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The One Show – Pigeon Sim
Pigeon Sim is a Kinect powered, Google Earth linked, system to fly around live data – pulling in feeds from citydashboard.org it was developed originally as part of an EPSRC funded exhibition project (ANALOGIES) in April 2012 by CASA Researcher George MacKerron (now Lecturer at the University of Sussex). It is…
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Continue reading » Luminous Cities: offering an alternative way of geotag
Image1. The webpage of Luminous Cities_ManhattanStudying human behaviours and communication in time and space has been regarded as the important factor of modern urban planning. In this digital era, collecting online data and analysing the data provide…
Continue reading »Luminous Cities: offering an alternative way of geotag
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| Image1. The webpage of Luminous Cities_Manhattan |
Studying human behaviours and communication in time and space has been regarded as the important factor of modern urban planning. In this digital era, collecting online data and analysing the data provide an opportunity to understand the intention and the process of the behaviours and the communication which had not been revealed.
Geotag, which is attached on Social Network Service (SNS), is concerned as one of connecting link between the internet and urban. Mainly, there are two types of geotag. One is user-generated geotag that SNS users identify the places on their contents. The other is automatically generated with spatial coordination by the services. It represents the political, social and economic characteristics of the places as well as the physical location of the user or the data produced.
There are many good examples of mapping the geotag data of SNS. Eric Fischer’s well known mapping images reveal not only the density of the geotag data but also social aspects in cities such as the invisible dimensions of tourism in New York (Image 2). Twitter Languages in London by James Cheshire and Ed Manley shows the popularity of languages depends on different locations in London ((Image 3).
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| Image2. The mapping geotag data of locals and tourists by Eric Fischer
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| Image3. Twitter Languages in London, James Cheshire and Ed Manley
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Luminous Cities is the project to demonstrate the interactive map of Flickr geotag data supported by CASA at UCL and CSAP at the University of Leeds. It has developed by Gavin Baily and Sarah Bagshaw. The project does not remain the displaying density and distribution of the geotag, but offers in-detail contents of the geotag such as user, tag, time of the day and timeline over 50 cities in the world. With the multiple contents, Luminous Cities could be a platform to check out the geotag data of Flickr based on personal interest, and to view their cities from a different side. When it comes to Networking City, who is interested in protest and demonstration in the city, it would be a helpful tool to examine the relationship between protests or occupy tags of Flickr in London and actual events of them. Also, some interesting results may be emerging when we compare two data sets: Flickr and Twitter.
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| Image4. Berlin user geotag map from the webpage of Luminous Cities |
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| Image5. London occupy geotag map from the webpage of Luminous Cities |
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| Image6. Tokyo geotag map, Zoom out, from the webpage of Luminous Cities |
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| Image7. Tokyo geotag map, Zoom in, from the webpage of Luminous Cities |
You can find more things from following links.
Flickr was shown as the highest growing application in 2013 by Mashable
Mapping the world with Flickr and Twitter by Guardian
Infographic Of The Day: Using Twitter And Flickr Geotags To Map The World
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Luminous Cities: offering an alternative way of geotag
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| Image1. The webpage of Luminous Cities_Manhattan |
Studying human behaviours and communication in time and space has been regarded as the important factor of modern urban planning. In this digital era, collecting online data and analysing the data provide an opportunity to understand the intention and the process of the behaviours and the communication which had not been revealed.
Geotag, which is attached on Social Network Service (SNS), is concerned as one of connecting link between the internet and urban. Mainly, there are two types of geotag. One is user-generated geotag that SNS users identify the places on their contents. The other is automatically generated with spatial coordination by the services. It represents the political, social and economic characteristics of the places as well as the physical location of the user or the data produced.
There are many good examples of mapping the geotag data of SNS. Eric Fischer’s well known mapping images reveal not only the density of the geotag data but also social aspects in cities such as the invisible dimensions of tourism in New York (Image 2). Twitter Languages in London by James Cheshire and Ed Manley shows the popularity of languages depends on different locations in London ((Image 3).
