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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Short sentences, lots of drinking, dissolute characters and bulls. I am being generous by giving this three stars, but what can I say, it is Ernest Hemingway. I can't really say I liked it, because it is so depressing. Lives going no where... endless drinking... but I guess that was the point. Not my favorite! I didn't particularly care for this book, a character study of the "Lost Generation," the post-World War I expatriates who congregated in Paris and seemed to spend their time writing or pursuing the arts, traveling, and drinking (a LOT), while living off inheritances or other people's money. However, after reading The Paris Wife about a year ago, a biographical novel about Hemingway's first (of four) wives Hadley, and discussing it earlier this year, our book club agreed to read The Sun Also Rises, the book that Hadley received all the royalties from in a pre-divorce settlement. British socialite Lady Duff Twysden and her two lovers, writer Harold Loeb and Pat Guthrie; Hemingway's boyhood friend Bill Smith; and writer Donald Ogden Stewart were among the group that accompanied Hemingway and his wife Hadley on their third trip to Pamplona, Spain, in June 1925. They (and their actions) inspired the characters of Lady Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, Mike Campbell, and Bill Gorton (a combination of Smith and Stewart) respectively. Hemingway of course, is the narrator and main character, Jake), while Hadley does not appear in the book at all (other than possibly in the guise of Jake's impotence that prevents him from having an affair with Brett/Duff). The young matador Cayetano Ordóñez was the inspiration for matador Pedro Romero in the book. Brett is a woman who wants sex without love, while Jake can only give her love without sex. That's more or less the gist of the story. Brett is living with the alcoholic Mike, and has an affair with the Jewish Robert. Bill seems to be a pretty normal guy; he and Jake go on a fishing trip on the way to Pamplona. The other three join them there, and there's a lot of tension, because both Jake and Robert are in love with Brett, but Robert is an annoying third wheel to Mike. Meanwhile Brett seduces Romero. None of these characters are especially likeable. It was interesting to see how much Brett was like Duff in The Paris Wife. Hemingway biographer Michael Reynolds said, "Duff Twysden used men like library books, checked them out, browsed through them and returned them late without paying the fine," (Hemingway: The Paris Years, 1989, page 289), and that's a pretty apt description of Brett. The title of the book is tied into the twin epigraphs at the beginning, one a quote from Gertrude Stein, part of Hemingway's Paris group, that "You are all a lost generation," and the other from Ecclesiastes 1:4-7, which begins: "One generation passes away, and another generation comes; but the earth abides forever. The sun also rises..." Well-known movie actor William Hurt read this audiobook. I thought he was pretty effective, especially with the voice of Mike Campbell, who he gave a Scottish burr (although a very drunken one). He was very good at making all the characters sound drunk when they were drunk. I'd definitely recommend this book as a pair with The Paris Wife. I'm also interested in reading Hemingway's take on his Paris years, A Moveable Feast, to see how they compare. © Amanda Pape - 2013 [The audiobook, and a print copy for reference, were borrowed from and returned to my university library. This review also appears on Bookin' It.] This book is much more understandable than many Modernist novels, for which I was very grateful. Also, I encourage everyone to look at Sparknotes while reading this; Hemingway doesn't explicitly state certain important details. Altogether, the book is highly entertaining and full of meaning, although you have to wonder how the characters remain standing after consuming so much alcohol!
No amount of analysis can convey the quality of "The Sun Also Rises." It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame. Mr. Hemingway knows how not only to make words be specific but how to arrange a collection of words which shall betray a great deal more than is to be found in the individual parts. It is magnificent writing, filled with that organic action which gives a compelling picture of character. This novel is unquestionably one of the events of an unusually rich year in literature. Is contained inErnest Hemingway: Four Novels by Ernest Hemingway The Novels Of Ernest Hemingway . by Ernest Hemingway The Essential Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway Five Novels: The Sun Also Rises / A Farewell to Arms / To Have and Have Not / The Old Man and the Sea / For Whom the Bell Tolls (FOLIO SOCIETY) by Ernest Hemingway Three Novels: The Sun Also Rises; A Farewell to Arms; The Old Man and the Sea; Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway "For Whom the Bell Tolls" ; "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" ; "Fiesta" ; "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" ; "Across the River and into the Trees" ; "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom The Bell Tolls (3 Volume Set) by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway: Quality Paperback Book Club 4-volume Set, 1993 (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Vol. I); A Farew by Ernest Hemingway Book-of-the-Month-Club Set of 5: A Farewell to Arms, A Moveable Feast, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, & The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (The Finca Vigia Edition) (Book-of-the-Month Club) by Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms/ For Whom Bell Tolls/ The Sun Also Rises (Three Book Set) by Ernest Hemingway Set of 4 hardcover Ernest Hemingway Book-of-the-month classics: "A Moveable Feast," "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "A Farewell to Arms," and "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises. The Old Man and the Sea. A Farewell to Arms. by Ernest Hemingway Four Novels The Sun Also Rises; A Farewell to Arms; For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway Boxed Set: Comprising Farewell to Arms; for Whom the Bell Tolls; Sun Also