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LOL - our bird-y dog. Ever since Barb posted the pheasant pictures I was simply craving pheasants. For New Years we ordered two pheasants and the beef brisket from nbsmokehouse. Since I was bed-bound with the flu we were finally able to have our New Years dinner yesterday. Wow Wow Wow - I should have videotaped Rose.
She really really wanted to "fetch" those pheasants. I was amazed at her restraint not to jump on the counter.
She has tried every trick possible, around, sit, down, high five, shake voluntarily to show me how much she deserves them. She even went and found her favorite toy "chicken" and brought it over to trade.
Still hoping for the ice to melt. It is pretty dangerous in the back yard. Bunch of snow footprints that are now frozen. Maybe I am too much of a mother but I told DH that if she breaks a foot or gets injured running in the back yard he is the one to take her to the vet.
Rose Bud - Golden Retriever (June 2012)
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Yes, I keep a training log (besides GRF). The drawings of some of the setups are unrecognizable and initially I wondered at the value of the exercise. However, I now like it even though my artistic talent has not improved. It's helped me see trends. For example, in our mark blind drill Winter was not having a problem with under the arc or backsiding the winger, but with whatever side she ran second. She would ignore the holding blind hiding the winger on the first side we ran (either under arc or backsiding) but would lock on to the holding blind on the second side. Drawing it out helped me see it.
We have a steady diet of singles going on here too, but throw in multiples about once a week. All of these setups have blinds that are long or have suction/factors or both. We run our lining drill and the mark blind drill about once a week, but not on the same day. Since until last week to was in the 40's during the day, we were running splashing water blinds and short swim marks, sandwiched between land marks or blinds. But now the temps are around 30 so we are out of the water until it warms up.
I'm wishing for an early warm spring so we can get back in the water.
I hope to give Finished a try this year and tackle Master next....
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All Weather Retriever Trainer's Kit. $44.42. There are several others. This one is a good one and much like what I use.
Good job!
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I used to keep a training log but haven't in a long time.
I also like to draw pictures, especially of drills, because that's the only way I remember anything! If someone hands me a picture I probably wouldn't understand it, it helps me to draw it myself after doing it.
Actually writing and drawing helps me commit items to memory. I wonder if typing will have the same effect, if so, this forum will help me :-)
Sometimes when we go to obedience our friend Sunrise has a written out plan of what to work on with each dog that day. I think that'll be a good idea for me going forward because I have like 4 sets of things to be worked on that need to be mixed up so it would help to plan, what to do when and how to move forward with it.
Although I agree adjustments need to be made. Like if bad habits or problems creep in.
Dawn, Dee Dee (L), and Gladys (R)
and Boomer (avatar pic) with us in spirit always
Today we focused on water blinds. There are several blinds available at the place we train, that are quite difficult (mainly, down the shore with an island off the shore, big angle entry). Every new set of judges they bring in for the tests here, sees them and goes, There's our water blind! The last master test I ran there, last year with Fisher, he one-whistled the one they picked out and everyone thought I was a genius. To Fisher it's basically a pattern blind, we've done them so many times. So anyways we worked on those same blinds (3 different ones) today with Slater & Millie, and they did GREAT!!! Really happy with everything.
A funny thing happened though...lining up for the first blind, which was down the shore to the left, down a channel formed by the shore and an island, instead of facing forward Slater is air-scenting to the right and clearly indicating he wants to go that way. Well, 100+ yards across the big pond (big open swim) is the OTHER blind with bumpers I had placed. The wind was blowing right at us. Great opportunity to do a big water swim, so I turned, lined him up and BACK. Out he went!
The last blind we set up I taught it like a pattern blind, with rather mixed results with Slater. I won't try to describe it other than to say it was huge, over two points and they ran it as the open water blind last year. Anyways Slater did a pretty good job as I built it, when I finally got it to full distance, he was being really weird lining up, bugging at me, I finally did a heel-burn-heel, and then he was off like a shot. Came back, repeated it, this time he lined up fine, no bugging and went 100 miles an hour off the line, as he's about 2/3 the way out there I'm blowing my whistle trying to get a cast and he's completely blowing through it. Now, that same strong wind was coming at me, and he knew the destination and trying very hard to get there quickly, but geeze!!! Once he was coming back I look at my transmitter, and my FREAKIN COLLAR WAS OFF. So he totally "faked" a correction for bugging and no wonder why he blew through the whistle. Hmmm...
Slater came back from that one like he had won the lottery, even though I felt it wasn't that great, he thought it was.
Fisher was up next, I ran the same blind from about halfway, took 2 casts to it, then backed up immediately to the full distance, and he one-whistled it. Fisher was on, and fast. Maybe if I run the qual again they'll pick that same blind
Lastly we went up to the hay field and again ran singles with white bumpers and really launched them. After a few corrections for breaking with the pinch collar the other day, Slater has been solid as a rock. These big singles have worked WONDERS for his focus and marking. WONDERS.
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Yesterday in hunt class we admitted a black lab. Wow what a difference in energy. This new pup comes from total field lines and is super hard core. The rest of us goldens have been working together for a few months now so it was fun to see a new pup work. We still are working only inside for class. Our trainer doesn't like it when it's cold and icy. So I work my girl outside with my husband. We worked on getting the pups to retrieve with only a hey hey and hand signals. No come or back or any other verbal commands. Some pups did better than others. We also worked on heeling and honoring. My girl just has a hard time honoring. Maybe because its her siblings? Wednesday we start obedience with another trainer. We will still be hunt oriented, but this trainer only competes in hunt and field and doesn't train dogs for it. So obedience on Wed. and hunt on Sat. The pups are doing great!
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We trained hand thrown walk away singles and blinds the last couple of times out. It was a mixed bag. One day the long mark gave her trouble. It was a long low arcing throw that landed behind a hill. The next day a short inward thrown mark that landed on the backside of a hill. She charged up the hill and blew over the top of it. I believe Miss Winter has a lot of hand thrown singles in her future, she may have been seeing too many marks out of wingers.
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Holly that's exactly what we've been doing and wow what a difference. I am loving the results. Since it's winter the cover is down (cows eat it or they've mowed/baled) so even small white bumpers are easy to find. But I really felt our dogs were so used to a hand-thrown duck (which as you know, doesn't go real far) or a duck out of our little winger. We show up at a test and those big wingers really launch the duck and the dog ends up running where the mark "would be" thrown! Ugg. I also felt Slater wasn't marking it well and rather, running toward the gunner then hunting. Not good.
Anyways we've trained the past, oh gosh I think 4 days in a row, maybe 5, things are going well. Just singles but even twice I ran singles on a multiple setup and neither of my dogs headswung, gee funny how that works. Anyways things are good.