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| Image2. The mapping geotag data of locals and tourists by Eric Fischer
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| Image3. Twitter Languages in London, James Cheshire and Ed Manley
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Luminous Cities is the project to demonstrate the interactive map of Flickr geotag data supported by CASA at UCL and CSAP at the University of Leeds. It has developed by Gavin Baily and Sarah Bagshaw. The project does not remain the displaying density and distribution of the geotag, but offers in-detail contents of the geotag such as user, tag, time of the day and timeline over 50 cities in the world. With the multiple contents, Luminous Cities could be a platform to check out the geotag data of Flickr based on personal interest, and to view their cities from a different side. When it comes to Networking City, who is interested in protest and demonstration in the city, it would be a helpful tool to examine the relationship between protests or occupy tags of Flickr in London and actual events of them. Also, some interesting results may be emerging when we compare two data sets: Flickr and Twitter.
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| Image4. Berlin user geotag map from the webpage of Luminous Cities |
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| Image5. London occupy geotag map from the webpage of Luminous Cities |
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| Image6. Tokyo geotag map, Zoom out, from the webpage of Luminous Cities |
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| Image7. Tokyo geotag map, Zoom in, from the webpage of Luminous Cities |
You can find more things from following links.
Flickr was shown as the highest growing application in 2013 by Mashable
Mapping the world with Flickr and Twitter by Guardian
Infographic Of The Day: Using Twitter And Flickr Geotags To Map The World
Continue reading » 
Luminous Cities: offering an alternative way of geotag
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| Image1. The webpage of Luminous Cities_Manhattan |
Studying human behaviours and communication in time and space has been regarded as the important factor of modern urban planning. In this digital era, collecting online data and analysing the data provide an opportunity to understand the intention and the process of the behaviours and the communication which had not been revealed.
Geotag, which is attached on Social Network Service (SNS), is concerned as one of connecting link between the internet and urban. Mainly, there are two types of geotag. One is user-generated geotag that SNS users identify the places on their contents. The other is automatically generated with spatial coordination by the services. It represents the political, social and economic characteristics of the places as well as the physical location of the user or the data produced.
There are many good examples of mapping the geotag data of SNS. Eric Fischer’s well known mapping images reveal not only the density of the geotag data but also social aspects in cities such as the invisible dimensions of tourism in New York (Image 2). Twitter Languages in London by James Cheshire and Ed Manley shows the popularity of languages depends on different locations in London ((Image 3).
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| Image2. The mapping geotag data of locals and tourists by Eric Fischer
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| Image3. Twitter Languages in London, James Cheshire and Ed Manley
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Luminous Cities is the project to demonstrate the interactive map of Flickr geotag data supported by CASA at UCL and CSAP at the University of Leeds. It has developed by Gavin Baily and Sarah Bagshaw. The project does not remain the displaying density and distribution of the geotag, but offers in-detail contents of the geotag such as user, tag, time of the day and timeline over 50 cities in the world. With the multiple contents, Luminous Cities could be a platform to check out the geotag data of Flickr based on personal interest, and to view their cities from a different side. When it comes to Networking City, who is interested in protest and demonstration in the city, it would be a helpful tool to examine the relationship between protests or occupy tags of Flickr in London and actual events of them. Also, some interesting results may be emerging when we compare two data sets: Flickr and Twitter.
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| Image4. Berlin user geotag map from the webpage of Luminous Cities |
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| Image5. London occupy geotag map from the webpage of Luminous Cities |
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| Image6. Tokyo geotag map, Zoom out, from the webpage of Luminous Cities |
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| Image7. Tokyo geotag map, Zoom in, from the webpage of Luminous Cities |
You can find more things from following links.