Rises; Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway In Our Time, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms - Boxed set by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway Collection vol. 1: A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises ,The Old Man and the Sea with Original Illustrations by Ernest Hemingway 5 Volume Set : Comprising 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', 'A Farewell to Arms', 'To Have and Have Not', 'The Old Man and the Sea', 'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway 6 Volume Set, "A Moveable Feast", "The Old Man and the Sea", "A Farewell to Arms", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "The Complete Short Stories (Finca Vigia Edition)","the Sun Also Rises" (Ernest Hemingway's 6 most famous works) by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway - Four Novels - Complete and Unabridged: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway 6 Vols: A Moveable Feast / The Old Man and the Sea / A Farewell to Arms / For Whom the Bell Tolls / The Complete Short Stories / The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Hemmingway - The Sun Also Rises, a Farewell to Arms, to Have and Have Not, for Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway 6 Volume Set, "A Moveable Feast", "The Old Man and the Sea", "A Farewell to Arms", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "The Complete Short Stories (Finca Vigia Edition)","the Sun Also Rises" (Ernest Hemingway's 6 most famous works) by Ernest Hemingway ContainsInspiredHas as a student's study guide
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0743297334, Paperback)The Sun Also Rises first appeared in 1926, and yet it's as fresh and clean and fine as it ever was, maybe finer. Hemingway's famously plain declarative sentences linger in the mind like poetry: "Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that." His cast of thirtysomething dissolute expatriates--Brett and her drunken fiancé, Mike Campbell, the unhappy Princeton Jewish boxer Robert Cohn, the sardonic novelist Bill Gorton--are as familiar as the "cool crowd" we all once knew. No wonder this quintessential lost-generation novel has inspired several generations of imitators, in style as well as lifestyle.Jake Barnes, Hemingway's narrator with a mysterious war wound that has left him sexually incapable, is the heart and soul of the book. Brett, the beautiful, doomed English woman he adores, provides the glamour of natural chic and sexual unattainability. Alcohol and post-World War I anomie fuel the plot: weary of drinking and dancing in Paris cafés, the expatriate gang decamps for the Spanish town of Pamplona for the "wonderful nightmare" of a week-long fiesta. Brett, with fiancé and ex-lover Cohn in tow, breaks hearts all around until she falls, briefly, for the handsome teenage bullfighter Pedro Romero. "My God! he's a lovely boy," she tells Jake. "And how I would love to see him get into those clothes. He must use a shoe-horn." Whereupon the party disbands. But what's most shocking about the book is its lean, adjective-free style. The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's masterpiece--one of them, anyway--and no matter how many times you've read it or how you feel about the manners and morals of the characters, you won't be able to resist its spell. This is a classic that really does live up to its reputation. --David Laskin (retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:26:47 -0400) "The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters : Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bull-fighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century."--P. [4] of cover.… (more) (summary from another edition) |
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Tigers' win streak snapped at Emory
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Atlanta, Ga. - DePauw's six-game win streak came to an end at Emory as the Tigers lost to the Eagles by a 10-0 count. Emory, ranked 12th in the preseason Division III, poll improved to 26-0, while DePauw dropped to 11-9.
Emory jumped out in front early with two runs in the first and two more in the second off of starter Eric Mattingly. They added three each in the fifth and sixth innings for the win.
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Which brings us to that's a new study says that oil production of Canada's oil sands area has polluted surrounding legs with chemicals that Kohl's cancer.
That's where the proposed Keystone Pipeline would originate -- Iran is the president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute he joins us from DC.
Jack I gotta say that once the environmentalists get hold of this idea that we polluting lakes with cancer causing chemicals they will kill the pipeline of all over again what -- you.
Well Stuart I think a couple things first of all we look at that study that came out just yesterday.
The Canadian environmental minister very quickly pointed out but those levels that they found in those lakes are within Canadian guidelines number one.
But number two there about ten times less.
In the same levels in urban lakes that are far away from the oil production.
So what they're talking about here is really trying to -- an issue.
Where there isn't an issue.
And it's really unrelated to the determination -- keystone.
The question for President Obama is keystone in the national interest.
And we clearly believe it is prime minister harper of Canada has said repeatedly it's a no brainer -- -- there will be those that will try to confuse the issue they shouldn't confuse any.
That but they're gonna confuse it more I -- -- -- someone for the national natural resource defense counsel on the show a couple of days ago who said.
That the area whether producing this oil from the tar sands in Canada.
Is now -- vast industrial waste land that was the expression that he use.
And would back kind of verbiage around.
That does give the environmentalists are real staff.
To promote the killing of the plot -- all over again -- -- it in your judgment Jack debt.
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That gonna kill this thing.
Well it's a question of fact vs fiction -- as you know at some of these wild outrageous allegations we need to remind people where they're coming from.
