temporary," the bank said, referring to policy reforms of the Hawke, Keating, and Howard eras.
"In addition, some commentators . . . [have argued] that the introduction of new inefficient regulations may have created a drag on productivity growth."
The Reserve Bank said the productivity slowdown was "broad-based" across industries and not just in the resources and utilities sectors that are often blamed.
The report was published a week after Prime Minister Julia Gillard hosted an economic forum that was dominated by Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens's call for the government to get on with the job of productivity reform, suggesting known solutions had been ignored because they were seen as too hard.
Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson has also said a lack of big productivity-enhancing reforms appeared to be worsening the productivity slowdown.
Yesterday's Reserve Bank report increases pressure on governments to tackle the issue head on amid signs the easy economic gains delivered by the resources boom are fading.
Manufacturers in China, Australia's biggest trade partner, reported the sharpest falls in new export orders since March 2009, a report by HSBC showed.
Without a continuing boost to Australian incomes from the rising terms of trade, the only way to increase wealth was by becoming more efficient, according to the authors of yesterday's report, Patrick D'Arcy and Linus Gustafsson, from the Reserve Bank's economic analysis department.
"With the terms of trade likely to ease over the next few years, unless there is a pick-up in productivity growth, this will imply slower growth in real incomes than in the past few decades," they said.
They warned against the risk that the overall slowdown in productivity growth could lead to higher inflation.
"A recovery in productivity growth, if it occurs, will ease some of the upward pressure on unit costs and inflation, and allow for stronger growth in real incomes," they said.
Australia's poor productivity growth over the past decade had imposed a significant cost to the economy, the report said, particularly among industries not exposed to the resources boom.
Australia has had one of the sharpest productivity slowdowns over the past decade in the developed world, the Reserve Bank said. The economic cost of the slowdown, outside of mining, has been largely borne by the domestic economy, the authors said.
Non-tradables consumer price inflation averaged about 4 per cent in the six years ended 2010-11. Overall inflation averaged 3 per cent, the authors said.
Between 1994-95 and 2005-05, non-tradables inflation averaged around 3 per cent. Overall inflation was 2.5 per cent.
The Reserve Bank's report on productivity, a measure of how efficiently an economy employs resources to generate growth, reflects a desire among policymakers to avoid the mistakes of the past.
"The experience of many developed countries in the 1970s, including Australia, showed how a failure to recognise the implications for real income growth of a slowing in trend productivity ultimately contributed to high inflation," the report's authors said.
By contrast, the high rate of productivity growth in the 1990s, fuelled by 1980s reforms such as tariff reductions, allowed the economy and incomes to grow at a relatively fast pace without generating inflation.
"While some analysts have argued that these reforms should have permanently lifted the growth rate of productivity . . . the experience of the past two decades suggests that the effect on productivity growth may have been temporary," it said.
The fall in mining productivity was partly a result of the rapid increase in commodity prices, which boosted the profitability of more costly deposits.The fall among utilities was related to investments required by structural changes, as well as the construction of desalination plants that have been underutilised since the drought broke.
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I see aileron corrections on landings all the time from fellow flyers that end badly. They should have used rudder correction that close to the ground, but since they learned all input on the right stick their thumbs dont know any better. |
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I'd like to ask an honest newbie question. It seems to me self righting wings would be a hinderence to someone moving to straight wing 4 channel. If you are used to having to hold down the stick to keep a turn on something like a super cub wouldn't the transition to a 4 channel end up in a roll and disaster? It makes sense to me although I may be thinking about it wrong. Any thoughts?
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Sure, but you have the opposite problem if you learn with your primary steering control on the left stick. Also, I don't think the source of inappropriate banking on the approach is from learning with the rudder on the right - the source of that issue is nobody ever taught them the landing procedure. I see it all the time - instructors just let the student figure out how to land all by themselves. There is a landing procedure which can be taught, and almost nobody teaches it. That's the main source of bad landing technique - lack of teaching the correct technique.
