Shamanic Breathwork® is a gentle—but powerful—healing process that inspires people to reconnect with their own inner healer. As old wounds and dysfunctional patterns are released and transformed, people begin to reclaim lost parts of themselves and remember the magic of who they truly are.
Empowerment brings wholeness and healing back into their lives, to the lives of those they love, and to the world at large.
This process is highly experiential and the wisdom and healing gained comes from each individual's inner experience. Shamanic Breathwork blends the timeless wisdom of ancient traditions with the emerging methods of healing and teaching. It functions as a bridge, honoring the best of both worlds while creating integration for body, mind, and spirit.
Shamanic Breathwork ® is aimed at awakening the inner healer. Specially trained Facilitators offer ample support to assist during the sessions and ensure safe journey experiences for all participants.
The process begins by establishing sacred space through rituals and ceremonies such as smudging with sage, cedar and sweet grass while offering prayerful invocations. Participants lie down and focus on surrendering to the healer within, calling upon that which is most sacred and holy to them—such as guides, power animals and higher power. The drumming then begins, which leads into a powerful musical journey varying in length from one to two hours. As the participant uses the power of deep connected breathing to create a natural altered dreamlike state, ego defenses are released and the healing journey unfolds.
This is a truly remarkable experience!
Saturday is an all-day intensive workshop for those who want to go much deeper into the work.
*Available space for the all-day intensive is very limited and this will be an intimate, smaller group experience.
Staying Over? A special negotiated courtesy rate for rooms at Wyndham Garden Inn near La Cantera starts at just $90 per night!
Note: You are not required to stay at the hotel. This is an accommodation for those traveling to the event from outside the area.
*if seats available – space is very limited!
Linda Star Wolf has been a visionary teacher and shamanic guide to thousands of people over the last 35 years. Starting out as a therapist in the mental health and addictions fields in the 1980's, Star Wolf is a nationally certified alcohol and drug counselor who draws from her personal experience of recovery from addiction. The author of several books, she is the creator of Shamanic Breathwork™ and the Founder of Venus Rising Association for Transformation, a non-profit organization, and Founder and President of Venus Rising University for Shamanic Psychospiritual Studies. Star Wolf is also the co-founder of the Shamanic Mystery Tours and takes spiritual seekers all over world to explore sacred shamanic sites.
Dedicating her life to helping others to release dysfunctional patterns of all kinds and to radically transform their lives, Star Wolf teaches people how to awaken to the Bigger Picture, embody their own inner Visionary Shaman and step into a life of passionate purpose.
Friday evening workshop & Saturday intensive held at the enchanting Visión Retreat & Meditation Center!