Those spokespeople your reference seen.
They adamantly oppose any oil and gas production and they say so publicly -- they're trying to find red herrings they're trying to define it.
Artificial issues and frankly they need to be discipline and honest about the scientific fact I want definitely Al go ahead.
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I know you think that we should be building the pipeline but I want you to give us all -- will week one year from now will we be you -- a big building the pipeline give me jobs.
Well -- I would suggest right now it's better than 50%.
If the president lives up to his commitment he made to the American people to have a truly all of the above energy strategy.
If the president denies the pipeline.
It's a signal he's not serious about energy policy the United States word game changing opportunity is occurring.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Illinois' senators expressed disappointment Wednesday with the Air Force's decision not to select Scott Air Force Base as a candidate for its next generation aerial refueling tankers.
The Air Force selected five candidate locations after a review of existing refueling bases and may consider Scott for later tranches of the KC-46A aircraft.
U.S. Rep. Bill Enyart, D-Belleville, a freshman congressman who was just appointed to the House Armed Services Committee, released through a spokesman a statement Wednesday night in which he promised to do all he could to get Scott on the Air Force candidate list.
"Bill's top priority in congress is fighting for jobs while also protecting Scott Air Force Base," said Jason Bresler, Enyart's chief of staff. "This is why he is very happy to be on the House Armed Services Committee ... Bill is the best qualified person to fight for Scott."
"I am very disappointed in the Air Force's decision not to select Scott Air Force Base -- one of our nation's most important and valuable air bases -- as a location for the KC-46A refueling tanker," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois. "I will continue to work with my Senate colleagues and the Air Force on all future opportunities to utilize Scott's central location, superior infrastructure, and skilled and experienced workforce."
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Illinois, expressed concern and disappointment over the Air Force decision.
"I am also concerned that Scott did not receive a site visit from Air Mobility Command until just yesterday. Scott'scentral location, capable Guard members, and proven track record make it an ideal candidate to serve as the Air National Guard-led Main Operating Base 2," Kirk said.
U.S. Rep. John Shimkus, R-Collinsville, said in a statement that he is disapponted with the Air Force decision, but "I am not down on Scott. With Scott housing the Transportation Command, AMC, SDDC, and additional wings and agencies, I am certain of its major role within the military. We always want to add more duties at Scott and will continue to work in a regional, bicameral, and bipartisan way toward that goal."
U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville, could not be reached for comment Wednesday evening.
The Air Mobility Command is headquartered at Scott, but there are no fighter planes based there.
The aircraft based at Scott consist mainly of the 14 aging KC-135 Stratotankers belonging to the 126th Air Refueling Wing, which moved to the air base from Chicago in 1999, bringing with it about 1,000 jobs.
Chicago-based Boeing Co., which in 2011 won the $40 billion contract to build the KC-46A's, plans to roll out the first set of the new air tankers by 2016.
The KC-46A will replace KC-135s that, in many cases, are more than five decades old. The new aircraft are designed to fly far further and carry heavier payloads than its aging predecessor. While the KC-135 Stratotanker had a top range of 4,000 miles, the KC-46A will be able to cruise nearly 6,400 miles -- an increase of about 60 percent.
The Pentagon plans to buy 179 KC-46As from Boeing and station them at 10 operating bases. The aircraft have an estimated price tag of about $225 million apiece.


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GIS team blog
Welcome to Kew's GIS team blog. Here you will find information about the Geographic Information Science (GIS) Unit and its staff. We'll be posting updates on new developments in the field and our projects, also our thoughts and musings!
News from Kew's Sampled Red List Index for plants
By: Maiko Lutz - 07 Nov 2013- 4 likes
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If you follow the work of Kew's Geographic Information Science (GIS) unit you will be aware of the Sampled Red List Index (SRLI) project for plants. We even won an award from the Species Survival Commission for our efforts! I'd like to bring you up-to-date with what has been happening with the project and where things are heading.
Firstly, a quick reminder about what we are doing. We're monitoring a set of plant species from all over the world in order to find out how endangered plants are faring and how that is changing over time. You should think of it a bit like a barometer indicating change, telling us whether things are getting better or worse for the world's plants. We presented the results of our first assessment in 2010 and showed that 1 in 5 plants are at risk, which got a lot of attention.
Cover of the 2012 SRLI report
We're now a team of 6 people and were planning the next stages of the project - there are a lot of species and much work to be done.
Moving forward
The 2010 assessment marked the baseline of our barometer and we need to take a health check on plants again to see how they are doing.
Herbarium specimens need to be searched and scoured, and field teams will be going on discovery expeditions to hopefully find some of these really rare species.
Opportunistic collection of SRLI species during the drive north to Ambilobe, Madagascar
SRLI in Madagascar
Madagascar has a high number of SRLI species and excellent networks with Kew so it was the ideal country to test our methods and rediscover some of the species on our list. We work closely with local botanists and experts in the field, as they are vital in identifying species from difficult specimens.
