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I found a source at http://www.allgreektome.net/ and click through to their ebay store. This is the true runner bean Gigandes.
DarJones |
Follow-Up Postings:
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Thu, Feb 16, 12 at 0:14
Dar, congrats on the find, I think this bean may be one that is sold under different names, thus the confusion. I grew one "Samos Greek Lima", it's not a Lima it's a runner originally from Greece (Gigantes). Drloyd has one called "Bond's Orcas Lima" if I remember correctly it's a runner too. It will be interesting to see if these two are similar to yours. Annette |
Dar I was not able to find the bean at that link. There is a thread on Gigandes linked to below. It seems that in Europe Gigandes by law is a runner bean. Very large limas are also sold under that mame in the USA. The largest bean that I have grown is the runner Bianco di Spagna with shellies up to 1.75 inches long. I have wondered if this is the same as Gigandes. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Gigandes Confusion
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Thu, Feb 16, 12 at 10:53
I found this one http://www.ebay.com/itm/Organic-White-Kidney-Bean-25-Seeds-Greek-Heirloom-/330584430525 is this the same one? Gigantes/Gigandes/Yigandes/Hija, from what I've read seem to be different names for the same bean. Darn you Dick, now I've got to get some Bianco di Spagna, my curiosity has to be satisfied. Annette |
- Posted by fusion_power 7b (My Page) on Thu, Feb 16, 12 at 13:07
Do a direct search on Ebay for (gigandes,yigandes) and you will find the auction link. If anyone wants some, I will ship 20 beans for $4 in the U.S. I have enough to make up 2 more packs of 20. Annette, if you want some, PM me with an address. I owe you some seed for the Comtesse di Chambord you sent me. DarJones |
- Posted by fusion_power 7b (My Page) on Thu, Feb 16, 12 at 13:16
I had to look again to figure out what happened. They revised the website sometime in the last week. If you see my original directions, I said to click through to the ebay store. The link is at the upper left on the webpage. When you click on the ebay store link, you will see the gigandes beans. DarJones |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Thu, Feb 16, 12 at 13:36
Dar, message sent :). Annette |
I was unsure too which were Gigandes beans, so during my winter stay in Greece this year I got some seeds from a seed store in a market in Monasteraki Athens, I soaked a couple that were a little on the small side, but my Hotel Owner I have known for several years is also a gardener and assured me they are Gigandes. I Gave some to family and friends in England in case customs wouldn't let them through in the USA. So being a resident Alien, I can't afford to break the law especially for seeds, I declared them and my Vlita (A Greek green related to Amaranth also known as Notch Weed) and of course the 2kg of Cheese from the Nederlands. No problem so they're soaking now ready to plant into pots until the danger of frost is over. I'll post a photo later of the seeds with a tape measure beside. |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Mon, Apr 16, 12 at 14:01
Dar, I started a few of the Gigandes you sent me in the greenhouse, good germination and great looking plants, one bean sprouted 3 shoots. I planted them out a couple of days ago and they're looking good, soil temp in this sheltered spot has been hitting 60* during the day I've been covering them with remay at night, so far they're lookin' good :). Annette |
- Posted by fusion_power 7b (My Page) on Mon, Apr 16, 12 at 20:16
I have a row 100 feet long with maybe 75 beans growing. I planted them one bean at a time about 18 inches between seed in the row. They are looking very good so far. DarJones |
So are they runner beans? Limas? |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Mon, Apr 16, 12 at 20:41
Dick, they are runners. Annette |
Annette I will be interested to hear how they do there. At the rate you are going, you should be harvesting them in July! This summer I have settled on Bianco de Spagna or "Italian Butter Bean" for my runner. When I grew them before they did very well here and the shellies were by far the biggest I have ever seen at up to 1-3/4 inch long. - Dick |
Well, I can only grow two runners for seed, and oddly enough, all of the neediest candidates this year were white seeded. "Bianco de Spagna" is planned for my rural plot. If shamrocks are supposed to be lucky, this has been just the opposite... I haven't been able to get it in the ground for the last two years!!! Hopefully the bad mojo has worn off, because I hope to grow it in quantity this year. Based upon Drloyd's recommendation, I'm looking forward to trying it. They will be in several locations, so I'll start them in pots to guarantee a better stand. I really want to grow "Gigandes" this year, but my other white-seeded runner ("Grammy Tilley") is badly in need of renewal. My head tells me to go with "Grammy Tilley", but my heart tells me "Gigandes"... as several posters here know, I've been hunting for the real "Gigandes" for many years. The "Gigandes" are exceptionally large, but not substantially larger than "Bianco de Spagna". Both of my samples were grown in different locations, so it will be interesting to compare them head-to-head in the same climate. Dooh! Sounds like I just made up my mind (sorry, Grammy). ;-) |
I planted some Gigandes from Harry last weekend along with a bunch of other pole and limas. I fell in love with the marinated bean dish that is featured at our Kroger's "Mediterranean Olive Bar" - I have succumbed twice now and bought some. Oh. My. The description on the card says they are "Gigandes" beans. Not sure that is true, but in any case, they are very yummy. Hoping I get a good stand of beans to make some of my own! |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Fri, Apr 27, 12 at 13:57
I planted 10 of the beans Dar sent me, started in the greenhouse March 23, all sprouted by March 29, planted out on April 14. The slugs thought they were going to have a smorgasbord so I put down some copper mesh, they especially liked the bean with 3 shoots they had a good munch on it, it's a little slower than the rest but it's starting to climb now. We're still getting a fair bit of rain and overcast days with a few sunny days thrown in. I'm still dropping the remay over them at night just in case we get a late frost. They'll be fiddly to pick on the lattice panel but as I'm leaving most for seed I'll just snip the vines when the time comes, how's that for thinking positive :). Annette |
- Posted by fusion_power 7b (My Page) on Sun, May 13, 12 at 8:39
Here is the timeline so far. 2012/04/04 - Planted 80 beans in a row roughly 120 feet long with about 18 inches between seed in the row. 2012/04/13 - About 2/3 of the beans have germinated, they are vigorous and growing fast. 2012/04/26 - I put up the trellis today. There are runners up to 2 feet long already. Need to spray to prevent bug damage. 2012/05/05 - Runners are nearly at the top of the trellis. They are growing fast with warmer weather and reduced pest pressure. 2012/05/10 - About half of the runners have reached the top of the trellis and are trying to go higher. Blooms are on about 1/3 of the plants. 2012/05/12 - I tilled the beans and weeded them. Cool wet weather has been ideal for their growth. Note, "cool" means 80 degrees or so as compared to the 90's we had recently. Some of the flowers appear to have set so I would expect mature beans in a couple of months. DarJones |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Sun, May 13, 12 at 10:00
Our warm weather has finally arrived, I said warm low 70's not hot, 80 degrees would have me whining and hiding in the house. The Gigandes are slowly climbing the lattice, no flowers in sight but this spurt of warm weather should give them a boost. Annette |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Sun, May 27, 12 at 14:05
I have lots of flowers starting to form on the short row I planted. The leaves look healthy enough but they're light green in color and not overly big. Also there's lots of space between the leaves is their nature or maybe I should give them a bit of fertilizer? They're in full sun. Annette |
- Posted by fusion_power 7b (My Page) on Sun, May 27, 12 at 17:50
Mine are still a light green color, especially when compared to the lima beans growing nearby. They will get darker green if you give them some nitrogen, but they will still be lighter than other beans. I have bean pods up to 4 inches long with 3 visible beans inside. DarJones |
Well, you are all ahead of me, I just got my Gigandes in last week. Hey, give me a break, I'm in the Frozen Tundra up here. ;-) The good news (especially after last year) is that I actually got them in! I'm using the same 18" spacing as Dar. No sign yet, but some of my soybeans are emerging, and they were only 3 days earlier. |
- Posted by fusion_power 7b (My Page) on Sat, Jun 2, 12 at 10:57
There are beans up to 6 inches long now. A few of them have up to 5 seed. Most have 3 seed. DarJones |
- Posted by fusion_power 7b (My Page) on Fri, Jun 8, 12 at 10:12
Beans are filling out nicely in the pods. The plants are healthy and still forming racemes of flowers and setting new beans. The load of beans per plant is relatively low but looks like there will still be plenty to pick in a couple of months. DarJones |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Fri, Jun 8, 12 at 10:51
No beans on the Gigandes yet, one or two are loaded with flowers, others are just starting to form flowers. So far June has been overcast, lots of cool days and yesterday it poured. Today looks blahhhhhh. All the other beans I planted are looking good, looks like we're going to have another year like last year. I'm sure glad I planted my tomatoes in the greenhouse, first time doing this and am happy to say they are lookin' good :). Annette |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Sun, Jun 24, 12 at 18:08
The first few flowers aborted but I'm happy to say I can now see some tiny beans forming. Annette |
- Posted by fusion_power 7b (My Page) on Sun, Jun 24, 12 at 20:26
We have a big difference in seasons Annette. I have green mature beans on my plants. I checked them a few days ago and have lots of mature pods that are just getting ready to turn colors and dry down. DarJones |