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What makes sense IMO is to keep things as consistent as possible to a standard configuration that all planes use.. The more you change when you "graduate" from whatever the "training configuration" is the less you have gained from it.
I still don't recall having to hold over the stick when turning when I was training although I don't know exactly how much dihedral there was in my plane.. I increased the amount of dihedral on the advice of the instructor on that trainer which was a Sig Kadet much like this one: <============ Real Trainer Within a very short time, maybe even my first flight, my instructor had me adding rudder into the aileron turns which clearly couldn't be done on a 3 channel. I enjoyed this plane very much although I was scared out of my mind the first time flying it since it took about forever and a week to build it.. In retrospect I don't think it needed any extra dihedral and if I was to do it over I would have built it with none to speak of. |
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A lot of people learned to fly with that plane and the Goldberg Eaglet 50. They were the standout trainers of the time.
I think the eFlite Apprentice can hold its own against them any day. It's very similar in concept and execution with lower wing loading. But there's something about the appearance of a balsa/heatshrink plane that just can't be beat. |
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Essentially an excellent trainer is a free flight airplane trimmed properly with radio assist. That way you have complete faith that the plane can fly itself and you just help guide it around the sky at first. You're not making it fly.
And, believe it or not, with the more demanding planes that remains true. Free flight is a great way to start learning to fly! |
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Absolutely! I don't suppose that anyone questioning dihedral has noticed that all low wing planes have it, and the vast majority of high wing too. In fact the ones that have none, like the Stiks are close to mid-wing aircraft.
A little off topic, I noticed a post on the forums that said that the transition from beginner to advance was high wing, mid-wing, low wing. That is incorrect. It is high, low, mid. |
Sep 06, 2012, 04:08 PM | |
I get what both are you are saying. That makes sense if someone has access to an instructor. For those that don't, being used to holding the stick in a turn I would think their natural reaction on a straight wing 4 channel would be to hold the stick through then turn and then they roll by accident and don't understand why.
This is all theory by the way. I have no actual proof it just popped in my head last night. |
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I can only speak for myself that transitioning from Radian/Slow Stick/Vapor to UM T-28 didn't pose a problem as long as I thought about what I was doing at first. I just reverted to the blip method, where control movements are a quick blip of the stick and letting it return to center.
So it's <blip>, banked far enough? No, blip it again, yes, leave it alone. Coming out of the bank <blip> is she level? No, blip it again, too far, blip it back, yes, leave it alone. It's not smooth but it works great. |
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Here's a hypothetic situation I question:
Let's say you go with a loved-one to a new restuarant you've never been to before...and your carry (as usual). It's a nicer resturant known that's nicer than average. Upon arrival, there is no gun-prohibited signs, no alcohol advertising signs, and no bar that you know of.
You go in, and there is no evidenace of alcohol at all. You are 3/4 way through your meal and you see a waiter walk buy with a beer to serve someone. You NOW know they servce alcohol.
Of course, most people aren't going to jump up and go to the car to stash their piece. So you simply finish your meal, pay, and leave.
In the parking lot, you are assault by someone for some unknown reason, but it becomes a SHTF situation and you kill or injure someone.
The police come and want the story. The shooting occured in a parking lot and was justified...but if you say you were walking from the resturant, it will be known you had a weapon in an alcohol-serving facility...and that's a violation. You can't say you saw trouble and went to you vehicle for a gun, because not only is that a lie, but that shows you may have had time to get away if you had time to get a gun from your car.
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String specifying the scoring matrix to use for the alignment. Choices for amino acid sequences are:
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Matrix representing the scoring matrix to use for the alignment, such as returned by the blosum, pam, dayhoff, gonnet, or nuc44 function.