Flickr was shown as the highest growing application in 2013 by Mashable
Mapping the world with Flickr and Twitter by Guardian
Infographic Of The Day: Using Twitter And Flickr Geotags To Map The World
Continue reading » The Ultimate Christmas List for Map Lovers
It is about this time of year that I get asked if I wan […]
Continue reading »Mapping London House Prices and Rents
There is always interest in London’s astronomical […]
Continue reading »London 2062
We have a chapter in this new book on London 2062 which is a brief summary of our transport work using big data. The chapter is called Smart London but the book covers a wide array of topics. It is … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Climate Change and the State of Science
This is a really nice video funded by the UN Foundation […]
Continue reading »Climate Change and the State of Science
This is a really nice video funded by the UN Foundation […]
Continue reading »Understanding Macroeconomics: A User-Friendly Guide
Macroeconomics is one of those disciplines where the ideas are simple, but the lingo is complicated. Paul Krugman, in his New York Times blog, is usually great at communicating the ideas of Macroeconomics in a human-friendly way. But sometimes the language gets ahead of Krugman—sadly, most obviously when the ideas he’s expressing are important and […]
Continue reading »‘The Tomorrow People’: Cara Confesses to John, Stephen Loses His Powers and More in “Limbo” – Bustle
‘The Tomorrow People’: Cara Confesses to John, Stephen Loses His Powers and More in “Limbo” BustleThis week’s episode of The Tomorrow People is called “Limbo,” but it could just as well have been called “Confessions” or “Cara Can’t Keep a Se…
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Ironways of London
It’s always irked me slightly that many online maps of London show the various tube services as straight lines between stations, or as idealised Bezier curves. Perhaps the regimented lines and angles of the official “Beck-style” tube diagram has meant that, when translating into a “real life” geographical map, people have tended to keep the […]
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Ironways of London
It’s always irked me slightly that many online maps of London show the various tube services as straight lines between stations, or as idealised Bezier curves. Perhaps the regimented lines and angles of the official “Beck-style” tube diagram has meant that, when translating into a “real life” geographical map, people have tended to keep the […]
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Geosimulation Models – AAG 2014: Call for Papers
GEOSIMULATION MODELS DESCRIPTION OF THE SESSION(S) Since the publication of Geosimulation in 2004, the use of Agent-based Modeling (ABM) and Cellular Automata (CA) under the umbrella of Geosimulation models within geographical systems have started to…
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Geosimulation Models – AAG 2014: Call for Papers
GEOSIMULATION MODELS DESCRIPTION OF THE SESSION(S) Since the publication of Geosimulation in 2004, the use of Agent-based Modeling (ABM) and Cellular Automata (CA) under the umbrella of Geosimulation models within geographical systems have started to…
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A model of global trade
Months of blood, sweat and tears (or rather, those all-too modern equivalents coffee, RSI and eye-strain) have been spilled in the last six months. I have an absolutely non-existent ability to concentrate on more than one thing at a time, and the one thing I’ve been thinking, dreaming and going on about non-stop for pretty […]
Continue reading »The Other Mobile Surveillance
There are just some photographs that speak for themselves. Admittedly this van is positioned to watch over 1 World Trade Center but it is quite a surprise if you think it is just another police van when its camera suddenly ascends … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Tweeting in DUMBO
Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass where gentrification combines with public art just north of Brooklyn Heights, I discovered one of the secrets of America in the new world of smart cities, ICT, and citizen science: data streaming. Half a … Continue reading →
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A Proposed Redesign for the Bow Roundabout
The Bow Roundabout is a busy and unpleasant junction in east London, with large volumes of traffic, including many bicycles and lorries. It forms a key part of the trunk network in London, distributing road-haulage around the city. River channels of the Lea Valley, industrial complexes, and the developing Olympic Park, block suitable alternative cycle […]
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A Proposed Redesign for the Bow Roundabout
The Bow Roundabout is a busy and unpleasant junction in east London, with large volumes of traffic, including many bicycles and lorries. It forms a key part of the trunk network in London, distributing road-haulage around the city. River channels of the Lea Valley, industrial complexes, and the developing Olympic Park, block suitable alternative cycle […]
Continue reading »Pocket maps of Craft Beer and Coffee
London’s craft beer and microbrewery scene is bur […]
Continue reading »Foundations of Urban Science
CUSP – New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress – in launching their Masters program in Applied Urban Science and Informatics, have put together a fascinating course called Foundations of Urban Science which is being taught this fall by … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Lecturer in Quantitative Human Geography, UCL
TweetApplications are welcomed from any area of quantitative geography, but we are particularly interested in candidates with research and teaching interests in the fields of economic geography, GIS, population geography, geodemographics, migration research. The lecturer will be expected to undertake research of the highest international standards within his or her own specialist field which will […]
Continue reading »GIS Course Note 02: Research Application, Software and Data Sources
The second lecture of GIS comprised mainly three parts, the examples of practical research by using GIS, GIS software and the way to gain relevant data for the research. In the beginning, Dr. Adam Dennett, the lecturer of CASA, informed the…
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GIS Course Note 02: Research Application, Software and Data Sources
The second lecture of GIS comprised mainly three parts, the examples of practical research by using GIS, GIS software and the way to gain relevant data for the research.