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The first day I trained with my friend Sandy. We both wanted to do hand thrown singles and I asked her what she wanted to throw. She said "let's throw small bumper I need to work on marking". Wow, was she right. It makes me laugh, we had two cars full of equipment, wingers, electronics, holding blinds, dokkens.....and here we are hand throwing 2 inch white bumpers and getting in great training. I think I will be backing down multiples to once every couple of weeks and doing hand thrown singles, like Annie. I was worried about Winter not marking the last mark of triples. She too seemed to be using the gunner (or winger) to pick up that third mark. We are throwing very easy triples right now. The last couple of times she stepped on them so I'm encouraged that we can build them. She even gave her little quick head turn glance to the 3rd mark when she was running back with number two. This has been her tell that she knows where the next bird is and I was glad it see it. It may take us awhile but I think we can get there.
I don't know if I have mentioned that in my training group there are 3 women in their 70's. All three of them have dogs that are training at the Master level. They have done it all, bench, obedience, tracking, field. They're very encouraging and a riot to train with. Plus they know where all the bodies are buried.
I believe I will have the pleasure of training with a Fisher grandpup soon.
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Franklin Sain, the Colorado Springs man charged with sending state Rep. Rhonda Fields a series of racially and sexually offensive e-mails, destroyed key evidence in the case against him, Fields' attorney wrote in court documents filed this week.
Sain, who was charged in February with harassment involving ethnic intimidation and attempting to influence a public servant, told Denver police he sent Fields, D-Aurora, six e-mails filled with profanity and sexual and racial epithets and left similar voice mails between Feb. 13 and 15. Police also believe he sent Fields an unsigned, threatening letter that said: "I keep my 30 Round Magazines There Will Be Blood! I'm Coming For You!" which his attorney has repeatedly denied.
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This was the best analysis of the camera of the Nexus 5. In other reviews they seemed not to be aware that the problems were caused by the shutter speed and the ISO.
You did not comment on the option "picture quality". There are 9 choices like Jpeg 50%, Normal, Fine, Super Fine, producing files of 400 to >3000 KB. Normal seems to be the same as Jpeg 75%. Strangely the big and small files look almost the same (in 100 % cropping).
The ISOs higher than 200 get rather grainy. But there is one way out. If you choose "Steady Photo" in the scenes mode the camera will choose an ISO around 400 with a shutter speed around 1/10. However all (!) the scenes modes (like landscape and fireworks) force an automatic flash if it is dark enough. A simple solution for Google might be if they offer scene modes ISO 100, ISO 200 etc. If only Google would read this. By the way I use a CyanogenMod, so not sure if the stock 4.4.2 offers the same scene modes.


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Pink and Green Mama,
I'm in the process of doing round two of an Inventions and Machines unit with my Pre-Kers. Last time I taught this unit, the kids definitely loved creating their own inventions using "take aparts" (in exactly the way you are recycling old items for the Frog Princess's creations). They made "germ catchers, "under the bed monster traps," "baby brother quieting machines," and all sorts of other hilarious things. They also enjoyed making "blueprints" of their inventions using trusty blue pencils on transparent paper. Learning about simple machines is also a great way to integrate more science in this topic. Once kids start to identify levers and fulcrums, inclined planes, wheels and axles, etc., they can find them everywhere! (e.g., scissors, light switches, can openers, door stops--and so much more!) Happy Inventing!
Another great idea I will be implementing!
Do you have a list of items that are in your invention box? I would love to see what you have included.
This is incredible!!!!
I"d love to include this in my "Things we didn't get to in 2012 but wish we did" post. I'll include your picture and a direct link to your post. If you'd prefer that I didn't, please let me know.
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Tell them: "DON'T break things apart, and DON'T put items from the invention bucket in your
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He was in the hospital 20 times before he was 4, his mother said. As a toddler, he had allergies so severe, he required daily shots. His early life was filled with terrifying events. "I'd wake up in an ambulance, scared to death," he remembered.
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"But I won't blame the medicine or my early experiences entirely," said Eric, 25. "Food also became a big comfort to me."
His mother, Sharon Duesenberry, said, "We were young parents. He was our only child, so when he was little and crying at night, we felt so bad for him, we'd get him whatever would comfort him, and sometimes that was a pizza."
Eric had what researchers call "adverse childhood experiences" that break a child's trust that they are safe in the adult world. Research shows that whatever the adverse experience, such children are more likely to have problems, including obesity and difficulty learning.
It does not mean they will, but statistically the likelihood is great. Eric is proving it doesn't have to stay that way.
He grew fast. By the time he was in third grade, "they had to bring a desk down from the sixth grade for me." The teasing was "pretty constant," he said. "My teachers tried to watch out for me."
By seventh grade he weighed 250 pounds. By the time he was a senior, "they couldn't weigh me on a standard scale anymore." He had topped 400 pounds.
He could give answers orally but had trouble writing things down -- a learning disability. His teachers said he tested high on subjects such as history and science. To escape, he read constantly. "I won the summer library prize three years running for the kid who read the most books."
By his senior year, he no longer took allergy shots and cortisone, "but I kept telling myself the weight would drop off. I was in denial."
He hit his turning point a few months before he graduated. One day, his gym teacher got called away for a phone call while students were doing pushups. Eric was on the floor, trying. "I couldn't do any more than two. When I tried to get up, I couldn't get up past my knees."
Nobody helped him. He started crawling toward the bleachers. Someone moved to give him a hand up, but "a guy said, 'No, let the egg crawl.'" Students began to snicker.
In that moment, he said, "It all just washed over me. I saw how enormous I was, how bloated. By the time I pulled myself up on the bleachers, terrible thoughts were going through my head."
That incident "could easily have had a tragic outcome if he had not had a strong support system at home," said John Linton, acting director of CAMC's Behavioral Medicine Department. "Shattering moments can move a person to change if there's good support, but they can also make the person much worse."
Eric told his mother and grandmother what happened. "My mom comforted me, and my grandma gave me a wakeup call," he said. She "is a no-nonsense West Virginia woman who tells it like it is. She said I had a choice to stay that big, or I could decide to change.
"If I stayed that way, she said, I'd die young. She said it just like that -- kind, but serious. It really sank in on me.
"It had never hit me before that I had a choice, that I really could choose. I thought that's just how my life was."
'Are you serious about changing?'
Eric graduated from Nitro High School in size-58 pants. He started going to the Cross Lanes YMCA. "Day after day, you'd see me waddling on the treadmill. There's no other word for it. I was determined. The employees cheered me on."
By midsummer, his mother insisted he climb on the scales. "Imagine being happy about weighing 350 pounds! It was one of the happiest days of my life."
He started building retaining walls for his grandmother's stonework business. "At first, he could only lift small rocks," his father recalls. "Now he lifts 94-pound bags of cement with no trouble."