Some SRLI species collected in Madagascar
During the 3 weeks in Madagascar, we managed to find 25 SRLI species, including numerous threatened species such as the Vulnerable orchid Sobennikoffia poissoniana.
We also found the only cycad known from Madagascar - Cycas thouarsii (Least Concern). While the species seems to be doing well at some of the locations, we also came across a site where most of the individuals had either been removed (most likely for the horticultural trade) or burned.
Madagascan fauna
We were also fortunate enough to come across much wildlife during our expeditions such as the beautiful Indri (Endangered), numerous chameleons and many snakes.
Here's a snap of the SRLI Kew Madagascar field team with GIS's Maiko Lutz and Steve Bachman second and third from the left, with local specialists
Making use of citizen science
For the next phase of the project we will mobilise a global network of local botanists, botanic gardens and conservationists to establish an international, broad-based monitoring scheme. But we don't only intend to use traditional data gathering methods as they can be slow and resource-heavy. We believe that existing projects (such as iNaturalist) and the new idea of the 'citizen scientist' may play an important role in the future of the SRLI for Plants project.
The first phase of the project gave us a snapshot of the status of biodiversity, using dried herbarium specimens and literature sources. However, to truly understand the changing status of the world's biodiversity, targeted fieldwork is essential to update this information.
- Maiko -
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Tags: around the world | at risk | endangered | fragile | irreplaceable | needs help | together | verge of extinction | urgent | useful
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Exploring the Lomas
By: Amanda Cooper - 04 Oct 2013- 16 likes
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Setting Out
When people consider a trip to Peru, the first places they might think to visit are the Andes and Machu Picchu or the vast Amazon tropical rainforest - they rarely venture to the sites along the dry coast. I have to admit, I was one of those people. On my first journey to Peru I promptly made my way to Cuzco and trekked up to Machu Picchu with all the other tourists. So when I was told that the GIS team destination was the desert coast of Peru to find a lush and diverse ecosystem in the desert, I admit that I was a bit sceptical.
We were going in search of the Lomas, an extremely fragile ecosystem whose sole source of water is a coastal fog called Garúa, formed from cool, moist air driven up from the Humboldt Current pushing over the mountains of the coastal desert. These ecosystems span the coast of Peru and Chile in locations optimally combining moisture and elevation. Working alongside Peru's SERNANP parks service and with the appropriate permits, our ultimate destination was the San Fernando Reserve, located on the coast of the Ica Region, approximately 30 kilometres southwest of Nazca.
We really did not know what to expect and a quick survey of some satellite images appeared to be giving little away.
GoogleEarth map of the Reservada San Fernando, Ica Province (Courtesy of GoogleEarth)
First impressions
As we entered the reserve we started to see signs of life. The first area of vegetation we encountered was dominated by plants of the genus Tillandsia. What is incredible about these plants is that radio carbon samples indicate this system of vegetation is ancient (over 36,000 years old). We are only just beginning a journey to understand how the Tillandsia vegetation has apparently existed in the same place for millennia, surviving for much of the year without fog in a rainless world.
A Tillandsia plant
We continued over the last ridge towards the coast and discovered an area composed of a range of plant families, with the cacti, mallows (Malvaceae), legumes(leguminosae) and daisies (compositae or asteraceae) families predominating, and the whole area scattered with lilac flowering Nolanas (from the Solanaceae family).
Some of the beautiful flowers of the Lomas: A. Cactaceae family, B. Leguminosae family, C. Compositae family, D. Solanaceae family
Within this sandy landscape dotted with colourful flowers we made a base for five days.
The GIS team camping in the Reservada San Fernando
The Lomas
The Lomas is truly an amazing ecosystem, existing in a climate of extremes both of temperature and moisture. It was a challenge to start the day in temperatures reaching 30° C and ending the day at 15°C after the fog had rolled onto the hills.
View of sand dune transect within the Reservada San Fernando
Specimen collecting
We followed a 7 kilometre transect, varying 1,000 meters in elevation and descending the great sandy hills to sea level. Twenty plots were surveyed for species cover and 72 herbarium specimens were collected, many of them from species found nowhere else on earth. Herbarium specimens are small carefully selected bits of plants which, when pressed and dried, are vital to help conservation. They are the basic botanical scientific evidence, standing testament in the herbariums (plant libraries) of Peru and world. The samples are labelled with the GPS coordinates of where they are found.
The plants of the Lomas have adapted to capture the condensed water from the Garúa fog. It was clear that the key to finding the Lomas is timing - the plants in the Lomas flourish throughout October and November when the fog is at its most abundant, but, as in Chile's flowering desert, some years are better than others. The diversity of plants flowering at this time of year is overwhelming, as each species must get through its whole annual cycle in just a few months, and produce seed for the next year.
