Visual communication is ubiquitous, commanding our attention and commandeering our inattention. The presentation of information can take myriad visual forms, such as bar charts, scatter plots, network diagrams, and tables. These information graphics are attempts to map potentially large amounts of complex data to easily navigable visual form for rapid and accurate knowledge transfer. However, there is not yet a satisfactory formal methodology for selecting the most appropriate visualization method for a given set of data.
an empirically-based taxonomy of visualization based on the results of 1 and 2.
The proposed research will create a novel taxonomy for and database of acquired and generated information graphics as well as an associated web application to search, organize, and compare entries in the database. Part of this research program is intended to establish the most comprehensive, manually annotated (and taxonomically classified) information graphics database in the world, for use by the public via a web interface. These images will be important for procuring stimuli for other kinds of perceptual and cognitive psychology experiments. The eye tracking and task performance results should help lead to a better understanding of how humans look at data, respond to the relationship between data structures and visual composition, and respond differentially to visualizations of different types. With respect to qualifications, the PI has a background in brain imaging research, image processing, and programming applications for generating graphs. Through his collaborator Dr. Ferrera of Columbia University, he has access to facilities and faculty specialized in eye tracking and psychophysics research. Collaborator Dr. Michelle Zhou, a research manager at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, has years of experience in the areas of data and visual taxonomies, image databases, and automated generation of information graphics [Zhou and Feiner 1998, Zhou et al. 2002b, Zhou et al. 2002a].
In addition to contributions the image taxonomy, database, and web application are intended to make to research, they will serve as a rich resource for teaching about the history and scope of visualization methods and design within and across disciplines, and for the general public with an interest in information graphics. The research will be conducted on subjects of varied background and race and will be broadly disseminated via websites in addition to publications. Additionally, defining a visual taxonomy will inform design choices made in information visualization. One implication of this research is a determination of how effective different visualization methods are at conveying information; this understanding will be of profound help to anyone interested in conveying information effectively in a graphical form.
All software and data will be open (Apache v2.0 license) and freely available.
Objective 1: Characterize how the choice of information visualization method impacts task performance and oculomotor behavior.
Objective 2: Determine if this behavior is discriminable between experts and novices.
Objective 3: Construct an empirically-based taxonomy of visualization from 1 and 2.
Hypothesis 1: The effectiveness of an information visualization method (based on task performance) is a function of the task.
Hypothesis 2: The effectiveness of an information visualization method (based on task performance) is a function of underlying data features.
Hypothesis 3: Task performance is discriminable in accordance with the categories of a visual taxonomy.
Hypothesis 4: Eye movements are discriminable (i.e., there are "signatures") in accordance with the categories of a visual taxonomy.
Hypothesis 5: Eye movements are discriminable between experts and novices.
Hypothesis 1 posits that the ability to perform a task related to an information visualization method depends on the task being performed. In other words, a given task is best performed on certain visualization types, and conversely, a visualization method is amenable to performing particular tasks. This research intends to establish these visual-task relationships for a range of visual and task categories.
Hypothesis 2 posits that the ability to perform a task related to an information visualization method also depends on the data structure (set of data features) underlying the visualization. In other words, given data are best treated by certain visualization methods, and conversely, a visualization method is best suited to represent particular data structures. This research intends to establish these data-visual relationships for a range of data and visual categories.
Hypotheses 3 and 4 are intended to substantiate and modify the visual taxonomy, and address the third objective above. They maintain that there is a mapping from subject task performance and eye path profiles for a given task set performed on given visualizations to the visual taxonomy characterizing these visualizations. This would result in a psychologically tested taxonomy, the first known to the author. Empirically defining a visual taxonomy will benefit education and research interested in the structure of visual information, and will inform design choices made in information visualization. One implication of this research is a determination of how effective different visualization methods are at conveying information; this understanding will be of profound help to anyone interested in communicating effectively in a graphical form.
Hypothesis 5 asserts that the eye movements are not only discriminable between visualizations, but between subject skill levels.
Fig. 1 outlines the experimental approach, highlighting a particular data structure and visualization method under examination. The proposed research is interested in comparing tasks (hypothesis 1), data structures (hypothesis 2), visualization methods (hypotheses 3 & 4), and subject responses (hypothesis 5).
(A) Each data feature (scale, dimensionality, etc., defined by the data taxonomy), has attributes (e.g., scale may be set to nominal, ordinal, or ratio). The combination of attribute settings form (B) a data structure, which in turn is amenable to certain (C) visualization methods (defined by the visual taxonomy). When a visualization method is used to perform (D) a set of tasks, (E) performance and eye movement data are recorded for each of N subjects.
Section II will outline the behavioral data to be acquired and the methods to be employed in their acquisition and analysis. Section III will outline the visual taxonomy used to distinguish between information graphics stimuli, the basis from which a new visual taxonomy will be empirically derived.
(E) performance and eye movement data are recorded for each of N subjects.
Two sets of stimuli will be used for presentation: existing and generated information graphics. The existing images will be selected from a database under development by the PI whose images are being gathered from numerous image repositories on the internet, and will be classified according to the visual taxonomy in section III. The present database includes all of the images compiled by the Institute for Social Research at York University (http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/), in the Atlas of Cyberspaces by the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis at the University College London (http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/), in Cartogram Central hosted by the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at UC Santa Barbara (http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/Cartogram_Central/index.html), in the network image collection of visualcomplexity.com, as well as many other collections. Part of this research program will expand this effort to establish the most comprehensive, manually annotated (and taxonomically classified) information graphics database in the world, for use by the public via a web interface. We anticipate that it will be a valuable resource for research and for education at all levels, and that it will also be of general interest to a wide audience on the internet. In particular, the images will be important for procuring stimuli for various perceptual and cognitive psychology experiments, and will serve as a rich resource for teaching about the history and scope of visualization methods and design within and across disciplines.
The PI is in communication with collaborator Dr. Michelle Zhou of IBM to discuss the possibility of incorporating the framework underlying IBM's graphical database [Zhou et al. 2002a] into this research program. The advantage of doing so would be to use IBM's extremely careful manual annotations of and precise data-visual mapping between the data interrelationships and visual hierarchy for each information graphic.
The second set of images will be generated to provide flexibility of as well as control over the presentation stimuli. Flexibility refers to the requirement that from each dataset a variety of images can be constructed, according to categories of the visual taxonomy. Control refers to the requirement that the stimuli be normalized by various psychophysical criteria so as not to bias a viewer. Each stimulus will be constructed as an example of a single, predominating taxonomical category, or as a hybrid of multiple categories. The data features underlying the graphics will be based on Zhou's extensive data taxonomy [Zhou et al. 2002a, Zhou et al. 2002b]. These features include the following: scale, unit, continuity, resolution, volume, cardinality, arity, etc. From each selected combination of data features, multiple information graphics will be generated either manually (by designers) or semi-automatically (by in-house or third-party computer code).
who has experience in programming graph-generation applications (in Matlab and in Python).
(mouse clicks or keyboard input) for the generated images.
The tasks will consist of answering questions about the images [Foster 2003, Peebles and Cheng 2003, Ghoniem et al. 2004] involving estimation, comparison or matching between visual elements, and visual search to identify, count, or navigate through features. Half of the stimuli will be accompanied by questions posed before the trials, and half after the trials, to determine the effectiveness of a graphic in terms of how navigable it is in the former case and how memorable it is in the latter case. The questions will be of either a local or global character, to see what effects the distribution of intended fixation points in a visual search, for example, has on eye movements and task performance. Problem-solving questions used for comparing the effectiveness of a network diagram and a matrix representation of the same data might include: estimate the number of nodes and links, find a particular node or link (such as the most connected node or a link with a particular label), and find a path or common neighbor between two nodes [Ghoniem et al. 2004].
All behavioral data will be acquired at collaborator Dr. Vincent Ferrera's laboratory at Columbia University, which conducts eye tracking and psychophysics research. All aspects of the experimental design will be made available on the PI's website as well as described in publications and presented in lectures and at conferences.
Perhaps in a later stage of this work, subjects would answer questions about the relationships between image (fixation) points to see if these overt characterizations of images agree with the classifications of the taxonomy. An extension of this idea would be to create a web interface by which a large, distributed group of people could characterize these compositional relationships as part of a game [Ahn and Dabbish 2004]. This would provide a dynamic classification system that would subsume a great diversity of perceptions and interpretations, and would accelerate classification of image databases. A subset of these inputs could be used to establish a standard database for testing purposes and a standard protocol for compositional classification of images. T he range of image types may also be expanded beyond information graphics if the behavioral measures are changed, such as in recent work in spatial perception and visualization comprehension, where object properties are identified in realistic images [Velez et al. 2005].
