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over 3 years ago lapadia
Congrats on shining in the spotlight, love the chocolate bark and the "sniff and smash" picture...which are you, sniff or smash?
over 3 years ago wanderash
heeheehee! I am Smash; it is Sniff's childhood nickname for me. I called her Sniff (and still do). We also thought it had fun food connotations!
over 3 years ago WinnieAb
Love love love your chocolate bark recipe and congrats on this spotlight! Looking forward to checking out your blog and hope to see more of your interesting and delicious recipes back here soon.
over 3 years ago wanderash
This is such an amazing honor! Thank you Food52!!! I'll be planning and plotting delicious flavors again soon... l just need school to start back up :)
over 3 years ago wanderash
Don't I know it! All those things, and so much more make Darby, MT (and all of the Bitterroot Valley) a special place. My husband and I were married there and in honor of the spot, our son's middle name is Darby!
over 3 years ago jifferb
yeaaaahhhhh for spotlighting my incredibly talented cousin! a faaaaabulous cook, writer, mother and hilarious, crazy, daring, brilliant, warm wonderful person! i am such a fan! xx
over 3 years ago dymnyno
Hey! welcome back! I just looked up your blog...very nice...you are so lucky to live in a beautiful place (at least one of you?). I have stayed at Triple Creek a couple of times doing food and wine dinners. I remember the last time the whole valley was a morel muchroom paradise (after the big fire).
over 3 years ago
Barbara is a trusted source on General Cooking.
Wanderash, I was just thinking about you! I was looking for edible gift ideas and found your wonderful chocolate bark and thought, "wow, she hasn't posted a recipe in awhile!" And here you are! Congratulations!
over 3 years ago themissingingredient
Interest blog, but that same redneck outpost, Darby, is also home to Triple Creek Ranch which is the top rated luxury Relais Chateau hotel and the fabulous fly fishing streams around Darby were the setting for A River Runs Through It.
over 3 years ago wanderash
Don't I know it! All those things, and so much more make Darby, MT (and all of the Bitterroot Valley) a special place. My husband and I were married there and in honor of the spot, our son's middle name is Darby!


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Cool work man, life drawing is quite tasty =)
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Kungfoowiz: thanks man!
couple of plein air paintings. gouache as always:
you cant even drink legally yet and your tearing it up this much?! god damn!! i gotta get my shit together haha. serious progress with figures as well as the enviros. love the plein air work! very nice!
Some Sketchbooks you should check out! --->
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Those are some badass gouache paintings.
All your city contours are awesome.
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NickyBeats: thanks man! yeah the drinking age is a bunch of crap!
skMOP: yee buddy!
AJM: thanks man!
interior concept:
That interior concept is sick. Loving the lighting and colors.
AJM: thanks my man!
architecture sketches from life:
Loving this sketchbook! Very good color handling. I think you definetly understand what art should be. I just feast my eyes on these environment pieces. I loke some looseness of those. Though I'd like to see more of stand alone pieces with some sort of plot and more character work. And I wanna see more of a design in those, that would be interesting. I think all you need to do is think a bit more of these worlds and the characters and what they could look like.
Engor: thanks man! but i definitely don't know what art is haha. glad you like it though.
couple of rough environments:
quick design poops from imagination:
nice studies, good work ethic. I would recommend you attempt drawing from imagination, immediately after doing one or two of these studies, to see if you can apply anything from what you have just done. I find this helps to come up with theories about what made the original look the way it did, and helps make these thoughts stick.
You have a really solid foundation here.
You are using perspective well in your enviro paintings, though I think you might want to think more about focal points in these, as they are rendered pretty evenly instead of letting some areas recede etc, also using value more to stage your compositions might help - you have a solid base
your architectural sketches are really nice too - good perspective/form, etc and not over-done, I like those.
I saw your sb a while ago, you definitely have improved
hey man thnx for visiting my sb very nice works in here and great improvement happening love your enviros and your color choices
Inspiring sketches! I especially like your life drawings
Excellent sketchbook man. From page five it really cranked up! You are nailing the life drawings, architecture, vehicles and environments. I really love the perspective you got on the mech in post 106. The buildings in 211 are really solid and I love the finish to the environments in 321, very crisp! Keep it up. I'd like to see what you'd do in the weekly challenges, you should give them a go. Have you done any longer pieces? 10 hrs + something really polished and shiny, could be awesome.
catface: thanks man! i always found drawing from imagination helps a bunch.
Wholewheat_keyboard: thanks man, i'll keep those in mind!
dimi: thanks dimi!
Prospass: thanks man, love your stuff!
Dayle: yeah i'd love to do the weekly challenges, but i'm lazy haha. i'd love to do a 10 hr piece though, we'll see how that goes. glad you like all the different subject matter
more design poops, from imagination as always:
and a WIP:
worked on it some more:
I am really digging your work, especially your environments. If your intent is to become a video-game environmental concept artist I have a couple tips for you.
1. Clarity is really the most important thing. Environmental layout problems are usually solved separately from color studies. Many of my favorite environmental concept artists rarely touch color in their professional work. Google Toph Gorham, Virginia Critchfield, Justin Albers, and Paul Richards (NSFW).
2. Always have a camera in mind when you are doing environment work. If the idea is that it would go into a video-game, draw for the in-game camera.
ForScience: thanks man, that makes a lot of sense! i feel i design a lot better when i don't have to worry about color. paul richards is awesome and you're right, he rarely touches color. thanks for the camera tip too!
more vehicle and ship designs from imagination:
cool spaceships but watch those ellipses haha!
I met Paul Richards at life drawing a few times but was so shy that I only said a few words to him. His figure drawings are really amazing though.
I used to work with Paul at Vigil. If you see him at life drawing you really should say hi. That guy is just oozing with figure drawing insight and he loves to teach.
lookin good man! Its been a long while since I've been in. I'd suggest buckling down and doing some very rigorous perspective studies, your eyeballed stuff gets a bit wonky, especially in the interiors. Cheers!