Selection of flowers from the Lomas
Plants on the brink
The plants of the Lomas face a life of hardship, as the extreme variations in both temperature and moisture have required adaptations to survive. Sadly, humans impose even greater challenges, from mining and pipelines, to tourists recklessly driving through the Lomas on massive recreational dune buggies. The Lomas vegetation is now in danger at the hands of such anthropogenic pressures.
Sand dune buggies used by tourists in Huacachina
In addition to these activities, the threat from climate change may pose even greater challenges, particularly as it brings about significant changes to the climate regime that these plants depend upon for survival. Many Lomas around Lima have already been completely lost due to unregulated urban expansion. However, thanks to the present Peruvian government's foresight, Lomas protection is being extended. But protection can only happen with wide collaboration and ecological research. The conservation of the Lomas has never been so urgent, and we need to act fast, before these secret worlds are lost forever.
- Amanda -
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Mapping tools for botanists, part two: Locus Map
By: Steve Bachman - 14 Aug 2013- 13 likes
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The end of paper maps?
Paper maps have always been an essential component of botanical fieldwork. Prior to the trip they can be used for planning purposes like helping to define target areas for fieldwork, identify potential obstacles, plan road trips and, of course, whilst in the field they provide an essential navigation tool.
However the days of the paper map may be numbered as digital mapping goes mobile. Over the last year the GIS team have been testing out new mapping software on smart phones and seeing how effective they are in the field. One of the most promising products we've seen is called Locus Map and it is available for devices using the Android operating system. We put Locus Map to the test during several recent field trips and here is the verdict:
So what is Locus Map?
Locus Map is an application or 'app' that can be used on smart phones. Specifically, it can be used on the Android operating system, so is not available on Microsoft or Apple. On the simplest level, Locus Map puts a map on your phone and, of course, the great thing about smart phones these days is that they usually have an integrated Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver. So, if your GPS is on and you start up the app you will see exactly where you are and where you are going.
The extensive array of options are too numerous to review entirely so we'll give a brief overview of some of the main features that we found useful:
Waypoints and tracks
Anyone familiar with using a GPS device will be at home with the waypoints and tracks options on Locus. You can record, pause and stop a tracklog and numerous settings allow you to control the way the track is recorded e.g. minimum distance between points and various style options. You can even allow Google's MyTracks to take over recording.
The basic 'Add point' feature is the same as a standard waypoint. You have numerous options to customise how this is displayed on the map e.g. symbols and colours and you can group these into different categories or layers e.g. new observations for trees or good places to camp! When adding the point you can set the location in numerous ways e.g. GPS co-ordinates (most likely), but you may wish to add a waypoint some distance away from your exact location e.g. a vegetation patch in the distance, and this can be done by selecting the location using the cross-hairs on the map. There are notes fields to add additional pieces of information and even the ability to add you own custom fields, something most standalone GPS devices do not have. With the smartphone you also have the advantage of being able to enter text rapidly using the many text options including predictive text tools such as SwiftKey. Finally, it is worth pointing out that there is an 'Add Photo point' feature which is exactly the same as the add point feature described above, but with a photo.
As you would expect, all the standard navigational tools are built in. The compass can be used to guide you to a point of interest or a waypoint. A neat feature I found myself using a lot is 'Guide to' which allows you to choose a point on the map and it will show you direction and distance from that point. There is also a 'Show view' option which indicates the direction of view - simple, but very handy.
Offline maps
Having a good GPS is one thing, but looking at a dot in the middle of a white screen doesn't help you a great deal. We need to have context in the form of base maps to help us understand where we are. Many smartphone mapping tools provide these base maps e.g. Google Maps, but they are downloaded to the phone so they incur data charges as you roam. When taking your phone abroad you are likely to incur significant data charges as your phone downloads more map tiles when you move around. The way to overcome this problem is to download an entire map before your trip so that it can be viewed even if you are offline.
There are two main types of map you might want to download: a vector map with points, lines and polygons (e.g. cities, road/rivers and lakes/vegetation patches etc.) or raster maps, which are usually satellite images. These help to provide context and highlight interesting features that you may want to visit. Locus provides some nice links to standard vector and raster basemaps that can be easily downloaded and made visible in your map viewer. Switching layers is very easy using the Maps icon.
Offline maps is also a way to get your own data visible on the phone. On a recent trip to Ethiopia for example, Jenny from the GIS team prepared a model of Coffea arabica distribution and imported this into Locus so that in the field, when she found coffea populations, she could see what the value of the model was at that site. Note that in some cases you may need to transform your data in order to get it into the right format. We use a package called MAPC2MAPC to help with that process.
Locus Map showing wild Coffea arabica occurrence records and the underlying species distribution model
Format support
Locus is extremely versatile in terms of file format options thereby making the movement of data on and off your device extremely easy. Prior to our trip to Madagascar in June this year I converted data from our BRAHMS database to KML format and then loaded that directly into Locus, thereby giving us all the locations of specimens that we wanted to visit. (see map below)
Adding your own data to Locus Map is easy. Here you can see the green dots that represent existing herbarium collections and the red dots represent the new collections we made on the recent trip. A satellite image is used as the basemap.