In the beginning, Dr. Adam Dennett, the lecturer of CASA, informed the aim of the lecture to understand the basic elements of social science research using GIS and the diverse analytical approaches with it. He showed several example maps, which are related to population, crime, deprivation, health care, flooding, and education, and the way how to read economic, social and physical characteristics from the maps and its meaning in the projects. (Image 1)
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And then, he moved to GIS software industry which has been significantly growing. As interest and the utilisation of GIS are increasing, GIS software market is expanding almost 10% every year and now it is used in all industries and public sectors such as business, public safety, military and education. The popular GIS tools: Arc GIS, MAP Info, Quantum GIS, Pythonand R, and specific points of each tool were introduced. Also, small description of GIS cloud and online GIS tools was following. (Image 2)
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In the last part, he said of various kinds of the data and the way of gathering the data which is the key element to proceed the research. Easily, we can classify the data according to the way of gathering. On the one hand, we can use the open data, which are provided by public sectors and other organisations. On the other hand, we need to collect the data through participation and measuring by ourselves. Some websites of the UK, which contain the open data or shapefiles, and the characteristics of each website were mentioned. As we can see Image 3, some other methods like WebScarping and Volunteered Geographic Information were shown as alternative ways to collect the data by ourselves, when the given data are unclear, and the goal of the research needs the specific data.
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The lecture was finished with the emphasis on caution when using the open data and the mapping with it. Much of the data are made with inadequate formats like pdf, or do not include any spatial reference, so we need to be careful to collect and use the data. When it came to the mapping with the data, he insisted that it is necessary to make analytical and meaningful maps rather than something fancy or colourful. In addition, it is essential to acknowledge that some errors could be made by way of ‘generalisation’ in the process of research, therefore, setting up the range and the level of the research will enrich the quality of it.
After one hour lecture, students had a training session that mapping population data on the map of London Borough with R. (Image 4)
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GIS Course Note 02: Research Application, Software and Data Sources
The second lecture of GIS comprised mainly three parts, the examples of practical research by using GIS, GIS software and the way to gain relevant data for the research.
In the beginning, Dr. Adam Dennett, the lecturer of CASA, informed the aim of the lecture to understand the basic elements of social science research using GIS and the diverse analytical approaches with it. He showed several example maps, which are related to population, crime, deprivation, health care, flooding, and education, and the way how to read economic, social and physical characteristics from the maps and its meaning in the projects. (Image 1)
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| Image 1 |
And then, he moved to GIS software industry which has been significantly growing. As interest and the utilisation of GIS are increasing, GIS software market is expanding almost 10% every year and now it is used in all industries and public sectors such as business, public safety, military and education. The popular GIS tools: Arc GIS, MAP Info, Quantum GIS, Pythonand R, and specific points of each tool were introduced. Also, small description of GIS cloud and online GIS tools was following. (Image 2)
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| Image 2 |
In the last part, he said of various kinds of the data and the way of gathering the data which is the key element to proceed the research. Easily, we can classify the data according to the way of gathering. On the one hand, we can use the open data, which are provided by public sectors and other organisations. On the other hand, we need to collect the data through participation and measuring by ourselves. Some websites of the UK, which contain the open data or shapefiles, and the characteristics of each website were mentioned. As we can see Image 3, some other methods like WebScarping and Volunteered Geographic Information were shown as alternative ways to collect the data by ourselves, when the given data are unclear, and the goal of the research needs the specific data.