The eye tracking data will be analyzed by ISCAN software, and eye movement clustering will be performed using a mean shift procedure [Santella and DeCarlo 2004]. Part of this research will be to develop novel means of characterizing and comparing eye movement patterns.
If we represent data-visual mappings as graphs as in [Zhou et al. 2002a], another novel and potentially valuable outcome of this research will be to observe how subjects' eye movements across different visual features could be studied as a dynamic traversal through these graphs. For this, network analysis techniques would be employed to study the interaction between where subjects' eyes look and linger, and the visual composition of what they're looking at, and the structure of the data underlying what they're seeing. This network analysis is reserved for a later phase of this research.
The task-based responses will be evaluated for speed and accuracy to establish an expert group and a novice group for each task and for each information visualization method. Attempts will be made to correlate eye movement "signatures" with "expertise," not in the sense of theoretically optimal eye movements [Foster 2003], but with respect to different subject eye path profiles.
One application of this expert vs. novice profiling is to automatically guide a novice to visually navigate an image in a similar manner as an expert, by carefully situating surprising elements [Itti and Baldi 2006] or subduing elements in the image. This is proposed as a later phase to the present research project.
There have been numerous attempts at classifying images [Blackwell and Engelhardt 1999, Duke et al. 2004], based on data types and tasks [Wehrend and Lewis 1990, Yu and Behrens 1995, Shneiderman 1996, Zhou and Feiner 1998, Wenzel et al. 2003, Tory and T. 2004], visualization algorithms and models [Tory and T. 2004, Chi 2000], visual elements [Bertin 1983], mappings between data and visual elements [Mackinlay 1986, Rogowitz and Treinish 1993, Zhang 1996, Zhou et al. 2002b, Zhou et al. 2002a], as well as subject sorting of conventional methods of presentation [Lohse et al. 1990]. This section outlines a new taxonomy of images that distinguishes itself from the above approaches by detailing a formal method for classifying images based on the composition of visual elements by relational operators. The proposed bottom-up taxonomy and corresponding symbolic notation are meant to complement top-down taxonomies that classify according to content, function, intent, interpretation, or effect. The derivation of this taxonomy draws from concepts in basic geometry and linear algebra as well as graph theory and computer graphics, and draws inspiration from Gestalt psychology. As in the rest of this proposal, "image" refers to information graphic, to ensure that the relationship between image components and underlying data are well characterized. This taxonomy will act as a preliminary taxonomy; the results of this research program will be used to revise the categories of this taxonomy to come up with an empirically-based visual taxonomy.
We will consider any two-dimensional image to be a set of graphical objects set in a space and spatially related to each other. We will build up our classification system from a set of graphical elements making up these objects, the linear transforms that situate them in a space, and relational operators for relating these objects to one another in this space.
Our graphical elements will simply consist of shapes, which include curves and boundaries, and surfaces, the simple visual qualities of a surface such as colors and textures. We will consider graphical objects to consist of shapes enclosing surfaces.
Our graphical transforms are based on the affine transformations used in geometry and linear algebra, where any deformation to a shape is allowed so long as parallel lines remain parallel. Example transformations include translation and changes in scale and direction (rotation, reflection, and shear). Rather than consider the transformations themselves, we will consider the effects they have on graphical objects: position, size, and direction.
Finally, our relational operators are constructed from and act on the above elements and transforms (together referred to as attributes) or on each other, and will be of five general classes that we will refer to as connection, containment, composition, correspondence, and context. We will describe each relational operator below.
A graph provides perhaps the simplest way of relating two otherwise dissimilar objects in a diagram, by simply connecting them with an edge (Fig. 2). A hypergraph is a generalization of a graph, where instead of each edge connecting two vertices, each hyperedge can connect any number of vertices. The hyperedge is schematically represented in diagrams as an enclosure surrounding a subset of vertices (Fig. 2). Since the taxonomy deals with visual images, we will distinguish between the visual analogs of graphs and hypergraphs to derive two different graphical relational operators: connection and containment. Connection operators are commonly seen in network and relational diagrams, where the edge of a graph can explicitly connect graphical objects, or where edges are replaced with implicit "pointers" from one graphical object to another (markers, text, etc.). Containment operators indicate the inclusion of subsets of graphical objects by the explicit use of an outline or the implicit use of boundaries (such as changing textures or surrounding shapes). Tables and Venn diagrams are examples of visuals that rely on containment to organize graphical objects.
Composition refers literally to the case when one graphical element or operator is made up of other elements or operators, such as a texture made up of shapes. Mosaics are canonical examples of composition of graphical objects by other objects.
Correspondence refers instead to the case where a graphical property (element, transform, or relational operator) is a function of another property. An example is when a color contour plot uses color to indicate height along an axis perpendicular to the image plane; in the taxonomical nomenclature, color is a function of position. Functional relationships refer to either explicitly defined mathematical functions or visually apparent patterns or relationships for which no apparent function exists. Correspondence is usually defined in a key or legend.
Context means the space in which graphical objects are situated, and may be founded on a graphical element, a transform, and/or an operator. For example, an element such as color could define a space such as the C.I.E. color space, the position transform characterizes the Cartesian coordinate space, and the containment operator characterizes tabular space.
We will symbolically represent taxonomic classifications using the notation in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4. Each of the symbols representing attributes of graphical objects in Fig. 3 are invoked in one of two cases: when there is a single dominating attribute, or when variations in an element or transform appear to be a deliberate attempt to convey meaningful information. Examples of the latter include differences in shape, color, proximity, size, or orientation. One defining feature of the notation is that a symbol that represents a varying property of an object can stand in for the object. For example, the scale symbol by itself signifies graphical objects that vary in size, such as size markers in a scatter plot. Symbols for the relational operators are in Fig. 4; their full notational forms give rise to functional descriptions (in a mathematical or computer programming sense), where one can hierarchically embed attribute or operator symbols within any of the variables. In other words, the symbols are used as building blocks, and may also stand for groups of symbols for the purposes of compact representation and abstraction.
For example, a collection of right-facing arrows may collectively take the shape of a left-facing arrow or create a texture or provide a link between nodes in a network diagram, and so on. This substitution of one taxonomical category for another also allows for implicit forms of each, such as a texture boundary standing in for a curve. Taken further, any category may serve a symbolic role as well. For example, the color blue may be associated with "sky" or "water," an upper right orientation may be associated with "northeast," and a link connecting two pictures may create the impression of causal relation between the contents of the two. Because of the unlimited potential for applying semiotics to each of these categories, we will disregard the symbolic aspects of images for the purposes of classification. Taking shapes at face value creates one obvious dilemma, best exemplified by a treatment of text as graphical objects. Text functions to convey meaning apart from its form much as any visual is a symbol to be interpreted. Hereafter, text annotation is assumed to accompany almost every image and will not be incorporated in the taxonomy except in two cases: text as identifiers or as pointers, such as text labels identifying locations on a map and text pointing to another place in the image. In cases where text is the primary object, it may be denoted by "T" and where numbers are the primary objects, they may be denoted by "#," such as in a numerical table.
With regard to syntax, transform symbols usually precede element symbols and attribute symbols are sequentially ordered in a manner that conveys their successive application (such as symbols for position and scale for "positioned sizes" representing a Venn diagram of overlapping areas). Where symbols need to be clearly grouped together they are enclosed by parentheses; where they function independently they are separated by commas (such as the symbols for shape and surface to indicate that shapes and textures convey independent pieces of information, as in a scatter plot). Additionally, numerical superscripts are applied to disparate symbols in a notational string when they need to be identified as related or identical for clarity.
To summarize, the taxonomy has five general classes of relational operators (connection, containment, composition, correspondence, and context) that act on each other or on the following five properties of graphical objects: the elements shape and surface, and the transforms position, size, and direction. The conciseness and power of this taxonomy become apparent when applying combinations of the above properties to complex data visualizations. Distinctive, canonical forms of visual presentation are neatly distinguished from one another by these bottom-up classifications and are succinctly represented by the symbolic notation of Fig. 3 and Fig. 4.
1. A curve is a one-dimensional continuous set of points such as a line segment or the outline of a shape.
2. A boundary is any visual property that implicitly marks the limit of an area or volume.
3. We will refer to textures in the manner of texture mapping and raytracing in computer graphics. Virtual light sources interact with surfaces exhibiting given optical properties. These surfaces are projected to two dimensions for viewing from a given perspective.