Pro version
As with most apps nowadays there is a free and pro version. So what do you get with the paid pro version? Well one thing you won't get if you go pro is advertisements, but aside from that it is mostly the removal of limitations in some of the features.
Locus Map in action in Peru. Here we are trying to get to the enclosed patch of woodland illustrating use of the 'Guide to' feature
- Smart and clean user interface and very easy to use
- Great feature list
- Good developer support - constant updates and improvements
- Customisable right sidebar - add only the features you regularly use to help keep your interface clean
- Links to other mapping systems e.g. save your tracks directly to Google 'My Tracks'
- The wide array of options means it is occasionally hard to find certain features
- Pro paid version is needed to ensure there are no limitations on all features
- Some 'add-on' apps needed to enable certain features e.g. Bluetooth support
Final summary
In our opinion Locus Map is proving to be far and away the most useful mobile mapping app we have discovered to date. The app is stable and user friendly and has proven to be a real asset for fieldwork. If you have found something better let us know!
- Steve -
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Mapping Coffee in Ethiopia part two
By: Paul Little - 08 May 2013- 12 likes
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Day 4 - 22nd March
We were woken this morning by the loudly insistent call to prayer from loudspeakers installed in the courtyard of the compound where we've stayed. I'm feeling a lot better today after a bit of unsettled tum. Aaron emerged looking rather pale and skipped the breakfast we took at the local cafe. Today we headed into the mountainous forests in the Shako area. The forests around here are managed but still diverse. It was a steep climb away from the road and exhausting in the dry heat of the morning. We climbed fairly high and made some plot surveys. The coffee plants were sparse in this area and had already finished their flowering. After the survey we enjoyed a tranquil moment's rest as we sat listening to the sounds of the forest - the chirp of insects and the calls of birds and monkeys. Curiously, there are aspects of this forest that remind me of a British woodland on a hot, hot July day; brambles that catch and tear as we struggle through the undergrowth; the fiery sting of nettles; and a familiar mustiness of mossy bark, dead leaves and warm earth.
Steeply sloping Afromontane forest (Image: Paul Little)
Back to the car again and our colleague, Dr Tadesse, diverts us to a local village to try some of the rich, dark honey made in the forest and for which this region is famous. The locals stare curiously at us as Dr Tadesse barters for the honey and we cannot help but look about us with equal fascination. The locals still depend heavily on the forest and it is with some surprise that I note the smartly dressed fellow standing nearby in a shirt and waistcoat is carrying not a walking stick, but a spear!
Dr Tadesse tries the region's famous dark forest honey (Image: Paul Little)
We go on to the next town where we pause again to meet one of Dr Tadesse's contacts. Everyone's exhausted and, with Aaron unwell, it's decided to halt here rather than press on to Bonga. We enjoy a glass of mango juice with lime and it's sooo good! Like no other fruit smoothie I've ever tasted! Jenny and I indulge in another. The hotel we've stopped at is luxurious with running water, electricity and (oh joy!) hot showers. One really comes to appreciate things taken for granted at home. We have the afternoon free now and I use it as an opportunity to do some bathroom laundry. It's as well that we stopped, for out of nowhere comes a sudden storm with lightning and heavy rain. I was glad to be under a hot shower rather than out in such an African squall! However, I'm sure there'll be plenty more opportunities to experience the local weather...
Day 5 - 23rd March
We sit outside for breakfast and enjoy the variety of birds to be seen. Sunbird, hadada ibis, common bulbul, as well as scavenging kites and a vulture. We leave the CoffeeLand Hotel in Bonga at 8am. We cross the Gojeb river which divides the regions of Kafa and Jimma. The area consists of moist Afromontane mosaic shading into farmland and humid savanna woodland. We stop to survey a plot in Belete forest where we find a fallen coffee tree with one remaining coffee cherry.
A solitary cherry of Coffea arabica (Image: Paul Little)
Later we find a splendid specimen in its typical habitat, so I take some time to get good pictures. All in all, however, the wild coffee trees are pretty sparse here. We are followed by a local woodsman who carries with him an axe fashioned from a steel blade fastened to a roughly polished handle, which still has the shape of the tree branch it was made from. He helps lead us to the coffee trees and a small neat plantation within the forest. Back in Jimma again and we return to our previous hotel. My room on the third floor overlooks a construction site. Concrete pillars jut skyward and, on hearing a plaintive cry, I glance up to find two kites levelly regarding me. These magnificent creatures are a nuisance here, like pigeons and crows. It's our mess that draws them.