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profalign(..., 'GapOpen', {G1Value, G2Value}, ...) sets the penalties for opening a gap in the first and second profiles respectively. G1Value and G2Value can be either scalars or vectors. When using a vector, the number of elements is one more than the length of the input profile. Every element indicates the position specific penalty for opening a gap between two consecutive symbols in the sequence. The first and the last elements are the gap penalties used at the ends of the sequence. The default gap open penalties are {10,10}.
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Tried to use the original (unpart updated) 1930's 25k map loaded to id editor along with bing aerial surface information and a few other sources to make a reasonable attempt at marking out the "Merchants Railway" on Portland that travelled quite far at both ends of its cable incline. Not actually sure but I don't think it was adverse to some trips carrying additional non-stone loads over time. But heavy stone was economic base of this and initially most railways reaching up to the top of the island. Local supply goods for other trades did begin to show signs of diverse future as the National rail network spread and gained more influence than sea traffic towards beginning of the 20th and end of 19th Centuries. The Navy and Prison service also utilise the rail capacity mainly around the coasts.
On the weekend I tried doing more infomation to Southfiled part as there is a suppriseingly large amount unmarked especialy in the large mixed use buildings. Also a the longest terrace of garages also needs to be finshed off too.
Did a lot of work to show the unused part tarred dual track railway that runs to Weymouth dock around by the river and under the american bridge. Note this is listed as active though unused till 2015 in NESA ver 11/05/2013. The fate of the line is dependant on rail operators requesting to use it. it was converted to single track but the old unused bit was just tarred over. now all is until reactivation. More tags could be added to clarify this state of affairs.
Was to be added as a continuation of the edit comments for tonight's drawing of Gloucester green carpark in Oxford.
The various offices stairwells plant rooms etc. are also yet to be added. Area was redeveloped in the late 1980's after failed attempts at the end of the 1970's and some major additional works were done at the beginning of the millennium.
was going to start something on high river marks here for regular flood areas but havn't time today. So maybe next time.
I started to look at the other half of the estate and it seems to have been tidied up with regard to number marking though many are marked in fading pen enough to make some logic to the scheme. It seems to follow a pattern relating almost to one garage to one flat with some left not so clear as the numbers have gone completely. As the flats where originally numbered on a numbering that best suited neat terraces with numbers jumping across the street (odds to one side and evens to the other) allowing a postman to walk down the street once and deliver all the letters when put in number order. Unfortunately that means that house numbers in Southfield park although theoreticaly still on opposite sides of the road are not really as close to each other when in numerical order anymore as whole blocks dozens of ten of meters away hold each half. There is a possibility that the garages run by the council were also once numbered in a similar fashion to the flats but where rationalised into the current scheme now going into OSM is also possible. the only two distinct garages on OSM from the private side there number too faded to read. When I dissolve the blocks made and add the missing ones then I can begin filling in the other scheme to OSM. I had hoped to go down to Cowley airfield to extend the council site designation scheme across a larger area but I've not had the time yet.
tried to finish the area of highway on southfield park started yesterday unfortunatly tree cover on the arial shots made somebits hard to track on the ground its fairly smooth and constant width with the bays and turnings starting on the edje of this flow. The drive to southfield farm used to end at barracks lane so the continuation of batlemas close into the park was the official nameing as all the flats are named southfeild park,in their 1st address line the Bartlemas close became steadly droped so no official boundy exsists between the two but it lies anywhere alone the old drive to the 1st bend in an informal sense.
this has crashed with a relation placeholder error when saveing and substatially regressed so wiill need to be redone - GW260 from NESA. It might look a bit complex but it is designed to still work when lines are cut up for features like bridges, level crossings and future midspan abandonments. the ref GW260 is a rail equivalent to nameing a road A34 so all the sub sections [of individual OSM ways] have a close relation to the ref (known as Routecode and LOR). I also put in a grouping level for named lines (traditionaly termed roads in the trade) along with there relations. this should still function when ways are split. I was going to add the speed limits but gave up today as they can sometimes very along a named line/road as well as chnage See NR info for latest speeds, till I think how best to mark them. OSM has what look like informal levelcrossings for footpaths along this stretch but NESA dosn't tell the train driver of them and you might be likely to by fined for tresspass!