4. An affine transformation between two vector spaces consists of a linear transformation followed by a translation. Our transforms will sometimes deviate from affine transforms, for example when objects are scaled linearly with respect to basis vectors different than those of the image such as for radial plots. Another case is when the intent is to imply scale changes between objects, as in a caricature.
5. A graph is a mathematical construct formally relating different objects, and is depicted by a set of vertices connected by edges.
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and proposed it to the office of President Bob Kerrey of The New School.
The New School, and last year's ESRI and GEOINT conferences.
brain labeling, freely downloadable at http://www.binarybottle.com/mindboggle.html.
Intended to become the largest collection of manually annotated information graphics.
to disseminate knowledge about the interrelationships of insects and humans.
Professor Emeritus Walter Spink of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Human Subjects Involvement and Characteristics: Participants will be recruited from the Columbia Health and Sciences Campus and the Columbia Morningside Campus communities, as well as The New School community, with no biases toward race or gender. Participants will be included if they have normal visual acuity or corrected with contact lenses, are right handed, and have no history of neurological injury, disease, or developmental impairment, psychiatric illness, substance abuse, or hearing loss. The proposed research will involve both genders and a random sampling of races, with a total of 25-75 participants.
Sources of Materials: Data collected from participants will be used for research purposes only. It will be in the form of behavioral performance measuring accuracy on visual perception tasks, and reaction time in milliseconds, and eye movements for each trial. Behavioral data will be recorded and stored electronically as Matlab (.mat) files.
Potential Risks: The proposed studies will involve human subjects between the ages of 18 and 45. There are no known risks incurred by eye movement recording using infrared video oculography. This is a completely non-invasive method.
Protection Against Risks: All laboratory personnel have undergone extensive safety training as required by Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Subjects are instructed that they may opt out of the study at any time.
Consent: All participants will complete the consent process upon arrival. During this time they will receive a written description of the study and the investigator will explain it in detail using non-technical language, including procedures. Potential risks and benefits of the current study will be explained. Participants will be informed that all measures required by the Internal Review Board will be taken to ensure confidentiality, such as keeping all identifying information in a locked file. All appropriate signatures and dates will be provided before any other procedures take place.
Potential Benefits to the participant: The benefits of participating in this study are not linked directly to the participant.
Potential Benefits to others: Participation in this research contributes directly to the fields of cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology, to teachers at all levels (with regard to the public availability of categorized information graphics used as stimuli), as well as to the general public interested in information graphics.
Women and Minority Inclusion: No exclusion criteria will be used regarding race or gender. We expect our testing to include identical numbers of males and females. The racial breakdown should reflect the racial characteristics of the very diverse local population.
Inclusion of Children: Because we are situated in a university environment, there is access to a potentially large subject population of at least 18 years of age. In order to ensure valid comparisons across subjects, we will require all participants to be of similar age, so unless we have access to a large enough subject pool younger than 18 to make statistically valid inferences, we will restrict the experimental subject pool for our first phase of experimentation to individuals 18 years or older.
Data and Safety Monitoring: We will safeguard the confidentiality of the study data and the identity of study subjects. We will use a unique code number for each subject. The data will only be identified by the codes and the key to the codes will be stored separately from the data. All information will be kept in locked file cabinets accessible only to the investigators. Electronic data files will be stored on computers that are not accessible to unauthorized personnel. The computers will be protected by PI's HIPAA-compliant firewall. Whenever possible, files will be archived onto removable optical disks and erased from the hard drives of any active computers using a utility that completely wipes the file information. Any files that are transmitted over the network will be encrypted using a 128-bit key.


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Green Imperialism; Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860
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Q: Is there an algorithm for the "zig-zag" proof that the rationals are countable? I'm sure that we've all seen diagrams such as this to show how we can order sets such as the rationals in order to show that they are countable, however, is there a way to find the nth term of such a list? Can it be expressed as a formula? Or does this require some sort of algorithm?
Furthermore, can this be done without any informal appeal to "the nth line"?

A: We can use the triangular numbering of the points of $\Bbb N^2$ as follows
each point $(i,j) $ with $i,j\ge 0$, will take the rank
$$r_{i,j}=\frac {1}{2}(i+j)(i+j+1)+j $$

A: Let $$f:\mathbb R \to \mathbb R, f(x) := \frac{x(x+1)}2 $$
$f(n)-f(n-1)=n$ for every $n \in \mathbb N$.
Also, $f(x)$ is one-to-one when $x \geq 0$.
The bijection you want is $$u_n=(n-f\left(\lfloor f^{-1}(n)\rfloor\right),f\left(\lfloor f^{-1}(n)\rfloor+1\right)-n-1) $$
Proof of surjectivity: Given $(a,b) \in \mathbb N \times \mathbb N$, make $n=f(a+b)+a$. Then $u_n=(a,b)$.

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The 2015 World Surf League schedule
December 1, 2014 | Surfing
The 2015 World Surf League schedule has been published. The Men's Championship Tour will feature 11 stages while the Women's Championship Tour will be surfed in nine locations.
Male surfers will travel to the same destinations - only dates change - and pro elite female wave riders won't return to Huntington Beach, in California. Their calendar has been cut from ten to nine contests.
The Men's Championship Tour will deliver a total prize money of $525,000 for each event while, on the women's side, the check will be of $262,500.
The inaugural World Surf League will introduce a new Qualifying Series (QS) format, with five new QS levels replacing the former seven "Star" events.
The provisional QS schedule includes a stop in the Caribbean island of Martinique, and in Casablanca, the largest city in Morocco.
The 2015 World Surf League Calendar
Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast, Feb 28th - Mar 11th, Gold Coast, Australia
Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach, Apr 1st - 12th, Bells Beach, Victoria, Australia
Drug Aware Margaret River Pro, Apr 15th - 26th, Margaret River, Australia
Rio Pro, May 11th - 22nd, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fiji Pro, Jun 7th - 19th, Tavarua, Fiji
J Bay Open, July 8th - 19th, Jeffreys Bay, South Africa
Billabong Pro Teahupoo, August 14th - 25th, Teahupoo, Tahiti
Hurley Pro at Trestles, September 9th - 20th, Trestles, USA
Quiksilver Pro France, October 6th - 17th, Landes, France
Moche Rip Curl Pro Portugal, October 20th - 31st, Peniche, Portugal
Billabong Pipe Masters, December 8th - 20th, Banzai Pipeline, Hawaii
Roxy Pro Gold Coast, Feb 28th - Mar 11th, Gold Coast, Australia
Rip Curl Women's Pro Bells Beach, Apr 1st - 12th, Bells Beach, Victoria, Australia
Rio Women's Pro, May 11th - 22nd, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fiji Women's Pro, May 31st - Jun 5th, Tavarua, Fiji
Trestles Women's Pro, Sep 9th - 20th, Trestles, USA
Cascais Women's Pro, Sep 29th - Oct 4th, Cascais, Portugal
Roxy Pro France, Oct 6th - 17th, Landes, France
Maui Women's Pro, Nov 22nd - Dec 6th, Honolua Bay, Hawaii
WSL adopts universal anti-doping program
World Surf League pledges carbon neutrality by 2020
Surfing our way to climate deception
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Koriemae "Korie" Spirito started having headaches at 9 years old. Knowing that migraines ran in their family, her mom Jennifer Rivera thought nothing of it, really. As a precaution, Jenn brought Korie to her pediatrician at Westfall Pediatrics where they told her to keep a headache log. The headaches became more frequent, starting earlier and earlier in the day. Korie would also complain of being cold and her family noticed her energy level was considerably lower.
While back at Westfall Pediatrics for a follow up, the pediatrician noticed Korie had a yellowish hue, spotted bruising and several popped blood vessels. Korie's pediatrician ran several blood tests and told the family they would receive a call when the results came in.
That evening – after Korie and her family finished a shopping trip to the mall – there was a message on Jenn's voicemail that Korie's white cell blood counts were high and it was very likely that she had leukemia.
Korie's family rushed to UR Medicine's Golisano Children's Hospital's Pediatric Emergency Room where Korie underwent more testing, which confirmed the diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
Korie was admitted to the former Golisano Children's Hospital's 4.3600 unit and stayed for her chemotherapy treatments for the next 33 nights.