Said Eric, "I made it down to 330, then was stuck for about a year. Most people hit a plateau."
In a financial crisis, the family had to drop their YMCA membership. His parents work nights, cleaning office buildings.
In late 2011, Eric and his dad, a diabetic, started going to West Virginia Health Right. They looked at Eric's blood sugar. He tested positive for Type 2 diabetes.
During that first visit, nurse practitioner Michele Selanik asked him, 'Are you serious about changing?' and I said, 'You bet. For me, it's life and death,'" Eric recalled.
"He impressed me from the beginning with his gumption and determination," Selanik said. She got him into their diabetes education classes and Weight Watchers group so he could change his eating and grocery habits.
"I've made it down to 280," Eric said. "That still sounds heavy, but remember where I started. I've lost a whole person."
His Health Right records show his blood sugar (A1C) in the normal range, down by a third.
His whole family revamped their eating habits. "No more ice cream and candy," said Sharon Duesenberry. "We don't want that stuff here to tempt us."
Eric lives with his parents near Cross Lanes. He's been reading up on nutrition. He says things like, "Do you know that they genetically modify wheat, and processed wheat is a big cause of obesity?
"This is a life change, not a temporary change," he said. "They tell us that at Weight Watchers. Junk food is all around you, but you can still take control of your health and life.
"This is you, taking your life in your own hands, doing what you need to do. I'm learning how to use spices, steaming raw vegetables. I can make about six dishes with chicken. We only use breads Dr. Oz approves of. I bring labels from cereal boxes and stuff to Weight Watchers, and they explain it to me."
Early in November, Eric started a new job. "I've got my own office building to clean now," he said. He and his dad started back at the Y, working out several times a week.
He offers some advice. "When you realize that you are -- I'm going to say it -- fat, don't be discouraged. You'll be amazed what you can do, exercising, not eating junk food or processed food, cutting down on portion sizes.
"You may feel there's no hope. Keep going. You can't give up. That day in the gym, something clicked for me, and I realized that if anything was going to be different for me, it had to be me that made it different.
"I use that day as a springboard. When I have a setback, I remember it, and keep moving forward."
Sometimes he thinks about college or further training, he said. "But for now, it's enough to see that I actually can make myself better. Right now, I don't have complicated goals. My goal is to fit into normal pants. I'll think about the rest when it's time."
Reach Kate Long at email@example.com or 304-348-1798.
The Shape We're In" has been supported by a Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism fellowship, administered by the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.


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I tried to login and even reset my password still it says "We're unable to log you in."
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Bugs, slugs, disease and other yucky things that can happen in a garden.
Learn to identify the most common insects (good and bad) and diseases found in a vegetable garden and then learn alternative ways to control them. Take home some recipes for organic pest control. Eat more of what you grow!


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Michael Hollick (born 1973) is an American actor who has appeared in television shows such as Sex and the City and Law & Order. He provided the voice of Niko Bellic in Grand Theft Auto IV, The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony; his voice work in GTA IV won him the Best Male Voice Actor award at the 2009 Video Game Awards; he also starred in Homefront as part of the motion capture cast.
- When he saw the success of GTA IV, he tried to negotiate for more money, saying that he had no idea that the game would be so succesful. However, he got nothing.
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After many months apart, the final days of a deployment seem like they should be the easiest. But with numerous delays in the final hours, the families of 280 Fort Carson soldiers were on pins and needles waiting for the first glimpse of that familiar face after nine months.
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Many people waiting at Fort Carson's Special Events Center told 11 News they didn't get a wink of sleep before the ceremony, which was held at 5 a.m. Friday. Most were too busy preparing for the moment they had spent the better part of a year waiting for.
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The Thornton Winery and talk with Sally Thornton one of San Diego's most stylish ladies. I asked Sally about her style and how she goes about putting an outfit together. She told me that she re-spins things in her closet. She said, " I invent things. Style opens the door for your creativity. It's an opportunity. You do it everyday, just like painting a picture, its just fun for me."
In college, Sally really began to develop her own sense of style. Her roommate was a designer and she would sit on the floor all day coming up with designs and patterns to make clothes. Sally would watch her in awe as she worked on her fantastic creations. When they would walk down the street together, Sally's roommate would tell her that she couldn't walk next to her unless she approved of her outfit. Thornton embraced this critique and learned from it. She was astounded and excited by her brilliant talent.
Sally's own brilliant talent extends beyond personal style. She is an award winning author, equestrian and philanthropist. Her father taught her that whatever she did she must learn how to do everything from beginning to end so that she would be ready for anything. Sally told me that if you know the ins and outs and learn how to do everything involved with a task you will be ready for any situation." You learn how to think in a different dimension so that you don't fall apart if something doesn't go your way. You think creatively when something happens and remember nothing is beneath you."
Her motto in life is to Keep Moving no matter what. "You have to ride through adversity no matter what happens and keep on moving." Her tips on how to stay active, " I haven't grown up yet. I diet, take vitamins and exercise daily."
When it comes to being stylish Sally recommends, " Keep your eyes open all the time and expose yourself to as many things as possible. Your eyes are like a camera. Your brain automatically adapts and you adopt . You have to feel it and you have to want to be stylish."Like minded friends like Jewelry designer Reena Horowitz and Style Expert Leonard Simpson help to keep Sally inspired.
It was pleasure to interview Sally Thornton and learn how to drink from the cup of life.
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Sally Thornton: "Keep Moving"
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- sacramento said...
Love, love her...
- August 15, 2010 at 3:46 PM
- Annika said...
Wow, I love her hair!
- August 15, 2010 at 4:55 PM
- Terri said...
Her hair is lovely
- August 15, 2010 at 9:23 PM
- ultramaryna said...
it's the first time I have seen a blog like that! great idea! this woman looks stylish.
- August 16, 2010 at 5:58 AM
- Trixie said...
you go girl!
- August 16, 2010 at 12:57 PM
- Style Odyssey said...
i love her youthful take on life. her angelic hair is lovely!
- August 16, 2010 at 3:27 PM
Emmylou's sister.
- August 17, 2010 at 2:45 PM
I'd love to be with you on some of these interviews. Sally has 'inner style' - LOVE LOVE LOVE her attitude. She's a pretty cool person in my books.
Susan Chambers
Vancouver, BC
- August 17, 2010 at 4:27 PM
- Forest City Fashionista said...
A talented, stylish and insightful woman!
- August 18, 2010 at 6:33 PM
- amaturecouture said...
omg she is so HIP
- August 19, 2010 at 3:05 AM
- diane in NOLA said...