Your work is improving nicely mate. Its good to see you drawing. Your greatest focus should be in drawing and values, but always thinking about a workflow and adjusting things according to the way you need to work. You will find the right balance, but overally let the color be last. Love the gouache stuff, these kind of studies with this material are really good to force you to think before pushing a brushtroke, its very important. Keep up the good work
skMOP: thanks, i'll be more careful! i also met paul richards at a marshall vandruff workshop but i didn't know who he was at the time. haha fail!
ForScience: his blog is awesome!
Metal Fingers: thanks man, yeah i need to get right in there and tighten that shit up. thanks again!
kingkostas: thanks kostas, i'll keep all of those in mind.
quick color studies from thor. trying to capture color and mood in just a few brushstrokes:
I like the idea of doing quick color studies like this. Good idea.
thanks forscience, it was a very informative study. might do more in the future.
enviro thing:
i like your last post fast color paintings! very good for color management. Also concepts are nice but at this you somehow lose the colors. You have to do something. Other then that good stuff


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The charitable gift annuity (CGA) is a contract between the donor and Colby. A simple one- or two-page document, the charitable gift annuity guarantees that the College will pay a fixed annual amount, for life, to one or two beneficiaries named by the donor. Colby's obligation to make these payments is backed by the full faith and assets of the institution and is not subject to investment performance.
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All white, hetero couples. Really?
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I'm just disappointed that no one seems to care or be interested in movies that weren't made in their lifetime.
Martha | February 13, 2013 1:09 PM
While this post is a nice showcase of unconventional relationships, or relationships that aren't just attractive young people (i.e. Lost in Translation, Harold & Maude), where the hell are the LGBT relationships? What about Russell and Glen from Andrew Haigh's "Weekend," one of the most romantic movies made in the last ten years? Or Ennis and Jack from "Brokeback Mountain"? C'mon, Playlist. I'm disappointed at this glaring omission.


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In response to the desperate need for legal assistance to children in removal proceedings, the Y&H Soda Foundation funded a project with CLINIC to obtain counsel for children in California's Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Finding quality pro bono legal counsel for these children is both rewarding and challenging.
One of the rewards is establishing relationships with the many talented and generous lawyers in the San Francisco area. These lawyers often have busy practices of their own. The myriad non-profit agencies in the bay area solicit the major law firms with a steady stream of pro bono requests for a wide range of needy people.
It is challenging to compete with so many worthy causes vying for limited pro bono resources. It is important to explain why the firm should direct its resources to your case.
Many lawyers are surprised to hear that children have no right to free legal counsel and must proceed on their own if they cannot afford counsel.
Lack of counsel alone will not convince a law firm to invest pro bono resources unless the child has some possible legal remedy such as asylum, special immigrant juvenile status, or "U" visa eligibility, etc. Lawyers are far more likely to accept a pro bono case if you clearly explain the legal remedies available, the relevant case law and the legal procedures involved. Pro bono lawyers also want to know the likelihood of prevailing on the identified remedies.
It is critical to do a detailed screening of a child's case so that you can explain, not just the remedies available, but the emotional facts of the case. If you can personalize the child, the lawyer will be more willing to take the case.
A great selling point is access to CLINIC's knowledgeable immigration lawyers who serve as mentors throughout the pro bono case. In addition, pro bono lawyers have access to CLINIC's website resources, some trainings and legal updates.
It is also helpful to develop a list of pro bono mentors and experts to whom you can refer the pro bono lawyers for particular issues. This is most important in the area of special immigrant juvenile visas. If you can immediately offer a pro bono family lawyer mentor, you will meet far more success getting lawyers to agree to take a child's case.
For most of our children's cases, there is one more, large obstacle to overcome before a pro bono lawyer will take the case. That is, most of our children speak little English. Therefore, it is vital to develop a long list of competent translators since translating is time consuming and most translators will not be available for the entire duration of the case.
One of our star pro bono lawyers with the Soda Foundation project is Peggy Bristol-Wright who has taken four children's cases. An unusual bonus with Peggy, as a sole practitioner, is that she speaks Spanish. Peggy dismisses any recognition for her efforts, saying she thinks CLINIC's children's project is a great opportunity for lawyers to learn about immigration law while helping needy children.
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Softball Unanimous Favorite as Nation's No. 1 Team
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history, the North Georgia softball team was selected as the No. 1
team in the land in consecutive weeks, this time receiving all 16
first-place votes to become the unanimous team atop the NFCA
Division II Top 25 poll.
The Saints continued to stay on top of the Division II softball world this week, sweeping a pair of road Peach Belt Conference doubleheaders and moving to a school record 19-0 on the season.
In a poll that was voted on before North Georgia grinded out a pair of 4-3 and 6-4 victories over 8th-ranked LeMoyne College on Tuesday afternoon, the Saints continue to play one of the toughest schedules in the country and pass every test.
Angelo State sits at 17-2 on the season and move up to the No. 2 slot in the country, while local in-state rival Valdosta State moves up to No. 3 in the latest poll after running their record to a perfect 10-0. Wayne State is slotted fourth at 11-2 overall, a team the Saints inched out a 4-1 victory in nine innings against at the UAH Charger Chillout.
Last year's World Series participant Winona State rounds out the top five, while the University of Alabama-Huntsville had the biggest move in the poll, falling nine spots from No. 2 to outside the top 10 at No. 11.
The Peach Belt Conference's presence in the poll dropped from to a pair of teams this week after USC Aiken dropped from the rankings, while Augusta State is headed in the other direction, jumping seven spots to No. 12 in the nation.
North Georgia will hit the road again four their next four games, traveling to St. Augustine, Florida, to take on new-league member Flagler College in a doubleheader on Sunday afternoon with the first game slated for 1:00 p.m.