Korie also had a huge support team in her Gates-Chili community and at school. The Neil Armstrong Elementary School principal declared May 31, 2013 "Koriemae Day," right after her diagnosis. As an homage to Korie's "Piglet" nickname she had when she was a baby, her classmates, teachers and principal dressed in pink and several even wore pig costumes.
After just over two and a half years of treatment, Korie completed her last IV chemotherapy treatment in June 2015. She continued taking chemotherapy orally at home two to three times a day, sometimes totaling 21 pills, until July. During her last day at Golisano Children's Hospital, Korie rang the celebratory "end of chemo" bell.
Although Korie's cancer and loss of muscle caused her to stop participating in level four gymnastics, it didn't keep her from playing the French horn throughout her treatment. She looks forward to continuing to perfect her favorite instrument and being a part of the drama club in middle school.


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Reno, Nevada. Feb. 20,2015. All laboratory results for people reported to the Health District who were tested for measles have been returned as negative according to local health officials. At this time there are no confirmed measles cases in Washoe County.
Washoe County Health District epidemiologists continue to work with local health care providers in coordinating testing and evaluation of test results. The Health District is asking that physicians only order tests when patients present signs and symptoms consistent with measles. When tests are ordered, it must be reported to the Health District in accordance with Nevada law.
Six confirmed cases of measles have been reported in Las Vegas.
The Health District is asking any persons who think they have measles to please call your healthcare provider's office, urgent care, or the emergency room before arrival. Clinicians at outpatient settings should notify emergency departments before sending any suspect cases for a further medical evaluation.
The Health District recommends everyone be vaccinated to protect against measles. If you are unsure about your vaccination status, you can check with your healthcare provider about testing or you may elect to get another MMR vaccination. There is no danger in getting the MMR vaccine again, unless you have any contraindications such as history of severe allergic reaction to a previous dose, allergy to any component of the vaccine, current pregnancy, or immunosuppression.
The MMR vaccine is offered at various locations throughout the communty including many local healthcare provider offices, local pharmacies and other healthcare facilities.
Appointments are required at most places.
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Small plane misses runway, lands in ditch near Plainwell Municipal Airport
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PLAINWELL, Mich. — A small plane missed the runway of the Plainwell Municipal Airport and instead landed on the other side of U.S. 131 on Sunday.
Deputy of the Allegan County Sheriff's Department said the incident happened at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 14, 2019. The pilot was the sole occupant of the plane and was not injured in the crash.
Police shut down the northbound entrance ramp on U.S. 131, affecting traffic until the incident was cleared.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the landing, the deputy said.
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How is fracking 'safe' when we don't know what's in fracking fluids?
In Causes, Fracking, Important Articles, Investigations, Main, Politics, Regulation, Research, Safety, Testing
I've long predicted that California will be the place where the rubber hits the road for the fracking boom in America. The rewards in a resource-rich state are too great for Big Oil and Gas to ignore, but the risks — of wasting millions upon millions of gallons of water in a drought-stricken state, of causing earthquakes in a region criss-crossed by fault lines, of polluting the already smoggy air — are even more extreme.
And like New York, which recently moved — wisely — to ban fracking in the state, California has a powerful environmental lobby, and it also has a fairly progressive Democratic governor in Jerry Brown as well as one of more liberal state legislatures. It means that Big Oil and Gas can't get away with everything in the Golden State like it has in more conservative locales like Oklahoma (or at least it did until the earthquakes grew too strong). But despite a more skeptical approach to unconventional drilling for oil and gas, California still hasn't been able to crack the industry's biggest trade secret: just what chemicals, exactly, are contained in fracking fluid:
A scientific assessment on the impacts of hydraulic fracturing in California found that, in large part, the chemicals used are not being identified or tracked, and it's nearly impossible to tell how damaging the process is to California's water supply.
The study, carried out by the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST), recommended state agencies ban the reuse of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — for any use that could impact human health, the environment, wildlife, and vegetation until further testing can be done.
"These are things that require diligence," CCST's Jane Long told ThinkProgress. "There are a lot of potential issues."
During fracking, chemical-laced water is pumped at high pressure into shale rock formations that hold oil and gas deposits. Figuring out what to do with the water after it's been used — and whether it is safe — has been an ongoing issue. According to the CCST assessment, the toxicity of half of the chemicals used in California fracking is not publicly available. More than half the chemicals have not been evaluated for basic tests "that are needed for understanding hazards and risks associated with chemicals."
This is really quite stunning, when you think about it. This is a state that is literally parched — in the midst of the worst drought in decades, possibly ever. And yet this industry may be tainting billions of gallons of this most precious resource of water. And it's coming at a time when desperate California officials are weighing whether to allow the re-use of fracking wastewater to irrigate cropland — the food that you and I eat every day. Past tests of such wastewater used in agriculture have shown the presence of acetone and methylene chloride, chemicals that are toxic to humans. Now, the industry works hard, and successfully, to keep as many of the main ingredients top secret. What, exactly, are they trying to hide.
Other findings in the report, as outlined in the Los Angeles Times, are equally alarming:
— Strong acids, solvents and biocides in oil field water present a "significant hazard to aquatic species and other wildlife, particularly when released into surface water." All of the chemicals are "undesirable" in drinking water.
— Injection wells that the state is allowing to dispose of oil field wastewater into federally protected aquifers may have received water containing fracking fluids.
— Oil operations in federal waters offshore are discharging wastewater directly into the ocean, against EPA regulations.
— More than half the produced water from fracked wells is disposed of in unlined pits. "We do not know how long hydraulic fracture chemicals persist in produced water or at what concentrations or how these change in time, which means that hazardous levels of contaminants … cannot be ruled out."
This is why energy experts who once hailed natural gas as a step forward on reducing greenhouse gases are having second thoughts on the process. Everybody should have second thoughts on the process. Its economic benefits have been overstated, and its environmental drawbacks are becoming too numerous to count. Let's hope that California is where fracking went to die.
Read more about the California state probe into fracking fluids here: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/07/11/3679027/fracking-chemicals-largely-untested/
Here's additional coverage from the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-california-science-panel-warns-that-fracking-poses-unknown-risk-20150709-story.html
I go in-depth on the broader risks of fracking in my new book, Crude Justice: How I Fought Big Oil and Won, and What You Should Know About the New Environmental Attack on America: http://shop.benbellabooks.com/crude-justice
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According to Mental Floss, music is that powerful thing that can raise our spirits, carry us through athletic pursuits, or make us weep. Its very fabric is a source of power and intrigue, too, since just a measly few tones can do anything from shatter glass to manifest the Devil's Tritone.
The Devil's Tritone or the Devil's Interval, diabolus in musica, is a combination of tones that has led to some of the most chilling melodies in music history, from classical compositions to heavy metal riffs.
As much as it's inspired composers to explore the dark side in music, however, the Devil's Tritone—a.k.a. the diminished fifth—also has a stirring effect on audiences for some very technical reasons. Some say that the devil's in the details, and if you listen closely, you'll indeed spot the Devil's Tritone giving a certain edge to many popular tunes from different genres. It heats up Busta Rhymes's "Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check," the theme songs to The Simpsons and South Park, and West Side Story's "Maria." It also gives Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" its signature sting. It's a favorite among metal bands, too, and can be found in any number of Black Sabbath songs (though guitarist Tony Iommi told BBC News that he simply used "something that sounded right … really evil and very doomy," and that he "didn't think [he] was going to make it Devil music"). Prog-rocking Rush even manages to shred its way through both ascending and descending tritones multiple times in its four-and-a-half minute, decidedly epic song "YYZ."
According to NPR, in music theory, it's called the "tritone" because it's made of three whole steps.
"The reason it's unsettling is that it's ambiguous, unresolved," says Gerald Moshell, Professor of Music at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. "It wants to go somewhere. It wants to settle either here, or [there]. You don't know where it'll go, but it can't stop where it is."
There used to be rules against writing music that contained this interval. Moshell says that during the Renaissance, all music had one purpose: to be beautiful and express the majesty of God. Anything otherwise was studiously avoided. But once music was no longer shackled to the church, it was free to express all kinds of tension. The devil's interval was ideal for that.
The higher vibration of the scale
According to buddhistdoor.net, ancient mystics, sages and scientists have long agreed upon the idea of our physical universe originating from the vibrational energy of sound.
Throughout the history of civilization, many ancients, shamans, and indigenous peoples have used sound, color, and visuals for healing, accessing altered states of reality, and transpersonal consciousness. This includes chants and of course drumming, with its neurologically stimulating beats that typically help manipulate the brain state of a practitioner and, in many cases, enable a trance state. Check out the ancient Aztec death whistles here.