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| Image 3 |
The lecture was finished with the emphasis on caution when using the open data and the mapping with it. Much of the data are made with inadequate formats like pdf, or do not include any spatial reference, so we need to be careful to collect and use the data. When it came to the mapping with the data, he insisted that it is necessary to make analytical and meaningful maps rather than something fancy or colourful. In addition, it is essential to acknowledge that some errors could be made by way of ‘generalisation’ in the process of research, therefore, setting up the range and the level of the research will enrich the quality of it.
After one hour lecture, students had a training session that mapping population data on the map of London Borough with R. (Image 4)
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盘点2013年最佳3D打印作品：令人遐想 – 网易
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盘点2013年最佳3D打印作品：令人遐想
网易 伦敦大学学院高级空间分析研究中心The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis的研究团队在自己的博客上探讨了设计及制造3D打印版机械时钟的过程。 他们使用台式3D打印机MakerBot Replicator 2打印时钟的 … |
盘点2013年最佳3D打印作品：令人遐想 – ZOL科技头条
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盘点2013年最佳3D打印作品：令人遐想
ZOL科技头条 伦敦大学学院高级空间分析研究中心The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis的研究团队在自己的博客上探讨了设计及制造3D打印版机械时钟的过程。 他们使用台式3D打印机MakerBot Replicator 2打印时钟的 … |
15 of the Best 3D-Printed Items From 2013 – The Next Web
15 of the Best 3D-Printed Items From 2013The Next WebAndy Hudson-Smith and team, of The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at the University College London, discussed the design and construction process of building 3D printed mechanical cloc…
Continue reading »New York Nerds Sift Citi Bike Data to Solve Availability – Bloomberg
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New York Nerds Sift Citi Bike Data to Solve Availability
Bloomberg … twice-a-day commute into the commercial centres will act to counter their effect,” said Oliver O’Brien, a research associate who studies more than 100 bikeshare networks worldwide at the University College of London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial … |
Citibike beating Barclays Cycle Hire
NYC Citibike’s meteoric rise continues – for October, the New York City bikeshare beat London’s Barclays Cycle Hire on average journeys per day, for both weekdays and weekends. Even more impressive considering that it’s only just over half the size. Thanks to this release published today at the London Data Store, and this daily updating […]
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Citibike beating Barclays Cycle Hire
NYC Citibike’s meteoric rise continues – for October, the New York City bikeshare beat London’s Barclays Cycle Hire on average journeys per day, for both weekdays and weekends. Even more impressive considering that it’s only just over half the size. Thanks to this release published today at the London Data Store, and this daily updating […]
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Dr Ed Manley (@EdThink), a research associate on the Me […]
Continue reading »New York Nerds Sift Citi Bike Data to Solve Availability
Each morning, New York commuters who use the nation’s largest cycle-sharing system face a question that decides whether the workday begins in disappointment or with a smooth glide: Will any Citi Bikes be available?See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial…
Continue reading »New York Nerds Sift Citi Bike Data to Solve Availability
Each morning, New York commuters who use the nation’s largest cycle-sharing system face a question that decides whether the workday begins in disappointment or with a smooth glide: Will any Citi Bikes be available?See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial…
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The New Science of Cities, by Mike Batty
In this book, I suggest that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To understand space, we must understand flows, and to understand flows, we must understand networks—the relations between objects that comprise the system of the city. Drawing on the complexity […]
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Cities, Brains, Percolation
At ECCS ’13 this morning, Elsa Arcaute, Lecturer in Urban Modelling in CASA, is talking about our work on city size using percolation theory which has analogies to Hernan Makse’s work on percolation and the brain. Click here for the programme and the paper in the Arxiv on which is it based. You can also […]
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Gravity v Radiation Models
For many years, almost from the time when Newton first presented his laws of gravitation, speculations and applications of the gravity model to human interactions have been made. In the 19th century, Carey and Ravenstein led the way with Reilly, Zipf, Stewart and Warntz and then Voorhees making major contributions in the early to mid […]
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