Intreasting site to fold into my osm db useage.(http://www.ai.sri.com/geovrml/1.1/download/)
Maybe its reinventing the wheel but a mashup with mapcss, GeoVRML, OSMdata, kensi3D engine (in josm plugin) and some runtime intergration possibly with some html5 friendly version of ECMA/Java might give a {text-editor level(/maybe also by an html form element)} easily user maluable 3d render solution that could include multiuser realtime 3D interactive vectored MIcons and sound responces...
video inset signposts incoperated into kensi based landscape with mapcss colour and texture ques intergated: While users and deamon/bots feed info into the landscape (sea and rail traffic openseamap style [but fed with VRML ship models to annotate](and weather links...
For those wondering what happend to VRML97 in standerdised officialy at iso went though some impoving versions and then had the core effort pulled into making it like the xhtml effort at the same time to make it XML capatible and turned into X3D. Early bandwidth restrictions and some user awkwardness with dimlly lit models in cosmos made it lose widespread permanace as browser wars began to focus on pandering to the consistant visual layout Dreams of corperate marketing teams used then to still working in paper white than user definable world of html's 1-2. with big browser support week people gave up sticking to a standard and mainly evolved there own for use in things like games and more widely supported java/Flash filled the rest of the gap.
I think if people are putting the effort to evolve new things like mapcss that don't depend on a wide 3rd party browser support then loking at these older (fadeing from the mainstream memory) initiatives might prove useful to some. Software and algorithums are often already made and teasted (though admitadly some systems could benifit with some updateing of the old s/w to make it run on newer enviroments).
Stopped mid way though seperating highway boundry from the main roadsurface as previous attempts to get the tagging right for wide compound road sites like this was makeing a confused mess. the road is getting an area likeat the north and the boundry and footway are yet to be seperated in the south end the result will render all parts in true areas (at bing sat accuracy) this I hope to then extend beyound the estate when finished.
I was looking some more into to the live map idea of mainline train movements similar to openseamap's: and I found this useful list of all the route numbers:-
RouteCode From Open Rail Data Wiki
Network Rail divide the network up in to a set of routes, identified with a code, e.g. MD101. These codes are used in the Sectional Appendix.
A list of route codes from the Sectional Appendix - correct as of 12th June 2012, is available.
As I get time I am still looking to be annoting these to OSM with the help of NESA pdf ed diagrams. The list of things hoping to do is still larger than the time available but the finite nature means that I'll get there eventually.
I found out how to make relationships work with some of the editors (I don't think id will work on [my] today's computer). So I will try and do them in a grand relationship. NESA also holds the abrviated official name of each "road"/track that is on some public faceing signs at places like bridges so I want to do these at the same time like I did nr padington.
going into the station the editor became a confusing bunch of parrell lines that began not fit easily with the NESA Diagram and using bing beneath just made it worse to comprehend! so staed near a flyover instead. earlier work is nr didcot jcn.
When choosing the tags that relate to garages at Southfield park I took reference initially to the fields in potlatch and id: in addition I chose the:
name to be the figures and symbols written on the garage itself {what people would recognise it to be called} Note these have been changed overtime and sometimes relate to a house name or number of an user rather than a number that logically relates to the garage (ie in a sequence)
address & postcode to be discoverable postal information ascribed to the Garage (or block). Note not all are known to have been given such addresses yet.
Designation to be the identifying code used by the operator this is more likely to be in a more logical order than the name in instances where the number there is follower a more randomly allotted users home address.
Southfield Park is not uniform in ownership or operator so different conditions exist even on this small estate. Also time has seen renovation and renumbering on some while not on all.
To make things easy I picked the most ordered and logical garages first as well as the easiest to find full information for. For this reason it looks like I've overkilled the Numbering tags with repetition; though when I finish the OCiC ones and move on to the much harder private ones gaps of missing tags and illogical sequences are likely to abound.
To compound the look of repetition of the first drawn garages I also decided to split the Full designation over a series of grouping relationships to better describe the levels of the designation and make it easier to add tags appropriate to describing unique features of different levels. This matches management of the large numbers of garages controlled by the same operator.
If you have major objections to this approach it would save me a lot of time to discuss them here first, before unilaterally deciding to make major edits that mess up the numbering schemes described here.
If you have or know of sources of reliable designations and address listings for the non-attached private garages in Oxford and elsewhere it would be useful in finishing this name and numbering exercise on OSM.
Thank you for takeing the time to read this message.
I've been trying to find and then complete a way to describe a set of designations made of nested groups of sub members (that look like private address schemes) that apply to geographically identifiable places (for instance rooms, buildings, blocks and out-houses. I aimed to find away that I could avoid repeating the designation in each way or node, so a relation was the natural solution: in addition I wanted to be able to tag a whole group at different levels to give relevant thematic information relating to only that subgroup.
I also was keen to allow software to comprehend automatically the structure and all relations between the groups their levels and descriptive tags, in such a way that it automatically matched easily with owner supplied data and possible streaming (possibly private) that they could use to make automatic overlays(or slippery map layers) on there website in future. An attractive benefit when promoting its adoption over the current weaker Google based offering. Matching this with simple totally custom automated rendering when needed also adds to the potential appeal.
Nested Relationships solve this neatly fit all requirements and can be made to fit the current schema neatly. I therefore will look to make a proposal for wider adoption for places with similar needs. It is noted that renderers and other software is unlikely to become confused with this unknown type of relationship as most relationships are currently only selectively processed by programs made to look for special types they use: so I expect that uninterested software will ignore the new relations while the new (local) software written to support them will use them instead.
I made 101 changes on friday but they didn't appear to upload properly: so I'm looking though if they are permently los or stageing somewhere...
I'm adding tags on behalf of Oxford CAB of the sites they run in and a few other currently unshown advice services they refer people to. I hope to use the resultant osm data to render maps for the bureau for public guidance. The information is a bit in-depth and some sites of outreaches are shared with other organisations. At first I hope to leave a node with tags at the shared sites that others marking out the buildings can incorporate in their own shared use method. Internally I hope to use a mapcss to stick a logo with some edge coded to show if is a restricted outreach (one serving people using another service at the site that have requested that we help only them at their place). I hope to find a way to upload some logo's for general rendering of CAB advice sites and give a josm mapcss for their intended usage.
The Models of Southfield park is coming on steadily I'm working on improving the accuracy. British National grid is missing from Josm at the moment that slows stuff down a lot for me, I hope the result will surpass the Mastermap by Ordnance Survey when done.
I'm looking at the praticalities of doing what open seamap does for ships movements with rail data feads.
Exploring the system link at the moment (NR uses stomp for open access live data)...
I had a visit to Newbury last weekend to this new site. Previously someone asked that I do the mapping for this and so I put something quick in at the time but now I am having some problems deriving how to OSM encode the new buildings along with other sites I'm looking to match they have multiple uses configured in a 3 dimensional separation. I.e. all stacked on top of each other. These new buildings comprise of large open parking halls underground with shops on top and then on the top is a roof-top housing estate complete with footpaths small gardenscape features and several purpose-built houses of multiple occupation! Now this is a good use of limited land resource, how ready is OSM's editors and renderers to handled features like ways that stack with others like two ways that share all the same (2d) nodes but relate to very different spaces in reality and have there own possibly mismatching sets of attribute tags to render. OSM at a XML data level can easily handle this and give level type tags to help define the hight separations but the editors that novices and those without there own home programs can have a hard time with these, so could editors have a mechanism clear to users that will allow them to chose the right features when stacked. I already have trouble with id and potlatch when trying to disengage joint node use with out needing to regenerate a replacement node in the right place for the stable features to be rejoined to at an XML level it isn't necessary as a one ref leaves the edited way leaving everything else unchanged.
I Oxford I'd also like to stack the dwellings and other categories in housing blocks that can carry there own address information, for navigation programs to use. this is step between HMO's while buildings and not the same as wanting to define interior walls and and other layout features.
Renderer authors and maintainers need to have some thought to how they want stacked data to work in there algorithms to give they results they'd like.
The website at http://www.parkwaynewbury.com/ gives high quality layout information to work from. Though I don't think I can easily achieve a high accuracy transfers at this time but I can start to put some building details on the map from it to help in the meantime.
For details of railway lines including internal official names see:- http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/10563.aspx
subs:- http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/sectional%20appendix/anglia%20sectional%20appendix.pdf http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/sectional%20appendix/kent%20sussex%20wessex%20sectional%20appendix.pdf http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/sectional%20appendix/london%20north%20eastern%20sectional%20appendix.pdf http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/sectional%20appendix/london%20north%20western%20north%20sectional%20appendix.pdf http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/sectional%20appendix/london%20north%20western%20south%20sectional%20appendix.pdf http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/sectional%20appendix/scotland%20sectional%20appendix.pdf http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/sectional%20appendix/western%20sectional%20appendix.pdf
These documents are large and based on the electronic updating version described in the first link.
The general availability of these documents seems to change as people in the business are pushed to use the databank version rather than the pdf editions .
The contents changes with operational changes but much of the route names, for areas not permanently modified after railway works, stay pretty stable. info junctions and some signal names is often also present.


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What, no info and champion skin trading? I wanna know if its a possibility or not, dangit And Heimerdinger is by all means not underpowered <_< I hate midding against him and his darned sentries....
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Does this mean we might be getting specific stats on mastery, rune, jungle and item changes? Also, the only champion I have a complaint on balance wise is Nasus---the fact that Nasus players enjoy an OP aspect of him (infinite scaling) and he's held back because of this should NOT hold back 99% of the community from enjoying him or using him in high-Elo or competitive games---he's literally worthless at high Elo as he only semi-counters one champion in the entire game (Yorick)---this isn't health for the champion and it isn't healthy for the playerbase at large (-1 champion to pick).
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President Obama was in his usual form at the National Prayer Breakfast:
And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.
His comments are disingenuous for three reasons.
First, it is yet another strawman argument. Can President Obama name one person who is arguing that people haven't been killed in the name of Christianity? To say that we cannot comment on the misdeeds of Islamists because Christians are not without sin is simply a cop out and an excuse to ignore our present state of affairs.


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This social media oriented Android phone also boasts of the proprietary user interface, the HTC Sense, which brings with it features such as flip to silence, customizable homescreen and all your friends' updates on Facebook and Twitter via Friend Stream.
The HTC ChaCha is loaded with a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and auto focus features. Other smart features present in the camera include Geo-tagging and Face detection. You can also record videos using the phone camera. A front facing VGA camera is also fitted on the device through which you can video chat or make video calls.
Facebook on ChaCha
HTC has specially packaged the ChaCha phone for all those of you bitten by the Facebook bug. Sharing your photos or the places you visit has never been easier than with the ChaCha in your palms, as it comes with a dedicated Facebook button that is located just below the keypad.You can share a photo or a link on Facebook just by pressing this button. If you want to share the information of the places you visit, holding the dedicated button for longer will start the Facebook Places function. This social media phone lets you keep your friends closer round the clock. And the list of Facebook-focused services on ChaCha doesn't just end with a dedicated button.
The ChaCha is loaded with a variety of Facebook widgets. There is a clock on this handset that provides you with all the Facebook updates as a ticker. The Calendar widget on the phone ensures you remember to wish your friends on their birthdays.
The design of the HTC ChaCha benefits those who text heavily as it comes with a well-spaced out QWERTY keypad. The buttons are big enough for you to easily click and type. The back side of the ChaCha is slightly bent that gives a better viewing angle as well as better grip for typing. Additionally, the phone remains scratch-free even if placed face-down.The capacitive touchscreen of the phone, with a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels, makes for ideal viewing of websites. In between the screen and keypad, lays a row of standard Android function buttons of home, menu, back and search. On the top edge of the ChaCha are located the power/lock button and headphone jack. The volume rocker and a microUSB port are housed on the left edge of the device. The phone packs in the usual bunch of sensors including accelerometer, digital compass, proximity sensor and ambient light sensor.
Storage and Battery
The HTC ChaCha is compatible with microSD 2.0 cards. You can use the same to increase the memory of the ChaCha to up to 32 GB. The ROM installed on the phone is of 512 MB. The social networking phone uses a standard lithium-ion battery of 1250 mAh capacity. The battery serves a talk time of 4 hours in 2G and 3 hours in 3G network.Connectivity and Features
You can connect to the Internet on the HTC ChaCha using Wi-Fi and 3G. The phone comes with Bluetooth and USB functionalities for easier file transfer. The A-GPS antenna and Google Maps present on this device let you track your directions.The Document viewer and editor lets you create and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. The handset also has access to Android Market from where you can download applications of your choice. The ChaCha is capable of Wi-Fi and USB tethering.
Brand | HTC |
Handset Color | Silver White |
Business Features | Document Viewer, Document Editor, Pushmail |
Keypad | Yes, QWERTY |
Form | Bar |
Call Features | Conference Call, Speed Dialing, Hands Free, Loudspeaker, Call Divert |
Touch Screen | Yes, Capacitive |
SIM Type | Single Sim, GSM, (Not Applicable) |
Model ID | Chacha |
In the Box | Handset, Battery, Charger (EU), Headset, 2 GB microSD Card, Data Cable, Safety and Regulatory Guide, Quick Start Guide, Customer Care Card, Warranty Card |
Multimedia | |
Video Player | Yes, Supports 3GP, 3G2, MP4, WMV9 |
Ringtone | MP3, WAV |
FM | Yes |
Music Player | Yes, Supports MP3, WAV |
Camera | |
Video Recording | Yes, 30 fps |
Flash | LED |
Secondary Camera | Yes, 0.3 Megapixel |
Other Camera Features | Auto Focus, Geo-tagging, Face Detection |
Primary Camera | Yes, 5 Megapixel |
Internet & Connectivity | |
Audio Jack | 3.5 mm |
Bluetooth | Yes, v3, Supported Profiles (A2DP, FTP, OPP, PBAP) |
Navigation Technology | A-GPS, with Google Maps |
Wifi | Yes, 802.11 b/g/n |
Internet Features | |
EDGE | Yes |
GPRS | Yes |
Tethering | USB, Wi-fi Hotspot |
USB Connectivity | Yes, micro USB, v2 |
3G | Yes, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA; 384 kbps HSUPA |
Other Features | |
Sensors | Accelerometer, Digital Compass, Proximity Sensor, Ambient Light Sensor |
Phone Book Memory | Practically Unlimited |
SMS Memory | Yes |
Call Memory | Practically Unlimited |
Important Apps | Google Search, Google Mail, Wikipedia, Google Translate, Google Dictionary, YouTube, Google Talk, Facebook, Twitter, Android Market, Flickr, Friend Stream |
Additional Features | Video Recording with Flash, MMS Enabled, Clock, Organizer, Widgets, Voice Dialing, Alarm, Stock, Weather, Calendar, Airplane Mode, HTC Caller ID, Internet Calls |
Warranty | |
Warranty Summary | 1 year manufacturer warranty for Phone and 1 year warranty for in the box accessories |
Dimensions | |
Weight | 124 g |
Size | 64.6x114.4x10.7 mm |
Display | |
Resolution | HVGA, 480 x 320 Pixels |
Color | 256 K |
Size | 2.6 Inches |
Battery | |
Talk Time | 4 hrs (2G) |
Standby Time | 120 hrs (2G) |
Type | Li-Ion, 1250 mAh |
Memory and Storage | |
Expandable Memory | microSD, upto 32 GB |
Memory | 512 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM |
Included Memory Card | 2 GB |
Platform | |
Operating Freq | GSM - 850, 900, 1800, 1900; UMTS - 2100 |
User Interface | HTC Sense |
OS | Android v2.3 (Gingerbread) |
Java | Yes |
Processor | 800 MHz |
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Ore Sama
Jun 19, 2014
Fell in love with this phone when i first saw it.... but....
sunil chaudhary
May 10, 2014
i m intrested both facilitys qwerty keypad & anroid phones these parfect quality this phone
priyal mehta
Feb 18, 2014
average phone
Aug 1, 2013
The product is not so good
Jul 13, 2013
Not a good buy
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Expand all ReviewsNiks
Oct 23, 2011
HTC Chacha battery issue.
I found this on google forum plz let us know if it helped.Vikas Kamate
Aug 24, 2011
Very nice phone bugged by Android Dialer batter issue
1) Features: overall nice features. you get what you could expect from a android 2.3.3 device. No shortcomings I see except the absence quick settings tab when you open the notification bar. Migration from my nokia e71 to ChaCha was easy and seamless using phone transfer wizard.Ashish Kulshreshtha
Aug 20, 2011
Good and Very Capable Phone with Ultra Poor Battery...
I bought this phone at the pre-release order stage itself through Flipkart. The phone was delivered promptly when released and ws received in excellent condition. The phone did not disappoint me at all and is indeed a fantastic Android Phone with amazing features. The android market and htc hub and htc sense are unique application and enable easy donwload of useful features...Ashish Sharma
Aug 23, 2012
Beware HTC has discontinued HTC CHaCHa
HTC has discontinued HTC CHaCHa because:Debasis Dash
Jul 25, 2012
Bad Experience with ChaCha
First of all Good service by Flipkart.But this product is a blunder from HTC.Anand Vashishtha
Sep 22, 2012
good looking , good touch sensitivity
Key features are best in this price .It takes a little blue button and we get the point, but the QWERTY keyboard is a statement of its own too.Great Facebook integration,Thought-out UIShash gupta
Aug 9, 2012
a superb phone but couple of major issues
it has all the great features that a 2.3 could have a great camera and nice UI.....everything is great but problem comes with battery and internal memory.it has a real poor battery life.the internal memory is just horrible it doesn't even provide more than 20 MB of free space.these two problems will always pinch you.Lakshmi Narayan V
Jun 16, 2012
One of the best social networking device!
It's a great phone if you are someone who uses Facebook and Twitter a lot. The batter is definitely a downside. I don't think there is a Dialer "bug" on this phone. The Dialer just does a lot of work syncing all of your contacts' social networking info. It is working all the time in the background. The battery lasted 9 hrs on the first day. It improved to having to charge once every night (roughly 16 hrs battery time) from the second day onwards. I suggest you charge the phone for the first few days overnight with the phone switched off. I just believe it helps the battery get a little better … (Expand)siddh.c
Jun 5, 2012
best phone to buy in this range
probably one of the best phone available in INDIA at this rangeShradha shah
Feb 6, 2012
Really happy with this phone
My requirements were quite clear, Android, Qwerty and No Micromax/Spice(based on previous experience). There was not much choice with these specs, but really happy with this phone. Touch is very smooth, keys are good, well spaced. People looking for big screens should not go for this. Android and HTC sense does not really require my review as everyone knows what they are all about.