"We have a big difference in seasons..." You said a mouthful, Dar. Mine just started to climb, the vines are only 24" tall at present. I just laid mulch down around the plants, which always seems to kick bean growth into overdrive. In spite of my shorter season, I've got plenty of heat in just the right amounts, and everything in my garden is growing furiously right now. |
- Posted by fusion_power 7b (My Page) on Sun, Jul 1, 12 at 19:55
I have dry Gigandes beans ready to pick. The pods are fully dry, the seed are still a bit soft but drying fast with the heat and lack of rain. DarJones |
I would appreciate it if one of you would measure the length of the fresh shellies. So far, Bianco di Spagna is the largest shelly that I have seen at up to 1-3/4 inch long. - Dick |
- Posted by fusion_power 7b (My Page) on Tue, Jul 3, 12 at 11:37
Dick, The longest so far is 1 7/8 inches, the average is about 1 1/2 inches, the smallest normal bean is an inch long. I have seen pics of beans that were over 2 inches but they seem to be rare. DarJones |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Tue, Jul 3, 12 at 12:03
Woohoo, the weather "experts" if you can believe them say we're finally heading for normal summer temps, tomorrow it's going to start warming up and should be around 84F by sunday. Other than the 'Shiraz' peas where we had a bumper crop everything seems to be in limbo, the warm weather should shake things up a bit. I have lots of tiny beans on the Gigandes now maybe they'll get cracking. How about you Dick, are you in the same boat as me weather wise? Annette |
Well, my weather changed too. Had ten minutes of 1" hail yesterday, which shredded everything green on my property, including my home gardens. Unfortunately, that is where I had planted Gigandes. The irony is that I planted Gigandes at home because it is safer from frost there than it would be in my rural plot. Obviously, I neglected to consider the possibility that ice might fall from the sky on a 90 degree day. :-( I've already had frogs, and flies... makes me feel like Yul Brynner, wondering who I should be setting free before the next plague. The plants are not completely dead, but it remains to be seen if they will recover in time to produce seed. At the very least, their development has been set back by several weeks. The good news is that my preservation plot, where I grow most of my seed crops, is safe. It is 6 miles away, and was spared the brunt of the storm. It only has a little wind damage, and is actually better off for the drenching rains it received. Much of the state is still bone dry. |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Wed, Jul 4, 12 at 9:58
So very sorry you incurred so much damage Zeedman, especially after you having an early start for a change. 1" hail we've never had anything near that size up here, thank goodness your preservation plot was spared. Hopefully things will spring back and it won't be a complete loss. Yesterday afternoon I walked out to the greenhouse, no sooner in the door then the heavens opened up and the rain came down in buckets. Thankfully it only lasted 10 minutes my garden would have been in big trouble if it had lasted any longer. Can't do anything until it dries up a bit but the beans seem to be hanging in, time will tell. "THEY" say that's the last of it and today is the turning point good weather is on the way, I sure hope so enough is enough. Annette Annette |
So sorry to read about the hail Zeedman. We had a brief round a hail earlier this year and fortunately it didn't do much damage to anything, but I worried quite a bit during the storm. Hope your garden recovers quickly! Cindy |
Zeedman, I was so sorry to hear about the hail. Annette, most days and nights in June were below normal. The only beans that are looking robust are the Bianco de Spagna. Summer days (at or above 75F)are forecast to start tomorrow. - Dick |
Glad to hear that your weather is warming up, Annette. It seems like everything has been bottled up this year, with very little of our normal west-to-east flow... what was cool stayed cool, what was hot stayed hot. Wish I could send you some of our heat, it's 97 F. degrees as I write this, and predicted to hit 100 degrees tomorrow. That doesn't happen often here, its been over 15 years since we last hit 100. The cowpeas & soybeans are loving it, the beans & peas not so much. |
- Posted by fusion_power 7b (My Page) on Thu, Jul 19, 12 at 12:15
I harvested about 2 gallons of dry beans still in the pods yesterday. This is very low production for a bean, but is typical for runner beans in the deep south. Bean quality is variable with some beans nothing but flat husks and others nicely filled pretty white beans. A few show insect damage which I would have rated as very low based on my observation of insects on the plants. DarJones |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Sat, Jul 21, 12 at 21:56
When the warm weather arrived the Gigandes vines took off, it's one big tangle of vine, flowers and beans at the top of the trellis, the bottom and middle looks sparse, no branching down low at least not yet. If I wasn't saving all for seed we could probably try some in the green bean stage. I imagine they can be picked and cooked the same way I do all the other runners I've grown. It's going to take another month or so for seed here but it looks like another bean that will do well here as long as we get a decent growing season. We have not had a "normal" spring since 2009 so if this is going to be the new norm it looks like I'll be starting all my beans in the greenhouse from now on. Annette |
I was in a small Greek market today and bought these beans packed in Greece. The clerk said they are Gigandes. Anyone out there read Greek? Is it likely these are the real Gigandes? These beans measure about one inch wide. |
The package does indeed read gigandes beans. I have the same package that I just brought back from Greece. I also brought an unmarked package of the same beans from a farm stand in Greece. I was hoping that I would be able to germinate the beans as well as eat them. The farm stand beans did not germinate...I assume they are treated to not sprout. Today I opened the packaged beans with the label that you show in your photo and am doing a test germination. Will have to wait and see what happens. Love the beans, hope they sprout. |
ukelady, Please post your germination results. For me, the time to plant is in two or three weeks - then again in February. |
The seeds in the package from Greece germinated! I placed beans between moist paper towels and they sprouted in 4 days. At this point they have 1/2 inch long roots. I guess I will plant out tomorrow and see what happens. May not be enough time this season to get beans but at least I know that I can try them next year. |
Thanks ukelady. That is good news. I'll try planting some in six weeks or so. Anybody close to Tampa Bay can find these seeds in Tarpon Springs; a little grocery/deli on Antares Blvd. |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Sat, Aug 4, 12 at 16:47
Update.... All of a sudden the Gigandes have taken off, I spent more than a couple of minutes pulling vines out from underneath the roof of the shed where their trellis is. Talk about top heavy, vines are snaking out and grabbing onto everything within their reach. Loads of flowers but with the temps. approaching 90 I don't know if these will set but I do see some paper wasps working them. The leaves finally look good they don't look anemic anymore. A big change from the first pics I posted. Although they don't show up there's loads of flowers. Annette |
Anyone make bean dip with Gigandes. |
Just an update... I am happy to report that the majority of the plants in my home gardens have fully recovered from the hail, including "Gigandes". The constant warmth & sunlight - along with plenty of TLC - gave them the strength to put out new runners. They now look similar in size to the vines in Annette's photo, and have been flowering heavily. The blossoms were just dropping off, but now that we have a few days in the 70's, pods are beginning to set. Still about 6 weeks left before my average frost date, I'm crossing fingers that this will be enough time to get mature seed. A late Fall wouldn't hurt either. |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Wed, Sep 26, 12 at 12:17
Well, I've never seen anything like this in my life, after a slow start, flowers aborting due to a hot spell at the wrong time, these beans have taken off, (Kudzu comes to mind) they're reaching out and latching onto anything within their reach. There are a few beans mature enough for seed that I can see, I'm hoping there's more I just can't see them under the jungle of leaves. Right now there's flowers galore and loads of beans forming I'm hoping they taste just as good as the 'Salmos Greek Lima' runners did in the green stage. Annette |
Crossing my fingers seems to have worked so far. There were several early frosts here, and the rural garden was "frost pruned"; but my home garden had minimal damage. The forecast now is upper 60's - low 70's for the next 10 days, and mostly sunny... great bean ripening weather. I harvested the first 5 dry seeds from "Gigandes" in the last few days, and there are many fat pods remaining. It appears I'll get enough seed to attempt a major increase next year, under (hopefully) better conditions. I'll start them in pots next time! |
We had a light frost on 9/12 but no apparent damage. Zeedman and Annette, the Bianco di Spagna shellies are often 1-1/2 inch long with some at 1-3/4 inch. That is the largest shelly that I am aware of. It would be great if one of you would measure some Gigandes shellies to see if they are as "gigande" as Bianco de Spagna. - Dick |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Thu, Sep 27, 12 at 11:08
Dick, earlier on I had one small dry bean it had two seeds, dry the larger one was one and a quarter inches. Hopefully I'll come back with more results later, fingers crossed the weather holds, the next couple of weeks look promising. Annette |
If the dry seed was an inch and a quarter long, the shelly may be even larger than Bianco di Spagna. I have noticed that Bianco di Spagna requires a longer growing season than the slightly smaller Bond's Orcas Lima. Some of the really big white seed runner beans such as Bianco de Spagna, Delucci Cannellini and Cannellini Gigante are more difficult to grow here. - Dick |