According to buddhistdoor.net, In later centuries, music was organized into what we term the seven-note diatonic musical scale. Between the 10th and 13th centuries in Europe, polyphonic Gregorian chanting was the in thing—that was until an Italian Benedictine monk named Guido d'Arezzo (c. 991–c. 1050) decided to economize. He introduced the concept of solmization—attributing specific syllables to each note. Guido introduced six core frequencies, and a seventh was added later. This came to be referred to as the Solfeggio scale. Of course, the concept was not isolated to Europe. As it turns out, Durr-i-Mufassal is the Arabic solmization system, possibly improved on from ancient Greece. Sargam is the ancient Indian version.
The affect of audio vibrations on water crystals. https://tinyurl.com/yx93vfhq
Frequency correlation in sound light & color
The English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) associated the seven solfège syllables with the seven colors of the rainbow, and surmised that each color vibrated accordingly. Thus, red has the lowest vibration frequency while violet has the highest frequency. Read about Chakras here.
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The jury seems to be out (to a degree) on the efficacy of solfeggio frequencies for healing—for example, there is dispute regarding the fixed-tone healing effects of a solfeggio frequency, and the parallels in relation to the time-frequency uncertainty principle of quantum physics—but via scientific knowledge of quantum coherence, and by extension "cymatics" (geometry through vibration), there is a growing body of evidence that seems to support the influence of sound on physical health—as well as emotional and spiritual health. Because sound energy has a demonstrable effect on matter.
Frequency creates form. The below image illustrates an experiment of sound, scaling the octaves, and its subsequent effect on matter—salt in this case. A good sprinkling of salt is poured onto a flat surface above a loudspeaker. No surprise, the salt moves as the sound is played. The surprise is how the salt "jumps" into complex geometric patterns at each pitch. A similar phenomenon can be observed with water. Resembling snowflakes, matter behaves according to the frequency of the sound. This is known as cymatics; geometry through vibration.
Images of Sound Frequency on sand. https://tinyurl.com/y5qrtwwe
High Vibrational music used to be the norm in classical music because it was a way to give glory to the heavens. The Catholic church even banned the Devil's interval or the tritone for some time.
If you find this article fun and interesting, let me know your thoughts in the comment section below, and as usual…happy writing!
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This is absolutely fascinating. Great to learn something new. I believe Music is critical to life. And to moods and healing and vibrational frequencies. What would a film be without music to set the mood? I recognise that "Danse Macabre" as it has been in so many films and TV shows. Very famous. Very intriguing article here.
ARJung says:
I'm glad you liked it Supernatural. I have been listening to the highest vibrational 963 hz on YouTube while I write or do my stretching/ yoga -for the past few days and I'm really serious about this…I woke up this morning with that contented "Home," feeling I used to have as a kid. I attribute it to the balancing out of my vibrational energies. I'm only sorry it's taken me so long to figure out I have access to total balance with almost no effort. 🙂
Jk Sharma says:
Wowww!!! What a post..
Quite informative..
Thank you SO much JK! ❤
Thank you – I'm so glad you liked it! ❤
Sound, and light, aren't quite what we think they are, are they. 😀 … cue doomy tritones! 😀
Hahahah! I laughed out loud when I read this Widdershins!
18cinemalane says:
Really interesting article! It's fascinating how the history of music can play a role in a person's well being. By the way, I nominated you for the Liebster Award! Here's the link to my award post:
https://18cinemalane.wordpress.com/2019/10/18/i-won-another-liebster-award/
Wow, thank you SO much for the nomination 18CinemaLane! I'll look into it right now. ❤
You're welcome, ARJung! Can't wait to read your award post when you publish it!


This blog post comes to you through a recent conversation I had with a landscape client in Washington, CT regarding an outdoor entertaining area. I posed a question regarding use. How did they plan to use this new outdoor room and with how many people? Knowing that question will define the needed space for the future patio. I drew this diagram to explain to the client how I came up with the width of their patio. As you can see, a minimum of 3′ is required to back away from a table and stand up as well as walk around the table while someone is seated in a chair. If steps are behind someone sitting at a table, that minimum should bump up to 5 to 6 feet. As far as how many you can comfortably seat at a table, you need a minimum of 2 feet of table length for each person. If the plan is to use an 8 foot rectangular table with people sitting on both ends you will need a patio at least 14 feet wide. When designing outdoor spaces, flexibility is the key. When figuring the minimum size of a patio always allow enough room so that a table and stairs will work together. Never assume the table will always be placed in the same location. For that reason, I would suggest adding another 2-3 feet to the width of the patio in case the table ends up near the stairs, there will be plenty of room. In that case, the minimum patio width is 16-17′ for a 8′ rectangular table seating 10.
Thanks for commenting. Definitely an interesting concept don't you think?


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Food Insecurity: Why 59% Of College Students May Suffer From Malnutrition
Jan 28, 2014 06:29 PM By Lizette Borreli
More than half of college students may suffer from malnutrition due to "food insecurity," mainly because they can't afford the costs of healthy foods. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock.com.
A fear for many college students who transition from high school to university life may include gaining the dreaded "Freshman 15" through too much consumption of unhealthy foods. However, a recent study published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior found over half of college students had high levels of "food insecurity," meaning they had limited or uncertain availability to healthy foods due to high costs, leading to a higher risk of malnutrition.
High food costs, limited income, and poor food support systems are contributing risk factors of food insecurity. In the United States, 15.9 million children under 18 live in this condition, unable to consistently access nutritious and adequate amounts of healthy foods, according to the latest statistics by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). This means some kids do not always know where they will find their next meal.
Food insecurities may lead to a series of problems related to academics, physical health, and emotions. In children, limited or no access to healthy foods has hindered their ability to function normally and participate fully in school and other activities. Michigan State University says children with food insecurities are more likely to require hospitalization, a higher risk of chronic illnesses — such as anemia and asthma — oral health problems, and a poor physical quality of life. Behavioral issues including fighting, hyperactivity, aggression, anxiety, mood swings, and bullying may also be present in food insecure children.
A team of researchers from Oregon State University and Oregon's Benton County Health Department, have delved into food insecurity among an often neglected population from the conversation. Doris Cancel-Tirado and Leticia Vazquez with Western Oregon University, co-authors of the study, and their team examined the prevalence and risk factors for food insecurity among 354 college students aged between 19 to 24-years-old attending the university. The USDA Household Food Security Survey Module: Six-Item Short Form was used to measure food security status in a household, or in this case, a college campus. Socioeconomic and demographic variables were also taken into account.
The findings revealed 59 percent of college students had food insecurities, or some concerns over accessing healthy food options. By comparison, the percentage of all households in the U.S. with these similar concerns is 14.9 percent, the researchers found. The alarmingly high levels of food insecurities among college students can be attributed to several factors. In the past three decades, the cost of higher education has surpassed inflation, the cost of living, and medical expenses. This is also followed by a combination of more low-income and first-generation students attending college, and the changing demographic trends making this a more significant issue than it was in the past, according to the OSU news release.
Before, students who lived on a "tight" budget believed food insecurity was part of the college experience, a transitory thing, but now the rising costs of tuition are affecting more people. "…many of these students who are coming from low-income families and attending college for the first time, this may be a continuation of food insecurity they've known before. It becomes a way of life, and they don't have as many resources to help them out," said Megan Patton-Lopez, lead author of the study with Oregon's Benton County Health Department.
The students who reported food insecurity also reported working an average of 18 hours a week — some as high as 42 — but the financial demands they were encountered with offset the effects of having a better income that could facilitate the costs of healthy foods. These findings dismiss using employment as the sole solution to this great health concern affecting more than half of the college population. The inaccessibility of healthy foods leads to the consumption of unhealthy foods, and therefore, a lack of vital vitamins and minerals that help sustain a person's health.
Food insecurities contribute to depression, stress, trouble learning in the classroom, and poor health. In a similar study published in the Journal of Nutrition, adults with chronic health problems such as back problems, arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, and mental illness, were more likely than those without those ailments to live in food insecure households. The researchers believe two main reasons for these findings may be attributed to the additional cost of managing illness, which can lead people having less money to buy food, and dealing with chronic illness, which could limit people's ability to manage with limited resources.
These two studies provide new information for health professionals and policymakers to better facilitate the needs of people who may be susceptible to food insecurity. Employment alone has not proved to be helpful, which means more initiative and research must be done to better meet the demands of all groups, including the young crowd of college students. "One thing that's clear is that colleges and universities need to be having this conversation and learning more about the issues their students may be facing," said David Lopez-Cevallos, a researcher of the study.