I have had the pleasure of
Meeting her in La Jolla...and photograph
Her too
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Dr. P.M. Patterson
Dr. P. M. Patterson
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Florida Atlantic University
School of Public Administration
Dr. P. M. Patterson (B.A., LeMoyne College ; M.P.A., M.A., Ph. D., The American University) teaches courses in Public Administration and Policy in FAU's graduate and undergraduate programs. An active member of the Public Administration Theory Network ( PAT-net ), Dr. Patterson serves on the Editorial Board and is the former Book Review Editor of the journal, Administrative Theory and Praxis .
Dr. Patterson's own research focuses on the experience, expression, and communication of marginality, emotion, and dissent in public administrative arenas. This document summarizes much of Dr. Patterson's scholarly work, small, medium, and large. Most published work is available to students and to the public either on the world wide web, or through the proprietary data bases of university libraries. Unpublished work may be viewed on reserve at the MacArthur campus library, or requested by contacting the author directly (during the academic year).
"'A Long Way Toward What?" Sex, Gender, Feminism, and the Study of Public Administration." With First Author, K. McGinn. International Journal of Public Administration, 2005, 28 (11 & 12), 929-942.
Asks how far public administration scholarship has come in its understandings of gender. Offers a typology for published articles in the field, roughly that: women are absent entirely from consideration in many articles; that women exist as exemplars and exceptions in some articles; that some articles treat gender as a variable in an equation (and as something that only women have); that some articles assert that women are or present scholarly problems; that some articles engage in serious questioning about gender; and finally, that a redefined inclusive scholarship is possible.
"ASPA Members Sign Anti-Torture Statement: PAT-NET Conferees Discuss PA Responsibility to Teach Against Torture." PA Times, 2004, 27 (9): 15.
News report on actions taken by the author and others to promote discussion of administrative responsibility to oppose torture.
"The Reflective Practitioner and the Uses of Rhetoric." With first author, D. Farmer. Public Administration Review , 2003, 63 (1): 105-111.
This essay invites readers of PA's flagship journal to consider modifiers other than "empty" for the noun, rhetoric. It asserts the essential usefulness of rhetoric in politics and administration, as a way to provide persuasive emphasis to be sure, but also as a technique of analysis, a way in which administrators manifest their latent signatures, and an indicator of the constrained signature of PA as a field.
"Writing and Re-Writing the Discipline: Introduction…." Administrative Theory and Praxis , 2003, 25 (1): 3-8.
In June of 2002, the Public Administration Theory Network's annual conference adopted as its theme, "Writing and Rewriting the Discipline." There, and in the ATP symposium intended to follow up, the idea was to examine and illuminate basic features of the writing, or construction, of the PA field. This piece introduces that symposium, in which authors were asked to consider models of legitimate(d) writing, successful writers, and any limits imposed by current genres, styles, traditions and forms in PA writing. The introduction itself reflects on modes, meanings and purposes of written production, circulation, and authorization.
"Interpretation, Contradiction, and Refusal: The Best Lack All Conviction?" Administrative Theory and Praxis , 2003, 25 (2): 233-242.
In conventional terms, this manuscript uses a politically relevant Yeat's poem as "data" in order to illustrate, for a PA audience, useful formalist and intentionalist interpretive methodologies borrowed from literary criticism. However, since questions concerning to whom interpretations must be acceptable and to whom they may remain debatable or unacceptable are political questions (both in literary study and in social science), rhetoric is entailed in arguing for particular interpretations. Foundationalist principles and methodological strategies become rhetorical resources rather than means to correct interpretation. The article then raises questions about the sufficiency of rhetorical conviction as counterweight to fascist certainty, whether encountered in a poem or in the variable "texts" of government.
"Serving for Fun and Profit: A Critique of Servant Leadership." Public Voices, 2001/2002, V (1-2): 39-48.
This article constitutes an assertive critique of "servant leader" traits and visions. After an inquiry into the nature of the empathy often attributed to the practitioners of servant leadership, the essay delivers hearty objections. It points to conceptual maskings of the very hierarchies the approach pretends to undo, and suggests the status of servant leadership as theology rather than theory.
"Imagining Anti-Administration's Anti-Hero", Administrative Theory and Praxis , 2001, 23 (4): 529-540.
Suggesting the "trickster" figure as a personification of Farmer's (1995) concept, "anti-administration", this publication compares and contrasts the trickster's anti-hero qualities to the characteristics and commitments of the agonistic hero in contemporary theoretical discourses of administration.
"Viscera, Emotion, and Administration." Administrative Theory and Praxis , June 2001, 23 (2): 205-230.
Using the vehicle of the negative emotions, this article argues that Public Administration has something to gain by taking embodied human persons and their most visceral emotions into better account. The article illustrates how administrators grapple with and regulate a plethora of disgusting substances, people, acts, and situations for us, and how they might do so without commodification of feeling, and with more humanity. It invites consideration of the scholar's responsibility to understand something about these complex emotions.
"Reinventing the Public Body: Feminist Theories, Embodiment, and Public Administration" Introduction to a Symposium, Administrative Theory and Praxis , June 2001, 23 (2): 175-186.
This article introduces a symposium by declaring and distinguishing multiple referents of the term "embodiment", explicating their relevance to public administration, and linking them to symposium articles. Feminist and other theories can help public administration acknowledge bodies as communally consequential objects of administrative interest, the tablets of power, and the means through which culture is produced, articulated, and enacted.
"Introduction: Still 'Enthralled with Modernity'? Toward Postrationalist Discourse Theories." With C. S. King and F. Scott. American Review of Public Administration . 30 (3) 2000, 221-224.
Although public administration theorists, scholars, and practitioners increasingly recognize postmodern conditions, we have yet to develop the lenses, languages, and practices to go beyond the modernity in which we are mired. This co-authored symposium introduction dares to propose the inadequacy of both technicist and reductionist rationalist theory streams in public administration, and suggests transformative processes as alternatives to instrumental ones.
"Non-Virtue is Not Apathy: Warrants for Discourse and Citizen Dissent." American Review of Public Administration. 30 (3) September 2000, 225-251.
This article argues that conditions of subordination limit opportunities for citizen participation and discourse and alter the forms and meanings of each. It shows how open participation in the forms recognized as conventional, virtuous, and authentic is often neither possible nor wise, particularly in administrative environments. In the last analysis, the article documents a need for further and more incisive research, to go beyond the means and into the ends of deliberative discourse, and to see how they are intertwined.
"The Sounds of Silence: Neither Exit, nor Loyalty, nor Voice?" Journal of Public Affairs Education, 6 (1) January 2000, 19-33.
Using focus groups and an interpretive methodology, this research argues the importance to public affairs of student silence. Such silences seem a proper concern of educators who aspire to inspire, to "cultivate" public administrators who reason well and understand multiple points of view. Using an interpretive interactionist method, the research thematically addresses student comments and quotes to show that students make many and varied meanings of their own silences. Much is expected of those whose "business" is the study of public space, public speech, public issues, and public authority. In view of those expectations, the research suggests factors that professors of public affairs might consider deeply, if they are interested in transforming patterns of silent exit, assumed loyalty, and unequal opportunity for voice.
