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This week I studied more about guns than I ever thought would be necessary.
What most people on all sides of the gun debate seem to agree on is that we need to change our culture of violence.
Waiting until the population exhibits insurmountable mental illness and then limiting access to guns is just not enough to accomplish that change.
It is self-evident that the young men who committed the recent assaults were mentally ill. That they resort to extreme violence and even kill themselves is the strongest evidence possible that they are disconnected from life.
Logically we should all be focused much more seriously on what it takes for young people to feel connected to the world and to life itself. We need to improve baseline mental health for everyone.
Growing up I used wild places for mental health maintenance. During tough times when I felt bullied, humiliated, isolated, misunderstood or hopeless, I always found myself outside.
I could stalk off in anger, or wander off in confusion, and in time sort myself out or forget what set me off. Those times built my inner strength and in some cases increased my practical knowledge of the outdoors.
My baseline mental health came from awe before a great sunrise and secret sitting spots where I could watch wild scenes unfold, not television, video games or medication. It never occurred to me to harm myself or anyone who had hurt me.
Children need to know why going outdoors is not just about giving up screen time — it's a lifeline to well-being and it is free. Whether through appreciating a bird in flight, taking a fishing trip or trekking in the wilderness. Even opening a window may be enough on some days.
How could we neglect to communicate this to our children and leave so many of them without the most basic tool to cope with stress?


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NVSA, the Northeast Victorian Studies Association, grew out of an interdisciplinary Five-College Victorian Studies Seminar, a group of scholars from Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and the Amherst Campus of the University of Massachusetts. The organization was formalized in 1975, its primary task being the sponsorship of a yearly conference in the Northeast US. The format of the annual conferences has remained a three-day conference, Friday afternoon through Sunday morning. Friday night always includes a reception and Saturday night a banquet and entertainment. The Saturday business lunch has over the years become a highlight with a lively debate over choosing the next year's conference topic.
The family of Sonya Rudikoff established a NVSA prize in 1999 for the best first book of the year in memory of Sonya, a long-time member of the organization.
NVSA's History and a list of the officers.
To join the Northeast Victorian Studies Association, send $15 (students: $10) to
Joan Dagle
NVSA Secretary-Treasurer
Arts & Sciences
600 Mt. Pleasant Ave
Rhode Island College
Providence, RI 02908

subset: commoncrawl


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Hello Internet. The Final Four is over, the NBA and NHL playoffs aren't here quite yet, and baseball has totally been fun for an entire week but I'd be okay with not paying attention to it again until August. Alarmingly, it's now the point of the year where I can no longer easily make fun of college towns and their food, so we'll have to look elsewhere for merriment. Right now, it's Masters time again, and that means I get to tackle Georgia. I will admit, I've watched maybe four rounds of golf in my life, mostly when the US Open was in Pittsburgh, but I've seen enough highlights on SportsCenter to confidently talk about it. Here is what happens at The Masters:
1. Tiger Woods hits a ball.
2. A camera moves at roughly 80 miles an hour to track a tiny speck. It resembles a camcorder UFO video.
3. The ball lands very far away. There is polite clapping.
4. Tiger Woods is angry and yells and/or throws a very expensive metal stick.
5. Other people who are not Tiger Woods also do this in the periphery. One guy wears orange pants?
6. Naptime.
7. Whoever wins is initiated into some sort of secret Cult of the Verdant Robe.
In any case, today we'll be celebrating this achievement on the links by making our own homemade linked sausages!
STEP 1) I've made a sausage sandwich before, but we used store-bought sausages. We've grown a lot since then, so it's time to take off the training wheels and make our own. Of course, in any sausage, the main ingredients are various unmentionable animal parts! Let's start with some beef.
Why grind up the meat when it can come processed, packaged (in dough pockets) and sauced! Dump in half a can of ravioli into a bowl.
STEP 2) Sausages tend to have more than one animal inside of them. We'll be using chicken next.
Open up a can of racist chicken spread. I'll be honest, it's going to be a bit noxious. The can touts how amazing it would be in so many different meals and sandwiches, but unless you're hiding it as filler in a soufflé or breakfast cereal, I'm not sure any human would survive eating this. After spooning some out, give the rest to your cat.
STEP 3) Next up is pork! I was fresh out of pork chops, or bacon, or spam, but I still had these:
This will add some delicious meatcrunch to your sausage! (It turns out that pork rinds really ARE used in the making of sausages, which is actually a bit more unsettling to me than any other part of this meal.) Now it's time for the blender!
STEP 4) Take everything you have so far and slowly grind it up in the blender. make sure to get the pork rinds fully crushed so they fill the casings easier later.
STEP 5) I said before that I was going to tackle Georgia, and so we're going to add in some special southern flavors to our sausage so you'll feel right at home at Augusta.
Do you know how hard it is to find peaches in HEAVY syrup these days? It's all "light! natural! organic!" If I wanted organic, I'd buy a real peach. When I want diabetes-inducing orange semicircles, I buy a can of peaches in glucotic sludge. Of course, with this, we'll add a giant spoonful of chunky peanut butter, the smell of which will strangely overpower the entire meatpaste.
STEP 6) Add these into the mixture and blend vociferously.
STEP 7) On to the casing. I will admit, when I was coming up with this idea, I couldn't find the right casing to use that would stand up to the horrors/culinary delicacy I have created. Immediately, Spillygirl suggested the perfect answer. She's a keeper, folks.
STEP 8) Unwrap a Fruit rollup on the countertop. Leave the plastic on it for now, it'll make it easier to seal up the sausage once you have it filled. Take a measuring cup, and pull out a glob of paste.
STEP 9) Take this cup and put it into a small sandwich bag. Curl the bag up so everything is in one corner, and cut off the corner. What we have is a simplified pastecannon, which I was unable to use because I didn't have a suitable tube roll to use as the cylinder. In any case this will be used to fill the fruit roll-up casing.
STEP 10) Squeeze the meat into the rastafarian fruit rollup. If you get a peach or unbroken pork rind in your way, you may have to massage the bag to get more filling out. Afterwards, roll it lengthwise, and crimp the tips with your fingers.
PRESTO! You just made a sausage! Repeat with the rest of the casings until you have 10 delicious tubes of ground livestock and Georgia. We're not quite done, we'll want to serve these sausages in something, and if you're going to be eating on the go at the Masters, you'll most likely want this as a sandwich.
STEP 11) We need a bread that Southerners will appreciate more than any other:
Ah yes, glazed donuts. And look, there's already a place for the sausage inside! Cut it in half lengthwise and you have two buns already.