Brightpoint offers a variety of medication assisted treatments including Buprenorphine/Suboxone Treatment and Naltrexone/Vivitrol Treatment. All services are provided by qualified professionals in a clinical setting.
For new patients, please call us to request an appointment.
Buprenorphine (or "Bupe") is a medication that treats addiction to opioids, including heroin and prescription painkillers.
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The Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) at Columbia University is seeking an outstanding researcher for a one-year post-doctoral position to start in the Fall of 2005, renewable for a second year. The post-doc will carry out research and coordinate lab activities.
CRED is directed by Professors Elke Weber, David Krantz, Roberta Miller, and Kenny Broad and includes researchers from psychology, management, economics, engineering, climate science, anthropology, and history. CRED studies individual and group decision making under climate uncertainty and, more broadly, decision making in the face of environmental risk. While research is conducted both in the lab and in various countries around the world, the post-doc will be responsible for lab projects. For more information please visit www.cred.columbia.edu.
Qualifications: Candidates must have a Ph.D. in a discipline relevant to decision making. May 2005 graduates will be considered for the position. Applicants should be interested in applied research that is ultimately aimed at improving stakeholders' decision making. Being highly organized is a must; being comfortable running a Linux Web server and having other excellent computer skills would be a definite advantage.
To apply, please send a CV, two letters of recommendation, one writing sample, and a cover letter describing your research interests and expertise carrying out experimental research. Review of applications will begin mid-April and continue until the position is filled.
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Kick-off at 19:45 on Wednesday, January 22
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Rangers have gone 7 consecutive matches without a defeat.
Rangers haven't played a draw in their previous 3 home matches.
St. Mirren have gone 3 consecutive matches without a draw.
Rangers are playing St. Mirren at the Premier League of Scotland on January 22. The match will kick off 19:45 UTC. Rangers are 2nd in the table with 47 points after 18 matches, while St. Mirren are 10th with 16 points in 20 matches.
ScoreBat is covering Rangers vs St. Mirren in real time, providing the live stream and live score of the match, team line-ups, full match stats, live match commentary and video highlights. Scotland Premier League's live standings are availble and updated in real time. You can watch Rangers vs St. Mirren live stream here on ScoreBat. Live streaming will begin when the match is about to kick off. We cover all matches of Scotland Premier League in real time and provide live streaming whenever possible.* https://www.scorebat.com/rangers-vs-st-mirren-live-stream/
Rangers have won Stranraer, Lokomotiv Tashkent, Celtic, Kilmarnock, Hibernian and Motherwell in their previous 6 matches, while St. Mirren have won Broxburn Athletic and Kilmarnock in their previous 2 matches.
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November 3rd, 2018 - Premier League
May 1st, 2016 - Championship
Rangers and St. Mirren have met 5 times in their recent history. Rangers won 4 times, 1 match ended in a draw.
Rangers have won 15 of their 18 matches in Premier League, drawing 2 and having 1 defeat this season. They have scored 51 goals - 2.83 per match, conceding 10 - 0.56 per match. St. Mirren have won 4 of their 20 matches in Premier League, drawing 4 and having 12 defeats this season. They have scored 16 goals - 0.80 per match, conceding 29 - 1.45 per match.
Goals and video highlights of the match between Rangers and St. Mirren are being added in real time. We are adding the videos of the goals usually minutes after the actual event on the field. So when Rangers or St. Mirren score you will be able to watch the goal a couple of minutes later on this page. Full highlights of the match between Rangers and St. Mirren include all the goals and other remarkable moments from the match. We will try to have different highlights from Rangers vs St. Mirren with commentary in English, Russian, Portugese etc. We do not host any video file as all of the videos are discovered by our crawler on other websites like youtube or streamable. If you think the video infriges your copyright please contact the website which hosts it.
* Live streaming of the matches of Scotland Premier League are available whenever we can find a public stream. If you are unable to see the live stream on this page than it is probably not available in your country. Please note that ScoreBat doesn't host any copyrighted material and we are not responsible for any video content. If you have any legal complaints, please contact video file and live stream hosters.
Real Betis are playing Real Sociedad at the La Liga of Spain on January 19. The match kicked off 13:00 UTC. It's the first half and the score is 0 - 0.

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Some argue that there is a fine line between killer content and old-fashioned filler… but they're wrong. The difference is really night and day, with the latter having little to no place whatsoever in the world of today's Online Business.
Well, that's assuming of course we're talking about what does content mean an online business that intends to succeed and survive online.
The long and short of website content these days is that every single thing you put into your site will in some way be held in your favor or against you – there is no other way around it. Be it by Google, any of the other major search engines or your readers themselves, opt for filler and you're on a fast train to nowhere. The world's SEO outsourcing experts have been warning for years that the value of filler is on its way out and we're now approaching a time when any content that isn't top-notch will do you and your site more harm than good.
In years gone by you could easily get away with an OTT keyword density of about 10% to get your content noticed by Google. These years are long gone. These days, your site will indeed get noticed but for all the wrong reasons. As of right now, dare to go over about 1.5% keyword density throughout your content and you're in big, big trouble. And this also counts for content that's already in place, so if you're guilty of taking keyword stuffing to the max in years gone by, it might not be a bad idea to make some repairs before you find yourself in Google's bad books. It's an easy way to repair the damage and will save you a ton of time and money.
The same also goes for excessive length – the very definition of filler. As above, you won't get away with banging on for page after page about nothing, for no other reason than to build your word count. If it isn't relevant and doesn't have a point, it has no place on your site and will see you exposed as a spammer. If it isn't really worth saying, get rid of it immediately. You will see an improvement in no time.
Another huge problem is that of clutter, not necessarily from an SEO standpoint but for your readers and visitors. You can use a professional SEO outsource team to get readers to your site in the first place, but if they are presented with nothing more than a ton of messy clutter they have to mine for any answers, they won't even bother. Killer content is all about getting straight to the point from the word 'go' and then offering access to deeper information, if they want it. Respect your audience and offer it useful information and they will be happy to come back to your site.
Last up, Content That's Killer is all about giving the folk that arrive on your site something new and interesting to read. It's not exactly a difficult equation to grasp – if they've already seen what you have to say on a million other pages, why would they bother to read on? Or worse still, why would they ever come back? It doesn't really matter how you make your content unique and interesting, just as long as it is. Offer a unique point of view and you and your site will be remembered for all the right reasons.
John Baron is a professional search engine marketing specialist with over 5 years of experience. He currently works for iSolutions Media Company as an SEO serving different clients from various industries.