The Saints then travel to Armstrong Atlantic for a Tuesday afternoon double dip with the Pirates, before returning home for 10 straight games, including doubleheaders against No. 11 Alabama-Huntsville, and No. 12 Augusta State.
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Melvin T. Wilkinson passed away Sept. 16, 2010. He was born Nov. 21, 1926, in Sacramento.
A resident of Cromberg for 22 years after he retired from the motion picture studios, Wilkinson was active in the Quincy Seventh Day Adventist Church, enjoyed walking and living in the Sierras, loved sailing and all types of boating. He was an avid reader and loved children.
Wilkinson is survived by his wife, Loys Wilkinson; his children, Robert Wilkinson, Beth Degraff and Deborah Garner; six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Memorial services will be held Oct. 16, at the Quincy Seventh Day Adventist Church on East Pine Street at 3 p.m. Donations may be made to a charity of your choice in Wilkinson's name.
Bruce Leon Ruffner passed from this life peacefully, at his residence in Taylorsville, with his wife at his side, Friday morning, Sept. 24, 2010, at the age of 75. He had fought a long and courageous battle with Parkinson's Disease.
Born in Pasadena, Aug. 29, 1935, to the late Garth and Evelyn (Robb) Ruffner, he spent his formative years in Pasadena graduating from John Muir High School as a member of the Class of 1953.
Bruce went on to continue his education at Oregon State where he obtained his degree in biology and obtained his teaching credentials. Later in life, Bruce obtained his Master's degree.
Bruce began a fulfilling 32-year career in education, first teaching at Tule Lake High School. Shortly thereafter he transferred to Red Bluff High where he concluded his career as a science teacher in 1989.
He is fondly remembered by his students as a teacher who could make science fun to learn. He was active with the youth as an organizer of numerous science fairs.
While attending Oregon State Bruce met a pretty young fellow co-ed, Anne Mitchell and as their love for one another blossomed the couple was united in matrimony Aug. 25, 1956, in Lake Oswego, Ore. To this union one son was born. Not only did the couple raise a family together, but they taught side by side at Red Bluff for their careers.
Following their retirement the couple relocated to Taylorsville in 1989.
Bruce enjoyed the outdoors through cross-country and downhill skiing as well as hiking. He took great pride in constructing the family's home in Red Bluff as well as remodeling their retirement home in Taylorsville. Bruce was a talented woodworker who also served the community as the Curator of the Indian Valley Museum for ten years.
In passing Bruce leaves his loving wife and best friend, Anne of Taylorsville; son, Garth B. Ruffner and his wife Joy of Granite Bay; stepdaughter, Lisa Cooney of Roseville; brother, Gary of Hood River, Ore., and sister Ann Carolyn Ruffner of San Diego.
Bruce's family would like to pass on a special note of gratitude to Marsha Revenaugh, Hayden and Mike Shutt along with Mark Delizio and his wonderful crew for making it possible for Bruce to live out his final years at home.
A private family celebration of Bruce's life will take place at a later date. An opportunity to express condolences to the family and sign the memorial guest register is available online at fehrmanmortuary.com.
The family suggests any remembrances in Bruce's memory be made to either Doctor's Without Borders or High Sierra Animal Rescue, c/o Fehrman Mortuary, P.O. Box 803, Greenville, CA 95947.
Carson City resident Alberta C. Reed,86, died Sept. 13, 2010.She was born May 22, 1924, in Sweet Springs, Mo.
She is preceded in death by husband Charles F. Reed and son Pete Goodman.
She is survived by daughters Darlene Brabant of Dayton, Jennifer (Daniel) Pendleton of Genoa, and Trina (Mark) Ward of Minden; five grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
No services will be held.FitzHenry's Funeral Home and Crematory is in charge of arrangements.
Evelyn Gamble died Sept. 19, 2010 in Flagstaff, Ariz. at the age of 89. She was born July 27, 1921 in Hilo, Hawaii.
Gamble is survived by Jerry Gamble of Flagstaff, Ariz., Lynn Gamble of Portola, one granddaughter and four great-grandchildren.
Donations may be made to the High Sierra Animal Rescue in her memory.
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STD cases are on the rise in Minnesota and North DakotaFargo, ND (WDAY TV) -- A shocking one in every four teenage girls now has at least one sexually transmitted disease, according to the latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control.
By: Kay Cooley, WDAY
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) -- A shocking one in every four teenage girls now has at least one sexually transmitted disease, according to the latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control.
North Dakotans and Minnesotans have seen huge jumps in chlamydia and gonorrhea infections, with nearly half of them coming from young people.
Fresonke: "it's a pandemic is what it is. It's the new pandemic"
It's called an STD, or sexually transmitted disease, and 25 percent of teen girls will get at least one before ever turning 20.
Busta: "It's awful that it's gotten that high"
Fresonke: "It's crazy to think that people before they even get into high school, even before they know what they're doing, are having sex.
Not only having sex, but never thinking of the consequences. Nearly 19 million new STD infections now occur each year. And they don't just target women.
Nelson: "Everyone who is sexually active, needs to be concerned about an STD"
Busta: "I've known a few people who have been worried that it could happen, and that turns out alright for them. But I know it's been a scary process for them to not know. "
What many don't know is how common the problem really is around here.
In North Dakota, 670 teens tested positive for chlamydia in 2011, up 30 from the year before, or an increase of about four and a half percent.
In Minnesota, that number jumps to more than 5 thousand- an increase of about 370 cases, or more than seven percent. But gonorrhea among young people is up even more.
Nelson: "twenty four percent, that's a huge increase. The state would call that an epidemic"
An epidemic that could lead to infertility, birth defects, and much more, as many go unnoticed. 80% of women don't have any symptoms.
Nelson: "people need to know partner's sexual history. They need to use condoms 100% of the time"
Busta: "People don't think it will happen to them, when it really is likely to happen to them"
So the best thing to do is get tested regularly, and treated quickly if necessary. Or abstain. Sexually active men and women should be tested at least once a year, as well as each time they switch partners.