With the season-ending freeze approaching tonight, I picked all of the "Gigandes" pods. I'm happy to say that I ended up with about 100 good dry seeds, which will be used next year to further increase the seed, and maybe share a few. Not a bad showing, considering the plants had to re-grow after the hail & wait for the heat to break before setting pods. There was also a pretty good mess of shellies, which DW cooked up while I was working, bless her heart. About half of those were fully mature, and HUGE. I'll try to post a photo before they are all eaten... which means I'd better hurry. Having been less than fond of the other runner bean shellies I've tried, I was hoping for better - and was not disappointed. The flavor is really good. They don't have the "gamey" flavor I've experienced from other runner beans, and the skin is thin & tender. I've been searching for this bean for years, and the search was worthwhile: it can be grown here successfully, and it's a keeper. Thanks, Fusion, for sharing your seed so generously. There were already some "Soissons Vert" and "Bird Egg #3" shellies cooked up in the fridge, so I threw some in a bowl along with some of the "Gigandes", mixed them up with a little 'baby rays' barbeque sauce & heated them. Wow!!! I'm in bean-lover's heaven right now. |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Thu, Oct 11, 12 at 15:08
Our weather has finally turned but we've had a good long run. I went out this morning and found several handfuls of dried pods underneath the tangle of vines, probably more I just have to find them. These are the only beans still in the garden, where they're planted they are quite protected so they're being left as long as possible. There's lots at the shelly stage so a question.... I want to freeze most of them so blanch them 3 minutes in boiling water or can I steam them? The immature beans aren't going to amount to anything now so I'll french and steam, this is the way we eat most runners, waste not want not. Annette |
Zeedman, did you happen to measure any of the shellies? So far the longest Gigandes shelly reported has been 1.5 inches. - Dick |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Thu, Oct 11, 12 at 19:10
Just brought some more in, the longest for me so far... 2 at 1&11/16", a few 1&10/16's lots of 1&1/2's and of course smaller, I'm just measuring the ones that look long to me, some are fatter than others. If I find any that are longer I'll let you know. Annette |
Thank you Annette. Your two largest ones are within 1/16 inch of the largest Bianco di Spagna that I have measured. Well within my possible measuring error as I did not use a precision measuring device. I wonder if they are two names for the same bean. - Dick |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Fri, Oct 12, 12 at 1:29
Dick, I've never grown Bianco di Spagna so can't compare. When cooking dinner tonight I threw a shelly in the veg pot, after zeedman saying how good they were I was chopping at the bit to try them. I plucked it out of the pot, cut it in half and dipped in Becel DH and I sampled it, what can I say, food for the gods. The shellies I've tasted to date have been good but this one outdoes them all. I haven't tried the Somas Greek Lima as a shelly just in the green stage, they might very well be the same bean but would have to grow them both to properly compare. Now this is what I call a handful of beans :). |
- Posted by LoboGothic 6a (My Page) on Mon, Oct 15, 12 at 11:53
Wow! These posts really have me going. So much food from one plant! I was so fired up I checked my Seeds of Diversity directory and found Soissons Gros Blanc a Rame. Said to be the largest bean grown in France, thin skinned. I sent for them today - we'll see what we get. Also found on line Samos Greek Lima "Fassolia Gigantes" - phaseolus coccineus and ordered that. Can't wait until spring to get these planted! aftermidnight - I'm a Canadian too - any chance of a bean or tomato seed trade for a few of those beans? 3 or 4 would be plenty. Please PM me. Thanks. |
- Posted by LoboGothic 6a (My Page) on Mon, Oct 15, 12 at 11:55
Wow! These posts really have me going. So much food from one plant! I was so fired up I checked my Seeds of Diversity directory and found Soissons Gros Blanc a Rame. Said to be the largest bean grown in France, thin skinned. I sent for them today - we'll see what we get. Also found on line at Two Wings Farm, Samos Greek Lima "Fassolia Gigantes" - phaseolus coccineus and ordered that. Can't wait until spring to get these planted! aftermidnight - I'm in Ontario - any chance of a heritage bean or tomato seed trade for a few of those gorgeous beans? 3 or 4 would be plenty. Please PM me. Thanks. |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Mon, Oct 15, 12 at 12:42
Hi Lobo, glad to oblige :). The picture of the beans in my hand are in the shelly stage will be somewhat smaller when they have dried down. I'll try emailing you right now, unfortunately it hasn't been working as of late. Annette |
Hi Lobo. One summer a few years ago I trialed a number of runner beans, not realizing that they cross easily. If you grow grow more than one, you may not be able to save pure seed. I can grow only one per year. - Dick |
- Posted by LoboGothic 6a (My Page) on Mon, Oct 15, 12 at 21:50
Thanks, Dick. I know that about runner beans, misspoke, I guess. It must be hard to keep to just one per year. So many beans, so little time. Maybe save seed every other year, but it's no fun unless there's seed!!! |
My wife just brought these back from the Lake District of Chile. There they are called "pallares", lima beans. They are a mix of about 85% white and the rest very dark speckled and not as large. The white seeds are about an inch long, almost as long as the gigandes I got in a Greek market. But, they are a lot fatter. If anyone in a cool climate wants to try them, I could send a few seeds. My wife also brought back some scarlet runners from that area. Those seeds run from pink/tan to almost black. If anyone is interested, I can post a photo. Also available to share. |
Shuffles, the darker beans appear to be runner beans... and the white ones could be runners as well. The "fatter" description you mentioned seems to back that up. If you plant those seeds, observe the seedlings. For limas, the cotyledons will emerge from the ground; the cotyledons remain underground for runner beans. I have a wonderful pole bean from Chile, "Isla", which I grew this year. It is similar to "True Red Cranberry", but has seeds that are slightly smaller, and more purple than red. Really great flavor, but it is very late, and never has time here to give me more than a handful of dry seed before frost. Many beans from South America are daylength sensitive, and bear poorly in the temperate latitudes. Hopefully your beans don't suffer from that affliction. |
zeedman, those beans were a local variety grown in the Lake District of Chile at about -40 latitude. Madison, Wisconsin is at 43; not much different. That is why I offered them to cool climate gardeners. I am at 28 degrees and may be too far south for these beans. The attached photo is of a bean purchased at a local street market. It is also very likely a local variety from the Lake District. These beans run from 5/8" to 7/8" long. |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Thu, Oct 18, 12 at 19:44
Dick, I just finished shelling the rest of the Gigandes, one, just one measured 1 3/4" that was my largest. I'm hoping some of these shellies are mature enough for seed the rest we'll eat. I have enough completely dry seed to do me 3 or 4 years but a few more wouldn't hurt. I'm going to grow this one again next year mainly for the shellies. Annette |
Thank you for the report, Annette. So Gigandes and Bianco di Spagna have the same maximum shelly size it appears. I can get a lot more beans off of the Bond's Orcas Lima vines but perhaps the later ones are worth growng too. - Dick |
I never did get around to taking a photo of the cooked beans before they were eaten. However, I noticed something odd. When reheated, the beans tasted much different than when they were fresh cooked... I found the flavor to be unpleasant. Not sure if they were spoiling, or if that is a normal characteristic of this variety. I'll find out when I grow them again next year. |
Zeedman, does this mean that blanched and frozen shellies might have an unpleasant flavor? I do recall enjoying other large white runner shellies more fresh rather than frozen. And do you have enough dry seed to soak a few and cook them? I wonder how the flavor would be. |
"Zeedman, does this mean that blanched and frozen shellies might have an unpleasant flavor? I do recall enjoying other large white runner shellies more fresh rather than frozen." I certainly hope not. That will be something I plan to test in a small batch next year, before doing anything large scale. It may be that they are better canned than frozen... which may motivate me to finally purchase the pressure cooker I've been considering for several years. That would probably lead me to begin canning other beans as well, and I kind of like that idea. :-) As I mentioned above, I ended up with about 100 good seeds, which are reserved for planting & a few limited trades. I don't yet have enough to try cooking the dry beans. Oh, and I never posted my final observations of "Bianco de Spagna". A few of the plants just barely hung on, and finally in late summer put out some new growth & bloomed. There was no chance of getting dry seed that late, but I did pick some shellies before frost. The skin turned green when cooked, and I enjoyed them. I don't know if turning green when cooked is normal, or if it because they were picked immature. I actually hope it is normal, because that would indicate an observable difference between the two varieties. |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Tue, Oct 23, 12 at 10:53
Zeedman, I blanched a few Gigandes and froze them, the immature ones did turn green. As to taste after frozen, haven't tried them yet, but fresh shellies steamed with a bit of Becel are delicious more so than any other runner I've tried this way. Frenched and steamed has been the preferred way we've eaten runners until now. I have just enough frozen gigandes shellies to try a pan of 'Gigantes Plaki' down the road :). Annette |
Zeedman and Annette, I have noticed with other very large seed white runner beans that the less mature seeds do turn green when cooked. - Dick |
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Castle Rock police say officer fired on a SUV that swerved at officers; no one injured, 3 arrested
3 men arrested are suspects in home burglary
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. - A Castle Rock police officer responding to a home burglary fired on a suspect vehicle that swerved at officers on Thursday afternoon, police said.