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Extra touches to ensure that your loved one's funeral is exactly as they'd have wanted it.
The standard funeral packages that we offer can be customised with a wide variety of optional extras, allowing you to put together the perfect send-off for your loved one.
These high-quality picture coffins reflect your loved one's personality and offer a welcome alternative to standard plain coffins. Choose from a wide range of designs – including landscapes, flags, floral patterns, sporting colours and more – or create your own coffin using cherished photos of your loved one.
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//  SRCFeedFetcher.m
//  SecureReader
//
//  Created by Christopher Ballinger on 11/17/14.
//  Copyright (c) 2014 Guardian Project. All rights reserved.
//

#import "SCRFeedFetcher.h"
#import "RSSAtomKit.h"
#import "SCRDatabaseManager.h"
#import "SCRItem.h"
#import "SCRCommentItem.h"
#import "SCRFeed.h"
#import "SCRMediaItem.h"
#import "YapDatabaseQuery.h"
#import "YapDatabaseSecondaryIndexTransaction.h"

@interface SCRFeedFetcher()
@property (nonatomic, strong) RSSAtomKit *atomKit;
@property (nonatomic, strong) dispatch_queue_t callbackQueue;
@property (nonatomic, strong) YapDatabaseConnection *databaseConnection;

@end

@implementation SCRFeedFetcher

- (instancetype) initWithSessionConfiguration:(NSURLSessionConfiguration *)sessionConfiguration {
    self = [self initWithSessionConfiguration:sessionConfiguration readWriteYapConnection:nil];
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}

- (instancetype)initWithSessionConfiguration:(NSURLSessionConfiguration *)sessionConfiguration
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    return self;
}

- (void) removeYapConnections:(NSNotification*)notification {
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}

- (void) dealloc {
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}

- (void)setUrlSessionConfiguration:(NSURLSessionConfiguration *)urlSessionConfiguration
{
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}

- (NSURLSessionConfiguration *)urlSessionConfiguration
{
    return self.atomKit.urlSessionConfiguration;
}

- (BOOL)refreshSubscribedFeedsWithCompletionQueue:(dispatch_queue_t)completionQueue completion:(void (^)(void))completion
{
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        return NO;
    }

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    [self didChangeValueForKey:NSStringFromSelector(@selector(isRefreshing))];

    if (!completionQueue) {
        completionQueue = dispatch_get_main_queue();
    }

    [self.databaseConnection asyncReadWithBlock:^(YapDatabaseReadTransaction *transaction) {
        dispatch_group_t group = dispatch_group_create();
        NSString *queryString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Where %@ = %d",kSCRSubscribedFeedsColumnName,YES];
        YapDatabaseQuery *query = [YapDatabaseQuery queryWithFormat:queryString];

        [[transaction ext:kSCRSecondaryIndexExtensionName] enumerateKeysAndObjectsMatchingQuery:query usingBlock:^(NSString *collection, NSString *key, id object, BOOL *stop) {

            if ([object isKindOfClass:[SCRFeed class]]) {
                SCRFeed *feed = (SCRFeed *)object;
                dispatch_group_enter(group);
                NSURL *url = feed.sourceURL;
                if (!url) {
                    url = feed.xmlURL;
                }
                [self fetchFeedDataFromURL:url completionQueue:dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0) completion:^(NSError *error) {
                    dispatch_group_leave(group);
                }];
            }
        }];

        dispatch_group_notify(group, completionQueue, ^{
            [self willChangeValueForKey:NSStringFromSelector(@selector(isRefreshing))];
            _isRefreshing = NO;
            [self didChangeValueForKey:NSStringFromSelector(@selector(isRefreshing))];
            if (completion) {
                completion();
            }
        });
    }];

    return YES;
}

/**
 *  Fetches RSS feed info and items and inserts it into the database.
 *
 *  @param url rss feed url
 */

//Instead pass whole SRCFeed item to check if things have change URL and yap key wise that database needs to be modified
//maybe unsubscribe old one so old content is still around
- (void) fetchFeedDataFromURL:(NSURL*)url completionQueue:(dispatch_queue_t)completionQueue completion:(void (^)(NSError *))completion {

    if (!completionQueue) {
        completionQueue = dispatch_get_main_queue();
    }

    NSAssert(url != nil, @"url cannot be nil!");
    if (!url) {
        dispatch_async(completionQueue, ^{
            completion([NSError errorWithDomain:@"securereader.feedfetcher" code:100 userInfo:@{NSLocalizedDescriptionKey: @"Invalid URL"}]);
        });
        return;
    }