STEP 12) The only thing left is to top it with your favorite propellant sauces: I chose spray cheese and icing, with a dab of Internet Paste and a Tangball to finish the dish:
With that, your pregame meal is complete. Pass these out for friends, or trade them in the parking lots for that elusive Masters badge you couldn't get a hold of. Enjoy!
More Masters from SB Nation:
• Does Tiger need a green jacket to be "back"?
• Cute kid gifs, holes-in-one highlight Par 3 Contest
• Arnold Palmer is still cooler than you
• Masters picks and predictions
• How all 94 players earned entry into the most exclusive major in golf


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We are pleased to announce a contest for students in the pioneering cs101 class!
The goal of this contest is to build on the ideas in the CS101 class in a creative way. The contest is open to all students enrolled in Udacity's CS101 Course. You can do anything you want, so long as it is legal and tasteful (please see the full contest rules for details).
To enter the contest, post an answer here containing a first line, Submission, followed by:
All the material you submit for the contest must be released under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA license. Contest submissions must be posted by 23:59 UTC on Friday 20 April 2012 to be eligible for the contest.
Note added 9 April: Gabriel Weinberg, creator or DuckDuckGo will be one of the judges for the contest!
Note added 11 May: The winners are now announced! Congratulations to everyone who participated in the contest.
I'm very excited to see what our talented students create!
(30 Mar '12, 18:00)
For me it would be a CalTrain ticket if I win since I'm up in Berkeley LOL.
Can't wait for the details of the contest.
(30 Mar '12, 18:25)
@malckwan I think all the details are now there in the official contest rules.
(30 Mar '12, 19:08)
I'm going to crawl the Internet, print it out and publish a book of 500,000 volumes! Not sure if it's going to be finished by April 20, though... :(
(30 Mar '12, 19:09)
Cool. Will team entries be judged by the same standards as individual entries? (e.g. a two person team isn't expected to produce something twice as good as a solo entrant)
(30 Mar '12, 19:16)
According to the rules, there is a maximum of one submission per entrant (or per group). Does this mean I can join several groups or only one? And: can I submit something as an individual and still be part of a group as well? This is not very clear to me.
(30 Mar '12, 19:16)
graemeblake: We're happy to have team entries, and will judge all entries based on their own merits, regardless of whether they were done by teams or individuals.
(30 Mar '12, 19:27)
Tom: you can join more than one group and be part of multiple submissions.
(30 Mar '12, 19:34)
I live in Palo Alto, so I would win what? Lunch? :-)
(30 Mar '12, 19:53)
If you live in Palo Alto why are you taking this class ;)
(30 Mar '12, 21:24)
Thanks for the long awaited announcement!
(30 Mar '12, 21:49)
In the full contest rules ("How to Enter: a") it says to "Create a program that builds on the web search engine from CS101". Does this mean our project has to have some kind of search functionality or incorporate that code?
(30 Mar '12, 23:07)
(30 Mar '12, 23:14)
When you say "build on the ideas of" do you mean that the submissions must be related with the search engine code? Like an extension?
(30 Mar '12, 23:15)
Can we use the code of the search engine that we built in during the course? The code is Udacity's idea and I was wondering if we could use it. Thanks!
(31 Mar '12, 04:48)
@JuandelaJohn: Yes, you can; all the code is creative commons.
(31 Mar '12, 05:35)
@jesyspa What about code shared in the forums? Would it also be creative commoms? I am not sure if we have an agreement on that.
(31 Mar '12, 05:45)
(31 Mar '12, 16:11)
@UdacityDave : This page is becoming extreemly long, so by the time everyone has posted there submission it would become impossibe(Atleast for most of the contestents to checkout there compatation :D).
(01 Apr '12, 08:50)
@hittaruki: I would encourage everyone to mark their submissions clearly by putting Submission in the top line, but we do want to keep all the submissions as answers in this forum.
(01 Apr '12, 11:20)
@hittaruki You could make a post with a link to your submission in this thread, where your team and discuss things, or you could just give them the direct link to the answer in this thread. To get that link, click on the 'link' button and then cut and paste the link in the box you get from the page at that link.
(01 Apr '12, 11:51)
Should i post my github repo before 20th April? as i am over with my initial commit, but the thing that refrains me to do that is the fear of someone stealing my idea or something, it may sound childish but that's what i feel. So what should i do?
(02 Apr '12, 12:47)
As long as you post it the repo with a link on this post before the due date, your project will be considered.
(02 Apr '12, 12:52)
@PeterUdacity Can you answer http://www.udacity-forums.com/cs101/questions/52159/contest-announcement-and-submissions?page=2&focusedAnswerId=52322#52322 as well. Thanks
(02 Apr '12, 13:58)
@kilaws: There is an other Palo Alto in Texas. You could go there, in case you have won the contest :-)
(03 Apr '12, 05:56)
If I win a round trip to Palo Alto, does it matter which leg of the trip I take first? And can my "home" be in, say, Stockholm? :-)
(04 Apr '12, 20:13)
@shipik, your clever solution reminds me of the Burma Shave offer: Free Free / A Trip / to Mars / for 900 / Empty Jars. When Arliss "Frenchie" French collected 900 jars, the company bought him off with a trip to Moers, Germany -- on the condition that he would wear a space suit for the trip, to which he agreed.
(05 Apr '12, 00:51)
Oh and are third-party APIs allowed?
(08 Apr '12, 10:07)
@UdacityDave Could you make my submission an "accepted answer" as the other submissions? Just to give me peace of mind.
(10 Apr '12, 12:10)
Submissions waiting for approval:
Hoping that the page number won't change before you can see that comment.
(12 Apr '12, 23:05)
@UdacityDave : Does my entry have to be restricted to some extension of the search engine? I have other creative ideas, can I submit those as legal entries into this competition?
(13 Apr '12, 04:30)
April 21st here so I think it's closed.
(21 Apr '12, 00:32)
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Youdacity VideoSearch & Extended Media Linking
Project Description (v1.3)
PLEASE NOTE: If you try out the web-app, all SEARCH TERMS must be entered in LOWERCASE!!
... or even several media links at once
Create your own summary links, it's fun :D
I read on the forum that some students were void of ideas while others had problems getting started from a technical point of view, e.g. not knowing how to set up and deploy a web application. The application that I built consists of very few lines of documented Python code and can easily be deployed on the Google Application Engine free of charge.
I have left ample room for improvements / additions.
