The second annual STAR-TIDES Demo will be held on Fort McNair from 06-10 Oct.  The Demo area will be open 0900-1600 each day.

Until the end of the month we will be upgrading the look, feel and features here at star-tides.net.  We will keep you posted on our progress and we will let you know if we intend to take the site off-line to perform any of these updates.

STAR-TIDES.net will be off-line for maintenance and upgrades starting at around 1:00 p.m. Pacific Saturday, Sep 19.  The initial outage may last several hours.  Additionally, over the course of the next week, we will be updating the look and feel of the site, so there may be additional periods when the site is not available.  We will keep you posted on our progress.  Thanks for you patience; as always, feedback is appreciated.
Regards,
Coby

This is a link to the registration site for the upcoming demonstration at Fort McNair.  http://startidesdemofall08.eventbrite.com/

2nd Annual STAR-TIDES Fall Demonstration/Exercise

STAR-TIDES will have its Fall field demonstration in Washington, DC at the National Defense University (NDU) campus from
Monday, October 6 to Friday, October 10.  This will be qualitatively different from last year's demo and the static displays we've done in
the past.

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/06/graphical_interface_for_medical_knowledge.html

Here's the talk on STAR-TIDES from FAHUM. There's a lot of
background noise to the 24 minute mark, after that it clears right up.
It's the best explanation on tape of the distributed infrastructure
system, the rationale for using the Hexayurt as a way of converting
materials in the supply chain into shelter, and the organizational
strategy behind STAR-TIDES that I'm currently aware of. Nice work, Lin!

We have started a project to aggregate relevant news feeds from around the web.  Currently the focus is on the situation in Myanmar, but more feeds can and will be added as we grow.  Please submit ideas for news feeds as comments to this post or contact us via email.

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All Feeds By Time

From Dartmouth Flood Observatory and NASA MODIS

source http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/images/2008052Burma.jpg

Just a few links to external resources containing background info on Myanmar, aka Burma:

CIA Factbook:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bm.html

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar