Everyone was saying it is an unusually warm November, but we Ohioans know the weather can be very erratic. So we cling enjoy the warm weather, and hide the fear of the long, bitter-cold, depressing grey winters. The first day of December brings us our first snow that sticks to the ground, just a few days after thanksgiving. The coldness begins. The trees are seemingly lifeless, the skies are grey as usual, and previously mentioned... the atmosphere is all round gloomy. Around the 5th the snow storm or whatever begins, and dumps snow all over us, not very kindly either. Hour after hour, minute after minute, relentless, no breaks, watching it is scary. We know the roads will be dangerous, commuting time will be longer, the traffic will be awful. It's holiday season so everyone will be out Christmas Shopping, inevitably there will be extra traffic. We can only hope for other people being mindful and kind during this time... we are all under stress, we are all in a hurry, we are all frustrated by the snow.
Outside the world is just white. Snow White. The tree branches are laden with white fluff, the roads are deadly, the cars are buried under, the Canadian Geese are huddled in the snow, they weren't expecting winter so soon either.
As beautiful as the snow is, it is destructive, deadly and dangerous, also very depressing. There is no color but white grey and black in the environment. Death's own creation, and thus the beginning is the end, is the beginning.
The bright spot is knowing there will always be a spring. Lush green will reside once again in the trees, the birds will come back and chirp their wooing songs to their mates, life will come back, and we humans shan't be the only ones bustling about the earth.
The little joys of this winter weather is that it is great for bundling up, spending time with loved ones and cuddling, and then some nice hot chocolate. On a side note, Cricket loves and hates winter, she loves prancing about in the snow and being utterly silly, however she dislikes the cold to the point she won't go out, and she won't sit on the ground outside (for her little butt gets cold).
Cricket enjoying a nice wintery walk with her little pink winter coat on. She was sticking her head and digging up the snow, like a silly dog! Also she seems more alert that its all completely white outside.
Monday, December 06, 2010
Watershed Delineation Using ArcInfo 9.2 and LIDAR Data
by
Shrutipb
This watershed analysis was done for Cleveland Metroparks using their primary datasets. LIDAR was acquired from OSIP.
Watershed Delineation
1- Add reservation boundaries layer. Select a reservation. Zoom in.
2- Add Hydrology layer and detailed streams layer from H:\temp\Mosaics-10000\1-STREAM ORDER SHAPEFILES-10000
3- Add watershed layer from
4- Draw rough boundary of watershed around the reservation with draw tool.
5- Load the DEMS first by copying into V: drive and then decompressing the files using the command lines.
6- Mosaic the “filled” DEMS
7- Create subset of the entire mosaic
8- Use the special “other tools” watershed delineation tool. Set output destinations.
9- This will refill the filled mosaic. It will take a long time to run.
10- Infer the rivers from the “streams” output
11- Convert selected streams into new shapefile
12- Convert watershed raster to polygon
13- Use “select by location” or ‘select by attributes” to select the watershed polygons that contain the selected streams.
14- Create hillshade from the mosaic-ed raster DEM
15- create 2 ft and 5 ft contours from the mosaic-ed DEM
16- dissolve the polygon layer
17- DO NOT delete any of the intermediate layers
18- To correct errors put shapefiles into Geodatabase and set topology rules. Run.
For Urban Areas, Sewers, Storm Water Data, Pipes, Culverts etc.
1- First add the infrastructure network layer on to the map
2- Then activate Arc Hydro Tools 9
3- Under Terrain Preprocessing find the DEM manipulation
4- Under DEM manipulation find DEM Reconditioning
5- The Mosaic will be the Raw DEM
6- The AGREE Stream will be the network
7- AGREE DEM will be the output (name wisely)
8- Stream Buffer -5
9- Smooth Drop/Raise (DEM z unit) -10
10- Sharp Drop/Raise (DEM z unit) – 1000
I will update this later with step by step images, fails, and final product picture later.