There are still eight days left to place a submission which is one day more than god had to create the universe. So give it a shot. Maybe try to add multi-term or compound term search, scrolling subtitles, or place additional fragments onto the webpage that display search hits in forum content or lecture slides.
Good luck to everyone
Alexander Co...
This is really cool!
(13 Apr '12, 11:49)
Yeah, this one is really cool. Super useful and very nice presentation of search results.
(13 Apr '12, 12:51)
Oh wow, that's pretty awesome!
(13 Apr '12, 14:48)
A very sleek and useful tool. The only trouble I see is that the maximum number of hits displayed seems to be four. This is a design decision ?
(13 Apr '12, 17:28)
I like so much. This is great!
(13 Apr '12, 17:54)
Please could you add previous/next buttons under the video so that it's easier to continue watching the next video in the series from the one selected? (or a link the the relevant section of the course content on Udacity to continue watching from there...)
(15 Apr '12, 08:20)
Thank you all so so much for your votes and your nice feedback.
@scuttlebug: Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I hope to be able to add a "previous" button and a link to the original Udacity video content prior to the deadline.
Thank you all for your feedback and suggestions! Sascha
(16 Apr '12, 15:00)
Awesome! Good job!
(17 Apr '12, 00:16)
Regarding case issue, you can normalize the input text by converting it to lowercase. This way it will be robust to all input types
(01 May '12, 01:55)
Great idea! Congratulations!
(11 May '12, 21:14)
Honorable Mention
So, instead of doing a couple of exam questions in my learning time tonite I decided to make a contest entry.
Background -
Among my many hobbies is amateur radio. I have been licensed for >20 years but have drifted in and out of this pursuit very much. Last fall I started drifting in again. Not having any equipment and having moved into a new home since my last drift into it, one of the things I needed to procure and install was an antenna of some sort. Being that my home is in a bit of a restricted community (and any of you who are ham's will understand what I'm talking about) I had to come up with a fairly unobtrusive antenna. And I didn't want to spend a whole lot of cash on it either. So after much research and deliberation I went with a telescoping fiberglass vertical (again for those in the know, it's an S9v). Basically, this is a somewhat limber 31 foot tall tapered fiberglass tube with a wire in it. It works pretty well with my radio and tuner, I've only had a little time on it (class here is taking up all hobby time at the moment) but I have had good contacts to California and Argentina from my home here in Illinois on 10 meters. Anyhow, this background finally brings me to the point. See, this antenna being not very expensive, fairly invisible behind my house and all... it doesn't handle higher winds all that well. They say it's good up to about 40mph winds but I don't want to test it that far, after that it'll break and I'll have repairs and parts to order. Being that it's designed as a portable antenna, it's very easy to put up and take down and that's what I do. Put it up when I know the wind is going to be ok and take it down if I know the wind is going to be too much for it. Initially I had looked around the web for some service that would just send an automated email with a 12 hr wind forecast. I didn't find much that was suitable for my needs. Weather Channel has emailing but only current weather that I could find. I did find a service that had wind forecast for the next couple of days but it's mingled in with a bunch of other stuff that I didn't really need, it was a HTML email and all clogged with ads, etc. I did also know about NOAA's NDFD service (National Digital Forecast Database) where they supply various forecast info in XML format real nice. I had looked at that a bit and made a half-hearted attempt at trying to make a Win Phone 7 app to grab it but that was quite over my head.
Until... this class and the superb coverage of pulling of web pages, parsing out text and the various goings on with Python. Thus, I submit -
The Wind Gust Forecast Emailer (WGFE)
When the contest was announced I had thought about this. But at the time I was in the thick of the Unit 6 HW which wasn't going all that well for me (turns out it went fine, got 100%). Today at work the thought came up again and certain things came together in my head. A bit of guessing, a lot of googling, much testing and about 3 hrs later I have my Windows 7 Task Scheduler running a python script that emails me nothing but the next 12 hrs maximum wind gust speed forecast in mph.
Hmm, how much to discuss here and how much to leave for the reader?
The NOAA NDFD has a facility whereby you can enter some parameters in a webform, lots of parameters, click submit and receive an XML document giving what you requested. I ran that for my zip code and timeframe and requested only the Wind Gust forecast for 12 hrs. That provided me a basic URL which I would only need to change the dates on to get future days forecasts. It's a fairly huge URL and to me (being more of a SQL person) basically seems like it's passing a bunch of parameters to the server where it pulls and formats the output for you based on your parameters.
I knew I had to import urllib, we've used that before with the crawling. I basically recycled get_page to pull back the XML document. One wrinkle was filling in the appropriate dates into the url. Googling led me to the datetime library and a bit of work on that plus some string concatenation made it so I could dynamically insert a date into the URL that I'll pass to get_page.
Now to pull out the wind gust figures, for 12 hrs there are 5 one every three hours (i.e., 12, 3, 6, 9, 12), I was able to commandeer get_all_links and get_next_target to extract the 5 values into a list. Then I had to write a new procedure to pick out the maximum number from that list. Rather than doing it the split the list and sort way I thought it was easier to just set a variable to 0 then loop thru the list to see if the next list value is bigger than the variable's current value and if so just reassign and then try the next one etc. And then once the maximum number is established, quickly convert it from knots to MPH, round it up and make it a string for later use.
What was left was the emailing part. More googling led me very easily to smtplib and a basic template that I modified to suit my situation.
I don't really know what's required for the submission, but I'll make a basic walkthru of the code for anyone who is interested -
First the libraries are imported - urllib, datetime, smtplib, string (this one was with the example for smtplib so I kept it. I'm a noob so they are on separate lines, I'm sure there is a way to put them all on one.
Next, the five procedures are entered, more on them later.
After that some variables are set -
Then the action, starting from the bottom -
get_speeds goes thru the document using get_next_speed (which is really just get_next_target) and makes the list of forecasts.
That result goes back to find_max and receives the maximum value.
And finally that maximum value and the date are passed to send_mail where magic happens and my ISP is forced into SMTP'ing the info to me.
The automating of this is done in Windows Task Scheduler, I'm familiar with this from work where I have in the past scheduled various batch files to do things. Making it run python stuff was a little bit of a struggle but some searching and testing ended in a working system.
Python code is here. Hope I've submitted this correctly.
I'm sure that this is somewhat subpar compared to what other individuals and teams are going to submit and I'm sure it can be improved a whole lot which I'll probably work on from time to time going forward. It's been super fun developing this and actually seeing test emails in my box. Amazing really.
In closing I want to thank Dr. Evans, Dr Thrun, Mr. Chapman, all of their support staff and all of you Udacians for providing this immensely important opportunity and wonderful community to the world. It's a very interesting time we live in.
Participants making this submittal - rrburton
I made a bit of an update. To better handle the date and time variables I created procedure set_vars which takes the current datetime and produces the appropriate start and end strings to insert into the url and modified the url formula to suit. I also modified the body text for the email (in send_mail) to read a bit better and use the more appropriate start string. I found that all of the imports could be placed on a single line separated by commas. Lastly, I added a few comments, including the CC, etc etc at the top.
love this submission
(04 Apr '12, 10:02)
I just wanted to say I think this is a realllllllly cool submission! Great job, @rrburton! You've actually helped me decide on what I'm going to do...well, not exactly yet, but I AM going to do something that will help me in my day to day life. There is an excellent blog post from one of the github Python open source projects Dave & Peter linked to from the notes. The guy talks about working on things that are useful to YOU. I think you have done precisely that.
(04 Apr '12, 11:48)
Great idea! I was wondering if there were any other hams in the class but I never got around to asking. I'm in IL too, AB9PR, good on qrz.com. I also use a ground-mounted vertical (the Zero-Five) with pretty good results. Haven't been in the shack in a while, especially with the demands of this course. Maybe we can try for a QSO some time. Good luck, OM. 73. -- Derick
(10 Apr '12, 22:21)
Thanks for the reply Derick - super to see another ham here!. FYI I'm N9JVA and I'm good on qrz also (though I don't have anything there). Being only a Tech(+), I only really have 10m on HF so I try for weekend afternoons if it's not too windy. (upgrading is another thing I need to squeeze in somewhere). Not sure if we could make that short of a hop but it would be fun to try. Good luck and 73s
(10 Apr '12, 22:50)
Frivolo.us (search engine)
It is a search engine that grants fundamental rights to algorithms, provides advanced search capabilities, and it intelligently supports a person's supernatural predisposition.
Frivolous is a replacement for traditional search engines. Search engines today discriminate in favor of "better" algorithms and shun others by using pejoratives like exponential time, impractical, and vulnerable.
Search like you used to.
On the surface, frivolous looks hauntingly similar to other search engines. It features a list of links, the title of the page, snippets of text below the link, spell checking, and links are sorted based on the PageRank™ algorithm.
Note: Spell checking works by looking at the words in the index instead of a dictionary of words. So any misspellings in the index will make a wrong recommendation.
Relive the old days.
Ever wonder how cool it would be to search the web back in 1998 when search was at its infancy? Well, now you can. Using our platform for recruiting unused and abandoned algorithms, we have successfully implemented 1998 technology to work today. We introduce the altavista hashtag. Feel the thrill of exploiting vulnerable algorithms yesterday, today!
Note: This counts the number of times the words in the query appear in a webpage as described in the AltaVista lecture.
Instant answers.
Our search engine is clever enough to provide answers to general queries.
Note: I use DuckDuckGo's API to answer general queries.
Equations abound.
Most search engines today can understand mathematics. To equalize the playing field, our research team has developed the nerd hashtag for all your symbolic manipulation needs.
Note: I used the eval function so that SymPy could deal with the equations in the query.
Search evolved. Literally.
Our search algorithm has the ability to transform a random text string and it evolves by randomly changing characters in the string but selecting the fittest string from the children by using the edit distance algorithm. This is triggered by the weasel hashtag.
Note: I got this idea from Richard Dawkins' "Growing Up in the Universe" series.
Palindrome search. A new kind of search.
Have you ever wanted to search for a page with the most palindromes? Palindrome search is for all palindrome lovers. Heck, It even checks your query for any palindromes. Try that with your search engine.
TED Talks built-in. Amazing.
Are you bored? Do you want to search the latest and greatest ideas that could change our world for the better? Then TED is the place to go. By including TED to our search engine, you now have the chance to manipulate the results to your liking. You're welcome.
Note: The program visits http://feeds.feedburner.com/tedtalks_video and extracts all the links, descriptions, and titles using BeautifulSoup.
But that is just the beginning. What if we want the altavista hashtag with the ted hashtag? Easy.
Bam! The TED hashtag is pretty special because it temporarily changes the index used by the other hashtags.
Instant crowdsourced links.
Wikipedia has a lot of external links which act as references to the article. The thing is, they usually link to relevant sites at least for general searches. Frivolous can now fetch these links to augment search results.
Note: Printing the results can take time because it still has to download the webpage and retrieve the title of the page. It uses Wikipedia's API.
We understand your supernatural predispositions.
Millions of people are born unlucky. They wake up in the morning, spill orange juice on their suit, trip on a curb, and they miss the bus to school. But once they try searching on search engines today, they are automatically given the best results. Why are search engines trying to change one's destiny? If you are destined to be unlucky then it is your right to stay unlucky! How dare they fiddle with your life. Starting today, we are proudly releasing the unlucky hashtag. You're lucky you're unlucky.
The unlucky hashtag too is special like the ted hashtag which means it can be combined with other hashtags. Here's a combination of unlucky and altavista hashtags:
or unlucky, ted, and palindrome hashtags:
Make your search engine solve hard things.
Have you always wanted to impress your crossword puzzle buddies? Do you want to know what it feels like to be a crossword puzzle rock star? Well, you're in luck because we have just implemented the crossword hashtag!.
Note: Inspired from Wolfram|Alpha's crossword puzzle solver. Like the spelling suggestion, it also highly depends on the indexed words.
We partner with other search companies.
We're pleased to announce that as of April 15, 2012, we've formed our first search partnership. Search is a tough problem to solve and we think that the best way to tackle search giants is for search start-ups to collaborate. Now introducing the all-new and improved searchwithpeter.info hashtag which combines the website's best search results with ours. There has never been a better time to search the web.
Note: The program doesn't actually access searchwithpeter.info. It goes directly to udacity-forums.com.
Open source.
The source code can be found at GitHub.
Team members:
jtalon - talon.jag at gmail dot com
All images, text (including the spaces between them), and code are licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA license.
Jag Talon
ding ding ding! We have a winner!
(13 Apr '12, 13:36)
impressive! how much coding did you know before CS101???
(17 Apr '12, 13:04)
Nice, it has good ideas. And you write in an entertaining way as well. Thanks.
(20 Apr '12, 18:06)
Submission: DaveDaveFind
Link: http://davedavefind.appspot.com
I've been teaching myself Python for a few months, but Udacity's CS101 course was my first formal introduction to computer science concepts. Before this course, I was okay at hacking things together on my own, but Udacity has helped me clean up my code, think beyond Python to the fundamentals of computing, and understand how to break big problems into little parts. At the end of class, I was a little disappointed that we never implemented our web crawler. For my project, I wanted to use as much of our original search code as possible to build a web application that searches the Udacity site, forums, and course materials. The result is DaveDaveFind.
As Peter once pointed out, it's important for any new search engine to have a good name. Unfortunately, "searchwithpeter.info" was already taken by a much more useful site, so I decided to call my site DaveDaveFind. DaveDaveFind searches the full-text of the Udacity website, CS101 forums, course documents, and lecture transcripts. It supports multi-word lookup, but sometimes works better for single word searches.
If DaveDaveFind finds your search query inside a video transcript, it will try to link inside the video to the moment the query occurs. If your search query is a common Python-related term, it will try to look up information in the Python documentation. Try searching for the name of a built-in function or standard library module, like
The search box also accepts commands inspired by bang syntax. Try typing
I learned to use the Bottle web framework and Google App Engine in order to build this project. I also used the DuckDuckGo API, BeautifulSoup, and the Robot Exclusion Rules Parser. The web app uses styles from Twitter Bootstrap. I learned to use all these free tools by reading their documentation (plus a lot of trial and error). Update: It looks like CS253 is going to teach Google App Engine, if you're not already enrolled.
I also kept a blog with lots of notes on this project. I hope other Udacity students will use it as a resource, realize that the code we wrote in class isn't too far from a working application, and avoid a lot of the dumb mistakes I made.
All the code is available in this GitHub repository. My Udacity ID is firstname.lastname@example.com, and my forum ID is ecmendenhall.
E.C. Mendenhall
great entry :) very useful
(17 Apr '12, 14:03)
That sounds like a tough project! I think your entry is pretty useful, too. And it looks good—Bootstrap is a great tool.
(19 Apr '12, 17:26)
the webapp looks BEAUTIFUL!!!!
(21 Apr '12, 18:32)
You're not doing anything wrong! I've heard this from a couple other users, but I haven't been able to replicate it yet. It's frustrating. What OS are you using?
(21 Apr '12, 19:17)
What I did
This is what I did: ZhuFangZhi
A search engine for housing rental!
(Currently, it supports most cities in China.)
Try it
Copy any row of the following (or choose an arbitrary place in China) and paste it in the text box at ZhuFangZhi and press enter:
Framework of ZhuFangZhi
The crawler called zfz-bot collects several big sites in China that provides housing renting information and store the url and the corresponding information (like renting fee, address etc) to database.
When a user access ZhuFangZhi's website, and query for a place, the nginx server will pass the place information to tornado server, which will retrieve relevant housing renting information from database and generating the result web page.
What does ZhuFangZhi mean in Chinese?
It's a homophonic to a Chinese word meaning renting a house.
Source Code
I grant a Creative Commons CC BY - NC- SA license to both this description and the source code.
My Udacity ID
Liang Sun
holy cow!!
(15 Apr '12, 10:49)
UPDATES: so I had some time and I went on to do some improvements
Project Name: HackingPot
Objective: I really enjoy doing some DIY/hacking projects. The thing is, I don't have much time to do them. But, once in a while, I have a weekend off and I really feel like building something, but then I face a problem: what should I build??? Normally I would look at my parts bin and waste hours searching the web for cool projects. With HackingPot, I can do this easily!
All I need to do is enter some 'ingredients' (or components/parts) and HackingPot searches selected DIY/Tutorial websites (in this version only Make: Projects, and specifically eletronic related ones (that's why the code specifies starting points/targets)), ranking each project by it's own algorithm that determines how close my 'ingredient list' is to the project's needed materials. There are currently 317 projects listed
Idea origin: I've been wanting to build something like this for over 6 months, but I have a business background and my computer skills where very limited until I did CS101 (they still are but I have seen a great improvement!).
Is it legal?: This code uses as source Make: Projects, whose content is Licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
Next steps: During CS253 I plan on turning this into a real web application, using a real database (and not Pickle, like I did on this version). I have a list of possible improvements already that I couldn't manage to do due to a lack of available time:
Tools uses: I used Django, Python, BeautifulSoup and Bootstrap.
Code and Demo: My code is available at GitHub under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License. There is also a DEMO. If you use it, let me know what you think! :] Any code improvements would be appreciated also.
Finishing thoughts: I would like to thank all of the Udacity Staff for giving the world the opportunity to learn such a great course for free, with such an extremely talented group of professionals. This is really game changing. Long live Udacity!
Submission by: Gian Carlo / @gcmartinelli / gcmartinelli AT gmail
Gian Carlo M...
Olá Gian Carlo! Our ideas are indeed very similar :D Let me just add that your interface is very nice and clean! Congratulations! I hope you enjoy my reciPY as much as I will enjoy using your HackingPot ;) Um abraço!
(17 Apr '12, 14:34)
Obrigado Amarals! You should check out Bootstrap, it is really easy to deploy if you know some HTML and CSS.
(17 Apr '12, 14:56)
btw, feel free to grab my code and adapt it to your project!
(17 Apr '12, 14:59)
Name Project: Adjective Crawler for Books
Repository Link: https://github.com/astenolit/adjective_crawler
The Idea.
I am a Spanish teacher of Spanish-French Language and Literature in
But after running it, I realised that the statistic output data was a
Why it can be useful.
How it works.
I chose the classical book "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote
I ran the code with different strings to search and also modified
adjective_crawler ('don_quixote_part_1.txt','Dulcinea del Toboso', 2, 4)
(notice that the code allows to search a string composed of multiple words)
The code displays:
According to the above data, we can infer some interesting
And we can get all this data even without reading the whole book!
Thank you Udacity for all the things I've learnt.
Enrique Contreras (astenolit)
very nice! great application of what we learnt in this course! :)
(17 Apr '12, 13:59)
Obrigado! ;-)
(17 Apr '12, 14:50)
From questions that are trickling in, with all due respect, it seems some of us are not seeing the bigger picture. I think Udacity is not trying to find that one killer app, in the winner-takes-it-all mentality, that has been deeply routed in all our systems (even academia). The point is look, we want to see if this course alone can PRODUCE students that can develop nice usable products. As long as you create something, you are already a winner! It will make more sense if you apply most of the things we've learnt in class, than perhaps something outside (including the language used). IMHO, I think this contest is more about proving that the course was useful than proving that the winner-to-be is truly a guru!