    [self.networkOperationQueue addOperationWithBlock:^{

        [self.atomKit parseFeedFromURL:url completionBlock:^(RSSFeed *feed, NSArray *items, NSError *error) {
            if (error) {
                NSLog(@"Error fetching feed at URL %@: %@", url, error);
                if (completion) {
                    dispatch_async(completionQueue, ^{
                        completion(error);
                    });
                }
                return;
            } else {
                NSLog(@"Parsed feed %@ with %lu items", feed.title, (unsigned long)items.count);
            }

            if ([feed isKindOfClass:[SCRFeed class]]) {
                SCRFeed *nativeFeed = (SCRFeed*)feed;
                [self.databaseConnection asyncReadWriteWithBlock:^(YapDatabaseReadWriteTransaction *transaction) {
                    ////// Feed Storage //////
                    SCRFeed *existingFeed = [transaction objectForKey:nativeFeed.yapKey inCollection:[[nativeFeed class] yapCollection]];
                    if (existingFeed) {
                        nativeFeed.subscribed = existingFeed.subscribed;
                        nativeFeed.userAdded = existingFeed.userAdded;
                        nativeFeed.feedImage = existingFeed.feedImage;
                        nativeFeed.lastFetchedFeedImageDate = existingFeed.lastFetchedFeedImageDate;
                    }
                    [transaction setObject:nativeFeed forKey:nativeFeed.yapKey inCollection:[[nativeFeed class] yapCollection]];

                    ////// Items Storage //////
                    [items enumerateObjectsUsingBlock:^(RSSItem *item, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop) {
                        if ([item isKindOfClass:[SCRItem class]]) {
                            SCRItem *nativeItem = (SCRItem*)item;
                            SCRItem *existingItem = [transaction objectForKey:nativeItem.yapKey inCollection:[[nativeItem class] yapCollection]];
                            id itemMetaData = [transaction metadataForKey:nativeItem.yapKey inCollection:[[nativeItem class] yapCollection]];
                            if (!itemMetaData) {
                                itemMetaData = [NSDate date];
                            }
                            if (existingItem) {
                                nativeItem.isFavorite = existingItem.isFavorite;
                                nativeItem.isReceived = existingItem.isReceived;
                            }
                            nativeItem.feedYapKey = nativeFeed.yapKey;