Shortcut Keys for Special Symbols in ArcMap
by
Shrutipb
Character
| Keystroke | Unicode |
Notes
| ||
Degree symbol
|
Alt+0176
|
°
|
00B0
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°
| |
Minute or prime symbol
|
2032
|
′
|
Do not use quote key
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Second or double prime symbol
|
2033
|
″
|
Do not use double quote key
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Copyright
|
Alt+0169
|
©
|
00A9
|
©
|
Should not be used in a narrow or condensed font
|
Plus sign
|
+ key
|
+
| |||
Minus sign
|
2212
|
−
|
The dash key or the minus key on the numeric keypad should not be used
| ||
Plus/minus sign
|
Alt+0177
|
±
|
00B1
|
±
| |
Tilde
|
~ key
|
~
|
007E
|
~
| |
Small tilde
|
Alt+0152
|
˜
|
02DC
|
˜
| |
Hyphen or dash
|
- key
|
-
| |||
En dash
|
Alt+0150
|
–
|
2013
|
–
| |
Em dash
|
Alt+0151
|
—
|
2014
|
—
| |
Thursday, December 02, 2010
Crush
by
Shrutipb
He looked at me and smiled, in a flirty way. I looked away, because I didn't know him, and I didn't do "flirting". He was just a guy in the crowd and I was there to watch my friend's show. I hung out with my sister and her friends waiting for the band we knew to go on. and this guy looked at me a few times. He was cute, even handsome, despite his bizarre outfit. My friend's band went on, and they played well, I rocked out. I did not know the main band playing but I stayed around to watch. Lo and behold, the flirty guy got on stage. He made eye contact several times, and I felt like an idiot. Apparently they were pretty big in Cleveland, for their day.
Local band, but a huge local fan following. I met him later thanks to my friend and his band. I was wary but he was cute, especially the smile. Connection, and then I was communicating with him every now and then. However I slowly found out more about him, and he seemed like the kind of guy who likes to have fun, but never get serious. Or why would he want to get serious with me?
He had a lip piercing, he was tall and handsome and played the bass guitar damn well. I once went to his concert and I can swear we almost kissed, but I think I had gone with someone else (who I did not want to be there with).
I realized after a while that I should keep my distance, it's like was like all the fatty sugary foods, tempting a heart patient. Luckily he left the country to go teach English, and whenever he visited I had this urge to go throw everything away, just to have that one kiss, or night. However I wouldn't be able to deal with just that. So tempting though. However I would want more than that. Why should I settle to be that random one girl, I was better than that. I deserved someone who could see how "Awesome" I was. He would never see that. I made sure we stayed friends, and that's just that. I think I've known him longer than any of those girls who just enjoyed sex with him for one night.
:-)
I'm happy with myself for my decisions.
Local band, but a huge local fan following. I met him later thanks to my friend and his band. I was wary but he was cute, especially the smile. Connection, and then I was communicating with him every now and then. However I slowly found out more about him, and he seemed like the kind of guy who likes to have fun, but never get serious. Or why would he want to get serious with me?
He had a lip piercing, he was tall and handsome and played the bass guitar damn well. I once went to his concert and I can swear we almost kissed, but I think I had gone with someone else (who I did not want to be there with).
I realized after a while that I should keep my distance, it's like was like all the fatty sugary foods, tempting a heart patient. Luckily he left the country to go teach English, and whenever he visited I had this urge to go throw everything away, just to have that one kiss, or night. However I wouldn't be able to deal with just that. So tempting though. However I would want more than that. Why should I settle to be that random one girl, I was better than that. I deserved someone who could see how "Awesome" I was. He would never see that. I made sure we stayed friends, and that's just that. I think I've known him longer than any of those girls who just enjoyed sex with him for one night.
:-)
I'm happy with myself for my decisions.
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Eclectic Music
by
Shrutipb
According to my mother, my father played a recording of Ravi Shankar on his Sitar and some guitar music of Sunil Ganguly, when I came out of her womb. So I have always loved music, everything but country, can't stand that drawl. Sorry, just not my thing (to each her/his own).