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STUTLER, Kathryn "Kitty," 95, of Scott Depot, fought the good fight, finished the course, and passed gently into the arms of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012.
Kitty was born in Deep Valley, PA, on June 11, 1917, to David and Goldie (Anderson) Kerr. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Stanley; her sister Virginia; her brother, Kenneth; and her daughter, the Rev. Nancy S. Custer.
Kitty is survived by her son, Stanley Joseph and his wife Terri of Hot Springs Village, Arkansas; her son-in-law, Gordon Custer of Scio, Ohio; four grandchildren, Rev. Kelli Frazier and her husband Marty of Hurricane, Scott Grum of Marietta, Georgia, Stanley Joseph Stutler II and his wife Lisa of Knoxville, TN, and Jay Custer and his wife Susan of Sugar Creek, Ohio; six great-grandchildren; and one great- great-grandson.
Kitty's service will be held on Saturday, Sept. 15, at 7 p.m. at Hurricane First Church of the Nazarene, 2325 U.S. 60, Hurricane, WV, with Rev. Phil Bower officiating. Visitation will be two hours prior to the service, 5-7 p.m. at the church.
In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations be sent to the Hubbard Hospice House West, 4605 MacCorkle Ave. SW, Charleston, WV 25309.
To share a memory of Kitty or to express condolences, please visit www.chapmanfuneralhome.com.


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Big News & the Future of LocalWiki
25 July 2013
Where we are right now
When we started the LocalWiki project a little over two years ago, we set out to bring the wonder, joy, and transformative power of projects like the DavisWiki to as many communities as possible. We wanted to show the world that a more open, more empowering and more collaborative model for local media was possible.
We worked hard to create an entirely new type of "wiki" software designed specifically for local community collaboration. Our goal was to make the ultimate platform for local community knowledge sharing. In the process, we broke a lot of ground — we created the first open-source, entirely-visual page editing process; a beautiful collaborative mapping system; the first open-source, visual "what's changed" view for pages and maps; a powerful geographic API; and much more.
We worked alongside a number of communities to help them build out successful projects and test our platform. Together, we've chronicled the greenways of Raleigh; helped map and describe Antarctica; told the story of the informal neighborhoods of Denton; covered over 300 topics in the history of Oakland; and much more. We've seen city councils give praise to LocalWiki projects (1, 2) and we've had countless community members come together, in person, to build out LocalWiki projects together (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
When we began the LocalWiki project, the question we got asked over and over was: "But can you replicate this? Davis is..weird." Today, there are over 70 major LocalWiki projects in 10 countries and in 7 languages. Every month, around 400,000 people use a LocalWiki project. And the LocalWiki software platform has been installed over 1,000 times, making it one of the most-replicated pieces of open-source civic software ever.
But most importantly, we've begun a movement — a movement focused around communities coming together to collaboratively write their past, make meaning of their present, and build visions of their future.
Here's a video of Philip discussing the state of LocalWiki in 2013 with highlights from different LocalWiki projects around the world:
The future
Despite the tremendous progress we've made, there's still so far to go. Over the past several months we've taken time to reflect on where we've come and where we want to go, and thought hard about some of the biggest problems facing our current approach:
While there are an ever-growing number of vibrant LocalWiki projects, most communities lack a project.
Creating a project requires knowing how to install software on a server. Despite the fact we've worked hard to make it easy to install and update the LocalWiki platform, many projects struggle to keep their servers updated or running at all.
Because you must create an independent LocalWiki project for a particular area before contributing, early enthusiasts feel that they have to first build a cohort of core volunteers for the project to be successful, when the incentive should be to jump in and add great content.
Despite the fact that the LocalWiki API is being increasingly adopted, it's difficult to use LocalWiki as a platform for local knowledge sharing. Because of this, we lose out on a tremendous amount of possible growth. E.g. when Mark finds a great open database of park information for all of Canada he cannot import it into LocalWiki in whole.
Because every LocalWiki is a separate project on a separate server with a separate domain name, it's difficult for people to discover and contribute to projects. For instance, because of this extreme autonomy, each project must work for years and years to get decent search engine ranking. In contrast, a new entry on Wikipedia will become the top hit on various search engines almost immediately. As a result, successful projects must engage in direct in-person outreach for years to achieve modest growth, which tires and distracts contributors.
Mobile is increasingly essential, but it's difficult to imagine a cohesive mobile strategy with our current everything-is-separate approach. E.g. would we create a mobile app for each of DavisWiki, OaklandWiki, ArborWiki, etc? Right now, a mobile app could improve large, established projects but it's hard to see how it could spur growth in new areas because, almost by definition, they don't already have LocalWiki projects.
Determining appropriate geographic subdivisions for LocalWiki projects is difficult. LocalWiki projects in geographically isolated areas don't struggle with this as much (e.g. Davis), but most places in the world are interconnected and/or subdivided. This not only makes it difficult to figure out what regions a project should serve, but also makes it borderline impossible to share information and community between regions.
Fundamentally, what we want to do is collect, share and open the world's local knowledge. We've proven our model can be replicated successfully in several major communities, but our challenge now is to find ways to massively scale the project up with the aim of reaching millions of people throughout the world.
Today, we're extremely happy to announce that, with the generous support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, we're embarking on a new project that aims to address these problems head-on, scale up LocalWiki and ultimately make it easier for anyone, anywhere to learn about where they live.
At the core of this new project will be the development of a singular LocalWiki "hub". This hub will provide a frictionless way to learn and share without technical or logistical challenges; serve as a repository for both structured and unstructured local information; and ultimately provide a global, universal platform for local knowledge.
Imagine just going to localwiki.org, searching "volunteer," and finding all of the volunteer opportunities in your area. Or learning about the history of a nearby lake from a friend and being able to share it with your community instantly, without having to create a LocalWiki project first. Or finding a great dataset of park information for your entire state and being able to import it into LocalWiki, as a whole. This — and much more — is what we are going to experiment with over the coming year.
Here's a little video of Philip discussing LocalWiki's aims and future direction:
Many aspects of the project are still yet to be determined. LocalWiki is a community-driven project through and through, so to kick things off we will start holding hangouts with LocalWiki communities in the coming weeks to chart a course together. At first, we plan to start with something simple that helps people get started with LocalWiki projects and then iterate, iterate and iterate.
Make a small monthly donation and help keep us going strong! We are a tiny non-profit and every bit helps.
But we can't do it without your help! —
Help us make this a reality by getting involved with LocalWiki!
Know a good community for us to test the new platform out in? Let us know!
Make a small monthly donation and help keep us going strong! We are a tiny non-profit and every bit helps.
We couldn't be more excited to share the power of LocalWiki with many, many more people all over the world. It's going to take a lot of work, but with your help we know we will succeed. Let's do it!
If you're a member of the press, please see our press release here.
By Marina Kukso
LocalWiki Shout Out at Oakland City Council Meeting
2 July 2013
You were probably not aware that Oakland, CA's City Council discussed and voted on a contentious annual budget last week amidst flying allegations of poor transparency, backdoor dealings, and more. However, in the middle of the mudslinging, councilmember Libby Schaaf took a moment to give a shout out to Oakland Wiki for providing comprehensive information on the progress of budget negotiations, details on different proposals, and more. According to Schaaf, citizens sharing information about budget proceedings with each other increases transparency and citizen awareness.
Check out a clip of Schaaf's statement from the meeting below.
By Marina Kukso
LocalWiki at the National Day of Civic Hacking
20 June 2013
On June 1-2, 2013, thousands of people in communities across the country participated in the National Day of Civic Hacking, a series of events held in dozens of cities where coders and citizens collaborated to use open government data for local and national change.
Many of the participating projects included building and using LocalWikis for civic change.
In Philadelphia, a team that included Chris Alfano, Faye Anderson, and Jim Connor won the Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon with an app called "What's Going On?" which aggregates after school programs across the city. To develop a database of after school programs for their app, the team had participants add programs to Wikidelphia, Philadelphia's LocalWiki. The list of programs is now available both via the What's Going On? app and on Wikidelphia.
Hack for Change participants worked on adding and editing entries to their LocalWikis in Miami, (the MiamiWiki team added over 370 entries during the weekend!), Seattle, Kansas City, Norfolk, and Tulsa.
The Tulsa Central Library organized and hosted a TulsaWiki editathon where over 60 participants added entries and maps to TulsaWiki. Additionally, a team that included Luke Crouch, John Dungan, Blixa Morgan, and Patrick Forringer developed a mobile app called LocalTour which uses map and entry data from Tulsa Wiki to power self-guided tours of Tulsa. The team plans to expand this app to allow any city running a LocalWiki to have their own LocalTour instance.
The National Day of Civic Hacking was the starting gun, but the race continues all summer with the Great American Civic Hack, a summer-long challenge that encourages development and re-use of civic software that culminates in an awards ceremony in August. Help make open source civic software better by contributing to LocalWiki and all the other great civic projects in the Great American Civic Hack.
LocalWiki 0.5 released
25 March 2013
Happy Tuesday! Today we're releasing version 0.5 of the LocalWiki platform, and we encourage you to upgrade as soon as you're done reading this.
Cleaner, faster maps
When we first started working on the Santa Cruz LocalWiki, one thing we noticed was that the map looked really crowded and could take up to a minute to load. WIth nearly 3000 mapped pages, we needed a faster and better way to display the mapped pages. Here's what it looked like before:
and here's what it looks like now:
Maps when you search!
Now, when you search for something on a LocalWiki you'll see a little map! The map displays the locations of the pages in the search results:
A ton of smaller fixes and improvements
Like a dramatically faster-loading dashboard; hovering over links in tag lists and search results now highlights the map; and (link) much more.
If you're using the Ubuntu package (recommended for most users), then upgrading takes just these two commands:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
If you've customized your CSS you'll want to read these instructions.
This release deprecates Ubuntu 10.10 ("Maverick"), so if your system is still running that you'll need to update to a new Ubuntu release. Hop on IRC #localwiki or the mailing list for help!
If you have a developer install of LocalWiki, read about upgrading on our developer site.
By Marina Kukso
Open Data Day + LocalWiki = <3
5 March 2013
February 23rd was the International Open Data day. And all over the world, groups gathered to work together on LocalWiki projects. Here's a few of their stories:
Seattle, Washington
Seattle Wiki met in conjunction with the Code for Seattle Code for America Brigade group and hacked on the LocalWiki platform, creating a ruby gem for the localwiki api, a node module for the localwiki api, a patch method for the node module request and more. A bunch of LocalWiki editing happened, too, and folks started filling out information about local libraries.
Oakland, California
For Open Data Day, Oakland Wiki had an editathon in conjunction with the Open Oakland Code for America Brigade at the 81st Avenue Library. The theme of the editathon was "#oakmtg" which is the hashtag used by those who livetweet Oakland City Council meetings. As part of this theme, they worked on content relating to all things civic -- City Council (people and meetings), city policies, and access to resources and services. Content added included a complete list of past City Council members, free computer access in Oakland, unemployment insurance and job-seeking advice, resources at local libraries, Oakland Fire Department locations, and more.
South Bend, Indiana
Code for America fellows in South Bend, Indiana set up a South Bend LocalWiki for their event which 80 people attended. Populating the South Bend Wiki was one of several activity or project options for the day. It proved to be quite popular-- 15 users created more than 110 pages with more than 300 edits! Although there's still some debate locally about whether the project should be focused on South Bend (city) or Michiana (region), you can find the fruits of the community's labor at southbendwiki.org. The initial content focused largely around neighborhoods, biking, and local amenities like restaurants and live music venues. Since the event, a number of users have continued adding to and editing the wiki and at a community meeting last night one of the contributors told us that she's recruiting a relative who works with high school students to populate the wiki with additional information as part of a class.