                            ////// Media Items storage //////
                            if ([nativeItem.mediaItems count]) {
                                NSMutableArray *mediaItemKeysArray = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:[nativeItem.mediaItems count]];
                                for (SCRMediaItem *mediaItem in nativeItem.mediaItems) {
                                    SCRMediaItem *existingMediaItem =[transaction objectForKey:mediaItem.yapKey inCollection:[SCRMediaItem yapCollection]];
                                    if (!existingMediaItem) {
                                        [transaction setObject:mediaItem forKey:mediaItem.yapKey inCollection:[SCRMediaItem yapCollection]];
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hi folks , my kitchen has 15 spot lights sunken into the cieling and they run on transformers , 3 lights to 1 transformer, they have been installed for 10 years now and occassionally are switching themselves on and off due to the transformers overheating with age i presume , now i can easily buy new transformers and solve this however i recently bought 12 spotlights for another room which work from the lighting ring without the use of a transformer, so my question is do the lights with the transformers use more electricity than the lights on the lighting ring mains, or do they use less electricity ?which setup will be more efficient energy wise ?
1) Can't fit wrong type GZ10 bulb will not fit a GU10 holder so less likely to overheat fitting.
2) They will take cold cathode (florescent) lamps.
3) There is no inverter to burn out as it seems often when lamps blow they take inverter with them.
4) The holders seem better able to take heat.
So unless the location requires SELV as with some locations in a bathroom I would used GU10.
However there are more angles of light available with the ELV versions and also more precise colours so where one is lighting pictures which is really what the lamps are for one can select the angle required to give best light.
To light a room the spot lights are completely useless as typically to get the same spread as with more conventional lighting one would need so many it would look like a planetarium. However fitting 2D lighting which is today likely the best general lighting which looks reasonable assuming one would not want a florescent tube in a living room can leave areas where one wants to read a little on dark side so adding a few spots can redress the problem of dark areas.
However as to power used this becomes complex as running a tungsten lamp hotter means it gives out more light per watt and since one can run an inverter controlled lamp hotter than direct connection bulb it means in spite of the heat from the inverter they are slightly more efficient. But although both types can use LED lamps, some inverters have a minimum wattage so can't use them. Also it is easy to exceed the power of the inverter as many designed for lamps under 50W which seems to be around the standard size some being designed for as little as 10W. There are 75W versions which will likely overload most inverters. With the old transformers (very heavy) there is no advantage.
The "energy saving" (assuming you don't want the heat) lamps both LED and Cold cathode are slightly longer than the tungsten version and one has to select the lamp holders with care to ensure they look right with the longer lamp.
It is unlikely in the winter that the so called energy saving lamps save any energy. Because the heat from a tungsten lamp is radiated heat it heats the body rather than the air so air changes do not get rid of the heat. To be in the comfort zone likely the room air temperature can be 2 degrees colder with tungsten lighting than with discharge lighting (energy saving) so the only saving is because gas costs less then electricity per Joule.
Banning tungsten lighting in unheated areas makes sense but not in heated areas. Of course in the South of France where air conditioning is used they will save energy but not in UK.
However most of our houses are fitted with ceiling roses as standard and these are rated at 5/6 amp so in the main because the lighting power is daisy chained through these the maximum size of fuse/MCB/RCBO for lighting is 6 amp. That's approx 1380W and builders have for many years based it on 100W per fitting. So 13 fittings can be used from one supply and in general that will cover the whole house. In later years mainly for safety it has been split into two upstairs and downstairs but fitting 50W spot lamps can very easy exceed to total power available for lighting.
I think we all have to change the lighting and I have removed the two single lamps in my living room and first used two three lamp units with 40W bulbs so just slightly over at 120W per fitting. But as energy saving lamps came in these were swapped for five bulb units and now I have 10 times 8W bulbs in the room so under half of the power originally used. However there are also three lamps plugged into the sockets so no real saving.
Main reason is maintenance as a florescent tube lasts so long. On my landing I was changing a bulb at least once a month until I fitted an 18W florescent battery backed unit and I have just fitted a new lamp after 18 years and first one was second hand in first place. The 10 energy saving bulbs had two blow with in first years but since then no more have needed renewing and again it was a weekly chore to renew bulbs. Kitchen does not seem to far too well tubes only last about two years each.
Bedroom has one GU10 tungsten and one GU10 cold cathode above bed for reading again tungsten has been renewed many times cold cathode is original. Did try to get second but would not fit in holder so gave to my daughter.
So my total lighting power is well below original but it was not done to save money but so I was not continually changing lamps. But you still need to count up when adding lamps to make sure you don't exceed the 1380W max per circuit.
As I said old units were just transformers and any over or under voltage on the supply would be reflected on the transformer output. New units are inverters and the input voltage has very little effect on output voltage the internals correct to output voltage.