All my life I have been, some way or the other, musically involved. Whether it was singing, listening or playing (whatever else you can do to or with music). Also, I , like everyone else, have gone through many many different phases of music: from pop, to classic rock, to metal, to classical, to Indian music, world music, and the list goes on.
I loved each and every phase, and type of music. Each had its own sub-culture that came with it. Slightly ridiculous, cause you can just be you and listen to whatever the *#$%@ you want, but honestly people think their music makes them unique, thus the little subcultures, and the sub-subcultures of those sub-cultures! (and yes i did find it absolutely necessary to use a censored curse word, goes with the whole, "I'm cool, I'm a bad@$$ rockstar" attitude).
Sometimes I revisit phases. Musics. Genres. Sub-culture ness. (yes I just added the 'ness'). It is a nice nostalgic feeling. However sometimes there will be some music, albums, artists, who you ONCE listened to, or discovered with an ex-bf/ex-gf and that music is so hard to listen to again. Let me think... for example I have negative associations with Dire Straits, although I love them. It's been hard to listen to 311's Amber (although it is one of my favorite songs). Almost could never go back to Coldplay because of a stupid guy (Nick. Yes I will say the name, because that is one bad person, especially because he made me look bad. Enough about that). However I realized I can't make one person ruin COLDPLAY for me!
Music I revisit a lot: Vanessa Paradis she is one of my all time favorites. Spice Girls was a great time, and good lift me up for me. i only listen to it a lone or with my sister. The Beatles! Let it be known, that this is a prerequisite, and has been, for anyone who ever wanted to "date" me. I love the Beatles. They are EPIC (and this is the correct usage of the word). All their songs, the movement, the world... everything. Thank you for the music, Beatles. Sometimes I revisit my death metal phase, but it has lessened. My classical music phase is something calming, peaceful and centering.
I play the piano, however I love singing. I love singing "Your Song". It's a very special song. There are many other such special songs. I will list them soon on this blog. For now I shall sleep.
(Pictures courtesy Google search. Thank you googs!)
All my life I have been, some way or the other, musically involved. Whether it was singing, listening or playing (whatever else you can do to or with music). Also, I , like everyone else, have gone through many many different phases of music: from pop, to classic rock, to metal, to classical, to Indian music, world music, and the list goes on.
I loved each and every phase, and type of music. Each had its own sub-culture that came with it. Slightly ridiculous, cause you can just be you and listen to whatever the *#$%@ you want, but honestly people think their music makes them unique, thus the little subcultures, and the sub-subcultures of those sub-cultures! (and yes i did find it absolutely necessary to use a censored curse word, goes with the whole, "I'm cool, I'm a bad@$$ rockstar" attitude).
Sometimes I revisit phases. Musics. Genres. Sub-culture ness. (yes I just added the 'ness'). It is a nice nostalgic feeling. However sometimes there will be some music, albums, artists, who you ONCE listened to, or discovered with an ex-bf/ex-gf and that music is so hard to listen to again. Let me think... for example I have negative associations with Dire Straits, although I love them. It's been hard to listen to 311's Amber (although it is one of my favorite songs). Almost could never go back to Coldplay because of a stupid guy (Nick. Yes I will say the name, because that is one bad person, especially because he made me look bad. Enough about that). However I realized I can't make one person ruin COLDPLAY for me!
Music I revisit a lot: Vanessa Paradis she is one of my all time favorites. Spice Girls was a great time, and good lift me up for me. i only listen to it a lone or with my sister. The Beatles! Let it be known, that this is a prerequisite, and has been, for anyone who ever wanted to "date" me. I love the Beatles. They are EPIC (and this is the correct usage of the word). All their songs, the movement, the world... everything. Thank you for the music, Beatles. Sometimes I revisit my death metal phase, but it has lessened. My classical music phase is something calming, peaceful and centering.
I play the piano, however I love singing. I love singing "Your Song". It's a very special song. There are many other such special songs. I will list them soon on this blog. For now I shall sleep.
(Pictures courtesy Google search. Thank you googs!)
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