The incident happened just after 1 p.m. in the 500 block of Mango Drive.
Police Chief Jack Cauley said a woman called 911 to report suspicious men outside a neighbor's house. The caller said she'd heard a noise and was concerned the men had broken into the house.
Five officers responded to the scene and spotted a blue Ford Explorer outside the home, said police spokeswoman Karen McGrath.
A man at the wheel of the SUV took off, "swerving aggressively toward" officers on foot and in a nearby patrol car, McGrath said.
Fearing for his safety, an officer on foot fired on the SUV, striking a rear window, Cauley said.
The SUV kept driving a couple blocks, then veered onto a snow-covered roadside. Police arrested the driver.
Meanwhile, two other men ran from the burglarized home and were eventually found and arrested, McGrath said.
As a precaution, police issued a telephone alert telling residents and businesses within a 3/4-mile area that police were looking for a possible fourth suspect. Nearby Daniel C. Oakes High School was placed on lockdown.
Police determined there wasn't a fourth suspect and believe all those involved are in custody.
No one was injured in the incident.
The investigation into the shooting and the burglary is ongoing. No suspect names have been released.

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Anyone who has used the Internet has also likely used a search engine. Search engines are the way to find information on the web. All the websites that are available on the Internet are cataloged. Whenever someone wants information on a particular topic, they type in what they are looking for; the search engine looks through the relevant sites and displays a listing of potential matches. You can then click on these results and browse to the sites listed.
Search Engine Terms and Definitions
Before discussing the ins and outs of search engines there are some common terms you should become familiar with:
Density – The percentage a keyword occurs within a particular site. Divide the number of occurrences of the keyword by the total word count for the density
Hit – When a file or graphic is accessed. If you click on a website and get to the home page you will cause a hit to that file
Inbound Link – A link to your site that exists on another site. People click on the link from someone else's site to reach your site, increasing your traffic. This is also a factor in determining search engine placement
Index – A listing of web sites ordered based on a particular formula or the act of compiling the websites into a list. "I am looking at the index," "The software will index the site tomorrow"
Keyword/Key Phrase – A word or phrase that makes up a search. For example if someone is looking for car parts the key phrase may be "car parts" or "car parts in Seattle"
Meta Tag – A part of the coding of a website that gives information but is not visible to browsers. The most popular are keywords that list the relevant keywords for the site and description that summarizes the page content
PPC – Pay Per Click, a means of paying for advertising to move your site listing to the top of the search list. Payment for the advertising is based on clicks. Each time someone clicks on the link you are billed. The amount of the payment is based on the popularity of the keyword
Relevancy – How well your site matches the particular information the user is looking for
SEO – Search Engine Optimization, a means of improving the website's position within the ranking to increase traffic. This is done by following the current best practices based on search engine matrices. Many businesses hire SEO experts and consultants to change their site accordingly
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Stuffing – The practice of repeatedly using keywords to attempt to build search engine ranking. This can actually work against a site if it is deemed the keywords are not appropriately used
What Search Engines are Popular?
You cannot discuss search engines without mentioning the clear leader in the industry, Google. Google is the search engine that dictates how much of the information on the web is delivered in order to increase hits to a site. Their matrices are used as the industry standard when optimizing a site for search results.
However, Google is not the only search engine that is available and if optimizing a site the others should not be ignored. Yahoo has consistently held the number two spot, Bing is steadily growing and increasing in popularity and there are a few others worth mentioning.
As you can clearly see outlined below, Google remains the clear leader. The top 10 search engines in late 2009 according to Nielsen MegaView Search are:
Google – 64.6%
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Networking and direct advertising are viable and valuable means of letting the general public know you exist. However, for those people who do not know who you are a search engine will bring them to your site when they are looking for the information, product or service you provide.
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Kiera's Dry Shampoo How-To
I'm officially two weeks into my no shampoo experiment—and so far, no one has looked at me in disgust, flies haven't started following me around the office, and it actually looks good.
The first thing I noticed is that my hair isn't as responsive to the weather. Normally I dread going outside in the rain (frizz alert!), but now it simply becomes wavy, not "poofy." And to my surprise, it's not even greasy—thanks to dry shampoo.
Haven't tried it? It's easy to use and you'll delay washing your hair for another day (or in my case, another week). Plus, it's perfect for a quick touch up after a workout. Here are some ways to make the most of it.
Keep your distance
I'm very liberal with the amount of dry shampoo I use—but this puts me at risk for white patches all over my head. (I have dark hair, so it's really not a good look.) Make sure to spray at least six inches away from your scalp to avoid residue, and try Oscar Blandi's Pronto Invisible Volumizing Dry Shampoo ($25; Sephora). It won't leave behind any evidence and it has a refreshing (but subtle) lemon scent.
Spray on your scalp
Spray it along your middle part, side parts, and at your crown. You can even flip your hair over to both sides, turn your head over, and spray it all around your scalp. Why hold back?
Shake it out
Work it in with your fingertips, breaking up any potential white powder—and take note of the instant boost of volume at the roots.
Make your own
I had the misfortune of forgetting my dry shampoo at the office a few times. But baby powder is a simple fix. Just apply a tiny amount to your fingertips and massage through your scalp.
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The food was Average although the Char Kway Teow was very authentic, i think maybe we ordered wrong , at the time i didnt mind the food but i think it wasnt true Malay food , and i think the Satay House in Paddington will be next on my list for Indonesian food , if any one has good suggestions for Singaporean , Malayisan or Indonesian food i would love to hear it. I would suggest to my readers to try it when your in the mood for something new , not to impress someone on a first date.
Char Kway teow -- I love this |
Nasi Goreng - It was nice but not spicy |
A mixed Starter of Deep fried fish with spicy Sambal |
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1 God, mark us with grace and blessing! Smile! | 1 May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine upon us, "Selah" |
2 The whole country will see how you work, all the godless nations see how you save. | 2 that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations. |
3 God! Let people thank and enjoy you. Let all people thank and enjoy you. | 3 May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you. |
4 Let all far-flung people become happy and shout their happiness because You judge them fair and square, you tend the far-flung peoples. | 4 May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples justly and guide the nations of the earth. "Selah" |
5 God! Let people thank and enjoy you. Let all people thank and enjoy you. | 5 May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you. |
6 Earth, display your exuberance! You mark us with blessing, O God, our God. | 6 Then the land will yield its harvest, and God, our God, will bless us. |
7 You mark us with blessing, O God. Earth's four corners - honor him! | 7 God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth will fear him. |
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I wouldn't have take the 550 either but not cause it's ethic etc….
It's cause in the long run, the 550 would have cost you way more.
If you do another conference, who will want to pay 2000$ ? Won't they try and wait at the last minute to get in for a 75% discount ? Will you really be able to get them to join after that ?
Meaning 12 x 1450 = 17,400$ loss.
Doesn't make sens in the long run.
I think it more depends if you think of the short / medium / long time to make profit.


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Love them or hate them, the Web design business is awash with them and very often they are used without even knowing DTD, XML, XHTML, SHML and many more. Although these abbreviations are marginally easier to remember than the words they represent, I still find it difficult to type SMTP instead of STMP without saying 'Simple Mail Transport Protocol' out loud and punching the keyboard at the start of each word.
And is that DTD or DDT?
The fact is that many creative people suffer from dyslexia to a greater or lesser degree and getting the order of characters incorrect in acronyms is one of the first symptoms. The strange thing is that I don't show any symptoms of dyslexia when I write with a pen, it's only when I type at a keyboard that I get letter orders reversed in some words.
Never mind. This month we are going to look at one of those acronyms – XHTML. When you understand the concept that the abbreviation refers to, it is easier to remember. If you know what HTML is, and you should if you are reading this editorial, it's just a matter of sticking an 'X' in front and knowing what the extra character represents.
Still confused? Read on for four easy steps to XHTML.
Four months ago, I changed the WPDFD editorial page from a tables-based layout to one using just CSS. I haven't had any reports of problems with the page so, last month I took the next step. I changed over from using HTML 4.01 to XHTML 1.0 without saying anything to see if anyone noticed. Nobody complained. Excellent!
Now the question is, if there's little difference between HTML and XHTML, why bother? To answer that we have to look at how HTML has evolved over the past ten years or so. I touched on the subject in last month's article when I discussed the concept of 'documents' and how Netscape and Microsoft added their own 'enhancements' to HTML to try to make their browsers more attractive to surfers than each other.
Very soon, some 'features' that worked in one browser, didn't work in the other and designers had to resort to the dubious practice of 'browser sniffing' to deliver pages that would work in either. HTML was diverging along two separate paths and would have continued to do so if the W3C hadn't stepped in and laid down some standards. The idea was that browser developers would conform to these 'official' standards and all browsers would behave in the same predictable way for any given page markup.
One of the main goals was to separate the basic structure of a page from its presentation. The structure is the steelwork and the presentation, the cladding. Although some presentational elements such as  still remain in HTML for backward compatibility, they are going to disappear eventually and their use is now discouraged. It is much better to use Cascading Style Sheets for Web typography. CSS offers so much more control than HTML was ever intended to handle leaving HTML to do the job it was meant to do.
HTML is now at version 4.01 although some people still use the older 3.2 so that their pages validate with legacy markup.
HTML 4.01 comes in three flavors - Transitional, Strict and Frameset. Transitional allows more 'old habits' and is more forgiving of browser quirks than Strict. If I try to use the dreadful Netscape only <blink> tag, I have to go way back to a HTML 2.0 DocType to get it to validate.
Frameset is not as popular these days as it was a few years back. Frames have fallen out of favour because of their many drawbacks – such as bookmarking and indexing by search engines.
With version 4.01, HTML has gone just about as far as it can go and now, XHTML 1.0 carries on where it left off.
The X before HTML means 'eXtensible' but also alludes to its XML parentage. I know that all these acronyms can get confusing but you can find the official explanations of XHTML and XML on the W3C site if you want to wade through them but the more relevant questions are probably, "What's in it for me?" and "What do I have to do that I didn't do before?" Those are the questions I'm going to cover here.
What's in it for me?In the short term, probably not a lot, but the Web is moving very quickly and you always have to think ahead. If using XHTML only helps to tighten-up your markup, getting rid of ambiguities and sloppy coding, then it's already improving the robustness of your pages across browsers.
Older browsers have become big and bloated, partly because they have to be very forgiving of poor markup and pages that were built some time ago containing deprecated elements. More modern browsers are smaller and faster but they do this at the expense of not being so forgiving of invalid code. The use of valid XHTML helps to guarantee that any pages you build now will work well into the foreseeable future in all current and future browsers.
And the 'extensible' bit? Well, HTML evolved much in the way a farmhouse sprawls out over the years. You start with a basic structure, then a few year later, add-on an extra living room and a few years later stick a new bedroom on top of that. Later still, the kitchen is extended and a few outhouses added, then another bedroom... After a number of years, the original house is unrecognisable and with all the bits stuck on as afterthoughts, looks horrible and doesn't work as efficiently as a house designed with those extra facilities from the outset.
Contrast that with a modern 'organic' home that is designed to grow with the family. It will have been designed as a large house even though only part of it is actually built at the outset. When it comes time to extend it, all the utilities will be in the right place and new rooms can be slotted in with minimal compromise to the original design.
So, 'extensible' means that it is designed to be added to at the outset – giving flexibility without compromise. Although it might take a little extra effort to build your Web pages with XHTML at first, it is much more 'futureproof' than HTML.
What do I have to do that I didn't do before?Migrating your current HTML 4.01 markup to XHTML 1.0 is surprisingly easy. Last month, I converted this page (which is quite long) to XHTML in a couple of minutes using BBEDit's 'Search and Replace' although doing it completely manually would be no big deal.
The first thing to do is to replace the HTML 4.01 DOCTYPE with the corresponding XHTML 1.0 equivalent - Transitional, Strict or Frameset.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
Having done that, the BBEDit's syntax checker immediately tells me what is not valid XHTML 1.0 markup. Other editors have similar facilities.
Where HTML 4.01 doesn't give a hoot whether tags are upper case, lower case or an arbitary mixture of both, XHTML requires them to be lowercase only, thereby forcing consistency. As I already use lower case tags in my HTML markup, that's not a problem.
The next thing is to do with closing tags. Most elements in HTML have an opening tag  and a closing tag  but some closing tags are optional – and there are a few exceptions.
In HTML, a closing paragraph tag
 is sometimes omitted and most current browsers understand what to do. To get rid of any abiguities, XHTML 1.0 likes to see things kept tidy and a terminating
 tag is no longer optional. It's mandatory.
Now, consider the line break
. It doesn't really need a closing tag as it doesn't wrap around anything. It has a position, but it doesn't start and end. It just is! XHTML requires every tag to have a corresponding terminator and the only way to satisfy this seemingly paradoxical situation is to start and end the
 tag at the same time – thus
. That's a space followed by a forward slash. Most browsers will accept
, without the space but it's best to include it for maximum predictability and consistency.
Other examples of HTML elements that don't close in HTML are , <link> and <meta>. Like the
, they can be terminated in XHTML with a space and a forward slash.

<link rel="StyleSheet" href="../styles.css" type="text/css" title="Style Sheet" media="screen" />
There's another potential ambiguity that XHTML doesn't allow - all attributes have to be inside quotes. Things like width=252 height=125need to be width="252" height="125". Non numerical attributes such as  have to have the values within quotes too.
Well, there are four simple steps to XHTML. If you aren't using it already, now is a good time to start. The simple fact that you are verifying it will make sure that you less likely to get unpleasant surprises in 'other' browsers but it doesn't mean that you shouldn't still check your pages in as many browsers as you can, there are still plenty of other things that can go wrong!


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yes! i had to write the title in caps because this expansion IS SO AWESOME!! i may be overreacting, but this makes comic encounter more abstract. I did a 2-play mod yesterday with that hazard deck with my friend, just some the aliens totally break everything! A favorite mine right now would have to be Trickster and another Warhawk... I could talk about all of them, but i don't want to spoil everything. BUT SERIOUSLY TRICKSTER IS FUN TO USE AGAINST ANYONE.
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Posted 10 February 2011 - 12:24 PM
So far, Xenophile is my favorite.
We played with about 6-7 of the new aliens last night. Graviton is a real game-changer, though; it completely changes everyone's strategy for using Attack cards in a way that we haven't seen before.
Warhawk is a beast.
Invader was fun, but it's more subtle than it looks.
Posted 12 February 2011 - 07:17 AM
Gotta love the Warhawk, but there's something fun about the Prophet and the Lunatic.
I so want to play The Claw, though.
Posted 21 February 2011 - 05:41 AM
we play two power games and last night i ended up getting lunatic filth. it was wonderful no one could take bases from my home planets. made for a long game and when changling stole my power he wiped out everyone elses colonies lol.
My favorite power so far in a single game has been sabatouer
Posted 21 February 2011 - 02:06 PM
I like Invader a lot, but Trickster is the most fun to play.
Posted 23 February 2011 - 08:36 AM
Graveyard Greg said:
Gotta love the Warhawk, but there's something fun about the Prophet and the Lunatic.
I so want to play The Claw, though.
We had Prophet and Lunatic in an 8-player game at Dundracon, and you're right. They do stand out as fun and powerful aliens.
I haven't played The Claw yet, but my wife has. That one requires a very high awareness of the card distribution, as well as card-counting skills, to be truly effective.
Posted 24 February 2011 - 12:16 AM
The Claw is awesome!! Managed a joint win because someone played a +2 reinforcement out of frustration when he realised he couldnt win HAHAHA!!!!


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The Old Swan, Netherton, Dudley.
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On our way back from Pridewood Farm and Charles Faram's Hop Walk I suggested to Ian that we again make a small detour off the northbound M5, to another of my favourite pubs in the Black Country. This time, to the Old Swan, Netherton. Again I told him it would be well worth it and for sure he wasn't disappointed.
The Old Swan is a classic traditional West Midlands drinking house with an impressive interior, situated along the A459 Dudley – Halesowen Road, in Netherton, a small industrial village about a mile out of Dudley town centre.
The Old Swan has to be one of the Black Country's most favourite, popular and probably most photographed drinking establishments and until the real ale revival began in the United Kingdom, the Old Swan was one of only four pubs that brewed its own beer.
It is a local landmark; the current building dating from the 1860s but there has been a pub on the site since at least 1835. It has been known as Ma Pardoe's since the interwar years, as its long-term landlady and matriarch was Dorothy Pardoe who owned it until her death in 1984, when aged 85 and who was landlady for more than half a century.
Such was its fame among the lovers of real ale, that when the pub came up for sale in 1985, a company was set up by CAMRA to purchase and run the pub. Although this company was short-lived, the pub and brewery survived and it is now one of only a handful of pubs in the West Midlands that still brews beer on its own premises.
As well as for its beer, the pub is also known for its decor including a ceiling decorated with vitreous enamel tiles. Due to its heritage and fittings the pub has been designated a Grade II listed building. Today it is run by Tim Newey, who can often be seen in full morning dress, and who restored it to its former glory ten years ago.
The Old Swan is one of the classic pubs of Britain; nothing flashy here, it's just a basic, down to earth drinker's paradise which has welcomed workers for decades and no doubt will continue to do so for many years to come. It is just a real Black Country gem.
Whilst it's lovingly restored Victorian frontage is the view on many postcards, the chances are you will easily miss the pub if you visit by car; as it is located close to a busy road junction. There is a small car park at the rear but close by; leading off the road opposite is a free surface car park.
From the rear car park an ivy-covered brick archway leads into a small beer garden, decorated with hanging baskets, and a small foyer containing an upright piano takes you to the lounge.
On show in a corridor to the rear are more certificates than a doctor's waiting room; in 2005 the pub was listed as one of Britain's top 16 pubs by the Campaign for Real Ale. In the lounge to the rear is a large antique mirror complimenting with many pieces of period artwork on display and a large organ.
Two flights of stairs take you the Granary Loft restaurant, but a short walk that takes you back into the world of genteel Victorian society. At one end is a cast iron fireplace whilst a dark wood dado rail separates the brown textured finish of the lower walls from the soft pink floral wallpaper above. Sepia pictures of local scenes adorn the walls and it is hard not to wonder if this is how the well-heeled members of 19th Century society, the foundry owners and the chain shop magnates, would have spent their evenings.
If you do pay a visit and I thoroughly recommend you do, just make sure you check out all the different rooms, each having their own unique character. If the upstairs restaurant typifies the gentler side of Victorian life, the more modest rooms at the back are probably something like the sort of place where managers, foremen and their ilk might have hung out.
Most spectacular of all, though, is the front bar, which has its own separate door leading out onto Halesowen Road: it is like a licensed museum, with a glittering array of bottles lining the wrought iron shelves, painted in a vivid signal red, cast iron tables, an antique weighing machine in the corner and with an old cast iron stove with flue in the middle of the bar. But most striking of all, though, is the huge enamel mural of a swan on the ceiling.
We got there after 5p.m. and to put us on for the remainder of our trip back north each had a cob sandwich from the bar, a ham cob and a cheese cob, at £1.00 each!!! We also each had two half's of the award winning Old Swan Entire, ABV 4.4%; and excellent stuff it was too; one half in the front room, giving us time to soak in the atmosphere of this wonderful bar and then a second half in a room to the rear.
With a superb atmosphere and the friendly regulars as well as Old Swan pilgrims, this pub is to many, and include me in their number, pub heaven, but it is really the sort of place where you have to make a night of it just to soak in the atmosphere, tradition and the food and drink on offer.
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Last year, I made a photo ornament that I printed out at HP. This year, I wanted to do another one for my grandson but I could not find one at the HP site. The one last year was real simple- you printed out the front and back, cut them out and put the photo you wanted in between them. Then you covered it with clear contact paper. I am looking for something on the same order. Does anyone know where I can locate such? Thanks.
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Hi Susan, I found these at HP (direct link at the bottom "Here is a link that might be useful:"). They were under Holiday Ornaments, not under Christmas Ornaments. Go figure! I finally discovered the Directories at HP. Makes it easier to find things, but the Directories themselves are hard to find. I think that's all of them. They list ALL the projects in one place. And some projects appear in more than one directory. Much more helpful than trying to hunt through that site. HTH |
Here is a link that might be useful: Holiday Ornaments
- Posted by Linda_in_SD (My Page) on Sun, Dec 22, 02 at 20:31
Thanks for the links---that sure makes it easier to find anything on the HP site-- I hadn't found the directories. |
Thanks for the links- the directories are hard to locate. HP has changed up their site since my last visit (which has been a while). These are the same ornaments that I made last year and I didn't want ones for this year that were identical. Any other links or suggestions for a printable photo ornament? Susan |
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A sampling of products to be featured at NSCA Systems Integration Expo 2006, March 16-18, in Las Vegas.
The CoolSign 3.0 digital signage software from Clarity Visual Systems is designed to support large-scale digital signage systems in retail, financial service, transportation, and gaming applications. The software enables an unlimited number of displays to play tailored content in multiple formats including JPEG, TIFF, Flash, MPEG-1, MPEG-4, Windows Media 9, and high-definition. CoolSign 3.0 features a simultaneous manager module that defines user-access on the network. Price: $1,995 (single-site installations). Availability: currently available. For more information, see Clarity Visual Systems at NSCA booth 3630, or contact the company at 503-570-0700 or at www.clarityvisual.com.
Self-powered loudspeakersL-Acoustics has introduced the 108P and 112P self-powered coaxial loudspeakers. Aimed at live sound reinforcement, the 108P (pictured here) is a bi-amplified, digitally processed, full-range loudspeaker consisting of a 1-inch exit, high-frequency compression driver coaxially loaded into an 8-inch, low-frequency transducer. Its two-channel power amplifier module delivers 450 W continuous power into 4 ohms. Designed for use in touring and fixed installations, the 112P features a 1.4-inch exit compression driver and a 12-inch transducer. Its mono-bridged power amplifier module provides 1,000 W continuous power into 8 ohms. The 108P includes a pole-mount socket and optional U-bracket, while the 112P features pole-mount sockets, side-mounted fly track sections, and an optional adjustable U-bracket or vertical coupling adapter. Price: N/A (both models). Availability: currently available (both models). For more information, see L-Acoustics at NSCA booth 2019, or contact the company at 805-604-0577 or at www.l-acoustics.com.
Fiber optic transmitter/receiverDesigned to transmit RGB resolutions up to UXGA and stereo audio over two single-mode or multimode fibers, the Pure Digital Fiberlink 7250 Series from Communications Specialties includes transmitter and receiver units. The 7250 Series, which features all digital processing and transmission, operates at a 1,310 nm wavelength. It supports HDTV resolutions of 480p, 720p, and 1080i/p (RGBHV format only). Targeted for use in military, digital signage, and satellite imaging applications, the 7250's new design feature enables the two fibers to be cross-connected without affecting system operation, according to the company. Price: N/A. Availability: currently available. For more information, see Communications Specialties at NSCA booth 3128, or contact the company at 631-273-0404 or at www.commspecial.com.