"The Talking Cure and the Silent Treatment: Some Limits of 'Discourse' as Speech." Administrative Theory and Praxis, 22 (4) 2000, 663-695.
This publication inquires after the purposes of talk, particularly as remedy and practice in "deliberative democracy." It discusses the increasingly generic prescriptions for talk, in light of a partial taxonomy of silence and an economy of listening. It considers whether the prescription for talk is likely to be appreciated, interpreted, and applied evenly across the political body, given historical experience. The article also investigates silence as mode and sign of exclusion, withdrawal, and resistance, and suggests there is more to silence than the absence of talk. Using the metaphor of "the talking cure", the article asks why we should talk, how, who will listen, and what that has to do with governance. Finally, it suggests that the dominant way in which "discourse" is coming to be conceptualized and materialized in institutions is as "talk", and that this viewpoint has its limits. Contrasting the insights of Foucault and Habermas, the article reasserts the more potent claim of discourse theory--that systems of thought and language construct reality and create us--and critiques the definition of conversation as the new reality.
"Organizing Thinking About Organizations." Co-authored with J. Donohue. Public Productivity and Management Review ( now Public Performance and Management Review). 23 (2) 1999: 240-247.
This book review essay considers M. J. Hatch, Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic, and Postmodern Perspectives , and J. Pfeffer, New Directions for Organization Theory: Problems and Prospects . First, it lays out what Hatch and Pfeffer claim are the important concepts and controversies in the field and the objects, entities, and processes of concern to them. Second, it examines the frameworks through which these objects are observed and the authors' positions toward "paradigm proliferation." Finally, the essay turns the authors' frameworks on their heads by considering them, and their limitations, via a book review strategy flowing from the authors' very own advice.
"Market Metaphors and Political Vocabularies: The Case of the Marginalized Citizen." Public Productivity and Management Review. 22 (2) 1998, 220-231.
In a classic 1946 essay, Herbert Simon cautioned that administrative proverbs, besides being potentially contradictory, provided little guidance about the circumstances under which they did and did not apply. In essence, this article offers a critique of the proverb "government should be run like a business", and an investigation of the elemental qualities of the citizen. It challenges now conventional assertions that public sector bureaucrats routinely mistreat the public, yet will be inspired to treat "customers" better. At length, it suggests reasons why regarding the public as a constellation of "citizens" is superior to market-based alternatives. A vocabulary that emphasizes citizenship has important implications for the "standing" of the public in its encounters with bureaucrats and bureaucracies. Though this is by now well-trod ground in PA, this once timely article attempted to show how, in the absence of a political vocabulary, citizens and government are marginalized rather than improved.
"Strategic Customers or Strategic Citizens: Public Leadership and Resistant Followership." In Leading Organizations: Perspectives for a New Era , G. Hickman, ed. Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage Publications, 1998, pp. 217-226.
This book chapter examines the ways in which citizens covertly and overtly resist bureaucratic authority, in hopes of revealing the challenges to public leaders created by citizen reluctance to follow. It conceptualizes and illustrates a set of citizen strategies for coping with and struggling with bureaucracies in street level relations. These efforts preserve the dignity and agency of the individuals, even if they do not constitute a successful (or even advisable) challenge to bureaucratic power. This research argues that, in the long run, false parallels between market and government
obscure these political possibilities, depriving public leaders of important forms of feedback and support, and citizens of accessible means of expressing voice.
"Impacts of Traditional Explanatory Factors on Average Grade Increases in the U.S. Cabinet Level Departments." Co-authored with S. L. Durst and J. J. Ramsden. Public Administration Review , 49 (4) 1989, 363-371.
This quantitative empirical research appeared in the discipline's flagship journal at a time when quantitative work was of limited popularity and in very short supply. It examined traditional explanations of the increase in average classification grade of the United States General Schedule workforce from the early 1970's through 1987. Descriptive statistics were included, and a causal model was developed that distinguished between classification grade "increase" and grade "inflation". The relative and simultaneous impacts of three causal variables were explored, with appropriate controls, whereas previous empirical work had measured the impact of causal factors separately. The results stressed the role of changes in technology and education in the federal workforce, altering its occupational mix, and legitimately inclining its grade structure toward the professional ranks.
"Describing Things No One Else Will." Forum dialogue, with multiple collaborators. Administrative Theory and Praxis , 2002, 24 (2): 363-368.
This interchange of letters illustrates the potential impact of unfettered anti-administrative writing on and by young scholars. It frames and publicizes a letter from an anonymous young administrator, in defense of living in "un-authorized" styles and administrative venues.
"An Instrument for Feminist Assessment of Women's Studies Programs." Feminist Teacher . Co-author, L. McCulley. 10 (2) Winter 1996/Spring 1997.
This brief article and its lengthy creative attachment presents a practical, in-depth instrument for the evaluation of Women' Studies programs, and the rationale and means for its use. It has acted as a resource to academic programs which frequently lack "hard" data to document their many achievements and positive outcomes.
"Feminist Empowerment Through the Internet." Co-author, L. McCulley . Feminist Collections. 17 (2) (Winter/Spring 1996).
This article reflected on women "talking back" in different media, and considered the (then) future impact of electronic communications on political participation. It discussed the prospects for political organizing, contacting government officials, and so forth, and forecast how such interactions might change when women could be "heard but not seen."
"Social Choice Theories of Bureaucratic Decision-Making." A review and critique of this literature, cited/excerpted in Charles Levine, B. Guy Peters, and Frank J. Thompson, Public Administration: Challenges, Choices, Consequences, Glenview , Ill. : Scott, Foresman, 1990: 284-293, 302.
Rather than a publication of my own, this citation is for the publication of excerpts of my work. The excerpted material is from my literature review and critique of social choice theories of bureaucratic (rather than legislative) decision-making.
"Critical Junctures in the Emergence of Gender Wage Differentials." Unpublished and Unabstracted Dissertation, The American University , Washington , DC , July 1994. (Committee: B. Schiller, Chair; L. Langbein; G. Young; Dean, C. Kerwin).
This study longitudinally investigates the development of gender wage differentials in the lives of young women. Cross-sectional research demonstrates that the relative wages of young women and men are more equal than the wages of all women relative to all men, and that the ratio of female to male earnings deteriorates with age. Viewed longitudinally however, smaller differentials among the young may not represent improvements in equality for women ver time and may or may not presage lifetime equality. Therefore, it is crucial to distinguish progress across cohorts from a life course process within a cohort.