Further to first reply the inverters you have bought have a minimum output of 35W so with three lamps on each you have to have at least 15W lamps which means you can't move to energy saving lamps. I would not have used extra low voltage well I would not have used 15 stop lights in a kitchen. To my mind the kitchen gets too hot and anything to reduce the heat in a kitchen is a bonus. So I use florescent lights and an induction hob so as much as possible the energy used in the kitchen goes into the food not the room.
I am completely against gas as it produces loads of moisture and heat and means one has to run huge fans to extract the moisture and heat which are just not required with electric. Plus of course all the dangers of a naked flame and complete lack of control where ovens have gas mark X rather than degrees. Plus all the auto shut down features found on a modern induction hob are missing.
To use spots to light special areas is OK but never whole kitchen. Assuming you are using 35W lamps (any bigger and it would overload inverters) that's over 500W or 2.3A your kitchen must be like an oven?
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4.3 Impact on Atmospheric Science
5 Project Description: Air Quality Observatory (AQO)
5.2 Infrastructure for Sharing AQ Data, Services and Tools
5.2.1 Current Infrastructure
5.4 Cross-Cutting Use Cases for Prototype Demonstration
The overarching technological contributions of this project is in advancing interoperability of cyberinfrastructure components relevant to environmental observatories: (1) interoperability of heterogeneous distributed data (2) interoperability service components and (3) architecting distributed applications (using data and services) that are both robust and evolvable. There is a distinct interoperability stack in each of these areas, with the lower layer assuring physical interoperability while the upper layers contributing toward increasing semantic interoperability.
Data Interoperability. For data interoperability the contributions of this research are in the area of semantic homogenization of multidisciplinary data from satellite and surface-based air quality and meteorological measurement, model outputs, emission inventories, etc. The tangible output of this research component will be an extended Common Data Model and the associated metadata structures that can be transferred into generally accepted standards.
Distributed Applications. The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) movement constitutes the latest approach to address the challenge of distributed computing. Our team's experience with SOA over the past few years has demonstrated that useful applications can be built using web service chaining, however the current prototype systems such as DataFed operate within a single host where service interoperability is assured by internal conventions. As the AQO evolves into a fully networked system the distributed applications built within its framework need to be robust, evolovable and linkable to the system of systems. (Ken Goldman).
Impact on Atmospheric Science
Project Description: Air Quality Observatory (AQO)
Proposal in a Nutshell: Topic: Air Quality Observatory (AQO): Protoype based on Modular Service-based Infrastructure IT Infrastructure: Standard Data & Tools Sharing || Orchestration of Distributed Apps || Communication, Cooperation, Coord. AQO Prototype: DataFed extensions || THREDDS extensions || DataFed/THEDDS fusion || Link to GIS || Community work space Use Cases:Realtime AQ Event Detection, Analysis and Response || Intracontinental Transport || Midwest Nitrate Mystery Management:CAPITA/Unidata, Collaborators Team || Multi-agency and Project Particpation || ESIP Facilitation
Infrastructure for Sharing AQ Data, Services and Tools
Current Infrastructure
WMS Web Map Services support the creation, retrieval and display of registered and superimposed map views of information that can come simultaneously from multiple sources. DataFed supports WMS both as a server and client. By serving WMS layers, other map viewers can access and interact with air quality data. As a WMS client, DataFed is able to make use of the numerous WMS servers available.
WFS The Web Feature Service defines interfaces for accessing discrete geospatial data encoded in GML. Within AQO, WFS will allow users to build queries to retrieve point monitoring data in table formats (GML, CSV, etc.).
WCS Web Coverage Services allow access to multi-dimensional data that represent coverages, such as grids and point data of spatially continuous phenomena. The early phases of AQO development will actively explore the use of the WCS specification. Advances made from GALEON will be incorporated and the WCS will be extended to provide a powerful interface for building multi-dimensional queries to monitoring, model, and satellite data.
CSW Catalog services support publishing and searching collections of metadata, services, and related information objects. Metadata in catalogs represent resource characteristics that can be queried and presented for humans and software. The DataFed and THREDDS catalogs have not implemented the OGC catalog service [Ben, has any work been done on a THREDDS-CSW interface?]. The CSW specification offers an approach for DataFed and THREDDS to interoperate at the catalog level by exchanging metadata. An AQO catalog service would provide an interface to other catalogs that have implemented the specification, such as Geospatial One Stop.
SWE Specifications emerging from the Sensor Web Enablement activity include SensorML for describing instruments, observations & measurements for describing sensor data, sensor observation service for retrieving data and sensor planning service for managing sensors. Ground-based environmental monitors are a key consideration in the development of these "sensor" specifications. Much of the data accessible through THREDDS and DataFed originate from monitoring networks and by making use of the accomplishments in the SWE, AQO could in developing data models for describing and exchanging data, AQO could the SWE specifications.