Mounting systemLowell's LPT Series Pull and Turn mounting system for built-in wall and millwork applications features four slides for pull-out access to rack-mounted equipment. The system's pushbutton lock and release enables the rack to rotate 60 to 90 degrees on a turntable. The mounting systems are available in 19- or 23-inch depths, and in 10, 12, 16, and 21 rack space sizes. All configurations have a load capacity of 300 pounds. Price: N/A. Availability: April (all models). For more information, see Lowell at NSCA booth 1529, or contact the company at 800-325-9660 or at www.lowellmfg.com.
Wireless microphone systemThe 3000 Series true diversity wireless microphone system from Audio-Technica is a 200-channel, frequency-agile system targeted for use in touring, public address, and house of worship applications. The system features an automatic frequency scanning function that determines and sets the best available frequency (open channel) in multi-system setups to prevent interference and intermodulation. The system is available in two UHF frequency bands: 541.00 to 566.375 MHz (TV channels 25 to 30) and 655.500 to 680.375 MHz (TV channels 44 to 49). Price: $699 (with UniPak bodypack system); $799 (with handheld microphone system). Availability: currently available (all configurations). For more information, see Audio-Technica at NSCA booth 1313, or contact the company at 330-686-2600 or at www.audio-technica.com.


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I bought this rose about 8 years ago, and of course, now I can't find the tag. I know it ia antique, because I bought 6 or 7 varieties at the same time.
I have looked in helpme find and everyrose but can't find it. Does anyone recognise it? Thanks |
Image link: Small pink, once blooming rose. (47 k)
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- Posted by cecilia_md7a 7a/Baltimore,MD (My Page) on Wed, Jun 14, 06 at 9:43
Is it fragrant? And when you say it's a small rose, do you mean the size of the plant or the size of the blooms? If the plant itself is not small, what's its habit - climbing, arching, mounding, etc. |
Hi, the blooms are quite small, but they are on an arching bush, see photo. It is mildly fragrant. Ooops, how do I add another photo?! |
Hi, I would like to know how I can post another photo without restarting this thread. It seems that adding a reply does not give that option. Thanks |
- Posted by canarybird Canary Islands SPAIN (My Page) on Fri, Jun 23, 06 at 6:57
Kat....If you don't get the "Optional Link Url" box, try typing the photo link into the body of your message like this: Type it in replacing the first red text with your photo URL and the second red text with something like "Photo Two" or whatever words you want to use as the clickable link. Sharon |
Hello, this looks like R. majalis plena syn. foecundissima (aka Rosa cinnamomea plena) |
heikerose, exactly what i am thinking. I always want this one but was always afraid it was too tender for me... alida |
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In celebration of its mission to recognize and foster invention, the National Inventors Hall of Fame has announced its 2012 Inductees. The inventors to be honored this year created remarkable innovations that include the now ubiquitous laser printer commonly found in the workplace, the thin-film head technology that has contributed to the success of the disk drive industry, and the first statin which pioneered the class of drugs targeted at lowering cholesterol.
This year's Induction ceremony, sponsored in part by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, will take place on May 2 at the historic Patent Office Building, now the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C. At that time, the 2012 Inductees will be recognized for work such as the carbon dioxide laser which is widely used across diverse fields, the design of computer programming languages, and solar thermal storage innovations.
The National Inventors Hall of Fame 2012 Inductees are:
Akira Endo Mevastatin, the first statin – Endo discovered mevastatin, the first statin, pioneering research into a new class of molecules that are now a hugely successful class of drugs targeting the lowering of cholesterol. His work was done at Sankyo Company in Japan, and he is currently Director of Biopharm Research Laboratories and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.
Barbara Liskov Programming languages and system design – MIT Institute Professor Liskov is considered an innovator in the design of computer programming languages, largely for helping to make computer programs more reliable, secure, and easy to use. Her innovations can be found within almost all modern programming languages.
C. Kumar N. Patel Carbon dioxide laser – Patel invented the CO2 laser while at Bell Labs. Since ushering in the use of high power laser applications, the CO2 laser has become common and versatile with uses in the medical, industrial, and military arenas. Patel founded his own company, Pranalytica, to manufacture mid-infrared quantum cascade laser systems and gas sensing instruments. He is also a professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA.
Lubomyr Romankiw, David Thompson Thin-film magnetic head – IBM researchers Romankiw and Thompson invented the first practical magnetic thin-film storage heads. Thin-film technology increased the density of data that could be stored on magnetic disks, even while the disk size was being substantially reduced, dramatically reducing the cost of data storage.
Gary Starkweather Laser printer – Starkweather's laser printer, invented at the Xerox PARC facility, was the first to print any images that could be created on a computer; a laser beam carried digital information, and the copier then developed the imaged digital information to make a print. The laser printer would go on to become one of Xerox's best selling products of all time.
Alejandro Zaffaroni Controlled drug delivery systems – Biotechnology innovator Zaffaroni conducted early work in controlled drug delivery methods, particularly early concepts for transdermal patches, which led to the growth of research in innovative drug delivery systems. He has founded numerous biotech companies throughout his career.
Dennis Gabor (1900-1979) Electron holography – Gabor is best known for his research in electron optics which led to the invention of holography. Because of his efforts and also the efforts of researchers after him, holography has seen numerous modern day applications.
Steve Jobs (1955-2011) Technology – Co-founder of both Apple and Pixar, Jobs was named on over 300 patents and is credited with revolutionizing entire industries, including personal computing, mobile phones, animated movies, digital publishing and retailing.
Maria Telkes (1900-1995) Solar thermal storage systems – Telkes was a highly respected innovator and a foremost authority in the field of solar energy, widely publishing and inventing on the topic throughout her career. Ultimately Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware, Telkes also spent time at MIT, NYU, and in industry.
"This year's class of Inductees demonstrates the importance of innovation," said Edward Gray, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. "The applications and widespread use of their inventions show us how vital ingenuity is to not just the well-being of the United States, but also the rest of the world."
The National Inventors Hall of Fame annually accepts nominations for men and women whose work has changed society and improved the quality of life. The candidate's invention must be covered by a United States patent, and the work must have had a major impact on society, the public welfare, and the progress of science and the useful arts.
The National Inventors Hall of Fame is the premier non-profit organization in America dedicated to honoring legendary inventors whose innovations and entrepreneurial endeavors have changed the world. Founded in 1973 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Association, the Hall of Fame will have 470 Inductees with its 2012 Induction. The National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum is located in the atrium of the Madison Building on the campus of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, at 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA. Hall of Fame hours are Monday through Friday 9 AM to 5 PM, and Saturday from Noon to 5 PM (closed Sundays and federal holidays). Admission is free.
For more information, visit: www.invent.org
In celebration of the spirit of innovation, the National Inventors Hall of Fame today honors its 2011 Inductees with a formal Induction ceremony, taking place at the historic Patent Office Building, now home to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C. The influence of this year's Inductees can be seen throughout the economy, from the medical device industry to modern imaging, from industrial manufacturing to e-commerce, and from kitchen cookware to iconic colored crayons.
The Induction ceremony, sponsored in part by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Kauffman Foundation, will honor both living and historical inventors. The living inventors have given us inventions that we utilize every day, including the digital camera, the barcode, and the technology that allows for secure communication over the Internet. The site for the recognition of historical inventors is particularly appropriate since almost all the inventors would have submitted patent applications to the same building where they are being honored.
"Paying tribute to this year's Inductees at the old Patent Office Building is a fitting celebration of their innovations," said Edward Gray, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. "We hope that this recognition of their tremendous achievements will inspire today and tomorrow's new generations of inventors."
"It is truly a privilege to celebrate and honor such a distinguished group of innovators," said David Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO. "Their ingenuity has transformed the very way we interact with the world, and their patented inventions have built businesses that have created jobs and inspired new technological development for generations to come. The USPTO is delighted to join in recognizing these 39 Inductees to the National Inventors Hall of Fame."