Summit County, Ohio
On a Saturday morning, Summit County Councilmembers, lawyers, ecologists, data scientists, designers and developers gathered to celebrate what we love about where we live. We documented the special parts of this community in our culture's favored medium: open-source software. More specifically, they captured the best of the community's remarkable parks, its neighborhoods and destinations, and even the "Weird and Wacky" in the new Summit Wiki.
Sacramento, California
SacWiki editing was on the menu during Sacramento's International Open Data Day hackathon. Phoebe Ayers from nearby Davis Wiki gave a demo on editing the wiki, and the group settled in to collaboratively redesign and update the main page. Participants also updated and added to several articles, and as a demo, created a new article about the space they were in.
By the end of the event everyone agreed to stay in touch via a new Sac Wiki google group. Participants discussed the possibility of meetups and working with other Sacramento community groups such as local collaborative media and neighborhood associations to breathe more energy into the project.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
The Grand Raids LocalWiki group, viget.org, held a a writeathon at local Story Cafe. During the event over 330 changes were made to over 100 pages. The Viget team even put together this awesome flyer to advertise their event:
Tokyo area, Japan
Folks in the Tokyo area of Japan worked on their custom-themed LocalWiki instance. They worked to share the beautiful and unique things about the regions of Chiyoda and Fujisawa.
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Oakland Wiki hosts first in a series of Local History Editathons!
18 January 2013
On Sunday, January 13th, Team Oakland Wiki held our first-ever Local History Editathon! That day, local historians, geographers, San Francisco Bay Area Wikipedians and curious residents of all editing abilities gathered at the Oakland History Room for what became a very successful major first push toward incorporating local historical content onto Oakland Wiki.
After a merry social hour at the Brown Couch Cafe, the day's researcher-editors met up for the main event at the Oakland History Room at the main branch of the Oakland Public Library, a local treasure trove of primary materials relating to the history of the East Bay.
Sunday History Room Librarian Martha Bergmann greeted the crowd with a table filled with prime examples of the history room's collections: from neighborhood-related clippings that volunteers have collected over many decades, to historical photo albums and property maps dating to the 1850s. She had spent the previous evening thoughtfully pondering the event: Which resources would she highlight, particularly given the digital nature of the project?
After her wonderful exhibition on the library's collections, she lead us to a conference room, where Team Oakland Wiki members Marina and Vicky gave first-time editors an editing walkthrough. After returning to the History Room, the day's localwikians packed the largest table in the room with books and news clippings, laptops and hand-scribbled research notes, a portable scanner, and an occasional history-excited voice (that the author of this post had to remind to keep quiet).
One of our attendees, Gene Anderson, is the local historian/geographer behind the detailed neighborhood boundary maps that are incorporated into Oakland Wiki. He is the keeper of the OurOakland blog, an amazing repository of local history and events. A few years ago, he started an Oakland history wiki on OurOakland as a way to record in wiki format local history that doesn't meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines--but the project ended up being too monumental a task for him alone. He now edits Oakland Wiki under the name "Gene", and is a regular sight on the "recent changes" tab!
The aim of organizing local history editathons is fourfold in our eyes:
- Engage existing communities: We want to tap into communities of Oaklanders who have the potential to become dedicated editors--in this case, those who are already actively interested in creating and preserving a story to call Oakland's. We believe (and are seeing!) the potential that this community of active historians holds!
- Make the analog digital: We want to create the opportunity to bridge communicational divides between the analog and the digital and include invaluable information on the wiki that is not readily available on the Internet.
- Promote incremental editing: We want to motivate more people to edit by having a content base spanning the basic history and geography of neighborhoods, people and historic events. This is part of our strategy to include people who may not have the knowledge, time or sense of agency to write an extensive history on a topic, but who through incremental changes could add more value and depth to what's already presented.
- Enrich our perspective of today's Oakland: Having basic content on the historical trends that shape and inform today's Oakland will make an Oakland Wiki user's experience that much more enlightening.
Our Local History Editathon series takes place every Sunday at different libraries, museums and other repositories of local history. Please see the Local History Editathons page for details and sign up for our announcement listserv! More highlights of the day (including photos, content created, and ideas for future events) can be found here.
A movement spreads
28 November 2012
We've seen something incredible happen recently: all over the United States, people are getting together — in person, and in huge numbers — to kick off or just to edit their local wiki.
Toledo, Ohio
When Brian Zelip went back home to Toledo for Thanksgiving, he knew the community was missing something — a LocalWiki! So he got to work creating one. But he knew he couldn't just stop on by, boot up a new LocalWiki instance, and head back. Instead, he worked with friends and organizations in the community, and pulled folks together for a big "learn & launch" event for ToledoWiki.
Around 60 people came out for the event, and the meetup alone created about a 33% increase in users and a 50% increase in users. Check out this great newspaper article about the event. One of the people who came out for the event was Eddie:
Eddie is an eight year old contributor to ToledoWiki. He asked the first question during the event's Q&A, then set to work on his iPad creating a wiki page for his school!
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Motu Viget is the motto of the City of Grand Rapids. It means strength in activity in Latin. Viget is also the name of the local wiki project for Grand Rapids. The project was started back in 2007 and re-launched yesterday, in beta, on the LocalWiki platform. To mark the occasion, they had a big edit-a-thon and meetup yesterday evening!
The team behind the project, Friendly Code, has already started doing some great work on the LocalWiki software platform.
Oakland, California
Last week, folks behind the OaklandWiki project organized their first bikeabout!
Participants split up into three groups that rode around Fruitvale, Jingletown, Downtown, Grand Lake, and West Oakland. The ride was roughly geared around recording information about Oakland's vibrant collection of murals.