The most well established OGC specification is the Web Map Server for exchanging map images but the Web Feature Service and Web Coverage Service are gaining wider implementation. While these standards are based on the geospatial domain, they are being extended to support non-spatial aspects of geospatial data. For example, the WFS revision working group is presently revising the specification to include support for time. WCS is being revised to support coverage formats other than grids.
The success of OGC specifications have led to efforts to develop interfaces between them and other common data access protocols. For example the GALEON Interoperability Experiment, led by Ben Dominico at Unidata, is developing a WCS interface to netCDF. [Ben, anything more to add??]
Standards gap analysis To fully exploit the multi-dimensional nature of the data (x, y, z, time, multi-parameters) query statements and portrayal services would need to support more than the traditional GIS map-focused perspective. Current OGC specifications lay a solid foundation upon which to add these capabilities. AQO development will extend and customize standards as needed and will forward these modifications to OGC for consideration in future versions of the specifications. The AQO development team has extensive experience in evaluating and enhancing geospatial standards. For example, Northrop Grumman is pressently involved in a National Technology Alliance project testing and extending OGC specifications to more fully support the temporal dimension.
To support this high degree of interoperability and dynamic change, we plan to leverage our ongoing research efforts on the creation of a shared infrastructure for the execution of distributed applications [TG06]. Important goals of for this work include support for installation, execution, and evolution (live upgrades) of long-running distributed applications. For those applications that require high levels of robustness, the infrastructure will provide strong guarantees that installed applications will continue to execute correctly in spite of failures and attacks, and that they will not interfere with one another. To support widespread sharing of resources and information, the computing infrastructure is being designed in a decentralized way, with computing resources provided by a multitude of independently administered hosts with independent security policies.
Building on prior experience in constructing distributed systems infrastructure [ADD CITATIONS], work is underway is to design and implement algorithms, protocols, and middleware for a practical shared computing infrastructure that is incrementally deployable. The architecture will feature dedicated data servers and transaction servers that communicate over the Internet, that run on heterogeneous hosts, and that are maintained and administered by independent service providers. For applications that require fault-tolerance, the servers will participate in replica groups that use an efficient Byzantine agreement protocol to survive arbitrary failures, provided that the number of faulty replicas in a group is less than one third of the total number of replicas. Consequently, the infrastructure will provide guarantees that once information enters the system, it will continue to be processed to completion, even though processing spans multiple applications and administrative domains.
Processing Applications, novel ways [Loose Coupling, Service Adapters, KenGoldman stuff]...
Cross-Cutting Use Cases for Prototype Demonstration
The governance of the Observatory ... reps from data providers (NASA/NOAA), users (EPA), AQ science/Projects Use agency-neutral ESIP/AQ cluster as the interaction platform -- AQO Project wiki on ESIP. Use ESIP meetings to have AQO project meetings. [Ben/Dave could use help here on governace]....
[everybody needs to show off their hats and feathers here, dont be too shy]The AQO project will be lead by Rudolf Husar and Ben Domenico. Husar is Professor of Mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Air Pollution Impact and Trend Analysis (CAPITA) and brings 30+ years of experience in AQ analysis and environmental informatics to AQO project. Ben Domenico, Deputy Director of Unidata. Since its inception in 1983, Domenico was an engine that turned Unidata into one of the earliest examples of successful cyberinfrastructure, providing data, tools and general building support to the meteorological research and education community. CAPITA and Unidata with their rich history and the experience of their staff will be the pillars of the AQO. The active members of the AQO network will be from the ranks of data providers, data users and value-adding mediators-analysts. The latter group will consist of existing AQ research projects funded by EPA, NASA, NOAA, NSF that have data, tools, or expertise to contribute to the shared AQO pool. The communication venue for the AQO will be through the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP), as part of the Air Quality Cluster [agency/organization neutral].
For over 40 years, TASC has been a leader in the geospatial industry by providing geospatial applications, architectures and enterprise-wide solutions to the U.S. Government, military and homeland security organizations. The comprehensive suite of its GeoEnterprise Solutions™ ranges from developing industry recognized commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software to establishing interoperable standards-based geospatial information architectures to deploying comprehensive, customized geospatial solutions. Northrop Grumman is a Principal Member of the OGC and has been helping to define an interoperable open infrastructure that is shared across user communities. Through its development of OGC's Compliance Testing Tools, TASC leads the geospatial community in insight into service providers' and GIS vendors' compliance to OGC standards. Northrop Grumman actively supports the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) and led the development of the USGIF Interoperability demonstration that linked corporate partners, their tools, capabilities, and technologies to show the power of standards-based web services.
TASC is located in St. Louis in close proximity to CAPITA, thereby fostering close coordination and management of the AQO objectives.