Critical considerations in the formulation of pertinent public policy are when and how wages diverge by gender, and if and how wages diverge within various subgroups of the population. The gender wage gap must develop over time, as young women and men are offered different alternatives, make different choices, and find their contributions differently valued.
This study focuses on the early experiences of young women, utilizing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), an ongoing panel study of nearly 13,000 youth. A subset of young black and white females, and a subset of white males, is stratified by levels of schooling attained. Individuals are then followed throughout the 1980's as they accumulate post-schooling "investments" and family responsibilities. Graphs and tables depict the early longitudinal evolution of gender wage gaps among subgroups by gender, race, and educational achievement.
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Lightning element
She clearly says in chapter 164 she turned her chakra into electricity. That IS lightning element. It should be added to her page for real, instead of saying possibly, because even the technique description says she changed her chakra into electricity... which is what Sasuke and Kakashi do for the Chidori and Raikiri. It is NO different than them 126.96.36.199 (talk) 07:15, June 8, 2013 (UTC)
- Talk:Tsunade/Archive 1#Raiton, Talk:Tsunade/Archive 1#Nature Type, Talk:Tsunade/Archive 2#Lightning Release, Talk:Tsunade/Archive 3#lightning release.3F, & Talk:Tsunade/Archive 3#Presumed Nature. Start reading. Jacce | Talk | Contributions 07:21, June 8, 2013 (UTC)
I noticed that you are referring to Tsunade's lightening release as "presumed" although it was clearly described in the manga that she has a lightening release [[1]]. Also, it is described here in wiki [[2]] and your description of this ninjutsu is easily linked to your own description of the lightening release here in wiki [[3]].
You are taking out an obvious power of Tsunade just because it wasn't confirmed in the databook !?
All the new justsu for all characters aren't included nor described in the databooks yet you are not describing it as "presumed".
The manga should have the priority in describing the powers and jutsu for all characters and you should base the information here on the manga first not the databooks.
Also, don't forget that when Tsunade used the Ranshinsho, it was before Kakashi describes how element types work to Naruto. Therefore, it was acceptable in the beginning to not include it in her data, but not anymore.
Please fix Tsunade's data and remove the "presumed" remark.
If you think I'm wrong then please describe to me how is the Ranshinsho different from the Raikiri or Chidori which led you to the concept of Tsunade not having a lightening release?
Thank you. --Saint Juste (talk) 11:12, June 24, 2013 (UTC)--Saint Juste (talk) 15:33, June 24, 2013 (UTC)
- I agree with Saint Juste. When she used the jutsu, elemental releases weren't really a big thing then. That was a time when Chidori/Raikiri was still 'visible chakra on their hand' kind of deal. She does say that she changes her chakra into electricity (at least that is what the translations say), which is exactly what lightning release is. Joshbl56 16:09, June 24, 2013 (UTC)
Even if it has a presumed tag, it got listed, which is more than most similar situations get as resolution. Most are either put in the trivia, danced around of stuff, or not mentioned at all. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 00:14, June 25, 2013 (UTC)
Get Seelentau to look at the kanji and etc of everything. It may be that it simply refers to electricity rather than lightning, in terms of Raiton, which would rest the case once and for all. It'd also perhaps moreso refer to the electrical pulses in ones body in regards to nerves and etc than it is a release. So even if in the case she does turn it into electrical signals, that's not the same as Raiton.--Taynio (talk) 00:20, June 25, 2013 (UTC)
Sounds great Obnibender lets get read of it and put it in the trivia tell it gets conformedBestKage (talk) 00:24, June 25, 2013 (UTC)BestKage
Except not. At first, I didn't support listing her as a user of Lightning Release because her technique was so completely different from all other lightning techniques. Then the Raikage's armour came along, and it worked on pretty the same principle, so I changed my mind. I find it unlikely that the situation will change. It will not be removed to trivia, nor will the tag be removed, because no new information is, or is likely to be available, and perhaps most important at this point, this topic is a beaten dead horse, and every one who has ever taken part of it before is sick and tired of it. The way things are is the compromise between every one of those people who can't stand the topic any more. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 00:47, June 25, 2013 (UTC)
- so its okay to put presumed by other presumed stuff on this site right? Like with the argument with zetsu?BestKage (talk) 02:15, June 25, 2013 (UTC)BestKage
- The argument of Zetsu is different from this, and is being (re)discussed (again) elsewhere. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 21:25, June 25, 2013 (UTC)


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Sensitivity analysis made (relatively) simpleposted by on 19 Jan 2014
Best bang for your analytical buck
As (geo)data scientists, we spend much of our time working with data models that try (with varying degrees of success) to capture some essential truth about the world while still being as simple as possible to provide a useful abstraction. Inevitably, complexity starts to creep into every model and we don't often stop to assess the value added by that complexity. When working with models that require a large number of parameters and a huge domain of potential inputs that are expensive to collect, it becomes difficult to answer the question:
What parameters of the model are the most sensitive?
In other words, if I am going to spend my resources obtaining/refining data for this model, where should I focus my efforts in order to get the best bang for the buck? If I spend weeks working on deriving a single parameter for the model, I want some assurance that the parameter is critically important to the model's prediction. The flip-side, of course, is that if a parameter is not that important to the model's predictive power, I could save some time by perhaps just using some quick-and-dirty approximation.
SALib: a python module for testing model sensitivity
I was thrilled to find SALib which implements a number of vetted methods for quantitatively assessing parameter sensitivity. There are three basic steps to running SALib:
- Define the parameters to test, define their domain of possible values and generate n sets of randomized input parameters.
- Run the model n times and capture the results.
- Analyze the results to identify the most/least sensitive parameters.
I'll leave the details of these steps to the SALib documentation. The beauty of the SALib approach is that you have the flexibility[1] to run any model in any way you want, so long as you can manipulate the inputs and outputs adequately.
Case Study: Climate effects on forestry
I wanted to compare a forest growth and yield model under different climate change scenarios in order to assess what the most sensitive climate-related variables were. I identified 4 variables:
- Climate model (4 global circulation models)
- Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs; 3 different emission trajectories)
- Mortality factor for species viability (0 to 1)
- Mortality factor for equivalent elevation change (0 to 1)
In this case, I was using the Forest Vegetation Simulator(FVS) which requires a configuration file for every model iteration. So, for Step 2, I had to iterate through each set of input variables and use them to generate an appropriate configuration file. This involved translating the real numbers from the samples into categorical variables in some cases. Finally, in order to get the result of the model iteration, I had to parse the outputs of FVS and do some post-processing to obtain the variable of interest (the average volume of standing timber over 100 years). So the flexibility of SALib comes at a slight cost: unless your model works directly with the file formatted for SALib, the input and outputs may require some data manipulation.