According to the American College Health Association, the percentage of overweight and American college students has risen from 27.4 percent in fall 2006 to 29.2 percent in fall 2011. Unhealthy eating habits, sedentary lifestyles, and food insecurities have contributed to this high statistic. Colleges and universities along with health officials should make greater efforts in addressing the obesity epidemic and its detrimental health effects.
Cancel-Tirado DI, Lopez-Cevallos DF, Patton-Lopez MM, and Vazquez L. Prevalence and correlates of food insecurity among students attending a midsize rural university in Oregon. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 2014.
McInyre L, McLaren L, Mitchell A, and Tarasuk V. Chronic Physical and Mental Health Conditions among Adults May Increase Vulnerability to Household Food Insecurity. Journal of Nutrition. 2013.


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What is the creative device naming used for text generation in Pelevin's S.N.U.F.F.?
What is the proper, published, translation in the only AFAIK existing English version of the book S.N.U.F.F. by Victor Pelevin?
Grim uploaded the germ of his perplexity and sadness in the creative unit, touched axes "heartier", "sincerier" and then the sub-axis "salinger", which popped in the terminal sectors of the intimate afterburner.
This software takes into consideration everything ever said by humans, all the countless choice of meanings they made during centuries as were retained in information archives. It was as if Grim's fingers controlled an army of dead souls, who would move word cubicles for him.
(found about somewhere about the beginning of the last fifth of the book; but Pelevin mentions this device many times throughout the book).
Side note: while back in 2012 this device seemed a total fiction, today there are recent scientific methods indeed allowing generating meaningful texts with a design to perfect this routines.
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Could you indicate approximately where in the book this quote appears (e.g. chapter number at least, page number if possible)? Would make it easier for people to track down the quote for translation. – Rand al'Thor Nov 23 '17 at 10:26
thank you @Randal'Thor; this device is an important concept in the book and is referenced many times; following your advice, I did my best to point out the place of this specific and as appears to me most prominent quote. – J. Doe Nov 23 '17 at 10:43
Heartier, sincerer, and salinger is clearly one of those coincidences that happen in translation. I first took it to mean more hearty, more sincere, and more saling. – Peter Shor Nov 24 '17 at 12:32
a nice one; but still, and therefore, I am really eager to find out the "official" version – J. Doe Nov 24 '17 at 12:38
You are talking about the English word used in the Bromfield translation? – SAH Aug 7 '18 at 20:22
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Sarah Sawyer has spent the last ten years reliving a nightmare. Stripped of her innocence at the tender age of thirteen, she's grown into a woman with nothing to lose and one thing on her mind.
With her horse, her guns and a plan, she takes to the trails of the old west in search of those who wronged her family. A trusted friend shares the quest for justice, but wants so much more. However, another silently holds Sarah's heart.
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But I hear it mentioned a lot. Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, talked a lot about it in his State of the Word at WordCampUS in 2016.
Even my friends and colleagues talk about it. Yes, I have lot of developer friends. One in particular lives and breathes the stuff. His name is Zac Gordon. I figured it was time for me to understand what all the talk is about. And what better way than to bring him on a special podcast so the average WordPress user can finally say, ahhhh, I get it, and then move on with life?
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Since we last spoke, I have been mapping Pittsburgh's social, economic, and demographic data to understand which neighborhoods would be ideal to determine the location for drinking water fountains in public spaces across the city. From mapping everyday things such as parks, pools, playgrounds, hospitals, libraries, museums and so on, as well as socio-economic data such as race, median income, police arrests, and 311 data, it seems that the amalgamation of these falls under 3 neighborhoods – Homewood North, Downtown, and South Side Flats. Now, after overlapping the location of 46 existing public drinking fountains in Pittsburgh, I decided to eliminate downtown from the three neighborhoods due to prevalence of drinking fountains. So, I will be sticking to Homewood North and South Side Flats. Moving forward, I think I might need to narrow down locations within these neighborhoods through identifying vacant lots next to civic infrastructure (museums, libraries, hospitals, etc.) or maybe even use the topography of the area as a guide for where water flows and collects in these neighborhoods to have a specific location where I can implement stormwater infrastructure and drinking fountains as new public spaces in the city.
I have also been trying to identify the steps that would go into building a drinking fountain. I think my process would involve recommending the ideal location to the community, as well as recommend further steps into building a stormwater park with drinking fountains. The steps would be:
Scout for a location and prepare it by checking the groundwork and surrounding area, moving unnecessary items and flattening the surface. This step will be done by me through intensive mapping and identifying ideal locations.
Identify the location for the fountain on the site and plan for appropriate stormwater infrastructure and elements.
When the stormwater infrastructure is underway, one can start laying down the pipe work for the fountain and test to see if it runs adequately.
Build the base of the fountain once the tests run smoothly and add the outer components of the fountain. This can be done through an instruction manual that comes with components required to build the fountain.
The third site, apart from Homewood and South Side Flats, would be the Aspinwall Water Treatment Plant, and rethinking it as an urban design solution than an infrastructure solution. I am still unsure of how to approach this.
1. What are the shared resource(s) you are focusing on?
I am focusing on the knowledge of water in the city of Pittsburgh. Water is such a ubiquitous part of our lives that we take it for granted, despite all the local and global issues surrounding it.
2. Who are the community actors that participate in and benefit from the resource(s)?
The people who would participate in this resource would be the residents of Pittsburgh. However, I believe both the people as well as PWSA would benefit from this resource.
3. How could new cooperative structures, processes, tools, or spatial interventions help grow, sustain or manage the resource(s) and operationalize the shared benefits to the actors? (This is in effect your core design proposition.)
I believe that by incorporating the network of public drinking fountains, the residents in neighborhoods would be exposed to public spaces that incorporate water and implement signage and information about advocacy for public drinking water. Giving the residents a chance to build their own fountain gives them the opportunity to be involved in the advocacy and the public space design process that they would develop a sense of responsibility and ownership of the spaces. With regards to the treatment plant, I believe as there would be more regulations in the changes, it would rely solely on PWSA to adapt their plant and site to become a public space.
4. How do market forces relate to the resource/processes/tools? Is the resource removed, buffered or fully exposed to market forces? Is the market strong or weak? Is value from a changing market being captured or harnessed for community benefit somehow? Do the processes proposed somehow grow the resource by harnessing market forces?
I believe the market in my case is People's Natural Gas, that is currently working to privatize water in Pittsburgh, essentially taking away PWSA's responsibilities and "putting it out to pasture". I think PWSA and Pittsburghers need to work together to make this series of interventions successful against the market. I am unsure if the processes will change when exposed to the market.
5. What is the proposal's relationship to state based forces/actors/policies? Is the government a direct actor? Or is it external to the process? Is state action or power needed to enable the process, or can it use existing processes/policies? Is the process working with or against dominant current policy?
I believe the proposal aims to bolster and strengthen relationships between the public and state spheres. In this case, the state is PWSA, a currently struggling local government organization that has proposed a 1.2 billion dollar 2030 plan. The processes (both the implementation of drinking fountains and re-envisioning of the water treatment plant) will require some changes to current policies and thoughts of the PWSA.
For the exhibition, I aimed to break it down into PREMISE, PROCESS, & PRODUCT(S).
This would involve indicating the thoughts people have about water in Pittsburgh, the quality of water in Pittsburgh, and the lack of concern given to it by the residents. By conducting interviews and playing them for people to listen, and show selected quotes from these interviews on a screen, having samples of water from different neighborhoods/ the three rivers.
I feel like this would be best as a series of images of water as well as depicting the process for identifying locations through a series of maps. While I have only identified two neighborhoods to implement my proposal in, these maps will give a general idea of how to go about the site selection process for any neighborhood. This section could also have a CNC-Milled / 3D printed model of the city of Pittsburgh on which I will pour water and identify locations where water collects, as part of the site selection process.
This section would involve renderings of the stormwater parks in the 2 neighborhoods I selected with the water fountain. I might also try and implement a sample of a crowd-sourcing app, similar to Smell Pittsburgh here, as a PDF on a screen as well. This section can also have a "Make your own fountain" station, with the instruction manual here for viewers to come try and build the external structure of a water fountain.