After biking, folks met back up at the West Oakland Library Branch where they created an amazing collection of pages about the city's murals — like Mural Lane, 514 28th St Murals, Children's Fairyland, and 15th and Webster Murals. (See the huge full list!)
A couple days later, some of the OaklandWiki team organized a brown bag lunch at the Oakland City Hall! About 20 city employees attended, and they had a lively discussion about ways the City could engage with the OaklandWiki project.
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
Folks in Champaign-Urbana just passed the 1,000 page milestone on CUWiki. Congrats!
...and finally, a message from TriangleWiki:
Antarctica like you've never seen it before
10 October 2012
Many months ago, we were approached about helping start up a LocalWiki project in Antarctica.
The project, named Open Antarctica, would aim to initially document a region of roughly 2 miles surrounding the Palmer Station United States base on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Our first question was: wait, there's Internet in Antarctica? And yes, there is Internet access on the Antarctic bases — access that's provided over an awesome looking, though incredibly slow, satellite uplink. So slow, in fact, that we briefly thought about sending our contact down to Antarctica with a plug-in computer running a little LocalWiki server — but ultimately decided it was too much work for little gain.
The next thing we started thinking about was mapping. Maps are a core feature of LocalWiki, so having a good map of the area, particularly the area near the research station, was really important. And ideally we'd have some aerial imagery and not just a vector map. "Let's take a look at some maps of the area!" we thought.
Given that we use OpenStreetMap data in our default base layer, let's check out what our OpenStreetMap-based tiles look like around the island containing the research station:
As you can see, the OpenStreetMap map doesn't really show any of the detail here — it's missing the whole peninsula the station is on! The story's the same with most freely-licensed satellite imagery:
Some commercial satellite imagery, like Google's, is better, but it's still not at the level of detail we wanted — and it's not freely licensed. There's got to be some good aerial imagery of this region out there, right? Maybe if I we found some good imagery we could stitch it together into a map?
Then we found this amazing NASA Photo of the Day:
OH MY GOD! That's just incredible detail and quality! Hope!
Making the map
Searching through the USGS Earth Explorer didn't turn up anything near the quality of this NASA photo of the day image. Hunting around different NASA websites didn't seem to give many clues, either. The best clue was the photo caption from the Photo of the Day, which read:
[...] greeting to scientists and flight crew aboard NASA's DC-8 flying science laboratory as it flew over the station during Operation Ice Bridge.
After even more digging around, I stumbled upon the FTP site where NASA was hosting Operation Ice Bridge images. Presumably, the image from the NASA Photo of the Day would be in there — and hopefully a bunch of great shots of the surrounding area. The only problem was that the FTP site had many, many directories, each with thousands of files:
I experimented with downloading a few random images and plotting them in QGIS, but it quickly became clear that downloading all of the hundreds of thousands of images and plotting them using this way just wasn't going to work — there were too many images, we didn't have the many, many terabytes of required space, and the GeoTIFFs quickly overloaded QGIS. Alex Mandel recommended trying to find a pattern in the filenames — but after working on the problem for a bit we didn't seem to get anywhere.
So we ended up writing a little FTP client to grab just the few Kb of each file, which ended up being enough to get the location metadata out of the GeoTIFFs. With that, we could easily import the location of every image:
...and then start plotting them on a map, revealing airplane's flight path:
Getting there... after plotting a few hundred thousand other data points:
Sweet! It looks like there's quite a few images around the station! So there's some hope we can piece together a great aerial map of the region.
Overview / vector map
So, there's hope we'll pull off an aerial map of the region. But it's going to be pretty spotty — the NASA Ice Bridge project is set up to just snap photos of the coastlines, basically. We'll have to lay the aerial imagery on top of something. And because the project may later want to cover other regions in Antarctica, we'd like to have a good base map of the whole continent.
But the problem is that standard maps are designed to make most of earth look right when flattened out, always at the expense of Antarctica. Which usually makes a lot of sense.
Paths around the South Pole would look really wonky with this standard projection. Fortunately, there's a better projection for Antartica. After much fiddling with Geoserver, we figured out how to get it to correctly reproject vector data in this esoteric projection.
So, we can reproject vector data into this fancy Antarctic projection, but where can we get decent vector data of Antarctica? As explained earlier, the OpenStreetMap data isn't very detailed. Thankfully, the fantastic Antarctica Digital Database comes to the rescue! They have highly-detailed coastline data of the entire continent that's freely usable for non-commercial purposes.
Stitching together aerial imagery
So, we've got all these images from the region around the station, but how do we stitch them together into a map we can serve and suck into OpenLayers?
Figuring out how to serve individual GeoTIFF files was pretty easy. The problem was figuring out how to stitch all of these images together. We tried out several of the Geoserver-specific approaches to image stitching, but none of them worked. The Image Pyramid plugin seemed to crash when using this Antarctic projection — and the same sort of crash happened when trying to import a VRT file of all the GeoTIFFs and when using the Mosaic feature of Geoserver.
Maybe we can just stitch the GeoTIFFs together ourselves, somehow? First, we tried using gdalwarp to do the stitching:
...which worked, but there are weird black lines in the image, what are those? Turns out the images, while TIFFs, were compressed internally using JPEG compression and we need to run the nearblack utility on them before stitching.
So, we threw together a script to clean up the images and continually stitch them together using gdalwarp. All done? Not so fast. The images, when uncompressed, balloon to around 2GB or so each — EC2 to the rescue! We spun up a server with an insane amount of disk and ran the stitch script for several days, taking a look at the output and tweaking it throughout.
This left us with one stitched-together, compressed GeoTIFF that weighs in at slightly less than 2GB. After building overviews for various zoom levels into the GeoTIFF, it was relatively easy to load it into GeoServer as a raster storage source and then combine it with the vector data layer. The aerial and vector layers didn't quite line up, but after fiddling a bit with the projection we got them be as aligned as could be expected.