After running the all required iterations of the model[2] I was able to analyze the results and assess the sensitivity of the four parameters.
Here's the output of SALib's analysis (formatted slightly for readability):
Parameter First_Order First_Order_Conf Total_Order Total_Order_Conf
circulation 0.193685 0.041254 0.477032 0.034803
rcp 0.517451 0.047054 0.783094 0.049091
mortviab -0.007791 0.006993 0.013050 0.007081
mortelev -0.005971 0.005510 0.007162 0.006693
The first order effects represent the effect of that parameter alone. The total order effects are arguably more relevant to understanding the overall interaction of that parameter with your model. The "Conf" columns represent confidence and can be interpreted as error bars.
In this case, we interpret the output as follows:
Parameter Total Order Effect
circulation 0.47 +- 0.03 (moderate influence)
rcp 0.78 +- 0.05 (dominant parameter)
mortviab 0.01 +- 0.007 (weak influence)
mortelev 0.007 +- 0.006 (weak influence)
We can graph each of the input parameters against the results to visualize this:
Note that the 'mortelev' component is basically flat (as the factor increases, the result stays the same) whereas the choice of 'rcp' has a heavy influence (as emissions increase to the highest level, the resulting prediction for timber volumes are noticeably decreased).
The conclusion is that the climate variables, particularly the RCPs related to human-caused emissions, were the strongest determinants[1] of tree growth for this particular forest stand. This ran counter to our initial intuition that the mortality factors would play a large role in the model. Based on this sensitivity analysis, we may be able to avoid wasting effort on refining parameters that are of minor consequence to the output.
- Compared to more tightly integrated, model-specific methods of sensitivity analysis
- 20 thousand iterations took approximately 8 hours; sensitivity analysis generally requires lots of processing
- Note that the influence of a parameter says nothing about direct causality
Leaflet Simple CSVposted by on 30 Sep 2013
Simple leaftlet-based template for mapping tabular point data on a slippy map
Anyone who's worked with spatial data and the web has run across the need to take some simple tabular data and put points on an interactive map. It's the fundamental "Hello World" of web mapping. Yet I always find myself spending way too much time solving this seemingly simple problem. When you consider zoom levels, attributes, interactivity, clustering, querying, etc… it becomes apparent that interactive maps require a bit more legwork. But that functionality is fairly consistent case-to-case so I've developed a generalized solution that works for the majority of basic use cases out there:
The idea is pretty generic but useful for most point marker maps:
* Data is in tabular delimited-text (csv, etc.) with two required columns:
lat and
* Points are plotted on full-screen Leaflet map
* Point markers are clustered dynamically based on zoom level.
* Clicking on a point cluster will zoom into the extent of the underlying features.
* Hovering on the point will display the name.
* Clicking will display a popup with columns/properties displayed as an html table.
* Full text filtering with typeahead
* Completely client-side javascript with all dependencies included or linked via CDN
Of course this is mostly just a packaged version of existing work, namely Leaflet with the geoCSV and markercluster plugins.
- Grab the leaflet-simple-csv zip file and unzip it to a location accessible through a web server.
- Copy the
- Visit the index.html page to confirm everything is working with the built-in example.
- Customize your
config.jsfor your dataset.
An example config:
var dataUrl = 'data/data.csv';
var maxZoom = 9;
var fieldSeparator = '|';
var baseUrl = 'http://otile{s}.mqcdn.com/tiles/1.0.0/osm/{z}/{x}/{y}.jpg';
var baseAttribution = 'Data, imagery and map information provided by MapQuest, OpenStreetMap and contributors, CC-BY-SA';
var subdomains = '1234';
var clusterOptions = {showCoverageOnHover: false, maxClusterRadius: 50};
var labelColumn = "Name";
var opacity = 1.0;
The example dataset:
United States|New York City|40.7142691|-74.0059738|2.0
United States|Los Angeles|34.0522342|-118.2436829|115.0
United States|Chicago|41.8500330|-87.6500549|181.0
United States|Houston|29.7632836|-95.3632736|15.0
I make no claims that this is the "right" way to do it but leveraging 100% client-side javascript libraries and native delimited-text formats seems like the simplest approach. Many of the features included here (clustering, filtering) are useful enough to apply to most situations and hopefully you'll find it useful.
Python raster statsposted by on 24 Sep 2013
A common task in many of my data workflows involves summarizing geospatial raster datasets based on vector geometries (i.e. zonal statistics). Despite many alternatives (starspan, the QGIS Zonal Statistics plugin, ArcPy and R) there were none that were
- open source
- fast enough
- flexible enough
- worked with python data structures
We'd written a wrapper around starspan for madrona (see madrona.raster_stats ) but relying on shell calls and an aging, unmaintained C++ code base was not cutting it.
So I set out to create a solution using numpy, GDAL and python. The
rasterstats package was born.
`python-raster-stats` on github
Let's jump into an example. I've got a polygon shapefile of continental US state boundaries and a raster dataset of annual precipitation from the North American Environmental Atlas.
>>> states = "/data/workspace/rasterstats_blog/boundaries_contus.shp"
>>> precip = "/data/workspace/rasterstats_blog/NA_Annual_Precipitation_GRID/NA_Annual_Precipitation/data/na_anprecip/hdr.adf"
raster_stats function is the main entry point. Provide a vector and a
raster as input and expect a list of dicts, one for each input feature.
>>> from rasterstats import raster_stats
>>> rain_stats = raster_stats(states, precip, stats="*", copy_properties=True)
>>> len(rain_stats) # continental US; 48 states plus District of Columbia
Print out the stats for a given state:
>>> [x for x in rain_stats if x['NAME'] == "Oregon"][0]
'NAME': 'Oregon',
'Shape_Area': 250563567264.0,
'Shape_Leng': 2366783.00361,
'__fid__': 35,
'count': 250510,
'majority': 263,
'max': 3193.0,
'mean': 779.2223903237395,
'median': 461.0,
'min': 205.0,
'minority': 3193,
'range': 2988.0,
'std': 631.539502512283,
'sum': 195203001.0,
'unique': 2865}
Find the three driest states:
>>> [(x['NAME'], x['mean']) for x in
sorted(rain_stats, key=lambda k: k['mean'])[:3]]
[('Nevada', 248.23814034118908),
('Utah', 317.668743027571),
('Arizona', 320.6157232064074)]
And write the data out to a csv.
from rasterstats import stats_to_csv
with open('out.csv', 'w') as fh:
Geo interface
The basic usage above shows the path of an entire OGR vector layer as the first argument. But raster-stats also supports other vector features/geometries.