This year, nine living inventors are honored, one of whom has a deceased co-inventor:
George Devol, Industrial Robot: Devol created the Unimate industrial robot and co-founded Unimation, Inc., the company that manufactured the Unimate.
Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ralph Merkle, Public Key Cryptography: PKC provides security on the otherwise highly insecure Internet, making it vital to such areas as e-commerce.
Eric Fossum, CMOS Active Pixel Sensor Camera-on-a-Chip: CMOS image sensors are a fixture in imaging, found in camera phones, digital SLR cameras, automotive safety systems, swallowable pill cameras, and more.
Gary Michelson, Spinal Surgical Devices: Orthopedic spinal surgeon Michelson has a portfolio of over 250 U.S. and 500 foreign patents related to minimally invasive spinal fusion methods, instruments, and implants.
Steven Sasson, Digital Camera: Sasson invented the first digital camera in 1975 at Eastman Kodak.
Esther S. Takeuchi, Lithium/Silver Vanadium Oxide Battery: Takeuchi led efforts to invent and refine Li/SVO battery technology, utilized in the majority of today's implantable defibrillators.
N. Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver (1924-1963), First Optically Scanned Barcode: Woodland and Silver invented the first optically scanned barcode. First used by grocery stores, barcodes have many additional uses today.
These Inductees envisioned completely new ideas, achieving what some did not think possible, and their life changing work serves as encouragement to others today. "I'm thrilled to be honored along with Whit and Ralph for inventing public key cryptography, especially in light of the thinking that we were on a fool's errand," said Inductee Martin Hellman. "I hope this validation of 'the wisdom of foolishness' will encourage today's young people to follow their dreams even when—maybe especially when—conventional wisdom sees their paths as dead ends."
In addition, the National Inventors Hall of Fame is bestowing posthumous recognition on a group of 29 historic inventors whose work in the last decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century provided a foundation for continued and future innovation. The group includes innovators such as Edwin Binney, who as co-owner of Binney & Smith manufactured carbon black and later became known for creating Crayola crayons. Eugene Sullivan, who was head of research at Corning Glass Works, helped to develop the popular Pyrex® brand cookware through his work with borosilicate glass. Mary Anderson invented a windshield clearing device, which evolved into the modern windshield wiper, and Albert Dick, founder of the A.B. Dick Company, invented duplicating equipment, including the mimeograph machine.
The National Inventors Hall of Fame annually accepts nominations for men and women whose work has changed society and improved the quality of life. The candidate's invention must be covered by a United States patent, and the work must have had a major impact on society, the public welfare, and the progress of science and the useful arts.
About the Hall of Fame
The National Inventors Hall of Fame is the premier non-profit organization in America dedicated to honoring legendary inventors whose innovations and entrepreneurial endeavors have changed the world. Founded in 1973 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Association, the Hall of Fame has 460 Inductees with its 2011 Induction. The National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum is located in the atrium of the Madison Building on the campus of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, at 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA. Hall of Fame hours are Monday through Friday 9 AM to 5 PM, and Saturday from Noon to 5 PM (closed Sundays and federal holidays). Admission is free. For more information on the National Inventors Hall of Fame, including Inductee nomination forms and a full listing of Inductees, please visit www.invent.org.
The National Inventors Hall of Fame today announced it will induct retired IBMer (NYSE: IBM) Norman Joseph Woodland for his contribution to the invention of the Universal Product Code (UPC). The UPC has become the world's most pervasive inventory tracking tool and has transformed the way consumers shop, how businesses and retailers manage inventory -- from large industrial equipment to canned goods sold in grocery stores.
IBM now has 12 members in the prestigious National Inventors Hall of Fame. They have been honored for a variety of seminal inventions ranging from LASIK Eye Surgery to the Scanning Tunneling Microscope, used to obtain atomic-scale images of the surface of metals.
"2011 is IBM's 100th anniversary, and inventors such as Joseph Woodland have pioneered many breakthroughs that have transformed the way we work and live," said Dr. Mark Dean, IBM Fellow, vice president of Technical Strategy for IBM Research and a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame since 1997 for his invention that paved the way for the personal computer. "Through their determination, and the unwavering pursuit of progress, IBM inventors are making the world a better place for us today and in the future."
Woodland and his co-inventor, Bernard Silver, who also will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, were working at Drexel University when they applied for the first bar code technology patent on October 20, 1949. Woodland joined IBM in 1951 and received a patent for the invention on October 7, 1952. The technology went undeveloped for more than two decades because, at the time, there was no way to read the code, until the laser became a practical tool.
In the early 1970s, Woodland worked with a team of IBMers that developed a system that used a laser scanner to digitally read a bar code derived from his original invention. At that time, an American grocery industry task force was evaluating standards that would enable supermarkets to automate and speed checkout at stores, as well as drive down costs associated with handling and managing inventory.
The grocery task force eventually settled on a standard that very closely paralleled IBM's approach and, in 1973, IBM became one of the earliest vendors to market a point-of-sale system with a checkout scanner that could read the UPC symbol based on Woodland's invention. The first UPC scan occurred on June 26, 1974 when a shopper by the name of Clyde Dawson purchased a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum from cashier Sharon Buchanan at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The scan was successful, and the gum rang up at 67 cents.
By 1980, the number of grocery stores using the UPC technology jumped to more than 2,200. UPC codes are now used worldwide by all kinds of organizations, schools, universities and companies in all industries to leverage the power of data and information management to organize and run their operations. In many countries, almost every item purchased in a retail store has a UPC code on it, resulting in bar codes being scanned billions of times each day.
The UPC represents one of the earliest forms of "instrumentation," through which objects are embedded with a code that enables people to collect data from these embedded objects and analyze the available information to make better, more informed decisions. In the future, the improvements UPC has delivered to society will be advanced by radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, which use wireless networking technology to capture data and yield new insights that can change the way products and services are marketed, sold and consumed.
Norman Joseph Woodland will be inducted in the National Inventors Hall of Fame in a ceremony on May 4, 2011.
Other IBMers in the Inventors Hall of Fame are:
* Louis Stevens: Data Storage Machine, inducted 2008
* William Goddard: Magnetic Disk Drive, inducted 2007
* John Lynott: Magnetic Disk Drive, inducted 2007
* Samuel Blum: LASIK Eye Surgery, inducted 2002
* Rangaswamy Srinivasan: LASIK Eye Surgery, inducted 2002
* Jim Wynne: LASIK Eye Surgery, inducted 2002
* Mark Dean: Microcomputer System with Bus Control Means for Peripheral Processing Devices, inducted 1997
* Dennis Moeller: Microcomputer System with Bus Control Means for Peripheral Processing Devices, inducted 1997
* Robert Heath Dennard: Field-Effect Transistor Memory DRAM, inducted 1997
* Gerd Karl Binnig: Scanning Tunneling Microscope, inducted 1994
* Heinrich Rohrer: Scanning Tunneling Microscope, inducted 1994
The National Inventors Hall of Fame, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recognizing and honoring invention and creativity. The Hall of Fame honors the men and women responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible. The organization seeks to give these outstanding individuals the recognition they so rightly deserve as well as inspire future generations of innovators through the light of their examples.
For more information about Norman Joseph Woodland and other IBMers who have helped transform our world over the past 100 years, please visit IBM at 100.
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As a teenager, Kim MacLeod (BS '84) knew she wanted a career in communications. The Muskogee native got her start as a high school student writing for Tahlequah's local paper. She studied two years at Northeastern Oklahoma State University then found her true career aspirations after transferring to The University of Tulsa. Classes offered through TU's mass communications program combined with courses in political science and psychology were the right mix for MacLeod who works today as communications director for the City of Tulsa.
MacLeod is a 16-year veteran of city hall and has worked with four different mayoral administrations. She oversees a centralized communications department that manages the city's website, coordinates communications plans with other departments, distributes city news releases and holds news conferences. As the primary contact for all media, she and her team manage the city's social media accounts and serve as the communications arm for most of Tulsa's non-uniform departments. Although the fast-paced world of city government can be challenging, MacLeod said college prepared her for such a demanding job.
"TU was a good foundation for public service which requires great effort and a multifaceted approach to reach nearly 400,000 constituents," she said.
MacLeod said she appreciates TU's well-rounded curriculum and the many opportunities students have to learn about community involvement.
"It's a school that focuses on public service – I even see that more now that I am out of school. We have contact all the time with the university, and we recognize what a great contributor TU is to the community."