Day 6 - 24th March
Today is a road day. We travel by road to Awasa (Hawassa). I was up by dawn and took some footage from the balcony of the sunrise and some morning activity. Jenny is keen to see hippos so we make a short diversion to a pool where they are reported to be active. Clearly the hippos had seen us coming for by the time we arrived they had all snuck away and hidden behind trees and bushes. We traverse the highlands before descending steeply into a hot river valley. I settle on a technique for shooting out of the car window without conspicuously rubber-necking like a demented tourist. I set the lens to mid aperture, shutter to 1000/s, and leave the lens focused at its hyperfocal distance. Resting the camera levelly on my arm I watch the world fly by and just press the button when passing something happening. The whole day is spent on the road. The hour before sunset is called the golden hour and it happens just as we drop down from the highlands and into the Ethiopian Rift Valley. The landscape is bathed in the richest golden light I have seen. The people by the road are radiant and I can't help but snatch dozens of pictures as we drive along.
So many moments of everyday life beg to be captured as we pass by... (Image: Paul Little)
In the approaching dusk we see a huge African storm sweep down the valley; a giant mushroom standing on its column of water, flashes of electrical discharge flickering through the cloud. The light quickly fades and now we pay the penalty of the roadworks and diversions. Ethiopian roads are best avoided after dark. We still have an hour and a half to our destination. Even the best tarmaced roads are fraught with hazards. There are no pavements and people and mule carts don't carry lights. Faced with the dazzling headlights of oncoming traffic our driver has little more than intuition, a quick flick of full beam and toot of horn to ensure our side of the road is clear. More than once a cartful of faces beam happily back at our headlights as I involuntarily stretch for a brake pedal.
Day 7 - 25th March
We are in the town of Awasa by Lake Awasa. We had stayed in a smart hotel following the long journey of the day before. Running water and a relished hot shower. On the way to the next survey locality we stop into one of the smart hotel resorts in order to see the lake shore. We are approaching the easternmost leg of the expedition and we film a little dialogue here. The lake teems with different species of birds and as I take pictures from the shore I look down to see a palm-sized rock bobbing in the water. The pumice comes from the volcanic floor of the rift valley.
A fisherman on Lake Awasa punts his Tankwa, a papyrus reed boat (Image: Paul Little)
We head south along the highway towards the Kenyan border and pass trees laden with huge black birds. The marabou storks glare coldly down as we pass beneath. Dr Tadesse points out a plush compound, Villa Alpha, former home of the late, renowned African artist Afewerk Tekle.
We stop in Dilla for lunch. We film ourselves trying the region's distinctive Yirga Chefe coffee. Another potent brew, slightly caramel with fruity, citric notes, and a creeping lockjaw finish. A young lad taps at the window until we relent and buy a bunch of ripe bananas for an extortionate 10 bir. They're half the size of Tesco's but twice the flavour. We pass through Dilla and along a highland ridge to Yirga Chefe. This east side of the rift valley is influenced by a different weather system to Yayu and Jimma. Here the weather originates in the Indian Ocean and, perhaps as a consequence, the coffee plants here look significantly different to those we saw before, with noticeably smaller flowers and thicker, firmer leaves. As we climb the ridge we drive through a small town whose dusty roads lined with wooden houses look not unlike an old Wild West town. The children here are particularly delighted to see us ferengi and fling themselves alarmingly at our hurtling 4x4 waving frantically and shouting, "YoiYoiYoi!"
Back at the hotel, as we settle to sleep, a storm breaks over the town and after an hour or so the streets are awash. By morning it's as though nothing had happened. The deep roadside storm drains serve their purpose well.
- Paul -
Tags: agriculture | edible | Africa | conserving | fieldwork | protecting | adventurous | around the world | endangered | rainforest | woodland
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Mapping Coffee in Ethiopia part one
By: Paul Little - 16 Apr 2013- 16 likes
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Day 1 - 19th March
Late start due to prolonged and random breakfast and we hit rush hour as a consequence. We pick up our driver and leave Addis heading for Jimma. As we make our way further from the city, the tin-roofed shacks give way to more traditional thatched and mud-walled huts. Saw my first wild baboons by the road near Welkite. There was a distinct temperature difference as we descended from the cool heights to the dry valleys. As the day wore on, we entered hilly terrain dissected with numerous valleys and dry river beds. Among the valley trees of the plains, numerous nests of the weaver bird dangled and danced like grassy Christmas baubles. The valleys were comparatively lush and lined with trees: acacia, eucalyptus, figs, palm and false banana (Ensete ventricosum). We stopped for lunch in Seka, at a cafe where I enjoyed my first taste of strong Ethiopian coffee - thick and black as pitch. I've been learning my coffee descriptives: this one had been thoroughly brewed and was smokey and nutty with citrus notes, finishing on a blend of palpitations, shakes and mild seizure.
An Ethiopian Jebana (coffee pot) is heated against charcoal and frequently topped up (Image: Paul Little)
Day 2 - 20th March
Awoke at sunrise to find it still puzzlingly dark, the reason revealing itself with flashes of lightning and a crescendo of rain on the hotel's metal roof. Skipping breakfast we hastily bundle into our truck and set out for Yayu. We soon find ourselves travelling though coffee plantations which are remarkably biodiverse, with many species growing under the shade of various native trees.