The moral lesson here is, when you learn something, go out there and apply it in the real world! So take it easy friends :-)
Well said! I don't really think I stand a chance of winning the contest as a newbie, but if I can come up with some code that actually does something useful, I will feel like a winner every time I'll see my code execute something. 6 weeks ago most of of didn't even know about Python, and now we have our own search engine and thinking about what real world programs to write... That is just mind blowing! I am so grateful for this course, I feel like it really gave me new super powers! ;)
(31 Mar '12, 12:36)
@ iAlja Yes, I agree with this line of thinking. I'm not interested in "gaming the system" to win a trip to Palo Alto! (though it's a cool town and I'd love to meet some of y'all up there, visit Google, Stanford, etc., etc.) But yeah, I am motivated to do something. Not sure what yet. For me, dreaming up the idea is harder than coding, sometimes. I love this place, though. This class has been amazing.
(31 Mar '12, 13:16)
When we were making the Urank procedure the drawings by David were illustrative, but I wished to be able to manipulate and visualize pages and links in a more systematic way. Since we are dealing with graphs I thought to myself "this is a job for Graphviz". My submission is a simple set of procedures that write a file in the DOT language that can be read by Graphviz to produce some pretty images.
The code is hosted here.
DOT language
The idea is REALLY simple, a graph is just a set of lines describing nodes and edges. Each node and edge can have some options that modify the way they are displayed. Here is an example:
This examples makes a simple directed graph (digraph) with two nodes and one edge from node1 to node2.
My code has only two files (plus a README). In the search_engine.py file you can find the code we built in this class. There is nothing new here. The graphviz.py file is my contribution.
All the procedures are straightforward. Most of them just concatenate strings so the graph_dot procedure can return a string with all the information needed to specify the graph in the DOT language. The one procedure of a different kind is lookup_graph which makes a lucky_search of a keyword and returns a graph in which the result from the lookup is the center and all ingoing and outgoing links are displayed.
There are two more procedures (write_dot_file and write_dot_lookup) that actually write the .dot file usable by Graphviz.
The "web" we used in the class is crawled by default and there are three variables defined with the results: index, ranks and graph. To produce a file named, for example, "web.dot" all you need to do is
Now you can use Graphviz (in a shell outside the Python interpreter) to make the actual image
This will make a file web.svg
Notice how each node and edge is scaled according to their rank. If you open the actual svg image with your browser you will notice each node is clickable and directs you to the corresponding page.
There is also a way to make a lucky_search and produce a .dot file with ingoing and outgoing links from the result. For example
... and using Graphviz to make an svg image gives you (complete image here)
To Do
There are A LOT of thing that can be improved, specially when crawling the "real world". I tried crawling the web with a max_depth = 1 from http://www.xkcd.com and the images produced are terrible. In part because there are some pages that have many links and this clutter the images. But also there are some glitches in the dot file produced that I haven't tracked down. At the end of my README fille you can look at some ideas I have that could improve this submission. However I won't be able to work on them at least in the next 3-4 weeks (I'm getting married in less than 14 days!! so I won't have time to even look at a computer screen at all until I'm back home). I will like to improve this code in the hope it can one day produce illustrative images for future Udacians ;)
My big thanks to David, Peter and all of you! this has truly been an extraordinary experience!
- Andrés García Saravia Ortíz de Montellano
Andres Garci...
Why this one is not accepted?
(10 Apr '12, 00:32)
I have no idea. Perhaps it's just an overlook that will be corrected soon?
(10 Apr '12, 01:34)
I like this one myself - I actually created a similar python script in the past for visualising the hierarchies produced by our internal software (basically Department/Team hierarchy for a company). Since these hierarchies can be huge, I grouped together teams with the same set of parents, and set the area to be equal to n*num_teams (note, area rather then width). A bit of colouring in, and it produced a really handy reference for debugging some of our larger clients (finding "missing" teams, finding loops in the hierarchy structure, etc etc).
Tl;dr: Love it :)
(10 Apr '12, 06:06)
Before I start, I would just like to give a massive Thank you to the whole Udacity team! I've taken both courses (CS101 and CS373) and I feel that I have learnt a lot! It has been a lot of fun, and I think you guys are on your way to change education forever!
--- Video & source code ---
--- Background information ---
I'm a Business administration student in Barcelona, Spain. I've felt really passionate about technology since I was a little kid, and finally I get the opportunity to study Computer Science! I'm really excited!
What I wanted to do, is to combine both of my passions: Business Strategy and Technology / Computer Science. I felt like this was a great opportunity so I've programmed a crawler that crawls Collective Buying sites (more info. in the video and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_buying)
--- Why is this interesting? ---
2 reasons:
--- How to use ---
If you just want to try it out, it's really simple:
That's all there is to it! If you want to fiddle around with the code, you are most welcome ;)
--- Udacity ID ---
Michael Gradek
Just watched your video, loved it! Its really neat that just after crawling the website you give earning forecasts for it.
(11 Apr '12, 20:18)
@Shashank Thanks! I appreciate your comment!
(12 Apr '12, 02:33)
Michael, this is great! Congratulations!
(13 Apr '12, 20:19)
@Gian Carlo Thanks!! I have made some great friends last year from FGV when I was on my exchange semester :)
I think you are 100% right, it's amazing how such an introductory course of building a crawler can open up so many opportunities. I can't wait till the Web App Engineering course starts :) It will also be incredibly interesting to see how people apply computer science to their areas of expertise. This can be really insightful and illustrate how diversity creates innovation, I'm really excited about this!
Thanks for your comment, and best of luck with for your business projects!
(14 Apr '12, 12:00)


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Web Development.
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•Born: 1976.
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• 2006 Elearning Design, Development and Project Management (Open University Malaysia) - Kuala Lumpur.
• 2005 International Computer Driving License (ICDL) Trainer - Riyadh.
• 2003 Mastering MS Visual Basic 6 (Microsoft) Riyadh.
• 2000 TOEFL 187 (517) TOEFL (ETS) Riyadh.
• 2000 Oracle Administration & Backup & Recovery (Oracle University) Frankfort.
• 1999 Hot Topics, Tools & Techniques in Project Management - Tom Peters (International Institute For Learning Inc. (Live from USA)) KFSH&RC Riyadh.
• 1998 Java Systems Seminar (Sun Microsystems) Riyadh.
• 1998 Visual Basic 5 (Computer Club) Riyadh.