The result
After much tweaking and dealing with strange errors — almost all of which related to map projection issues — we finally put together a beautiful map of Antarctica in a glorious stereographic projection with stunning aerial imagery of the region laid on top of it:
Some beautiful pages
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In 2004 we started the Davis Wiki, an experimental project to collect and share interesting information about the town of Davis, California, editable by anyone, that soon became the world's largest and most vibrant community wiki.
Today the residents of Davis use it for everything from learning about local news and local history to helping return lost pets to their owners — and it's become the largest, most used media source in the city. In a week, nearly half of residents use the Davis Wiki; in a month, nearly everyone uses it. And 1 in 7 residents contribute material to the Davis Wiki.
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A meeting of over 20 stock assessment scientists from the Asia–Pacific region last week heard that the scientific assessment of tunas in the western and central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) continues to be hampered by some fishing states not making data available to scientists. Dr Shelton Harley, head of the Stock Assessment and Modelling team within the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Oceanic Fisheries Programme noted that 'the most frustrating aspect is that the data have been collected and are just sitting on computers in countries and not contributing to the efforts to determine the health and safe harvest levels for the largest tuna resource in the world.'
Friday 11 April 2014, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) –
'This is what we need for other localities in Fiji and we are fully supportive and appreciative of SPC's initiative in such activities.'
11 April 2014, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Suva, Fiji –
Work begins next week on a series of underwater surveys to produce updated navigational charts for Vanuatu. Like many Pacific Island countries, Vanuatu has a vast maritime area. Modern charts will result in safer navigation for both cargo shipping and cruise ships, producing economic and social benefits for Vanuatu.
Wednesday 9 April 2014, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) headquarters, Noumea, New Caledonia
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), working in partnership with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, recently inked a deal to further assist climate change adaptation in Solomon Islands.
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Want better transit and less congestion in the GTA? Then be prepared to pay.
That was one of the key messages GO Transit president Gary McNeil tried to hammer home during a roundtable discussion at the Newmarket Community Centre yesterday. About 50 people attended the Metrolinx-sponsored meeting to share their thoughts on the various projects included in the Big Move regional transportation plan and also express their views on the various proposals to pay for them.
"No one wants to pay, I'm realistic about that, but we will have to pay if we want to improve our system," Mr. McNeil told the audience. "That's the sad reality."
During his opening remarks, he pointed to cities such as New York, London and Paris, among others, that employ various taxes, tolls and levies to fund their transportation systems on top of traditional fares. Transportation in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area is predominantly funded through a combination of fares and municipal property taxes, he explained.
The initial wave of projects in the Big Move plan cost a combined $16 billion and included funding for the Viva rapidways, Spadina Subway expansion into Vaughan and various GO Transit service improvements. The second wave is anticipated to cost $34 billion and includes money for the Yonge Subway extension into Richmond Hill, all-day, two-way GO train service and increased funding for roads, regional highways and walking and cycling infrastructure.
"The Big Move is not just about transit; it's about transportation," Mr. McNeil said. "We need to improve our transit, yes, but we also need to improve our roads because both cars and buses use them."
While most of the projects included in the initial phase of the Big Move were largely funded by provincial dollars, that won't likely be possible for round two, Mr. McNeil said, noting the province is nearing its debt ceiling.
As such, Metrolinx will need to get creative and explore congestion charges, new corporate taxes, parking fees, road tolls and other revenue generators, just as the rest of the world has done, to pay for the next wave of projects, he said.
Doing nothing isn't an option, Mr. McNeil said, as the average commute time in the GTAH stands at 82 minutes and will only get worse with time. It's already among the worst in North America, he continued.
"If we don't do something about this, the average commute will be 109 minutes," Mr. McNeil said. "That's like a movie, a bad movie, where you're stuck in your car and you can't get anywhere."
It's estimated congestion costs the economy about $6 billion per year in lost time and productivity, according to figures presented by Metrolinx. That number is projected to double in 30 years unless something is done today.


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US Pescara v Torino: Preview
Pescara defender Antonio Balzano feels tomorrow's Serie A meeting with Torino could be decisive in the promoted side's battle against the drop.
Head coach Cristiano Bergodi has given the Delfini a fighting chance of booking a second season in the top flight with a handful of creditable victories since he replaced Giovanni Stroppa.
A disappointing 2-0 defeat at Inter Milan left Pescara looking over their shoulder once again, but Balzano believes the next three games against fellow bottom-half sides Torino, Sampdoria and Bologna are winnable.
Speaking before Il Toro arrived on the east coast, he told the Corriere dello Sport: ``It's a huge game. This will be a decisive month and we have to pick up as many points as possible.
``It's also essential that we don't lose. The season still has a long way to go but the next few games could decide a lot.
``I don't know what happened against Inter, we are working hard so it doesn't happen again. It was a mess of a match, nothing more, and we will make mistakes.
``We can't repeat that performance, though, and it served as an important lesson.
``Torino play good football and they're crafty, a bit like Fiorentina. We want to move closer to them in the table.
``I've said it before but I'll say it again, the important thing is being a united team.''
Defender Uros Cosic is Pescara's only real injury concern, while Torino expect to be without injured trio Abour Diop, Mario Santana and Angelo Ogbonna at the Stadio Adriatico.
The latter has revealed he is making good progress in his recovery from a hernia operation but ex-Manchester City striker Rolando Bianchi serves a one-match ban.
Torino president Urbano Cairo cooled speculation the club are chasing Sampdoria midfielder Enzo Maresca.
``That's come from a source that we don't control and I don't know how it got out, he said. ''Maresca has played for Malaga and Sampdoria so I don't think it's possible.``
Torino only finished second to Pescara in Serie B on goal difference last season, with the two sides leading the division with 83 points apiece.
The points from a 2-2 draw were shared the last time this fixture took place in the top flight back in September 1992.