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Sai is an architectural and urban designer working between design, ecology, and community development. He completed my Masters in Urban Design with Honors at Carnegie Mellon University in 2019, a Bachelors in Architecture from Syracuse University in 2015, and moved to Mumbai to work for 2 years. While in Mumbai, he worked for a year with Architect Hafeez Contractor on various residential, mixed-use and low-cost township projects, performing in design development, construction documents and client presentations. Later, he helped start and work at Spectrum Design Group, an architecture and interior design firm before moving to Pittsburgh. Most recently, he presented his graduate thesis, titled "Water Marks: Restoring Water's Status in the Urban Realm", which garnered an honorable mention in the UA Ruhr "Future of My City" international competition. He has also spent the past year researching suspended and discontinued postal facilities in the Pittsburgh region so that they may be adapted into hubs for community resilience, which has culminated in a "Postal Places" forum, that brought together postal authorities, community organizers, and designers.	View all posts by saipratn


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Integrated API with existing system provide real time information and avoid duplicates and inefficiencies of working in multiple systems at the same time.
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Visibility features in Transport provide a detailed view of every step of the transportation process thereby making them easier to manage. Accurate and timely visibility of the critical information of the entire supply chain enables to keep a healthy balance between demand and supply through proactive management of the flow of goods. This helps to bring down the overall cost of transportation.
This feature allows real-time exchange of shipment information between carrier, shipper, driver, and customer. Thus it increases visibility, accuracy rate of tracking and monitoring, and efficient management & reporting.
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Transport collects, analyze, and summarize data and metrics to utilize them for effective decision making, identifying needs and key areas of functional enhancement and evaluating the effectiveness of existing strategies.


Why did you decide to run for city council?
What are your goals for the city council going forward?
Please list one thing you think the current council has done well, and one thing you think it could improve upon.
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Anyone who's read the book and interested in discussing it is welcome to join Madison Public Library's discussion at Central Library on Tuesday October 12th at 7 p.m. This group is an established bookgroup known for having engaging discussions. We're also quite welcoming to newcomers. And we have homemade treats!
We'll meet at Central Library, 201 W. Mifflin St. Madison in the Madison Room on the 2nd floor.


The service oriented architecture (SOA) market in Asia (excluding Japan) is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 40 percent right through to 2010, according to new research released today.
Springboard Research estimates the region's SOA market amounts to US$810 million with the market set to top US$2.2 billion by 2010.
Australia remains the largest SOA market in the region at US$205 million.
The company's senior analyst of emerging software, Balaka Baruah Aggarwal, said SOA continues to gain traction in the market as more companies are either implementing SOA or are planning to do so.
Aggarwal said awareness has increased substantially in the last year, and this is translating into healthier adoption levels across Asia. The primary SOA drivers in Asia are improved service delivery in increasingly competitive markets and improved integration at both the data and application levels.
Respondents said service delivery improvements enabled by SOA have reduced the time and cost of delivering services.
Aggarwal said mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are also strong drivers for SOA deployment, with 49 percent of firms surveyed deploying SOA to integrate the IT systems of merged companies.
"Governance is also continuing to become more important with 85 percent of survey respondents instituting governance in SOA deployments and 40 percent having a structure integrated from the beginning of implementation," he said. "While SOA continues to do well in the region, users still have some challenges. The main challenge with SOA deployment as named by survey respondents is managing performance and scalability, with 21 percent citing this difficulty as their number one area of concern.
"Additionally, SOA is still largely a technology initiative led by IT managers as indicated by 68 percent of our surveyed respondents; as such, SOA has mainly been a technology-driven investment instead of an investment focused on addressing clear-cut business goals."
The Springboard report said IBM remained the leading SOA vendor in the region, followed by other strong SOA players such as Microsoft, BEA, HP, SAP, Tibco and Oracle.
From its end-user survey, Springboard found that respondents named "proven products and solutions" as the most important reason for choosing an SOA vendor, followed by "clearly defined roadmap for deployment" and "vendor reputation".


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The Best Super Bowl Halftime Shows, Ranked in Order of Awesomeness
January 30, 2014 13:49PM by Kaitlin Menza
Bruno Mars and Red Hot Chili Peppers are set to perform at the 2014 Super Bowl Halftime Show, but how will they stack up against previous acts? Here is our very biased ranking of the best halftime shows of the last fifteen years.
15. Yes, this really happened. Christina Aguilera and Enrique Iglesias sang sad Disney songs together at the 2000 Super Bowl. Can you say "bathroom break?"
14. It's not the Black-Eyed Peas fault this halftime show was so uninspiring. It occurred at the 2011 Super Bowl, when people were getting really sick of them. That's all!
13. Madonna being Madonna, we spent this whole halftime performance at the 2012 Super Bowl waiting for her to do something offensive. And then co-act M.I.A. wound up being the one to flip off the cameras!
12. The Who rocks, but they came after an endless onslaught of classic rock bookings at the Super Bowl in 2010. Liven things up, NFL!
11. Nothing says "American sports" like drunkenly singing along to Tom Petty's "American Girl" after too many Buds. The Heartbreakers performed at the 2008 Super Bowl.
10. Gwen Stefani is a national treasure, and No Doubt's partnership alongside Sting in 2003 was one of those weird collabs that was totally fun and really worked.
9. Paul McCartney is obviously the best, but he gets a lower ranking because he was booked for the 2005 Super Bowl just to serve as a palate cleanser after Janet Jackson the year before.
8. Remember when Bruce Springsteen slid crotch-first into a camera during the 2009 Super Bowl? Gotta love live TV.
7. It's a shame the whole Nipplegate thing happened, because Janet Jackson's amazing performance of "Rhythm Nation" was totally forgotten. She killed it!
6. No one can find fault with Stevie Wonder and Gloria Estefan at the 1999 Super Bowl, least of all your parents. Go ahead, sing every word.
5. Aerosmith showing Britney Spears, NSync, and Mary J. Blige how to "Walk This Way" during the 2001 Super Bowl. Is it impressed in your brain forever? We're guessing yes.
4. It's not logical, but somehow there's nothing more American than the British Rolling Stones singing "Start Me Up" during a football game, as they did in the 2006 Super Bowl.
3. U2 performed a medley of perfectly beautiful rock anthems at the 2002 Super Bowl, just months after 9/11.
2. Prince performed "Purple Rain" in the rain, with a Prince symbol guitar, at the 2007 Super Bowl. It was the funkiest performance of the 00s.
1. Um, did you think anyone other than Queen Beyonce could be the best Super Bowl halftime show of all time? Do you forget that the power went out after she was done?!
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Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson want additional funding for CDC algae bloom research
The senators from Florida introduced an amendment that would provide $1 million of CDC funds for areas affected by harmful algal blooms.
Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson want additional funding for CDC algae bloom research The senators from Florida introduced an amendment that would provide $1 million of CDC funds for areas affected by harmful algal blooms. Check out this story on news-press.com: https://newspr.es/2nWmnc3
Ali Schmitz, Fort Myers News-Press Published 9:43 p.m. ET Aug. 21, 2018 | Updated 5:55 a.m. ET Aug. 22, 2018
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and Florida Gov. Rick Scott have blame each other for the toxic blue-green algae blooms plaguing Florida. Ginny Beagan, TCPALM
Efforts to help minimize water quality issues throughout Lee County continued Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. Crews today continued to work near the Clipper Bay condos in Cape Coral, north of Cape Coral Bridge and just east of Del Prado Boulevard. The county has created a test program to remove the blue-green algae from some of its most affected waterways using a $700,000 grant from the state Department of Environmental Protection. It will remove, process, treat and dispose of harmful algae blooms from select test sites in unincorporated Lee County and affected municipalities, most notably Cape Coral. During the weekend the County processed 30,000 gallons of algae material. The County expects to process between 300,000 and 400,000 gallons as part of this test program.(Photo: Ricardo Rolon / The News-Press)Buy Photo
U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson want the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to dedicate additional funding for responding to harmful algal blooms.
The senators introduced an amendment to a spending bill Tuesday would provide $1 million of CDC funds for areas affected by harmful algal blooms.
A special priority would be given to any locations that are subject to a state of emergency designation within the previous 12 months because of blooms.
More: As red tide, algae blooms drag on, health agencies stay mum on what constitutes a crisis
That includes 13 Florida counties affected by algal blooms this summer.
A spokeswoman for Rubio, Olivia Perez-Cubas, said the funding could be used for:
Documenting and tracking illnesses and hospital stays related to algae exposure.
Public health education campaigns.
Any expenses that would help CDC officials and scientists on the ground to respond to particularly bad episodes of illnesses.
Building CDC programs for reporting blooms.