Ethiopian coffee plantations can be remarkably biodiverse, many species growing under the shade of various native trees (Image: Paul Little)
The forest was occasionally punctuated by shiny, corrugated metal processing stations. Already people are going about their business. A boy does press-ups over a ditch as monkeys gaze down from their tree. We pass a long procession of children clutching their books on their way to school. So many little scenarios flash past before I can even raise a camera. I sit back and soak it all in. By 8am we've ascended to over 2000 m above sea level, beyond the range of coffee. This all accords pleasingly with the satellite data our GIS specialist Jenny has brought along. At last, in Bedele, we pause for breakfast. The others opted for scrambled egg but I venture the local option. It's a delicious mix of beans and spicy sauce with scrambled egg. It's scooped up with torn-off chunks of bread, a tricky challenge when it's polite to only use one's right hand. We find a roadside cafe where we stop for coffee.
A characteristic coffee processing station, constructed from corrugated metal (Image: Paul Little)
Day 3 - 21st March
We stop at a gleaming, corrugated metal compound inside which is a coffee processing plant. The overseer knows our partner, Dr Tadesse, and is very obliging in showing us about the facility. He goes to great efforts in starting up the coffee mill so that I am able to film the milling process. The milling machine is a huge, roaring mechanism of spinning belts and wheels and not a safety rail to be seen. I clamber over it as I try to record the various stages of the process, intensely aware of my dangling camera strap. I film the coffee beans going in, through and out of the fearsome contraption.
"The coffee milling machine is a huge roaring mechanism of spinning belts and wheels..." (Image: Paul Little)
The young lads operating it take great delight in demonstrating how they can haul a sack of close on 70 kg onto their backs and carry it to the store. Outside on the veranda some 30 or so women patiently pick through the beans, discarding any bad ones. They giggle and turn away whenever I point my camera towards them. Out in the yard three youths shuffle back and forth through an expanse of beans, turning them with their feet to dry in the sun. They walk together with their arms over each others' shoulders like old friends sharing confidences. This is something I see quite often on the street here. Men happily strolling along hand-in-hand or arm-in-arm in a way we British would interpret as decidedly romantic! Not so. Merely a rather sweet Ethiopian expression of friendship.
"Three youths shuffle back and forth through an expanse of beans, turning them with their feet to dry in the sun.." (Image: Paul Little)
We travelled for 30 km or so before pulling over for a brief survey of the local coffee plants, and found ourselves in some wonderful managed, moist, afro-montaine forest. Our first discovery was a magnificent false banana (Ensete ventricosum) about 5 years old and 5 metres high.
A magnificent false banana (Image: Paul Little)
Then a mighty old buttressed tree (Schefflera abyssinica). This led us on to a lovely, mature, wild coffee plant (Coffea arabica) in a perfect setting to be photographed, so I spent some time on it whilst the others made a plot survey nearby.
Wild Coffea arabica near Metu (Image: Paul Little)
Coming back to the car, there was a clear boundary of deforestation. For lunch we stopped in the nearby town. My stomach was in no mood for spicy tibb, but I was able to snaffle most of the potato portion without the others complaining. Skipping coffee for a cold Pepsi brought a welcome sugar boost. Leaving the town we passed a traditional round thatched hut sporting a shiny white satellite dish. Now I'm hoping to pass another with my camera ready. We've been steadily gaining altitude up to a height of 2300 m. Farmers in this area surround their properties with fences of euphorbia and grow crops of enset, a relative of the banana.
We stopped briefly to photograph a Lily of the Nile (Zantedeschia aethiopica) and were approached by some boys selling green peaches. Not yet ripe, they were delicious all the same.
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And given that all the software would have understood 16 byte addresses by now, the transition would just happen.
Practical example: my home network would have been on IPv6, although all my addreses would still be written in 4 byte form in my config files. My effort in this: zero. ISP effort in this: close to zero.
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Wow, great achievement. How it'll be different from the situation today: if ISP supports either SLAAC or DHCPv6 then your home network will be on IPv6 - the only changes needed are new hardware on ISPs side? It's hard to find contemporary OS without SLAAC (and most support DHCPv6, too), you know.
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Please. This plan is an utter disaster. If it was any good, nobody would have to touch a thing.
You know, kinda like this: when I send texts from my mobile, I couldn't care less whether 3G or GSM is used. A phone I purchased almost 4 years ago could do both automagically.
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Yes, the same way you can use IPv4 on top of either wired ethernet (802.3) or wireless (802.11). A laptop purchased more than 4 years ago could do both automagically.
What we are talking about is more like changing the phone number format or the SMS packet format, not switching between technologies lower in the stack (3G/GSM and 802.3/802.11 are all link-level), so your analogy is a red herring. Changing the link (which affects only that link) is a local decision, and thus much easier than changing a higher-level protocol (which affects everyone).
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