- Well-Known Text/Binary
- GeoJSON string and mappings
- Any python object that supports the geo_interface
- Single objects or iterables
In this example, I use a geojson-like python mapping to specify a single geometry
>>> geom = {'coordinates': [[
[-594335.108537269, -570957.932799394],
[-422374.54395311, -593387.5716581973],
[-444804.1828119133, -765348.1362423564],
[-631717.839968608, -735441.9510972851],
[-594335.108537269, -570957.932799394]]],
'type': 'Polygon'}
>>> raster_stats(geom, precip, stats="min median max")
[{'__fid__': 0, 'max': 1011.0, 'median': 451.0, 'min': 229.0}]
We're not limited to descriptive statistics for continuous rasters either; we can get unique pixel counts for categorical rasters as well. In this example, we've got a raster of 2005 land cover (i.e. general vegetation type).
Note that
we can specify only the stats that make sense and the
provides a count of each pixel value.
>>> landcover = "/data/workspace/rasterstats_blog/NA_LandCover_2005.img"
>>> veg_stats = raster_stats(states, landcover,
stats="count majority minority unique",
>>> [x for x in veg_stats if x['NAME'] == "Oregon"][0]
{1: 999956,
3: 6,
5: 3005,
6: 198535,
8: 2270805,
10: 126199,
14: 20883,
15: 301884,
16: 17452,
17: 39246,
18: 28872,
19: 2174,
'NAME': 'Oregon',
'Shape_Area': 250563567264.0,
'Shape_Leng': 2366783.00361,
'__fid__': 35,
'count': 4009017,
'majority': 8,
'minority': 3,
'unique': 12}
Of course the pixel values alone don't make much sense. We need to interpret the pixel values as land cover classes:
Value, Class_name
1 Temperate or sub-polar needleleaf forest
2 Sub-polar taiga needleleaf forest
3 Tropical or sub-tropical broadleaf evergreen
4 Tropical or sub-tropical broadleaf deciduous
5 Temperate or sub-polar broadleaf deciduous
6 Mixed Forest
7 Tropical or sub-tropical shrubland
8 Temperate or sub-polar shrubland
9 Tropical or sub-tropical grassland
10 Temperate or sub-polar grassland
11 Sub-polar or polar shrubland-lichen-moss
12 Sub-polar or polar grassland-lichen-moss
13 Sub-polar or polar barren-lichen-moss
14 Wetland
15 Cropland
16 Barren Lands
17 Urban and Built-up
18 Water
19 Snow and Ice
So, for our Oregon example above we can see that, despite Oregon's reputation as a lush green landscape, the majority land cover class (#8) is "Temperate or sub- polar shrubland" at 2.27m pixels out of 4 millions total.
There's a lot more functionality that isn't covered in this post but you get the picture… please check it out and let me know what you think.
Creating UTFGrids directly from a polygon datasourceposted by on 20 Aug 2012
We've begun to rely on the interactivity provided by UTFGrids in many of our recent web maps. (Quick recap: UTFGrids are "invisible" map tiles that allow direct interactivity with feature attributes without querying the server.) Earlier this year, I created the initial OpenLayers UTFGrid support and was glad to see it accepted into OpenLayer 2.12 (with some enhancements).
With the client-side javascript support in place, the only missing piece in the workflow was to create the UTFGrid .json files. We had expirimented with several alternate UTFGrid renderers but Mapnik's rendering was by far the fastest and produced the best results. Using Tilemill was a convenient way to leverage the Mapnik UTFGrid renderer but it came at the cost of a somewhat circuitious and manual workflow:
- Load the data up into Tilemill,
- Configure interactivity fields
- Export to .mbtiles
- Convert to .json files
What we really needed was a script to take a polygon shapefile and render the UTFGrids directly to files. Mapnik would provide the rendering while the Global Map Tiles python module would provide the logic for going back and forth between geographic coordinates and tile grid coordinates. From there it's just a matter of determining the extent of the data set and, for a specified set of zoom levels, looping through and using Mapnik to render the UTFGrid to a .json file in
Z/X/Y.json directory structure.
Get `create-utfgrids` on github
If we have a mercator polygon shapefile of ecoregions and want to render UTFGrids for zoom levels 3 through 5 using the
dom_desc and
div_desc attributes, we could use a command like
$ ./create_utfgrids.py test_data/bailey_merc.shp 3 5 ecoregions -f dom_desc,div_desc
This script assumes a polygon shapefile in spherical mercator projection.
If any of these assumptions are not true, don't count on the results!
* Processing Zoom Level 3
* Processing Zoom Level 4
* Processing Zoom Level 5
and inspect the output (e.g. zoom level 5, X=20, Y=18)
$ cat ecoregions/5/20/18.json | python -mjson.tool
"data": {
"192": {
"div_desc": "RAINFOREST REGIME MOUNTAINS",
"dom_desc": "HUMID TROPICAL DOMAIN"
"grid": [
" !!!!!!!!!#####$%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%",
Some caveats:
- This currently only works for polygon datasets in a Web Mercator projection.
- It's only tested with shapefiles as it assumes a single-layer datasource at the moment. Full OGR Datasource support would not be too difficult to add for PostGIS, etc.
- It assumes a top-origin tile scheme (as do OSM and Google Maps). Supporting TMS bottom-origin schemes in the future should be straightforward.
- Requires OGR and Mapnik >= 2.0 with python bindings. Finding windows binaries for the required version of Mapnik may be difficult so using OSX/Linux is recommended at this time.
Many thanks to Dane Springmeyer for his help on UTFGrid related matters and and to Klokan Petr Přidal for his MapTiler docs
Introducing the Madrona frameworkposted by on 11 Jul 2012
Madrona: A software framework for effective place-based decision making
My work at Ecotrust mainly revolves around creating web-based spatial analysis tools - software to bring data-driven science to the place-based descision making process. This began several years ago when I joined the MarineMap team. Since working with Ecotrust, we've taken the MarineMap software far beyond it's original niche. What was once a specific tool for marine protected area planning has now become a powerful framework for all sorts of web-based spatial tools in the realms of marine, forestry, conservation planning, aquatic habitat restoration, etc. So, in a sense, Madrona is a recognition of that evolution.
From the official Madrona release announcement from the Ecotrust blog post:
Over the last year we've distilled the best ideas from our most successful tools into a suite of software building blocks that can be mixed and matched to create cutting-edge software for decision support and spatial planning at any scale. These building blocks are already at the heart of our work and now we're ready to share them with you.
So what is Madrona from a developer's perspective?
- A set of python django apps that provide models, views and templates for representing spatial features and solving problems specific to spatial decision tools.
- A RESTful API for accessing spatial features
- A collection of javascript libraries (based on JQuery) to provide a web-based interface to the API.
In short, we think its a great platform for spatial tools and we want to open it up to the wider developer audience. Ecotrust already has many madrona-based apps in the wild (with many more in development) but we're hoping to get other folks using (and contributing to) the Madrona framework in the future.
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