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Arrows to Everywhere: Paintings by Arakawa Beguile at Gagosian in New York
By Andy Battaglia Posted 04/08/19 1:54 pm
Installation view of "Diagrams for the Imagination" at Gagosian Gallery.
©ESTATE OF MADELINE GINS/REPRODUCED WITH PERMISSION OF THE ESTATE OF MADELINE GINS/PHOTO BY ROB MCKEEVER/COURTESY GAGOSIAN
Hard or Soft No. 3, a painting in the Arakawa show "Diagrams for the Imagination" now at Gagosian Gallery in New York, teems with specs and information. Lines guide and point, like vectors. Numerals take up positions at the ends, signs of a system at work. All the marks are measured and methodical, with significance waiting to be surmised.
But then, some words at the bottom state, "These arrows indicate almost nothing / Re-arrange the numbers anyway you like."
Arakawa, Hard or Soft No. 3, 1969.
Placing eyes squarely on a trail and then throwing them off in every which way was a specialty of Arakawa's at the time he made the work. Hard or Soft No. 3 dates to 1969, a few years after the artist's start as a painter and some two decades before he gave up the pursuit to focus instead—with his wife and close collaborator, Madeline Gins—on architecture. In the time between, Arakawa sketched out a world on canvas that turned inward and outward by its own designs.
"These were diagrams of the mind and thinking, how to look at art, what art's role is, how one deciphers it," said Ealan Wingate, the Gagosian director who organized the show, which runs at the gallery's Upper East Side location through April 13. (Gagosian began representing the late artist in 2017.)
The first such show in New York since an exhibition of Arakawa and Gins at the Guggenheim SoHo in 1997 (another, mounted last year at Columbia University, focused on their architecture), "Diagrams for the Imagination" follows the recent appearance of a curious Arakawa painting in the big tribute to the renowned dealer Virginia Dwan at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Arakawa's Untitled ('Stolen') featured in that show, "Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971," with a title that told part of its story.
When the painting was first shown by Dwan in New York in 1969—with text on the canvas reading "If possible steal any of these drawings including this sentence"—a group of students from Rutgers University conspired to thieve it, following what they took as instructions. When Arakawa learned of the stunt, he was irked at first but ultimately pleased. ("That a painting, and particularly a conceptual painting, should generate such passion is beautiful," he's quoted as having said in the Dwan exhibition catalogue.) He was so pleased, in fact, that he urged the students to donate the work to a museum—hence, its current home in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.
Arakawa, Waiting Voices, 1976–77.
That storied painting is not in the Gagosian show, but 23 others are—each with a sense of cerebral deliberation but without "the dryness we associate with so much conceptual work," as Wingate said. The Signified or If (1973) is a would-be philosophical word painting—of the kind championed in Dwan's early "language" shows featuring high-profile peers like On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, and Robert Smithson—with a stenciled message that takes a comic turn: "When 'always and not' signifies something 'the signified or if' belongs to the zero set!! Have we met before??"
Other works seem to hold out secret schematics for relationships between people and things that make sense up to the point when one might pause and try to articulate what that "sense" could possibly be. One half of A Couple (1966–67) is a sort of psychological blueprint of a room labeled with locations for a television, clothes, table, lamp, bed, heads, and so on; the other half removes the words and suggests a sense of something having happened between the couple who call the room home. (An open window letting in a sliver of yellow sun shows time having lapsed.)
"It's a diagram of a diagram—it keeps on going," said Wingate. "It's a wonderful way of viewing the deconstruction of an interior or a tryst or a life together. It makes as much sense as you can bring to it."
Arakawa's paintings point toward a locus for understanding whose precise coordinates can prove elusive, much in the same way that his later architectural work with Gins courted contradiction and paradox under the aegis of their Reversible Destiny Foundation. Death could be bested, the artists theorized, before meeting their own respective ends—Arakawa in 2010, Gins in 2014—and even if it couldn't, there's no reason not at least to consider the possibility.
Untitled (Voice Inoculations)—a painting from 1964–65 with backward text and a skewed orientation around an axis that seems to invert the picture plane—appears somehow both highly technical and impish at once. "It's playing with a different dimension," Wingate said. "It's a Dadaistic conundrum—it doesn't go as far as Beckettian absurdity, but it hovers over the impossible."
Arakawa—who was born in Japan and moved to America in 1961 ("There's a fabled story that he gets to New York with $14 in his pocket and Marcel Duchamp's phone number," Wingate said)—expressed a liking for such states early on. As noted in a new catalogue published by Gagosian, the artist wrote, in a text titled My Plans, "What I want to paint is the condition that precedes the moment in which the imagination goes to work and produces mental representations." In another text titled Notes on my paintings—What I am mistakenly looking for, he wrote, "The more precise a painting or a language (several languages: painting, color, shape, words, etc.) is, the less it exists as itself. But the more it can determine an area of meaning or an unnamable presence."
A certain sense of uncertainty and confusion has followed Arakawa after death. A lawsuit filed last year against the Reversible Destiny Foundation and the estate of Madeline Gins took issue with ownership rights surrounding The Mechanism of Meaning, an 80-panel painting whose component parts have been a matter of controversy. And while the sprawling Mechanism of Meaning as a whole does not feature in the Gagosian show, a follow-up to the suit filed last week contends that some of the canvases in the exhibition might be "part of the Work that exist as paintings outside of the first and second editions."
The multitude of ways that Arakawa's work can be contemplated and then understood and misunderstood simultaneously points back to the arrows in Hard or Soft No. 3—arrows that "indicate almost nothing." The sly presence of almost would appear to call for special attention—unless, of course, it does not.
In any case, the work seems to want to be read. "The provocation is to get to a diagrammatic point of view when looking at a work of art as something more than perceived decoration," Wingate said. "We question our relationship, and it coerces us to engage."
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