• 1995 English Course Level 4 (European Center) Riyadh.
• 1989 Computer Introduction (Sakhr Club) Riyadh.
• 2007 Computer Skills National Competion (as The Head of Graphics Design Trade for WorldSkills International 2007 in Japan) - Riyadh.
• 2006 Best Teamwork Project Award (Open University Malaysia) - Kuala Lumpur.
• 2003 Computer Club - Riyadh.
• 2003 GOTEVOT Job Skill Definition Workshop for "Graphic Designer" - Riyadh.
• 2003 GOTEVOT Job Skill Definition Workshop for "Web Designer" - Riyadh.
• 2003 Experiences Training - Riyadh.
• 2001 Ministry of Education (EACSFM) - Riyadh.
• 2001 First Saudi Technical Conference & Exhibition - Riyadh.
• 2000 RCT Summer Camp - Riyadh.
• Communication Skills, Customer Care & Marketing in both English and Arabic.
• English/Arabic linguistics.
• Computer: Office, *nix Shell, Dos, ASP, PHP, MySQL, Flash, Dreamweaver, Front Page, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Visio, Network Implementation, Electronic Circuits, Computer Assembling & Maintenance.
Very Good:
• C++, Perl, Visual Basic, Oracle DBA, Oracle Developer, Cisco Networking, Intranet Management, Linux Usage, Setup & Configuration.
• AutoCAD, Linux Optimization.
Professional Associations
• FounderSaudi Flash Designers Association.
• MemberIWA International Webmaster's Association "irwa.org".
• MemberWDD Web Designers Directory "eg-web.com".
• DeveloperSourceForge.net
• MemberSaudi Epilepsy Association.
• MemberSaudi Linux User Group (linux.org.sa).
• AuthorphpClasses.org
• DeveloperFreshMeat.net
• Operative MemberZajilNet.com
• Operative Memberphp4arab.org
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Bariq Appliance Server:
• Member in a team of three who had invented Bariq (the first appliance server of its kind). An intranet server that supports many services (DNS, DHCP, Mail, Web, Firewall, File, Masquerading, Proxy) with very friendly interfaces in dual languages (Arabic/English).
• My part was designing the user interface (using Perl), Arabization, Testing and Marketing.
DHTML, Java Script and AJAX:
• Revolutionized today's famous editor FCKeditor in version 1.6.
• Getting "POTM Award" (Project of The Month), for the project I was an active part of.
• Created my unique Arabic Key Stroke Listening Universal Keyboard.
• Projects using AJAX, XML, RSS and XHTML.
• Adding Support for Arabic Dynamic Text in Flash using ArGlyphs (For The FIRST TIME Ever) and contributed it to Open-Source Comunity.
• Inserting movies inside Flash (since version 4) in "AlMaloumatiah" movie was a break through.
• Have written 1st Arabic syllabuses for Flash Training.
• Articles about Flash concept of vector graphics & Flash Object Oriented Concept.
• Articles about web programming languages.
• Implemented the First CMS (Aug 1999) (using ASP, JS and MS Access) for KFSH&RC.
That was before the very first version of PHP-Nuke (1.0) 26 Jun 2000, normally before Microsoft CMS 2002
• Created uCal Class (First open-source "Umm AlQuraa 100% compatible" Hijri/Greg Class). http://www.phpclasses.org/ucal
• Edited many PHP open-source projects as in ArGlyphs. http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/file/14782.html
• Transforming my ASP CMS to even better and high standardized version. http://www.wajihah.com
• Creating MOJ one of the best web-multimedia CMS.
• Created my own SQL engine that searches inside text files using SQL "SELECT" statement (test it).
• International PHP Programming Innovation award nominee September 2007 Number 2. (phpclasses.org)
• Best Teamwork Project among 7 groups. (Open University Malaysia).
• Four Stars -out of five- for designing SaudiCeramics.com website. (Arab World Internet Magazine Jan 1996).
• No. 2 Rank among 118,541projects (sf.net) for FCKeditor 3 to 7 Jul 2005.
Volunteer Experience
• Was a technical-consulting member in a medical group for helping war victims in Kosovo & Bosnia.
• Designed & Hosted a website for The "Saudi Committee for Kosovo Relief".
• Handled all emails & faxes between "Saudi Red Crescent" the website.
• Training a group of volunteers on updating the website & receiving/sending emails.
Summer Camp Courses:
• Performed Photoshop courses in summer camps in the city of Riyadh.
Community Services Center:
• Performed some "Introduction to Computer", "Internet Introduction" & "Photoshop " classes.
Colonies Awareness Center:
• Created a website and given consultations and training for Naseem CAC.
Implemented a system in PHP & MySQL for a non profit social organization, that provides a free social and psychological consultation service throw an 800 phone hotline service.
Riyadh College of Technology Jun 2004 Bachelor's Riyadh
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering with GPA of (3.98 of 5).
Riyadh College of Technology Apr 1995 Electronics Associates
• Diploma in Industrial Electronics & Automated Control Technology
• Photography.
• Videography.
• System Analysis.
• PHP, Ajax, JS and XHTML Programming.
• Flash Action Scripting.
• Flash Drawing.
• Handicrafts & Decoration.
• Reading Hi Tech, Computer, Electronics, Communication & Health News & Articles.
• Attending International Confrences/Lectures for IT and Managment.
• Traveling.
- As the Head of Computer Center at Riyadh College of Technology (Mar 2008):
• Closing 214 tickits in the first month of implementing the system after is was 4 tickits a month before my arrival to the position.
• Increasing Internet speed 13 times more.
• Creating and Supporting > 10,000 users emails & connectivity with a staff of 9.
• International PHP Programming Innovation award nominee September 2007 Number 2. (phpclasses.org)
• 2nd Ranked Open-Source Project among 118,541 (sf.net) for FCKeditor 3 to 7 Jul 2005.
• Created my unique Arabic Key Stroke Listening Universal Keyboard 1st and only on the net.
• Designing the first website for Riyadh College of Technology (and it was the first Saudi college on the net).
• Publishing students results for 1st time in RCT history. using ASP + Access DB.
• Getting recognized by macromedia as Flash First Arab Designer.
• Creating First Web-based CMS (Aug 1999)
• Inventing Bariq the first Arabic Appliance Server.
• Founding Saudi Flash Designers Association.
• Optimizing Data Structure of Dorrah project from over 50 different tables to two tables only.