"Floridians deserve to know the health risks associated with these harmful algal blooms," Rubio said in a statement released by his office. "Our bipartisan amendment would provide additional assistance to identify health impacts to Floridians that may have been underreported and understudied in the past due to lack of available resources. As a member of the Appropriations Committee, I will continue to promote measures that bolster Florida's battle against these blooms."
More: Red tide, algae blooms prompt city of Fort Myers to declare state of emergency
The senators have backed multiple efforts for more CDC research into the blooms.
"Toxic algae blooms are choking Florida's waterways, crippling our economy and making people sick," Nelson said in the same statement. "This amendment will provide the CDC additional money to more closely examine the health risks posed by algae."
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Photos: The most devastating images from Florida's ongoing algae crisis
Three giant fish flopped out of the truck onto the ground from this load that was brought from a few of the beaches on Sanibel Island. The amounts of fish and ocean creatures being brought in are slowing down, but the beaches are still being cleaned up. The county and islands have collected millions of pounds of fish and sea creatures after a large Red Tide outbreak. Where does it go in the end? The landfill. Once the ocean creatures are collected from the beaches, they are brought to the landfill, mixed with other trash, and then burned. Andrea Melendez/The News-Press/USA Today
Giant fish flopped out of the truck onto the ground from this load that was brought from a few of the beaches on Sanibel Island. The amounts of fish and ocean creatures being brought in are slowing down, but the beaches are still being cleaned up. The county and islands have collected millions of pounds of fish and sea creatures after a large Red Tide outbreak. Where does it go in the end? The landfill. Once the ocean creatures are collected from the beaches, they are brought to the landfill, mixed with other trash, and then burned. Andrea Melendez/The News-Press/USA Today
A small pufferfish rests in the mouth of a giant grouper. A water bottle rests in the back of it's mouth. These two fish were cleaned off of Sanibel Island. The county and islands have collected millions of pounds of fish and sea creatures after a large Red Tide outbreak. Where does it go in the end? The landfill. Once the ocean creatures are collected from the beaches, they are brought to the landfill, mixed with other trash, and then burned. Andrea Melendez/The News-Press/USA Today
This load was from a few of the beaches on Sanibel Island. The amounts of fish and ocean creatures being brought in are slowing down, but the beaches are still being cleaned up. The county and islands have collected millions of pounds of fish and sea creatures after a large Red Tide outbreak. Where does it go in the end? The landfill. Once the ocean creatures are collected from the beaches, they are brought to the landfill, mixed with other trash, and then burned. Andrea Melendez/The News-Press/USA Today
Dead fish in Matanzas Pass on Fort Myers Beach in Sunday. Red tide is suspected killer. Andrew West
Scenes from the last several days on Southwest Florida beaches. Images from Bunche Beach, the Sanibel Causeway and Captiva. Red tide is saturating the waters off of several beaches. Concentrations are changing on a daily basis due to wind and tidal shifts. Andrew West/The News-Press
A dead dolphin was found washed up shore on Fort Myers Beach on Sunday 8/12/2018. Volunteers for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission picked it up where it was transported for a necropsy. It is unknown what killed the dolphin. A large red tide outbreak is affecting marine life and humans throughout Southwest Florida. Andrew West/The News-Press
A dead whale shark washed up on a Sanibel beach on Sunday morning. It was discovered off of West Gulf Drive at about 7:30 a.m. A tissue sample was taken, where it will be sent off to a lab for testing. Officials are letting nature take its course as far as removal of the huge shark. Andrew West/The News-Press, Andrew West/The News-Press
Dead sea life is washing up on the shores of Southwest Florida. Deaths are most likely caused from a red tide outbreak that is off the coast in the Gulf of Mexico. Images from a Kemp's Ridley sea turtle necropsy at the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation and dead fish on Fort Myers Beach. Andrew West/The News-Press, Andrew West/The News-Press
Cleanup crews are on Southwest Florida beaches removing dead marine life. Red tide off the coast of Southwest Florida is killing a large amount of marine life. Andrew West/The News-Press
Dead sea life is still washing up on the shores of Southwest Florida. Two large Goliath groupers were seen on the Sanibel Causeway on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. On Tuesday a dead manatee was found in the river and towed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to the Cape Coral Yacht Club boat ramp during a public meeting with the Army Corps of Engineers. A red tide event is the suspected killer. Andrew West/The News-Press
Dead sea life is washing up on the shores of Southwest Florida. Deaths are most likely caused from a red tide outbreak that is off the coast in the Gulf of Mexico. Andrew West/The News-Press
A pile of sand, dead fish and horseshoe crabs is surrounded by flies on Fort Myers Beach. Very few people were out on the beach, and very few people were eating lunch in the beachfront restaurants on Friday. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press
Efforts to help minimize water quality issues throughout Lee County continued Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. Crews today continued to work near the Clipper Bay condos in Cape Coral, north of Cape Coral Bridge and just east of Del Prado Boulevard. The county has created a test program to remove the blue-green algae from some of its most affected waterways using a $700,000 grant from the state Department of Environmental Protection. It will remove, process, treat and dispose of harmful algae blooms from select test sites in unincorporated Lee County and affected municipalities, most notably Cape Coral. During the weekend the County processed 30,000 gallons of algae material. The County expects to process between 300,000 and 400,000 gallons as part of this test program. Ricardo Rolon / The News-Press
Dead sea life is still washing up on the shores of Southwest Florida. Two large Goliath groupers were seen on the Sanibel Causeway on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. On Tuesday a dead manatee was found in the river and towed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to the Cape Coral Yacht Club boat ramp during a public meeting with the Army Corps of Engineers. The suspected cause of death is red tide poisoning. Andrew West/The News-Press
A dead Kemp's ridley sea turtle is documented and picked up by a Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation stranding volunteer on the Sanibel Causeway on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. A suspected red tide outbreak is ravaging parts of Southwest Florida. Andrew West/The News-Press
Dead fish line the beach on Captiva at the last public beach access before South Seas Resort on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018. Andrew West/The News-Press,
A dead wading bird lies in the surf on Bunche Beach on Wednesday. Aug. 8, 2018. A red tide outbreak is killing a large number of fish, turtles and marine life. Wading birds can be affected by eating dead fish that have succumbed from red tide. Andrew West/The News-Press,
A dead dolphin was found washed up on shore on Fort Myers Beach on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018. Volunteers for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission picked it up where it was transported for a necropsy. It is unknown what killed the dolphin. A large red tide outbreak is affecting marine life and humans throughout Southwest Florida. Mary Rose Spalletta found and called in the dolphin. Andrew West/The News-Press
Images from Bunche Beach and the Sanibel Causeway on Thursday 9/2/2018. A suspected red tide outbreak is ravaging the marine life in Southwest Florida. Some of the victims from Thursday include a Kemp's Ridley sea turtle, a shark, numerous amounts of fish, a heron, Goliath grouper, rays, eels and other marine life. Andrew West/The News-Press
Cyanobacteria, known as toxic blue-green algae, can be seen in the water at the Admiralty Yacht Club off Coon Road in North Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press
Water samples taken by a local river advocacy group show that the blue-green algae bloom in the Caloosahatchee River is toxic. Images are from Thursday 6/28/2018. The algal bloom started last week and has grown more dense in recent days. Andrew West/The News-Press, Andrew West/The News-Press
North Fort Myers resident James Van Winkle tries his luck fishing the Caloosahatchee River shore line next to the Old U.S. 41 bridge in North Fort Myers on Friday 7/6/2018. He says any fish he catches were going back in the river because of the algae outbreak on the Caloosahatchee River, however if the water were clean he would keep the fish. He says he enjoys fishing the spot is conveniently close to his home. Andrew West/The News-Press
John G. Heim of the South Florida Clean Water Movement collects a bottle of Caloosahatchee River water at the Franklin lock and dam. The blue-green algae-laden water was collected during a protest at the Alva damn and will be taken to Washington, D.C. Michael Braun/The News-Press
Patches of algae stack up against the Franklin Locks on the north side on Tuesday 6/26/2018. Algae blooms are intensifying. The blue parts of the algae were not present on Monday. Andrew West/The News-Press
A tri-colored heron wades in an algal bloom along the wall at the Franklin Locks in Alva on Monday, June 25, 2018. An algal bloom has pushed up against the lock. Reports of algae on the river have been reported since last week. Most reports are east of the Franklin Locks. Some are worried that it might move west towards the estuary. The DEP is testing the algae later this week to see if it is toxic. Andrew West/The News-Press
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