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Town Square
Only One Way To Revitalize Downtown Pleasanton
Original post made by Rick on Jun 19, 2009
This would provide the most important factor to any succssfull downtown: PEOPLE. Once a larger population is established downtown, they will be clamouring for services and the businesses would thrive.
The council's current plan is weak and lacks vision.
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on Jun 19, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Wrong Rick! We have people in downtown but they only spend money on botox and manicures. Pleasanton seems to be the home of too many people who only consider the way they look. Why do you think there are so many lipo/botox/mani places downtown? Soccer moms in SUVs yacking on their cell phones . . . . .
on Jun 19, 2009 at 3:38 pm
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on Jun 19, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Julie is a registered user.
It seems like there is already a lot of housing downtown. And, didn't some new condo type dwellings recently go up on Peters by Barone's? I think downtown needs more variety and a better economy! Why did stores like Domus, G.R. Doodlebug, and the "paint your own art" type store close/leave?
on Jun 19, 2009 at 8:53 pm
PToWN94566 is a registered user.
I don't necessarily think having 3/4 story condominiums in downtown Pleasanton would be a smart move towards revitalization. As others have said, there aren't enough stores that cater to enough people. We have the restruants and a few other stores, but other than that it's boring to walk in downtown. It seems like many of the buildings with two or more stories have offices that are not geared towards shopping.
Julie, I think the owners of Domus moved back to Hawaii, Doodlebug, as far as I know, went out of business, and I have no clue about the paint your own art store.
However, I do think our downtown does a lot better than other downtown's I've been too. I've seen some that are a complete dump,and have old, rotten wood on the front of buildings and have stores that seem useless to a town.
on Jun 19, 2009 at 11:18 pm
for PToWN94566: The owners of Domus closed for lack of sales, the owners of the Hawaiian store moved to Hawaii, Doodlebug closed this store but has two others open in Danville that are doing well and the paint your own art store closed due to lack of business and high rent.
for Julie: "Why did stores like Domus, G.R. Doodlebug, and the "paint your own art" type store close/leave?" They closed because the people of Pleasanton did not shop there! If you want a downtown, spend your money there. Otherwise the stores will go where the money is.
on Jun 20, 2009 at 9:21 am
Julie is a registered user.
That reminds me - was there some sort of rent issue with Domus as well?
I would love to always shop downtown, but it's a vicious cycle - if the rents are ridiculously high, then the prices will follow. I can't always afford downtown prices. I am more willing if the product is unique, but even then I sometimes have to compromise for price.
on Jun 20, 2009 at 9:31 am
Here is the solution let's ask Obama for some money
on Jun 22, 2009 at 2:11 pm
I love P-Town Downtown and have lived here for 21 years. But Im sad to say when I want to really do some serious shopping, I go to Walnut Creek for the afternoon or day. Pleasanton probably has to face up to needing some higher-density and upscale shopping and restaurants to really get the sales traffic. Id like to stay quaint, but reality is that most small business owners cant afford the not-to-code building expenses and hugh city business fees are going to discourage businesses from Pleasanton. Plus businesses have to go through a long permit process. Look at all the new businesses in the surrounding communities and I have to ask, why not here?
on Jun 22, 2009 at 11:01 pm
PLENTY of people come to downtown Pleasanton, because it IT is a "downtown" and is PLEASANT!
Dublin and San Ramon have no quaint "downtown" as you know.
The ECONOMY is whats killing downtown, NOT lack of .....
on Jun 23, 2009 at 1:11 pm
This is the same problem Jack London Square had for years and still does. People go there for the concerts and fairs. The people don't shop at the local stores. Restaurants are the only things that do well. Problem with downtown is having to walk so far to shop. Bank, bank, store, restaurant,real estate, bank, art store. Studio 7 is the heart of downtown. They should be on the front page everyday. A family business, dedicated and very successful. I love going in there just to look at the great art.
on Jun 23, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Studio 7 is the heart of downtown???? Very successful??? Say what??? Have you read the other thread about how they are closing half of their store? Check out the comments from people who have had to deal with that mother/daughter dragon team.
You are right in your assessment of too many banks and not enough convenient parking. Walnut Creek and Los Gatos have shopping, Pleasanton has banks and botox.
on Jun 24, 2009 at 10:24 am
@ Downtown Shopper
Wow! You are right about Studio 7. I began asking my friends about your comments and boy did my hair sizzle when I got their feedback. I guess I never bothered to scratch farther than the surface on this one.
Thank you for opening my eyes on that one.
on Jun 25, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Everyone is making some valid points, but the times are difficult right now. How do we keep downtown Ptown viable? We have the best Farmer's Market around. I don't think it's fair to compare Pleasanton to Jack London Square, a tourist attraction that has historically attracted typical souvenier shops and lost the last of its "old town" character when Clancy's closed. Walnut Creek has created a major downtown center by attracting a lot of big-name chain anchor stores to support the smaller businesses, but do we really want all that traffic? Danville has done a little better job of keeping the small-town feel, but has a few empty spaces and separate little (almnost) strip malls so it's not so easy to walk around and shop there anymore. Los Gatos has probably done the best job of keeping small, but even they have a lot of turnover in the small businesses. Variety? Lower fees to attract businesses?
on Jun 29, 2009 at 2:01 pm
has anyone been to livermore.thats what we need to do with ptown
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The album was recorded during Butz's August engagement at 54 Below. It is produced by Aaron Ankrum and Michael J. Moritz, Jr.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Stutz Artists Association is recruiting volunteers for the 20th annual Raymond James Stutz Artists Open House on April 26 and 27 at the historic Stutz Business Center.
Volunteers who work at least one three-hour shift will receive a free event T-shirt and admission to the two-day event. In addition to enjoying the art and atmosphere of one of the city's premier cultural events, volunteers welcome and direct guests to artists' studios or help entertainers move equipment. During set-up, volunteers help put up tables, signage, and trash boxes and escort food vendors and entertainers to their locations. Volunteers must be at least 18 years old and will be asked to attend a one-hour training session.
At the event, more than 70 artists will be in their studios showing work that ranges from paintings, drawings, and photography, to sculpture, jewelry, and furniture. Hours are from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. April 26 and from 2-7 p.m. April 27 at the Stutz Business Center at 10th Street and Capitol Avenue downtown.
Admission is $15 at the gate and $10 in advance at select Old National Bank branches. Ticket proceeds support the Stutz Residency Program, which provides free studio space and utilities for emerging local artists.
For more information or to complete a volunteer application, visit the website www.stutzartists.com. Applications are due by April 15.